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i really liked this book. and i really miss you. i wish you would get ahold of me so we could talk.

this is one of my all time favorite boooks.

This is a riveting "coming of age" book. High school and growing up are not what they used to be. It is a different world we live in now and this book takes you through a unique journey. I really enjoyed sharing it.

I loved this book!! It was a great story to see what love can go through, and still come out on top. It also shows that even if your addicted to drugs you can get out of it, and still have a good life. It really uplifted my spirits, and I know if you read it you'll love it as much as I did!!!

I really enjoyed this book! It shared a lot of helpful information and it was also a very interesting story. I definitely recommend it!

What would you do if someone in your family suffered a severe and unexpected heart attack? Would you know what to do? Probably not. What falls in our lap with such emotional timebombs is a mixture of struggling with helping our loved one cope, dealing with their fears of the unknown and feelings of vulnerability, managing our own emotional reactions and sense of immortality, and navigating the rapids of historical dysfunction when trying to support a sick family member. This book tackles all of these issues through a diary format that takes us, not only into the heart and soul of the main character, but our own as well. With this book in your hands you no longer have to fret about what you would do. It is like having a best friend and personal guide in your hip pocket. A must read for anyone with heart disease in their family.

Highly recommend! Not your typical self help book. Stress & A Healthy Ticker is a great guide to preventing heart disease. It's easy to read, fun, and full of golden nuggets. I actually didn't want to put it down. The story held my interest..I kept reading to see what would happen to the main character. I learned alot about how to prevent heart disease and also how to help my Mom in her recovery from a recent heart attack. The format (a combo of fiction and non-fiction) made it an exciting and informative read. Very unique and creative. Gives a fresh holistic, and proactive approach to preventing and recovering from heart disease.

The warmth of these characters drew me in from the start. I loved both the hero and heroine, and adored the secondary character, Miss Manie. I especially liked the heroine who was smart and sassy and very honest. Good book to relax with for an evening.

Hank is an attractive Texas hero, and Callie is a refreshing young woman. Her Aunt Manie is a meddler of the most entertaining variety. This book has lots of surprises. I loved it.

An unlikely heroine, a storybook hero, TEXAS MILLIONAIRE has all the elements I love in a romance. Glitz and glamour are only bit players. This is a character-driven story, one I think you'll enjoy if you like warm, witty stories told with a strong Southern accent.

This is a great book for anyone interested in the Mustangs. It shares stories and legends of wild horses and people's interactions with them. The stories range from heart warming to tearful. Each brings you a step closer to understanding the difference of the wild and domesticated horse. Throughout the book are beautiful pictures that capture the spirit of the mustangs.

Although the original essays and reprinted material in this book make fine reading, the real contributors are the 13 photographers whose images of mustangs on nearly every page will please anyone with an interest in horses and the landscape of the Western states. Some shots are of horses grazing or standing still, looking back at the photographer, ears up and altert, but most are of horses in motion, sometimes in tight telephoto closeup, sometimes against rolling hills or sage-covered flatland. There are many kinds of weather as well, foggy, stormy, snow, wind, spring sunshine, dusty summer, and horses of all colors and markings. A handful of shots include saddled horses with cowboys.

The book has also been very handsomely designed. Page layout, typography, end papers, variety of image placement and use of white space, balancing of images and text, all serve the subject wonderfully and please the eye. Nearly all the photographs selected are crisply cear, motion frozen with a high-speed shutter. The wide pages make possible many double-page spreads that look and feel panoramic.

Editor Mark Spragg has brought together the work of seven writers, including himself, and an Assiniboine tale to accompany the images. The writings are mostly contemporary, but a few hark back to earlier times, such as Charley Russell's cowboy theory about the origins of horseback riding and Ben Green's account of trying to capture a band of mustangs, while nearly losing his hand to an infected horse bite. Spragg's harrowing essay "Wintering" appeared later in his collection of essays, "Where Rivers Change Direction." There's also an informative essay by New York Times writer Verlyn Klinkenborg, who writes eloquently of the rural life and has visited wild-horse territory earlier in his book "Making Hay."

I highly recommend this beautiful book to lovers of horses, good writing, and the Western landscape.

This book reads like a group of short stories, of which they are all by different authors. The combination of their stories gives one the true feeling of the multitude of facets of the wild horses. It will make you realize they are carved out of the landscape, and an intrical part of nature. A creature of survival sometimes at the risk of their very own life. The stories are memorable and unforgettable. A definate must for the armchair western adventurer.

ISBN 0671734482 - The best mysteries keep you guessing, trying to get a step or two ahead of the main character. The Thursday Club doesn't do that. Oddly, it's still a really good book.

The body of a hooker who's been dead for 25 years turns up in a landfill. The lab guy looking at the bullet ends up dead. The cop he called before he died ends up dead. The cop HE called before he died, however, doesn't. Ben Rogers, once the partner of Felix Palmieri, the dead cop, is determined to figure out how a smart cop like Felix walks into a dead end alley and gets shot point blank in the chest. He takes up all of Felix's open cases, looking for a clue to his killer. At the same time, he's called upon by the new mayor to look into a possible problem with a political appointee.

