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This book amazed me. It opened my heart to feeling such love and bliss that it seemed I was standing in the Rose Garden of Love Adi Da was depicting. As I read further he revealed that I am fully capable of entering into this sensual, blissful domain of perfect love he offers, that I am already in and only have to become aware that this is so. It blew my mind that I and everyone can feel this love at all times if we follow his instructions about how to relate to him and everything.

Hridaya Rosary is, without question, the greatest poetry ever spoken.

What purpose could art and poetry ever serve, but the awakening of the heart to love beyond darkness, beyond any further clenching need? Hridaya Rosary, or the Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction, pierced me in just that way. There is no preparation I could have had for the sublimity that awaited me. I couldn't spoil the surprise for you even if I tell you the ending.

Many books, perhaps too many, are on today's bookstore shelves trying to explain what God is. But if you want to actually feel the Divine in what you are reading, I recommend the Hridaya Rosary, the Four Thorns of Heart Instruction. There I found crystal clarity side-by-side with the language of ecstatic love. Adi Da writes poetry of deep wisdom and incredible passion. He writes in such a profound way that the Truth slid around my chattering mind and touched my heart and soul. Rarely can written words move me into a state of deeply relaxed being and heightened awareness, but the Four Thorns has this power.

The Hridaya Rosary is profoud, sublime and utterly brilliant. No scripture or esoteric spiritual text can equal the magnificence or the overwhelmingly direct transmission of tangibly felt Love-Bliss this book and the essays and talks which accompany it convey. Adi Da Samraj does not spout poetry in the conventional sense. His words inherently go beyond language. I couldn't (and I don't think anyone can) read this book in a conventional way, for it took me on a deep feeling odyssey into the ultimate spiritual process. I found its mysteries are fundamentally unspeakable, but spoken with perfect eloquence and discrimination. Every cell of the body was screaming YES! to this outrageously sensual, delightful infusion of Divine-Bliss. Adi Da Samraj writes, "I Am not elsewhere, and yet I Am Infinitely Beyond... evey thing and every one Is in Me." This book convinces me that this is completely true.

In one essay in this book, Adi Da says, "You cannot merely read my Wisdom-Teaching and 'get it'". He is right. I found that these writings were addressing some part of me far deeper than the thinking mind or even the emotional being. Throughout the book, he describes and recommends a process of "melting down" which I found overewhelmingly attractive at the deepest level. Carrying out the instructions in the book has re-arranged my orientation to life and my place in it. I feel more real, more balanced, more sane than ever before.

The essays and talks in Hridaya Rosary are sophisticated. When I tried to grapple with them mentally I just became frustrated. When I was able to relax the mind, then the words somehow enforced themselves at a primal point in me, at the heart. In these moments the wisdom of the book became intuitively clear and I felt a profound relief. At these times, it was obvious that the way things really are, Reality (with a capital R), is much different from what I ordinarily assume.

I believe this is the most efficacious instruction I have ever read.

The Jazz Age is typically associated the smoke, grime and bustle of New York, Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. Yet, in Hudson Lake, all the music, love, lust and gangland follies associated with the period occurs in a Midwestern locale far off the beaten path, where Chicagoans would go to feel the cooling breezes off Lake Michigan, take a few sips from their hip flasks and listen to the sounds of the age.

Macuzza Toops breathes new life into Indiana's summer resort area as she interweaves the stories of ordinary folks from the period with Bix Biederbecke and his bandmates, Al Capone and the Ku Klux Klan. The result is a highly entertaining book that transports the reader back to a time of hope and hypocrisy -- before the stock market crash ushered in a period of bleak austerity.

Boy, do I know this place?

More about that later.

This is a fond look back at a time and place when that place had some importance. Hudson Lake. Around 90 miles by auto from Chicago's North Side's Green Mill), through Whiting (also know as, Stink City for it's odiferous oil refineries), Gary, Ind, La Porte, Rolling Prarie.. . .Less by South Shore. Well you get the picture. I know this place.

The Jazz Age is in full bloom. Some of it's stars were rising, but one in particular was going super nova.

