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You see, this book's title is something careful many
churches and the body of Christ have been evading to give
crystal-clear answer that will satisfy our curiocity.

Despite the fact that I am a Christan who was to believe in
Jesus as soon as I came of of my mother's womb, there was some spiritual thirst that none of the ordinary methods in time-honored church's community could not quench at all.

From the time when I was even in elementary school,
I wished to meet Jesus personally not doctrinally.
The very burning desire I had in my deep spirit was kindled
by this life-changing book.

In a nutshell, this book is a life-chnaging book giving tremendous help and profound teaching and lesson to readers!

Actually, 'speaking in tongues' is something careful that many
Christians and even some pastors are reluctunt to mention
in their sermons.
Unfortunately, I was taught that 'speaking in tongues' was
none other than something special given to
those who don't have big and deep faith by the Holy Spirit who wants them to have conviction about their faith.

When I went to a Christianity bookstore, I found this book
titled

Very clear answers if you are wondering if Speaking in tongues is still a manifastation of the Holy Spirit. Scriptually based and proof that if Jesus is still alive then speaking in tongues is still a tool for Christians in this hour. Brought breakthrough to my life. The chapter about Pauls life is amazing as well. Highly recommend this book!

I found this book to be very helpful,esspecialy the way each chapter was broken down to bite size chapters that were easy to understand,and the importance of praying in tongues,as well as praying in English(my native tongue)I recomend this book to all who are seeking a fresh impouring of HOLY SPIRIT and to those who have just become Christians and want to know more about God Jesus and Holy Spirit.

I found this book in a search to better understand the power that comes with speaking in tongues. The writer gives lots of scripture throughout the book to support his views and also gives very powerful and compelling personal experiences for himself and others. It helped to strengthen my understanding and belief that this truly is a gift from God and one to be desired. It gives some direction in the use of tongues in your prayer life and explains the difference in the prophetic tongue and the prayer tongue. I think this book will become foundational for those who believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues or those who simply want to better understand it. I have already told others about this book and will keep it in my personal library.

Annerino has turned...risk into a work of art with his camera.

Annerino's exciting photographs cut across the genres of sports and photojournalism. His adventure is a state of mind.

I still have - and enjoy looking at - HIGH RISK PHOTOGRAPHY.

There is a warmth and vitality to John Annerino's photography that I have admired for years. His work is a wonderful mix of elements: high technical craft, beautiful places, a climber's appetite for risk, and a warm bond with his subjects. For all those who want to know how a photographer thinks and want to experience the exhilaration of wilderness adventure, I recommend HIGH RISK PHOTOGRAPHY.

Silver Spring, Maryland borders Washington, D.C. and shares the major thoroughfare of Georgia Avenue. I have lived on the Washington, D.C. side of the line for many years, and frequently take walks along the Georgia Avenue corridor: sometimes facing south into the District, sometimes north into Silver Spring, to the stores and the Metro or to sit in Blair Park and read.

With my walking though Silver Spring, I was fascinated by this collection of photographs "Historic Silver Spring" (2005) by Jerry McCoy and the Silver Spring Historical Society as part of a series of books called "Images of America" which celebrates neighborhoods and towns throughout our country. Although I have seen the streets and many of the places shown in this book many times, this book has given me a new understanding of and appreciation for a place with which I thought myself all too familiar. The book includes a collection of current scenes and of places that are no more, and they melded together for me in my looking at the photographs.

Silver Spring was founded by the Blair family of Maryland in the 1840s. It developed into a thriving residential commercial and transportation center and then went into a long decline. Sustained efforts over the last few decades have produced a revitalization of Silver Spring with the metro, mall, and new housing developments.

The book consists of over 120 pages of beautifully reproduced photographs together with careful annotations of date, place, and subject to help the viewer understand the photo and place it in a context. The four sections of the book include postcard photographs taken of Silver Spring in 1917 and 1928; photographs documenting the change in Silver Spring from the mansions of the Blairs through industrialization, through the present; photos of the main commercial intersection of Silver Spring at Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road; and photos of early homes in East Silver Spring.