If you can read this, without being several steps ahead of Ben, you must be new to the genre. The hooker is presented first thing, and the clues for the rest of it are all too clearly laid out on the book flap. Even the very final riddle, one that isn't even mentioned until it's solved in the final five words of the book, is given away in the text. That's not what makes this good. The characters, the ones you like and those you don't, are what turns The Thursday Club from a mediocre whodunit into a worthwhile read. From Ben's grandmother to the snitches he uses, from his boss to the boss of bosses, the characters and their motives are clear and well-written. Murano and Hammer are a fantastic team.

The author does a good job of keeping the reader interested. The overall tempo of the plot is good. Murano ends his story with a nice surprise. The main character is easy to relate to. All the ideas for the plot are fresh.

I bought it because it was bundled with John Grisham's THE FIRM. I ended up enjoying THE THURSDAY CLUB more. I have since re-read the THURSDAY CLUB a number of times. I have not once read THE FIRM again.

I can confidently recommend this book to anyone who likes the crime/mystery/etc genre.

I will not comment on the story itself. The little discussion of the story line a little further up on this page gives you enough of an idea.

Enjoy.

THE THURSDAY CLUB KEEPS YOU INTERESTED FROM BEGINNING TO END. MURANO DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB.

The mice who live near the wall never question it except for Tillie. A book about the importance of qualities like curiosity, tenacity, and leadership, made even more perfect by the fact that the main character is female. Beautifully crafted pictures. Short enough to keep the attention of a two-year old all the way to the end.

When I was an elementary school teacher, Leo Lionni was my favorite authors to study. Of his vast works, Tillie and the Wall ranks up there for me. Lionni tells the story of a mouse's quest to venture beyond a wall that she has known all her life. His language is sophisticated (not watered down for young readers) and his collage artwork gives a feel of real movement and emotion, yet the story is simple enough for little ones to appreciate.

I highly recommend this book and other Leo Lionni titles. Almost all of Leo Lionni's children's books deal with conflicts that kids can relate to (trying hard, being different, loneliness, fear, teasing) and they carry messages about individuality, dreaming big, or helping others.

It's amazing how one can forget how really good a child's book can be written, until you read a truly great book. Leo Lionni is a great writer of children's books and this is a great book. You too, could be the mouse who dreams beyond the wall and discovers what is on the other side.

Anthony Price wrote a long series of books in the seventies and eighties that are an extended meditation on the entanglment of past, present, and future and on loyalty in the face of ambiguity. A notional British security service is populated with a large extended cast of characters surrounding one overall protagonist, David Audley, a brilliant ex rugger player and scholar who specializes in untangling elaborate Soviet (and other) espionage schemes. Yet each book is told from the point of view of a different character.

This one, in the middle of the series, is told from the point of view of a field researcher (operative - the notional department is call R and D) named Frances Fitzgibbon, widow of a British soldier killed in Ireland. It is a tense time for R and D as the old chief, Clinton, is being replaced but the replacement has not been decided and one of the candidates, tasked with uncovering an Irish terror plot, has unsettling questions raised about his past. In this plot and characterization, Price hits the high point of his series. If you are to read just one of these fine books, read this one. I found myself to be emotionally moved and reflective at the end which ends up not a suprise at all.

Not a fantasy, but part of the Dr. David Audley spy thriller series - this answers questions asked in the much earlier in the series volume "Colonel Butler's Wolf", and is followed by "A Prospect of Vengence". This is one of the best in the series, but not the best starting place - the WWII books "Hour of the Donkey" about the Dunkirk evacuation or "The '44 Vintage" about the invasion of France are both better first reads.

Price mixes military history - Audley's cover is as a military historian - with cold war spy action, murder mystery with thriller, and straight out war stories through the series. In most books in the series there are both historical and modern mysteries that must be solved. Hadrian's Wall figures prominently in this one.

Tomorrow's ghost is one of the finest fantasy books I have read in a long time.

The complicated plot is ingenious right to the very end, in which he keeps you guessing even after you have finished with the book.

I would recommend this book to all.

The 8 Times 8 Club wants Kimberly to join them,since their President,Amanda Harmon moved Away.Kimberly spends time with the Unicorns and The 8 Times 8 Club,Since she's the only 8th grader in the Unicorns.Her father has a mild heart attack,and The Unicorns were the only ones who stood by her at that terrible time.I wish Kimberly had Brothers and Sisters,Damn,Why Didn't she? I hate That!They go to a Johnny Buck Concert and I think the 8 Times 8 Club pulls a trick on them or something.

this is a very touching book. it shows the difference between false friends and true friends. it was really dumb of kimberly to hang out w/ the eights in the first place. but she had confused feelings then. but at least she came to her senses . the ending of the story is the part i like best.

