Where's My Hero?

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Two multiple–week New York Times bestsellers, Julia Quinn and Lisa Kleypas, join forces with one exciting newcomer, Kinley MacGregor, to create this sexy anthology with an exciting new theme.

In an innovative new twist for anthologies, each author is reintroducing a secondary character from a previous book to star in their own story. Revisit your favourite lost heroes, and see old friends from some of these authors' best books.

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Ever fallen for the wrong guy? Not the hero of the novel, but the other man? So have bestselling romance authors Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, and Kinley MacGregor. In this delicious new collection the most desirable men from your favorite novels return to steal the spotlight -- and satisfy your longing. Dear Avon Books, Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy -- not the hero, but the other man -- and what I really want is for him to have his own story.

Customer Reviews:

Good for a Collaboration.......2007-08-09

I bought it primarily for Kinley MacGregor, who I absolutely adore and was subsequently introduced to Lisa Kleypas. I have read several books from Lisa Kleypas since then and I really enjoy her writing as well. The third author, Julia Quinn was alright, but it certainly did not inspire me to read anymore of her books.

yummy men goodie.......2006-11-06

very good characters and stories and exspecialy Sherillyn Kenyons story about stryder

Don't Miss Where's My Hero?!!.......2006-04-13

The three wonderful stories in WHERE'S MY HERO? are not to be missed! Each story is great and quick and easy to read. Very enjoyable!

Absolutely Wonderful!!!.......2006-02-14

All three stories were amazingly fantastic, which is not very common for anthology books. However, my all-time favorite out of the three stories was by Kinley MacGregor with "Midsummers Knight" with the hero Simon. Just this short story itself is worth purchasing the book. I can't believe how it just made me cry so unexpectedly, it's truly a work of art that Kinley MacGregor delievers, and I really...really recommend it. You won't be disappointed.

the second story did it for me...........2006-02-05

i thought this book was good but the second story did it for me it was by Kinley Macgregor it was soooo good it made you wanna cry and i never cry over a romance novel. it was just the way how simon is that made me fall in love with him myself its a must have it will be worth it. Its the most beautiful romantic story telling you ever read, i wouldn't give it 5 stars i would give it a perfect 10.... read her books and try to get her collection of the Brotherhood of the Sword and the MacAllisters

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by Kinley Macgregor, nora roberts, lori foster and sandra brown...

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the LAST and the BEST book!
Missing You
A Beautiful Ending
A Tidy Wrap-Up
1-800-Where-R-You #5: Missing You (1-800-Where-R-You)

Missing You (1-800-Where-R-You, Book 5)
Meg Cabot
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
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ASIN: 0060874309
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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Ever since a walk home on a particularly stormy day, Jessica Mastriani has had an ability like no other. She became known worldwide as Lightning Girl—a psychic who could find the location of anyone, dead or alive. Jess finally had no choice but to embrace her newfound talent, and ended up lending her skills to the U.S. government.

But her work for them has taken a terrible toll, and Jess resurfaces months later a shadow of her former self, her powers gone, Lightning Girl no more. Her only hope is starting over in a new place, a big city where nobody knows her. It's only when Rob Wilkins unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep that she's forced to face her past. Rob, all the way from back home, needs her help. But how can Jess, her powers gone, find anyone, let alone the sister of a man she once loved . . . when she can't even find herself?

Missing You, the fifth and final book in the 1-800-Where-R-You series

Customer Reviews:

the LAST and the BEST book!.......2007-09-02

This book is simply amazing! I loved it loved it loved it! If you even LIKE Meg Cabot you are going to fall in love with her writing in this one! It is simply amazing and just fantastic! I definitely did not expect it to be this great but it was!! Buy with confidence- you are going to love this book!! This is the sequel to the many 1-800-Where-R-You books! I've read it five times!! It is the last book!

