Caldwell Books

Ekaterina is a rare find of a book that expertly covers a myriad of genres; it is part romance, part action and suspense, with a dash of thriller, a pinch of historical, and a heaping helping of sound Christian theology. It is most definitely a book that will hold the attention of many different sorts of readers.

Ekaterina is a well-written and highly intriguing novel, with a fast-paced plot that keeps you turning pages, and filled with rich details of the culture and history of the Russian setting. The Christian aspect of this book is covered so well that I was shocked by the quality of the prose. The spiritual struggles that Kat has, and the way that Vadeem wrestles with God and his past, and then the way Pyotr steps in to shepherd him are all SO true to life, and shining examples of how to write about matters of God and faith without being boring or cliché!
My only complaint about the book is that the romantic interaction between the two main characters feels rushed. Obviously, the entire book takes place over the course of one week, so any romance WOULD be rushed, but it still feels a little false. The characters have great chemistry, and it's not overly sappy, but it still just smacked of unrealistic romance. However, the amount of mystery and intrigue through this book, the authentic Christian element, the attention to detail and the fantastic character development are more than enough to redeem this novel. I greatly look forward to reading the next three books in the series!

Grade: B+

I love this book. It plunks you down in Moscow and revs your heartbeat as you go through dangerous adventures with thirty-year-old American, Kat Moore. I think this one is even better than the other book I read in this Heirs of Anton series. I can hardly wait to read the other two.

Kat is searching for her heritage, having been an orphan since she was ten. She suspects her parents of carrying secrets to their grave about her real identity. Her mysterious grandfather refuses to tell her anything and warns her not to go to Russia.

Kat ends up battling a terrorist as she and FSB agent Vadeem Spasonov dodge bullets and throat slashers. Vadeem has to overcome his own secret demons after spending most of his childhood in an orphanage. Together they solve a century-old mystery involving an ancient church relic worth four million dollars.

This is a great read, with a sweetly romantic ending and lots of action.

I love the start of this series! I'm a Russian historian and enjoyed this book a lot. The characters are just wonderful!

Once I started reading Ekaterina, I couldn't put it down! The book is an enticing combination of gripping characters, foreign setting, and an intriguing plot. In short, this book has it all.

Kat Moore, orphan, travels to Russia to search for relatives and uncover the mystery surrounding her heritage. Though raised by her grandfather, Kat has little knowledge of her family history. Whenever the subject came up, the adults in her life became tight-lipped and secretive, telling her she was too young to know or that it was a dangerous subject to discuss.

When a Russian monk she's never even heard of mails her a key with no note of explanation, she decides to visit Russia and search for the answers her family has withheld from her for years. Little does she know that she's become a pawn in an international smuggling operation. From the moment she steps off the plane, she is shadowed by Russian authorities and criminals alike. Only by relying on her faith and her wits can she hope to accomplish her mission and leave Russia alive.

Ekaterina 'Kat' Moore has come to Russia from America to unlock the secret of her families past. A key, sent to her by a Russian monk that seems to be a friend of the family, is all she has to help her find what she is looking for.

However, Kat doesn't get far into her journey before she is confronted by her first obstacle. Watching a chance meeting between Kat and a known smuggler from an organization that has been stealing from Russia, FSB Agent Vadeem Spasonov believes that she has a connection with the group and takes her in for questioning. Deciding to use her to distract Vadeem, the smuggling group helps Kat to escape so she can continue to search for her families past. Vadeem chases after her, now sure she is part of the illegal group, and finds Kat just in time to save her from an attempt on her life.

I enjoyed this book so much. It has adventure, mystery, and romance. The whole plot was well written and all the characters were well developed. The romance between Kat and Vadeem was especially great. It wasn't overdone to the point of ridiculously sappy, like some books, but was simply sweet. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this series, Nadia, which appears to be about Ekaterina's mother.

Having just completed our new DVD, here on Amazon, "The Best Florida Beaches" I can tell you I used this book extensively throughout our 21 day shoot driving around all of Florida shooting its beautiful beaches. The book has a great list and acurate descriptions of Florida's beaches, the detailed maps are also very helpful.

The book is nicely written, giving you things to see, do and stay. However, they do not include any pictures?! So, if you want to see and hear what Florida Beaches really look like, check out our DVD as well as this great book.

and I finally find one that's actually fun to read. I just moved down to miami from new york city and thank god for this book because I'm used to having alot going on and this book fills me in on the whole miami scene. And it does so without putting me to sleep...which is nice.

Let me save you the money I wasted on all the other books I bought about miami: Just buy this one, it's the only one you'll need.

This is another great Frommer's guide. We've read the one on Arizona (where we used to live before), as well as the one on the Carolinas and Georgia prior to this one, and all have been equally useful and detailed. If you want highlights, you got them: best beaches, best golf courses, best resorts, etc. If you want detail, you can go into as much of it as you care for.

