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Though I don't practice Yoga, just Qi-Gong. I find this book very informative and a must have to read for those not know much or history of the spirituality of Yoga. All the different Yoga, beliefs, and what you may not know of any of the Yoga you might had/is practicing.

This book is amazing! I learned so much that no one is really about to talk about in a yoga class. The history of yoga was only scratching the surface, but it was still so much to absorb. This is a powerful book.

This book gave me a clearer understanding of Yoga. My greatest compliment is that it sustained my interest enough to read the book to the end. I enjoyed the humanistic tone of the book, and the simple ordering and structure of topics which brought clarity to a potentially overwhelming subject. I look forward very much to reading more of Georg Feuerstein's books.

When looking for books on Yoga, I had no idea where to start and I didn't want to read some...American trying to cash in book. I saw this book and it seemed real. Wow, I'm glad this is the first book I read on Yoga. Georg Feurstein fully knows and understands the essence of Yoga. The book touches on everything from the history of Yoga to a Yogi's diet. I like how Feurstein always refers back to the old Sanskrit texts of Yogi practices. However, if you are looking for a book where you actually do the postures then look for another book because this book doesn't satisfy that. You should read all you can about Yoga before attempting it, I know my presumptions on Yoga have been changed from reading this book.

I'm in training to become a Yoga teacher. This is a book I will come back over and over again to share information with my students when I start teaching.

Ruth Farley is a rock. She is stubborn. She is strong. She is self-centered. And she is as undeniably irresistible as the natural stone sculptures in Monument Valley.

Ruth ventures West, determined that she will not yield to society's limited expectations and dull conventions for women. She will live on her own in her beloved canyon. She will build her house where that huge boulder rests, the one two men have told her cannot be moved. She will have sex and enjoy it, thank you very much. She will do it all despite the cost to herself and her loved ones. And Ruth exhibits all this staunch feistiness in 1920s rural, tiny-town America.

In Ruth, novelist Susan Lang has created a character who arrests the reader's interest and refuses to free it. She is far more compelling and believable than another female character untypical of her time, Jane Smiley's Lidie of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. And she is as intriguing as Kate Horsley's Sara Franklin, another young woman who travels to the Southwest in Crazy Woman.

The novel's only flaw is that it seems a little rushed toward the end. But perhaps that is only because Ruth is so fascinating that we don't want to let her go.

A time, a place, a person, a community of settlers separated by miles of miles, a philosophy of spirit -- all flow forth in Susan Lang's quiet drama of survival in an untamed wilderness by an untamed woman.

Lang obviously knows her landscape of place and soul. She risks and sustains the characterization of a woman beyond her time, yet, within it, allowing her to make the mistakes such a woman could make in the era in which she makes them. The core standard of such a character is that she is better than she has to be while being no better than she needs to be, according to her own dictates.

The absolute strength of Lang's writing is her own intercourse with the mysterious and magnificent sensuality of comprehending a wilderness of land and being. She understands tiny things that, for her, and now for her readers, loom large.

The only thing I didn't love about this book is the fact that it kept me up late at night until I finished it. The writing just puts me right there, as if I'm watching it the way I would a movie, encountering bears and cowboys myself. I loved Ruth, too, the main character and enjoy her stubborn ways, even when she's finding out she has to change-which she does in some way, though not at her core. I like the way Lang has her trying to force her will on the land until she learns that the place has a spirit "stronger than that of a person." I only hope the author has another book around somewhere so I can find out what happens to Ruth next!

In 1929, barely 21 years old, Ruth Farley heads west and claims a homestead in an isolated canyon in Southern California, at that time still the land of rough-and-ready miners and cowboys. What is she looking for? She doesn't quite know, but she knows what she doesn't want - a conventional woman's life of settled domesticity. To her this means she must be totally self-sufficient and independent. Ruth is stubborn, brave, strong, and subject to fits of free-ranging lust that she is not always successful at keeping under control, although she makes weak attempts at it. With 21-year-old chutzpah, she has the delusion that she can spit in the eye of conventional norms for women without paying a high price for it, and she protects this delusion with a cavalier disregard for what people think of her.

