Not Even My Name: A True Story

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Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo's survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family-as told to her daughter, Thea-and the poignant mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. AUTHORBIO: Thea Halo, shown here with her mother, Sano, at age eighty-nine, is a writer and painter who has won awards for her poetry and essays, and has exhibited her paintings in galleries in New York City and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.Sano Halo is a recipient of New York State's Governor's Award for Excellence in honor of Women's History Month, "Celebrating Women of Courage and Vision."

Customer Reviews:

Poignant memoir.......2006-09-26

This poignant memoir written in such astonishing detail is an unforgettable story that will capture the reader from the start. Sano is like a small but sturdy flower growing in the most unlikely and least advantageous of garden spots. In her we see goodness and love survive heart rending loss and the cruel displacement of senseless war. I could not put the book down once I began to read it.

A tragic story written beautifully.......2006-05-28

This is not a book to read if you want to be cheered up, yet I will never forget the story. I wept off and on reading of the author's mother's experience on the death march. I have traveled to Greece and Turkey twice yet had no knowledge of the genocide of the Pontic Greeks. I thank the author for the courage to live through her mother's amazing journey as she told her unforgettable story.

Wonderful Book Thea!.......2005-10-22

I am also of Pontic Greek and Assyrian origin. Even though our lands were taken away, our people still exist, we still maintain our language, and the gospel is still spreading which is a blessing. I am glad to see someone wrote a book on the Greek/Assyrian/Armenian Genocide. The Turks tortured and massacred millions of Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians. I am happy to see you raise more public awareness about this. I pray for the Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians still living in Asia Minor that deal with constant persecution for their Christian faith. Great Book Thea!

A Message of Appreciation From John Halo.......2005-10-22

I am John Halo the brother of Thea Halo. I am very proud of my sister for writing such a wonderful book, NOT EVEN MY NAME, that depicts such an accurate account of my mothers life, that discribeds the pain that my wonderful mother endured in her childhood and throughout her life. Thea Halo is a champion and a woman with a beautiful hart and a loving sole that deserves the recognition of a grate author, and I hope someone will relize the value of this true story and make a movie and documentary so to educate our generation and future generation from repeating this horror. I would also like to let everyone know that my mother was so grateful and proud that Thea wrote this book and is also grateful to all of the wonderful people that came to see her speak. And last I would like to say how proud and thankful I am of my sister Thea Halo for being my sister.
Sincerely
John Halo

Important part of history.......2005-07-08

The subject is of great interest and great importance to the present situation in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. It is well written and quite engaging. As it is a book I want to keep permanently in my library, I only wish it were printed on higher quality paper.

To Know Her by Name (Rocky Mountain Memories #3)

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Aw i love this book~!
I love this book
Good, but dull.
New, but great
This is a great book!

To Know Her by Name (Rocky Mountain Memories #3)
Lori Wick
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0736918205

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Who is this woman? McKay Harrington wondered. After chasing and killing an outlaw in the Boulder foothills, Harrington finds himself critically wounded and dependent upon a mysterious woman named Callie. When Harrington returns to his job at the Treasury Department, an unexpected encounter reveals a dangerous masquerade...

Can McKay Harrington penetrate the wall of secrecy surrounding Callieâ€™s true identity to share the saving love of Jesus Christ?

And what about the love growing in his heart for this woman of mystery?

An unusual story of love, intrigue, and faith...from the author of the bestselling Where the Wild Rose Blooms and Whispers of Moonlight

Customer Reviews:

Aw i love this book~!.......2006-03-13

this book was sooooo sweet. It is definatley my new favorite book. I love how kind and gently the book is written. I used to like science fiction but often found it conflicting with my beliefs. and now i found Christian Fiction and i found this book and i loved it. I read it in about 5 hours. i love this book!!! i can't wait to read more done by Lori Wick. I loved this book...i can't say it enough...The beginning was enticing and the end beautiful. It held you captive till the end. Definatley a must read!

I love this book.......2005-10-24

This is one of my favorite books. It is really a sweet story with a wonderful ending.

Good, but dull........2003-01-18

This series seems to get less exciting the more books you read. I am not sure what it is about it. This book was extremely dull in the middle, but the beginning is suspenseful and the ending you just have to stick around for!

