After reading romance novels for the past 25 years, there have been many, many that I have enjoyed; but none hastotally bowled me over like this book!! The characterizations are 3-dimensional;the dialogue is crisp; and the discription is fascinating and never boring. As an Air Force daughter for 23years and an Army wife for 36 years, Inaturally enjoy books with a militarybackground and could easily follow thisbook with its Navy terminology, policies, and procedures. This book waslike a living entity that I could notput down and which has stayed with me for weeks. This is the first book thatI have ever contemplated reading all over again! Towards the end, I kept saying to myself, "how is this book going to end happily-ever-after and still keep Marc's and Tabby's integrityintact?" Well, read the book; and you'll find out! Cannot wait for thenext Rogenna Brewer book, and that's thebest review of all!!

I have read A LOT of romance novels from several different authors, but this is the first one that has stayed with me for weeks. It's romantic, of course, (I could feel the romance between Marc and Tabby in my heart for days!) but it's also realistic. It's sexy without being sappy; humorous without being corny; and descriptive without being boring.

What I truly liked was the fact that as a civilian (with absolutely no knowledge of any policies or procedures of the military), I could read and follow the action. She used military terms as they would be used, then carefully explained them in the following sentences.

This is a gifted author who has (hopefully) just begun. Read "SEAL it with a Kiss" and find out why!

Ms. Brewer: KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Seal It With A Kiss is an execllent book. Once I started reading it I couldn't stop until I had finished it. I really enjoy reading about Seal teams or other special elite teams. This book hooks you the minute you start reading it and won't let go until you finish it. I love it when the main characters have conflicts between them that they have to work out, it makes the story more believable. Tabitha and Marc start out with a major conflict as well as being attracted to each other. Rogenna has a way of tying everthing and everybody together with a smooth way that makes everything just seem to flow like it should. I love to read a book that keeps your interest from start to finish, so you can't stop until you get done. I can't wait for her next book to come out. The information she uses about the seal's and seal trainning agrees with other books I've read or movies I've seen. Rogenna keep them coming and keep up the good work. Belinda

Suzanne Brockmann's sophomore re-issue with Mira after the hugely successful Prince Joe is foremost a crackling romance and a passionate salute to the Navy SEALs of America at its core like its predecessor. However this time round in Forever Blue, Ms. Brockmann notches up this saccharine romance with elements of small-town murder and mayhem when the hero, Blue McCoy is suspected of killing his stepbrother Gerry after his wedding reception. It reveals later to be a decoy to frame McCoy given his former attachments to Gerry's soon-to-be-wife Jenny Lee. Lucy Tait, who harbours a teenage crush on the SEAL is implicated when she is assigned to investigate. She takes him in when the community at Hatboro Creek repudiates him and accuses him of cold-blooded murder. Sexual tension arises with their closed proximity and as Blue comes to terms with his love for his ardent tenacious worshipper. Yet Lucy is reluctant to believe that this fairy-tale romance could ever come to fruition with the more beautiful Jenny Lee as a rival.

This wildly schmaltzy tale, coupled with a to-die-for brooding hero and a feisty rookie, is a top-notch dazzling romance. What with the frenetic pacing of action and twists to compliment the soaring romance, this book under Brockmann's glorious pen vows to enthrall and leave you swooning with passion.

This book is #2 in Brockmann's first SEAL Team series, and it is an absolute joy to read. This re-issue of "Forever Blue" proves that Brockmann's tales of military-men-in-love are timeless stories, that can still entertain. Blue McCoy is a SEAL returning to small-town America, to bravely face an uncomfortable situation: his step-brother is about to marry his high-school sweatheart. Trained to tackle trouble with a team, he's forced to face a personal crisis without his SEAL teammates when he becomes the prime suspect in his step-brother's murder. Blue finds a new partner in a now-grown-former-tomboy named Lucy, a faithful childhood acquaintance... and Lucy finds out that the "hero" she had a crush on long ago is really just a "man" worthy of her heart's love. All-in-all, Forever Blue is a simple love story with a bit of adventure and mystery thrown in.

