Carr Books

If you have cancer or you are a cancer survivor, this is one of the best books you can have in your arsenal!!!

I caught Kris Carr's documentary on TLC and was really impressed with how real, raw, and relatable she was. I got her first book and couldn't wait to get this one too. Her message of being true to yourself and finding strength in seemingly impossible situations is something that anyone can relate to--not just cancer patients! And her suggestions for optimal nutrition and healthy eating make sense for anyone interested in eating better and feeling better. Cancer and adversity are such difficult situations to deal with, it's nice to find someone who understands that, but who also understands that sometimes you just have to yell back and be irreverent and not be afraid to be yourself so that you can find the strength to take control of your own situation and take care of yourself. I love that with this new book there's space for you to write in your own thoughts and feelings and to find your own inspiration as a means of empowering yourself in the face of cancer or any other adversity you may be feeling.

Subdued but strong, and quietly unsettling, the nine stories in Pat Carr's "The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella" leave long echoes in the mind, as well as an occasional chill on the spine.

The time and place are the Civil War in Arkansas, but there are no great battle scenes, none of the stereotypical bravado or self-righteousness often found in Civil War fiction. This is the home front, the mothers and daughters left behind, the plantations and servants, the farms and farm animals. Here are people trying to endure the hardships, the outright scariness of a war outside their doors. All are trying to carry on while the menfolk are off fighting in distant places.

There is the gravely wounded Yankee soldier who stumbles onto a woman's front porch asking for water. There's the mistress of a plantation struggling to save a feverish, and favorite, slave child. There is the proper young lady's journal entries as she awaits the jarring return of her fiancé, who finally arrives home missing both his arms. And there is the volunteer nurse who finds a Confederate colonel's life literally in her hands, as she pinches closed the broken, pulsating artery in his thigh.

Nothing in these stories happens in the expected way. The protagonists are not all heroic, although there are some of those here, too. But just as often the characters are petty and duplicitous, even cruel and coldly calculating as they fight for survival against weather, disease, hunger, and lawlessness. No one is immune from the brutal onslaught of the war, and not everyone makes it out alive.

Carr's writing is compelling and understated. "His skin was cold, but yielding somehow, like day-old mush turned out of a pan. It felt almost moist, as if it had broken out in a sweat one last time."

Civil War buffs will find no missteps here. Yet Carr's research has been woven so seamlessly through the stories that it goes by almost unnoticed. I especially admired her economy with words. Sometimes I got the feeling that each description, each bit of dialogue, had been pared raw, until only the most necessary, the most heart-wrenching words were left to tell her stories. The result is a powerful collection, flush with memorable characters, with tragedy, suspense and narrow escapes. "The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novela" is just plain good quality literature.

Pat Carr is the kind of writer who doesn't waste words. Her precise prose tugs at your heart and invites you to feel the emotions along with her beautifully painted characters. You won't regret opening this book and being pulled into history.

I enjoyed this book. The story of Amanda and Lexington is sweet and captivating. The story is an adventure as well as a love story. I highly recommend this book.

Another of the classic series of lesbian literature, the Lex and Amanda series by Carrie Carr should be on every collector's bookshelf. I recently read and enjoyed - for the second time - the entire story. In this first of the series, Realtor Amanda Cauble's car plunges into an overflowing creek. Rancher Lexington Walters subsequently rescues her and takes her home. To make a long story short, they fall in love while Lex deals with stolen cattle and a bad relationship with her brother.

Because of this wonderful series, Carrie Carr is one of the more widely-published authors in the genre. Lex and Amanda are easy to love and it's a joy to watch their relationship grow as the series develops.

First, the date of publication for this work is 1997, not 1899, as shown in the Amazon website publication data (an unfortunate mistake). As the above reviewer suggests, this is a first-rate collaborative work, drawing on the expertise of numerous scholars from around the world on numerous detailed aspects of phenomenology. The detail itself is phenomenal!

