Tangerine

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So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. He can see the lies his parents and brother live out, day after day. No one ever listens to Paul, though--until the family moves to Tangerine. In Tangerine, even a blind, geeky, alien freak can become cool. Who knows? Paul might even become a hero! Edward Bloor's debut novel sparkles with wit, authenticity, unexpected plot twists, and heart. The writing is so fine, the story so triumphant, that you just might stand up and shout when you get to the end. Hooray!

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Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see what others cannot. He can see that his parents' constant praise of his brother, Erik, the football star, is to cover up something that is terribly wrong. But no one listens to Paul--until his family moves to Tangerine. In this Florida town, weird is normal: Lightning strikes at the same time every day, a sinkhole swallows a local school, and Paul the geek finds himself adopted into the toughest group around: the soccer team at his middle school.

Maybe this new start in Tangerine will help Paul finally see the truth about his past--and will give him the courage to face up to his terrifying older brother.

Includes a reader's guide and an afterword by the author.

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A real page-turner - Wow!.......2007-08-19

Through his computerized diary entries, Paul Fisher tells the story of his seventh-grade year. These entries not only let him describe what is happening, they give him the opportunity to reflect on his past.

At the beginning of the story, the Fisher family has just moved to Florida from Houston. The diary entries tell the story of how Paul's brother, Erik, has always bullied him. He even has his friends call Paul Eclipse boy because of a bad vision problem that was supposedly caused by Paul looking at an eclipse for too long. His parents virtually overlook Erik's digressions because they are focused on what Paul calls the 'Erik Fisher football dream.'

To make things worse, Paul gets kicked off of his new soccer team because his Mom had told the school that he has a visual 'handicap'. But Paul believes that his vision is much better and it is proven in his many observations chronicled in the diary.

When the portable school units had Paul's middle school are swallowed by a sinkhole, Paul is given a chance to go to another school and he takes it. Because he knows that at Tangerine Middle School he can play soccer. Paul's ability to 'see' people for who they are may be even more sharp than his ability to see. He doesn't see the class or racial barriers that separate him from the kids in this other school. His eagerness to play also earns him the respect of the other team members.

As the story unfolds, Paul sees snippets of his past and the history of his family comes clear to him. And he is the unlikely hero in this heartwarming tale.

Paul was endearing from the start. The writing in this novel is impeccable. The story is fantastic - a real page-turner. I read it all through in a day. There is a dark undertone to this book though so I would not recommend it for younger kids.

Tangerine .......2007-08-12

When I read this book it didn't seem like there were any happy times in it. It seemed like all it was, was violence, and bullying. If I were older I think I would have understood it better, and maybe I would even like it. When I picked it off of the summer reading book list, I thought I might like it so I kept on reading, but nothing good or exciting happened, and that is how I feel about this book.

Fisher Man.......2007-07-31

Paul Fisher, AKA Fisher Man, has a not so normal life. Living on top of muck fires and in a termite-infested house with a brother that has everything a child could want, he turned out pretty normal. In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul finds a way of life in Tangerine County.

I thought Paul's life was not very realistic because there was too much going on at once. His best friend's brother died, his school started melting into a sinkhole, and he gets bullied by everyone. This book needs to have more focus to it other than bullying. How could one kid get beat up by his brother and get teased by the almost the whole county without his parents knowing anything?

I have to say it had great detail but I would only recommend it to readers that like soccer and for those who like intense stories.

A really great book.......2007-07-19

My son who is 12 read this book as part of his summer reading assignment from school - I also read it - what a great story! We especially enjoyed it because I grew up in Florida and the story was so true to how all the developers and transplants have tried to turn the state into one giant Disney and how nature thwarts them whenever it can - but anyone would enjoy this book. It is a great story with a really good message.

