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Tempted At Midnight (Berkley Sensation)
$7.99
I enjoyed this romance. Logan was very heartwarming and Emily was determined to make it on her own and finally discovered that making it on her own could be lonely without Logan. The mystery in the story was a glue that kept the couple close enough to find the importance each ment to the other.

I am growing into a quite a fan of Ms. D'Alessandro. I love the playfulness in her stories and I truly enjoy when the couple openly speak of their feelings for one another.

Necropolis [VHS]
$9.98
Necropolis (Bruce Hickey, 1987)

Bruce Hickey's career in Hollywood as a writer/director lasted for all of one movie. Now that I have seen that movie, I'm pretty sure I understand why.

Necropolis is the story of a 300-year-old witch (LeeAnne Baker, whose other credits are as obscure, and likely as awful, as this one) who is reincarnated as a punk rock/biker chick. She needs to sacrifice a virgin in order to regain her full powers, but she doesn't mind sacrificing a few non-virgins along the way in order to get the energy to feed the army of zombies she's growing beneath the streets of New York City. No one notices. (Oddly, this is the one detail in the entire plot for which I didn't need to suspend my disbelief.) There's a murder-mystery subplot that is, of course, tied back into the main plot, and a lame-brained romance between the cop investigating the case and the aforementioned virgin, but you can safely ignore it all. For that matter, you can ignore this entire movie, which has not a single redeeming quality to recommend it. The direction is shaky at best and nonexistent at worst, most of the acting makes more recent amateur productions (and I'm not talking about the really good ones, either) look like Oscar-winning fare, the cinematography is messy (and how hard is it to screw up a film that's basically perpetual night with lots of fog?), the sound mix seems to have been recorded through cotton batting... I could go on, but really, why waste any more words on this? Unless you have a serious penchant for awful eighties horror films, avoid this like the plague. I want my seventy-seven minutes back. (zero)

The Spoken Word of Love
$14.99
Psalmist Jacquie Brown Hadnot has completed her sophomore project. In the vein of her 2005 award winning, CD His Mercy Endures Forever, the rich new worship project is entitled The Spoken Word of Love. Lyrically, this is a very intimate album born out of Jacquie s personal worship time and much of the music pours from the heart and soul of Jacquie s intimate relationship with the Father. Jacquie wrote all but one of the fourteen songs on The Spoken Word of Love and the Psalmist says the songs are her exploration into our love relationship with the Father. The Spirit of the Lord spoke to her at the beginning of the birthing process with words that set the atmosphere for the CD. The Spoken Word of Love features: Zenobia Smith, Michael Reese, Gregg Hadnot, Toi Lee, Patricia Rogers, Art Toombs & Sherry Miller.

Open Season 2
$28.95
Totally exceeded expectations, much better than the first one, highly recommend, not an absolute favorite for my daughter, but she will watch it if I put it in, very friendly and kid friendly, nice story about friends and life