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9 reviews
Wayne Sharrocks

Vanguard Press, 2006

A taut and gripping tale...
Weird, witty and proof that Sharrocks is a master of the psychological thriller!

The mechanical bride: folklore of industrial man

5 reviews
Marshall McLuhan

Vanguard Press, 1951

Modern-day myth-making turned on its head
This is McLuhan's first book, originally published in 1951 and has been long out of print. It precedes his second book and cult classic 'The Gutenberg Galaxy', by a decade and a half. This is also quite unique in that it has no relationship with McLuhan's more famous theoretical ramblings. In this book, McLuhan takes on myth-making in US society by showing how film posters, comic strips, ...

The Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2007

4 reviews
Ernst & Young Llp

Vanguard Press, 2006

Ernst & Young Tax Guide
The Ernst and Young Tax Guide is a excellent reference book for professioinal tax preparers like myself, and for individuals seeking answers to federal tax questions. It is comprehensive and easy to understand. I would recommend it to anyone seeking tax info. Although there are other publications available to the public, I have found this one is the best. It mirrors the IRS publication 17.

Myth and ritual in Christianity (Myth and man)

5 reviews
Alan Watts

Vanguard Press, 1953

Rock your world
This book will have you look at Christianity in a whole new way. You may not agree with him, but if you are truly seeking truth, you must read this book. The man is deep. He introduced me to a side of the Catholic approach to Christianity I thought was dead. He breathes life into the rituals many of us just regurgitate. Books like this are great. As you read it, one of two things will ...

Blood Lust

6 reviews
Rhys Wilcox

Vanguard Press, 2002

Vamp Stamp of Approval!
Rhys's Blood Lust definitely gets the vampress.net stamp of approval for vampy goodness! Witty, intelligent and action packed! This novel is anything but the boring played out vampire stereotypes found in most vampire based novels. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll laugh some more and you'll hope someone beats the bad guys with their own body parts (and someone does!). I personally enjoyed the ...

500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

24 reviews
Dr. Seuss

Vanguard Press, 1986

Seuss is classic
I bought this book because it brought back such good memories of my child's childhood and my own as well. I look forward to sharing it with my grandchildren someday. This is a great book to read!

Love and knishes;: An irrepressible guide to Jewish cooking

9 reviews
Sara Kasdan

Vanguard Press, 1956

Good basic guide to traditional Jewish cooking.
Along with The Joy of Cooking for everyday basic cooking, I learned to prepare tradiditional Ashkenazic (Eastern European) Jewish dishes from Love and Knishes when it was first published 40 years ago when I was a newly-wed. The recipes and preparation instructions in Love and Knishes are simple, the ingredients are usually staples and the commentary is very funny, even if now viewed as, ...

Death in Rome,: A novel

3 reviews
Wolfgang Koeppen

Vanguard Press, 1961

Brutal
"Death In Rome", by Wolfgang Koeppen is characterized by Michael Hoffmann, who both translated the work, and wrote the introduction as, "the most devastating novel about the Germans I have ever read". This book was written in 1954 and when published caused a massive reaction, almost exclusively negative, for the primary characters were either participants in, or the offspring of the World War II ...

How to stop smoking

5 reviews
Herbert Brean

Vanguard Press, 1958

Brean's book works!
I smoked 1-3 packs of cigarettes a day for about 30 years and had tried quitting a few times with zero success. This approach worked for me because it gave specific, day-by-day instructions and let me know what to expect. Brean also respected the power of the addiction and the difficulty of quitting, which helped me respect myself for undertaking the task. Brean was a smoker, so he knew why I ...

Men for the Mountains

5 reviews
Marty, Sid Marty

Vanguard Press, 1979

The best book of it's kind in Canada!
Mr. Marty's first book should be required reading for anyone venturing into the resplendent Rocky Mountains of Canada. His vivid style and humourous, at times startling, observations are in themselves worth the effort. Mr. Marty's book will leave you with fond memories of places few of us have visited. As a result the reader may begin craving a visit to this superlative domain. Bravo! It ...

The Dark of Day

3 reviews
Barbara Parker

Vanguard Press, 2008

Exciting Miami-based thriller
I won't repeat the basic storyline, which is already here in the book description. Instead, I'll just say that the book is a great read and hard to put down. It has a complex protagonist--a very successful defense lawyer, a recovering alcoholic with a secret past. It it set in Miami, and delves into the sordid side of the lives of that city's "beautiful people." It has a compromised politician, ...

Public Radio: Behind the Voices

2 reviews
Lisa Phillips

Vanguard Press, 2006

A Great Read!
This book of profiles is well written and very engrossing. Through a quick and lively prose, the author brings each of her subjects to vivid life right there on the page. I've long been curious about many of the people behind the voices on public radio and this book scratches that itch. I feel like I know them all so much better now when I tune into their programs. I enjoyed this book ...

English Eccentrics

2 reviews
Edith Sitwell

Vanguard Press, 1957

No mere catalog of eccentricity
The inimitable Edith Sitwell, in her jewelled prose, weaves together the threads of assorted strange personages, and the effect is hypnotic. The approach is poetic, oblique, and perhaps not to everyone's taste - and if it were, would you be at all interested? I, for one, was enchanted by her descriptions of, for example, the amphibious Lord Rokeby, the Ornamental Hermits, the dandy Romeo ...

Miss Harriet Hippopotamus and the most wonderful,

2 reviews
Nancy Moore

Vanguard Press, 1963

A '50s Classic
A friend told me about the Harriet books, and this was the first one I was able to find. (Incidentally, Amazon is a great source for out of print books.) I was enchanted, and since I'm a great fan of the '50s, the illustrations in pink, black and white blew me away. But the story itself was just charming. I've tried it out on a couple of turn-of-the-century kids and they loved it too. The ...

Fortune and Power

2 reviews
James Russell

Vanguard Press, 2006

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I have read the preview copy and enjoyed it so much I wish to tell others. A wonderful story that will not disappoint.

For money or love: Boy prostitution in America

2 reviews
Robin Lloyd

Vanguard Press, 1976

Seminal study of boy prostitution in the 1970's
First published in 1976, this book is by a former NBC reporter Robin Lloyd. It is one of the most rational studies of the issue of homosexual boy prostitution in America. Many aspects of Lloyd's study are still applicable some twenty years later. Lloyd covers this controversial topic beginning with his discovery that both his teenage son and ward have posed in the nude for a pornographer whom ...

Queer people,

3 reviews
Carroll Graham

The Vanguard Press, 1930

The first and most lighthearted of the Hollywood novels.
Some may hold up The Day of the Locust as the consummate Hollywood novel...or perhaps What Makes Sammy Run?, or the Nowhere City, or Play It As It Lays... Other than The Little Sister, the best book to portray Hollywood is also the first, Queer People. Written in the early Twenties, Queer People captures a Hollywood of sudden wealth and incredible wantoness, a new city without limits, seen ...

Do With Me What You Will

2 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

The Vanguard Press, 1973

painful, haunting, good
Oates knows what happens to girls whose self-esteem has been shot to hell. Her depiction of such a girl and the pathologically passive woman she becomes made me ache. The hope-filled ending made me sigh.

Broken Planet

2 reviews
John Otto

Vanguard Press, 2007

Absorbing read!
Planet Earth was still resolutely orbiting the sun in the outskirts of the Sagittarius spiral arm, halfway from the galactic centre, just as it had done for four and a half billion years. In the Northern Hemisphere it should have been a vibrant autumn, in the Southern Hemisphere an awakening spring. Revolving on its axis, turning from west to east, should have resulted in day and night. But now ...

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