Caldwell Books

I loved this book. It is a must for every member of Red Sox Nation. I plan to give it to many who happen to be on my Christmas list. Frank Sullivan brings joy and humor to every aspect of baseball, and beyond, into life. This is a treasure.

Very good book and very, very funny. The stories are short and concise making the book easy to pick up and read a few stories at one's leisure. A slight warning however, the stories are so entertaining that it's hard to put the thing down. A great book for everyone, but especially for those of us that remember those wonderful baseball years.

Warren Bowen
Glendora, California

Farrar was a 19th century British minister. He was a scholar with enyclopedic knowledge of other Protestant literature, biblical languages (especially Greek), and the geography of Palestine. He was also an eloquent author. Put all of this together and this is the best book on Christ (other than the New Testament itself) I have ever read. This book is replete with footnotes and explanatory texts for those who wish to delve deeper into other works or the original Greek. But for a layman like me, I still can enjoy the book and learn more depth on the subject.

And though a scholar of the first rank, Farrar is a believer first and foremost who accepts the literalness of the Bible, resurrection, and the divinity of Christ, things which are lacking in way too many "scholars". I've read many books on Christ and this is the one I recommend to friends.

I collect books about the life of Christ. I look for the best authors, the best texts, and then make my purchase. I have been buying them for several years and have recently been halted by the lack of anything new and excited.
This text, by Farrar, is the best I have read. All others pale in contrast. It is my opinion that a lot of the best texts about the life of Christ came in the time of Farrar, if not before. These were men who went to the Holy Land, wrote histories, and had a talent for writing them. Some vary religiously from my own views, but all are commendable: most of all Farrar.
From the beginning of this text you feel as though you are in the Holy Land. The writing is clear and concise. The research is bold and pleasant. If you are looking for a doctrinal treatise, look elsewhere; for this text is a history in every sense. The people, the culture, the atmosphere, the food, the dress, everything becomes alive and clear. Farrar is a talented writer (also writing a wonderful text in the life of Paul and Early Christianity) whose perfectly clear and subtle style is fully compensated with a historian's touch. Its greatest strength is in the details and objectivity.

Any person wondering "what it was like" when Jesus lived should read this text. When considering his life, in the aspect of history wrapped in a well written text, there is no other text out there like this one. This one belongs to the Classic's of this subject and Farrar should be every Christian's mentor and every historian's icon.

A great idea, in an unuaually busy world a nice way to show some one that you care. This book has little tear a way sections that you can share with others. Read the book yourself and then share the tear aways with whom ever. Leave one on the mirror so the it is the first thing that the intended see's when they wake. I put a couple of these in my childs lunch bag and at first he gave me that silly grin, like I embarrassed him, but when a big concert was coming up and I forgot to include one he noticed. I am not usually the kind of person to speak my thoughts and this made it easier to cheer my family on in their day to day adventures.

A great idea, in an abnormally busy world a nice way to show some one that you care. This book has little tear a way sections that you can share with others. Read the book yourself and then share the tear aways with whom ever. Leave one on the mirror so the it is the first thing that the intended see's when they wake. I put a couple of these in my childs lunch bag and at first he gave me that silly grin, like I embarrassed him, but when a big concert was coming up and I forgot to include one he noticed. I am not usually the kind of person to speak my thoughts and this made it easier to cheer my family on in their day to day adventures.

Sarah Reed needed help with her kids, and Matt Caldwell need help from Sarah.
This book has a wonderful ending, I was sorry when it ended.
Most of the Love inspired books are very good reads, they are clean and not too preachy, although centered around church, they show people who are really people.
I still liked Susan Fox, Helen Brooks, Jessica Steele, Essie Summers, Diana Palmer, Eva Rutland, and Rebecca Winters, for good reads that are really funny.

When war correspondent Matt Caldwell interviewed his friend James Whitman, who ran a mission station in Indonesia, it hadn't occurred to him that terrorists watch television too. They blew up the mission, killing Matt's friend and wounding several children. Matt broke up on the air when he reported his friend's death and because of that his bosses told him to take six months off.

Matt, his faith in God and life in general shattered, goes home to the arms of his family in small Caldwell Island, connected to the coast of South Carolina by a bridge, to help runt the Caldwell Cove Gazette, because he owned half the paper. However he hadn't reckoned on Sarah Reed who owned the other half.

Sarah has four children, the youngest a baby. Her husband has been dead less than a year when Matt walked into their lives. The small town paper that had been hers and her husbands is her only livelihood. Now big time reporter Matt Caldwell has come to town and wants to change things. Sarah has babies to raise, she can't let that happen.

This is an inspirational romance, so naturally it has an uplifting ending, but we worry quit a bit along the way as we read through the book. We worry about Matt and whether he'll get his faith back, whether he'll get over his psychological trauma and whether he'll wind up with Sarah. And we get that old feel good feeling inside as he takes to the children and the small town he's been away from for so long. You know, I really liked this book.

