De belofte vh noorderlicht|Janet Dailey Haradon 9067901873

||boek: De belofte van het noorderlicht|vertaling: Ineke van Bronswijk|Kadmos

||door: Janet Dailey Haradon

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Alaska: het land van het stille noorderlicht, het land van de eindeloze uitgestrektheid en ijzige onherbergzaamheid, het domein van Eskimo's, Indianen en Aleoets. De belofte van het noorderlicht: het boek van Alaska, een saga die meer dan tweehonderd jaar omspant en de lotgevallen beschrijft van zeven generaties van één familie. Het is 1742 als de eerste blanken voet zetten op Alaska's ongerepte bodem; lompe Russische jagers, aangetrokken door de belofte van het 'zachte goud', de fluwelen pels van de zee-otter. Met deze indringers doen lijden en strijd hun intrede in het harde maar vreedzame leven van Alaska's autochtonen: Winter Zwaan moet hulpeloos toezien hoe haar man wordt vermoord en haar wereld door de Russische plunderaars wordt verwoest. Tasja Tarakanova, haar beeldschone halfbloed dochter, ziet zich voor een onmogelijke keus gesteld als ze haar hart verliest aan een van de Russische jagers. Zij moet kiezen tussen de veiligheid van haar stam en een onzeker leven met haar geliefde Andrej. Haar beslissing vormt de oorsprong van een trots en vastberaden geslacht. Zachar Tarakanov, voor wie het lot beschikt dat hij omwille van zijn liefde voor de sensuele Raaf tot het uiterste gaat en het grootste geheim van zijn stam verraadt. Marisja Blackwood keert het land van haar voorouders de rug toe om weg te lopen met een fortuinzoeker, maar maakt uiteindelijk haar eigen fortuin als Glory St. Clair, Alaska's beroemdste madame. Larissa Tarakanova vindt aanvankelijk het geluk in de armen van een Amerikaanse advocaat. Totdat hij merkt dat haar autochtone bloed zijn politieke ambities in de weg staat. Wylie Cole, de kleinzoon van Marisja, verdedigt zijn vaderland tegen de Japanners met een aan roekeloosheid grenzende dapperheid, om mee te maken hoe Alaska in 1958 de negenenveertigste staat wordt van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika.

[bron: https--www.boekbeschrijvingen.nl]

Bestselling author Janet Dailey captures the heart of the last American frontier in this sweeping multigenerational saga of the founding of the state of Alaska.

Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins with Tasha Tarakanov, a beautiful Aleut woman, and her beloved Andrei, a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of proud Alaskans, including the beautiful Marisha, who finds her fortune as a legendary madam, and Wylie Cole, who bravely defends his homeland during World War II.

Glorious and grand, The Great Alone is a story of brave young men and women, whose dreams, heritage, betrayals, loves, and fortitude are as vast and wild as the land from which they sprang.

[source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2015-03-15]

This is good if you're looking for a long story about generations of a family in Alaska, with lots of history thrown in. It goes clear back to when the Russians first started coming to the Aleutians for otter skins and ends around 1974 in Anchorage. I knew that the Japanese had occupied one of the Aleutian Islands, but I didn't know that there was combat fighting there. This is the first story I have read about that. I need to look it up and see how much is historically correct.

Bea [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2012-08-18]

I read this book almost 20 years ago and still remember it well. The book covers several generations of women and their difficult lives in Alaska. One would think that a book that long would start to feel stagnant, but that is not the case. The lives of the characters weave right into each other and their situations are anything but repetitive. A great insight on what may have been a life in the wilderness a long time ago.

Dee [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Janet Dailey Haradon ---

Janet Dailey (1944 - 2013)

Janet Anne Haradon was born on May 21, 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa, U.S.A. She always wanted to be a writer and loved books. Her three elder sisters often read to her when she was good. By the age of four, she had her own library card. She studied with the Class of 1962 in the Jefferson High School,Independence, Iowa and she attended Secretarial school in Omaha, Nebraska.

In 1963, she went to work at the construction firm owned by Bill Dailey, her future husband, who was fifteen years her senior. The two continued to work together, often spending 17 hours a day, seven days a week at work. They worked for 10 years before "retiring" to travel around the country in 1974.

Janet wrote her first novel, "No Quarter Asked" in 1974 after her husband urged her to back up her claim that she could write a better romance novel than the ones she had read. The book was accepted by Harlequin, making her the category romance giant's first American author. Her 57 novels for Harlequin included one written in every state of the Union, and later became known as "The Janet Dailey Americana Series."

