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Bliss Is Everywhere Now
Published in Paperback by Freedom Press (01 June, 1998)
Authors: Mark W. Jones and Sarah Beck
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Bliss Is Everywhere Now
This is a wonderful little book. I sent a copy to three friends because I enjoyed it so much. The writer's exuberance gave me a lift just reading it, his joy is contagious. While he has a good foundation in the Eastern mystical tradition, his path is one of enjoyment of the physical life as a gift from Spirit. The book would be worth the price just for the third chapter which has so many techniques for Spiritual awakening. Many have spent years if not decades searching for these "secrets" I keep the book on a table so I can see it during the day, not only for the beauty of the cover photography, but because the title reminds me of how we should embrace each and every moment.

A user-friendly manual for accessing bliss now
This is a wonderful guide book for those who want to feel the bliss of existance that is available to us right now. This ancient science is made easy and accessible for modern westerners. Mark Jones has perfected these practices and attested to their effectiveness in a completely down-to-earth and believable way that enables the reader to simply stop procrastinating and do these practices right here, right now. The cerebro-spinal system is ready and waiting to be made a conduit for the eternal bliss that the sages tell us about. Read this book now!


Blood Marks
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (May, 1991)
Author: Bill Crider
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Crider's Dead-Level Best
Bill Crider knows how to make you laugh, cry, and be intrigued all at the same time. "Blood Marks" is his best novel to date. His use of the continual plot twist in this book sets it apart from his series and his western novels. Each time that you know who the killer is, another likely suspect rears his ugly head. The intrigue in this book is not so much who the killer is but WHY he is a killer. This is a superb psychological thriller from the down-home author of the acclaimed Sheriff Dan Rhodes series.

A tantalizing mystery suspence.
Blood Marks was an amazing book. It is very suspenceful book without being gory. You never knew when the serial killer was around, or when he was going to speak. I felt as though I wanted to tell everyone that he is sitting right next to you. I read this book at two sittings. It's a book any mystery fan would love!


Blood Omen 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Published in Paperback by Prima Publishing (20 November, 2001)
Authors: Mark Androvich, Prima Games, and Prima Temp Authors
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Get this game
One of XBOX's best only behind Halo and Max Payne in my opinion

Great walkthrough for this creepy game!
Another awesome Prima strategy guide! This book provides a nearly flawless walkthrough for the entire game and, although most of it was pretty simple to figure out, the guide came in great use for those really tricky sections of the game. Also the guide provides info on every item, so you won't miss anything in the game. A must companion for the Playstation 2 game!


Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich
Published in Paperback by Popular Press (December, 1991)
Author: Mark T. Bassett
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A must for all lovers of Cornell Woolrich
This book really gives you an interesting insight into the mind of Cornell Woolrich. I loved it and recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about him.

Even in his last years, Woolrich could work his magic
This collection of supposed vignettes into Cornell Woolrich's life shows that, even in the last years of his life, he was able to work his word magic.

As noted by Francis M. Nevins Jr. in his biography of Woolrich, "First You Dream, Then You Die", Woolrich liked to tell different stories about his early life with little regard to consistency with the known facts or with other stories that he told. There isn't enough known about Woolrich to be able to say with certainty that these stories are or are not true, but it does not matter because they are fascinating nonetheless, and can stand with the best of his stories. Although they cannot, for the most part, be classified as belonging to his chosen field of mystery/suspense, they share many of the elements of his best work: vivid pictures of "everyday life", finding and telling the stories in ordinary situations, and a knack for making you feel for and with the characters.

While it is a fairly minor point, I found the introductory essay by Mark Bassett a bit annoying in the way that it contains bibliographical references that are i) in a different format than the actual bibliography; and ii) cannot be matched to any bibliographical entry in many cases. I had the sense that this essay was trimmed down or excerpted from a longer essay (possiby a thesis, given the publisher?), but not carefully editted.

In spite of that minor complaint, we should all be thankful to Mark Bassett for bringing these Woolrich tales to print.


Book of Fictional Days 2003 Calendar: A Collection of Events That Did Not Really Happen
Published in Paperback by Tidemark Pr Ltd (June, 2002)
Authors: Tide-Mark Press, Bob Gordon, and Gigi Bayliss
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A real look at a fictional world
This is a great calendar for a book lover! You'd be amazed to see how many books of fiction are represented...and it may whet your appetite for some good reading.

