Deductible

Angela Elwell Hunt has worked with middle schoolers for 20 years, but it's her parenting experience that qualifies her as an expert on tweens. With humor and compassion she offers support to parents of children who are at that awkward stage between childhood and adolescence. Hunt does a thorough job of describing the problems, circumstances, and situations affecting children of middle school age--everything from academics to zits. Hunt maints that tweens need special attention because today's children are growing up faster than yesterday's. Parents need to give firm guidance to counteract the effects of the media. . . Frustrated parents will take comfort in the knowledge that the growing pains of tweens are typical and temporary. Though you could read the book from cover to cover in a couple of sittings, you'll want to keep it handy for future reference. --CHRISTIAN HOME AND SCHOOL, December 2000

"Angela Hunt takes a down-to-earth, common sense look at parenting kids through the awkward middle school years. Though the book is chock full of practical information and statistics, it manages to be highly entertaining as well, with real stories of real families' experiences. The alphabetical arrangement of topics is clever andvery helpful since this book is bound to be used over and over as a reference. What an encouragement this will be for parents just entering the 'tween' years with their children. Hunt does a wonderful job of answering those nagging questions of 'what's normal?' vs. 'what should I be concerned about?'

As a financial writer and editor I read dozens of tax deduction books each year. This book is by far the best book avaiable for information in one place on deductions and tax breaks.Whether your an accountant or just someone that does their own taxes this book will give you pleanty of ideas to save money for your clients or yourself.

This is a fast-paced whodunit with nicely drawn characters and sharp dialogue. A reader who is paying attention will figure out what was actually going on well before the final scene, but it actually isn't that important because so many stumbling blocks are thrown in front of the lead characters, it's just fun watching them twist and turn to avoid them on their way to the truth. The secondary characters were a conniving bunch who continued to make life difficult for our heroes.

Maggie is a nice person who becomes morality-challenged through unforseen life circumstances. Tim is a fine example of what the average federal employee is like - just trying to do a good job and getting no public credit for it. A mild romance between them finally starts to develop by the end of the book, but it wasn't the primary focus of the book. This book begs the question, what would you do if you had access to all that money?

I'm looking forward to further books by Ms. Terreri.

Malinda Terreri's new series featuring stockbroker Maggie Connors was both a well constructed mystery and a fun read. Fans of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich will like "A Tax Deductible Death" where Maggie,a dead client, and the IRS all are lead on a merry chase to a hoard of cash. I'm looking forward to the next installment!

A fun, witty novel! Maggie makes a great female protagonist - self-sufficient, smart, and sexy in a 21st century way. The plot is quite intriguing without being heavy. And there are many very interesting characters to muse over in this great end-of-summer read!

Looking forward to the next book - hope Maggie's the star in it as well!

My husband just saw this book in a bookstore and told me that he couldn't figure out why the authors spelled "ITS" without an apostrophe. "Its" is not correct for the usage in the sentence. It should be "It's". Do the authors have a different meaning to that word? If the authors can't spell the title word correctly, would I want to read what they are saying? Thank you.....

This book is a great way to accurately value those Goodwill donations - especially if an IRS auditor comes knocking.

But, don't buy the book ...Go buy the software which will even produce the Schedule 8283 to attach to your tax return. You'll easily get back your money - and be fully justified in your value estimations.