I most enjoyed looking at the photographs of places I know or remembered. Thus I enjoyed the photos of the Silver Spring "Acorn" and "Spring" just off Georgia Avenue about four blocks from the District line. There is also a photograph of a mural that was painted recently at the site of Acorn Park on the wall of a failed department store to commemorate Silver Spring's past and present. There are pictures of trains, railway and streetcar stations, parks, post offices, ice cream parlors, and people -- and of the former Canada Dry bottling plant that closed a few years ago. The old Silver Spring Armory was demolished recently, and the book offers photos of the Armory, its demolition, and the new mall-associated construction that took it place. A community landmark was the Silver Spring Tastee Diner which was moved in the early 2000s from one site on Georgia Avenue to another site on the other side of the Georgia Avenue -- Colesville Road intersection. A homeless person named Norman Lane, the "Mayor" of Silver Spring, wandered the streets of downtown Silver Spring from the 1960s to his death in 1987. A sculpture was built in his memory in 1997, and it is reproduced here. There is much more. Introductory texts accompany each of the four sections of the book and each photograph is carefully annotated.

I was moved by the book, as it brought together places I know with places I didn't know. Documentary photographs such as those in this collection both bring a sense of continuity to a place and also gave me the brief feeling that time was somehow standing still. The book will help me look freshly and more carefully at places I see everyday. Those who know Silver Spring will love this book.

Robin Friedman

For anyone who grew up in Silver Spring this book is essential and for those who moved into SS, highly recommended. Highlights for me include: the original mansions of the founding Blair Family, the 1923 tornado that swept through SS, the 1969 attack on the draft board, the homeless "Mayor" of SS and many more, not the least of which is simply seeing the people looking back at me from the early 20th century up to now.

Jerry McCoy has enormous learning lightly worn. With literary skill and a scrupulous command of the images and their historical background, he provides the reader with a fascinating and remarkable look at one of the most interesting - if neglected - suburbs in the United States. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of Silver Spring, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in the story of a small city through the decades. All the outward characteristics of a town are here - commercial buildings; houses; railroad, taxi and trolley terminals; post offices; armories; banks; motels; public commemorations and celebrations - but so are children, students, families, firefighters, waitresses - people who through the ebb and flow of their lives give any place on a map its heart and soul. The thoroughness of Mr. McCoy's research and the skill with which he chose the images is impressive. He captures Silver Spring's story and spirit perfectly.

Years before I ever thought about doing a book on Silver Spring's history I was talking to a woman during the course of trying to raise awareness of the need to restore Silver Spring's 1937 post office mural, "The Old Tavern" (it had been removed from the post office over a decade earlier and placed in storage). I remember her telling me, rather adamantly, "Silver Spring has no history!" I could only think to myself, "My, what an ignorant remark to make about ANY place."

That brief exchange always stayed with me. If this one person thought that way, there were probably many more people who thought the same as she did. Thus was the "seed" planted for eventual publication of "Historic Silver Spring."

As founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society, this book justly falls under our organization's mission of "creating and promoting awareness and appreciation of Silver Spring's heritage through sponsorship of educational activities and the preservation and protection
of historical sites, structures, artifacts and archives." My hope for the book is that local residents (and their kids!) or even visitors will use the book as an actual guide to their exploration of the fascinating history of downtown Silver Spring.

The book is divided into four chapters of photographs:

1. Through the Lens of Willard R. Ross: Silver Spring in 1917 and 1928

Willard R. Ross (1860-1948) was a Washington, DC post card photographer who was the first to systematically document downtown Silver Spring, first on June 21, 1917, and nearly eleven years later on March 28, 1928. Twenty real-photo post cards views depict how the original "silver" spring (named for the mica specks in the water) and Georgia Avenue looked when the area was still mostly rural.

2. From Country Estates to Light Industry to Urban Towers: South Silver Spring

South Silver Spring is the area of our downtown community that borders the District of Columbia. Depicting views of the summer estates belonging to founder Francis Preston Blair and his two sons, all constructed in the mid 19th century, photographs show how the area quickly became industrialized in less than 100 years. Today this same area is experiencing an unprecedented building boom of apartments and condominiums due to the area's close proximity to public transportation and the downtown Washington, DC core.

3. Main Streets of History: Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road

These two primary arteries that serve as downtown Silver Spring's "Main Streets" are visually documented as one walks north on Georgia Avenue from Eastern Avenue (at the District of Columbia line) and proceeds to Colesville Road. Incredibly, many of the early to mid 20th century commercial structures located on these two streets still survive and have been restored (the 1938 Silver Theatre and Shopping Center are examples) but far more many structures are in danger of demolition as the "revitalization" of downtown Silver Spring begins to reach out from the central business core of Georgia Avenue at Colesville Road.

