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"Everybody has a story. You listen to that story, Honeygirl, and your story will come find you."
Her Grand Lady spoke these words when Abby was just a girl, spending the summer in rural Louisiana, surrounded by an extended, loving family. She's been listening carefully ever since.
Now Abby is raising her own family thousands of miles away. And even though Hawaii might seem like paradise to some, it's a long way away from those idyllic days she remembers, sitting with her grandmother, learning about the beauty and mystery of life. So Abby has just one wish: that her daughter Hannah might be touched by the beauty of her 92-year-old Grand Lady's stories, before it's too late.
But when Hannah finally does spend time with Grand Lady, the old woman crushes her tender spirit.
And a mother-daughter journey home becomes an adventure of discovery-about the importance of family and the healing found in forgiveness.
In Gardenias for Breakfast, mothers and daughters may recognize a branch or two from their own family trees and find themselves wishing not only for Grand Lady's guidance but also for Hannah's ability to smell the clouds.
Customer Reviews:
My Favorite Book EVER.......2006-11-05
Usually my favorite book is the one I'm reading at the time. However, Gardenias for Breakfast is my All Time Favorite Book EVER!! I have given several copies for gifts and have shared my copy numerous times. I think if you were a Mother of girls, you would especially relate to this book. I do not have daughters, but, I am a daughter and I enjoyed it to the fullest. Robin Jones Gunn is just a fantastic painter of word pictures and she shines in this book!
Read it on one beach weekend!.......2006-05-16
Excellent easy read, but it still really hits home. Every female should read this - it is a wonderful story of mothers & daughters and the pain and love we feel for each other! I read this in one weekend!!!!
One of Robin Gunn's best!.......2005-08-18
"Gardenias for Breakfast" is one of Robin Jones Gunn's best! As a middle age woman I related to the importance of female relationships in the family. "Gardenias" reenforces the importance of mending tears in family relations as well as opening our eyes to the fact that our perceptions of situations change at different stages and ages of our life.
Abby, the main character, is on the trip of a lifetime due to her brother's need for a favor. Throughout this trip, Abby becomes aware of how God is working in the life of others and how He changes people. She is made aware of how He is working in her life and protecting her and her family. She realizes how insightful her teenage daughter has become. She also realizes the need for change and a different perspective on situations she may have believed were one way, yet were more likely another.
This book made me rethink my family female relationships and how I "see" them. Maybe I need to look deeper and at a different side.
Robin Jones Gunn's "Sisterchick" series is still my favorite.
Delightful mother/daughter tale.......2005-04-05
I've read all of Robin's women's novels and found this to be my favorite. Her beautifully metaphorical writing about mother/daughter relationships in four generations of one family just struck chord after chord with me. In fact, I've been inspired to take a road trip with my daughters to create our own memories. I highly recommend this book!
The Ultimate in Mother/Daughter Story.......2005-04-01
What a marvelous tale of the journey of a mother, Abby, and her daughter, Hannah, across mainland USA--and a journey to a healing of relationships for all the women in the family! Abby gets island fever living in Hawaii and dreams of taking her 12-year-old daughter, Hannah to the mainland. Specifically, she wants to take her to Louisiana to bond with Grand Lady, Abby's grandmother. Abby's brother calls her with an offer that makes her dream come true. He wants her to drive his SUV from his home in Washington to Atlanta--and pay all her expenses. Abby's husband and son elect to stay in Hawaii and run the family business while Abby and Hannah take off for the adventure of their lives. I loved this book so much! I would rate it with more than 5 stars if I could. This book is exceptional. Every woman is a daughter even if she isn't a mother..and every woman should read this book. The Mother/Daughter relationship is very complex and we see how complex it is with 4 living generations of women (and Grand Lady talks about her relationship with her long-dead mother, so that makes 5).
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The shadow of war that settled upon Russia's western frontier in 1914 darkened one of the most turbulent and exciting eras in Russian history. In War's Dark Shadow, W. Bruce Lincoln brilliantly tells the story of Russia's entry into the twentieth century. In a profoundly dramatic exploration, Lincoln portrays a vast empire on the eve of World War I: the relocation of hundreds of thousands of peasants from backward villages to wretched urban slums; the creation of a new class of wealthy industrialists; the swelling ranks of revolutionary terrorists; the brutal persecution of Jews in the most anti-Semitic society before Nazi Germany; and the birth of a revolutionary intelligentsia that created some of the most exciting and vibrant art Russia had ever produced. Based on voluminous first hand accounts taken from libraries and archives in St. Petersburg, Moscow, New York, London, Paris, and Helsinki, Lincoln creates a fascinating portrait of the enormous change and devastation that crushed Russian society from 1891 to 1914, making the Revolution of 1917 all but inevitable.
