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Al Este Del Eden / East of Eden
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Title: Al este del edén.(TT: East of Eden)
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Love -Hate at its Best.......2007-07-30
Years ago, a 17 year old Tabby fell in love with sophisticated sexy Christien Laroche while on summer vacation in France with her father and very young step mother. Tabby's father, in deep depression ever since the death of her mother, drives home drunk one night killing himself and his passengers along with Christien's father who was in another car. Grieving over his father and believing Tabby was unfaithful to him, Christien turns his back on her. Now four years later, finding out that Christien's aunt left her a cottage on a remote area of the Laroche family property in her will, Tabby decides to move to France as she and her 3 year old son Jake have been living on her aunt's goodwill. Jake is the three year old carbon copy son that Tabby never told Christien about although she did make an attempt at the accident inquiry that took place shortly after his birth. When Christian refused to speak to Tabby she took it as proof he wouldn't have wanted anything to do with her son either. Now, Christien is back and wanting a place back in Tabby's life but will her secret destroy their chances.
This was a passionate exciting story and even though Christian is arrogant and a butt at times, he is still so sexy you want to forgive him. Tabby is sweet and a little naive but who can blame her reaction to Christien.
Where is the 4th friend Jenny? This series is fantastic, Brides of L'Amour, ooh la la.......2005-10-01
This book is part of a series of 4 books that each tell a tale of 4 friends, Tabby, Pippa, Hilary and Jenny, who vacationed in Europe together every year, but something tragic happens that seperates them as teenagers, but they come together later in life, either during the romance or at the end of the book as the romance resolves, tying up a happy ending for us wistfully sighing readers *grin*. I absolutely love the way these stories intertwine.
This is Tabby's tale, and she is a gentle, ultra-patient sweet-tempered friend and heroine with a delicious sense of humor. This temperament may frustrate some of you that like heroines with more of a back-bone, but remember as in life, all friends have different personalities so if Tabby doesn't do it for you, hang in there and wait for funky hilarious Hilary--my favorite of the friends! Pippa has a great tale, too...but Tabby has a wonderful story here too, and she is a devoted friend to her pals, as we find out in the other books in this series.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE email me @ Cyndi@DreamEmporium.com and let me know where to find the title for the remaining book in this series, the story of Jenny? I can't find info anywhere; maybe it isn't written yet as of this writing. I'm waiting patiently, Lynne Graham...tap-tap-tap-tap...
Have I mentioned I have almost all of Lynne Graham's books? GREAT AUTHOR. Don't miss reading her books if you haven't discovered her yet.
Great read. I love it!.......2004-03-31
This is a great start to the Child Brides of L'Amour series. Christien and Tabby met one summer and had an affair. They broke up due to a misunderstanding and some tragic circumstances. They met again several years later and their passion for each other still burned red hot. I greatly enjoyed reading this book and everything about it is good -- the story, the hero and heroine, the dialogue, the setting, and the love scenes.
Good but not great.......2004-01-24
I like the idea for the book. But, my problem is with the weakness of the heroine. This is the 21st century, LG needs to give some of these women real backbones.
LG best book.......2003-12-02
I am a big fan of LG and I believe that this is her best book ever. I love the characters and I found that the story is very realistic: During a holiday in France, a seventeen year old (Tabby) fell in love with a alpha male (Christien) who did not know her real age and gave her a bad time about it. Then tragedy separated this couple and she was pregnant!!! Four year later they would reunited and she has to confess that he has a three years old boy called Jake... It is sweet, heartbroken and love prevails...
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A clever book - within the limits of the Doctor Who universe.......2004-11-01
Kursaal is a dark story containing well constructed, essential, and sharp characters that we actually watch change. We catch glimpses of the Doctor's weariness, we see his companion - Sam - with her teeth for much of the story, and the other detective of the story transforms from a glutton into an introspective street-smart chief of police.
Angelides credits his reader with a good deal of intelligence. He deals with politics, drugs, capitalism, archaeology, and an alien civilisation that with all its technology and culture raises Kursall at times to the level of the Alien moves. This is a superb story where much is gained yet also much is lost that explores environmental degradation, land rights and the loss of cultural diversity - issues all too topical to our own age.
