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Long Time Coming
Sandra Brown
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ASIN: 0553589350
Release Date: 2006-08-29 |
Book Description
In more than fifty New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown has captivated her millions of readers with stories of charismatic love and tantalizing twists of fate. In this classic tale, a woman is reunited with the man she has loved for years—and must reveal the secret that will jeopardize her chance for happiness at last.
He arrived out of the blue—a flesh-and-blood phantom from the past in a sports car as sleek and sexy as Law Kincaid himself. The world-famous astronaut was as devastatingly attractive as the first time Marnie Hibbs had laid eyes on him, seventeen years before. But she well knew the perils of falling for a ladies’ man like Law. And this time she had someone besides herself to protect. Law is determined to discover who is sending him anonymous letters claiming he’d fathered a son he knows nothing about. Showing up at the Hibbs’s return address from the letters seemed like a step in the right direction. Marnie swears she isn’t the guilty party, but when Law meets her son, it’s like a one-two punch to his solar plexus. The boy is nearly the spitting image of Law. Law can’t remember sleeping with Marnie—then again, he can’t remember much about his crazy past. But there’s more to it than that: Marnie claims the boy isn’t biologically hers.
As the tension between them becomes unbearable and the attraction undeniable, Marnie is forced to reveal a long-held secret...one that might cause her to lose both the boy she loves more than anyone—and the man she desires more than anything.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Another excellent story!.......2007-09-18
Sandra Brown writes great romance with a twist of mystery. Sometimes I start out with distast for some of the characters but eventually learn to love them. Her books are full of detail and hot love scenes. I enjoyed this story as usual!
Long Time Coming.......2007-03-09
You asked so here goes. I become very despondent when I order a book at full price only to find it was written in 1988 and I had already read it. It was good enough to read again because I was totally out of choices. Therefore I picked 3 stars instead of the 1 I wanted to give it. I could not fairly punish the book for my poor memory. BUT I do resent the practice of pawning off old material on unsuspecting readers. So there!!
great escape!.......2007-02-09
Like most of Sandra Brown's novels, I couldn't put this one down. I instantly escaped into the world of the book. Sure, it's somewhat forgettable, but what romance novel isn't? It's a great story, and well worth the read.
Entertaining, but entirely forgettable.......2006-02-27
Long Time Coming gave me about 3 hours worth of entertainment, then I promptly forgot anything about the book, the plot, or the characters. None of it stayed with me, unlike other books where I think about the plot and the characters for days afterwards, and sometimes consider them to be "friends."
Long Time Coming is a typical romance novel. Predictable, but entertaining at the time nonetheless.
Astronaut discovers he fathered a child with virginal teen "slut".......2006-02-14
After nearly 16 years of single handedly raising her sister's child, Marnie gets a surprise visit from the unknowing birth father, a famous astronaut who bedded down her then 16 year old sister Sharon (he was 23) and produced David. Sharon died when David was 4. Apparently someone has been sending letters about David to Law, and he is there to put a stop to the potential career-ending rumors. His first reaction upon meeting Marnie? He does not recall sleeping with her.
When confronted with David, the similarity between the two is striking; David is the spitting image of Law. Law insists on a blood test, but already has lost his heart to his son and his adoptive mother. Unknown to him, she has carried a torch for him since she was 14. He tries to worm his way into her heart (okay, really just her bed), while she tries to hold him at arm's length. Marnie allows David to move in with Law temporarily to allow them to get to know each other. But will he choose all the gadgets and possessions Law can provide verses the love he has had the last 16 years?
The fact that Law constantly pressures Marnie into an intimate relationship is somewhat comical. He refers to the birth mother of his child as a slut (Sharon was a 16 year old virgin when he met her, fed her alcohol, skinny dipped with her, then deflowered her), yet Marnie is matronly because she will not engage in the same reckless behavior... Take this for what it is - a very dated melodramatic romance novel with a very alpha male that does not really translate well in this decade, but was interesting nonetheless. I really liked the relationship between Marnie and David.
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Long Time Coming
Petric J. Smith
Manufacturer: Crane Hill Publishers
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ASIN: 1881548104 |
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An insider’s story of the Birmingham church bombing.
