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The shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia.
Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families–Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret–and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Margaret was seventeen when her father was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. Heartbroken and afraid, she and her mother were left to withstand the hardships of life under the oppressive Soviet state, an existence marked by poverty, starvation, and fear. Refusing to comply with the Socialist agenda, Margaret was ultimately sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Stalin’s Gulag.
Filth, malnutrition, and despair accompanied merciless physical labor. Yet in the midst of inhumane conditions came glimpses of hope and love as Margaret came to realize her dependence upon “the grace, favor, and protection of an unseen God.”
In all, it would be thirty long years before Margaret returned to kiss the ground of home. Of all the Americans who made this virtually unknown journey–ultimately spending years in Siberian death camps–Margaret Werner was the only woman who lived to tell about it.
Written by her son, Karl Tobien, Dancing Under the Red Star is Margaret’s unforgettable true story: an inspiring chronicle of faith, defiance, and personal triumph
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Dancing Under the Red Star.......2007-10-11
Amazing, sad, eye-opening story that should be a required reading in our public schools. Everyone should be exposed to the realities of what can happen when the world tuns a blind eye to evil.
Interesting and informative!.......2007-01-17
I learned a lot about the Russian political system from reading this book. The author did a very good job telling his mother's story. This is a good book to pass on to others.
Great read, an emotional tale, not really for history buffs........2006-09-10
This was an excellent book for those wishing to learn the basics of survival in Stalin's Gulag system. It is an account of the life of Ms. Werner and her relationships with her friends, family and fellow camp members, guards, etc. What it is not is a history of Ford's work in the USSR. Those hoping to learn the details of the Gorky plant and Ford's involvement with it, as I was, will find virtually no detail of this in the book. The writting is basic and reads like a well written high school essay. There is a clear born-again tone the the post by the author, but it does not detract from the overall experience, even for an athiest. All said it is an excellent addition to the library of those studying the era.
NOTE: I read the ARC, not the final published copy.
Should Be a Best Seller.......2006-08-27
Shocking little-known story about Detroit's General Motors making a deal with Soviet Union's paranoid dictator Stalin (1879-1953) to ship over American auto experts after WW2 to help Stalin establish one of his failed ideas: a Russian automobile plant. Signing up for what they deem an adventure, is an idealistic man from Detroit and his wife & teenage daughter.
Shortly thereafter the Detroit family, and other American families, as well, are branded - without evidence - traitors, and sent to Stalin's Death Camps - the Gulag - as was Solzhenitsyn. This is one of those true stories that is more horrifying than fiction.
In Stalin's frightening, paranoid society, friend betrays friend to stay alive. The reader is given a close-up glimpse of Stalin's reign of terror, under which he implemented poorly-thought-out ideas that resulted in millions of deaths, such as collectivization of farms, that resulted in loss of crop production and famines where millions died of starvation. Under Stalin, a staggering 26 million individuals lost their lives.
Remarkably, the mother and daughter, sent to bone-chilling Siberia, survive every hardship imaginable. Poignant scenes include meeting the wife of composer Sergei Prokofiev (she was also denounced as a traitor, a bitterly unhappy woman) - and the reunion of the heroine and her mother after a separation of months in, of all places, a smelly latrine. A small miracle is that the heroine gave birth successfully to a son, who was kept alive in Siberia.
The heroine's story is told by this same son, after his mother's death by natural causes in America at age 75. He candidly admits that he had once been a bitter man, but that telling his mother's story has changed him. When his mother finally arrived back on her native soil three decades after her imprisonment, she kissed the ground of America, after glimpsing the Statue of Liberty upon her return. This thrilling page-turner is recommended for anyone from high school on up.
Excellent Story!.......2006-07-20
I found the previous review quite interesting as Dancing Under the Red Star was never called a memoir. To quote the cover, it is "The extraordinary STORY of Margaret Werner, the only American woman to survive Stalin's Gulag." The author's choice to write in first person made his mother's story very real to the reader.
I also found it interesting that the last reviewer was disappointed claiming that the author's only purpose was to "proselytize his faith." Obviously the point of the story was missed. It was Margaret Werner and her mother Elizabeth's faith that enabled them to endure the horrendous ordeal. Repeatedly the hand of God moved in their lives in miraculous ways. Margaret's son is recounting his family history, where God played a substantial role in their survival.