New, but great.......2002-06-13

This was new for Lori Wick. I had already read quite a few books by Lori Wick, but this book suprised me. Not that it was a bad book, it was a great book. It was just that Lori Wick, as I had thought, was a pretty easy-going writer. Nothing extreme. Her books didn't have much action. Not that, that is a bad thing, but this was the first book that actully had a villian. Well, a mean villian. I thought it was cool that Pup was a spy. And it pretty much had everything I wanted in a book. I thought it was so interesting and fascinating I read it in abou 6 hours.(:

This is a great book!.......2001-06-15

I really like "To Know Her By Name". McKay is a handsome, daring man who was wounded in a fight. A country, reclusive woman finds the hurt man and takes him in. As he heals he finds out more and more about this woman. It turns out Callie is not as clueless and country girl as he thinks. It turns out she's working for the government as an undercover agent and is working on the same case he is. (He works for the treasury department.) Travel with McKay and Callie as they work to catch a criminal and slowly fall in love with each other.

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A must for travel in New Mexico
Absolutely, Yes, the "Best Book on New Mexico"
Seriously flawed in its treatment of Native names
Very good book!
The Bible for New Mexico Place Names

The Place Names of New Mexico
Robert Julyan
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0826316891

Book Description

The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the stateÂ's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the stateÂ—towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlementsÂ—as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New MexicoÂ's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily lifeÂ—they can all be found in this book.

The indispensable travelerÂ's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

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A must for travel in New Mexico.......2006-02-25

This book is 'only' a dictionary of place names in New Mexico. They are listed alphabetically, and I haven't found a place yet that isn't in the book. There is often a blurb about the local history in addition to the origin of the name. Short as the entries are, I find them fascinating. They even point out that Thoreau can be pronounced "Through."

Some people keep certain books in their bathrooms, this book rides around in the back seat of my car. I first saw it in the back seat of a friend's car, and knew immediately I needed a copy for my car. If you drive much in New Mexico, I suggest you get a copy for your back seat, too.

Absolutely, Yes, the "Best Book on New Mexico".......2005-09-23

For about for years now, since I first bought this book, this book has traveled with me everywhere I go in New Mexico. It's explained to me the names of towns I've lived in, towns I've passed through, and towns I've heard of for my entire life without ever knowing their meanings. It's introduced me to ghost towns and little towns I would never have known about otherwise. It's made me look at my own town with new eyes. Now I see an old water pump in front of a house, and I think, "That could have been placed here by Carl Webb's neighbors, back when he first built his sanitarium here." Before, I would have seen nothing.
The book does not, and could not really without being an encyclopedia, have everything you could ever want to know in it, but it has enough to make you sound just a little smarter when you're driving past exits and offramps on the interstate.
"The town once had six newspapers; it's just a gas station now...that town's residents hate how the town's name is spelled...that place once took the name of the town next to it...an Indian skirmish happened there...." And so on and so forth.
If you live in New Mexico, you should own this book. It will make you appreciate where you are much, much more--I can almost promise it.

Seriously flawed in its treatment of Native names.......2000-10-31

In reading through this rather well researched volume, I noted that the author will often note, at the end of an entry, that the place whose English or Spanish name has just been discussed, also has a name in Navajo (occasionally another language), a name whose meaning is given -- but we are not told the actual word! For example, the author tells us that the name for Albuquerque, in Navajo, means "two bells in place"; but he does not tell us that actual name, Bee'aldííl Dah Sinil.

In the preface, the author offers an explanation for this oddity:

"Regarding Indian place names, with but few exceptions I've presented their meanings but not their sounds; even the best transliterations do no more than approximate the actual sounds of the Indian words, and transliterations encourage the gross corruptions from which Indian names have suffered over the years. Persons who want to hear the sound of the Indian names should consult a native speaker."

This is really just stupid. One could similarly argue for the exclusion of all French words from etymologies in English dictionaries -- after all, French "transliterations" do no more than approximate the actual sounds of the French words. And anyway, if you write it down, someone will just mispronounce it. So, better to just ask a French person?