This book has the likes of Bix Beiderbeke and the Jean Goldkette band which spent a summer one July in 1926 at this out-of-the way community, Hudson Lake. Jean had rented the Blue Lantern and brought his band up from St. Louis to over-summer. Not a bad place, after all. A picture perfect lake, cabins, and ready access from Chicago via that neat electric train, Chicago, South Bend and South Shore RR (still running).

The story revolves around Bix, and one of Bix's loves - Joy, who has her own chapters. His other love, a local (Hoosier), Harriett is part of the story also. Throw in the reed section of the Goldkette band, the lake, a steamy summer and fill it all out with bootleg booze, Al Capone's mob and the KKK and you have a pretty fair yarn.

However, the story is really Bix and Joy and Hudson Lake. The other stuff is filler which, I think kinda fleshes out the time and place.

Good historical fiction, too me has to make me feel the place and time. Can I hear Bix's solos? What does Hudson Lake, or rather what did Hudson Lake feel like? Not just the lake, but the community. When it's hot and steamy, can I feel it - the discomfort, the clothes sticking to body, always wet. . .like that.

And what about the music? I've grown up with jazz, tho Bix was before my time. Fortunately I have several CD's. Listening to those CD's now - I finally listened to Bix's solos. Wow!

Laura captures the time and place. If the story had Bix, Joy the band and the bootleggers, I think that would have been enough. But this is Laura's story.

At that, I had to remind myself that this Hudson Lake is fictional.

And, perhaps mine is also. The mythology of the place was that the, "Big Bands" had played at the Casino. I for one never thought much about that. That certainly was another time, if not another place.

Yep. Hudson Lake. Put on a couple of Bix CD's (or if you're real lucky, his records) and curl up with the book. Feel the sweat on your body. Let Bix's solos wash over you.

Hudson Lake.

The Jazz Age is in full swing at Hudson Lake where the Jean Goldkette Orchestra plays on the weekends with Bix Beiderbecke on the cornet, the man people came to hear.

Bix was a man who loved music over all else. The women like Joy and Harriet who came into his life knew they came second and their affairs would last only until the orchestra moved onto other engagements.

It was a time of hot music, hot bootleg whiskey and wild, frenetic dances while in the background lurked old values some felt were being ignored and the young were being led astray. It was a time of turbulence that changed society.

Talented Laura Mazzuca Toops opens the door to take us back in time with her lifelike characters and realistic settings. You'll feel like you've been there. This is a book I can highly recommend with pleasure to any reader. Enjoy. I certainly did.

In 1926, in spite of being out of the way in a remote rural part of Indiana, the hottest jazz spot in the Midwest is the Blue Lantern Club on Hudson Lake. Especially popular amongst aficionados is the Jean Goldkette Orchestra featuring highly regarded Bix Beiderbecke on the coronet.

Bix has come to isolated Indiana to avoid life as he failed at love, family, and now alcohol. Women love the great coronetist, but they accept that in Bix's mind jazz comes before them; locals and those from Chicago and Indianapolis accept that is part of Bix; his Iowa family never did. Of course I.U. student Harriet understood what a fling with a musician meant until Bix; Joy, a flapper who hangs out with gangsters, also has interest in Bix. However, women and jazz may mix, but the big city mob wants bootlegged alcohol and jazz to mix too; whereas the Ku Klux Klan plans to own the conservative area, which means no big city jazz. Bix has no time for either violent group as his two women have become possessive.

This superb biographical fiction tale brings to life the Jazz Age in the Midwest as the audience gets an in close look at the band, obviously Bix, and their personal issues re doubts about skills and family. The invasions by the KKK and the Chicago mob add depth to the 1920s in Indiana. However, this is Beiderbecke's tale in every sense as his struggles to be loved and accepted are fraught with self tormenting doubt and self destruction when he could not cope with accolades even as he begged people to praise his work. HUDSON LAKE is a strong historical tale in which the reader gains a vivid glimpse of a bygone Americana era through the travails of Bix and the band.

