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Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy...
It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this history-behind-history. The masons, the English nobil ity, the Jabobites, the Rosicrucians, the ruling clique of pre-Revolution France: these are but a few of the factions involved in the machinations and intrigue in which Sigismundo has become enmeshed. Thrown into the Bastille, shot at, assaulted by assassins, tortured, and brutally interrogated, he knows only what he is and what he must do to become the one spoken of in the old texts.
But what he doesn't know could kill him: the secret powers of Maria, the Italian beauty who has become an English Lady; the Irish fisherman, Moon, who stumbles across the inner workings of an unsuspected cult; and the question they keep asking: the identity of The Widow's Son.
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A Real Eye Opener (Third Eye That Is).......2007-04-01
One of the smartest men I've ever had the pleasure to read. I threw away my tin foil hat after reading.
Entertaining and thought provoking.......2007-01-19
After Volume One, I expected more of the same and got it. Genuinely human characters and compelling stories. Having learned to be cautious with first opinions of characters from previous RAW works, complexity and moral ambiguities arise. This was one of those books that one wants to rush through, but drags out, not wanting it to end even though there was a volume three. (I recommend getting all 3 together)
Book II of RAW's best artwork to date..........2006-01-12
Chances are, if you are reading this review you've already read the first in this series, "The Earth Will Shake", and if you enjoyed that fun ride it only gets better with this Volume II. The Widow's Son continues to follow Sigismundo Celine through mayhem and merriment until you hanker for Volume III, which is also available for purchase and titled "Nature's God" (I had lots of fun reading that one too) yet be forewarned; at the end of Volume III is a plug for a non-existent Volume IV which may annoy the heck out of a reader hankerin' for more of this great series!
Smokin' Dope.......2006-01-03
Eheh,
To the illuminated reader with the comment on dope smoking. There's a little more to it than that, as you may well understand, had you the wealth of knowledge that the author of this book has spent his life attatining. "Dope" of various kinds have been historically reffered to with far less right-wing and insulting names throughout history, it is impossible at times to separate much of history and it's narrators from the use of such substances. George Bush would disapprove I know, but then he is an idiot too.
Incidentally, this book is a stunning work, many of the ideas can not be accepted on face value or deemed to be true, but then you can say that about any book of fiction or non fiction.
Excellent.......2005-09-06
This is the second in the Historical Illuminatus Trilogy, and it's as good as the first one. You will learn some history here, as well as some occult and conspiracy concepts as well. Please, though, if you read this book, please read the first in the series first. Robert Anton Wilson left us on January 11, 2007. He will be sorely missed.
Book Description
Secrets of the Widow’s Son is an unprecedented publishing event: a book about a book that has yet to be published. As the world waits breathlessly for Dan Brown to publish his sequel to The Da Vinci Code, this new book, Secrets of the Widow’s Son, prepares international audiences for what they will experience in Brown’s forthcoming book. Instead of asking what is fact and what is fiction after reading Brown’s next book (as so many readers did with The Da Vinci Code), those who read Secrets of the Widow’s Son will have the unique opportunity to explore these questions in advance.
Secrets of the Widow’s Son will lead the reader along an incredibly fascinating, thought-provoking, and ultimately shocking trail of clues, codes, and long-forgotten history, from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and the other Freemasons who were America’s Founding Fathers to an American capital city that rivals The Da Vinci Code’s Paris. The world awaits Dan Brown’s The Solomon Key. But it need not await the mysteries, adventures, themes, and characters likely to appear in that book—because now there is Secrets of the Widow’s Son.
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Second guessing Dan Brown.......2007-01-18
Excellent read even if Shugart is second guessing Dan Brown. Even if Brown deviates from the ideas expressed in Secrets of the Widow's Son, it can provide a basis for other aspiring writers.
Interesting Masonic history making one interested in knowing more, and wondering just how big a part Masons play in U.S. History.
Skip It.......2006-06-16
This is the worst book I have ever read. Shugarts claims to do excellent research, but according to my own inquiries, he knows very little about Freemasonry. The book is about as exciting as the classified section of a newspaper.
Oh no, outguessing the next super-novel.......2006-05-16
Definitely, I was lured with an arrogate title referring to the "Widow's Son", as I have been steeped into this field for years, and I expected much new enlightening. Not so. This author better stay in aviation consultation, because he fails miserably in the field of history and its mysteries. All he offers are cliches stemming from a basket full of bibliography. His writing style is so boring, you think an advocate of the Old Bailey in London wrote some preamble for grand-theft auto or in his case, grand-theft aeroplane, or grand-theft literature. What has his and his wife's family roots background to do with anything other than aiming at self-aggrandizement? Give me a break! I am of German background too! And I did publish a book called "Red Cage". He still failed the subject at hand, the Widow's Son. This book is not worth ten cents because nothing earth-shaking is being revealed that anyone cannot read in the other books of his bibliograpy, except this author's greed is revealed towards the success-story of Dan Brown, hoping to tap into some big dollars with this mediocre piece of art. I do not condone to this kind of literary failure.
not what i thought it was.......2006-02-25
this bookl is not what i thought it was going to be. it had some good info in it. I give it a good rating for the facts but the way it was compiled was sucky.
