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God's Smuggler
Published in Paperback by New American Library (December, 1987)
Authors: Brother Andrew, John Sherrill, and Elizabeth Sherrill
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God's Smuggler
This book has truly inspired me. To read about the sacrifices Brother Andrew made has made me know I can do so much more for God. This is a must read for anyone who is working for God. This is a thrilling, edge of your seat, page turner. You will not be able to put it down.

Excellent! If you loved it, I also have another to reccomend
This book can change your life and how you see God. Brother Andrew gave his life totally to God, and God remained faithful to him. you cannot read this book and come away with the same view on God. I read this book, and could not put it down. Sure to strengthen your Christian experience. As thrilling as any spy novel. Not one to be missed by any christian. What one person can do when they give themselves totally to God. If you thought the result would be a dull life, you're dead wrong! Read the book!
IF YOU LIKED THIS, I HAVE ANOTHER TO RECCOMEND. It's called "A Thousand Shall Fall" But you must be sure to get the right one. The full title is "A thousand shall Fall: The electrifying story of a soldier and his family that dared to practice their faith in Hitler's Germany." Written by Suzy Hazel Mundy. It's as much of a page turner as this book and will also change your life.

Happy reading!

No Milk-tost Christians
If self-sacrifice is the mark of true heroism, then Brother Andrew is in a class with the most valient. This book tells his story from birth and youth in WWII poverty, to the agnosticysm of a young man to the realization that God is REAL and part of his life. It will challenge your faith to rely on God as if he were a king leading his troops into battle. He is. Brother Andrew's story is one of the most involving STORIES I have read. But it isn't just a story, it is the life of a real man who has given everything for the mission to spread light to a dark land. Just because the Iron Curtin has fallen, dosen't mean that this book is any less relevant today. It will change your faith. Gaurenteed.


The Greatest Networker in the World
Published in Paperback by Prima Publishing (March, 1997)
Author: John Milton Fogg
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A can't put down sort of book!!
I've read it twice and I'm now reading it again! For those who believe network marketing is just plain 'sales', think again. Since reading this and some of his other works on TGN, I've become more focused on helping people and that in turn grows my business.

You gotta read this one.

College Networking Novice
I have been in the Network Marketing Business for two months. This is the third book I've read on Network Marketing and by far the most influential. I don't want to hear someone tell me what to do, I want to hear an awesome story about a successful person. Read this book, if you're looking for the same story.

Captures the "soul" of the networking business!
It was something we had not done in nearly twenty years; My wife and I actually read this book together! We were both so intrigued by the first chapter of "The Greatest Networker in the World" that neither of us was willing to yield the book to the other to read first. So, we took turns, alternating chapters, and read the story to each other over the course of two evenings. John Milton Fogg so masterfully draws his readers into this "first-person" account of one man's discovery of the real secrets of success in network marketing that we were genuinely disappointed to find, at the end, that the caharacter was fictional and not autobiographical. Our hearts were touched by the "narrator's" personal struggle to find the solution that would bring he and his family the success and financial security he so deeply wished to provide for them. Fogg evokes genuine emotion from the reader, revealing the real-life success secrets in this business as the main character learns "what he doesn't know that he doesn't know." Highly recommended for anyone seeking success in sales or simply looking for practical advice and encouragement on rediscovering your dreams and renewing your belief that they CAN really come true! Inspiring and "Amazing!"


My Life and Hard Times
Published in Paperback by HarperCollins (paper) (March, 1990)
Authors: James Thurder, John P. Hutchens, and James Thurber
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This book is really quite amazing
Unlike most autobiographies, My Life and Hard Times is short and extremely sweet. Despite its length, however, you can pick it up again and again and always be delighted by it. As Thurber says, he talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs." And the great affairs he talks about are quite meaningful, adding yet another dimension to the book. After reading it, I had the feeling James Thurber was somewhat depressed because of the limits of life. He only hints at this at the beginning and end of the book in his "Preface to a Life" and "A Note at the End," but it is there, and it is powerful. As for the nine anecdotes that make up the bulk of the book, there is simply no equal: they are very funny, displaying the occasional and humorous insanity of people. This is a book to be read again and again, and to be treasured.

