Browning Books

Bethany Burke ordered most everything out of a catalog.. Colt McClure put an ad in the Cattleman's catalog seeking a job.
He never speaks of his past and the mystery deepens when a bouncing baby girl appears on the ranch doorstep ----- addressed to Colt!
Bethany is trying to hold onto her ranch and needs a good worker to help her and Dita make repairs and run the cattle.
Colt has a way with horses and special training and his dream is to start a training clinic. What better than to throw in with Bethany but will he have to reveal his secrets ---- especially about the baby Alyssa???? He also wins over Frisco and Eddie and of course Jesse James. [check them out]
The story is interesting to a point and either I or it ran out of steam towards the end. It was worth a read but I was ready for another book. Loved the way it ended [you almost miss it]

This book consists of three complete novels, one each from Dorothy Glenn, Joan Hohl, and Dixie Browning all with a connection of making the hero "a Daddy again."

The first, "Sunshine Every Morning" from Dorothy Glenn (also known as Dorothy Garlock) is a sweet love story that begins with heartbreak that quickly turns to a sweet love story. When Gaye loses her baby during birth, she is swept into the life of Jim Trumbull and his newborn grandson from her own sister. Jim drives Gaye crazy, as she quickly falls in love with this big man and his dear grandson.

The second, "Forever Spring" from Joan Hohl is another sweet love story of a millionaire that falls deeply in love with the owner of a small bed and breakfast. The couple quickly develop a dear sweet bond and passionate relationship, however her ex-husband quickly attempts to sabatoge the relationship, even using their two sons to do it.

Finally, "Hazards of the Heart" by author Dixie Browning is a love story of two former high school classmates. Jake Hatcher doesn't even remember Libby, however slowly becomes dependent on her, until he can think of nothing else.

All three stories are sweet and loving, the first story is definitely the best... and the final story, "Hazards of the Heart" really drags on a bit and the author seems to try hard to make Libby undesirable by all means... and Jake Hatcher the perfect catch... got a little tiring - not my favorite by any means.

Dorothy Glenn was very unique and loving. It's a very sweet story, one that shouldn't be missed. If you enjoy this, read Dorothy Glenn's stories under the name Dorothy Garlock. She definitely improved upon changing her pen name, but this is a very good story. I love the unique storyline!

The Essential Browning is a great book to read if you love poetry. If you don't it might get boring pretty fast. I like poetry enough to where I could keep going on, but it didn't all appeal to me to much. There are alot of poems in the book that I like, like "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess." Those two poems are also two of Robert Browning's more famous poems. I think anybody can get into those two. I would reccomend this book to anybody who is really serious about poetry.

I came away extremely frustrated from Anderson's Book. The treatment of Diversity in Family stops short of allowing for my kind of family within the Church, even though Anderson argues against prejudice and insulating the family from the world.

Unfortunately he retains a definition of family which is dependent upon legally recognized kinship rather than dynamic and function-oriented. Gays and Lesbians need not apply.

Anderson's chief failing is that he limits pastoral care to those families society says it recognizes rather than to those which actually emerge in a society. Gay families exist, whether the Legislature, Canterbury or Rome acknowledge them.

How wonderful if this otherwise excellent book were more accepting. The treatment of family rituals, of accepting the stranger within the family and of family dynamics leads one to believe Anderson could revisit the topic and come away more inclusive, if his eyes were opened just a bit.

Kessinger Publishers puts out paperback reprints of public domain works. The pages of the original work are photocopied onto 8.5x11 paper and bound in plain vanilla covers.

This work is a reprint of the 1925 edition of "It Can Be Done," a collection of inspirational poems. My grandmother had this book in her library and gave it to me when I was a pre-teenager. I have read and re-read the book until it is falling apart. I have returned to the book for inspiration during many difficult periods, and it has never failed to lift my spirits. When I recently reached for the book again, I found it so dilapidated I decided to go onto Amazon.com to see if I could find a better copy. I bought this volume and found it to be quite satisfactory.

Two things the reader must know: 1. The quality of the poetry is very uneven. Some of it is perfectly wretched. 2. The book was published during an era of ethnic insensitivity, and the book reflects that insensitivity.

If you can overlook these two shortcomings, the book can be a rewarding reading experience. Even some of the wretched poems can lift your spirits.

I read this book as the begining of a series which turned out to be a waste of my time... Ms. Browning suckers one into reading the other books because this one was actually pretty good.
I'll recommend this one but don't bother on finishing the series, because the gulity party is so obivious that it hurts.

A long time ago Maxi ran off with her younger sister Fliss's fiancé Colin, because Colin was using Fliss to get at Maxi, only pretending to be in love with Fliss. Maxi knows Colin for what he is, a horred man who takes drugs and is abusive. Rather than let her sister, who comes off dumb as a post, marry this no good rotten bastard, Maxi goes off with him and lets him abuse her, till she finally gets the goods on him and sends him off to jail.

