The experiences outlined in this book have changed my life completely! The spiritual messages and insights detailed herein I have had the privledge to personally witness. Answers to questions of mediums, spirit guides, re-incarnation, and more you will find in this remarkable book. More importantly, the spiritual messages from Beloved Vincent, may help you to find a more personal relationship with God and give you understanding as you travel along your path. Pebbles is a book to treasure and one to refer to often.

I finished reading this book in record time, couldn't put it down, when I was done, it left me wanting more. Pebbles made me think of my own path and purpose in life; I found myself analyzing my own experiences, accomplishments and what lies ahead. I experienced so many emotions while reading this book which made me more aware of things in life that I take for granted and how much more is "out there". Pat's life and experiences touched me deeply. She's a remarkable woman and my admirations for her are endless. I don't recall ever being a skeptic, but rather curious about the "unknown". Pebbles taught me and enlightened me beyond words. I've even begun to say my own daily prayer for protection and guidence. I'm working on becoming more God conscious and a better person. I thank you, Pat, for writing this outstanding book and may God continue to give you this incredible gift; the ability to heal, guide and help others. In love and Light always, Tove Prue

Pebbles on the Path is a must read for anyone seeking to understand life's journey, death and the spiritual world. Pat's journey and the messages and insights she shares had a profound impact on me. In Pebbles I found answers to questions I've had for a life time, and for the first time ever, I became inpspired to strengthen my own relationship with God. I've read this book three times from cover to cover and each time I learned something new and inspiring. I keep Pebbles close at hand and refer to it often. You will too!

its got everything that i look for in a book romance ,humer,danger,ect... i was drawn to Derrick becouse he had this mysteriousnes about him (sorry if i spelled that wrong)when i found out who was the "stalker" it shocked the hell out me. i've read this book about 1,000 times and still love it.Richie Tankersly Cusick,you go girl!

I have read this book about 500 times and I still love it. Cusick's imagination amazes me. For a teen like me, it is the perfect blend of what I want in a book. Suspense and romance all rolled into one hypnotic concoction that leaves the reader panting for more

If you have read my review for "Trick or Treat" please, don't be so quick to judge me. I think that "Silent Stalker" was an excellent book. It holds lots of suspense and has good characters. It was well written and it will keep you guessing, and believe me, you won't guess who it is. Even if you put the book down, your mind will still be wondering who it is. But you'll NEVER guess. I suggest if you really love Cusick and have never read this book, you should read it because I think that it is one of the highlights of her writing career. Do read this book.

When I was 9 years old I read this book. I didn't remember much about the story, but when I saw it in a book store all the warm feelings came flooding back, and I bought it to read to my daughters.

They have so enjoyed it! Our oldest is 8, and our youngest is 5, and we've had a difficult time getting the 5-year-old to sit through "chapter books". But she was enthralled from the start, especially because of the cat and the kittens!

It's a gentle story that depicts the love of Jesus in a simple way, without forcing it. It's just part of life, exactly as it's supposed to be.

A beautiful story that I'm sure my daughters will carry with them, too!

This is a very good book. The author is obviously indebted to Johanna Spyri's Heidi, but in a good way. This book can be read aloud to children as young as 5, but young teenagers will also enjoy it. Be aware, though, that St. John's original text is out of print. What Moody and Scripture Union currently publish is an "updated" version--good if your child struggles with reading; but if your child is literate, get a used copy!

Treasures of the Snow is a great book. I sat down and read it to our kids (11,8 & 5). They loved it and kept asking for "just one more chapter".

It reminds me of the movie Heidi as far as the setting. The love and wisdom of the grandmother is what I pray I will attain one day. It is a touching story of sin, anger, bad choices and redemption. God used a bad situation and turned it around for great good. Gpd can and will forgive every sin, no matter how bad, if we open the door to give Him a place in our heart.

I highly recommend this book!

While struggling with infertlity and depression, this book changed my outlook and the direction of my life. It gave me new hope. Each chapter mirrored exactly what I was experiencing from infertility and put everythin into perspective. You will find information about all the losses you are experiencing, how to decide on posible solutions with your partner and all the aspects that involve choosing adoption. Even though my husband and I had talked about the possibility of adopting, we discovered we were not ready yet and that we had to deal with several issues first and make our relationship strong again before making this important decision. My sister who is also infertile read the book and now she is about to adopt a baby who will be born in July. This book has been extremely helpful for the whole family. We live in Costa Rica and there is ZERO literature or support groups here. Thank God for the internet and all the useful resources it provides. Even if you are barely considering the option of adoption or even if you are just starting to deal with infertility, you should read this book (and later give it to your partner, your family and your friends).