My All Time Favorite-Period.
This book, with whom I share a long and one-sided love-affair, is a perfect gem. I have read it during my life again and again, and I never have escaped without laughing--hard--out loud at all the Thurber family goings-on. Thurber has the rare gift of constructing a symphony of a story with the sparest but most meaningful instruments. His other books, The Thurber Carnival and the Thurber Album are also worth reading.

Nothing was ever funnier.
This has got to be the funniest book I have ever read and read and read. Simple stories of Thurber's early years will get you laughing out loud.


Origami Sea Life
Published in Paperback by Dover Pubns (July, 1991)
Authors: John Montroll and Robert J. Lang
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Excellent book, but not for beginners
This is definitely not a book for beginners, but once you have got your feet wet with some origami, you may want to give it a try. An excellent collaboration between two top US folders, Montroll and Lang, this books starts with some easy models and quickly progresses up to some really tough stuff. My own favorite is the horseshoe crab, the finished product is wonderfully true-to-life on both the top and the underside of the crab. Definitely models in here that you will love to show off after several hours of careful folding.

Great fish models
Yes, this is an intermediate folders book, but its nowhere near as hard as Lang's Insect book. If you can fold the other Montroll models you can do the ones in this book. There are some easier models, basic fish, with the hardest being those with the most appendages, crabs etc. But I like folding fish. Origami just lends itself to fish models and these are wonderful.

Wonderful
I got this book a couple of days ago and must say I am truly amazed. The authors Lang and Montroll (who I consider two of today's best folders) say "Sea Life", and mean it. Not only does this book contain models from almost every order of water animals (not only fish and crabs, but also shells, echinoderms, frogs, whales...) but the resulting models truly look alive. I just finished my first Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin and it looks like the real thing.

Not for the beginner, though. Most folds in here are as challenging as they are cool.


The Light at the End
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (February, 1992)
Authors: John Skipp and Craig Spector
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Add it to your vampire collection
I believe John Skipp and Craig Spector never quite got the recognition they deserved. "Light at the End" was both applauded and dismissed as "splatter punk" at the time, but it's a story that has much more merit than that. Yes, the authors paint a harshly realistic picture of what might happen if vampires infested New York -- and it ain't pretty. But there is a richness of characterization in this story that works to balance the gore. I rank this one right under Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" as a story that continues to haunt you long after you put the book down.

Sick of over-romanticized vampire fiction? Read this.
Leave it to the splatterpunks to serve up a glorious, visceral reminder that vampires are not a bunch of heroic, black-clad figures with picky appetites.

Light at the End is one of Skipp & Spector's best works. The story of the brief, but violent life of a nihilistic vampire in New York City, and told primarily from the point of view of his would-be killers, this novel runs seamlessly from start to finish. It is both well-conceived and well-actualized, with interesting characters, lots of action, and most important, lots of thought-provoking plot.

This book is the best remedy I've found for a litarary world overflowing with Anne Ricean-clone vampires. Van Helsing would be proud.

Very Gory, Very Good.
First off, if you are sick of the Anne Rice vampires who have a cheesy accent, and whine and complain about the "dark gift" of being a vampire, then this book is for you. The vampire in this book is anything but whiny. However, if you like your vampire books with a ruthless vampire that kills without compassion, morals, or even a second thought, then this book is for you.

Skipp and Spector have a very strong writing style. Strong in that this is a real page turner filled with violence and gore around every turn. For example, just wait till you read what happens in a movie theater.

This book is pretty much out of print. I was lucky enough to find my copy at a used bookstore. I urge you to go out and hunt for this book. I can promise you that you won't be sorry.