Missing You.......2007-06-20

As is tradition for these books, I finished this one in less than a day. And it is probably the best one in the series. Jess is 19 now, and I can definitely tell she's grown up. She handles the problems better, and the ending is one of the bests. I couldn't think of a better way to end this series. :P

A Beautiful Ending .......2007-05-20

This series is one of my all-time favorite Meg Cabots. I've learned to grow to love all the characters in this story- Jess, Rob, Ruth, Doug, her entire family... You can't help but like them and admire them for everything they've gone through. Plus, Rob and Jess are just great together.

And I know there was a huge gap between the fourth one and this finale, but I have to say, this series ender was better than anything I could have imagined. It was funny and über romantic. I found myself laughing, getting butterflies, even shedding a tear or two... all the good stuff that you could possibly ask for. It was highly satisfying, and at a different pace from the previous books. More mature somehow.

Apparently, Jess has apparently taken a few years off to work as a field agent of sorts, finding missing people amidst war in the Middle East. That is, until the trauma from the violence she was witness to caused her to lose her powers and subsequently attempt to lead a normal life as a college freshman. But then Rob turns up at her doorstep, the ex-love-of-her-life asking for her help.

It was gut-wrenching to see Jess messed up and not herself, and slowly finding her way back. Not to mention, you empathize with a lot of the decisions and doubts she has, which culminates in a highly satisfying and thoroughly enjoyable book worthy of a series finale. No regrets, it's been a great ride with 1-800-Where-R-You. :)

A Tidy Wrap-Up.......2007-05-16

I kind of thought that the ending for 1-800-Where-R-U #4 was all we were going to get for this series, but I was pleasantly surprised by the final book. The hiatus of the series corresponded well with the hiatus in Jess's life - she went off to help find people in Iraq, to New York City, to Julliard. A lot's been going on her life and there've been some changes. The Jess we know is still there, but grown up a bit, and she's been seriously affected by the events in the last couple of years. I don't know how closely her experiences and reactions parallel those of soldiers in Iraq, but I like that the war influenced the direction of this book. The characters are all still solid and entertaining, but a little more mature. Jess's new problem-solving style left me grinning and Rob is still a great counterpart to Jess, with hinted at depths yet still so very much a guy. I also liked Jess's resolutions of issues with her mom and the friendly sort of relationship Jess seems to have developed with Dr. Krantz.

1-800-Where-R-You #5: Missing You (1-800-Where-R-You).......2007-02-21

Awsome book i loved it, i couldn't put it down! a must have for meg cabot fans!

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3.5 stars - not my favorite Shreve book but still worth the read
The book is autobiographical....
Where or When by Anita Shreve
Eh...
Yuck

Where or When
Anita Shreve , and Virginia Barber
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0156031272

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What would you do if out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Siân Richards sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Callahan. After all, it's been thirty years and they are both married with families. But when they decide to meet again, an innocent correspondence becomes a dangerous intimacy. Swept up in the past and consumed by an obsessive love, Charles and Siân risk everything to be together. A heart-wrenching, suspenseful story with an unforgettable conclusion, Where or When is also a 'thoughtful, beautifully written contemporary romance' (The Washington Post).

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3.5 stars - not my favorite Shreve book but still worth the read.......2007-08-23

WHERE OR WHEN by Anita Shreve
August 23, 2007

Amazon Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Here's another Anita Shreve book, an earlier one that was published back in the 1990's. WHERE OR WHEN is the story of an affair between two former childhood sweethearts who never were given the chance to find out whether they belonged together or not. Charles Callahan is currently married with two children. He is in sales. He lives a mundane yet successful life, or at least he had been able to say he was a success at one point in his life. However, he's kept from his wife the fact that he has not been able to pay the mortgage so they are about to lose their house. She has no idea how percarious theier finances are. While they've been together for a long time, he has never really been in love with his wife, but has grown to love her over the years.

One day he accidentally comes upon a newspaper article of a woman with her photograph next to it, announcing her latest collection of poetry. That woman was Sian Richards, and he recognizes that this woman is the young teenage girl he had fallen in love with at summer camp so many years ago. He doesn't let his wife know he's reading the article, and in fact he hides the page when she comes upon him while he's reading it. At the time he doesn't know it yet, but he is about to embark on a journey back to his teenage years, and to a love that almost consumed him but never had a chance to grow.