The coolest thing since pastrami on rye!
This unique calendar, now in it's third year, I think, has an innovative approach to your plain old, boring calendar. It, instead of listing events taht happened, or holidays that take place, lists what DIDN'T happen! (It also has the holidays) Bob Gordon, you're a genius!


Bouquets 2002 Calendar
Published in Paperback by Tidemark Pr Ltd (August, 2001)
Author: Tide-Mark Press
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Wonderful bouquets
When I first saw this beautiful calendar I love it. There are beautiful photographs of flower bouquets. The roses and the other bouquets are very lovely. Later on I am going to use these photographs in the decoration of my office. I recommend this calendar to everyone who loves flowers, especially roses.

Flowers to color my wall
Suzanne Lewis has an artist's eye for capturing the essential beauty of flowers. Her classy and glorious colors are a pleasure to find adorning my wall each month, like placing a bouquet on my table to welcome me each morning. A rare photographer, a beautiful calendar!!


Brad Pitt
Published in Hardcover by Little Brown & Company (September, 1997)
Authors: Holly George-Warren, Mark Seliger, Chris Mundy, and Us Magazine
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The Best Book on Brad!
Of all the books on American actor Brad Pitt, this is THE book for movie fans! It includes fantastic pictures of his ever-changing styles, as well as great articles on him and a detailed chronology of his films. Even die-hards who think they know all there is to know about Brad Pitt will be surprised to learn even more about him in this fantastic book. Highly recommended.

it exellent,extraordinary and fantastic
this film is the most fantasic film i have ever seen.Brad pitt is so hucky and gorgious i would love to kiss him.


Braids Girl (Chicken Soup for Little Souls)
Published in Hardcover by Health Communications (April, 1998)
Authors: Lisa McCourt, Tim Ladwig, Jack Chicken Soup for the Soul Canfield, and Mark Victor Hansen
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Braids Girl
This book is about this little girl named Isabella but most people call her Izzzy. She likes to go help her Grandpa Mike do Volunteer work. One day she went with her Grandpa and she saw this girl that had braids that Izzzy thought was poor, so she gave her so of her cloth she didn't ware anymore. Izzzy didn't like how she wasn't happy by it, so she was confused by how she didn't like it. Izzzy keep giving and giving by she still just didn't get it. Though the ups and downs they found away with Gods help and become good friends, and play together all the time. This story has a good meaning and that is why I like it. The pictures are done very nicely drown by Tim Ladwig with water color.

This book in compassionate and heartwarming
The real hero in this book is one of the main characters, Izzy! When Izzy decides to help her grandpa volunteer at a homeless shelter she meets a mysterious little girl with long braids that makes a lasting impression on her. Izzy wants to be just like her grandpa and make people happy, but the results of her efforts toward the Braids Girl are not the ones she is expecting. What the Braids girl really wants is a friend to accept her even though she is homeless. The Braids Girl wanted to be treated like a regular person not a charity case. Young readers will cheer for Izzy when she finally realizes the need for love nd acceptance is what lies deep in the hearts of anyone, no matter our age, race, gender or social standing. This story is full of compassion and it reveals that everyone has something of value to give.


The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
Published in Hardcover by Other Press (01 April, 2002)
Authors: Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull
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An outstanding book on both brain and psychoanalysis
This is the most significant book on psychoanalysis I've come across in a couple of decades. Solms is a neurologist and psychoanalyst working in New York, London, and South Africa. He has mounted a sustained effort to put psychoanalytic theory together with what we are learning about the brain. He does this by doing a neurological workup of patients and then interviewing them psychoanalytically.

Solms' basic idea is that we now have (as Freud did not) two ways of looking at mind. One is Freud's way: we use free association, interpretation, etc., to look at mind subjectively. The other is the neuroscience way: objective studies of the changes in behavior wrought by changes in the brain. To find out fully about mind, we have to put these two methods together. And he does!

