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SPEAK RWANDA is the powerful story of ten people - Hutu and Tutsi, civilians and soldiers, mothers, politicians, and orphaned children - as they attempt to survive one of the most disturbing massacres since the Second World War.But the novel is not a story of war; instead it documents the experiences of the people who lived before, during, and after such an event.Through their individual voices we come to fully understand the moving and complex truths that existed behind our newspaper headlines.
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Speak Rwanda.......2000-09-13
Mr. Pierce has spent a long time in Africa among the people. I have spent a long time in Africa among the people also. His book is brutally honest in its approach. it is fictionalized truth, written in a manner which explores the souls of men and the inanity of tribalism. Pierce draws the reader into the barbarous depths of the human heart in its abysmal quest for power. More books about AFRICANS in Africa should be written. Bravo! I could not put it down.
Telling the truth through fiction.......2000-09-13
Mr. Pierce has lived in Africa a long time among the people. I have lived in Africa a long time among the people "Speak Rwanda" is brutally honest in its approach. It is fictionalized truth, written in a manner which explores the souls of men and the inanity of tribalism.
Pierce draws the reader into the barbarous depths of the human heart on its lustful quest for power. Bravo! I could not put it down.
Bonita Evans
Provides insight into an atrocity that was oversimplified.......1999-10-21
When the rest of the world finally realized what had happened in Rwanda we reacted as if they, both Hutus and Tutsis, were sub-human, a form of life that we could not relate to. We did not bother to try to understand the conflicts that existed between the tribes for centuries. Pierce introduces characters who do not rationalize the tragedy, rather they take us on their journey and we begin to learn from them.
Riveting novel that thrusts you into the Rwanda nightmare.......1999-09-04
A well written novel that propels you directly into Rwanda's slaughter. Mr. Pierce uses his impressive knowledge of the people, land and issues to take the reader into a world of brutality, horror and death.
Using a well balanced approach, both killers and victims speak their thoughts as the rampage continues. A provocative and fascinating account of a time of hatred one hopes will never recur.
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- Dorothy Garlock at her best!
- Good as prequel to "Dream River"
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Lonesome River
Dorothy Garlock
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Her cornsilk hair loose in the wind, Liberty drove her Conestoga wagon as if the devil were after her. She had run away from New York when her pa demanded she marry Stith Lenning, a domineering coward who would use her body and break her spirit. Liberty's response was NEVER . . . never, as long as a land waited in the West where a river ran fast and a woman was free to follow her dreams. But rampaging Indians along the Wabash's deep waters and Stith's relentless pursuit were more than even a feisty beauty could handle. Then, guns blazing, frontiersman Farr Quill rode into her life. With the same steely strength that had tamed the wilderness, he offered Liberty his protection . . . all he demanded in return was her total surrender.
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Her cornsilk hair loose in the wind, Liberty drove her Conestoga wagon as if the devil were after her. She had run away from New York when her pa demanded she marry Stith Lenning, a domineering coward who would use her body and break her spirit. Liberty's response was NEVER . . . never, as long as a land waited in the West where a river ran fast and a woman was free to follow her dreams. But rampaging Indians along the Wabash's deep waters and Stith's relentless pursuit were more than even a feisty beauty could handle. Then, guns blazing, frontiersman Farr Quill rode into her life. With the same steely strength that had tamed the wilderness, he offered Liberty his protection . . . all he demanded in return was her total surrender.
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Dorothy Garlock at her best!.......2002-03-06
Spectacular... intriguing... suspenseful... romantic... touching... fun, and more! This is now one of my favorite Dorothy Garlock stories. Liberty is the perfect main character... feisty, defiant, and bold! I loved reading along as her temper gets the best of her... frequently!!! Farrway Quill is the typical strong woodsman that Ms. Garlock tends to write about... but with much more substance (though I still haven't found a better male character than Johnny Henry from Garlock's With Hope series).
Characters from "Love and Cherish" appear (Juicy, Rain Tallman... and Sloan and Cherish Carroll's son, Colby Carroll) appear throughout the book. Rain and Colby being Farrway's closest friends.
Though the time and location of the setting of this story is surrounded by the struggle of land between the indian and white man... this story tackles another danger, the struggle of the white man and what he will do for power. All of Ms. Garlock's books include a high respect for the indians, but also shows savages in both the indians and the white man. This book is no exception... and you'll be amazed at the strength of Liberty Carroll and the strength others find in themselves when near her.
This story thought ended beautifully, left some interesting untied ends of revenge and love, knowing they will be settled in the next book - Dream River. I'm anxious to read this book, and excited that it is about Rain Tallman... as every time he appeared in this story, his character just stood out among all others.