Charles is now wondering what ever happened to Sian all these years. He is curious and he makes contact with her. It's on a whim, but she answers him, and soon they are pen pals, not letting their spouses know, as they catch up on each other's lives. An affair ensues as is inevitable. But what makes this book worth the read, is Anita Shreve's writing technique. She intersperses the story with the letters they write to each other, and keeps the reader in suspense with each new letter that is sent. It's a basically simple story, about two secret lovers who want their story to be happily ever after, but there is of course that hitch - they already have their own families, with spouses that really never gave them reason to cheat. Do they want to risk their marriages and hurt the ones they have lived with and loved, just for the sake of their own happiness?

I won't reveal the ending, as it really is the climactic highlight of the book and makes the story what it is - a tragic love story about two people who tried their hand at love. (The reason for the 3.5/5 stars is because I had a hard time feeling any sympathy for Charles. There was something about him that I did not care for. )

The book is autobiographical...........2007-08-19

This book is autobiographical. I read her interview somewhere in the Telegraph (you can simply google for it..its online). Consider this:
1) Apparently, Shreve's current (and third husband) is her childhood sweetheart, who got in touch with her after seeing her picture in the NYtimes..she had written a book of poems that was published (like in this book).
2) They communicated for 6 months and then met.
2) She was 45 years old then and was already a wife married to someone else for 14 years and had a daughter (like the heroine in the novel).
3) Her current (husband number three) himself was married with three kids, and is an insurance broker.(just like Cal in this book).
4) The book was first released in 1993, 2 years after they met.

No wonder she is a master at decribing these emotions...according to her, divorcing their spouses and getting together with each other was in her words "the best of times, the worst of times". This book seems to be based on her own experience. It also explains why--in almost all her books-- she tries to potray the adulterous protagonists in a sympathetic light. She's been there, done that!

I do feel a little uneasy that she has put down her lovestory in a book, and that it is being described as a wonderful romance. Wonder how their ex's felt about it.

Where or When by Anita Shreve.......2007-07-03

Anita Shreve did it again--kept me reading and not wanting to put the book down until I came to the end. The story was heartbreaking in a way. It makes you think that perhaps two people can be meant for eachother.

Eh..........2007-06-15

I've only ever read one other Anita Shreve book and that was "The Pilot's Wife," which I thought was excellent. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for "Where or When." While the story was OK and I DID get hooked into it, Shreve didn't spend much time letting us get to know the two main characters. I felt like Cal and Sian were still strangers to me at the end of the book. The ending, I think, was also predictable.

Yuck.......2007-05-14

This book is just awful. A book that is supposed to be full of conflicting and powerful emotions that involve a romantic affair (particularly a rekindling of an old relationship while you're committed to another) completely falls flat. A book of this nature that fails to kindle in me some kind of emotion is not worth reading. Plus, the ending is ridiculously abrupt. It's almost like the author had to finish it quickly to meet her deadline. Please, skip this one.

Finding Love After 50: How to Begin. Where to Go. What to Do

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Don't buy this book!

Finding Love After 50: How to Begin. Where to Go. What to Do
Tom Blake
Manufacturer: Tooter's Publishing
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ASIN: 0972796606

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Finding Love After 50: How to Begin. Where to Go. What to Do is the only dating book written by a man exclusively for the 29 million singles age 50 and older that shows them how to find love. Widowed and divorced singles will learn how to overcome loneliness, make themselves desirable, discover places to go to meet other eligible singles and optimize their chances of meeting a compatible mate. There's someone out there for everyone, this book will help bring them together.

Customer Reviews:

Don't buy this book! .......2007-06-27

If you worked up the motivation to date after fifty this book will surely discourage you. I found it to be out of touch and the advice to be misogynistic e.g. lose weight, consider plastic surgery. All in all I'd save the money and buy a book written with respect for the reader.

Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach And Students Love to Learn

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Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn
This book gives me a vision of the teacher I can be!
Love and Logic Down Under

Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach And Students Love to Learn
Robert Sornson
Manufacturer: Love & Logic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1930429878

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Creating Classrooms Where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn.......2007-09-14

This book should required for every teacher to read. It has great techniques to get students on your side. I keep it on my desk at school as a handbook.

This book gives me a vision of the teacher I can be!.......2007-07-26

This book gives me a vision of the teacher I can be. It inspires me to reach the most difficult students! It also outlines the SKILLS I need to become that teacher and HOW to reach the most difficult students! It helps me understand that teaching is more than just presenting information, but it is building relationships with students who are sometimes very lost in life and teaching through those interactions as much as through the textbook. Think about it, do you fondly remember the teachers who presented the most information or do you fondly remember the teachers who cared about you, and believed in you? Those that believed in me and cared about me so clearly that I noticed it are in my teacher hall of fame. Those that could care less about me, but taught a lot of valuable stuff, are forgotten and/or despised. I encourage all teachers to read this book and to study love and logic. You will have less anger, hostility and frustration. It will change your career!

Love and Logic Down Under.......2006-08-31

This is a very readable "How to" book written in a narrative style as it follows the experiences of a small, dedicated group of teachers who are attempting to apply the principles of "Love and Logic" teaching. The key to the success of these methods is in developing and expressing genuine empathy for the students in the teacher's care. The book describes the nine essential skills for the love and logic teacher:
1. Neutralising student arguing
2. Using delayed consequences
3. Using empathy
4. Using the recovery process
5. Developing positive teacher-student relationships
6. Setting limits with enforceable statements
7. Using choices to prevent power struggles
8. Using quick and easy classroom interventions
9. Guiding students to solve their own problems

There are suggestions of ways teachers can learn these skills to implement in the classroom. Having read the book I find myself wanting to go out and apply my learning in the classroom and to share what I have read with others. This review is an attempt to do so.

To me the book's appeal is to that picture of the kind of teacher I would want to be and then offers some suggestions as to how I might move closer to becoming such a teacher. It's worth the read. Not sure whether it's available in Australia but definitely through amazon.com

Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound

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Very good however...
A Must for fans of the Motown Sound
The BEST Motown book
Best book on motown I've read
Get this book!

Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound
Nelson George
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312866984

Customer Reviews:

Very good however..........2005-04-18

It has been awhile since I read this book so I have to rely on my memory somewhat of the book's contents. Yes, it is a very interesting book and as a Motown fan, I certainly enjoyed it. Sometimes, though, I wonder about some of Mr. George's comments (and if you are reading this Mr. George I mean no disrespect).

Did he really have to describe the talented Kim Weston as a "dark skined woman with a tendency to put on weight?" Was she really laughed at when she got on stage? To me, Kim Weston was one of Motowns most talented female singers. Couldn't the author have spent a little more space on her vocal talents?

He dismisses the Supremes post-Diana Ross career in a few sentences. Did he ever listen to any of those records? The post-Ross Supremes made some wonderful music which is just now being rediscovered.

He writes off white singer Chris Clark as a "not very gifted singer". From the few songs I have heard, she may not be a virtuoso, but she's not that bad! I know of some rabid Chris Clark fans who would challenge Nelson George on that point.

He spends a lot of time on certain subjects such as Motown's post-70's decline, but seems to spend very little time actually analyzing the music.

A writer, of course, has a right to his opinions and I think, in all fairness, he does a very good job with the book. My biggest complaint is that he seems a little cynical about Motown. I know that not all was happy beneath the wonderful music people heard, but there is still something in his attitude that bothers me a little. Sometimes he seems a little bit mocking in his tone. He wrote a later book about hip hop (a music style I don't care for) and seemed to treat the whole subject with more respect.

I'm probably being a little too analytical about this book.

Anyway, this is still a good book. Put on some Motown music and enjoy.

A Must for fans of the Motown Sound.......2004-01-06

I found this book to be very informative on the music that I grew up with but it also revealed how Mr. Gordy has ruined the lives of talented but uneducated people.