Excellent book revealing the darker side of the Stalin regime.
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Surely, you don't think I'm holding out because I enjoy it?" I managed to gasp, for at the moment Pie-Face Jones was forcing his foot into my back in order to cinch me tighter while I was trying with my muscles to steal slack. "There is nothing to confess. Why, I'd cut off my right hand right now to be able to lead you to any dynamite.
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Surely, you don't think I'm holding out because I enjoy it? I managed to gasp, for at the moment Pie-Face Jones was forcing his foot into my back in order to cinch me tighter while I was trying with my muscles to steal slack. "There is nothing to confess. Why, I'd cut off my right hand right now to be able to lead you to any dynamite."
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Good content, poor binding.......2007-03-26
Although barely known, this novel is one of the greatest works of Jack London; the reader will certainly feel trapped by the deep voice of a narrator who reveals the mysteries of other lifes, and life and death themselves, without leaving the four walls of an early 19th century prison. The problem is not the book but the binding which is too tight and makes it very difficult to flip the pages comfortably in order to enjoy the journey.
Astral Projection/Blessed Retribution.......2007-02-22
The very best of Jack London. Read beginning of the book, then the end. Go back, and, read, all the way through.
Star Rover - Amazing.......2006-10-01
This is truly an amazing piece of writing. Truly a must read for anyone who enjoys good books, it contains not only a rich variety of tales but a perspective on the human condition which reveals the similarities in all generations. Without a doubt buy this, read it, and treasure it.
The Star Rover.......2006-05-10
The Star Rover is unknown compared to Londons other works but this is an amazing book. A straight jacketed prisoner is brutalized and basicly left in the dark in solitary confinement, wills himself to learn astral projection, and relives past lives from previous incarnations. Very unique book that is unlike anything else Jack London wrote. Although the theme of struggle, defiance, strength of spirit and willpower are one of the main themes in The Star Rover as in most of Londons other work, but even that aspect is different in the sense that the main character achieves his victory by giving up and willing himself to leave this existence. You will find no bigger lover of Jack London than me but even though this is very different than anything else he has written I hold it in just as high regard and consider it a classic. Besides recomending this to fans of Londons work I would recomend this to someone into science fiction, or anybody interested in astral projection, meditation or shamanism.
Well done.......2005-03-08
As usual, another eloquently written novel from London. If you are a London fan, such as myself, you will find this book to be no less than what you've come to expect from his writings. However, if you are just beginning to delve into the world of London or are simply looking for something that is a little more "off the beaten path" than you are accustomed to then this is an excellent book.
It is a somewhat atypical work of London in that instead of man's struggle against someone or something, it is about a man who learns how to let go of himself and to allow himself to travel through space and time back to previous lives.
Whoever reads this novel should, at the least, find it intresting.
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History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book is well-illustrated, contains over 446 graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays, which never cease to amaze the reader. Eminent mathematician proves that: Jesus Christ was born in 1153 and crucified in 1186 The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events. Apocalypse was written after 1486. Does this sound uncanny? This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic - validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources - to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before. The dominating historical discourse in its current state was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities. Nearly all of its components are blatantly untrue! For some of us, it shall possibly be quite disturbing to see the magnificent edifice of classical history to turn into an ominous simulacrum brooding over the snake pit of mediaeval politics. Twice so, in fact: the first seeing the legendary millenarian dust on the ancient marble turn into a mere layer of dirt - one that meticulous unprejudiced research can eventually remove. The second, and greater, attack of unease comes with the awareness of just how many areas of human knowledge still trust the three elephants of the consensual chronology to support them. Nothing can remedy that except for an individual chronological revolution happening in the minds of a large enough number of people.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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- Touching and True
- Sister searches for brother
- A family's quest to ascertain the status of a WWII POW
- Riverting and sentimental
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Searching For Friday\'s Child
Marjorie Irish Randell
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Searching for Friday's Child is the story of one young man and the closeness he shared with his family...a closeness which held them all together throughout the harrowing days of World War II in spite of their separation by many geographical miles.
