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I know this poet personally and feel I must tell all that he is a true example of what a Christian should be. It is an honor to know him and the book is a true joy to read. God Bless!

These story/poems in rhyme are a true inspritation to all who take the opportunity to read them. His insight is a gift from God. I loved the book.

As a parent in today's fast paced world, we are often in a big hurry.Rushing around to get the kids off to school or to daycare so we can get to work or do damage control on the house from the previous evening's madness.Sometimes the kids suffer, we feel guilty, so we go out and do something or buy something to make us feel better about not spending enough time with our kids. Well, that's what happened to us. My 6 year old came home from school after seeing a live performance by Mr. Peoples that the P.T.A. sponsered. Needless to say, she had a flyer that talked about Mr.Peoples and the book, Poetry with a Porpoise. Oh, instuctions on how to purchase the book were also included. Imagine that! Catching me at one of those guilty moments, it didn't take much for my daughter to get me to pull out my wallet. As it turns out, buying this book and C.D. has been a true source of enjoyment not just for my daughter, but for the whole family. We were all quacking and waddling around the living room feeling kind of "SILLY", but having a blast laughing at each other. This book is fun, it's educational, it teaches the kids in many ways. My daughter has colored in most of the pictures, which has improved those skills and my wife did a few too! I think it improved her skills as well! At any rate,The next time your feeling a little guilty, for less than a trip to McDonald's for Happy Meals, BUY THIS BOOK and C.D.. The whole family will benefit.Thank You Rick and Susan!

Thanks to Rick & Sue Peoples for a marvelously entertaining book! My 2 boys (5 & 7) love hearing the poems. The 7 year old is learning to read & spends hours reading "Poetry With a Porpoise". The poems make them think & make them laugh. The tape of songs & readings is a constant companion in the family van. My only warning - DON'T play your kids "The Silly" song just before they go to bed! You will hear laughing, clapping, barking, quacking & other assorted noises coming from their room for quite a while!

I bought this book for my husband who is a Police K-9 Officer to read aloud at a school event for grade schoolers. It is a really cute story that stresses the ideas of working together with your friends, and reaching for your dreams. Both my kids love this book.

If you want a great read aloud book, this is the one. Very entertaining with great drawings. I have already read it aloud 5 times to my daughter and we've only had it one week!!

That is encouraging as well as rubuking. Life is life but we don't have to let it get us down. The chapters in this book will show you how to keep your head above that sinking line when things get tough.

I think this book goes through a lot of good points for women. It target depression, middle age issues and conflicts with friends and family and much much more. The nice thing about this book is it puts everything in a Christian perspective and relates everything back to God where it should be. I have enjoyed this book since the moment I picked it up. There are a lot of different ways that things are explained in this book and it does such a nice job of placeing those things in your life for you to understand. This is a wonderful book!
I give it two thumbs up!

Once I picked up book one in the airport I could not wait for book 2 and then 3 and then 4, and now 5... quite simply, you will not be able to put this book down once you start. For a religious theme, it does not come off as preachy and really makes you think how you would react in the same situation. Although some of the characters names are quite cheesy and there is a large gap in time between release of the next book, I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

I have read the entire series and am not a Christian fanatic or anything like that but this is great! I am totally consumed by the characters and the correlation to Revelations the author has produced. I keep wondering what will happen next, between the skies burning and the winds moaning, I cannot put these down once I start. If you have ever wondered what might happen based on the teachings of the Book of Revelations, these are must read fiction. The inter-twining of the characters makes the series encompass all types of people and how they would react if they thought the world was coming to an end. Absolutely the best series I have read in 35 years. I can't wait for Book 5!

Perdita James enjoys her job but she's miffed that she's expected to attend a leadership development course but the new boss hasn't even bothered to show up. To make matters worse, she's spent hours filling out a questionnaire expecting to be labeled a warm, friendly, expressive dolphin. Instead she's labeled as an attention-seeking peacock. There's just no way that could be right, is there?

While the `dolphins' are off socializing, Perdita's left to wonder where she went wrong in her questionnaire answers. Fortunately she's joined by another non-dolphin. Ed is a panther - forceful, decisive, and ruthless. They commiserate their fates together and Perdita divulges her opinion of the new boss and his absence from the course - which he forced her to attend. Imagine her humiliation when she discovers the man she's talking with is the very same man she just insulted.