Part of her delusion is that she can carve out an independent life for herself in an isolated mountain region without the help and support of neighbors, and a major early story line of the book is her stubborn insistence on moving, entirely alone, a boulder that must be removed before she can lay the foundation for her cabin. The boulder could be easily moved with the help of neighbors, or by using a couple of horses and rope to drag it to a new location, but Ruth is determined to do it herself. The story of her struggles with the boulder, and her eventual triumph over it, becomes a metaphor for Everywoman's struggle to achieve independence against overwhelming odds, and any woman who has learned from hard experience that "what doesn't kill us makes us strong" will identify deeply and emotionally with this element of the story.

Unfortunately, succeeding at moving the boulder by herself reinforces Ruth's delusion that she doesn't need anybody. The rest of the book is a harrowing account of what she pays for this delusion, coming close to death at the hands of violent men and again at the hands of Nature, and seeing the first true love of her life killed because she is a white woman who has taken an Indian lover. Ultimately, of course, she has to learn to see life, Nature, and people as they really are - complicated, unpredictable, sometimes violent, and sometimes unexplainably compassionate.

If the book has a weakness, it is that even though Ruth is complex and multifaceted, some of the other characters are rather flat - her Indian lover Jim, for example, is unbelievably flawless. But in the context of this compelling story, I wasn't bothered much by that. I was much more impressed by Lang's tackling of reality themes I seldom see novelists deal with: a woman struggling with the paybacks of unrestrained lust, for example.

True "literary" writing expresses the universal through the particular, and in my view this book may well become a classic parable of what we pay, men as well as women, for defying cultural norms, and what we must do to come to terms with those norms without losing our truest Selves in the process.

Susan Lang does the impossible in her book, Small Rocks Rising. The story is as big, bulky, and unwieldy as the boulder her main character, Ruth Farely, encounters in Chapter One, while the writing is frequently as polished as any gemstone.
Amid fast action and female lust, there is the slow revealing of Ruth's background. The complex composition of Ruth's character comes from her half-breed mother, a strong-willed aunt, two years of finishing school, training to be a nurse---and the will to be free of it all.
This novel rings with the authenticity of place, and of a woman's unambiguous sexual longings. In Ruth's insightful self-talk and dreaming, there hangs the reality of a woman alone. She is impatient with life and all the people she encounters in her struggle to forge a place for herself in the wilderness. Ruth is an unconventional woman whose thoughts and actions are well ahead of her time. Her courage is matched only by her desires.
As the novel reveals Ruth's story, it also reveals a parallel to the male myth of passage, initiation into adulthood. Ruth experiences the trials of being alone in the extremes of nature, life-sapping heat to freezing snowstorms. She also encounters the extremes of the nature of men---violent to tender. She loses her way in the wilderness of the mountains and her own desires to discover she has the resources not only to survive, but to overcome all that nature, and man, has to throw at her.
Overall, the novel is a great read. Let's hope there is more.

Even better than Walks the Fire (which was great), Soaring Eagle is a spellbinding story of God's grace and human need. You have to stay with this one until the end. Everything comes together as pieces of a puzzle. Beautiful!

When I left off with Whitson's first book in this series "Walks the Fire" I was hoping book 2 would be as good. I was not disappointed. It was even more exciting! Jessie King is dead, LisBeth her daughter has just lost her husband in the Indian war, and now she seeks some meaning to life. In mourning, she finds she is too bitter to accept the faith of her mother. Soaring Eagle is fighting a battle of the cultures. He is an Indian who is forced to act like a white man. He refuses their God. Jim Callaway is a career soldier who had seen and done such horrendous things that he deserts the army, running, and ends up in Lincoln, Nebraska near LisBeth and smithy, Joseph. David Braddock is introduced in this book and as rich as he is, he cannot convince LisBeth to end her mourning and court him. So many changes in the town's people occur, the most outstanding being when the daughter of the town gossip accepts the call to an Indian mission school. There she meets Soaring Eagle and Carrie, a little white girl who is the only one who can reach into the heart and soul of Soaring Eagle. Soaring Eagle wears the gold cross which Jessie, his dead white stepmother wore, and a locket with the pictures of his mother and an unidentified woman...his sister whom he has never seen? LizBeth has nightmares about an Indian riding the plains with HER husband's locket around his neck. The interaction of LizBeth and Soaring Eagle is spell-binding and puts the reader heading straight into book 3, Red Bird.

