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Jenny Eriksen had some unplanned surprises for her kidnapper. and they turned out to be a bit humorous. Never before had she seen a man's naked chest.

Someone has just stolen 10,000 dollars from her fiance and then she meets a wounded man on his doorstep.
Olivia wanted to run.
You have to love the first meeting of Jenny and Luke McLintock.
and it just keeps getting better.

Luke was raised with Daniel but now there were no brotherly feelings between them as Daniel keeps denying little Adam and his responsibilities.

Jenny is taken on a journey that ends up revealing Daniel as so very different from what she had been lead to believe. Daniel was determined to have Jenny as his bride to solidify his connections with her father.
It sure takes daddy long enough to put in an appearance.

And then Daniel's thug, Harley shows up - now no one is safe. Harley's orders are to recapture Jenny and eliminate Luke.

Although Jenny can't believe Luke's tales of Daniel she soon falls in love with little Adam and is worried what will happen to him.
The child can't live in a saloon.

This is a very captivating - moving story - and this author is a keeper.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED --M

Kate Bridges found a fan in this reviewer with her first book, THE DOCTOR'S HOMECOMING. She continues her streak of great books with her second release, LUKE'S RUNAWAY BRIDE.

Jenny Eriksen was content with her life in Denver. In four months she would be married to Daniel Kincaid-the epitome of whom she wants in her life. He organizes charity events and does what he can to further the community. But Jenny's life changes when Luke McLintock appears in her life.

Luke can't believe that the Daniel he grew up with could turn into a man who would shirk his responsibilities and lie to everyone he knows. Luke sets out to force Daniel to take care of his five year old son since the boy's mother has died. Daniel refuses so Luke takes action and kidnaps Daniel's fiancé. He plans on taking her back to Montana so that Daniel will come after her and be forced to see his child. What Luke doesn't plan on doing is falling in love with Daniel's fiancé.

Jenny is hard pressed to trust Luke, but she has a hard time denying what he says when she is faced with so many questions about Daniel's lifestyle. How could she have been so blind about who he really is? And maybe Luke isn't the bad guy in this situation?

Jenny and Daniel are brought together by an unlikely circumstance, but the end results are beautiful indeed! Kate Bridges has a way of bringing to life the time period but still filling it with beauty and humor and love. Kate Bridges is now on my must read list and I believe that she is one of the best writers of Americana romance today.

I really enjoyed the book and the inspiration it gave me i look forward to applying certain things that really struck a cord

This is a very good book about how God introduce a Holy Spirit revival in denominational churches in the 1960's

This book is a great read - it's really fun! The characters are interesting, the plot twists are unexpected and the situations these girls get themselves into are just laugh outloud funny. Can't wait for the sequel!

This book is a quick read and great fun! In fact, it's a hoot! The main characters are quirky and off-beat. These eccentric ladies are a refreshing change from the typical murder mystery cast. Unexpected revelations abound and you never know where they are headed next as they take dangerous matters and morality into their own hands.

We've all come across starving artists, musicians, and creative types whose personal affairs are in such shambles that they may never realize their talent, but what to do? You can't marry all of them, and they steadfastly resist sound business advice.

Ms. Bridges gets past that resistance by devising visualization techniques for sound business practices based on the symbols and archetypes of the Tarot deck's major arcana. Non-linear types will be relieved to discover that it's not necessary to work through all the steps in exact order.

And she counters the thorny question of "aren't I selling out?" by appealing to the reader to bring their gifts into the world in harmony, just like the Indians did.

After the usual soul searching about "am I doing the right thing for the planet?", being in business for yourself turns out to be exactly what you expected-- developing the habits of personal organization and initiative necessary to carry out an original project.

This good-humored approach to banishing chaos and impoverished despair will have a rather unique charm for certain out-of-the-box thinkers.

Although many Native Americans are justifiably appalled at the expropriation of indigenous spirituality by flaky suburbanites, I'd urge them to cut Ms. Bridges some slack regarding this book. It's exactly the sort of practical survival information we need so that our alternative communities can thrive and grow.

We've all come across starving artists, musicians, and creative types whose personal affairs are in such shambles that they may never realize their talent, but what to do? You can't marry all of them, and they steadfastly resist sound business advice.

Ms. Bridges gets past that resistance by devising visualization techniques for sound business practices based on the symbols and archetypes of the Tarot deck's major arcana. Non-linear types will be relieved to discover that it's not necessary to work through all the steps in exact order.

And she counters the thorny question of "aren't I selling out?" by appealing to the reader to bring their gifts into the world in harmony, just like the Indians did.

After the usual soul searching about "am I doing the right thing for the planet?", being in business for yourself turns out to be exactly what you expected-- developing the habits of personal organization and initiative necessary to carry out an original project.

This good-humored approach to banishing chaos and impoverished despair will have a rather unique charm for certain out-of-the-box thinkers.

Although many Native Americans are justifiably appalled at the expropriation of indigenous spirituality by flaky suburbanites, I'd urge them to cut Ms. Bridges some slack regarding this book. It's exactly the sort of practical survival information we need so that our alternative communities can thrive and grow.

