Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders
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    Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders
    Ray Jenkins
    Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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    ASIN: 0820319066
    Southern Mail
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    • The Sahara viewed from the wings of the stage
    • Ethereal prose poet
    Southern Mail
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , and Curtis Cate
    Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0156839016

    Book Description

    In his first novel, Saint-Exupéry pays homage to “those elemental divinities-night, day, mountain, sea, and storm,” turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of commercial aviation. The book is also a poignant reminiscence of a tragic affair, in which the uncertainties of love and flight enhance the mystery of one another. Translated by Curtis Cate.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars The Sahara viewed from the wings of the stage.......2005-05-22

    More soaring and gliding from aviation's greatest penseur. Why we are all here, how our world looks from the sky and how things change as we mature are all examined in the lovely loquacious style that is St.Ex. Another classic.

    5 out of 5 stars Ethereal prose poet.......2001-11-03

    I, like many, was first introduced to St. Exupery by "The Little Prince"; however, I went on to explore his other books (Wind, Sand and Stars) and fell in love with his poetic style of writing, his passion for flight, and his vivid descriptions of the Sahara. His life ended all too soon, insisting on flying in the War, even when he was turned down several times for his age. He died flying at the age of 44. His writing lives on, and if you read just the first page, you will know that this is one of the most talented and excellent writers you will ever read.
    The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to Contemporary Times
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    • big & pretty--pretty inaccurate
    • Cherokee History at its best!!
    • Extremely well written, documented and illustrated
    The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to Contemporary Times
    Thomas E. Mails
    Manufacturer: Council Oak Books
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0933031459

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars big & pretty--pretty inaccurate.......2005-09-01

    Nice coffee table book, but a great deal of Mails' stuff is either made-up or borrowed from squirrely popular romanticizations of Cherokee folks. For a general if ideologically out-dated history, see Grace Steele Woodward, for culture see Mooney, Theda Perdue for work specifically on women, and for straight-up historical scholarship, try William McLoughlin's stuff.

    5 out of 5 stars Cherokee History at its best!!.......2002-03-05

    Excellent text! Very detailed in explaining the origin, customs, social structure, and ancient ceremonial lore of the Cherokee people. Contains concise information regarding who the Cherokee were prior to European contact, as well as post contact.
    Would recommend this text for use in teaching Cherokee Culture and History. A valuable tool for exploring and researching the history of a noble people- The Cherokee.

    5 out of 5 stars Extremely well written, documented and illustrated.......1999-06-04

    Rev. Mails, a retired Lutheran minister, has produced a classic reference on the Cherokee people. He quotes other historians, including Englishmen who lived with the Cherokees during the 1700 and early 1800's, who believed the Cherokees are descended from the Hebrews (reinforcing Mormon beliefs that Cherokee ancestors came from Jerusalem and were Jews). The chapter on religion is very complete. The drawings, by Rev. Mails himself, are wonderful, as is his attention to detail. The bibliography is extensive.
    Southern Pacific in Oregon
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Hundreds or photos and stories about the SP in Oregon
    Southern Pacific in Oregon

    Manufacturer: Pacific Fast Mail
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0915713144

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Hundreds or photos and stories about the SP in Oregon.......2000-12-30

    I bought this book because I was raised in a Pullman passenger car sitting on the ground next to the Southern Pacific line in Southern Oregon. The book is a wonderful compilation of photos from all eras over all of the lines in Oregon. I was most interested in the Siskiyou line but the authors do an equally competent job covering the Cascade or Main line west to San Francisco (SF), the Coast line and all the branches around Portland. For you non-SP fans, trains going away from SF are headed East regardless of the direction and those headed toward SF are headed West. One of the best things I like about this book is the maps. There are strip maps of the entire SP system in Oregon showing terrain and all of the siding and communities of today and years long gone past and the mileposts. Mileage markers are also figured from San Francisco...SP headquarters on Market Street to be exact. The words that accompany the many photos provide a history of each segment of the line, some of the communities along the way as well as interesting stories the authors have acquired. One of the authors, Tom Dill, was a fireman-engineer for 18 years on the SP and Ed Austin's uncle worked for the company too. Over the years they took many great photos and you'll see them all in this book.

