Gulf Breeze

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Save the Wildlife

Another Excellent Entry in Hill's Growing Body of Work

Romance! Drama!

A great light read!

Funny and not too predictable

Gulf Breeze
Gerri Hill
Manufacturer: Bella Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 193151397X

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Dr. Carly Cambridge, wildlife biologist, returns to the Texas Gulf Coast to manage the latest Habitats for Nature project, restoring the woods and wetlands to their natural state. She is devoted to the environmental cause with a passion usually reserved for a lover - something she hasn't had since a disastrous love affair ten years earlier. Having sworn off women and relationships, Carly is perfectly content to live her life alone while she focuses on her latest project.

Wildlife photographer Pat Ryan is duped into volunteering her talents to the Habitats For Nature cause, but she wants no part of the overzealous Dr. Cambridge.

While they spend most of their time sparring and bickering, an early season hurricane finds them fighting nature - instead of each other - to save the wetlands and the birds that brought them together.

Soon Carly finds her heart opening, little by little, and struggles to ignore the feelings that are growing between them. And Pat, always searching for that certain someone to take her breath away, can't believe for a moment that the woman she's been waiting for could possibly be Carly.

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Save the Wildlife.......2006-08-01

I enjoy a little adversity between characters in a novel.

I think it is refreshing to see two people who care about each other, even though it doesn't appear this way, to work out their problems.

carley and Pat end up on the same page.

Good read...another good one by Hill.

Another Excellent Entry in Hill's Growing Body of Work.......2006-04-19

Wildlife biologist Carly Cambridge moves to the south Texas coast to establish a wildlife habitat. When she needs a photographer, one of the habitat's benefactresses recommends Pat Ryan. From the getgo, Pat considers Carly to be an environmentalist wacko. Carly's not sure Pat is qualified to take the pictures she needs.

Gerri Hill has a real talent for intertwining a good story and a good romance. Her characters, like Pat and Carly, seemingly have nothing in common, but they always find common ground. She also uses the setting as a character. In this book, she adds a hurricane to the mix to add tension.

Once again, Hill has written a page-turner. Hill is one of the best writers writing in this genre. And she gets better with each new book.

Romance! Drama!.......2006-02-05

Dr. Carly Cambridge and Pat Ryan, are two women who could not be more different. Carly is a nature biologist hoping to turn a patch of land into a wetland habitat. Pat is a photographer whose main experience with nature is that she takes pictures of wildlife.

Pat and Carly meet when Pat is "volunteered" by her aunt to take pictures for the habitat's brochure. Needless to say, their first meeting doesn't get off to a great start. Pat thinks Carly is whacko - Carly thinks Pat is infuriating. Little by little each woman soon comes to appreciate the skills of the other and find themselves both standing on the same side of the line - the line of nature versus humans.

Carly, who was burned badly by an ex-lover isn't looking for anyone, while Pat had given up on finding anyone to share her life with. When a hurricane suddenly threatens both the habitat and the two women, they are forced to face feelings they've been fighting to keep hidden. Will a chance at love for Pat and a new start for Carly be ended before it even begins? And will the habitat itself be able to survive possible destruction?

While taking the readers on an intriguing journey of two women as they face the trials and tribulations of love, Gulf Breeze is also a terrific lesson of how nature fights a constant battle to survive against the human race.

A great light read!.......2005-05-31

Get your iced tea, and find a comfy seat. This is a great light read. The characters are well developed, and the romance builds slowly. A great environmental theme, and an interesting setting on the Texas Gulf Coast. Loved it!

Funny and not too predictable.......2005-05-23

Once I started, I couldn't put it down.

The romance between the two kind of evolves, rather than hopping into bed by chapter three. I like that.