Articles cover ACTION, AESTHETICS, ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY (CULTURAL), ANTHROPOLOGY (PHILOSOPHICAL), ARCHITECTURE, HANNAH ARENDT, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, BEHAVIORAL GEOGRAPHY, HENRI BERGSON, LUDWIG BINSWANGER, BODY, FRANZ BRENTANO, BRITISH EMPIRICISM, BRITISCH MORAL THEORY, BUDDHISM, CANADA, ERNST CASSIRER, CHINA COGNITIVE SCIENCE, COMMUNICATION (PHILOSOPHY OF), COMMUNICOLOGY, CONSTITUTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY, CONSTITUTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE NATURAL ATTITUDE, CRITICAL THEORY, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL DISCIPLINES, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DANCE, DASEIN, DEEP ECOLOGY, JACQUES DERRIDA, WILHELM DILTEHY, ECOLOGY, ECOLOGY (DEEP), ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, EGO, EIDETIC METHOD, EMOTION, EMPIRICISM (BRITISH), EMPIRICISM (LOGICAL), EPOCHE AND REDUCTION, ETHICS IN HUSSERL, ETHICS IN SARTRE, ETHICS IN SCHELER, ETHNIC STUDIES, ETHNOLOGY, ETHNOMETHODOLOGY, EVIDENCE, EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY, EXISTENTIALISM, EXPECTATION, FEMINISM, JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE, FILM, EUGEN FINK, FORMAL AND MATERIAL ONTOLOGY, MICHEL FOUCAULT, FRANCE, GOTTLOB FREGE, FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY, HANS-GEORG GADAMER, GENERATIVE PHENOMENOLOGY, GENETIC PHENOMENOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY (BEHAVIORAL), GEOGRAPHY (SOCIAL), GERMANY, GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY, GREAT BRITAIN, ARON GURWITSCH, NICHOLAI HARTMANN, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, MARTIN HEIDEGGER, HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS, HISTORY, HUMAN SCIENCES, HUNGARY, EDMUND HUSSERL, HUSSERL AND HEIDEGGER, IMAGINATION, INDIA, ROMAN INGARDEN, INTENTIONALITY, INTERSUBJECTIVITY, ITALY, WILLIAM JAMES, JAPAN, KARL JASPERS, IMMANUEL KANT, FELIX KAUFMANN, FRITZ LEOPOLD KAUFMANN, KOREA, ALEXANDER KOYRE, LANGUAGE ANALYSIS (ORDINARY), LANGUAGE AFTER HUSSERL, LANGUAGE IN HUSSERL, LAW, EMMANUEL LEVINAS, LIFEWORLD, LITERATURE, LOGIC, LOGICAL EMPIRICISM, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, GABRIEL MARCEL, MARXISM, MATHEMATICS, MEANING, MEDICINE, MEMORY, MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, MUSIC, NATURAL SCIENCE IN CONSTITUTIVE PERSPECTIVE, NATURAL SCIENCE IN HERMENEUTICAL PERSPECTIVE, NATURALISM, THE NETHERLANDS AND FLANDERS, KITARO NISHIDA, NOEMA, NURSING, OBJECTIVISM, ONTOLOGY (FORMAL AND MATERIAL), ONTOLOGY (FUNDAMENTAL), ORDINARY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS, JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET, PERCEPTION AFTER HUSSERL, PERCEPTION IN HUSSERL, PHENOMENOLOGY, PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY (ANALYTIC), PHILOSOPHY (MODERN), PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION, PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL), PHYSICAL EDUCATION, POLAND, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, PORTUGAL, POSITIVISM, POSSIBLE WORLDS, POST-MODERNISM, PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHOLOGISM, PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY (GESTALT), PSYCHOLOGY (PHILOSOPHY OF), READING, REALISTIC PHENOMENOLOGY, REASON, REDUCTION, REGIONAL ONTOLOGY, RELATIVISM, RELIGION, RE-PRESENTATION, PAUL RICOEUR, RUSSIA, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, SCANDINAVIA, MAXSCHELER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING, ALFRED SCHUTZ, SCIENCE (NATURAL), SCIENCE (POLITICAL), SCIENCES (HUMAN), GEORG SIMMEL, SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY, SOCIOLOGY IN GERMANY, SOCIOLOGY IN JAPAN, SOCIOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES, SOMATICS, SOUTH AFRICA, SPACE, SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA, EDITH STEIN, STRUCTURALISM, TECHNOLOGY, THEATER, TIME, TRAN DUC THAO, TRUTH, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, VALUE THEORY, MAX WEBER, LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, WORLD, WORLDS (POSSIBLE), YUGOSLAVIA, INDEX.

