Clark Books

i think that if i go to chicago, i will be able to stop in at mela's market, chat with sabina & her family, have a memorable lunch and leave totally gratified; the book is that real. just how clark made these characters come to life is remarkable; from start to finish, i couldn't put down this book and must admit i was totally caught off guard by the twist of fate that ultimately linked sabina, ted & vito. and how she dealt with it in the story was truly touching (don't want to give too much away).

in my opinion this book is a better read than its comparison, "my big fat greek wedding" and would make an even better movie. i used to be married to a big fat italian family (yes, you marry the entire family) who also owned a restaurant; clark captured every little nuance of the daily lives of the people and their culture in a way that is breathtakingly real. plus the way she brought the recipes into the storyline was truly unique.

whether you're a foodie or not, this book won't disappoint; it's a captivating read from start to finish.

"Between Courses" is a story that opens its door and welcomes you into a family with whom you feel completley at home. Eccentric characters with loving hearts, doing their best and often failing as we all do; and a love story that is not at all typical, which makes it all the more believable. I found I was rationing the pages towards the end - I didn't want to have to put it down and walk out the door forever. Much more depth than "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and every bit as deserving of praise.

I loved this book. It reminded me of the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"...only it was an Italian family. It was funny, sad, happy and exiting. Truly a great love story. Also, if you like to cook, there are great Italian recipes (family secrets) in this book. Several friends of mine have read the book and loved it too.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel. It portrays a loving Italian-American family through the eyes of an `old maid' who never married and still lives with Mom & Pop above their Mom & Pop store. If you are of Italian heritage (or wish you were) and love to cook or eat (and what Italian doesn't), you will appreciate the many lessons offered in the art of Italian cuisine and the language of romance. But between all the lessons, you will find a unique love story that you find you can't put down until the last page.

I used to read this to my fifteen year old when she was little,she remembered it still, so I ordered it to read to my three year old.I had forgotten how well it was illustrated, and how kid friendly it was.I defenitely will NOT mind ready this one over and over again,,,,,again!Great book,cute storyline, and wonderful illustrations are sure to make this a favotite of your children too.

Sarah's old boots make a special sound and the fit just right. But then one day they have shrunk and no amount of stretching by filling them with rocks and other means will ever make them fit her again. When they go to the store to buy a new pair of boots the only ones they have are yellow with a fire engine red stripe and Sarah will never like them! They are taken home. She gives her favorite boots to her brother and he loves them because they fit him perfectly. After it's rained again Sarah's family pulls on their boots. And when they play in the puddles Sarah's new boots make a different sound, but she doesn't mind after a while because they are just as much fun as the old ones and now she is enjoying the puddles with her brother.

The Pictures are well done because they cause you to be drawn into the story and feel exactly how Sarah felt thru the detailed expressions on her face and the characters used to compliment her.

Opinion: Most well done childrens books (at least in my experience) become memories when children grow up, thru the illustrator's pictures, if they're done well. And then the story is remembered thru that art not usually the other way around, in ages about 1-8 or so, then as they start to get into books that are more grown up they create their own pictures thru imagination so illustrations aren't as important in older childrens books.

This book is very helpfull in helping children come to grips with having to give there favorite shoes away because they are too small. It helps them to see the advantages to growing older and getting new things.

My son received this book for Christmas, and we both loved it. The story line is really cute, and the pictures in it are great! I'd recommend this book to anyone with small kids.

My mother, Kristin Clark Taylor, is a wonderful and amazing woman. She has conquered many obstacles throughout her windy path of life, and she has the amazing ability to give birth to this amazing book. My mother writes this book so eloquently, is brings tears to my own eyes, just hoping to be just as an amazing mother as her mother was to her, and she is to me. This book is trully inspirational.

I can't say enough about Black mothers. I especially liked the pictures that the author included of black mothers and their kids from way back. There is scriptures included, and all so personal accounts from different people about their mother. The last chapter had me crying because it was dealing with people that had lost their mothers. A great book to have in your collection

The reviews of this book have been deservedly and enthusiastically positive. It's a wonderful and useful book in all ways. There is a wide range of sources and source materials, and evocative illustrations. The one additional thing that I wished for is an index, especially of the men and women quoted. In a sense this book really is to a large extent a collection of quotations, and an index would be appropriate.

