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The Great Detective Race (Boxcar Children Mysteries, #115)
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Albert Whitman & Company, 2008

The local radio station is putting on the Great Detective Race, where contestants must solve riddles and search all over Greenfield for clues leading to the grand prize! One of the prizes would make a perfect gift for Mrs. MacGregor, so the Aldens sign up for the contest. Soon they're following the riddles' clues all over town. But when some of the clues turn out to be fake, it's clear that someone is playing unfairly. Could another contestant ...

Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman

4 reviews
Vasily Grossman

HarperCollins Publishers, 1987

Simply extraordinary
Vasily Grossman submitted his manuscript for Life and Fate in 1960 at the height of Khrushchev's post-Stalinist cultural thaw. Subsequent to a review of the manuscript Grossman was advised that the book (but not Grossman) was being arrested. Grossman was told the book would not be published for at least 200 years. All copies of the manuscript were rounded up and sent to party headquarters for ...

Poodle Springs

20 reviews
Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker

Berkley, 1990

Solid Marlowe Mystery
Poodle Springs is Robert B. Parker's completion of a novel started by Raymond Chandler before he died in 1959 featuring private detective Philip Marlow. While I have read some of Chandler's previous novels featuring Marlow I have no emotional attachment to the character so I come with a blank slate in terms of evaluating whether Parker lives up to Chandler's character. Frankly I thought Parker ...

A Horse Named Dragon (Boxcar Children Mysteries, #114)
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Albert Whitman & Company, 2008

The Aldens are spending a week at the Dare to Dream Ranch, a rescue ranch that takes in horses whose owners can no longer care for them. The children help with chores, and Jessie is thrilled to be looking after a beautiful horse named Dragon. But when two of the oldest horses are missing from the pasture, a mystery begins to unfold-why would someone want to steal two old, sick horses? Then Dragon disappears, too, and the children discover that ...

The Captain's Daughter (Hesperus Classics)

1 review
Alexander Pushkin

Hesperus Press, 2007

'When I hang a man I hang him....
.... when I pardon, I pardon. That's the way I am.' This love story with its fairy tale ending was charming to me despite the horrors of the historical rise of a usurper to the rightful throne in Russia. It's hero survives on the basis of a chance encounter and generosity. But there is a greater 'luck' to come at the end of the story.

Soul: And Other Stories

1 review
Andrey Platonov

NYRB Classics, 2007

Contains several wise and witty masterpieces by Russia's greatest writer of the twentieth century
In 2004 the American Association of Teachers of Slavonic and East European Languages awarded their annual translation prize to our translation of SOUL, the title novella of this collection. The citation reads as follows: 'The Harvill Press translation of Platonov's Soul - a collaborative effort - accomplishes the seemingly impossible in bringing the notoriously idiosyncratic language of this ...

Brazil (Country Guide)

2 reviews
Regis St. Louis, Kevin Raub, ...

Lonely Planet, 2008

Muito Bem!!!
I've been consistently impressed by the Lonely Planet series. These books allow you to navigate a new country and culture like a pro, and find all the hidden spots that a tour guide probably wouldn't take you to. Worth every penny!

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin Classics)

3 reviews
Various

Penguin Classics, 2006

Best anthology of Russian stories since 1990
I can't say enough about Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida. To this reader, in whom concentrated knowledge in a few areas trumps familiarity with the whole literature, it is perhaps the best collection of stories translated from Russian since Goscilo and Lindsey's Glasnost anthology, and it's a better general introduction because of its chronological sweep. Robert Chandler, editor as ...

Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics)

43 reviews
Vasily Grossman

NYRB Classics, 2006

Genius of the highest order
This masterpiece published by New York Review of Books Classics enters my Top 5 among novels by James Joyce (Ulysses), Proust (La Recherche du Temps Perdu), Tolstoy (War and Peace) and Gaddis (JR): it is pure genius in its epic scope. Inspired by Tolstoy's War and Peace and the siege of Russia by Napoleon, Grossman depicts the siege of Stalingrad by Hitler. Grossman narrates the epic from the ...

Too Smart for Bullies

2 reviews
Robert Kahn, Sharon Chandler

Future Horizons, 2001

Too Smart for Bullies! A Must Have Books for Parents & Kids!
Too Smart for Bullies is a book that should be read by every child and parent! How often is a nice kid bullied...far more frequently that parents know. This book provides simple and practical steps to thwart bullies and avoid becoming their victim. It explains that children who encounter bullies should not keep a secret about them but should instead talk to an adult. The book provides a list of ...