    So you always wanted to be an engineer on one of those big locomotives climbing up out of Eugene into the Cascades and headed toward Klamath Falls. Here's a quote from the book:

    Even with three AC's handling a train, speeds between Oakridge and Cascade Summit seldom exceeded twenty miles per hour and often dropped to ten miles per hour. Thus, heat and smoke in the longer tunnels on the Cascade line presented a significant problem for train crews...On one trip fireman Herb Abarr, using a thermometer in the cab of the second helper locomotive, measured a temperature of 176 degrees in tunnel No. 7.

    There is a second book that accompanies this one and it is called, "The Southern Pacific in Oregon - Pictorial". It is made up of many of the extra photos that wouldn't fit in the first book. If you can find it you'll also be pleased with the coverage of the line but be warned that both books are hard to find. If you can get them, however, you'll be very pleased with your purchase. I know one thing. You're not getting my copies.
    Southern Mail (Modern Classics)
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      Southern Mail (Modern Classics)
      Antoine De Saint-Exupery
      Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 0140041702
      True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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      True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog
      Joni Miller
      Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 0894803441

      Book Description

      Inspired by its Southern author's frustrating search for her favorite grits from her Northern home, True Grits is a Southern grocery store between two covers. This guide-a necessity for anyone with Southern roots or a fondness for Southern food-provides ordering information for more than 150 essential Southern ingredients and handmade specialty foods now available beyond the Mason-Dixon line. Now it's easy to stock our pantries with White Lily Flour, cans of Ro*Tel tomatoes, pickled okra, Goo Goo Clusters, ten different barbecue sauces, sweets from Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie to Warrenton Plum Pudding-and, of course, grits.

      True Grits is also a fascinating journey into Southern culture, with food festivals, folklore, unusual recipes, nostalgia, and side-bars-the Dr. Pepper Story, how to handle a country ham, and more. Finally the larder of the South is open to kitchens across the country. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Wonderful.......2000-06-21

      This book is a fantastic resourse for finding those hard to get recipies and Southern products. You can save a lot of time reading this book compared to searching on the web. Not growing up in the South or not having traveled there I had very little knowledge of; Southern cooking, recipies, and products. For those people who live and stay on the west cost... get a clue with this wonderful book. Discover new flavors, textures, and great recipies to intrigrate into your every day life style. You can never go wrong with stone ground buttered grits.
      Colorado and Southern: Railway Post Office, Baggage-Mail Car #13 (Quick Pic Book)
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        Tim Mulina
        Manufacturer: BHI Publications
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback
        ASIN: B000W2KDDK

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        94 pages and 128 different B&W photos as well as a full color heavy duty, semi-gloss, paperback cover. This book is one a series of detailed photo reference works intended for modelers. They are designed to show all the details of their subjects, including those not seen in conventional blueprints and illustrations. The books have been used by Bachmann Kato, Rio Grande Models and others in developing new products.
        Guide to Southern Africa, Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi, etc. for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited
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          A. Gordon-Brown
          Manufacturer: Robert Hale Ltd.
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          ASIN: B000N0P2MS
          Mail & Guardian Bedside Book (Southern African Political Economy Series, 6)
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            David MacFarlane , and Philip Van Niekerk
            Manufacturer: Mail & Guardian
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            The Mail Pilot of the Caribbean, The adventures of Ginger Hale Above the Southern Seas, In RARE Color Dustjacket Airplane over Ocean near Storm with NC 246 on Wing, Series #2, (2)
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              Illustrated Cover by Harold Cue, B/W Photo Fr Lewis E. Theiss
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              The Truest Heart
              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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              • Grossed me out...
              • Good and predictable...
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              The Truest Heart
              Samantha James
              Manufacturer: Avon
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              Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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              ASIN: 038080588X
              Release Date: 2001-06-05

              Book Description

              Did fate send her a villain with the blackest soul...or a lover with The Truest Heart

              Her name is her only crime, yet Lady Gillian must take refuge in a humble cottage on the on the stormy Cornish coast, hiding from a king who seeks her death for her father's treason.Now destiny has sent Gillian a cure for her loneliness: a handsome shipwrecked stranger washed ashore on a perilous tide who requires a kind lady's gentle touch to heal his broken body and tormented spirit.