All in all, a wonderful book.

Black Mother's: Songs of Praise & Celebration, is humorous and on point! It's humorous because IT IS ON POINT! (smile). I wasn't seeking the book out, I just happened upon it. It reminded me of things my mother said to me, or I've heard friends say their mothers said to them. And you know the old cliche "you'll never hear me say that to my kids"; well you do find yourself saying it to young people and you think two things - one, "I feel so old"; two, "I've turned into my mother - how'd that happen?"(ha-ha) Great book! Congrats to Kristin Clark Taylor. It was my first time encountering her work.

What sets this story apart from other fictionalized accounts of the Lewis & Clark Expedition is its unique perspective. Written from the point of view of a young member of the Corps of Discovery, Bold Journey is an insightful and absorbing narrative of the famed Mississippi-to-Pacific expedition as experienced by the men who lived it. As young Hugh chronicles the adventures, the hardships, and the occasional boredom of this monumental journey, he offers vivid glimpses into the personalities of Lewis and Clark. He also begins to grow in his understanding of people who are different from himself. Our family enjoyed reading this story aloud together.

This is a book that I have been reading to my children ages 5 and 7, and they LOVE it...and I love it too. The language is colorful and complex, the characters are memorable and texture of events or lack of events feel very real. I am hoping to find more historical fiction about Indian history, Lewis and Clark and early settlers. This sure beats reading children's books at bed time...and I am learning alot too. For example I didn't realize that whiskey was a staple in the army, or that it was 50 below by the Missouri in the winter time, and yet the Mandan Indians would play ball barely clothed with no apparant discomfort. The reader begins to get a feeling for what a ten days journey really is, even if it is a "small" hunting trip. Societal order, fitting in, bullying, choices and personal conduct are all explored by the first person in this story Hugh McNeal.

This book is a very intresting book.It talks about the north-west passage. the explorers are Lewis and Clark are tring to find the north-west passage. This expodition starts in the north-east were the American and Canadian border is. They wanted to find the passage, instead of going around or above north America. Every night they keep jurnals of what they find.Everyday they try to find new routs to find the passage.Up and down they go what did they find who knows? Will they ever find the passage?What problems will they run into? I really enjoyed this book!!!!!!!!

My book is called Bold Journey.
A novel by Charles Bohner. Some of the main characters are Jack, Hugh McNeal, sir Lewis , captain Clark, captain Bissell, and Charley.
The setting took place from the Ohio River to the Pacific Ocean. There was not really a problem until they ran into Indians. There was a big fight. During the fight Jack and Hugh ran into Charley while powdering up their muskets. They introduced each other to him. After they fled one of the Keelboats sunk. After they found the other Keelboat they also saw the Pacific Ocean a month later. Once they made it the ship mates jumped up and down as if they were drunk. What Charles Bohner is saying is never give up even if your goal seems imposable. If you like adventure I recommend this book because of when they looked for the other kealboat

"When you find yourself mired in regret about a choice you've made, remember this little slogan from Dottie Gandy's and Marsha Clark's book Choose!, 'There is no such thing as a bad choice; there is only a next choice.' You might even want to make a card with this saying and post it somewhere you can see it often." (reminder from M.J. Ryan, author of The Happiness Makeover)
This idea helps us to move on and not agonize and get bogged down when a certain decision turns out badly. Realizing that we make the best choice based on our knowledge at that time, and now we have choices on how to correct the situation and move forward.

This book drives home the importance of choice in women's lives. Too often women don't step up and make choices for themselves and this book addresses that.
Making no choice is choosing not to make a choice at all!

This book describes the lives of women from a variety of careers, choices, and ages. I could relate to many of the things that were written as I've lived my own life and faced difficult choices. The book helped me to focus on what's really important in making choices that allow me to be true to ME.