Poor excuse for a book.......2006-02-09
Having made some money on his book about Secrets of the Da Vinci Code, author David Shugarts seeks to cash in once again, only this time he has to imagine what Dan Brown is going to write rather than rely on what Brown wrote in the first place. The first few chapters of this book dwell on how clever Shugarts and his associates are. Enough said! Then he goes on to ramble about a variety of topics, strung together in no particular order, which range from the streets of Washington to the Mormons and King Solomons Temple. If you're interested in any of these subjects, they are covered far better in any variety of sources, such as The Hiram Key, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, etc.
The book is not completely worthless. It is well written, and the topics are covered adequately, if not comprehensively. The illustrations supplement the text nicely. The appendix to the book, Symbolic Systems, is a nice overview of various topics that include hieroglyphics, Kabbalah, Pythagorean theories, Almanacs and Zodiacs. If you know nothing at all about these areas, this is a good introduction, but it is very elementary.
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- Second in a gripping trilogy . . .
- Great read!
- Great Research-Well Written-Well Done!
- Historical enjoyment
- Hannah Rose
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Hannah Rose: Book Two Of Ahab's Legacy
Louise M. Gouge
Manufacturer: River Oak
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Captain Ahab is the victim of his own mad pursuit of a single whale, Moby Dick. Ahab's widow, Hannah, and son, Timothy, seek to distance themselves from his name by planning a trip to Europe. While visiting friends in Boston, Hannah discovers some prospective love interests, but she finds she first must settle some issues in her own heart. She is confronted with the issue of slavery and must decide how to respond to it. She is also challenged in the sharing of her faith, as she sees the sacrifices made by her friends in order to share the Gospel with wayward sailors. The reader will see, through Hannah's life, that God has plans for us beyond our own plans and desires. Our response to God's plan for our life is the most important decision we can make.
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Second in a gripping trilogy . . ........2006-05-12
HANNAH ROSE
In Hannah Rose, the sequel to Ahab's Bride, Louise Gouge re-creates the world of pre-Civil War Boston. Widowed Hannah Ahab, under the family name of Jacobs, seeks peace and protection for herself and her small son, Timothy, from the rumors of dead Captain Ahab's madness and evil. There she faces a choice between helping run away slaves or living a life of self-centered elegance. This choice is reflected by two men in her life. She becomes reacquainted with selfless, kind-hearted Captain Lazarus and introduced to the attentions of handsome, swashbuckling Captain Dashwood. Though Hannah Rose begins at a slightly slower pace than Ahab's Bride, it nevertheless delivers romance, intrigue and a fascinating historical picture of pre-Civil War Boston.
Great read!.......2006-02-04
HANNAH ROSE has it all--romance, drama, political issues (slavery), spiritual internal conflict, and a mother's desire to protect her child...sometimes from himself. Louise does a wonderful job of creating a time and place and transporting the reader to that setting. I LIVED the story with the characters. Great read!
Great Research-Well Written-Well Done!.......2005-09-26
In book two of Ahab's Legacy, we once again meet Hannah Rose, widow of the notorious Captain Ahab. Left with a son to raise alone, Hannah has fled Nantucket and the bittersweet memories of her marriage to Ahab, and to protect her son from the angry people whose lives were destroyed by Ahab's insane rage against a white, rogue whale.
Hiding her true identity from all but a select few, Hannah leaves her refuge at her cousin's home in Indiana to visit dear friends in Boston, after which she and Timothy fulfill her life-long dream to travel - see the world.
But things don't turn out quite the way she planned. While in Boston, Hannah finds herself involved with the mission work conducted by Jeremiah Harris, a former suitor, and his wife Kerenhappuch, both now dear friends and steadfast Christians. The work severely challenges Hannah, who finds it both rewarding and conflicting. She had long since given up on prayer. It had availed her nothing when she trusted God to take care of Ahab. Now, she trusted only herself.
As she reluctantly takes on some work that Kerenhappuch can no longer handle, Hannah comes face to face with a life she never dreamed existed. She does things she never imagined she'd be willing to do, and finds a slow-dawning gratification through her efforts. Then her oldest and dearest friend gets Hannah involved with the Abolitionists and helping escaped slaves from the pre-Civil War South.
Her life becomes even more interesting when she meets two handsome and charming men, though their life-styles and attitudes are diametrically opposed: a dashing, naval captain and slave-owner from Virginia, and the strong, steadfast captain who knows who Hannah really is.
Tensions mount as her son Timothy gets older and shows more and more that he is Ahab's son. How can she protect him from his own inherited nature and the truth about his father? More importantly, will Hannah realize God's plans for her as she sees the deep faith and sacrifice of her friends? Can she learn to trust Him again?
HANNAH ROSE is one of those books that is close to impossible to put down. Rich with the history of nineteenth century Boston, you are skillfully drawn into the era and the lives of the people that lived during that time. This is good reading, great history and excellent writing. Louise Gouge has earned all the praise I can give this book. Highly recommended.
@2005, Peggy Phifer
Historical enjoyment.......2005-09-15
Louise Gouge does an exellent job of combining history, romance and spirituality while tackling the tough issue of slavery. It is a thought provoking account of a single mom and the challenges she faces as she raises her young son, with the influences of two important men in her life, each on different sides of the issue. Louise keeps the reader wondering until the very end, if Hannah will choose one of the men, and if so, which one. She keeps you ready to get back for more.