Good as prequel to "Dream River".......1999-12-21
When I read this book, I wanted to read "Dream River" because it featured my two favorite characters in the Wabash trilogy: Amy and Rain. I liked Libby and Farr but the closeness between them was underwritten. In the next two books, they seem to share an unbreakable bond that is envious to their family and friends but it is impossible to see how this closeness came about by reading this book. Although the readers can appreciate how and why Libby fell in love with Farr, Farr's love for Libby simply appeared. There was no explanation about how his lust for her turned to love. I like these two as individuals, but I did not see them as a couple until "Dream River" and "River of Tomorrow". The story of Farr and Fawnella is heart-breaking and incredibly ernest. Also, Willa and Colby's romance is sweet. But the greatest love burns in the two kids, Amy and Rain, and they finally get their turn to shine in "Dream River". "Lonesome River" has unforgettable characters, such as Juicy, Elija, Maude, and George Washington. These are colorful group of people, most of whom do not appear again in other books. A pity. All in all, this is a good book for everything except the lead players. The author should have focused more on them than on everything that was going on around them. Perhaps, she could not wait to get to the telling of Amy and Rain's story, just like I couldn't after I read this book.
The best book I have read........1999-02-08
This book was the first book I read when I was living in New York.I was 16yrs old and I lost it when I moved to Puerto Rico and have been trying to look for it ever since.So when I look up Amazon.com I said maybe I can find it here and i did. Thank you
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Part travelogue, part adventure, part love letter to a vanishing world, this is an expedition into the heart of our past in the tradition of Coming into the Countryand Goodbye to a River
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaska resident Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey down river to Circle City, Alaska, is more than one man's voyage into northern wilderness; it's an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable and little-known inhabitants of the region. In A Land Gone Lonesome, O'Neill blends natural history with human history into a piece of brilliant literary travel writing.
Though he spends much of his time on the river, at the heart of O'Neill's story are his forays into the Yukon wilderness and into the lives of a few souls still clinging to the old ways in a beautiful and hostile country-men like "Charley River" Charlie in his dog-fur vest and "The Iron Man of the Yukon" Percy DeWolfe-even as government policies are extinguishing people like them. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers are a living archive of North American pioneer values.
As O'Neill encounters these characters, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of their outmoded lives-and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon River world. With the singular perspective of an insider, O'Neill has painted an intelligent, rhapsodic-and, ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the Yukon and its authentic inhabitants.
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A wealth of Knowledge.......2007-06-01
This book is so visual. My OH my...reading this book, with my Alaska ATLAS in hand, I was transported to the Yukon - Charley region almost as if I were there!!!!!!!!!
Then I went onto Google Earth and zeroing in on places like Circle and Eagle was unreal...Thank you Dan, for a terrific, fantastic, ESCAPE from the daily grind. The only thing better...to buy a van, load up a boat, and driver to Circle, Alaska and shove off!!!!!!!!!
How men conquer the nature.......2007-01-10
Very interesting and educational especially for me who is not familiar with the hystory and geography of Alaska.It is amazing how this people who lived there fought for theirlives in this harsh enviroment.It is sorry that the goverment is more interested in searching for oil there that to preserve this unic land and help more people who want to stay there.
What I find a little negative in this book is the missing of photos of the Alascan landscape
Man and Nature.......2007-01-09
A gracefully written account of travels on the Yukon River. In his appreciation for the beauties of place and his understanding of man's place in nature O'Neill reminds one of Wendell Berry (the highest praise I can give). O'Neill also underscores the bureaucratic mentality of the National Park Service that has systematically eliminated the intentions of the legislation establishing the Yukon preserve.
The Depopulation of the Upper Yukon Watershed.......2006-12-27
Dan O'Neill is an adventurer, a historian, a "floater" (as Yukon River canoe campers are called), and an advocate for a people whose names may be last seen in these pages. This book is ostensibly a story about a float trip O'Neill makes from Dawson, in Canada's Yukon Territory, to Circle, in Alaska, through the Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve, administered by the National Parks Service. Actually, it is seven trips condensed into one. O'Neill is the spiritual descendant of John McPhee, whom he quotes extensively as the base-line Yukon River interpreter. The reader may be forgiven if he believes that he will be treated to a combination of float trip travelogue and history of the places and people who make the country what it is. Little by little we learn that O'Neill wants to do more than report; he intends to make a statement and to leave an impact.