              His own name -- Gareth -- is all that he remembers. Yet he knows he has found paradise in the company of an exquisite beauty whose caress is sweet rapture and whose smile warms his soul. But as his memories slowly return, so does the dark task entrusted to him by King John. If he fails, a young boy will surely perish. Yet how can he betray Gillian, whose passionate love has lit a blaze in Gareth's heart that no vengeful king's decree could ever extinguish?

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Enjoyable genre addition.......2006-04-04

              If you're looking for historical romance that reads like a period piece (without making you scratch your head in confusion over certain verbiage) then I highly recommend this book. (Nothing irritates me more than reading a 17th century, set in England-type of story that has the characters speaking as if they're from modern-day America.)

              Yes, Truest Heart has the same heroine-in-peril and hero-who-has-commitment-issues storyline, but I found Ms. James' story of Gillian and Gareth very enjoyable, especially as they learned to trust and rely on one another during King John's reign of terror.

              The (laughable) thing that bothered me the most about this book: Gillian's hair was described in the story many times over as as "ebony," "the color of the darkest midnight," etc. and the book art shows her as a redhead!

              1 out of 5 stars Grossed me out..........2006-03-10

              After seeing what a loyal following Samantha James has, I decided to give her a try. This book did not impress me.

              First of all, it was written in a style that was way too flowery. I found myself constantly revising it in my head so that it sounded more "human". It was like I was proofreading it while I was reading. I felt as if the author was trying to impress her readers with her complex, strangely worded sentences and dozens of adjectives. Hey, just because you're story is set in the past doesn't mean your prose has to read like the writings of the period.

              I didn't really feel like I knew or even liked the characters. The author was only skimming the surface of them. Even a third of the way through the book I felt I didn't know either of them any better than I'd known them on page 10. The heroine was a bit too much of a unwitty (is that even a word?) weakling. I like strong heroines who are still feminine. This one struck me as nothing more than a frail hothouse flower.

              When he's deathly ill and delirious, she feeds him by putting broth into her mouth and kissing him, then basically backwashing/spitting into his. She does this because he won't eat from a spoon. And yet he'll accept a woman practically barfing into his mouth. Yuck! This really grossed me out, and it was hard to convince myself to keep reading.

              The fact that he went from deathly ill with fever to propositioning the heroine within the space of a few pages was very rushed. They hadn't even gotten to know each other yet, and already he was trying to jump her bones.

              But the final straw that made me almost throw this book across the room? When the hero finds out that the heroine is not the widow she claims to be. To prove it, he grabs her, holds her fast while she tries to struggle away (how he manages to do this when he was near death mere days before is beyond me) and sticks his fingers in her...ahem, well...personal area to see if she's still a virgin. OH MY GOSH! I can accept the occasional contrived sexual scenerio in a romance, but this was way too much! And if you ask me, the heroine again displayed her weakness by not killing him on the spot.

              That horrible act of what can only be termed sexual assault (it doesn't have to be actual rape for it to be assault) completely killed any interest I had in this book. I have one other of her books on my 'to be read' shelf, and if she doesn't redeem herself there, I will be putting Samantha James on my 'do not buy' list.

              3 out of 5 stars Good and predictable..........2005-09-28

              Whether it be that I read far too many romances of late or that this book didn't impress me, I don't know. Maybe I am just wearing out the genre. This was a good book, not particularly memorable, but it certainly wasn't bad. It has all the heroines requist tears and blushes, she was beautiful, and he was handsome with the personal obstacles to love.