For those unfamiliar with Brockmann's SEAL books, she has written two separate series. "Forever Blue" is book #2 of her first SEAL Team series, which is not as complicated as her new SEAL Team "Troubleshooters" series. The first series (beginning with #1 "Prince Joe" reprinted last year and continuing with the coming soon re-release of #3 "Frisco Kid") is made up of 11 shorter novels, each focusing on one member of the team and his path to true love. I'm personally thrilled to see these books making a reappearance on book-store shelves! The newer series (beginning with #1 "Unsung Hero") contains 5 books to date --all still in print-- that are longer more in-depth novels. Unique to this new series is that each book contains a main plot involving the hero (a member of the SEAL Team) and his lady love, but each book also has another love story expertly interwoven within the pages that flashes you back to WWII. An additional bonus is the on-going personal adventures of the SEAL from Texas, Sam Starrett, whose tumultuous love interest in FBI sharpshooter Alyssa Locke makes for a roller-coaster story line providing plenty of cliff-hangers that won't climax until book #6, Gone Too Far, which is coming out mid 2003!

For light reading, I recommend the first series, although admittedly, getting through the whole series is made tougher with some of the 11 books being out of print.
For in-depth, more for your money, adventurous love stories, try the new series. Either way, I highly recommend reading both in sequence.

Carter "Blue" McCoy is a member of an elite group of Navy SEALs. He travels home to Hatboro Creek to attend the wedding of his stepbrother to his childhood sweetheart. One of the first people he sees is Lucy Tait, police rookie and a girl he knew in high school. Lucy has had a crush on Blue for more than 10 years. Seeing him again jolts her. He is instantly attracted to her. They decide to engage in a brief affair. Brief becasue Blue will leave Hatboro Creek after the wedding; SEALs never stay in one place. But things get complicated when Blue's stepbrother turns up dead and Blue is the main suspect in his murder.

I just read my synopsis and realized that I cannot accurately convey how good this book is. Blue is tough, quiet, strong, and stern. He's also kind and honorable and darn sexy. I remembered him as an intriguing character from the 1st book in this series, PRINCE JOE. He makes an absolutely wonderful hero in FOREVER BLUE. Lucy is tough, direct, courageous, and (gasp!) not a virgin. (Regular romance readers will know what I mean by that last one.) I really, really liked Lucy. Blue and Lucy together are very hot, sweet, and sometimes even funny.

I usually dislike suspense or mystery in romances, but Brockmann knows how to incorporate these elements without taking away from the romance. I liked FOREVER BLUE even better than PRINCE JOE, which I would grade an A. I guess that means FOREVER BLUE is an A+.

Jed Babbin's first book is part novel, part political pamphlet, and part morality play. Readers will be treated to an exciting and straight-forward military action story - albeit with satirical touches - and a political wake-up call.

The military action in Babbin's book is accurately described and furiously paced. His warriors are tough, smart, and highly motivated. The low subplot centers on ambitious and unprincipled Washington politicians, to whom the military values of duty, honor, country mean nothing.

Babbin uses a team of Navy SEALs, ably led by Lieutenant Cully O'Bannon, to illustrate the valor of America's military. But this legacy -- with a long and glorious pedigree -- is put in jeopardy by a cynical political establishmnent in the grip of political correctness. In Babbin's fictional Washington -- difficult to distinguish from the actual one -- the military is putty in the hands of social engineers eager to translate every left phantasm into policy. Women in combat. Social work deployments. The whole disaster.

At the top of this sorry political food chain is a shallow, opportunistic president who has no military service, a bossy wife, and no understanding of how important a strong and motivated military is to America's freedom and prosperity.

Ring any bells yet?

