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I have read several other books by this author and this book was just ok. I thought that it was very slow pased. I took a little to long to find out why he was there. Other than that I could handle the book, but it was force feed. But other than that the book was just ok for me. I know that everyone has their own points of view and reading preferences, but this was just my input to those as a forwarning.

This is an excellent book for anyone that fantasizes about a dominating selfless man!

What was happening to her? Heiress Fallon Hanover had always been in charge - of a huge business empire, of her wayward family members. Until dark, disturbingly different Kane Kincaid literally exploded into her life with such sexual force, she had no means to fight him...even if she'd wanted to.

The strangely foreign man led her down a sensual path that both thrilled and frightened her. One by one Kane wore down her defenses, until he'd gained total control of her mind, her body, her heart. But when she'd satisfied all his needs, he demanded one more thing of her: to say goodbye.

Because he had to go back to the future.

If you want to know more about Rebecca Harding Davis and the way her talent and life were subjugated to her husband's ambitions, read "Survival by Surrender" in "Something More - Excavating Your Authentic Self" by Sarah Ban Brethnach.

Excellent choices. Highly recommended for your Womens Studies research or just for a pleasure read. I particularly love "The Yellow Wallpaper." A fascinating look in the shackled mind of stifled feminine creativity.

This book is inspirational as well as educational by transitioning between Romanticism and Realism. The work challenges the reader to decide whether it refers simply to the prospect of salvation for a man convicted of stealing. Also questions are raised that is it possible that through the naturalistic view that Hugh's theft he can be excused by his unfortunate environment and heredity. Davis is an insightful and thoughtful writer, and this book represents that.

Such an excellent tale to be derailed by emotional hang-up [which are sometimes natural] but to still hop into bed? Don't make sense. Just another "if it feels good, do it".

Jake Cochran has spent ten years searching for his siblings - two sisters who probably don't even remember him - as he was five years old when they were separated.

Cassidy Atkins was a close friend of Jake in their teenage years but she wanted to follow her dream to become a lawyer. So she took off to California and lost all contact [deliberatly] with Jake. She was afraid.

Cassidy's father had died and she finally got around to going through his records. She found a box that contained information that might help Jake to find his sisters.
With Jake smarting under her rejections he orders her to leave his house.
She finds a piece of paper with a phone number on it - therein starts all of their problems as she makes contact with an unknown source.

Oh Boy, does it really start to take off now. Jake depends on Harrison Gordon, his number one employee and a crackerjack P.I. to help him find out where the danger is coming from.

Jake is good at the cloak-and-dagger mode but it takes Cassidy a while to tune in. I really loved their on-the-run evasions - their close calls with the men following them, only one step behind.

One clue always leads to another - keeping you on the edge - there are some unexpected thrills and very unexpected secrets to be revealed.
Who was Burak Sansal? A spy? A double agent? and did he know Jake's parents?

Jake's and Cassidy's unresolved romance leaves me a bit ticked with her and her weird fears and her willingness to have sex just for the present. Too much like the alley-cats.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED --M - as the 1st book in a trilogy - definitely looking forward to the next two. Hope the sisters have a better emotional take on life.

First book in the "Hide and Seek" trilogy by Kearney: The Hidden Years (#636), Hidden Hearts (#640), and Lovers in Hiding (#644).

Description from the book back cover:

He'd opened his heart to her ... Jake Cochran was eighteen when Cassidy Atkins walked out of his life. Now, he had no intention of letting the beautiful attorney get close to him. When Cassidy discovered her father had withheld documents Jake needed to uncover secrets of his past, she wanted to help him in his search. Except her well-meant efforts put them both in mortal danger. Forced to work together to elude their deadly pursuers, they couldn't ignore the attraction that shimmered between them. But when passion turned to love, Cassidy risked everything to convince Jake that this time he could trust her with his heart ...

This is one in a set. The Hidden Years is very good.

It starts with lovely lawyer Cassidy bringing some papers and legal 'stuff' to an old friend named Jake. Jake has been searching for his sisters for 10 years. Cassidy found papers pertaining to this search in her deceased father's stuff.
A rocky start between two people, a horrible attack on Cassidy by a stranger and the the book is off and running.

IT has a catchy beginning the drags you in to the story. There are twists and turns in this book that I find common for Susan Kearny novels, they keep you interested and reading. The romance is believable. Very enjoyable.

I read Harlequin Intrigue because they are quick reads. I like mysteries and I like love stories. These combine both. I like HI books by Susan Kearney. Enjoyable.

An excellent book! The most wonderful fact is that it was written in the time when people were killing for religion. I am not sure how sensational this book would be if it were written in the 20-th century when people stopped assigning such great significance to religion, but for his time and place (especially Ireland!) a man had to be really brave to write something as contraversial as this.

