I had the great pleasure of meeting Gen. Doolittle in 1985 at the Anatole Hotel in Dallas Texas at the dinner in honor of him sponsored by George Haddaway. Years later I got to know CV Glines and see him regularly now.

This is the most thorough biography I have seen on Gen. Doolittle and CV worked closely with the General and later his family. The book answered one of my lingering questions about "The Raid on Tokyo": Was the Hornet spotted AND reported by the picket boat that they sank? The answer came when an outbound flying boat passed underneath the B-25s as they approached Tokyo.

I am not looking forward to the portrayal of Gen. Doolittle by Alec Baldwin in the new Disney Movie "Pearl Harbor". I have a sense of dread and foreboding about what Disney may do to the facts

I found this book to be two things. First, it was a wonderful overview of US air history delivered by an indisputable authority on the subject. Second, I learned a lot about a true American hero, both in achievement and personal life. How refreshing to discover a humble, brilliant, down-to-earth individual who made such a positive impact on our country! The book was well written and easy to read. In some places it threatened to be tedious, but nothing serious (hence the 5 star recommendation).

It was the privilege of a lifetime to be asked to assist General Jimmy Doolittle in writing his life story. He had said for years that he thought an autobiography would appear to be too self-serving but his family didn't agree. I had written a biography of Jimmy and three books about his famous raid on Japan during WW II so they thought I could do the job. The title comes from his answer to a question about whether he would like to live his life over again. His answer: "No. I could never be so lucky again." I would like to hear from anyone who reads this book. Jimmy died in 1993 and will be eligible to have a commemorative stamp issued in 2003. If you agree that a stamp should be issued, I would appreciate your input which I will use to justify one.

Graeme Base has lent a thrilling vision to Lewis Carroll's poem, illustrating the complete poem with seven dioramas -- lush, layered cutouts that are an interesting departure from pop-ups and lift-the-flap books.

It is not the only possible imagery, but it is very entertaining, well engineered and, in my opinion, faithful to the spirit of the text's author.

This is my 2 year old's favorite book. We have read it so many time that he almost has the whole poem memorized!! The illustrations are wonderful for adults and children. I find new things in the pages almost every night. I highly reccomend it.

I LOVE this poem by Lewis Carroll. It is extremely well written and inspires the imagination to soar to new heights. I am a big fan of illustrator Graeme Base. His bright and colorful creatures makes this Lewis Carroll classic a MUST for anyone.

Now is time to welcome Carroll Lachnit's fourth title, Janie's Law, and its promise of justice for Ms. Barlow. Bearing in mind Janie Meister and the three succesfully solved mysteries since her apparent death that failed to comfort Hannah, we might even settle down with our new book comfortably and deservedly for their sakes, only to find ourselves stiff-backed once again after three mere pages, electrified, paralyzed with fear that another child may soon die. Lachnit delivers this high-powered jolt to warn us: we should know better than to assume all is well in Las Almas! Thankfully, she has precisely calculated our breath keeping capabilities, and in the nick of time for ourselves and for the children out at night on April 25th, engulfs a sinister parked van into flame. Stoked therein lies Henry Charles, a quivering cinder in the exquisite throes of depravity. Only those of us whose spirits have wholly survived Lachnit's two minute plunge into his hell, should brave to investigate further.... If only a rehabilitated child molester, Freddie Roche, hadn't pressed Hannah to represent him against an unresponsive police department, she would never have gotten mixed up with such an unsavory lot. Though she rejected him forcefully enough, it was his testimony that rang true with words from beyond the grave: referral instructions written in the hand of her deceased, estranged brother, Father Michael Barlow. Only a dark night of soul searching was to erode her resolve; for Michael's faith-filled, haunting words upheld his friend Freddie and grappled her conscience. If only she could have then staid the guilt at discovering her almost-client had been shot vigilante style over the weekend since their brief meeting! Days later, a similar killing follows. Finally so battered by Marian Roche's accusation of abandoning her son in spite of his scrupulous obediance to Megan's Law, Hannah surrenders herself to the case. Thus Janie's Law begins. The three murders under scrutiny are close enough in timing, locality and in nature for Hannah's Internet research on pedophiles to suggest the assasin/s must be past victims of the men, or at least associated persons infuriated by the terms and too recent enforcement of Megan's Law. Initially thinking the possible suspects to be few, she must quickly admit the more myriad number. The dead men have in fact seeded their morbidity everywhere: lone-suffering, silent individuals step forth cautiously from their shadows to relate their traumas. Two have already suicided. Willing to talk to Hannah but too beaten to act on their own, none fit the profile of one on a "cleansing" mission. More than one youth lurking in Janie's old neighborhood was watching Barlow all the while, knew everything about the girl's disappearance and others' histories too: information so necessary, that undaunted by the lies, aliases and trickeries of street kids, Hannah barters for roaming rights in their dark world. It was "Janie's Law" she saw there firsthand, youngsters hell-bent on emotional survival but adapted to mores more self-destructive than anything they can mete. Not unscathed by their violence herself, but guided by her dead brother's somehow watchful eye, Hannah manages with outstretched arm to subvert their masterpiece of apocalyptic vengeance already staged in white garments, and to convince just one who would listen, of forgiveness as the only way to salvage her own life. We will be duly convinced as well; for Lachnit knows the workings of the juvenile justice system, and whom can and cannot be saved in these instances. We will appreciate Hannah's resolve to hold back even one, as she wished to have saved Freddie. Sadly, we do not get to know him, though statistically speaking, he might have turned out a disappointment. Michael believed in him. After reflecting, we may want to include Freddie's face among the wronged we will meet in Janie's Law. Victims of molestation unquestionably get their due in Lachnit's fourth mystery; and as in the case of issues treated before, each weighted perspective is contained within the persona, not spilled out in the reader's lap. There is much to interest us here besides the personalities--a study in age progression software, a look at an otherwise invisible underground relocation network for abused moms and kids, and a look at the survival mechanisms of younsters who luckily or unluckily remember everything endured at the hands of the murdered men. Readers with only morbid curiosity will be satisfied early; but those matching Hannah in mindset will follow her full circle to solve once and for all the mystery of Janie.