The BEST Motown book.......2003-03-25

One of my smartest purchasing decisions was to pick up this work by Nelson George in June 1986 when it was still in hard cover. I've never let it out of my sight since. Time has proven it the precursor of a deluge: `Dreamgirl,' & `Supreme Faith' by Mary Wilson (1986, 1990), `Temptations' by Otis Williams (1988), `To Be Loved,' by Berry Gordy (1994), `Inside My Life' by Smokey Robinson (1989), `Dancing In The Street' by Martha Reeves (1994), and `Between Each Line of Pain and Glory,' by Gladys Knight (1997), among others. I bought them all and I read them all. By far the worst, was the October 1993 work by Diana Ross, `Secrets of a Sparrow,' which was quickly named the worst non-fiction work of the year by People magazine. I couldn't argue with them.

`Where Did Our Love Go,' on the other hand, proves a truth we discovered in the day of the very music it chronicles: no amount of tepid covers surpasses a towering original. Perhaps because Mr. George was not an insider at Motown in the 60s, his history of the company is so objectively good. I've read it many times in over 16 years, and haven't found a date or factual mistake.

And it is balanced. The wonderful music of those glory days in Detroit is given the respect and affection it deserves, as well as the how-it-came-about details. Mr. George acknowledges as most of us do, that Motown's 60s sound is timeless, and is going to outlive Berry Gordy, the artists whose names appeared on the labels, and we baby-boomers who were weaned on it.

Yes, the who-struck-John stories of disappointment are delineated fairly too: the career declines and /or disappointments of folks like Martha Reeves, Gladys Knight, Chuck Jackson, Marvin Gaye and, especially Florence Ballard. But unlike the recollections of the authors listed above, `Where' is not told by a writer needing to come out smelling blameless or put-upon at the end.

All these years later, `Where Did Our Love Go,' by Nelson George remains the single most essential biography of Motown Records you can own. Buy it anyway you can manage to, even used - just don't ask to borrow mine. Beyond it, there are two companion works you should also seek out for some fair and detailed `inside' looks of Motown in those days: `Divided Soul,' David Ritz' account of Marvin Gaye's life, which appeared first in 1985, and might have been helped in its excellence by the fact that its subject was no longer around to censor it or `advise.' Finally, from 1989, J. Randy Taraborrelli's `Call Her Miss Ross,' could likely be a dozen times more factual and objective than the 1993 work of the former Supreme herself could ever be!

Best book on motown I've read.......2003-03-14

Although a little short on photos (it was obviously not the authors' intention to be another photo book), this is in many ways the best book for someone really interested in the subject of Motown to own,in that the author pulls no punches. Other books on this record company/hit machine of the 60s & 70s suffered from censorship by the record company's head and his people.

This book does not suffer that hinderance, and it allows us to read what really went on behind the scenes. It was not such a happy family with Berry Gordy Jr. as the paternal head as it is often depicted.

An excellent book, both readable and informative, and well worth getting hold of for all fans of the music who want to know what really went on as the records were made and the tours were run.

Get this book!.......1998-11-17

Part of the success of Motown lies in Berry Gordy's tight control over public relations. Put simply, he would not cooperate with reporters until and unless he knew, and approved of, the nature of their stories in advance. In "Where Did Our Love Go", Nelson George breaks the mold. This is an unauthorized biography of the Motown Record Corp. George managed to circumvent Gordy's media chokehold and, thereby, come up with a picture quite different from the common myths. This results in two marvelous types of revelations throughout this book: (1) The "dirt" on Motown; and (2) the good, joyful, and uplifting things that we never knew. Get this book!

A Marriage Without Regrets: No matter where you are or where you've been, you can have

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Saved my life and my marriage.
GREAT book on building a solid marriage
Highly Recommend
UGH! Walked out of the Class
ENLIGHTNING

A Marriage Without Regrets: No matter where you are or where you've been, you can have
Kay Arthur
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
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ASIN: 0736904409

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“Kay Arthur addresses a serious and sensitive subject with serious sensibility. Here’s a book husbands and wives should read together.”