JAX IN THE BOX.......2001-04-11
I do enjoy DOCTOR WHO - always have, always will, but I have to admit that these early books (KURSAAL being the seventh book in the adventures of the Eighth Doctor and Sam), really fail to capture the imagination or the attention of the reader. How many times in DOCTOR WHO's history have the Doctor and his companion(s) set forth on a vacation only to end up at a resort that is mired in corruption, alien attack, and endless running? All too often - so much so that I won't even bother to list them here - because KURSAAL sums them all up in one. Taking Sam to Kursaal for a vacation, they arrive fifteen years too early while it's still under construction to find a group of scientists (mixed with a PETA like activist group called HALF), who have stumbled onto a lost ruin of a lost race called The Jax, who happen to be werewolves... or a virus, it's never made clear as to just what the Jax are and what the virus they carry is - or why it turns people into werewolves (with full moon and all), but no one stops to question too much as there is a lot of killing (by the time I stopped counting nearly one hundred people had died), running, hiding, playing doctor, stealing corpses and werewolves on the prowl. There are no surprises here - when Sam is not on the run, hiding, crying, making eyes at the Doctor, or being attacked by EVERY werewolf she comes across - she gets swiped by a claw and is infected by the Jax - and then the Doctor ignores this, takes the TARDIS fifteen years in the future to continue their vacation on Kursaal - only to have Sam become the lead werewolf... and the rest you can guess on your own. Dull, but there are a few moments of interest which if expanded on could have made for a real solid read. As it is, Kursaal is a true blue Doctor Who adventure in the classical sense... limited in scope and limited in budget. A let down... but as these early adventures are becoming harder and harder to find, I do recommend picking it up if only for the collectors value. Now on to book eight...
No surprises, but one cool thing gets three stars.......2000-01-11
I didn't really like this story that much. I thought it was terribly predictible and even the action scenes were slow-moving. But the Doctor and his companion did something that I've never seen in any Doctor Who show or book. They left the planet without resolving the problem. Now THAT was different. Of course, as there is a lot of the book left when they leave, you know they're not finished. But still, it was original.
Unfortunately, I kind of got the impression while I was reading this that Anghelides was saying, "If Orman/Blum can do Vampires in Doctor Who, by golly, I can do Werewolves." In other words, perhaps it premature to have an old horror movie monster as the villain so soon after the vampire story.
Do you like big hairy men?.......1999-12-23
All through this book I kept thinking it could have been set on Earth. Or Transylvania. We're talking warewolves here. Big, nasty ones. And they are playing havoc with a pleasure world under construction. And just wait until the construction is finished!
I liked protions of this book better than others. Sam's conversation with the Doctor in the ambulance; the Doctor's piloting "skills" as they fly through a wall of water; the explosion at the theme park; the Doctor's flight from the hospital pursued by the police only to escape by dressing up in a costume for a parade (although, the noise of a parade might bother sick people in a hospital); the Doctor's conversation with Sam in the cave of the Jax ("You can call me Rex."), and the fact that the wolves show up everywhere and never seem to die! Creepy!
Parts of this book are funny, parts are sad and parts are predictable. Rule of thumb here is don't get too attached to any of the characters in this book - it isn't a happy ending for most of them. Methinks the author was trying to get a point across about conservation. A worthy topic and one the Doctor always rallys round. It would make a wonderful video though if done like a Hammer Horror Film.
Loved Sam, not the gore! Risky plot well worth the read!.......1999-11-23
Enjoyed the idea, but Dr. Who is not a horror movie. I love how Mr. Anghelides wrote Sam. BRAVO! I'm glad you took a risk in this story and I enjoyed it.
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Title: El espíritu del Kursaal.(TT: The Kursaal spirit.)(Artículo Breve)
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Title: Metrópoli de las artes, las letras y la ciencia: Galicia tendrá un icono cultural de referencia como el Guggenheim o el Kursaal. Se trata de la Ciudad de la Cultura, complejo de artes, letras y pensamiento, cuyas obras estarán terminadas en el 2004. (especial galicia).(TT: Art metropolis: literature and science. Galicia will possess a cultural icon as renowned as the Guggenheim or the Kursaal museums. The City of Culture, a complex of arts, literature and philosophy, is being built and is expected to be completed by 2004. (Special on Galicia).)(Artículo Breve)
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Kursaal (Fenice contemporanea)
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Kursaal Memories
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Dr. Nathanson's deeply personal memoir of what led a lifelong atheist and abortion crusader first to the pro-life cause, and finally to Christianity.