Any resemblance between characters in Babbin's novel and some of the real politicians who infest Washington is, well, not that hard to parse. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. But readers won't need a magic decoder ring to figure out who a ficticious California senator named Barbara Berkely is, or an attorney general referred to by all the president's persons as Will Do Wanda. Sometimes Babbin can't restrain himself, so we have a U.N. Secretary General named Boolah-Boolah Gemali. Charles Dickens, call your office.

Formidable on the battlefield, the military services are no match for politicians who won't give them the financial support they need to do their jobs, or the respect they deserve for doing them. In his long set-up, which can be a bit talky at times, we see politicans and their staff members (sometimes more powerful than the elected politicians themselves), driven by ambition and left ideology, strip the military to the bare bones, including disbanding all the nation's special operations units.

Babbin may go a bit over the top in describing the political rape of the military. Not even the Clinton administration -- the most anti-military administration in the nation's history -- tried to deploy 20 percent of Army and Marine Corps troops to guard the South American rain forests. And today's feminist red-hots are more interested in having women serve in submarines than in doing away with subs.

But Babbin deserves the benefit of our doubts. The melody here is right, if not every word of the song. He knows whereof he writes. He's a former Air Force JAG officer. As deputy undersecretary of defense under George Bush (the first one) in 1990 and 1991, he served Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney during Operation Desert Storm. He knows whose phone rings and in what order when things start hitting the fan. He shows readers, in dramatic narrative, how the military and its civilian leadership work together when the pointy end of the spear has to poke someone.

Many of Babbin's descriptions of White House lefties ring true, and make it hard to decide whether to laugh or cry. Here's a young staffer who obviously believes late-night bull sessions in Yale dorm rooms prepare one better to take arms against a sea of troubles than does military training and combat experience. He's sifting candidates for the position of deputy national security advisor. After describing two academic candidates glowingly, he says:

"The third is a Marine brigadier general, and he's probably the least qualified of the lot. He has no formal education at all, just a degree from the Naval Academy."

After politicians have miniaturized and feminized the military -- including shelving the elite special units that do the tough, up-close and personal work -- America is presented with a crisis of crises, cooked up and executed by a bold, dedicated, and competent band of terrorists. Worthy opponents for O'Bannon and his warriors, who return from the civilian work to which they have been relegated, for a pro-bono job.

The last 40 pages or so of "Legacy of Valor" are as exciting as anything in Tom Clancy and feature a clash for all the marbles at one of America's most sacred sites. It's not revealing too much to say that at the end the reader will have some reason to hope that Babbin's ficticious America might, after all, learn to support and respect the men and women who, to borrow from Kipling, guard us while we sleep.

In response to the kidnapping of American Ion Perdicaris in Morocco by Mulay Hamid El Raisuli in May of 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt gave the Moroccan government the following ultimatum; "Give me Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." Roosevelt delivered that famous ultimatum with the knowledge that his military was not only the most powerful in the world, but also the most respected and feared military of that time. May of 1904 was a moment in history when the President of the United States showed his respect for, support for and pride in the American military. Many things have changed since then. Among those changes has been the loss of respect, appreciation and support of the American military by many in civilian power.

In his novel, Legacy of Valor, Mr. Jed Babbin vividly portrays how one administration can have such loath and disrespect for the military that it becomes the cause of deadly destruction. Legacy of Valor is the kind of novel that makes the reader both agitated with excitement and consumed with condemnation for a President who would treat his military with such contempt. So well written is Legacy of Valor that it's characters like Cully O'Bannon and Senator Berkley virtually jump out of the pages and pull you right into the middle of a hot fire fight or a room full of conspiring Senators. Mr. Babbin's insight into the military and his experience inside the Beltway has allowed him to create an amazingly entertaining and insightful novel well worth reading over and over.

This is a book that should be taken very seriously. Mr. Babbin's novel is a great tribute to American soldiers and especially those who make up our Special Forces. I highly recommend Legacy of Valor. My heart and prayers go out to those whom our fallen soldiers have left behind.