I LOVED Walks The Fire, and so I rushed out to get Soaring Eagle, and I'm really glad I did. I liked it ever better than the first book in the series! I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the third book, Red Bird, and can't wait to get my hands on it either. Whitson is one of the best, if not the best, Christian Historical Fiction authors out there!

I never expected Soaring Eagle to be better than Walks the Fire, but it was! I was totally caught up in the physical and spiritual journey of Soaring Eagle. His struggle to admit his connection to not only white people, but also to Christians, was enthralling. To add even more drama, Whitson has Soaring Eagle interact with Lisbeth's husband in a secondary plotline that will keep you spellbound. Normally I am not an emotional person, and I was actually sobbing out loud by the time that I read the last word of Soaring Eagle. I am a prolific reader of Christian fiction, and Whitson far outclasses her more well-known counterpart Lori Wick. The Prairie Winds and Keepsake Legacies series are likewise far above anything that I have read by Oke, Wick, Glover, or Peart (and I have read them all). My only complaint is that Whitson is not writing them fast enough!

First of all, if you haven't read "Walks The Fire", you really need to read that first or you will be lost with "Soaring Eagle".

Soaring Eagle, the adopted son of Jesse "Walks The Fire" King and half sister of Jesse's daughter Lisbeth, discovers that in a battle with the White man he has killed his sister's husband. This story follows Soaring Eagle and Lisbeth in their journey to forgiveness; Soaring Eagle and Lisbeth each discover the faith of Walks The Fire, and Lisbeth learns to love again.

Once I began this book I absolutely HAD to finish it, reading it in meetings, at work, even in the bathroom. This one has everything -- tragedy, action, romance -- you'll love it!

"Soldiering For Freedom" by Herman J. Obermayer.
Subtitled: "A GI's Account Of World War II.
Texas A& M University, Military History Series, 98. (2005).

This book is a personal memoir that is different from most. Herman J. Obermayer, at the age of eighteen, was drafted in June 1943. From his entry into the Army at the New Cumberland Army Reception Center, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until his return from Europe to the United States on the ship, "Colby Victory", he wrote his parents. His last letter is dated March 30, 1946. These letters, collected during the war years, formed the foundation for this book. At first, I thought I would not like the format of printed edited versions of Obermayer's letters, but then, I found that the author has woven the letters into a sort of personal and contemporary commentary on the events that were occurring at the date of each letter. So, for example, you will find his letters from the College of William and Mary, where Obermayer trained in the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), intertwined with a rather detailed explanation of the Army Specialized Training Program, its goals, and that the fact that some 150,000 GIs were assigned to some 222 colleges and universities as ASTP students, and, for completeness, a brief history of the College. Due to his high score on the Army General Classification Test, Herman Obermayer was initially assigned to ASTP, so the former Dartmouth student entitled this chapter as "Back To College As A Soldier".

Basic training, troopship crossings and awaiting combat are all dealt with in individual chapters, which, again, mix Obermayer's contemporary correspondence with succinct summaries of the status of the war in the European Theater of Operations, ETO. An interesting chapter deals with the war against the French, our nominal allies, who were robbing gasoline from the American pipelines. On pages 100-101, the author gives an incidence of the French actually sabotaging a train, resulting in the death of some 200 American soldiers. "Censorship kept the news of this event out of the U.S. press." Even today, the there is little written about it.

