When the Stars Danced

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A lovely book

Crying Wind Master Storyteller

When the Stars Danced
Crying Wind , and Jane Kirkpatrick
Manufacturer: Indian Life Ministries
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0920379192

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Picking up where MY SEARCHING HEART leaves off, this book continues Crying Wind's story of sorrow turned to laughter and mourning to dancing. Feel her pain as she encounters the painful traumas along her journey. Crying Wind's whimsical writing has endeared her to her readers. "...we humans are all so much the same and our families everywhere come home at night and ask the same thing, 'Well, what's for supper?'"

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A lovely book.......2005-11-25

I really enjoyed this third enstallment by Crying Wind. This volume is more like a collection of stories rather than a direct narrative like the other two, "Crying Wind" and "My Searching Heart." I love the stories about people, like her best friend Polly Holly Rooney with whom she made a zillion sour pickles. Also old Miss Neal, the only one to remember Mark (her sweet heart) as he was before he died in World War I, and never gave up believing he would come back. I love the tender spiritual observations she draws from life. "I never come away from God with an empty bucket..." and "Trust is a blind horse running at breakneck speed with a young boy on his back." This is a very worthwhile book, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Crying Wind Master Storyteller.......2002-02-14

Many readers are familiar with Crying Wind's first two books, Crying Wind and My Searching Heart. This volume continues the story of her life. Crying Wind is a master story teller who uses her Native American background to bring truth and beauty to a story of laughter, pain, joy, adventure. Crying Wind's story is witness to the way God spans time and cultures with His love. Parents and children alike will enjoy this account of how Little Antilope, Lost Deer, Snow Cloud, and Spring Cloud grew up in their dual world with their parents Crying Wind and Don Stafford. Crying Wind tells her story compellingly, beautifully including how she adjusted to life afer Don's sudden death. This is a book for those who have seeking hearts, and all who enjoy beauty. The testimony to the strength of faith has never been more forcefully presented.

My Searching Heart: A Biographical Novel

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Search and find
I loved It
Journey from Death to Life
Crying Wind Shares her life! I love it!
Love this Book!!!

My Searching Heart: A Biographical Novel
Crying Wind
Manufacturer: Harvest House Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0890815305

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Search and find.......2005-11-23

I read this book when I was a teen, and again recently. This book picks up where "Crying Wind" left off, continuing the story. It answers the question of "Whatever happened to Uncle Flint?" It also offers a window into Kickapoo culture and thought processes, doing so with love and respect. The story of how she found her husband, and how she loved her children is a delight to read. The story of how she chose to carry a pregnancy through, when doctors advised she terminate or risk her own life, inspired me to choose life when I was faced with a tough decision. I especially liked reading about her friendship with Herb Woman of Turtle Clan. They were close friends each trying to win the other over to her own religion, and yet not loving each other any less. This was a wonderful book.

I loved It.......2001-07-24

This book is a great story about an indian woman finding her way in life and with Christ. Being part indian myself although not half like she was--- I really liked and understood her feelings on things even though i've never lived in a reservation or experienced the prejudice that she had being that i'm too white. But I really enjoyed her testimony of faith and the love story between her and her husband don.

Journey from Death to Life.......2001-01-03

Of all the many, many books I have read, the two by Crying Wind are perhaps most dear to me. In "Crying Wind" she tells how dark her life was, how living was hard but "dying was harder". She tells of her first glimpse of God and the light and life he showed her.

"My Searching Heart" picks up where her first book left off, starting with some of her discouragements and unfulfilled expectations and following her slowly broadening, upward progress, as she finds new joys and unexpected happiness.

My life hasn't been nearly as traumatic as hers but I remember times when it seemed almost as dark. Her books enriched me and made my world bigger. Do read them at least once -- they're well worth the time. I wish they weren't out of print!

--Kezarahk

Crying Wind Shares her life! I love it!.......2000-09-30

As a 26 year old single man the first time I read this I felt so good to hear the searchings of the heart of a lost young girl. I could feel and hear my own heart in this book. Her quick impulsive decisions which are so common to adolescents and which I still act like at times. And I often think of her realationship with her husband when I am asked if two so differant people can ever make a marriage work. This book is only second to her first self titled book, Crying wind. A must read. I recently found out she has another book as well, When the Stars Danced by Crying Wind, Jane Kirkpatrick

Love this Book!!!.......1999-07-03

Crying Wind wrote a very interesting book about her life and being an indian. I especially love the story of her and her "alaskan man". A very inspiring story on how God can work in your life.