Customer Reviews:
Very informative!!.......2005-10-18
I am Russian so I knew quite a lot about Russian history before opening this book. The book is the best guide to Russian history of the period. Here's why:
-It is written in a wonderful language - very easy to read, yet directed towards scholars.
-History is divided into chapters that concentrate on specific subjects.
-It is full of detail that other history books often lack. I was suprised to see Bruce Lincoln use original Russian words instead of finding an English equivalent for it (such as "izba," "domovoj," "dvorovoj," "lapti," etc.).
-Finally, I've not yet read a book that concentrates so much, and gives such an in-depth study, on the subjects that are usually avoided being talked about "pre-revolutionary" times (simply because they are deemed not important in the light of a warfare).
With this book you will get a clear idea of what the Russian society looked like on the dawn of WWI. Bruce Lincold actually spent several years in the Russian archives doing research (but not just for this book), so he has a first-hand knowledge on the subject.
The chapters discuss the following subjects:
Chapter 1 - 1891: The Fateful Year:
Basic overview of the situation in Russia by the yar or 1891: camine, construction of trans-Siberian railway, some politics.
Chapter 2 - In the Wake of Famine:
Famine, peasants and life in the country.
Chapter 3 - Russia's New Lords:
Emancipation, new layer of society "Kuptsi" and arts and trade associated with it.
Chapter 4 - Life in the Lower Depths:
Proletariat and life in cities and towns.
Chapter 5 - The Few Who Dared:
Revolutionaries - formation of the political parties, radicals, impact on literature.
Chapter 6 - Defenders of the Old Order:
Royal Defenders - key figures that supported the old "tzar" order; their lives and activities.
Chapter 7 - "A Small Victorious War":
The Japanese War - why, when, and how. Gives the background, as well.
Chapter 8 - 1905: The Year of Turmoil:
Revolution of 1905.
Chapter 9 - "What We Want is a Great Russia!":
Government - parties, duma, people behind the law, the lawmaking process.
Chapter 10 - "The Childre of Russia's Dreadful Years":
Art revolution.
Chapter 11 - The Last Days of Peace:
Political situation on the dawn of the WWI - foreign relations and repressions.
Chapter 12 - The Drums of War:
WWI and how it affected Russia and its people.
"What Americans Do Not Understand".......2002-05-17
I chose this title, because it was true, at least for me. As Americans, we (some of us, not all) "think" Russians are not "very intelligent", "backward" and even, "less than human."
After reading this book, I tend to "get on my soapbox" to help people understand what few choices, the Russian people ever had in the outcomes of their lives! I never knew this before purchasing and reading Mr. Lincoln's book!
If you cannot be convinced by the poverty imposed on the Russians through Mr. Lincoln's words, you will be convinced by the heart-wrenching photographs; the children who appear as hopeless, hovels designed as homes with animals living within, death from starvation was not uncommon. And all the time, Russia refused (those in power prior to the Revolution)to feed her people, wheat was being shipped to other European countries.
And the Russians never questioned the motives of the Tsar; after the Revolution, they still starved and were murdered by Stalin and Hitler.
We need to change our attitudes and this book did it for me.
Terrific !.......2002-04-22
In the forward, W. Bruce Lincoln states the book is "...an effort to explore the lives, thoughts, hopes, and dreams of the men and women who lived in the world's largest empire and to convey some sense of the tensions that tore at the fabric of their existence on the eve of the Great War and the Revolution of 1917." In this effort he succeeds brilliantly.
We see portraits of Tsar Alexander III, Nicholas II, Pobedonostsev, Lenin, Rasputin, and a host of other generals, officials and ordinary people who shaped that era.
We get an insider's look at what life was like in a peasant community, inside the peasant's izba or house, and their attitudes towards schooling, medicine and religion. We go inside the growing factories and the slums the workers inhabited in the cities with rapidly developing industry. We see the new nobility of the industrial barons, the revolutionaries fighting the tsarist autocracy, the defenders of the Old Order...all come to life in these pages.