The author has provided B&W contemporary photos of himself, his friends and some of interesting events he describes in the book. Additionally, the author has prepared an interesting map, showing his World War II trek across the ETO, and then marking the places he visited, including Paris, the Riviera and Geneva, Switzerland, where he was a student after the end of hostilities. This is an interested and very detailed book.

Soldiering For Freedom, a collection of letters to his parents, describes what World War II was like for G.I.'s whose logistic support made possible the effectiveness and heroism of front-line combat troops. Obe was one of thousands who maintained and protected the pipe line that fueled the spectacular advances of Patton's Third Army. Well-written, a "good read"...his writing brings long overdue recognition to the unsung role of "back area" veterans. Obermayer is gifted with a seeing eye and a feeling heart. His vivid 1944-46 descriptions of France and Germany and his reactions to what he witnessed reminds us that French anti-Americanism was reciprocated by the average G.I., and that black marketeering and fuel theft was greatly responsible for prolonging the war.
This excellent book is a "coming of age" memoire of a patriotic Jewish G.I. from an affluent "Ivy League" background becoming a natural and inevitable part of the American community, that unique bonding of diverse citizens learning to work together sharing a love of country and flag.
These letters remind veterans of the daily "Mail Call's" ability to sustain family bonds in wartime...maintaining contact with the "real" world. Sixty years later in "Soldiering For Freedom" Obermayer wins his personal battle with Time by gathering up and preserving memory. history

Mr. Obermayer's book is an excellent read. The chapters feature a summary and then copies of Mr. Obermayer's letters to his family during World War II.

What makes Mr. Obermayer's story interesting is that he was a young man who didn't like the Army, but did his best to serve his country.

Every since the movie "Saving Private Ryan," and the book "The Greatest Generation," the public has viewed WWII veterans as people who were on a crusade. "Soldiering for Freedom" brings back the facts of 1940 military life we've forgotten. He describes:

* The hurry up and wait so common to military operations.
* The dependence on rumors for information and the concurrent frustration of not knowing what's happening.
* The forming and training and then re-forming and retraining. He goes through a dizzying number of programs and units: college based technical training, Combat Engineer battalion, Airborne Engineer battalion, a medic in a Fuel line detachment, and legal clerk.
* The senseless and unfair rules: officer only facilities of higher quality than the enlisted men were provided, censor ship of his mail, working for officers and noncommissioned officers who had less intellegent and/or education than him, etc.
* The resentment and lack of support from liberated French people for the war effort.

This is a part of the Army and the war that use to be shown in the television show "Sergeant Bilko" or the "Sad Sack" comic books--Civilians with an uneasy alliance to military life who often spent their time in uniform doing the best with what little the Army gave them.

Mr. Obermayer brings vividly alive a GI's life in the final years of World War II in Europe and the occupation that followed. But he also finds lessons in that period that inform us today-- especially his insights into the ongoing conflict between the United States and France that had fertile roots in 1944 and 1945.

I cannot praise Mr. Obermayer too highly. So much of what we think we know we learn from the media these days--and so much of what we think we know about World War II and 'the greatest generation'-- is so much hogwash. When we get discouraged at how things are going in Iraq or elsewhere these days, it is fascinating to learn how people--and our soldiers--really thought about things during the last years of "the good war." He is (and was--as a young man) a wonderful writer.

It's very easy to compare a book to Cormac McCarthy simply because it's set in the southwest and has a horse. This book is much more. The language is better. The story more involved. The themes greater. It is an impressive debut. A great read and truly a wonderful book.

This new, soon-to-be-classic, coming of age story is sure to be a hit with all contemporary literature fans. Gatewood's command of the the English language evoke's memories of a young Hemingway. The descriptive prose employed along the inspired oddyssey of Trude Mason is sure to envelop all readers.