Howard Irish, graduated less than a year from Michigan State College is called to active duty with the Coast Artillery branch of the Army in May of 1941. In August he is sent to the Philippine Islands in the Pacific to what seems at the time to be a country club assignment. Corregidor Island, lush and tropical, is filled with enviable recreational pursuits, friends, servants. Life takes on a relaxed easy air. Howard notes, however, that the West Point graduates who are his superior officers are much more sharp than any he has served under heretofore. Undercurrents of impending war causes him to naively think..."we sorta wish that if a war is going to start it would hurry up because it wouldn't take long." Howard enjoys many aspects of the Philippines but he misses his family and the girl he left behind who had so desperately wanted to marry him before he left.
Howard writes long detailed letters home to his family and girlfriend. His mother saved all of his letters. After December 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and portions of the Philippine Islands she had no information at all as to what had happened to her son. She wrote tirelessly to anyone who might know him or know someone who might possibly have come in contact with him. More than fifty years later Howard's sister opens the letters, telegrams and clippings her mother saved and finds herself compelled to continue her mother's pursuit for information.
Searching for Friday's Child chronicles Howard's story in unexpected and rewarding ways. A story to touch your heart and remember.
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Touching and True.......2007-02-10
Howard "Jack" Irish was born to Michigan farm life. His family was close, his friends were true. He was a 4H lad, strong and faithful. He went to college, joined the ROTC and was drafted after he graduated in May of 1941. He was commissioned a lieutenant after training and sent to the Philippines. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December and all of a sudden Jack's sweet duty in the tropics evaporated like steam on hot pavement.
Jack saw action on Corrigador before he was captured by the Japanese. He endured life as a POW as well as anybody could, but sadly he lost his life in September of 1944, while being transported along with 749 other prisoners of war on the Japanese freighter Shinyo Maru. The Shinyo Maru was torpedoed by the USS Paddle. The sub's commander had no way of knowing the POWs were on board.
It all happened so long ago, but Marjorie makes it seem like only yesterday, so timeless is her writing. Jack was her brother and she lovingly tells this story through the numerous letters written by Jack to his family and friends before the war, the all to brief correspondence between Jack and his family after his family discovers he has been taken prisoner and the volume of letters between Jack's mother and different officials as she relentlessly sought to find out what happened to her son.
This book is so well crafted that at times it seemed as if I was reading a novel as I read the night away. I should have read the book long ago and I'm ashamed to say that that I did not, for you see, Marjorie's Uncle Ray was my grandfather. So many of the characters in her book have passed away, as has my father, Jack's cousin, who fortunately survived the war. Soon all the people from that time will have passed this mortal coil, but thanks to people like Marjorie Randall, who can tell a story without making it seem like dry history, there will be those of us left behind who remember.
Sister searches for brother.......2003-06-08
I just finished reading Searching for Friday's Child for the second time. Each time I couldn't put it down until I finished.
Searching for Friday's Child is more than a portrait of an intelligent sensitive young man, it is a book about warm human relationships. Although Jack, a prisoner of war being transported from one Philippine Island to another or perhaps to Japan by the Japanese aboard the Shinyu Maru, died in his early twenties (a result of the torpedoing of the Shinyu Maru by an American submarine toward the end of Second World War), he lives in this book! It is clear from his letters to his family, his girlfriend and to his friends that we all lost a person who had much to offer to those he loved and cared about and to society.
Jack's words, through his letters, show us that he had a gift for writing and storytelling, as does the author, his younger sister. Searching for Friday's Child tells us of the author's emotional journey to find her brother, to discover things about him she hadn't known before, on an intimate level that I haven't found in any other memoir, autobiography or biography about the courageous soldiers of World War II. I highly recommend this book.
Nancy Sampson, Woodbridge, VA
A family's quest to ascertain the status of a WWII POW.......2003-03-29
I read this book in the past few days, only days after the beginning of America's 3/03 war with Iraq, which may be a partial explanation of why I found "Searching for Friday's Child" such a compelling read.
