Freefall

Book Description

When a young woman stumbles out of the Hanalei Mountains on the island of Kauai with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Cameron Pierce reluctantly agrees to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding her arrival. Now known as Jade, the woman begins to recall fragments of what led her to this place, and she realizes the danger isn't over.

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Thrilling Christian Romance Novel, Entertaining, Based in Hawaii.......2007-09-16

****
This novel is a Christian romantic thriller, long (461 pages) but very satisfying. It is the story of an amnesic woman who awakens in a Kauai rainforest with no idea how she got there. It proceeds to tell her story, interspersed with the male lead's story---he is a detective who helps her and becomes involved in her life.

The faith themes are gentle and loving and beautiful, even for those who do not share the Christian faith. The characters are well-drawn and interesting. It is an exciting read, full of adventure. Even though you know what the ending will be (it IS a romantic thriller, after all), you don't know how it will get there, so there is a lot of suspense, and a lot of action as well.

For those of us who love Hawaii, it is pure pleasure to read and enjoy the Kauai setting and cultural references. Hawaii, faith, trust, healing from hurt, forgiveness, fame, privacy, dealing with struggles---these are all themes of Freefall.

If you are interested in the above themes and relish an exciting Christian novel, Freefall is sure to please. Recommended.
****

Very Satisfied Reader.......2007-08-31

Freefall grabbed me from the start and pulled me along right through to the end. I could not put the book down. The writing was informative and clear, making me feel as though I was witness to the events. It makes me search out more of Kristen's books. Great job !!

Intrigue, Suspense and Discovery.......2007-07-09

Freefall is a splendid story of intrigue, suspense and discovery set in the culture of the Hawaiian Islands. After an accident while hiking, a woman loses her memory and wanders into the home of a local resident. The local woman summons her brother, an investigator, from the mainland. The hiker's memory begins to return early in the story but that's when the real mystery begins.

This story reveals several ironies. When a wife of 29 years has an affair, the husband asks her forgiveness. When a movie star kisses her co-star, her boyfriend finds hope. Crazy happenings reveal God's redemptive love.

The description of the Hawaiian Islands will have you surfing the net for airfares.

Good job, Kristen Heitzmann!

Keeps you on the edge..........2007-05-22

Great writing and the story just keeps going at a great momentum, you won't be disappointed.

One of the Best!.......2007-05-10

I bought this book off of amazon.com, sight unseen - which is always a little risky, isn't it? But I've read almost every one of Kristen Heitzmann's novels and this one won't disappoint you. In fact, I couldn't put it down....so, once you start it, carve out some time, because it's one that will keep you up all night long, turning to the next chapter!

I think it is longer than her other novels, but all the more to enjoy! One reviewer said 'racey' but I thought it all very inline with Christian romance, and nothing inappropriate, whatsoever. In fact, her main characters have morals and values with boundaries and limits that are superbly modeled here, but does not rob the reader of romance and our inherent thrill of witnessing a new relationship blossom with that new love tension!

Heitzmann blends the suspense thriller with romance and gives us a look inside what trusting in God really means. Nothing religious, just a personal relationship with the Heavenly Father and authentic, real, raw faith of the story's characters.

Heitzmann's writing doesn't follow formulas, like some books, where you KNOW from the beginning how the book will pan out before you even read it.
Heitmann's plots are cleverly written and developed, with characters whom you know well enough by the end of the book, that you can almost imagine them walking off the pages right into your home!

I would totally recommend this newest one of Heitzmann's and if you haven't read any of her others, "A Rush of Wings" is one of my favorites! I found her books by accident in the library one day with "Honor's Pledge" and ever since, became hooked! ENJOY!
freelance author/writer of Maggie Seeks the Kingdom of God

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Another lame Sci-Fi attempt
A genuine page turner
If you liked Icefire, you'll LOVE Freefall -- Stunning!
A real fun thriller!!
action thriller will appeal to fans of Tom Clancy

Freefall
Judith Reeves-Stevens , and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0743406079

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Another lame Sci-Fi attempt.......2005-04-30

This book should be condemned by all environmentalists as a waste of good trees.

Based on an absurd premise (that anyone would care enough about the corpse of a 40-years-dead cosmonaut abandoned on the moon- who may or may not have "beaten us" to the moon- to expend significant resources on covering it up), the book uses idiotic plot devices to place our hero and heroine into situations they could not possibly have handled.