4. East Silver Spring's Forgotten Origin: Silver Spring Park

This 100 year old residential neighborhood, located two blocks east of Georgia Avenue, is the second oldest neighborhood build adjacent to downtown Silver Spring. A leafy neighborhood of bungalows, its recent surge in popularity (as well as real estate prices!) has begun to exhibit threats from "McMansionization" (tearing down of original smaller homes to consruct larger ones), encroaching commercial zoning, and potential routing of state of Maryland-subsidized light rail public transportation.

To get a better idea of what is contained in "Historic Silver Spring," an index has been prepared and is viewable at http://www.homestead.com/silverspringhistory/bus.html.

If you grew up or lived in Silver Spring and have stories to share, please send them to [...]. The society would also love to see photographs, post cards, advertising memorabilia, etc. for possible use in a future companion book.

Thanks for looking!

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After the modern philosophers shed Aristotlianism and Platonism at least to a large extent, things got a lot more interesting when they started espousing their theories. The first principles of their arguments became more divierse, and many times lead to some very different metaphysics. How much you enjoy a philosopher probably says a lot about what your own mentality is.

I personally liked Descartes, that, though still more or less a dualist, he came from the existential principles of experience. Some of his thought was flawed, like being able to espouse metaphysics without sufficient empirical study to back it up, but he most certainly was on the right track.

Spinoza, on the other hand, I could not stand. He just replaces Nature with the word God and hopes nobody notices he's not saying anything at all. I hate people who deny any sort of freedom then espouse how one can live a virtuous life. Hey Spinoza, it's all either matter in motion or it's not.

Liebniz was downright headache inducing at points, and his theory of monads was wonderfully goofy. That being said, his theory of knowledge was excellent. Can't say I ever thought of the universe the way he did.

As always, Copleston is even handed, probably too even handed for some of the sillier things they said. Then again, as a layperson with no formal training, maybe I missed something too that he saw. Still, I'd prefer Copleston's fairness to the in your face bashing of Russell anyday.

This series is great. I have been reading the series over the past 3 years at irregular intervals. I am over halfway finished. It has been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done.

Copleston's series, "The History of Philosophy", is quite possibly the best introduction to the history of philosophical thought that has ever been published and certainly the best currently in print.

You will be hard pressed to find a better collection of solid philosophical surveys in one place. The beauty of the series is that Copleston has clearly done his research on each period and each thinker of Western philosophy.

I cannot recommend this series any more highly. It is a must-have collection for anyone who is a scholar (professional or casual) of philosophy, theology or any of the arts.

If this isn't on your bookshelf, it should be!

I read the whole series nine volumes twice. Being a business major in school I didnot have any true understanding of philosophy, but this book really got me interested and I started reading on philosophy. I definitely recommand it for anyone interested in serious reading.

The philosophers stated here were brilliant minds, no doubt about it. The scientific revolution created a new way of thinking about and carrying out solutions to problems that was attempted(poorly) by Descartes and their ilk. It's takes a while for good thinking to develop when one starts from a completely new framework. This starts the era when something substantial is said outside the school of classical greek thought that isn't completely idiotic.

The first empricist is Locke, who is really quite mind numbingly dull to read, but very important in how the empricists after him build off of(and subsequently demolish much of) what he said. His philosophy, even if not very agreeable, is straightforward and quite logically fleshed out.

Berkeley, in contrast, was a joy to read. The funny part about him is that he wanted to save philosophy from abstract notions that have no application to real life, then expounds a philosophy that denies the meterial world in its entirety! It must be said that his critique was phenomenal, and rightly states many of the things taken for granted such as substance have no empiricial basis, as well as rightfully stating objects have no qualities in themselves, but only what we perceive as qualities, thereby refuting much of Aristotle.

Hume goes even further than Berkeley in refuting spiritual substance, doubting cause and effect, in essence doubting everything. He does so with lucidity and style that makes for another enjoyable section. His views on morality is his main weakness, and essentially boils down to Pain=Bad, Happiness=Good.

There were a couple others also, but after those three guys I can't remember anything substantial they said. Reading this History was akin to watching a wrecking crew destroy an entire village, laughing gleefully as they do it. The problem is they left next to nothing to rebuild it with. For that we have to wait for Kant.

Copleston's series, "The History of Philosophy", is quite possibly the best introduction to the history of philosophical thought that has ever been published and certainly the best currently in print.

You will be hard pressed to find a better collection of solid philosophical surveys in one place. The beauty of the series is that Copleston has clearly done his research on each period and each thinker of Western philosophy.

I cannot recommend this series any more highly. It is a must-have collection for anyone who is a scholar (professional or casual) of philosophy, theology or any of the arts.