Sports Story With So Much More.......2007-07-02

Sports play a big part in the plot of TANGERINE as the legally blind progagonist, Paul, is a talented soccer player and his games are described in vivid detail. Paul's sinister older brother is a star football player and his adventures as a kicker are also integral to the tale. Yet the book examines many facets of modern suburban life beyond the sports field. The adults who are almost all well developed can be described as ambitious upwardly mobile people who populate pretentious new subdivisions, disdain the natural world on which their "mcmansions" are built and tend to live through their children. Conflicts between ethnic groups and socioeconomic groups are also well examined. The consequences of unacknowledged misdeeds is a strong theme. Though the individual characters are well drawn and Paul and his friends are very sympathetic the situations include several unlikely natural disasters and tragedies which makes the total story a bit surreal. The book is worth reading as it is well written and appealing to middle school aged students.

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Touching and Sad with a bit of Adventure
A Very Compelling Story
Weepy, Steamy and Very Good
Is This Literature? Maybe!
An insult to my intelligence

Tangerine Dream
Ken Douglas , and Jack Stewart
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ASIN: 0974524689
Release Date: 2005-09-15

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"Oh, Lord!" Gayle jerks the wheel to the right, but too late. "Dylan," she cries as the oncoming car strikes them head on. Within minutes fire and rescue have her out of the car and on the way to surgery, but tragically her daughter Dylan dies in the hospital. Dylan's father can't be located. He's running for the Presidency of the United States and supposedly somewhere on the campaign trail, but actually he's I the arms of a teenage prostitute. Gayle decides to recover in New Zealand to avoid the media, but Nick Nesbitt, television newscaster, senses a story and will stop at nothing to get it.

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Touching and Sad with a bit of Adventure.......2007-10-15

I read this book in one sitting and the main thing I found wrong with it was that it's not long enough. I would have enjoyed three or four more nights with these wonderful characters. I can't wait till there is a sequel, but since this book was written a couple years ago, I'm guessing there probably won't be one.

This is a book about two girls who fall in love. It's touching and sad and there is a bit of adventure in it, but I don't think you could call this a thriller like the other books that are written by these writers, but even so, I hung onto every page, eagerly anticipating the next. You will too, I just know it. So if you're in the mood for something different, give this book a try.

A Very Compelling Story.......2007-10-15

This is a great story about love and politics told in a different kind of way. I am an avid fiction reader and I enjoyed this book so much I read it twice. It was all I hoped it would be the first time around and even more the second.

Weepy, Steamy and Very Good.......2007-10-11

TANGERINE DREAM opens with Gayle Sterling and her daughter Dylan at sea off the New Zealand coast. They are vacationing from America, where Gayle's husband is running for President of the United States. Shortly after they are in an auto accident. Interpol calls California and in no time Dylan's twin sister Taylor and her best friend Haley are are on their way to New Zealand along with Gayle's brother-in-law Psychiatrist Sandford :Sandy" Sterling.

Dylan dies in a heartfelt scene shortly after they arrive. The presidential candidate shows up late as he was too busy playing with a young women he was paying to hurry down under. When he does arrive he finds a family that seems united against him, maybe they've sensed he has a playgirl close by. Sandy has long been in love with his brother's wife. Haley and Taylor seem to be falling in love with each other. A rogue newsman has Gayle's husband in his sights and you wonder if anything like this can really happen. Personally I don't think the scandals and buried skeletons in this fictional presidential candidate's closet are that much different then what we've read about our real politician's secrets.

The book is a bit steamy in places, a bit weepy too. I liked the characters and I didn't mind sticking with them. I think you'll like them too.

Is This Literature? Maybe!.......2007-08-08

The story was good, lots of suspense, but not the murder mystery, who dun-nit kind of suspense I found in the author's other book, Diamond Sky, which I read first. Instead this is sort of a love story gone awry with a Horse Whisperer type of ending (I hope that's not a spoiler). In that context, I'd call this Literature, however the graphic sex scenes between the two girls was more of, je ne sais pas, like erotica, almost, but that can be literature too, can't it? Still the authors have delivered up a very good story, one I enjoyed very much.

