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The New York Times-bestselling author of Falling Awake and All Night Long takes her fans beyond the everyday boundaries of the mind-and the heart-in a compulsively readable new novel of paranormal power, deception, and danger . . .
Petite, thirtysomething Clare Lancaster is a Level Ten para-sensitive-and a "human lie detector." Over the years, she's come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talents is likely to have trouble in the relationship department. And she's even resigned herself to the fact that everyone, to one degree or another, hides behind a façade. . . .
And now it seems that meeting the half sister and family whom she never knew until seven months ago was a mistake. Her father summons her from California to play a role in his business empire, and Clare doesn't intend on making the same mistake twice. But after meeting Jake Salter, Archer Lancaster's "financial consultant," Clare is convinced that things aren't what they seem. Salter's careful conversation seems to walk a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. Something sparks and sizzles between them-something more than the usual electricity between a man and a woman.
Caught in a dizzying storm of secrets, lies, and half-truths, Jake and Clare will plunge into an investigation that demands every bit of their special gifts-together they must overcome their mutual distrust in order to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder.
Customer Reviews:
IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE.......2007-06-08
After reading "The River Knows" I decided to read White Lies by JAK. Since it was the same author, I thought I would like it just as well. It was an interesting read. Liked the main characters and learned a little about the paranormal abilities.
It was a fast read and amusing at times. Not a very heavy read and the romance was a little tepid. Not bad for an afternoon's entertainment.
I liked "White Lies" by Linda Howard better. Try that one.
Pretty interesting story line.......2007-05-14
This review is for the audio CD version:
This is the first novel I have read from this author, or about the arcane society. I found it interesting and liked how the events and clues to the mystery unfolded bit by bit. I also thought the chemistry was very good between the male and female main character. After listening to this story I don't have a strong desire to listen/read the rest of the arcane society books or find out what comes next.
Now, as far as the actual narration.... It was horrible. I listen to many books on CD and this had by far the worst narration. It was almost like a joke. The acting was very fake, really to the point of being totally over done. Sometimes just the way it was read made the story hard to follow because of the way it was said, or the speed of words, etc. The narration of this story definately took away from enjoyment of it, and almost made me stop listening to it.
Great Read.......2007-04-14
JAK takes the paranormal Arcane Society into the present-day (originally set in 19th century England with the Amanda Quick series), and the results are quite intriguing. It is most interesting to see that her paranormals must operate under the radar in the present world equally as much as they did in the past, with the resultant contretemps between the protagonists. Both the plotting and character development are excellent, and I am delighted to see this turn in JAK's writing. Keep them coming, please!
If you love her Jayne Castle books, you'll enjoy this!!.......2007-04-14
While I enjoy the Amanda Quick books and have read (so far) one of the Arcane Society novels, I enjoy Jayne Castle and Jayne Ann Krentz futuristic and contemporary mysteries even more. This book as one reviewer has already said is a blend of both and for me, a very entertaining and delightful blend!
The Prologue occurs some eight months before the start of the book. Clare Lancaster and her half sister, Elizabeth Glazebrook, are meeting for the first time in a bookstore cafe in Phoenix, Arizona. Clare and Elizabeth have been emailing each other and now Elizabeth has asked for Clare's help. Clare and Elizabeth are both "sensitives" and registered with the Arcane Society. Clare is a level-ten "lie detector" while Elizabeth is much lower level sensitive with her speciality being colors. Elizabeth is married to Brad McAllister who has sent her to a psychiatrist. Brad has told her and her family that Elizabeth is having a nervous breakdown. Elizabeth is afraid something else is going on and that Brad is having an affair and trying to kill her!!
Eight months later, Jake Salter is on the veranda at the Glazebrook home in Stone Canyon, Arizona watching Clare arrive in her small rental car. He can tell she is a sensitive and when Clare meets Jake and he introduces himself, she also can tell he is a high level sensitive - a hunter - and that while he claims to be a business consultant to Archer Glazebrook, Clare's biological father, Clare knows he is not telling the full truth. The reader also learns that 6 months previous, Brad McAllister was found dead and was found by Clare who was temporarily a suspect in his death which is unresolved. Clare is viciously verbally attacked at the party by Valerie McAllister Shipley, Brad's mother now married to Archer's former business partner, Owen Shipley. Valerie even goes out and smashes Clare's rental car's windshield.
