Friday, August 29, 2003
AUTHOR Windle, Janice Woods.
TITLE True women / Janice Woods Windle.
IMPRINT New York : Putnam's Sons, c1994.
DESCRIPT 451 p. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Family -- Texas -- Fiction.
Women -- Texas -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 0399138137.
AUTHOR Windle, Janice Woods.
TITLE Hill Country : a novel / Janice Woods Windle.
IMPRINT Atlanta, Ga. : Longstreet, c1998.
DESCRIPT xxxv, 474 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Marriage -- Fiction.
Ranch life -- Texas -- Fiction.
Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- Fiction.
ISBN 1563525224.
In a novel based on the life of the author's grandmother, Laura Hoge Woods enters the world of Texas hill country politics, where she befriends Rebekah Baines Johnson, the mother of future president Lyndon Johnson
474 Pages.
Atlanta, GA, Longstreet, 1998.
Subject Headings:
Woods, Laura Matilda Hoge, died 1966
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973
Frontier and pioneer women -- Texas
Family chronicles, Texan
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
Women -- Family relationships -- Texas
Women -- Texas
Texas -- History
Review:
Booklist Review: Windle's involving new novel, the sequel to the exceedingly popular True Women (1994), is a fictionalization of her exceptional grandmother's exceptional life. Laura Hoge Woods, who lived from 1870 to 1966, survived an Indian attack, experienced the diminishment of the Texas frontier, witnessed the advent of the automobile, and celebrated women finally winning the right to vote. In her youth, she loved a half-wild Indian captive and later grew to love Peter Woods, an older rancher whose horses she helped train. Throughout all her personal triumphs and disappointments--seven children, the death of a sister, a daughter whose dementia led to violent outbursts and eventual institutionalization--Laura kept her eye on the big picture: politics. The work she and Peter did with horses brought them to the attention of such luminaries as Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and Laura became a confidante of presidents, governors, senators, and local politicians and was elected to political office herself at age 87. This phenomenal woman bent without breaking to achieve the most she could at a time when women were just beginning to emerge as a major political force. She wrote her thoughts and ideas down on scraps of paper, napkins, and the corners of newspapers, hoping to one day write a book called "Hill Country." What Laura Hoge Woods was unable to finish, her loving granddaughter has crafted into a compelling tale of a woman who refused to let anything, especially gender, stand in the way of her dreams. ((Reviewed August 1998)) -- Melanie Duncan
Publishers Weekly Review: The author of True Women uses her grandmother's unfinished autobiography to depict the resilience and gritty determination of a Texas prairie woman. In the late 1870s, when Laura Woods is seven, her mother fights off a marauding Apache party and Laura gets her first, intriguing glimpse of "white Indian" Herman Lehmann, who was kidnapped and raised in the tribe. When Laura is a teenager, she falls in love with Herman, but the affair is secret and fleeting, and Laura takes a place in society by marrying Peter Woods, the scion of a prominent family. Laura hopes that Peter will make a career in government, an ambition that she craves herself. But it is her friend Rebekah Baines Johnson who will become the wife of a congressman and mother of a president, and Laura realizes she must work behind the scenes if she is ever to put her family on the map. While raising her brood of seven children, she campaigns for Teddy Roosevelt, lobbies for the suffragette cause and seemingly touches nearly every event in Texas history. Though the dramatic events of Laura's life are more colorful than many a made-up saga, the narrative, while brisk and interesting, lacks the vitality of well-wrought fiction. Yet Laura Woods's story is a reminder that, regardless of their absence from ballots and voting booths, women played an essential part in shaping the country's history. 100,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Oct.).
Notes:
Illustrated with black-and-white photos, and a map
TITLE True women / Janice Woods Windle.
IMPRINT New York : Putnam's Sons, c1994.
DESCRIPT 451 p. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Family -- Texas -- Fiction.
Women -- Texas -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 0399138137.
AUTHOR Windle, Janice Woods.