              I don't know what it is that made this book good but unmemorable but if I had to guess I think it was the timing. Things went from unconsciousness to make out in just a few pages. I suppose my other problem is that if your going to mention a complicated scene, such as the scene when the hero must lift a large ill man by himself when he supposedly an equally injured man, it must be difficult, one sentence will not do. It is distracting to read the next sentence that went something like : "then later this happened and all was well." It destroys an opportunity to bond on a human level with the characters otherwise they are just plastic dolls. Without detailed descriptions of other events, the overly detailed, multi-paged, sexual descriptions seem out of place.


              4 out of 5 stars Two points of exploration........2004-02-09

              While reading the escapade of Lady Gillian and Gareth, the Lord of Sommerfield, I encountered two conflicting images. Samantha James fills the story's launch with tenderness, and the reader sees trust and friendship taking shape.

              Regrettably, the book's setting changes and we move to Castle Sommerfield. When Gillian realizes her new friend is her assigned assassin, the tenderness shatters. The author now dips into the familiar writing technique -- distrust -- and what is distrust without fighting. Now Lady Gillian moves through her days with extensive unhappiness.

              Still the story is entertaining, mysterious, and passionate. The writer has great fun with Gareth's son, Robbie. His charming little life captivates the reader.

              In the final pages, the author ties and neatly disposes all the nagging problems. Even Gillian's guardian comes back from the clutches of death; extraordinarily, Gillian's lost brother returns with him. One disappointment, when Gareth declares his love, I wished both wives could have had equality - there is no reason Gillian should dominate his heart more.

              Grace Atkinson, Ontario - Canada.

              5 out of 5 stars Makes You Believe in Heros.......2001-12-24

              This is a wonderfully written book full of interesting characters. Gillen and Gareth definitely should be together, however, with the threat to Gillian's life and Gareth's son from the King James, things are bound to go wrong. Samantha James is a wonderful author I enjoy her books
              The Truest Heart
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                Manufacturer: Avon
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                Truest faith penetrates one's heart, soul, mind.(Columns)(Column): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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                  Truest faith penetrates one's heart, soul, mind.(Columns)(Column): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

                  Manufacturer: The Register Guard
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Digital
                  ASIN: B0008ISBSC
                  Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                  This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on November 29, 2003. The length of the article is 601 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                  Title: Truest faith penetrates one's heart, soul, mind.(Columns)(Column)
                  Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
                  Date: November 29, 2003
                  Publisher: The Register Guard
                  Page: B8

                  Article Type: Column

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                  TRUEST HEART
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                    TRUEST HEART
                    SAMANTHA JAMES
                    Manufacturer: Avon
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                    Binding: Paperback
                    ASIN: B000Q933AE
                    The Truest Heart
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                      The Truest Heart
                      Samantha James
                      Manufacturer: Morrow/Avon
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                      ASIN: B000NXSROA
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                        The Truest Heart

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                        Publisher: Edition: 2001

                        Dragonholder
                        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                        • Anne Heir
                        • only for fans of McCaffrey
                        • Charming Fragments of a Life
                        • Sometimes teasing, always affectionate, fans will love it
                        • DragonHolder
                        Dragonholder
                        Todd J. Mccaffrey
                        Manufacturer: Del Rey
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                        ASIN: 0345422171
                        Release Date: 1999-11-23

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                        In her brief note to the readers, Anne McCaffrey informs us that Dragonholder was written in response to countless requests to tell "how I spent my childhood, who my friends were, my pets, how I ever thought up Pern and its dragons--the whole nine unvarnished yards." Todd McCaffrey, her second son and a long-time science fiction (and McCaffrey) fan put together this album of family photographs and anecdotes, interspersed with behind-the-scenes stories about his mother's writing career.

                        The book includes everything from Anne's childhood pet--a Maine Coon cat named Thomas, who suffered her dressing him in doll clothes and wheeling him around in a stroller and whose best friend was the neighbor's collie--to tales of McCaffrey Second Sight (possessed by Anne's grandmother and mother, as well as herself) to how she came to write the stories that became Dragonflight, the first Pern novel. It covers her career from the early stories through her long struggle to make ends meet as a professional writer to her success in 1978, when The White Dragon became the first science fiction hardcover to reach The New York Times bestseller list. McCaffrey fans won't want to miss this--it's the next best thing to having your own visit with her. --Nona Vero

                        Book Description

                        Here there be dragons . . .