"A real tour de force!"

The National Environmental Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, & Executive Neglect by Matthew J. Lindstrom (Assistant Professor, Political Science Department and Environmental Studies Program, Siena College, Loudonville, New York) and Zachary A. Smith (Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona) is a detailed and scholarly analysis of the ramifications of The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) federal law signed by President Nixon more than thirty years ago. Individual chapters of this definitive treatise address NEPA's origins, goals, implementation, and how modern-day courts have vastly limited its powers with possibly detrimental effects upon America's environment. Strongly recommended for professional and academic environmental studies reference collections, The National Environmental Policy Act is a thorough and accessible study for anyone looking to learn more about the nature of the NEPA law and its effect upon the United States from its inception down to the present day.

I can't remember why I ordered this book from the library a year ago, but it turned out to be one of the more interesting reading experiences of recent years. John Tidball was graduated from West Point in 1848, and while his life was packed with adventure, so were others of this period. But few recorded their observations with as much interest and clarity with a voice that still resonantes. Anyone interested in military and social biography is bound to share my views of this remarkable book.

"No Disgrace To My Country" is the story of John C. Tidball, an Ohio farm boy
who, by good fortune, got into West Point in 1844 at the age of 19 and graduated in 1848 as the
Mexican War ended. He elected the artillery arm of the service, where his love of the big guns
kept him, to the detriment of his advancement in rank, until he retired as the Army's premier
artillerist in 1889 after 45 years of service. He was promoted after retiring to the rank of
brigadier general.

General Tidball was himself an excellent writer and this story is substantially based
on his journals and letters, excerpts from which are cogently interspersed.

Tidball was in or at practically every major engagement of the Army of the
Potomac from First Bull Run to Petersburg and his perspectives on the actions and the Union
commanders and officers are unfailingly interesting. He was, as were so many in that army, an
admirer of McClellan and suspicious of Lincoln and his administration and of the war aims of the
North. But on less traveled tracks and of particular interest are the pre-war stories of Tidball's
life as a plebe at West Point (where French almost did him in), his assignments in the Old Army,
including brushes with some of its notorious characters, postings to Savannah and Augusta,
participation in the 35th Parallel Pacific Railway Survey (to the report of which he contributed
several accomplished sketches), standing guard at Lincoln's inauguration, his first marriage and
widowerhood with two small sons (who were raised by his father while Tidball followed the flag).

Pensacola Harbor, in 1861, one of the best and most strategic ports on the Gulf
Coast between Florida and New Orleans, was guarded and controlled by Fort Pickens on Santa
Rosa Island. As the war began, Lincoln determined that Fort Sumter would have to be
surrendered but that Fort Pickens should be reinforced, defended and saved if possible.

Tidball was in charge of a battery of artillery that was part of the relief expedition dispatched in haste and
great secrecy in April 1861 from New York on the steamship "Atlantic" to save Fort Pickens. The
success of the effort denied the Confederacy the use of Pensacola Harbor and Naval Yard
throughout the war.

At the end of the war, while holding brevet ranks of brigadier general in the regular
service and major general of volunteers (in all he was breveted five times for gallant and
meritorious service), Tidball reverted to his permanent rank of captain. He had turned down
several opportunities for rapid advancement in the regular service during the war that would have
entailed his leaving the artillery service. The limited opportunities for advancement in the artillery
service, and what he perceived to be substantial defects in its organization, rankled and at times
depressed Tidball throughout his career. He, with, particularly, Henry Hunt and William Barry,
two of the great artillerymen who were Tidball's superiors, did have some success during the war
in restructuring the organization and use of artillery, including the creation of true horse artillery
units of which Tidball was one of the first commanders. Eventually, the insistence of these
officers and others that the artillery should be organized and commanded as a separate corps bore
fruit when Congress so provided in 1901.

Just as his activities before the war that were on ways less travelled are of
particular interest, so too are his activities during his 25 years of service after the war. In 1868,
the year after the purchase of Alaska, Tidball was sent there to set up and command the Military
District of Kenai, a principal element of the newly created Department of Alaska. In 1870, while
back in the states on leave, he married a younger woman (with whom he had five more children)
after a suit that was not wholly pleasing to her father, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, an
1842 graduate of West Point who finished the war as a major general of volunteers and had
returned to civilian life. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Kodiak which they departed
without regrets in the fall of 1871 when Tidball was given a new assignment. He served as an
aide-de-camp on General Sherman's staff from 1881 to the end of Sherman's term as general-in-
chief in 1883, and accompanied Sherman on the General's valedictory 11,000-mile tour of the
West with two Supreme Court justices in tow as the General's guests.