As Clare and Jake begin to very, very cautiously work together to find the real killer of Brad McAllister, Clare has more close calls and the mystery deepens as many plot motives from relationships to money to corporations to Arcane Society business appear.
I loved how the mysteries are resolved, the items left unsolved for future books (?) and Ms. Krentz's wonderful sense of humor and romance!
A definite "can't put it down until I'm finished" read for me.
Barely able to keep my attention.......2007-04-05
I'm listening to this audio book. I have not read a lot of JAK, but I have to say that her dialog/narrative is really uninteresting and routine. The number of times she takes time to describe "cracking eggs in the nonstick pan" or "she took a sip of her cold green tea", etc. So boring! Instead, maybe she should spend more time describing the internal struggles/emotions of the characters. That would make for much better writing. So far, no passion in these characters... (despite a sex scene)... just generic storytelling. There is no snappy dialog or humor, either. I'll continue to listen only because I am interested in finding out the murderer. Otherwise, BORING!
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- Enjoyed it!
- Ok, but Somewhat Disappointing
- One of Linda Howard's best!
- Wonderful story, defintely a must read!
- Old but sweet romance!
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White Lies
Linda Howard
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Nothing could have prepared Jay Granger for the arrival of two FBI agents at her door -- or for the news they brought. Her ex-husband, Steve, had been in a terrible accident that had left him gravely injured. The FBI needed Jay to confirm his identity.
The man Jay finds lying in the hospital bed is almost unrecognizable. Almost. Exhausted and afraid, Jay tentatively declares that he is Steve Crossfield. But the man who awakens from the coma is not at all as Jay remembers her husband. And he remembers nothing of their life together. Suddenly nothing is familiar. Not his appearance, not the intensity of his nature, not the desire that flashes between them. Who is this man? And will the discovery of his identity shatter the passion they share?
Customer Reviews:
Enjoyed it!.......2007-01-04
I really enjoyed this novel, though I could only give it 4 stars because I thought it could have been LONGER! :) I love a good long story & Ms. Howard could have gone into more detail about the bad guy & why they were after Steve & the other agent...But, it was a good one, I just finished it too soon!
Ok, but Somewhat Disappointing.......2006-11-27
I borrowed this book from the library recently based on reviews that I read here. Although the book was reasonably interesting and the storyline was good, I thought that the book didn't go into enough depth and didn't do justice to the potential of the storyline. I would have liked to have been given more details about what happened prior to where the story started. I would have liked more details on the villain and the circumstances. I also felt that the book skipped a lot of details at the end of the book by skipping what should have been the climax of the book. I've read other reviews on here and it seems that Linda Howard can write some really good books. Based on the fact that this book was written in 1988, and that I found it to be reasonably enjoyable, I will try some of this author's newer books and see if I enjoy them. If you're looking for a quick, light read with plenty of steamy scenes, you might enjoy this book.
One of Linda Howard's best!.......2006-11-24
This is a really fine, well-written romance, with a sexy alpha hero who comes to value the heroine early in the story, lots of action and emotion tightly and believably plotted -- what's not to like?! This book really drew me in and it's now in my keeper pile. I *highly* recommend White Lies.
Wonderful story, defintely a must read!.......2006-10-16
Oh my gosh, this book was wonderful! I loved it! After I finished reading it I was so excited about the story that I shared it with a friend who loved it just as much as I did. I couldn't put it down, I wanted to find out more about the man in the coma, "Steve". I was so sad near the end when everything looked like it was falling apart. I actually cried when Jay left. It was so sad that they both went through the feelings that what they felt for each other was a lie caused by the situation. I think I even cried more when Jay and "Steve" found their way back to each other. You have to read this book!
Old but sweet romance!.......2006-08-23
This is one of Linda Howard's earlier works and though it lacks somewhat in the action department, the romance is very sweet and fulfilling. Jay and Steve's story is very special and we're shown how two people gradually fall in love and end up having the most amazing chemistry. A very special love story in my opinion, and one, not to be missed!
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WHAT’S ONE LITTLE WHITE LIE?
Okay, so it isn’t that little. It’s kind of a whopper. It’s just that when Natalie Raglan ups and quits her job at a Bath advertising firm, breaks up with her loser-ish boyfriend, and moves–to London! Things don’t quite turn out the way she planned. Having made the brave move to the Big City, the lifelong country mouse finds that living chic is still a long way off. Even Cressida, the girl who used to rent her tiny flat, still gets more phone calls and mail there than Nat does. Come to think of it, Cressida Langdon’s life looks pretty appealing–especially when an invitation to the posh, exclusive Soho House club arrives, addressed to Cressida.