The book begins with the author's recollection of growing up on a Michigan farm, with her parents, and her brother, "Jack", four years her senior. We are then provided with copies of her brother's letters to home, and to his girlfriend, while he attends Michigan State College, when he is called into the Army Air Corps, from bootcamp, then when he is sent to the Philippines only months prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and Japan's simultaneous attack on the Philippines.
As of 12/7/41, the letters from Jack stop, and we are treated with reply letters to Jack's family from U.S. military, the Red Cross, etc., as the family is desparately trying to find out what's happened to Jack, with the advent of the US/Japanese war. Subsequently, the family learns Jack is a POW in the Philippines, but they cannot find out how he is, whether he is alive, healthy, or been a victim of the myriad of attrocities committed by the Japanese solders in the Philippines upon our servicemen, as well as the Filipinos.
Jack's family is advised of the POW camp within which Jack is held, and advised they should continue to write Jack as he may receive their letters. They do continue to write, but have no way of ascertaining if Jack is receiving any of their letters. After several months, they receive the first of about four "postcards" from Jack, from the POW camp, but these tell little of Jack, as little can be said due to censorship by his captors.
Ultimately, the family is informed that Jack was aboard a Japanese ship, one of 750 POWs being transported in September 1944 by the Japanese to another island, or perhaps Japan, that on September 7, 1944, that ship is torpedoed by the US during which 83 POW's swim to shore and are rescued by Filipinos, and ultimately returned to the US. Unfortunately, Jack was not one of the lucky ones. Thereafter, he is listed as Missing In Action(MIA), and again the family has no way of knowing if Jack is alive or dead, whether he drowned, was shot by the Japanese, who were murdering all visible POWs after the torpedo struck, or whether he somehow survived.
We are then treated to many letters from several surviving POWs, some who knew Jack, were his friends at the POW camp.
This is a wonderful historical account of a family's desparate, yet compassionate, attempts to try to find out about Jack's well-being, his life during those years, anything to fill the gaps. It begins primarily with the efforts of Jack's mother, but is continued with those of the author, his younger sister, efforts which continued all the way up the late 1990's, over fifty years after WWII.
We are treated to the insights of several POW's, their own accounts of life in a Japanese POW camp, their accounts of life with Jack, Jack's excellent accomplishments in the Army Air Corps, his unique skills with operating anti-aircraft artillery, his command's success is shooting down 15 Japanese aircraft, which as I recall, was a record during the war.
By the time one completes Searching for Friday's Child, one feels one knows Jack Irish, his mother, father, and certainly his sister, the author, she who joined the U.S. Marines Reserves during WWII. One is certainly treated to a wonderful account of a close-knit family's quest during unimaginable times of the tragedies of war.
This is a wonderful read. I highly recommend it.
Regards,
Frank Rankin
Sacramento, CA
Riverting and sentimental.......2003-01-12
Marjorie Randell's recollection of her life growing up in a close-knit family on a Michigan farm, and her subsequent heartbreak of losing her brother and the search for meaning in his death is both sentimental and memorable. She captures the innocence of the mid-West that was torn apart as her brother, and other small town boys, were thrust into the horrors of war. The story shifts with her brothers letters - both from his service days, and then more harrowing,when he was a POW. Through his letters, we see a boy turn into a man, and at age 23, we see how his death aboard a Japanese war ship at the hands of American bombers brought agony and questions to a family back home. Sweet recollections of an innocent time lost, and the loyalty of a sister that looks for answers, even 60 years later.
Riverting and sentimental.......2003-01-12
Marjorie Randell's recollection of her life growing up in a close-knit family on a Michigan farm, and her subsequent heartbreak of losing her brother and the search for meaning in his death is both sentimental and memorable. She captures the innocence of the mid-West that was torn apart as her brother, and other small town boys, were thrust into the horrors of war. The story shifts with her brothers letters - both from his service days, and then more harrowing,when he was a POW. Through his letters, we see a boy turn into a man, and at age 23, we see how his death aboard a Japanese war ship at the hands of American bombers brought agony and questions to a family back home. Sweet recollections of an innocent time lost, and the loyalty of a sister that looks for answers, even 60 years later.
