Wallace Books

The information contained in this book is very interesting but be careful with what you believe and to whom you believe. Nothing is sacred except the truth! What is the truth?

An atheist manifesto full of morality and ethics. This book is not for the faint of heart a.k.a. fundamentalist. This book can cause a heart attack or a stroke to the highly religious fundamentalist. This book exposes all the hypocrisy contained in the religious movements throughout the world. Extraordinarily irreverent and politically incorrect. One single step short of anarchy!

Not for everyone only for the very few that can take it!

What first seem to be ideas "Too good to be true" come to life after careful reflection and practice.Certianly the path into the future and the wealth and happiness we deserve.

Anyone out there who finds confusion or anxiety about any area of life or reality needs to read this book. It is life altering! THE single best book I have ever read -- though a few others of Dr Wallace's are competing! I LOVED IT

Matt Wallace has been providing his work for free for way too many years via podcasts. He along with other emerging writers such as J.C. Hutchins, Scott Sigler, and Mur Lafferty (and this is in no way a complete list of these new writers) are a new generation of creative voices that I feel will soon dominate much of the science fiction/horror genera. Wallace is among the best of the pack. The Next Fix is a must read for SF/Horror fans.

I had high expectations for "The Next Fix" and Matt Wallace has surpassed them all. The book is a must have for all horror junkies. I only wish I was a better writer so I could express how sick and wonderful this book is. Thanks Matt...the book was worth the wait.

Matt Wallace rocks the bells! In this collection of stories and one novella he shows the brilliance that made us all fans of his writing through the Variant Frequencies podcast. The Failed Cities Monologues, his stories, all of it is awesome! And you won't be disappointed here one bit: he keeps the action coming hard and fast in these stories. You'll hold this book so tight your knuckles will turn white before you even get through the first half, and you still won't put it down until you're done!

What a clever story! Even as an adult I was able to fully enjoy this book. Illustration by Andrea Wallace was spectacular. All of the charactors she created were extremely charming and helped me enjoy the book even more. This book will make a great gift as well as a precious keep sake.

Although I am not a child any more, but I pretend to be some days, Not Just Another Moose has a wonderful story that can be enjoyed by young and adult readers. The illustrations, both amazing and very whimsical, bring the Moose and the perils of his prized antlers to life! A great find!

I am almost 8 and I think it was very good. It was very funny. I liked Hildy because she is a pig, and I like pigs. I liked that it was in chapters. It was nice.

I ordered this book from Amazon,the book started out a bit slow but I was soon to find myself not being able to put it down.I think anyone who reads it will find what a well put together book this is,a must read!

I picked this book up in a book store in Scotland. I am a big fan of Braveheart and the William Wallace Story. This part guide book part travel essay is a great way to read about and follow the history of Wallace. Fans of William Wallace should also check out a website this author is associated with. Its something like "mcbraveheart.com" Again, if you are planning to visit scotland and love Braveheart, get this little enjoyable book. You will be glad you did.

I think this ia a great book for those who want to learn a quick history of William wallace, as well as a guid to memorials in Scotland. For those who are planning a trip to Scotland, and also are intrested in the story of William Wallace I recomend this book. I also recomend trying to find it at a local bookstor instead because I bought mine for $14.99 brand new.

This was one of the best reads I have had in a long time. David Conover lived his dream and was kind enough to write a book and share his trials and tribulations. "Once Upon an Island," is a pleasure to read. I agree with the other reviewer that it was hard to put this book down. I turned the pages with anticipation, waiting to see what new adversity the family would undergo, and how they triumphed. This is great movie material--too bad Hollywood wastes their time with special effects movies.

This is a MUST READ for anyone here in the Pacific Northwest or planning to cruise up into the Candian Gulf Islands.

It is a tribute to a couple with a dream, more his than hers at first, love, hard work and support of a community known as Ganges.

I read this book back in 1968 and was delighted to find it again today.

If you have a chance to got to Wallace Island, walk ashore and see the old buildings that they built. You can go back in time and recapture each chapter in your own eye.


Many of us today wish we could do what that they did back then. Would you be willing to take the risk?