This book is small but powerful in discussing the role choice plays in the lives of women. Enveloped in a simple novel type format are 5 simple truths about choice. My favorite is the reminder that there is always a next choice. The book takes less than an hour to read and is perfect for women as they graduate from college, are beginning their lives as mothers, are at the age of retirement or at any other phase of their life. I'm purchasing several copies as gifts for special women in my life.

My son needed the book for college. The book got to our home in time for him to take back with him after Christmas break. Very quick!! Thanks alot!

This is not really a commentary on Revelation. It's a series of essays on a number of topics in the book. For example he takes the "silence" in heaven or the lamb/lion/dragon imagery and examines them in light of contemporary Jewish apocalyptic books like 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, and also Enoch. The orientation is fairly conservative and the outlook is NOT premillenial. Some Greek, Latin, and Hebrew is included. This book is probably most geared for the experienced reader. Very good overall.

This book is for the serious reader and researcher of the Book of Revelation. Bauckham has not only great exegetical skill, but has a great knowledge of history. This book is a series of essays that can be read independently of one another. Some essays are better than others, but the overall book is definately worth reading. Bauckham does not take a dispensational approach, but he is not clearly a preterist either. He appreciates the historical setting of John's day, but does not believe that the message of Revelation stays only in John's day, but is characteristic of how God acts in history and in the future. I like this book, but I liked his "The Theology of the Book of Revelation" better because it is in a more reader friendly style. If you are going to purchase this book it would help to know Greek, because he uses it extensively.
This essays or topics he covers best in the book are his explanation of the 144,000, Nero and the number 666, the positive view of God's plan in his chapter entitled "the coversion of the nations" and how he sees the worship of Jesus as aprimary focus in Revelation. One chapter has an excellent presentation about how the book of Revelation should be outlined. Bauckham offers great insight and I highly recommend this book.

This is not a traditional commentary but a specialized study on the book of Revelation. Apoocalyptic literature is difficult to understand but Dr. Bauckham allowws the reader to see the theology, literary qualities, and see the connection and rootedness in the Old Testament. Clarity is brought to much of the enigma of this book while engaging one's interest and imagination. If you are going to study, preach, or teach on the book of Revelation make sure you haveThe Climax of Prophecy close at hand. or preac

I would have to argue that Wright is closer than most to helping us understand this confusing issue. Wright's main thesis is that Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah, fulfilled what the Law could not do, thereby fulfilling and abolishing the Law in one fell swoop. Wright also argues that Paul's understanding of the Old Testament would have been covenental, and that the two important issues that shaped Paul's theology and belief system were monotheism and the corporate covenant. First, Wright argues that to Paul the title Christ would not carry with it the titular implications that Westerners associate with the name, but designated Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. Thus, Jesus was the Messiah and embodied and completed what national Israel could not. Paul's conversion allowed him to radically reinterpret all of the Old Testament passages that spoke of Israel's renewal and reconversion to God as passages that spoke of the death and resurrection and Christ. To Paul this was the defining moment in God's salvific plan when He accomplished through Christ, what the Law and national Israel could not.

Furthermore, Wright argues that the new community formed by the work of Christ and the agency of the Spirit, fulfills the obligation of the Law through Christ. This community is corporate and is centered in the Messiah King of the new community, and this King is none other than Jesus Himself. Wright argues that just as the ancient Israelites had an actual share in the stock of the king and were connected to him through tribal bond and ethnicity, so too do Christians belong to the Messiah through membership in the new community.

In the second half of the book Wright deals with the question of the place and function of the Law within this new community and what purpose it served if it could not in fact give life to those who adhered to it. First, Wright, like Paul, unequivocally argues that the Law is good, and is holy and just because it is sent from God and was sent for a particular purpose. The Law is not evil because it was not the Law which urges us to sin, but the forces of sin and death. The Law, in both Eden and Sinai, was exactly what sin and death needed to seize mankind and grant them the opportunity to sin. Therefore, the Law could not fulfill it's primary purpose which was to bestow life on those who possessed it and cherished it. Nevertheless, this was all part of God's plan since, as Wright argues, the Law was the measure which enabled God to concentrate sin in one place, namely the nation of Israel, and then deal decisively with the problem through the Messiah. Therefore, Christ fulfilled what the Law could not accomplish, but at the same time He abolished the Law since the Law no longer needed to strive to give life to those who sought it. That life had now been bestowed in Christ, and those in Christ through membership in His community, have fulfilled the obligations of the Law and the Law is no longer a burden.