O'Neill makes (and re-makes) a compelling case that the National Parks Service is egregiously mismanaging the wilderness it is supposed to be protecting. The NPS faces the same conflict in the Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve that it has in other national parks. How do you preserve a natural area for people to enjoy in perpetuity when each person who visits incrementally damages the area? O'Neill argues that the Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve differs so radically from the nation's other parks that it requires fresh thinking and a more tailored conservation regime. The lament implicit in the title is that this dramatically attractive land, inhospitable as it is, once was home to scores of rugged, subsistence pioneers, and could safely be so again under a more creative land use policy.
The enduring legacy of Dan O'Neill's book will not be his administrative prescriptions, though, but his deft, economical, and often sardonic descriptions of the land and its people. We learn a great deal about the geologic history of the region, including the fact that prior to the last ice age, the river ran southward, opposite its current direction. We learn where the gold-bearing strata are located and how they were exploited during the gold rush. We trap martin and lynx, and catch king salmon to feed ourselves and chum salmon to feed our dogs, We meet characters that couldn't conceivably be made up, like Dick Cook, whom we admire for his resourcefulness and indomitable spirit, and whose body we last see face down in the river that supported him. We poke through trash middens in a sort of contemporary archaeology, and learn how to handle irascible settlers and even more irascible grizzlies.
O'Neill treats us to a world which few of us are likely ever to see. "Moose, wolf, and bear have signed the mud registry in recent weeks, and I make my own prints, climb the bank, and look for a trail..." He faithfully reports and interprets his observations and gently constructs his arguments. Regrettably, however, he is not a gifted writer, and this deficiency occasionally shows, as in his purple descriptions of scenery. "The river is molten gold...the sky is a dazzling, luminous yellow where fiery clouds flash gilded edges...then I remember that the whole spinning world is a miracle, and that sometimes reality dawns more golden than dreams." And then there is the occasional error that an editor should have caught, "Sudden death killed forty-four of the fifty-five Alaskans who died in boating accidents between 2001 and 2003..." The reader may well wonder how death can be the cause of death.
I recommend "A Land Gone Lonesome" to armchair "floaters" and all who are curious about the forced depopulation of the upper Yukon watershed. You will meet the colorful denizens of a world just recently past, and the remarkable stage they have exited. And if you become motivated to visit the Yukon for yourself, you can thank McPhee and O'Neill for their contrasting depictions of the Yukon River and its fatal attraction.
The Yukon: Lonesome Except for the Ghosts.......2006-09-11
Dan O'Neill drops his canoe into the Yukon River near Dawson City (Canada) and paddles downriver in search of the Alaskan homesteader and the subsistence lifestyle familiar to many from John McPhee's book, "Coming Into the Country."
O'Neill's book is meant as both an update and a rebuke to McPhee and his fans. Most emphatically, O'Neill documents the decay and disappearance of the trappers that McPhee wrote about. Outside a few tiny villages, there is no longer a single family inhabiting the whole area O'Neill surveys on a year-round basis. He visits cabin after decaying abandoned cabin, musing on the complicity of the National Park Service in eliminating a culture that, from O'Neill's perspective, was worth preserving.
I expect there are a lot of Alaskans that share O'Neill's disappointment. And he does an excellent job communicating it - he's a first-rate journalist. Some parts of the story are downright lyrical; others are first-rate news reporting.
The narrative thread of his canoe journey from time to time gets buried behind his urge to fuss at the authorities setting policy in the area. The book gets increasingly episodic and disjointed the further downstream he gets. However, for fans of McPhee's book, and for fans of Alaska in general, a worthy addition to the literature.
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Richard Grant, an embittered surgeion impersonates a dead patient to collect a fortune in the frozen north of Alaska. "A tale of of strong men grappling for their desire; of bitter hardship, daring hazard, and the peril that hovers over snow-packed trails, of a fright to the death in a blinding blizzard..." Originally published in 1931.
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Archie Joscelyn
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Lonesome River
Frank Gruber
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Frank Gruber
Manufacturer: Signet
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7205 A.D. Hawk Hunter's most perilous mission ever is to find the one man who can stop the Solar Guards from seizing the source of all power in the Milky Way--and plunging the galaxy into a catastrophic Dark Age.
