Brooks Books

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If you like Garth Brooks, and you like playing the guitar this is the book for you.

a rare jewel of brief information of so many of the Puritans....excellent for reference, and brief biographical sketches. It helps getting to know the men behind the wonderful books, sermons, and tracts. Hard to find, but worth the search. An important addition to any library.

Great item, very useful and full of wonderful information. The book looks at environmental issues from scientific, economic and ethical points of view which is very useful. It uses case studies to highlight fact.

My children (age 5 & 7) are enjoying this book, though it would be a fun book for older kids as well. (I, too, am learning some things as we read it together for Home school). Each page can take us 15 minutes to get through due to all of the colorful pictures and TONS of fun facts about life long ago. Every few pages there is a simple art project the kids can do related to the page. They have enjoyed those too. I expected the book to be larger than it was when it arrived, but now that we have been reading it I see it is well worth the money.

Ever tried reading Jung and gotten frustrated? Well, this book is for you. It takes out the complicated, esoteric language that is pervasive in Jung's style and makes it understandable for the beginner. Though the book is not very detailed, it is thorough enough as an introduction to Jungian psychology and is great as a jumping off point. This book excellent for those just interested in learning a little about Jungian psychology and as a supplement for those who need some guidance in understanding Jung's own works.

This is an excellent book for lovers of this delicacy. Your at-home pantry will contain all the ingredients you need to enjoy Maine's finest export. Recipes are easy to follow. The "tales" of our favorite crustesean are enjoyable too!

Frederick Buechner is now, at 80 years of age, highly respected and well known for his teachings and writings centered on the spiritual life. Brook Street Press will change that in introducing this reprint of Buechner's brilliant 1950 novel A LONG DAY'S DYING written just prior to his 'finding Christianity', and while the novel was highly acclaimed when it was first published, it has all but disappeared from his bibliography of biblically oriented works of fiction and non-fiction. This novel is simply brilliant, a reader's delight, and a hugely successful work despite the fact that it demands much from those who enter its realm.

Buechner writes in a dense, near stream of consciousness style that is reminiscent (in the finest sense) of the works of Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Michael Cunningham, and William Faulkner. Strange company, this? Well, just try to jump into Buechner in media res and see if the clues are not there. His small but indelible cast of characters includes Tristram Bone (an obese, wealthy, unlucky in love eloquent man) who lives with his German housekeeper Emma and his pet monkey Simon. He is friends with a novelist, one George Motley (a novelist who lives in his own world); Elizabeth Poor (an elegant wealthy widow who attracts men like flypaper); her young handsome Adonis son Leander and Leander's oddly intrusive friend Paul Steitler, a young professor whose attentions with all those he meets are seductive; and Maroo, Elizabeth's stalwart prickly mother who seems to have the best handle on everyone and whose journey through live offers a bastion of philosophy! The story simply unfolds the interrelationships of these odd people, weaving them into a tapestry so intricate and eloquent that the product is dazzling. Trysts, rumors of trysts, peculiar encounters and imagined relationships twist in and out of the story, all bathed in the luminous language of Buechner. 'Morning sunlight in long horizontals through the latticed blinds serenely puzzled the wide room by singling here and there disconnected shapes of brightness for predominance. One spray of a sea-green glass vaseful of lilacs caught the light and. like a wing, dipped through the shadow...' These verbal settings abound, wrapping the characters in shawls of beauty as they act out their peculiar ways of approaching friendship and affairs.

Reading Beuchner should be a slow process. Though the story is propulsive, it is thick with asides that demand attention if the lush eloquence of the language is to be appreciated. A LONG DAY'S DYING has some very important points about life to make, but it is the journey through the magnificent landscape of Beuchner's language that is the inimitable joy of reading this gratefully restored novel. Highly Recommended for serious readers. Grady Harp, May 06

I bought this book for my wife in 1992. I'm reading it for the fourth time.
Sally is a decent, young English woman. She is intelligent, well read and traveled, introspective, articulate and even mechanically inclined. She is also a "radical" feminist wannabe who who hopes to travel from London to Munich in a vehicle that she and two friends built from scratch in order to attend a women's convention. She wants a traveling companion to split gas money and driving time with.
The ad she takes out requests a "non-smoking, vegetarian feminist"; someone like herself.
Of course, the only respondent is... Harry.
Harry is another decent Londoner but from a part of the city Sally knows little about. Harry is (or was) a factory worker, just like his sister is and dad and grandad probably were. In spite of limited means and choices throughout his life, Harry is genuinely cheerful, upbeat and outgoing - the sort of guy who can make you feel like an old friend after being around him for just a short time. He also has a whopping, big secret that he hopes to carry all the way to Germany and a few smaller ones, too.
In spite of some serious misgivings, Sally agrees to take Harry along for the ride... and the adventure begins. Sometimes it's hellish, sometimes it's near heavenly. Through it all, Harry and Sally are like two magnets; sometimes repelling each other, sometimes... not. Through it all they remain side by side. Almost.
I don't make a habit of reading "chick" books. My favorite authors include Clive Cussler, Stephen King, Douglas Adams and St. Luke. I don't know why I have such a soft spot for Ms. (Mrs.?) Brooks' story. But I do.
Maybe it's because she does such a fine job describing what goes on inside people's heads. Maybe it's watching the scrapes - and fun - two people can get into on what should have been a simple road trip. Or it could be in watching two very different and very likable strangers discover that the other has something they actually need; and it ain't gas money. I think a lot of us have experienced that. Finally it could be the moral of this story which is, as I see it and some singer stated it, "only kindness matters".
It's just an easy, enjoyable, fun book to read. Okay, mostly easy. As an American some of the distinctly English terms sent me running for my Encyclopedia Britannica; words like "mews", Brighton Pavilion, M.O.T.'s etc. So I learned something, right?
As far as I can tell, Maggie Brooks wrote only one other book, "Heavenly Deception", which I hope to read in the near future. I wish she would have given us more.

Gary Paddock
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