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Characters to care about!.......2007-08-13
I found Sanchona's first book "A Family Of Strangers" to be an engrossing and enthralling read...I found myself caring deeply about the characters and their travails to the point that I wondered still about those characters who left the story. Kate is but a teenager when she is falsely accused by a British Nobleman who has her shipped off to a penal colony in Austrailia...how she wends her way and carves a life for herself and those for whom she cares proved to be a story that left me hoping that Sanchona will quickly supply us with another fine tale and another, and another....
A Gripping Historical Piece!!.......2007-07-06
Sanchona has done it!!!
This historical novel follows young Kate from a prison cell in England, to an uncompromising ending.
I cringed in horror at the brutality she suffered and i cheered her triumphs. I also now wonder what kangaroo meat tasted like. ;-)
This novel reads quickly, is intertwined with full and interesting characters, and opened up a whole period in time I had only vaguely heard of.
I am anxiously waiting for more of Sanchona's work!
A Heart Filling Historical Tale of one Girls Life... .......2007-04-04
After finally receiving my first copy of "A Family of Strangers" I could not put it down. For such a young woman going through what she had to survive was terrifying and exciting. Page after page as the ships swam out to sea so did my own mind.
This book takes you to places you could never dream about or even would like too. You will go through many emotions at once feeling ever moment out that our dear main character Kate O'Neal, goes through.
I can say that Ms. Sanchona has out done her self in this very book. Feeling the environment as if you were almost their. Sometimes not knowing or knowing what's there but unable to stop the scenes that are written out already.
If you do truely love to read historian novels I highly suggest this wonderful novel. Filled with compassion, horror, love, survival, and one girls life in Australia set around 1793. The Family of Strangers.
A Delightful Debut Story.......2007-03-25
Sanchona's debut novel is a wonderful "sneaker," meaning it is like a secret that is both entertaining and one to be cherished by all ages. Kate O'Neal, because she is a moral young woman with survival instincts is subjected to a life as an outcast, a convict; as the pages turn, we see Kate's life, thanks to Sanchona's clever writing, proceed in rapid order; a chronology of events depicting Kate's growth that will charm the reader. It is this quality of Sanchona's writing that also will capture and transport the reader into the 1793-1802 period. This delightful story is a gift for the reader. Thank you, Sanchona.
Exciting and Engrossing Debut Novel.......2007-03-16
Family of Strangers, the debut novel by Sanchona, has it all: lust, love, despair, hope, injustice, justice, hardship, and ease. Kate O'Neal, an innocent girl, matures into a woman through a series of incredible hardships. Only her determination to survive allows her to endure life as a convict shipped to the penal colonies of Australia.
Reduced to being a sex slave, she begs to be sent to a remote farm when her abusive owner nearly kills her. He agrees only because he thinks she is dying and doesn't want to be bothered with a body to dispose of. But instead of dying, Kate forms her new family with the convicts assigned to the farm and regains her strength.
Her second owner chooses to not abuse Kate physically, but eventually leaves her an emotional wreck.
Sanchona expertly pulls together all the elements of Kate's story with intriguing secondary characters, continuous action, and vivid descriptions, all the while maintaining historical accuracy.
Family of Strangers is a "must-read" for fans of historical fiction.
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This is an Audio CD of The All Star Western Theater, an oldtime radio show from the 1940's. If you love a good western (with musical highlights), you'll love these. Here are the exciting episodes on this disc:
Cupid's Agent
The Banker's Prisoner
This listing is in compliance with existing copyright laws and Amazon's policies. These are public domain oldtime radio shows legally produced by Radio Revival.
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Bite the Stars: A Novel
Eliza Clark
Manufacturer: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
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Bite the Stars marks the U.S. debut of the gifted Canadian author, Eliza Clark. Written with cinematic flair and luminous intensity, Bite the Stars opens with a tornado that whips into motion the whirlwind events of a young woman's life.
Grace Larson tells the gripping story of the storm that caused her to go into labor prematurely and give birth to Cole, who becomes as menacing and dangerous as the force of nature out of which he was born.
