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Film Directors, 16th Edition (Film Directors)
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These are the most complete film reference directories about writers of motion picture, film directors and film actors available.
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Danielle Steel
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Silent Honor
ASIN: 0375431020
Release Date: 2001-04-10 |
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Danielle Steel's 51st bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free...
The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before. What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect. As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met. She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known.
It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs. All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star- just out of reach. Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find. As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives. Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe. Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation. Joe's planes are his life, his passion. But irresistably drawn to her, moth moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate. Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns. Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away. As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life.
When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family. Joes wants the world, his limitless horizon, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives.
Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breaths life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise. The joinging of two remarkable halves into a single far more powerful whole. It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.
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Read another DS book.......2006-12-15
There are too many Danielle Steel books to read, don't bother with this one. It was was good but you will hate the male main character, Joe. Joe is the most selfish, arrogant man. You pray that Kate gives him the boot. If only she did then we'd get to watch Joe cry over losing her once again. He wants her, he doesn't want her. Then she moves on and is fine and he doesn't like that so he wants her again. Unfortunately, she keeps taking him back. This book only proves your mother is usually right (as much as daughters hate to admit it) They usually know what is best for us but it's not clear to us until later.
Don't waste your money with this one.......2005-10-10
This is the worst novel I have ever read by Danielle Steel. If you enjoy spineless female characters and emotionally abusive, childish men then you may like this story. I only kept reading because I was hoping it would get better; unfortunately, it only got worse. I didn't even finish the last chapter. I skimmed it, hoping (in vain) that Kate would come to her senses. Instead, she continues to pine after a man who has admitted over and over again that she will never come first in his life. I have no idea what Danielle Steel was thinking with this one. I think I'll stick to her earlier works and toss this one in the trash.
Repetitive & wishy-washy.......2005-02-24
At first, I thought I was crazy when I couldn't get into this book, but found that others felt similarly. I couldn't get into it! Danielle Steele described the characters' feelings with the same words & emotions throughout the entire novel! All it seemed like was that Kate aged biologically, but not emotionally. At one point in the story, I was getting really annoyed at her for sounding like a nagging wife (though her concerns seemed semi-legit). Don't we have enough "nagging wives" across America? I really couldn't like Joe the way I could "like" other characters from Ms. Steele's other novels, probably because he admitted first and foremost that airplanes were his first true love. Yes, there are many men like that out there, but Danielle Steele novels are supposed to be an escape - and aren't supposed to be thinly veiled portrait of some man we all knew...
unusual but lovely romantic novel.......2004-12-30
I recommend everyone to read this book. It will have you gasping for air when you close the book because you want to know whats next. I love it and you will to.
Lone Eagle.......2004-09-23
Another great story by Danielle Steel... This time she writes a passionate love story between a pilot and a young girl. Joe is a handsome and successful pilot and businessman. He meets Kate when she is 17 years old and still in college. Even though her mother disapproves, she begins to date Joe and falls in love. They begin to live together, but eventually Kate finds out that he does not want to get married or have children. She decides to end the relationship and marry her good friend Andy, who is a stable and loving husband.
Kate soon discovers that she cannot forget Joe. Even though she is married with a child now, she realizes that she is still in love with him and will always be. Fate brings them together again one day in New York City and their lives are changed forever.
A powerful love story filled with all the sole searching and passion that makes live meaningful!
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In the wilds of 1856 Wyoming, the daughter of a white landowner and a slave woman escapes the harsh existence forced on her by her father, who treats her as a slave despite her fair skin. When her horse goes lame, she steals one from a nearby Crow Indian village, only to be caught by its owner, the proud Lone Eagle. But the warrior's anger quickly turns to passion for this willful woman, and her own desire for escape and freedom turns into something else entirely....
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Cannot recommend this book.......2004-04-21
Very disappointed with Cassie Edwards novel. The heroine is suppose to be a biracial woman, but you get the feeling that this is another 'white' woman's romance novel. I was disappointed that the character of Zondra was not a black woman which would have been very interesting. There are not any historical romance novels which portray a black woman and Native American Indian that I know of. It would have been exciting to read this type of interracial novel. The writer plays it safe by making the heroine have white skin and all appearances of a white woman. It's disturbing that the message seems that white is once again better than anything darker. Zondra's is described as being 'blessed' with white skin which is also very disturbing. I cannot recommend this book at all. I hope other books can respectfully portray the romance between black women and Native American Indians in a better light.