Wells Fargo (CA) (Images of America)
Dr. Robert J. Chandler

Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Those striking images of stagecoaches traversing rugged mountain terrain are no mere marketing gimmick, but part and parcel of Wells Fargo's storied past. When Henry Wells and William Fargo founded the company in 1852, the gold rush had already brought thousands of people to California and uncovered the largest amount of wealth then known to the world. Wells Fargo served a unique role as a banking, express or transporting, and mail-delivery ...

The Seattle Puzzle (Boxcar Children Mysteries)

Albert Whitman & Company, 2007

The Aldens are on vacation in Seattle! They're ready to explore the city, and one of Grandfather's friends is going to give them a personal tour. On their first day of sightseeing, they start the day at the Hungry Heart Diner where a mystery falls right into their laps! Benny finds a riddle taped to the bottom of their table. What does the riddle mean, and where will it take them? When the first riddle leads the children to another riddle, the ...

The Ghost in the First Row (Boxcar Children Mysteries)

Albert Whitman & Company, 2007

The Aldens are visiting Aunt Jane in Elmford. She tells the children that she has tickets for them to see a mystery play at the Trap-Door Theater. A theater patron who loved mysteries left her life savings to improve the theater and to hold a yearly contest with a cash prize awarded to the best mystery playwright in town. The Aldens can't wait to find out everything there is to know about the old Trap-Door Theater. But there is more than ...

Gold, Silk, Pioneers & Mail: The Story of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company

1 review
Robert J. Chandler, Stephen J. Potash

The Glencannon Press, 2007

Great Story of Pioneer Steamship Line
Moi Chung, my paternal grandfather, arrived in America aboard S.S. Mongolia, a Pacific Mail steamer from China, as so many others did in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He had arrived on June 17, 1912 at the Port of San Francisco from the Port of Hong Kong to study as a missionary. "Gold, Silk, Pioneers & Mail" gave me a fascinating and rewarding glimpse into the era of great steamers in ...

The Railway

2 reviews
Hamid Ismailov, Robert Chandler

Random House UK, 2008

The wittiest and most truthful book about Central Asia that I know of
My translation of this wonderful novel received the annual translation prize awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Slavonic and East European Languages. The citation reads as follows: Hamid Ismailov's multi-voiced, quasi-surreal novel The Railway poses almost every possible challenge to the literary translator, from puns and "talking" names to complex symbolism and detailed ...

Happy Moscow

1 review
Andrei Platonov

Harvill Press, 2001

Wonderful, but Can be Difficult
Happy Moscow is a wonderful, though difficult, book. A cross between satire and the picaresque, it's loaded with symbolism. To get the most out of it, I think one must have at least a rudimentary knowledge of Stalinist Russia. Happy Moscow, through its heroine, Moscow Chestnova, sets aside blithe idealism and explores the gulf that, in reality, existed between Stalin's "triumphant" socialism ...

The Game Store Mystery (Boxcar Children Mysteries)
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Albert Whitman & Company, 2005

Building Type Basics for Housing (Building Type Basics)
Robert Chandler, John Clancy, ...

Wiley, 2004

Finally, a nuts-and-bolts guide to all the design considerations for a variety of housing-from planning and site layout to building design. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and planning concepts for building projects for single-family detached units; townhouses; multi-family; mid-rise and high-rise buildings; and housing in mixed-use buildings. Order your copy today!

Managing Risks for Corporate Integrity: How to Survive An Ethical Misconduct Disaster

2 reviews
Lynn Brewer, Robert Chandler, ...

South-Western Educational Pub, 2006

Brewer was not an Enron executive
Lynn Brewer is the author of Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story. It is clear from that book that she was neither an executive, not a whistleblower. She was a paralegal and contract administrator, and had left the company before the proverbial stuff hit the fan. I feel it is ethically questionable to misrepresent one's background, particularly with respect to a book on ...

The Foundation Pit
Andrey Platonov

NYRB Classics, 2009

In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future that, they are convinced, is at hand. But the harder the team works, the deeper they dig, the more things go wrong, and it becomes clear that what is being dug is not a foundation but an immense grave. The Foundation Pit is Platonov’s most overtly political ...

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