Frankly, this growing movement of neuro-psychoanalysis seems to me the only thing that will stave off the impending death of psychoanalysis. Solms addresses quite directly the afflictions affecting psychoanalysis and offers hope, very concrete grounds for hope. Also, the book can serve as a very nice introduction to neuroscience.

Let me put it quite bluntly: Anyone seriously interested in and concerned about psychoanalysis who doesn't read this book is simply nuts!

Norman Holland, University of Florida

the best brain intro yet
Solms and Turnbull do a remarkable thing: offer a panoramic introduction covering all of the basics about all of the central aspects of inner experience that have been researched so far -- dreams, emotions, memory, identity, etc. -- and they do it in an extremely clear and readable way. All of the defined terms are highlighted in the text and clearly described. There is very little fluff at all; every paragraph and practically every sentence is necessary. The first chapter -- a basic overview of the anatomy and function of the brain -- is the best general introduction I have yet come across.


Bravest of the Brave: The True Story of Wing-Commander "Tommy" Yeo-Thomas Soe Secret Agent Codename "the White Rabbit"
Published in Hardcover by ISIS Publishing (September, 1998)
Author: Mark Seaman
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The title is no misnomer!
This book deserves to be on the curriculum of every school in the Western World for it delineates in merciless detail just what was the price of the freedoms we take so much for granted today and what the much-devalued word "hero" actually means. One hopes that similar sacrifices will never be required again by the ordinary citizens of free nations, but if they are, the courage, self-sacrifice and indomitability of Yeo-Thomas and so many others whose lives, and often also deaths, are touched on here will serve as an example and as an inspiration. Mr.Seaman tells the story of a man, ordinary in many ways, who, when confronted with absolute evil, and at an age when serving in a less active role would have evoked no disgrace, never hesitated to accept missions of the utmost danger. He proved the ideal combination of organiser, diplomat and man of action before capture and in detention proved an inspiring leader for his companions in misery. He was under no illusions as to the consequences of arrest by a barbarous enemy and when the worst happened he endured unspeakable suffering under interrogation, torture and slave-labour in concentration camps. Throughout all this his dedication to victory never failed and even in the squalid hell of Buchenwald he continued to resist. The most moving moment detailed in the book is when Yeo-Thomas, a filthy scarecrow in striped concentration-camp uniform, is recognised in a regular POW camp to which he has been sent on menial errands, and a group of British NCOs and men stand to attention before him, honouring him for a few moments before he returns to the abyss. Though Yeo-Thomas was assiduous in supporting prosecution of his tormentors after the war, his fairmindedness was such that he was willing to rise to the defence of Otto Skorzeny, whom he considered an honourable foe. This book is not only inspiring in itself, but it provides much more detail than the earlier "The White Rabbit" on Yeo Thomas's earlier life, and on the organisation of the French Resistance. Those who enjoy it will be equally impressed, and touched, by Rita Kramer's "Flames in the Field", which tells the stories of four women agents who did not survive wartime missions in France. My own daughters have been inspired by both books and they would make ideal and inspirational birthday gifts for young persons.

The Man Who Would Not Give Up
I have read this book, and its predecessor The White Rabbit. Tommy Yeo-Thomas BUILT the French Resistance, the Maquis. It was he who persuaded Churchill to arm them; it was he who went into Occupied Paris in support of his Free French friends under de Gaulle. It was he who was captured, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald KZ where fellow officers from Block 17 were hanged and cremated. He, with a few others, swapped places in a typhus experiment in the camp; escaped from Buchenwald.

Returning postwar to hunt down camp guards for liquidation. A true War Hero, but his suffering and the loss of those around him - Captain Desmond Hubble, Pierre Brosselette, Violette Szabo - make one realise the price. As a teenager fighting the Russians with Pilsudski in Poland he was sentenced to death; escaped from Zhitomir. as a man he ran Molyneux couturier of Paris; in 1939 he joined #.308 Krakowski Squadron of the polish Air Force in England; then to SOE and life as an agent in Occupied Paris - sitting on a train with Klaus Barbie, Butcher of Lyon.

A remarkable man, an amazing story, he escaped the Concentration Camp but ded in 1964 of its after-effects. A book to be read as much as a testament to human endurance, as to think of a truly remarkable man enduring great travails for his friends and comrades.


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