The articles are of varying style but consistently excellent quality. I have used the encyclopedia in my own research and found its offerings invaluable. I highly recommend it.

This encyclopedia is an example of superb institutional and academic collaboration. Clear writing and well written entries contributes to this works excellence. The work offers important grounding and essential orientation to phenomenology as it has advanced in its first century of development. It is essential to all academic libraries and research institutions. In many ways this reviewer would hope that a more modestly priced edition may be forthcoming as this work would be a valuable work of reference to many students of the discipline.

Jean Plaidy never disappoints when she weaves her magic into the stories of long ago. Epitaph For Three Women is another of her fine works of art.

Katherine of Valois, married to Henry V, is a new widow with a the young Henry VI to bring to the throne. While she lives contented she soon finds love with a Welsh squire by the name of Owen Tudor. She and Owen have such a pure love and they wed in secret, just before a law passes stating that no woman of nobility can marry below her rank. And Katherine is with child. Her dreams of happiness have finally come true, until her secret is finally out...

Joan of Arc...Wow! What a human being! She had such devotion to God that He gives her a task: to save France from the English. And Joan (or Jeanette in her native French) does so with great strife and struggle. She was visited by St. Catherine, St. Margaret and the Archangel Michael who gave her strength in her times of utter despair. And even when the French King turned his back on her (after she led the French army in a battle to have him crowned in Rheims) she was still devoted to him in every way. She was soon captured by the English and burned at the stake as a witch. But they clearly burned a saint. All this before she even reached 20!

Eleanor of Gloucester was just a peasant girl who had high ambitions. The Duke of Gloucester fell under her 'love spell.' Eleanor was a great believer in witchcraft and with the help of a certain 'witch' she was soon married to the most powerful man in England, aside from the King. Unfortunately, her ambitions would in the end bring on her demise as well as others around her. She never would bear the child she so longed for and her hopes of doing away with the young King would amount to nothing.

Epitaph For Three Women is an exceptional piece of work. Jean Plaidy was a master at bringing the early 15th century to life and once again, I was swept away!

This had to be the saddest so far of the Plantagenet Saga - even all the earlier story were sad nothing is as sad as Joan of Arc and Katharine of Valois. I did not know that the English was responsible for the death of Joan of Arc. She was surely a remarkable young woman and very important to the French people trying to win the war. Her life and death galvanized the French people. They couldn't lose after her saintly death. Shame on the English!

The second woman was Katharine of Valois who was the widow of Henry the 5th. When Henry died his son Henry (VI) was only nine months old. Katharine was happy being able to take care of the baby King but of course one day as it is with all boy Kings they must go and be trained by men. It made Katharine sad but she had a good friend, the Squire Owen Tudor, who helped her get through it. Of course they fall deeply in love and get secretly married. They are left alone happy for a long time, long enough for them to have 4 children. When it was found out that Owen and Katharine were married, Owen was arrested and the children were taken away and Katharine was sent to a convent, supposedly for her health. She is so broken hearted that she eventually dies the same day that Owen breaks out of prison to come and get her.

I cried for both women, it was so tragic.

Now, the just desserts. The third woman was Eleanor of Gloucester who was married to Henry VI's uncle. He was second to the throne should Henry die without a heir. Eleanor was doing everything in her power to make sure that that was going to happen even going so far as seeking help from a witch and soothsayers. The witch and soothsayers eventually are arrested and the authorities find evidence that someone had hired them to help get rid of the King. It finally comes out that it is Eleanor of Gloucester - thus begins her downfall. All the accompliances are sentenced to death but because Eleanor is "royalty" she is sent away to a castle imprisoned for the rest of her life. Terrible for her because she lived for the intrigue and the Court. Hence, just desserts.

