They write a good deal about what Reiki is, in fact, including procedures and practices not easily found elsewhere. They thoughtfully include pictures, diagrams, and careful descriptions that assist those who are unfamiliar with these forms of Reiki.

This would have rated five stars, had they sought out a better editor and included an index. These three authors deserve a better treatment of their work: the errors were distracting. An index is almost a must-have for a book like this--I will have to settle for sticky-note bookmarks for important passages or subjects.

Buy it anyway. It's one of the best Reiki resources I've seen, and it should be on the bookshelf of every teacher and practitioner.

You do not have to know the entire landscape of the local mountains of Yosemite to experience the thrill Walter Starr Jr. explorations and climbing feats. This young, handsome man was captivated by these mountains. His lust for exploration was insurmountable. His family understood his passion, and when he became missing in the Minarets, teams were dispatched to find him, alive or dead.

Mounaineer Norman Clyde embarks on a mission to recover Mr. Starr. The experience is well written, including photographs to augment the recovery experience. The accounts of the recovery are forthcoming and revealing. It is impressive to learn that mountain exploration was boldly embarking and achieving remarkable feats. Those interested in historical mountaineering will not be disappointed.

Raja Bhat

Omar Paxton, card carrying member of the KKK, has been voted sheriff of small Lousiana town. Omar's hatred of all that is not white anglo saxon protestant ignites after the quake hits and he is cut off from the government. He takes his hatred so far as to imprison all of black people of the town in quasi-concentration like camps.

Rev. Noble Frankland. Fanatical Christian who forsees the coming of the Tribulation aka: Judgement Day. His visions become all to real to him as he mistakes the quake and its aftershocks as the start of the 2nd coming. He is the flip side of Omar Paxton, as he imprisons all that do not kowtow to his sermons or his warped views on Christianity.

Jason Adams. The son of divorced parents. He and his New Age flaky mother have just moved to the Mississipi Valley. Yearning to pull away from his wacked out mother and move back to California and his hands-off parenting father. Jason is pulled into a nightmare no child should ever go through as he witnesses his mothers death to flooding brought on by the quake. He is practically orphaned as his father tries to push him on a distant relative aunt in N.Y.

Nick Ruford. A unemployeed African-American engineer traveling to Lousiana to present a birthday gift to his daughter before she takes off to school in France. He and a friend are caught in the quake. Nick goes from one tense situation to another as his traveling companion is mistaken for a looter and killed, to getting caught in a ravaging flood of the Mississipi. He is saved by Jason, but only to fall into more dangerous ground elsewhere in the story.

General Jessica Frazetta. Heads the Army Corps Of Engineers. She fights against the time, the quake, and a emotionally and mentally impaired President Of The United States. Up against insurmountable odds as she deals with coordination a an enormous relief effort, to say nothing about helping contain a critically damaged nuclear reactor.

This is a fantastic piece of fiction, that depending on wheither the New Madrid fault ever slips, could become a piece of non-fiction. I give this book the highest recommendations for summer reading.

Mr. Williams has done an awesome job of investigation from everything concerning an earthquake to nuclear reactor plants. Every chapter is interwoven with contemporary accounts of the 1812 earthquake. We read what transpired over miles and miles of countryside, and then the author shows us what the same devastation would be like if that "countryside" had the City of Memphis sitting on it as it does today. I learned a little about the Richter scale: an 8.5 is not just a "little" stronger than an 8.3, but a thousand times stronger. An 8.9 (the top of the scale) is just short of affecting the entire planet. For comparison purposes the San Francisco quake registered 8.25 on the Richter scale.

To bring us a story and give us a human's eye view of such mass destruction, Mr. Williams gives us a cross-section of characters, most of whom were sharply defined and realistic. From Jason, a young teenager who is Kalifornia Kool but displaced by his parent's divorce to Cabell's Mound, Missouri to Nick, an unemployed weapons engineer recently separated from his wife. (For some reason, I pictured Nick as Bryant Gumbel in the middle of the earthquake.) The hustling dealmaker Charlie struck me as the most poignant. He only existed in the cyberworld of suppose; when the earthquake hit, all he could think to do was dial 911 on his cell phone.

"The Rift" is a monumental work in all senses of the word, but unlike many worthy tomes, highly readable and entertaining. Grade A

The pictures of Prince William are great as in the one on page 28 which pictures him with her brother - Prince Harry, as well as, the one on page 35 with his brother and her father. All of these pictures have been in British magazines and in some American magazines to which I subsrcibe.

There's nothing new here except for the inaccuries. Everyone knows that Prince William is left-handed if one's has ever looked at his signing in at Eton while his mother, father, and brother watch. Prince William has many, many nicknames which have been given to him by his family and his friends but are not mentioned. If one has done any reading at all, the individual knows everything in this book and more. It is a known fact that Prince William is the most handsome Royal ever, that he is extremely intelligent, that her is very atheletic and excels in many sports, that he possesses his mother's charm and poise, and that he is artistic.

As I have said previously, I bought this book only because of my collection of books. This is one book which was written purely to make money. This is a paperback book

PS. I also loved all the juicy little tid-bits about him.

I feel this would be a worthwhile gift for anyone just discovering Prince William and the possibilities of his future as King William the V.

Fortunately, Paris has a friend who can deal with trouble. Once he bails Fearless Jones out of jail, he has a fighting chance and the two of them spend the rest of this fine novel battling for their lives, and trying to uncover the secret to a suspected multimillion dollar fortune.

Author Walter Mosley does a wonderful job describing black life in the 1950s--where police brutality against blacks was expected and where driving with a white woman could get a black man lynched. Even better, Mosley develops two characters in Paris and Fearless who, although completely different, both pursue their goals of justice despite terrible obstacles.

I found FEARLESS JONES to be a riveting mystery. The novel is not perfect--the mystery had a few loose ends I would have liked to see wrapped up, but these are minor quibbles that shouldn't interfere with the reader's enjoyment.

Excellent and highly recommended.

Wow! Move over Easy... Paris has stepped up to Bat!