Before she really knows what she’s done, Nat has opened Cressida’s mail . . . and taken up her life. Soon Nat’s dating a gorgeous investment banker named Simon, giving “reiki healing sessions,” wearing wonderful clothes, and partying with the A-list at Soho House. But the best part really is Simon. He’s everything Nat has ever wanted. The problem is he thinks she’s someone else. And as her life and her lies begin to spiral out of control, Nat can’t help but wonder: Will she be exposed as a liar and a fake–or be saved from ruin by simply claiming good intentions. . . .
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Okay, so it isn’t that little. It’s kind of a whopper. It’s just that when Natalie Raglan ups and quits her job at a Bath advertising firm, breaks up with her loser–ish boyfriend, and moves–to London! Things don’t quite turn out the way she planned. Having made the brave move to the Big City, the lifelong country mouse finds that living chic is still a long way off. Even Cressida, the girl who used to rent her tiny flat, still gets more phone calls and mail there than Nat does. Come to think of it, Cressida Langdon’s life looks pretty appealing–especially when an invitation to the posh, exclusive Soho House club arrives, addressed to Cressida.
Before she really knows what she’s done, Nat has opened Cressida’s mail… and taken up her life. Soon Nat’s dating a gorgeous investment banker named Simon, giving “reiki healing sessions,” wearing wonderful clothes, and partying with the A–list at Soho House. But the best part really is Simon. He’s everything Nat has ever wanted. The problem is he thinks she’s someone else. And as her life and her lies begin to spiral out of control, Nat can’t help but wonder: Will she be exposed as a liar and a fake–or be saved from ruin by simply claiming good intentions.…
Customer Reviews:
Reader beware..........2007-09-23
"Little White Lies" isn't an entire waste of time, but it is very predictable and repetitive. Take the plot of "Working Girl" and throw in a little "While You Were Sleeping" and that'll give you about 80% of the plot. Small town girl moves to the city with big dreams only to be initially disappointed. So, due to a few twists, she finds herself impersonating a more accomplished character. Enter the Perfect Guy and his appealing family, who love the protagonist for just who she is. But will they still love her when her deception is uncovered? That is the dilemma. There are all the standard cliches, including the scene where the protagonist is ready to reveal her lie, only to be interupted by someone who spills the beans for her. The ending is pure cotton candy. In fact, reading "Little White Lies" reminded me of why I often avoid chick lit. There are some good writers in this genre (and Townley is a competant writer, just not original) but the plots are so obvious that reading to the end often feels like a waste of time. I'll give this one points for the following: I learned a few things I didn't know (such as that Stonehenge and Bristol are near Bath) and there are at least two twists I couldn't predict (although they're both minor to the plot.) So... reader beware.
Little White lies...........2007-09-02
Great book!! I couldn't put it down, i think I've read all of Gemma Townley's books now can't wait for the next one to come out!!
A sweet, funny little book.......2007-03-30
I really enjoyed this book, which actually kind of surprised me. I thought it was going to just be a bit of fluff -- some escapist chick lit that I could enjoy dipping into at the end of a long day while lolling in the bathtub.
But then I found myself interested in the main character, Natalie, and the tangled web she wove as she took on another identity. She was, of course, a terrible liar, and a number of very entertaining things happened with the story's being neatly resolved at the end.
This isn't deep or timeless literature. The character development is somewhat haphazard and the plot will gently test your credulity, but "Little White Lies" is a fun, interesting, entertaining book for the bath, beach, or comfy nook on the sofa.
Underdeveloped.......2007-02-25
The story of this book sounded really promising and funny: Young woman moves to big city, works in retail, gets a bunch of mail addressed to the prior tenant and lies herself into a whole different identity.
Unfortunately the way it was worked out was nothing else but disappointing. Without any warning, or any kind of explanation, the main character moved back to her hometown only to return to the big city and getting back with her ex-boyfriend within a few pages. It would have been nice to get some more insights and just some kind of how did she get there explanation. What ever happened to a gradual story development?
All in a sudden she has her own store and lives happily ever after with the guy who thought she was someone else. How exactly did that happen? I feel I could have written this book better than this author.
