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Great book makes locating missing persons easy......we are a family again

Years of searching.......I found my sister lost from birth

Using commonly available resources, the author guides the reader to access information . . . that helps to find someone.

Lost track of your family . . . searching for an old friend . . . need to get in touch with someone who's moved . . . it's not only possible, it's EASY!

Try it for yourself!!

This was a quick read and I was hooked FAST! I even cried toward the end, but I won't say why. It was an emotional, page turner that really makes you stop and think. Loved it!

At the halfway point, this book just grabs you and won't let go! This is a "feel good" read and spans several generations, dealing with univeral truths. Highly recommended.

I have read this book 3 or 4 times and have found a new joke, a new point, or a new parallel each time. The plot relates to several different generations and hits you straight in the heart. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a good read.

The merits of The Great Gatsby need not be discussed here. What does cry out for attention, however, is the collection of masterful essays herein that illuminate Fitzgerald's greatest novel, among them the brilliant explication "The Romance of Money" by Malcolm Cowley. Anyone wishing to delve deeper into the rich symbolism and thematic interest of this novel would do well to pick up a copy of this Scribner publication. Buy a unmarked, used copy if you can and save some dough in the process.

This book is truly a work of art. The plot, the characters, the similes, and the quotes are superb. The story is about Jay Gatsby,the man who did everything to achieve love. But he still failed. The theme is illusion. This is a great classic which reflects upon the lives of American people. It is not at all slow and boring. U will definitly enjoy this book. Mark my words

F.S. Fitzgerald had successfully depicted the glamorous lives of the American upper class during the 1920s. The story centers on Jay Gatsby, a millionaire, whose past is a mystery, but with his tremendous wealth, he is able to attract everyone into his life circle. However, his entire motive is to win back his old lover, Daisy; his loyalty of love eventually leads to his tragic ending.

Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (10/06)

We all want our children to make the most of their potential. But they don't always know how. "Human beings don't always make the most of their potential. Sometimes they think they're doing the most they can but really aren't, and sometimes for one reason or another they simply don't try to live life to the fullest." This book was written to show your children how to create the satisfying and fulfilling life you want them to live. "Success is described in a lot of different ways, including:"

"Success is personal happiness."
"Success is achieving one's personal goals."
"Success is giving something your all."
"Success is recognition for your work from others."
"Success is feeling fulfilled by your accomplishments."

There are many factors in determining one's ability to achieve something including: personal attitude, understanding of personal values, personal beliefs. One must set and work toward achieving personal goals.

"The ability to set meaningful personal goals is critical to attaining the highest levels of success in life... A personal goal is a specific out come that you are committed to achieving and are willing to support with a plan and action... Without goals, you are left with chaos and random outcomes created through random events." "Only when the `why' behind achieving a goal is strong enough, will you be likely to do `what' it takes to achieve the goal."

"Flash Point for Young Adults" is a valuable book that we should all invest in. We want our children to be successful. The price of this book is a small price to pay to assist our children on their path to life. This is a dynamic book with teaching tools included. It is with great pleasure I recommend this book to parents and youth.

Ken has created a tool that we should all purchase for at least one teen in our lives. How many times have we said "Man, I wish I had known that before I _______ (fill in the blank with the most recent mistake you've made)." Help your teens get a head start on life by purchasing this book. And make sure you read it with them...there are lessons we all can be reminded of!

If you want to help your child leap ahead in learning and leveraging time tested success and life skills, then buy this book now. Kids will "get it" because the author speaks their language. I highly recommend this book for parents and teachers wanting to help any teen or young adult they care about get ahead in life.

This book is easy to read, the excercises are thought provoking and relevant to what kids need today.

A friend gave me this book as a Christmas gift so I've squeezed reading it into my spare time. The book is very powerful and very healing to anyone that's willing to take Laura's journey--- through reading it. The quotes before each chapter are inspirational and help set the perspective from which she writes. From the quotes she's selected I can tell she's given a lot of thought to the meaning of life and how important and fleeting it can be. The healing power of love is the key to the book for me. The unconditional love that she receives from Kent brings tears to my eyes because it was the kind of love that my late wife and I shared. And of course we have to love ourselves before we can truly love others as she so amptly points out. I would recommend this book to anyone that's dealing with life's issues no matter what they might be. It's just might help bring things into a better perspective for the reader. And remember love is the key..........

