Windsor Books

This book explains clearly and succinctly through ancient teachings and the author's amazing personal experiences why extraterrestrials are here, what kinds or `species' there are and their spiritual vs. their technological evolution and more. But if you think THAT'S the interesting part, wait till you read the rest!! It reveals amazing things about the Hopi Indians, our connection with Atlantis, Lemuria, secret inner earth tunnels, and so much more! Plus, it's written by a cheery, caring monk so it's filled with humor and 'down to earth' spirituality (The Golden Rule - love thy neighbor).

Very eye opening and impressive! I am an avid ufologist and have always found bits and pieces of what I knew to be a much bigger picture. This series "connects the dots" and takes you on a fascinating and intimate journey of personal experiences, revelations and provides answers to some long-standing questions. Thank you, Mr. Peniel!

This third part of the Experiences with Aliens and U.F.O.s series is filled to the brim with humor, covers a wide variety of topics and shares profound spiritual teachings that will 'ring your inner bells of truth'. It also extends on and clarifies some of the other things talked about in the previous books. The spirituality in the previous two parts made it so much more, and this part is no exception to that.

Written in a style which makes you feel like you're having an actual inter-personal conversion with someone who has vast experience with life from other worlds. Very fun to read, and revealing. Some unexpected surprises too.

This book has a "keep you on the edge of your seat" reading quality to it. Even though it is very easy to read and understand, it gives the feeling to the reader that the lecturer, Jon Peniel, really respects and understands any reader's understanding, fear or wonderment of UFOs and aliens. The books give the reader a feeling of being right there during the conversations, and the alien experiences! The question and answer format of the books makes the information and the amazing stories very real and undoubtedly believable. Besides the broad universally accepted information of aliens/UFOs that the books portray, they give key insights into personal growth and development. Those have really helped me. I really got a great deal of satisfaction from reading this book as well as learning really important lessons on reasons and purposes for UFOs and aliens.

Very eye opening and impressive! I am an avid ufologist and have always found bits and pieces of what I knew to be a much bigger picture. This series "connects the dots" and takes you on a fascinating and intimate journey of personal experiences, revelations and provides answers to some long-standing questions. Thank you, Mr. Peniel!

The old saying, "Thar's gold in them thar hills" is one most North Americans would quickly associate with the California Gold Rush of 1849. Or even with the modern-day quest for fame and fortune in today's Hollywood. However, as George A. Montgomery illustrates in THE EYE OF THE EAGLE, the first major gold rush was not a California thing at all but an event that took place some twenty years before the move west and that was centered around Auraria, Georgia, arguably not the most famous tiny place in the world. Appropriately enough, many of those elements which have made the celebrated western saga so compelling and endurable are just as prevalent, if not more so, in its southern counterpart. Conflicts between would-be settlers and Native Americans, the adventurous quest for wealth, and the rugged existence that was life in 1828 all make for a captivating read. And while there is no dearth of information on such indigenous Georgia tribes as the Creek and Cherokee, Montgomery's novel shed a very telling light on the roll gold played in the forced removal of these groups from the state during that campaign referred to rather poetically as "The Trail of Tears." Novels like this not only entertain and inform but make a real difference in our understanding of the history already behind us and the history currently unfolding.
Aberjhani
author of THE WISDOM OF W. E. B. DU BOIS
and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Anyone who has ever caught a glimpse of a shiny fleck of gold in rich black sand knows how gold fever can drive a man to spend hours to weeks panning for gold in the hopes of striking it rich. George Montgomery writes of such a fever and the effects it has on the lives of the people in the northern Georgia town. The Eye of the Eagle is a fast paced entertaining novel as well as a historical account of the effect the gold rush had on the Cherokee tribe. It leaves you wondering if the tale is true, and if there may in fact be an eye of the eagle somewhere in the Georgia hills

All of Miss Read's books are a pleasure to read. I have collected all of them. In an uncertain and dangerous world, her books give respite and peace for a time.

This is a wonderful, old-fashioned series. She is no longer writing, but the Fairacre and Thrush Green books are well worth checking out and she was a very prolific writer, so you will have a lot of good reading. If you enjoy Jan Karon or Janette Oke, you will enjoy Miss Read's books.

Great book. Once I started reading it I could not put it down until I finished it.

