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Nora Roberts CD Collection 1: The Villa, Midnight Bayou, Three Fates
Nora Roberts
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The Villa:
Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality - from Napa Valley to Italy, and throughout the world. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family's winery - and Sophia will be assuming a new role, working with Tyler MacMillan.
Midnight Bayou:
Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room. Only the companionship of the alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall - uncovering a secret that's been buried for a hundred years.
Three Fates:
When the Lusitania sank, more than one thousand people died. One passenger, however, survived to become a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief but keeping a small silver statue that would become a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that heirloom, one of a priceless, long-separated set of three, has been snatched away from the Sullivans. And Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune.
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Wonderful .......2007-06-27
I read the books, but enjoyed the tapes much more.
The readers make the books. The Villa reader was the best.
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Three Fates
Nora Roberts
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ASIN: 0515135062
Release Date: 2004-03-30 |
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Setting: Ireland, Europe, and New York City
Sensuality: 7
Irish siblings Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan cherish the family legend of their great-great-grandfather's acquisition of one of the Fates, a trio of priceless, long-separated silver statues. When the Sullivans' Fate is stolen by an unscrupulous New York antiquities dealer, they vow to retrieve the little silver lady, and thus begins a quest that will send them racing across Europe, traveling through Ireland, and dodging killers in New York City. Most importantly, their search for their Fate and her two sister statues brings them into the world of a brilliant female mythology professor, a free-spirited exotic dancer, and a security expert adept at breaking and entering. This diverse sextet must meld their talents in order to thwart their enemy, retrieve the stolen statue, and stay alive while administering their particular brand of justice.
Prolific author Nora Roberts's latest tale of adventure and romance is a nonstop page-turner with quirky heroines, strong heroes, and a delightfully nefarious villainess. Toss in strong Irish, European, and New York settings, interesting secondary characters, and a plot with intriguing twists and turns and the result is romantic suspense at its best. --Lois Faye Dyer
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It's fate--another instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
There's "a treasure hunt, romance, [and] danger" (Charleston Post and Courier) in this unforgettable tale of luck and love in which friendships and fortunes depend on a simple twist of fate.
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Light and fun read.......2007-08-21
This was my first Nora Roberts book and I must say I really enjoyed it. I picked this one up because it looked like it might be an interesting mystery to me. The mystery part was fairly interesting, all the characters searching for three silver figurines that are valuable from different parts of the world. But what actually kept me reading this book was the development of the characters and their relationships, particularly between Malachi and Tia.
I loved the Tia character and even though some of her dialogue was a bit too¬-- dreamy high school girl-- and not 29 year old adult in the year 2003 at times, I still enjoyed her metamorphosis from repressed braniac hypochondriac to a courageous woman who goes for it. Although the other characters were written very 2003, I kept thinking Tia to be a woman living in the 50's. Maybe that's what the charm was about her. While all three Sullivan siblings, the main characters, all falling in love at the same time felt a bit contrived and frankly hoky to me, it was, never the less, entertaining enough for me to finish this book in one day. And the Anita Gaye character was so Joan Collins in Dynasty and fun to read on the level of her over the top nastiness.
There is a bit of sex in this book, but I felt it was done in good taste. There was nothing too explicit although I'm not offended by explicit, but those offended by that beware. And the couples do fall into bed with each other fairly quickly. But, it takes place in 2003 after all, and I was more shocked that all three couples fell in "love" within in a few days of meeting as I feel that instant lust attraction to be more probable. Ms. Roberts does temper this with the Sullivan boys and Jack being honorable men where a lady is concerned.
While I won't probably read any of Ms. Robert's pure romance novels, I really hate sap and this book already bordered on a little too much sap for me, I will definitely check out some more of her mix romance-thriller/mysteries. I give 4 stars because I couldn't stop thinking about the characters and what their future might hold for days after. That's a good book to me.
good read.......2007-07-12
this is a book ive been putting off reading for a while and i wish i hadnt waited so long. good story, good characters, steamy scenes and some excitement thrown in. there are 6 main characters but she picks 2 that are more main then the others. its definitely worth checking out, its long but youll make it through quick.
Not one of her Bests but still Good.......2007-05-17
I am a Nora Roberts fan. I love her books she keeps me so captivated I usually can't put her book down. This one had way to many passages, to many people and to much going on at the same time. I do love the suspense and the story line but the problem is I didn't know sometimes who she was talking about. If you like a story line and a book that constantly moves and of course the evil person who wants it all at no expense than this is a good book for you. I still love Nora just this book is just not like her others.