A friend had given me this book to read and told me that it was a story about a woman who overcame tremendous obstacles and found the love of her life. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it, but once I started reading, I ended up staying up until 4:00 in the morning finishing it in one sitting. I just had to find out what happened! I was truly inspired and amazed at the challenges that Laura faced and how she dealt with people constantly telling her that she was going to die and that she couldn't have what she wanted for her life. This true story will inspire anyone who reads it. After reading it, I have a fresh perspective on my own obstacles in life and I feel tremendous courage in facing them. My love and admiration goes out to Laura, her husband, and her whole family.

I have a relative that is currently researching a transplant, and we got "For Love Of Life" to read. It is an emotionally charged, spiritual and uplifting book that taught us how important support is in your life, and how important it is to really love yourself and those around you. I could not put this book down until I was finished! Not only is it good for people who are dealing with terminal illnesses, but it was amazing to read about this courageous woman, and those around her. It really is a love story that puts "for better or worse" to the test, and it inspired me to examine what is important in life, and to put God first in all things. "For Love Of life" is an honest, heart-wrenching love story...with a happy ending! I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone!

Aldo Leopold is the only dead author I know of whose oeuvre keeps getting better.

I first encountered Leopold's work in 1970 when I read his "Sand County Almanac". (I remember that I wrote a book report on "Sand County Almanac" in my Junior year of High School.) I loved this book for its beautiful writing, its strong reasoning, and its clear thinking. On the other hand I found the tone too pessimistic: by the end of the essay "Cheat Takes Over", for example, I was in despair that the environmental situation was so bad and there was no apparent way to improve it.

Many years later Leopold scholars J. Baird Callicott and Susan Flader collected a number of Leopold's essays -- obscure or unpublished -- in "The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays". This fascinating work shows the development of Leopold's thought over most of his life. I liked it even better than "Sand County Almanac".

And now we have also "For the Health of the Land", another collection of out-of-the-way Leopold essays edited by J. Baird Callicott (again) and Eric T. Freyfogle. And I like this collection even better than "The River of the Mother of God". The essays in this collection have the same beautiful writing, strong reasoning, and clear thinking of "Sand County Almanac", but it's basically an optimistic book. Leopold never minimizes difficulties, but this book is full of solutions as well as problems. The core of the book is a set of forty essays intended for farmers who want to live with the land rather than on the land. Each one is short, bright, eloquent, and practical. Each one shows us how to improve our environment, and hence our lives, by a quick small step. Each step is easy, but together they build into substantive and substantial phalanx of conservation protection.

An afterword by Stanley Temple (who holds the University of Wisconsin chair that was established for Leopold) talks about the present in light of Leopold's thinking: Which of the many movements launched by Leopold are making progress? Which are losing ground?

I need to add a special note on Abigail Rorer's illustrations. Curt Meine's biography of Leopold describes (pages 417, 486, 512) how he searched for an illustrator who would combine scientific accuracy with artistic sensibility. After considerable effort, Leopold found Charles Schwartz to do the illustrations, and everyone agrees that they're excellent. Abigail Rorer's work reaches or exceeds Schwartz's high standard of beauty and accuracy. I was going to list my favorite of the many illustrations, but I find that I can't: there are too many vying for the title of best.

Read this book. Ponder its wisdom. But don't just sit and think: go out and follow its advice. Turn your land -- be it a farm, a backyard, or a window flower box -- into an artwork that reflects your personality.

If you liked Sand County Almanac, you will enjoy this volume of essays as well. As far as I can tell, Aldo Leopold's essays fall into two broad categories: those fit for scientific journals or public policy statements, and those that celebrate the philosophical or aesthetic appreciation of nature. This book contains a healthy dose of both types. It is full of rich, lyrical essays on the variety and inherent enjoyment of being surrounded by wildland and wildlife. This is not to say the essays are impractical. As was often the case, these words were written for the common man; the common landowner. But Aldo Leopold was a brilliant wordsmith. He didn't see why a lesson in practical land management couldn't also be poetic. As such, his words were often profound and prophetic, but also gleaned from what should be common sense. The final essay in this book (The Land-Health Concept and Conservation)is perhaps the most important and most relevant argument for land sustainability that you will ever read.

To Whom It May Concern:

This is NOT a review, but a correction to the Kirkus Review article. Sand County Almanac was published in 1949, a year after Leopold's untimely death (he was helping a neighbor fight a fire). Kirkus has the book's pub date as 1968 -- which might have been a reissue. 1999 is the 50th anniversary of SCA, which is a rather big deal in Leopold circles. Kirkus is on the money with everything else :)

I have read many cop stories but this is one of the tops on my list. From start to finish you can not put this thriller down. What makes it especially interesting is that it seems so real especially since I live in the area. The character development is superb and the street imagery is so lifelike. This is a new author for me and I hope he continues to write more great stories such as this one.