We live in Central Florida, and it's been extremely useful to help us plan one-day outings as well as longer vacations. It will help you learn about the lesser known locations as well as give you details and tips you didn't know about the popular ones. It truly is a helpful guide equally for tourists or Florida residents.

I just want to give kudos to this book, because it was really, really wonderful on my most recent trip to Florida. I've used other guides in the past (Lonely Planet, etc.), but they seem to be more suited for very exotic locales instead of Florida. For that, Frommer's is the best. They have incredibly accurate information (prices, hours, directions, etc.) and give honest reviews for hotels, restaurants, and attractions that I really appreciate, like "this is the definition of a tourist trap," etc. I was surprised and pleased with this guide, and I'd recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone else who's going down there.

Tourism generates over $41 billion annually for the Florida economy, which is more than twice the entire GNP for Cuba. That is why there is a fierce fight for the Florida travel guide market. Fodor's Florida Travel Guide is one of the three guides that I reviewed during my two week driving vacation through Florida, and it came in first! (Fodor's #2 and Mobil Travel Guide #3 [see my other reviews]).

The refreshing writing style of the reviews were as practical as they were sometimes sardonic, i.e. "This resort couldn't be any more remote, not to mention a long way from any water or beaches". Then on the other side of the bay the writing was, well cozy, i.e. "A charming lobby with a rock fireplace and a saltwater aquarium sets the tone of this utterly inviting resort". When you compare this with the utilitarian reviews of Fodor's and the downright drab reviews of Mobil, you will find yourself enjoying the candidness of the book and thus, trusting the commentaries.

The accommodations and dining recommendations are reliable and on the money. This guide lists the best restaurants that Florida has to offer. A lodging and restaurant index would be a definite plus for this guide. As it stands now, if you have a restaurant you want to look up, you have to go through all the listings in the city you are in until you stumble across the name you seek or miss seeing it completely.

On the critical side, this guide omitted a significant portion of Florida. There is no mention of Gainesville, nor Ocala, nor Ocala National Park. Very disappointing. With these omissions this guide really is not a "State" guide; Florida is not just Miami and Orlando... "hello, publishers".

The rating system is labored and difficult to understand. The explanation of the "new star rating system" is buried in the book and not indexed. It was by quirk that I found it. Strange.

The Internet web site addresses provided for hotels could be more comprehensive considering that this is a 2003 guide. In today's world of "connectivity" you can visit the hotel sites and see the accommodations and rates prior to making reservations. And, website/email addresses are restricted to the lodging listings even though many of the restaurants now have their own websites with photos and menus and email to makes reservations.

However there are two significant areas in this guide that could use improvement: maps and hotels/restaurants.

Regarding the maps: the maps in the guide are lackluster. More and better maps would greatly help the user.

What put this guide on top of the competing guides, is the clear and enjoyable writing style of the review. The introductions of the regional areas are the best of the guides I reviewed. You will do well if you have to chose just one Florida guide and you select Frommer's.

The world seems a little weird these days - conspiracy theories abound, governments conduct clandestine operations half way around the world, and secret organizations manipulate entire nation's economies and governments. How this all takes place is a mystery to most people. Some reference to these "behind the scenes" processes was recently documented in John Perkens' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. But it focused on the past - facts and events. What I've been looking for is a book that captures what is going on today, and gives a hint into what will be going on tomorrow. Thank goodness I recently came across The Good Liar,a book that captures the thrill, mystery, and clandestine nature of this economic and political manipulation on a grand scale.

Robert Ludlum's The Borne Identity came close, when it talked about Jason Borne and his work for a mysterious government run branch that manipulated governments at will. However, it was hard to believe that the story in The Borne Identity could be real. Sure the government does things behind our back, in a secret fashion, but to the extent that was depicted in The Borne Identity always stretched my imagination. Not so in The Good Liar by Laura Caldwell. Here is a thriller that is not only plausible, but most likely is happening right now.

Meet Liza Kingsley, a young sophisticated lady who works for "The Trust," a secret private company that has ties to the government (just like today's Blackwater). She is in love with Robert, who has recently moved up in the ranks of the Trust and is beginning to clean up loose ends. One of those loose ends happens to be Michael, a former Trust employee that is looking to gracefully exit from his former life and settle down to a nice retirement. Kate, Liza's best friend from childhood who has recently divorced is introduced to Michael, and a fast paced romantic relationship develops. This is where The Good Liar shines beyond The Borne Identity. Because Liza is friends with Kate and also works for The Trust, she is put in the position of either protecting her friend - but breaking her relationship with Michael - or letting her in on the dark secrets of The Trust and Michael's past. Meanwhile, Robert is attempting to close any potential "problems" that the Trust may encounter in the future, including eliminating Michael - and now Kate.