Have read better.......2003-12-05
I have read Cassie Edwards before, and she has put out a few good books(you just have to find them). She is a writer that you will either like or dislike. I personally like her. However I thought that this particular book was pretty bad. I am part Native American, and I know that mixed marriages DID occur.
However, the story line, characters, plot and all thins in between were shallow and uncoordinated in this book. Parts of the book did not need to be there, and yet it was lacking a lot.
Sorry Cassie, try again.
Waste of time and money.......2000-02-12
I have tried reading over a dozen Cassie Edwards books, and Lone Wolf is the last book of hers that I will waste my money on. The story was unbelievable, and repetitious. The plot was supposed to be about a slave girl and Indian chief falling in love. What Mrs. Edwards gave us was a story about a white heroine who was a slave[ that happened to have a black mother (who was also a slave) and a white father who happened to be the master]and an Indian chief who fell in love. The characters were undeveloped, the relationship between Zondras parents was nonsensical, a few facts were thrown into the story at random in a text book manner disrupting what little flow of the book there was. The dialog between the characters was laughable to say the least. I spent most of my time grimacing over the poor writing. The beginning, middle, and especially the ending of the book were pulled from left field. If Mrs. Edwards is going to do away completely with history she should tack a letter to the end of the book letting readers know that the story has little or no semblance to historical facts. In short I feel at least an attempt at research of her subject should have been made. Maybe that could have salvaged some portion of this book though I doubt it.
Weak, Insulting, & not worth your time.......2000-01-10
Why is Cassie Edwards allowed to write? I didn't like any of the characters in this book. I found them weak. I wasted my time reading this book. While reading the book's description I was suprised that the heorine was mixed who falls for an Indian. I'ved never read a book by a white author who had a semi black chartacter who the hero falls in love with. Only the premise is about that, the acutal story is about a white woman who falls in love with a Indian. Zondra knew nothing about her culture, except she was a slave, mom black. There is more to black culture than slavery, but I didn't read any of that in this book. Cassie Edwards could have done something truly remarkable by allowing the Indian to fall in love with a dark skin black woman. Black and Indian romance did occur.
White Mulatto Heroine and Indian Hero A Nice Change BUT..........1999-10-09
In reply to the Virginia reader who wanted the very white heroine to call herself "black," let me say that the author's refusal to pin a "one drop" stigma on the heroine was the BEST thing about the book! Actually, Southern states in the antebellum period allowed various degrees of "black" ancestry into the "white race," and exceptions could be made for people who established a white identity in the community.
The major flaws of the book are a poor characterization of Zondra's parents, inadequate historical research, and a lack of comfort with the subject matter.
Ms. Edwards should have eliminated those off-stage "dark" siblings. They served absolutely no purpose in the plot and belied the image of Zondra's parents as a loving couple. I suspect that she included them and the nonsense about being "sold off" because she felt she wasn't making slavery look bad enough.
I appreciate Ms. Edwards' "mixed white" heroine and her Indian lover, but she should have put more emphasis on building strong major and supporting characters and left the preaching to abolitionist novels.
The antebellum mixed-white heroine and "pure" white hero used to be common in the Romance genre. I'd like to also see the same type of heroine matched with Indian, Latino and other exotic heroes. Let's hope that authors aren't being frightened off by the "politcal correctness" of the present day.
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Film Writers Directory, 10th Edition (Film Writers Directory)
Edited by the Staff of Lone Eagle Publishing
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ASIN: 1580650449 |
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These are the most complete film reference directories about writers of motion pictures, film directors and film actors available.
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In the 1920s America yearned for a hero. They had great baseball players and actors, but they longed for a seminal achievement â authentically heroic in its defiance of the odds. The Lone Eagle delivered, and the public treated him like a hero from a fairy tale, with rewards of wealth, fame, and a princess in marriage. But domestic tragedy followed. And so, in this wonderful concise biography, Walter Hixson has shown how "Lucky Lindy" exemplifies the triumphs and tragedies of America's coming of age.