Example: "Cory" is co-opted to operate a telecontrolled lunar vehicle based on her twenty-minute experiance operating a real-time robotic arm in free-fall-ignoring the problems inherent in the three minute delay in the observation-command cycle. Apparently, all the people in the world who have actually done this(including those who got it there in the first place) have died or were otherwise engaged.

This attempt at a plot stagers along, kept afloat only by piling implausibility upon impossibility, page after page.

Ordinarily, a reader is called upon to willingly suspend his disbelief-here, you're called upon to alternately suppress your gag-reflex and laughter.

A genuine page turner.......2005-04-16

Like the earlier "Icefire" this novel is truly one that you can''t put down. Several of the "Icefire" characters return to unravel a deadly conspiracy involving NASA and the USAF. The plot will thrill the space race non-believers. The space station action is exceptionally thrilling and the suspense builds as the characters try to uncover a sinister plot to maintain the status quo of the space race between Russia and the United States. The action moves along quite nicely and there are no lags in the plot at all.

Like "Icefire", the book can get a little technical and uses quite a few acronyms but it does not detract from the story. It is really quite fascinating to learn more about space travel and how dangerous it can be. Well worth the read.

If you liked Icefire, you'll LOVE Freefall -- Stunning!.......2005-03-24

I MUST admit, there is one major thing I have against Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens': They WRITE TOO SLOW. Other than that, what can I say? Taking techno-thrillers to the next level is exactly what this phenomenal writing duo has done with all three of their novels to date (including Quicksilver and Freefall). What they previously had done for Star Trek, they now do in a completely different arena. NORMALLY if I like a Fantasy or Sci Fi book by an author, and one day I see their name on a novel that is written in anything other than the Sci Fi genre, I tend to shy away. Sure, this isn't necessarily fair, but from the vast majority of authors I have read who have taken such bold steps, very few have succeeded. In this case, it isn't so much success as it is an absolute triumph.

Capturing your attention immediately is something the authors do rather well, and with Freefall they do so again. Captain Mitchell Webber is literally freefalling into a man-made lake in China on a covert mission to capture information on airplanes, but quickly discovers luner landing craft instead of what he was expecting...and even worse, he suspects that those who sent him knew all along what they were going to find.

The next scene delivers us into orbit (literally) as the International Space Station is visited by a NASA shuttle, when all Hell breaks loose. Before you know it, lives are lost, the ISS is crippled and NASA has lost yet another shuttle. The startling questions that begin to arise as a result of this tragic accident are coming into focus with inescapable clarity: Someone has committed sabotage. What are they looking for? What were they willing to kill over? The answers are quite surprising...and VERY entertaining.

The United States Space Force has been around for many years, but unfortunately, only a very select few know about their existence, and even fewer realize that after NASA scrapped going to the Moon after Apollo 17, the USSF continued to go. I don't wish to spoil some genuine surprises along the way, but just keep in mind the authors keep you out of the loop until the bitter end as to the big question you continue to think as more and more information becomes unveiled: WHY? I think I was little more than half-way through before I realized one very interesting thing about Freefall: I didn't want it to end. I believe that is the biggest compliment I could ever pay any author, and I don't dole out comments like that easily. It has been a very long time since I read anything which made me think this way.

I must say one more thing: as I read this book, I HAD to notice several similar themed events which happened in a novel called, 'Red Moon' by David S. Michaels. That book, which is one of my all-time favorites, asks an interesting question which covers some similar ground, What IF the Russians actually made it to the Moon FIRST? IF they did, why on earth would they keep it a secret? An absolutely stunning novel that you should search out and read especially if you enjoyed Freefall. Though both novels are similar in certain respects, they are quite different in overall concept. I just found a small portion to remind me of another book that I just couldn't put down, in fact 'Red Moon' was probably the last novel before 'Freefall' that I read which made me wish it wouldn't end.

Kudos AGAIN to this writing team. You guys are AWESOME!! Now go out and write FASTER!!!!!

A real fun thriller!!.......2005-03-16

If you liked "Icefire" or "Quicksilver" or enjoy novels by Tom Clancy or David Baldacci, you might enjoy this book. While the book is kind of a sequel to "Icefire" it also stands on its own quite well without needing the information about the main characters, Mitch Webber, Cory Rey, Wilhemina Bailey and her husband, to "fill-in."

The story starts with a prologue into the past where we meet Major Bailey's dad and the main story begins with Captain Webber on another SEAL type mission switching off with the situation on the ISS Space Station where Dr. Rey is retrieving samples. The disasters that happen and the many interactions and development of secondary characters such as Varik, Gen. Salyard all contribute to a thrilling ride to the final conclusion. Sometimes the reader needs to really think to discover which is the "good" side and which is the "bad" and if it really is that clear.