If you like your vampires to kill without reason, then you have to start this book. You'll love every page. That I can promise you.


Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
Published in Audio Cassette by New Millennium Audio (April, 2002)
Authors: Dave Barry and John Ritter
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Excellent Barry book...
Barry is not an American Literary Classic, but he is funny as a wet weasle. Everyone I have recommended it agrees. The book is so good my friends and I would take turns reading random passages aloud to each other. This is his one of his best works. If you like Dave Barry, or silly humor you may like this light read.

the first...yah yah
hmm..be the first to review this book the link says... I'm quite surprised no one has reviewed this yet.. well this edition of the book anyway. This was the first Dave Barry book I ever read, I was snooping around the Paul Reiser(enough with the Paul Reiser!) area in the library hoping there'd be some more funny books and found this one. Well I was not disappointed. It is.. extremely funny. It caused me to pursue further Dave Barry books, although I must say this is probably funnier than the rest. I showed bits to friends and they could not stop laughing (especially the sex bit..whoo whoo). It is a pity that Dave Barry is not really known in Australia since few people borrowed this book. I would personally promote this book vigorously to other readers but I'd just end up annoying them again. Oh what do they know. This is one of those great books where the humour is not strained like some books where you know they're trying to be funny and frankly, they're not.

Perhaps The Funniest Book I've Ever Read
Dave Barry's Complete Guide To Guys is, quite possibly, the most hilarious book I have ever read. Basically, Barry sums up all the stereotypes involving guys, not men, guys. Every page made me laugh out loud. I never got tired of it. I found myself nodding in recognition at almost everything written while I laughed until I cried. One of my personal favorite things that Dave Barry does in this book is his spectacular use of footnotes. He will have a sentence followed by a number corresponding to a footnote at the bottom of the page. It is always something hilariously random with very funny shock value. Dave Barry also includes many wonderful anecdotes on actual experiences with guy behavior, such as a bizarrely idiotic club initiation and an organization known as the Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts just to list a few. Anybody who is a fan of gender-related humor, either a guy or a gal, is sure to get a kick out of this fantastically entertaining work of literature.


Montcalm and Wolfe (Modern Library (Paper))
Published in Paperback by Modern Library (May, 1999)
Authors: Francis Parkman and John Keegan
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A classic about the struggle for domination of N. America
I was impressed by the work and analysis that Francis Parkman gave to the French-Indian War and the background of the war between England and France that spilled over to the North American continent. The background of the conflict was very interesting and I learned some points about it that I hadn't known before. Not only does Parkman give detail about the struggle in the present day United States, but also the struggle for Canada. The jealousy and rivalry between England and France was enourmous and in its path alot of victims were made such as the Native Americans and English and French Colonists. Two cultures that were very similiar, yet could not exist peacefully with each other, even across the Atlantic. The British may have won this war but their troubles were only beginning in America. This book was written over a century ago, yet it's language by the author and text make it a very interesting read and is considered a classic. Very Highly Recommended to all who want to know more about the history of Colonial North America.

Great History
As has been said, Montcalm and Wolfe is Parkman's masterpiece. It was the first thourough account of the French and Indian War and contains some of the most detailed descriptions of the people, places, and events that shaped the North American theater of the first truly global conflict. Here we encounter the dramatic events which lead toward the final confrontation for dominion over the continent. We see a young Virginia Colonel named George Washington leading troops into battle for the first time at Fort Necessity, Braddock's fateful campiagn along the Monogahela, the massacres at Fort Oswego and William Henry by the Indians under Montcalm, the fall of Fort Dusquene, and finally, the culmination of many long and bloody battles, the capture of Quebec and the almost romanticized deaths of Montcalm and Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham. What is truly interesting is that we see the war through the eyes of someone still living in a time when the Indian wars of the west were still being fought and when the country was in the grip of Manifest Destiny and, as a result, Parkman is often very harsh in his views of the Indians and their "savage" ways. Yet, even so, he often gives them more credit than most of his contemporaries.

