Lone Eagle
by Danielle Steel
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Danielle Steel's 51st bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free...The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-five years before. What she got was the one call she had never show more wanted, and didn't expect. As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met. She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known.
It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs. All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star- just out of reach. Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find. As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives. Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe. Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation. Joe's planes are his life, his passion. But irresistably drawn to her, moth moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate. Even after the long dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns. Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away. As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life.
When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family. Joes wants the world, his limitless horizon, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives.
Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breaths life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise. The joinging of two remarkable halves into a single far more powerful whole. It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told. show less
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Lone Eagle by Danielle Steel
Kate Jamison falls in love in 1940. Her love goes off to war but she doesn't wait and marries another.
He does return....Story also follow Joe Albright and is he gonna be able to set her free-he loves her.
She loves everything about him, his passion of flying and his design work.
While he's overseas flying, they get the letter that he died, she talks to her best friend, Andy who can't go into the service. She treated him like a brother and now he wants her to be his wife.
Amazement as they learn he did not die at all and now she has choices and decisions to make, which will she select for her husband?
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Kate Jamison falls in love in 1940. Her love goes off to war but she doesn't wait and marries another.
He does return....Story also follow Joe Albright and is he gonna be able to set her free-he loves her.
She loves everything about him, his passion of flying and his design work.
While he's overseas flying, they get the letter that he died, she talks to her best friend, Andy who can't go into the service. She treated him like a brother and now he wants her to be his wife.
Amazement as they learn he did not die at all and now she has choices and decisions to make, which will she select for her husband?
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Story of ambitious pilot and his fear of love
Danielle Steel, la reina indiscutible de la novela romántica, nos ofrece en esta ocasión una tórrida historia de amores imposibles que se inicia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando Kate se enamora a primera vista de Joe, un audaz piloto de combate. Mientras está en la universidad, Kate ansía una vida estable junto a su amor; Joe, en cambio, sigue cosechando un triunfo tras otro, deseoso de vivir libre de ataduras. Tras la captura del piloto a manos de los alemanes, y al comprender que jamás logrará formar una familia junto a él, la protagonista decide casarse con un buen amigo de quien tendrá una hija. Pero el destino, una vez más, propiciará la reaparición de Joe...
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Danielle Steel was born in New York City on August 14, 1947. She studied literature, design, and fashion design - first at Parsons School of Design and later at New York University. Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1972. Her other books include The House on Hope Street, The Wedding, Irresistible Forces, Granny Dan, Bittersweet, Mirror show more Image, The Klone and I, The Long Road Home, The Ghost, Special Delivery, The Ranch, His Bright Light, Southern Lights, Blue, Country, The Apartment, Property of a Noble Woman, The Mistress, Dangerous Games, Against All Odds, The Duchess, Fairytale, Fall From Grace, The Cast, The Good Fight, and Turning Point. A number of her novels have made major bestseller lists and have also been adapted into TV movies or miniseries. She also writes children's books including the Max and Martha series. In 2002, she was decorated by the French government as an Officer of the Order des Arts et des Letters for her contributions to world culture. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The call came when she least expected it, on a snowy December afternoon, almost exactly thirty-four years after they met.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The dance was over, but it would never end.
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