Although the book starts off in seeming disarray, soon things begin to come together and the reader is caught up in the story. Taking place in Brazil, Canada, and Russia, The Good Liar revolves around mystery, power, manipulation, love, and (dis)trust. It's not often that you are waiting until the last 20 pages to figure out just who will survive and who will be caught up in the quest for truth. The Good Liar by Laura Caldwell is one of those books that delivers; it is bound to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster soon enough. I'm just glad I read the book first - books are always better then the movie and The Good Liar is no exception.

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The Good Liar is a smart, sexy tale of intrigue that takes us from Chicago to the far corners of the world. Caldwell goes beyond your typical espionage thriller to pose questions of morality, making us ask how far we'll go to protect our loyalties. In other words, is there ever such a thing a good lie? So not only does she have the perfect title for this novel, but her prose is clean and vivid as she weaves us in and out of a string of dangerous set ups. I highly recommend The Good Liar--truly an exciting read that keeps you hooked page after page.

Two pairs of old friends anchor Laura Caldwell's thriller The Good Liar. Thirty-something Kate, despondent after her divorce, is introduced by her friend Liza to Michael Waller, who's smart and fit and fifty-five and almost too good to be true. Kate winds up marrying Michael before she notices anything disquieting about his personality or habits: his secrecy about his job, his occasional jumpiness, his over-familiarity with Liza, with whom he was allegedly only slightly acquainted before she fixed the newlyweds up. Caldwell tells her story from multiple perspectives, mostly in the third person. We learn, before Kate does, the truth about Michael's relationship with Liza and about his job: he's an operative with a pro-American counterintelligence unit, the Trust, and he's sworn to secrecy about his missions as well as the very existence of the organization. We also meet the book's bad guy, Michael's long-time friend Roger Leiland, the Trust's new honcho and the fourth member of the book's quartet of principals. Roger has developed a lust for power and isn't about to let friendship stand in the way of his acquiring it. Kate, ignorant of these truths, is living in a very different world from the rest of the characters. This is reflected on the page: the chapters told from Kate's perspective are written in the first person. We get to watch as she slowly comes to suspect that her husband is not what he seems. We already know what she wants to know, but it's still fun to watch her put the clues together.

The Good Liar is a really good read. The plot is tight. The prose is transparent and the chapters short. Caldwell doesn't leave us hanging at the end of every chapter quite as successfully as, say, Ken Follett does: it is possible to put the book down, that is, but you won't want to if you don't have to. I love the book's spy stuff--secret drops and faux personas and the operatives' über-competence. What prevents the book from being as successful as it might be is Caldwell's villain, who is too unrelentingly evil to be quite credible: Roger wants power because Roger wants power. The personal loss and character flaws feeding that monomania don't amount to sufficient motivation.

-- Debra Hamel

But I quite enjoyed the book. I'll definitely be reading more from Caldwell.

The story told by Laura Caldwell in The Good Liar might seem farfetched at first glance, but in this post 9-11 world in which many of the West's worst enemies have died at the hands of military assassins or sophisticated rocket attacks, if something like the Trust does not exist, maybe it should. Its existence, however, was the last thing that Kate Livingston was thinking of when she fell in love with Michael Waller and decided to forever pack away her life in Chicago to marry him and move to Canada where Michael was starting his new business.

Looking back, Liza Kingsley, Kate's best friend, wondered what she was thinking when she had insisted that Kate go out to dinner with Michael Waller the next time that business brought him to Chicago. She could only rationalize her decision by reminding herself how improbable it was that Kate, recently divorced and not particularly interested in meeting anyone new, would fall in love with a man more than fifteen years older than her. She had only hoped to offer Kate a diversion that would tempt her back into the dating world. What she got was something that none of the three could have foreseen.

Kate may have been madly in love with Michael Waller but the experience of a failed marriage left her with a keen sense of when she was not being told the whole truth by her husband. In a matter of weeks she was sure that Michael was hiding something from her and she feared that it was an affair with her best friend, the very woman who had introduced them. But as much as Michael wished that he could put all of Kate's suspicions and fears to rest, there was no way that he could even begin to tell her the truth about himself, his work, or his past. Waller knew that being honest with Kate would place her life in danger because of his work with a private espionage group, one highly funded and not afraid to use assassination to protect the interests of the United States or to keep its own existence hidden to the rest of the world.

The Good Liar is one of those stories in which it is not always possible to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Even those deepest inside the Trust were having that problem and, as Kate applied more and more pressure on Michael to tell her the truth about himself, she inadvertently became the catalyst that could destroy the very existence of the organization. Of course that could not be allowed to happen and the question became one of who would survive the turmoil that Kate had helped create.

Laura Caldwell has written a first-rate thriller and she has capped it with an especially suspenseful ending that will have most readers reading the last few pages of The Good Liar as quickly as they can in order to ease the suspense.

Hoping to lift her dearest "Sister Friend," Kate from a state of chronic depression, Liza introduces her to Michael, a handsome, older man who sweeps her off her feet and into marriage. Liza is not thrilled about this. She knows who Michael is, for he's like her, a spy for a top secret organization who lives a secret life Kate can never know about. Secrets have a way of coming out, and before long, Kate finds herself endangered by the world the two people she loves most live in.

