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This is an excellent classic guide to the fundamentals of the swing. For example, how to shape the ball right to left or left to right. Includes valuable tips, too.

Coupled with coaching by a golf professional, this book by Jack Nicklaus has been a highly effective guide to my learning. It is well-written and helpfully illustrated. Nicklaus is as good an explainer as he is a golfer.

I ordered the book as a gift and it was just like new when I received it.

Extremely detailed . You need to really concentrate when reading this book. I recommend you read one chapter then implement it in your game before going to the next. by the end of the book your game would have improved!

I heard about this book after having played golf for 12 years. I wish I had gotten it back when I first started. It has all the basic fundamentals one should know and is very easy to read and apply to your game. The book helped me understand the golf swing much better and in more detail then ever before. For the price you must get this book.

This book is a wonderful depiction of human nature, society and the ultimate need we all have for survival and love. It is fast moving and brilliant in it's character development.

I heard she's got a producer in New York looking at her manuscript for possible production.

Way to go Coz! Thanks for writing such a wonderful sci fi drama. Setting on the edge of my seat waiting for your next book!

I was sceptical when I first got this book and it was quite hard to get into it at first, but after the first couple of chapters Coz stepped up the pace and I was hooked. The whole concept was Refreshingly different, the setting was also a breath of fresh air compared to some of the stale (same old)standard sci-fi books that are out there! With any luck this series will become the new Star Trek of sorts. Can't wait for the next one! Good read

This is classic Science Fiction as it used to be (and in my opinion still should be), written. Fast paced yet still managing to develop plot and characters magnificently, "The Green Way" will have you turning the pages avidly to see what happens next. The book works on many levels and if you take the time to re-read it, you'll discover how complex the storyline really is. Just when you think you know what is going to happen next, Johnson has the knack of lobbing in a totally unpredictable plot twist. At its simplest level it's a love story set against a background of interstellar conflict, but this is merely a vehicle to draw the reader into Johnson's vividly imagined world. The frightening thing is that if you look at what is going on in the world around you today, the scenarios depicted are only too believable. I have but one criticism: the book ends with so many strands of the plot left hanging that it is unbearable to have to wait for the sequel to be published. Of course from the publisher's point of view this isn't a criticism at all since it guarantees future books will be snapped up. All in all a remarkable debut work - watch this space; Johnson may just be the next Aasimov.

A well written example of Sci-fi. Johnson describes a darker, more ruthless future. This provides a refreshing change alongside the likes of Star Trek This is a 'must read' book. The story carries you along and leaves you waiting for the sequel with anticipation.

The Green Way is a superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance... moving and profound. This is a book of cool, controlled brillance. After reading this book I have become a science fiction lover. Can't wait till I can start on her second book.

I bought this book for my sister who just had a baby. After reading through it, I am green with envy that she will have access to all the useful and practical information in this book! I had to learn so much through trial and error (the emphasis on error). I would have saved myself so much time and energy had I had a book like this one! Do you know how long it took me to figure out how to go out of the house with my baby and how much time I spent feeling guilty for not feeling totally, unconditionally fullfilled by motherhood?

I will buy this book for everyone I know who is having a baby!!

This wonderful resource recently received a Gold Parenting Resource Award from the National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA). Susan K. Perry, PhD wrote the following review: This compendium of ideas guides expectant and new mothers toward balance and a sense of control as they plan for and face the upheavals of new parenthood. A wide rang of issues is covered, and the tone is reassuring, helping both expectant and new moms relax. The tips are practical and specific."