I like light and breezy novels, but that doesn't mean that they have to do completely dump and unrealistic.
See what might happen if you lie.............2006-07-19
I really like this book because it was fun to read and I wanted to know what was going to happen to Natalie from her lies. I'm sure everyone has received mail or a phone call from someone who use to live at their current place and who use to have their current phone number.
But we were always the good little girl and never opened the mail or always told the caller that you have the wrong number. With this book we get to see what could happen if you opened someone's mail and looked in on someone else's life.
This book also showed that you can stick to your dreams and achieve them. From other reviews the main character did flip flop with decision making but that was the fun of her character she could never really make up her mind.
Customer Reviews:
What a suprising little book!.......1999-09-14
I went into this book with the intention of ripping it to pieces. I came away disagreeing with the message and impressed at how well Mr. Boyles writes.
Any professional writer should read this book, if for no other reason than to explore some of the better subtleties of the trade. This book is well written, clear, it moves admirably well considering the subject matter which I previously would have thought to be prose-proof. It shows how enjoyable even subjects that one would previously have had no interest in can come alive for a reader with the right author.
Buy this book.
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- Money, Power, Drugs, Policy, Cocaine/Crack Epidemic
- Reads like a Tom Clancy novel - but this is TRUE
- Was This Book "Privished?"
- A true American hero.
- An excellent book written by a very courageous individual
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The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War : An Undercover Odyssey
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Money, Power, Drugs, Policy, Cocaine/Crack Epidemic.......2006-08-26
The first sign of corruption in a society ... is that the end justifies the means. ~Georges Beranos, "Why Freedom?" (1955)
When you finish going through this book, you will gain a new perspective on the drugs war, and some of the root causes of the drugs problem in United States.
"Look Mike, our country has many diverse interests and you're one man in one little corner of the world. There are a lot of people a lot smarter than you and I involved in this business who might know a few things we don't. So just because an action might seem right doesn't mean it is; and even if it's the right thing to do, sometimes it's not the healthiest."
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He was silent for a long moment. "Mike, don't ever forget a peanut butter sandwich."
"You're kidding."
"No, I'm not. I'm telling you this because I like you."
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"Bario was one of the best and most committed undercover agents in DEA; he had done some of the agency's highest-level deep cover work. He was also a friend of mine. A year earlier he had been arrested for smuggling heroin from his post of duty in Mexico. While in jail in a Texas border town awaiting a removal hearing, he took a bite of a peanut butter sandwich and went into convulsions, and then a deep coma. He died a month later. He wife was told by the prison warden that strychnine had been found in his blood. The official autopsy report listed the cause of death as asphyxiation -- he choked on a peanut butter sandwich.
Many of Bario's fellow agents were aware that he was involved in cases that overlapped CIA interests. The rumor was that he "knew too much" about the CIA smuggling drugs into the United States to support its own interests and that he was killed by either members of DEA's Internal Security (who was in reality CIA) or by the CIA itself. I had always been one of those who had placed little credence in the rumor. Who could really believe that a branch of the U.S. government would assassinate its own people for any reason?"
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Reads like a Tom Clancy novel - but this is TRUE.......2004-02-12
Mike Levine is a good writer. Add that to the fact that he was one of the best undercover agents in American history and you've got the equation for a great book. I had to stop myself a number of times to remember that this is NON-Fiction. The bumbling and deception that goes on at the higher levels of our Criminal Justice system would be laughable had this been a work of fiction. There is just too much detail here for it NOT to be true. This book, coupled with Levine's other book "Deep Cover" show you how the people in power manipulate the media to show the public the reality they want them to see. In light of the Iraq war "intelligence" misinformation, we can see that nothing has changed. In fact, the stakes have gotten higher.
Was This Book "Privished?".......2002-08-08
Note that this review is 4 years after publication... four years of silence.
A book that tears the mask off the fraudulent "War on Drugs". It exposes the growth of the war from two (highly mutually destructive) agencies in 1971 (Customs and DEA) to 55 and counting. It describes very extensive, high-volume CIA involvement in smuggling itself to obtain unaccountable funding.
It documents the cost of the fraudulent war. In dollars misspent, in innocent lives lost through raids gone amok and witnesses silenced, in the credibility of government agencies and the news media, and in the harm resulting from the 5-fold increase (his figures) in drug usage during the time $1 trillion has been wasted in the fight.
