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Mississippi Books and WritersDecember 1997Note: Prices listed below reflect the publisher's suggested list price. They are subject to change without notice.
The Secret to Staying Motivated/Audio Cassettes By Zig Ziglar Audio Edition Harper Audio (Audio Cassettes; $15.95; ISBN: 1559944714 ) Publication date: December 1997 And Also with You: Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma Providence House (Hardcover, $26.95, ISBN: 1577360362) Publication date: December 1997 St. Martins (Hardcover, ISBN: 031217005X) Publication date: December 1997 Description from Kirkus Reviews: The author's strong, often silent heroine, Lily Bard, and Shakespeare, Arkansas, her adopted hometown, in a second appearance (Shakespeares Landlord, 1996). Lily cleans houses for a living and works out at the BodyTime Gym. There, early one morning, she and young Bobo Winthrop discover the body of fitness enthusiast Del Packardcrushed by a weight-laden bar. Accident or murder? Police Chief Claude Freidrich, Lilys neighbor and would-be lover, doesnt have a clue. Meanwhile, Packards death seems yet more evidence of the towns sinister atmosphere, a sense of unease going back to the not-long-ago beating death of black Darnell Glass and the killing, a few weeks later, of white farmer Lee Elginneither murder ever solved. Now, the racist fliers placed in car windows around town dont help. Then theres the pony-tailed stranger seen with Hollis Winthrop Jr.one of Lilys employers and head of his familys lucrative sporting-goods business now that patriarch Hollis Sr. has retired. A frightening act of violence in the black community church prompts the stranger to reveal his true identity to Lily, and its she, with help from an unexpected source, who rescues him as the whole ugly scenario unravels. Wheels within wheels in a suspenseful story packed with nasty characters, a few good guys, some graphic sex, and more exercise and karate lore than you ever wanted to know. Lilys stubborn, moody, gutsy persona holds it all together, and most readers will be with her to the finish. Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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