You play a bounty-hunter with a specific agenda, to bring to justice the worst offenders of war-crimes perpetuated by villains in the recent War of Four Nations. There is only one left, Karm Gruul, and recent evidence shows that he has finally come out of hiding. There can be no doubt that his reemergence speaks of some evil plot and you are the only one who can track him down and stop his schemes.

The descriptions, artwork, characters, and overall tone of this book place it as my unquestioned first choice among the Fighting Fantasy books. I've read perhaps 20 of them altogether and the only other one that comes close to being this good is Deathtrap Dungeon - but there has obviously been more work put into the setting for Moonrunner.
Although you play the hero, there is more to his past than usual and by the end you learn that his goals are much personal and the path he chose, that off the bounty hunter, was a means to an end.

As always, I love how there is a specific setting and timeline to where most of the fantasy versions of these books take place. It's not unusual for one to make reference to places or events that take place in other books - although this one seems to take place further in the future and doesn't have as much to relate to (although the intro on your charcter lists some nifty exploits).

Highly recommended to anyone that is interested in these sorts of books.

The author is a highly respected historian writing about a field that is getting increasingly more interest. Using a winning combination of excellently-researched historical summary and anecdotes about individuals, Dr. Keene narrates an engrossing chapter in the development of fascism in the twentieth century.

As a sports-nut kid, I adored this book. It was great sports--and it taught me there's always a way to get it done. What a treat it is to find out it's been re-released! If you love sports, if you've ever been told you can't do something, if you like to see the good guys win...READ THIS BOOK!!!

P.S.--the guy who wrote this book won a gold medal in the Olympics, so he really *knows* sports!

I am 38 years old and I read this book when I was 17 years old as a senior in high school. It wasn't a requirement that I read this book. I simply saw it in the library and was intrigued by the title. Now that I am an adult, I want my children to read this powerful book. I am also ordering the book today so that I can reread it. There were so many people who participated in the civil rights movement and it is time we learn about more of those American heros. I could not put this book down. I read it in two days! Myrlie Evers shares her darkest fears and greatest joy.

Hooray for Barbara Boswell! In her short story "A Home For Christmas," in the A FORTUNE'S CHILDREN CHRISTMAS anthology, she completes Joanna Chandler's story of survival after a traumatic accident begun in STAND-IN BRIDE. In a "A Home For Christmas," Joanna finds herself hired as an executive assistant to a reluctanct Ryder Fortune. Joanna's foibles such as her hyperactivity, short attention span, and short term memory deficits (all consequences of the accident that left her brain-injured) drive Ryder crazy, but her warm personality, understanding ear, and sense of humor endear her to him, so that he falls in love with her and she with him. What makes this story wonderful and very rare is that Joanna is clearly a survivor, never a victim of her disabilities. In fact, the word "disabled" is never even printed in the story. Barbara Boswell skillfully interweaves the effects of Joanna's accident into the plot line, so that Ryder's acceptance of Joanna's shortcomings is integral to the resolution of their romance.

This is a refreshing way to spend your time listening to some of the best interviews from the show. I like the show but sometimes don't have time to catch it on NPR. This audio set gives me lots of the memorable interviews I've heard or partially heard over the years. It's a great collection of some of the folks who are major influences in their work. The inquisitive and probing questions of Terry Gross really open up conversations with the likes of Tracy Ullman and Dennis Franz, they sound like us. These are wonderful snippets of real life.

With this work, Frank Jackson has provided us with a much needed explicitation of the assumptions underlying most forms of philosophical analysis. Indeed, Jackson argues forcefully that conceptual analysis is much more prevalent in philosophical works than is admitted by many of Jacksons colleages. One of the most important insights offered in this work is the idea that metaphysics, if done seriously, must depend strongly on folk intuitions. The intuitions about when 'the folk' would plausibly apply a certain concept reveils the 'folk theory'. The metaphysician's job is then to locate these intuitions in a coherent account of 'what there is' in the traditional sense. Consequently, Jackson offers two examples of such analysis, namely colours and ethics. Both are located in the natural world: colours as the surface properties which cause our colour experiences and ethical properties as concealed descriptive properties. Whether you agree with these conclusions or not, the line of thought is both clear and sharp. Throughout, Jackson remains true to his general points, which are that metaphysics has to do with analysis of folk concepts as much as empirical discovery. This inevitably leads to considerations on Kripke and Putnam and the nature of so-called 'a posteriori necessities'. Jackson argues that the fallacious intuition that such exist stems from the fact that a single sentence may express different propositions, depending on its intension. Thus 'water is H2O' may express the necessary (and a priori) truth that 'what is actually water is H20' or it may express the contingent (and a posteriori) proposition that 'the watery stuff of our acquaintance is H20'. This is a profound insight, which solves many sceptical worries instigated by the Quinean movement. The distinctions a priori/a posteriori and contingent/necessary may now be employed with a clear conscience; something which has been difficult ever since Quine's Two Dogmas first appeared half a century ago. Not all will agree with Jackson's line of argument but the clarity of his claims and significance of their implications make this book a great asset for anyone interested in metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

I love this book! It is historical, but fun. I have become very fascinated with the lives of Mary Anna Morrison Jackson and Thomas J. Jackson and this book put it in story form while filled with lots of facts. I think that this is also a good novel for anyone--even if not interested in Jackson or the civil war.

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Since this book deals with the late 1960's, and the problems that plagued that era, it is particularly compelling to the more senior reader, who lived through that time. It contains a love story, along the lines of a princess and a pauper. This is a love that starts in early youth and extends through marriage and the first days of parenthood. Tragedy occurs, and the father is challenged in his relationship with his son during the devilish period of negativity surrounding the Vietnam War. It occurs to the writer, that the descriptions ring true, and serve to bring back a reader to those times.

Karen Jackson Ford once again turns the long-standing conventional view and flips it with her deft intellect. A must for anyone who is a serious student of literature.