These emotional tales of ordinary people becoming heros bring fantasy to an all new level. Children learning to love after being treated horribly... Fear of death being faced with courage... Mental Instability and many other ordinary circumstances of life become the basis of salvation for many of the characters in this book. However, the depth of topic is not so harsh when told in this fantasy setting and actually encourage hope and faith in the reader.

Children and adults alike well revel in the amazing characters and loyalty the followers of the King inspire among each other. It's a true tale of what kind of kingdom love, loyalty and faith can build. Also, it weaves scriptural parables into eloquent fables that make wonderful bedtime stories for all ages. Emotionally, this book touches the depths of souls that few can. A truly magical experience, Tales of the Resistance makes a complimentary companion piece to its prequel Tales of the Kingdom.

After searching for years for a copy of this book, I finally found one in a local outlet bookstore. I was absolutely thrilled. I own the other two books in the Kingdom Tales Series, and couldn't leave the collection incomplete. These stories are wonderful for lovers of fairy tales and moral tales alike. While the basis for the series is Scriptural, the books themselves have an appeal that overreaches religious barriers. I would definitely reccommend this series to anyone with children or who loves fantasy. Particularly nice about Resistance are the stories of everyday people becoming extraordinary, and the art of Jack Stockton -- breathtaking.

The "fairy tales" in this set of books delineate specific spiritual principles, and thus work wonderfully in small group topical studies. The stories are therapeutic, bringing the reader to recognition of one's own spiritual state. It is especially helpful to read Tales of the Kingdom first.

As a CPA and candidate for controller of Montgomery County, PA, it is refreshing to see the long-term planning, comparison, functional issue review, and the "watchdog" functions of a controller so well laid out. Montgomery County will be well served to use this planning approach.

Please tell me it's not this easy to run a city. If all the Giulianis, Rendells, and Daleys of the world would just implement this new direction for urban america, our cities would not be afflicted with the ills they currently suffer. Every big city resident should demand that local government run as recommended in this book. Students, policy professionals, elected officials, and urbanites everywhere should make this book a part of their libraries.

I am a passionate city fan and wish every mayor in the country would read this book and implement the policies the authors advocate. There are no quick fixes to the problems shared by large American cities (crime, poverty, decay). As successful cities prove over and over, local government must concentrate on the basics -- improving schools, reducing crime, lowering taxes -- to make the city a place where people want to be instead of a place people want to avoid. If Philadelphia would adopt the recommendations of this book, the city would truly be a great one.

As I am reading this book, I am taken back to a time of hope and courage. The characters of this book are well developed and the reader becomes attached to them immediately. The history of New York is often overlooked, however David Flint provides the reader with a fascinating view of this significant period.

A wonderful book that is a must read for anyone who is interested in the history of this area. As you read the Life and Times of Robert Flint, the Pioneer, the author's words will take you back in time. You will feel Robert's sorrow as he leaves his family in 1726, yet you will also feel his spirit of adventure as he arrives in America and begins to make his dreams come true. David Burton Flint's book will capture your pioneer spirit and you cannot help but become a part of Robert Flint's life. My congratulations to you, David Burton Flint, and thank you for creating this exceptional piece of history.

In the spirit of "Drums Along the Mohawk" this is a story of settlers in the Mohawk Valley of New York State during the American Revolution. But unlike "Drums.." it is broader in its historical scope, also taking in the period before and during the French and Indian War. The book chronicles the adventures of Robert Flint and his two friends, Ben Wells and Coppernol, a Mohawk Indian Chief and their families as they strive to build their lives in the hamlet of Sprout Brook. The graphic depictions of bloody events such as the Battle of Oriskany and the Cherry Valley Massacre are balanced by the warmth of the relationship among the three main characters.

Like any good book, the author has portrayed characters that you become attached to and as you get near the end of the book you don't want it to end.

David Flint has obviously written from his heart, not only because he loves Colonial history, particularly in the Mohawk Valley, but also because he is writing about his ancestor.

Interestingly, I grew up just a couple of houses away from him and we spent time together as kids, but I haven't seen him in well over 30 years.

This book is a must for anyone interested in Colonial times, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the history of the Mohawk Valley. I'm anxiously awaiting David's next book!