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When the Hurricane Blew

Manufacturer: Clear Horizon
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ASIN: 0977356906

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Created by Real Hurricane Kids! Whenever a hurricane threatens a community, the parents and grandparents get very busy with hurricane preparations. Kids are often fearful and have their own hurricane preparations to make. That's where this book can help. Created by hurricane kids for hurricane kids, "When the Hurricane Blew" offers a heartwarming story to help kids understand what is happening around them. It offers tips from kids who have been there and it offers a collection of games kids can do while in the car evacuating, while without electrical power, or while displaced after the storm. It is a great way to help kids understand what to expect and how to deal with the fear and uncertainty caused by an approaching hurricane and its aftermath. This book was written by a team of 4th grade kids (affectionately known as "Mann's Miracles") who have personally experienced direct hits from two major hurricanes within a single year and the resulting devastation to their Gulf Breeze, Florida community. These kids know first hand what its like to be a kid, watch a hurricane approach, and then experience the community-wide tragedy they cause. The experience moved them to create this book. It's sure to help kids understand what to expect as a storm approaches and... in the event of a direct hit... find comfort in knowning that their lives and hearts will heal. Mann's Miracles are the founders of the Hurricane Kids Network (www.HurricaneKidsNetwork.org) - a non-profit corporation which uses the royalties from this book to help hurricane affected kids everywhere through charitable donations and community projects.

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Great Book.......2005-10-14

This book might be for hurricane kids but it will touch the hearts of all. With this book everyone wins. You get a wonderful read and 30% of the proceeds go towards kids affected by hurricanes. I enjoyed my copy and I'm an adult. I passed it on to some younger members of my family and they loved it.

Read about this in the paper, today.......2005-10-07

Wow!! What a brilliant idea for a book!! I cannot wait to purchase myself one and some for gifts! Congratulations and I wish ya'll the best of luck!

Lisa Foster
Gulf Breeze, Florida

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"Reads Like A Key-Stone-Cops' Comedy"
Gulf Breeze conundrum.
Bubba Exposed
Interesting..... but thoroughly debunked.
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The Gulf Breeze Sightings
Ed Walters
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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ASIN: 0380708701

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"Reads Like A Key-Stone-Cops' Comedy".......2007-06-02

No doubt something is going on in Gulf Breeze. I have seen some outstanding home-made video tapes different people of the town have made, none of which looks like Walters' photos.
No doubt there are those who would "take advantage" of the situation. This book reads like a comedy. Even the photos are comedic, especially the one of the blue beam missing his wife running into the house, and of him shaking his fist at a ufo while wrapped in a towel. I am sorry I just can not recommend this book as serious business. If you want a good laugh, buy it.
I really think Ed should make up another book about finally getting caught by the aliens and telling of his mis-adventures with some really good photos. I think it would sell more copies than this book. P.S. Be sure and take your wife along to get her view point and add to the length and "credibility" of the book.

Gulf Breeze conundrum. .......2005-12-01

This is quite possibly one of the finest non-fiction books you will ever buy on the UFO phenomenon and a very in-depth case study. The Walters family walks us through a very easy to read explanation of what transpired over the period of some 8 or 9 months in their quiet town. Unlike some of the reviews read here, written by skeptics who would tell you otherwise, over 200 documented witnesses where involved with this case and Walters photos were not the only ones presented. There were also many videos taken, stereo photographic evidence and two passed polygraph tests. This is a must read for anyone interested in cutting to the chase and weeding through UFO books looking for the real deal. This was the real deal.

Bubba Exposed.......2004-04-26

I read this book many years ago and revisited it when I returned to Gulf Breeze last summer. As a former resident of Gulf Breeze, I can say with certainty that there were strange things in the skies in the early 90's. I never saw the exact craft that Ed had taken umpteen photos of, but I saw my share of fighter jets chasing glowing orbs, and I had a real good daylight sighting of a pulsating reddish-orange sphere at treetop level.

I came late to the Ed Walters story, as the events depicted in this book coincided exactly with my freshman year at FSU in Tallahassee. I moved back to Gulf Breeze in 1988 and heard the stories from a friend of mine who was a good friend to Ed's family.

I was sold that my friend (Patrick Hanks in the book) was convinced of the authenticity of Ed's story. He offered strange tales from Ed's past that I would later read in Ed's second book. He seemed truly perplexed and never hinted that the whole thing was a big joke. Later, he was visited in Chicago by "the authorities" and vowed never to talk about it again.

