title: Once in a Lifetime: A Novel
author:  Danielle Steel 
description: <b>Praise for Danielle Steel</b><br /><br />Steel is one of the best!<b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br /><br />Few modern writers convey the pathos of family and material life with such heartfelt empathy.<b><i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br /><br />Steel pulls out all the emotional stops. . . . She delivers!<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br /><br />What counts for the reader is the ring of authenticity.<b><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b>
zlib_text: > > CRITICAL RAVES FOR  
  > DANIELLE STEEL
  
  > > > > “STEEL IS ONE OF THE BEST”
  
  > > > > — _Los Angeles Times_
  
  > > > > “THE PLOTS OF DANIELLE STEELS NOVELS TWIST AND WEAVE AS INCREDIBLE
  > STORIES UNFOLD TO THE THRILL AND DELIGHT OF HER ENORMOUS READING PUBLIC.”
  
  > > > > — _United Press International_
  
  > > > > “A LITERARY PHENOMENON…ambitious…prolific…and not to be pigeonholed as
  > one who produces a predictable kind of book.”
  
  > > > > — _The Detroit News_
  
  > > > > “There is a smooth reading style to her writings which makes it easy
  > to forget the time and to keep flipping the pages.”
  
  > > > > — _The Pittsburgh Press_
  
  > > > > “Ms. Steel excels at pacing her narrative, which races forward,
  > mirroring the frenetic lives chronicled here; men and women swept up in
  > bewildering change, seeking solutions to problems never before faced.”
  
  > > > > — _Nashville Banner_
  
  > >  _ **Also by Danielle Steel**_
  
    
  LEAP OF FAITH |  HEARTBEAT  
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  LONE EAGLE |  MESSAGE FROM NAM  
  JOURNEY |  DA