It is the rare book or mystery series that succeeds in terms of both plot, character development, and story, and Carroll Lachnit's Hannah Barlow novels books are so interesting and enjoyable to read because they have it all: realistic, three-dimensional characters; compelling, suspenseful plots; and well told stories. Forget Sue Grafton, Martha Grimes or any of the others, and pick up "Janie's Law." Or, better yet, start at the beginning of the series and read "Murder In Brief," "A Blessed Death," "Akin To Death," and then "Janie's Law." You won't regret it!

"Janie's Law" lays out a scenario that should haunt us all -- is murder acceptable when the victim is a villain? I think it's the best of Carroll Lachnit's Hannah Barlow series, and that's saying a lot. You want characters with depth, harrowing plots, contemporary dilemmas and exquisite writing? Start with "Murder in Brief" and buckle your seat belt.

An excellent book by Kryon , the angelic energy channeled by Lee Carrol.

A story, a parabole. Michael Thomas finds himself at a crossroad and embarques onto a mythical journey where he meets seven angels of the colors of the chakras, many trials and tribulations , tears and joys. A parable of the transformation from 3-d human to human angel and the test and triumphs on the path. Lovely.

A powerful book. I found myself shifting as I read this book in a span of several hours. The story, so appropriate for our current time, is uplifting, thought-provoking, and touching.

For those committed to the path of enlightenment, this book is essential. It contains much needed guidance for the path -- in the form of a well written, exciting parable. I very highly recommend it.

Wow! This book was perfect for me. I've always had so many questions about life. How it was before and what to expect in the future. This book answers many questions and left me hungrier than ever before in search of more information. It was an exciting read and gave me much comfort in knowing that we are truly not alone. I cannot wait to read all the other kryon books, this was my first.

If you belive in somthing more in life than what you might think, the Kryon series is for you. I was so impressed in the consistency and energy in this book series that I scheduled with the author for a "at home" personal appearance. Kryon provides hope and energy for all.

I've read all the Kryon books. When I read my first Kryon book it seemed a little strange. I mean channelling? Could it really be? But once I got used to the idea, I couldn't stop reading. I read the whole series (There are 8 of them). I've read many of them over again. They change me each time I read them, maybe because they are truely channelled from the other side. I find them reassuring, comforting and mind expanding...