Not her best.......2007-03-17
I was rereading this book last week and realized what it was that made me not love this book. It wasn't the plot - a fun plot about the search for three statues that go together (The Three Fates), but because there are three 6 main characters (3 couples), it feels like you don't really get to know any one of them well enough. What I love about Nora Roberts is her characters - she just has awesome characters that you can't get enough of it. But I felt that each couple separately was too little information. She really was trying to cover too many plots in one story. If she wanted to do out this properly, she should have done a trilogy (like she's been doing with others like - the vampire series of last year for example).
Anyway, the book is good - just not one of her best. I definitely felt like I was left short at the end.
Slow Start - Great Ending.......2007-01-04
It seemed to take a much longer time for me to get through this book. Granted it is 400 + pages, but with a Nora Roberts book, 400 pages can seem like 40 once I get immersed in her storylines. I felt the first part of the book moved quite slow - character descriptions and events seemed to be dragged on. However, somewhere in the middle to the conclusion, the story heated up and the characters got moving and I couldn't put the book down. I especially like the character of Tia Marsh. She totally grew into her own person and it was a real treat to watch her develop into the strong woman she really was. The Sullivans are a great family and their desire to achieve the goal of getting all three silver lady statues becomes a very interesting plot. Of course there is plenty of romance among Tia and Malachi, Cleo and Gideon and Jack Burdett and Rebecca Sullivan. I enjoyed how the different personalities "coupled" together and also bonded with one another as a group to form a united front against the evil Anita Gayle. The action and intrigue at the culmination of the story was definitely worth waiting for.
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It damns the dam with precise and powerful arguments........1999-08-29
This is a collection of essays which document the many reasons the Three Gorges Dam should not be built, the lose of arable land, the dislocation of millions of people, the loss of 5,000 years of art and architecture, etc. Author Dai Qing, an outspoken opponent of the dam since the beginning, is to be highy commended for speaking out while others cower in silence. To put it in Western terms, it is David taking on Goliath, times 10.
There are a lot of detailed figures and facts in some of the essays. They're easily skimmed. But read this book if the subject matters to you and particularly if you're planning to take a cruise through the Three Gorges or have already taken it. While on the cruise, one is told only of the glory and power of the dam, which is to say, given the party line, but one should know the lie behind the line and the potential tragedy that awaits, the tragedy of the River Dragon coming again.
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The Case of the Savage Statue.......2003-08-18
I have read a few of the Three Investigators books before, and I think I like this one the best of all. It's one of those Find-Your-Fate mysteries where you get to choose what to do to solve the mystery, and there are many wrong turns that you can take on the way.
This book is about a statue of the Indian goddess of destruction, Kali, that belongs to a lady in the Three Investigators' hometown. A group of turban-wearing thugs kidnaps the lady's nephew, and demands the statue for ransom. The Three Investigators are inlisted to help... if you choose the adventure right, you can find out what's so special about the statue.
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Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies reveals the latest theories. It might end in a whimper, slowly scattering into the infinite void. Then again, it might be yanked back by its own gravity and end in a catastrophic "Big Crunch." There are other, more frightening possibilities. We may be seconds away from doom at this very moment.
Written in clear language that makes the cutting-edge science of quarks, neutrinos, wormholes, and metaverses accessible to the layman, The Last Three Minutes treats readers to a wide range of conjectures about the ultimate fate of the universe. Along the way, it takes the occasional divergent path to discuss some slightly less cataclysmic topics such as galactic colonization, what would happen if the Earth were struck by the comet Swift-Tuttle (a distinct possibility), the effects of falling in a black hole, and how to create a "baby universe." Wonderfully morbid to the core, this is one of the most original science books to come along in years.
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Escape from Yourself and Join the Stars.......2007-01-27
An elegant book on the ultimate fate of the universe - cosmological speculations based upon well known hard physics - and all very exciting stuff extremely well written, and easily grasped if one remembers any high school science at all.
All the subject matter concerns a physical scale (large and small), a time scale (long and short), and a temperature scale (hot and cold) of such stupendously extreme parameters that reading becomes a terrific brain stretching exercise that delightfully removes one from the tiny doings of one's own overly personalized and petty mind circus.
The human end and not so much the universe's .......2004-12-15
I am not a scientist, and do not understand technical scientific matters in a deep way. For better descriptions of what this book is about in scientific terms I recommend the reader of this review look at the other Amazon Reviews.
I am the kind of reader who reads the scientific material in order to use it as basis for understanding certain fundamental questions. Science provides the ' truth' and my own thought the conjecture.
However what happens when the Science itself is conjecture, and what we are dealing with is alternative theories? From what I understand the most accepted view of the Universe's ' end' in scientific terms is its continuous expansion. Thus a number of readers on Amazon have indicated that the ' contraction scenario 'or ' big crunch scenario ' for the world's end is not held today by the great majority of Astronomers.
