I have 23 chip hilton books and have had them since I was a child. my son is now 8 years of age and is going to start reading them. They are great books to get young people interested in athletics and the proper values the games shoild teach. My question is if there are more books than 23, I have heard there are 26 books and a 27th book that did not get published. any help would be appreciated thank you norm price

This is a great series and a good pack to get started on. There are 23 books all together and I am on 21. Although not through direct this series is based on christain morals through sports. Being an athlete I loved reading this series. I did not like reading until I got these books and I began to fly. Partly because sports always intersted me and I felt like I was apart of the series.

Clair Bees best selling novels the Chip Hilton series is a great series for a sports loving kid and teaches them life long lessons about sportsmanship and manners.This novel-series is filled with adventure, comedy, and tragedy super for any sports lover.

The book "The New Knowledge Management" addresses some very intriguing concepts and provides some innovative thinking in the knowledge management area. It shows how the fundamental concepts of organization learning, innovation, social innovation capital, and complex adaptive systems are related to knowledge management. The author introduces the reader to the idea of "second -generation knowledge management" which is used as a framework to relate the above concepts to knowledge management. "Second-generation knowledge management is more inclusive of people, process, and social initiatives than "first-generation knowledge management". The book provides some unique insights and organizations approaches to sustain innovation. These insights are the first of its kind and have far reaching implications to how we should manage organizations. The book is very thought provoking and a must read for people interested in theory and practical implications. I am currently using it as one of my text in teaching a graduate course in knowledge management.

In this wonderful little book, Mark McElroy begins to do for Knowledge Management what Peter Senge did for Organizational Learning: He connects deep theory with cogent practice, bringing the entire discipline to a new level. The book is a carefully designed compendium of Mark's leading-edge thinking over the past several years. In it he lays out the foundations for the next generation - "demand-side" - Knowledge Management, which enhances individuals capacity to produce knowledge, rather than simply use what's already there. By integrating a unique approach to complexity science with insights from organizational learning, he develops a model of "sustainable innovation" which is based on a broader theoretical framework of Social Innovation Capital (SIC). His SIC framework generates a core insight - the Policy Synchronization Method - a theory-based yet practical method for creating the conditions that support innovation in the long term. His writing is as useful as his modeling, for he constantly grounds his thinking into concrete and highly applicable suggestions that can be utilized in a wide range of contexts. Near the end of the book he shows the economic returns on investment from his second-generation KM, and concludes with a "presentation" that can be used to help make the case for these ideas in formal and informal settings. As a professor of entrepreneurship and management at a business school, and a 20-year student of complexity science, I am a true fan of Mark McElroy, and I am excited by this book and the ones soon to follow.

It really is a crime to let anyone other than Salvatore write about Menzoberranzan. Under Salvatore's careful tutelage Menzoberranzan is the type of evil city one can only imagine; his one character with perspective(Jarlaxle, NOT Drizzt) is enigmatic, and the whole city is mired in a bloody haze that conveys the frantic struggle for Lloth's favor that grips the drow.

Elaine Cunningham's attempt flushes all this, to a large degree. Don't get me wrong, the book isn't all bad, but while Liriel is off partying like its an orgy, Drizzt was helping his family obliterate other clans. It simply adds an atmosphere that ruins the magical setting.

Liriel is not really as engaging as Drizzt, and none of the other characters show much promise. One's fascination is Rothe herding - oooooh!

This book is like Casablanca with B movie actors and a lousy director - its still Casablanca, but not nearly as good. (Kind of like Batman I vs. Batman IV.) If you aren't planning on reading Salvatore, pick this one up. If you've already read Homeland, however, there isn't anything in this that will satisfy your appetite.

"Daughter of the Drow" is a book that can stand on its own. No, it isn't in the tradition of R. A. Salvatore; the drow are portrayed differently, and even Menzoberranzan seems to have changed. But all of this is readily explainable; Elaine Cunningham's book is set in a time when Menzoberranzan itself is going through change, and the character of the book is a female drow mage. If the character of Liriel Baenre had been modeled on R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt, it would have been much less enjoyable, not to mention somewhat false. I thought this book was fascinating for portraying another side of the drow (the description of the nedeirra dance is particularly good), for the character of Liriel and the way she managed to be both evil and humorous at the same time, and for the character of Fyodor. Finally, two characters in fantasy who are going on a quest to solve a problem for themselves, not to save the world! That was a wonderfully refreshing idea. In short, this is a book that is different from the "traditional" books about the drow. Reader expectations, not the writing, are what would drag it down.