—Dr. Woodrow Kroll
President and Senior Bible Teacher
Back to the Bible

Now in trade paper! A Marriage Without Regrets shares principles for successful marriages from the ultimate handbook—the Bible. “This book isn’t about having a perfect marriage or changing your spouse,” Kay says. “It’s about having the kind of marriage where you can stand before God and say, ‘Lord, I was all You intended me to be.” Speaking candidly about her first marriage, her conversion to Christianity, and her longtime marriage to Jack, Kay offers practical advice on communication, security, significance, parenting, and God’s guidelines for remarriage.

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Saved my life and my marriage........2006-12-30

I originally took this book as a study class and it was AMAZING. I was truly convicted that I wasn't being the wife that God called me to be and that was ALL I could do to save and restore my marriage. This book makes you say, "why didn't I already KNOW that??!!" So honest and forthcoming plain old TRUTH. Sometimes the truth hurts and is hard to swallow, but once we put our human pride aside we are able to move forward in faith...and that's when God can work miracles.

Pride will be put away and your marriage will thrive!

GREAT book on building a solid marriage.......2006-09-02

Classic Kay Arthur! No-nonsense Biblical wisdom on how to build and maintain a marriage that is both satisfying and God honoring. Kay's insights have been very helpful to my wife and I, and we give this book to couples as an engagement / wedding gift. This book is also a great tool for those who may already have some regrets in their marriage, and need help in overcoming obstacles that are preventing their marriage from being all that it can be. Personal reflection and lots of Biblical wisdom make this a great read, with lasting value.

Highly Recommend.......2005-09-11

My wife and I did Kay's book prior to getting marriage and really liked it. While some might have issues on some of the points in the book, Kay backs everything up with biblical references and it lines up with the word of God. We gave this as a wedding gift. This is the second set that we have given out as a wedding or engagement gift.

UGH! Walked out of the Class.......2003-10-13

I took several of Kay Arthur's classes on various books from the Bible but advise you...don't waste your time with this course. After several sessions, I walked out of class due to the lies given on the subject. After speaking with several other Christian counselors, it is obvious Kay is still in need of healing, as portrayed by the contents of this course. There are still some issues that need to be resolved. I guess if you were brought up in a Christian home and overly protective, you would fall for the context. However, if you have any street smarts or experienced the secular world, before coming to Christ, you would be offended.

I do recommend her classes and books on specific books of the Bible and Spiritual gifts.

ENLIGHTNING.......2001-09-04

KAY ARTHUR IS A GREAT AUTHOR ANYWAY. THIS BOOK IS NOT ONLY GREAT FOR MARRIED COUPLES IT IS ALSO GREAT FOR PEOPLE WHO GOD WILL HAVE GET MARRIED. THE BOOKS DISCUSSES EVERY ASPECT OF MARRIAGE INCLUDING THE CHILDREN THAT MAY COME. THIS BOOK IS ALSO A GREAT TEACHING VEHICLE FOR PRE-MARITAL COUNSELING. THANK GOD FOR THE ANOINTING GOD HAS GIVEN TO KAY ARTHUR.

The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

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you'd need a sixth or seventh star for this one
Ain't been done since.
A book that has haunted me
Astounding
epic "stream-of" southern post-gothic bardic bhakti nervosa

The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
Frank Stanford
Manufacturer: Lost Roads Pub
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ASIN: 0918786509

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you'd need a sixth or seventh star for this one.......2004-04-02

the book is simply massive music... Robert Johnson's lost Gregorian chants scored by Beethoven... performed as if Wynton Kelly was Chopin's shadow figure (or vice versa)... gorgeous and blood-soaked in an unbroken swipe of the scythe from blues to beatitude and back... go toe to toe or eye to eye with a few thousand lines in a sit and see if you don't go down and get up more than what you thought you were... among many many other things an EKG taken from an unplugged guitar dragged down a dirt road a double-play turned with a grenade thrown through the open window of a freedom ride bus an unbroken polygraph run off the scales by the polarities of race in the centrifuge of American consciousness...

