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I read it twice already! A truly original voice.
Thx,
DHH23

I read it twice already... a truly original voice.
-Thx

This book is right on. I never before felt like I could connect with a character the way I did with Zach. I cannot wait to read more books by Jeff Horton. He's a genius!

With her enticing title, this gifted author draws you, holds you to the final word, all the while enhancing self vision. From her life experiences she bares her heart and soul, describes life-tools to conquer hurdles with dignity and courage. Whether considering the void left by lack of unconditional parental love, a broken marriage, or a serious health challenge, she guides the reader down the path, inspiring both faith and hope, to make the music play again.

That Ms. Zell-Tamis is an eloquent, insightful author and professional healer becomes obvious as the reader is drawn into her revealing struggle to re-enchant her life after the music has stopped. Interwoven into her personal account are the inspiring stories of others who have survived the "heritage of damage" to their spirit to rekindle the sense of peace and freedom vital to our happiness and self-fulfillment. I was left with the renewed hope that each of us can, indeed, and MUST, in fact, rediscover that "authentic and vital" part of ourselves which is indispensable to our never-ending quest for a deeper, more meaningful and joyful life.

I loved The Day The Music Stopped. It seemed to hold my hand and take me into consideration of very deep, soulful material while making me feel protected and inspired by Ms. Zell-Tamis's inviting literary style. The book showed me how my own life stories echo those of others and gave me a sense of pride in my progress as I continue to grow and learn. A must read for anyone who is serious about personal growth and development and an intriguing and pleasurable treat for the more casual reader.

This was a wonderful story. It's very hard to put down. It only took me 2 nights to complete it. I hope Curt Simmons writes more books soon!

This one is hard to put down! I loved each of the colorful characters and couldn't wait to read what was going to happen next. The surprise ending was the perfect conclusion to this heartwarming story.

This is a wonderful story. I fell in love with the characters and hated to see the book end. But the surprise ending left me crying and smiling at the same time. Loved it!

I have had headaches for several years and in the last two years they started getting worse...not to mention my traditional painkiller cocktail wasn't working anymore. I though it was migraines. My dentist gave me this book...then I understood the problem. Since he fixed my bite I have been headache free for over 9 months.

I have been suffering for headaches since I was 16. When I got my first serious head pain I left school and was taken to the hospital by a wonderful teacher. I was poked; MRI'd and measured for the next two days out of fear that I may have had a brain tumor. Fortunately I didn't have a brain tumor but unfortunately the pain didn't stop. According to many wonderful doctors I had "migraines" and "cluster headaches" of unknown origin.

For 15 years I single handedly kept Advil in business until I reached a point where I decided I no longer wanted to treat the symptoms and needed confront the problem. I figured, if we can map the entire Human Geno we should be able discover the root of my headaches.

Thanks to the internet I was able to pour my self into thousands of pages of materials on headaches to the point where I found myself teaching my doctor a thing or two. I learned about TMJ and figured why not? I am sure it can't do any more damage than 15 years of pain killers!

So I spent the money, read the book and then made my doctor read it. We were both further intrigued. I found a dentist in the area who could do "bite adjustments" and gave it a try. It has been 7 months and I would be lying if I told you I have taken Advil for anything other than PMS. Not to mention my doctor has even refered a few people to my desntist with great results.

I have had headaches (I thought they were migraines ) for many years.
After a while, I stopped taking the medications because they did not help that much and I was fearful of getting used to the drugs.
When I read this book, I realized that my headaches/jaw aches/neckaches might mot be migraines after all.
I started on a new path and am hopeful that I can be rid of the pain forever.

Dr. Jones has written a beautifully poetic book that will touch the mind and heart of everyone who has or will grieve. She writes both from her personal journey and also her vast experience as a minister of the soul. Grief brings a powerful sense of being alone and it is at such a time that this book will become a best friend.

Dr. Jones has counseled persons in the grieving process in her profession as a Christian counselor. Her discoveries of grief in her profession as well as her personal experience with three different aspects of loss will be helpful to any reader who is struggling through loss and grief. How Dr. Jones presents each form of grief with her own personal experiences will help the reader apply it to their own loss. Her sense of humor (the loss of a spouse is like, "amputation without anesthesia") helps to lighten a deep and emotional subject to us all. This is a "must read" resource book for anyone who is experiencing grief or who counsels others who are grieving.

