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Post by Holly's Shadow on Aug 3, 2004 2:55:48 GMT
I usually buy the books online or I go to a book store called Waldenbooks. For a few months I thought it was called Wonderbooks ..Lol
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Post by Daemornia on Aug 3, 2004 3:15:54 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]i dont buy books online but my friend does. and btw, lol...wonderbooks...hehe[/glow]
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Post by Kate on Aug 3, 2004 4:22:06 GMT
i cannot but books at all unless my mommmy takes me lol
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Post by Daemornia on Aug 3, 2004 21:06:34 GMT
that sucks. lol i usually go with my friend to stores and stuffs!
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Post by Mercy on Aug 4, 2004 2:24:46 GMT
Reccommding- Smoke Jumper- The fire that was to change so many lives so utterly started with a single shaft of lightning. It struck a mountain ridge on a still and moonless night and nestled like a pupa of death in the desiccated heart of an ancient pine. There were witnesses no doubt to this sudden splintering of air and wood, but none that was human. The woman, camped nearby with her group of troubled teenagers, slept on and heard nothing. She has brought them here by court order on a youth program to help them find themselves. But one among them will be lost forever. For soon the cocoon of fire will hatch to engulf the entire mountain and exact its deadly toll. And into this inferno will come ... The Smoke Jumper.
His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his closest friend, Ed Tully, an ambitious young musician. Julia loves them both but the tragedy on Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them and burns a brand on all their hearts.
With his blond, blue-eyed looks and laconic cowboy charm, Connor is the only child of a Montana rancher and a rodeo queen. Until that fateful day, he has been happy to spend his winters nurturing a career as a photographer and his summer vacations with Ed, "smoke jumping" — being dropped by parachute to fight remote forest fires.
In the wake of the fire, he embarks on a journey to the dark heart of human suffering, traveling the world's worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but never happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, again and again he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, he must walk through fire once more....
After his two international bestsellers, The Horse Whisperer and The Loop, Nicholas Evans returns with an epic novel of love and loyalty, of guilt and honor. Moving from the towering wilds of the American West to the killing fields of Africa, The Smoke Jumper is the story of three people's quest for happiness and self-fulfillment, played out against the heroism of fire fighting in the wilderness and photojournalism at the edge of human experience — a mesmerizing adventure for the spirit, told in the grandest tradition.
It's from the same author of the book's The Horse Whisper and The Loop That I had recommeded earlier on.
I also recommend :Young Men and Fire: Summary: On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge--the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery of paratrooper-firefighters, many of them fresh veterans of World War II, had been anticipating it, and even looking forward to the chance to fight a great fire. Before the day ended thirteen of those smokejumpers lay dead, their charred remains evidence that something had gone terribly wrong. Norman Maclean gives a thorough account of the incident in language not meant for the squeamish: "Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times ... first, considerably ahead of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of strange gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes." After August 1949, he notes, the Forest Service came to recognize that not all fires need to be fought and that fire benefits most forest ecosystems.
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Post by Kate on Aug 4, 2004 7:03:11 GMT
i read smoke jumper i liked it
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Post by Mercy on Aug 6, 2004 22:14:16 GMT
It was by far one of my faavorite books.
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Post by Savannah on Aug 9, 2004 19:19:16 GMT
i recommend bag of bones by stephen king cus it just rox and slightly i don't recommend reading the charmed book shadow of the sphinx, it's an ok book i just got really confused when the author had phoebe and piper throwing energy balls, i just thought it was kinda cracked
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Post by Holly's Shadow on Aug 12, 2004 15:53:40 GMT
"Bags of Bones" is one my list now! Thanks. And I already read Shadow of the Sphinx, it was an okay book.
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Post by AngelicReject on Aug 13, 2004 14:00:54 GMT
I love to read Virginia Andrews books, especialy 'flowers in the attic' and the ones that follow on from it. They can be kind of disturbing but I think they're good.
I would also reccomend the author Shaun Hutson to any horror fans.
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne-Jones is also very good, as are Terry Pratchett's books.
erm... Garden of Lies- Eileen Gouge To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee Witch child- Celia Rees The Nanny Diaries- Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Krause (relation of Brian perhaps?) Are also really great books.
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Post by Holly's Shadow on Aug 13, 2004 17:34:41 GMT
I love to read Virginia Andrews books, especialy 'flowers in the attic' and the ones that follow on from it. They can be kind of disturbing but I think they're good. I would also reccomend the author Shaun Hutson to any horror fans. Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne-Jones is also very good, as are Terry Pratchett's books. erm... Garden of Lies- Eileen Gouge To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee Witch child- Celia Rees The Nanny Diaries- Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Krause (relation of Brian perhaps?) Are also really great books. I totally agree with you with the book "Flowers In the Attic." Kinda of a strange books. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is one of my favorites. It's such a great book! And I'm not sure about Nicola Krause .. I don't think she has any relation.
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Post by ♥Jaelynn♥ on Aug 14, 2004 3:07:52 GMT
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Post by Holly's Shadow on Aug 14, 2004 20:43:59 GMT
Teenager Heart Series? I haven't heard of that. But it sounds a lot like the Chicken Soup books. I love them all, by the way. They are great!
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Post by ♥Jaelynn♥ on Aug 15, 2004 3:07:17 GMT
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Post by Holly's Shadow on Aug 15, 2004 3:33:57 GMT
Oh thanks! I can't buy them right now cuz I just bought some more Charmed Stuff (Yes!..LoL) but I will definitely try to buy some next time I can.
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