My question and here I share Davies' concern is not with ' the end of the Universe' the ' last three minutes as it were of everything' but with the ' ultimate fate of mankind'. And I wonder if the kind of material presented here brings to a greater understanding of that.
On the one hand it is possible to suggest that Mankind is such a small part of the Universe, and has been in existence for such a small interval of time that its continued existence through the kinds of times and distances the Universe is likely to exist through seems extremely unlikely. Here it is possible to speak about various scenarios of ' colonization' and the human transformations involved in them. Speculations in other words.
But then too since Mankind is now rapidly developing ' machine - intelligences' that may in some way become ' independent others' the question of ultimate human fate is connected with our own efforts here. In other words we might not wait until the last three minutes of the universe but might through our own ' creative means' put ourselves to sleep.
All this of course raises questions which are ultimately religious or spiritual.
And that question too I think should be asked in relation to ' the final time' of the universe.
All this leads me to the thought that the real subject we should be thinking about is the subject of God at the beginning or before the beginning, and God at the end or beyond the End. And what that means for us. And what we mean for God?
And how we are to make sense of this universe, and whether or not we can at all.
This is to say that the kinds of information Davies presents do not help me so much in my own quest to ' understand the ultimate meaning of who I am, who we are, and what my and our purpose is here on this earth and in this Universe.
For all those we now living love will end long before the physical Universe does.
Is there some other meaning for all of us only God knows ? Is there another universe next door or up above, or in some other way of perception and knowing we cannot possibly grasp?
Mind Expanding... (or is it contracting?).......2004-12-09
This book overviews the current major ideas of cosmology and sets them against a logical background of ultimate fate. What happens to the universe ultimately depends upon whence we came. Davies takes several theories and then logically extrapolates the possible fates of the universe.
One of the things to keep in mind is the fact that "infinity is a long time" and this reoccuring theme is central to the ideas he develops. If the universe is expanding, what eventually happens to matter? If the universe is contracting, what will eventually happen to matter? Where does matter come from? Can matter be created or destroyed over infinite amounts of time?
Such ideas explored are the steady state theory, the expanding universe and "cold heat" death. The contracting universe and the eventual ceasing of all time, matter --- everything... The oscillating universe where matter can be created from "nothing" .
Some of the info is a little dated -- I suppose this applies if you are a graduate student in the Astrophysic department of Cambridge University. But for the average bloke with an interest in cosmology, one need not be worried about reading "old" materials. In fact the popular science, current considerations about the universes initial inflation stage -- that fraction of a secong when expansion and matter may have formed --- is well described and should serve as an intro to other reading.
The one thing that I really like about Davies is that his writing is clean and does not become a political tract: eg. Dawkins, Pinker and Dennet.
This trend towards writing "polically" based appreciations of scientific theory is based upon two things in my estimation: 1) the rise of the irrational, Voodoo Science and stark raving mad religious fundementalists --- scientific authors often rightly feel that they are fighting a rear guard action against the forces of darkness, and: 2) amazing egos that need to be assuaged (Dawkins and Dennet) so they feel that they must always address all potential attacks, however inconsequential, to defend their "good name."
Davies is clean and can present contrasting and even illogical ideas (Bede's "Darwin's Black Box") in a non-political way -- and still make the guy look irrelevant to modern science.
That is why, along with Matt Ridley, Davies is the best writer in popular science, worthy to assume the mantle of Carl Sagan.
A bit dry in the middle.. .......2004-09-03
The book starts with what I might consider a fake-out: Davies starts by recounting a situation where some asteroid has been found to be on a collision course with Earth and the final minutes in our existence considering that we know we're going to be hit by a "global killer". While this is interesting, it's a bit of fiction. We were scared for a bit that later this century we would be hit by something heading our direction, but it was found to be missing us by just a little bit later. After considering the possibilities and probabilities of these happening for some pages, he notes that even if we do die this way, it's not exactly the last three minutes of the
universe, just life on earth. Going on, he discusses the possibility of heat death, seemingly unavoidable by the second law of thermodynamics and something which depressed scientists to no end after they found it out. He also covers the possibility that the universe may stop expanding and start contracting at some point in the future.
Davies seems to work very hard to make the material not as dry as a AA member at a monastery by connecting most of the theory to what would actually happen, assuming that human life exists at that point. Unfortunately, the evaporating power of the material seems to take over, and I couldn't really get through this book all the way without forcing myself through long sections on black holes that I really didn't care much about. After the long discussion of black holes and how we could possibly get energy out of them stops, Davies got to the meat of what I was actually looking for: heat death or contracting universe. The last third of the book was actually much easier to read than the middle and much more intersting than most of the rest. Contracting and "Bouncing back" universes are discussed along with an actually interesting tangent about artifically creating universes by tricks with false vacuum. One other thing I really like about this book - Davies seems to go out of his way to make sure you know where to look up more information about the situations he talks about - even without resorting to looking at the notes in the back.
