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Every Kind of Heaven
Published in Unknown Binding by ()
Author: Bethany Campbell
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Another romance book with secrets and deceptions!
This book was okay but it's another one of those romance books where someone is deceiving someone, in most books it's usually the woman who is somehow deceiving the guy but in this book it's the guy who's deceiving the woman, Pierce is an actor researching a roll of a blind man and he meets Mollie while pretending to be blind, she really thinks he blind and he hires her to be his helper and continues the charade, while I don't mind an actor having to pretend to be blind to research for a movie I didn't think it was very nice to keep it up as long as he did and kind of string Mollie along, I think the minute he realized he liked Mollie more than an employee he should have been honest with her and told her the truth. Sorry I guess I have just read too many romance books lately where some kind of secret and deception was taking place that I'm kind of sick of that overused plot device and I'm looking for a romance book with more original plot devices.

It was good but no keeper
Every Kind Of Heaven written by Bethany Campbell was good and is about the romance of a guy named Pearce Goddard and a lady named Mollie Randall, it wasn't my favorite Bethany Campbell book but it was an enjoyable read though I just didn't find it to be a keeper as It just didn't totally wow me!


Hope Beyond Hope: The Story of the Dominican Sisters of Bethany
Published in Paperback by New City Press (March, 1988)
Author: O.P. Emmanuel-Marie
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A Point of Departure
Most of us English speakers had our first encounter with the Dominican Sisters of Bethany in Rumer Godden's 1979 novel, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy. Mrs. Godden wrote an introduction to her novel, stating that the Dominican Sisters of Bethany really do exist, in France, and thanking the Prioress General for permission to write about her congregation. If, like me, you put down Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy, saying to yourself, "I must know more," what do you do to investigate this subject?

There are several answers. One is, Learn a language other than English, in order to study the existing literature or websites about the TWO Dominican congregations of Bethany (Rumer Godden chose not to mention that World War I split the congregation in two, in 1914, and both groups of Sisters of Bethany remain separate yet friendly.) Among European languages, French is your best bet. Pere Marie-Jean-Joseph Lataste OP, Bethany's Dominican priest founder, is the subject of an anthology, Precheur de la Misericorde (meaning Preacher of Mercy), from the French Dominican publishing house, Les Editions du Cerf. (Yes, the late great Mrs. Godden did her homework: it is easy to find her English translations of Pere Lataste's words and pull up the French originals in the Cerf anthology.) French is not your only Continental-language option: books have also been published in Italian, German, Dutch, and, recently, Latvian!
In English -- there's the rub. I review Hope Beyond Hope from the perspective of having read about the Congregation of Bethany in French and German. The bad news is: Hope beyond Hope is a far inferior book to the Bethany literature in the European languages. The weakest link is the translator, Jerry Hearne, whose English is clumsy, unidiomatic, ultimately difficult to digest. The author herself, identified as Emmanuelle-Marie, first wrote this book in Italian, then revised it herself and rewrote it in French; either of those versions are better-written than is Hope Beyond Hope, which is out of print. The other news is: That's all there is in English, to date, about the Dominican Sisters of Bethany. One has to have a point of departure, to start from somewhere, and Hope Beyond Hope is better than nothing. If God so wills, someday there will be books written in English about the Dominicans of Bethany that will be a better quality than is this one.


Spellbinder
Published in Paperback by Harlequin Books (April, 1992)
Author: Bethany Campbell
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Not the best...
The book is abou Kelly who inherits the posession of her uncle. She goes to Arkansas, where he lived, and meets a friend of his and evantually falls in love.
It's the standard Harlequin Romance, nothing exceptional.


Ultimate Snowboarding
Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books (March, 1998)
Author: Bethany Stevens
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This book has everything except what I need
Don't buy this book if you want to learn the technique of snowboarding. It mostly has info for those who would like to know everything about snowboarding except how to do it. Out of 150 pages, only 1 is devoted to instruction: "keep your knees bent, look where you are going, and listen to your instructor". Well, how do you ride the darn thing? Otherwise it has lots of history and cool pictures of people doing tricks.


Colette, Beauvoir and Duras: Age and Women Writers
Published in Hardcover by University Press of Florida (January, 2000)
Author: Bethany Ladimer
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The Joys of Entertaining
Published in Hardcover by Abbeville Press, Inc. (February, 2000)
Authors: Beverly Reese Church and Bethany Ewald Bultman
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The Secret Tapes Of Madonna's Slumber Party
Published in Audio CD by Cause Celeb LLC (01 January, 1998)
Authors: Robert Lanzner and Bethany Owen
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1998 DeCordova annual exhibition, 13 June-September 7 : Bethany Bristow, Tom Chapin, Stephanie Chubbuck, Vico Fabbris, Ben Freeman, Thomas Halloran, John Hughes, Abelardo Morell, Irene Valincius, Lucy White
Published in Unknown Binding by DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park ()
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After the Stars Fall (Harlequin Romance No. 2726)
Published in Paperback by Harlequin (October, 1985)
Author: Bethany Campbell
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The Aging in Rural Mid-America: A Symposium on Values for an Evolving Quality of Life, June 5-6 1978
Published in Paperback by Bethany College Pr (August, 1978)
Authors: Work Conference on Aging Bethany College 1978 and Lloyd Foerster
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