Edward Merrick is a very busy man. Having raised three children on his own since his wife's death five years ago, he's opted to move from London to Ellsborough to give them all a fresh start. Something about Perdita's take charge attitude calls to him and he's quickly enamored of her and also realizes she has a lot of personal issues going on in her own life - namely her mother - whose health is failing. Ed and Perdita have their squabbles and she's angry with him quite often. Underneath it all there is an attraction that she's trying hard to fight. Perdita does not have romantic relationships with men who have children. She's been there, done that, and has the battle scars. Now forty years old, she's content with her life and doesn't want to change anything, well except for her mother's health problems, so why can't she convince herself or Ed that she doesn't need or want him in her life?

Jessica Hart is sure to win over readers with her newest release PROMOTED: TO WIFE AND MOTHER. I alternated between laughter and tears and loved getting to know Perdita and Ed. They're both strong individuals dealing with difficult situations alone. Their working relationship is downright funny since he's determined to `humanize' her and she's dead set on maintaining her `I tell my staff what to do and they do it' attitude. As anyone who's ever dealt with raising children alone or a sickly parent can tell you just keeping your wits about you is challenging at best in most situations but throw in a possible romance and things are bound to get downright interesting.

Jessica Hart has proven herself to be a talented author with her previous releases but I do believe this book has that extra something special that will touch readers' hearts and leave you feeling good about life in general.

Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)

Heart-moving and insightful, Jessica Hart's PROMOTED: TO WIFE AND MOTHER is a short romance with a big story for modern women readers. This romance features a professional heroine faced with being a caretaker for an aging parent with too little time for the niceties of picture perfect romance, but a woman who might just find love nevertheless.

Perdita James is stuck at one of those inane corporate management workshops. Dressed to the hilt and a bright, intelligent, professional woman, Perdita stands out from the crowd. The workshop labels her as a peacock, and indeed she is a vixen, a leader and a magnet whom no eye can resist. Try as she might to be a dolphin, a likable team player, she cannot hide her magnet professional and personal qualities. When she spots a latecomer to the event, irresponsible but ever so sexy, like a sleek panther, she can't help but open her mouth...and put her foot not far behind. Labeled a panther by the management test, Edward watches and plans. Forceful and innovative, he knows how to revitalize businesses but when it comes to love and family, can he perform a miracle? Widowed with three children and businesses to run, does Edward have time for romance? Labeled a panther, does Edward have the patience needed to capture Perdita's heart?

Forget the silly title of this book, and forget the blurb too. Neither tells anyone the awesome story of love inside the pages of this short romance. Away from the office, family preoccupy their time. Perdita cares for her aging mom and her boss Edward Merrick is a widower with three children. How can these two achieving professionals find love with others depending so much on them? Jessica Hart's PROMOTED: TO WIFE AND MOTHER is a rich story of learning that the message of true love is not some perfect scenario but a life lived with love amongst all the demands of life. As in previous romances, Jessica Hart once again demonstrates her gift for dialogue. The reader feels the hero and heroine getting to know each other, feels love evolving and growing. The unfolding dialogue builds an assurance that this hero and heroine, because they know each other and share, will have an happy ending long after the last page.

Although the title is accurate in keying a potential buyer into the themes of work and family that are inside this book, it gives no clue as to the reading treasure to be found inside. Quite simply, Jessica Hart's romance is a gem! The title word "Promoted" seems to place family above intelligence and career, creating a dichotomy and hierarchy in the roles women have. This is exactly what this book does not do. Indeed, Jessica Hart's romance opens the door, not closing it in a stay-at-home mom versus working mom or either/or choices but about a woman living and loving and respecting herself and her values --- all of them. It's not feminist or non-feminist but about women being full women in the midst of their lives, at all stages of their lives and also having romance. Hats off to Jessica Hart and Harlequin for bringing romance to those women who are caretakers for their parents, something that is happening to more and more women nowadays. Jessica Hart's PROMOTED: TO WIFE AND MOTHER is awesome! A keeper on my shelves and a book I would never lend out for fear of never getting it back.