Euphemia Martin hates her name and wishes she could grow up faster. Her older sister and that crowd of friends want to shut tomboy Effie out of their activities, starting with a "welcome back" picnic outing for Lawrence Earle. Lawrence wants no truck with the girls and in slipping away from them, he and the outcast Effie bump into each other during an exciting and daring adventure. They become supportive friends and Lawrence is particularly in favor of Euphemia's name and what its original meaning is from the Bible. Effie sets out to see if she can change her reputation and truly become graceful Euphemia - "Of Good Report". Tremendous coming-of-age saga sans the usual romance from Grace Livingston Hill, but a delightfully absorbing story.

Wow, Desmond Bagley is good! This was my first novel by this author, but definitely not the last. "The Freedom Trap" is a taut, unpredictable, totally absorbing story about a top-secret operation to take down an organized crime ring and a Russian spy in one stroke. There are twists and turns, an international chase, intense action scenes and a larger conspiracy as the story unfolds. Bagley was definitely a master of the thriller genre in the British tradition of Ian Fleming and Alistair Maclean, with a very polished and vivid style of writing. His influence on popular writers like DeMille, Ludlum and Follett is clear--but where they might take four or five hundred pages to tell a story, Bagley does it in 250. This makes for a very lean, fast-paced novel, which I found impossible to put down. If you haven't tried this author, do yourself a favor and get some of his books. Absolutely top shelf!

I hadn't heard of Desmond Bagley when I came across this book. What had attracted me to this book was a comment by a critic that this book puts Bagley into Alistair Maclean's category. Personally I think this book far exceeds anything that Maclean ever wrote. An amazing plot that stays with you forever !

Rory Connor is a gambling man plain and simple. Born into a poor family, even his mum knows that someday he will make something of himself. He collects rents from the local habitants for the local gentry. The patriarch dies, leaving his plain, spinster daughter to carry on the family business.

Rory is pressed to find gambling games that will afford him more cash in order to buy a house for his upcoming marriage and a small business venture for his brother. Rory pilfers a small amount of cash to enter a fixed game with the Pitte brothers, a local gang. A mistake that cost him Rory his conscious as a close friend goes to jail for a year for thievery Rory committed. He manages to win a large amount of money but is badly beaten and left for dead.

While recuperating he is visited by his fiancé and also Charlotte Kean, the lady of the manor. It's easy to see that she is smitten with him and continues to engage him in his rent collector's role.

He marries his intended but is plagued with guilt over his misdeed and confesses during a nightmare. His new wife is furious at what he's done and leaves him to return to her family. She is then commissioned by the mistress she works for to accompany their family on sea voyage, where they are all lost at sea. While mourning is loss, a year goes by and Rory is promoted to bookkeeping by Charlotte.

Finally no longer able to contain her affections for Rory, Charlotte makes propositions him with an offer of marriage--in name only. He will not be required to fill his marital duties and will in fact reside in his own apartments.
Rory of course makes her his wife in every way, giving her a happiness that she could only dream of.

Charlotte has been busy collecting evidence against the Pitte brothers and a crew of malcontents that plague the docks, and in fact were responsible for beating Rory and other crimes against the local humanity.

Though everyone is whispering about Rory's marriage to Charlotte, he finds himself falling in love with his plain, gentle wife. She informs him that she is with child, and he is beyond happy--until he learns that his first wife has returned, a shell of her former beautiful self, and bitter when she finds out that he has remarried.
She threatens to expose him even as Rory declares to her that he loves his new wife and that she is expecting.

The Pitte brother's burn Rory's brother's business and redemption is satisfied when Rory enters the burning building to save him. With his body on fire, he manages to save his sibling, but incurs fatal burns and survives long enough to declare his love once more to charlotte.

Catherine Cooks tells stories the way we author's today are no longer allowed to. Always filled with passion, and redemption, Catherine always showed the cruelty as well as the beauty in the lives of those who weren't always rich and powerful. Her stories includes their downfall, as well as their redeeming qualities. As with most of her books, I highly recommend THE GAMBLING MAN.

This book begins in a very poor district of a city in England during the Industrial Revolution. The division between classes is very notorious. I have to admit that I found myself struggling for the first 100 pages or so, but then afterwards I was hooked. I am not to unveil the main trama but this is the story of a man that fights his way up the slums (with some help) and at this point the author provides us with many surprises, up until the end of the book. Things that had been building up in the 100 previous pages finally start falling together in a carefully laid out fashion, and a very romantic way. The feelings are intense.

Joan Smith wrote Regency romance novels as far back in time as 1977. I have never read a Joan Smith romance that I did not enjoy. Like Georgette Heyer, her books are all keepers. Somehow, I have misplaced my copy so I am buying a new one.