I loved especially the details of being on a space station, rescue efforts, things that go wrong, etc. If all felt very real and I attribute that to the Reeves-Stevens team's research!!

I look forward to more books by this great writing team!

action thriller will appeal to fans of Tom Clancy .......2005-02-27

After a year of training to use manipulative systems to gather the cylinders containing moon dust and rocks that the rover collected, civilian Cory Rey considered her mission a success and knows her boss Kai Teller of TTI industries will be pleased. The rocks and dust are worth over $100 million dollars and he will make a huge profit at auction. From the time that Cory completes her mission, things go wrong. The science officer tries to kill her in order to take the cylinders; the shuttle and the space station are badly damaged in a crash that kills all but three people.

The cosmonauts on the Soyuz rescue Cory after a near fatal accident and she brings back with her one of the cylinders that someone was willing to kill to possess. Inside are the petrified remains of three human fingers but supposedly nobody ever died on the moon. Captain Mitch Webber of the secret United States Space Force is sent to the moon to cover up what a certain faction of the government wants kept secret but he is in a race with the Chinese who plan to reveal what the U.S. government did over three decades ago

Webber is sent on the mission without all the facts and once he discovers what he is really supposed to do he has to decide between taking the legal or the moral course. This is an action thriller that starts off at light speed and than races at an even greater velocity towards the startling climax and resolution. The team of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens has written a fine tale that will appeal to fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins.

Harriet Klausner

Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation

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The Freefall Continues
this is getting old...
Great Book: Traditional Americans will love it, leftists will hate it.
Absolute idiocy
scary observations

Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation
Jim Nelson Black
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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ASIN: 0785260668

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It's happening in colleges all across the country. Instead of being educational institutions designed to encourage the free discussion of ideas, universities have become prisons of propaganda, indoctrinating students with politically correct (and often morally repugnant) ideas about American life and culture. This book exposes the liberal bias in today's universities, providing hard evidence, in clear and unimpeachable terms, that shows how today's colleges are covertly and overtly proselytizing with leftist slants on sexuality, politics, and lifestyles. By naming names and providing specific and credible insights from faculty members, administrators, professional observers, and analysts who have witnessed and chronicled the intellectual and ethical collapse taking place within the academy, this book offers a broad overview of the issues, the history of the problems, analysis from a broad range of academics and professionals, and also observations of the university students themselves, in their own words, from schools all across the nation.

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The Freefall Continues.......2007-06-21

There is a widespread belief that when one goes to college, one will get "educated," however fuzzily such a process means. In FREEFALL OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Jim Nelson Black explains that this process involves less of education in the Socratic sense and more of indoctrination in the Maoist sense. Ever since Allan Bloom first warned of much the same in CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND in 1987, conservatives have become increasingly aware of and repelled by the Democratic secular progressive movement to transform the United States into a country that exactly matches the socialist vision of MoveOn.Org.

Jim Black writes in the form of a series of interviews with students and professors from a variety of America's universities. This format has upset a few reviewers who assume that any book based on an interview format can be twisted to fit any agenda. Yet, it is not the interview that renders a book a success or failure but what the author does with it. In this case, Black uses his interviews to set out his basic thrust, that our colleges and institutions have become very nearly permeated with a mindset that begins with groupthink and ends with intolerant tolerance. Black's most telling points come more from the lips of leftist professors like Ward Churchill, Eric Foner, and Nicholas DeGenova than from his own. When these instructors openly tell their classes that conservative thinkers ought to think twice about remaining in their courses, then the terms "diversity" and "tolerance" are flipped upside down so that any attempt by a conservative to register a contrary opinion is snuffed out.

The interviews are literate and informative. All those interviewed basically agree that anyone who enrolls in college today is likely to hear from only one side of the political spectrum and not unsurprisingly be totally clueless. And this cluelessness is the inner point. From middle school to high school to college, Black indicts an American educational system that has over the last fifty years deliberately sought to produce exactly what it now has--a student body of intelligent but woefully unprepared learners who will within the next decade become loyal followers of the left. FREEFALL OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY is Jim Nelson Black's clarion call to parents to do far more to select a college than merely to look at the ratings in US News and World Report.

this is getting old..........2006-06-29

A book like this is now being published about once a year. It uses the same tired formula: professors are liberal and attempt to indoctrinate their students with the same ideaology; multiculturalism has taken over the canon; etc. etc. These books are written like a typical dogmatic treatise - a few extreme examples of a couple of nuts (who exist in every field) who exist in isolated departments and have no real impact on institutional policy or resource allocation are somehow translated into an indictment of the higher education system as a whole. Its the same argument neo-cons make today - if only the democrats were out of the way, real progress could be made. This, despite control of all three branches of the federal government and holding the oval office 28 of the last 40 years. For a party that preaches "personal responsibility," they certainly have no problem placing the blame on others, despite being in complete control!