*** Fans of Alias and La Femme Nikita who are in withdrawal can get a fix by reading this book. Shifting between times and viewpoints, the plot is complex and action driven, with little time to dwell on emotional issues. If you are looking for a thrill ride between the pages, this is the one. ***

Amanda Killgore

Okay, so I will be completely honest, I got this as a library book and I did not see the little taggy thing on the side that said 'Christian' until half way through the book so at first I was a little bit creeped out by this girl who kept saying all these things like I don't do that because I'm Christian. Personally I get mad when people try to push their religion on you but thats okay. Now on with my real review instead of a rant. I loved this book despite what I just said those comments were very limited and I don't really read christian type books but this one was just amazing!! It really gets into the history of Ireland's Catholic/Protestant troubles. It has a few plot twists and some obvious character hook-ups(ish). But I loved this book and I can't wait to read the next two.

This book is somewhat poorly written, with nearly every line of dialogue containing the word "cool." But the worst part is that it is a Christian book that hides this fact by not mentioning it anywhere in the book description. If you're not interested in a thinly-disguised book of proselytizing, stay away from this book!

Maddie's trip to Ireland with her aunt was a fun read and a mini-history lesson. I always knew Ireland had a rich history and without being dull, Maddie and the characters bring it to life

Nineteen year old Maddie is traveling to Ireland with her Aunt Sid and Ryan, her aunt's godson. Her aunt is researching the peace camps affected by the Irish conflict with the Protestants and the Catholics. Meanwhile Maddie and Ryan explore the Irish countryside and discover the beautiful country while learning about the people and the culture. While there Ryan discovers his Irish roots and the story about his father and mother. Maddie and him then discover the truth about the IRA bomb that killed his father and what really happened to the man Sid loved.

I have always wanted to visit Ireland. I really want to see the green hills and listen to bagpipes and see the sheep. In fact I've already made plans to go to Ireland for my honeymoon one day. Heh. Reading this book was like taking the trip from my armchair. I learned lots about the culture and the people from reading. Little tidbits like stores not having bottled water or biking tours made the book more authentic like a guidebook. I learned quite a bit from reading this book about the IRA. I always used to get them confused with the IRS. This book made me understand more about what the conflict is going on in that country and how religion is a big factor in the fighting. It was sad to read about all those affected by the fighting. I also appreciated how the situation with drinking was portrayed. I understand how Maddie felt about seeing Ryan and her aunt drinking and being uncomfortable. But I also liked it how Maddie had to struggle with trying to explain why just having one drink is wrong. No one ever forced her to drink a beer, she did it on her own and then found out she didn't like it. I could have told Maddie that Guinness is horrible tasting, exactly how she described it! Drinking is not promoted in this book at all, it just gives a view that maybe as Christians we should find out why we say no to something before condemning others. I really enjoyed reading this book. It definitely makes me want to go to Ireland now more than ever. Teens will really enjoy reading this series.

I picked up this book because of my love of all things Irish. I really appreciate the insider look at traveling the Emerald Isle. It's a light read, perfect for the age it's targeted for. I didn't find the book too suspenseful--it was easy for me to see where it was headed--but it was well written and fun. I had a hard time believing Carlson was not 19; she nailed the young person's thoughts and mannerisms, I thought.

One thing that got old as I was reading was Maddie's annoyance with people drinking Guinness in Irish pubs. The lesson was, I think, that it's not a bad thing if not done in excess. But I got the point after the first couple of pubs. It got old after that. Also, I would have liked more exploration into the Catholic-Protestant conflict, but then again, this is a book for kids, so the light touch on that was probably enough.

Still, it's a good book for young people and a good look for anyone who wants to have a glimpse at Ireland today.

Cindy Thomson, author of Brigid of Ireland

"Adventure Racing, The Ultimate Guide" By Barry Siff & Liz Caldwell

Barry Siff and Liz Caldwell, both experienced adventure racers with resumes that include 11th place finish in the Eco-Challenge in 2000, 9th place finish in the Raid Gauloises in 2000 decided to put together their collective experience and write a book to help introduce and educate people about adventure racing. The book was very good, educational and informative especially if you are interested in getting into adventure racing.

The Good: Great source of information for beginners and experienced racers alike. Good color photo's in the center. The section that detailed the gear list was very interesting. There isn't too much to elaborate on. If you are interested in adventure racing this is a good place to start.

The Bad: I wish they would have spent a little bit more time on shorter races.

Overall: This book is a good place to start for people interested in adventure racing. Pick it up and give it a try.

This book has been an invaluable guide and should be considered mandatory reading for both racers and crew.