Hannah Rose.......2005-06-06
Although my first love is contemporary fiction, it took me all of two pages to become captivated with Hannah Rose as she struggles to protect her son from a haunting past, reluctantly becomes involves with the Abolitionists to help escaped slaves, and chooses between two intriguing men who couldn't be more different. And the novel was so well crafted. Louise Gouge is a real pro. Warning: Once you pick Hannah Rose up, you won't want to put it down.
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- Secrets of the Widow's Son
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Secrets of the Widow's Son
David A Shugarts
Manufacturer: ORION PAPERBACKS
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Secrets of the Widow's Son.......2007-08-29
Have you read Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code? Were you aware there are mysteries contained in the book itself? Did you find them? Do you want to know what they are about?
If so, Secrets of the Widow's Son is one book you won't want to miss. It offers possible explanations, further references and speculations on Dan Brown's next book, as well as a combination of information and historical facts relating to The Da Vinci Code you will find fascinating.
This is also a fun-to-read reference book that brings to light some little-known or long-forgotten facts about organizations and people who influenced our Nation's past as the talented author, David A. Shugarts, traces Dan Brown research for the books he's already written and possible future tales.
A very well put together collection of facts mixed with myths, speculations, and introductions to people we may never otherwise meet. Easy to read and follow, a recommended book that will become a keeper. You'll want it on hand to see if Dan Brown's next book or the one following that is as Mr. Shugarts believes. Also, a great book to serve as a quick history and reference. Enjoy. I certainly did.
Book Description
anna, the recently widowed mother of a dynamic kinder-gartner, Pete, teaches writing workshops to older women in Ash Creek, Ohio. A month after the death of her husband, the World Trade Center is attacked. Pete's best friend, Omar, is the son of Mazur, an Indian who runs the local cleaners. In the wake of 9/11, anyone the least bit different is suspect in this small town. Hanna's neighbor, Thomas, is a cooper at the eighteenth-century colonial restora-tion outside town. Romance develops as Hanna struggles with the challenges of racism and single motherhood as this once-peaceful community comes to terms with a bewildering new century.
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Coming to Terms With Widowhood.......2003-11-15
Reading Patty Dann's latest novel Sweet & Crazy is like being invited into the author's home and sitting at her kitchen table where she shapes and narrates a beautiful sensitive story focusing on a recent widow, Hanna, her four year old precocious son, Pete, their next door neighbor, Thomas, and Pete's Asian friend Mazur and his father Omar.
The story is set in a little town, Ash Creek, Ohio, and begins just prior to the death of Hanna's husband Ed, who had suffered for some time from brain cancer.
After Ed's death, Hanna bravely tries to carry on a normal life, and her narration of her daily routines are packed with vivid images and voice that make you want to encourage her not to stop and tell all.
It is a story of coming to terms with the death of a spouse, a new beginning, and a romantic awakening brought about by a next -door neighbor.
The narrative also touches on the ugliness of racism and the painful harm it causes.
Cleverly crafted with a great deal of sensitivity and admirable fluidity, Dann divides her story into four chapters representing four months after Ed's death. However, one of these months just happens to include the tragic events of 9/11.
Unfortunately, as the author recounts, no matter where one may have lived at the time of this hideous crime, you were not immune to the suffering and pain inflicted by the perpetrators.
Hanna's neighbor Omar has lost a brother-in-law in one of the towers, and nearly his wife, who happened to be visiting her brother in New York at the time. Fortunately, she only suffered a broken leg.
When Omar thinks about the tragedy and asks Hanna "can you believe your husband is gone? Hanna replies, "sometimes not. Sometimes I can't believe any of it, but we had time to say good-bye."
What I found touching about the novel is that Hanna does not reduce her personal tragedy and that of 9/11 to simple sets of conversation. It rather provides her with solace and some meaning to her life.
In a recent interview conducted by the magazine Creative Parents Dann recounts that several editors asked her" why she didn't write about her experience with her own husband's death? Her reply was that she found it too close and she had to fictionalize it. She set the book in a small town in Ohio and even then it was hard to write. When I started writing this as non-fiction it was too painful. When it was fiction I could add humor, more irony."
I guess Dann's reply only reaffirms what many believe that to live without telling a story is to live without any coherence and momentum.
Life goes on..........2003-10-20
The emotional enormity of the events of 9/11 combined with the personal tragedy of the loss of her husband provide the backdrop against which Hanna Painter strives to maintain a seemingly normal life for her young son Pete...as well as for herself as she rediscovers her passionate side through the attention of next door neighbor, Thomas Winton. Dann deftly captures the dialogue and thinking process of young Pete, and that young child's filtering of events allowed this reader a chance to revisit and reassess thoughts and reactions to the events of September 11 and the aftermath. All in all, a satisfying afternoon of reading.