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Crying Wind
Crying Wind
Manufacturer: Moody Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0802416764

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Excellent Story

Crying Wind

Manufacturer: Moody Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0802416772

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Simply and sensitively written, Crying Wind's true story gives insights into American Indian culture and the cultural barriers an Indian must hurdle when he accepts Christ.

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Excellent Story.......2005-12-07

True story of a native american girl growing up in the 50's. Easy to read.

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And the Crying Wind
Simon Dare
Manufacturer: The Romance Book Club
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J1GGWG

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A masterful, multi-layered, truly meaningful novel

The Crying of the Wind
Charles Gidley Wheeler
Manufacturer: Authors Choice Press
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ASIN: 0595366384

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`…What need have you to dread the monstrous crying of wind?'
—W.B. Yeats

Buenos Aires, 1939: Anna McGeoch arrives in Argentina from Scotland to join her brother and his wife and work on a Christian mission among the Matacos Indians. But within hours of her arrival she learns that her brother has been killed. Anna stays on in Buenos Aires and is welcomed into the glamorous lifestyle of the Hurlingham Club's polo-playing community. When she marries Tito Cadoret, a life of wealth and happiness seems to lie ahead. But, unknown to Anna, Cadoret is already in thrall to a corrupt and powerful lawyer, and as the years pass, he and his family are drawn ever deeper into a dark world of murder, blackmail, and the `Dirty War'. When, in 1982, the British Task Force sails for the Falklands, Anna's daughter Nikki sails with it as a naval nurse aboard a hospital ship. After the battles are over, she tends the wounds of British and Argentine sailors and soldiers, and sees as first hand the tragedy and futility of armed conflict.

As in the case of so many women down the centuries, Anna and Nikki suffer much in order to keep the family together, and the price they pay for personal freedom is high.

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A masterful, multi-layered, truly meaningful novel .......2006-05-01

First, let me say that Charles Gidley Wheeler is an enormously gifted writer who truly carries you away to whatever place and time he chooses to write about, and he gives you wonderfully real characters you cannot help but feel passionate about. The Crying of the Wind covers almost fifty years in the lives of a family, particularly a mother and daughter, transporting the reader back and forth between Argentina and Scotland , encompassing both World War II and the fight for possession of the Falkland Islands, and detailing the lives of an assortment of vividly drawn characters. Largely, it's a story of regrets, disappointments, and heartache. True to life itself, the good characters aren't beyond reproach, and some of the bad characters are as much victims as genuinely evil men. A real sense of fatalism seems to hang over virtually every individual we meet in these pages, and there is a fair share of tragedy in the events of so many of their lives - yet a sense of hopefulness remains, a sense that all of the struggles and mistakes of this life might eventually turn into something good, for our children if not for ourselves.

Anna McGeoch, a young Scottish lass, comes to Argentina to help her missionary brother, hoping that her decision to leave home for a year will give her father time to agree to her marriage with the lad she loves back home. When she arrives, however, she learns that her brother has been killed. Unable to perform the work she came there to do, she nevertheless decides to remain in Argentina for at least a few months, eventually taking a job as nanny to Tito Cadaret's children (and the story of the oldest child is a tragedy in and of itself). Anna is fully immersed in Argentina's English community (though never truly accepted as one of their own) when she agrees to marry Tito soon thereafter - after she has received word that her fianc? back home has plans to marry someone else. Her marriage, which seems so promising at the start, soon develops problems, as Tito begins to change. Anna has no idea of the problems Tito is keeping from her - his attempt to secure an annulment from his first wife placed him firmly in the hands of a corrupt lawyer and his partners in crime who gain more and more power over his possessions and his position - both financially and socially. Unable to break away from the debts he owes to this crooked Argentine cartel, Tito becomes moody and less communicative, and the marriage becomes an increasingly cold one.

