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The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Isle of Palms...
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MAKES ME WANT TO TAKE A TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA ~~~.......2006-08-29
This was an enjoyable book. The characters were all good. Who wouldn't love to have a group of loving, caring, go out-of-their-way-for-you family and friends always there for you? What a support group!!!!
The move from New Jersey to South Carolina, the new job, new school, new friends, and experiences brought forth in this book all added up to a good read!!! Can't you just imagine being transplanted from NJ to SC? That would be a huge difference in everything! The language differences alone were fun to read! You know -- y'all as oppossed to you guys!!!!
Even though you can pretty much figure out parts of the book; ie, who would end up loving who, where things were headed -- there were plenty of surprises and a good plot to keep your interest.
Ms. Frank never disappoints! Linda's life change at a time when she sorely needed it probably hits home to many a woman! Her relationship with her teenage daughters DID, I am positive, hit home with everyone and anyone who has ever had a teenager living with them under the same roof. Lord help us all!!!
This book was very enjoyable and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Ms. Frank's description of the beaches, weather, smells, and sights makes me want to shuck it all and move to a slower, easier life-style. Thanks Ms. Frank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks -- Pam.
a brilliant story of friendship, love and making fresh starts! .......2006-08-04
With her trademark casual and conversational style of writing, Dorothea Benton Frank has the magical knack of pulling the reader directly into the setting, making it feel as though the characters are friends and neighbors, and the low country of South Carolina is home. I have a particular fondness for stories that are centered around a restaurant, and the Italian flare added a special touch. As someone in a similar stage of life as Linda, I held a special appreciation for her plight, especially in her relationships with her daughters, which was very realistically portrayed when compared to the interactions of my daughters with myself and with each other. I don't understand the negative comments in other reviews, as I loved this book and thought it provided wonderful and heartwarming reading!
Location, location, location.......2006-07-01
That about sums it up. I was sooooo looking forward to this one coming out. The cover is beautiful and beckons with such promise. South Carolina - what could be better? Unfortunately, this was probably one of Dottie's most boring novels.
disappointing.......2006-06-27
I wish I had read the reviews before purchasing this book. This is one I won't pass on to or recommend to anyone. The messy dialogue itself is a reason to skip this one.
Misses the mark.......2006-05-15
Although I enjoyed Pawley's Island, I found that Shem Creek was not in the same category. It was disjointed and unfocused. I couldn't identify with the characters who went from one tragedy to another. The book just did not have the flow of Dot Frank's other books. There also seemed to be several unresolved issues and a continuing chain of lucky coincidences. Not very believable, in my opinion. The book is still entertaining and some readers may enjoy it, but I believe that Ms. Frank's other books have more merit.
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The New York Times bestseller takes readers back to the Lowcountry.
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Captivatingly Honest Life Stories.......2006-01-03
While Shem Creek is located on the east coast, it could be anywhere by the writing style and characters. Any small town could have a Linda and a Brad. They are heartwarming characters that bite into American History and leave you wanting more. While their lives are filled with the same daily crisis as all others, they survive. A story woven with tried and true details is told tongue in cheek, edging on humor, and bordering on benign, this story is told with an honest love of people and life.
I found the details of their lives to be interestingly naive, and yet on a deeper level, there was simply more. Everyone had a past, and baggage was carried well by each character in the story. Much like real life - each person was complete with a past, a present, and a future. You sat on the edge of your seat reading to the next detail, hoping it followed along.
Surprises in the book were many, people didn't stay true to form, but created their own meandering path through life, as we each do in real life. I enjoyed the tender moments, the laughter, and the sadness that I found in the book - all very much related to life in a small town.
Frank's Best Book Yet !!!.......2005-09-15
As always, Dorothea Frank has proven her ability to transport readers to a wonderful place.Her Lowcountry Tales take us to places that are inhabited by folks we feel we want to know better-or those whom we feel we've known all our lives! Linda Breeland is just my kind of woman. She's filled with the ability to figure out what will work for her when difficulties are present, then getting down to the work of making life work out well for herself and those who matter to her. --- And who wouldn't just love to know and be related to Mimi?! --- Then, there's Brad-Wonderful Brad! It's exciting to meet the characters and to be a fly on the wall. --- Dorothea, I feel like I know you and a real treat would be to get to know you when you're on tour. You're a great writer and my friends and I can't wait till your next book goes into print!