I was in college. Three degrees. Me and my friends all learned Shakespeare, quantitative analysis, and Western literature. As an art history major, the curricular focus was overwhelmingly on Western and European Art. In not one instance did a professor try to indoctrinate me with anything. 3 or 4 were extremely liberal, but in class they welcomed debate, created an open environment for debate, and respected the opinions of the conservative students in the class. I am not suggesting these types of instructors don't exist; I am saying they are extremely rare. As far as indoctrination goes, I don't know how many times a conservative has tried to push literature on creationism, outlawing gay marriage, or religion on me. Again, for a people who complain about indoctrination, they have no problem doing a lot of it on their own!

In fact, in a study by Michael Berube, European writers like Shakespeare and Milton are still by far the most cited by English professors in their research and that, with a few exceptions, English majors are still required to take Shakespeare - an actual use of quantitative evidence (something sorely lacking in this book)! When conservative critics of the university can bring well-researched evidence, instead of anecdote and a few isolated examples, to the table, I will pay attention.

Great Book: Traditional Americans will love it, leftists will hate it........2006-04-21

This book is the absolute truth. Also, if anything, the book pulls some punches.

This reviewer is a former Army officer. I received my degree in the mid-80s and decided to change careers in the mid-2000s. I was shocked at how different the colleges had become.

First, many of the students are openly fat or obese. That is a subject for another book. Second, I was amazed at how absolutely leftist the professors had become. Yes, the professors were liberal back in the '80s. However, they were just liberal, at odds with the Reagan years, and were generally glad when the Soviet Union went away.

This reviewer went to Ferris State University. In the Teachers Colleges, which teach little about actual teaching, there was a very leftist professor who actually was advocating the establishment of state schools for children. These state schools would take the children from the parents at the age of five and be totally responsible for raising them.

And few of the students actually saw this as wrong.

This reviewer actually started challenging the professor. The professor finally told me to leave the class. Ferris State University refused to back up my arguments against the professor. I told the administrators at Ferris that Fox News would like the story. They gave me a full refund and we parted ways.

The level of sedition preached at colleges is mind-boggling. Traditional families are scorned. Homosexuals are held up as paragons of virtue. The 1950s (actually a quite progressive era in America blessed with low unemployment) are presented to the class as an equivalent to living under the Taliban. Men worked, women stayed at home, and children enjoyed two stable parents. "Horrors!" the teaching professors will exclaim. How dare this culture impose a traditional construct upon the families? The professors will get openly mad at a student if you show the Juvenal crime rate, teen suicide rate, and mental illness rates in the 1950s were a fraction of modern America. The professor says that old America was evil, thus it must be evil. Don't confuse the situation with the facts. (You have to wonder about professors at that point. Professors say they care about kids. Traditional families are good for kids. The professors don't like traditional families, screw the kids.)

Well the end results are the state teachers colleges are turning out, basically, traitors.

If you don't believe me then I give the example of Jay Bennish, the infamous teacher from Colorado. Mr. Bennish was recorded for over 20 minutes on an anti-American tirade. Prior to 1970, Mr. Bennish would have been terminated. Post 2000, Mr. Bennish is called a hero. Indeed, Mr. Bennish actually gave a threat to a student. Mr. Bennish used the threat of violence to back up his leftist thinking.

The only thing I didn't like about this book is the fact is it's preaching to the choir. We traditional Americans know what is wrong with the colleges. That's a fact. The leftist's will give this book one star. Why not? Leftists pretty hate all that is good and righteous in America. Sheeze, they preach that the State has the right to take your kids away from Traditional families. Do you think they want the truth known?

But the worst thing is these professors will often pull down pay checks of $80K or more a year. The typical American family has to try to get by on less than $40K per year.

My advice is for traditional families are to send their kids to private colleges. The Missouri Synod Lutherans have an excellent education system (it is evolved from the Germans). Many private colleges do a better job of providing a "liberal" education than the State leftist dominated universities.