An insult to my intelligence.......2007-07-28

Like other reviewers I picked this one out because of other rave reviews. I kept reading through mindless, plotless, boring dribble out of the hope that the whole would be better than the some of its parts. I honestly cannot believe this book was published, let alone anyone liked it. It was characterless, immature and psychologically inaccurate to the point of being absurd. For example, the incest-sexual themes in the Sterling family were not developed, and so the sex scenes were meaningless. Everyone was good looking with well-described breasts, lips or "mounds", and I ended up suspecting this book was written for dodgy men as an alternative to video, instead of fiction/literature readers. Believe me, I've read some bad novels. This one I could not even describe as a novel, it was a few pages of ridiculousness. Please I am begging you, don't waste your time, I feel like I've lost a few brain cells.

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel

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Excellent fictional account of growing up American Muslim
An illuminating book - addressing some of the central issues of our times
Disappointing
Widening my world view
a great read

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel
Mohja Kahf
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ASIN: 0786715197

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Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines between “Muslim” and “American.”
When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an eastern state — taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder of her friend Tayiba’s sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her. But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in Indianapolis, she’s back on familiar ground: Attending a concert by her brother’s interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions from the “aunties” and “uncles,” and running into the recently divorced Hakim everywhere.
Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car race. It is a riveting debut from an important new voice.

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Excellent fictional account of growing up American Muslim.......2007-10-09

I thought this would be a juvenile book that I might enjoy. Instead, it is a strong and well written adult story of a young Syrian girl's childhood in Indiana. Lots of insights from a female point of view. I recommend it!

An illuminating book - addressing some of the central issues of our times.......2007-08-13

A book that yields rich insights on several dimensions. The dominant one is what it is like to grow up as a minority within the American culture - and not just any old minority, but as a Muslim, which parts of American society are actively trying to demonize. It was the "flip-side" of my own experience, living as a non-Muslim in the very heartland of Islam, Saudi Arabia, for a quarter century. While I was never forced to deal with issues of assimilation, Ms. Kahf's character, Khadra, must wrestle with the parts of her heritage that are essential, and those that can be jettisoned. How many religious injunctions are merely codified fetishes, illustrated by the refusal to eat any meat from the deli because of the meat-cutter?

There are numerous important sub-themes. The timeless subject of male-female relations, with that "Islamic twist" is shown in a realistic light, covering a spectrum of possibilities. Through her characters, Blu and Bitsy, who were Khadra's roommates at various periods, Ms. Kafh is able to illustrate nuances in beliefs that are all too often generalized. Blu is Jewish, and there is much agreement between these "daughters of Abraham," except on that haram subject of Israel and Palestine. Bitsy is Iranian, and leaves notes around the apartment blaming "the Arabs" for all of Iran's problems.

Khadra's trip to Saudi Arabia, to complete the Haj, was more uneven. There is no question that cocaine exists in the Kingdom, but I found the particular scene in which it was depicted playing heavily towards that stereotypical view of rich, decadent Saudis. More realistic, and more insightful are her dealings with the mutawaa (the religious police), and in particular how various Saudi males refuse to confront their arrogance and inappropriate behavior.

Ms. Kafh is clearly erudite, in a most important trans-cultural way. Her epigraphs ground her novel in the wider world of ideas, and these selections range from Rumi and Al-Arabi to James Baldwin and Leonard Cohen.

A strong book, which addresses some of the central issues of our times.... And is strongly recommended.

Disappointing.......2007-05-10

Do you notice how many reviewers say they "can't wait" to read this one after hearing about it on NPR? That was me too, and I'm here to tell you, don't bother. I'm giving up on it after failing to figure out what the plot might possibly be after reading 100 pages. I think lots of us want to learn more about Islam, but this book isn't a very fun (or even interesting) way to do it. Save your time and just find some non-fiction, instead of this plotless drivel. I'm lost in a sea of names and random stories about Islamic customs, with no idea where the author might be taking me. I am embarrassed I got my whole book club to read this.

Widening my world view.......2007-03-24

While I didn't love the writing style in this book or find it compelling reading, I do recommend it highly for the expanded world view it provides. I loved seeing mainstream American life through a young Muslim woman's eyes. I found it interesting to learn the many varying views amoung Muslims about how to live life - no reason be be surprised by that but I was. Sometimes it is too easy to accept the flat picture of people and events portrayed by the media. That is why I often find for me novels are the best way to open my mind to new ideas and ways of thinking and being.