The Daileys were instrumental in forming the Silhouette romance fiction line, for which Janet wrote 12 more titles before entering the mass market field in 1979 with "Touch the Wind," which marked her debut on the New York Times best seller list.

In 1984, Janet entered the mainstream hard cover market with "Silver Wings,Santiago Blue." Currently there are over 325 million copies of her novels in print throughout the world, with translations in 19 languages, in 98 countries.

[source: https--www.fantasticfiction.com/d/janet-dailey]

Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (May 21, 1944 - December 14, 2013) was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey (her married name). Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dailey was both an author and entrepreneur.

Janet Anne Haradon was born on May 21, 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa to Boyd Clayton Haradon and Lena Louise (Zimmer) Haradon. She grew up in Iowa and graduated from high school in Independence, Iowa.

Dailey always wanted to be a writer and loved books. Her three elder sisters often read to her when she was good. By the age of four, she had her own library card. She graduated in 1962 from Jefferson High School in nearby Independence, Iowa and worked for a construction firm owned by her future husband, Bill Dailey, who was 15 years her senior. The two continued to work together, often spending 17 hours a day, seven days a week at work and married in 1964.

In 1974, after asserting that she could write a better romance novel than those she had read, Dailey's husband challenged her to prove it. Dailey spent eight months writing her first manuscript, No Quarter Asked, and then sent a query letter to Harlequin asking if they would like to read it. She was informed that because Harlequin only reprinted Mills & Boon novels at that point, so she would need to reach out to them in London. Mills & Boon acquired the book and released it in 1974. This made Dailey the first American woman to be published by Mills & Boon. In 1976, having already published multiple titles for Mills & Boon, No Quarter Asked was released by Harlequin as part of its Presents line. While many have claimed that Dailey was the first American author published by Harlequin, the Canadian publisher had in fact published many American authors prior to 1958, when it began exclusively reprinting Mills & Book titles. For the remainder of the 1970s, Harlequin reportedly used Dailey's presence on their roster as an excuse for rejecting other American authors, such as Nora Roberts, claiming they "already had their American writer."

Dailey "provide[d] ... [the] first look at heroines, heroes and courtships that take place in America, with American sensibilities, assumptions, history, and most of all, settings." She introduced the Western romance, romance novels set in the American West. The Western romance focused on the female, who was often marginalized in traditional Western novels. Because her novels were set in contemporary times, there is little frontier, but the novels recreate that feeling by introducing "physical confrontation of the elements" and focusing on the "primary nature of the pursuit" by a man and woman "unconstrained by any society's expectations of them." Many of the themes in her novels were groundbreaking for the genre. Her heroines, unlike most, lost their virginity. Others fell in love with poor or unattractive heroes.

She wrote a total of 57 novels for Harlequin. Among these novels were 50 in the "Janet Dailey Americana Series," in which every state in the United States was represented. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized her for this achievement of setting a novel in every state. By 1998, her Harlequin novels had sold a combined 80 million copies. Dailey was also one of the early writers for the Silhouette lines, for which she wrote 12 titles.

During her most prolific years, Dailey set herself the goal of writing 15 pages per day. Her day began at 4 a.m. On good days, she would meet her quota in 8 to 10 hours; other days would require 12 to 14 hours of work. When she met her goal, Dailey would often stop writing, even if she were in the middle of a sentence. The unfinished thoughts provided her an incentive to begin writing again the next day. Some of her early novels for Harlequin took only eight days to write.

In 1979, Dailey became the first romance author to transition from writing category romances to writing single-title romance novels. Her first mass market romance novel, Touch the Wind, reached the New York Times Best Seller List. Her subsequent books have also been New York Times Best Sellers. There are currently more than 325 million copies of her books in print, with translations in 19 languages for 98 countries.

Her novel Foxfire Light was made into a movie.

Dailey began offering The Janet Dailey Award in 1993. This $5,000 annual award was given to an author whose romance novel best addressed a social issue.

Dailey was sued in 1997 by fellow novelist Nora Roberts, who accused Dailey of copying her work over a period of more than seven years. The practice came to light after a reader read Roberts' Sweet Revenge and Dailey's Notorious back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and posted the comparable passages on the internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind rape", Roberts sued Dailey. Dailey acknowledged the theft and blamed it on a psychological disorder. She admitted that both Aspen Gold and Notorious lifted heavily from Roberts' work; both novels were subsequently pulled from print. In April 1998 Dailey settled the case. Although terms were not released, Roberts had previously indicated that any settlement funds should be donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.