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Great Read.......2007-03-17
I think that this is a great and true story by an abortion doctor. It would be good for all, pro-life and pro-choice.
Hand of GOd Book Review.......2006-09-27
As the title explains, Dr. Nathanson was once a bona fide abortion doctor. In fact, as the back cover explains, he "was co-founder in 1969 of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL, later renamed the National Abortion Rights Action League), and was director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, then the largest abortion clinic of the world. In the late 1970's he turned against abortion to become a prominent pro-life advocate."
This semi-autobiographical work provides a look behind the sterile abortion clinic doors that populate our country. He openly talks of how the abortion movement intentionally manipulated the public to repeal the once restrictive laws concerning this barbaric practice. This included providing bogus statistics to the media and exaggerating existing reproductive problems. He carefully details the history of abortion, explains the many different techniques of performing abortions, and explains what convinced him to forsake his livelihood and give up his lucrative work.
What to like: Nathanson is intimately familiar with the abortion industry and goes into great detail about what actually goes on at a clinic. He also provides an insider's view on the machinations behind the early abortion movement.
As I was writing my extensive series on abortion, his book proved to be invaluable. He systematically explores each and every credible pro-choice argument and points out their faulty logic and shortcomings. Believing himself to be a man of science, he increasingly found himself questioning his abortion practice as ultrasound and sonogram technology developed. Soon these fledgling concerns grew to absolute horror as the overwhelming evidence that life begins at conception and not birth, convinced him to abandon his position as the director of New York's largest abortion clinic.
Nathanson carefully explores the scientific data that clearly shows life begins at conception, not at birth. He also works through the different definitions which philosophy has given to personhood, and details the dangers behind "endowing" a more exclusive group to "personhood". At the end of the book he also talks about proper and improper responses to abortion.
What not to like: The book starts out a little tedious. I am pretty sure the readers of this book are going to be interested in Nathanson's story only as far as it relates to abortion. Yet the first three and a half chapters of the book barely breach the subject. Instead he goes into painstaking detail on his childhood and upbringing. These do help us understand why he first entered the medical field and later started performing abortions, but they do not warrant the attention he gives them.
Memorable Quote: "It was ultrasound, which for the first time threw open a window into the womb. We also began to observe the fetal heart on electronic fetal heart monitors. For the first time, I began to think about what we really had been doing at the clinic. Ultrasound opened up a new world. For the first time, we could really see the human fetus, measure it, observe it, watch it, and indeed bond with it and love it. I began to do that."
Conclusion: For the American grieved by abortion, this book is a valuable resource. Its chronicles of the early abortion rights movement help the reader understand how the practice was legalized in the first place. Nathanson's arguments for the pro-life cause are damning to the abortion movement. His clear scientific analysis of the beginning of life is, perhaps, the best I've ever read and leaves the reader with no doubt that life does, indeed, begin at conception. This book is essential for anyone who wants to learn more about the abortion debate embroiling our country today.
Interesting read.......2006-03-11
This book is a truly fascinating account of one mans journey from the heights (if indeed it can be called that) of abortion fame as a well known abortionis who performed many, many abortions in his time as well as one of those who was instrumental in helping make abortion legal. Now, to see that turnaround, that has to be something. I was interested to see how he began to change his mind and just how difficult that in itself can be when your fame and career (not to mention your self-esteem) is built on it. I admire this man for his courage in coming out and speaking up.
Chilling.......2005-11-14
Many people, mostly pro-life advocates, see the abortion issue as the modern equivalent of the fight to put an end to slavery. Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, a founder of NARAL and once one of America's premier abortion providers until he saw the light and changed sides, draws parallels between pre-Civil War America, specifically the Dred Scott decision, and Roe v. Wade in "The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind." Those are heady claims indeed. To argue that abortion could bring the country to civil war seems a bit melodramatic. Certainly the other side, the pro-abortion advocates, don't see the issue this way. To them Roe v. Wade and subsequent court rulings expanding the ability of a woman to terminate her pregnancy is a right, pure and simple. It's a right that grows out of the Supreme Court's recognition of an inherent privacy right guaranteed by many of the amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. Any effort to curtail or roll back abortion, they argue, would not only allow the government to exercise control over a woman's body, it would also strike at the heart of the gender equality feminists have worked so hard to achieve over the past four decades.
