Roger Koppl Online Book : 2005

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Priestess of the White (Age of the Five, #1)

Priestess of the White (Age of the Five, #1)

Priestess of the White (Age of the Five, #1)

In a land on the brink of peace—watched jealously by a ruthless cult from across the sea and beset by hidden enemies—five extraordinary humans must serve as sword and shield of the Gods.

Auraya is one.

Her heroism saved a village from destruction; now Auraya has been named Priestess of the White. The limits of her unique talents must be tested in order to prove her worthy of the honor and grave responsibility awarded to her. But a perilous road lies ahead, fraught with pitfalls that will challenge the newest servant of the gods. An enduring friendship with a Dreamweaver—a member of an ancient outcast sect of sorcerer-healers—could destroy Auraya's future. And her destiny has set her in conflict with a powerful and mysterious, black-clad sorcerer with but a single purpose: the total annihilation of the White. And he is not alone . . .

ISBN: 0060815701

Author: Trudi Canavan

Publisher: Harper Voyager

Rating: 3.82

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Saroyan: A Biography

Saroyan: A Biography

Saroyan: A Biography

Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan—winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human Comedy,—was the most well-known American writer of the 1930s and 1940s. Peabody Award-winning journalist Lawrence Lee and award-winning novelist Barry Gifford heard Saroyan's story first-hand from Carol Matthau, the wife he rejected; the son and daughter he alternately smothered and pushed away; and colleagues like Artie Shaw, Celeste Holm, and Lillian Gish. Their revelations bring new depth to Saroyan's riveting story.

ISBN: 156025761X

Author: Barry Gifford

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Rating: 3.18

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Vulcan s Forge (Philip Mercer, #1)

Vulcan s Forge (Philip Mercer, #1)

Vulcan s Forge (Philip Mercer, #1)

A nuclear bomb strikes at the fiery heart of Earth and, spewing molten lava, a volcano rises with unnatural speed from the ocean floor. It continues in hot spots round the globe, Hawaii, Washington DC and the Far East. Geologist Philip Mercer is the first to unravel the secrets of Vulcan's Forge.

ISBN: 0451412109

Author: Jack Du Brul

Publisher: NAL

Rating: 3.98

Saturday, October 1, 2005

Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)

Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)

Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)

The captivating sequel to INKHEART, the critically acclaimed, international bestseller by Cornelia Funke, an author who is emerging as a truly modern classic writer for children.

Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.

ISBN: 0439554004

Author: Cornelia Funke

Publisher: The Chicken House

Rating: 3.89

Thursday, September 29, 2005

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer s Newspaper, 1898 1911

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer s Newspaper, 1898 1911

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer s Newspaper, 1898 1911

Joseph Pulitzer's New York World flourished at the turn of the twentieth century, and out of it grew what we think of as the modern daily paper. The World was famous for muckraking and sensationalism, but to a contemporary eye what is most striking about the paper (and in particular its Sunday edition) is that it was filled with colorful art -- caricatures, full-page cartoons, disaster drawings, fiction illustrations, hand-lettered typography, weird science, halftone photographs, maps, and more.

Author Nicholson Baker, dubbed the "Erin Brockovich of the library world" by the New York Times Book Review for his dedication to saving early American newspaper collections, started buying up archives from public libraries around the country and around the world, forming the American Newspaper Repository. Baker's research was published as Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, which won the National Book Critics' Circle award for non-fiction in 2002.

Now Baker and co-author Margaret Brentano have selected 85 of the finest examples of period reporting, bold and playful graphic design, long-lost comic strips, and society pieces from the heyday of the New York World for reproduction in this delightful, oversized volume. Baker's introductory essay argues the significance and beauty of Pulitzer's paper, and Brentano's detailed captions and notes accompany the colorful reproductions throughout.

ISBN: 0821261932

Author: Nicholson Baker

Publisher: Bulfinch

Rating: 4.37

Friday, July 1, 2005

Just Because Club: Your Personal Metaphysical Fitness Trainer

Just Because Club: Your Personal Metaphysical Fitness Trainer

Just Because Club: Your Personal Metaphysical Fitness Trainer

Both traditional and innovative spiritual seekers can find something of use in this training program that contains more than 100 metaphysical exercises. The powerful series of awareness exercises are for individual personal use in everyday situations and are based on a highly successful training program tested throughout North America. Both esoteric and mundane, the exercises include such tasks as going to the supermarket, sitting in an empty bathtub, and pushing hands with the ineffable. Designed to lead to altered perceptions and to create new ideas, this metaphysical program is perfect for veteran spiritual gamers, those who are seeking new experiences, or those who are simply looking for new spiritual adventures.

ISBN: 0895560739

Author: Claude Needham

Publisher: Gateways Books & Tapes

Rating: 4.00

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K College

Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K College

Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K College

As educators and legislators across the country debate how to improve public schools, the most vital factor often disappears from the equation--the relationship between the teacher and the student. According to veteran educators Rita and Marco Portales, this relationship is the central issue in the education of students, especially Latino/a students who often face serious barriers to school success because of the legacy of racism, insufficient English-language skills, and cultural differences with the educational establishment.

To break down these barriers and help Latino/a students acquire a quality education, the Portaleses focus attention on the teacher-student relationship and offer a proven method that teachers can use to strengthen the print and oral skills of their students. They begin by analyzing the reasons why schools too often fail to educate Latino/a students, using eloquent comments from young Latinos/as and their parents to confirm how important the teacher-student relationship is to the student's success. Then they show how all educational stakeholders--teachers, administrators, state education agencies, legislators, and parents--can work together to facilitate the teacher-student relationship and improve student education. By demonstrating how teachers can improve students' reading, critical thinking, writing, and oral communication skills across the curriculum, they argue that learning can be made more relevant for students, keeping their interest levels high while preparing them for academically competitive colleges.

ISBN: 0292706642

Author: Rita Portales

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Rating: 0.00

The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord

Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel The Thief Lord, first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective's office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz's services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb's recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson

ISBN: 0439771323

Author: Cornelia Funke

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Rating: 3.93

Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing fantasy. Meggie has had her father to herself since her mother went away when she was young. Mo taught her to read when she was five, and the two share a mutual love of books. He can "read" characters out of books. When she was three, he read aloud from a book called Inkheart and released characters into the real world. At the same time, Meggie's mother disappeared into the story. This "story within a story" will delight not just fantasy fans, but all readers who like an exciting plot with larger-than-life characters.

ISBN: 0439709105

Author: Cornelia Funke

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Rating: 3.84

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Checkpoint

Checkpoint

Checkpoint

From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.

ISBN: 1400079853

Author: Nicholson Baker

Publisher: Vintage

Rating: 2.90

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Human Factors in Multi Crew Flight Operations

Human Factors in Multi Crew Flight Operations

Human Factors in Multi Crew Flight Operations

This title sets out the essentials of aviation human factors in four wide-ranging parts: the general aviation context and airline safety requirements; the main features of human factors and their role; the component elements and infrastructure; and operations applications.

ISBN: 0291398391

Author: Harry W. Orlady

Publisher: Gower Technical Press

Rating: 4.40

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