Recommend finding this book used or in a library, or reading Levine's chapter in "Into the Buzzsaw" by Kristina Borjesson.
A true American hero........1999-01-27
I rank this book with "Dark Alliance" and "C.I.A.: Cocaine In America" as the most telling indictment of America's pseudo-war on drugs. Unlike most suthors who pontificate solutions from ivory towers and exhort stratagem with quill pens, Mr. Levine, not unlike Mr. VesBucci, for that matter, advises from hard-fought experience.
An excellent book written by a very courageous individual.......1998-06-16
Michael Levine is a former DEA agent who, throughout the 1980's, worked to uncover, expose and convict many of the leading suppliers of cocaine to the United States. Unfortunately for Levine, many of the most powerful cocaine dealers proved to be CIA assets, supported and even bankrolled by the American government in pursuit of shadowy foreign policy objectives. Levine's diligence in fighting the so-called "drugs war" brought him the ruination of his reputation within the DEA and ultimately the destruction of his career. The cynicism that Levine exposes within the highest levels of American government is breathtaking - and profoundly depressing.
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The mathematical underpinnings of games, whether they are strategic or games of chance, have been known for centuries, but are usually only understood by players and aficionados who have a background in mathematics. The author has succeeded in making that knowledge accessible, entertaining, and useful to everyone who likes to play and win.
The information applies to such diverse and popular games as Roulette, Monopoly™, Chess, Go, numerous card games, and many more. He reviews the mathematical foundations, probability, combinatorics, and mathematical game theory, the field that won John Nash of A Beautiful Mind the Nobel Prize, and emphasizes the implementation of these techniques so that players can put them to work immediately.
An extensive bibliography and sections describing the historical developments are welcome features to put the subject in a broader context
Customer Reviews:
Superb presenter of mathematics.......2007-05-28
This is a 500 page mathematical investigation of games using probability theory, game theory, and a variety of mathematical methods. The author finds winning strategies for many games, some of them surprisingly simple. For most games, the point is less to find a trick to win but to clearly explain how the game works and to answer some interesting questions. The author's ability to present mathematics in an understandable manner is possibly unsurpassed by any other writer.
In Chapter 16, entitled, "Games of Chance", the author presents an explanation of Markov chains and how they can be applied to Monopoly and to Chutes and Ladders. The explanation is clearer here than I have found elsewhere. The result of the calculation for Monopoly is two charts detailing the best investments in Monopoly. One chart ranks the monopolies according to how much rent income they will generate for the owner. The second chart ranks monopolies according to their return on investment or ROI, expected rent divided by cost. Thus we see, for example, that the highest rent comes from the green color group, Pennsylvania, and the best monopoly measured by ROI is the orange color group, New York. The author suggests these charts may be useful for deciding what properties to buy and where to buy houses.
The problem is that the results of the Markov chain calculation are not really useful for the important decisions Monopoly players must make. Players must buy nearly every ordinary property they land on in order to advance their chances of getting a monopoly and to block opponents from getting monopolies, so properties' ROIs and rents are almost completely irrelevant to the property buying decisions. After players trade properties, almost every player has one monopoly, not two or three or four, so the problem of deciding where to build the next house is not an issue...the player must put the house on his (lone) monopoly. Only after reaching the later stages of the game, usually after one of the players has been eliminated, do players have a choice about which monopoly to build out. Even in this regard, the chart is not useful. There is too much data to memorize and Monopoly culture discourages players from consulting charts in the middle of a game. Monopoly players bring snacks and drinks, but not charts.
The truly important decisions Monopoly players must make involve trading--which monopoly to take and which monopoly to allow an opponent to take. The data from a Markov chain calculation simply do not help much. What Monopoly players need to help them make this decision is the Monte Carlo method, which the book describes but does not apply toward Monopoly. A Monte Carlo simulation involves programming a computer to play the game, play the game thousands of times, and study what happened. This is exactly what I did for my Winning Monopoly book in 1987. A more detailed review of this book-at least, the portion dedicated to Monopoly-is posted on my web site, [...]
Some Math, but you don't have to be a Mathematician.......2007-01-09
As this book points out, games fall into three broad categories:
1. Games of Chance
2. Games with a large number of combinations of different moves
3. Different states of information among the individual players.
And this book is broken into three main sections, one for each of these.