And this is particlarly silly considering this is from University of New Mexico Press, the same press that publishes the Young & Morgan lexicons of Navajo -- which, incidentally, have thorough coverages of placenames, which is of interest to anyone who, unlike this author, considers Native names the subject of scholarship.

Hopefully reason will prevail, and in some future edition, the Native names will actually be listed instead of merely hinted at.

Very good book!.......1999-01-30

I grew up in New Mexico, and since moving away, I have been very interested in learning more about my home state (probably because I miss it so much). This book is an excellent reference of place names, and taught me a lot about New Mexico. I highly recommend it!

The Bible for New Mexico Place Names.......1998-06-25

My roots are in Arizona and New Mexico and The Place Names of New Mexico is an outstanding reference work for those interested in place name origin and history. It is very enjoyable to read and simply browse through as well as a useful tool for research.

I obtained the book to assist in researching place names along the Santa Fe Railroad (obtained from old employee timetables) and it was here where I found that the author intentionally made a grave error, in my opinion. He omitted the names of railroad sidings, water stops, stations and section houses that "once were more important in the public consciousness" if they never had a post office or gave their name to another feature of the area.

I recognize there are many elements to consider in the history of the area such as post offices, maps, government and military records, etc. There should be no question that railroads also played a HUGE role in development of the west and leaving out some of the railroad names such as Keota, Blanchard, Paquita and McCune,a large void was unnecessarily created. While the void doesn't detract from the work as a whole, it does make it incomplete. Then again, in defense of the author, I didn't walk the mile in his shoes or confront the problems he may have faced. What I am trying to say is that if I wrote the book, I would not have knowingly excluded any railroad names.

On the positive side, this book is up to date and newer place names have been identified and included.

If you are interested in New Mexico history or various elements comprising it, this book is definitely worth having in your library. In spite of my complaint, it answered most of my questions. This book is a five star work and it is well done.

Arizona Place Names
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Arizona

The original book (by Byrd H. Granger) is much better

An important and entertaining book

If you're an Arizonan you'll enjoy this book.

This book will be the cornerstone of my Arizona library.

Arizona Place Names
Will Croft Barnes , and Byrd Howell Granger
Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0816510741

Customer Reviews:

Arizona.......2007-07-12

I ordered this book for my husband who loves to share bits of Arizona lore with all of our visitors and friends. Funny thing! I could not put it down when it arrived. It certainly is not a fully complete work, but there are so many interesting facts at one's fingertips, that it is a wonderful addition to our growing library of all-things Arizona.

The original book (by Byrd H. Granger) is much better.......2006-03-12

I ordered this book trying to replace my aging copy of Byrd H. Granger's "Arizona's Names - X Marks the Place" (ISBN 0918080185 Falconer Publishing, Tucson). I have to admit, after not seeing other books about Arizona place names (and there are a few) I have to say this book can never replace Granger's edition. Not like I hated the book, it's just the Granger book is far superior (and very hard to find) and loaded with a lot more information. The Granger book is 824 pages where this one is only 503. It is nice the book is reprinted and will not be forgotten, but if you can find the Granger book, get it instead.

An important and entertaining book.......2005-10-01

This book is the Bible of Arizona place names. You want to know why a town's named what it is? Look it up in here.
The book is conveniently organized by county, so if you want you can sit down and read about every place name in your home county, just like that. And, if you don't know what county a place is in, the book also has a well-constructed index.
The book's tone is professional yet friendly, and it's even illustrated by some pretty hip-looking block prints.
It's not complete by any means, but it's still just packed full of information.
If you live in Arizona, buy this book. If you like Arizona, buy this book. If you write about Arizona, definitely, definitely buy this book. It's a keeper.

If you're an Arizonan you'll enjoy this book........2000-09-19

Arizona has a lot of places with strange or unusual names. Before I can across this book I often wondered where these names came from. If you're interested in Arizona, it's history, or trivia about the state you'll ejoy perusing through the pages of this book.

This book will be the cornerstone of my Arizona library........1998-06-25

Ten years ago, someone at the University of Arizona Press decided to reissue this book and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate that person. Even though the book hasn't been updated since the mid 1930's, the text is of extreme value to the historian, researcher and casual reader as is. By reissuing the book the University performed a valuable public service.