Brendan G. Carroll spent over 25 years working on this definitive biography of the Viennese-American composer (1897-1957). This unabashed encomium for the music of Korngold is supported by carefully crafted arguments responding to critics, real and imagined. Carroll is especially exercised about those critics whose prejudicial assessments of the Korngold oeuvre are based solely on a superficial knowledge of Korngold's scores for the motion pictures. Korngold himself was super-sensitive about his reputation when it was based upon his Hollywood fame, though he never disavowed the work he did there for the films, such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Anthony Adverse, The Sea Hawk, Kings Row, Of Human Bondage, and much more. He mainly feared, and rightly so, that the film scores would over-shadow his earlier career in Europe when his serious music might become lost. He worried, too, that even his film scores would be lost along with the films as they faded from public view. Korngold's complete oeuvre are Carroll's strongest defense.  From the age of 10 (Yes, 10!), Korngold's works began to receive private notice. By 11 and 12, his prodigious first compositions dumbfounded and awed musicians such as Gustav Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky (his composition teacher), Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Puccini, and a host of other admirers and performers. In 1910, he completed (age 13) his Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 1. In 1911, he met Max Reinhardt (his future collaborator), who brought him to Hollywood, saving Korngold and his family from the concentration camps in 1938. Carroll is convincing that Korngold's greatest achievements are his five operas, especially his Das Wunder der Heliane and Die tote Stadt, for which he is best known in Europe. In 1999, his separate CDs are approaching one hundred, making his music available as never before. Following my own prolonged and extensive study, I predict that Korngold's next career, based upon his recordings, will elevate him into the empyrean of twentieth century composers. Two commemorative postage stamps have been issued about Korngold: In Austria, a stamp recalls his operas (properly); in America, he is included among 5 other Hollywood composers, as he anticipated. Carroll's work is a great deal more than a festschrift: It is a searching, well-written, objective account of the life of his subject: Korngold. (Reviewed by Allan Shields in Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol 15 No 2, Winter 1999-2000. Copyright © by Allan Shields.)

If you are fascinated by film music (or just plain enjoy it), meet the man who is responsible for much (possibly all) of this art form as we know and enjoy it today--Erich Wolfgang Korngold (EWK)! Though some wags have suggested that operatic composer Richard Wagner "wrote" the first film score, it was EWK (himself a renown operatic composer while still a teenager!) who took opera's use of distinct themes and musical IDs for characters and environments, and composed film symphonies around them--"opera without singing," as he is quoted as often saying. This was a radical departure for music on the sound tracks of films (that only five years previously had had none). Such a revolutionary technique was immediately adopted by all other composers of "classic film scores," and this process is prevalent today, especially in the work of our most accomplished composers of film music (you've probably heard several already this Summer). Mr. Carroll's book ("twenty-five years in the making") is not only the definitive biography of EWK to date, but also loaded with fascinating historical information and antidotes from the author's personal encounters and correspondences (it's one of the few books I've read where I immensely enjoyed even the footnotes!). Reading the Introduction was down right eerie, since I discovered EWK the same way as Mr. Carroll--from watching late-night movies on TV! I've read many hundreds of books about films, but Mr. Carroll's took the longest to get through. I read it very slowly, since I just didn't want it to end. The book also includes the most extensive discography of EWK music I have ever come across. Many of the CDs (but, alas, not all) are still available today--and new ones (thankfully) keep being released. A final note about footnotes. They really belong at the bottom of the page--as engrossing extensions of the text--rather than being squirreled away at the back of the book. My sole complaint.

Brendan Carroll's "The Last Prodigy" is an overdue tribute to Erich Wolfgang Korngold and to the musical culture from which he sprang. Just as it took modern listeners, orchestras, and performers many years to recognize Gustav Mahler's genius, so too has Korngold awaited the same kind of rediscovery.

Korngold, like his much-admired mentor Mahler and his friend Giacomo Puccini, felt no shame in crafting melodies that any listener could recognize, hum, and ultimately grow to love. Like his older contemporaries, Korngold never forgot that the cerebral element in music could never take the place of the emotional. For example, his friendly but deadly serious battles over atonality and serial compositions with Arnold Schoenberg are key to understanding Korngold's philosophy of composition and are well treated in Carroll's book. I came away from the text with renewed interest in music that can be grasped by non-musicians and musicians alike.

Even though Korngold's scores are endlessly fascinating for musicians and scholars, the real sign of the composer's greatness is in how many "general" listeners can surrender to the beauties of the "Lautenlied" from "Die tote Stadt." "The Last Prodigy" is therefore a welcome exploration of the problems experienced by the classical music establishment, which, through its unfortunate abandonment of melody and tonal consonance, has failed to reach, or to try even to cultivate, an enthusiastic, self-renewing audience. A better understanding of Korngold's career and of his mistreatment by his contemporaries would help reassert a missing link in 20th century musical culture. Carroll's book helps enormously to restablish the centrality of this musical genius to our own confused times.

this is the best sereis. If you love to read about ghosts or communicating with ghosts or the supernataural or just want a good read i recommened it just dont get to hooked because she put a little pause on finishing the series but i think it might be worth the wait so go and buy it today!