This is a replete tale. The world created is one so austere and beautiful in its sense of nature, that we feel almost like we are intruding, like setting foot into the wilderness for the first time. For all of its western themes and love of nature, this book is also deep because it explores several themes that one would not expect in a western novel with a male protagonist. The first is violence against women. Trude Mason and his mother set out to flee the wrathful hand of his father. The flashbacks are poignant and sharp. Set in the 1930's, it also gives us a feel for the powerlessness and desperation that would cause a son and his mother to flee into the stark wilderness to escape abuse. The second theme which is all the more profound because Gatewood does not dwell on it is that of race. Trude Mason, a young white man, comes across Delilah, a black girl, in the woods, herself abused, and falls into a long-distance attraction that propels the novel to its rivetting conclusion. Trude's morality, upon which he neither dwells nor preaches, gives him the eyes of the innocent, aware of the evils of the world, but not a part. It is this journey that so fascinates us. When I got to the end of the book, I spent several-day break before I could bring myself to read the last two chapters. I thought myself, "Well, you must be more deeply affected by this novel than you realized since you almost don't want to know how it comes out." The suspense is intense. Gatewood's rhythm and pacing are distinct and powerful. His minor characters from the doctor in the Masons' hometown, to Jane the waitress, to Trude's one friend John Frank, to the mayor and the thug Ralstons and well-drawn. The Indian woman who concludes the novel with the great moral about how we carry a person with us in our heart, and although grief can be like a spike in the heart, we learn to live and go on, is masterful. Take a walk into this wonderful world Gatewood has created; there is no need to intrude.

A great read. This book conveys tremendous detail of landscape and emotion using an economy of words. I have read several reviews of this book and almost every one compares this author to Cormac McCarthy. This comparison is warranted but also too narrow of a view. This author also employs a powerful and gripping writing style but clearly has his own voice and themes which he develops. Don't think because you have read McCarthy there is nothing new here.
This book is deserving of your time.

Very strong debut. Yes, the influence of Mr. McCarthy is all over this, but the author has a wonderful command of language that is distinct to that of McCarthy. He's maybe a little more readable while still being poetic and strongly evocative. I felt the story meandered a little bit, but on the other hand the ending was more satisfying than I expected. You head toward the climax really wondering which way the author is gonna take things and, fortunately, he provides an unexpected and reasonable outcome. Good stuff. I'd be happy to read his next one and hope he keeps at it.

The Comprehensive 2009 Federal Taxation instruction book provides detailed information in easy-to-read wording with examples to explain every law and code. At the end of each chapter there are more dicussion questions and problems. I definitely recommend this book to anyone with a basic accounting background who wishes to learn the finer points of tax law.

Product was in GREAT condition as stated in item's description! Fast shipping and book is same as Domestic version except for cover.

Everything was exactly as it should have been. Great price, great service. I would highly recommend this.

I needed book for a class and I received in during the first week despite the fact that I ordered late. Would buy from this seller again. Would recommend this seller to others.

The product came exactly as described and on the date it was supposed to arrive.

The book is very well written. If you loved "Here Comes the Brides" you will love this book. If you don't know what "Here Comes the Brides" is, but love historic romances, this book is great. The writer caught us up on what happened to our favorite characters on the tv series. I read the book in just a couple days I couldn't put it down.

If you loved the TV Show "Here Come The Brides," you need to read this book. Charlotte does a wonderful job making this book a believable continuation where the series left off. I really enjoyed it.

I loved it. A wonderful historical romance. The author skillfully adapted these characters in time and adapted them to real historical events that were happening during that era. One of the best books I have read in this genre. This author has one of the best grasps of her characters that I have read in a very long time. Bravo.

For all fans of the TV series Here Come The Brides, Charlotte Fox has created a wonderful continuation story of the lives of the Seattle pioneers who risked their lives and fortunes to build a prosperous city out of the wilderness. The same lovable characters are there in their full glory, twenty years after the television timeline of their lives, facing dreadful community and personal crises but bringing forth their optimism, faith in the future, friendships and community bonds, and the unconquerable Spirit of the Northwest to overcome their problems and begin to grow again like a phoenix from the ashes. The characters are made real to us--friends and family--and the reader finds a message of hope and determination to seek out the best in life and in ourselves to create a better future for all.