A capturing book.......2003-10-09
Reading this book helped me think of my losses through the child's eyes. The writer did an excellent job about capturing the honest sweet words of the 4years old child reacting to the loss of his father. It also captured the widow's feeling about the new challenges in her life, the loss of a loving husband, her 4 years old child and the new romance. The story is capturing, in a very sweet and crazy way
A poignant yet upbeat story of loss and renewal........2003-10-09
Patty Dann has created a delicate miniature of a book; small, yet it covers monumental events, both in the narrator's personal life as well as in the topsy turvy world around her. Hanna, grief-stricken at losing her young husband to cancer and the stark reality that she must bring up her four year old son alone, is forced with little warning, into unknown territory. Now a "window," as Pete, her zesty little son puts it, in his unerringly honest way, adjusting is often painful but also contains some sweet surprises. Hanna's gradual acceptance of her forever altered life, with the gracious help of an unusual neighbor, makes for a satisfying, sweet and slightly crazy tale. It is a highly enjoyable book.
beautiful.......2003-09-26
perfect, soft, real, gentle, very sad, very funny - beuatifully written. A+++++
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- Sacrifice and secrets
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- So smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared
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Sanctuary (Pine Street Books)
Edith Wharton
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Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any child he may conceive from inheriting their father's moral weakness. The couple does have a child, Dick, and in a marriage with a man that Kate has admittedly ceased to love, she transfers her original affections for Denis to their son.
Denis dies suddenly and Kate is left to raise their young son. Knowing that Dick could have inherited the faults of his father, Kate anticipates a time when Dick's morality will be severely tested. That time comes years later when Dick, an eligible bachelor and aspiring professional, is faced with a dilemma that will affect the course of his life.
With the precision, beauty, and sharp awareness of the cracks in upper-class New York society that made her one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton offers a subtle critique of the nature versus nurture debate that raged in the early 1900s. Sanctuary is a spare and moving investigation of the forces that impel human beings toward sin, self-doubt, and redemption.
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It was to serve, on this occasion, as the scene of a tea designed, as Kate Peyton was vividly aware, to introduce a certain young lady to the scene of her son's labours. Mrs. Peyton had been hearing a great deal lately about Clemence Verney. Dick was naturally expansive, and his close intimacy with his mother--an intimacy fostered by his father's early death--if it had suffered some natural impairment in his school and college days, had of late been revived by four years of comradeship in Paris, where Mrs. Peyton, in a tiny apartment of the Rue de Varennes, had kept house for him during his course of studies at the Beaux Arts.
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Sacrifice and secrets.......2007-06-02
Edith Wharton's writing wallows in moral struggles and societal pressures, usually about adultery and social-climbing. But she tries a different approach for the novella "Sanctuary," a story that is thought-provoking and well-written, but feels more like the outline to a full-length novel than a story in its own right.
Kate Orme is wrapped up in her idyllic engagement to Denis, when a woman claiming to be his dissolute brother's wife kills herself and her child. To Kate's shock, Denis confesses that the woman was, but to avoid having a low-class person in the family, he suppressed evidence and lied. Even worse, he feels no guilt because he considers it worth the sacrifice.
Kate breaks off the engagement, but to protect any child of Denis' from his hypocrisies, she marries him. Many years later, Denis is dead, and their young son Dick is a blossoming architect about to enter a prestigious contest. But then a friend of his dies tragically, and leaves Dick his brilliant architectural plans... to enter in the contest as his own. Now Kate must see if her careful upbringing will make Dick do the right thing, or if he will follow in his father's footsteps.
Most of Wharton's books are wrapped up in ethical dilemmas or one kind or another, but "Sanctuary" tackles a very different kind of problem. And Wharton does a good job spinning out a sense of suspense, all about a young man who could tip either way, and inspiring disgust and outrage at Denis' weak, whiny defense of his crimes.
Sadly, the second half reads like Wharton was sketching out an enlarged outline for a novel, but got bored and just published it as-is. Details are sketchy, as is the society that these people live in, and more than two decades are skipped over instantly. Little of the storyline is fleshed out except for Kate's (seemingly endless) angst, which trickles on throughout way too many of the few pages.
Kate herself isn't easy to relate to -- she marries wussy Denis for a kid that might or might not be born, and spends most of the book torturing herself over Dick's future choices. She comes across as naive at best, manic at worst. Dick himself is a far more interesting character, since he exists in the grey area that most human beings inhabit -- he's a partying, slightly slackerish guy, but essentially good at heart.
"Sanctuary" tackles the grey areas and hypocrises of many "upright" people, but the second half drizzles off into a lot of bad angst and extreme reactions. Interesting, but it feels half-written.
Are Flaws in Morality Passed From Father to Son By Nature?.......2004-10-21
In Part One, Kate Orme discovers shortly before her marriage to Denis, that her fiance has covered up the fact that his dissolute brother was secretly married to a lower class woman, and had a child with her. By this deception Denis prevents the woman from inheriting her husband's estate, and is able to hold on to his own inheritance, resulting in the suicide of the woman and child. Kate is repelled by her finance's deception, but marries Denis anyway. In Part Two of the novel, many years have passed. Denis has died at a young age, leaving Kate alone to raise their son, Dick who is now an adult. When Dick is confronted with a moral dilemma in his professional life, Kate waits to see whether the father's 'moral' flaw has been passed to her son, or if her nurture of her son has been strong enough to cure it. The novel is beautifully written and exquisitely nuanced, yet the difficulty for the modern reader is how to react to the story in our own modern age of moral equivalency. A modern reader may view Kate's extreme reaction to the moral dilemma provided to her son to be overblown.
So smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared.......2002-10-04
Edith Wharton was born in 1986 to an upper class family in New York City. She could trace her ancestry back three centuries, and was expected to live an aristocratic life. She was educated at home, and married Teddy Wharton in 1885, settling into her role as society marm. Her marriage ended with the discovery of Teddy's affair in 1913, and Edith set herself free to publish many books, of which the most well known is probably The Age Of Innocence. Edith Wharton was a contemporary of Teddy Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry James. The quality of her writing is just beginning to be appreciated.
Kate Orme is a young woman engaged to Denis Peyton. They are both aristocrats, and as such are expected to remain in rigid roles, with the man shielding the woman from all upsets. When Denis confesses to a despicable act to protect his family's name involving the death of a young, pregnant woman who was secretly married to his brother, Kate is shattered by the exposure of this act. She decides to marry Denis anyway to protect his future children, and sets out to become the perfect mother. She has a son, who she raises by herself after Denis' death, but this son seems to have inherited the faulty character gene of his father. When a situation arises to test the meddle of her son, Kate has her doubts as to her ability as a mother:
"As she sat there in the radius of lamp-light which, for so many evenings, had held Dick and herself in a charmed circle of tenderness, she saw that her love for her boy had come to be merely a kind of extended egotism. Love had narrowed instead of widening her, had rebuilt between herself and life the very walls which, years and years before, she had laid low with bleeding fingers. It was horrible... How she had come to sacrifice everything to the one passion of ambition for her boy..."
Wharton is, obviously, a first rate writer who has gone without accolades for far too long because of her gender. It is fitting that her works be rediscovered by a wider audience. Her insight into gender differences and difficulties is far ahead of her time...a time when women were relegated to narrow roles of motherhood because they were thought to be of inferior intellect. Aside from that, Wharton's writing is so smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared. A great read.
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- Excellent choice!!
- A light, high rising, amusing little English soufflé.
- A Long-forgotten Treasure Returns!
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High Rising
Angela Mackail Thirkell
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The unmarried Anne Todd, a wonderful secretary as well as a devoted bedside nurse to her decrepit mother, is an archetypal Thirkell heroine: plucky, determined, resourceful, but acutely aware that being safely married would be a better alternative. The current resurgence of interest of Thirkell, several of whose 40-odd novels of life in imaginary "Barsetshire" before World War II are being reissued, has awakened a nostalgia for the sharp glittering surfaces of her work.
High Rising is Thirkell at her warm, easygoing best.
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In
High Rising, Mrs. Morland, a widowed author, must attend to the deeper problems of country life while her son Tony drives everyone to distraction with his amazing combination of toy trains. Here Mrs. Thirkell demonstrates the characteristic style for which she is known and for which readers love her. This is fiction replete with gentle irony, grave absurdity, and urbane understatement.
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Excellent choice!!.......2005-09-25
The cozy world of England before, during, and after World War II is explored with a sure hand by Angela Thirkell.That interesting, amusing, and safe world makes the reader feel good about our turbulent world.
All's right with Thirkell's English world!!
A light, high rising, amusing little English soufflé........2004-07-03
It is good to see Angela Thirkell's light novels once more receiving attention, especially in the USA. "High Rising" is one of her first novels, dating from 1933. There were many English novelists in the 1930s who mined the traditionally English vein of gentle parody, graceful writing, mild absurdity, and class distinction. Much handsomer than most of them, and exhibiting the influence of Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope, Angela Thirkell peopled her novels with descendants of characters found in the latter's Barsetshire novels.
If that gives an idea of the flavor and style that might be enjoyed in her books, I can add that this one chronicles the dizzy doings of Laura Morland, a novelists, who juggles the demands of four sons, her publisher, her secretary, her formidable maid Stoker, and a friend George Knox whom most think should be more than a friend to her. The custom of "coming to tea" sets them all interacting. Watch for the number of verbs Angela Thirkell can employ - from plunge, to insinuate - to describe how characters can enter a room.
A Long-forgotten Treasure Returns!.......2002-07-27
The divine Angela Thirkell, to my mind a latter-day Jane Austen, wrote her simply wonderful novels about upper-class village life in pre-war England, in a series of 40 or so novels that are simply irresistable. Her plots captured a time, a mind-set, and a way of life that is long gone, and in fact, her later novels, set just after the war, already reflected a desperate nostalgia for a never-to-return past.
Never mind, though, because "High Rising," one of the earliest of Thirkell's series, is a delight you won't soon forget. The plot centers, as always, on a blithering author whose high-piled hair is continually in disarray, often spewing hairpins at the most inappropriate of times. A widow, she has raised several strapping sons, and is now engaged in trying to educate her youngest, the irrepressible and impossibly boring 8-year-old, Tony. To do so, she must churn out novels, and to that end, she employs a secretary named Anne Todd. And so the plot begins.
Anne is a selfless creature who uncomplainingly cares for her ailing elderly mother, a task that is draining her almost to illness. But plucky pre-war Britishers of a certain class never complained, and neither does Anne. The plot thickens when a truly horrid gold-digger appears to become secretary to another author, and proceeds to wreak terrible havoc on this close-knit society. She is truly an "incubus," which becomes her secret nickname.
So. What will become of the incubus? Will she succeed in her nefarious plot to marry wealthy Geoffrey, a scholarly author who doesn't have a clue? If so, what of Geoffrey's teenaged daughter? Who will mind the dogs? Will High Rising (Tony's prep school) survive yet another class of noxious boys? Will the good village doctor, besotted by Anne, be successful in his gentlemanly courtship?
