title: The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives
author:  Sharona Muir 
description: Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the beginnings of Israeli science. <i>The Book of Telling </i>keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a processat once her own story and the tale of a nation.<br />Edmund White, author of <i>A Boys Own Story<br /></i><br /><i>The Book of Telling</i> opens with a sequence of lyric evocations of the elusive father whose influence made Sharona Muir into both a poet and a scholar. By the end of this memoir, her passionate investigation has drawn Itzhak Bentov partly out of the shadows that protected his work as an Israeli defense scientist and has given the book a historical scope that never ceases to be poignantly intimate.<br />Diane Middlebrook, author of <i>Her Husband: Sylvia Plath &amp; Ted Hughes, A Marriage<br /></i><br /><i>The Book of Telling</i> tells of a womans journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.<br />Alan Lightman, author of<i> Einsteins Dreams</i>
zlib_text: # Hidden Leaves
  
  
  DeBeers #4  
  V.C. Andrews  
  Copyright (c) 2003  
  ISBN: 9780743457873  
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  From the Desk of Willow De Beers  
  To My Faithful Readers.  
  As you all know, my life changed dramatically
  
  when my father's attorney handed me a packet of papers right after my father's
  funeral.
  
  I went into my father's office at the first opportunity I had and began to
  read what turned out to be my father's personal diary. I learned very
  significant and dramatic things about him, about my real mother, and about
  myself.
  
  
  It was as a direct result of reading this diary that I changed my whole life
  and left college to discover who I really was.
  
  
  For a long, long time, I kept this diary locked up. but I finally decided that
  my readers deserved to know the details of how and why this all began.
  
  
  To that effect. I have also included my early years, which I call Dark Seed.
  Together, these two manuscripts will provide. I believe, a full  
  understanding of me, my family, and my ultimate destiny.
  
  
  