Written specifically for expectant and new moms, Sheryl Gurrentz presents a superb and infinitely practical compendium of advice, tips, and techniques to care of the new baby and themselves. Especially recommended for women who seek to combine child care with career employment, Gurrentz demystifies early motherhood by covering a diversity of relevant subjects such as how much the body hurts even weeks after giving birth; what to do when feeling jealous that your partner goes to work while you are preempted by child care responsibilities for a new born; how to get a spouse to act like a parent and not just an assistant helper; how to protect modesty while publicly breast feeding; and what to do when life with a new baby doesn't turn out quite like you thought it would! Highly recommended reading, The Guilt-Free Guide To Your New Life As A Mom is an invaluable preparation while waiting for baby's arrival, and even more welcome when trying to adjust to baby after she or he has arrived to enliven, enhance, bewilder, and change your life!!

"We are the first generation of mothers to want the best of both worlds, whether or not we work. We want to be able to take care of our own needs and pursue our personal interests in a wide variety of activities inside and outside the home - while we're being great moms." ~Sheryl Gurrentz

While many books on motherhood focus on what you "should do," this book focuses more on how to make becoming a mother an enjoyable experience for YOU.

Is this possible? Can you really make time for yourself and feel guilt-free?

Sheryl Gurrentz has helped thousands of parents redefine their goals. She believes you can have it all. As a trained ?doula,? she has experience couching women before, during and after childbirth. She wants you to know what it will feel like to be a mom and how you can feel good.

She also shows you how to choose baby products, create harmony in your life, make time for yourself, get things done, balance responsibilities and make wise career choices.

The Contents Include:

Adjusting to Motherhood - feelings
Creating Life Balance - time for you, time for baby
Dealing with Physical Changes - what will your body feel like?
Enjoying Nursing - to nurse or bottle-feed, that is the question.
Choosing the right baby products - deciding what you need and how to select items
Managing Family Dynamics - You, Your Partner, the new baby, other children, grandparents.
Making Career-Oriented Transitions - Getting what you need from working, returning to work and becoming a professional mom.
Creating a Safe Home Environment - general baby proofing and safety
Going Out with Your Baby - daily trips and eating out
Traveling with your Baby - planning what to bring and adapting to places you are staying
Finding Baby-Sitters
Finding Child Care

The author encourages you to look at your positive and negative feelings. She suggests making time for a massage or getting a facial to make yourself feel great. Just because you are pregnant, doesn?t mean you can't spoil yourself.

Throughout the book she talks about:

Dealing with Physical changes.
What the difference will be between various forms of childbirth.
How to prepare yourself for nursing. I had no idea there were breast shields.
There is information in this book, I have never read anywhere else.

The "Deciding What You Need" section is extremely good. Sheryl also explains how various items are more practical than others. This will save you money!

Would make a great baby shower gift.

A Unique resource for every mom or woman considering being a mom. 20 Stars for originality!

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Win the Whining War and Other Skirmishes
The Answer is "No"
Survival Tips for Working Moms
The Summer Camp Handbook
Good Friends are Hard to Find

~The Rebecca Review

A look of skepticism crossed my face as a friend handed me this book to read. Being a new, sleep-deprived, working mom, the last thing I thought I could find was time for a little quiet reading, but once I started flipping the pages I was hooked. Sheryl Gurrentz brings her own wisdom as a mother to a fresh new look on parenthood. She uses a mix of humor and real-life testimonials that not only provide good information but priceless wisdom and advice for surviving the many adventures of motherhood. The book talks about everything from dealing with the physical changes after childbirth to evaluating your career and life balance. It is packed with important advice including a resource guide in the back of the book containing contact information for manufactures, organizations and associations that you may need during that first year of motherhood. This book would help any new mom get through the twists and turns ahead. It is a book that new moms will use and treasure.

A great read for anyone that enjoys adventure stories. It may make you want to write your letter of resignation.

This is my second favorite book. My first is Off the Map and my third is To Timbuktu. Jenkins is an outstanding author.