With high hopes and expectations, I purchased this book with the intention of doing research on place names along the Santa Fe Railroad in Arizona. I am pleased to report that Arizona Place Names was the most valuable reference in assisting me with that project. But, for me, there was a bonus. The book also served to reacquaint me with the Arizona of my youth as I was born and raised in Yavapai County and often traveled with my parents around the state. It has rekindled interest in my roots, far exceeded my hopes and expectations and brought me back to better times in my life.

The author's style is more like a mentor and friend. There were times that I felt I was riding with him on horseback discussing the name origin of a nearby spring or butte. Factual and accurate, his style shows that he loved what he was doing. The text is short, to the point, and can be read by the casual reader who would like to sit back in the rocking chair or recliner and escape to Arizona.

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idaho place names a geographical dictionary.......2007-01-15

I have not yet received the product.....do you have an idea when it will be sent?

A wonderful book.......2004-03-05

OK, a book about how places in Idaho got their names is not likely to appeal to everyone, except perhaps those who live in, once lived in, were born in, or come from stock derived from that amazing and beautiful place called Idaho. This is not a book that the average American will buy, unless he/she is one of the folks aforementioned. But every state should be so blessed as to have at its disposal a book like this one. It's delightful. It's fun to look through, even if you've never been of Mackey Bar or the Owyhee Mountains. It's full of history, cultural and political. It's full of characters. It's fun. It should live a long and prosperous life.

Only now the University of Idaho Press, publisher of this exceptional little jewel of a book, is gone. Killed by its "parent" institution in the name of budget-balancing; which is to say, killed by craven politicians. Get the book now, from Amazon, or any other way you can. Because when it's gone, no publisher will ever bring it back. That is a shame. And it is shameful. Idaho's millionaires, like all the others, have gotten themselves numerous fat tax breaks these last few years. Meanwhile, its universities, and its one real university press, are gone. Alas, so will be this extraordinary book.

RIP, UI Press. You did great work that mattered. On those who let it die, a pox on your sad, well-heeled houses.

How did it get it's name?---This book tells you........1999-10-23

"How did my town get it's name?"...Idaho Place Names gives you the answer. It will give you the history about the founding of your town and the succession of names to the present. It also includes the origin of names for mountains, rivers, hills and hollows. It takes you from "Abandon Creek" to "Zumwalt Lake" with 400 pages of intriguing history in-between. If you are interested in the history of the west you will enjoy this book.

Heninger Flats: The story of William K. Heninger and the area that bears his name

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Heninger Flats: The story of William K. Heninger and the area that bears his name
Paul H Rippens
Manufacturer: Copy-Rite Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0966365410

Names on the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana's Place Names

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Every Montana city and town!

Names on the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana's Place Names
Roberta Carkeek Cheney
Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Montana Trivia

ASIN: 0878421505

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Every Montana city and town!.......2000-06-02

If you or your family have ever lived in Montana, this is a wonderful reference book. Have you ever wondered how some particular Montana town got its name? That's what Cheney's book will tell you. Every Montana city or town that ever had a postoffice is listed, and so are some that didn't. Many of these towns are completely gone-- only the names and a few fading family memories remain. In other cases, a single sturdy brick building sits in a field. And of course, the biggest towns in Montana, like Billings, Missoula, Great Falls and Butte, are listed too.

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One of the most fascinating books I've ever read........1997-02-05

The book is divided into two main parts. The first part takes a look at the "family of man" from a sociological, anthropological, historical, and every other point of view it seems. Mr Shoumatoff is the consumate renaissance man the way he blends all these facets. The second part is a capsule history of the Mormon Church and even though it sort of exposes some things, I found it fair and even handed. As a genealogist interested in more than just putting names and dates on a pedigree chart, I highly recommend this book. This book was preceded by an article of the same name in New Yorker magazine in 1985, and went on to become a bestseller in expanded book form

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Fun book if your into history

Colorado Place Names
William Bright
Manufacturer: Johnson Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1555663338

Book Description

"Colorado Place Names" lists 1900 Colorado communities, counties, peaks, passes, rivers, streams, and other geographical features. Each alphabetical entry includes, as appropriate, a pronunciation guide, elevation, location, date of founding, history, and origin of name. Based on the classic book by George Eichler, this completely rewritten and newly researched book is an indispensable guide for anyone traveling or studying the Centennial State.