Grandma Vigilantes - While the Bright City sleeps, daring grandmas keep watch for Naysayers, Burners or Brekaers who dare to invade the King's City.
Crossing Alone - L.C. (Little Child) fights dangers of darkness as he crosses from Great Park to Bright City.
Safe Places - L.C. learns about Safe Places - shelters of protection in Bright City where anyone could learn the ways of the King and the Kingdom, and also meets Thespia and Hero.
Power-Outs - Former Sewer Rat Benji (who always looks down) & former Boiler Brat Eddie (who always looks up) learn that they can harm the kingdom by failing to work together and be faithful to their assignments.
Mudslinging - The King appears as a streetcleaner to teach the Kings people not to throw mud at one another.
The Girl with the Very Loud Outside Voice - By helping the Coldmeister in the Cold Storing Locker, Agatha Ann discovers that even her Very Loud Outside Voice has a purpose and place in the Kingdom.
Peril at Burning Place - Hero is left by Amanda, and must fight the dark dangers at Burning Place alone.
Sighters Are Not Afraid - Amanda teaches Little Child that sighters are not afraid, which he discovers as they rescue Lost Children by telling them stories.
Prima the Ballerina - Unlike the natural dancer Carny who focuses on teaching others, Prima is obsessed with being the best dancer, and constantly looks at her image in the mirror.
Taxi! - Little Child becomes Hunter and receives training in taxi-lore, and with the King's help spends a day walking in Kingsways and seeing Bright City as it was meant to be.
The Song Studio - The evil Music Maestro is exposed for making people fat with sweetsounds, and the music of the King's Songs is once again given to the hungry and lonely Lost Children who need it first.
The Great Celebration - Hero and Thespia are married. -GODLY GADFLY

This is an absolutely wonderful series! I recommend it to anyone who has children, or if you simply like fantasy. What I really appreciate, is although the Mainses are Christian writers, the stories aren't overly "Christian". They are more like fables/fairy tales where the moral can apply to anyone, no matter their faith. I have to say though, I enjoyed Tales of the Kingdom a little more, mainly because the arwork was better.

This book was a beautiful continuation of the lives of Hero, Little Child, and Princess Amanda,and their relationship to the King. As an adult this series of books has caused me to look at today and eternity through the eyes of a child. I liked the books so much that I recommend them to my friends, I give them as gifts, and I can't wait to read them to my grandchildren! My 3 sons rated them better than " The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". They each had their favorite chapters which we read again and again. Absolutely Wonderful Books.

This is a wonderful overview of fairies from all over the world including Africa, Arabia,and Asia among others. Included are fairy games and foods they love. Well written, and the illustrations are lovely- a treat for fairy lovers of all ages.

This is a wonderfull faery book for all ages! This great book tells of the various types of faeries that live in India, Arabia, Alaska, Polynesia, Asia, Great Britain, North America, Europe, Africa, and Centrel and South America. It also talks about different recipes and crafts you can make for certain faeries, like suger frosted flowers and a faery fan. This great book also talks about how to throw a indoor or outdoor faery party, and how to attract them to your garden. I reccomend this book to anyone who loves and believes in faeries, and wishes to learn more about them. I do not reccomend this book to those who do not have a open mind.

The Fae Girl

A growing population, mental illness, less tolerance for crime and feelings of desperation and despair are reasons why elderly people are committing more violent crimes, according to the book. Little research has been done about the topics addressed by a several contributors to the book. Each contributor, an expert on his or her topic of choice, took a massive amount of information and boiled it down to easy to understand statistics. They also included helpful charts.

Two stand-out chapters are Elders as Perpetrators by Edith Elisabeth Flynn and The Older Prisoner: Social, Psychological, and Medical Considerations by John J. Kerbs. Flynn said elder crime has become a major concern for policy-makers. Although violent crime by older people is on the rise, Flynn cautioned that overall arrests for that age group are down. Most elders are law-abiding, she said. As such, elders are best viewed as a stabilizing force in society and not as an emerging, new problem on the horizon of criminal justice. She adds, Though numerically small, some elders do engage in crime and violence and are quite capable of inflicting serious losses and harm. Kerbs says most of the country's older prisoners are not getting proper medical, psychological and social care. He says the older prisoner's physical, psychological and social needs are complex, and require health workers who understand those needs. Most prisons, he said, aren't equipped to provide that type of care. The editors, Max B. Rothman, Burton D. Dunlop and Pamela Entzel, choose well when selecting authors.