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Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale (Lowcountry Tales (Brilliance Audio))
Dorothea Benton Frank
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ASIN: 159600410X
Release Date: 2005-05-28 |
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Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters. The oldest, Lindsey, who always held her younger sister in check, is leaving for college. And Gracie, her Tasmanian devil, is giving her nightmares. Linda's personal life? Well, between the married men, the cold New Jersey winters, her pinched wallet and her ex-husband who marries a beautiful, successful woman ten years younger than she is - let's just say, Linda has seen enough to fill a thousand pages.
As the story opens, she is barreling down Interstate 95, bound for Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, the land of her ancestors. Welcomed by the generous heart of her advice-dispensing sister, Mimi, Linda and her daughters slowly begin to find their way and discover a sweeter rhythm of life.
And then there's Brad Jackson, a former investment banker of Atlanta, Georgia who hires her to run his restaurant on Shem Creek. Like everyone else, Brad's got a story of his own - namely an almost ex-wife, Loretta who is the kind of gal who gives women a bad name.
The real protagonist of this story is the Lowcountry itself. The magical waters of Shem Creek, the abundant wildlife and the astounding power of nature give this tiny corner of the planet its infallible reputation as a place for introspection, contemplation and healing.
As in all her previous work, you'll find Shem Creek to be compulsively readable, irreverent but warm and blazingly authentic - and you'll dread reaching the last page. It is her vivid writing, colorful characters and rich narrative that have made Dorothea Benton Frank one of our nation's greatest storytellers. Shem Creek is a triumphant novel that proves we are all entitled to a second chance. The challenge is to learn how to recognize it when it comes and to know which chance to take.
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Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale.......2007-02-04
Dorothea Benton Frank tells a wonderful story of intertwined lives in the lowcountry around Shem Creek. She is a great storyteller. This is the second of her audiobooks I have read and enjoyed. I highly recommend this as an authentic southern, lowcountry tale.
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Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale
Dorothea Benton Frank
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Shem Creek: A Lowcountry Tale
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Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems. Her old Captain at the Scottsdale PD is off home to Brooklyn. She's doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary being shot at Papago Park about the German POW camp and the "great escape" of Christmas Eve, 1944, when some prisoners tunneled out and fled. And one surviving escapee, Kapitan zur Zee Erik Ernst, a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident, has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian care giver begs Lena to clear him.
Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life--who is she?--learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstitions. Nearby, on Christmas night, a whole farm family, the Bollingers, was slaughtered. A jury didn't convict the only survivor, the teenage son. What might Chess Bollinger know about Ernst--and vice versa? And how much can Lena trust Quinn, either as a client, a witness, or a lover?
A complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, journalist Betty Webb, author of Desert Noir, Desert Wives, and Desert Run, spins an evocative, haunting story.
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Another terrific Lena Jones books.......2006-06-13
DESERT RUN is Betty Webb's fourth Lena Jones mystery, and it's running neck-and-neck with her second, DESERT WIVES, as my favorite book of the series. In this installment, P.I. Lena is overseeing security for a crew filming a documentary about the World War II German POW escape from Camp Papago, Arizona. When Kapitan Erik Ernst, one of the former escapees, who has moved to Arizona and was the star of the movie, is killed, Lena plunges into an investigation to clear the Kapitan's Ethiopian caregiver of the charges. She soon realizes that Ernst's murder is tied not only to his 1944 escape, but also to the 1944 murder of a family on a nearby farm.
DESERT RUN is well-written, well-researched, and tightly plotted, and, as in the previous Lena Jones mysteries, includes a bit of social consciousness (in this case, prejudice against immigrants and development encroaching on the natural beauty of the landscape) without becoming preachy. In all her books, Webb paints a vivid setting; I love being able to revisit the Arizona desert and its cities through the Lena Jones books. DESERT RUN also does one of my favorite things in mysteries: weaves real-life history into the modern-day fiction, then adds an Author's Note at the back of the book to give readers more information about the 1944 German escape.