There are many UFO abduction stories in print. What makes this story interesting, aside from the fact that it occurred in my home town, is the unprecedented siege laid upon Walters by the UFO. Most abductees see a light in the sky that descends on them, then the next thing they know they are in hypnotic regression therapy, spewing forth details of their abduction.

Walters was literally under siege by the aliens. He would hear voices in his head telling him to step forward so that he could be brought aboard, but he consistently refused, dodging the blue beam, and incessantly snapping photos then ducking for cover. This went on for months and meanwhile everybody in town was seeing UFO's nightly.

This was the first close encounter case in the annals of ufology that allowed for an investigation to take place while the sightings were still occurring. MUFON gave Walters a stereoscopic camera that used dual lenses to take photos so that the object in the picture could be triangulated to determine its size and distance from the camera. Walters managed to take some photos with this camera, which is foolproof to the double exposure techniques of which he has been accused.

Walters was finally nabbed by the blue beam from Shoreline Park South in May 1988 and what he learned under hypnosis became his second book, which I read many years ago but have not revisited recently.

I cannot be sure that this was not an elaborate hoax, but I am sure of UFO's in the Gulf Breeze skies, an increase of military presence in the Pensacola area airspace, many stories from friends and neighbors who saw odd things, took pictures and videos, and my own "missing time" experience, shared with a friend in 1992.

There are so many tales of alien abduction. I once assumed they were all made up, but my Gulf Breeze experiences have shown me that people need not make up stories. There is something strange going on.

Interesting..... but thoroughly debunked........2003-10-11

This is a great UFO story, about a man, his wife and children in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Ed Walters claimed that he was hounded by a UFO near his home that even tried to beam him up. Basically the book is about Ed Walters taking photographs of a mysterious UFO outside of his home and then publishing them in the local newspaper. He writes about his experiences photographing the UFO and the MUFON investigation that followed shortly afterwards, during which time he took more UFO photographs and eventually published them in this book. So basically the book is about a series of extraterrestrial events near the Walters household in Gulf Breeze, Ed Walters taking photographs of this UFO and the MUFON investigation that followed.

So how does the story pan out? Well it is pretty much the bees knees of UFO sightings. The book is full of color pictures of a mysterious UFO with portholes at the sides which seems to be flying everywhere around Ed's home. It seems pretty believable and even has statements on photographic analysis from Dr. Bruce Maccabee to authenticate the photographs. Bud Hopkins, the famous alien abduction memory retrieval expert, even chimes in. So as a true story UFO romp it certainly is very good... except...

All the pictures are indeed fake. In fact this story destroyed the MUFON outfit which split because of two groups that came out of it, Pro-Ed Walters and Anti-Ed Walters. Dr. Maccabee was paid $20,000 for his analysis to appear in the book before the investigation was over. What you also don't know is that Ed Walters has never released his photographs for analysis elsewhere and that he holds the copyright to all the photographs that he took AND the ones that he said he did not take. The other photographs where published in newspapers elsewhere, so he had anonymous witnesses to the events. The big blow to Ed's story came when he denied taking these other photographs but a quick search found that he had copyrighted them. Also anomalies associated with talking photographs against a piece of glass using reflection methods of fakery cropped up in these photographs as well as his own. The anomalies where originally called scratches and blotches due to the development process and the camera he was using, but this is false, and since all the photographs have them then they where taken with the same camera and the same fakery process. Ed is in fact the photographer of the anonymous photographs that appeared in the newspapers after he had taken his and since he owns their copyright it pretty much goes to show that Ed has lied about his story.

I believe that there was a UFO FLAP over Gulf Breeze and that many people did see UFOs in the sky but this book is a complete hoax that just capitalized on the whole event. Ed Walters has simply faked a ton of photographs during this UFO flap and sold them off as what people where seeing. This is in fact false. Ed and his wife where the only people to ever witness this type of UFO. No one else saw this UFO and there are no witnesses to back up their claims, even though Ed lives in a pretty densely populated area. People may have seen UFOs at Gulf Breeze, but they didn't see the UFO in the pictures that Ed took.