Khadra is a character I will remember because of her search for common ground with friends of different backgrounds and religion, her struggle to find what her beliefs were and how she could separate from yet still connect with her family and its construct, and her effort to find ethical work. I would like to get to know the girl in the tangerine scarf and blue jeans.

a great read .......2007-03-19

One would think that a 60 year old white Christian southern male raised to teen years in a segregated society would find little in common with this book, but I add only to other reviewers - I see myself. I see my journey. I remember the 60's Hippie, radical, and then leaving my raised in faith - only to find it again, this time for real. The story of the good Samaritan leaves us knowing that loving God also means loving our neighbor - and that often is someone very different than we are. Maybe that is why God made Chocolate, Vanilla and spumoni. This book is a wonderful trip and a reminder of who we all are - God's greatest creation. Thank you

Travels With a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

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View to a different world
Incomplete reconstruction
Ibn Battutah couldn't have been this dull
Tedious with Gratuitous Obscurity
One of the best

Travels With a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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ASIN: 1566492475

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Ibn Battutah, the best traveler of the pre-mechanical age, set out in 1325 from his native Tangiers on the pilgrimage to Mecca. Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces the first stage of the Moroccan's eccentric journey, from Tangiers to Constantinople, traveling both in Ibn Battutah's footsteps and in the footnotes of his text.

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View to a different world.......2007-09-16

This little book is so easily read that I find myself picking it up and just opening any page - where I am transported to a different universe. The illustrations are delightful. The esoteric subjects of Arabic literature and history are opened up with fluid grace. Who would have thought that a travelogue through Yemen and other mysterious and closed cultures could be so interesting? I have given this book as a gift to friends I thought were astute enough to value it. Anyone who is curious about territories usually unexplored by travel writers will love this book.

Incomplete reconstruction.......2007-08-16

Tim Mackintosh-Smith tries to follow the trail of the 14th century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah. Such is the extent of Battutah's wanderings that this volume only covers part of the author's attempt: from Morocco to Istanbul, via Egypt, the Gulf and the Crimea (skipping over some dangerous territory for the modern traveller).

I thought this was an interesting book, in that it describes a lot of the minutiae both of the countries and the daily lives of the inhabitants of those countries. Inevitably, given the passage of time between Battutah's journeys and the author's reconstruction, what can be recognised from the past is limited. But the fun is in discovering that, realising how things might have been for the Moroccan, how things have changed and what a remarkable achievement it was for Battutah to recall his voyages at all.

G Rodgers

Ibn Battutah couldn't have been this dull.......2006-12-24

I've spent some time in Tangier, where Ibn Battutah is still a well-known name after a lot of centuries, and was happy to see that someone had produced a new look in English on the subject. Regrettably, the focus of this effort is more on the author, Timothy Macintosh-Smith himself than on the intrepid traveler Ibn Battutah. I've no doubt that Mackintosh-Smith is a well-educated and experienced Arabist, but his writing style in this short book is not only stilted and pretentious, it's frequently closeminded and (to my mind) unfair to the alleged subject. There are occasional insights worth having here, but overall, this is not a book that I would recommend.

Tedious with Gratuitous Obscurity.......2005-08-26

I wanted to enjoy this book. The premise is interesting. The author is fascinated by Ibn Battutah and his travels. He sets off to follow in IB's footsteps. The author draws references from many bizarre sources presumably to help clarify or explain some of his experiences, but what it ends up being is gratuitous obscurity. I carefully sought out his references, but I did not feel rewarded. I noted with interest how often the author clarified that he was not married and did not wish to be and that he is not a Muslim and did not wish to be. These two issues arose many times. I was interested in the Eye of Joy and a couple of his jokes, but overall I felt the author was trying to impress the reader with his wide knowledge of obscurity rather than share an experience with his reader.

One of the best.......2005-05-10

Mr. Mackintosh-Smith can write!!
He is a stylist of the highest order. He combines this with a Quixote-like obsession with Ibn-Batuta and an erudite facility with Arabic. All this makes for a book that offers a personal, insightful and often very funny guide to regions of the world that could do with being better understood. He is neither an old-fashioned Orientalist nor an anti-Orientalist. At best one could perhaps describe him as a post-Saidian with a fondness for bowel movements.