This is a great book for fans of "Here Come the Brides". Charlotte Fox keeps the characters true to the TV series and shows us what has happened in their lives in the 20 years following the end of the television series. This would make a great TV movie.

Kathleen Duey was inspired to write this amazing series from the favorite movie "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron". Sierra is a young filly who loved running with her friend Fern. Tally, the lead mare, was friends with Sierra's mother and is very protective of the herd. One day, Sierra gets into REAL trouble which makes her in true trouble( you'll have to raed to find out). While traveling in the desert, the herd meets up with Feugo, the new leader of the herd. He's more protective than Tally and more stubborn. The herd was traveling to the winter grounds down South, but Feugo pushed the herd North. Sierra was feeding on tough grass far from the herd when her adventure begins.
This book is from a horses point of veiw to!

Kathleen Duey was inspired to write this amazing series from the favorite movie "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron". Sierra is a young filly who loved running with her friend Fern. Tally, the lead mare, was friends with Sierra's mother and is very protective of the herd. One day, Sierra gets into REAL trouble which makes her in true trouble( you'll have to raed to find out). While traveling in the desert, the herd meets up with Feugo, the new leader of the herd. He's more protective than Tally and more stubborn. The herd was traveling to the winter grounds down South, but Feugo pushed the herd North. Sierra was feeding on tough grass far from the herd when her adventure begins.
This book is from a horses point of veiw to!

Sierra was a totally awesome story about a beautiful paint filly out chasing her dreams. Seirra and her best friend Fern are always out galloping together (and sometimes getting into trouble). One of Seirra's gallops costs the herds' stallion, and well.... read it and find out!!! The book has great discription and Kathleen Duey is a great author. I also have Esperanza too, another great book by Kathleen D.
I really loved this book and if you're horse crazy, I really recommend it! :)

I thought this book was so good I read it 3times.Kathleen Duey is great at discribing Sierras' fellings.My favorite part was when Sierra meets Storm.

This book is awesome!
i read it in 1 day I loved it so much!
It is a good book for horse lovers who like adventure books-and not to mention liked spirit-
It is one of the 4 great books of Kathleen Duey.
This is my favorite one.
Seirra is a rambonciuos filly who enjoys galloping through the valleys- but the new leader of the herd is cruel to her forcing her out of the herd-...........

Bruce Jones, author of Maximum Velocity and Game Running, has finally written a thriller with a woman at the center--and what a woman! Jeni Starbuck, a former agent, is smart, beautiful, and no one's fool, with the soft heart of a mother whose lost a child recently and a wife whose husband has left her. Jeni becomes the obsession of a criminal mind, a man who's nickname, the Solobomber, only touches the surface of his schemes--and yet a demented mind which, like Jeni's, can appreciate the finest human feelings without being able to feel them. This strange bond that connects the two is the center of a wild ride in which the action never lets up and the surprises never stop coming! Jones is a master of the action scene, but he never lets the thrills get in the way of his storytelling. And if there was ever a character that needed a sequel, it's Jeni Starbuck! Hope Jones is listening.

Jeni Starbuck, the heroine of SPRINTER, could be the girl next door with an insatiable sense of curiosity and an even stronger sense of justice. She is one of the most well-rounded female protagonists in books today, and when a mad bomber fixes his sites on her, you know that he's picked a formidable opponent.

I've read MAXIMUM VELOCITY and GAME RUNNING, both by Jones, and all three books are breathtaking thrillers with amazing depth of character. Jones has a predilection for getting under the skin of his heroes and taking us with him. Highly recommended.

SPRINTER is the kind of novel you always hoped would come along--a thriller that Alfred Hitchcock (or even Brian DePalma, that Hitchock wannabe) would have really sunk his teeth into. The people have exotic professions but real personal lives--men and woman in the CIA, FBI, or whathaveyou have to marry, divorce, love, hate and pursue happiness as well as international terrorists.