Like many a young adult, Anna comes to ask herself what she is doing and where she is going in life, questions which become all the more poignant with certain news she receives from Scotland. She largely comes to live through her children, especially her only daughter Nikki. Like her mother, Nikki is no stranger to tragedy, either, but she bottles everything up inside of her. Only the son of her mother's true love back in Scotland, whom she runs into as a child in Argentina and, later, as a young adult in Scotland, seems to penetrate her shell - but he is already married. Though they both know they were made for each other, Nikki seems doomed to relive her mother's tragic bad luck at love. Determined to do some good with her life, however, Nikki goes into nursing, witnessing the carnage of war firsthand as she assists soldiers wounded in the fight over the Falklands.

Both Anna and Nikki are remarkable women seemingly doomed to an unhappiness they do not deserve. Almost no one fares well in this tragic story, which sees the once-prestigious Cadoret family dispersed and broken in the end. To some degree, their story seems to play out in tune with the tragedy of Argentina over the same years. Wheeler provides us with an insightful window into Argentine society from the years of English privilege to the birth of Peronism to the increasing violence and instability that come as the social and political fabric break down in the 1970s and early 1980s, as Peron's social revolution gives way to an increasingly fascist police state where "subversives" are rounded up, tortured, and killed in the name of nationalism. This is followed by the Falklands War, which first unified Argentina and then, after the British victory, gave way to self-examination and the overthrow of the military government that had terrorized Argentine citizens for years.

As you can see, this is a deep, detailed story that works on two levels simultaneously - and, believe me, I haven't even scratched the surface of the events that befall the Cadoret family over the decades chronicled here. These characters become a part of your life, more real than the strangers you pass on the street every day. Their entire lives - like our own - are irrevocably changed by the most ordinary of events, coincidences, and misunderstandings. There is no more painful question than "What if?" yet the answer to that question can come to define our very lives if we allow it to do so. This is not a joyous story, certainly, but The Crying of the Wind is the kind of novel that really connects with you emotionally, encourages you to put your own life into perspective, and changes you in some subtle way. I feel I'm a better person - with better insight into myself and my fellow human beings - for having read The Crying of the Wind, and I think that's about the highest praise I can give any work of fiction.

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The crying of the wind: Ireland
Ithell Colquhoun
Manufacturer: Owen
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ASIN: B0006DB4KQ

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Crying Wind
Crying Wind
Manufacturer: Moody Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OTUX36

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Captivating

Crying Wind
Linda Stafford
Manufacturer: Harvest House Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0890812632

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Captivating.......2005-11-11

This is the story of Crying Wind, a young Kickapoo girl. Raised by her grandmother, she was schooled in the old ways and the old Gods. After the death of her grandmother when she was 15, she found herself alone in a city apartment having to function as an adult in a world totally alien to her. Cultures clash as she is befriended by a preacher from a nearby church, and eventually comes to a saving faith in Christ. The author shares many experiences of growing up on a reservation. This is an excellent book for understanding Native American culture, and some of the despair to be found there. This book is lovingly and tenderly written with an eye to helping both the culture described and those who desire to reach out to them in love. After reading it, I felt almost as if I knew "Cry" as a friend.

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Crying Wind
Crying Wind
Manufacturer: Moody Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K1L99K

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The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries; joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games; celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over.

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Beautiful, Heart-Wrenching, Fun, Tender, and Vibrant.......2005-12-17

It's odd for me to feel so drained after reading a book of short stories. After a novel, sure--after investing one's attention into four hundred pages of characters and their coarse plot, but not after a collection of unconnected stories.

Each story in this book is a jewel. There is horror, and there is fantasy. Comedy paired with romance. There are some that are as tender as a whisper, and I won't spoil a one.

Bradbury writes with a delicacy: symmetric majesty. Every word fits, every image is fresh and new, every metaphor perfect. Stories born of prosaic ideas are sheathed in lovely new flesh; the innovative ones dazzle and delight.

I missed Metro stops, engrossed in this ink. Bring your heart; you'll need it.

Another From The Master.......2005-10-22

"Quicker than the Eye" is a short story collection from Ray Bradbury, published originally in 1996. It consists of twenty-one short stories, most of which were published between 1994 and 1996. The one exception to this is "The Electrocution", which was first published in August of 1946 in "The Californian". Fourteen of these stories were published before, in a variety of magazines, and the other 7 are published for the first time in this collection. There is also an afterword, in which Bradbury discusses where his stories come from, and how he writes.