INCREDIBLE!!!! this one of the best books ever written. seriously. Suze, who can communicate w/ the undead, is forced to move to Carmel in sunny CA to live w/ her mom's new husband and his 3 sons, Sleepy, Dopey, and Doc.(aka Jake, Brad, and David).plus side: there's a totally hot guy living in her new room...who happens to be dead. Suze handles it very well; she deals w/ her annoying stepbrothers, guy problems(roommate Jesse), and making her mom happy while simultaneously saving her new school(which is Catholic,by the way)from a vengeful cheerleader ghost, all in designer clothes w/ perfect hair, thank you very much. buy it. read it. you'll love it. trust me.

In Shadowland Susannah Simon is uprooted from her lifelong home, NYC, and brought to California to be with her mom and new stepdad. She left behind her best, and only, friend and, worst of all is moving into an old house and attending an even older school. For most people this wouldn't be a problem,but Susan is different, Susan can see dead people. And the older the building the more dead people. Luckily, when she get's to the house there is only one. He is a "dangerously" attractive Spanish ghost who's been "living" in Susan's room for about 100 years. He also refuses to leave. Things get stranger when Susan goes to school and is being escorted by Father Dominic to her locker and finds that the previous owner, who had shot her head off when her boyfriend dumped her, waiting and ,even more surprising, demanding to know who she was from Father Dom. Which explained the lack of ghosts in the really really old building. Apparently Heather didn't want to move on. Fortunately, Susan could be a little more insistent than any priest. Unfortunately, Heather was of the mind that if she couldn't have her exboyfriend than no one could. So Susan has to get rid of a murderous ghost before she get's to the murder and get an obstinate ghost out of her bedroom. So much for a new start.

A really great book. I love all of Jenny Carroll's.

Jessica Mastriani is a sixteen year old girl with the psychic ability to find literally anyone, compliments of a bolt of lightning, and an attitude problem. But amongst all of her problems, her "different" brother and her annoying mother, her brother who just dropped out of college to be with the girl he's had a crush on all through highschool and whom Jessica saved in the last book, the fact that the government of the United States is monitering her every move just waiting for her to make a mistake and reveal that she lied and still has her power, and her boyfriend who is on probation and 18 so refuses to actually be her boyfriend and whom she has yet to tell her parents about, when driving home from her boyfriends house after Thanksgiving dinner they come upon a riot of activity on a long back road.

It turns out that a body had been found. The body of her neighbor. The son of the only black family in town. With the help of her friends Jessica tries to uncover the truth. But suddenly a boy is kidnapped. Using her gift Jessica reveals to the police where he is, but not only do the kidnappers and the kidnappee get away but a cop is shot.

And so Jessica and her boyfriend, Rob, take it into their own hands. Some graffiti tips them off to an extremist group called the True Americans who hide in the woods, they hide because they refuses to pay taxes and yet help themselves to electricity and water. They won't pay taxes because they believe America must be purified, leaving only the white Christians, in other words, them.

They sneak into camp and then, when caught, proclaim that they wish to join them. Jessica is sent to the kitchen to start to cook while Rob is welcomed with open arms. When Jessica is ordered to deliver food to the men, not to eat any herself because the men must eat first, she sneaks out and finds the boy. Unfortunately they're caught, but all of Rob's friends once again come charging illegally to rescue. There is a great deal of fighting and the end is quite ironic.

Jess knew she wasnt going to be able to keep her secret from the government forever. She just wished she had more time. But when her knew neighbor is found dead (Nate), Jess can help but feel guilty. But everyone assumes the murder was gang related, because the sign found on the guys chest, was all over town. But when a Jewish boy vanishes, Jess knows she has to do something, and that whoever took the boy killed Nate took the kid, too. Now Jess finds herself joining up with an enemy (Dr. Ktrantz) to fight an even bigger enemy. Will she be able to pull the whole thing off?