A truly superb book. As a longtime reader of Mark Jenkins' articles in Outside magazine i was always going to buy any book he produced. After reading this book I will continue to buy everything he writes. No other writer out there has the techinque Jenkins does. He not only makes you want to get out and go on an adventure of your own, but he lets you in on his own thoughts while he was out there. He brings the meaning of adventure, the soul of it, right to you. While he is clearly a highly talented climber he never once boasts of his accomplishments, but rather shows that adventure is there for all of us to grab. The best thing about this book; you feel as if you could phone up Jenkins, tell him an adventure you had on your mind to do and ask if he wanted to come. I bet you he would say yes.

Mark Jenkins has one of the most honest and direct writing styles in nonfiction. This book is a collection of his columns from his years at Outside Magazine as well as other publications. When you read his unflinching accounts of his travels you are confronted with not only his exhilaration for whatever his predicament, but also his fears and self-doubt. His type of travel is not the package tour but definitely off-the-beaten-path. It's an unadorned and authentic view of humanity in the midst of challenge, against a backdrop of new vistas.

This was a very cool and exciting book to read. I have never read any of Jenkins's columns but I was intrigued by the premise of the book when listening to him on a radio interview. Jenkins sounds like the guy I want to be, but without the guts. He attacks life....he attacks nature, but he's turned his sojourns all over the world into a sort of an art form.

The book is a collection of adventures and I like the fact that he threw in other different stories in there including an encounter with a thief and parallel storytelling over a number of years.

I realized that it wasn't actually the adventures I enjoyed, but rather the memories and experiences he had while undertaking these adventures. Just like the cliche: "It's not about the destination, but about the journey."

The pace of the book is good and it does not get repetitive so please check this one out.

Have you ever read a book that felt like you were having a conversation with a good friend? Jeff Kane's new book, The Healing Companion makes me feel comforted, entertained, encouraged and enlightened; just as if I'd spent time talking with a good friend.

The book could be considered as a guide toward offering sick loved ones our healing presence. This guidance is valid for anyone relating to someone who is sick and is just as helpful to doctors, nurses and counselors as it is to family members and anyone who has a loved one who is sick.

A quote from page three says "This book will guide you toward offering sick loved ones your healing presence. By learning to ask them exactly how they're suffering and help them express their feelings thoroughly, you'll encourage an atmosphere of honesty. You'll move toward a perspective in which whatever happens physically, the emotional turmoil surrounding it will settle. All involved will benefit from increasing serenity."

I found especially helpful Jeff's discussion of how sick people suffer. He talks about really listening to their suffering and hearing their fears, anxieties, confusion, depression and rages. He says "I learned that people get emotional when they're sick and that fear and anger and despair aren't abnormal; they're a natural feature of sickness. In fact, I'd worry about the mental health of sick people who weren't affected by their consequent feelings. Hearing many hundreds of stories, I gradually learned that people don't generally suffer from their disease as much as from their emotions, the reactions their disease ignites in them." (page seven)

The rest of the chapters in the book are just as juicy and relevant as the above examples. In "Speaking With TLC", Jeff encourages speaking (only after much listening) with truth, leanness and compassion. He gives examples and practical questions to ask ourselves to pass the "TLC" test.

My two favorite chapters are "Welcoming Mystery" and "Healing Yourself". The first deals with the existential questions that illness can stir and the second with "continual" self care. What profound encouragement both offer for living in this world.

I truly enjoyed reading this book (and have read several sections more than once). The wonderful stories of courage and healing inspired me to be a better listener, a better friend and even a better person. Thank you Jeff.

Caregivers who live with a severely ill family member or friend receive a guide on how they can handle life-threatening and life-changing illness. From how to help others heal using one's presence and support to understanding differences between healing and curing, this is packed with advice from the author's own work with cancer support groups, and provides a solid foundation for understanding and growth.