Zoe, who in Regency times is old enough to be considered a spinster, lives with her widowed mother on a small estate next to the large estate of Lord Weylin, whose family is extremely wealthy and extremely snobbish.

Zoe is an artist. She decides that the tower room where her maternal Irish uncle used to live will be perfect as a studio for her. While clearing out the room to prepare it for painting, she finds a necklace, one that she recognizes as belonging to Lord Weylin's family. How did her uncle come to have this necklace? There is only one thing to do, she must visit Lord Weylin's mother (a very indolent woman who dotes on her obnoxious dog) and stash the necklace somewhere to be found by Lord Weylin's family later.

When she arrives for her visit, Lord Weylin happens to be home. He is very suspicious by this sudden visit from a neighbor he hardly knows (he hardly knows any of his neighbors, most are so far below him socially).
He catches Zoe in the room where he keeps his collection of valuable Chinese vases (she is thinking of dropping the necklace in a vase). He thinks she is trying to steal one of his vases and demands to see what she is hiding behind her back. He too recognizes the necklace which has been missing from his family for a long time.

The mystery of how Zoe's uncle came to possess the necklace intrigues both Zoe and Lord Weylin (for different reasons). Both proceed, at first independently, to investigate the history of the necklace and discover the truth. There are some hilarious scenes during the hunt to track down how her uncle came to possess the necklace.

The main characters, Zoe and Lord Weylin, are drawn well as they always are in Joan Smith's romance novels. Zoe is charming from page 1. The reader, along with Zoe, learns to like Lord Weylin very well (who starts out quite dislikeable). The supporting characters in the plot are well drawn and amusing too, especially Zoe's mother and her housekeeper.

One of my favorite scenes in the book is when Lord Weylin asks Zoe to meet him in her family's rose garden. Zoe dresses carefully, eagerly anticipating this romantic night meeting under the stars. When Lord Weylin arrives by horse and sits on the bench with her, she thinks he might kiss her -- instead he starts smelling his jacket to see if he smells of horse sweat. The repartee between Zoe and Lord Weylin throughout the novel is delightful.

One of my absolute favorite Joan Smith books-- this one is a keeper!

While arranging her new studio, Zoie finds a valuable stolen necklace secreted in her late uncle's belongings-- and makes the mistake of trying to return it to the rightful owner. Lord Weylin catches her trying to sneak the necklace back, and so begins a delightful search for the meaning behind this mystery.

Excellent characters like Mrs. Brodagan ("Mrs. Brodagan had never known marital bliss, for which every bachelor in Christendom should get down on his knees and thank the Almighty.") populate the book, and the growing romance between Weylin and Zoie is delightful, zany, and full of the witty dialogue for which Joan Smith is famous.

An engagingly written dramatic novel about the life of Jane Shore, who was born and grew up in Cheapside, London before being married by her father to a goldsmith, William Shore.

Jane is saucy, wilful, passionate, exquisitely beautiful and with a heart of gold.
She is wooed by King Edward IV in disguise and becomes his favoured mistress. Her compassion for the poor of London and her forgiving nature prove her as a saint.
The death of Edward and the power of King Richard leads her into being drawn into intrigues by her passion for Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and also becomes the mistress William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings.
Shore outlines her view of the relationship of mistress Shore to these men.
After the fall of Hastings, Jane is forced to do a cruel penance of being walking through London in a procession, dressed only in a kirtle and carrying a taper, to St Paul's cross, watched by ogling men and jeering crowds.
She was then imprisoned in the ghastly Ludgate prison in London.
As we follow the life of a phenomenal and engaging woman, who it is impossible not to feel the utmost sympathy for, we get a real window into medieval London.
Plaidy uses the novel also to put forward her theory that the princes in the tower, Edward and Richard, were not killed on the orders of Richard III, but on the orders of Henry Tudor (Henry VII) after he took the throne.

What a marvellous story. From the cradle to the grave, we follow a woman who has the (mis)fortune to win the heart of the King. And Plaidy, true to form, plops the story right into the middle of history-in-the-making, where Jane Shore is driven by her passion to love first Edward IV and then finds herself in quite a bind, again and again. Jane could choose a simple, easy life with her betrothed - or she can risk everything for the love and heart of a King. I really enjoy how Plaidy doesn't gloss over anything in her novels about the lives her characters live. From the simplest acts such as cooking and riding and everyday life, to the massive banquets and the punishments for criminals of the day, Plaidy gives her readers an "inside view" into what life was really like in Medeival times -- and you don't realize that you are learning until you've finished the book!