And most of all...can anyone resist this book??
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- SAD BUT VERY GOOD!
- Fast paced, touching...
- my favorite books
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The House on Hope Street (Random House Large Print)
Danielle Steel
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Release Date: 2000-06-27 |
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Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In 18 years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly, Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable loss.
How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend? How can she grieve when she must console five devastated children, including one with special needs of his own? Powered by her children's love, Liz finds the strength to return to work, to become both mother and 'daddy', coaching her youngest son for the Special Olympics. And one by one the holidays come and go before her eyes: Valentine's Day without flowers and without Jack...Easter...July 4th...Then, just weeks before Labor Day, a devastating accident sends her oldest son to the hospital-and brings a doctor named Bill Webster into her life. Bill becomes a friend to Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son.
And as long as the days of summer blend into fall, a new relationship offers new hope, and Liz reflects on what she has, on what she's lost, on the little blessings that give strength when nothing else is left. Then, with the first anniversary of her husband's death approaching, and with it another Christmas in the house on Hope Street, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change-and ahead to the beginning of a new life.
THE HOUSE ON HOPE STREET is about learning to live again after you think life is over, about gettting up when you have been knocked down, again and again. It is about cherishing small miracles, and believing in big ones. It is above all about hope.
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Adam 12 - DVD.......2006-03-09
Very enjoyable to watch TV from that era - no cell phones, vintage cars. The DVD is very good in terms of color, quality of sound, etc. However, I did encounter freezing at the beginning of an episode. Otherwise, I recommend this product.
SAD BUT VERY GOOD!.......2006-02-13
I found this story sad but very good with nice ending. She suffers alot but I really enjoyed the ending.
Fast paced, touching..........2005-11-23
Danielle Steele is a writer who wields the written word like an artist... using story lines that attract you by their sheer difference from what people experience in their own "tame" lives. Widowhood, single parenting, trauma, and grudging admiration make this story compelling...a tear jerker.... I would recommend it to anyone who appreciates the talent of a successful story teller.
my favorite books.......2005-08-13
I like Danielle Steel and I'm happy becouse I don't need to go to the store to see what's new...I have a good friend "amazon.com".I'm very satisfied about all items I received.Whenever I need something," I look for my friend....I trust amazon.com and I'm very sorry I don't know much more English words to show you how well we get along each other...It's easy,fast,safe and be sure you'll never send back items received becouse they come faster than you believe and the best shape you've ever seen.Just go to amazon.com and you'll see!Dorina(I apologise for my mistakes that more than likely I made!)
Sorta Boring.......2005-07-24
This being the first book I read by Danielle Steel I expected more than what I got since I love the moive verisons of her book. The start gives it hope but near the end you can sense the direction that the book is taking and I like alittle unpredicatable stuff.
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- A Beautiful Touching Story of a Mother's Love!
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- Disappointed
- Parting Gifts: the gift of a moving book
- Everyone's a critic
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Parting Gifts
Charlotte Vale Allen
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New York Times bestselling author Charlotte Vale Allen's 35th novel, Parting Gifts, introduces Kyra Latimer, who was reared in a Barrymore-esque family feeling like she never quite fit in with the rest of her beautiful, talented relatives. Devastated when her beloved older husband is killed in a tragic accident, Kyra can barely function, though her eccentric family does their best to help her cope. But Kyra quickly snaps back to reality when salvation arrives in the form of a dirty, bruised little scrap of humanity: a 3-year-old boy named Jesse. Literally dumped on her doorstep by his hard-eyed young mother, who claims to be the daughter Kyra gave up for adoption as a teenager--an interesting proposition, as Kyra is unable to have children--Jesse has seen and experienced too much ugliness in his young life and keeps warily silent. Given the choice of taking the tiny stranger into her home and heart or letting his mother place Jesse in foster care so she can move away with her boyfriend, Kyra begins negotiating the rough waters of teaching a child to trust again.
Thrown together by chance, this unlikely duo muddles along as well as it can. Kyra and Jesse simultaneously grieve their losses and learn to love the new opportunities they've been afforded just by being together. Along the way, the boy, who has no reason to trust others, especially a mother, grows into an exceptionally loving and talented young man. And Kyra, who once lamented her inability to conceive, devotes herself to nurturing and loving Jesse, thereby learning to nurture and love herself as well. As Kyra learns how to become a mother, Jesse learns to let her try--and sometimes fail--to parent him. But the biggest challenge of all lies ahead for Kyra and Jesse. Can a mother who loves her young son respect his life-or-death choice?