This would be a wonderful gift to give to any boater, since it is a treausre to have aboard!

I LOVED THIS BOOK. I READ IT IN ONE NIGHT. IT IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG COUPLE WHO SCRAPED TOGETHER ALL THEY HAD TO BUY AN ISLAND. THE STORY TELLS OF THEIR FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF TRYING TO MAKE IT AND BUILD THE PRIMITIVE ISLAND INTO A HOME AND EVENTUALLY A SMALL PRIMITIVE RESORT. THEY TELL OF THE BEAUTY AND PRIVACY AND PEACEFULNESS OF THEIR OWN ISLAND AND THEIR DAILY LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF FIXING IT UP TO BE HABITABLE. I WILL PROBABLY START READING IT ALL OVER AGAIN!

I have read this book while I was on vacation and I liked it very much.
It is written in a personal and friendly style and it really helped me to take a closer look at some of my habbits.
It strengthened my trust in God without putting some kind of religious pressure on me.
Some of the (short) chapters I read several times.

Good book, healthy portions, easy style.

Sometimes God's message for us is right there in front of us: a quiet whisper, easily ignored, easy to overlook. All the while, we yearn to hear what God has to say to us--to connect our lives with a supernatural purpose. Designed to help you still your heart and hear God's voice, Out of the Quiet leads you through a meditative exploration of Scripture (quoted from The Message). Read this warm and provocative book every morning as 90 daily reminders to stay alert for God's message to you. Or you can read it straight through as an inspiring book that draws you closer to God's heart. Either way, you'll learn the valuable art of quieting your heart and responding to God's whispered invitations.

"Peter Wallace leads you into the detail of biblical text where the grace of God rings, clear and profound. Through his reassuring, challenging ponderings, you'll find a voice of quiet conviction, an uncomplicated affirmation that God is the goal of our longings as well as the source of our hope." --Walter and Mary Miller Brueggemann (Walter, professor emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary; Mary, clergy)

"An incomparable opportunity to listen for and respond to the endless, grace-laden invitations beckoning us into a dynamic relationship with the Living God." --Laura S. Mendenhall (president, Columbia Theological Seminary)

"Peter Wallace writes gracefully out of a heart enamored with God and devoted to befriending and encouraging weary pilgrims. Out of the Quiet is a warm and wise guide to a richer, deeper, spiritual experience." --Len Woods (pastor and author)

"In this book, Peter Wallace shares with us his rich and imaginative life with God. Served with digestible bites of Scripture, you will find a well-seasoned feast of simple, solid, and grace-filled insights into God's word. Open to any page and enjoy." --Rev. Dr. Victor D. Pentz (pastor, Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta)

"There is a freshness in Peter's writing because it flows so obviously from the real experience of a wayfaring, committed pilgrim. When you read him, you will be encouraged and inspired to embark on your own journey with the Father." --Dr. Thomas Lane Butts (pastor emeritus, author, Monroeville, AL)

"God speaks to us in ways great and small and, while we yearn for the drama of lightning flashes and monumental messages, the deepest insights most often are perceived in what Peter Wallace calls the 'quiet whisper.' Out of the Quiet is as gentle and welcoming as the most heartening caress of our loving God." --Roy Lloyd (senior manager media relations, American Bible Society, radio commentator).

FROM THE FOREWORD BY PHYLLIS TICKLE:

Peter Wallace and I share many things: the joy of being grandparents, a vocation to serve God through the national media, a fondness for The Book of Common Prayer, the oxymoronic estate of living in an urbanizing South, and a passionate enthusiasm for Eugene Peterson's The Message. It is this last one that tells the tale in these pages.

The Message is not so much a translation of the Bible--at least not in the customary sense of that word--as it is a para-translation. It is, in other words, a brilliant lifting up of the spirit and intent of our holy words out of the conventions and sometimes limiting contexts of their times into the becoming and appropriate conventions and idioms of our times. And so far as I know, no one has ever understood the nuances and pastoral uses of The Message as well as, much less better than, Peter Wallace.