Harriet Klausner

The atmosphere of mid-1920's Mid-America is captured in a spectacular manner by Laura Mazzuca Toops' new novel. This work is fiction based on fact: in 1926 the Jean Goldkette jazz orchestra took on a season-long assignment at the summer resort of Hudson Lake, Indiana - a location populated by both conservative, straitlaced townsfolk heavily influenced by the Ku Klux Klan which threatened to rule the community (and many Indiana communities just like it) and the hedonistic big city weekenders from Chicago - jazz musicians, gangsters, and the devoted audiences who followed both. The authentic characters are the talented Goldkette musicians Frank Trumbauer, Doc Ryker, Pee Wee Russell - and Bix Beiderbecke, the enigmatic, alluring jazz-age genius whose personality is marvelously portrayed, crackling with realism and flanked by two fictional love interests: Joy, a tragic young woman desperate to escape her sordid past, and Harriet, a college student employed at the resort for the summer, lured away from conventionality by her growing passion for the brilliant musician.

Immediately the reader is drawn into their world, bouncing from the sweaty gin-soaked dance hall to a quiet fishing boat on the lake; from a bucolic waterside to roadsters roaring down dusty country roads on late-night errands ranging anywhere from replenishing illegal liquor supplies to retaliation of Klan outrages; to tender and beautifully realized scenes of sexual passion.

Every voice rings as authentic, as if the author herself divulged more than from every biographical account and anecdote exactly how Beiderbecke and his bandmates might have - could have - acted and sounded: Pee-Wee Russell's brash, smuttily jocular taunting; Tram's endeavors to discipline his musicians and hold them back from too much errant excess, and especially Bix, the jaunty humor not quite hiding that he's inwardly tormented, self-disparaging and sensitive, convinced at heart he is undeserving of the creative pinnacle he strives for.

It would seem superfluous to describe this novel as exciting, steamy, poignant and authentic in ambience, but it is. Even those unfamiliar with the works of the great jazz artists of that era will be swept away by a story as thrilling and romantic as the 1920's were themselves, as accurately represented in the dangerous drama of the gangster underworld and frightening Klan in that vividly colorful decade.

- Laura Demilio

The human body is a might machine! God made us each unique and yet very much the same! Dive into the topic of the human body in this book. It's all here from muscles and bones to hearts and lungs! It's broken down into the chapters packed with tons of info!

I did not like that the book presented evolution as fact. I fell that the author should at least have mentioned creation in this book.


Yes. It is a good science resource. It included lots of helpful information and websites as well.

Great for my kids! Helps to explain the basics in the structure of the human body with a great deal of fun. Highly recommended!

Great for my kids! Helps to explain the basics in the structure of the human body with a great deal of fun. Highly recommended!

As a high school health teacher, I am always looking for a quality text to utilize in my classroom. This book is just that. The pictures are clear and free from confusion. The text is concise and easily understood. I recommend this to parents and teachers alike. Even my brother in medical school uses a copy. It is useful for all ages.

You know, to be honest, I bought this book only because of the review below "we came from monkeys? That's not what my bible says!" I'm SO GLAD that there are books that state scientific facts other than simply what "bible says". I cannot imagine that in this day and age there are people who still believe that we were created by someone. This statement doesn't give any definitive answer at all, since any reasonable person would immediately ask, "then who created Him who created us?"

This book would be a good gift for a child age 11-13. It doesn't give too graphic or detailed explanation of the bodily functions, yet it has many colorful pictures and SEM shots (Scanning Electron Micrograph) that are truly magnificent.

This book is a must for all those infatuated with the Hummer craze!! Incredible book dedicated to an incredible truck!!

Billy Wannyn

A former Car & Driver editor, Martin Padgett takes his clever and informative style and applies it to the Hummer. He deftly addresses the sociological causes leading to the Hummer's success, as well as the resulting phenomenon that surrounds the Hummer today. And he does so with humor, making this a fun page-turner.

With the Hummer rage, we needed a little background. Padgett does a remarkable job of telling the whole story. His style is easy and intelligent. This book is a must have for Hummer lovers and history buffs.

I am a big Hummer fan and hope to own an H1 someday soon. Halfway into the book I was getting a bit tired of the pro-war rhetoric. Lots of background info though. Well researched. A must for every true Hummer fan!

