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I found this story charming because the people seemed real-life with a situation in their marriage which was bound to elicit adventures and a chance to learn from the results. She, Jane, was bored with her husband's expectations of marriage; i.e.to have children and not be so high-powered career minded while he runs his posh restaurant. She leaves him and takes a trip to India with her staid, commonsense type sister in law. Of course Jane finds romance which does not translate well to the life she is committed to in London where she returns with Rajiv. Mean-while Patrick gets drawn into an affair with a beautiful, flighty restaurant reviewer-critic. He nearly drowns in debt with her extravagant spending and insistance on his starting an upbeat, highly popular type restaurant...love never fulfills his and Jane's expectations with these two exotic creatures and by a twist of fate they find their way back to each other; both now wanting the same kind of life. A genre of R. Pilcher easy read.

It's probably me, but it was a little slow moving in the beginning, but after a few chapters things started heating up.

This is a book about a Professional couple at a crossroads in their life and marriage. Patrick, the husband and Restauranteur, wants the country life with children running around. While Jane, his wife, and the protaganist, is a newly accepted Law Partner hoping to become one of England's top Lawyers, and doesn't feel the clock ticking on the child thing. So therein lies the rub.

Jane upon turning 36 takes a trip to India to sort out her life, finds a lover, and does some soul searching. While Patrick stays behind and finds a lover of his own. The rest is up to you to find out!

This book was written in England and I found the British slang to be quite an enjoyable change of pace.

My Grandmother, and Mother both told me, "If you can't say anything nice about someone, you shouldn't say anything at all"; Senator Robert C. Byrd would have been wise to follow such sage advice in his latest book. His book is full of critisism of President George W. Bush. He should have warned the readers of his book in the title that it was actually an attack of our president. Don't get me wrong, a little blame properly placed is never a bad thing, but he spends more time name calling, then offering solutions, and wise advise.

I honestly tired of reading his attacks, throughout the book, and I'm a registered Democrat and I live on Byrd Lane in Clarksburg, WV. This kind of literature should have come with a money back offer if not completely satisfied.

I was reminded I wanted to buy this book when I read a review accusing Robert Byrd of focusing on tearing down George W. Bush and "name-calling." This did not sound like the Robert Byrd I've been watching defend our blessed U.S. Constitution for almost my entire adult life, but I wanted to see for myself.

Beyond cautions to the new president, whether Republican or Democrat, about what "he or she" will inherit from George W. Bush, I found this book to be a very balanced, long-sighted view of the history of this nation and the principles on which it was founded. Stating the truth of where we now stand is not "name-calling"; the reality is that the Bush/Cheney administration and its enablers have very seriously undermined and damaged America and her Constitution. We the People, her lifeblood, have become so perilously anemic and "unmoored" from history and reality that the U.S. citizenry is hardly capable of the kind of debate and reflection required for self-governance. And yet we have little trust in our leaders.

Senator Byrd lays out a number of important approaches the new president must take to restore the confidence of the American people in her leaders and--most importantly--themselves as citizens who, in the final analysis, must be informed enough to self-govern, as the Founding Fathers intended.

Here are the steps Byrd urges our new president will take:

1. Bring back the fireside chat.
2. Teach the people about the Constitution.
3. No life stands outside history.
4. A big lie is still a lie; tell the truth.
5. Build your presidency around accountability.
6. Let the press do its job, even when that might sting.
7. We can do better than photo-op diplomacy.
8. A new approach to the rest of the world: influence.
9. Less partisan warfare, more real debate.
10. Don't forget the basics: Have the patience to reflect.

Each section includes the rationale for why that approach is critical to this nation's survival. The book is full of the thoughts and actions of presidents and other leaders during our long history--the good, the bad, and the ugly. Throughout, Senator Byrd urges an awareness of the fact that history does repeat itself, and how.

Senator Byrd's mind is still sharp and his spirit still mighty, even if his body is inexorably declining. In his nineties, it was shocking to me to realize (as Byrd mentions in one of many interesting asides) that he actually served for four years in the Senate with PRESCOTT Bush, George W.'s grandfather. A telling tale that every Legislative Branch member ought to consider carefully follows:

"I was considered stubborn in some quarters and eccentric in others when I flew to the Soviet Union in 1979 to meet with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev in my role as Senate Majority Leader. I went to reinforce upon him the constitutional importance of giving the Senate ample time to thoughtfully review an important nuclear-arms treaty of the day, SALT II.... By the end we had reached an understanding. I drank a toast to him, and he toasted me, too. Brezhnev understood that he must respect the role of Congress and give us time for thorough consideration of the treaty."

If only George W. Bush had had the same respect for Congress (and they for each other and for the American people) instead of bums-rushing them into authorizing him to invade Iraq right before the 2002 mid-term elections! Many thousands of lives and many billions of taxpayers' dollars might have been far better spent.