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Desert Run, Poems and Stories
Mitsuye Yamada
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ASIN: 0913175129 |
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fiction & poems
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A Beatiful Read.......2006-09-29
These are beautiful, nuanced poems, smart and satirical, with subtle, sometimes biting irony, but also playful and ultimately suffused with compassion. As with Camp Notes, many of Yamada's poems here are informed by her internment experience during the Second World World, but it would be a disservice to say that they are just about that, or limited to that. Combined with the two stories and one prose poem she includes here (the stories deal with the protagonists' Japanese American identity relative to Japan/Japanese culture), this collection is vivid and affecting and emotionally rewarding. Her poetry is also incredibly narrative and accessible. She is amazing! Definitely something to own.
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Long Run to Tobruk
Manufacturer: Tandem
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ASIN: 0532153162 |
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By the Author of "Battery from Hellfire" and "Patrol to Benghazi". An exciting novel of the daring and courage of the Special Air Service.
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Run 5: The Journal of Stategic Studies Group
Manufacturer: Strategic Studies Group
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Magazine features: Alma, Desert Shield, Warlords, Scenaio & Article Index of Issues 1 - 16.
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Run! (A Magic circle book)
Jerry Lane
Manufacturer: Ginn
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Simple Book. Big Concept.......2004-01-24
There are less than 15 words in this kids book, but the message is clear. Josefina is afraid of all things in nature and tells sister Carmalita to "Run" She always says no and befriends the animals. I really like this book, in this world where we are taught right off to be afraid of everything its nice to know some authors still have sense to share with kiddies.
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In the Caves of Exile
Ru Emerson
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The exiled Queen Ylia calls upon all of her magical powers in order to bring together the scattered survivors of her beleaguered kingdom, Nedao. This is the tale of the young Queen Ylia who chooses to accept the challenges disaster can bring. She flees from the broken and defeated city of Koderra and treks through the terrible haunted mountains to the North. Although such a perilous journey tests all of her strength and resources, it is not until she reveals herself in the full tilt of battle that it is clear how the powers that are her birthright can save her kingdom.
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The exiled Queen Ylia calls upon all of her magical powers in order to bring together the scattered survivors of her beleaguered kingdom, Nedao. This is the tale of the young Queen Ylia who chooses to accept the challenges disaster can bring. She flees from the broken and defeated city of Koderra and treks through the terrible haunted mountains to the North. Although such a perilous journey tests all of her strength and resources, it is not until she reveals herself in the full tilt of battle that it is clear how the powers that are her birthright can save her kingdom.
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read this book........2000-08-09
this was one of my first rue emerson book. a wonderfull story, a great female hero. a very ingrossing story. also great for cat lovers.
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In the Caves of Exile
Manufacturer: Ace
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Countless times a day a variation of the following scenario plays out across the country: A mother is running late.She's trying to finish breakfast and get her child to daycare and herself to work, when her four-year-old spills his milk. When she tells him to clean it up, he yells, 'No, you do it,' and he sticks out his chin. She sees red. It's a given, kids push their parent's buttons like nobody else can. Too many mothers and fathers can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns. In WHEN YOUR KIDS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS, the focus is on the parent. By showing parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons, the responsibility is taken off the child's behavior and the theory that the child becomes the teacher to the parent is developed. Filled with anecdotes from real families, this book is destined to become a parenting classic.
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Bonnie Harris' When Your Kids Push Your Buttons.......2007-10-01
As a parent educator, I have found Bonnie Harris' "When Your Kids Push Your Buttons" fills a space in the parenting literature that no-one else has addressed adequately. For 28 years I have been teaching parents skills which can be implemented effectively when the parent is calm, unstressed and positive about her or his capabilities. In the past, when a parent 'lost the plot', I have always said, "Just forgive your self, apologise to your child, and focus on the times when you do manage well". Now Bonnie's book/CD gives hope to the stressed-out parent who has always wanted to understand and change that out-of-control reaction to their child but didn't know how. Bonnie teaches us how to see and hear our child (and ourselves!) with new eyes and ears.
Ever since I heard Bonnie's presentation in Adelaide in 2006 I have drawn on her recommendations (summarised so well in the book's appendices)in the classes I have conducted since then. My husband John is a clinical psychologist and family therapist, who, after reading the book, has also found Bonnie's practical advice to be immensely helpful for families with relationship problems. The book is full of stories which illustrate all the salient points, and it is a great read. Even better, Bonnie's ideas can be adapted to any situation where you experience 'road rages' - whether at home or at work. Congratulations Bonnie, and THANK YOU! I'm looking forward to your next book.