I picked this book up off the shelf because I have been grappling with my husband's recent diagnosis. As his caregiver, I have often felt frantic trying to organize his medications, supplements, and doctors' appointments while searching the internet for some sort of "cure." Jeff Kane very gently brought me back to earth...and to my husband's immediate need for my compassion and calmness. Since reading this wonderful book and putting Dr. Kane's suggestions to use, I have seen a change in my husband's demeanor; a rise in his hopefulness and an abatement of his pain. All I have done is become a more patient, loving and affirming wife. I let him talk about his illness, when and if he wants to. I listen, without judgement or solutions. And I pray for a healing of his body and spirit. Thank you, Dr. Kane, for sharing your wisdom with caregivers- professional and amateur. We can all learn from this book.

Anyone confronted with the serious sickness of a family member of friend will find this sensitive but unsentimental book invaluable. Jeff Kane not only shows how the emotional support and participation of one's friends and family help the sick person in his or her illness (that is, the social and spiritual disclocation and emotional and psychological suffering caused by the disease), but also gives very concrete, practical suggestions on listening, responding, respecting, and feeling and showing compassion. Dr. Kane's insights about the experience of suffering, the devastation it causes and the opportunities it offers both the sick person and the care-giver for self-knowledge and personal transfromation make this a book to be read and reread time and again.

I LOVE this book. I'm a hospice nurse, and fairly comfortable talking with people who are facing their own death, but this is by far the best thing I've read on the topic. Besides being a wonderful, accessible writer, Jeff Kane is funny, wise, and practical. He's obviously done his own spiritual work, and his book shows that. I looked forward to every chapter, each of which seemed to answer a question I'd barely known to ask, and to answer it in a way that has helped me immensely in my practice, as well as in dealing with people in my own life who are dealing with things we wish weren't happening. Get it. Read it. Read it again. I'm on my second copy.

I was so very touched by Fern Stewart Welch's story - and inspired by the book as a whole. She is an amazing seeker and a very good writer. The Heart Knows the Way! is easy to read, poignant, and highly relevant to many dimensions of living. It is certain to help countless people navigate through the challenges that come with loving someone through difficult times.

I was initially drawn to "The Heart Knows the Way" by the beautiful cover illustration and the title. When I picked up the book and noted its size, I was instantly reminded of the half-dozen pocket-size books -- now dog-eared, time-worn and held together by masking tape -- that are my "go to" books when I need an attitude adjustment and to be reminded of and inspired by the goodness in life and in people. "The Heart Knows the Way" is a little book with mighty messages, and it now graces my collection of timeless treasures.

As I read The Heart Knows the Way, I was moved by the author's ability to write with such soul-baring honesty of the experience with her dying husband. Her struggle to find a more loving and enlightened way in which to share her beloved's final journey was intriguing. After years of facing feelings of helplessness and watching her mate lose awareness of their wonderful life, she finally turned within in desperation to seek communion with God. There was something universally familiar not only in her own concept of God, which she said was formed in childhood and ranged "from the ridiculous to the sublime," but in her very human reaction to actually making contact with God. It didn't surprise me that I came to care about these two people, the husband with an irreverent sense of humor, and the woman who was determined to continue their bond of love even when to all appearances it seemed impossible. It wasn't. This is a great read about real people living inspirational lives.

The Incredible Power of Love

In addition to being a tender love story, The Heart Knows the Way is a fascinating example of an individual's ability to successfully merge two powerful concepts to achieve a desired goal. In this instance the author wanted to help her husband through his lengthy death process in a way she had never heard of or read about. We are all, at some time, faced with such deep challenges. She intentionally chose to conscoiusly and thoughtfully be aware of the guidance she (we all) are constantly receivingt, to receive such guidance with harmony and partnership; and reports how she was guided in this process by a personal connection with God. No matter how challenging the "apparent" outside appearances, the author was determined to realize her heart desires in this highly emotional situation. Serving her husband's situation also served as tools for her personal awakening; the situation became the Teacher. On some levels unconsciously, and most apparently fueled by an inner urging, she hooked into a laser-like mental focus that was grounded in such desperate daily need that she was forced to live in the moment. For me, this was but another of the numerous reasons why the lessons in this book are important for each and every one of us. The author's "connection" to Divine Presence being no different from anyone else's. She permitted the situation to be a tool for her fully opening and receiving tht connection, which exists at all times, no matter what our mental state might be. As she said, "There was nothing else." Too often most of us hide in self-pity and feelings of desparation and aloneness - the author helps us understand how to "step-out" of this mindset and accept true and inspired guidance.