If this isn't on your bookshelf, it should be!

"A History of Philosophy" by Frederick Copleston,S.J., is a very complete work. All volumes, including #5 - Modern Philosophy The British philosophers from Hobbes to Hume, are first class. I recomend with emphasis!

mgs

This is series is a good way to get involved in the thought of the world. You'll want to go further than what is discussed in the book but it is a very good start.

At one point I went throught a British Empiricist phase. This book was an invaluable resource. I've never noticed any misinterpretations of the author's original texts in this volume.

With the Amerks poised to enter their 50th season in 2005-06 this book is an important part of a proud hockey team's history. The section on the Cardinals is particularly informative and makes one wonder what might have been had that team survived. Just to see the photos of the Calder cup champion Amerks of the mid-'60s (the greatest Amerk teams EVER!) brings back fond memories of how great the pre-expansion American Hockey League was.

One will notice the dedication that was put into this book by the in-dept stories and a vast selection of historical photographs. In my opinion, if you are someone who follows hockey either it being past or present, this is a book to add to your collection.

Mr. Lamphier gives us an unique view of a franchise of humbling beginnings to one of the most successful sports franchises in the United States.

The stories, and pictures gives all of us a film to past up to the present. This is a must read for all sports lovers.

Great Job Mr. Lamphier!

Any sports enthusiast will enjoy the story of a city's allegiance to a sport they truly embraced. Any hockey fan will enjoy the walk down memory lane with this extensive collection of historical photos of the struggles and triumphs of Rochester's professional and college teams.

I have one chapter left to read of this book and I have to say it is the best book so far by Sarah Bowling! The book is very refreshing, motivating and humbling, I appreciate the authors insights and use of stories to make the book relevent to me personally. It is a must read!!

In an upside down world, where white is black, and black is white and we're groomed to believe the perception is the reality; Sarah Bowling does a masterful job of cutting to the chase on issues. Based on the premise that all our learning and growth is to no avail unless we're making a difference; she addresses the realities that ought to comprise the difference we're making. This is not a soft-soap message of faith. She deals with spiritual truths in non-religious lingo, using global examples of those who have made a difference in face-offs when the status-quo has been upside down. She combines an elegance in her writing style with an out-of-the-box approach to the pathway she maps, that makes "How to Keep Your Faith" a compelling and stimulating read.

Ignited with a vision for becoming a world changer, Sarah Bowling writes with passion, conviction, and fervor as she challenges the reader to become a revolutionary for the cause of Christ.

"How to Keep Your Faith in an Upside-Down World" is filled with stories of modern day, and Biblical heroes who have had an impact on their world. Sarah has collected a most amazing selection of biographical sketches and vignettes from the lives of well know Christians, leaders in business, and in various walks of life. These stories exemplify what one individual can accomplish when motivated by an idea, a dream, and the willingness to revolutionize their community, neighborhood, and their entire world.

Sarah's writing is articulate, strong, and engaging. She has filled the pages of the book with thought provoking challenges, stimulating illustrations from the scriptures, application questions, inspiration, and motivation. She shows the reader how to change both personal attitudes and thought patterns and gives a clarion call to turn the world upside down for Jesus.

Good book about how God wants us to keep our faith even when things go wrong. God gave us wisdom to turn things around in this world. God wants to transform us through the love and power of Jesus.

This book is well worth it, for those of you who are sparked by the idea of Hydroplane racing. It has some very in depth info as well as some great photographs. Enjoy

If you are an Unlimited Hydroplane fan you will love this book. Lots of great information, stories and pictures. You won't be disappointed!

To this day, the hydroplanes race on Lake Washington in early August, and the crowds still come, but it is not the same as it was in the glory days of the 50's and 60's. Back in those days, the crowds were enormous, the hydroplane drivers were household names, and the sport captivated the city in a way that no other sport has done, before or since.

During race week, all three local television stations showed hour after hour of qualification runs throughout the week, and all three stations covered the Sunday race from early morning till late afternoon. Children - I was one of them - spent their summers creating their own wooden hydroplanes and racing them through the streets either tied to their bicycles or pulled by hand. And after three popular drivers died on the Potomac River in 1966, it was never the same. Many of us trace the end of our youth, the loss of innocence, to that day.