TITLE Hill Country : a novel / Janice Woods Windle.
IMPRINT Atlanta, Ga. : Longstreet, c1998.
DESCRIPT xxxv, 474 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Marriage -- Fiction.
Ranch life -- Texas -- Fiction.
Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- Fiction.
ISBN 1563525224.
In a novel based on the life of the author's grandmother, Laura Hoge Woods enters the world of Texas hill country politics, where she befriends Rebekah Baines Johnson, the mother of future president Lyndon Johnson
474 Pages.
Atlanta, GA, Longstreet, 1998.
Subject Headings:
Woods, Laura Matilda Hoge, died 1966
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973
Frontier and pioneer women -- Texas
Family chronicles, Texan
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
Women -- Family relationships -- Texas
Women -- Texas
Texas -- History
Review:
Booklist Review: Windle's involving new novel, the sequel to the exceedingly popular True Women (1994), is a fictionalization of her exceptional grandmother's exceptional life. Laura Hoge Woods, who lived from 1870 to 1966, survived an Indian attack, experienced the diminishment of the Texas frontier, witnessed the advent of the automobile, and celebrated women finally winning the right to vote. In her youth, she loved a half-wild Indian captive and later grew to love Peter Woods, an older rancher whose horses she helped train. Throughout all her personal triumphs and disappointments--seven children, the death of a sister, a daughter whose dementia led to violent outbursts and eventual institutionalization--Laura kept her eye on the big picture: politics. The work she and Peter did with horses brought them to the attention of such luminaries as Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and Laura became a confidante of presidents, governors, senators, and local politicians and was elected to political office herself at age 87. This phenomenal woman bent without breaking to achieve the most she could at a time when women were just beginning to emerge as a major political force. She wrote her thoughts and ideas down on scraps of paper, napkins, and the corners of newspapers, hoping to one day write a book called "Hill Country." What Laura Hoge Woods was unable to finish, her loving granddaughter has crafted into a compelling tale of a woman who refused to let anything, especially gender, stand in the way of her dreams. ((Reviewed August 1998)) -- Melanie Duncan
Publishers Weekly Review: The author of True Women uses her grandmother's unfinished autobiography to depict the resilience and gritty determination of a Texas prairie woman. In the late 1870s, when Laura Woods is seven, her mother fights off a marauding Apache party and Laura gets her first, intriguing glimpse of "white Indian" Herman Lehmann, who was kidnapped and raised in the tribe. When Laura is a teenager, she falls in love with Herman, but the affair is secret and fleeting, and Laura takes a place in society by marrying Peter Woods, the scion of a prominent family. Laura hopes that Peter will make a career in government, an ambition that she craves herself. But it is her friend Rebekah Baines Johnson who will become the wife of a congressman and mother of a president, and Laura realizes she must work behind the scenes if she is ever to put her family on the map. While raising her brood of seven children, she campaigns for Teddy Roosevelt, lobbies for the suffragette cause and seemingly touches nearly every event in Texas history. Though the dramatic events of Laura's life are more colorful than many a made-up saga, the narrative, while brisk and interesting, lacks the vitality of well-wrought fiction. Yet Laura Woods's story is a reminder that, regardless of their absence from ballots and voting booths, women played an essential part in shaping the country's history. 100,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Oct.).
Notes:
Illustrated with black-and-white photos, and a map
Thursday, August 28, 2003
AUTHOR Carey, Jacqueline, 1964-
TITLE Kushiel's dart / Jacqueline Carey.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : Tor, 2001.
DESCRIPT 701 p. : map ; 25 cm.
NOTE "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
SUBJECT Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
Indentured servants -- Fiction.
Women domestics -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
ISBN 0312872380.
Book Description
A nation born of angels, vast and intricate and surrounded by danger... a woman born to servitude, unknowingly given access to the secrets of the realm...
Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy... and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice.
Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond.
Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm's deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world.
Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age and the birth of a new. It is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. A world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, deposed rulers and a besieged Queen, a warrior-priest, the Prince of Travelers, barbarian warlords, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess... all seen through the unflinching eyes of an unforgettable heroine. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Jacqueline Carey is a researcher in art history and currently resides in Michigan. Her previous publications include various short stories, essays, and a nonfiction book. Angels: Celestial Spirits in Legend and Art. Kushiel's Dart is her first novel. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* When Mary Magdalene wept over the dying Christ, her tears mixed with blood in the earth beneath him. From that soil the great earth mother formed Blessed Elua, the most beloved of angels, and from him and his band of eight angels descended the beautiful D'Angelines. Phedre, a D'Angeline, is trained in the exotic Night Court to be a courtesan of the highest order. As she learns before she is 10, she is marked by the angel Kushiel, one of Elua's eight, whose path to ecstasy is one of pain and submission. Phedre leaves the Night Court to serve Anafiel Delauney. She becomes devoted to him, and he treats her like a favorite daughter, teaching her diplomacy, strategy, and the ability to recognize deeply layered patterns of intrigue. Because her beauty and sexual skills make her a coveted prize, her capabilities for observing and listening make her privy to some of the deadliest secrets whispered in her highborn clients' bedrooms. Thus she lives out her destiny as Kushiel's dart. Compelled by honor, duty, and loyalty to her country, Phedre ultimately serves the queen of Terre d'Ange in a time of dire need. Making a marvelous debut, Carey spins a breathtaking epic starring an unflinching yet poignantly vulnerable heroine. The tale blends Christianity and paganism with fascinating results, such as arguing, through deft treatment of alternative sexual practices, the sacred potential inherent in every sexual encounter. Paula Luedtke
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
TITLE Kushiel's dart / Jacqueline Carey.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : Tor, 2001.
DESCRIPT 701 p. : map ; 25 cm.
NOTE "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
SUBJECT Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
Indentured servants -- Fiction.
Women domestics -- Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
ISBN 0312872380.
Book Description
A nation born of angels, vast and intricate and surrounded by danger... a woman born to servitude, unknowingly given access to the secrets of the realm...
Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy... and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice.
Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond.
Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm's deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world.
Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age and the birth of a new. It is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. A world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, deposed rulers and a besieged Queen, a warrior-priest, the Prince of Travelers, barbarian warlords, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess... all seen through the unflinching eyes of an unforgettable heroine. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Jacqueline Carey is a researcher in art history and currently resides in Michigan. Her previous publications include various short stories, essays, and a nonfiction book. Angels: Celestial Spirits in Legend and Art. Kushiel's Dart is her first novel. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* When Mary Magdalene wept over the dying Christ, her tears mixed with blood in the earth beneath him. From that soil the great earth mother formed Blessed Elua, the most beloved of angels, and from him and his band of eight angels descended the beautiful D'Angelines. Phedre, a D'Angeline, is trained in the exotic Night Court to be a courtesan of the highest order. As she learns before she is 10, she is marked by the angel Kushiel, one of Elua's eight, whose path to ecstasy is one of pain and submission. Phedre leaves the Night Court to serve Anafiel Delauney. She becomes devoted to him, and he treats her like a favorite daughter, teaching her diplomacy, strategy, and the ability to recognize deeply layered patterns of intrigue. Because her beauty and sexual skills make her a coveted prize, her capabilities for observing and listening make her privy to some of the deadliest secrets whispered in her highborn clients' bedrooms. Thus she lives out her destiny as Kushiel's dart. Compelled by honor, duty, and loyalty to her country, Phedre ultimately serves the queen of Terre d'Ange in a time of dire need. Making a marvelous debut, Carey spins a breathtaking epic starring an unflinching yet poignantly vulnerable heroine. The tale blends Christianity and paganism with fascinating results, such as arguing, through deft treatment of alternative sexual practices, the sacred potential inherent in every sexual encounter. Paula Luedtke
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