And, yes, these leftist colleges are killing this country. We are losing control of our borders; the colleges tell us we're racist if we care. Iranians are building atomic weapons to attack Israel; the leftist in colleges tell us we're intolerant towards Islam. Sexually transmitted diseases are rampant at colleges; professors tell us refraining from unmarried sex will not work. We all can "feel" that if we follow the advice colleges give us that it will be the death of this nation.

Oh, I don't know if the author's solutions can be used to fix higher education. The only way you could fix the colleges is fire all the professors. That will never happen.

Personally I don't think this nation will see another 50 years with the types of students our colleges are putting out.

You've been warned. American universities are the poison pill of this nation. Even the left knows it.

Absolute idiocy.......2005-11-18

I've only been in college for a semester and I'm so sick of ultra far-right groups complaining about how "liberal" colleges are. Their basic solutions seem to be that we should convert all colleges to christian-based ones.

Not once during my time here have I heard on my professors tell students that there is no god, or that Marxist-Socialism is the only way to live. We have intelligent student debates with liberal, conservative and libertarian students, as well as students who aren't even American citizens.

No one "indoctrinates" anyone in college. You have a mind of your own. Think for yourself.

scary observations.......2005-07-04

I'm stunned to see how deeply corrupted the university system is. I returned to school recently after a hiatus of over thirty years and was personly amazed at the bias of my text and my history professor. I didn't know how wide spread the problem was until I did some online research, ordered this book as well as Ben Shapiro's "Brainwashed" The situation is rancid. The kids have been intellectually and morally deconstructed by the legacy of French and German atheist intellectuals from the 19th and 20th centruies. This is soul rot. They are taught that since 'God is unknowable', all perspectives, cultures, ideas and behaviors are to be seen as equal, unless, unless, one questions the assumption that God is actually unknowable. Then the thought police come out in force and shut you down....Watch out, it's not coming, it's here.

Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall

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Must Read 4 All BASE Jumpers
What a great book
Excellent Book
Incredibly captivating!
Great discovery.

Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall
Jevto Dedijer
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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BASE 66 is the true, nerve-wracking account of three young skydivers and their quest for membership in the most select extreme sports club on earth: The BASE club. In order to become a full-fledged member, Jevto Dedijer, Bernard Poirier, and Scott Elder had to parachute from the top of a building, an antenna tower, a bridge and a cliff, and survive to tell the story--a feat only some 800 adrenaline addicted people have succeeded in doing.

In BASE 66, Jevto Dedijer tells the tale of his hunger for the ultimate adrenaline rush. He and his companions shared several near death experiences while traveling across Europe with their parachutes and beer in Bernard's dented Renault 4.

They were pioneers in a sport so dangerous that several of their fellow BASE jumpers died in action.

"BASE 66 is a fascinating story about life and death, terror and joy, and intimate friendship. It is an account of extraordinary people taking a step beyond the edge."

Yuri Kuznetsov--BASE 416

"Everyone will enjoy reading Jevto's thrilling and humorous tale of his fascinating BASE odyssey and his discovery of a way of life that surpasses artificial boundaries and provides lifelong inspiration."

Jean Boenish--BASE 3

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Must Read 4 All BASE Jumpers.......2007-06-13

Jevto did a great job of sharing his excitement and fear at exploring a new and extreme sport.
Many years later, after I had made my first BASE jump, I found his feelings similiar to my own
experiences --- although the countries and objects were different.

I also really enjoyed the inclusion of the impact of his participation in this sport on his family.
So much so that I loaned my copy to my mom so she might better understand why I want to
make more BASE jumps.

The book is well written, moves quickly, has some great vintage BASE photos and would make
a great addition to any jumper's library.

Take It Light,
~Tom

What a great book.......2006-02-03

After reading this book, I have a greater appreciation for the pioneers of BASE jumping and the courage, fear and mental challenges they faced by being the first. This book captures the determination, frustration and excitement they experienced while blazing a trail in a completely new and thrilling sport. This is a "must read" for anyone that is intersted in participating in the wonderful sport of BASE.

Excellent Book.......2006-01-11

I ordered this book because I had an interest in BASE. All I can say is: "Well Done Jevto." This book gives you an up close view on BASE jumping. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in BASE, or anyone looking for a (true story) adventure book. Again.. Good job!!

Incredibly captivating! .......2005-11-29

Could not put this book down.

It is incredible in that it offers you a very personal behind-the-scenes of base jumping which is a rarity in itself - but what makes this book even better is that it is really well written!

A lot of times it would trip me out because all the emotion and adventure is so so so so incredibly intense - but it all really happened!

Cannot recommend it enough!