Summarizes the commitment and dedication of our special operation troops, as well as the sleaziness and moral corruption of many of our current leaders.

I caught Kirbyjohn Caldwell's presentation at the Texas Book Festival in 1999. He read from his book the Gospel of Good Success, and I was blown away by his energy, his positive attitude and the message found in his book. He truly is a point of light, a spiritual leader and great community activist. I highly recommend his work!

The Gospel of Good Success is certainly a God-sent good read! Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell provides a spiritual road map for purposeful living through the depiction of the transformation of Houston's Windsor Village and the creation of its Power Center. The book is power-packed with inspiration and insight for any soul seeking success and salvation. I am on a success mission and The Gospel of Good Success provided me with just the mission fuel I needed to keep on keeping on!

This book is a must read! If you are struggling on how to bring some of your dreams to fruition please read this roadmap to WHOLENESS. I am not the avid reader but I was so engrossed and encouraged in his philosophy toward Holistic Salvation. the Gospel of Good Success opened my mind to new directions that I needed to begin for my journey of perservance when completing my goals. I have found new life within these 256 powerfully written words.

This book is magic. You will never think about a small band of Indians as statistics again. This book does volumes to make people of our society really feel what goes on in traditional societies. To feel jealous of their solidarity. To feel unloved by our own. It's great! READ IT.

First published in 1947 and available in a wide variety of editions since then, Farley Mowat's first and most distant book is still remarkably readable in the world of the 21st century. It concerns one of the stranger human sagas of the last century, that of the discovery and destruction of a remote Inuit society, the Ihalmiut, in Canada's north. The setting of the book is far enough away in time for us to marvel at how little things have changed since. The contemptuous attitude of European man for the aborigine seems hardly to have altered over the years. We are still hard put to understand the needs of the first peoples and how to answer them.

Farley Mowat has combined a fine sensitivity for the natural environment with a sharp eye for the details of man's place within it. It must be exceedingly rare in the history of anthropology that such an inexperienced investigator has taken such pains to get to the source of his information. Mowat lived among the Ihalmiut for over a year to write the book. During that time he witnessed the rapid deterioration of the small group which remained, and tried to examine the causes of their decline. With very deft prose for such a young writer, he points out the difference between the intentions and the actions of the European discoverers of The People (as they refer to themselves) and the consequences of such disparity. The Ihalmiut were exploited in much the same way as any other tribal band found wandering by the early explorers. However, as Mowat points out, this was an exceptional group which had survived the extreme rigours of a barren land (known to us simply as The Barrens) for so many generations, only to be felled by contact with the very race which might have provided them with so much assistance.

The Ihalmiut are long gone from their homeland but their story serves to remind us of our often difficult relationship with the land and the people on it. Perhaps, as a race of city-dwellers, we need to consider our place in the natural environment more than ever. Mowat's work is a just accounting of where we stand in relationship to nature. Nor does he suggest that we should all go and live in the tundra. Yet People of the Deer is a source of considerable inspiration for those now ready to reflect on the unbalancing effect of contemporary values.

A truly insightful story of the inland eskimo people of the Canadian Arctic. It details not only their day to day survival in a harsh land, but also tells of their myths, legends, and history. It also tells of the whiteman's interference with their culture and how that affect may ultimately lead to their extinction. The book sincerely takes the reader into the lives of the People of the Deer.

A friend of mine and I were looking at some of the new yoga books and this one just popped out at us. we do yoga about 4 nights a week and we needed some new material. Yoga Turns Back the Clock was a amazing because it showed us a whole new perspective on yoga and showed us how it can be used to tone, to burn fat, or best of all to look younger. We have been using the book for only a few weeks but we think that it is best yoga book we have bought in a while. we love the approach and the style. it is also great for beginners, like us, who are not as flexible as many other yoga books expect you to be. Yoga Turns BAck the CLock challenges us without making us get into positions that we could not even begin to. i love this book and suggest it for anyone who likes doing yoga or wants to start.