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Page Burner.......2002-01-20
With another of the Birmingham bombers coming to trial this month for the killing of the four little girls, this book concerning the conviction of the first one is a page burner. Robert Chamblis' neice witnessed against and helped to convict him. In this book, she takes us behind the scenes of the KKK and the bombings and murders committed by the Cahaba Boys. I recommend this for anyone interested in the Civil Rights Struggle.
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Patty is now eighteen, and a high school graduate--but she cannot face her future until she comes to terms with her past. She decides to go to Germany in search of Anton's mother, desperate for a connection to the man she loved and lost. En route, she stops in Paris, where she meets Roger. And now she must think twice about her plan--not only because of what she might find, but because of what she must leave behind...
"A compelling first-person narrative about love and human relationships." --Booklist, starred review
* A Puffin Novel
* 272 pages
* Ages 14 up
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stereotype of the sequel.......2007-09-13
In the sequel to Summer of My German Soldier, Patty Bergen journeys (against her parents' wishes--what else is new?) to Europe with the intention of visiting the family of Anton, whom she sheltered during WWII. In Europe, Patty encounters various people, particularly romantic encounters. She must grow away from her dependence on men like her abusive and controlling father, away from her need and desire for a mother, through her stomach issues, and into her own. Unfortunately, the story is slow and uninteresting. Although thoroughly introspective, Patty really doesn't have anything new to say. Things that were appropriate for a teenager seem winy for an adult. The sequel lacks the complexities, personal and interpersonal, and the dramatic excitement of the first novel. Grade: C+
Disoppointed..........2006-09-06
I, too, read this after 'Summer of My German Soldier'. Actually, this is not a bad book, but is a disoppointment after the first, gorgeous novel. The heroine goes to France, and decides to seek the family of Anton. However, she meets someone else. This is a realistic book, and anyone would probably done the same things as the heroine does.
MORNING IS A LONG TIME COMING.......2006-04-30
I really liked this book, and I found it intresting to see what happened to Patty after the events in "Summer of my German Solider". It was exactly the opposite of what I had thought about when I read "Summer of my German Soldier". The characters were more grown up, and had to deal with different issues than in "Summer of my German Solider". If you liked "Summer of My German Soldier" you will like "Morning is a long time coming" also.
This was a LONG book, and MORNING never CAME.......2005-10-11
(I know this review is long, but it should be READ)
This book was very dissapointing. I LOVED "Summer of my German Soldier" and couln't wait to read the sequal. But once it was over I felt the book was very structured. If you have read this book and was dissapointed you can probobly relate.Even though the detailed emotions were good. The book only mentioned Anton a few times, plus Patty liked lost the gold ring because she didnt wear it or even mention it. Almost everything Anotn had taught her was gone. The she meets Roger in Paris and almost half the book takes place there. But in my opinion Roger is a JERK and Patty is so desperate for love and to selfish and proud to take Ruth's so she goes for the first good looking thing that comes along. There is also only 1 chapter on Anton's family and Patty only spends about 10 minutes there. This book was a big let down compared to how great SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER was! Plus it did not answer many of the unanswerd questions that the pre-qual left behind!! I was not pleased with this book. It was complicated,and rushed.
Good book if you love romance and self-journey.......2005-03-15
I know many people on here thought they'd read this book and it would be just as good if not better, than the prequel. Exepct that NOT to happen to anything. BUT I thought this book was very good. We see Patty moving on with her life, trying to the past where it belongs, and finally turn into a beautiful lady. She becomes more brave with her oppinions, more confidant...the time she spends in Paris is realistic, because she ran out of money, and she liked it there. So she did wot any other girl would've done. Stayed for the cute guy. Who hasn't? She finds out more about who she is as a person. She finds love with Roger, and it's very romantic. When she goes to germany, I feel she didn't speak to the father because she figured she didn't need to anymore. Why bring up the past with a stranger? She found her closure or didn't need it. I love this book for being realistic and true to human emotion and reactions. There's no huge drammatic make-up scene between her and Roger. Just natural.
This is not a story about her finding closure of Anton's death, this is a story about Patty growing up and changing into the better person she needs to be. This is also not Patty's Autobiography where you read every single detail of her non-exsistant life. And if these things are all you see, then you've completly missed the point of the story.