Thoroughly readable, yet acknowledging scholarly differences, FROM MESOPOTAMIA TO MODERNITY presents the history and literature of Judaism from Tanakh to the State of Israel in 245 pages. The instructor can base an adult education series, an undergraduate course or a graduate seminar on this book, its references and other sources as s/he chooses.

Do you love cats and find kittens to be adorable; then The Little Kitten Book (Little Library of Cats) by Elizabeth Martyn, David Taylor is a must have. This handy little guide presents all facets of owning a cat, e.g., do not hug a kitten to hard since their little bodies are fragile and if you want to spoil the baby then cook them some scrambled eggs. The pictures are ultra cute and the development from kitten to cat is fascinating. I certainly hope this book will come back into print since as I wrote earlier for a person who is crazy about cats then this is a must have!

This book (and Tales of the Resistance) were both given to me when I was very young. I was given the tapes as well (if you get a chance to listen to them, do! ). These books are absolutely wonderful! I learned so much from them! I've been looking for them for ages, and they NEED TO BE REPRINTED WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATOR! Read these books, they are well worth your while!

I was first introduced to this book as a camper at a camp in North Carolina; I have since returned as a counselor there and have read it to my campers (who loved it as well)! As a children's book it is fantastic because although each chapter presents a different story with its own plot, each also weaves together with the other chapters to produce a larger plot based on the same settings and characters. This makes for great suspense for the kids from one reading to another! In addition, it is a great tool for conveying the biblical lessons pertaining to a Christian's daily walk. The stories are allegories. The format can even be seen as allegorical in the sense that, while each believer has a personal walk with Christ and daily experiences therein, each is also a part of the whole of Christ's body, the church...with the overall picture of a Savior dying to redeem sinners and one day returning to establish His eternal Kingdom. This book is fantastic!! I recommend it to all --whether child or adult!-- who would seek a tremendously written children's book which will encourage, challenge, and teach one in the ways of the King! (I, too, believe that the old edition illustrated by Jack Stockman needs to be revived!!)

The Enchanted City - Scarboy and his brother Little Child escape from the Enchanted City and find Great Park, where they are welcomed by Caretaker and Mercie.
The Orphan Keeper's Assistant - The Orphan Keeper's Assistant goes to the Great Park to hunt escaped orphans and outcasts and bring them back to the Enchanted City, but as an outcast herself discovers that the Kingdom is also for her.
The Apprentice Juggler - The Apprentice Jugger follows the advice of a beggar, who is actually the King Himself, and discovers that when he follows the rhythm of inner timing approved by the King, he finds his own place in the Kingdom.
The Faithless Ranger - Hero discovers that not all who say the King's Name are true rangers, but only those who do the King's will, as a Ranger who sets fire to the Great Park is banished to the Enchanted City.
A Girl Named Dirty - The King Himself helps a filthy girl who lived with pigs to become Cleone, the clean one.
Hero's Quest - The King gives Hero a quest to face his greatest enemy, which he discovers is his own fear.
The Baker Who Loved Bread - The King's Baker who withholds bread from the orphans and outcasts discovers that by so doing he actually harms the King.
Sighting Day - The children of the Kingdom play a wonderful game of seek-the-King, and Hero finds that believing comes before seeing.
Two Noisy Knights - Farsighted Sir Bumpkin and shortsighted Sir Pumpkin learn that the kingdom is not about noise, but power, and that they are to be content with their own place in the Kingdom.
Princess Amanda and the Dragon - When Princess Amanda loves a forbidden dragon and keeps it as a pet, she is in danger of losing and betraying the Kingdom.
Fire in the Forest - Amanda's weakness leads to fire in Great Park, which can be quenched only by the greater power of the King.
Trial By Fire - Despite her crimes, Amanda is received again by the King as a princess, and Hero is commissioned to be a King's man to live in Enchanted City and help restore the Kingdom. -GODLY GADFLY