Although often considered Science Fiction, most of these stories would fall into the Fantasy/Supernatural or Horror categories, rather than Science Fiction, and some would not be put into any of the speculative fiction categories were they not written by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury is a master storyteller, and while I would not consider this collection on the same level as "The Martian Chronicles" or "The Illustrated Man", it is not far behind. Some of the stories in this collection that I like best include: "Last Rites", "The Witch Door", Once More, Legato", "Exchange", and "The Other Highway". However, all these stories are told as only Bradbury can.

Wonderful little journeys to the unexpected.......2005-04-14

In his rather indulgent afterword, Bradbury hints that he dashes off many of his short stories in two hours or less. What's this mean for the reader? It means that, in general, the stories are short, even for the genre of short stories. It means that many of them are almost like little sketches of a single, simple idea rather than well-polished texts that contain many conscious layers. It also means that many of the stories are fun and quirky.

Bradbury isn't afraid to take a chance on a notion, and this bravado leads to some misses, but it also leads to some hits that you wouldn't find in a more thoughtfully-screened author's collection.

Fans of Bradbury will already be prepared for his odd take on dialogue, which is sometimes realistic, but more often riddled with philosophical musings that sound like they are being performed for the sake of an audience.

Another interesting feature of Bradbury is his versatility. Going into a story, we never know whether we're going to get science fiction, horror, comedy, or drama. Sometimes, when we get to the end of the story, the classification is likewise elusive. This unpredictability really gives the genre elements more of a punch when they do come up. If we were to get a shambling monster at the end of every story, it would soon lose its power to affect us. But when a monster appears only twice or so throughout the course of the entire book, we really feel the horror.

I highly recommend this collection, simply because the writing is unique and thought-provoking.

There are 22 stories in all. The ones that I found to be good were:

"Remember Sascha," a story that manages to be both creepy and heartwarming, draws a brilliant contrast between the affection that a loving couple shares, and the dialogue they maintain with their nervous unborn baby.

"The Finnegan" is a great parody of an old Sherlock Holmes story, in which an old man plays detective concerning the disappearance of some young children in the woods.

"The Very Gentle Murders" is an amusing farce about an elderly couple that mutually decides that the only satisfying past time each spouse's attempted murder of the other.

"The Witch Door" draws some parallels between a futuristic world in which political trends have continued to the point of the absurd, and the Salem Witch Trial era.

"At the End of the Ninth Year" is a bizarre dialogue between a dissatisfied husband and wife, who find an unexpectedly warm and happy resolution to their problems.

"Bug" is a great story about a high schooler who can dance so well that he clears the dance floor every night, but gives up dancing as he enters middle age. This might be the best story in the collection.

"Once More, Legato" is about a man who seems to read a symphony into the chirping of the birds outside his home.

"Exchange" tells the story of a librarian who gets an after-closing visit from a man who used to visit her at the library when he was a boy. This has a great, creepy beginning that makes every turn of the page suspenseful. It is also, along with the equally good "Last Rites," a celebration of reading and literature.

"Free Dirt" is a great story about some graveyard dirt that the old graveyard owner is giving away. An innocent beginning gets more and more frightening. This is another contender for best story in the book.

A final contender is "The Other Highway," which tells the story of an American family that goes off he beaten path to discover a hidden road to small town America. This has some great quotes and images in it that touch on some of the same themes as Fahrenheit 451.

Still Good Stuff.......2004-06-30

Bradbury has once again written a very good collection. As compared with everybody else is is still the best collection out there. as compared against his own work, is still good but not a classic. This may not be fair to him, but "Quicker Than the Eye" just does not rise up to his historic standards. This collection seems to about death in its various forms, but told through the eye of a romantic. Some of the stories are about true horror "The Finnegan" and some of the stories are about time travel "The Witch Door". My personal favorites are "If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion?" and "Free Dirt". The first leaves a smile on your face and the second is a macabre tale about getting free dirt from a graveyard. This is still good stuff and is a very enjoyable way to pass the time, just not up to the legendary standards of the past. Recommended.