Of particular interest was Wright's view of the Israel issue. Paul saw that the Jews clung to Law as the distinguishing marker that separated them from the rest of humanity and made them privy to God's blessings. Yet, all the Law could provide for the Jews was the promised curse of Deuteronomy, but the Jews did not understand this and believed the Torah was the one thing that allowed them to claim God's blessings. Paul argued that with the death and resurrection of Jesus the Law no longer provided the ethnic privilege to the Jews that it once had, since the promises made to Abraham had now been fulfilled and membership in the family of God was decided upon faith, and not works of the Torah. Finally, Wright's exegesis of Romans 11:26-27 is interesting and controversial to say the least, but very well argued for and convincing. I can't say enough about this book since the research, argumentation, and scholarhip are all top-notch.

The basis for this book is the statement by Paul in Romans that Jesus is the (telos - end or goal) of the law for those who believe. By sending the "True Israelite" God was able to deal with sin in Israel on the cross. The Jews had been assigned a task by God to be a light to the nations. Far from fulfilling this task, the Jews had become part of the problem. Based on Romans 5:20, Mr Wright contends, and I think rightfully so, that the purpose of Torah was to concentrate sin within the nation of Israel. Acting as Israel's true representative, sin was further concentrated in the flesh of Jesus on the cross and was there condemned. Contrary to common interpretation, Wright's explains that Romans 7 and 8 is Paul's explanation of why the law had been unable to bring Israel to salvation and what God had done to solve the problem. In Romans 7, Paul vindicates the law as well as the Jew under Torah and identifies the true culprit as being SIN in the flesh. While the law was good and intended to give life, SIN had actually made Torah it's "base of operations" using it in such a way to produce death in those who were under it's yoke. By virtue of our union with Christ and through the re-creative work of the Holy Spirit, the believer becomes one with Christ. SIN is thus condemned within the life of the believer. This is but a short summary of what I believe Wright's argument to be, and I find it compelling.

Modern readers tend to read themselves into the text and have struggled to understand whether the divided man in Romans 7 is a saved or unsaved man. It turns out that we are asking the wrong questions of the text. Paul was not making a statement regarding the anthropology of man but was explaning why the law had been unable to deal with sin within the Jewish nation. There is a lot more to the book and here I have offered only a short summary of key arguments within the book. There is an excellent section on the corporate nature of Paul's use of Christos language also. If your purpose is to grow spiritually by understanding Paul's view of Christ and the Law, I highly recommend this book and consider it to be a very wise investment. It is a scholarly work and is therefore, sometimes difficult to read. A background in some greek is helpful. If you stick with it, this book will reward you may times over with theological gemstones.

That's the gist of Wright's thesis, attempting to answer that question. How did Jesus fulfill the Law and why, elsewhere, does Paul seem to say the Law was abolished? How could Jesus abolish and fulfill the Law at the same time?

Wright's central argument hinges on the assumption that Paul understood and explained salvation in corporate and covenantal terms--i.e. God made a covenant with Israel not a bunch of individual Israelites. As such Wright finds that most Protestant theology from the time of Luther and Calvin reflects late Medieval scholastic concerns rather than 1st century Jewish thought. The problem is not that Protestant theology is bad as such but that its central theological concerns don't help us understand how Paul, a 1st century Jew, would explain himself to Christian converts from Judaism and paganism.

Wright argues that the covenant of the Torah predicted a need for covenant renewal and a return from exile (he assumes that the exile did not end because the Second Temple was rebuilt, which is a view that is controversial for some). Paul sees both these promises as being fulfilled in Jesus. Since the Mosaic law predicted its renewal and a redefinition of Israel as people on whose hearts God would write the Law, Wright argues that Paul sees Jesus and the Spirit as fulfilling these promises.