It is unforunate that today so little is taught or learned about this important event in American history. Today, it seems that the French and Indian War is all but ignored save for being mentioned as a prelude to the American Revolution which it helped spawn rather than as the major turning point in the history of North America and the world. For it is this bloody conflict, fought in the unending wilderness of America, where French regulars and courer de bois crept through the dark woods alongside painted Huron and Ottawa warriors to attack the English settlements, and young redcoated soliders marched shoulder to shoulder to their horrific deaths by rifle ball and tomahawk, that gave birth to what would become the Untied States and changed the course of world history. But even more than that, it is a fascinating period of history more powerful than any piece of fiction. This is history of the highest order. Highly recommended.

More than History
Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe is more than history, it's American Literature. His prose flows elegantly and distinguishly across each page. The reader can definitely tell that Parkman was most passionate about this work, he spent most of his life researching and writing it. The care and attention he gave to the work shows. Granted this is probably not the best book for a high school student on the French and Indian war, but for someone who has read and enjoys to read history this is definitely worth a go.


Spiritual Divorce: Divorce As a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
Published in Hardcover by Harper SanFrancisco (09 January, 2001)
Authors: Debbie Ford, John V. McShane, and Neale Donald Walsch
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Not for Divorcees Only -- A Book that Will Transform All
Don't believe it. This isn't just for divorcees. This book is for anyone who has fallen in love and then felt deeply betrayed -- whether by a parent, a spouse, a lover, a sibling or friend. Ms. Ford understands the pain and helps you transform bitterness and hurt into spiritual liberation and strength. Spiritual Divorce is one of the BEST books on forgiveness I have read, along with Gerald Jampolsky's Forgiveness book and the Prathers' book, Letting Go. It will change your life. Thank you, Ms. Ford!

Great book for the newly divorced/separated
The basic mantra of this book is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and until you let go of your anger toward your former SO, you won't heal. This message is repeated over and over, in many very helpful ways.

When I was first seperated, I was a victim of cloudy thinking, life as I knew it was over. And while that was true, it has become a spring board for personal growth and a new life. It's the no pain, no gain theory of life. While I would not advocate this life experience as good plan, if it happens to you, you might as well use it as an opportunity to grow.

While it has been a number of years since the divorce, I still found some good information about myself within the pages of this book. Plus it was an affirmation that the course I was on is the right one. (Also people thinking about getting married, might do well to read this for the information on how not to choose a mate, as Ms. Ford goes over what happened with her marriage. The misplaced expectations and poor commuincation.)

a tremendously effective book!
After getting divorced, I was aimlessly wandering through the day so uncertain of everything. I then learned of this book from the Oprah Show. After reading it, I was a completely different person with a new attitude. Debbie Ford has done a great job in writing this from her own experience. It helps you to rethink the divorce process and how you think of your ex as well as yourself. It is uplifting and brings perspective to this troubling time in someone's life. If anyone out there is looking for a good book to assist you in your thoughts of divorce-this is the book for you!!!!! I have read it several times and it always has a positive impact on meeach time I read it.


The Best a Man Can Get
Published in Paperback by Broadway Books (11 June, 2002)
Author: John O'Farrell
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If you are about to get married, or are considering it....
you must read this book. For women, it can be very enlightening, and men will see much of themselves in the main character. It is very funny, but also very thoughtful. Not that I know first hand, but it seems to accurately chronicle the disatisfaction that many young men have with marriage, while not glorifying the behavior that leads to this disatisfaction. Deep down its message is that you need to appreciate what you have and that marriage requires maturity and sacrifice.