Simple Truth Fully Authenticated.......2003-03-25

This wonderful book tries to present the simple fact that alien ships really are visiting the earth. Dubunkers have no ground to stand on with this one. The debunkers themselves are relegated to the group of people who have never observed the phenomenon. For this reason they imagine that such a thing could never happen. It's difficult to imagine that level of obtuseness when there is now so much solid supporting evidence for the information and the phenomenon. Grow up. We live in a busy neighbourhood (space) and we get visitors. Many are from our own future, some are interdimensional travellers, others are ETs.They have the technology to make it work. They are tourists, anthropologists and scientists. We live in a galaxy with so much life that they couldn't help but knock at our door. Ed Walters had a real experience.

3 Plays: The Boys in the Band; A Breeze from the Gulf; For Reasons That Remain Unclear

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Boys in the band is hilarious
Great Plays

3 Plays: The Boys in the Band; A Breeze from the Gulf; For Reasons That Remain Unclear
Mart Crowley
Manufacturer: Alyson Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1555833578

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Boys in the band is hilarious.......1998-11-22

I found this play to be one of the funniest I have ever read. Black humour at its most hilarious.

Great Plays.......1998-05-26

I wonder sometimes why so few people know who Mart Crowley is. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to call him one of the most gifted and important American playwrights, and yet nobody I've talked to, outside a handful of gay men who are in the theater or who read too much, has known even his name.

The Boys in the Band is the best-known of Mr. Crowley's plays: that's because, well, it IS the best, and also because there was an excellent movie made of it, which is as often seen as the play is read or seen on stage. The play is a brutal birthday party one evening in New York in 1969, and the guest of honor is guilt itself: eight gay men in their 30s gather and say horrible things to each other, which reflect more on themselves than on each other. Each in his own way is caught in the war zone between his homosexuality and the pressure from society to be something else (and goodness knows, the play opened just a few months before Stonewall). The most incredible thing about the play (in my opinion) is Mr. Crowley's evenness: you get the feeling that he is just showing life as he knew it, and not trying to judge or blame anyone or anything--rather a big feat for all the hate that had poisoned that life-as-he-knew-it.

One criticism has been consistently directed at The Boys in the Band over the years, that it depicts only guilt-ridden self-hating gay men who wish for all the world that they weren't gay. All I can say to this is, well, yes; but I am only 19 and I know exactly why these particular men are so guilt-ridden and self-hating, not because I grew up before Stonewall (I was still in diapers at the beginning of AIDS), but because it's STILL tough to be gay in America. This kind of guilt and this kind of self-hate haven't disappeared--I experienced them first-hand in the 1990s. If The Boys in the Band seems a bit narrow for focusing only on that, then it's remarkably deep in spite of its narrowness.

The other two plays in this collection are also quite good. They too are built on Mr. Crowley's cl! arity and evenness of vision, but it seems (unfortunately) that they'll always suffer in comparison to the first play. They're good reads. I recommend them highly.

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White Chevy Nova.......2001-11-15

Well let me start out by saying the the ufo mania is kinda wierd. I mean everyone and his uncle has seen a UFO right??? The book itself was ok. It was the testimony of one man that convinced me that this was the real deal. His name was Brandon Wheeler. He drove a white Chevy Nova. He was a busboy. You don't get anymore honest than this guy. I was curious so I decided to look him up on my next trip to Pensacola. I found him at a bar called Flounder's. He was drinking a Diesel Fuel, a local drink in a mason jar. He recounted the story in the book and then after a 3rd Diesel Fuel, he told me of another experience he had. He said he was home alone when his phone rang. It was a friend of his mother's. She asked him to look go outside and tell her if he could see what she saw. He went out and he told her he saw it. He desrcibed what he saw to me as a flying glowing Cheerio, not your Applecinnamon type Cheerio it was more of the plain version, just flying and glowing. Then he told me he saw pods coming out of this Cheerio. They looked as if they were landing behind his house in the woods. As Brandon told the story he got a scared look in his eyes. Then he told me of the nightmares that followed. Nightmares of anal probes and cross breeding with sheep. He then said he had to go and he stumbled out of the bar and I never saw him again. He is still there. Look for him and ask him to tell the story. He still has the Chevy Nova.......

