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If not THE best (this is not hyperbole)...This book is really, truly superb & I promise, if you buy it, you will love & keep it always! The plot has everything you want in a romance novel and it grabs you instantly; the love story is overwhelming and sensual & the book is just a fantastic read. I always thought this book was the author's best.

August 21, 1999 I have just started to read this book for at least the tenth time. I never tire of it even though I know the storyline so well. Mary Carmichael and Hunter MacBeth's love beats all the rocks and stones that are put in their path. True love wins out! Yea!!

This book made me laugh and made me cry, but most of all it made me long for a Hunter McBeth of my very own. The story held on to my very heart and I couldn't put it down until I was finished with the very last page...then I just wanted to read it all over again.

Ricky Cohen can defentily capture the hearts of many mature teens and adults with this book. this book in many ways can make you look at life a lot diffrently. Even from the first reading cohen can really inspire anybody looking for something they cannot find. most defentily an inspiring book with many great values to learn from

Ricky Cohen's love of people and children is so evident and contagious. Reading this book allows a multitude of warm fuzzies to pour over your heart and mind. He proves to us that following the right path in life is important only when we choose to love those around us.

"From Me to My Children"has the ability to affect peoples' lives.Ricky Cohen has an elliquate way of writing and he delivers a must have book for every loving parent.....in fact,this book has something for every family memberto enjoy and to take to heart!!This book is a #1 bestseller in training and will surely make it to the top!

I have been blessed not only to read this book but to have met the author. She is both fascinating in person and in printed word, and her story is enlightening, educational, and entertaining. If you have any interest in Native American history, you'll be glad you read this book.

I truly enjoyed this book. It was written in plain language and seemed very personable to me. It is a true story about Alma's life growing up on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and how she was deeply influenced by her grandmother Pretty Shield who taught Alma the old ways...she was a grandmother's grandchild. Pretty Shield was pretty smart I think. She had an appreciation for the natural world not seen too much anymore in our modern lives. I found these "old ways" interesting. This has influenced Alma for sure and she is able to reconcile this as well as the hardships of life with her deep Christian beliefs. God Bless you too Alma!

I truly enjoyed reading the book and learning of my Aunt Alma's point of view. I have grown up hearing of Pretty Shield and truly am blessed with having an aunt that shares her story and pictures.

The principal at Burp-It-Up Middle school has decided to buy some vending machines. The fact that this will definately fire some lunch ladies doesn't bother Andy, Josh, and Jake the slightest bit... until they accidently switch bodies...with the lunch ladies. The kids are stuck doing the gross job of serving the sludge to kids, while the lunch ladies in THEIR bodies, make complete idiots out of Andy, Josh, and Jake, by playing hop scotch, etc. Will they ever get their bodies back???

This is a great book by Tood Strasser. READ THIS IMMEADIATELY !!!!!!!!!!! From the detentions to the dishes. This is a absolute great novel! --Jarrett Nave, Haile Middle

Oh My Golly this was a Great Book. It is very funny and it is really silly and i liked it a lot. this is a Good Help Book. So read it.

This is a great book!! If you are feeling badly about yourself and cannot seem to see how you will ever achieve your dreams, then you MUST read this book.
I have the hardback volume. I have kept this book on my shelf for years. As a child, I did not receive praise from my parents. In brief, I was surrounded by perfectionistic, critical, dysfunctional adults. My salvation was this book. I found it in my late twenties and it changed my life. But, I made one BIG mistake, I did not read the entire book. I just read enough to explain why I had such a poor internal feeling of self-worth. I thought if I understood why and whom was responsible,that I would be fine, but I wasn't. It was like putting a band aid on a child.
Now, I am in my early forties and facing the same problems again. Actually, my life is a pattern of repeated failures in both my career goals and my relationships. Yesterday, something made me remember this book, (the power of prayer). I found it still on my shelf, despite frequent re-locations. I started reading it again, tonight and said to myself,"Wow, no wonder I've kept this book! It explains everything!". Not only will it reveal the answers to your feelings of self-doubt and poor self-worth, it will give you the steps you need to conquer those feelings and move forward to positive, self-affirming feelings.
Trust me, this will be the best investment in time and money you will ever make. I am delighted to find that there is now a paperback edition, as I plan to purchase additional copies for friends, who are haunted with feelings of self-doubt and despair.