Graphic descriptions are given of the vicious pogroms against Jews. The impact of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in both economic and a political aspects is covered. The 1904 war with Japan is there with its criminally incompetent generals and and admirals and the war's impact on the development of the Revolution of 1905 as well as the mood of the populace as the nations slides toward the Great War.
This well written, illuminating, detailed and well documented book is a classic work on the Russian society of those years and fleshes out the soul of Russia as few other books do. 16 pages of photos. Highly recommended.
thanks to bookseller julian brogi!.......2002-01-31
The book I ordered, In War's Dark Shadow, was exactly as the seller described it - in perfect condition. Since the book is not longer in print, I feel lucky to find one that looks as if it has never been used. The book was shipped promptly, and the seller was a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend this seller!
thanks!
Excellent History of Pre-Bolshevik Russia.......1998-05-28
"In War's Dark Shadow" is one of the best histories I have ever read. Lincoln does an excellent job of making the reader feel what each of the major participants of this extraordinary time in history felt, from the peasants (narod) and industrial workers, to the revolutionaries and conservatives, and finally to the monarchs.
No stone is left unturned in this exhaustive study of the events and the perceptions of those events that led to the downfall of the Romanovs and capitalism in 1917. Many people will be surprised to see the extent of anti-Semitism and xenophobia that permeated the society that later fought off the Nazis in World War II.
For an entirely new perspective on the Russian people, I highly recommend this work.
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Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play to the Silver Screen
Paul Clee
Manufacturer: Clarion Books
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New Media, 1740-1915 (Media in Transition)
ASIN: 0618445331 |
Book Description
Illustrated with black-and-white archival prints, drawings, and photographs From the simple camera obscura of the 1500s to the 17th century's giant magic lanterns to the early films of Thomas Edison and the Lumire brothers in the late 1800s, here is an intriguing story of invention and showmanship. Many of the techniques adopted by Hollywood were worked out by tinkerers, lanternists, and magicians in front of shocked and amazed audiences long before the first flickering black-and-white film was ever shown. This fascinating book explains how today's moviesas well as photographs, special effects, and animationcame to be. Peppered with first-hand accounts and newspaper reports, excerpts from the notes of early inventors and filmmakers, and descriptions and diagrams of detailed optical gadgets, Before Hollywood provides a window into the world of entertainment before movies were invented. It offers an illustrated tour of the beginnings of technologies that we take for granted today. Sidebars, afterword, timeline, endnotes, bibliography, Internet resources, and index.
Customer Reviews:
Romantic blue hour.......2007-01-10
This is a great book. The images are tender and touching, even still-life are full of emotion and delicate beauty. You will want to give John Dougdale a hug and a pat on the back for this successful project.
Book Description
From the darkened shadows of the oncoming night, there came poetry...
On the wings of dragonflies, this dream was born in Out of the Shadows and continued to blossom in Emerging from Twilight. Now, as the mist and dusk become one, the ink spills into the night to blend into a growing collection of artistic works from all corners of the world.
This book is a compilation of over forty talented poets, each bringing their unique gift of words, feelings, and emotions together to fill the pages with poetry, artwork, photographs, and dreams. Each distinctive, shining voice takes flight illuminating the night skies in The Shadow Poetry Collection Vol. 3. Let their words gently guide you on a magical journey through the setting mist in Before the Last Shadow Fades.
Customer Reviews:
Poetry for an lazy summer afternoon.......2003-07-25
"Before the Last Shadow Fades" is volume three in a series by Shadow Poetry and is, for the most part, an excellent read. Poets have a talent for painting masterpieces with words as is the case of Jerry Quinn's description of "Loneliness" in only 19 words and in the recollections of youth as recalled in "In the Distance" by Charles Griffith and in "Early Mornings Were Best" by Jeanne Hyland Johnson. Limited space here does not allow me to list all the featured poets in this review. I enjoyed this book so much that I ordered the first two in the Shadow series. I highly recommend "Before the Last Shadow Fades".
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Before the Shadows Fade
Manufacturer: The International Library of Poetry
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0795150121 |
Book Description
Fighting Fantasy is the brilliant series of adventure gamebooks in which YOU are the hero! All you need is a pencil and eraser to make the journey and decide which route to take and which dangers to risk. Down in the dark, twisting labyrinth of Fang, unknown horrors await you. Devised by the devilish mind of Baron Sukumvit, the labyrinth is riddled with fiendish traps and bloodthirsty monsters, which will test your skills almost beyond the limit of endurance. Should you come out of the labyrinth alive, you will be wealthy beyond your dreams. Do YOU dare enter?