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Over 400 rarely or never-seen photographs of a vanished America.
Long Time Coming is derived from the 145,000 photographs made between 1935 and 1943 by a team of photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration (FSA), including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Despite the iconic images of poverty that are usually associated with the project, the agency's mission went well beyond photographing dispossessed rural people. This book reproduces 410 remarkable images made in large cities and small towns throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, images that have rarely been seen—fully 20 percent have never been published. The book's iconoclastic, groundbreaking text intercuts excerpts from primary and secondary sources with an extended look at Roy Stryker, the FSA's controversial director, to present the FSA photographs in a very different light from the bleak vision to which we are accustomed.
Taken together, the photographs and text present a portrait of America, a visual record of everyday existence that will change many of our assumptions about the era. 410 duotone photographs.
Customer Reviews:
Magificent collection of timeless photos..........2007-05-27
These images are windows into an era of American life totally lost to us now. Not only have they been carefully selected and arranged, but the printing work is the best I have seen in a recently published retail book of photographs. (I'm a photographer.) The tonalities are magnificent & the images are nice & large & beautifully laid out with lots of surrounding white space like matting.
Just superb & a real bargain at the price!
Disappointed, esp. after reading reviews here.......2004-02-15
This is a bit cheeky, but after reading this book, which I got as a gift, I was reminded of how my ex would always complain about his "Playboy" when it would come.
"Such great pictures," he would say, "now why the hell do they think they can improve them with a lot of pretentious writing."
I felt the same way about this book. Except that the pictures weren't as good as Playboy, either.
Unbelievable!.......2003-09-12
Mike Lesy has done it again! At first glance, Long Time Coming harks back to a book that brought him his first small measure of fame over thirty years ago-- Wisconsin Death Trip. Both books demonstrate Lesy's love for macabre old photographs taken by long-dead photographers and showcase his talent for writing captions.
But despite superficial similarities, these are two very different books. WDT is clearly written by someone trying to make a name for himself in the academic world. Based on photos from the late nineteenth century, the subject matter was far removed from any of the author's own memories or experiences. In contrast, I can imagine many of the photographs in LTC, however, evoking powerful childhood memories. Yet, this book is anything but nostalgic. The maturity and depth of life experience of its editor shows on every page-- a sort of creepy, subversive confidence (detractors might even call it arrogance) lurks in virtually every sentence. The almost sinister commentary greatly accentuates the oddness of the photographs themselves.
In my mind, LTC firmly establishes Lesy as the eminence grise of the coffee table book. A fitting cap to a long career, it won't be off my coffee table or my toilet tank for a long, long time. Buy it!
Subversive in the best sense of the word.......2003-02-24
A beautiful book of photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and others culled from the Library of Congress's Farm Security Administration collection (a New Deal project that covered far more than farms), Long Time Coming may strike you at first as a nostalgia trip back to the days depicted on the cover: when whole towns lined up to watch their Boy Scout troops march down the street waving American flags. But Lesy hasn't combed the archive's 150,000-plus negatives only to offer up a tribute to lost Americana. Try putting this book out on your coffee table; lean close, and you'll hear it ticking.
Many of the images in this book -- a little girl sprinting up an alley in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, beneath rows of washing and before the disinterested stares of the older girls and women; the backs of five bony men as they carry a homemade coffin up a rocky path in Jackson, Kentucky; an angry black Muslim in Chicago leading his two stricken-looking sons on an errand or into fanaticism -- are as haunting and disturbing as anything Lesy has presented in his earlier work. They are also weirdly filled with hope. Neither inspiring, exactly, nor sentimentally-portrayed, the men, women, and children in these photographs might, looked at by themselves, fade away quickly. Gathered together in all their painful glory, they seem possessed of a Faulknerian quality: They endure.
Long Time Coming is best looked at it not just once and slowly, but several times over. At least once go through quickly, flipping the pages as if to set the coal miners, preachers, nuns, farmers, carny barkers, and bankers contained therein into continuous motion. Follow the running girl from Ambride, PA to the family wrestling and splashing and staring at the camera (beneath a giant billboard for Iron City Pilsner, "Just a sip at twilight") in a "homemade swimming pool for steelworker's children" on the following right-hand page; and on to a thick column of a mother -- the girl grown up? -- marching, baby in hand, past "Factory workers' homes, Camden, New Jersey," and then back to an alley, where now a young black boy stands staring at the camera defiantly even as he keeps his distance from it.