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The enigma wrapped in a riddle.......2005-10-28
I have written a number of reviews for this series and others of the author Mack Maloney. I find myself often repeating the same words trying to leverage some concepts for another reader to glean some kind of worth in deciding to pick this book up and read it. Many readers are part of the long and dedicated fan base that will tear into the next installment. Some drift in to a book and then start the process of going to the other books in the series or the other works. As one that has read and re-read every one of the various series books, this is another fine addition to the series. I found myself a little troubled if this was going to be the last as I worked through the first 2/3 of the book. It is not. It contains the action and military/tech/scifi building blocks arranged in rich prose. It carries a long and heartfelt message to nation on the GWOT. My often mentioned interwoven links to other books to bolster and make living the parallel planes of existence concept is further developed in this installment, but with a more subtle and more sophisticated style. The story is exceptional, more science fiction based and crafted. It is linked the original series in a genre fashion not seen since the 1930's serial movies and turn of the century novella installments in literature. I will not spoil it for the long time reader, if you have waited for the return of one of the most sought characters this will set the stage. My only departure from my normal comments will focus on the new reader. If this is your first book of this series or any of the Maloney works it requires previous series reading to really make sense. I fear many new readers will dismiss the book and series starting here. There is sufficient background layered out for the book to stand alone, but not enough with the series setting to be fully appreciated. From all of us that watched Buster Crab play Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers on the UHF channels re-runs in high school and college before cable and the internet, started out in the Wingman and War Heaven series - thanks Mack for latest installment and bringing light to a very dark entity in the series again.
Stellar Ride.......2004-10-08
"Storm Over Saturn" is one of the best purely science fiction stories I have read in a long time.
All at once bemusing, confusing, disorienting and exciting, Mack Maloney takes his readers on an incredible "dizzylando" ride. As with the rest of the STARHAWK and WINGMAN novels, "Storm Over Saturn" answers many questions raised in previous novels/series. At the same time, the story creates new mysteries for the reader to consider. Most importantly, perhaps, is that this book is simply FUN to read. I laughed quite a bit as Hawk Hunter wound his way from one crazy episode to the next. References both to classic science fiction and current world issues were both tasteful and delightful.
The only (very minor) complaint I have about this particular novel is the absence of Hawk Hunter's brothers-in-arms. While I knew that Erx, Berx, Zarex, Tomm, and co. couldn't/wouldn't be with Hawk this time, I did appreciate the fact that Hawk's trials and tribulations were given full attention.
Now I just have to wait for the next STARHAWK novel to come out (hint-hint, Mack Maloney). If any prospective readers come across my review, PLEASE do yourself a favor and secure a copy of "Storm Over Saturn." If only for its entertainment value, this book is definitely worth reading.
FUN TO READ BOOK.......2004-09-28
TO ALL ENOY THE BOOK. HE STARTED TO ANSWER SOME ONE WINGMAN QUESTIONS. I ALSO ENOJYED HOW HE UPDATED THE BOOK WITH CURRENT EVENTS FROM ARE TIME. MACK WHEN WILL THE NEXT BOOK BE OUT.
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Dr. Munroe surgically removes the religious rhetoric out of this most-oft-used word -- glory -- replacing it with words that will draw you into the powerful Presence of the Lord. The Glory of Living not only introduces you to the power of the glory but also practically demonstrates how God longs to see His glory reflected through man.
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Everywhere we turn, we are surrounded by glory. There is glory in every tree and flower. There is the splendor in the rising and setting sun. Every living creature reflects its own glory. Man in his own way through his actions and character expresses an essence of glory. But the glory that we see in Creation is but the barest reflection of the greater glory of the Creator. Dr. Munroe surgically removes the religious rhetoric out of this most oft used word, replacing it with words that will draw you into the powerful Presence of the Lord. The Glory of Living not only introduces you to the power of the glory but also practically demonstrates how God longs to see His glory reflected through man.
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Releasing Glory.......2007-02-07
I really got wonderful ways of how to be glorious in whatever situation as a way of honouring God. This book is a must to have as a reference guide for all Christians who want to be alright before man and God always.
Why write a new book? Just change the title!.......2006-02-25
This book is exactly the same book - verbatim - as Myles Munroe's The Purpose and Power of God's Glory. I wouldn't have bought this book if I had known it was the exact copy I already owned (with a different cover and title). I've lost a little respect for Mr. Munroe for misleading his faithful readers like this.
Great foundational book about the glory of God.......2005-12-03
This is one of the best foundational books I have ever read about the presence of God and the Glory of God. It's one of the best because it answers many questions I had and confirmed a lot of thoughts that I had studied and taught. He touched on a lot of aspects of the glory of God I never fully considered.
When reading this book, it will drop a seed that will cause you to want to begin to learn how to abide in His presence to be all that God has called you to be for the Glory of God to be manifested in the earth.
phenomenal book!.......2005-11-28
I've read several of his books- this is among the greatest!Easy to read- and consise overview at the end of the chapters.Overall great!
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