In 2001, Dailey returned to publishing with a four-book deal with Kensington Books. The contract called for two books in the Calder series Dailey has written about a ranching family in Montana, and two books with holiday themes. Kensington expanded their relationship with Dailey in 2002, when she contracted for three more hardcover novels about the Calder family and an additional mass market original novel. At the same time, they purchased the reprint rights to 50 of her previously published romances.

In 1978, Dailey and her husband Bill moved from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Branson, Missouri, where Bill promoted and produced shows at the Americana Theater. He died on August 5, 2005.

Dailey considered Branson "an ideal place to live. The weather is generally good, the country is beautiful, and the people are so friendly - and unobtrusive."

She died at her home in Branson on December 14, 2013 from complications of heart surgery.

Bibliography

Cord and Stacy series

• No Quarter Asked (1974)
• Fiesta San Antonio (1977)
• For Bitter or Worse (1978)

Single novels

• Something Extra (1975)
• Sweet Promise (1976)
• Master Fiddler (1977)
• Ivory Cane (1977)
• The Rogue (1979)
• Touch the Wind (1979)
• Ride the Thunder (1980)
• Hostage Bride (1981)
• The Lancaster Men (1981)
• Night Way (1981)
• For the Love of God (1982)
• Foxfire Light (1982)
• Terms of Surrender (1982)
• Wildcatter's Woman (1982)
• The Best Way to Lose (1983)
• Mistletoe and Holly (1983)
• The Second Time (1983)
• Separate Cabins (1983)
• Western Man (1983)
• Leftover Love (1984)
• Silver Wings Santiago Blue (1984)
• The Pride of Hannah Wade (1985)
• Glory Game (1985)
• The Great Alone (1986)
• Heiress (1987)
• Rivals (1988)
• Masquerade (1990)
• Tangled Vines (1992)
• Riding High (1994)
• The Proud and the Free (1994)
• Legacies (1995)
• The Healing Touch (1996)
• Notorious (1996)
• Castles in the Sand (1996)
• A Capital Holiday (2001)
• Scrooge Wore Spurs (2002)
• The Not Forgotten War (2003)
• Maybe This Christmas (2003)
• Because of You (2004)
• Can't Say Goodbye (2004)
• Dance with Me (2004)
• Everything (2004)
• Eve's Christmas (2006)
• Man of Mine (2007)
• Something More (2007)
• Wearing White (2007)
• With This Kiss (2007)

Calder series

• This Calder Sky (1981)
• This Calder Range (1982)
• Stands a Calder Man (1983)
• Calder Born, Calder Bred (1983)
• Calder Pride (1999)
• Green Calder Grass (2002)
• Shifting Calder Wind (2003)
• Calder Promise (2004)
• Lone Calder Star (2005)
• Calder Storm (2006)
• Santa in Montana (2010)

Aspen series

• Aspen Gold (1991)
• Illusions (1997)

Americana series

• AL-Dangerous Masquerade
• AK-Northern Magic
• AZ-Sonora Sundown
• AR-Valley Of the Vapours
• CA-Fire And Ice
• CO-After the Storm
• CT-Difficult Decision
• DE-The Matchmakers
• FL-Southern Nights
• GA-Night Of The Cotillion
• HI-Kona Winds
• ID-The Travelling Kind
• IL-A Lyon's Share
• IN-The Indy Man
• IA-The Homeplace
• KS-The Mating Season
• KY-Bluegrass King
• LA-The Bride Of The Delta Queen
• ME-Summer Mahogany
• MD-Bed Of Grass
• MA-That Boston Man
• MI-Enemy In Camp
• MN-Giant Of Mesabi
• MS-A Tradition Of Pride
• MO-Show Me
• MT-Big Sky Country
• NE-Boss Man From Ogallala
• NV-Reilly's Woman
• NH-Heart Of Stone
• NJ-One Of The Boys
• NM-Land Of Enchantment
• NY-Beware Of The Stranger
• NC-That Carolina Summer
• ND-Lord Of the High Lonesome
• OH-The Widow And The Wastrel
• OK-Six White Horses
• OR-To Tell The Truth
• PA-The Thawing Of Mara
• RI-Strange Bedfellow
• SC-Low Country Liar
• SD-Dakota Dreamin'
• TN-Sentimental Journey
• TX-Savage Land
• UT-A Land Called Deseret
• VT-Green Mountain Man
• VA-Tidewater Lover
• WA-For Mike's Sake
• WV-Wild And Wonderful
• WI-With A Little Luck
• WY-Darling Jenny

• Americana (2001) (Omnibus)
• Americana 2 (2002) (Omnibus)
• Janet Dailey's Americana III (2002) (Omnibus)

