Turner Books

This work tells the story of the life of Mozart through a reading of his letters. It includes analysis of his major works, and essay chapters on subjects such as Mozart's Genius, and Kierkegaard's analysis of 'Don Giovanni' in 'Either/Or'. It is a clear readable work which argues that Mozart's unsurpassed genius was the source of envy to many of his contemporaries. Turner describes too the Mozart writing process , speaks about his capacity to construct whole works in his mind and deliver them with great ease and facility to the paper. He also considers the major relationships in his life, and tells closely the story of Mozart and his ambitious and caring father, Leopold. Leopold whose great ambition was to be a first- class musician had his dream realized in the incredible genius of his son.
I am not a musicologist, and certainly not a Mozart expert so I cannot really evaluate the analyses of the work.
I can however say that this is a rich, readable introduction to the life and work of one whose name is synonymous with musical genius.

The Jo, Zetteand Jocko adventures were first written in the 1930's and feature the adventures of Jo Legrand, his little sister Zette and their pet monkey,Jocko.

Billionaire John Archibald Pump is killed in a car accident, in his luxury super-modern sports car.
In his last will and testament, Pump bequeaths the sum of $ 10 million dollars to the builders of the first aeroplane to succeed from flying non-stop from New York to Paris, or vice versa-within one year.Engineer Monsieur Le Grand is commisoned to build the aeroplane to do it, for SAFCA.
There are those in whose interest it is to stop the flight, including Pump's nephews, William and Fred Stockrise who stand to gain the fortune, should nobody make the flight within one year.

The villains begin their work-first Mr Legrand is injured after his car is sabotaged, then Jo is hurt after being shot,and then little Zette is kidnapped.
But the family Legrand are made of sterner stuff and are soon re-united. From there, their wits a re pitted against the relentless vilains, and much action and adventure takes place to see if the flight will succeed.

Lots of fun, lots of detail in the great illustrations and great characters.

Ms. Vera's Girls is refreshing in that it doesn't depend on shock value to entertain. The story is well written and holds the reader's attention cover to cover. This is one for the intelligent reader and you don't have to be ashamed to leave on the coffee table... Kudos!!!

A truly excellent, well-structured and beautifully written overview of the history of the Muslim world. A must for anyone wishing to study the history and religion of the Islamic Near East at undergraduate level. I recommend it most highly.

I read this book as one of the first books I ever got to check out of a library and 16 years later hunted it down. Its the greatest book . So cute and entertaining. A story of a little girl with a crazy little cat.

This book has got to be the best book i've ever read. A true life story, Serengeti Years has inspired me to visit Tanzania and see its wildlife. Mr. Turner is a game warden in the Serengeti and shares his life with you in this wonderful book.

Karen and Garth Baker-Fletcher used to teach at my seminary; both are now on faculty at Claremont School of Theology. Both are theologians who put their beliefs into strong practice, working out through their lives what it means to model and reflect their principles in their relationship with each other and with the world.

This is modeled in the very structure of this text, My Sister, My Brother: while it follows the pattern of being a systematic theology in its broadest sense (looking at the different categories of traditional theology - God, Christ, Creation, Ecclesiology/Tradition, etc.), it does so from two perspectives that are related but distinct, with a conversation engaged at at each section's conclusion. This is in keeping with the sense of theological conversation methodology a la David Tracy and Gordon Kaufmann, adapted by Will Coleman to the term 'tribal talk'. This conversation has many aspects -- it is inductive, iconoclastic, concerned with social and historical position, and diunital (appreciating the differences, what biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann calls living in the tension between).

The two perspectives here are Womanist and Xodus thought. Karen Baker-Fletcher takes the womanist perspective, drawing from the resources of her own background and the intellectual developments of womanism from Alice Walker, Delores Williams, and others. Womanism derives firstly from a reaction to Feminist theology, done primary by academic women of European background. Black women, while relating to many of the aspects of feminist theology and thought, saw that important elements of their own experience were not included. There is a unique perspective to women who were also black, having to endure the double-discrimination of gender and racial inequalities (Grant would later add a third category, the economic/poverty issue, that also plagues so many African-American women).

