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Vanessa Denton gave her life for Gaia and Mathews Bush despite a
solemn promise from Mike Simmiss, President of the Save Our Forests
Association (SOFA). The tragedy drives Mike to revive a flagging
campaign against logging the forest. Time is running out, and the
chance of success seems against the odds but, not compromising,
Mike grasps every last opportunity. Will it be enough? SOFA goes up
against big business, the new owner of the forest, Jackson-Halberd
(NZ) Ltd, contending with the company's successful Managing
Director, John Baron, and its unscrupulous board member and stroke
survivor, Ed Somerville.
Peter Nugent, manager of a theatre company in Wellington and former
actor, has just been diagnosed with cancer when he receives
devastating news that his beloved 17 year-old granddaughter,
Melanie, has committed suicide. The tragedy saps his will to go on
living. He learns from Robin Blackwell, hospital employee and
pro-lifer, that Melanie had an abortion just before she died.
Blackwell incites Peter to action against his granddaughter's
boyfriend then against the doctor Blackwell identifies as the
abortionist. But not everything is as it seems. Peter struggles
first with his conscience then with his heart. "A powerful book" -
Andrew Killick.
A New Zealand-born neophyte artist, James Vallence, rents an old
villa on the French Riviera not knowing that his life will
drastically change when Kimberley Spenser, a beautiful young
American, shows up at his door. Masked intruders break into the
villa, James is shot and wounded and Kim is abducted. Mystery
surrounds her disappearance and, with few leads, James desperately
searches for her. Unsuccessful in finding Kim's whereabouts, though
not losing all hope, James tries to rebuild his life in Paris. He
cannot, however, escape a vendetta begun by her kidnappers . Others
become embroiled and he has to fight for his life.
Seven Caribbean tourists become pawns in the struggle for
ideolgical and political control of Tortolona when a Cuban-trained
army officer, Captain Martin Levera, seeks to overthrow the
dictatorship of Mathew Duppie.
In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to
challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United
States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing
the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation.
In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than
international communism--posed the primary threat to the nation. He
even welcomed Communists into his campaign, admiring their
commitment to peace. Focusing on what Wallace himself later
considered his campaign's most important aspect, the troubled
relationship between non-Communist progressives like himself and
members of the American Communist Party, Thomas W. Devine
demonstrates that such an alliance was not only untenable but, from
the perspective of the American Communists, undesirable. Rather
than romanticizing the political culture of the Popular Front,
Devine provides a detailed account of the Communists'
self-destructive behavior throughout the campaign and chronicles
the frustrating challenges that non-Communist progressives faced in
trying to sustain a movement that critiqued American Cold War
policies and championed civil rights for African Americans without
becoming a sounding board for pro-Soviet propaganda.
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