                        Since the first unforgettable appearance of Pern's remarkable dragons and their brave human riders in the novella Weyr Search, winner of a Hugo award in 1968, millions of readers the world over have thrilled to Anne McCaffrey's bestselling saga of men, women, and dragons united against the deadly fall of Thread. Thanks to McCaffrey's bold and generous imagination, we have known what it is to fly. We have touched the fiery hearts and minds of the great fighting dragons, witnessed their passionate loves and violent hates, and felt the deep, unbreakable bonds that join them to their riders. McCaffrey's creative magic has made Pern real--a home to hold in the heart. Its inhabitants are more than characters in a book. They are family.

                        Now a member of Anne McCaffrey's family--her son Todd--gives us a candid and inspiring glimpse into the mind and soul of one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time--an extraordinary woman who has influenced a generation of writers and readers and left an indelible mark on the field.

                        From Anne's birth on April Fool's Day in 1926, her girlhood encounters with the strange power of second sight that gifts the McCaffreys, her trailblazing efforts to balance the roles of wife, mother, and writer in the turbulent sixties, through a painful divorce and the years of success and acclaim that followed, Dragonholder is a labor of love that will enrich every reader's appreciation of the world of Pern . . . and its equally unique creator.

                        Customer Reviews:

                        5 out of 5 stars Anne Heir.......2006-03-17

                        I enjoy reading about the background story of her and her family, I enjoy her stories and also her son too. Dragonsblood and Dragon's Kin exclent so was Dragonlover's Guide to Pern but someone should have check it better for there are some problems with it and with On Dragonwings too. vak

                        3 out of 5 stars only for fans of McCaffrey.......2003-05-06

                        Admittedly, this book is for fans of author Anne McCaffrey. Fans had been clamoring for her to tell her life's story, but she's been too busy writing her novels. Her second son, Todd, wrote this book to give the fans a little bit of what they want. That's the problem. It is a little bit. This is a very slim volume (coming in at not much more than 100 pages) and is not very well organized. We are not really treated to the entirety of McCaffrey's life and this is not a chronological book. Todd McCaffrey jumps around quite a bit and never stays on any one subject for too long. We get glimpses of the science fiction legend. We see a little bit of her early life and the problems she had growing up. We see her as a struggle writer, and a struggling singer/actor. We see how these experiences shaped her later novels (the singer problems translated directly into Crystal Singer), but we never really get a sense of who Anne McCaffrey is. Granted, I'm not expecting the depth of research that we would get from Robert Caro or David McCullough, but this is a very skimpy biography and is somewhat of a let down. Decent enough for fans of McCaffrey, but I can't imagine this would be of interest to anybody else.

                        4 out of 5 stars Charming Fragments of a Life.......2001-08-04

                        The only criticism possible for this biography of Anne McCaffrey by her son, Todd, is that it is too short. The book is a must-read for any Anne McCaffrey fan, but will leave any such fan saying "More! More!" It tells in brief her family background and the story of her life in a series of family anecdotes and his own favorite memories of growing up with his mother. What is in the book is lovely and charming and interesting and often quite touching, but it is disjointed and reads more like a sketch than a real biography. What you are left with is a sense of what an interesting person she is and how much you'd like to hear more, to have a really well-rounded portrait. That lack is why I gave it only four stars instead of five. Still, you are left with a new awareness of how incredibly brave Anne McCaffrey was and is. She wrote her wonderful dragon stories under the worst possible conditions -- an unhappy, difficult marriage, raising three children, one quite ill for some years, frequent moves, the death of her father, serious money worries. Through it all, she kept writing and was clearly an excellent mother. That alone makes her an inspiration. Read the book knowing its limitations and enjoying learning some charming fragments of a life.