Shades of Eckhart Tolle and every spiritual teacher, the author, proponent of the incredible power of love in partnership with the mind and living in the NOW. Here is a present-time, first-person account of how one person pulled it all together, lived it, was transformed by it and now shares the journey. A wonderful and important read, and a great, uplifting confirmation of love, life and the mysterious and incredible eternal and sublime something in which we ALL live, move and have our being. Another tool for our awakening.

Rev. Jerome Allan Landau

In her book, The Heart Knows the Way! Fern Stewart Welch allows us to follow her journey through the passing of her husband. The piercing love and compassion, so eveident on every page, gives us deep understanding of this jounrey. I highly recommend this work for others. Laura Alden Kamm, author Intuitive Wellness; using your body's inner wisdom to heal.

what a terrific read about a young man becoming an adult as he treks from oklahoma to hollywood just after world war II to win a bet made by his uncle. shades of the poingnacy we saw in "lonely are the brave" to be sure, but this book inspires the reader anew as the young man and his horse face complications, danger and exhaustion before their ultimate triumph. there is a wonderful built-in nostalgia given the twilight of the cowboy era depicted here but the story remains both accessible and relevant in today's complex technological world. even with its simplicity of story, you won't be able to put this book down. this is a sure-fire winner; don't miss it!

I couldn't put this book down. The author has an excellent writing style which makes this a page turner. The true-life story of Jerry Van Meter's 1500 mile horse ride to Hollywood in 50 days, to win a bet his Grandfather made with a Hollywood star, captured the heart of this reader. I snuggled in my bed and didn't get up until I finished the book. Patti Dickinson has a fluid writing style, with an exceptional ability to capture the physical, emotional and spiritual essence of a young man's struggle to overcome his secret feelings of inadequacy in a family known for their strong character. He accomplishes this and more on his journey to Hollywood. I would recommend this book to all ages and gender because it just inspires you to walk through your fears, and accomplish your goal, for none other than yourself.

Oklahoma, 1945. Rolla Goodnight and Rolla's best buddy Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton are arguing with Jimmy Wakely, the Hollywood picture cowboy and Monogram Movie Star. Jimmy says the cowboy way of life is as good as dead.

Rolla and Frank know better. They make a small bet with Jimmy: It used to take three months to drive drive a herd of cattle along the Goodnight-Loving Trail between the Brazos and Denver--about fifteen hundred miles. Hollywood was about the same distance. Why, a good cowboy could make it, on horseback, in fifty days. They volunteer Jerry Van Meter, Rolla's grandson for the job.

Jerry honors his grandfather's bet, mounts Fan, his Osage indian pony and heads for Hollywood-the Hard Way.

With only a compass and map to guide him across rangeland, mountains and desert, young Jerry meets and defeats life-threatening danger from man and beast, the elements, loneliness and hunger, becoming a man in the process.

The author vividly parallels Jerry's journey with the newspaper headlines of the day, carrying the reader back to a time when this nation was on the verge of technology, a time when life was still simple and a man's word was his bond.

A true story. A great read.

Amazing true adventure story; a real page turner!

If your grandfather bet a Hollywood movie star cowboy that you could make a little ride to prove that real cowboys still existed and the ways of the old west were not dead, would you do it? Now imagine that in order to win you had to ride a horse 1500 miles from Oklahoma to Hollywood, CA in 50 days, would you? Oh yeah, and throw in barbwire fences, raging rivers, rattlesnakes, murderous robbers, a gunfight, suspicious police, Apaches, and getting lost in the Mojave Desert. Could you? Well, real life hero Jerry van Meter and his Osage indian pony, Fan, almost died doing it in 1946 as the old west was disappearing under post WWII development. He never profited by his adventure. In fact, his grandfather, cowboy legend Rolla Goodnight, never even told him what he bet!

