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The story is one of friendship. One friend shares something very special with her best friend who had always helped her in the past. This new sharing was more than it appeared in the beginning. The knowledge and inner soul of the young character Kathryn show another side to a topic often avoided and not dealt with by readers, teachers, or youngsters. In the end, the sadness is felt by those who can empathize with the main heroine, Kathryn, when she must be happy for her friend even though she is sad for herself - it is a book with so many lessons and topics for discussion that it boggles the mind. To ease your mind, if you are teachers or parents, order the parent/teacher guide it provides excellent literature extensions. Hope to see these wonderful women from Open Minds Inc. in Canada at the next CEC convention. If you didn't hear the author talk - you'll want to at the next convention.

I couldn't believe Kathryn was in a wheelchair. I was so surprised by it that I read all night and didn't put it down until I finished it. I would recommend it to everyone. I am now reading another book about the same character called Whoa, Nellie! and I love it too.

I've read literally thousands of romances, but "Beyond All Reason" is my all time favorite. I've read it so many times, I've had to replace my copy several times!

This heartwrenching tale left me stunned the first time I read it. Never had I read a story that pulled me in as much as this one. I found myself rereading it immediately just because I didn't want it to end! I must also admit that I found myself falling a little in love with Tanner McCall myself. Judith Duncan knows how to create a leading man!

Kate Quinn is running from her manipulative, controlling estranged husband. Terrified, she travels from town to town in a desperate attemp to keep her two young sons safe.

The advertisement in the newspaper was a godsend. Tanner McCall needs someone to care for his aging business partner and closest friend. The job requires her to live on Tanner's ranch in the back country. Kate accepts the job knowing that the ranch will be the safe haven that she is so desperately searching for.

When Kate arrives, she is suprised to find that Tanner is not the aging ranch hand she expected. Instead he is young, virile, and extremely handsome. Kate is deeply intrigued by him, but his stony exterior and curt attitude makes it very clear that he wants to be left alone. But Tanner's business partner, Burt Shaw likes Kate and her boys immediately. Kate's two sons become good friends with Burt - this unlikely trio provides comedic relief throughout the novel.

Other characters include a flirtatous old cowboy, Tanner's devil-may care younger brother Chase, and Tanner's childhood friend and manager of the local truck stop/cafe, Rita.

As the story unfolds, Kate learns something of Tanner's tragic past and discovers that his stoicism is his way of hiding his scars.

Kate knows what it is like to be haunted by the past and finds herself wanting to know more about Tanner McCall. The more she knows, the more she falls for him. Tanner isn't immune to Kate either.

Eventually Kate and Tanner face their attraction, but not without difficulty. Kate finds that she is deeply in love with Tanner, but is only able to take it one day at a time. Tanner keeps his feelings under lock and key, but Kate knows that he cares for her. Slowly they let their guards down and begin to form a relationship. When Tanner begins to show acceptance of her small sons, Kate can't help but think of them becoming a family.

Just when things seem to be going great, the road gets very rocky. Kate and Tanner are forced to make some tough decisions that could make or break their future together.

Will Kate and Tanner be able to face their deep rooted fears, bury their painful pasts for the sake of a love beyond all reason?

Read the book and see! I promise you won't be disappointed!!!

One of my four all time favorite books - I have even purchased it as a gift for friends who read romance from time to time. The story is extremely well paced, the characters much more finely drawn than most romance books, and a fairly realistic story for romance.

I usually prefer romantic suspense but this one too great not to recommend! While Duncan's other books are well written, this is by far her best book and I wish she'd written others. This was written in the early 90's and have not seen anything by her since the 90's. I highly recommend this.

Check out - Blind Spot - Romantic Suspense with environmental theme

I have really enjoyed this resource. I used it to write scripture classes for the local prison and use it when I am the one who does the homily at the prison. It is just a great product that takes all readings in Biblical context.

This is an excellent resource for scripture based Faith Sharing groups. Margaret Ralph does an excellent job in contextualizing the readings to time/place.....thought provoking. Enhances application of Gospel message to personal lives. Presently using her Cycle C edition with great success.

We have been using this guide for our Men's Sunday Readings Faith Sharing and have found it very helpful in provoking great discussion. The commentary and the questions cover all three readings for each Sunday. We read and discuss the materials for the following Sunday, it helps to know ahead of time what the Readings are about. I have used it to lead RCIA dismissal also and find it very helpful.

Very helpful for the RCIA Team

This book has it all for the golfer who follows the game. It is written to provide information about British Open winners over the course of history. It is easy to read and is a great coffee table book with outstanding golf photos. P.A.B.

This engaging book gives the history of the British Open since it was first played in 1860 with complete coverage of each event since 1900. Most of the individually covered Open championships receive two pages, including good textual reporting of the event as well as photographs. The coverage is divided into historical periods such as the age of Bobby Locke and Peter Thompsion in the 50s and 60s when the two won eight Opens between them. This book is so up to date that Tiger Woods' monumental victory in 2000 receives full coverage. The great Open champions as well as the obscure Cinderella stories all receive lavish treatment. Additionally, the book has other great features such as a description and illustration of each of the Open courses, including venues that have not been used in decades. So, if you want to relive Arnold Palmer's emotional fairwell or the great duel between Nicklaus and Watson in which Watson prevailed after a gut wretching effort, this is the book for you. Additionally, this is the type of book that makes a great gift for the golf lover on your gift list.

Building Broadband Networks provides a high-level overview of the features and purposes of broadband technologies used to convey voice, video, and data information. Standards and protocols for these broadband technologies for business, home and educational environments are described. The introduction of distributed computer networks resulting from the introduction of broadband technologies has brought about the need for automated tools for protecting files and communication channels. This book is for IT professionals and graduate students studying broadband networks.