Margaret Hunt
Not be be missed--one of my favorite resources!.......2007-09-14
Bonnie Harris' book, "When Kids Push Your Buttons" is refreshingly respectful of parents. Rather than an ardent "This-is-the-right-way-to-parent" manifesto, it is instead a supportive, relevant resource that helps parents figure out how to parent more from love and trust, and less from fear. What parent hasn't had their buttons pushed? Whom do you know that couldn't benefit from relating better to their children? Don't we all want to enjoy parenting more and parent more on-purpose? Bonnie Harris' book helps you do just that. The tone of the book is warm, realistic, helpful, and personal. I read it one and half years ago and loved it. I re-read it a few weeks ago and got even MORE out of it. The parents I coach have embraced the concepts in the book because a)they work and b)they respect that parents can trust themselves. If you're looking for a powerful process for helping you relate to your children and yourself more positively, this is it.
Parent in training.......2006-03-02
I realize that all the other reviews so far are 4 or 5 stars. I also admit due to an insight I picked up in the first 30 pages this book was likely worth its money to me and therefore may deserve a higher rating. But I want people to read this review before they buy.
The great insight was that the author asked us to think, in the midst of a misbehavior issue, like the child. She suggested we look at inapposite behavior not from an adult prospective but from what is going on in the mind of the child. This actually gives a whole new view to things and I have been trying it.
I was excited to be reading this. I soon became disillusioned.
In the next hundred pages or so the writer never seemed to grasp that sometimes we want our children to behave in a store, to speak properly to us and to pick up their toys just because we want them to behave, to speak properly and pick up their toys. The author suggested the main reason we do not want to accept improper behavior is not because it is wrong but because or own mother was to strict, or parents did not understand us or we were scarred as children and cannot get over it.
Then there was the proposed solution to a 15 year old that continued to violate the rule of "no food in the living room". The author's solution was to eliminate the rule.
Not such a bad suggestion in some cases, but this is the rule of thumb for the author.
This was mostly babble but at page 130 I realized that I would not be finishing this book.
On page 130 the author was speaking with the parents of 15 year old Cindy. She was currently a runaway, and this was not the first time. She had friends that her parents did not approve of. They had visited the home with their daughter, when the parents were not home, and stolen pills, money, liquor and left condoms behind.
The father was visibly angry. The author consoled the father to wait for the daughter to come home and say to her, that he does not condone the friend's behavior but accepts them. The father says he will say to the daughter, "You can have your friends over next Wednesday when we`re not her if you behave properly. But if I find out they got into anything that's the end of it." Our author says that is in the right direction but he needs to frame it positively. The father then rephrases what he will say. He tells the author that he will say, "I know you'd rather have your friends over when we are not here. We can try next Wednesday after school. But please let them know that they are not allowed to do drugs here." He is then praised for his enlightened attitude. The author says this attitude will help him to be closer to his daughter.
There was also the issue of the six year old who was terrorizing the house by verbally abusing the parents. The suggested solution wasn't much different than the suggestions above.
It scares me to think parents will buy this book and follow it.
Don't Raise Your Children Without This Book!.......2006-01-13
Bonnie's Book is a wonderful way to learn to deal with our children and our extended families in a new light. By keeping her book close and rereading the areas in which my buttons are being pushed on any day it has helped our family to become closer and for the children to realize that we really are very proud of their development (no matter what their age). It has also made me realize that whatever the behavior that the child (or adult child)is presenting that I have taught them how to deal with this emotion or conflict. If I am not satisfied with the outcome then I need to practice the appropriate response so that they inturn will learn this new skill. Thank you Bonnie for your insight and non judgement when it comes to raising our kids. It is such a personal issue, and to know that someone is there who truely cares is all we need.
Life saver.......2005-10-09
I would highly recommend this book and wish I had found it years ago. My daughter is now 12, and we were REALLY bumping heads and I saw it going no where good as she got older. This book really helped me take a look at myself and MY buttons, and helped me gain control of them (by my awareness). She could push my buttons as no one else could. Things have really improved in our relationship, we still have our moments of course but few blow ups. This is one of those must have books for parents (the other life saver for me when my duaghter was about 2 was Raising your Spirited Child".
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