Ain't been done since........2004-03-11

There's no fooling in Stanford's poetry, no cheap catharsis, no worn-out middle class longing. Like the wide, roiling waters on a flood plain, Stanford's work stops you dead. The road disappears, submerged for a hundred yards or more before bobbing up from the water's edge, crawling on. Do you drive across? You think you know the road well. It is only poetry, after all.

A book that has haunted me.......2002-03-14

I have been waiting to get this book for over 10 years, and it is well worth the wait I endured!

I first read Frank Stanford and an exerpt from The Battlefield when I purchased the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Anthology. I was immediately captured by the immense narrative form that I found. I later bought The Light the Dead See and was amazed yet again. Upon finally getting my hands on this book I can say without a doubt that I am in love with the words of Frank Stanford.

The new edition is not 542 pages long, but this is a result of the enlarged book format that the publishers chose. However, the poem is a single, 15,000+ line stanza of poetry that can seem most daunting any way you look at it. What got me going is my anticipation. I just dove into the book and didn't look back.

Within the narrative, you find Francis, who is an amazing guide through a rural, Southern landscape, filled with adventure and figurative language that at times cause me to catch my breath. Francis narrates from both an observational and personal point of view, and it is up to the reader to catch up with him. At times he is telling you what happened to him, what he heard about someone else, what he was/is dreaming, and what he plans on doing.

The text is full of allusions and references to other epic stories. Francis and the events and people who surround him culminate with these allusions into an Epic for the modern reader. At times the writing looks too unorganized to be an epic, but this is not the case. I am convinced that Stanford knew what he was doing every single line and word of the way. This truly is poetry with every line a composition in itself.

At every turn of the page there is a new secret, a new wonderful discovery to be found. I urge you to read this book and help to re-discover a lost American poet. I was so impressed, I bought a second copy as a gift and would not hesitate to do so again for the right person.

Astounding.......1999-10-09

This is one of the most innovative and accomplished works in the history of poetry. It's simply incredible.

epic "stream-of" southern post-gothic bardic bhakti nervosa.......1999-09-23

mississippi/arkansas poet. don't blame him for that. rare rare book. and about two inches thick. no real periods or commas or pauses.pure shrieking breath text. perhaps a suicide note in a life-affirming veil. seemingly endless vignettes and fortune cookie moments that include but are not limited to jesus, dirt dobbers, thomas merton, messages of light, possum russians and the wind is I am waving goodbye to the casket of my first mammy..."

"...an angel with the right hand extended slightly palm open means guardianship of human beings the blood sprinkled upon the doorposts of Egypt was a symbol and.."

tough. tender. tragic rant of the isolated spirit whose lonliness is interrupted by language and the potential of song in a world seemingly made by someone else who doesn't seem to be available.

the trauma of seem.

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Yerkes offers tips, examples, and motivation to help readers, their coworkers, and their customers unleash the power of fun in the workplace. Through real-life case studies and interviews with dozens of leading authors and everyday people, the author illustrates 11 principles of what she calls "The Work/Fun Fusion."

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All the original eleven companies featured have continued to thrive.......2007-07-07

FUN WORKS: CREATING PLACES WERE PEOPLE LOVE TO WORK appears in its second updated, expanded edition to explore connections between work and fun. The original book detailed how eleven different companies blended fun into the course of business for improved results: this revised second edition includes follow-up interviews with all the companies in the first edition to see how they have maintained a fun environment in the face of recession, 911, and natural disaster alike. All the original eleven companies featured have continued to thrive - largely because of their 'fun and work' atmosphere - and business libraries will appreciate a book which documents a series of real-life success stories.

I was wrong!.......2007-06-27

In reading the second edition of Fun Works I expected little change from the first edition I reviewed in 2001. I was wrong!

In her revised edition Leslie Yerkes coins the term "hard science," to include great products, effective strategy, work process improvement, service orientation and strict financial controls, as a fundamental requirement for any successful organization. She applies the term "soft science," including the way people in organizations interact and their culture, as the principal requirement for any sustainable organization.