In Philadelphia, two white police officers Mutt and Roy, call for supervisory help. Sergeant Eddie North arrives only to have African-American Councilman Sonny Knight scream at him to get the two cops away from him. Later, Sonny accuses Mutt and Roy of beating him up and adds Eddie to his list of accusation. Both officers deny ever touching Sonny and Eddie believes them because he knows he is innocent and neither of the policemen on the scene showed any sins of using force, let alone excessive.

However, the brass, the politicians, and the media think otherwise forcing an Internal Affairs investigation. As this scenario further splits a city divided over another controversial case, Eddie tries to learn why Sonny lied, but soon finds he is drowning in a polluted cesspool of corruption, bad cops, and duality racism.

The inquiries made by the IA staff and by Eddie are intelligent and entertaining so that police procedural fans have a powerful enjoyable tale. However, FOUR TO MIDNIGHT is more than another urban police story. Instead the theme focuses on how racism engulfs everyone in a swamp and destroys the innocent and their friendships. Thus the audience receives a superb police procedural with a cleverly interwoven powerful message.

Harriet Klausner

FOUR TO MIDNIGHT is a very unusual police novel. As a good, juicy page-turner, it delivers the goods and then some - Flander's handling of action sequences is particularly exciting, and very nearly cinematic (I'd definitely like to see the movie of this one). But it's also an exceptional portrait of a city and the cultures within it - Philadelphia, its neighborhoods, its citizens and their multiple mindsets are all conveyed intimately and immediately, so that you instantly feel like you know this place and these people. Finally, the writing is quietly brilliant. There are very few great stylists in this genre, but Flander, in this book, announces himself as one of them - he has drawn together plot, theme, character and place seamlessly and masterfully, creating, not only a great read, but a great novel.

I've read it so many times. Keeps getting better. I always look forward to hearing him on Alice 97.3. I absolutely LOVE Scott Capurro!

I think Scott is great I saw him during the Ediburgh Fringe and boy is he funny. I saw an article in the Guardian about him the other day 21/11/00 sometime he is a real talented man and quite clearly funny and articulate I hope he is bringing another book out soon. I certainly was not consumed with indifference

Firstly, I should like to point out that my mother flipped when she found this book hidden under my bed. It is full of the shear brilliance that only Capurro can transcribe to paper. The story centres on an aging comedian called Tom whow falls for young Taylor - the man of his dreams! Look, the back of the book says it all: "You'll never look at a roast chicken in quite the same way again". This book is fantastic and a recommended buy.

Scott Heston's THE FRED ARBORGAST STORY: A FISHING LURE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE is for any avid collector of fishing lures: it surveys both cataloged and uncataloged lures, providing good-sized color photos of both lures and packaging and blending design history insights with values. Any sports or fishing collectibles collection will want this.

Excellent book, has lots of great info about the Fred Arbogast Company and the lures and items that are collectable. The print quality of some of the pictures could be better, especially the color charts, but that aside, thanks to Scott Heston for putting it together.

This has to be THE best collectors guide I have ever purchased on ANY collectable, EVER! Even better than his book on Ohio fishing lures. I am so glad I bought this guide. I recently found an old tackle box full of old lures at a yard sale, one of the lures were still in it's box, both in incredible condition! (not gonna mention which lure...but it is valued at $200 in the box)...this guide helped me to recognize what an outstanding deal these lures really were at the price...I paid only $5 for the lot and was able to make quite a tidy profit off of them on eBay. The eBay tips on picture viewing (or in my case, taking) helped me to show the lures off to their best advantage...Thanks Mr. Heston!!!

I have to agree with the previous reviewers: this book of poems is great stuff. I am not one to normally like poetry, but I took a flier on this one just because of the great reviews. And they were dead on.

But I do have to say this: if this book is even half autobiographical, I feel terribly sorry for Mr. Hawyley's family, and his in-laws (assuming he has any).

All in all, a great read. I was literally laughing outloud at some of the poems. A definite book for a public-reading forum.

...a very entertaining, genuine and refreshing read. Most of us have a little voice in our head which tells us not to talk or act when we think of something very funny or outrageous yet completely inappropriate to vocalize or act upon. Well it appears that the voice in Mr. Hawley's head is silent. We can all relate to his poetic tales and images, particularly if one was ever an 8 or 15 year old boy. If Frohes Wandern is truly autobiographical I feel sorry for his parents.

you'll love this guy. A book of poems well worth (...). Hawley has a very witty style, remarkable for its naked truth about fears, fantasies and the meanderings of a wonderfully wacky mind. The reader is taken on a journey through laughter, embarassment, tears and ultimatley a sense of common humanity. This one will stay on my shelf.