Glenda has been my yoga instructor since her practice began. I have experienced, first hand, her knowledge and respect for the human body, as well as the peace, patience, and poise she models to each class. She is a "fireball"; the perfect combination of strength, and softness. All you have to do is follow her guide to the age-old secret of Yoga, and before you know it, you'll be in shape!! If you are not able to attend her classes, or if you just want to jazz up your own yoga practice, or even if you are totally new to Yoga, this book is meant for you! You will be inspired by her incredible form, swept away by the beautiful view, and enlightened by the detailed descriptions, and explanations of all of the healing qualities of Yoga. Burn a candle, take some deep breaths, and follow Glenda's powerful routine. Buy this book, and you will be drinking from the fountain of youth!!

This book is incredible- it explains the benefits, pose by pose, and makes the reader want to take better care of him/herself starting yesterday. Notice how good SHE looks! Also, the transformations that happen with the people who regularly do her yoga program are stunning. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to age gracefully, manage stress, or transform their body to a level of fitness & flexibility they never thought possible.

I have read many books on the training of Navy SEAL's, and this is by far THE best that I have seen. The level of detail that Dick Couch goes to in describing the process of becoming a SEAL is incredible. Written from both the student's perspective, and the instructor's perspective, it gives you an amazing look at why the training is conducted the way it is. Most books leave you with the impression that surviving Hell Week is the end game. This book takes you through diving phase, as well as land warfare phase . It was amazing to me to learn that even some tough SOB's who made it through Hell Week, and even diving phase, get washed out in third phase as the standards go up. If you are thinking about becoming a SEAL, or just a SEAL enthusiast like me, this book is a must read!

I've read several great books about SEALs and their training, and, as a middle-aged guy in pretty good shape who never served in the military, I wondered, like so many men, if I could have survived BUD/S. No, I couldn't have. I know that now, after reading The Warrior Elite. This book, written from a privileged and intimate viewpoint by a Vietnam-era SEAL, reveals in literally excruciating detail how demanding and relentless the training is. I was not surprised that the flamboyantly macho and musclebound contenders are the first to drop out, or that the quietly determined, average-build guys are the ones who make it.
However, I was surprised at how unforgiving the process is as far as dealing with physical injury. I was stunned that the one guy, who was just a machine, a leader, never tiring, never complaining, always performing as a leader, was let go because of a sinus infection. It seemed an egregious waste of an outstanding soldier due to something completely beyond his control. No one in the Mekong Delta ever got sick? No one in Desert Storm was ever injured or ill? I'm all for rigorous standards but jettisoning this particular guy because of a sinus infection seemed bone-headed and counterproductive.
Anyhow, now I know I wouldn't have made it. The first time I was made to take a dip in the ice slush with my pants full of sand after no sleep at three in the morning I believe I could have easily rung the bell and run for the showers.
An enjoyable book.

Forget what you have seen in the movies. This book takes you in depth into what makes a man a warrior in the SEAL community. Written by a man who has seen how the teams work up close, Dick Couch has given an accruate and detailed account of the men of class 228. To truely understand the true sacrafice with out being there, this book gives you the intensity that comes with being a SEAL or a student in BUD/S. This is the only book I have ever read more than once and I still read it just to know that there are people out there who still dream and are willing to sacrafice so much to accomplish what so few are capabably of. This is the true story of the forging to make a individual part of the most elite commando force in the world. Definatly worth the read for anyone.

CLASS-29 takes you back to 1963 as a few 19 year old boys take on the "Toughest School on Earth." From their hands being so cold they can't even light a match until their nasal cavaties exploding blood and mucus into SCUBA masks, John Carl Roat and his "Team" engage in "Hell Week" as Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training unfolds. Only a chosen few have the "fire in the belly" and" burning in the brain "needed to become a U.S. Navy SEAL/Frogman.