This book is the best up-to-date introduction to lunar development, focusing on the primary technical infrastructure necessary to expand from an initial base via In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) to global development of what the authors term "Planet Moon". The book makes a clear case first for why we should do this, and then in quite detailed outline, how. While some technical components, such as remote robotic tele-operation, or lunar materials mining and processing, still require research and development work, nothing in this project is far from mundane things we already know how to do. The book isn't entirely self-consistent and the logical separation of topics sometimes seems a bit odd, but the range of material covered is satisfyingly broad: lunar topography and composition; railways, telecommunications and materials transport; requirements on construction and chemical processing equipment; human-suitable habitats, life support, agriculture, and "cislunar" transport and logistics, and more. Beyond the technical discussion of the physical, chemical, and engineering issues are several sections of the book dealing with lunar government, including a proposal for creation of a "Lunar Economic Development Authority" (LEDA) following a port authority model, which looks extremely promising. At least as valuable as the 10 main chapters are the 20 appendixes, to which over half the book's pages are devoted. These appendixes, based heavily on work published elsewhere, bring a lot of information together in one place available for ready inter-comparison. Perhaps the most interesting is also the longest, Appendix E, which thoroughly covers the proposed processes for lunar oxygen extraction and related chemical processing. This book is an essential guide for anybody hoping to work on lunar development and participate in, as the authors phrase it, the "Planet Moon Project".

Take your pick of "must buy", "immediate classic", or "ambitious Primer with Vision and Scope". Not a few people have taken a hard in depth look at what it will take to establish a permanent outpost on the Moon - as if that was an end all and be all goal in and of itself. In this new volume, Schrunk and his team are clearly out to do more. Seeing the Moon in the much wider light as a world with considerable mineral resources and its strategic location on the shoulder of Earth' gravity well, they outline a feasible, realistic scenario for the coming century. Their goal is not "a" moon base. It is a global integration of the Moon into Earth's economy. Looking at the Moon's resources, where they are located, and at which parts of the Moon have special advantages, they take us from a first south polar outpost step by step into a future when humans will be busy all over the Moon, and making money doing so. Their vision is grounded on established technologies, never depending on developments or breakthroughs that may or may not ever happen. On the airless Moon, good old fashion electric railroads (eventually MagLev) will be the principal way of moving goods and materials from one part of the globe to another. Relying solely on solar power, they manage the long lunar nightspans by setting up grids that loop both poles at approximately 85° N and S, latitudes, depending on the terrain, of course. The Moon will produce power for Earth, and become the principal spaceport by which we open the rest of the Solar System and beyond. By the turn of the next century, hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe more, will live and work on the Moon. Profusely illustrated with B/W sketches, the authors take us through every well-reasoned and grounded step. For all of us interested in the Moon, this book is a must read. Do buy it!

Take your pick of "must buy", "immediate classic", or "ambitious Primer with Vision and Scope". Not a few people have taken a hard in depth look at what it will take to establish a permanent outpost on the Moon - as if that was an end all and be all goal in and of itself. In this new volume, Schrunk and his team are clearly out to do more. Seeing the Moon in the much wider light as a world with consi-derable mineral resources and its strategic location on the shoulder of Earth1s gravity well, they outline a feasible, realistic scenario for the coming century. Their goal is not "a" moon base. It is a global integration of the Moon into Earth1s economy. Looking at the Moon1s resources, where they are located, and at which parts of the Moon have special advantages, they take us from a first south polar outpost step by step into a future when humans will be busy all over the Moon, and making money doing so. Their vision is grounded on established technologies, never depending on developments or breakthroughs that may or may not ever happen. On the airless Moon, good old fashion electric railroads (eventually MagLev) will be the principal way of moving goods and materials from one part of the globe to another. Relying solely on solar power, they manage the long lunar nightspans by setting up grids that loop both poles at approximately 85° N and S, latitudes, depending on the terrain, of course. The Moon will produce power for Earth, and become the principal spaceport by which we open the rest of the Solar System and beyond. By the turn of the next century, hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe more, will live and work on the Moon. Profusely illustrated with B/W sketches, the authors take us through every well-reasoned and grounded step. For all of us interested in the Moon, this book is a must read. Do buy it!