In this large volume of small pieces, Wallace has structured both a set and a system of devotions, using Peterson's para-translation as vehicle and his own Christian experience as the way into consolation, obedience, worship, and wonder. Because of Wallace's efficient organization of the resulting devotions into clear categories and sub-sets, any reader at any given moment can locate a scripture and meditation that will inform and counsel the burdens, joys, or thoughts of that moment. Because of Wallace's acumen in selectively employing Peterson's work, every reader will be surprised into new understandings and appreciations of the foundations that being Christian is based on. And because of Wallace's quietness of voice, connecting the message and the unchanging truths of our faith to each other will be a delight to the thinking heart of every reader.

And one last thing. Gentleness is not a virtue often touted in our times; but Peter Wallace is a gentle writer. Nothing is imposed here, nothing asserted in strident tones of insistence. Instead, all comers are welcome to sit a while and ponder. My suspicion is that that respite will make a difference in the life of most of those who do stop. But whatever the outcome, everyone who enters these pages will know himself or herself to have been engaged here; for Peter Wallace is a generous writer, as well as a gentle one.

Phyllis Tickle
The Farm In Lucy

Peter Wallace identifies our core relationship in this book of wonder, writing of gems that sparkle in his conversation that appear effortless on each page. We are invited into an insight that is rare. We feel a subtle deepening relationship with God even as we read. Are we courageous enough, vulnerable enough, open enough, ready to step out, to respond when the invitations arrive? Peter Wallace gives us riches of specific real world "moments", that can burst through or that may quietly tap to get our worldly attention. He often names the unnamed experience which is helpful, memorable. We shift then, to God's light, not our light. The author's words ignite us, inspire us to travel further down into the spiritual archeological dig with plenty of riches to discover along the way. Peter Wallace writes a loving book. This is a generous writing, in a conversational style that is very comfortable, appealing. Recommended for personal reading, for adult education classes, small group study, seminars and workshops on this gentle, compelling subject.

This is the best science book on the food chain that I have ever found.I fell in love with it and bought it for several people This book tells very gently, using very pleasing language in rhyme, what everything needs to live and why. The illustrations are beautiful and detailed. It has some repetitive language that is so pleasing to read. For example:

"Passing the energy needed to live
is a difficult gift for a creature to give.
but a chain unbroken along the way
links life in the meadow from day to day."

This book would be wonderful in every classroom. A beautiful, must have book.

I enjoyed how the author was able to bring a complicated subject to a level which both educates and interests young readers. Both my nephew and niece greatly enjoyed the book. They also retained the information which is presented in "Pass the Energy Please" because it is presented to the children in a creative way which neither bores nor confuses them. The author has found a great niche in her writing in which children can finally be entertained while at the same time come away with an important environmental concept.

What a book to use with your classroom. I am a fifth grade teacher and use this book as part of a unit on Ecosystems. (Although you could use this with younger or older children) The book shows food webs in a way that any child could understand. The text is a poem with a predictable rhythm that my students LOVE. We use this story for 4 different activities, two are Language arts based, and two are Science.

This is the story of a man about town who takes on a well-paying and pretigious job as manager of an ultra-conservative English Journal... but the position seemed more glamourous than it really is.

The staff is rampant with zealots, fruitcakes, drunks, and other incompetents. Then one of the chief writers dies and the Manager suspects murder, alerting a Scotland Yard friend of his suspicions. Sunsequent to that, the old benevolent despot of an Editor is murdered during a possible hostile takeover of the journal and eveyone on staff becomes a suspect.

This one is a roller-coaster ride of surprises and secrets revealed. The story is very comprehensible (a frequent problem with audiobooks) and the reader (Bill Wallis) is tremendous in his delivery.

You won't get hurt on this one except that I see that it's a little pricey -- I got lucky and found my copy in perfect condition at a Goodwill store for $1.50! There are six casette tapes in the package which run for a total of seven hours and two minutes. This story is unabridged.

Highly recommended.

If you have yet to make the acquaintance of Baroness Jack Troutbeck, run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and order yourself a copy of this book. Every time poor Robert Amiss, ex-civil servant, succumbs to Jack's wicked wiles -- no, no, not that, get your mind out of the gutter. Jack keeps finding Robert jobs, is all, after which murder is invariably committed somewhere around his person and he's left to clean up the resulting mess, with help from the exuberant and irrepressible Jack, of course.