This is by far the best book that I have read concerning adoption. It neither glamorizes or dramaticizes the process, but offers an examination of very thought provoking issues about the adoption process and about adoption throughout the lifespan. One of the most thought provoking aspects of the book is the part that deals not with adoption but with the task of resolving the losses surrounding infertility. The book takes some very bold steps in speaking the truth of couples touched by this devastating problem and in helping them to move through the losses to the point of becoming able to embrace adoption as the best option. I will always cherish this book and the way that it helped my husband and me to navigate through a lifechanging experience.

I felt as if the author were speaking directly to me. She validated all my feelings of loss after five years of unsuccessful infertility procedures. I had'nt realized how important it was to validate those emotions before going on to adoption. The author's many resources of publications and organizations dealing with just about everything have been invaluable and are a great starting point for people who just don't know where to begin. No matter what you decide about adoption, this book is a must read before going any further. This book really helped us prioritize what we wanted and now we are so excited and have renewed hope of starting a family through adoption. I am so grateful for this book.

If you have not read a single book in this exciting series, you don't know what you're missing! They're not anything like the Nancy Drew books, because Jennie McGrady is more life-like, I think, than ND, who is more animated. I would recommend starting at the beginning with TOO MANY SECRETS(Just so you know what's going on in the following books!). FORGOTTEN is probably the most exciting of these books, though. So, read these books and write a review to tell the world what you think about JENNIE!

Forgotten was one one the best books in the series so far. Ms. Rushford writes everything in a way teens can relate to. You might not understand it unless you have read some of the other books before this, but you should still read it. It's interesting, at least for me, to find out what it's like to have amnesia, without getting it! Forgotten is definetly a must read for any mystery lovers, young and old!

I have been reading the Jennie McGrady series since I was 12. Along with the Helen Bradley also. I find both series very interesting. Patricia Rushford writes beautifully. I only wish I had her talent. Not too long ago I got to meet her personally. She visited me and my family to come talk to my school about being an author. Along with writing books. She is a wonderful bubbly person who has an excentric personality and energy to do anything. I found that she is a lot like her characters. The first book I ever read was #3. It was addicting. I had to start from the beginning. So I did I have now read every one except for her latest McGrady book. I know that I will also enjoy this one as well. So please read her facinating books. All of the series!

Not only is this book well written, it is easy to understand and use. Simple, but not simplistic, almost profoundly so. A good read and a practical guide book for manifesting life goals.

Patricia Crane has produced a wonderfully simple but very potent self help book which will appeal to all those who want to nourish positive thoughts to bring about major change in their life. This book will appeal to those interested in new age - and those who just realise that the power of the mind can be unleashed to produce outstanding life changes. It worked for me. The positive affirmations suggested together with the exercises are mind changing, if not mind blowing. It is a well presented, easy to read book with excellent design - makes the perfect gift for anyone whose life is not going just how they want it. Patricia Crane is going to be one of the most prolific new age writers - watch her space!

Dr. Crane's great book is gold mine of information filled with affirmations and techniques that will change your life, if you apply them...

I am a big fan of Patricia Polacco, she's one of my favorite children's author/illustrators. This book lives up to my expectations: Warm, big-hearted pictures seem to burst from its pages--the images fill your heart and mind like old memories brought vividly to life. Ms. Polacco also places real photographs of real neighbors (in Oakland, California) amidst her soft, rolling illustrations, adding the intimacy of a scrapbook to this tale of interracial/intergenerational friendship and love.

After two boys are mistakenly accused by Mr. Kodinsky's shop (Mr. Kodinsky is a Holocaust survivor, look for the faded blue number on his left arm) their grandmother and mother help them make beautifully decorated eggs to show Mr. Kodinsky that they really are good boys. The ensueing bonds of friendship and treasured memories make for a wonderful family reading experience, especially for children attuned (or who need some exposure) to warmth and the joy of giving.