In the words of Rush Limbaugh, "War is about killing people and breaking things." Personally, I think Rush Limbaugh is a jerk. And I assumed that John Carl Roat's book, CLASS-29: THE MAKING OF U.S. NAVY SEALS would be about training a bunch of 20-something jerks with inflated egos and terminal testosterone poisoning. I was wrong.

The candidates for SEAL training may well have started out that way, but by the time the few survivors had graduated (a minescule percentage of the original applicants) they were very different men indeed.

In an odd sort of way, Roat's CLASS-29 is a love story. We watch as the young trainees learn from their own experience that no matter how tough they think they are, they can only survive with help from the guy beside them. Soon this evolves into a sort of reliance, as they learn that they will only survive as a team; and then into genuine affection and respect. These kids come in all puffed up and clueless, and they come out as men who would lay down their lives for the good of the team, for the survival of their teammates. That they are superbly conditioned fighting machines is secondary - vitally important, but secondary none the less. Now that macho attitude has a vital core of respect and integrity.

It's a wonderful story. Roat spins a good yarn. The physical challenge of the training will make your hair stand on end. That these guys were able to joke in the midst of it is a tribute to their resiliance. That they came out of it imbued with absolute respect for another as well as love of country is a tribute to the training.

Absolutely fantastic book! I have read alot of books on SEALs and this book is the best book you can have if you want to know how SEALs are trained. It goes through each phase and tells what they are about and he felt going through them. SEALs are the toughest men in the US Miltary and one of the toughest groups of men, if not the toughest, in the world and this book tells how they weed out the ones that dont have the "fire in the gut," as he calls it and pick out the ones with the determination and mental toughness to be in the group. It is a fantastic book. If I could get ahold of John Carl Roats email address I would write him a email telling him how much I enjoyed this book. It should be read by anyone with interest in the Navy SEALs.

This book is a delightful childrens book about a little polar bear who loves adventure. Lars spends the day fishing with his dad and then they go off to sleep. During their rest the ice cracks and father and son become separated. Lars drifts away, arrives in a new land and is suddenly met by a huge hippo...read on to find out what happens to Lars and if how he meets back up with his dad. Short and sweet, aand a nice book to intorduce children to polar bears and the north pole.

Little Polar Bear is a very cute story, of a young polar bear named Lars, who was out with his father learning how to hunt. But as the night went on he drifted off to sleep, and something unexpected happened. This thing that happened to Lars taught him about new surroundings, and taught him new things he didnt know. He met some new friends, that he will never forget.

Yes, I would recommend this book becuase of the amazing things Lars goes through with the help of some new friends. There are some parts in the story that will make you smile and laugh.

I love this book!! The illustrations are wonderful and they always captured my attention. The story is of a little polar bear, Lars who goes on an adventure away from his clean, white home in the North Pole. He makes a new friend, who helps him on his adventure.

I still love this book. I take it babysitting with me sometimes, and all the kids have liked it too.

If you have ever read Marcenkos high on myself, I'm just marvelous stories, this series is a breath of fresh air. With a genuine talent for writting dialog, Murray tells a great story where we actually like the characters with the flow not slowing as gun barrels cool. Action sequences add to the readers enjoyment, but the story is what keeps the book in your hands.

I am not really into "military" books, but this one was fantastic. I loved the development of each of the characters and the situations they came across. I have now since read the entire series and I am hooked. I am waiting for a new one and I hope this time there is a female hero!!

I'm impressed w/ the author's use of description. I've never been in the military and am not familiar with the weapons, training and slang used in most action books. I appreciate Mr. Murray's ability to explain what is going on and who is doing what for a reader, like me, with limited knowledge.

Good book, good use of women on the team and was glad to see Getts and Peach back in action.

The villian was so thoroughly evil that I was surprised when the team did not make sure he was dead prior to exiting the castle.

Perhaps in another book, we'll see Getts learn the true identity of the Rabbi.