Dudley Edwards thus far has bulls-eyed the British civil service, Oxbridge, the House of Lords, the Church of England, Anglo-Irish relations, and, in the above-named novel, the publishing industry. She is also a prolific and much-quoted commentator on Anglo-Irish politics and current events.

If you're like me, you've often wondered, "What on earth is he talking about?" when reading a Wallace Stevens poem. But then you've read on, enchanted by the language, rhythm, and strange juxtapositions. This book is the answer to your prayers. Though it doesn't go into great detail, it nonetheless comments on every poem in Stevens' "Collected Poems" and "Late Poems." For me Eleanor Cook's annotations provide a foothold into many lyrics that I previously found impenetrable, and her enthusiasm for poems that I had thought unremarkable has made me reconsider my first impressions. For instance, her brief notes on one of my favorites, "Landscape with Boat," pointed me to a much deeper poem on the same subject, "Mrs. Alfred Uruguay." And I had never cared much for "Domination of Black," but Cook made me see its spooky sublimity. She does this concisely, typically in half a page or less (longer, of course, for the long poems). Her essay at the end of the book, "How to Read Poetry, Including Stevens," is similarly perceptive--though a little oblique, as if she is getting at the mystery of Stevens' technique using his own methods. For Stevens fans, I cannot recommend this book too highly. All you need is the Library of America edition "Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose" and this gem of a book.

Stevens is a poet of great beauty and great perplexity. One can love his Poetry tremendously without really understanding it. This is because of its music, its color, the magic of its language. Still the meaning- seeking creature reads, and wants to understand. Eleanor Cook may not provide an answer to every question the reader has, may not provide a full and complete reading to individual poems- but she will provide greater understanding of each poem, explanation of difficult phrases, and insight into the poems' relation to other Stevens' poems. Her book also has a short biography of Wallace Stevens, and a concluding section on 'How to Read Poetry' which also may be of use.
But the heart of it is her reading of the poems.
This book should be in the library of every reader and lover of the work of one of America's greatest poets.
Beauty is momentary in the mind, but this book tries to make it in the reading, immortal.

Eleanor Cook's piece provides an easily accessible passage into some of Stevens' more opaque references. Her work covers each poem in Stevens' oeuvre and does an excellent job of tracing images, symbols, and themes throughout while referencing both earlier and later versions of those images, etc. I must agree with the previous reviewer that it does not go into great detail, though it is an excellent tool for any Stevens afficiando who is delving deep into his work.

I have purchased all kinds of books on parenting,most recently on the teen years. This is the first book that I am having a hard time putting down. It is surprising how young kids are today when they are getting into alcohol, sex, drugs, etc. I thought that I was pretty on top of these things - boy was this book an eye opener. It has been helpful in facilitating some good dialogue with my teenage son and preteen son.

Reality Gap gives the parents of teens important information and insight. Foremost, Reality Gap provides a window into what teens are up to these days. Wallace delivers compelling research data from the field combined with personal accounts. The resulting landscape of behavior described in Reality Gap will be of great interest to any parent, regardless of their individual views on drinking or sex.

Few parents will fail to pause when reading about personal cases of teens who wished that they had talked with their parents before making choices they now regret. Peer pressure to drink early, to become sexually active - the list goes on. Without lecturing, Wallace's accounts remind us of the associated consequences whether it is the onset of lifelong battles with addiction or the regrettable occurrences of sexual diseases such as herpes.

Wallace's message is that parents can help their children through the teen years. Reality Gap provides parents with tools for approaching these issues and Wallace's encouraging message is that parents can help their children make better, and safer, decisions if they talk with them - and do so early.

This book offers a critical insight into the discrepencies between what parents think their teens are doing and what they are, in actuality, doing. Teens speak freely to Wallace, revealing what are the most pressing issues facing teens today. The book offers helpful strategies and tips for parents, coaches, educators and anyone who works with teens on a regular basis.