Chicken Sunday is another one of my favorite Polacco books. This is a fabulous and emotionally touching story of an interracial friendship and the children's journey of love and service. Young Patricia (who has written another great episode about her rich and colorful life) and her two best friends Stewart and Winston (who happen to be black) want to buy the boy's gramma (Eula Mae) a hat that she has wanted but could not afford to buy. Since the death of her beloved babushka, Eula Mae also serves as Patricia's surrogate grandmother. The children witness an act of racism on the hat shop owned by the Holocaust survivor Mr. Kodinski. They were going to ask Kodinski for a job to raise the money to buy Eula Mae her favorite hat. Mr. Kodinski sees the children and assumes that they are responsible for the act of violence. Ultimately, the children redeem themselves by making Pysanky eggs for Mr. Kodinski to sell in his store. He tells them the story of his life and then gives the trio the hat. Naturally Eula Mae is thrilled.
Chicken Sunday is named after the chicken dinner that Eula Mae feed the children every Sunday after Church. This is another multi-cultural book teaching children that it is okay to have friendships with people who are different. Incidentally, Patricia remains close to these boys to this very day. It also exposes children to different types of racism. This book has a wonderful lesson for children and adults.

Chicken Sunday is a touching story of friendship and family. Patrica Polacco writes of a childhood recollection. Patricia and two of her childhood friends set out to raise money to buy the beloved Miss Eula an Easter bonnet as a "thank you" for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners. The three children need to deal with trying to prove their innocence to Mr. Kodinsky and Miss Eula after being wrongly accused of throwing eggs at Mr. Kodinsky's store. The children decide to make Pysanky eggs and hope Mr. Kodinsky will let the children sell the eggs at the hat store. The reader can definitely feel the love between Patricia, the boys and Miss Eula. The realistic drawings and colors are a great addition to this already enjoyable story. Readers of all ages will truly enjoy this book.

"Making Words" is an excellent book for first and second grade teachers who are looking for an effective, practical approach to teaching spelling skills. It presents a method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words, and helps the student to become aware of similarities in words that can help in writing. Students physically manipulate letter cards to spell words of increasing length, then sort and classify the words they have spelled. It can be used in small group or whole class settings, and is fairly easy to manage. The book presents the sequence of steps in a typical lesson, a series of introductory lessons to teach the method to the students, and has a large number of words and word lists that can be the basis for lessons in your class. I used it the last half of the year in my first grade class, and it was very effective, providing a clearly understood framework for teaching spelling. Although I used the introductory lessons and some of the suggested word lists, I also found that it was easy to design my own lessons using the book's format. I highly recommend this book (and I've convinced the rest of my grade level to use it this next year.)

This book provides hundreds of fun, hands-on activities for teaching children phonics and spelling. I've used the book for several years, taught other teachers and interns the program, and I have not had a negative reaction by any student, parent or administrator. It is an excellent method for teaching learning disabled students at the elementary level. Children really learn phoneme segmentation, an essential reading skill, through this process. They especially love the culminating activity, finding the "Big Word."

"Making Words" is a super and exciting way to teach students spelling and phonics. I am a special education teacher. This was finally a way that my students enjoyed learning to read and spell.

Illuminating depiction, closely observed, of economic life among urban Malays. Special study given to a cohort, privileged by their government's special treatment of them over many years, in many ways. Their memberships in ethnic, educational and social groups for indigeonous " bumiputras" affording them modest and big breaks : from free education to banking breaks, to forged peer alliances. We are shown the extensiveness and limits of these alliances, as well as the powerful complicated emotions and feelings cohort membership has bestowed on these receipients of government affirmative action programs

Its also sometimes a hoot to be shown, however delicately, the follies that can emerge from being caught up in one's Malayness, in the mystique of bumiputraness, and the profound hand and glove life of being a modern Malay Muslim whose government is at work for one-- whose religion counts, big time-- and those of one's likeness.

This is an enthralling report of economic activity and its impact on individuals and their families. Islam, today, in Malaysia figures prominantly in the brilliant anthropological account given by fieldworker Sloane of the Malays at work in the entrepreneurial Dream, theirs, and how it can also become a haunting and nightmare. Modernity's alienation is well ensconsed in urban Kuala Lumpur.

This is an incredibly thorough-- going piece of social science, as comprehensive as it gets-- coming out a moment when, for the Malays, it could turn out to be as good as it got, given their current experiencings of Asian economic woes and the profound civic and civil challenges awaiting them it would seem.

For getting the feel of this Southeast nation's experience of modernity, reading Patricia Sloane's full accounting of entrepreneurship among the Malays, treats the reader to a delightfully alive contextual piece of scholarship.