"Hydroplane Racing in Seattle" brings back images and memories of those years, and of subsequent years all the way up to the mid-1980's. This is not a detailed history, more like a scrapbook, and the narrative is anecdotal rather than strictly chronological. The focus is on the biggest names - Stan Sayres, the auto dealer-sportsman who's Slo-Mo-Shun hydroplanes captured the city's imagination and started the whole hydroplane craze in 1950; builders/designers Ted Jones and Anchor Jenson; drivers Bill Muncey, Ron Musson, Rex Manchester, Mira Slovak, Dean Chenoweth, Don Wilson, and others; and the boats themselves - Slo-Mo-Shun IV, Miss Thriftway, Miss Bardahl, Miss Exide, and many others; and, finally, the accidents, the shattered hulls that caused so much pain and sorrow.

For those who were there, this will provide an evening of memories; for those who weren't there, it will not mean as much. Why not five stars? Mainly, because it's all black-and-white photography, and that is not quite good enough for such a colorful sport. Also, there is little if anything about some of the sport's more peripheral but colorful characters - Chuck Hickling, Norm Evans, Bob Gilliam, Jim McCormick, and Dallas Sartz come to mind. And also virtually nothing about the media figures who were such an integral part of that era - Bill O'Mara, Rod Belcher, Pat O'Day, Keith Jackson, Charles Herring, Mike Rhodes, and a host of others. Perhaps it was just a case of "space does not allow . . . "

"Hydroplane Racing in Seattle" tells the story of the explosive growth in popularity of Unlimited Hydroplane racing in Seattle during the 1950s and the subsequent changes in the sport. This book is well-written and professionally packaged in terms of photo selection and page layout. The 125 pages are populated with approximately 200 mostly excellent black and white photographs of the boats and the personalities that made them go. You can do the math; the book is rich in photographs, and maybe a little thin in text. The front cover contains a small, tantalizing color photo of the restored "Slo-mo-shun V".

The scope of the book is limited to Seattle-based boats and Seattle races from 1909 through 1984. This corresponds to the piston engine era; one may conclude that the "hair dryer boats" (turbines) are out of favor with the author, but actually he has chosen a good cut-off point.

The story of Stan Sayres and his legendary "Slo-mo-shun" boats is well told in Chapters One and Two. The ongoing controversy over who designed which parts of the "Slo-mo-shun IV" is examined. Not explored are the contributions of other designers and builders such as Rich Hallett and his client Paul Sawyer. Subsequent chapters focus on the heroes of the sport (Bill Muncey, Mira Slovak, Ron Musson, etc.) and the legendary boats (the "Miss Thriftways", the "Miss Bardahls", the "Hawaii Kai III", the "Pay N Paks", etc.)

The fanatical enthusiasm of the Seattle fans is alluded to but not examined in any detail. No mention is made of the kids towing miniature hydroplanes behind their bicycles. Very little mention is made of the sometimes freakish "dream boats" such as the "Miss Skyway", the 24 cylinder "Scooter too" aka "Adios" aka "Miss Moses Lake", "Miss University District", "Shanty II", "Zephyr-Fury", and the first "$ Bill". The remarkable boat building career of Bob Gilliam is also pretty much ignored. Some of the other things that were omitted were the competition between TV stations for audience share (the battle of the long lenses) and the competition between newspapers for reader share. The sometimes bitter rivalry between Seattle and Detroit is given adequate coverage, but it would be nice to have a photo or two of some of the Seattle camp's tormentors like the "Miss Pepsi" or the "Such Crust III". The most glaring error in a mostly error-free book is the assertion that the "Slo-mo-shun V" qualifying flip in 1955 occurred in the first lap; most accounts state that the blowover was on the back straightaway in the third and final qualifying lap. There are many photographs of flips, collisions, and the resulting wreckage. Even Detroit-based boats are included in the photographic record of incidents that make hydroplane racing a truly dangerous motor sport.

I was there for the fiftieth running of the Gold Cup on Lake Washington in 1957. Reading David Williams' book brought back memories of that race. I would recommend "Hydroplane Racing in Seattle" to anyone who thrills to the sights and sounds of Unlimited Hydroplane racing... the roostertails and the outrageous color schemes, a V-12 aircraft engine revving beyond its design limits and that deeper, ominous sound when the driver punches the nitrous oxide button.

Bob Foley

An old Chinese proverb states, "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. The thread may stretch, or tangle, but never break." In I'll Cross the River, the need of a North Korean refugee, named Young Soon, meets the courage of a Chinese missionary/evangelist, named Mei Lin, in a collision of grace orchestrated by a sovereign, loving God. It is the story of two strangers, who never actually meet, but whose lives are bound together by this red thread of hope.