Such an easy book to read but filled with some great truths. Josh McDowell knows exactly how to put things into perspective. The way we live our lives is based on our identity. This book will help you to see yourself as God sees you. This book can transform the way you look at yourself in a healthy balanced manner.

This is a wonderful book but is the exact same book, word for word as Building your SElf-image. It was just re-published with a different title.

One woman's journey through life as told from the perspective of each of her homes, from childhood on. It captures you and takes you right back to your own childhood. The has a wonderful ebb and flow; laughter and sadness. A reminder of how special and unique each of our life's are, and how in the tragedies sometimes lay the greatest gift.

The author allows us to peer through the windows of her family homes and see her loving family as they experience the cycles of life. The author's unique personal story of happiness and tragedy is inspirational and very moving. Her message of love and hope for the future is a lesson for us all. I wish everyone could read this book.

It is said that we all have a story to tell, a book to write, an interesting life lived. The author was the typical suburban working mom, with two kids, a career, husband, two cars,and a bright future. In one day, her life fell apart. You will reel from the shock. Your life too will seem more fragile and the threads that hold your heart and mind together will be weaker and yet stronger. Her story is one of hope, survival and optimism in the face of further tragedy that abruptly changed this woman's outlook on life. Her story is worth reading. You will remember the rooms and houses of your life. Her aunt's kitchen alone will flood your senses to memories that you long had forgotten. I highly recommend this book. You will cry, you will remember and you will carry on.

The first giveaway of Eternity, My Beloved is the epigraph which informs the reader that the title is borrowed from Nietzche: "I have never found the woman by whom I would want to have a child except this woman that I love--for I love you, eternity, my beloved." Official Catholic teaching rarely quotes that particular German philosopher for a defense of celibacy! But the phrase very aptly captures the spirit of the novel's protagonist, Father Jerome Strozzi, aka Tonzi (based on an actual worker-priest named Auguste Rossi) who immerses himself in the demi- monde of Paris' prostitutes, pimps and petty criminals. Once again the narrator plays a major part, this time complaining that Strozzi has hijacked his plan to write a novel about a prostitute named Elizabeth. But Strozzi's combination of anti- bourgeois sentiment, gospel conviction and humility proves irresistible. Freedom, that elusive gift Juan Ramon spent most of his life seeking without realizing it and only finally grasped in an act of self-incarceration, is Tonzi's hallmark. It allows him to plunge into incriminating circumstances daily, to see God's providence in an act of betrayal, a missed train or an eviction, to touch the hearts of street-wise prostitutes simply because his agenda is entirely unhidden.

"A long time ago he had recognized as a secret vice the habit of embracing formulas [e.g., 'Arise, take up...'], building arguments, using the Son of Man as another object, situating Jesus in history instead of, even today, living one's life sufficiently within His so as to grasp the meaning of those phrases and trying over and over to understand them. He apologized for being tactless, because it seemed to him that no one had the right to use these words if his own life had not first transformed them into bread and wine, into flesh and blood, and if he couldn't say them in his own personal voice." [61]

As the novel develops the narrator (named Sulivan) becomes more and more obsessed with Strozzi and his powerful influence over people, especially prostitutes. Like a true modern, he professes skepticism about Strozzi's celibacy but can find no evidence to impugn it; rather, the women speak of his friendship and his demand that they exercise their spiritual freedom. "All that he was good for was to rekindle light in eyes that had become dead. Meanwhile he was paying the price." He is regularly roughed up by the pimps whose business he threatens and reported to the chancery by virtuous Christians whose wayward pleasures he subverts.