When Jess's not so peaceful thanksgiving dinner is interrupted by their next door neighbor, Dr. Tompkins, looking for his son Nate, Jess thinks nothing of it. It isn't until Nate (a black boy) is found dead and a Jewish boy is kidnapped that Jess realizes these things are connected. Jess with the help of Cyrus Krantz, Rob, and a hell of a lot of Grits go on a mission to stop a backwards militia group before they tear an already divided town further apart.

This was an awesome sorta conclusion to the 1-800-Where-R-You series! I'm definately gonna miss Jess!

"The Young Wan", is the 4th book published by Brendan O'Carroll that chronicles the life, friends and family of Agnes Brown, although it is now the first when placed in chronological order. The original three books formed a remarkable trilogy that could easily have stood on its own. The author took a risk by expanding the series to 4 but it was a gamble well chosen and readers are brilliantly rewarded. The remarkable woman who we met in the original series now has her story told and even that of her mother and a small bit of her grandparents. The result is a complete picture of a remarkable woman and the family she raised.

The book for me was he darkest of the four but that did not prevent it from at times causing the most pleasurable discomfort from laughter after it brought tears from the words of a devoted son, and sorrow from the brutality, stupidity and pure meanness that only humans practice. If you think you have read of all the cruelty a parent can inflict on a child read Agnes's story. If you think there is a finite depth that a parent can sink to in abuse of their own, read this story, for Dante never created a level so low. That these parents I refer to would seek shelter in an Apartheid state after committing what can only be termed mass murder, is an appropriate locale for those who judged their own child so cruelly.

This book and the four part series it is a portion of is some of the best reading I have ever done, no time I have spent with a book has been more satisfactorily used. The brutal parts of this tale should in no sense put you off from this book and the three that follow, for the series is about the triumph of the human will no matter what it faced, no matter how familiar the face may have been that inflicted such pain. It is a story of a woman that literally handed her dream to a sibling, a woman who never thought of quitting much less did.

This is a remarkable collection by a gifted man who loved his mother enough to tell her story.

This special book is side-splittingly funny and also deeply moving. I loved it. It's good to have Marion and Agnes back together, they're as funny as can be. Thank you Brendan!

Another great success for Brendan O'Carroll. Couldn't put it down. Agnes and Marion, we love you. A must read.

If you appreciated Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt for its presentation and viewpoint of growing up in poverty, you'll like this book for the same reasons--not on the subject of poverty but on race and understanding what it's like to grow up Black (& middle-class) in this country. It just tells, in a straightforward voice, the story of her life.

As a 10 year old, my mother had me read a book called "Black Like Me." It was a white man's experiment with wandering around in the world as a Black man. Carroll Parrott Blue's book is a better, more authentic version written by a Black woman who has lived the experience and is willing to talk about it.

I loved this book because from the first pages, with its pictures and its text, it lets the reader inside like an intimate friend--she shares what most Black people don't talk about. She lets you inside her experience. It's personal, yet it's nonfiction that reads like a novel. She shares her difficult personal relationship with her mother and her view of the world through popular culture that is familiar to all of us--but seen through Black eyes.

I really enjoyed this book. The author wove together her personal experiences --the pain of growing up in a loveless yet nuturing home in Texas, and a type of everyman's history of the civil rights movement and the annonomous worker bees and vanguard her mother belonged too. She does this in an interesting and engaging way. She weaves her story of being born at the "wrong time" and coping with feelings of being an unwanted late life child which lead to an emotionally and physically abused childhood into the visual story and history of Blacks in media and film at the time Blacks created the protest movement(s) to erase injustice, and pyschological pain the african Americans experienced in America's south. Her story is a compelling one. Especially because it is so universally human. Her love hate relationship with her mother was the most poinant aspect of this book. She describes her response to the abuse of her mother yet she so admired, love, and comes to understand and forgive her finally.

There were some unanswered questions the reader might have , like what about her brother. What kind of relationship did they have? Was he too mistreated by her mother? Is she still married and what role did being married have on her relationship with her mother? but this is a story about a tragic and troubled and mother and daughter relationship.

IT IS A VERY INTERESTING READ for anyone interested in autobiography/civil rights movement and the media.

This is one of the most creative approaches to autobiography I've read in a long time. I enjoyed reading and studying it. The book is a highly visual autobiography---part prose, part poetry, part history and historical images. I particularly enjoyed how Ms. Blue revealed the nuances of an African American middle class mother-daughter relationship. Telling her story against the backdrop of the movies that were coming of age when she was growing up provided an enlightening perspective on the powerful influence of American movies on the human psyche. This book is a wonderful gem!