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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One of the best ever!
Mesmerizing
The Ultimate Bathroom Book
Get It If You Can Find It - Fantastic Read!
This book may be better than I felt it to be

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe
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ASIN: 0553380583
Release Date: 1999-10-05

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The "streamline baby" in Tom Wolfe's 1965 debut book is a hot rod, but the car's candy colors and wild lines can't match the prose style Wolfe devised to describe them. The title essay--Wolfe's first magazine article--launched the New Journalism, partly because its original title was "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." His voice was more shocking than any subculture he uncovered. Until Wolfe (Ph.D., Yale), nobody struck gold by applying Ph.D.-speak to lowbrow subjects. Kurt Vonnegut famously called this an "excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention."

Now that everybody does what Wolfe did, his early essays smack less of genius. But attention must be paid to this pioneering peek into King Pop's tomb. The most startling thing is how soberly sensible most of the prose now appears, except for the title of the first essay, "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!" which anticipates the far superior Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Mostly, these articles seem like straightforward introductions to some of the signal figures of the early '60s: hot-rod designer Big Daddy Roth, surf guitarist Dick Dale, teen recording tycoon Phil Spector, Andy Warhol debutante Baby Jane Holzer, the Cassius Clay-era Muhammad Ali. We even glimpse the Beatles in a profile of the yappy DJ Murray the K in "The Fifth Beatle."

The last half of the book focuses more on New York and its denizens' endless combat for social status. The last piece, "The Big League Complex," is like a 1964 warm-up exercise for The Bonfire of the Vanities. --Tim Appelo

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In this book, his first, Tom Wolfe took a fresh look at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroed in on the more exotic forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles.

In the Twist, bouffant hairdos, stock-car racing and rock concerts Wolfe found a unique American energy. In the title piece he eulogizes the flamboyant kustomized kars California teens constructed with artistic dedication.

"New forces excited the old guard, and Wolfe takes special pleasure in stories of these encounters. Whether in fashion, nightlife, child rearing or art worship, the old guard fought to preserve its status." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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One of the best ever!.......2007-08-14

If you have an interest about our "car culture" and want to know where it sprouted from, this is your book. Maybr Wolfe's best book, right up there with the "Kool Aid Acid Test". Remebering, laughing and learning, all at the same time is pretty cool.

Mesmerizing.......2006-12-27

Tom Wolfe is an astonishing writer and a scarily perceptive cultural observer. There is a reason why Wolfe has created so many enduring images in the modern vernacular - he writes from the pulse of American culture, capturing its peculiarities in rare brilliance and condensing it all into wonderfully apt brevity - hence "good ol' boy," "the right stuff," and "radical chic."

In American Studies, Wolfe sits among the best. And it all started with "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby."

The Ultimate Bathroom Book.......2006-06-01

This is a collection of short tales about contemporary New York and America written in the early 1960s. As you might expect, Wolfe is a little more rough around the edges here, and so there is a little hit and miss. However, The Last American Hero, about driver Junior Johnson and the early beginnings of NASCAR, is breathtaking - here are the true buds of Wolfe's ideas on American Masculinity that were to flower in The Right Stuff.

Get It If You Can Find It - Fantastic Read!.......2004-11-21

Tom Wolfe began his career as a "New Journalist" with this book back in 1965, and when I discovered it some thirty years later I instantly became a fan of what this man is sellin'. The articles collected in here range a wide variety of topics, and even the duller pieces are punctuated with traces of brilliance.

The most memorable for me (seeing as I haven't read it in a few years) deal with some interesting and illuminating topics, both of their time and somehow relevant today:

The title piece dealing with custom cars (what's the hottest reality show staple besides weddings and home decor?)

Phil Spector's oddness (chilling in light of his recent legal troubles)

The beginnings of what would become NASCAR (now the biggest sport in the South)

Cassius Clay AKA Muhammed Ali (the role of the black athelete in American society is still being worked out)

Vegas' rise from the desert

There are countless others, products of their time and yet transcending eras to speak to us today. Again, not every piece works, but it's a credit to the book as a whole that I can't recall which ones were failures.