I laughed, I cried, I thought in a different way.......2001-07-19

Bradbury is amazing and at his best in a short story format. This collection is not science fiction, although book stores tend to insist that if Bradbury wrote it, it must be SciFi. It is fiction, and often a sort of twisted Aesop's fables. Bradbury has a unique gift for hiding important moral axioms deep within his story line. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate a good short story. Some of the stories in this book will stick with you for weeks.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY - Volume 20, number 9 - September Sept 1975: Quicker Than the Eye; A Small Death; A Look at Mother Nature; Gourmet; Home Ground; Gut Level; Out in Style; The Lyon Died; A Game Way to Die; The Garage Apartment; Come Ride With Me

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY - Volume 20, number 9 - September Sept 1975: Quicker Than the Eye; A Small Death; A Look at Mother Nature; Gourmet; Home Ground; Gut Level; Out in Style; The Lyon Died; A Game Way to Die; The Garage Apartment; Come Ride With Me
Ernest M. (editor) (Bill Pronzini; Michael Kurland; Stephen Wasylyk; Frank Sisk; Vincent McConnor; A. F. Oreshnik; Sonord Morrow; Robert H. Curtis; Pauline C. Smith; William P. Noble; Joyce Harrington; Donald Honig) Hutter
Manufacturer: H.S.D. Publications
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Quicker Than the Eye

Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GWW05A

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QUICKER THAN THE EYE
Ray Bradbury
Manufacturer: Avon
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P0XEKS

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Quicker Than the Eye
Ray Bradbury
Manufacturer: Franklin Library
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQH4N2

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Quicker Than the Eye
John, Illustrated by Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy Mullholland
Manufacturer: New York: Bobbs Merrill,
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVAIRA

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Quicker Than the Eye

Manufacturer: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
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QUICKER THAN THE EYE
Ray Bradbury
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ASIN: B000P0XKBG

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Quicker Than the Eye
Ray Bradbury
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Quicker Than the Eye 1ST Edition
Ray Bradbury
Manufacturer: AVON BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VFHSAE

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Frances "Tip" DeQuill--affluent housewife, mother, and sometimes newspaper writer--was mortified when the iron door clanked shut. Yes, she was locked up in the Bridgeport jail. Imprisonment marked the beginning of the price she would pay for investigating a sequence of ominous, unlikely events that had occurred close to Bridgeport and the nearby ghost town of Bodie, California. Frances had been obsessed trying to unravel the mystery of the strange things that had happened, much like prospectors who had been driven to seek Bodie's "Veda Madre." No warnings, no threats, and not even jail could divert her attention. Her quest for a story would take her back in time to the gold rush days and urge her to chronicle the stories of eight strangers who had struggled to reach Bodie seeking gold, love, lust, adventure or revenge. Her strangers would interact with some of the best known characters from the Old West and they would experience many historical happenings. But nothing they suffered would prepare them for their bizarre departure from Bodie. Would Frances find the truth? Could she escape her hunters? Would she have time to expose the cover-up and find the real meaning of BODIE GONE?

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Bodie's Here.......2001-11-12

Bodie Gone by Bill Hyde is a well-researched, clever first novel that deserves to be widely read. The story is a historical novel, where the main character is Tex Garland, a cowboy with gold fever and on his way to Bodie, California, wrapped by a science fiction novel, where the main character is Frances DeQuill, a newspaper reporter on the trail of the story of a lifetime. Without giving away the suprises, let me say that my 4-star rating is based on the fact that the two parts of the novel didn't quite work together for me. The historical novel with a different ending would've been fine with me -or- a better connection between the historical story and the science fiction ending. That said, I enjoyed the story immensely and would recommend it to any fan of the history of the 1800's, the history of gold in western North America, the history of California, and the history of Bodie. Despite some minor sex scenes, the book might be appropriate for outside reading in an American or California history class in a high school. I recommend you take your own trip to Bodie with Bill Hyde's Bodie Gone.

a great romp through the wild west.......2001-07-22

What a book! Geology, celestial navigation, astronomy, science fiction--all wrapped up in a large cast of real figures from the history of the west. This book is great fun. Anyone who is interested in the west and likes also to ponder the "what if's" and "could be's" of life will find this novel to be a great pleasure as well as a thought provoking read.