New Americana Series

• Sunrise Canyon (2016) (Posthumous)
• Refuge Cove (2017) (Posthumous)
• Letters from Peaceful Lane (2019) (Posthumous)
• Hart's Hollow Farm (2019) (Posthumous)
• Paradise Peak (2020) (Posthumous)

Collections

• Boss Man From Ogallala / Darling Jenny (1982)
• Heart of Stone / Big Sky Country (1982)
• No Quarter Asked / The Indy Man (1982)
• Best of Janet Dailey: To Tell the Truth, That Boston Man (1983)
• Best of Janet Dailey: Bed of Grass, Heart of Stone (1984)
• Best of Janet Dailey: Wild and Wonderful, One of the Boys (1985)
• Rivals / Heiress (1991)
• Janet Dailey Collection (1994)
• Masquerade / Rivals / Heiress (1994)
• Janet Dailey Gift Set (1995)
• Summer Lovers: Strange Bedfellows; First Best And Only; Granite Man (1997)
• Always with Love (2002)
• Happy Holidays (2004)
• Western Man and Leftover Love (2004)
• Forever (2004)
• Going My Way (2005)
• Happily Ever After (2005)
• It Takes Two (2005)
• Let's Be Jolly (2005)
• Bring the Ring (2006)
• Ranch Dressing (2006)
• Try to Resist Me (2006)
• Foxfire Light / For the Love of God (2007)
• Separate Cabins / Second Time (2007)

Omnibus in collaboration

• The Jasmine Bride / Sweet Promise / Turbulent Covenant (1987) (with Daphne Clair and Jessica Steele)
• The Master Fiddler / Forest of the Night / Rightful Possession (1988) (with Jane Donnelly and Sally Wentworth)
• Mistletoe and Holly / Sweet Sea Spirit (1991) (with Emilie Richards)
• Marry Me Cowboy (1995) (with Susan Fox, Anne McAllister and Margaret Way)
• Santa's Little Helpers (1995) (with Patricia Gardner Evans and Jennifer Greene)
• Flower Girls (1996) (with Beverly Beaver, Margaret Brownley and Ruth Ann Dale)
• A Spring Bouquet (1996) (with Jo Beverley, Rebecca Brandewyne and Debbie Macomber)
• Homecoming (1997) (with Deborah Bedford, Dinah McCall and Fern Michaels)
• Unmasked (1997) (with Jennifer Blake and Elizabeth Gage)
• Wild Action (1997) (with Dawn Stewardson)
• The Only Thing Better Than Chocolate (2002) (with Kylie Adams and Sandra Steffen)

Non-fiction

• The Janet Dailey Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Her Life and Her Novels (1996)

[source: wikipedia]

Janet Dailey was a prolific writer of romance novels of which 21 have featured on the New York Times bestseller list. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold over 300 million copies. Her novels are characterized by strong, decisive characters, and a strong sense of time and place. She used her stories to confront important, and controversial social issues of the day.

Born Janet Anne Haradon, May 21, 1944, in Storm Lake, Iowa, to an elementary school teacher father, and hairdresser mother, Janet loved books from an early age, and aspired to be a writer. Encouraged by her three elder sisters, who read stories to her, she obtained her own library card at the age of four. She grew up in small town rural America, and most of the setting in her books reflect this rural environment.

After graduating high school in 1962, she went to work as a secretary with a construction firm. She married the owner of the firm, Bill Dailey in 1964. In 1974, the couple sold the business and 'retired', purchasing a Silver Streamer trailer and traveling around the USA.

It was at this time that Janet told her husband that she could write a better romance novel than any of those she had read. He challenged her to prove it. The resulting manuscript 'No Quarter Asked' was the first accepted by Canadian publisher Harlequin from an American author. Dailey went on to produce 57 more romance novels for Harlequin, and more than 100 novels over the course of her lifetime.

While traveling around in their trailer-home, Dailey wrote the fifty novels that make up the 'Janet Dailey American Series' in which each story was created to represent each American state in the union. This achievement is recognized in The Guinness Book of World Records.

Dailey's American Series placed heroines, heroes and courtships, in the American west, introducing females, usually marginalized in traditional American western novels, as the central character, confronting the elements, and challenging traditional societal expectations. Although the books were cast in a contemporary setting, there are many parallels with traditional American western fiction in terms of place, and theme.

Her novels Foxfire Light and When a Spider Bites were made into a motion pictures, both produced by her husband.

