Shadow Song
by Terry Kay
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It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago. In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely friend. A rural Southerner on his exciting first journey north, Bobo learned from Avrum that each life is marked by one grand, undeniable moment of show more change that never stops mattering. It came for Bobo in his first meeting with Amy Lourie, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. But for a wealthy Jewish girl and a Georgia farm boy, the summer had to end, leaving Bobo to learn another painful lesson. Now thirty-eight years later, Avrum's death beckons Bobo to the Catskills once more. When Amy unexpectedly appears, they discover that two lifetimes and a thousand Catskills sunsets stand between who they were and who they have become -- until mysteriously, miraculously, Bobo hears the dreams of his youth, of the young man who went forth and became part of a love larger than himself.... show lessTags
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Humorous, heartwarming fictional reminisce of what the Catskill Mountains of New York and its people were like in the mid twentieth century. Easily brought back my memories and the characters captivated me.
Cain
by James Byron Huggins
2018
WildBlue Press
4.2 / 5
Cain was invented from the dead body of a CIA operative by Army scientist Dr. Maggie Milton to be a super soldier. A super human. Indestructible. Immortal. The result of an experiment called Genocide One. She also injected him with a strain of the Marburg virus, the deadliest virus known that could kill off every Human on Earth within weeks. The Army knows of his super human strength but do not realize he has been possessed by Satan who is leading him on a mission to find an ancient text of Black Magic Secrets. The scientists want to find Cain and destroy him before the virus is released.
A fast moving, action paced Sci-Fi thriller with a Christian theme and message. The characters show more are likeable and easy to relate to. A fun read.
Recommended.
Thank you to Adam @ WildBlue Press for an e-book ARC of this book! show less
by James Byron Huggins
2018
WildBlue Press
4.2 / 5
Cain was invented from the dead body of a CIA operative by Army scientist Dr. Maggie Milton to be a super soldier. A super human. Indestructible. Immortal. The result of an experiment called Genocide One. She also injected him with a strain of the Marburg virus, the deadliest virus known that could kill off every Human on Earth within weeks. The Army knows of his super human strength but do not realize he has been possessed by Satan who is leading him on a mission to find an ancient text of Black Magic Secrets. The scientists want to find Cain and destroy him before the virus is released.
A fast moving, action paced Sci-Fi thriller with a Christian theme and message. The characters show more are likeable and easy to relate to. A fun read.
Recommended.
Thank you to Adam @ WildBlue Press for an e-book ARC of this book! show less
Bobo's strool down memory lane to the summer of 1955 when Avrum taught him that only once in one's life there will be a moment of change. When Amy, his summer fling returned, married and still in love with him, he called his wife and left her.
The author is from my home state of Ga. The book reflects on what happened the summer of 1955. Avrum dies at age 106 and when the charcaters return for his funeral they remember how they are met in 1955. The characters are great and they have a wonderful story to tell.
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Terry Kay was born February 10, 1938 in Royston, Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty, show more Shadow Song, After Eli, and The Runaway, which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) Terry Kay, Terry Kay grew up in Royston, Georgia on a farm that had no electricity. He was an entertainment reporter at the Atlanta Journal where he reviewed over 300 films a year. Needing more money, he took the position as creative director for a television and film development company. That job lasted a year, and he went on to public relations. Kay wrote the bestseller "To Dance with the White Dog," which Kay describes as "more of a translation of what had happened in my family than the creation of a book," and "The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene." Aaron Greene is a shy teenager who works as a mail boy at a bank and whose family could never afford the ten million dollars his captors are demanding. The story tells of the philosophical motives the kidnappers have for this unlikely abduction, which sets off a nationwide frenzy to find this average boy. Terry Kay published 18 books, including a collection of essays, and two children's books. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. He died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1994
- People/Characters
- Avrum Feldmen; Marina; Sol Walkman; Madison Lee Murphy "Bobo"; Carolyn; Carter (show all 23); Rene Wallace; Amy Meyers; Lila; Rabbi Norman Gold; Amelita Galli-Curci; Sammy; Maggie Charles; Paul Charles; Jean Archer; Dan Wilder; Joey Li; Nora Dowling; Ben Benton; Arch Ellis; Evelyn Lourie; Eddie Grimes; Trinity
- Important places
- Catskills, New York, USA; Woodstock, New York, USA; Pine Hill
- Dedication
- Patty and Eloise
- First words
- On the morning that he died, Avrum Felding came calling.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Yes," I answered. "Yes."
- Blurbers
- Siddons, Anne Rivers; Flagg, Fannie; Bush, Barbara
- Original language
- English US
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- (3.53)
- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, Finnish, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
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