Garth Baker-Fletcher writes from the Xodus perspective -- Xodus being a term of his creation, firmly planted in the second-generation of Black (male) theology, a liberation response to the continuing situation of African-Americans in the United States of inequality and racial injustice. Xodus derives in part from the same impulses that compelled Malcolm X to adopt the 'unknown' as his last name, recalling both that which was lost and that which can be reclaimed. Xodus also inspires thought about the biblical text Exodus, in which the people of Israel are led out of captivity into liberation. Xodus looks beyond simple liberation to issues of reconstruction and renewal, looking with alarm on the situation confronting 'ordinary' African-American persons in America today from economic and societal pressures. As do many theologians, Garth Baker-Fletcher adapts the language to suit his context -- using capitalisation, boldface, italics, and Ebonics-derived terminology (often in what might be traditionally considered ungrammatical or non-standard ways), he shakes up the reader visually as well as intellectually.

While both Karen and Garth Baker-Fletcher speak from these perspectives, they are careful to speak for themselves only, inviting others from their perspectives to add their voices to the theological discussion. Both Womanism and Xodus thought qualify as liberation theologies, looking for freedom, equality and justice for all.

There is life here. There is love here. There is commitment and dedication to the betterment of all of humanity here. These two voices call upon others to join the chorus in proclaiming liberty and bringing the future into being.

Very easy reading, entertaining, and inspiring collection of poetry. While I haven't fully researched the poetry, I believe it to be Biblically-correct.

One neat feature is that Ellie Turner doesn't seem to be a "professional author". According to the information on the cover, she's a dental hygienist with a couple of children. I assume she's a single mother, since there is no mention of a husband. God uses people from all walks of life for His plan.

Maybe He has great things in store for me!

Gladys Davis recounts her experiences with America's most famous, best documented psychic Edgar Cayce. The book not only describes her unfoldment from a Southern girl whose first job was in a hardware store to the psychic's secretary where she not only travels around the country with the family but is even arrested with Cayce when he is charged with fortune telling.

For me, I found the greatest value of the book in reading about Gladys' struggle with her own lower nature, overcoming a feeling of being taken advantage and her efforts to spiritualize the advice given to her in her own personal readings--not to care whether she gets back the appreciation she craves, but to continue to live in God's way for her own soul's sake.

I met with Gladys a couple of times while she was still alive. She told me about a dream she had had during her years of struggling with resentment. As she awoke, she heard her name being called but paraphrased to "Gladness . . . gladness . . . gladness," and she understood that instead of complaining and feeling sorry for herself, she would be much happier if she exemplified the promise in her name and instead expressed her "Gladness"--a sort of early Oprah gratitude list.

Now, how did the story of that dream come up in our conversation? Was she trying to tell me something?

Gladys was a wonderful person!

So many of the books on Cayce gloss over Gladys, as does Edgar Cayce: Mystery Man of Miracles and There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce, partly because the former emphasizes Cayce's early year before Gladys arrived, the latter because it emphasizes Cayce's story. However, Gladys was Cayce's Twin Soul. Without her dedication to recording his psychic readings while Cayce was alive and her continued single-minded faithfulness to preserving and cataloguing the readings after Cayce's death, the amazing wisdom that came through the "Sleeping Prophet" would be lost to us.

by Carol Chapman, photographer for Divine in Nature: With Quotes from Edgar Cayce and author of When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light and Spiritual Awakening.

In 1929, Dick Turner and his brother Stan decided to spend a year trapping and prospecting for gold in the Nahanni River region of the Northwest Territories. They never left. This is Dick Turner's account of life in a land populated by herds of caribou and moose, grizzlies, and ghosts of previous adventurers. Wonderful historical account of the area, as well.

http://justagypsy.com/Travel_Books/pages/Nahanni.htm