A terrific, thoroughly entertaining debut novel.......2001-07-04

Frances "Tip" DeQuilol is an affluent housewife, mother, and occasional writer for the local newspaper. She is also obsessed with trying to unravel the mystery of strange things that had happened in the nearby ghost town of Bodie, California. Her attempts to chronicle the stories of eight strangers who had struggled to reach Bodie seeking gold, love, adventure or revenge, she comes to find herself being locked up in the Bridgeport jail. but nothing can deter her from investigating a sequence of troubling and unlikely events to their startling conclusion and expose a cover-up that someone wants left buried with the rest of the Old West. Bodie Gone is a terrific, thoroughly entertaining debut novel for author Bill Hyde.

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Yes! I can chew "The I Can't Chew Cookbook"

No help at all!

Showcases 200 soft and tasty recipes for casseroles, soups, entrees, side dishes, beverages, and deserts

Showcases 200 soft and tasty recipes for casseroles, soups, entrees, side dishes, beverages, and deserts

The I-Can't-Chew Cookbook: Delicious Soft Diet Recipes for People with Chewing, Swallowing, and Dry Mouth Disorders
J. Randy Wilson
Manufacturer: Hunter House
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When a medical condition forced his wife to eat only soft foods, the author developed 200 recipes that were soft, nutritious, and delicious. Containing recipes for soups, main dishes, vegetables, and desserts, this unique cookbook will help non-chewers fully enjoy their meals.

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Yes! I can chew "The I Can't Chew Cookbook".......2007-09-27

The recipes work! They have flavor and variety. Not one has been a loser, only winners, and the whole family can enjoy each recipe. Wish there were more entree recipes.

No help at all!.......2007-05-27

Both of my parents have Alzheimer's disease. Dad can't chew meat or normally cooked vegetables and Mom can't swallow very well. I already do more than this book suggests in preparing their daily meals. Grinding and cutting food into small pieces just does not cut it. I have to puree meat and some other items, otherwise I just cook things to death to soften them enough for Dad. My wife rejected this book on her first reading. She said "The recipes are not for elderly folks who eat regular food. It's like someone on a cooking show made up these recipes." My parents were raised on farms and gardened all of their life so I cook food that they know and will eat. They will not touch most of the stuff from this book.

I appreciate the author's effort to provide nutritional food and list the analysis on each recipe. Elderly people need energy and solid food to make their day. I think he missed the boat on this book. I can say that I did not get one good idea from this book and wasted my money.

Showcases 200 soft and tasty recipes for casseroles, soups, entrees, side dishes, beverages, and deserts.......2005-08-09

I-Can't-Chew Cookbook: Delicious Soft-Diet Recipes For People With Chewing, Swallowing And Dry-Mouth Disorder by J. Randy Wilson is a unique, one-of-a-kind cookbook that is an invaluable addition to the kitchen cookbook collection of any family chef who must prepare meals for anyone suffering from problems arising from a chewing disorder such as temporomandibular joint (TMJ) problems, stroke, ALS, Alzheimer's, AIDS, lupus, recovering from head or neck surgery, or mouth/throat cancer surgery. Randy Wilson drew upon his love of cooking and his array of culinary skills when his wife was diagnosed with TMJ and needed surgery. Her doctor indicated that she would have to subsist on soft foods for six months. Randy took on the challenge of developing soft, nutritious, and appealing recipes for his wife and their family. The result is his I-Can't-Chew Cookbook which is neither a liquid diet book nor a blender cookbook, but instead showcases 200 soft and tasty recipes for casseroles, soups, entrees, side dishes, beverages, and deserts. Of special interest are the opening chapters on nutrition and tips for getting the most out of meals, including enhancing the dining experience and adapting foods for a soft-food diet when dealing with problems of wallowing and/or chewing. Enhanced with an informative Foreword by oral surgeon Mark A. Piper, I-Can't-Chew Cookbook should be considered as a "must" for anyone wanting nutritious, delicious, consumable dishes for the chewing and/or swallowing impaired.

Showcases 200 soft and tasty recipes for casseroles, soups, entrees, side dishes, beverages, and deserts.......2005-08-09

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