I've competed in one 24 hour adventure race, crewed for another and am preparing for my 2nd 24 hour race which is a couple of weeks away. The practical advice and suggestions that Barry and Liz present are excellent and have prepared me for what to expect in nearly every facet of my races. I particularly like their section about team dynamics and the importance of racing with people you like.

Adventure racing is not a sport to be taken lightly given the length and duration of races as well as the multiple disciplines involved. Research and education are crucial and this book is an excellent start for all of us budding adventure racers.

This was my first Adveture Racing book. I really enjoyed it. I learned some very useful information. My hi-lighter was used quite a bit. The pictures are spectacular! They will be hanging on my bedroom wall soon.

This book has been an invaluable guide and should be considered mandatory reading for both racers and crew.

I've competed in one 24 hour adventure race, crewed for another and am preparing for my 2nd 24 hour race which is a couple of weeks away. The practical advice and suggestions that Barry and Liz present are excellent and have prepared me for what to expect in nearly every facet of my races. I particularly like their section about team dynamics and the importance of racing with people you like.

Adventure racing is not a sport to be taken lightly given the length and duration of races as well as the multiple disciplines involved. Research and education are crucial and this book is an excellent start for all of us budding adventure racers.

I bought three books as I prepared for my first race (a sprint, which my team won thanks to the good advice found in all three of the guides discussed below): Don Mann and Kara Schaad's Complete Guide to Adventure Racing, Ian Adamson's Runner's World Guide to Adventure Racing, and Barry Siff and and Liz Caldwell's Adventure Racing: The Ultimate Guide. Of these, I found the Complete Guide good to start with, Adamson's book a standard guide to go back to again and again, and Siff and Caldwell's an ongoing delight.

The layout of Mann and Schaad's work is good for those just starting--lots of sidebars, whitespace, and basics. Adamson has professional prestige and his book is filled with the opinions/wisdom of someone with hardwon wisdom. I sensed though that as a high profile professional adventure racer, he is obligated to sponsors. His gear recommendations, which I gobbled up at first, began to seem more like celebrity endorsements by the end and I began to wish there was a more objective equipment guide. I have no doubt that Adamson's equipment recommendations are excellent; I would have liked to have gotten a better sense of comparison, though, to help me better understand why a Paladin harness was the recommendation rather than an Alpine Bod-- ie. what are the little things I am really looking for when I go out and buy gear for a discipline I don't yet do?

On Siff and Caldwell, I think the text portrays fingertip wisdom as good as Adamson's and the color photo section is great. Having read all three a couple of times through, I find myself picking up Siff and Caldwell and browsing it more than the others.

Mann and Schaad are on the bottom of the pile. I think that has something to do with the layout--which hints of Idiot's guides. I've certainly not worn out their advise but the layout has gone stale.

Recommendations: If you are completely new to the sport, and to more than one discipline, get the Complete Guide and read it first. Once you are hooked, you have to have the other two.

One area that these books don't purport to cover well is land navigation. A great book for learning those skills is Burns, et. al. Wilderness Navigation. I have taught from it several times in college level classes and it is a better fit for adventure racing than for what I have been using it (fundamental map reading and compass navigation).

What an absolutely amazing book! The photos are simply stunning and painstakingly hand-coloured to bring them to life. The text is taken from Holmes' own writings which, in conjunction with the photos, gives us an insight into life back then all around the world. The things he saw and did are just staggering. This is a wonderful book that will be cherished for many years to come.

My husband saw this book at another store for a little more money than I found it for on Amazon. So I bought it here. He loves it!

I bought this book and found out much to my horror that part of the pages are upside down! It also contains hideous typos in major captions such as: RUSSIA: COLSSUS OF THE NORTH. Mistakes such as upside pages and unbelievable typos make one wonder about the value of the text since editing was obviously not an important part of production.
I tried to return this to Amazon but was told that since it was more than a month that I had it, they could NOT give me another book or a full refund on the cost of purchase.
As the saying goes, caveat emptor.

This book is something you`d tresure and enjoy each time you go through its pages,high quality in every aspect.A book you`d love to browse and comment with your family and friends sipping a cup of tea.

The world has been spinning extraordinarily fast the past several decades and fewer and fewer have memories of what life was like in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Burton Holmes had a camera and a great desire to share his travel experiences through photos, film and lectures.
Today, they are ours again in this wonderful book that takes us back to times and places that we don't recognize today. He shares the humanity of the past with the humanity of the present and future generations to come.
His journey shows us how life hasn't changed and how drastically it has changed since these photos were taken.
For me, it's very special. I have made it a gift to my family members and to my child. I want it to be seen and read for generations to come.
It helps me get a grip on what's really important on this planet. Sharing without borders.