I was glued to the page, as she revealed how men's and women's economic dreams and aspirations are played out in their fa! milies and social lives- -- the entrepreneur here is a vitally alive economic actor. I had the feeling I was right there, among their strivings, inspirations and misadventures too!

A superbly integrative, imaginative document of the lives of a people trying to make sense of their adaptive efforts in a newly modern society. Sloane treats with dignity and respect women and men's efforts to explain their work, their religion and traditions to themselves and others. Within this flux that is dynamic Malaysia we see the meanings of entrepreneurship as these are manifested in men and women, their families, friends and associates. We also see their struggles within and the social effects of their romance--entrepreneurship.

One finds a most impressive, complexly rich writing gift in professor Sloane's first(?)volume.

This extroadinary document details the look and feel of the entreprenurial act, which includes the ways Malays "talk" entreprenurship,imagine it, try to reconcile it with their past, square it with Islam etc....as they go about exploring what it holds for them.

A poignant, informative picture of urban Malays shines forth as we see a people caught up in the excitement, challenge and emerging alienation of modernity calling them now forth: engaging them in both noble and foolish endeavors--- in a new world that charms them-- the intensely experienced world/word "entrepreneur."

I felt for these people: their fascination with business schemes; their hopes and big dreams; the questions they now ask of Islam, and what they think it expects of them and their families as they seek the meanings and rewards the entreprenurial life may or may not hold for them.

I also could not help but sense the high stakes among the Malays on these pages.Sloane is an exciting, emotionaly rich, intellectually complex and integrative scholar; her imagination rarely, if ever, fails her: her readers should come to know the Malays. And, to the bargain, be deeply moved by this peoples' efforts, accomodations, and resources. The Malays leap off these pages into their modern dramas. Good luck to them all.

In a world with decreasing respect for literary writing, I was delightfully surprised to read this study of economic anthropology.

Dr. Sloane's thesis brings trenchant analysis to the table, in lucid prose, of the world of ethnic , urban Malays in Kuala Lumpur: how they go about reinventing entrepreneurial culture; the full lives of men and women and families; and the role of Islam in it all. And, its all told in the very finest intellectual writing, as distinguished from the turgid jargon normally employed in scholarship and research today and in recent decades.

I wish I had more time to get into the heart of her thesis, which obviously took extensive disciplined field observations and intensive labor in the writing---- of her findings and elaborate integration and synthesis of her and others concepts. I truly hope many Malay academics and intellectuals read it-- oh, and students too!

This is a unique addition to the burgeoning literature on what it means to be a modern actor on the Southeastern Asian stage; in this case entrepreneurship is seen as something different from Western notions of this endeavor. An insightful and sensitive analysis , a researcher's goldmine and a whetstone for methodologists.

A major contribution to the need to understand entrepreneurship from an international perspective.

I'm naturally a doubter. However, after reading Ms. Upczak's book, I'm doubting my own skepticism. She skillfully pulls in the ancient philosophers as well as modern experiences from people in all walks of life.
The list of animals and their meanings surprised me. I had recently seen a blue heron five days in a row in my creek, then had a mother turtle lay and bury her eggs in my garden. The book helped bring home the fact that we are a part of nature and the universe. Way to go, Patricia Rose!
The book is next to my reading chair and is used as a reference. Sometimes, when I need to sooth the savage soul within me, I re-read parts of it. It's difficult to be lonely when one is a piece of the whole.
Don't be fooled by the easy reading style -- every sentence is packed with useful information.

I really enjoyed this book. Patricia Rose Upczak led me through many personal synchronistic stories that I could relate to my own life. I learned a lot about how to focus my life to create synchronicity. I love the pages in the back to use to make my own synchronicity journal. I wish there were more! I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to get in touch with their own synchronicities in their life. It guided me to places I had forgotten existed. MANY THANKS to Ms. Upczak.

Patricia Rose Upczak's delightful book about synchronicity proves that when we pay attention to the world around us, we will begin to see the everyday miracles that occur in all our lives. The stories she relates with such a deft hand remind us that we all have the innate ability to recognize and undestand signs. She guides us back to a time when animals and plants were our guides to a deeper spiritual understanding and suggests that we can reclaim this ancient heritage. She includes a very helpful Signs and Symbols Dictionary. This is a wonderful book for all who would hear the whispers of the universe and follow the signs.
I highly recommend it.