Every once in a while one of us is called to do something for others that at first only seems to be a short, personal sacrifice.

Two priests, seeing the need in the eyes of others overcame the barriers of money, boats, and party politics to travel to an island that for 20 years sat so close to freedom, yet so far away from the life they knew.

Their time in Cuba exposed them to a bureaucracy layered in both power and ineptness that they also overcame by their spiritial strengh. Upon returning their spiritial strengh was once again tested by our own goverment- a bureaucracy that in so many ways paralleled what they had left behind in Havana.

In these times of turmoil over US politics and the aging Fidel, this book will help you to understand so much from those who gave of themselves first.

Set in England in the late 1950's, Lewis Percy is a book one will never forget. When we first meet the protagonist of our story, Lewis Percy is a student of literature in Paris. He enjoys the company of an odd assortment of women in the boarding house in which he stays. Having grown up without the advantages of a father figure, he grew to admire women very much, obviously as a result from his deep attachment to his mother and her loyal, quiet encouragements. When she passes away he is lost in the world and his transformation from careless student to grieving man is a process for which he is not ready and has no tools. He has lived the isolated life of a man deep in study and high moral values. The usual enjoyments of young men his age did not cross his path and if they did he would not have known how to partake of them.

He is deep in depression when he comes across an agoraphobic young lady whom he decides he will save from her disablity while she saves him from his loneliness. His marriage to her gets off to a good start but soon lives up to it's innate destiny - he feels more lonely and she is again afraid to leave home. They divorce but she is never quite out of his heart. When he discovers she is about to have a child, he lives for his nightly visits to her, when he is begrudgingly allowed to read a bedtime story to his child.

Thus his life goes on with the routine of now working in a library and the one happiness he has of visiting his child. Until a surprising person comes his way and wakes up a passion long dormant in this thoughtful young man.

The book examines the internal dialogues of this man who is at once lonely but at the same time sees a potential for joy in the world. His only problem is that he doesn't quite know how to fit in and enjoy life like others seem to be able to do so freely. For this reason, one could admit that there is a little bit of Lewis Percy in all of us. Thus, he becomes such a compelling character and we find ourselves rooting for him up until the end.

The book is a bit hard to get into at first, but if one sticks with it one will find it a rewarding experience and this character will remain with you for a long time ever after.

I was very moved by the beauty of Lama Longden's telling of the story of the life of Mipam. In addition to the fine quality of the book as a pure tale, there are periodically salted throughout the book numerous brilliant passages which open up vistas in the imagination that border on a glimpse of the "far shore" or "distant land of the Buddhas". Lama Yongden is an exceptional writer and the purity of the tale will leave you with a sense of having experienced something rare and wonderful in the reading. I highly recommend it.

Being a glossary it is unlikely that anyone would want to sit down and read this book cover to cover, but if you intend to thoroughly study the works of Ludwig von Mises and the austrian school of economics then this book definitely belongs on your bookshelf.

I have three really nice, big hardbound mother goose anthologies, but this is my favorite; contains the most popular of the mother goose nursery rhymes, has brightly colored pictures, but, most importantly, is user-friendly. It's thin and light, and when my son and I sat down for nursery rhymes (over and over and over!) this was the book that kept getting pulled off the shelf. I recommend it very very highly.

LOvely and brilliant.A highly whimsical kind of picaresque tale that outs one in mind of both Faulkner and Canneau

Perfect for madrigal or four-part singing, this book contains many familiar carols, and some that are less familiar, including Easter and Harvest carols. I became familiar with this book when we used it as a backbone for our Christmas Caroling group several years ago, it was fun to sing from, and the music was enjoyed by the listeners.

Hi everyone. I'm Percy Trezise's grandaughter!i think that all these books are great!!!The illustrations are really fabulous and its interesting to hear the beliefs of the aboriginals in the dreamtime. i love my family and grandad has really made us all proud with his beautiful artwork and his ability to give us an insight into old aborigninal culture. Buy any of his books they are VERY GOOD! but i'm just a teenager so i wouldn't know much you all probably think. But this book really is very good. Buy it!! BYe!!!

Toni Dockter's Percy & The Plod is a novel written for a young adult readership, but which is nonetheless highly enjoyable for readers of all ages. The farming town of Yoosa faces a dreadful problem - the sun is drifting away. Only one person is brave enough to volunteer to climb a mountain and rope the sun back in, and that's young Percy. Percy isn't particularly strong, or brave, or bright, but he has the determination to plod on and get the job done in this rewarding, entertaining, and most encouraging story about the merit of steadily pursuing ones goals. Percy & The Plod is a recommended addition to school and community library YA collections.

This is a fairly complete volume of a moderately obscure author's work. In his short life, Shelly left behind an enormous collection of important poems both for their narrative style and political undertones. Definitely one of them most thoroughly Shelly books around.