The word Holocaust is most often associated with Europe's Jews and Germany's Nazi murderous policy for making the world "Juden frei" [free of Jews]. However, there is another "race" of people the Nazi's declared as inferior, "untermenschen," Europe's Gypsies. Although they were assigned the historical label of Aryan by Nazi anthropologists, Gypsies were officially decreed to be undesirable for the Nazi World Order. When Germany's Wehrmacht invaded and then occupied Poland, the SS began rounding up the Romany people (Gypies) after all the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto had been moved to Auschwitz to be worked and starved to death or simply gassed and then incinerated.

Alexander Ramati tells the story of the Gypsy Holocaust in his exhaustively well researched book. AND THE VIOLINS STOPPED PLAYING follows the fate of a Romany family which had taken up a nearly middle class life in Warsaw, Poland. The children attended school, and 17 year old Roman Mirga had one more year of study before he graduates from high school. Indeed, this is the true story taken from Roman's diary and notes of how his family together with 500,000 Gypsies suffered the same fate as Europe's Jews under Germany's expanding program of ethnic cleansing throughout the European continent.

The Mirga family had became intergrated, if not assimilated, into the Polish society of the 1930s. Roman's family were musicians who entertained the public in a Warsaw night club (favored by German officers) and coffee houses. When the German army invaded Poland, everything would become changed forever. At first, the Gypsies were ignored by the Germans as the SS herded Poland's Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto or simply murdered them outside of the towns and villages where they had lived. But after most of Poland's Jews had been eliminated it was the Gypsies' turn, and the Mirga family realized that they had to flee for their lives.

It was turning winter as our Warsaw family of Gypsies join their tribe wintering along the Bug River. They try to convince the tribal leader, called the Shero Rom, that the Germans intend to round them up and treat them the same way as the Jews. The Shero Rom does not believe these Bareforytka Roma (big town Gypsies), and will not even begin to consider a plan to move his tribe to safety in Hungary in the middle of winter. The Mirga family becomes worried about their chances for survival. Eventually, word gets to the community from a similar tribe that the Germans have begun a Gypsy round up and several of their kind have been killed.

Like other Holocaust stories, this one too has a very unhappy ending. However, along the way the reader is treated to a rare and authoritative glimpse inside the Romany culture and social structure, made mysterious by centuries of bigotry and social isolation. Most of Europe's societies tolerated but shunned the esoteric Romany people. Landless and rootless, Gypies wandered the landscape, providing entertainment and skilled craftsmanship during their wanderings. Ramati's book evenly explores both the positive and negative aspects of the Romany people while the story is told of their exodus, capture and then suffering cruel medical experiments and then murder at Auschwitz.

As both anthropology and Holocaust scholarship, Ramati's AND THE VIOLINS STOPPED PLAYING deserves wide readership. It provides a refreshing examination of who the Romany people are and why they deserve not only to be tolerated and allowed to live in peace and dignity, but to be respected for who they are and what they value.

A great book about World War II, is a great story about the gypsies, who are not known for there suffering. I will tell you I hate reading books unless they are extremly intresting, and let me tell you, this book is Awesome with a capital "A" baby. There is a great love story too. If you can't buy it here, check your local library. The name sounds really corny, but after you read it, you will want to give Alexander Ramiti a Pulitzer.

This book should be the end of all the scandal regarding the case of murder against Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle. The author lays it all out so well that there is no question that Arbuckle had absolutely nothing to do with the death of Virginia Rappe. That is not to say this is not as interesting as the dirty little stories that others have told about this case, it is just that this happens to be the truth! I highly recommend this book!!!

Buster Keaton said that the day the laughter stopped was September 5, 1921 - the day that Virginia Rappe became ill during a party in Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. She died four days later as a result of her illness, peritonitis caused by a ruptured bladder. Mr. Arbuckle had nothing to do with Ms. Rappe's illness and death, but he paid with his good name, his career and his happiness nonetheless. He was tried three times, by a politically motivated and extraordinarily underhanded prosecution, and was acquitted with an unprecedented apology signed by every member of the jury. This should have been more than enough to ensure his warm welcome back into film, but nothing of the sort happened. The tragedy of Roscoe Arbuckle is that he was made to be the scapegoat of a Hollywood running scared from public opinion - his guilt or innocence had become irrelevant.