Customer Reviews:
Other Books.......2007-09-03
Riding on the back of the fantasy role playing game craze came these interesting books, and plenty more popped up along with them on other topics, from other publishers.
They were designed so that all you would need was a pencil and a simple randomiser and be able to carry the whole thing around with you, and introduce the game and chance into it.
A Dungeon bash, of course.
That other guy has got it wrong.......2004-03-03
This isn't a strategy guide at all. It is the original Fighting Fantasy Gamebook. Silly man. Check what you're reviewing before you post.
excellent, with one exception.......1999-08-24
The Strategy guide offers everything it promises and more, with one exception. This is the strategy guide for the playstation version, NOT the PC. If you want the PC version, DON'T puchase this book, for the first board is entirely different and I'm not sure what else is changed in the playstation verson until I get my Map Book version. In short, Don't get suckered like I did!!!!!!!
Fighting Fantasy No 6; Deathtrap Dungeon.......1998-04-06
Deathtrap Dungeon, written in 1984 by Ian Livingstone, was the sixth edition to the growing Fighting Fantasy series. This adventure is set, like most of the earlier FF books, in the medieval fantasy land of Allansia. There is a successful town in north Allansia called Fang. It's ruler, a certain Baron Sukumvit, decided to make Fang the centre of a great contest, to be held once each year, called the 'Trail of Champions'. Now, this Trail of Champions involved the Baron tunneling a deadly labyrinth into the hills behind the town. The labyrinth, named Deathtrap Dungeon (if you didn't already know), was then riddled with fiendish traps and vicious monsters to trick and test any contestants trying their luck. Just before the grand opening, Sukumvit selected ten of his finest troops to enter the dungeon, as a test of it's lethality. Much to the Baron's delight; none of the troops were ever seen again! The call then went out to adventurers all over Allansia. Many adventurers were eager to test their skills in Deathtrap Dungeon, for the honour of being the first to survive the labyrinth and collect their own weight in gold as a reward. As yet, none have survived to claim the prize...Until now, that is!! You start as an adventurer, signed up for the Trail of Champions, the eve before the contest starts. The next day, you line up outside Deathtrap Dungeon, ready to start your adventure. Five other contestants enter the dungeon with you. These are: an armoured Knight, a robed Ninja, a female Elf Warrior and two 'Arnold Schwarzenegger look-a-like' Barbarians. So, the race is on! To succeed in your goal you have to beat the other contestants (by fair or foul means), avoid becoming a victim of the many cunningly lethal traps, find and collect various items, vital if you are to escape alive, find your way through quite a complex maze and hack-'n'-slash your way through loads of Deathtrap Dungeon's inhuman inhabitants (this is my favourite part!!) For 'true' diehard FF fans; this book is a real roller-coaster ride. The book is original, well written, engaging and (fairly) complex. The book has some nice parts to it: Stumbling onto the remains of past contestants, impaled on spikes, ending up as stew for the Boodbeast, meeting the 'Trial Masters', Poison Ivy and those playful Trogoldytes (no, I won't tell you! You'll have to find out about them for yourself!!) There are some really nice 'adult' traps and ways to die as well; the 'Vice' trap and drinking the acid, which burns a hole in your stomach, are real corkers. As for bad parts......Well, I couldn't really think of any. This book is a very good edition to the FF series. Not being linear (like a lot of later books) the dungeon can be explored many times differently. The ending is especially challenging and exciting. Iain McCaig's illustrations are of the usual excellent quality; they really bring Deathtrap Dungeon alive, adding immeasurably to the atmosphere of the book. In fact, without his contribution, the book probably wouldn't of been so well received So, in my ending summary of number six; Deathtrap Dungeon. I would say that it is an absolute classic; this book is about as good as FF gets!
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Deathtrap Dungeon
Steve; Livingstone, Ian Jackson
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
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Binding: Paperback
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Deathtrap Dungeon Map Book (PC Version)
Melene Smith , and
Steve Smith
Manufacturer: Prima Games
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0761517448
Release Date: 1998-06-29 |
Book Description
• Find more than 25 detailed maps for all Dungeon areas
• Navigate safely through dangerous catacombs and labyrinthine passages
• Find every secret key, weapon, treasure, spell, and charm
• Avoid the diabolical deathtraps
• Discover all the secret areas—how to get in, and out, alive
About the Author
Steve Smith has been PC Games Editor for Cyber Surfer Magazine since 1994, and is the author of Duke Nukem 64: The Official Strategy Guide (also from Prima).