Jeni is the protagonist, a former government agent who, after being fired and losing her only child, is divorced from her husband and vents her frustrations in running races and focusing on kids dying of AIDS. When a mad bomber threatens San Diego through the use of a computer called the Sprinter 9000, Jeni is called up again. What follows is a swift course in Saving Your Own Life.

The villian is formidable, a brainiac psychotic genius with geniuine feelings and a passion for art. Jeni is sexy, vulnerable, dynamic, the girl next door to the nth degree, and the ending is unbeatable, a real! ! boon for women everywhere who are sick of the Woman-as-victim motif.

Sprinter almost screams "movie", but it is not because the writer doesn't understand books. On the contrary, Sprinter is classic in its approach to plot and character, painting beautifully time and place and most interestingly the inner thoughts of the protagonist, Jeni, a former agent who now runs an AIDS hospice for children. Her nemesis, Dr. Handle, is also known as the Unibomber, but his agenda is far more complicated than the ordinary terrorist's, and he has selected Jeni, for his own reasons, to be the intermediary for his negociations. Handle is a notch above Dr. Lecter, villian-wise, in that his own ego does not necessarily dictate his routes. He and Jeni are the perfect match, even is she doesn't know it. Or him. All she knows is that she's recently lost her beloved child and her husband has left her to marry again. And she's a world-class running--which she does not only to make money for the hospice, but to prove to herself she's still alive. From the first page the action starts and it never lets up, sweeping Jeni into the apex of a paranoid fantasy that leaves her wondering if it is she or the Bomber who's mad. As action heroine, you cannot beat Jeni's character, who thinks with both her head and her heart, and has the flexibility to change and the sense to know when she's been had. Mixed into this tasty stew is Jeni's genius ex-husband, for whom she pines, an FBI agent in charge of the Bomber case who pines for her, and enough bombs, computer hacking, beatings and shootings, not to mention some of the best chases ever written, to keep this reader on the edge of his seat! Very, very highly recommended summer reading.

My father-in-law gave SPRINTER to my husband for Christmas, but I got to it first. Now my husband and sister have already read it and my father-in-law is standing in line.

It's about Jeni, a woman whose lost everything in life that mattered to her: her job, her husband, and her little daughter. Then a crazed (and very well-drawn) mad bomber selects her to play a curious form of Russian Roulette using bombs instead of guns.

All I can say is, this book kept me guessing, and turning pages like crazy. Bruce Jones really knows how to fill up a thriller with wonderful characters who think and act like the rest of us, even if they are FBI or CIA or mad bombers! I loved this book, and highly recommend it!

I found this book while searching WWII books looking for information on my fatherinlaw. I was elated to find this book. We had scattered paperwork that mentioned he belonged to the 53st and we had his letters home. But we knew nothing about the engineers. How they formed, where they trained, where they went to battle. This book surely helped us find our way. From Mr. Garn's book we learned that he was with the first battalion as he moved inland with the Rangers in North Africa. My copy is so much highlighted and dogeared that I'm thinking of getting another copy just to put on the bookcase. Great read for those that want to know about the 531st Engineers.

My dad was in the 531st and as many soldiers did, only touched on a few thing's here and there. This book put's all the pieces together. I knew that his unit was important but, "DARN". I really recommend this book to anyone who wondered just what the hell these guy's did.

The appeal of Ken Garn's account for me is that this is the definitive account of the enlisted man's WW II told by an enlisted man. There are many stories and histories by historians and retired generals, but they gloss over what the man under fire on the beach was thinking about. The story telling is straightforward, personable and engaging.

A good read, given the rising interest in WWII. An amazingly detailed memoir of a man who survived four assault landings and seven campaigns in a special engineer unit which prepared invasion beaches for troop landing, including D-Day. It resonated with this vet of that war, but others will find it compelling as well.

A gripping story of and by a living example of the "Greatest Generation". As an Air Force officer who flew bombing missions over Europe in World War II, I take my hat off to Ken Garn who stormed ashore in the greatest and possibly the most dangerous invasion of all time.

Joshua T. Winstead, Jr Colonel USAF (Ret.)