Customer Reviews:

Fun book if your into history.......2000-09-14

This is a great little book for those of you who like little bits of history. This book provides a short summary of the history or interesting facts of places in colorado. If you are into geneology you learn that a town or county may not have the same name today that it did 90 years ago. That complicates your search. This book lists many of those towns and gives you their current and old names,as well as the name of the county the town is or was in. You will often be told the origin of the place, and its nameas well as any interesting facts. I do recommend this book to historians or any one who just likes interesting tid bits. Its also fun to go visit some of those places and experience them first hand.

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Absolutely sublime
My Name As A Prayer
A MUST READ for anyone with an elderly parent or friend
charmingly told...
Listening to the silence from the other side

My Name As A Prayer

Manufacturer: Sheridan Creative for Troyanne Ross
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0979135508
Release Date: 2006-12-12

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An intimate memoir of the author's journey as her mother -- an irrepressible Southern charm school owner -- becomes ill and moves into a retirement village. A tender romance accompanies and gives comfort to the story. The book gives laughter wherever possible as the author brings readers into a series of new and sometimes unsettlng experiences.

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Absolutely sublime.......2007-05-13

This is the most moving memoir I have ever read. The intimacy Sheridan Hill shares with her readers and close attention to details is breath taking. I could not put it down. Astonishing and simply beautiful.

This is a must read for the hospice community and the families they serve.

My Name As A Prayer.......2007-04-27

I could not put this book down, so real, taking us to that uncharted territory, the death of our mother. How do we stay present, how do we understand our relationship, how do we face death and find life?
Sheridan Hill tells her story with such detail and honesty. I am no longer afraid of death, for my parents or myself after reading this book.

A MUST READ for anyone with an elderly parent or friend.......2007-03-20

I'm one of the "baby boom" generation, we who once shouted "never trust anyone over twenty-five!" And now we are in our forties, fifties, and sixties, often facing alone the crisis of the death of a parent or loved one. Our culture has ill prepared us for this passage, a society that dwells on youth and so carefully hides away death. I lost both of my parents several years back and only wish I had first read Ms. Hill's book, it would have served as a guide, and reaffirmed as well the rightness of decisions I made for the sake of my mother and father. It is not a book about death, it is a book about living and sharing to the fullest one's final journey with a parent.

I will freely admit I wept repeatedly as I read Ms. Hill's beautifully crafted tome which honors and celebrates her mother's final months. Reading it made me realize that so much of what I experienced was valid, that I was not alone in my feelings and gave me new and hopeful insights into my own life and the spiritual journey of my mother and father.

If you just read these reviews and do not buy the book, please heed her advice from this reviewer. Listen to your parents now, talk with them, share and recall all the moments, good and bad, and fight with all your passion to insure their time of passage is a time that is respectful of their dignity. Though I do hope you purchase this work even though the subject might be the last one on your mind at this moment. For someday it will occupy your life front and center and Ms. Hill is a guide you can turn to and trust.

charmingly told..........2007-03-09

Refreshing for the heart -- as eternal family values wait til the end of one's life to come to light. I want my siblings to read this. How I wish I had had time with my own mother before her passing!

Listening to the silence from the other side.......2007-02-26

My Name As A Prayer is a book you will want to read more than once, as I intend to do. But first I have to get copies to my sister and my sister-in-law, for I think this book will speak especially to mothers and daughters. However, as a former hospice volunteer and as someone who was present during the months my parents were dying and being cared for by hospice, I find that Sheridan Hill's book also has much to teach even those of us--male or female--who have already seen our parents or other loved ones pass on. I remember once when I was alone with a dying woman--or so I thought--and listening to her have a long conversation with unseen others in the room...and the peace it brought her. I could only hear her side of the conversation; there was only silence when she wasn't speaking, but it was surely "holy silence" wherein she could hear what she needed to hear, even though I couldn't. Sheridan Hill's thoughts on "holy silence" and the need to allow the dying to be present (i.e., not overly medicated) at their own deaths are insightful, I think, and worth the price of the book alone. Of course, simply being present, via the book, with Ms. Hill to hear her beautiful story is worth the price of the book, too.

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