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40 Thieves follows Terrell Pow's journey into young adulthood. With the absence of any father figure, and a mother who is not capable of filling that role, Pow sets off into the world to try to find himself. What he finds is a larger than life pimp named Primo. Primo takes Pow under his wing, and through his philosophy on "pimpin' and hoin'", gives him a crash-course lesson on life. Primo is so quick-witted and likable that you forget he's a criminal. Pow's ability to live a clean life and his desire to make an honest living inspires Primo. The two connect on a level that neither thought was possible.
Don't be discouraged by the language used. It's raw and gritty, just like the life the characters live.
The ending leaves you wanting to know what's next for this dynamic duo. Hopefully Booker is working on a follow up, maybe even a series?
Dannell Booker is a great poet and an even better storyteller.

College-level collections strong in science fiction holdings will welcome the scholarly survey ALTERNATE AMERICAS: SCIENCE FICTION FILM AND AMERICAN CULTURE. Its professor author M. Keith Booker has selected some fifteen of the most successful, innovative sci fi films of all time and here considers their cultural, technical and cinematic effects. Any genre fan will immediately recognize and acknowledge these selections as true 'greats', from Forbidden Planet and 2001 to Alien, E.T., Blade Runner and Matrix. That they not only reflected future fantasy but the concerns and culture of their times makes for a penetrating analysis which surveys plots and underlying meanings.

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch

This book is a remarkable example of reclaimed history; Maria Mitchell was a ground-breaker in so many ways, and all of those experiences result in a feminist view of life in general, but this book also includes a pointed observation about Women in the scientific community. Maria was a scientist and educator, a Suffragist, and ultimately a pioneer, in the most profound definition of that word. This book celebrates her complicated life and informs our own lives with her spirit and scholarship and inspiration. The author has given us a gift of this information.

This is really a wonderful little tale. Having no familiarity with any of Jhabvala's other work, I'm not sure how To Whom She Will compares with her better known novels, such as Heat and Dust, or how it might be representative of any consistent style or theme with which she writes, but I'm certainly now excited to learn and confident that I've found another author whose fruits I enjoy.

To Whom She Will is a light, quick, and rewarding read, marked by nuanced, intelligent, and perceptive humor and rich with unpresuming moral substance, as well, whose relevance is probably timeless; a good choice with which to space out more demanding literature. It is a skillful satire primarily of the grandiosity and vanity and dumb, empty arrogance of the leisure classes in 1950's India (who are constantly tortured by self-constructed angst and console themselves with salves of righteousness and scorn) and of the vulnerability of youth to delusional romanticism, self-preoccupation, whimsy, melodrama, and the fascinating appeal of the ideals of Suffering and Love.

All of Jhabvala's characters are caricatures of a kind, and by them, I think, Jhabvala gently ridicules our wont to take ourselves and our chosen ambitions overly seriously. To Whom She Will lead me to reflect on the constant, furious human endeavor of interpreting-of inventing, really-our individual lives; on our tendency to become easily distracted from living by our ceaseless efforts at scripting and performing our own stories, desperate to make them glamorous and honorable, willfully deluding ourselves in order to believe we live passionate lives, that we have transcended the quotidian, that we love with a great, awesome love, that our personal suffering is exceptionally puissant, that ours is a struggle with Fate and Tragedy, that we require the greatest courage to navigate the circumstance and choices we face, and perhaps-ultimately-that our lives have meaning and significance.

Jhabvala's characters invoke ridicule and disdain. It is natural to laugh at them. Indeed, the evolution of Jhabvala's plot I found remarkably adroit in its manner of illuminating her characters' various follies and vanities with levity, but her characters are no less real or realistic for their unadulterated weaknesses. After having relished my amusement, the more lasting effect of Jhabvala's tale, for me, was in taking pause to ruminate humbly again on my own delusions.

Dear sirs , regarding chapter 3 titled " Application of numerical analysis techniques " and the equation which govern the capacitance between cylinderical electrode spaced from an infinite plate which is equal to 1/c=4.139 k[....]/L , kindly let me know the value K : is it equal to the dielectric constant OR K = 1/dielectric constant ? Your answer,clarification and confirmation is highly appreciated . Many thanks and best regards. Ashraf Ahmed

By a happy coincidence, I bought this at Tuskegee University, where you can see the fruits of BTW's work 100 years later. There is a lot of wisdom in this book that people could still use a century later. "Lay hold of something that will help you, and use it to help somebody else."

This book is a "must read" for anyone who is interested in the history of the nation of Israel! The author has done an excellent job providing a readable and scriptural backed survey of Jewish history. From covenant promises in Genesis to prophetical fulfillment in Revelations, Richard Booker starts the reader down a path of understanding the Middle Eastern conflicts and wets the appetite for more study. As a person who has a deep aversion to textbook style history, this book comes highly recommended to anyone who has ever asked himself or herself: "Now WHEN did that happen?" An excellent weekend read for anyone pondering the erroneous foundation of transfer theology and looking for a place to begin digging out that root of anti-Semitism.

For a good background on Booker T. Washington that does not try to place blame (for slavery), this is the book to read. It gave a lovely story on his life, without getting into politics. The real joy of this book are the illustrations. The artist captures the essence of the time and the person in beautifully rendered paintings. While children will enjoy the "pictures" and the story, anyone will appreciate this as a wonderful art book. The artist has done another children's book that is just as beautiful as this one. Between the author and the artist, Booker T. Washington's life was captured in an unforgettable way. Look forward to seeing and reading more from both these talented people!

I bought this to use in my 6th grade reading classroom. It is excellent to use to teach reading skills such as main idea, author's purpose, or summarizing. I put it in a center and students have 10 minutes to use the book for an assignment. Since it is at a lower reading level, students have success in building skills to use in higher level texts.

This book is a good addition to the grade 1-6 classroom library.

Booker T. leaps off the pages of this dusty volume and he is a living breathing person. His charisma and energy left me exhausted. One day he is making bricks for his college, the next he is touring New England to raise funds. His wives and friends die of exhaustion around him. I read this book by mistake. I thought it was an assignment for a class(the actual assignment was a thin biography). I took this thick and dusty volume full of footnotes on vacation to the mountains. I decided to skim it and avoid the footnotes. After the first chapter, I read every footnote and the entire volume. These are Booker's journal entries and personal papers. He literally steps out of the pages and you are totally emersed in the beginnings of Tuckaseegee and every aspect of his life. He makes the time and place as real as if you were there. I actually became exhausted by his energy and the mountain of activities he was engaged in at the time. Prior to reading this book, I was not interested in him at all. After reading it, I think he is one of history's underrated characters. This is perhaps one of the most fascinating journals I have ever read on the art of leadership.