Marta Perry knows how to take a simple love story and turn it into a book that you can't put down. I loved this story. I had never read a book with this kind of story plot, it was fantasic!! I am looking forward to reading another book by this author

I you haven't gotten in on the love inspired let me tell you they are good, although just a little focused around church, they aren't too preachy.
In this book Chloe Caldwell told a lie about her boss Luke Hunter that got out of hand. Her grandmother blew her lie all to pieces by writing to Hunter. And so begins a romance.
I still prefer Susan Fox, Jessica Steele, Helen Brooks, Betty Neels, Essie Summers, Rebecca Winters, Eva Rutland, and Diana Palmer.

I found the character Chloe relatable along with Luke for that is where I find myself. Trying to find where I fit in the scheme of things and needing to rely on God to help me sort everything out. Sometimes you have to go home to find out your true place in the world. The book also helped to make one appreciate family and the pushing and proding they do in your life for you know they love you and care.

Chloe Caldwell's family wants her married. When she pretends that she is dating Luke Hunter she doesn't think their will be problems. When she gets an invite for both of them to visit home she thinks, "No big deal. I'll tell them he's busy." Then Luke shows up with TWO tickets home. Now, she has to pretend with her family all around. The Caldwell family has been in a fued for years between her dad and her uncle. Chloe and Luke set out to see what started the whole problem. Meanwhile Luke is there under different reasons. He's looking up some land to build on. See what happens in "Hunter's Bride"

Chloe Caldwell has been working for Dalton Resorts for quite a while. Six years ago, when recent MBA graduate Luke Hunter came to work for the company, she recognized someone who was on his way to the top, so she hitched her wagon to his star and they'd made a good team ever since. However, back on Caldwell Island (named after her ancestors who discovered it) off the coast of South Carolina, her grandmother worries about her in the big city. So Chloe has told Gran a little fib. She's told her she's engaged to Luke, so now Granny isn't worried about her.

Things are going swimmingly for Chloe, until one day Luke gets an invitation to come down to the island with Chloe, his fiancée. Chloe is embarrassed about it and she tells Luke why she gave her grandmother that impression. Luke surprises her by buying two tickets for South Carolina. He's agreed to play along and Chloe is touched, thinking he'd do that for her. But Luke has an ulterior motive. He wants to scout the island for a resort hotel and Chloe's family offers him good cover, which he needs, because he's afraid if the local land owners find out an out-of-towner is around looking for land the price will go sky high.

However the best laid plans of mice and men, or so they say, often go awry. Sparks fly between Luke and Chloe. It looks like love is going to bloom after all those years of working together. But what will happen when Chloe finds out the real reason Luke agreed to their little masquerade?

I read this inspirational romance in one sitting, even letting my coffee go cold. It was a darn good thing it was Saturday and I didn't have to go to work. I simply loved this book.

This book was very innovative and entertaining. The whole time I read it, it was refreshing to see a whole new take on the subject of Math. I think this will re-write all the tech books that our students have been using in schools ever since the beginning of time. I recommend it to not only the English-speaking world but to the entire globe of teaching in and of itself. Where was this book when I had to take General Math 3 times and attend summer school to boot? This book will revolutionize the inddustry of learning as we know it today. FIVE STARS does it no justice.

A self-directed, hands-on approach to math that allows students to progress independently. If you appreciate academics presented and/or reinforced in game-form, you'll appreciate the 35 puzzles that begin with addition and end with square roots. As a gifted intervention specialist, the author welcomes all questions through her e-mail address noted within the introduction.

The puzzles are good but the book offers just one kind with different permutations. You tape a math problem to an answer to build a square. You need to understand that before you buy it. My students liked it. Creating new puzzles absorbed the time and energy of my more advanced students.

This is an excellent book. It will help overcome understanding math, a pleasure to read. If you are having trouble with math this book is for you.

This book is wonderful for children of all ages, it helps to learn what they either don't want to or just can't understand. It is a great learning tool for anyone who has any mathametical problems. I thank the author who put the time and effort into this for others to use. Job well done!!!!

This is worth studying deeply. The author frames issues of addiction in a way that speaks to those of us who are don't appear to have deep addictions but who are always feeling something isn't right. She deconstructs the drives we have and helps put in perspective the ways we create addictions to cope with stress in our lives. Only she digs deeper, and helps me understand how profound this coping mechanism is and why we do it.

R. D. Laing's recognition of a "schizoid personality," or a disembodied self, in his seminal work "The Divided Self," promised a new approach to the integration of body and mind in the whole and healthy human being. Caldwell builds on this idea, using the body as a starting point for diagnosing addictions and suggesting treatments. But the book soon becomes predictable. The addictions are frequently the result of an abusive parent (isn't this theme getting a bit threadworn by now?) and the treatments are more commonsensical than insightful (meditation, exercise, re-prioritizing life's demands). Moreover, the material echoes much similar popular wisdom on the subject. Readers of John Bradshaw, Sam Keene, Deepak Chopra are likely to find this book somewhat repetitious and familiar. And though user-friendly, the writing style rarely attains the sustained rhetorical power of the former works.