Any guy with wife+young kids will find this book hilarious
The long tunnel you enter when having one or more small children enter your life -- those bipolar first 1-5 years -- are shocking for a lot of people. And specifically if you are a guy in your 30s with kids, you can likely relate to the author's view of the experience. Simple and hilarious insights into both husband-wife relations and some of the realizations you ultimately have as a new parent. The book is laugh-out-loud funny in many parts and is also a super-quick 300pp read. You'll likely just want to finish in one or two sittings -- its that good. Very Hornsby-ish too ... you can picture John Cusack as the lead in the movie if they ever made it.

Few books make you laugh out loud...
But... this is one. Featuring English humour at its most incisive and similar to, but even better than, Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity", "The Best a Man Can Get" surrounds a clever storyline with more superb "one liners" than any other book I've read. Well written, and genuinely reflective on the dichotomies facing men when their lives become totally disrupted by childbirth, it's addictive and above all "funny". How good?... well my wife, children & I watched with great amusement as our (male, one loving wife, two loving children) friend completely disrupted a day and a half of our recent holiday as he raced through it, accompanied by regular and wholly disconcerting hoots of laughter. Once finished, I picked it up and read it straight through in similar time accompanied by similarly uncontrolled outbursts. It's totally "non-PC" and very "English" but it's honest, brilliantly witty and, in the end, charmingly tender. If you're male, if you shared a flat when you were younger and if you've had children, you will definitely relate to it - if not, well... treat it as an instruction manual on how men in that situation really think.


White Lion's Lady
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Ballantine Books (31 July, 2001)
Authors: Tina St. John and Tina St John
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Medieval romance at its best!
How can you not like Tina St. John's medieval romance adventures!?

WLL is another winner with Isabel on her way to her betrothed, an Earl chosen by her guardian, King Richard, only to be kidnapped by none other than Griffin of Droghallow. Her childhood hero. He has changed though; there is no more heroic and gallant behaviour from the once golden boy. Now it's only raw passion and disillusionment from a fallen angel, a lost soul. Sounds good? You bet!

In her third book, Tina St. John perfects a hero so courageous, dangerous, protective and sensual, I couldn't help but fall for him. Not only that, she toped it with a heroine who matches him in all actions and emotions,creating a perfect balance of exciting action scenes and loving tender ones. Nothing pretentious about Tina's style or her characters.

I highly recommend White Lion's Lady to all you medieval romance fans out there!

Exciting medieval romance!
Prepare yourself for an exciting medieval romance you will not want to put down.

WHITE LION'S LADY is the 1st in a 2 part series.

Eighteen year old Isabel de Lamere, ward to the Crown, is on her way to her betrothed, Sebastian Montborne (who you will read about in BLACK LION'S BRIDE). On her way to the Montborne's she is abducted by Griffin, the White Lion. She does not realize at first that this is the man who she met first as a boy, the boy whose medallion she carries everywhere she goes. The boy she remembers represents honor and chivalry.

Unfortunately Griffin has become a hardened man, made to carry out tasks that are distasteful and each day wear at his soul. His evil step-brother now sets him out on the task of kidnapping Isabel. Upon returning Isabel to his step-brother, and being denied the bounty promised him, Griffin and Isabel escape and continue on to her betrothed. During this time, they fall into a forbidden love.

Tina St. John weaves an enchanting tale of love, acceptance, and high adventure. The chemistry between these two characters sizzles, and it is a delightful read that you won't want to miss.

This author only gets better and better
White Lion's Lady is a superb medieval romance by historical romance author, Tina St. John! I swear, she only gets better with each book. WLL captivated me from the moment I read the first page in which Isabel de Lamere meets her "Lion," Griffin of Droghallow. Years later, Griff is the kind of man who will do anything for a price, even kidnap an heiress. So he does. However, the dangerous circumstances he finds himself in, the most potent of which are Isabel's obvious and bewitching charms, throws him into a whirlwind of danger and high stakes love as he and Isabel journey together through the middle ages and into each other's hearts. Now I cannot wait for Tina's next book, Black Lion's Bride! Highly, highly recommended.


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