While her son is on the run from the law, ravaging his own path of wild destruction, Grace reads books and studies facts of nature, the chemistry of fireflies, blazing trails of dying comets, ultraviolet visions of butterflies, looking for clues to her son's nature. She searches her memory for events in their past to figure out why Cole is the way he is, where nurture ends and nature rules. Bite the Stars is a spellbinding novel told from the eye of the storm.
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I loved this book!.......2002-11-20
In BITE THE STARS, Eliza Clark draws her characters with bold strokes. Grace and her son, Cole, could be members of your own family, or perhaps the neighbors down the street. Though they don't speak of it, you know they've got troubles, and things don't seem to be getting any better. It would be easy to turn your back on them, tell yourself they're not worth the effort. But take a good look, because by knowing Grace you'll feel better about yourself. And maybe the next time you see her you'll stop and say hello.
Poignant, gut-wrenching, and compellingly thoughtful.......2002-11-15
Canadian author Eliza Clark's Bite the Stars is a gripping and emotional novel about Grace Larson, the mother of a brutal and violent criminal. Forced into premature labor by the violence of a tornado, Grace finds herself unable to cope with or understand her son Cole, a child who grows up to be as destructive as nature at its worst. As Grace watches her son's trail of destruction, she looks for answers in nature itself. Bite The Stars is recommended to a serious readership as being a poignant, gut-wrenching, compellingly thoughtful and thought-provoking narrative that will not soon be forgotten.
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Five Star First Edition Mystery - The Korean Intercept (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Stephen Mertz
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Kate Daniels is co-pilot aboard the space shuttle Liberty. Liberty is to deploy a space defense system satellite. The shuttle crash-lands in the uncharted, mountainous frontier between North Korea and China. As the ranking able-bodied officer, Kate takes charge, evacuating the crew from the crash site. A mountain warlord captures the Liberty's crew, intending to sell the shuttle and its cargo to the highest bidder. On the world stage, this crisis rapidly escalates. The North Koreans forbid an American search and rescue operation, sending their own troops into the region instead. The technology onboard Liberty is invaluable to both the North Koreans and the Chinese. The U.S. President orders American armed forces to full alert, preparing for a military incursion to locate the shuttle. This could be the flashpoint for the long-feared nuclear showdown between North Korea and the U.S. Monitoring these spiraling events with a personal interest is Major Trev Galt, Kate Daniels' estranged husband. Since his breakup with Kate, Galt has become romantically involved with Meiko Kurita, White House correspondent for a Japanese news agency. Galt had thought he was over his wife, but Kate and the shuttle disappearing without a trace re-ignites his unresolved feelings for her. While Kate and her crew struggle to survive, Galt and Meiko risk their lives to untangle the Korean Intercept; a race against time that pitches them into a labyrinth of treachery reaching from the corridors of Japanese corporate power to the blood-splattered back alleys of Tokyo, from the White House to the barren, hostile mountains of North.
Stephen Mertz has written novels under a variety of pseudonyms that have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in Arizona.
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terrific action thriller.......2005-06-25
Fifteen minutes into the Shuttle Liberty mission to deploy a top secret space defense satellite, Houston tells the crew to abort and come home without using radio contact. As they descend Commander Ron Scott realizes something is wrong and soon realizes they are on a path to land in China or North Korea. He also does not control the vessel as someone outside is operating the ship. To land Ron must take over and he bypasses a lit up airstrip to crash land a few miles away. Two astronauts die, Ron breaks his leg another is severely injured and two are okay.
Washington is stunned and wonders if a traitor in Houston caused the shuttle to change course. China and North Korea vow to cooperate, but both want the cargo on board and that does not include the humans if they get in the way. Co-pilot Kate Daniels takes charge of the evacuation helped by sixty-eight years old local Ahn Chang angered over the recent death of his spouse for no reason except lack of medical care. Kate's estranged husband, NSC assigned Major Trev Galt with the help of his Japanese reporter girlfriend mount an assault to rescue the astronauts from global treachery.
Fans of action thrillers that travel faster than a speeding shuttle will want to read the fast-paced KOREAN INTERCEPT. The story line never slows down even as the varying competing groups converge on the stranded astronauts. Though the technology to cause the original intercept especially keeping NASA blind seems impossible yet somehow Stephen Mertz makes it seem plausible as he provides a fantastic tale that will keep readers up all night.