Great discovery........2005-07-14

I enjoyed a lot that wonderful story. It reminded me also about some of my past "crazy" experiences while rappelling, climbing and paragliding.
I recommend it also to everybody who does not understand why some people do that kind of sports. Jevto gives a previleged insight into his motivations and into his true reasons.
A must !

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A believable romance. This mangaka explores her guys' feelings so well.

Freefall Romance (Yaoi)
Hyouta Fujiyama
Manufacturer: Digital Manga Publishing
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Reni and Youichi were nothing more than drinking buddies. But when a night of imbibing goes a little too far, they find themselves drinking buddies with "benefits!" What begins as a drunken lark soon becomes a passionate affair. But Renji and Youichi aren't really gay... or are they?

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A believable romance. This mangaka explores her guys' feelings so well........2007-10-01

Tsutsumi works for a public relations company and Nanase a beer company. They have known each other for a year. They are so called business partners as they have been appointed by their firms to work on projects together and are also drinking buddies.

One night Nanase has a bit too much to drink while mopping over his younger brother who has found a male lover while attending an all boys high school, whose majority students are gays. Nanase of course attended the same school years ago. The difference is that he managed to avoid all the advances and attention. Their relationship changes on that very night when Tsutsumi finds a drunken Nanase most sexy and alluring. Thereon their story is engaging, heartwarming, credible, bittersweet and amusing as Tsutsumi tries his best to convince Nanase of his love.

Both Tsutsumi and Nanase are appealing and believable characters. They are your ordinary Joes who have their worlds turn upside down when they realize their attraction towards the other. While the confident and cool Tsutsumi readily accepts his "out-of-the closet" status, it is not so easy for Nanase who is stiff and unyielding on certain principles long entrenched.

This mangaka's story telling skill is remarkable and I find myself reading most of the scenes again. Their "feeling each other out" in the men's toilet in a park and their one night rendezvous in a hotel room are sexy yet bitter sweet. Finally Nanase yielding to Tsutsume is as romantic as we wish in our Yaoi.

This gay romance is realistically potrayed. I like this mangaka's artwork and her guys with their tall and more manly physique. This is my 3rd Yaoi from this mangaka and I have not been disappointed so far.

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Freefall
Kristen Heitzmann
Manufacturer: Bethany House
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Binding: Hardcover
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Freefall: The Needless Destruction of Eastern Air Lines and the Valiant Struggle to Save It

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I Question if he Even Worked There
Eastern Airlines Deserves Better

Freefall: The Needless Destruction of Eastern Air Lines and the Valiant Struggle to Save It
Jack E. Robinson
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0887305563

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I Question if he Even Worked There.......2002-04-16

This book tries to be an "inside account" of the failure of Eastern Airlines. I picked this book off the sale table and thought I would give it a try, mistake number one. The second mistake was working through 200 pages of the thing until I called uncle and gave up, the third and final mistake is that I still have it in my house - I only hope it does not effect the other books sitting close to it. This diatribe which seamed to me to be written in about 5 hours after an all night drinking binge, is undoubtedly some poor excuse to either claim ideas that were not his or maybe to push blame away from himself. Save your self the time and aggravation and pass on this book.

Eastern Airlines Deserves Better.......2000-12-30

Robinson's book is without a doubt the worst account of the demise of Eastern Airlines. It's value as history is only matched by Robinson's self-promotion. I suspect all the name-dropping and claims of inventing wonderful ideas that --almost-- saved Eastern are nothing more than an attempt to pave a way for his own corporate future.

This book is clearly worthless, as a history of Eastern, as a study of airline failure, or even as an acceptable account of the events surrounding the end of a great airline. If you are a collector of books about commercial aviation, you might want this one on your shelf (your lowest shelf) just for grins, but if you are thinking reading this book will give you some insight into Eastern Airlines, forget it. You'd be better off reading Bernstein's "Grounded"--only marginally better.

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Book description--Especially recommended for pilots

Top flight non-fiction suspense

A REAL Thriller for $0.25 ?

Amazing Story

I was there....

Freefall
William Hoffer , and Marilyn Mona Hoffer
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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ASIN: 0312922744

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Book description--Especially recommended for pilots.......2007-08-13

From inside book jacket:

On July 23, 1983, Captain Bob Pearson climbed into the cockpit of a twin-engine Boeing 767, one of the most sophisticated airliners in the world. Preparing to guide Air Canada flight 143 from Montreal to Ottawa and then on to Edmonton, he checked his systems and entered into the computers the information he received from the ground crew. One of the maintenance men, in charge of fueling the craft, experienced a bit of difficulty with his math. The 767's computers utilized only metric calculations, and the maintenance man struggled to convert conventional measures into the unfamiliar numbers. He informed Pearson that the plane was fully fueled when, in fact, it was 26,000 pounds short.

