Prepared For Rage is written by Dana Stabenow. It is a thriller that is written about a terrorist named Isa. He is very elusive. He is bent upon visiting his terrorism on the United States.
Isa is very good at disappearing and skilled at using a computer to manage his group of independent terrorists. Isa has a plan to shoot down the NASA shuttle. Isa has inside intel and knows the weaknesses of the target. He knows much from his training with the experts and he has a personal grudge. We get a little window into the NASA program and training not to mention the politics behind the program. We even get an insiders view of exactly what some of the astronaughts think about those who pay for the priviledge to fly on a shuttle mission. There is some rough language in the book…so be prepared for that in case it offends you.
He is close to no-one and when he finally does choose to become close to someone…he kills them because they remind him of another. This book is frightening in alot of ways. It does tend to make you think however.
Prepared for Rage was copyrighted in 2008 and published by arrangement with St. Martin’s Press. Dana Stabenow is a New York times best selling author.
Charm is a work of fiction; it is a novel written by Kendall Hart, the firstborn birth child of Erica Cane, on the American soap opera, All my Children. Of course, since this book is written by a fictional character on a soap opera…there was alot of public interest in it before it was even published. They did a lot of pre-publicity on the book by advertising on ABC, both with the book and with the corresponding perfume.
The book is about a female entrenpeneur named Avery; who creates her own cosmetic company. She is on the rising star list of companies who creates their own make-up and now they are entering into the world of perfume. However, Avery is saddled with one very spoiled and troubled rich young woman who is the daughter of Avery’s deceased lover who helped financially fund the business. The young woman’s name is Parker and she is self-destructive by consuming large amounts of drugs and alcohol. She is lonely and feels abandoned and when she is not sober…she trys to destroy Avery and her company.
Avery is not without alot of baggage of her own. She finds out that she is adopted in her thirties. She is both relieved and filled with angst. Her adoptive parents would win no parenting award…they are both alcoholics, and promiscuous. There was childhood abuse and neglect in Avery’s life as well; she just set about overcoming it. Avery has dealt with a lifetime of betrayal and divided loyalties.
However, when Avery’s birth mother makes an appearance; Avery is at first curious. Then she is aghast at the woman’s manipulations. Her birth mother is very self centered and is out to use Avery for her own gain. When that is revealed…she drops the bomb that Avery has a half sister. It opens a whole floodgate of emotions for Avery. Avery rediscovers a love and loyalty that she initially felt towards the woman who raised her in her very young years before much of the abuse and alcohol use. Avery shows strong character by taking care of a woman who has now been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Avery’s love life is damaged as well. Her first true love is Parker’s father and he was killed. Then the next man she dares to let into her heart betrays her; the next one, kept secrets from her that the second lover used to put a wedge between him and Avery. Avery goes back and forth between the two men and finds herself pregnant and confused about what she really wants and needs.
Charmed is entertaining, it is interesting to anyone who has ever watched the soap opera All My Children because of the obvious mirror image of Avery/Kendall Hart and Avery’s famous movie star, birth mother Patricia Lucas/Erica Kane (Kendall Hart’s birth mother), Erica being Kendall’s birth mother.
It was a fun read if a bit predictible in places…after all…it is modeled after a soap opera 
. Hmmm…i would like to smell the perfume though which really was for sale in the market place to tie into the book’s publishing. This book was was published in 2008 by Hyperion and ABC. The perfume went on sale March 2008 at Sears, it is called, Charm! All My Children. You can see Hyperion’s website here: www.HyperionBooks.com
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