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Small, Easy to Read, Well Written.......2006-06-18
This is part of Longman's series of American Biography. They are short, with a reading level set for high school students in American History. It is a little surprising to me that the average high school student doesn't know Lindbergh. To those of us born before World War II, he was a famous person. But then again, his famous flight across the Atlantic was as far away to the modern high schooler as the Spanish-American war was to my generation.
Mr. Hixson does an excellent job of describing Lindbergh's early flying of the mail, the solo flight across the atlantic and his personal life. Of particular concern to today's student was Lindbergh's attitude towards World War II.
Lindbergh was a prominent member of the American First group that strenuously wanted to keep America out of the war. He was strongly condemned. I particularly liked Lindbergh's comment: 'I have always believed that every American cieizen had the right and duty to state his opinion in peace and to fight for his country in war.' Lindbergh was not in the military, but did serve as an aviation consultant in the South Pacific. He flew missions against the Japanese and developed new techniques to extend the range of American fighters, particularly the P-38.
Useful Text.......2006-04-30
It is my understanding tha this series is marketed to the post adolescent teen market and widely sold to libraries.
For such purposes, and for the mildly curious, this length volume is adequate.
From the tone of the book description abovw, this may be in the nature of a hagiography. Best if it offends both right and left for the truth is most often in the middle.
The national acclaim for Lindbergh that swept the country in the twenties and later was on the order of the hysterical acclaim given the Beatles in later years. Having been mildly aware of the former, as an adult observoe of the latter, I certainly know more of the latter.
Growing up in the forties and being constantly reminded in my consciousness of the all surrounding atmosphere of World War Two, I was not aware of any other state of existence. The depression was not a memory for me at all for my family had managed to hang on in the lower middle class throughout the Great Depression which was never a dinner table subject even when Grandad came over on Sunday. The only result of the Great Depression on me is that I am ten years younger thsn I would have been if my parents had married soon after they first met. :)But the thirties were the days of dismissing of married female teachers, and mother had had to pay off her father's debts. Dad still had to live at home and scraped by on even less.
But though the depression was not in my childhood perceptions Lindbergh was. In that period of my life, I just knew he was famed for his flight. He was a national hero, the Boy Scouts published a book "The Lone Scout in the Sky: The Story of Charles A. Lindbergh" by James E.West, which remained in their catalog for many years. (West was the long time chief executive of the national BSA and was resonsible for shaping it through the forties.)
Lindbergh's writings and those of his equally famous and publically beloved aviatrix wife, Ann Morrow, sold widely in the thirties. The tragedy of their baby's kidnapping and murder cemented the national affection for him. When I first became aware of him, his grest flight was the only subject I knew.
Later on, I learned of the kidnapping and by the late fifties I had become aware of the political controversies about his actions in the late thirties with the America First isolationist movement and his open admiration of the German Luftwaffe,
Because of these activities he was not favored by President Roosevelt, and thus, though he was a reserve colonel he was never mobilized after Pearl Harbor. Lindbergh did manage to get to the Pacific area as a civilian technical consultant and flew several combat missions against the Japanese. From then on he just faded away, I have no recollection of him or even when he died.
Thus Chsrles A. Lindbergh has joined the American pantheon of heroes who many aew aware of and consider to be worthy of praise but haven't a clue as to why. Not totally forgotten, he is now and then still commemorated. In the last twenty years or so there has been a Lindbergh drive next the Montgomery County Airpark near Gaithersburg, Md, but most would not know who he was.
So such works are useful if not definitive.
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Lone Eagle
Danielle Steel
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Charles A. Lindbergh: The Life of the "Lone Eagle" in Photographs
Joshua Stoff
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ASIN: 0486278786 |
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Extensive pictorial anthology chronicles extraordinary career of the man who changed aviation history. Over 250 rare photographs, accompanied by detailed captions depict Lindbergh in childhood photos, shots of his "barnstorming" days, views of the young pilot examining damage to his Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" after crashing in 1923, and touring with the Spirit of St. Louis.
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This new edition directory is the most complete, reliable and comprehensive reference book on below-the-line crew talent for motion pictures.