The stopover in Ottawa was brief. They had no plans for refueling and now there was no apparent need.

Then, with no warning, 41,000 feet and westbound over Red Lake, Ontario, the portside engine failed. Seconds later, Pearson and Quintal, his copilot, realized that the starboard engine also had failed, terminating all electrical power. An eerie silence shrouded the plane as flight crew and passengers attempted to deny reality. They were now floating silently at 41,000 feet. The nose of the plane dipped precipitously; the gliding craft lost airspeed and altitude. They had a maximum of twenty-nine minutes to prepare for their certain death.

Freefall is the story of Flight 143. A brilliant recreation in which we relive the terror of those twenty-nine minutes through the eyes of those who experienced it. You will never look at flying in exactly the same way again.

Bill and Marilyn H offer, freelance journalists, together have produced over one thousand magazine articles and nine books, including the international bestseller Midnight Express, and Not Without My Daughter. They live in Virginia.

From back of book jacket:

Maurice Quintal gripped his cockpit microphone.
"Winnipeg Center, Air Canada 143," he called.
"Air Canada 143, go ahead," came the reply.
"Yes, sir," Quintal said. Then he spoke the four words that would carry, not only to Winnipeg ATC, but to aircraft cruising over a wide radius. Pilots throughout the skies of central Canada now picked up their ears. Gone was the droning routine of the early Saturday evening. Crew members in other cockpits turned to look at one another, as they heard Quintal's voice crackle over the radio: "We have a problem."

Suddenly, at 22 seconds past 0121 GMT, the cockpit was plunged into darkness. The bright, color-coded, easy-to-read data units provided by the flight management computer, the bank of digital displays that reported airspeed, altitude, compass direction, navigational data, engine speed, temperature, and the RPMs, fuel flow, oil quantity-- even the clock and the cabin thermometer--the entire array of "gee-whiz" electronic gadgetry in the cockpit of the world's most sophisticated airliner--vanished in an instant.
The glow of the late afternoon sun illuminated the faces of the three men in ghastly relief.

"How come I have no instruments?" Pearson asked, incredulous.

The answer was as simple as it was terrifying. The Space Age technology of the 767 cockpit feeds upon electricity supplied by generators run by the two massive engines. The engines, in turn, are powered by type Jet A-1 fuel. It had never happened before--in fact, neither Boeing, nor Air Canada, nor Pearson, nor Quintal, nor Dion had ever contemplated the scenario--but if a 767 runs out of fuel, a diabolical domino effect takes place. The engines quit. In turn, this stops the generators, halts the production of electricity, and transforms the computerized cockpit displays into darkened, totally useless cathode ray tubes. To Pearson it seemed as if the cockpit had become the darkest place in the world.

Incredible as it seemed, they had run out of fuel.

--from Freefall

This is an excellent book, especially recommended for pilots, who will understand better than most how difficult the job of the flight crew in saving this plane and its passengers and how amazing their survival was.

Top flight non-fiction suspense.......2007-04-04

I read this book while on a recent 10 hour trans-Atlantic flight to pass the time and kind of spice things up (e.g. turn my long flight into a Disneyesque "Roller Coaster of Death" ride, where you really know you're going to step off perfectly intact at the end).

This great non-fiction book gives a detailed recounting of Air Canada flight 143, which in 1983 ran flat out of fuel while at 41,000 feet over Middle of Nowhere, Manitoba. Yes, TRUE STORY! (Don't let the 41,000 feet scare you -- altitude is your friend when out of fuel).

The writers give a little biography of some of the key crew members and passengers, which was only somewhat interesting to me (however, I was very interested in the flying history/experience of the cockpit crew). The star of the story however, is the fuel-less Boeing 767 and the frantic efforts of the Air Canada team to get the plane on the ground safely.

Authors William and Marilyn Hoffer did an excellent job of providing the technical aspects of the aircraft and industry without ever going over my head. I felt like I understood at each stage of the story, why something had happened to the aircraft, and what the impact was. Ditto for the sequence of actions by the entire flight crew.