Jerry was barely 20 years old when he made the ride. He is now 73 years old and lives in Kalispell, Montana. By chance, writer Patti Dickinson heard about Jerry when she stopped for a hamburger one day in Montana. It took her a year to track him down and verify his story. She tells it in a straight-ahead style that makes you feel that you are riding along with Jerry and Fan all the way. Thank you Ms. Dickinson for finding and preserving a fascinating part of our American history.

Dickinson has done a skillful job of bringing twentieth century history alive through the life of an Oklahoma individual whose saga is fascinating. Well-written, I found this book to be a great way to enjoy popular history and learned many things I didn't know about the recent past and the people who moved through it.

Excellent service and speedy delivery. My mistake was that I have the book already! Never mind, it will make a good present for someone. For some reason I thought I had ordered a book I did not have.

From this author's background comes the wisdom to write profound truths wrapped inside simple stories that delight one's mental appetite and creates a savoring for more!

Barbara Brown Taylor is one of the most thoughtful and creative of writers. I would highly recommend this and any of her other books to anyone looking to help understand, deepen, or explore their faith in God.

Not long ago I confessed to a dear friend. I reminded Milly that I review some sermon books without reading every sermon! After she had gasped, uttering words of disbelief, I explained that few books of even short sermons contain equally good sermons. On first hearing Barbara Brown, attending the Lectionary Homiletics Conference I remember how I was stirred emotionally, mentally, and spiritually with her dramatic imagination. I was seized by her creative images from the stories in whatever passage of scripture she had chosen.

On hearing her lectures about Job, I definitely looked forward to reading "Home By Another Way." Here I found one earlier excerpts, entitled, "Out of the Whirlwind." This is one of a few sermons in which she quotes from two sources, in those early lectures. I was impressed by friend, John Claypool's tributes to her "rare constellation of gifts: intellectual carefulness and depth," all coupled with an artistic sense of image-making. That alone speaks volumes!

With my usual skipping over a few sermons, I was most attracted to: "God's Beloved Thief, Home by Another Way, God's Ferris Wheel, Lenten Disciples, A Tale of Two Heretics, Life Giving Fear(from time in CPE) "It Is Finished, Out of Whirlwind, Bothering God." Most were notable for looking up-close at her perspective with intimate viewpoints by using tough disclaimers! They often appeared in beginings, mid-way or near her ending. There is one unique hitch in her re-telling the basic story: she often adds a touch of creative imagination to develop the problem with clever resolution relating to basic forgivness of weakness, judgement, or justice,

Placed within all ten books, I designate this one in being near the top of her Lectures and Sermons. From a semi-retired admirer and retired Chaplain, Fred W Hood

If you enjoy Barbara Brown Taylor's style of down-home wisdom and exposition on biblical texts, this is another worthy volume to add to your personal library. This book is a compilation of sermons that takes one through the various seasons unique to the Church. It is refreshing to reflect upon the texts that she has chosen-to hear anew the good news.

Knowing where this island is and most of the people mentioned in the book, I have discovered that there is a lot to learn about the place I call home myself.
The book is very easy to read and is so true to life out here in the West Indies. I really hope the author and his wife enjoy their paradise!

A delectable read. Robert and Sara, will you be there when we get there? I hope so.

On busy days filled with interruptions and stress, I often fantasize about escaping to an island paradise. Which is precisely what author Robert Benson and his wife have customarily done each year on their anniversary. Over the decades, they have polished this yearly trip into a fine art. Benson takes us along in Home By Another Way.

