New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up–Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it's not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella's emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends. Less streamlined than Twilight yet just as exciting, New Moon will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third.–Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library

Product Description
Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

About the Author
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature, and she lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona. Stephenie is the author of Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse.

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) Most Recent Customer Reviews

Great book
I did enjoy reading Twilight better, but this is still a great book. Book was excellent, in brand new condition.

New Moon
If you are a Twilight Fan, you will love book #2 in the Twilight saga. This is where the real action begins and the introduction of the Volturi (the ancient Italian vampire...

A GREAT SERIES AND HEART WRENCHING BOOK
First thing to remember is that this is a fiction series so don't try to analyze the facts too much.

4.0 out of 5 stars Twilight Series
All four books in the series are great fun reading, quick and entertaining. I really have enjoyed reading them.

Great!
The love story continues! Factor in Jacob Black and things become different. He is a awsome friend to bella, and thats all i am saying!

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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
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As President Obama and the rest of the looney-left continue to make a hash of the economy, a shambles of our institutions, and a mockery of our most foundational values, traditionalists of all stripes must fight the good fight vigorously and relentlessly. I've read "That Hideous Strength" and other prophetic novels, and I don't want that to be our fate. With Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny" as our bible (a lower case "b", you'll note) and with the Bible (the Douay-Rheims version, if you please) as, well, our Bible, perhaps we'll prove Lewis, Huxley, and Orwell to have been false prophets.

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I believe it was Saint Augustine who said that we must work as if everything depends on us; we must pray as if everything depends on God. That's a pretty good plan; in fact, it's one that can't possibly fail.

Read the book! Open your eyes and understand Liberty

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I Will Teach You To Be Rich Reviews

Product Description
At last, for a generation that's materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi's 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want to do what Sethi says, it is based around the four pillars of personal finance— banking, saving, budgeting, and investing—and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship.

Sethi covers how to save time by not wasting it managing money; the guns and cars myth of credit cards; how to negotiate like an Indian—the conversation begins with "no"; why "Budgeting Doesn't Have to Suck!"; how to get things rolling—for real—with only $20; what most people don't understand about taxes; how to get a CEO to take you out to lunch; how to avoid the Super Mario Brothers trap by making your savings work harder than you do; the difference between cheap and frugal; the hidden relationship between money and food. Not to mention his first key lesson: Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Integrated with his website, where readers can use interactive charts, follow up on the latest information, and join the community, it is a hip blueprint to building wealth and financial security.

Every month, 175,000 unique visitors come to Ramit Sethi's website, Iwillteachyoutoberich.com, to discover the path to financial freedom. They praise him thoughtfully ("Your site summarizes everything I want with my life—to be rich in finances, rich in experience, rich in family blessings," Dan Esparza) and effusively ("Dude, you rock. I love this site!" Richard Wu). The press has caught on, too: "Ramit Sethi is a rising star in the world of personal finance writing . . . one singularly attuned to the sensibilities of his generation. his style is part frat boy and part silicon Valley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in" (San Francisco Chronicle). His writing is smart, his voice is full of attitude, and his ideas are uncommonly sound and refreshingly hype-free.

From the Back Cover
You don't have to be perfect to be rich. Or the smartest person in the room. Or a type-A personality. In fact, with Ramit Sethi's six-week program to financial independence, you can start with any amount of money, do just 85 percent of what he suggests, and succeed brilliantly through good times and bad.

As irreverent and entertaining as he is practical and wise, Sethi explains how to beat banks and credit cards at the fee game, automate your cash flow, negotiate for a raise, manage student loans, and enjoy your lattes and Manolo Blahniks by practicing conscious spending. It's how to master your money with the least amount of effort—and then get on with your life.

I Will Teach You To Be Rich Most Recent Customer Reviews

Great Timely Advice from Our Generation
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About the Author
Ramit Sethi is the founder and writer of Iwillteachyoutoberich.com. He speaks regularly to young staff members at companies, including Deloitte, KPMG, and Intel, on the topic of personal finance. He is also a founder and vice president of marketing for PBwiki, a company that provides online tools and services. Ramit Sethi is a recent graduate of Stanford and lives in San Francisco, California.

Storm from the Shadows Reviews: more of the same great stuff, only, uh, a little bit worse

Storm from the Shadows Reviews

Product DescriptionRear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle. The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces, and they had to run. But Michelle’s ship was crippled, and had to be destroyed to prevent superior Manticoran technology from falling into Havenite hands, and she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner. Much to her surprise, she was repatriated to Manticore, carrying a request for a summit conference between the leaders of the two sides which might end the war. But a condition of her return was that she gave her parole not to fight against the forces of the Republic of Haven until she had been officially exchanged for a Havenite prisoner of war, so she was given a command far away from the war’s battle lines. What she didn’t realize was that she would find herself on a collision course, not with a hostile government, but with the interstellar syndicate of criminals known as Manpower. And Manpower had its own plans for eliminating Manticore as a possible threat to its lucrative slave trade, deadly plans which remain hidden in the shadows.

I, too, have been a Weber fan, more specifically a Honor Harrington fan (I've enjoyed the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien, and the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell: not science fiction, but great historical military novels). I get the feeling Weber is feeling the same pressure that O'Brien had when he began his naval series, found it popular, and began running out of room for more books as the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close. I'm not sure that excuses what Weber very clearly says he is doing here, recycling the same materiel, albeit from another viewpoint, in multiple books in an effort to expand his room to write more stories in the Honor universe. His bugaboo may be his desire to satisfy the fixation some of his readers have about consistency and continuity: I wonder that he may lose his larger audience to satisfy that minority. I'm not saying he should lower his continuity efforts to the level of, say, Meluch's U.S.S Merrimack series, but he should not let absolute consistency get in the way of telling a good story (with, as others have said, a lot less interior dialogue,aka preaching). When I think about it, what I like about this series is the heroine and the strong plot line: I skim over a lot of the monologues to get to where the story starts again. If the story is the same, even if it is from different points of view, I'm going to be skimming the whole thing. what's with that?

David Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade. His popular Honor Harrington novels are New York Times best sellers and can’t come out fast enough for his devoted readers.