The book is actually better than many I could have read on the subject, and did increase my knowledge of the possibilities for the ultimate fate of the universe fairly extensively. It definitely gets my recommendation for geeky reading over the summer, at least if you can get through to the really interesting parts. At 176 pages, it is actually more reading than it looks like at a paltry paperbook size. If it weren't for the dry section in the middle, it wouldn't be B grade material.
Fire or ice?.......2004-01-29
It is safe to say that I grew up reading Paul Davies; my first real introduction to physical sciences such as astronomy and physic was the television series 'Cosmos'; that inspired me to purchase the companion text, which further inspired me to join the Astronomy Book Club two dozen years ago. One of the first books offered, and the first book I received from them, was Paul Davies' 'Other Worlds' -- from then on, I was hooked. I have nearly a dozen books by Paul Davies, all on topics of theoretical physics, astrophysics and cosmology -- he is consistently readable, entertaining and educating with the same style that compels the reader to want more (which he then provides).
It was not surprising to me to see his name on the Science Masters Series. The series has basic introductions to many of the key issues in science today -- evolution, origins of life, cognitive science, time, computer science, and more. Each volume is relatively short -- 'The Last Three Minutes' has a mere 150 pages of text that is not too dense, sparing technically and mathematically without losing much conceptually.
The issue of the end of the universe is one of the 'hot spots' of astrophysics and cosmology, and so there are elements of this book that are already a bit out of date, despite being less than a decade old. However, given the speculative nature of many 'discoveries' in this field, it is impossible to say if anything is truly out of date or false at the present time.
Davies explores the end of the universe by setting the stage -- drawing from current thinking about the origins of the universe, in fact one of the options for conjecture, in a closed universe system, would be that the last three minutes would resemble quite closely the first three minutes. Davies looks at the various processes -- stellar evolution and decay, gravitational issues, overall radiation depletion, energy-fuel consumption -- and draws these together for the various theories about the end of the universe.
Davies shows the ideas of the closed/collapsing universe (a view not widely held today) and of the infinitely expanding universe (the current reigning theory), giving ideas about the variables required to tip the scales in one direction or the other. Even with an infinitely expanding universe, however, all is not necessarily well with the world -- the universe runs the risk (in the future so distant there is no realistic way of expressing it in terms of time we know) of becoming a dark, deep freeze with no activity left, and all matter becoming inert and inactive in every respect.
Davies speculates on what this means for the survival of humanity and human history -- how can information be preserved? How can our species go on in the face of this? Such speculation is pure conjecture; the time distances are so far removed that nothing we devise will likely come close to resembling an actual answer to this. However, it is interesting as a mental exercise, and leads the reader hopefully to further reading.
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5 massmarket paperback Titles by Nora Roberts - Sanctuary - Summer Pleasures - Table for Two - Three Fates - Reflections and Dreams
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5 Book Set By Nora Roberts; Three Fates; Birthright; Nothern Lights; Blue Smoke; Angel Falls.
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The Armenians, Assyrians & Kurds: Three Nations, One Fate?
Burchard Brentjes
Manufacturer: Rishi Publications
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Three nations in the Middle-East are fighting for thier survival. The Assyrians have almost vanished. The Armenians are isolated in the mountains trapped between alien people and the Kurds are fighting hard against their neighbors.
This book traces the history of these nations and tries to understand why these people are being persecuted.Tracing the history of these nations,the book critically analyses the reasons for the lack of political will of the powerful nations, as also that of the UNO.This book shows how these This book traces the history of these nations and tries to understand why these people are being persecuted.Tracing the history of these nations,the book critically analyses the reasons for the lack of political will of the powerful nations, as also that of the UNO.This book shows how these powerful nations of the Middle East have compromised the fundamental rights of these unfortunate people for their economic and political gains.
Customer Reviews:
This book was so bad !!!.......2003-02-20
As an avid history freak with a huge personal collection of history books, I was totally seduced by the subject (and the editorial review) into buying this book. Middle Eastern minorities have always interested me. Boy was this book bad.
... To be honest, I never even got through half of this book.
First of all, the facts on these ethnic groups were so basic that I've actually obtained so much more information for free from websites. Secondly, the style of writing and presentation is too amateurish as if a poor undergraduate history student submitted this as his paper/thesis on his way to getting a "D" grade. In addition, there were many spelling and grammatical errors in the book which one could not overlook. Since the author, Prof. Dr. Burchard Brentjes is German, I would not be surprised that this is due to the shortcomings of his translator.
The only interesting thing about this book is the title.
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