Sequences such as these abound throughout Long Time Coming, stories of escape and capture, of growing old and being born again. But beyond those literal progressions, there are stories told by shapes: A woman in a long black coat dominates the middle of a frame of a pleasant residential street in Woodbine, Iowa, as does a bent-over drifter crossing a dry, empty road in Dubuque, and a traffic cop standing like a statue in the middle of street glistening with rain in Norwich, Connecticut. The black hole at the center of a mountain man's guitar leads to the white sphere of a black musician's maracas, which in turn foreshadow the white straw hats seen from above at a cockfight in Puerto Rico.
That these stories slowly reveal themselves as morality plays is no accident; both Lesy, and the man who originally commissioned the photographs, intended them as such. There are eight chapters of text interspersed throughout Long Time Coming, in which the mastermind of the F.S.A. documentary project, a man named Roy Stryker, is introduced, mocked, and redeemed. A bureaucrat with tyrannical tendencies, Stryker drew up lists of books for his photographers to read in order to "understand" America -- cut-and-dried sociology, experts on regional hygiene -- and "shooting scripts" the photographers were supposed to adhere to. "Husking bees. Barn dance; hay rides -- Halloween -- football games; making pies -- mince meat and pumpkin; turkey dinners; picking feathers from the ducks." In his attempt to control reality's representation, Stryker ended up composing prose poems of Americana, which in turn became the major chords of a symphony much expanded by the keen eyes of the photographers.
The whole is a requiem mass. The fact that its subject -- the United States -- continues to exist doesn't so much refute its minor chords as make them all the more relevant to the Coplandesque sweeps of optimism: elements of a portrait of what the country was, is, and -- isn't this the point of all propaganda? -- may yet be. Roy Stryker saw these photographs as facts; the ordinary citizens who viewed them understood them as testimonies. "Every new form of communication," writes Lesy, "every new kind of media, has been and will always be a blind, blunt, crippled effort to make the past into the present, the far into the near, the outside into the inside, to turn us all, for a moment, into supernal beings.... The File" -- the collection of 145,000 photographs -- "had the potential to create, over time, an experience of totality that felt boundless... It's as grand a thing, in its own way, as Yosemite or Yellowstone. It's the common property of every citizen of the United States. It belongs to us. It is us."
Looking backwards.......2002-11-20
A stunning book of 410 photos from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information archives now in the Library of Congress. This book takes a different approach to the many others which use FSA photos, here you will not see many of those well-known images of poverty in rural areas, the effects of land erosion, the plight of Southern sharecroppers, not even the greatest FSA photo of all (in my view) Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother but instead a comprehensive and wonderful showing of the ordinary and everyday in American life from 1935 to 1943.
All these fascinating photos are divided into eight sections, City Life, Hard Work, Hometowns, Hill Towns, Coal Towns, Family Farms, Hard Times and Amusements. Most of them are from 1938 to 1943 so there are few by Walker Evans who left the FSA in 1937 but plenty by Russell Lee, the most prolific FSA photographer. The photos (well printed on excellent paper) are presented one to a page with a caption, photographer's name and date centred below. Because these are FSA images they depict a very detailed picture of everyday life and in 1941 when the US joined the Second World War it was decided to expand the coverage to record the war effort and life in general. This is the main reason I like the book plus the eighty-two photos never published before.
Between the eight photo sections author Lesy writes (in a very honest way) various essays about Roy Stryker, who ran of the FSA and how he organised the photographers work through his exacting shooting scripts (these were partially inspired by Robert Lynd and his 1925 book, `Middletown' based on Muncie, Indiana which turns out to be average small town USA, tough luck Peoria, Illinois!) how this huge file of images was distributed to the media, correspondence between Stryker and the photographers and more. I found one section (pages 230 to 235) called `The Middletown Spirit' very intriguing, it is a list of the things that the folks of `Middletown' (or small towns anywhere) believed in and as well as the goodness that one would expect it also reflects an alarming collection of deeply conservative beliefs, ethnic prejudice and a Horatio Alger like deference towards business. The back of the book lists all the negative numbers so you can order prints from the Library of Congress and in fact see 60,000 photos from the FSA/OWI collection on the Library's `American Memory' website.