I fell in love with Marty Padgett's writing style in his reviews in "Stuff" magazine. Never before had I heard a yard gnome so lovingly referred to. I almost wept. Now he is taking that same passion and applying to Hummer's! A must read for any lover of a Hummer!

I must say that this is probably one of the best books I have read in a long time. The drama and scenarios that the author writes about just makes you want to keep reading. I could not put this book down and I was through reading the book the day after I bought it. I have read other end-time scenario books and I believe that this one protrays the most accurate sequence of events to occur in the last days. Best of all, the author condenses the story to one book and not eight or twelve like other end-time books, so it save me money :).

In general, I don't like "end-time" books. They scare me. But this one precedes the speeding events that come in the later section of the book, with a drama of strength and emotion--just perfect for keeping your interest. While the dialogue is somewhat unbelievable, if you interpret into your own modern dialect as you go, there really isn't a problem. Don't let that stop you from seeing into the heart of the story. I couldn't put it down, and it has really started me thinking about these events, which I'm sure will be happening soon, and, as a writer, about following in this sort of book's footsteps. This is probably my favorite of the "end-time" books I've read---I also recommend "Eleventh Hour" and "Midnight" by Celeste perino Walker and Eric Stoffel, and the Bible itself for some of the finishing events that seem a bit fuzzy.

This well written novel-style book will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. It's truely one of the few books that you will find yourself unable or unwilling to put down until completely finished. My husband, who hasn't read books in years, finished the book in ONE day. This is a book to share, as others will totally want to borrow it from you. A word to the wise though..., keep track of who has it, because it will truely be passed on from there. Excellent work Mr. Robinson.

A friend lent me this book saying it was fantastic. Once I read started reading it, I could not put it down. It has a great way of showing the end-time from the Christian point of view. It's about 5 people all trying to survive the last days before Jesus comes back. They each have their own story to tell in a different way. It's great for all ages. I would definatly tell others about this book. Even if you aren't Christian, give it a try; it definitly changed my point of view on life and God. I loved it and want to read other End-Time stories. Definitly worth it!!

"If Tomorrow Comes" was written by a great writer; my Father. I know, you expect to hear that from his daugther but I speak as a fellow reader and writer. This book will pull you in from the beginning and keep you hyped 'til the very end. Every time you think you figured out what will happen next you he throws in another twist and takes you for wirlwind ride. I have never seen an end time book that opened my eyes so much and yet left me feeling warm and confident.

This fine collection of poetry and micro-stories, a form developed and mastered by the Author, offers the reader a very simple challenge: "This is truth. Can you face it?". Christine McGuigan examines the underbelly of western culture and addresses a myriad of barbed issues including the human obsession for damaging the planet, the last taboo that is mental illness,dollar worship, addictions, TV voyeurism and prostitution. The Author combines a sledgehammer honesty with genuine sensitivity for her subjects. The haiku, whilst paying due respect to tradition, is skillfully employed as a vehicle for her powerful presentation of subject. This is a unique, conscience provoking book, crafted by a blazing talent who is surely destined for high literary status.

I was so taken with this book. Ms. McGuigan speaks for those who can not speak for themselves. McGuigan holds a mirror to our world and relfects all that too many of our current self-absorbed writers and poets have failed to do. The micro story lit. form has to be one of the most unique achievements in literature we have seen this past century.

Ms. Mc Guigan's work is both thought provoking and heartfelt. She captures the true view of our society like no other writer has done before. A true triumph.

McGuigan's "Imbalance" is one of the most literate and thought provoking books I read this past decade. Tortured, strange characters float in and out of the pieces and haunt one's mind for days. A magnificent, poetic gem! Unlike anything you have ever read before.

Ms. Mc Guigan's work is both thought provoking and heartfelt. She captures the true view of our society like no other writer has done before. A true triumph.

Angela married attorney David Rakubian on the rebound from her divorce. She tried to make her second marriage work but failed because David is a sociopath control freak who verbally and physically abused her. When Angela worries about the safety of her son sired by a different person she divorces David to return to the home of her parents where she knows her loving parents, especially her father Jack Hollis, would do anything to ease her troubles.