I was only a girl when I read it. And I have searched many years for this wonderful book, So I could read it again. I never was able to find it. Good Luck....

"The Girl in White Armor" is the abridged version of Paine's much larger two volume work "Joan of Arc-Maid of France". While lacking some of the detail of the larger work (among other things a complete translation of the trial) it is still a very well written and well researched book about one of the greatest(perhaps THE greatest) individuals to ever live. ....................................... Although between the two the larger work is the better choice, I highly recommend "The Girl in White Armor" to anyone, especially younger readers, who want to learn more about Joan of Arc. I consider myself fortunate to have both of the above named works by this author, who spent several years in France doing research and tracing the footsteps of the Maid. He brings understanding, compassion, honesty and love to the story of Joan of Arc.

I am a 4th grade teacher in Texas. I ordered this book through a book order club as a guided reading set. Although 5th grade covers the Civil War in more detail, we do touch on it in 4th grade. As a supplement, I had some of my kids read in literacy cirlce groups. I must mention that my first group consisted of boys - they were apprehensive reading about a girl! As we read together, many questions were raised about the war and women in the war. This book truely engaged the students and created self generated questions, so that they had a personal reason to delve further on their own and then to report back to the group. I have since recommnded this book to numerous teachers, and we have now contacted one of the authors to come speak at our school!

What a delightful, educational and entertaining read! As a hardcore non-fiction reading I am disinclined to pick up anything that smacks of fiction and the preamble of 'novel' will generally turn me off. But this little historical novel about Nancy Hart, a heroine of Mountain State Confederates, retells a story that may otherwise have been shuffled off into mythological obscurity. I am hardly a 'targeted reader' of Rebel Hart but I was completely absorbed in the story which, for rare occassion, honored the spirit, bravery and dedication of this young woman of history and her die-hard comrades during the War for Southern Independence. Thank you Jacqueline Shields and Edith Hemingway from a native of Nancy Hart's ole stompin' grounds.

This book makes you rethink any ideas you might have about Regionalism. Whether you agree with James Dennis or not is up to you, but he certainly does bring up some very interesting ideas. The basic ideas of the Regionalism school are initially laid out for the reader, and from this beginning it is already possible to see the weak foundation of the very definition of "Regionalism," as it was defined NOT by the artists, but by their critics and the public. The sterotyping generalities inherent in this 'school' set the stage for Dennis' questioning of the similarities of the work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steurat Curry, the triumvirate of Regionalism. The author proceeds to explicate the inherent differences between the 3 artists' work, as well as the eventually obvious flawed general definition of "Regionalism." Dennis breaks down his discussions into realism vs. abstraction, realistic subject matter vs. fantasies, the ideas of nationalism and fascism in the artists' work, their varying depictions of women, and finally compares the three Regionalists to three contemporary modernists, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Marsden Hartley. Dennis concludes with the assertion that the so-called "Regionalists" are in many ways more "modern" than their modernists contemporaries. The book has plenty of pictures, sadly only in black and white, and thus the book is a surprisingly quick read. Each chapter is thorough however, and must be studied to be fully understood. The reader should have some art historical background, and some knowledge of the history of the first half of the 20th century. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Regionalism, and the history of American art. Makes you think.

Finally. A well thought out and well executed book about a major movement in American art that is often dismissed as being one dimensional. Dennis' introspective look into the most revered "Regionalist" artists not only offers engaging scholarship, but a very good education in American social history as well. A must read for anyone who thinks they know what "Regionalism" is.

I've always been a reluctant reader and would prefer to play outside over reading any day. However, my school had a book fair and this book looked good. I took a chance on it and stayed up until 12:30 in the morning finishing it in one sitting. I could not put it down. I slowed down my reading as I came to the end because I didn't want it to end. I've never experienced this phenomenon of picking up a book that I could not pull myself away from until I finished it. I've heard about that happening but always doubted it. After all, it's reading- how interesting could it be. I chose to stay inside on a sunny day, with all my friends within earshot, playing just outside my window. I chose to stay inside and read. This is the book that I will always remember when I'm older as the one that turned me onto reading.

My 8 year old son loved this book! Written at a third grade reading level, this book contains an exciting drama and real-world police procedures. I hope that more books like this, and CHASE, are written soon!