Don't expect Bernard Nathanson to resolve the issue in this slim book. This is no "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the pro-life crowd. It's close, though. "The Hand of God" tells the story of how a lowly physician came to embrace abortion, how he began to question what he did for a living, and how he found God when he embraced the pro-life movement. According to the author, his early life played a big role in his later decision to become an abortionist. His father, a Jewish physician with misanthropic tendencies, dominated most aspects of his son's life until his death at the age of ninety-four. An imposing presence with a keen intellect and a hardscrabble background, Nathanson's father passed on to his son a suspicion of the Jewish religion and a distrust of women. For example, he encouraged his son to disrespect his mother. The father also dominated Bernard's sister, interfering in her marriage and all other aspects of her life until she committed suicide in her forties. It's obvious we're not dealing with a kindly soul here, yet Nathanson's father did do a few things to help his son. He secured him a place in medical school, for instance, and passed on a love of learning that, if this book is any indication, served Bernard Nathanson well.
Unfortunately, the Hippocratic Oath Nathanson took after completing medical school didn't quite make the desired impression. His specialization in obstetrics and gynecology coupled with the tumult of the 1960s soon brought the good doctor into contact with several physicians interested in overturning the nation's abortion laws. The author plunged in with both feet, and soon found himself overseeing a clinic in New York that performed tens of thousands of abortions. Before his conversion to the pro-life movement, Nathanson went through a couple of marriages and even personally performed an abortion on a woman pregnant with his own child. The last several chapters of the book move beyond the personal into philosophical and medical discussions on life, death, and the ethics of the abortion debate. Nathanson convincingly argues that new medical techniques prove that life begins much earlier than previously believed. He also contends that abortion is a gateway that could, if it continues to be the law of the land, lead to legalized euthanasia and the establishment of third world "fetus farms" that would supply stem cells and organs for those suffering from various diseases in this country. "The Hand of God" paints a pretty bleak picture of the abortion scene.
By far the most effect part of "The Hand of God" deals with Nathanson's discussions of the types of medical doctors that inhabit abortion clinics. Think alcoholics, drug users, quacks, and bottom of the class physicians. It's ugly beyond belief. He provides a few names and cases concerning doctors who had their licenses yanked for maiming and/or killing patients while performing abortions. One surgeon actually quit performing the procedure at the halfway point and sent the woman home because her husband didn't have enough money to pay for the operation. She later died. We tend to think of these things happening in the bad old days before Roe v. Wade turned the back alley butcher into a white coat wearing surgeon in a licensed clinic, but Nathanson's carefully documented accounts show the fallacy of that sort of thinking. Abortion clinics still draw the bottom feeders because of the morals involved. Most doctors don't want anything to do with terminating pregnancies unless the mother's life is in imminent danger. Perhaps most physicians still take the Hippocratic Oath seriously. Whatever the case, ethics still play a big role in who will or will not perform abortions in the nation's clinics.
I decided to read Nathanson's book after reading about his conversion to Roman Catholicism in Dave Shiflett's "Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity." I'm glad I did. I've never been a knee jerk pro-lifer despite being a strident conservative, but this book has moved me further in that direction. There is something seriously wrong with a culture that endorses abortion as a means of birth control, and there is definitely something amiss about allowing a minor to terminate a pregnancy without parental consent. I won't even get into the immorality of partial-birth abortion; I was against that procedure long before I read this book. I heartily recommend "The Hand of God." Prepare yourself, however. You might just find yourself agreeing with the good doctor by the time you turn the final page.
Interesting Book by an Abortion Pioneer.......2005-10-26
In the early 1970's, Dr. Bernard Nathanson was the leading provider of abortions, both legal and illegal, in the USA. When Roe v. Wade was issued, Nathanson was perfectly positioned to make a killing. However, he did not expand his abortion operation. Instead, he curtailed his abortion practice and eventually came over to the pro-life side. This was because Nathanson discovered that the fetus, as it matures, looks a lot like a born baby. He did not know this until he first saw the results of early ultrasounds.
This book is a work of a man who, when confronted with scientific evidence, changed his mind on abortion.
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