I really enjoyed reading this book, because it is similar in many ways to the book that we used. PowerPoint for Windows is a book that gives you systematic information. This book has the most recent version of PowerPoint and its current features.

Chapter 1: It introduces what PowerPoint exactly is and how it works. With PowerPoint, you can get creative with the slides, variety of formats, such as bulleted lists, numeric tables, and business and organization charts. For example, you can create your slides in any design you want by easily adding graphics to it. In addition, this chapter explains how to use:
* The PowerPoint Interface
* PowerPoint Menus
* Toolbars
* Shortcut Menus
* Task Panes
* Getting Help
* Using Undo

Chapter 2: Gives you a tour of PowerPoint. It shows you from how to begin the program, choosing a template, choosing a layout, creating a chart, saving, opening, and closing the presentations to viewing the slide show. In addition, this chapter explains how to use:
* Creating a Bulleted List
* Creating a Chart
* Choosing a Chart Type
* Formatting a Chart
* Navigating a Presentation
* Using normal View
* Using the Outline Pane
* Using Slide Sorter View
* Using Transitions and Animations

Chapter 3: You learn how to create slides that contain text and how to edit and format the text. Slide shows that consist of text primarily are bulleted lists or two-column text. In addition, this chapter explains how to use:
* Choosing a Text Layout
* Entering Text into a Placeholder
* Creating a Text Box
* Manipulating Text Placeholders
* Moving Text
* Using the Spell Checker
* Correcting Mistakes Automatically
* Working with Smart Tags


Chapter 4 thru 20: In chapter 4 thru 20 it teaches you more in depth how to use PowerPoint for the following:
* Inserting Charts
* Formatting Charts
* Creating Pie Charts
* Using Organization Charts and Diagrams
* Creating Tables
* Adding Graphical Objects
* Importing Graphics
* Manipulating Graphical Objects
* Making Global Changes
* Working in Outline View
* Working in Slide Sorter View
* Producing a Slide Show
* Applying Animation
* Using Sound and Video
* Taking Your Show on the Road
* From Screen to Toner: Printing Your Presentation
* Present on the Internet

After reading this book, I benefited a lot from it, understanding the extent of the mechanics in PowerPoint, such as: applying animation, using sound and video, taking your slide show on the road, printing your presentation and presenting it on the Internet.

This book is an excellent reference boook and guide book, but it is not a novel. No one will sit down and read it.
It is indexed well, so one can find out how to make a specific slide quickly. Although Microsoft offers help and instruction on line, I found this book the answer to using PowerPoint well.
With the elimination of good manuals from Microsoft -- I think DOS 6.0 was the last -- books of this type have become a requirement.
GFH

If you are a fan of modern Japanese Film and have the Internet, it is most likely that you are familiar with the website Midhight Eye opperated by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp. The website is a treasure trove of not only movie and book reviews, but interviews with numerous directors and actors, including the likes of Suzuki Seijun and Asano Tadanobu.

The book covers around 50 years of film, beginning with older, but still popular, directors Imamura Shohei and the above mentioned Suzuki Seijun to younger directors such as Tsukamoto Shinya and Ishii Sogo. The book portrays well known directors such as Kitano Takeshi and Miike Takashi as well as lesser known directors such as Kawase Naomi, also the only female director in the book, whose base of opperation is the ancient capital of Nara rather than Tokyo or Osaka.

The book covers a wide variety of films from yakuza numbers such as Fukasaku's fierce _Battles without Honor and Humanity_ to the Kore-eda's pseudo-documentary _After Life_. horror films, pink films, science fiction, and documentaries are also covered.

The writing is quite clear and informative, and one learns interesting tidbits of information about their favorite directors. this book would be a good guide for fans of Japanese films as well as newcomers.

For modern Japanese film, Midnight Eye is the definitive information source. Tom Mes and Jaspar Sharp's website covers film reviews, interviews, DVD releases, feature articles, a calendar of events and film festivals, and absolutely anything an interested person would want to know. With such a pedigree, there are no more qualified people to write a guide of this kind.

"The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film" is as excellent as one would expect, an essential book for those interested in modern Japanese film. The layout is well-balanced, covering director profiles and film reviews, using both original material and previously featured articles. The writing is crisp and clear, and each chapter provides insight even on topics where one is knowledgeable. Over 100 photos show some of the visual highlights of this visual media.

Each chapter focuses on a director, from history to motivation to style, with a review of that director's top five or six films. Being new Japanese film, the profiles begin in 1956 with Seijin Suzuki ("Elegy to Fighting," "Tokyo Drifter"), a complicated and controversial director. With the Criterion Collection currently making a push of Suzuki's catalog on DVD, this makes a great starting point and leaves me looking forward to each new release. All of the major directors are profiled, such as Shohei Imamura ("The Eel"), Kinji Fukasaku ("Battles without Honor and Humanity" "Battle Royale") Masato Harada ("Bounce KoGals"), Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Cure"), Studio Ghibli luminaries Isao Takahata ("Grave of the Fireflies") and Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away"), Takeshi Kitano ("Hanabi"), Takashi Miike ("Ichi the Killer," "Audition"), Hirokazu Kore-eda ("After Life"), and Hideo Nakata ("The Ring"). Other, lesser-known directors are also given their due, such as Nara-based naturalist Naomi Kawase ("Suzaku.")