At first, I was reluctant to read a book by another author writing about the Underdark. I had to read this book with a new pair of eyes becuase I tend to compare the authors. Even though, I think R. A Salvatore is the master of writing the drow and Menzoberranzan, Mrs. Cunningham brought a whole new prespective of the Underdark. This book is a bit sutle in the action department, but the story easily flow. By the time I was done reading I couldn't believe it was over. I wanted more and I could't wait to read the next installment, Tangled Webs. I love how Elaine Cunningham writes the new aspects of the crumbling drow society. I really love this book and I'm glad I didn't compare Liriel (the main character) to Drizzt the famous drow of Menzoberranzan. At first, I thought Liriel would be a female version of the powerful and loveable drow that we all had grown to love, but I had to remember this is her story. I was enchanted by Mrs Cunningham work and I'm looking forward to read more. I couldn't believe I ignored her previous works before this book.

I was waiting a long time for this book. When I found out it was coming, I was excited. Finally, a finish to the trilogy of books that I have read dozens of times! I rushed out and bought it as soon as it was released. I couldn't wait to get it home and start reading.

The book took me about a month to finish. I just couldn't stand to read it. Why did the author have to kill off so many characters? Why did she have to bring back the same old villains? Why did she end the Liriel/Fyodor love story like that? Was the author trying to end the series in a way that would prevent her from ever having to write more about these(and other) characters?

The book, in my opinion, could have taken a much different turn. This book could have been a whole lot better. I, for one, will never pick it up and read it ever again. My imagination is better.

Whereas the previous two books were light, funny and enlightened us on the inner-workings of Menzoberranzan and Skullport, Windwalker focusses on the intimacy between Liriel and Fyodor, Liriel coming to grips with human notions of honor and trust, and the consequences of Liriel's previous actions.

The story is intriging, with a constant sense of haste and frustration similar to the fifth Harry Potter book. The return of many characters, including a number of the 7 sisters, were expertly woven throughout. One new character, Sharlarra, an elven mage-thief, may in fact be poised for a series of her own. The ending is to Windwalker is heartwrenching, but well written.

Windwalker is definitey the end the Starlight and Shadows series - there may be additional stories with Liriel in them, but they will be very different. I would recommend this book to any who have read the previous two, with the understanding that this well written book is darker in tone and different in its overall orientation and writing style.

Anyone expecting more of the story told in the previous two books is doomed to disappointment - Windwalker is a radical departure in style, tone, and content - a book of transition. While some things remain the same, the main character has changed completely. Much was lost. More was gained.

The lighthearted, whimsical scripting, and elegant turns of phrase that made the first two books a joy to read are often absent, which harms the flow of the narrative early in the book. In their absence, the many changes of perspective make the pace seem forced. More seriously, the deft characterisations are now imperfectly conveyed.

In the prelude of the first book, in a handful of pages, Mrs. Cunningham managed to evoke the whole essence of the dark elven race, Gromph and Liriel in particular. She set a scene, then explored it through the deliciously calculating eyes of the evil old drow. But in Windwalker, scenes in the Underdark do not explore new territory, are too far from the action, and lack the immediacy that would have made them relevant. A single scene of the spying archmage in some interesting and relevant setting might have served better. The same holds for other "distant" perspectives. Some enemies could have appeared just as well spontaneously, in context with others. Meanwhile not enough is done to explain odd actions, like Azar or Sharlarra's obsessions with Liriel. A few subtle signs of restlessness or dissatisfaction in Sharlarra to Danilo's perceptive gaze when she first appears might have made a beginning. Mrs. Cunningham crafted complex new characters, but then suffered from a difficulty in getting them across.

But ultimately, the book isn't about any of them. Windwalker is the story of Liriel Baenre, and this is where it reigns supreme. In Windwalker, Mrs. Cunningham takes Liriel's intriguing but uninspired journey of discovery and redemption and turns it into a haunting tale of the choices people make and the consequences they face as a result of those choices.

Sadly, in making choices things are lost, and tales of elves often make great tragedy, perhaps because they always have so much to lose. This is such a tale.