Canadian-born author Charlotte Vale Allen has never shied away from exploring less-than-admirable human behaviors, including incest and sexual abuse. In Parting Gifts, she turns her discerning eye to physical and emotional abuse, blended families, and the unique problems of foster care and adoption. Allen captures the day-to-day struggle of all women, making their problems and issues real and making readers care what happens to Jesse and Kyra. A captivating and touching read. --Alison Trinkle
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When Kyra Latimer loses her husband to a freak accident in Manhattan, she can't absorb the fact of his absence and can't imagine how she'll be able to move into the future without him. But on the day of his funeral, the unimaginable happens. A young woman, with a small boy in tow, shows up at Kyra's home, claiming to be the child Kyra surrendered for adoption some twenty-odd years before. Refusing to accept the truth -- that she cannot possibly be Kyra's child -- Jennifer Cullen insists on leaving her three-year-old son, Jesse, with his "grandmother." If Kyra won't take the boy, Jennifer is going to turn him over to Children's Aid. Touched by the boy's visible neglect, and as deaf to reason in her own way as Jennifer is in hers, Kyra agrees to keep Jesse. After hastily drawn-up legal documents are signed by both parties, Jennifer goes hurrying off, and Kyra takes on a new role -- as mother. As it turns out, Jesse is no ordinary child, and Kyra is no ordinary mother. In the course of their life together in London, surrounded by the illustrious and eccentric members of Kyra's renowned British theatrical family, Kyra and Jesse flourish and founder in unanticipated ways. Until, finally, Kyra is forced to confront an impossible choice: whether or not to honor the life-or-death decision of her adopted son.
Original and heart wrenching, Parting Gifts deals with a remarkable boy and the woman who, in time, discovers not only the truth behind how he came to be in her life, but also a very special talent for parenting.
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A Beautiful Touching Story of a Mother's Love!.......2003-06-02
Kyra Latimer lost her husband to a freak accident in Manhattan. She is in deep shock and cannot imagine how she will ever cope without the husband she loved so much. Now their plans for adopting a child would be gone forever. Until one day.
A young woman appears out of the blue with a small boy in town. She says that she was the child Kyra gave up years ago, and that she is Jesse's grandmother. Kyra knows this isn't true at all, yet seeing the obvious neglect of the boy pulled at her heartstrings. Kyra agrees to keep Jesse then-and takes on an instant role as his mother.
Jesse is no ordinary child as it turns out though, and Kyra no ordinary mom. Jesse becomes ill later on with the worst possible challenge-kidney failure. It is then that Kyra is forced to confront an impossible choice, and that is whether to honor her son's decision on not receiving medical treatment to save his life.
A VERY absorbing book. I enjoyed every moment of reading it.
Mixed view.......2002-11-25
This is the first book by this author that I've read. I have mixed feelings about it. It took place in London, my favorite city, but I had a couple of problems with the plot.
It seems unbelievable that Kyra never told her twin brother, Kyle, the circumstances of Jesse's adoption at the time it happened.
Mentions of Kyra's weight became boring. I don't think it needed to be brought up as often as it was.
The ending was a surprise and completely unexpected. I re-read the last few chapters this morning just to be sure I got it right. I think I'll give it some time and read again.
Disappointed.......2002-03-27
This was my 8th and last Charlotte Vale Allen book. My sister is a devoted fan of Ms. Vale Allen's works, and I've tried to share her love of Ms. Allen's plotting and characterazations. However, Ms. Vale Allen's improbable views towards parenting and the role that parents play in the lives of their children, leave much to be desired.
Yes, there are flawed parents out there, and children who are far wiser than their family units. I'm all for realism in literature, but in eight novels, read at random, all with the protagonist being a potential victim of at the hands of a "stupid" mother and a "brilliant but psychotic" father; I'd have to say enough already!
Parting Gifts: the gift of a moving book.......2002-02-15
Charlotte Vale Allen engages the reader of Parting Gifts with a moving tale of the profits and losses of love. A family drama set mostly in late twentieth century London, Parting Gifts involves a theatrical extended family. Kyra, a large woman with a heart to match, first loses her pilot husband of 10 years in a hit-and-run accident outside their New York apartment. While she is mourning his loss, a young woman arrives on her doorstep with her "grandchild". Unable to have children, but anxious to build a family, Kyra adopts Jesse. Her three-year old son is temporarily mute, the victim of abuse and neglect. Kyra and Jesse move to London to welcome the support of her actress mother; director father; and twin actor brother. Kyra's costume design career flourishes as her son blossoms as a budding writer--published at age twelve. Allen involves the reader with the conflicts of a loving family and avoids the standard platitudes of love lost, while dealing with issues of abuse, death and serious illness. One hopes that this novel is not Allen's Parting Gifts for readers eager for more well-written tomes.
Everyone's a critic.......2002-02-09
It fascinated me to see the negative reviews that complain angrily about the ending of this book. What seems obvious from these angry negatives is that these amateur reviewers are people who would insist on making their children's decisions, without regard for the wishes of the children. What is distinctive, always, about Allen's writing is that she's prepared to take risks that other, more commercial writers, would never dream of trying. She invariably has her characters behave in ways that are faithful to the narrative she has structured. Parting Gifts is a grown-up book that deals with grown-up issues: of the lasting effects of child abuse (which, as a former victim, she knows all too well), of the fears and concerns common to so many women, and, always, of the conflicts between mothers and daughters as well as the tangled ties that bind them together. This is a richly rewarding book, heartfelt and affecting, and well worth reading.
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- Kept me guessing!
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Not Guilty
Patricia MacDonald
Manufacturer: Atria
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When Keely Bennett's world is shattered by the suicide of her beloved husband, Richard, she and her nine-year-old son Dylan have to start over. Her late husband's childhood friend, Mark Weaver, helps Keely settle Richard's affairs and sweeps her into a whirlwind romance -- and eventually a comfortable suburban lifestyle that includes marriage and a beautiful baby girl.