David begins to stalk Angela and threatens her and her loved ones, but in sly ways so that the police have no proof of his acts. Jack concludes that this animal of a former son-in-law must die before he kills one of them. Jack sets up a full-proof plan, but David fails to arrive at the dead zone. Jack goes to David's home to find that someone already murdered his adversary. He believes a family member killed David so Jack buries the corpse and cleaned the house. Not long afterward letters arrive informing David and Angela that someone knows what happened to David. The miserable cycle begins anew.

Bill Pronzini is a brilliant storyteller who uses his characters to propel forward a taut plot. When Mr. Pronzini provides only a last name of a cast member, he insures that the audience never becomes too close to that player. However, Jack is unique as the audience roots for his success even when he steps over the line. IN AN EVIL TIME is a chilling tale of horror with human monsters that could be living next door.

Harriet Klausner

Jack Hollis has a problem. His daughter, Angela, is being stalked and threatened by her ex-husband. No amount of pleading, restraining orders or talking can keep him away. Jack must do something. After all, this is his daughter. He must protect her and his grandson from this savage animal.

In An Evil Time is a gripping drama of a man forced to lower his code of ethics in order to protect his family. Jack's stress over his daughter's problem catapults him into doing things that would never come to his mind. Out of desperation he goes out to kill this crazed stalker only to find out someone has already done the job for him. Who? Jack suspects his own son Eric who had just as much hate for the man as Jack. Now Jack has to protect his son from discovery.

If you have ever been stalked you can certainly identify with this family. Helpless and hopeless the law is impotent in stopping the harrassment of the stalker. Everyone goes through various stresses and strains until they reach their breaking poing. See a law abiding man turn into a cynical angry time bomb ready to explode. His anger is like a cancer which spreads throughout his family to the point where he makes various mistakes and assumptions that can destroy them.

You will be intrigued by the social implications of stalking upon a family. Pronzini also shows us how psychological pressures can eat away at us to the point where we become the monster that we're trying to eradicate. Find out how Jack tries to rid himself of his personal and psychological demons.

As a mystery writer with my first book in its initial release, I have repeatedly asserted that Bill Pronzini is the finest mystery writer now working. His NAMELESS series is a landmark in modern detective fiction. His recent stand-alone thrillers have been universally excellent, deserving of the nominations and awards that several have received. IN AN EVIL TIME is Mr. Pronzini's most recent thriller. It features Jack Hollis, a good man pushed beyond his limits by pure evil--David Rakubian. Rakubian is the ex-husband of Jack's daughter, Angela. Jack finally makes a difficult decision that a man has to do what a man has to do to protect those he loves, yet he finds someone has beaten him to the task. Jack then, once again, has to struggle to protect those he knows he has to protect. IN AN EVIL TIME is a complex and fulfilling thiller, written by a masterful writer working at the top of his craft.

Another great book by a true master of mystery/suspense. I have been a fan of Bill Pronzini for over 20 years and this book ranks very near to the top. (Blue Lonesome is still my favorite) As usual Pronzini takes a plot that has been used many times before and gives it a different twist.

Jack Hollis has a problem. A serious problem. Jack Hollis is a regular, middle aged law-abiding Californian, with a good job, a nice house, a loving wife, a son in college and a married daughter named Angela. Angela's second husband is the problem.

His name is David Rakubian. He's an out-of-control, sadistic, control freak. Rakubian believes totally in that line in the wedding vows, the one that says `til death do us part. And he's prepared to demonstrate his commitment by killing pretty much anybody who gets between him and what he sees as his absolute and total right to Angela's body and soul. As a result of the beatings and verbal abuse, Angela and her son by her first marriage, have left Rakubian and obtained a temporary restraining order to keep him away. Threats and confrontations result.

Pushed to the law-abiding limit, as Angela prepares to go into the underground network that protects and supports abused women and their children, Hollis decides his only recourse is to murder Rakubian. This is not something he decides lightly and part of the author's high quality is his illuminating exploration of the agony that besets Hollis while he secretly plans an act so foreign to his being, without stealing interest in the story.