Early in the series, Liriel wanted to leave the Underdark, but keep her magic - she wanted to have her cake and eat it too. She wanted the starlight and all beneath it. Friendship, love, a home - and the power to keep them. She wanted everything, and everything came all too easily. But she made her choices, and even good choices have costs. Friendship and love took an emotional toll, power a spiritual one. By Windwalker, her deeds have drawn attention, some who should have died yet live, and some who should live begin to die. And as far as choices go, Liriel begins to make mistakes.

Perhaps emotionally and spiritually drained by earlier choices, Liriel makes errors that would have killed her in Menzoberranzan. She fails to make plans. She's almost killed in an attack on her ship when wards or other preparations could have made things safer. Mrs. Cunningham does this very well - each mistake feeds from what came before. At one point Liriel steps into a portal and almost gets killed in a duel, when invisibility, a disguise, scrying, or extensive magical preparations might have been in order before boldly going where she hadn't gone before. But it isn't isolated - she was already in a great hurry to reach her destination, as if somehow thinking this will solve all her problems. She stepped from her ship while it was under attack, when her aid might have been needed, and taking a week to talk with Qilue before trying yet another portal would have saved them both much trouble.

Later she takes the place of a trained warrior in fighting another trained warrior...who'd already almost defeated her once, and with her magic exhausted, and herself as well, for which error she should indeed pay heavily. But again, it follows on weeks of exhausting activity, and it's yet another enemy she had her chances to kill earlier, and an enemy she made for herself earlier yet!

Liriel's combat style, perhaps unduly influenced by the mercenary Jarlaxle, always tended more to the spectacular than the deadly. Instead of the deft use of minor spells of an innovative wizard, she occupies herself with brilliant but sometimes inefficient use of projectiles, punctuated by the occasional feat of magical power. In Windwalker she cuts her use of spells drastically, as if grown afraid of all power in trying to escape that of Lloth.

In Windwalker, Liriel is seldom the lighthearted prankster, the partying explorer. Instead we see a girl being worn down by the staggering costs her choices are exacting. This is a book more brutal than beautiful, but it is brilliant all the same.

Like her other efforts, this one contains interesting characters, tight pacing, and good action. I particularly enjoyed the author's handling of the paladin character, Algorind. His "Duty First" credo gets him into some tight moral/ethical spots, but the author doesn't simply gloss over them. Rather, she writes these difficulties into the Algorind's character, and we see him (begin to) grow accordingly. Very satisfying, that.

Negatively, Thornhold does contain (what seemed to me) a clichee antagonist, Dag Zoreth. Pretty much a stock evil / depraved / violent mage. To me, Dag Zoreth lacked the depth and complexity of other characters in the book, namely Algorind and Bronwyn (the protagonist).

Also, I was initally expecting a little more from the mighty artefact (read the book!), and felt increasingly glum about it as the story went on. But I think that's just me (as jaded reader) being used to hero-saves-the-world stories... In the end I found the artefact refreshing, precisely because it WASN'T powerful enough to crack the world in half!

Much has been said of the protagonist, Bronwyn. I would only like to add the following: If you enjoy a little character-irony in your thematic nomenclature, make sure to look up "Bronwyn" in a baby-name book at your local book store...

Summary: Some of her best characters (Bronwyn, Algorind, Ebenezer, Danilo), but not necessarily her best writing. Thornhold is still a good read, however, and well worth the price of admission!

This book puzzled me, so I took the author up on her offer and emailed with questions. She admitted that the story was not supposed to be the END of the Harper series, but a PIVOT that would end the numbered SERIES but would take the Harper organization in new directions. The Harpers have changed before, and a new upheaval was planned. The characters introduced in this book would continue, and a lot of the plot threads would resolve. She especially wanted to see the Algorind young paladin overcome the betrayal he suffered without losing his faith, and "move from unquestioning acceptance into true wisdom," was I think the words she used.

So what happened? TSR abandoned the plot line and decided to move in completely new directions. The book was changed from a pivot story and put out as the last book. Cunningham admits that if she had known this was going to happen, she would have written a very different story, because this one sure doesn't END the Harpers. It wasn't meant to. The ending as written, and as the situation stands, is not very satisfying. I, for one, would like to know what happens to Algorind, what skeletons Khelben Arunsum has hidden in his closet, and what those rings of Samular can do when they really cut loose. It seems like a trio of altered artifacts is too powerful just to activate a magical siege tower. And it doesn't make sense to organize a whole order of paladins around protecting the descendants of Samular, unless they can do some serious, um, "stuff." I asked about some of these things, and Cunningham told me what she'd had in mind. I'm sorry that the whole story isn't going to be told.