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The Official Deathtrap Dungeon Strategy Guide
Glenn Broderick
Manufacturer: Player Media
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ASIN: 0911295445 |
Book Description
America has wealth, innovation, and access to the best of everything. So why is our health-care system so broken? Why does it cost more than ever and deliver less? How do we solve the problems of the uninsured and seniors who lack drug coverage?
And equally important, why is the Canadian system, widely touted as a sparkling example of compassion and universal access, actually a disastrous model to be avoided?
This book cuts through the fear and confusion surrounding health-care policy. It explains in clear and simple terms why the system is broken and how to fix it.
Customer Reviews:
Not true.......2005-12-05
As an American who now lives in Canada, Sally Pipes is not at all correct. There are NO waiting lists and I call my doctor and I get in that day. I LOVE the health care system here. I used to pay for my health insurance before I moved to canada and now I don't and I get the same care for free!! Plus I get all the name brand drugs if I need them. When I was living in the US, my health insurance turned me down for pre-natal vitimans, which I thought was ridiculious. I don't know where sally gets her facts from.
Review the CONTENT of the Book.......2005-10-29
Interesting that the One-Star reviews below are from people who did not read the book and do not comment on its actual contents.
If the writer has a particular viewpoint -- golly, maybe that's what motivated her to WRITE A BOOK. Duh. It would be a pretty bleak literary world if writers were not allowed to have opinions, or to write as a response to their own intellectual motivations.
Those of you who'd slam her simply becuase you can verify that her political and economic opinions vary from yours, might actually learn something from considering another viewpoint and indulging in the information that supports that viewpoint. If you read her book, and can spar with its content, fine, knock youself out.
consider the author's conservative connections..........2005-04-08
If you Google for Pacific Research Institute (Sally Pipes is President and CEO) and browse their offerings, you'll see strong evidence that this organization exists to promote conservative ideas and 'debunk' progressive 'myths' about women's issues, the environment, fairness, health care, globalization, drug importation, etc etc.
Here's a blurb from the "About" section of the PRI site:
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The mission of the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) is to champion freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions.
Since its founding in 1979, PRI has remained steadfast to the vision of a free and civil society where individuals can achieve their full potential.
Put simply, public policy is too important to be left just to the experts. Individuals are the real decision makers when it comes to their schools, health care, and environment.
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So take Sally's book with a boulder-sized grain of salt and find other sources of info about Canada's system to supplement your education on the issue. I'm sure it's not perfect (Canadian system), but Sally Pipes has a strong idealogical bent (and conservative connections) that call into question her severe condemnation of the Canadian system.
Disclaimer: I have not read the book, but have just heard portions of her lecture at the Commonwealth Club on public radio and was alarmed enough at her horror stories about waiting lists to want to find out more about her background.
Oh, and Google Sally Pipes too! You'll turn up plenty of conservative links as well as some links that vigorously contest her characterizations of the Canadian system.
Thank goodness for Google and for Amazon comments!
American Hubris.......2005-03-12
People who write books like this get invited to all the right places in this country. The reason is simple. Our system is is only possible medical system. It's not that other systems do not exist - it is that people in our system cannot even IMAGINE that other viable systems exist, must less that they function quite well. We never hear about them except in the negative. Sally Pipes would never be allowed to speak in our system unless she came with a satchel of critcisms of her own system. That was her ticket - that's how she got on stage. There's a pervasive sort of censorship going on here made all the worse because people in this country don't know how pervasive that censorhsip is. We are a free and open and intellectually closed shop.
Sally Pipes will hit the forum circuit down here and get invited to all the interview shows. This is because she criticizes the Canadian system. Were she to praise it, she might as well be sitting in an igloo.
Road map for a solution.......2005-02-01
I love when a writer nails a problem and also recognizes the political and social difficulties we will face in trying to effect the solution. This Pipes has done well. As a young physician, I soon realized that the health of my community depended more on how I VOTED than how well I was trained. Now as a physician of 20 years, I have seen first hand how the current health care system fosters a sense of entitlement to "free" care with no accountability or responsibility on the part of the consumer(patients): here in the US not Canada! The solution is NOT more of the same government intervention and insulation of patients from their health care decisions. But try telling this to the media, academia or even politicos who are either ignorant of the facts or fearful of their constituents.
Should be required reading for all MDs in training.
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