The book focuses on the famous Toland work "Christianity Not Mysterious". Toland tried, in his opinion, to clean the Christianity of all strange elements that destroy his original purpose. Toland thank that the correct way to realize his purpose was the strictly use of reason. But Toland, at the same time, reflects a strong rationalism, if we use a common expression in philosophy of religion, that cause an enormous opposition of the stablished Church in Ireland. The book also contains another texts that complement that work. The big merit of this publication is to put in only one book some critical views, that gives unity to it. I think is higly recommended for persons that want to study seriously the English deism.

Toland's oft-cited Deistical work reads as apologetic rather than truly controversial. The actual rhetorical attacks on Christianity are found not in what Toland says, but rather what he doesn't. Toland frequently sets up strong, reason-based objections to fundamentally held religious "truths" only to excuse them with deliberately weak responses. The burden of truth carefully remains with the defenders of revelation and is never realized in this debate Toland pretends to have with himself.
Other than the occasional questioning of clerical interpretations (Toland frequently expounds a commonly held truism and after defending it philosophically on it's own "merits" he often adds at the end, as if to paralyze the Church with indecision regarding his infidelity, "if it be true.") he pretends agreement with the Church in nearly every doctrinal detail.
In this pre-pantheist dissertation, Toland's words are nearly silent with respect to a true rebellion against the established dogma of the Church, but the unwritten screams to a deafening crescendo for an immediate ascension to unrevealed reason.
With cunning and an apparently insatiable appetite for controversy, Toland does a marvelous job of appearing to walk the literary fence dividing the heathens from the faithful. But an occasional glace between the lines will leave no doubt as to where he truly stood.

The Secret of me is a good book that is based on a kid that is adopted. When you start to read this book you wont be able to put it down because its so good. But the best part about this book is the format becasue it is poetry. The Secret of me is a book that all of you should and see what is it like to be adopted.

I bought this book at the recommendation of a friend, and was initially concerned that the format (poetry) wouldn't hold me. Turns out it was so engaging and fluid that I couldn't put it down. Like the lead character, I'm adopted and this book really captured the essence of growing up with a "secret me". I laughed and cried, and bought extra copies for friends and family. It's a moving, beautifully written book. Cheers and thank you Meg Kearney!

It seems pretty daring to attempt "a novel in verse" for young adults---how many of them read poetry?---but Meg Kearney brings so much passion, narrative skill, technical ability, and insider's insight to this wonderful little book that kids (and adults) will love it. There's a very engrossing story here, told in a novel way. Make that a poetic way. I have friends and relatives who were adopted, and I never felt such understanding and empathy for them as I did after reading this book. I hope "The Secret of Me" gets the attention it deserves.

These guys are good at anagrams, but not exactly great. Didn't they ever think of just flipping the word backwords? It's funnier than all that weird stuff they come up with.

Still, I have to say that "Wrma Viocse Rerangaed" kept my mind occupied. An excellent read, for someone who hasn't quite read as much as I have! Every once in a "blue moon," this picky fellar has to skiddaddle back to his truck, take out your food, and all this time something has been eating away at your insides, but it's not anagrams. There is a special focus of the read, a flipping back and funniness that happens. How can I break it to you? Spend it here and you won't be sorry. Like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, it's a wild ride.

I find it difficult enough to make an anagram of my name...these guys managed to make, not only anagrams from long sentences, but comments fitting to the original sentence!
Because the anagrams are imaginative and unrelenting with biting remarks (picking on rock stars), I was in stitches.
The forward contains interesting tidbits on the history of anagrams too.

I find it difficult enough to make anagrams from my name...these guys not only managed to make anagrams from phrases, but meaningful ones that are fitting to the original sentence!
Their anagrams from Rock Star's album titles can be viewed as fittenly offensive (in most cases) which makes them all the more amusing.
In addition, the forward contains interesting information on the history of anagrams.

I was happy to find this product on Amazon at a price that I could afford. It's an older edition, but it worked just fine for me. Good read for any nurse.

We are pleased to select Dr. Kearny's Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing as the textbook for Transition to Professional Nursing, the foundational course in our RN to BSN completion program. The book is expertly written by professionals within the field of nursing who have an appreciation for the needs of returning RN students in a unique training environment. From time management to conflict resolution in a dynamic health care setting, this book covers it all. It is simply a panoply of the essential ingredients needed to cultivate the nursing leaders of tomorrow. In a word, it is excellent.