Before you get too turned off, yes, there is some math in this book. But it is really not heavy duty. (After all, John Nash of A Beautiful Mind won the Nobel Prize for his work on game theory and his work was not simple math.) The authors explanations of the situations described in the games are very good are very good, and the minimal amount of math is really helpful.
Virtually all of the common games from from the lottery to chess and even Monopoly, as well as the casino games such as blackjack and Roulette are discussed in detail. For anyone interested in what's really going on in games they play, this is an extremely interesting book.
The author knows whereof he speaks, he is the general manager of a game design company based in Germany.
A great introduction to the mathematics of games.......2005-08-17
So many books about the mathematics of games are either long out of print, hard to find, or fairly esoteric and not something I'd recommend to just anyone. The best book I've found for someone new to game math is Luck, Logic and White Lies by Jörg Bewersdorff. It introduces the reader to a vast mathematical literature, and does so in an enormously clear manner, which never takes one very far away from either the math or the games behind them. I love Winning Ways and On Numbers and Games, but they're definitely not for the faint of heart. LL&WL is the perfect book for gamers who are interested in the mathematics that underlie the choices they face and decisions they make. Just great stuff.
Highly recommended reading among avid game players.......2005-04-11
Written by the general manager of Mega-Spielgerate, a game design company based in Limburg, Germany, Luck, Logic & White Lies: The Mathematics Of Games is a no-nonsense instructional in basic probability, geometry, and mathematics as they apply to popular games. Topics discussed include popular myths among those who the lottery, to the question of whether it is possible to reconcile chance and mathematical certainty, to testing dice, the possibilities of distribution in a roulette, modern theories as applied to the classical game of Go, whether bluffing in poker can be done without psychology, and so much more. Written in plain terms, Luck, Logic & White Lies teaches readers of all backgrounds about the insight mathematical knowledge can bring and is highly recommended reading among avid game players, both to better understand the game itself and to improve one's skills.
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Inspired by a true story, one mother's quest for the truth about her baby's injuries from a vaccine, and the unlikely friendship that develops with her small town attorney who has problems of her own. A popular book club selection and an insightful look at life with a vaccine-injured child. This novel offers hope to families who are considering filing a claim with the government's compensation fund.
Customer Reviews:
White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception.......2007-04-11
Well written, fast and easy to read. I could not put it down. Honenberger shows true insight into emotions of a mother who loves her child very much.
Powerful Pen.......2007-03-22
This is an enjoyable and important book. The author has beautifully combined an expose of a tragic national issue with the impact it has on the lives of the protagonist lawyer, her family, and the woman and child she represents. The characters are alive, and the settings of towns and courtrooms are believable because they are drawn with such exacting care. But it is the story itself that is riveting. The struggle to get justice for a child hopelessly damaged by medical incompetance and bad policy is told competently and quietly, and will not fail to engage and enrage the reader. This easy-to-read and hard-to-forget book belongs on every parent's bookshelf.
White Lies .......2007-01-21
This book has an absorbing plot; many interesting characters and character development.
Legal and medical points of view were well presented. AND, it has a happy ending which made me feel good.
Terrific story-telling.......2007-01-18
I loved this story. The book weaves together two tales of mothers and their children - both strong, smart women, fighting for justice. The parallels between their lives, which initially look completely different, is striking by the end of the book. I gave a copy to my mother and several other women I know, because the depiction of working women, fighting for their kids, loving their husbands and making their way in the world, is great, and the writing is engaging. I highly recommend this book!
A mother's must read.......2007-01-02
Beautifully written, White Lies is a story any mother who had a child in the late 60's could have lived. Reading it brought tears to my grateful eyes that my 36-year-old son is a healthy, happy, vibrant member of today's world. We survived, without permanent damage, the DPT vaccinations and fevers that poor Lacy and Danny endured. Then decades later Lacy found Jean, a lawyer who struggling with her own family problems had the compassion and dedication to pursue against the odds of time and government bureaucracy. A wonderful story about two women from two completely different backgrounds that came together through tragedy. This story renewed my faith in motherhood, lawyers, and justice.
Customer Reviews:
Great thinker and writer.......2007-08-14
Vine Deloria has written another outstanding book about Native subjects that is both original and intelligent. I have been guided by his thinking in this book and have used it for my upcoming book, The Odawa and Smallpox Genocide (Edwin Mellon Press). He is sadly missed, since he walked on.