The first giveaway of Eternity, My Beloved is the epigraph which informs the reader that the title is borrowed from Nietzche: "I have never found the woman by whom I would want to have a child except this woman that I love--for I love you, eternity, my beloved." Official Catholic teaching rarely quotes that particular German philosopher for a defense of celibacy! But the phrase very aptly captures the spirit of the novel's protagonist, Father Jerome Strozzi, aka Tonzi (based on an actual worker-priest named Auguste Rossi) who immerses himself in the demi- monde of Paris' prostitutes, pimps and petty criminals. Once again the narrator plays a major part, this time complaining that Strozzi has hijacked his plan to write a novel about a prostitute named Elizabeth. But Strozzi's combination of anti- bourgeois sentiment, gospel conviction and humility proves irresistible. Freedom, that elusive gift Juan Ramon spent most of his life seeking without realizing it and only finally grasped in an act of self-incarceration, is Tonzi's hallmark. It allows him to plunge into incriminating circumstances daily, to see God's providence in an act of betrayal, a missed train or an eviction, to touch the hearts of street-wise prostitutes simply because his agenda is entirely unhidden.

"A long time ago he had recognized as a secret vice the habit of embracing formulas [e.g., 'Arise, take up...'], building arguments, using the Son of Man as another object, situating Jesus in history instead of, even today, living one's life sufficiently within His so as to grasp the meaning of those phrases and trying over and over to understand them. He apologized for being tactless, because it seemed to him that no one had the right to use these words if his own life had not first transformed them into bread and wine, into flesh and blood, and if he couldn't say them in his own personal voice." [61]

As the novel develops the narrator (named Sulivan) becomes more and more obsessed with Strozzi and his powerful influence over people, especially prostitutes. Like a true modern, he professes skepticism about Strozzi's celibacy but can find no evidence to impugn it; rather, the women speak of his friendship and his demand that they exercise their spiritual freedom. "All that he was good for was to rekindle light in eyes that had become dead. Meanwhile he was paying the price." He is regularly roughed up by the pimps whose business he threatens and reported to the chancery by virtuous Christians whose wayward pleasures he subverts.

By the end Sulivan has abandoned all pretense of plot and is simply describing Strozzi or quoting him. The pages read like the spiritual journal which is so far only his third book to appear in English. As an introduction to it, here is a final Sulivanism from Eternity based on Strozzi's life that makes explcit the Paschal character of that priest's mission: "Love wants eternity; it is closer to death than to life: nothing can prevent it from sooner or later being crucified."

Sulivan does a wondrous thing: he tells his tale in two keys. It is both a post-modern tale of urban tragedy and chaos, and a kind of hagiography replete with references to St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and especially St. Francis de Sales. He manages to strip the pietistic mask from Christian sanctity and reveal just how gritty, scandalous, and healing the Spirit of Christ is in every age.

"Jerome Strozzi is a renegade priest who roams the seamiest side of Paris resurrecting the dead. No wonder he barges in and takes over Jean Sulivan's novel, "Eternity, My Beloved." which was supposed to be about a retired whore called Elizabeth ... The book stabs at the deepest stuff of life and it might, if only in those flashes when eternity cracks and you slip the border into that buried beyond, let you see again that it is all possible, all right here waiting to be lived. Because Strozzi is. Because Strozzi bears witness that eternity is now and resurrections can happen on any corner." -- Tim McCarthy, NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER

This book is another in the long line of books to come out of the former USSR after the clod war came to an "end". The author is relating his experiences in the arm of the KGB that was responsible for information gathering, primarily against the U.S. and NATO. If you have read a number of these books in the past there is not a great deal of new information in the book. There are some interesting bits and you get a good look that this authors insight to "the game". If you are an armchair expert on the topic then this is another of the titles you will undoubtedly already have or will need to pick up. If you are the general reader then this is a broad description of the subject, but not the definitive one volume work.

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In my profession I attended a number of C.I.A. classified briefings during the cold war years and became a close friend of at least one high profile Soviet defector. Kalugin's book rings absolutely true to what I and many others already knew with respect to the bumbling and decay of the entire Soviet socialist system. We could have given them all of our classified secrets and they would have found a way to screw it up.

Kalugin's book fleshed out the KGB skeleton as we understood it. He filled in the details. Written in an easy to read style, layman and professional alike will find it fascinating. It is not filled with the statistics, tables, graphs, and charts that many technical researchers are so fond of. Instead, The First Directorate reads like both a fascinating novel and a biography. It takes the reader through the gradual disillusionment of an avid believer in the Communist system to one who gradually began seeing it for what it really was.

Oleg Kalugin is a genuine hero of both the Soviet Union and its succeeding Russian Republic. He never defected and served both governments with distinction because he was a patriot first and a KGB officer and politician second. He wanted what was best for his country and his people and was for reform, not revolution.