Having raised children, attended church, and built careers, Benson and his wife holiday on the islands and bring home with them a piece of paradise. "Not only is our calendar a little skewed," Benson wrote, "we do not even operate on what others would call a normal workday schedule, either. In the first place, we both work at home, and our workday does not begin with a traffic report. My commute is about thirty-five steps to my studio in the back garden. Sara does not even leave the house; her office is in the little parlor at the end of the hall." Back home in Tennessee, the Bensons have learned to live on island time.

An incurable romantic, Benson helps readers find the holy in the ordinary. Home By Another Way celebrates the simple things in life including family heirloom furniture, appreciation for our personal preferences, and the comfortable conversation traditions between people who have spent a lifetime getting to know each other. In between the picturesque descriptions of beach, sunset, and birds are the witty observations and gallant humor of the all-grown-up son of beloved writer and speaker, the late Bob Benson and self-proclaimed nester and winsome speaker, Peggy Benson. - PeggySue Wells, Christian Book Previews.com

This has to be one of the most romantic books I've ever read--and I'm a huge Jane Austen fan! I love how the writer sees the world. And the love that shines through on each page--love for this island AND love fo his wife. What a wonderful book that I will read again and again.

Robert Benson is my favorite author, and he has done it again! This time, I don't need to pack to go on vacation. Instead, I get to relax and slow down on a beautiful island with people I love. As always, Robert Benson causes my soul to remember what is really important in and about life. Don't miss this opportunity to kick-back and enter into a simpler more reflective world. Perfect for a day on the beach or a night on the couch. You'll love it!

This book was an excellent read and tells a wonderful story of the power of family and faith. It should remind people that most people are genuinely good people who are drawn down less that desirable paths in life. Thankfully, the love and family and a strong faith can bring a lost soul back.
I couldn't put the book down once I began reading it - I finished it in the doctor's office with tears in my eyes. A heartfelt story that can touch anyone who reads it and encourage them to re-examine their ways.
Kudos, Jessica!

From the first page this book will grasp your emotions! You will accompany "Stephanie," a modern century prodigal daughter, in her heart journey of fun, frustraion, despair, confusion, fear, pain, education, riches, love, and shattered dreams into true reality, clear direction, and deep hope, love, joy, and peace! There is not one dull moment in the story! Teens, young to older adults, singles, married, moms and dads will all richly enjoy and gain from this book. "I Took the Long Way Home" is a great gift giver. Each person I have given it to thus far have been wonderfully affected by it. What a testimony of the amazing grace of God!

The author tells her own story of veering from a Christian life of loving and serving the Lord, to a world many more of us, as teenagers, experienced: rebellion, deceit, and the belief that, at 16, we know what is best for ourselves. This is an amazing recount of the lives of Stephanie's parents, how they found the Lord, and how they nurtured this love of Christ in their daughter. It is a heartwrenching tale of parental love, loyalty and support, even while facing their daughter's teenaged pregnancy. After reading this book I felt uplifted and inspired, and had a much clearer understanding of my own "way home" to a more fulfilling relationship with the Lord.

This INSPIRATIONAL story of a young girl who has opened up her very heart and given us a glimse into some of the deepest hurts, the understandable fears, and the most blessed joys that a human being can experience in life.
This was truly the BEST book I have ever read. No other book except the Bible has made me cry so much, laugh so hard, pray ,or thank God for saving us, as much as this book did.
It is a must read. Max Lucado, Stephen Ambrose, Calven Miller, were some of my favoriet authors and as good as they are Jessica Parenti is now my #1 can't wait for Her next book
Billy Walsh Deptford N.J.

This is a wonderful account of transformation and redemption; a woman of the world becomes a woman of God. A fast paced page turner, we track the life a woman searching for answers, a woman who, by society's standards, has everything yet in her heart has nothing.After much soul searching,she finds her answers at the beginning, where they have always been.She returns home, literally, metaphorically and spiritually and thankfully embraces her long lost faith.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has lost their moorings and is searching for the path home. I look forward to the author's next work.