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact.......2007-01-12
A must read for anyone chasing their Native Heritage and regular readers as well.Vine Deloria is a renowned author and this book is his best.
An outstanding work on the fallacies of science.......2006-05-28
Deloria makes a very well-researched, well-argued and, ultimately, correct case against the delusion of modern science as applied to evolution. Modern science has done wonders for technology, not necessarily for the earth or the environment; however, it does not explain the past very well, especially the distant past.
The third chapter, 'Evolutionary Prejudice,' is, arguably, the hinge upon which his arguments rest. It is amazing that regardless of whether or not a Western person uses religion, science, or socio-political arguments the "indigenous" people always end up on the bottom. Another great work that supports this theory is by the noted author Stephen Jay Gould in "The Mismeasure of Man." Further support is given by Roy Harvey Pearce in "Savagism and Civilization." To get more proof, read works directly related to the time Western imperialism encountered the Inupiat, Inuit, Aboriginies, and other "indigenous" people around the world, their prejudism shines through. The book I have sitting in front of me, "Primitive Man," written by Edward Clodd is a glaring example of the paradigm through which the world was catagorized by scientists.
All in all, Deloria is not only an eloquent and witty writer, he is correct in questioning the validity of science as applied to "indigenous" people, evolutionary theory, and the origins of people.
Apropos to this argument is this recent article: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6414554?source=most_viewed. Evolutionary science is a belief that cannot be empirically proven. One can make suppositions of fact based on paradigm, but, in the end, that is all they are, guesses.
Attack on a Straw Man.......2005-07-23
An earlier reviewer, Deloria's former student, maintains that this book is not a harbinger of fundamentalism encroaching on new territory, but rather an critique of faulty science. On the contrary, the book itself demonstrates that Deloria does not understand the science he seeks to criticise, using exactly the same specious pseudo-scientific fallacies & sophistries employed with such amazing frequency by Christian creationists. Deloria does not grapple with any of the mature forms of Neo-Darwinian synthesis that constitute present-day biology. Simple test: Look at the index. While Stephen Jay Gould is referenced sixteen times, & Darwin ten, seminal figures such as J.B.S. Haldane, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, R.A. Fisher, William Hamilton, Robert Trivers, or John Manyard Smith exacly zero. He is 'ripping to shreds' a straw man that the scientists he intends to discredit dismantled long before he got around to it.
Like Deloria's student, I think it wise to keep a distance from wrangling over accusations of fundamentalism or racism, & concentrate instead on Deloria's misapprehension of what science says, & at bottom, is. Rather than futilely kicking against the pricks in a short review such as this, however, I recommend instead that all who are interested in exploring the matter with intellectual integrity read Richard Dawkins, a congenial popularizer, Philip Kitcher (particularly his book *Abusing Science*), a philosopher of science who tackles old-school creationism, & *Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics* (ed. Robert T. Pennock), which counters the new facade of creationsim (used by Deloria), so-called Intelligent Design.
Better yet, have a look at this thorough Amazon So You'd Like To. . . list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/1ZVZDKO9Z0ETC/ref=cm_bg_dp_m_2/002-6368276-0565648
One final note. Many people fail to comprehend the meaning of the word 'theory' as it is used within the context of the scientific method. A scientific theory is not some gauzy idea that awaits experimental validation. That is an *hypothesis*. A theory, in the language of science, is a statement of scientific fact that has been subjected to the most rigorous possible experimentation & not been falsified. This differs from the colloquial understanding of the word 'theory'. It is a simple matter of definition that anybody who intends to discuss this issue seriously must grasp. If one doesn't know it one can have no conception of the scientific method, hence rational criticism of it becomes impossible.
Stick to sociology, Deloria.......2005-01-01
Vine Deloria should stick to American Indian history, sociology, current affairs, etc.
If Deloria were a Christian fundamentalist spewing his ignorance as a "native alternative" to science (not Western science, but science), he'd be slapped silly by everybody in academe and beyond, except at a few fundamentalist schools.
BUUTTT... because he's the "great Vine Deloria," along with white liberal guilt, etc., this attack on scientific thinking gets treated with kid gloves at the least and put on a pedestal at the worst.
Deloria, don't go to a "Western" hospital for "Western" scientific medicine next time you get sick. Or does the "myth of scientific fact" not include you going to a Western medicine hospital for an aortic aneurysm not too long before you died?