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- Memories of an American hero
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The Lone Navy Eagle
W. Ed Parker
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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ASIN: 1587214636 |
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Memories of an American hero.......2002-04-06
The Lone Navy Eagle is the story of a young man, forced by fate and bound by duty, into the life of a combat avitator in World War Two.
W. Ed Parker is one of the true American patriots in the nation, tirelessly fighting America's enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Mr. Parker was a farm boy from North Carolina when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Immediately after completing high school, he joined the Navy and trained for a naval avitator. Although younger and less educated than most of the other cadets, he developed a quick instict for flying.
During the war, he was assigned to the USS Princeton, and spent most of his time in engaged in the tedious, but vital job of recon patrols. He did, however, manage to get combat action against the Japanese, including a daring skip bombing run where he bounced a 500-pound bomb into a Japanese entrenchment, enabling the Marines to advance on the island.
Unfortunately for the book, Mr. Parker wasn't able to utilize many of his records, because his ship was sunk by the Japanese, essentially ending his tour in the Pacific. Without his records, he lacks details of his missions, but he does provide many other details, such as maps and schematics, from extensive research into the Navy archives.
Mr. Parker doesn't detail much daily activity while in the Navy, aside from playing bridge, and reading intelligence reports. It is interesting to note his opinion on the atomic bomb and its role in the war.
This book will be enjoyed by anyone wishing to learn more about the unknown officer in World War Two, one of the "Greatest Generation."
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Scientists from the 22nd century implant a micro computer chip into Hitler's brain, giving him the knowledge that will ensure he does not make the wrong decisions during the first year of the Second World War. Thus, Hitler orders total economic mobilization in 1939, and orders the production of the He178 jet fighter in 1939. Hitler orders Guderian to take Dunkirk before the British can escape to England. He sends Rommel to North Africa in June 1940 with four panzer divisions. The result--the British Empire is brought to its knees.
The Lion is Humbled is both science fiction and alternative history. Discover for yourself how easily history could have been changed by simple decisions that were not made. You will discover how the elimination of Admiral Canaris brings Spain into the war in July 1940, or how the defeat of the British at Dunkirk affects the U.S. presidential race in 1940, or how Joe Kennedy is able to bring down the Roosevelt administration.
The Lion is Humbled is the first of a series of books by Robert Blumetti's series: The Thousand Year Reich. You can now learn for yourself of the alternative future that might have been.
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At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by Modern Bride magazine or reality television than by any of the Christian treatises on holy matrimony. Indeed, church weddings have strayed long and far from distinctly Christian aspirations. The costumes and gestures might still be right, but the intentions are hardly religious.
Why then, asks noted gay commentator Mark D. Jordan, are so many churches vehemently opposed to blessing same-sex unions? In this incisive work, Jordan shows how carefully selected ideals of Christian marriage have come to dominate recent debates over same-sex unions. Opponents of gay marriage, he reveals, too often confuse simplified ideals of matrimony with historical facts. They suppose, for instance, that there has been a stable Christian tradition of marriage across millennia, when in reality Christians have quarreled among themselves for centuries about even the most basic elements of marital theology, authorizing experiments like polygamy and divorce.
Jordan also argues that no matter what the courts do, Christian churches will have to decide for themselves whether to bless same-sex unions. No civil compromise can settle the religious questions surrounding gay marriage. And queer Christians, he contends, will have to discover for themselves what they really want out of marriage. If they are not just after legal recognition as a couple or a place at the social table, do they really seek the blessing of God? Or just the garish melodrama of a white wedding? Posing trenchant questions such as these, Blessing Same-Sex Unions will be a must-read for both sides of the debate over gay marriage in America today.
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One to read, one to buy.......2005-08-20
There have been a lot of books written recently on the topic of same-sex marriage and yet Professor Jordan still manages to say something that wasn't covered in any of the other books. He explores marriage and its associated (or claimed) theology and the intersection of marriage and the reality of gay male romantic lives. He actually says a lot more of what marriage is not and what same-sex marriage will not be and makes very few assertions about what marriage or marriage theology are or how same-sex marriage will look like. Which is an assertion in itself. Anyway, any book which cites Queer as Folk rates high in my book.
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