This book shows the KGB for what it once was and how it degenerated into a bumbling state sponsored Mafia that in the end attempted to devour the state itself. At their worst the CIA and FBI could never have been as incompetent as the KGB. Kalugin shows how the KGB had a mixture of competent men with a sense of justice and others who were stupid cold hearted psychopaths. He relates how attempts at reform by the good agents were squashed by others in the system who were both corrupt and incompetent, and how they protected each other from prosecution.

"The First Directorate" presents specific cold war events as they were seen from the other side of the looking glass. Kalugin handled spies and defectors like Burgess and Walker. He noted that he had more respect for someone who turned against their country for idealistic reasons than one who betrayed their country for money.

Much, much, more could be said in praise of "The First Directorate." It isn't about Kalugin as much as it is an expose of the inherent weaknesses of Socialism and especially the KGB whose job it was to protect the Socialist form of government from internal corruption and external infiltration.

Kalugin clarifies many events that changed the world during the 70 years of the USSR's experiment with Communism. He could speak with authority because he was on a first name basis with the top players in both the KGB and the Soviet government.

This book should send chills up the spine of any American wanting to socialize the government and put big government in control of all aspects of our lives, from taxes that redistribute wealth, to control of our schools and businesses.

Buy "The First Directorate" and read it, and you won't be so hard on our guys.

Oleg, now a green-card resident of the U.S. is our most personable and enjoyable former opponent on the intelligence speaking circuit, and both Bill Colby and I supported him in his efforts to move permanently to America. His book is a marvelous account on the general details of his formidable career that culminated in his being elected to the Russian Parliament. Page 222, "Kill the dog!", has a special meaning for professionals the world over.

All I can say is that this is by far one of the best books that I have ever read on gun rights.

This book is well-written and well-documented. I would recommend that every American (or anyone else that cares about freedom) get this book and read it through. Though the title is provocative, the facts are laid out clearly inside.

Richard Mack's book, in very literate style, exposes some of the disguised movements the liberal left is promoting to disarm lawabiding citizens of their Constitutional Right of self defense. Mr. Mack illustrates several examples of the propaganda being put before the American Public,by the anti-gun crowd, with misleading titles to lure the unsuspecting into a "this must be a good thing" attitude. A must-read book for any American concerned about the slow erosion of our constitutional rights and in particular The 2nd Amendment. ...the right to keep and bear arms...

Amazon said my predicted rating was 4, and they are right. I don't always agree with Fred on everything but he is a great antidote for political correctness. Fred says what most of us think, but are afraid to say. A must read for anyone who feels suffocated by the unrelenting feminization of our country.

Fred Reed writes with a hillbilly twang, but this hillbilly has a Ph.D. in life thanks to, among other things, the marines and a life in the journalistic trenches. If you've ever suspected that things might be just a bit different from the reality seen by Naomi Wolfe, Dan Rather, and Jesse Jackson, if you've ever suspected that government dispenses favoritism while pretending that it's equality, if you've ever wondered where our leaders are taking us, this is the book for you. Fred Reed often begins his essays like a country lawyer, with the pretense of the uninformed, but then concludes with the kind of insight that our best minds should be capable of, but all too often aren't.

And after you've read it, you can give it to the neighborhood feminist and then take bets on how far she'll be able to read before going into anaphylactic shock.

This is a great book - entertaining, insightful, funny, and thought-provoking - by a superb author. Fred has written for a number of different journals, including Soldier of Fortune and the Washington Times. He has an extremely refreshing, honest style that cuts through the political correctness, liberal censorship, feminist dogma, and racial hypocrisy that surround so many of today's issues. This would be a far better country if Fred Reed were running it. The book is a bargain, and expands on columns on his website. His works on the military, police work, feminism and race in America today, especially on the reparations scam and African-American attitudes, are some of the most accurate, telling, and honest that I've read anywhere. I work in the same general metro area as Fred does, and keep hoping I'll run into him so I can buy him a drink. Until then, I'll keep rereading the book and checking out his website.... Fred Reed is definitely one of those authors who will be highly revered over the years to come. Why not buy his book and enjoy his writing now?