This is the story that David Yallop tells in The Day the Laughter Stopped. Though the book tells the story of Arbuckle's birth, start in show business and the years after his being sacrificed by so-called friends, the focus of this book is on the unfortunate death of Virginia Rappe, and the ham-handed attempt of the prosecutor to wrangle a political future out of the railroading of an innocent man. The problem? The prosecution had no case - its "star" witness, Maude Delmont, was lying from the onset and was easily discredited, and the doctors who examined Ms. Rappe during and after the party, and who conducted the autopsy, clearly indicated that no violence was done to her. The question, of course, is why she didn't receive proper surgical medical care in the first place, but due to the passage of time I suppose that query will forever go unanswered.

When Mr. Yallop began research for this book, all three of Mr. Arbuckle's wives were still living, and were eager to share their stories with him. Even Minta Durfee and Doris Deane, whose marriages with him ended in divorce, remembered him with great love. Indeed, all who were still around to be interviewed by Mr. Yallop had positive and kind things to say about the gentle, generous Roscoe Arbuckle.

This is an indispensable and devastating text in the study of the trial and the nature of Hollywood politics in the 20's. Simple common sense and a rudimentary review of the facts indicate that Roscoe Arbuckle was completely innocent - this book makes it abundantly clear. It is a shame that Mr. Yallop has not written further titles regarding the silent era - his voice would be more than welcome. My only quibble, and it is a tiny one, is that there is some gratuitous foreshadowing in the "Before" section of the book - chances are that anyone who awaited this book's arrival knew that its main focus was the events following September 5, 1921, and didn't need to be reminded of the sadness just around the bend during Roscoe's happy times.

After Hungary left WWII, Germans felt free to round up Hungarian Jews for extermination. The book, based on meticulously researched material, reads as an adventure-mystery novel yet is non-fiction. It shows that rescue was possible to an extent when people,with proper leadership, rose up and protested. Credit here goes to the Swiss people, journalists and major Swiss Theologians and Pastors.Under leadership of outstanding Swiss theologians such as Karl Barth, the Swiss people evinced an extraordinary moral leadership in efforts to halt mass murder of Hungarian Jews. The drive for rescue was spearheaded by a Rumanian Jew named Mantello who worked for the El Salvadoran embassy in Switzerland.The facts give the Swiss people the credit they deserve for helping in the rescue of Jews and show that where there was courage and a will, many were rescued. Anyone with the slightest interest in human courage and dignity, not just the holocaust, should read this book.

THis is a compelling story written almost in novel form. The history is documented meticulously and represents a herculean effort by the author. This story of rescue on a grand scale is largely unknown and Schindler's efforts pale b comparison. This is a must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust. The author deserves much praise-I would love to hear him speak!

After years of working with his father, who worked for Burgmaster for 29 years, Max Holland wrote an thouroughly researched book on the American industrial enterprise. It also explains the political value of the American industry and how Americans always attempt to keep out their competitors in new ways. I myself, being Max Holland's nephew, have talked with him many times about the issues of the book.Learning from his father and countless research books, Max Holland writes one of the most down-to-earth books on the American industrial enterprise ever.

This book gives a wonderful view of the changes in American machine tool industry. Tells the story of a retired shoe salesmen who moves to cal. and starts a machine tool business. Machines were his hobby but soon becomes involved in making inovative machine of his own design. The machine where the standard of the Industry. The factory at one time covered two blocks in Cal. The company became the target of buyout by a comgloorate and the new owners were only interested in sales and not quality. At the same time imports were improving all the time. He left the company and it went done fast. Today the older machines still fetch good prices.

This book should be reprinted. With the upcoming Y2K bug as well as other incidents of software creating problems for people's lives, this book is necessary reading. It contains actual real life information about the extent of the problem and how a society that relies on computers as much as ours does is vunerable.