Now she's come home. Fliss has a new fiancé and remember I said she was dumb as a post. She's hates Maxi and to put her the poor little girl at ease, you know, so she won't be afraid Maxi's not after her new lover, this guy named Kerr, who has secretly been in love with Maxi, makes her pretend to be his lover. He treats Maxi like dirt. No, worse than dirt and Maxi takes it. Then Colin gets out of prison and wants revenge and I guess I'll stop here. You get the picture.

This is a story short on suspense and in my opinion not very romantic. However if you're the kind of a girl who likes her men rough, then this book just might be for you.

A Harlequin Dreamers Review by Susan Napier

From back cover: That was how Kate described Aidan Crawford. She had been looking foward to ruining him, had thought about little else than the prospect of revenge. When the opportunity came, however, she found herself up against a worthy adversary - a man with devastingly masculine wiles. Until Aidan kissed her, she had thought herself frigid - unable to respond physically to a man. Why did it have to be Aidan who melted the ice that encased her? Adn was passion enough to free her from the shadows of her past?

This book is not really about Peter Hurkos. It is about Peter Hurkos, the psychic. If one measures this book by whether or not Peter Hurkos is revealed as a charlatan or a true psychic, then it succeeds admirably, as it leaves little doubt that Peter Hurkos was an individual with a highly unusual gift. If you measure the book by whether or not you get to know Peter Hurkos, the person, then it has not succeeded, because the reader comes away with very little feeling as to who Peter Hurkos was. The book, while interesting, suffers from being somewhat one dimensional. Notwithstanding this limitation, it is still a thought provoking read.

Peter Hurkos is the famous Dutch psychic who enthralled the world during the nineteen fifties and sixties with his psychic gifts. Uncannily clairvoyant, he was not always so. Born in Holland to a working class Dutch family of simple means, his youth was relatively uneventful. Interestingly enough, however, he was born with the caul which is often taken to mean by those who are superstitious that the individual may have been born with the gift of telepathy or clairvoyance.

Though his youth was relatively uneventful, this changed in 1941 when he fell off a ladder and fell four stories, landing on his head. He miraculously survived, but as his friends and family put it, the old Peter had died, and a new one seemed to have taken his place: one who could foretell the future, as well as describe past events, with uncanny accuracy. In the nineteen fifties, he left Holland and came to the United States, where he prospered as a well known psychic.

Peter used his gifts commercially, for which he received much criticism. He also became known as a psychic detective for helping the police solve numerous cases. Some of the cases in which he assisted were high profile cases, such as that of the Boston Strangler. For many years, Peter Hurkos astonished the world with his psychic gifts. He performed best through the process of psychometry, the divination of information by touching an object belonging to the subject of the reading.

I have to admit that some of the documented stories are truly amazing. So amazing that the author, an investigative reporter with a reputation for exposing frauds, became a believer. I do not doubt that the reader will likewise succumb and join the legions of those who believe that Peter Hurkos was, indeed, psychic.

This book is not really about Peter Hurkos. It is about Peter Hurkos, the psychic. If one measures this book by whether or not Peter Hurkos is revealed as a charlatan or a true psychic, then it succeeds admirably, as it leaves little doubt that Peter Hurkos was an individual with a highly unusual gift. If you measure the book by whether or not you get to know Peter Hurkos, the person, then it has not succeeded, because the reader comes away with very little feeling as to who Peter Hurkos was. The book, while interesting, suffers from being somewhat one dimensional. Notwithstanding this limitation, it is still a thought provoking read.

Peter Hurkos is the famous Dutch psychic who enthralled the world during the nineteen fifties and sixties with his psychic gifts. Uncannily clairvoyant, he was not always so. Born in Holland to a working class Dutch family of simple means, his youth was relatively uneventful. Interestingly enough, however, he was born with the caul which is often taken to mean by those who are superstitious that the individual may have been born with the gift of telepathy or clairvoyance.

Though his youth was relatively uneventful, this changed in 1941 when he fell off a ladder and fell four stories, landing on his head. He miraculously survived, but as his friends and family put it, the old Peter had died, and a new one seemed to have taken his place: one who could foretell the future, as well as describe past events, with uncanny accuracy. In the nineteen fifties, he left Holland and came to the United States, where he prospered as a well known psychic.

Peter used his gifts commercially, for which he received much criticism. He also became known as a psychic detective for helping the police solve numerous cases. Some of the cases in which he assisted were high profile cases, such as that of the Boston Strangler. For many years, Peter Hurkos astonished the world with his psychic gifts. He performed best through the process of psychometry, the divination of information by touching an object belonging to the subject of the reading.

I have to admit that some of the documented stories are truly amazing. So amazing that the author, an investigative reporter with a reputation for exposing frauds, became a believer. I do not doubt that the reader will likewise succumb and join the legions of those who believe that Peter Hurkos was, indeed, psychic.