I don't know if it's simply because I read it at the right moment in my life, but this book had and is still having a profound effect on me. A magical effect on me. Reading it feels like being home and every discovery it leads me to is so intense that I cannot read more than a few pages at a time.

An alternative title for this book could be "Recovering our Aliveness". Recovering our desire to expand our chest and welcome every single oxygen molecules that keep us alive. Recovering our ability to feel. Happiness isn't in the content of our life, but in the very process of being alive. Why are we so afraid of it ? Why do we distract ourselves with addictive thoughts and body movements? Christine Caldwell guides you in your search for an answer, and offers concrete tools to finally walk hand-in-hand with your life force.

I send her my gratefulness.

An excellent example of how body psychotherapy has develloped during the 1990's. The book is agreable to read, full of interesting ideas and examples, and the author obviously knows what is happening, not only in her field but in neighbouring disciplines.

This book by Dr. Caldwell is one of greatest books I have ever read. Although easy for any reader this book is a page turner that captivates the mind as well as the imagination. I can honnestly say that this book is among the very few that I have pulled off the shelf and read more than once, and would recomend it to anyone.

Despite the numerous 5-star reviews here I'm going to have to give this a 3--the translation was just plain hard to read, even though I do like the verse format as opposed to the "paragraph" format. Even the introduction was written in very formal language. I actually bought this edition based on all the perfect ratings here, even though I also wanted to read Works and Days (this edition only has Theogony) and bought another edition that had WD in addition to Theogony. The translation of Theogony in the other edition (West) was so much easier to read. Also, the overabundant footnotes in Caldwell break up the normal reading flow. Too much! I got through it, but it wasn't really fun. And I've recently read the Odyssey, the Iliad, Herodotus, and several other overview books on ancient Greece, so I'm not a total novice here. This edition may be good for the profession but not the enthusiast.

This is a review of Richard S. Caldwell's translation of "Hesiod's Theogony". One of the other reviewers referred to this translation as being a verse translation as opposed to a prose translation. That does not imply the translation is made to rhyme! It means only the verse structure and numbering is maintained. I hope everyone knows that any poem that rhymes in the original language, very rarely rhymes when translated into English unless a lot of artistic license is used. (e.g. Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad has more to say of Pope's skills as a poet than Homer's.) But, Caldwell does not use any artistic license (although sometimes I wished he had - Hesiod can be a bit cryptic at times). Instead, he has made a very assiduous and close translation, which is extensively (and at times thankfully) annotated.

In my reading I consider Hesiod, alongside Homer, to be a fountainhead from which all later Greek writers flow. It's not a Greek Bible, but it is the earliest full exposition of Greek creation mythology we have today. There are competing versions of some myths, but more often than not, this is the antecedent of many later Greek elaborations.

It's certainly a great work to cut your teeth on because if you can master the full panoply of gods and the tangled network of their relationships as sketched out by Hesiod, then you can hold your own when reading almost any other ancient Greek text. To this end, Caldwell is a very generous guide for leading novices down all those tricky paths. His copious footnotes leave few stones unturned.

Moreover, what I found to be a very gratifying addition to Hesiod was Caldwell's interpretive essay, "The Psychology of the Succession Myth". One reviewer referred to it as "rather simplistically Freudian, but interesting". I read Hesiod and Caldwell's essay before reading this review and I must admit I was worried myself, at first, that Caldwell was plunging into cheap Freudian psychology; but I was pleasantly surprised that he took it into another direction. I personally found the essay to be a very thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis.

The Theogony is full of incest, as most ancient myths are (e.g. the children of Adam and Eve); but Caldwell does not make the Freudian misstep in assuming that that is the natural desire of children. Instead Caldwell treats it as the logical fallacy people would naturally arrive at by extrapolating lines of familial descent, viz. if all cousins can trace their origins to one set of great grandparents, and so on, eventually there is a primordial set of first parents - and inherent in such a situation would be the necessity of incest for the race to multiply. (And also, because incest is a universal and natural taboo, which is always assumed to be negative in some manner for the resulting children, the only way incest is permissible is if the first generations are somehow superior to humans today - be they gods or superhuman like Methuselah.)

Unfortunately for the field of psychology, Freud might have gotten it half right, but he got the other half so terribly wrong that everything he touched is now taken with great suspicion. However, if one does try to think about the human mind at the beginning of its consciousness - for both the individual and for the species - one cannot not help but conclude that humans, _in part_, have little recourse but to metaphorically extrapolate their understanding of their own bodies out onto the world; and Caldwell is very conscious of those constraints, so I would not dismiss his analysis so easily as simplistic Freudianism.

In conclusion, if you are wondering which translation of Hesiod to get, I enthusiastically recommend Caldwell's. His will serve as an excellent resource if you plan on expanding your knowledge of ancient Greek writing because it is a constant source of clarity and illumination when walking the labyrinth of Greek myth.