Eventually, after we are treated to an excellent interweaving of characters in his family, his colleagues and his close friends, Hollis sets out to track down Rakubian and kill him. But when he finds the man, Rakubian is already dead and this sets up a turbulent, excruciating effort on Hollis' part to figure out who did murder Rakubian, and to protect that person.

It is at this juncture in the novel we are able to see the genius of the author. There are any number of plausible suspects, from members of Hollis family to his colleagues. Hollis is beset by fear it was someone close and frustration that he wasn't able to protect everyone around him by killing Rakubian first. There are many surprises in this novel and its multiple layers of psychological stress are carefully explored. IN AN EVIL TIME is a novel to be savored. It is a compelling examination of spousal abuse and society's impotence when trying to protect individuals against such horrific pressures. This theme plays against the stresses and strains of communication between husband and wife and between parents and their adult children.

This is a real story about real people, brought to vibrant life by a master story teller. It is fast-paced, cleanly organized and very well-written. Walker is to be congratulated for publishing this novel and for the handsome design as well.

As with the other volumes, this devotional really helps you focus on the readings for the Mass.

It's amazing to me that the author has been able to write such a large body of quality material.

This is a tremendous little book of marvelous meditations on the Gospel of the day. It doesn't take long to read but the thoughts stay with you throughout the day. Highly recommednded.

This is an amazing Catholic meditation and daily reflection series. The seven volumes have daily readings for each day of the church year as well as volume 6 & 7 being special Feast Days. The readings draw heavily upon the writings of Josemaria Escriva the founder of Opus Dei, Pope John Paul II, and the daily readings from the common liturgy for that day. The Sundays have three sets of readings depending on if we are in year A, B, or C in the church readings. These devotions are all about 6 pages long and divided into 3 sections. They can be read all as a lump or part in the morning, midday and evening. I find that with every day there is so much meat in these devotions that I am already planning on reading them again next year.

"We have a duty to rest. Resting in order to serve God and other people better.
We should learn to rest. If we can avoid becoming totally exhausted we should not fail to do so. God wants us to look after our health, and to know how to recover our strength. It is part of the fifth commandment. We need to rest in order to be fit, to restore lost energy, and so that our work may be all the more effective. Above all, we need it so as to serve God and other people better."
Francis Fernandez
In Conversation With God Volume #3 p.217

"For this reason asking advice about reading is an important part of the virtue of prudence, very especially if it is a question of theological or philosophical books, which can radically affect our formation and even our faith itself. How important it is to be right about books! It is still more important to consult our spiritual director about books specifically destined to aid the formation of our soul."
Francis Fernandez
In Conversation With God - Volume #3 p.117

Are but two samplings of what I have already copied out into my journal this year. There is a complete subject, and biblical reference index in volume 7, unfortunately the earlier volumes indexes only go as far as that volume #. The indexes are subject, and reference quoted by church Fathers, Popes and Saints. These books will draw anyone deeper into a faith and a life of action based upon that faith.

For those seriously seeking to grow in holiness and bring some order to their daily prayer life, I strongly recommend this series. Drawing upon Sacred Scripture, the writings of the saints, and his own life experiences, the author brings together three daily meditations (about five to ten minutes each) that center around the Scripture readings of the Mass that day.

Imparted in these meditations are knowledge of the faith, advice on how to pray more fervently, and a clear understanding of virtue and its importance. It also inspires us to serve God faithfully. A good Catholic answer to the latest Protestant craze over "The Purpose Driven Life".

I always knew that there was a wealth of riches in the the Gospel readings, but this series of meditations brings out those riches like I never thought possible. None of the meditations simply ramble on. They evoke the scene, help you enter it and then draw out the honey by provokibg thoughts of generosity and correspondence to God's will, present in the everyday realities. Each meditation guides you to a freely assumed resolution to embrace sanctity and really gives you the sense that with God all is possible, even our holiness in todays world. Plus the wealth of quotations from the saints and the fathers of the Church help does underline that the Church is one multifaceted family. A worthwhile investment.

Wow, this book is an eye opener! I am a goal oriented person, and drive myself to the limit. As I do this, my time seems to pass ever more quickly, and I find myself drained by the end of the day. Sometimes I have to ask myself if it's worth it.