Oh, well.

First of all, I have to say I enjoy reading this book very much. At first, when I finally finished it, it shocked to me a bit. But when I think over it, I realize that this was the perfect end for the book, leaving open doors for more books with these characters, and giving you enought to want more.

I have to say that if you want a book where all is black or white, you are or good or evil, and you want a perfect-pleasure end for the characters, search another one. Here are sown some facts of the good and evil that most men tend to forget. All is not good or evil. Mrs Cunningham shows us here these things, with a great plot. Bronwyn is a great character and it shows us how she is trough the book. It is not the typicall hero, the incarnation of Good and a perfect Knight. She is a thieve (or so) but with a strict code of Honor, wich don't mean that she is good.

The plot is great, and Mrs. Cunningham, playing with the personality of Bronwyn and the marks left in her by her past, keep it great and at the end, you wouldn't say it will finish this way. I have to disagree with some of other readers review. Some one sais the end isn't fair, that is not good (I can't tell you what, without revealing the Best part of the book). In my opinion, this book is not for those who always want a perfect and pleasent end.

I strongly recommend this boks, becouse it is not the same as always (with other novels) when there is a quest, and the Hero, through some difficulties, get at it, and he lives happy for ever. In here, you can see, that for doing some good, maybe you must do some evil too, but the goos is much than the evil, and youhave to make the choice your heart tells you, and is not so easy, as Paladins see, becouse it is not good white, or evil black. Is grey, both good and evil.

"The Dream Spheres" find us once again embroiled in the intrigues of Waterdhavian society, and who resides in the eye of this tempest? Of course, Danilo Thann, Arilyn Moonblade, and Elaith Craulnober. Elaine uses this book to delve deeper into the ugly underside of the Waterdhavian nobles, and their mercantile endeavors. As always, Mrs. Cunningham displays her wonderful gift for developing and "growing" characters, the development of all three of the previously mentioned players is completely natural-especially if you have the luxury of witnessing it over the course of her other titles (Elfshadow, Elfsong, Silver Shadows, & Thornhold). As a previous reviewer stated, they felt too many "side characters" graced the tale; I disagree completely. These characters were important to the overall intrigue of the tale, additionally, several of the roles would then have to be filled by miscellaneous new and unknown characters; is it not better to have an emotional investment in those characters that appear, and to know what they entail? I would, however, be lacking if I failed to lend criticism on the following point, I must say the final encounter with the master behind all the ugliness was less than I'd hoped for. I would have liked to see a grander, less swift wrapping-up of things. But again, she leaves us in the prime location for another riveting tale...On to Tethyr!

What a wonderful book! Three cheers for Elaine for delivering yet another excellent story about Arilyn, Danilo, and Elaith, her three best characters, a most welcome return to Waterdeep. This has everything that readers have come to love and expect from Elaine: wonderful and witty dialogue, great characters, a complex and well-crafted story (a kind of murder mystery this time), great action sequences, and vivid descriptions of places and events. I especially like the touches of humor, always evident in Dan's dialogue. I found myself laughing out loud more than once! This is also a crucial story in the development of Arilyn and Danilo's relationship with each other, which we've all been waiting for! The ending leaves a lot of scope for further adventures, and some interesting plot threads are left unresolved, apparently "to be continued". My only complaint is that it now looks as if we shall have to wait awhile for the next installment, as Elaine has another FR project lined up. Please don't keep us waiting too long, Elaine! Also, my copy has a different front cover than is advertised on Amazon and in other publications. I'm curious about the last-minute switch, though if the male figure in the original painting is supposed to be Dan, then it is wrong, because Dan has blond hair and no moustache. Perhaps that was the reason for the switch? What's with some of these cover atrists anyway? Apparently they have no contact with the authors of the books they illustrate. I still haven't forgiven TSR for the ridiculous picture of Drizzt on the cover of "Starless Night", which made him look like John Quincy Adams! Oh well, the replacement "Dream Spheres" cover is quite good. Thanks again, Elaine! More please!

I absolutely devoured this book! Elaine Cunningham does not disappoint with this, her latest treasure. I do agree that there must be a sequel, though Ms. Cunningham's novels usually do end with the characters still striving forward, moving from adventure to adventure. Even if you haven't read the other Harper novels that involve Danilo and Arilyn ("Elfshadow," "Elfsong," "Silver Shadows" - they're all wonderful!), I believe this book stands nicely on its own. Bravo, EC!