Hesiod's "Theogony" is excellently translated by Richard S. Caldwell. I have read other translations of Hesiod but preferred this one because it is done in verse as opposed to prose. The verse is not difficult to understand; the notes to the text are clear and good; the topic is made more interesting by way of the writing style. Overall, a very good piece of work.

This is a review of the extensively annotated translation of "Hesiod's Theogony" by Richard S. Caldwell -- just in case, as sometimes happens, it appears with a different translation. For those who are not familiar with it already, this is an account, in Homeric verse, of how the organized universe arose, expressed through generations of gods, their struggles for supremacy, and the culminating triumph of Zeus, with the great Olympians and a multitude of nature-deities listed along the way. Told in noble hexameters, it is an extremely violent story, full of abusive parents, mutilations inflicted by rebellious offspring, divine cannibalism, and a whole succession of other behaviors the Greeks themselves considered repellent. The philosophers had real problems with this work -- one can understand why Plato wanted to ban poets from the ideal state.

As it happens, I own most (but not quite all) of the currently or recently available English translations: those by Apostolos N. Athanassakis, Norman O. Brown, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (bilingual edition, Loeb Classical Library), R.M. Frazer, Richmond Lattimore, Dorothea Wender (Penguin Classics), and M. L. West (Oxford World's Classics). Except for Brown, who also covers only the "Theogony," they all contain at least the other main Hesiodic poem, "Works and Days" as a companion piece. West is also the editor of a Greek text, with extensive commentary. In this crowded field, in which the renderings of Athanassakis and Lattimore are notable for the quality of their poetry, Caldwell stakes a claim to utility.

The introduction contains numerous tables, displaying the relationships of various sets of gods, nymphs, monsters, and others, His translation is set out in verse lines, with running numbers at intervals of five, which makes locating references extremely easy. (No headnotes identifying thirty or fifty-line blocks of material!) An essay on the "Psychology of the Succession Myth" (rather simplistically Freudian, but interesting) is followed by a translation of some the most important related material from "Works and Days," and (hurray) parallel passages from a late prose compendium of Greek mythology, the Bibliotheke of Apollodoros (better known as the "Library of Apollodorus"). He has a useful (if now slightly dated) discussion of the main Near Eastern parallels. (Brown also discusses the comparative and psychological aspects of the poem, from different perspectives; his psychological treatment seems to me subtler, and more closely related to the political reading he offers.) [To be fair, I should have mentioned when this review was originally posted that Caldwell is here offering a simplified form of the argument in his 1985 book "The Origin of the Gods: A Pscyhoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth."]

There is a very good index-glossary. Most useful of all, however, are the running annotations. They range from the most elementary (assuming no prior knowledge of Greek myth or literature) to impressively advanced (issues of structure, technique, and deeper meanings). Caldwell explains that he has drawn heavily on West's commentary, which is nice, because West himself incorporated many of his conclusions implicitly in his prose translation, without the arguments that accompanied his text editions.

Given Caldwell's attention to detail, if you are a novice in the field who doesn't plan to build up even a small collection, but is willing to read a single volume with close attention, this might be your best choice. Those who already know the subject are likely to find it attractive, although sorting through such basic reminders as "Zephyros is the west wind, Boreas the north wind" in search of interpretive insights can be a test of patience.

The Theogony is undoubtly a cornerstone in Classical Greek literature, and this work of Hesiod, unfortunately, does not have many great translations. However, Focus Classical Library has some of the best translations of classical works, most notably its editions of the Homeric Hymns, Metamorphoses, and Greek tragedians. Richard S. Caldwell, who also translated a prose version of the Aeneid for Focus Classical Library, has presented an unrivaled, strikingly original translation of the Theogony. The translation and explanatory notes are both top-notch quality materials.

Because of its accurate, highly original language, copious explanatory introductions and footnotes, and extremely helpful family trees, I highly recommend buying this edition of the Theogony. I prefer this edition a lot much more than Oxford World Classic's Theogony, which does not ave such an original or vivid translation, and does not also have as many explanatory notes, and Oxford does not have many explanatory notes which I feel are mandatory for modern Theogony Editions.

Inside this book, all the lines are numbered, and footnotes often take up more than half of the pages. Because of its highly original translation, original proper names and often literal translations of Greek expressions have to be explained through footnotes.

Also included is Appendix A, which contains Lines 1-201 of Hesiod's "Work and Days", describing Pandora and the five generations of giants before Modern Man. Appendix B consists of a portion of Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology, which is a late Hellenistic mini-Theogony. The index, though large and complete, is somwhat confusing to use.

Overall, I would highly recommend this edition of Hesiod's Theogony next to Richmond Latimore's verse translation of Hesiod's work. Edith Hamilton's mythology, Bulfinch's Mythology, and mythology dictionaries aren't enough for the serious - you NEED Hesiod's Theogony - straight from the source. Whether you are a student or professor studying/teaching Greek mythology or just a hardcore amateur mythology fan, you will NOT regret buying this book.