I just cannot get over it! My book arrived so quickly and I paid no shipping! Amazon will always be my first choice for books!

This book give you a company perspective of how to delivere web-based training, doing a deep and detailed analisys about cost-benefit, diferent typical pricing models,... I think that this book has a valuable information for yours research of implementing web-based training in your company.

Online Learning Magazine reviewed this book in the September 2000 issue, comparing The Business Case for Web-Based Training (Tammy Whalen and David Wright), Return on Investment (Jack J. Phillips), and The ROI of Human Capital (Jac Fitz-Enz).

"Tammy Whalen and David Wright's book, The Business Case for Web-Based Training, is based mostly on examples. They outline the practical business reasons for Web-based training, compare Web delivery with traditional training delivery, and help management decide if the money spent is worth it. They provide a case study as an example, then invite trainers to use that model to evaluate their own Web-based training."

I find I use this book as much for cooking on the backyard barbeque as I do off road. The recipes are fun, very easy to prepare, and help keep my family events very interesting. A great book.

I just bought a copy of "Campers Roasting on an Open Fire." I've been enjoying the humor sections first, and I can hardly wait to try out these recipes.

One of my favorite humor sections is called "More Clues That You're At A Bad Campground." My favorite clue is that "Your cabin is so old that the bed's "magic fingers" have arthritis."

Another favorite humor section is "Your Dog As A Handy Excuse When You'd Rather Be Camping." My favorite excuse is: "My dog's learned to reset my alarm clock from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. so that he can get a couple more hours uninterrupted shut-eye."

I'm looking forward to trying the recipes, especially the ones for chicken, turkey, pasta, side dishes, breakfast, desserts, and trail mixes. But most of all, I want to try out the ones where Spam is one of the ingredients. Mmmmmm, my favorite!

I always love it when a cookbook lays flat, like this one does. I like the funny drawings, and the extra little boxes of interesting facts.

The recipes are clear and simple to read. The book is well organized.

Two thumbs up!

This is an excellent comprehensive book on the aspect of the CDMA networks. The contents of the book covered the Protocols(SS7, BSMAP), Supplementary features (OTASP, SMS etc) as well as implementations (call processing) for the Open-A interface standard, which is prevalent adopted in the U.S. PCS wireless systems.

Well illustrated figures and precise descriptions which make it an excellent reference for the CDMA network engineers even to an novice of CDMA.

Besides, G. Heine's (98') "GSM Networks: protocols, terminology and implementation" is also a good reference for the relevant topics.

This book is the most comprehensive book I've seen on the A-interface for networking within cellular systems. It's truly evident that the authors have lived and breathed this technology and have boiled it down to the essentials while providing time saving tips along the way. Whether you will touch on this interface from the R&D or Operations side of the business this book is a "must-have"!

Although there have been a seemingly infinite amount of books written on 17th century England, this one stands out from the rest. Although it is not exactly a thoroughly in depth study, it provides ample knowledge about all of the important people and events of the era. It is also helpful that each division of the era is looked at in several different fields of study, including the often overlooked area of economics.

The late eminent British Marxist historian Christopher Hill is better known for his pioneer work in the micro-history of the English Revolution and the influences of left-wing political forces such as the Levellers and Diggers and religious forces such the Quakers, Shakers, Ranters and Seekers on it. Here he has written an overview of the entire 17th century as part of this series of books on the history of England to modern times. Needless to say some of his work around the English Revolution seeps into this work as well, which makes that period the strongest section of the book.

Professor Hill traces the major social, political, economic and religious trends that culminated in the revolution back to the reign of James I (and some economic trends back to Elizabethan times). He covers such keys areas of conflict as the changes in land use and ownership, agricultural innovations including the highly controversial enclosure policy, governmental foreign policy which tended to have a distinctly Catholic, particularly pro-Spanish, orientation, the embryonic beginnings of the split between court and `country' as a result of Stuart arbitrary rule, the split between landed proprietors and city merchants; the city and the country, the established church and the numerous pro-Puritan (read Calvinist) sects that started to sprout up like wildfire and the rise of a secular democratic movement based in the cities that both the Army and the Levellers would draw upon in the Civil War period.

Special note should be taken of the decades between the beginning of the defensive parliamentary struggles against Charles I in 1640 and 1660 with the restoration of his son Charles II to the throne. At this point the tensions that were merely outlined by the prior policies of the Stuart governments came to the breaking point. Hill does more than merely narrate that story. He shows, based on his well-stocked body of knowledge about the period, the various stages that the revolution went through from vascillations of the first defensive struggles of the Parliamentarians to the definitive break with Charles and the establishment of the New Model Army which would usher in a period of military dominance of government and society and with it the rise and fall of the various secular and religious democratic movements. Hill also does a masterful job of showing how the various plebian democratic forces in society reacted to governmental policy (and how the government dealt with those forces) and how, as a result, these various fights sapped the revolutionary energy of the masses.

As more than one historian and sociologist has noted, as a general proposition the study of post-revolutionary periods tends to be rather anti-climatic. That is also the case here with the restoration of Charles II. England, however, exhibited that trend in revolutionary history that demonstrates that even when the revolution runs out of steam there is generally no regression back to the old ways of ruling. Despite the regression in governmental form with the reintroduction of the monarchy, parliamentary supremacy was essentially assured although not without various intrigues by Charles and his brother James against it and against England. As importantly, the capitalist industrial developmental trends that had been gathering force throughout the century kept expanding after the revolution. That trend would make England the number one power in the world in the next century. For an excellent overview of an important period in English history, which moreover is filled with helpful footnotes on sources for further research, this is your stop.