When I read Ruth Martinez's book, IN SEARCH OF YOUR TIME, I got a huge AH-HA! Now I have an entirely different perspective of time, how to use it and how to make it work for me. Oh, I'm still too busy, but it's more a conscious "being in control" of my time, rather than my time being in control of me. I keep my copy by my bed so that I can snatch a thought before going to sleep.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have enough time in his or her life. It gives a common sense perspective to everyday life.

I really enjoyed reading IN SEARCH OF YOUR TIME. I saw myself reflected in many of the examples that were given. I find that reading it over and over again is a benefit, because each time I read it I glean something more. I feel that good use of our time is one of the most valuable assets that we can incorporate into our lives.

When I begin to get overwhelmed and frazzled at work, I pull out my book and read a section of it. I calm down and take some deep breaths, which helps me get through the situation. This really works for me. The situation is still there, but I can handle it better. I find that I'm more focused afterwards, and it just helps me to do a better job.

I would rate this book as 4 ½ to 5, and the only reason I would give it 4 ½ is that it is short, and I think a lot of people would like a longer book. For me it is fine, though, since it is small enough for me to carry in my purse so I can refer to it whenever I feel the need. Since I can't rate it by halves, I have to give it a 5, as the content is excellent.

This book, IN SEARCH OF YOUR TIME, really helped me to take a look at my own life and how I spend my time. It made me realize that, as a busy wife and mother with two demanding home based businesses, besides teaching aerobics and personal fitness training, it was O.K. to spend five minutes with my little boy before delving into my other more pressing but less important responsibilities. It helped me to understand that I can slow down my busy life but at the same time not become so relaxed that I don't accomplish anything significant. It helped me recognize that when I let the demands of life take charge of me, I become very rattled, and accomplish very little. However, when I make a conscious effort to be in charge of my time, I become more efficient. This has brought me much peace, and even helps me to breathe more easily. One thing I especially liked about this book is that it is short enough and concise enough that even a very busy person like me can find time to read it. I rate it as 5. Definitely.

This book, IN SEARCH OF YOUR TIME, really helped me to take a look at my own life and how I spend my time. It made me realize that, as a busy wife and mother with two demanding home based businesses, besides teaching aerobics and personal fitness training, it was O.K. to spend five minutes with my little boy before delving into my other more pressing but less important responsibilities. It helped me to understand that I can slow down my busy life but at the same time not become so relaxed that I don't accomplish anything significant. It helped me recognize that when I let the demands of life take charge of me, I become very rattled, and accomplish very little. However, when I make a conscious effort to be in charge of my time, I become more efficient. This has brought me much peace, and even helps me to breathe more easily. One thing I especially liked about this book is that it is short enough and concise enough that even a very busy person like me can find time to read it. I rate it as 5. Definitely.

What fun! Quirky, funny characters go back in time and learn some tough lessons about themselves, how our environments shape us. Lots of historic details packed into an entertaining story. Very appealing, a page-turner. I'd love to see more of Andy and his friends.

What a great book! This is a great adventure story but it is also very thought provoking. A terrific story for readers of all ages!

My uncle bought me this book for Christmas. I thought it was really cool, especially the time travel back to Boston in the 1700s. I read it as I was waiting for the bus to come for school. Boy was I disappointed when the bus came! I learned alot about friendship, and about slavery in the South. I would totally read another book by J Graham.

This was a great book. I did not want to put it down, so I read it all in one day. It is great for kids because there is some valuable history involved. The history is well researched and accurate in every detail. There is some "magic" type stuff in it (for those who are uneasy with crystal ball type stuff) but there is no actual witchcraft spells or anything that will upset strong Christians. All the magic type stuff was make believe in nature to enhance the story line. I liked the fact that the book was educational but the kids don't know that it is. Clever. Such a good book. I cannot wait for the next one. Hurry up J. Graham.

J. Lee Graham is a fabulous storyteller. The moment Andy lights the incense stick we are on a thrilling roller coaster ride full of surprising twists and turns that doesn't end until the last page. I loved it!!