Foxfire Light (1982), starring Tippi Hedren, Leslie Nielson, and Faye Grant, and directed by Allen Barron, also known for directing the television series The Love Boat (1977), was marketed with the teaser, "A spoiled rich girl used to getting her way comes up against a rancher who won't be intimidated by her."

When a Spider Bites, was marketed with the teaser, "When Jordanna Smith accepts an invitation to accompany her father & three others on a hunting trip into the Idaho mountains, she doesn't know the trip will lead to both romance & murder - & that the motive for each will be revenge."

As well as the American series, featuring 50 books, Janet Dailey also created the following book series: Cord and Stacy (3 books), Calder Series (11 books), the Aspen Series (2 books) and Bannon Brothers (3 books). She also produced 47 single titles from which most of her New York Times Bestseller List contenders were drawn from.

Americana:

In the first novel of the Americana series - Dangerous Masquerade, cousins LeRaine and Laurie Evans live in Los Angeles. LeRaine is engaged to a millionaire who arranges for her to visit his aunt while he is away on business. In the meantime, LeRaine scores a movie contract and convinces her cousin Laurie to go in her place. Her plans go awry when LeRaine's fiance Rian, unexpectedly shows up.

The second novel Northern Magic is set in Alaska. Shannon Hayes is engaged to push pilot, Rick. Receiving a one way ticket, purportedly from Rick, she sets off for the northern frontier only to find no-one has seen him for two weeks. When she realizes he has crashed somewhere in the wilderness, she engages a search party, and meets Cody Steele, who pursues her relentlessly.

The Calder Saga:

The Calder Saga by Janet Daily is a series of 11 books. The first book This Calder Range, introduces Benteen Calder, heir to his father Seth Calder's dreams and ranch on the vast Montana open range. Benteen's wife Lorna takes the tough ways of the land as her destiny.

The second book in the Calder series is Stands a Calder Man. Web Calder, son of Brenteen Calder, stands up against the tide of newcomers who rush to claim the grasslands on which the Calder cattle graze, but he falls under the spell of Lilli, a beautiful young immigrant.

Bannon Brothers:

RJ Bannon is an off-duty police officer who comes across the cold case of a missing 3 year-old girl from more than 25 years ago. The father, a reclusive millionaire has posted a considerable reward that will expire in just a few months. In the course of the investigation, he meets the beautiful artist Erin Randall. The story builds up to an explosive climax.

Cord and Stacey:

The first novel of this series was also Janet Dailey's first book. Stacey ensconces herself in a secluded cabin in Texas while mourning the death of her father, when she meets the arrogant rancher, Cord Harris. When he tells her she should go back to the city where she belongs, she becomes even more determined to stay.

In 1997, the Aspen Series, consisting of two books became mired in conspiracy when a reader noticed similarities to Nora Roberts' work Sweet Revenge, and posted passages on the Internet. Roberts subsequently sued Dailey, and Dailey admitted to charges of plagiarism, blaming it on a psychological disorder.

Janet Dailey began publishing again in 2001 under a deal with Kensington books. After completing two more books on the Calder series and a couple of holiday specials, her contract was renewed for additional 3 Calder books, and one single-title novel.

Janet Dailey passed away December 14, 2013, at her home in Branson, Missouri. She is probably the most prolific and successful writer in the genre of category romance. It is very important you get hold of some of these good books to enable you get to know more about this author.

[source: https--www.bookseriesinorder.com/janet-dailey]

Janet Dailey schrijft zowel hedendaagse als historische romans. Haar historische romans spelen zich af in Amerika, in de tijd van cowboys en indianen, in de tijd van de opbouw van het Westen van Amerika (dus geen graven, hertogen en baronnen hier).

Het is alweer heel wat jaren geleden dat ik boeken van Janet Dailey heb gelezen, en aangezien mijn geheugen een grote gelijkenis vertoont met een zeef, kan ik u helaas niets vertellen over de schrijfstijl van deze schrijfster.

De hedendaagse pockets van Janet Dailey

In de historische Candlelight serie is een kort verhaal van Janet Dailey uitgebracht : CL 239 Een voorjaarsboeket. Dit is een buitenbeentje, want het betreft immers een hedendaags verhaal in een historische verhalen serie.
Werkelijk tientallen boeken van Janet Dailey zijn vertaald in het Nederlands en uitgebracht in diverse pocketseries, hoofdzakelijk in de Bouquet reeks en dit allemaal in de periode tussen 1976 en 1986. Ik verzamel zelf geen hedendaagse pockets, maar voor de liefhebber heb ik getracht een compleet overzicht te maken van de diverse uitgaven van Janet Dailey.

[bron: http--www.chasingdreams.nl/dailey-janet/dailey.html]