Burns Books

Ridge gives a candid account of his experiences in youth leadership. Ridge obviously has the gift of challenging teens about their relationship with Jesus Christ. He pulls no punches in sharing the highs and lows of youth ministry. It will make you laugh and hurt as you see him working through situations with his youth. He offers concrete principles for youth ministry that are based on solid biblical truths. This is a quick read full of stories, that will encourage everyone from full time youth pastors to part-time lay leaders

Fr. Faber's key book, which stands at the "source and origin" of all his others, for it contains the fundamental insight which leads to a proper understanding about all other aspects of our religion. Says men in the modern era accept God's existence, but deny His sovereignty in practice, and he explores the ramifications of this. Though composed in mid-19th century, this book is absolutely on target today, for man's tendency to arrogate to himself the prerogatives of God - strong in Fr. Faber's time - is epidemic today and cannot but influence Catholics. This book is a powerful awakener!

People need to take a real good look and see what the primary function of our Children and Youth Services is. It seems that they operate in such a way to fit their own needs and not the needs of the children. I rate this book a five star. Why should we be held responsible for what we do while they bury their mistakes within the system. It is about time these so called Social Workers started be held accountable for destroying people's lives.

Late in his life,Huysmans visited Lourdes. As a fairly recent Catholic convert, he was drawn by the Catholic spirituality so present there, but also repulsed by the way Bernadette's vision had been commercialized and trivialized. The book is a record of his time there, as he visits with the doctors who verified miracles, watches the pilgrims immerse themselves in the water and reflects on the theology of suffering. All these topics are covered by Huysmans in his typically gorgeous, awe-inspiring prose.

James Anderson Burns relates his personal experiences that led him to found the Oneida Baptist Institute in an attempt to stop the feuding in eastern Kentucky. And Burns suceeded in establishing a school that taught love and peace when all the people of this land had formerly known was hate and bloodshed. This book tells the story of how Burns was drawn into the feuds, saved out of the feuds and then brought into existence the Oneida Baptist Institute that has survived to this day serving students from around the United States and around the world.

This book is an inspiring true story of a man who was commited to the cause of ending the feuds and whose work is still continuing over a century after it began.

Constance Athelson, Viscountess Westbury has both an obsession and a secret. Her obsession is to be taken seriously as an Egyptian art cataloger and secure the open position to catalog the extensive and priceless collection of the Earl of Lyndham. Masked as the Egyptian goddess Isis Constance had heard the earl would be attending this evening's Black Widow masquerade ball otherwise, she never would be attending. Her secret was a visionary gift that allowed her to both see and communicate with spirits, including visions of upcoming events.

Lucien Blakemore, Earl of Lyndham couldn't believe his good fortune, or his intense reaction to the masked goddess that slipped into the room he was occupying. In a surreal moment it seemed as if destiny had delivered Isis into his arms, but the fervor of their passion was real until she fled into the night without him discovering who she was. Like a dying man in the desert he knew he could never love a woman but the sensual eroticism he'd experienced with this mysterious lady was something he longed to repeat.

*** Monica Burns has an extraordinary talent in writing sensual historical tales that will singe you from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Not only has she succeeded in making this story boil over with steamy and beautifully orchestrated sexual encounters, but she imparts a fabulous paranormal element and mystery with Constance's gift of visions and ability to communicate with ghosts.

Lucien is fleshed out as an arrogantly and masterful lover who believes that because of the Blakemore Curse, love is an impossible and dangerous dream. The frequency of physical sex as Lucien tries to believe his passion for Constance is lust rather than love gets increasingly intense and plays out perfectly along with mystery and ghostly encounters.

The fast pace, as the plot and mystery thickens surrounding thirty years of bloody murder and suicides, is supported and enhanced by a superb cast of secondary characters which culminated into a surprise ending this reviewer never saw coming.

Bottom line: This is a powerful sensually driven historical paranormal that is a testament to Ms. Burns gift of keeping her readers spell-bound. Highly Recommended Reading!

Marilyn Rondeau, for www.paranormalromance.org

I love mysteries. I've been reading them for 30 years. I am especially fond of humorous and witty mysteries. When I read this book a couple of years ago, I got hooked on Bill Crider. I've read all the Dan Rhodes books and most of the Truman Smith books. But I like this one, about the Texas junior college professor Dr. Carl Burns, the best. It's more upbeat than the Truman and Dan books. It's full of Texas humor and wit (my favorite chapter is the one about the goat) but the professor doesn't get beaten up several times per book like poor Dan and Truman always do.

This is, literally, a textbook case for medical ethics and the right-to-die -- to determine one's own destiny. In 1973 "Dax" was critically injured in a propane gas explosion that took his father's life and burned more than 65% of Dax's own body. For more than a year, Dax underwent painful treatment. In the end he was left totally blind, permanently disfigured, and severely maimed. Today, Dax lives productively and in reasonable comfort, practicing law in Henderson, Texas. His story would seem a tragedy with a happy ending. But it is far more complex than that interpretation would suggest, for Dax Cowart wanted to be allowed to die following his accident - and he believes even now that he should have been granted that escape from his suffering. His story embodies a range of medical, moral, and legal questions that challenge professionals in many fields and confront individuals in every walk of life. How do we define "life" and "death?" When do we withdraw life support. Who makes such decisions? A cautionary tale if ever there was one.

This is an excellent resource for every Special Education Teacher. In the book, author Edward Burns guides the reader through the process of creating and IEP (Individualized Education Program) that addresses the child's needs. He includes how to the gather the child's current levels of performance, develop measurable goals and objectives, transition planning, and all other necessary components to the IEP. If you are responsible for developing IEPs, than you must get this book!

Among More's last works, "A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation" is one of his most important. There are scholarly editions, from Yale and the University of Indiana Press, and there are popular editions from Everyman and Septer that are available. More wrote this book in the Tower of London as he awaited execution, but the style is not the raging virtupretive one he used when confuting Tyndale. There are "merry tales" such as the one about the German who was never satiate his own praise, in Book Three Chapter 10, but most of the book is given over to meditation on death. More has two characters, Anthony a young man, and Vincent, his aged Uncle. They are placed in Budapest and they are fearful of an impending invasion by the Turks. More's story has been read as thinly veiled alagory of his own situation. Anthony standing in for More's son-in-law William Roper, and Vincent for More himself. That may be putting it too simplistically, but it is a good starting point. Unlike More's best known work "Utopia," "A Dialogue of Comfort" was not written in Latin, but in English. I doubt one in a thousand readers have read More's classic in the original Latin, but everyone who reads English can read More's "Dialogue of Comfort" without the aid of translation. This is a spiritual book. In this book More asks where shall comfort come from. More answers his own question: "For God is and must be your comfort, and not I."