Leslie Yerkes then revisits eleven companies she first examined in 1999 as examples of her eleven principles for effectively integrating fun and work. Two companies in particular, Southwest Airlines and Isle of Capri Casino, survived & prospered after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Their "hard science" positioned them to survive, but it was their "soft science" that actually saw them through these events.

This book is a must read if your goal is to create and sustain a culture in your organization where people are allowed to and want to do their very best.

New 2nd edition improves on excellent 1st edition.......2007-05-01

Remember what happened to many of the companies featured in Peter's On Search of Excellence? For various reasons many of those companies ended up under-performing and others did much worse.

Contrast this with the track record of the companies Leslie Yerkes profiled and studied six years ago. Of eleven, two were snapped up outright, and the other nine have continued their successful ways. Even Isle of Capri, a resort and casino business battered by Katrina, leveraged its advanced organizational culture to survive and thrive through catastrophe.

Fun Works is a hybrid: it uses the case company approach to derive eleven accessible and practical principles (of organizational development.) Fun Works 2 is not an academic book but it's not "all principle," (and no meat !) either.

For the second edition, Ms. Yerkes has latched upon the distinction between hard and soft organizational science to help her elaborate on the positive, high performance culture she discovered in her research on the featured companies.

It's this 'soft,' human-centered, science she's neatly described in this very worthwhile revision of Fun Works. "Fun" in the workplace, as she points out, has unfortunate connotations going back to the industrial revolution. Smartly, this time around, she's developed a much larger and more nuanced picture of how it is high-performance companies rely on positive and appreciative company culture to synergize and support the so-called hard science.

Another important aspect to Fun Works is that it is not just about corporate behemoths. She's cast her trained eye on companies ranging in scale from a regional architecture firm, to a large university dining service to, admittedly, a paragon of large-scale organizational innovation, Southwest Airlines. It's a great strength of Fun Works that the book's testable principles--obviously--can be tried out in any sized business environment.

It seems five years later many more businesses are coming to understand how critical are the people side of performance and the interpersonal side of positive culture. Yerkes's hybrid of case study and practical manual remains in its second edition, a keystone kind of book about organizational development and, yes, fun at work.

The new edition's updating improves on the first go-round. Heck, the original was the best book on fun at work, so I guess the new version is better than best!

A Fun Guide to a Fun Workplace - Also see WorkLaughs.......2006-12-29

This is not only a fun book to read but, if you take it's advice, it will show you, through examples,
how to put more fun into your workplace. And if you like this book, you are sure to enjoy
WorkLaughs: Quips, Quotes, and Anecdotes about Making a Buck. (also available on Amazon).

Fun most definitely works!.......2006-12-02

Fun and work might not always seem to fit in the same sentence. However, this book by Leslie Yerkes makes fun at work seem all the more likely. Combining the ideas of fun at work with emphasizing a productive and successful company is the perfect mix for this one of a kind book.

Ms. Yerkes' work/fun fusion is brings the relaxed atmosphere of a get together with friends together with driving the success of a business. She does this with eight simple principles to fuse work with fun. Impossible? Think again! Not to spoil the book for you, but with a principle entitled "Celebrate", who wouldn't be enticed to read such a book? Ms. Yerkes' gives employees and management the courage to be themselves and to the best that they can be. The line between management and employee is blurred with the brilliance of Yerkes' ideas. This book encourages an equal playing field amongst all in the office without creating a fantasty, this can really happen! The days of chains of command and lack of communication with upper management could be on their way out the door with the ideas presented in this book.

The principles, examples, and tests in this book provide an unbelievable amount of insight as to how to integrate fun and work. This 200 page book is overflowing with ideas that could easily provide employees with a whole new outlook on your company and work in general. Fun/work inventories allow readers to find out their current view of fun at work. Examples from well-known, successful companies also provides proof that fun at work really does work!

This book is a must read regardless of your position in a company. Entry-level career to president of a major corporation, we all can learn a lot from Leslie Yerkes. She encourages us all not to be so serious at work and let fun happen!

Ms. Yerkes' talks about risk taking in her book, so why not take a risk and go out and read this book. I assure you, you will not be disappointed! Fun most definitely works!

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