Wright's explanation of Paul's high view of the Law assumes that Paul was a Pharisee, a hardly debatable point. Wright also relies on this fact iPaul explains that the Law was not the problem, people were, because people did not have the Spirit. Wright's "already but not yet" explanation of Paul's eschatology is crucial to understanding his take on how Paul viewed Jesus and the Law. The purpose of the old covenant was fulfilled in Jesus but the age of the new covenant has not fully arrived.

Wright also assumes that Jesus completely redefined Israel around himself and his teaching. People who follow Christ are thus the new Israel. Some Christians hold that the covenant with Israel is still in full effect and that Christians have a separate covenant. Wright doesn't seem to hold that view and if you do you won't agree with him. If you don't buy Wright's premise that Israel was not back from exile you will disagree with a lot of what Wright says.

I found a lot of discussion about Paul and the Law to be so mired in talking about the legal metaphors they seemed to lose sight of the purpose to which those legal metaphors are used in Paul, talking about Israelite law and Jesus. Wright's discussion of Paul and the Law was helpful to me because he set aside the topics Protestants usually talk about and simply did exegesis of the texts. It's not the easiest read but it's a very helpful book.

This opens up the works-law, grace-law debate that the Lutherans and Calvanists have been having for centuries. It not only opens up the debate, but in fact changes everything. Wright sees Paul's thought process as being governed by election and monotheism. In this work he exegetes and explores some of the more difficult passages of the New Testament such as 1 Corinthians 15:20-57, Romans 5:12-21, Philippians 2:5-11, Philemon 6, Colosians 1:15-20, 1 Corinthians 8, Galatians 3:10-22, 2 Corithians 3:18, Romans 8:1-11 and Romans chapters 9-11. He deals carefully with these texts and draws heavily on the allusions and direct quotes of the Hebrew Scriptures found in these texts. Wright's conclusions are Christ/Messiah centered, precisely because, as Wright points out, Paul's theology centered on Jesus as Messiah. This work takes the Torah as positive that was circumvented by sin to bring a curse on the people of the solution (i.e. Israel) and turn them into the people of the problem. In the end Israel who was called to be light to the world and fix the problem of death instituted by Adam's sin, but instead Israel finds that they, like Adam, have fallen under the curse due to sin using the Law, which was good to bring about the curses of Deuteronomy. The Messiah takes on this curse and traps sin and the cross and defeats it in the resurrection. The Messiah is Israel's true representative and bears the curse for Israel, but the badge of getting into Israel is faith in Jesus and not possession or the keeping of the Torah. Wright works all of this out in the book and shows how sin is defeated and why the cross was necessary. He also demonstrates that the true Israel was Jesus and those who have put their faith in him. I highly recommend this work. Even if you have read all of Wright's other books, this one stands alone.

A friend turned me on to this book and I have to say it is one of the funniest and wittiest works I have ever read. If you ever went to college, you owe it to yourself to hunt down a copy. A classic!

Where's the chapter on "Caddyshack"? Frame-by-frame analysis of this comedic masterpiece reveals startling, poignant truths about the nature of competition, and what it means for a man to struggle in an increasingly hostile, ambivalent society. A stirring achievement, "Caddyshack" belongs in the American cinematic pantheon with the best of Chaplin, Keaton, Kubrick and Frankenheimer. Collegiate literary and artistic analysis starts with "Caddyshack." Ignore it at your peril.

I wish that when I went to college, I had a book like this. I bought this for my nephew and he says it's not only hilarious, but darn useful. Don't miss the chapter about road trips!

College is the doorway to perversion! Ewwww! Cafeteria food and gratuitous Pamela Lee posters! My children are headed for hell! And these people are no damn help! LAMB'S BLOOD! LAMB'S BLOOD! AND A WOLF SHALL BAY THE DEATH MARCH, O LET IT RAIN!

I was looking for information on the Missouri river in the Kansas City area and was not disappointed.