I guess it turns out we're past the shelf date for that advice to be of any value, to be somewhat but not too snarky.
Book Description
White supremacist groups have traditionally been viewed as "fringe" groups to be ignored, dismissed, or at most, observed warily.
White Lies investigates the white supremacist imagination, and argues instead that the ideology of these groups is much closer to core American values than most of us would like to believe.
The book explores white supremacist ideology through an analysis of over 300 publications from a variety of white supremacist organizations. It examines the discourse of these publications and the ways in which "whites," "blacks," and "Jews" are constructed within that discourse. Also interwoven in racist ideology are constructions of gender and sexuality--what it means to be a "white man" versus what it means to be a "white woman." Daniels finds that the themes discovered here resonate far beyond extremist organizations, and fundamentally, the ideology they espouse has much in common with discourse produced by our mainstream elected officials, our academic intellectuals, and Madison Avenue.
A compelling and controversial study, White Lies gets to the heart of what it means to legitimate and sustain privileges of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
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An eye opener.......2000-05-13
White Lies was one of the books assigned in my sexualities class this past term. In the beginning of the novel, Jessie Daniels quotes Toni Morrison: "The scholarship that looks into the mind, imagination, and behavior of slaves is valuable. But equally valuable is a serious intellectual effort to see what racial ideology does to the mind, imagination, and behavior of masters."
Daniels makes such an effort with this excellent analysis of the discourses of white supremacist organizations. She repeatedly points out the hypocrisy of these organizations, and makes the astute point that dismissing these people as ignorant or harmless radicals serves "to comfortably distance the majority of whites from those who proudly claim to be racists, and thus from any interrogation of their own position within the broader White Supremacist context" (p. 9). Daniels urges us to look at the similarities between obviously racist organizations and other groups in society, for it is only in a society already prone to racist ideas that such organizations can exist.
Book Description
Unloved Sarah Mason flees her domineering parents and manipulative fiancé, embarking to Jamaica on a quest for clues to her sister's unnerving disappearance. Her quest, however, takes an unexpected and exhilarating turn when she meets the sexy Dominick LaCroix, her sister's ex-landlord and supposed ex-lover, who not only aids in Sarah's search for answers, but also helps her explore her heart and sexuality.
But can Sarah and Dominick survive not only a killer hurricane, but a dangerous undercover mission to learn the truth about what happened to her sister?-or will they become the next people to mysteriously vanish?
Customer Reviews:
Exciting and Steamy!!.......2004-02-11
This was a great read and I purchased this book based to the previous comments but was not warned there was a past rape and a present rape involved... this kinda killed the story for me and that is why I gave it a 4 star.
Timeless Tales review.......2003-06-02
By TT reviewer Tonya Ramagos
Love-starved Sarah Mason desperately wants her parents' approval. So much so that she allows her parents to dominate her life in every way, from the job she keeps to the man she is set to marry. But Sarah is getting fed up. She can feel herself growing stronger, building the strength to stand up to her parents and manipulative fiancé. Consumed with worry about her sister's disappearance, Sarah flees to Jamaica in hopes of finding clues that will lead her to Nicole. What she finds is Dominick LaCroix. A man who will change everything about her life forever.
Tall, built and handsome, Dominick LaCroix possesses a special power of a sixth sense. It is a power that warns him when things are about to go wrong, can tell him the sex of an unborn child and tells him when he sets eyes on Sarah Mason that she is the woman he will spend the rest of his life with. As Nicole's ex-landlord and boss, Dominick aids Sarah in finding her sister. But even his sixth sense can't warn him of the dangers they are about to face.
WHITE LIES is action-packed to the max. A destructive hurricane and a dangerous undercover mission are just a couple of the suspenseful events that will hold the reader captive. Lies are being told by everyone, and as the truth begins to come out, the spell bounding twists and turns pile on the captivating suspense. And all of this is neatly entwined in a hot, steamy budding romance of exciting and exotic proportions. The character of Sarah Mason is one who is easily identifiable. Her desires to be loved, to have approval and the pain she holds secret deep inside will seep into your heart and leave you praying for her happiness. Dominick LaCroix is the perfect hero: sensitive, handsome, loving and strong. WHITE LIES is a book that keeps you guessing and sitting on the edge of your seat in anticipation. I highly recommend this novel.
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