This red thread concept fascinated me because I had learned several years earlier that one of the Hebrew words which translated as "hope" in the Bible is tiqvah. Tiqvah finds its origins in the verb qavah meaning "to wait for" or "to look hopefully" in a particular direction. This verb's original meaning was to "stretch like a rope." The word tiqvah is found in Scripture 33 times, and in Joshua 2:18, 21, it is translated as "line" or "cord." You will recall that prior to the "attack" on Jericho, Joshua sent two spies into the city. Rahab hid them and helped them escape from the city by letting them down the outer wall by rope (Joshua 2:15). She asked them to spare her family when they conquered this great walled city. The spies told her they would, and instructed her to tie a scarlet tiqvah (rope or cord) in the window where she had let them down. If she brought her family into her home, and had this scarlet rope hanging from the window they would be saved. In much the same way, the red thread saves Young Soon's family. The scarlet rope of hope is symbolic of the redemptive work of Christ that saves us. It is interesting that Joshua's name means "God saves," (just as Jesus' does) and Rahab is one of Jesus' ancestors. There is something about this whole red thread concept which transcends cultures.

I'll Cross the River is based on actual accounts from North Korean defectors. It will educate you as to the human misery to which the world has, to this point, turned a blind eye. This is a people who are starving for food and for truth. Your heart will be pierced as you hear the story of the suffering and deception of the North Korean people. The lack of action on the part of the United State in response to this situation will agitate you. But at the same time it will motivate you to do something about it.

It made me want to arm the angel armies with my prayers. It made me want to equip the missionaries with God's Word. It made me want to go - to do what I can, where I can, when I can, under the prompting of the Holy Spirit, and in His power. This is not a feel- good summer read. This is a clarion call to arms in spiritual warfare for the country of North Korea.

Hope - just like the author's middle name, is at the heart of this moving story. Once you read this book, your life will be forever bound to this people by this same red thread - a thread of hope in our Savior, Jesus Christ.

C. Hope Flinchbaugh has written a fictional account of the heart rending drama taking place in North Korea today. Her novel based on testimonies and interviews of refuges and persecuted Chinese Christians ministering on the border of North Korea.

"I'll Cross the River" is the story of two women and two dreams that converge as God's plan unfolds. Young Soon, recently widowed and pregnant, struggles to provide for her two starving children. Steeped in a heritage of loyalty to a man god, Kim Il Sung, and Communist propaganda Young Soon is drawn to the God that loves. She has a dream that her unborn son will grow up in another land. After learning of conditions beyond North Korea where children didn't starve she decided to risk her life and defect with her new born infant and young son.

Mei Lin, a young Chinese evangelist, while on a mission deep in the remote mountain villages, dreams of a baby crying from the muddy waters of a river. Her dream left her unsettled, sensing it was a message from God; she interceded in the behalf of a young boy and the baby as they reached out to her for rescue.

Although fictional in approach, Flinchbaugh writes with such realism and passion that I felt I was reading an actual biography and was gripped by the horror of the four million children who have died of starvation in North Korea since 1995.

Flinchbaugh's writing is compassionate and articulate. "I'll Cross the River" is a call to prayer and a call to action. The reader is provided with a list of resources and challenges of ways to get involved in reaching out to provide hope in this human tragedy. This is a book that should be in every library in America, It is must reading for concerned Christians.

This was a great book. It was one of those books that you can't put down. It showed the truth faith of those who believed in Christ. It made you think about how strong your faith is and would you truly suffer persecution for Christ sake. Really enjoyed the book.

Great novel based on true stories. The faith of a young girl helps her and her family in tough times. Faith is what gets her to cross the river to the other side.

"The Perfect Joy of St. Francis" is a novel about the life of St. Francis of Assisi. It is interesting and acquaints the reader with the facts and legends of St. Francis' life. It seems to be tilted toward the idealized view. We look to this book for the Spirit of St. Francis. It makes me want to read a real biography, both because "The Perfect Joy of St. Francis" piqued my interest about this giant of Church History, but also because it leaves my interest unsatisfied. It can do the same for your.

Probably one of the best 10 books I've ever read. You almost feel like you're walking and living with St. Francis, sharing his spiritual quest at every turn. Historical fiction and writing at its best.

Great bio of an amazing Saint. I couldn't put it down. It was very well written unlike many biographys

easy to read and beautifully written in novel form, this story of the life of Francis as a true follower of Jesus is perfect.
a must read for followers of Francis and those interested in his story and ministry