If you can find this, get it. You'll look at thinks differently afterwords...

This book may be better than I felt it to be .......2004-11-02

These essays were the debut of a truly new voice. I not only did not know what to make of most of them when I first read them I really did not understand what the writer was getting at. But at the same time I saw they were filled with brilliant social observation, great wit, a certain humor and an effort at putting the phonys of this world down a peg. Like all really sharp social criticism these works have an element of cruelty in them. So let's say it is really a matter of taste that I did not like them so much. But as I said before it was clear to me then that the writer was tremendously inventive and that he was hitting many real targets in a strong and effective way.

The Electric kool-aid acid test: The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby ; radical chic & mau-mauing the flak catchers

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The Electric kool-aid acid test: The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby ; radical chic & mau-mauing the flak catchers
Tom Wolfe
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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Tangerine is one delicious book
Wrongfully Accused
Make Me Whole
Marilynn Griffith's Tangerine a Must Read for romance fans
Fruit of a different kind

Tangerine (Shades of Style)
Marilynn Griffith
Manufacturer: Revell
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ASIN: 0800730429
Release Date: 2007-01-01

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Fans of Pink and Jade will eat up Tangerine, the third book in the cutting-edge Shades of Style series. Jean Guerra, a designer at Garments of Praise design firm, doesn't like surprises. These days though, the unexpected meets her everywhere. Since Jean's return to the church a year ago, her God-encounters occur with increasing frequency, along with thoughts of her husband-the one she vowed to divorce and gave up on long ago. The one nobody at work knows about, not even her best friend, Lily, or her boss, Chenille. But when the designer assigned to work with Jean on a line of men's suits shows up, her heart flips. It's her husband, Nigel Salvador. Jean is finally rendered speechless. Can her bruised heart become whole enough to love again? Or will she remain in the trenches of loneliness forever?

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Tangerine is one delicious book.......2007-05-07

If you're looking for a delicious read, Tangerine's your book. Third in her Shades of Style series, Tangerine is the story of Jean Guerra, one of the characters who inhabit the Garments of Praise fashion house.

Marilynn easily draws you into her story and makes you love her characters. Tangerine is a story about a failed marriage, second chances, the love of family and the importance of friends. Jean is renewing her relationship with God and is feeling her way through a maze of familial and friendship relationships. I just wish I could have parked my feet under Jean's table and shared my heart with her.

The first two books, Pink and Jade chronicled the stories of Raya and Lily--I can't wait for the fourth book to release and complete the circle by telling us the story of Chenille.

Wrongfully Accused.......2007-05-02

TANGERINE, Marilynn Griffith's third book in the Shades of Style series, gives us to an inspiring look at what wrongful incarceration can do to a family. Jean Guerra and Nigel Salvador met and fell in love among the wounded of the Vietnam War. Putting God first, they were married and had one child from that union. By trade, Nigel was a designer, but his career was interrupted by the war. And afterwards, with the compassion of God in him, he is more interested in helping the war veterans. Unfortunately, his compassion was rewarded with a prison sentence for a crime he did not commit. Believing in her husband's innocence, Jean exercises every legal option and uses all their money to get Nigel released from prison. When her fourteen year old daughter informs her of her impending motherhood, Jean makes a choice to focus more on her child. She gives up on her husband and essentially on God also.

Fifteen years later, Jean is a designer and is offered an opportunity with Reebok to design a line of active sportswear with a designer they have chosen to assist her. That designer ends up being none other than her husband Nigel who has obviously moved on with his life. But after all the years of separation and ill feelings, sparks continue to fly between the two. The owner and employees of the company decide to help in the best way they know how; prayer. Can Jean and Nigel repair their broken family? Or, has Nigel really moved on for good?

Griffith has written a truly inspirational read on why we should focus on God in our lives at all times. She covers a multitude of issues in this book. Nigel shows how unshakeable faith is rewarded when one has patience and belief. Jean, though her faith is rocked, finds her way back to God. They both show no matter how bad we as human beings mess up, God has a plan for restoration. The secondary characters and the behind-the-scenes look into a design house were a huge draw for this book. With this being my first book by this author, I'm looking forward to reading some of her other works.