Having boated from the Beaverhead and Jefferson tributaries of the Missouri River and then all the way down past St. Louis in 2003 and 2004 at approximately the same time of year as David Miller did, I can verify that not only has David told it the way it was, his strategies for paddling the "Missou Lady" in the future, are as good as it gets.

When meeting in 2003, as the only guests at an out-of-the-way state campground in South Dakota, we exchanged notes and thoughts as considerate adventurers do.

In 2004, I knew through a mutual and now belated friend,that David was a week or so ahead of me, below the headwaters.We didn't meet, but later went over detail in a way that only two people sharing the same experience can do.

Of extreme importance to anyone considering a venture such as paddling the Missouri, are the threads in David's words of planning/scouting ahead, using local knowledge to revise/improve one's plan, and executing with discretion, a cool head, and a quick, sure hand.

His consistent emphasis on those things most important to a paddler is a crucial key for any would-be adventurer. I saw a great number of paddlers who would have benefited greatly from his sage advice and suffered the consequences of not having had it. The difference was that between a challenging, but enjoyable outing and a disaster.

The succinct and varied references to the Lewis and Clark expedition information data base will enrich the reader's experience greatly, if time is taken to skim them, at least, lightly before and then fully, during the trip.

Lastly, David's approach of safety considerations first and letting discretion, be the better part of valor, is right on target, since a lot of the time, only you are going to get yourself out of trouble when paddling the remote parts of the Missouri River.

Hat's off for a job well done, David.

Good Luck and Steady Winds,

Wayne A. Willkomm

I wrote the canoe guide to the Missouri after my trek down the river in 1999 and that book is still in print..BUT this one is better..if you only are buying one book get this one, not mine. It is a considerable improvement on my guidebook. If, however you actually intend to canoe the whole river, or a major part of it you might also want mine. Dave has done a great service to us all! Thanks Dave!

The Complete Paddler: A Guidebook for Paddling the Missouri River from the Headwaters to St. Louis, Missouri is a no-nonsense manual written for paddlers of all skill and experience levels with an interest in exploring the Missouri River. Chapters discuss necessary equipment, risks and hazards, shoreline descriptions, currents and prevailing winds, portages, river-mile marks, historical sites to be seen, and much more. The Complete Paddler also capitalizes on modern advancements by using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to give accurate "sailing directions". Author David Miller also recounts his personal anecdotes of his three-summer-long, solo kayak expedition. Enthusiastically recommended for kayakers with an interest in experiencing the great Missouri River for themselves.

It's not often that I rave about a cookbook or insist that my Mom and sister buy one too but this is one of those books you gotta have in your collection. The kind of book that will end up with food stuck to the pages that will soon be a bit tattered and bent from fingers flying through them in search of the next easy meal. The recipes are down to earth simple, require few ingredients and small time investments. But the BEST part of the book is that you're made to feel as if you got a sneak peak into the recipe box of two great chefs. And you do. But you don't feel like a dummy trying to cook their food. Cuz these two prove, less is more & simple is best.

Gail and John are two of the best chefs around, and I know this from personally experiencing their recipies, not only at Zuni, but in their own kitchen as well. My aunt and uncle have always made amazing meals and made it look like the easiest thing in the world to do. Now thanks to their book, other people can do it also. I highly recomend their book and I just hope that someday I will inherit some of their amazing cooking skills.

A collection of well thought out, quick and easy egg recipes from two of my long time favorite chefs. Outside of a couple of dishes calling for truffles or caviar almost all of the ingedients can be found at the local supermarket. There are some usefull cooking tips scattered about (one I liked was using a cheap plastic squeeze bottle to control olive oil while making mayonnaise) and even a fledgling cook shouldn't have any trouble following the directions. The recipes also lend themselves to substitution and improvisation if one desires. All and all, a well thought-out, concise, egg cookbook with enough content to keep egg lovers scrambling and poaching for a long time.

Over five dozen recipes for eggs are presented in book packed with winning egg uses, from make-head tomato 'nests' holding eggs to steamed eggs with vinegar and herbs. Country Egg, City Egg is for the egg fan who needs no visual embellishment: recipes are very easy to reproduce without them and provide a wealth of egg dishes not to be found in every cookbook.