Like her ancestors before her, Princess Dara held her claim to the misty lands of Leinster with fierce determination. So when Strongheart,a Norman knight rode into Ireland declaring he would help defend her castle, Dara swore to never yield ////////////

Really enjoyed this book. Interesting, well plotted. Holds your interest from start to finish

This was in great condition, good price. Arried fast. Would buy from here again. Eerything as advertised

Hays and Kearney are well know for their edited readers. This text is a compilation of articles from leading writers in the field of public personnel management. As such, the book serves as a useful discussion text within the classroom environment. The subjects treated run the gamut of personnel issues, but most noteworthy are the articles on constitutional law, public ethics, and civil service reform.

This book is a collection of essays written in the mid-1980's by a group of dedicated scholars who spend countless hours interviewing participants in the Mexican Revolution and reviewing archives. It focuses on the Revolution from a grassroots basis, and I think that the work of some of these authors has been responsible for the shift of emphasis from a national sort of scenario to the that which is based on the concept of the "patria chica", which was the actual operating model in the perceptions of the majority of participants.

Among the giants of Revolution scholarship who participated in the development of this book is Friedrich Katz, whose mammoth work, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa is, for all effects and purposes, the definitive work on the subject, EXCEPT that within THIS work, one can see right away that his very contemporaries who were working almost side by side with him at the time of his own research reached some different conclusions and covered some very important material that he both overlooked and failed to see the importance of. This statement particularly applies to the essay by Maria Teresa Koreck, "Space and Revolution in Northeastern Chihuahua", which defines the concept of the "patria chica" and very conclusively proves, in my opinion, that this was the motivating force in the revolutionary soldiers and cadres themselves. One can see from this essay that the troops of Villa, who were descended from Apache fighters and a generation before the arrival of the militarized colonists in the mid-19th century, from a rather `indianized' population, saw him as something like a great Indian war chief - sort of a Geronimo for the "patria chica".

Another essay that very much caught my attention was that of Ruben Osorio, entitled "Villismo: Nationalism and Popular Mobilization in Northern Mexico", which I think influenced Katz quite a bit, as Osorio and Katz collaborated a lot. In this essay, the roots of the Revolution in Mexico are made quite clear, and the long buildup of hostilities between the militarized villagers who had fought the Apache wars and the oligarchic families such as the Terrazas are made clear, with a number of regional conflicts that predated the Revolution brought into focus. Osorio states that, for all effects and purposes, the Revolution began with the rebellion in Tomochic, and it didn't end until the surrender of Villa in 1920. It was, then, a series of regional and sometimes isolated conflicts lasting some 30 years, with the common thread being the defense of the `patria chica' from the encroachment of hacendados and latifundistas.

Organizers like Flores Magon and Madero entered almost as interlopers in conflicts that had been ongoing, and were not about to subside with their exit from the scene. Leaders like Villa really didn't need any ideology to lead these fighters. It was enough that they were seen as the natural leaders for tribal societies.

Another important aspect that one sees, particularly in the essay of Koreck, was the importance of the Ojinaga region, where cattle were sold in Presidio, Texas and arms were purchased from the German Jewish merchant John Klienmann (mentioned in John Reed's "Insurgent Mexico") in defiance of the frequent embargoes against Villa that were set in place by the US government. On a day to day basis, this type of activity is what actually kept alive the movements of Madero and later Villa, and it would behoove historians to amplify studies along these lines. This whole setup was organized before the first shots were fired in 1910 by Madero, Abram Gonzales, Toribio Ortega, and even Villa himself: these gentlemen concluded some business arrangements with the local ranchers, most likely under aegis of the bank, for the financing of the Revolution, there on US soil in Presidio, Marfa, and Shafter. Ortega probably made most of the arrangements, as far as the finer details, while the revolutionary organizers in Ojinaga, the Sanchez family, Jose de la Cruz Sanchez and Idelfonso Sanchez, carried out the ongoing business at later dates thoughout the course of the conflict, selling cattle in Presidio and paying Kleinmann for mountains of 30-30 and Mauser ammunition that was passed into Ojinaga with the complicity of US customs officials.

What I see as a real shame is that Koreck, who was probably the most astute scholar of Villa ever, has not published more material. Supposedly she has a huge collection of archives in Argentina that she gathered over the course of years of dedicated study, but she is yet to publish a major volume. If she did, people would soon forget about Katz, who spent 30 years himself collecting and organizing material, but then published a work full of inaccuracies and misconceptions derived from, apparently, his haste to assemble the volume.

This collection enriches a growing body of scholarship that focuses on the roles played (or sometimes not played) by subaltern peoples (i.e. peasants, workers...)in the making of modern Latin America. Focusing on Mexico, this volume contains spirited debates on peasant nationalism and, as its title suggests, on the conspicuous and inconspicuous power of US capital and policy during the Porfiriato (1876-1911)and the opening scenes of the Revolution (1911-?). Its main problem lies not in content or structure, but in delivery. Needless jargon permeates this volume, and, unfortunately, shuts out a great many readers.