The final section covers what they call "The Other Players," those who have put out a film or two of exceptional quality but hadn't yet established a solid career in the same rank. Animator Satoshi Kon's "Perfect Blue," Masayuki Suo's "Shall We Dance?," Mamoru Oshii's "Avalon," Juzo Itami's "Tampopo" and Mitsuo Yanagimachi's "Fire Festival" are all given their due. More than just simple film-reviews, the authors pack each spotlight with as much interest and insight as their director profiles.

With Donald Richie's seminal "100 Years of Japanese Film" covering the past, it is great to see such a qualified inheritor of the future. Anyone interested in Japanese film will be pleased with "The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film," both for its insights into current favorites as well as the host of new favorites that they will undoubtedly discovered.

If you like to play cribbage, you will remember many times when you were set to take a game, heading down Fourth Street, screaming ahead of your opponent and confident of a win. Then, one hand and you find yourself in the "dead hole" (or as the Brits have it, the "stink hole") and your opponent pegs past you for a win, smiling a superior smile at your folly.

The strategy for discarding to the crib and for pegging changes as you get to the end; winning is everything. Who gets to count first, pegging points become more important. This slim book of quizzes will sharpen your play by giving you a number of hands and asking you choices to make--which card to throw, which to play when and the percentages. While cribbage is a game of chance, you can improve your odds by a few points pegged here and there and by careful strategy at the endgame, which for me is the hardest part of the game. Nice little book, easy to use and gets the job done.

It's often said that there's a lot of luck in cribbage, and of course there is, but this book demonstrates more than any other I've seen how much skill is involved. And it's completely interactive--and fun. Given the position and your cards, you decide the best play. Then you read the solution and explanation. If this book doesn't improve your game you aren't trying hard enough.

Also recommended: Winning Cribbage Tips, Cribbage for Experts

Being quite new to Japanese garden architecture I first try to learn and understand what's done and what's not done and the reasons behind it. This book immediately shows you why Shigemori is a so much respected innovator in his time and at the same time explains you why by referring to the classical Japanese gardens. His point of view is that a Japanese garden should fit into the time we are living in. And up until than, Japanese gardens had not changed much. Newer gardens used to be copies of the old methods instead of innovations. This work opens your mind about this and stimulates you to develop the concept of the Japanese garden into something which is more modern/timebound and more a creation of yourself.
An absolute 'mustread' for people that like the Japanese garden.

Mirei Shigemori (1896-1975) was the imaginative creator of very special gardens and a scholar who was trained in painting, flower arranging, and the tea ceremony. Shigemori is still admired for his contemporary designs, the result of his life's objective to restore the evolution of the Japanese garden. In Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing The Japanese Garden, practicing landscape architect Christian Tschumi explores ten major Shigemori projects ranging from the checker-board garden of Tofukuji (1939) and the "Hidden Christian" dry landscape at Zuiho-in (1961), to the masterful stone settings at Matsuo Taisha (1975), all while utilizing a design/cultural analysis, garden plans, and a profusion of illustrative photographs taken by visual artist and photographer Markuz Wernli Saito. Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing The Japanese Garden is a welcome and respected contribution that will be of immense interest to professional gardeners, landscapists, horticultural experts, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in Japanese gardening and culture.

I have just started to read this book, but the first chapter - on discardng - is excellent. This topic is not really covered in any other bridge books that I have seen - and Kelsey's discussion of it is well worth the price of the book.

Are you sick and tired of discarding from Txxx and letting 3NT romp home, when you could have discarded from JTxx and set it? Are you weary of watching declarer happily test one suit to see if it breaks, then try a finesse if that doesn't work, then try a squeeze if that doesn't work, when you could have forced declarer to commit to an early decision before he could extract much information about the defensive holdings? Are you guilt-ridden about the times you happily gave partner an early ruff and then watched him squirm because you endplayed him? Are you fed up with being -650 on a board and opening the score slip to discover most of the field was -620? Then read this book -- it is devoted to restricting declarer's options, preserving the defenders' options, and discarding correctly in situations that come up 3 times a session, not once a quarter. Buy two and give partner one. Hide it from the opponents -- soon you will be declarer again, so you mustn't let them read it!

So you've charged hopefully into the dieting battle time after time only to suffer humilating defeat, emerging battered, bruised and heavier. Cheer up! So did pretty, skinny (finally) author Joan Cavanaugh. Joan talks candidly about her years of dieting defeat (she once weighed in at 230 pounds) and tells how she learned the secret of a victorious life that encompasses enen the area of weight control. Are you ready for a permanent solution to the problem of overweight? Here is the book that can set you on the road to victory.

Like many others, I browsed the book when I first got it, but didn't take it seriously. I picked it up again in December 1997 and began applying Joan's principles -- and slowly lost 30 pounds. 63 weeks later, I'm maintaining the loss and am still progressing downward. Thanks, Joan!