Multiple proof.......2000-02-21

How can so many people be wrong? Having become immersed in the Walters family experiences the fascination never wanes. But still the question remains - where are the decent photos? An engrossing read (if in a somewhat basic English) and another must for all ufologists and more. I need to get hold of more of the Walters books

A man who has been abducted many times, tells of them fully........1999-05-11

He tells, in this(His second of three books) of being abducted by the aliens many many times, and that, contrary to many crazies, that they arent here for any spiritual crap. He wards those who yell HOAX! extremely well, presenting the evidence. Thank you for reading.

freaky.......1998-07-13

I would have kicked there little asses. I think you and I think a little alike. I especially like the part in your book when you were constantly hassled by these varmints and you came outside and cussed them out because it shows me you have large genitals. I think the fact that you own your own company and are a wealthy individual gives your story credibility because you have so much to lose by letting the public know that these things happen. You cannot possibly gain. Myself, I have seen things I cannot explain. I have shared these experiences with people at work and they think I am crazy. But I know what I saw!!!

A great chronological tale of a skeptic's ufo experiences........1998-04-02

I read this book twice, back to back. The straightforward chronological narrative of the main experiencer was intriguing to me. At first, I found the alternating voices of Mr. Walters, his wife Frances, and a well known and respected UFO researcher a bit confusing. However, once I got into this format, I found the individual accounts complementary and enlightening. Gulf Breeze continues to be a ufo "hot-spot," and many people the world over have written and shared photographs of similar crafts with Mr. Walters. I highly recommend it.

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A BREEZE FROM THE GULF
Mart Crwoley
Manufacturer: Noonday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M0L49O

War of the Words: The True but Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze UFO

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War of the Words: The True but Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze UFO
Craig, R. Myers
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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ASIN: 1425716547

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Journalists should avoid cliches, but they are just too useful. "A picture is worth 1,000 words," and in the case of the 38 "Gulf Breeze UFO" photos shot by Ed Walters in 1987-1988, millions of them -- weird, angry, hilarious and profound words. Words by Dave Barry, Mike Royko and Fox Mulder. Words on "Unsolved Mysteries" and "Oprah." With the 20th anniversary approaching I think about another cliche with a twist: "Truth is funnier than fiction." As a reporter in Pensacola, Fla., I found myself in a "War of the Words." TV networks flocked to town, Believers and Debunkers battled over Ghost-Demon photos and Army deserters arrived in search of the Second Coming. With the mayor and police chief on one side, and community leaders and the local paper on the other, I went looking for the last word on the subject. I found a spaceship.

Beyond Gulf Breeze (A Sally Malone Mystery)

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Beyond Gulf Breeze (A Sally Malone Mystery)
Joyce Holland
Manufacturer: Deadly Alibi Press Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1886199086

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Someone is killing the young women of Gulf Breeze. When victim two surfaces, the residents of the once-tranquil town go into a panic. In her desperate search for the killer, Sally Malone encounters possible evidence of alien visitation, some true believers, and the dark side of mankind.

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Breeze From the Gulf
Mart Crowley
Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS & @ GIROUX
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VL7TDO

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A Breeze from the Gulf
Mart Crowley
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0374511225

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"After completing the book, I truly understood life in the sawmill communities, intellectually and emotionally. It was very satisfying. Conrad and Sitton write in such a manner to make one feel the hard life, smell the sawdust, and share the danger of the mills. The book is compelling and stimulating."

—Robert L. Schaadt, Director-Archivist, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center

Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest lumber producer and created a colorful way of life that lingers in the memories of the remaining former residents and their children and grandchildren.

Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the sawmill communities. They describe the companies that ran the mills and the different kinds of jobs involved in logging and milling. They depict the usually rough-hewn towns, with their central mill, unpainted houses, company store, and schools, churches, and community centers. And they characterize the lives of the people, from the hard, awesomely dangerous mill work to the dances, picnics, and other recreations that offered welcome diversions.

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