This book was great, it can stand by itself but is better understood as part of the series.

This book is an invitation to live life to its fullest, full of love toward Gods creation! This book is a an exploration of love without dogma, of love full of eros thought. This book invites you to appreciate Gods creation in you and humanity. Come and enjoy it!

"The Erotic Word" by David Carr is an insightful and scholarly book which every student of the Bible should have in his library. It is so well written that even I, a layman, found it captivating and an easy read. Don't miss it!

Ellie Emrich
San Diego

This is one of the best in menage books I've read. It also has plenty of one on one action, too. I thought the story was excellent, too. I can't wait to read the author's other book, either! All in all, an excellent erotic read!

This is one of the HOTTEST books I've read in a long time. It not only has hot sex scenes, it's got a good plot and characters, too. There aren't many books out there that make the male/female/male threesome hot--in fact, some of them are gross, but this one does. It's very sexy and very easy to read. Most definitely recommended.

I found this book, of all places, at Oscar's. If you live around Northport you know that Oscar's is the local barber shop run by Richie who has been around for years and years as long as I can remember.

It was buried beneath his assortment of browsing material -- Popular Mechanics, Time, sailing mags, and the like.

I picked it up on a busy Saturday afternoon (Richie is always busy Saturday afternoon), and I read it cover to cover.

I was fascinated by the rich history of Asharoken and surrounding areas. It detailed the indian tribes, houses, families, industries and a lot of the day to day happenings of government throughout this century and the past couple.

It talked about landmarks, fishing (always important for us), people and major events. Blizzards, mayors, land development...all divulged with pictures and details I had never seen before. As a resident of this area all my life, I found it to be revealing and surprising since I had yet to read a treatise on the very areas I lived and grew up in.

For outsiders, it may appear sedentary. Historians will want it. Any local resident in the Huntington or Eaton's Neck/Asharoken area should read it, keep it, treasure it and learn from it, as I did, that Saturday afternoon at Oscars.

As a resident of Asharoken, I find "Faded Laurels" to be an excellent source for information on the history and geography of Asharoken and Eaton's Neck.

For those who are unfamiliar with Asharoken, it is an isthmus (a narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land) located on the North Shore of Long Island that connects Eaton's Neck with the mainland. Asharoken is about three miles long and only a few hundered feet wide. Beacuse the Long Island Sound borders the northern and eastern sides, and the waves of Northport Bay lap against the other side, Asharoken is a beautiful community in which both bodies of water are visible from most houses. All houses are located right on the beach.

"Faded Laurels" is both the best available resource about Asharoken and Eaton's Neck and an entertaining read. It contains many maps, illustrations, and photographs, as well as detailed information on topics ranging from storms and shipwrecks to famous residents (these include Jackie Gleason and Theodore Roosevelt). Although the target audience are residents of the area and tourists, "Faded Laurels" is an excellent account of the history of Asharoken and Eaton's Neck that anyone can appreciate.

I love this book. I just got it down from the top shelf of one of my many bookcases and blew the dust off. I bought it used when I was in my early teens. I loved looking at those old pictures, and drinking in the dramatic, black and white, bygone beauty.

Like the first reviewer, I've loved this book for years. You can faithfully read fashion magazine for years and not learn what is in this book. Study it carefully and see what a subtle change here and there makes. It's really fun.

A fully illustrated reference book for companion planting like no other. Has pros and cons of companion planting, what works and what doesn't with detailed IPM procedures and how to use them. Used mine so much its falling apart, wished they did a reprint of this great old classic.

I had to drive 45 minutes just to get a glance at this wonderful book. Ms. Carr has done a beautiful job of reviewing what meager evidence there is on companion plants and their effectiveness. There are some helpful drawings and an "encyclopedia" section for quick reference. Truly well done, and, unfortunately, currently unavailable everywhere I've looked!