Harriet Klausner
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The fortunes of war in 1862 find Sergeant John Mulroy captured by Confederate regulars. As a prisoner he is sent to Andersonville Prison for the duration of the conflict. Thousands of Union Army prisoners mill about in the acres of open space, surrounded by a stockade fence armed by Confederate guards. The miasma of unwashed bodies, excrement, gangrene, decay, and death combine to take Mulroy's breath away. Disease and violent death are daily visitors among the prison's ranks. Captain Henri Wirz, a foreigner in the Confederate Army, was shot in the arm and forced to give up field service, so he was put in charge of the prison. Men who get near the stockade wall are shot by the prison guards. There is not enough food so men who do not die of their wounds are slowly being starved to death. Mulroy is determined to escape, and befriends Cal Blackwood, a Confederate irregular who is one of the guards. A part of Cal wants to run with Mulroy, another part wants to make his flight secure by killing him.
Tim Champlin was born John Michael Champlin in Fargo, North Dakota. He began his Western writing career with Summer of the Sioux in 1982.
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Nikolai Sholokhov has arrived in Moscow for what is euphemistically called "Privilege," after spending eighteen months on the Moon calibrating an array for the Star Whisper Project - an ultra-secret program that has detected radio signals around a distant star in the constellation Hercules. Earth's population has been decimated by a gender-sensitive virus that raged across the globe over a century ago: Fevreblau. Sheltered by the State, women who survived the Blue Fever are considered Exotics, used to prevent populations from dissolving in a shattered world. Before his scheduled appointment, Nikolai meets an adroit thief, Yuri Tur, who in turn introduces him to Moscow's premier underground leader, Mintz. Mintz is interested in the signals detected by the radio-telescope. Nikolai also befriends a frightened young woman, Galina Toumanova, fleeing one of the larger Union Houses during a citywide riot. Together, they make a daring escape south to Star City (Baikonur Cosmodrome) and into the Archipelago - orbiting habitats in cislunar space. Once there, Nikolai discovers he alone is at the epicenter of a sweeping revolution that will not only change the basic social dynamics of Humanity, but the culture of an entire world.
Kenneth Mark Hoover was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, in 1959. He currently lives in Mississippi with his wife and three children.
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Great Book!.......2006-03-12
Fevreblau is a great book! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Once I began I had to keep reading to the excellent ending. The story is fascinating and puts a very unique spin on the future. The characterization is first rate and you really love the main character, Nikolai.
Sci-fi fans will enjoy this book very much. It's a quick read and the payoff is great. I can't wait for more books by Kenneth Mark Hoover. Bravo!
exciting futuristic thriller .......2005-12-31
The earth of the future is a dark and bleak place; mankind is almost extinct thanks to Feverblau, a virus that killed women. Only a small percentage of females survived and they are regarded as valuable possessions put in Union Houses where men pay for the privilege of having sex with them. They don't bear children because their uteruses are taken from them to mix with sperm in an artificial environment to protect males that will eventually fight in the continual wars that plague the planet.
Nikolai Sholokhov is on two week leave from Luna and the top secret Star Whisper project that he has been working on for eighteen months. He is looking forward to his first "privilege" at the Union House but before that happens he meets the top Mafioso who is interested in the alien signals picked up by the radio telescope on Luna. After that encounter, he is asked by a person out after curfew if Nikolai will share his quarters with her. Nikolai agrees to this to only find out that the young man is really a woman Galina who is being transported to a Union House. She escapes during a city riot and both know if Nikolai is caught with her, he will be killed. Yuri Tur who befriended Nikolai has connections powerful enough to get them out of Moscow and Nikolai wants to try to escape to one of the habitats orbiting earth with Galina because they love one another in a world where such a thing is forbidden.
Most of the action takes place in Moscow as an innocent Nikolai gets involved with the Russian underground, the resistance movement and the totalitarian government that wants to see him dead. He loses his innocence very fast but his love for Galina gives him strength of purpose that makes him a very appealing hero. There is a lot of action and political intrigue in the exciting futuristic thriller and the characters who populate this book make the storyline realistic and believable.
Harriet Klausner
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