Senator Byrd's perspective on history and governance is wide and deep, tempered by decades of struggling to stay true to his moral sense and calling as he has fought tirelessly to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Unlike many, he has demonstrated the capacity to take time to think, to change, to grow. I will always remember him pulling that little red copy of the U.S. Constitution out of his breast pocket on the Senate floor. I hope the next president will also carry one, not as a prop but as a reminder as Byrd does, ever-mindful of its import.

It must be for Senator Byrd--and for any American who is informed enough to understand the implications of the last eight years--terribly saddening to think he may not live long enough to see a new president rouse us all once again to fight for our country's heart and soul: our hard-won Constitution and rule of law; our honesty, integrity, humility, values, and transcendent ideals. His heart must be breaking a second time now.

I thank you for your service, Senator Byrd. May God be with you always.

This is a lovely story. Dan captures the essence of golf, the Irish, and a great yarn. I loved every minute of it.

Wryly observed, fast moving and well told, Loopy is a novel for anyone with a sense of humor. Binchy smacks the ball straight down the middle.

I won't go into a detailed synopsis of the plot; that is easy to find in another review on this site. What I will do is tell you that Dymmoch has, once again, written a book well worth reading. The plot is very good, believable, could happen to you or yours. The characters are strong; these are people I can see in my own life, whose actions I find convincing. This is more a novel of suspense than of mystery - is John Devlin a good guy or a bad guy? Are his intentions good or bad? One does know the answer by the end of the book, and yet not until the very end. If I have any beef at all with M.I.A., it's that the ending is too tidy and life isn't always that way. But once in a while, things do work out and so even that is a very minor beef...certainly not one that would keep me from recommending this book to those who want something more than a bit-o-fluff in their hands.

Only a few months have past since Rhiann's husband Mickey died and it is unsurprising that she still grieves her loss. Her sixteen year old son Jimmy by her first husband Billy wants to know more about his paternal grandparents the Wildings. Rhiann had nothing to do with them since they treated her with disdain. Jimmy finds some letters and decides to visit them.

Jimmy meets Beth and falls hard for the girl who is the same age as he is. They hide their relationship because her father would be furious. When he spends the weekend with Beth, Rhiann accepts this. Besides she has her own problems to confront including a police officer stalking her and a new neighbor John Devlin interested in her. Unknown to Rhiann, John has a secret agenda in which he hides his true identify from Rhiann as he knows the impact will prove devastating to her, Jimmy and Beth's dad.

Secrets that have been hidden for years surface with each character coping differently to the revelations. Interestingly, since the stalker is a cop his peers reject Rhiann's accusations. Rotating points of view enables the audience to know what motivates the prime players, but also somewhat slows down the pace of a suspense laden family drama filled with plausible surprising twists as one shocker after another is revealed.

Harriet Klausner

A great American Diarie book. Although at times it got a little boring, the book was exciting at times. I never really knew what the test were like when people came in to America but this book tells you. Nell is scared the Granny rose won't pass the tests. if she doesn't, then Nell will have to go back to Ireland and may never see her father. A good book.

Nell Dunne is scared. She and her mother, baby sister, older brother, and grandmother have endured the long journey from Ireland to the United States to be reuinted with her father after two long years. But before they can rejoin him, they will have to go through Ellis Island. Nell is worried that her grandmother, who is weak and forgetfull, will not pass the inspection. If Granny Rose fails the inspection, Nell will have to accompany her back to Ireland to care for her, and she will never see her father. This book was a detailed account of what a young girl coming to America might have encountered on Ellis Island in the early 1900s. I highly reccomend this excellant addition to the American Diaries series.

I picked this book up at a used bookstore and can't believe I've never heard of this author. I am published with the same parent company and have come across another fantastic horror book that had been allowed to 'go out of print' from the same company, so I shouldn't be surprised. But I am.

Where ever you are Daniel Rhodes, please come back and share more of your stories. You're a part of the cream of the crop. The horror genre is in deep need of you!

This is a great horror novel . No psychological bs here. It has Templar knights , ancient evil and enough chills to keep you awake to the early hours.

Mary Anne Kelly proves to be a gifted & talented writer that gives the reader a storyline that is so intriguing, it quickly draws you in and keeps your attention.

The story of Claire is compelling as we can all relate to the journey we each must take to discover ourselves and what it is we desire out of life. I got to know Claire in such a way that I feel like I want to get to know her better (which I will do by getting the previous novels Mary Anne has written).

Mary Anne takes us to wonderful and exciting countries with the ability to vividly describe the environment.

You must get this book, and all of her others!