In 1879, Sherman had ordered the publication of Tidball's magnum opus the
"Manual Of Heavy Artillery Service." It was published in 1883 and for many years thereafter was
the definitive work on the management and use of artillery. Toward the end of 1883, Tidball took
over as commandant of the Artillery School and commandant of the post at Fort Monroe. He
held these commands until he retired from the Army on January 25, 1889, his sixty-fourth birthday.

Applying in 1842 to the Secretary of War to be admitted to West Point, Tidball
wrote that it had not been his good fortune to receive as liberal an education as he desired and
that he "embrace[d] this opportunity to if possible gain admission to that institution to gain a
better education, and be an honor to my friends and no disgrace to my country." He clearly
accomplished these aims summa cum laude. By any measure, his was an extraordinary and
remarkable life personifying the tenets of duty, honor, and country.

"No Disgrace to My Country," by a distant relative of General Tidball, is a valuable
contribution to understanding an obviously intelligent and highly motivated and performing
second-level Union commander in the Civil War. It adds substantially to our understanding and
appreciation of that extremely important species which supplies the backbone of armies. The
story is well told and is read with great pleasure as well as profit.

Taylor Caldwell is a superb author from our past. This book helped inspire and strengthen me 35 years ago. I needed a boost and remembered this book. Thankfully, I found this book again through Amazon. I wish young people would read more, and find the value of great literature. There is much wisdom in the written word. "No One Hears But Him" is a great example of moving beyond ourselves to something much greater.

Even though this book was written in the early sixties it is still relevant today. The souls all come for different reasons but it is clear that all leave with true faith. All expected someone quiet different than who they found. I see myself in them all at different times throughout my life. I first read this book over ten years ago and find it is still one that I will reread quit often. I highly recommend all Caldwell books.

I was trained to use the QRI in college and have found it invaluable when assessing how well my students can read. Even though I teach middle-school math, there are times when I suspect a child is struggling because they can't read their text or what I write on the board. The special ed department is busy and sometimes it's just easier to do a quick assessment yourself. That way, if you see a problem, you have some evidence when you seek help elsewhere.

This is quick and easy to implement. A great investment.

This collection of reading samples, and a detailed guide in using them in creating running records, grade-level assessments, as well as assisting the reading teacher in gaining a basic understanding of each student's comprehension strengths and weaknesses, is an essential addition to a serious reading teacher's library. Explanation and instruction in assessing your student's prediction, think-aloud, self-correction and basic comprehension abilities is thorough, easy to understand, and laid out in a manner that lends itself to frequent usage, both planned and spontaneous. The authors have chosen literature (both narrative and expository text as well as simple poetry) that is appealing to children, thus the stereotypical "stiff and cold" testing format of the past can be avoided as the teacher and student share a literary experience while a student's abilities are examined, and a plan of action for improvement is formulated. The cost of this book is minimal when one considers the amount of usage possible, and the innumerable reading problems that can be diagnosed and treated, by professionals who buy and use this valuable diagnostic and teaching tool.

Book delivered in high quality, received within a few days of placing the order. Excellent service.

John Brown, a Scottish physician, wrote this moving story in 1858. In it, Brown harks back to his childhood, and his first meeting of the great mastiff Rab. They maintain their friendship for some six years, until Rab's owner, James Noble, brings his wife to the medical school where Brown is studying. Ailie Noble is suffering from breast cancer, and the Surgeon-Master of the school decides to operate. It is 1830, a time before anesthetics and antibiotics.

I don't normally say such things, but I do not believe that it is possible to read this heart-rending story with dry eyes. Dr. John Brown is mainly remembered for this slim book, and it is easy to see why it has survived. The author wrote a book that is highly informative about that earlier and more primitive time, and is also touching at the very core of humanity. This is a wonderful book, one that is often recommended to dog-lovers, and one that I recommend to everyone!

This two-volume set is as gripping as the very best fictional thrillers. The writing quality is amazingly good -- perhaps reporters were just better educated in those days, or maybe the drama of the war brought out the very best in them. There is an immediacy to these selections that is lacking from most after-the-fact retrospectives.

The editing is first-rate. Oddly, no one is listed as an editor, so I suppose the credit must go to the four-person Advisory Board. As is typical of Library of America volumes, there are excellent supporting materials at the back of each book -- biographical notes, maps, notes, glossary, and so on -- and the bindings are very high quality.

All in all, these books are wonderful. If you have even a passing interest in history, I strongly recommend them. If you love reading history, they are indispensable.

An amazing collection of the finest pieces written on WWII for the American audience. William Shirer, Ernie Pyle, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Maudlin, etc., covering the earliest moves by the Germans into Czechoslovakia and Poland, the Pacific, African and European theaters, the Eastern Front, the Battle of the Bulge, the campaigns in Italy, the home front, the Battle of Britain, and so on. Remarkable for the quality of the writing and the sense of place and time in every piece. Yes, Americans were told the truth in 1938 about Hitler and the Nazis, and about the Holocaust shortly thereafter. Why did we not do something sooner?