The darkness that clouded Keely's past has all but vanished. Yet Dylan, now a teenager, remains distant, brooding and resentful of his stepfather and baby sister, Abby. Then history repeats itself, and her life is once again thrown into chaos. But Keely's nightmare is just beginning?for the authorities are looking for a murderer, and they already have a prime suspect: Dylan.
Refusing to believe her son is a killer, Keely vows to clear his name. But the prosecutor has a personal stake in seeing Dylan convicted -- and her pleas for help from the police fall on deaf ears. To save her son, Keely must rely on herself. But she is far from alone; someone is watching her every move. When her investigation threatens to uncover a conspiracy of secrets and corruption, she is suddenly plunged into the path of danger -- and into the sights of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to ensure the truth stays buried forever....
Seamlessly weaving a psychological portrait of the bond between a mother and son with the breathless intrigue of a murder mystery, Not Guilty is a novel that finds Patricia MacDonald at the height of her celebrated powers.
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"When Keely Bennett's world is shattered by the suicide of her beloved husband, Richard, she and her nine-year-old son Dylan have to start over. Her late husband's childhood friend, Mark Weaver, helps Keely settle Richard's affairs and sweeps her into a whirlwind romance -- and eventually a comfortable suburban lifestyle that includes marriage and a beautiful baby girl. The darkness that clouded Keely's past has all but vanished. Yet Dylan, now a teenager, remains distant, brooding and resentful of his stepfather and baby sister, Abby. Then history repeats itself, and her life is once again thrown into chaos. But Keely's nightmare is just beginning... for the authorities are looking for a murderer, and they already have a prime suspect: Dylan. Refusing to believe her son is a killer, Keely vows to clear his name. But the prosecutor has a personal stake in seeing Dylan convicted -- and her pleas for help from the police fall on deaf ears. To save her son, Keely must rely on herself. But she is far from alone; someone is watching her every move. When her investigation threatens to uncover a conspiracy of secrets and corruption, she is suddenly plunged into the path of danger -- and into the sights of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to ensure the truth stays buried forever.... Seamlessly weaving a psychological portrait of the bond between a mother and son with the breathless intrigue of a murder mystery, Not Guilty is a novel that finds Patricia MacDonald at the height of her celebrated powers.
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Kept me guessing!.......2006-03-13
I have only discovered Patricia MacDonald not to long ago and have been devouring anything I can read by her. Not Guilty was a
great story about Keely Bennett who has a 9 yr. old son and a husband who suffered from terrible migraines. She comes home one day to find her husband dead, a sucide and finds her 9 yr old son Dylan in the closet after discovering his father. In comes Mark who says he is Ricards childhood friend and is a lawyer and offers to help Keely get Richards insurance and such in order. They fall in love and marry and have a child...but then tragedy strikes again when her second husband is also found dead. The DA who previously was engaged to marry Keely's second husband is out for revenge and tries to pin it on Dylan, Keely's brooding teenage son. Its a wild ride and keeps you on your toes. I enjoyed this book very much and read it in a day!
I hope Patricia MacDonaly keeps them coming.... still a few I haven't read yet and today will run out and get them!
Great Novel.......2005-07-16
The first book that I ever read by Patricia Macdonald was Lost Innocents. Since then I have been reading all of her books. Not Guilty is just another one of her great novels. It is full of suspense and drama. Macdonald writes about her characters in a way that make you feel for them and what they're going through.
Awesome suspense thriller that kept my attention...........2004-04-26
I have read some of Patricia MacDonald's books previously and have always found them to be well written, with unexpected twists and turns. Ms. MacDonald writes in the same genre as Mary Higgins Clark - the everyday world surrounding an attractive and sympathetic heroine becomes a place of horror. This tale, which involves both a woman's relationship with her troubled son and her loss of two husbands who were also childhood friends under suspicious circumstances(one to suicide, one to an "accidental" drowning) is loaded with well drawn characters and that "turn of the screw" type of suspense that makes you keep reading. Yes, some will say it's predictable - but that's the beauty of it - you start one of Ms. MacDonald's books and you do know exactly what you're going to get. And, in today's crazy world, that's a wonderful thing. I highly recommend "Not Guilty" to those of us who love women in jeopardy novels and Lifetime Movie Network movies and aren't ashamed to admit it. I loved this book and now want to read all of this author's books!
Good...But Not Great.......2004-01-24
I think that this book is worth reading, but it's not an edge of your seat page turner like some other thrillers. The plot is interesting (if not a wee bit far fetched) and will keep your attention. It just doesn't get thrilling and scary and make you anxious like some other books I've read.
It is the story of Keely Bennett. Her first husband committed suicide and her son found him. While dealing with this tragedy, Mark Weaver swoops in as an old friend of Richard's who has to come to help Keely with the legal aspects of his death. He falls in love, they get married and have a baby together. Too good to be true? Yes! Mark is found dead...presumable an accident in their pool. Until a woman scorned, the District Attorney, tries to pin it all on Keely's son. The story from there is about Keely trying to protect her son...and what they find out about Mark's death. It unravels at a quick pace and doesn't leave you wondering for too long.
It's a good book...but not too "thrilling."
Readable book....but not a thriller.......2003-06-28
I kept turning the pages and thought this was a fast paced read but not extraordinary. The plot is decent but there were still questions left unanswered for me.
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