Reviewed by Brenda M. Lisbon
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Make Me Whole.......2007-02-20

Tangerine is the third book in Marilynn Griffith's Shades of Style series. Griffith constructs a life of secrets, regrets, revelation and rebirth. In the battle fields of Vietnam, Jean Guerra and Nigel Salvador, met, fell in love, became man and wife, then parents. Nigel being the God fearing man that he is tried to do right by a friend, and for his mistake he was sent to prison for something he did not do. Jean tried to be supportive and fight to clear his name, but when their soon to be fifteen year-old comes to Jean and tells her she does not want to have her quinceañera, but will take the money to have an abortion, Jean decides to focus more on her daughter.

Many years pass and God had it in his plan for these two to be together, so he found a way to put back together what man had tried to pull apart. Jean was asked by Reebok to come up with a line of active wear and they would send someone out to work with her on the project. Little did she know that it would be her long-lost husband.

Nigel had tried to move on, but he was still married to his wife that he had searched for but could never find. Carmen, the woman that helped him get his life back together, was happy to find the mystery wife. Now the divorce could take place and a new life can begin, but for whom?

Tangerine is a book that I recommend to a reader who does not believe in the spirit of true love and the power of God. The fourth book to this series, titled Turquoise, will be out August of this year. I cannot wait.

Jennifer Coissiere
APOOO BookClub

Marilynn Griffith's Tangerine a Must Read for romance fans.......2007-02-20

The Shades of Style books were all well written and not one was a disappointment. Her characters are rich and the stories draw you into them in such that by the time you finish you have made some friends that you hate to leave.

I was inclined to ignore her books because of the cover, but take a look inside; romance lovers will not want to miss one of books in this series.

She is excellent and women of color absolutely sing in her books.

Fruit of a different kind.......2007-02-07

Sweet and tangy with the right dash of salt tears, Marilynn's third Shades of Style book offers the best kind of fruit. Fruit that will satisfy your soul and keep you coming back for more.

While many of the story lines in Tangerine are true-to-life painful, Marilynn skillfully blends humor, romantic tension, and grace throughout every chapter. Like her characters, Marilynn refuses to shy away from issues of race, brokenness, and the healing power of forgiveness. She also deftly paints an accurate picture of "man face" and offers a realistic look into the beauty of enduring love.

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The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
Tom WOLFE
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0E5D4

Tangerines and Tea, My Grandparents and Me: An Alphabet Book

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Warm words and pretty pictures

Tangerines and Tea, My Grandparents and Me: An Alphabet Book
Ona Gritz
Manufacturer: Abrams Books for Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810958716

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With heartwarming illustrations and fun rhymes, this alphabet book is perfect for grandchildren and grandparents alike!

Visiting grandparents is always an adventure, whether rooting through drawers, playing pretend, or relaxing and reading together in a comfortable chair. Join two boisterous siblings as they leave home to be guests on their grandparents' farm during different seasons of the year. Providing fun rhymes like "the songs we sing while we sit on the swing," and "an oak tree to climb one limb at a time," both adults and children will have fun singing and reading along together, as they learn the alphabet!

Yumi Heo's whimsical illustrations provide the perfect complement to the rhythm of Ona Gritz's jubilant ABC text. Grandchildren of all ages will recognize themselves in this book's appreciative look at the warmth and happiness that grandparents provide.

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Warm words and pretty pictures.......2006-02-24

Working more on sound identification than letter recognition, this is a good alphabet book for the slightly older crowd. With each page or spread featuring a letter sound, the book outlines the fun activities that a boy and girl have when visiting grandparents, from a bubbly bath to a perfect friend for playing pretend and ending with zithers and guitars under zillions of stars. Simple colorful illustrations are a plus with lots of geometric shapes - round smiling faces, triangular bodies, and rain falling in straight lines. A good read-aloud for preschool-1st grade.

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Tammy Tangerine (Fruit Troops)
Melody Carlson
Manufacturer: Multnomah
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 1576731987
Release Date: 1997-10-09

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