I picked this up because I thought the title seemed interesting. I found myself in Borders reading page 32. I figured I should buy it. I came home, got the kids in bed, made myself a cup of tea and cuddled up with this book. I was up all night. I went on a great adventure living life through the main character Claire. She goes on a soul searching mission to India and I can tell you, she has quite the time meeting new men, having relationships and yes girls there is plenty of passion in these pages. I love the author's style of writing. I am now on amazon ordering a few of Mary Anne Kelly's mysteries. She is my new favorite author.

I bought this book on a recent trip to England, where it is available everywhere in paperback. For a good part of the book I was happy to be reading a well-written, enjoyable story (or two stories, as it seems), and it was only at about 2/3 of the way through that the hyperbole surrounding the book became obviously justified. When I was done, all I could think was "wow" and wish forlornly that there was still more to read. A truly wonderful little book, that deserves publication and mass distribution in the U.S.

Five stars are not enough! 'Random Acts of Heroic Love', is an incredible debut novel from Danny Scheinmann. A labour of love in itself; in his acknowledgements the author says it took six years and numerous drafts to get it right, but all that painstaking work has paid dividends. It's a wonderfully rich, insightful and wrenchingly emotional novel.

The story begins in 1992 with Leo, a young PhD student, waking up in an Ecuadorian clinic to find that his girlfriend Eleni is dead. Eleni. His soulmate. The other half of his whole. She's been killed in a bus crash they were in - the only victim of the crash. Leo's loss, and his attempt to go on living, picking up the pieces of his previous existence, without Eleni, is just one half of the book. Leo turns to Physics to try and find some answers and interspersed throughout the pages of the novel are facsimile pages from a journal Leo was keeping to help him get through Eleni's death... One of the quotes Leo finds is the one I used for the title of my review.

The other story, which picks up at chapter 3, is every bit as heart-wrenching. It is the story of another young man from Galicia, Moritz Daniecki, caught up in the war on the Russian Front as a soldier from 1914 through to 1917. In 1914 before the outbreak of war, young Moritz meets the love of his life, Lotte, and they declare their love for each other before Moritz goes to war. During the war he suffers unbearable conditions before finally escaping from a prisoner of war camp in Sibera. Moritz tells the story of how he is driven across the Siberian wilderness by his everlasting love for Lotte. It is her memory and the letters that he writes to her that keeps him going on his journey... not knowing what he will find at the end.

The two stories are truly beautiful. Both young men are kept going through each and every day by their memories of love, and the connection between the two is revealed at the end (if you haven't already guessed). Superbly written. The harshness of a Siberian winter and First World War horrors are vividly brough to life by Scheinmann. The book takes you on a non-stop emotional roller coaster and only those with cast-iron feelings will remain unmoved! An exceptional book.

Well written with in text refrencing to specific episodes that isn't too invasive. Contains a variety of well written academic essays.

I found this during the tailend of my research for a paper on seinfeld and pop culture, and i wish i had found it first. it brought together many of the articles and book chapters i had found before (although some were reedited for maximum seinfeld discussion)and a bunch that i couldn't find through my university library. it's a great read for anyone interested in the cultural aspects of the show. book also includes a "complete" glossary of seinfeld terms, a complete listing of the episodes with synopses, and many interesting chapters. i liked this study much better than "seinfeld and philosophy," which i thought less captivating. and because many of these articles come from published works (books, scholarly journals) they have been well written and edited. all in all it was the perfect buy for my research.

This is an excellent book and I'll recommend it to friends. If you've ever lost anyone to cancer it's a must read, and if you haven't, well it is as well. Great narratives, so "real" -will look into more works by this author.

At what I first thought was a fairly flimsy, not-so-interesting start of the story; what with the meeting, and work, and getting to know each other, I first found cindy and Jack to be boring people. Just another city couple, staying at each others apartment and so forth. Then, when the story delves an ocean's depth deeper into Cindy's character as being the intense, very deep-thinking cartographer she is, I pushed myself to connect with her. Jack was simply the good boyfriend catering to her best interests. At times I thought Cindy was being a little bit to self-centred, still Jack gave in to make her the queen she deserved to be to him. It's a perfect momentary self-satisfaction through reading thinking of the possibilities of a guy like Jack to be around in the real world. When Cindy fell sick, the whole tale went from deep to i'm-lost-in-the-Pacific intense. It carried on to the chapters where Cindy simply 'gave in' and lived through the beauty she created living with her terminal ailment, edging toward expiration. Jack was always by her side, bathed her, fed her, took her to the hospital and walks by the beach, crying with her, crying for her. Cindy was lost in a world of her own mind-authority, Jack was her neutralizer. She mapped her final life-period, Jack mopped her stains of ill. With all the deeds and powerful, to-cry-for love that kept popping up so many times during Cindy's sickness, readers can only make up the endings they'd want, but left broken when in the end stunned with the honest fact. We only read.