                        5 out of 5 stars Sometimes teasing, always affectionate, fans will love it.......2001-07-05

                        It's not hard to understand why Todd McCaffrey might be fond and proud of his mother. Anne McCaffrey remains one of the finest science fiction authors in the genre today, over thirty years after she began writing. It's also not hard to see that he is indeed very fond and very proud of her when you turn the pages of this biography. Told from his own point of view as someone who was there for quite a lot of it, this story of Anne's life vivdly illustrates her family tree, her childhood, her activity in the worlds of theater and music, her less-than-satisfying marriage to Todd's father, and how she got started writing her marvelous books. Complete with family photos and written with ill-concealed amusement and love, this is the kind of book any mother would want her child to write about her.

                        4 out of 5 stars DragonHolder.......2000-10-22

                        Amazing book. Todd blows us away with an indepth veiw of what went into Anne McCaffreys novels, short stories and other works. Anyone who reads anything by Anne McCaffrey will enjoy this book wholeheartedly.
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                          Todd J. McCaffrey
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                          After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s
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                          After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s
                          Robert Wuthnow
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                          In The Restructuring of American Religion, Robert Wuthnow examined the changing patterns of institutional religion in contemporary America. In After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s, he makes a similar analysis of personal spirituality. His basic argument is that professional and social mobility makes it hard for Americans to sustain spiritual life because they don't feel rooted in one place; therefore, they embark on spiritual searches "characterized more often by dabbling than by depth." In contrast to these "dwelling-oriented" and "seeking-oriented" spiritualities, Wuthnow observes that increasing numbers of religious people are turning to "practice-oriented" spirituality--"making a deliberate attempt to relate to the sacred" through disciplines such as reading, prayer, and service. Wuthnow is passionately interested in the question of how an individual's search for spiritual identity affects our society, so he explains that although practice-oriented spirituality may initially seem to weaken the authority of religious institutions, spiritual practices "ultimately sustain these institutions by giving individuals the moral fortitude to participate in them without expecting too much from them." Wuthnow's prose is clean and clear, and his argumentation is thoroughly humane: every idea is conveyed through stories taken from interviews with hundreds of people of varying ages, races, religions, and classes. After Heaven stands with Wuthnow's previous work, and Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart as a landmark in the sociology of religion. --Michael Joseph Gross

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                          The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, define their spiritual journeys. His findings are a telling reflection of the changes in beliefs and lifestyles that have occurred throughout the United States in recent decades.
                          Wuthnow reconstructs the social and cultural reasons for an emphasis on a spirituality of dwelling (houses of worship, denominations, neighborhoods) during the 1950s. Then in the 1960s a spirituality of seeking began to emerge, leading individuals to go beyond established religious institutions. In subsequent chapters Wuthnow examines attempts to reassert spiritual discipline, encounters with the sacred (such as angels and near-death experiences), and the development of the "inner self." His final chapter discusses a spirituality of practice, an alternative for people who are uncomfortable within a single religious community and who want more than a spirituality of endless seeking.
                          The diversity of contemporary American spirituality comes through in the voices of the interviewees. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Native Americans are included, as are followers of occult practices, New Age religions, and other eclectic groups. Wuthnow also notes how politicized spirituality, evangelical movements, and resources such as Twelve-Step programs and mental health therapy influence definitions of religious life today.
                          Wuthnow's landmark book, The Restructuring of American Religion (1988), documented the changes in institutional religion in the United States; now After Heaven explains the changes in personal spirituality that have come to shape our religious life. Moreover, it is a compelling and insightful guide to understanding American culture at century's end.

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                          5 out of 5 stars american pastiche religion - trenchant, hopeful analysis.......1998-10-02

                          Robert Wuthnow is the most prolific and most interesting contemporary sociologist of religion, delving again into the ambiguous heart of American spirituality. This study is certainly the most accessible, popular analysis of religious trends since the 1950s, with a startlingly convincing interpretation of how attitudes about religion and spirituality have changed in the post-modern era. Read this and await his next study. Wuthnow's done a great service to our understanding of what sometimes seems to be a most perplexing trend from domestic religion to a kind of amorphous, inauthentic spirituality of seeking.
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                                  Richard E. Wentz
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