I'm assuming the reader has figured out that this wasn't a mass loss of life disaster (duh, there is even a previous Review by a person that claims to have been on the flight). Not wanting to give too much away, I'll merely add that many fortuitous "coincidences" in the tale were not lost on me. Such as: Captain Bob Pearson was a hobby glider pilot (767s are not designed to "glide", but when in such straits, every bit helps), and, another occupant on the plane "vaguely recalled" a possible landing sight. There were many such bits and pieces which fit together and kept this from become a huge disaster. I was AMAZED at how many things were outside of the pilots scope of training and flight manual contingencies (This was 1983. Things are better now.?).

Plenty of white-knuckle moments. There were even some injuries . . . the source of those is a bit of irony. A few slow parts to the book, but then back to the cockpit and the excitement. The suspense becomes literally heart-pounding as the plane sinks ever closer to the ground.

It's an easy, quick, and rather educational read. Pick up a copy for your next long flight.

A REAL Thriller for $0.25 ?.......2005-05-14

How can so much fictional garbage sell for $20.00 or so, while a grippingly-well-narrated TRUE story like this goes for $0.25 used - itsa bargain !

Amazing Story.......2002-02-27

This book is like glue. Once you put it into your hands you can't put it down. This is a story based on factual events that could not have a better ending. Great analysis of the chain of events that led to this incident. I strongly recommend it.

I was there...........2000-02-23

Hey, my name is chris, i happend to be on flight 143, the flight this book is wriiten about. when it happend, i was only 3, although i still remeber it. I read this book when i was 12, and from my memories of the flight, it was dead on, great book.

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Release Date: 2007-08-07

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In the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress but with a healthy dose of cyberpunk: Radio Freefall is about a plot to take over the Earth by power-mad, sociopathic computer-geek billionaire, Walter Cheeseman. It's up to a strange cast of rock stars and oddballs to stop him.

Aqualung, a mysterious blues musician who also has superhuman tech skills, might be the catalyst for the resistance--or he might just be the pawn of artificial intelligences.

To thwart the takeover, the orbitals and the moon colonies secede from Earth. And then something like the Singularity happens, but no one is quite sure.

This is a novel of cyberpunk and rock and roll, of technology, artificial intelligence, and wild riffs off of Heinlein all mixed into an explosive debut.

Matthew Jarpe launches his SF career with a bang!

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You will like it because I said so and, if not, have only yourself to blame!.......2007-09-19

How can you stay on the run and hidden in a world where no one's anonymous anymore and you like rocking out in front of an audience to boot? Oh, and some folks don't like you. Really, they want stuff in your head out of it. You like your head and all the stuff in it. And it's all because you . . .

And there you have the gist and non-spoilerage of Matthew Jarpe's debut novel, Radio Freefall, providing readers a well-paced, witty, and quirky look into a near future filled with well-rounded AI characters, a megalomaniac, computer geeks, hard-partying rock-and-rollers, one-worlders (see aforementioned megalomaniac), Nationalists, and . . . one enigmatic protagonist calling himself Aqualung who's hell on a guitar, laid back to beat the band, and an all around slippery dude to catch if you're antagonizing him.

You will know people like Aqualung. The socially awkward (but for GOOD reasons) Quin Taber is a deserving underdog while the evil overlord, Walter Cheeseman, deserves something not far removed from a few swift kicks to the groin.

Revel in the Snake Vendors, an upstart band of kids who find an apt mentor in ol' boy Aqualung. It's here that I'll pause and recommend your tripping over to Mr. Jarpe's site, http://mattjarpe.com/. You might also want to navigate to Meet the Snake Vendors (http://www.snakevendors.com/snakevendors.php) and check out "Mojo Motorbike," a fun video and crunchy, catchy song straight from the novel.

And look out for the uber-virus Digital Carnivore because everyone else in the novel is.

Overall, with Matthew Jarpe's firm control of Radio Freefall's plot and keen eye for building memorable characters and a sharper ear for dialogue, it's hard to set this freshman effort aside. It might not keep you up at night, but it will bring you back frequently until you`re done. It would be fun to trip back through the universe Jarpe's created in Radio Freefall, and you can tell he had stellar time writing it because it oozes, simply, FUN READ.

A Strong Freshman Effort.......2007-08-13

Matthew Jarpe's freshman effort, Radio Freefall, is an engaging, fun story about a eclectic group of individuals attempting to prevent the takeover of the world from a less than savory corporate big-wig. His main characters are interesting and likable, without being too perfect.

While I'm a huge fan of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, I don't really see the resemblance here, except in a very broad sense pertaining to the outlying colonies not wishing to be controlled by Earth. Matt's writing style, while very readable, does not have the same voice as RAH. His characters simply don't take themselves that seriously. It makes the book a bit lighter, and a fun diversion.

I'm looking forward to his next project.

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