Because of what these photographs show, the quality of presentation and production, I think this will become the definitive reference book for the period. A glorious reminder of the American spirit.
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A Long Time Coming
Manufacturer: A Mayflower Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HTJDIE |
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Another good read. .......2007-03-11
I have to admit that I was not sure that this book would live up to the last Edie Claire novel I had read! Meant To Be was a terrific read from beginning to end. So often I am disappointed by a second novel by the same author. Not this time!
Again, I was transfixed from the first chapter. Again I found characters that felt real, and warm and a story that was simply exquisite!
More please, Ms Claire!
YES! I Loved It! .......2005-10-17
This is without a doubt a keeper. My first Edie Clair novel, and it will not be my last. I loved the writting style and the story. A++ Buy it!
Could not put it down.......2004-01-23
I lost a lot of sleep on this book. I found I could not put it down. To me it was a little predictable, but still a great read.
Delightful, engaging book!.......2003-12-15
Ms. Claire's best book to date. She successfully blends suspense and romance (and a bit of the supernatural) to weave a truly delightful tale. Believable characters and a well-paced plot make this book a must read.
A must have for the keeper shelf........2003-11-30
Two words. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! Edie Claire has written a wonderful novel about friendship, love, guilt and death. Joy Hudson never completely moved passed the death of her best friend, Jenny Carver, which occurred right before their high school graduation. Now, almost twenty years later, Joy must travel back to her hometown to care for her ailing father and there she runs into Jeff Bradford, Jenny's boyfriend and the man that she has always blamed for the accident. Joy knows that it is finally time to face the emotions and memories that she buried along with Jenny. She ends up purchasing Jenny's old house and then the odd occurrences begin. A song from prom plays over and over again and the door to her home opens itself on its own accord. Joy knows that Jenny is trying to tell her something, but what? Joy will need Jeff to help her regain the memories that her mind refuses to hold onto and when she does, she finds forgiveness and love that has been waiting for her.
Utterly riveting. Edie Claire takes what could be a tedious and sappy subject and turns it into a wonderfully balanced tale of how the scars death and guilt can cause. Every character is richly developed and the story flows easily. The paranormal parts of this book are believable and poignant. I read it in one sitting and craved more even though I was satisfied with the ending. The only part of this story that bothered me was the quickness that Joy forgave Jeff. She had been harboring this hurt and blame for 18 years and forgives him in almost a blink of an eye. Besides that small plot point, this story is powerful and will find its way to my keeper shelf.
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Right-from-the-record transcriptions for all 15 songs on the third CD from this young blues phenom from Fargo. Includes a bio/notes on the album, great photos and: Beautiful One Dying to Live Get What You Give Give Me up Again Goodbye Letter Happiness and Misery Hide Your Love If We Try Living for the City Long Time Coming The One I Got Red Light Save Yourself To Love Again Touch.
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- charlene crowell muskegon, Heights, mich Hi call 7672215(616
- charlene crowell muskegon, Heights, mich Hi call 7672215(616
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Long Time Coming: A Black Athelete's Coming-Of-Age in America
Chet Walker , and
Chris Messenger
Manufacturer: Grove Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0802115047 |
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charlene crowell muskegon, Heights, mich Hi call 7672215(616.......1999-05-24
Hi Chet, Lets hope you have not forgotton me I talked to Doris EDWARDS SHE TOLD ME YOU HAD WRITTEN A BOOK AND I SEE IT IS OUT OF PRINT I WOULD LIKE A COPY DO YOU HAVE A EXTRA ONE? SEND IT TO 1427 CALVIN AVE. MUSKEGON,MICH, 49442 THANKS
charlene crowell muskegon, Heights, mich Hi call 7672215(616.......1999-05-24
Hi Chet, Lets hope you have not forgotton me I talked to Doris EDWARDS SHE TOLD ME YOU HAD WRITTEN A BOOK AND I SEE IT IS OUT OF PRINT I WOULD LIKE A COPY DO YOU HAVE A EXTRA ONE? SEND IT TO 1427 CALVIN AVE. MUSKEGON,MICH, 49442 THANKS
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