Kimberly is the only eighth-grader in the Unicorn Club. The rest are in the 7th, so what would Kimberly do when she's off to highscool the next year? Who would be her friends? She has to think of her future, and besides, the Unicorn Club are geting immature lately. Kimberly never had second thoughts until... Until the Eight Times Eights Club invited her to join. The Eights are cooler and more sophisticated... and Kimberly hangs out with them more often. So Kimberly joins the club. Talk about cool! Kimberly never knew the Eights hang out with high school guys, Never ate "immature" food like Ice Cream, had a headquarters right at school, unlike the unicorner, you can just go there between classes since its a room, has a dress code and they'll throw a party for Kimberly, for being the newest Eighth! Sure, they're there for the Good times, but where were they for the bad times? They completely left her while the Unicorns, though Kimberly practically ignored them for a whole week, was there for her. Kimberly learns that even if The Eights were cool and mature, the Unicorns were her true friends. You know what? This book RULES! It's really cool reading the coolness of the Eights, and the last part is the part that makes you think, "Wow! My money sure's not wasted buying this book!" GO have a copy NOW!!!!

Stephanie and her friends are in summer camp and they think it's going to be great! but then they find out that the flawmingos are there to! isn't it weird that every camp Stephanie goes to she mets Rene there! not that thats good or anything, but it makes a good story line, but Stephanie isn't that worried after she mets Luke. Then Rene tells her that Luke has a bad past, Stephanie doesent belive her- at first, but, could it be true?

I loved this book! It was really cool, and I couldn't put it down!

I really liked this book. It was about Stephanie and her friends at camp sail-away. She met her boyfriend out on the water. He was water skiing and the wave he created knocked her boat over. He came over to see if she was ok and one thing led to another. I would recommend this book because it was cool, exciting and you never know what would happen next.

I didn't think these plays would be that good because I never heard of this playwright, Timothy MacDonnell. But, not only do I know his name, but I'm telling all my friends and actor buddies about him.

MacDonnell has really put together some intense, snappy plays. The first play just whizzes by. My eyes were peeled to the pages, I couldn't put this book down. Even when I went to the bathroom, I took this book with me.

Tom Granby is this philosopher type, who became wise through his adventures the past eight years. His arrogant friends, who think they're hot stuff, think Granby is lower than they are because he doesn't have the material wealth that they have. But, Granby has spiritual wealth, and teaches us that spiritual wealth is more desirable than material wealth. Granby is the MAN!!

The Cyrus play is a cool story about little Cyrus who somehow survives murder by his tyrannical, clever grandfather, and establishes this huge kingdom. The grandfather actually ends up helping Cyrus, and we're not sure whether he has another trick up his sleeve, or he really wants to atone for his sins. This play was real deep, deeper than Reunion.

I actually liked this one better, even though it's a lot longer. The characters are more developed, and mysterious. It's really ingenious the way MacDonnell created them. The characters are complex, they're hard to figure out.

In conclusion, I highly recommend these plays.

When I heard about this book, "Two Dramatic Plays", I wasn't sure whether I wanted to buy it or not. I heard about this book at iUniverse, and I wasn't ready to put out money to read another book of plays. But at the iUniverse community, I read an article by the author of the book, and decided to take a chance.

Instantly, I was amazed by the fast-paced action in the book, as well as the energy. The play, "Reunion" went right into the action, no playing around. Tom Granby is spotted in a bar by a longtime friend who hasn't seen him in eight years. His friend decides to schedule a reunion dinner, so Tom can meet his other college friends.

First, I was amazed by how heartless and selfish these people were. They thought they had it all and had the money and ego to show for it. But, when Tom arrives, they are in for a surprise when their slander and insults reverse themselves like a boomerang flying right back at them.

I really like this character, Tom Granby. He's like an archetypal hero; he's like what a man ought to be. His well-roundedness and self-assurance can be a good model for young people, instead of the rich egotistic fools who hold the status in our society and in the play. Tom Granby is a modern hero, and I was really amazed by the amount of philosophical and spiritual information disseminated by this hero.

The second play, "The Rise & Fall of Cyrus the Great" was based on the life of a different hero from ancient times. This play was deeper than Reunion, and longer. The play slowly developed the characters within it, whereby one can observe the strengths and weaknesses of their character.

This was another great, energetic play! I loved the messages about life, which every young and old person should either learn or be reminded of. I also liked the influence of Fate in this play, not only relating to the stars, but how we create our own wonderful or horrible fates.

I really loved these plays, and I'm surprised we haven't heard of this great author, Timothy MacDonnell. I can't say enough good praises about this book of plays. You just have to read it for yourself and make your own judgment.

I've read this book. This is a great, great book!!

It is so insightful, I've learned some things about myself and about life. Mr. MacDonnell heralds a new philosophy of life through this book of plays, although some of it is based on old, ancient beliefs.

Who is Tom Granby? This guy is SO AWESOME!! What a cool character!! Tom really upsets their reunion, and gives us a "reality check" on these character's lives, which are so alike our own.

Kudos to Mr. MacDonnell!!!