The author describes in gret detail his struggles and satisfactions working with AIDS patients in New York. As he continues his work he finds need to look into his own background and discovers the details of his father's death when he was a child. A heartwarming portrayal of how life experiences often unrecognized motivate us in our choice of profession and the way we carry out our responsibilities. A heart warming book. Morris Wessel, M.D.

This collection of essays deals with a useful array of topics that will be of special interest to those of the Anglican theological tradition. This book serves as a needed balance to the biography from MacCulloch that paints Cranmer as a rabid protestant with no real interest in the beliefs of the early church. It also helps to dispel many of the misconceptions about Cranmer's sacramental theology that are widely held by both "anglo-catholic" and puritan "evangelical" alike. In these essays Cranmer emerges as the chief reformer of a church that he envisioned as one founded on the Scriptures, the ancient Fathers, and right reason. Rather than being against the concept of a "via media" church (as MacCulloch claims) Cranmer is the very author of it.

Selwyn Hughes does a good job in dealing with the most common problems people face (Christian and Non-Christian sections inlcluded) and with the basic objections you will face in witnessing. Scripture references and a discussion of each issue are side by side on separate pages.

A book I recommend to all Christians to review and keep on their bookshelves! This compact reference manual will come in handy in moments of need

Do not let the size of this book fool you. It is jam packed with great information. It is a "must have" for anyone working to counsel others. It clearly and concisely answers the most common questions people have. General areas covered are:
Difficulties of Unbelievers, Problems Christians Face and Intellectual Arguements. Specific questions are answered and backed up with Scripture. Christian counselors and workers should commit this book to memory.

By TT reviewer Nancy Arant Williams
Spunky Catie Cleary isn't having a good day. Riding is her passion, as is everything else concerning horses. But today, riding her favorite mount, she has been unceremoniously tossed over his head, suffering a head injury and excruciating fractured ribs.

More embarrassing than the fall is that it has been observed by a very handsome American, who stays near while Catie's grandmother goes for help.
Catie, unlike most Irish lasses in 1903, cares little for men, or at least, hasn't until now. But there's something fetching about the kind and stunning man that is irresistible.

So far, she's been captivated by breeding and training horses on her father's breeding farm, Cleary Stud, in Ireland, but that is about to change.
The American, it turns out, has come to purchase stock for his up and coming breeding stables in the Pine Woods of New Jersey, USA. Before she knows it, Catie has been wooed, and falls deeply in love with Charles Kendall, a prince Charming of a man she never dreamed of encountering in her lifetime. Married to him, she will be Lady of Pinecroft, his huge estate, where she will hobnob with the rich and famous of the period, namely Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their ilk.

But all is not rosy in Camelot, Catie learns. Family secrets have torn apart Charlie's family for years, but when Charlie brings Catie home, the lid threatens to blow off the pressure cooker of their lives.

Catie, a spunky, plain speaking Irish redhead, has no trouble speaking her mind. In fact, even with years of training and the finishing school she was finally tossed out of, she still hasn't overcome her angry use of slang. But, as she finds out, it has its uses.

When the family secrets emerge, they threaten to destroy relationships on both sides of the ocean-- if any of it becomes public knowledge. Will the family be able to cope with the revelations without disintegrating? And will Charlie be able to overcome his fear that his own children will inherit the family curse?

In her amazing foray into the lives of the rich and famous of the early 1900's Selwyn Grames lets us see how very human are those in the limelight. From Presidents on down to humble Irish servants, we glimpse life as it was in the early twentieth century. Though sordid, and evil in many ways, one can't help be touched by the ordinary pain that extraordinary mortals endured, as, one day at a time, they made their marks in time. A very revealing look at history. Rated R.

In 1974, seventy-one year old Caitlin Cleary narrates her purported memoirs about living at Pine Barrens, or Pinelands, located in southern New Jersey. Her powerful narrative voice immediately establishes her as an eccentric, thoughtful, authoritative woman who promises to "tell it like it is."

As a young girl, Caitlin dreamed of become a jockey, but the door of opportunity was not yet open to young women. So it seems only appropriate that Caitlin would marry wealthy American Charlie Kendall, thereby becoming a member of the "Horsey Set". She immigrates to America with her new husband, bringing her socially ambitious brother Eamonn with her to Pinecroft, Charlie's estate in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Just before her marriage, Caitlin's father expresses his single misgiving. Charlie refuses to discuss his family at any length. Upon her arrival in America, Caitlin will learn the dark secrets of Charlie's family, which will soon threaten to overshadow her own happiness. But the secrets of the past are only a part of the dreadful events that create chaos in the lives of the residents at Pinecroft.

THE PINECROFT THOROUGHBREDS is an intricately woven tapestry of finely created emotions. The novel is filled with fierce intensity and naked vulnerability, thickly wrapped with reflection, regret and possibility. The carefully measured prose maintains a cautious tension, keeping the weave even and intriguing even as events strip away a beautiful surface to reveal ugly secrets. Moreover, the background of the New Jersey Pinelands, together with the scent of sunlight and shadow, intertwine in a novel that entrances the reader. Secondary characters provide a varied and textured background, rich with conflict. An incredible and touching read, THE PINECROFT THOROUGHBREDS by Selwyn Anne Grames comes very highly recommended.

My pastor encouraged the entire church to read through theBible in one year using this scheme, and so far I'm keeping up.

ButI'm not keen on this particular presentation because in its attempt to be completely chronological it does a *lot* of jumping around, which makes it hard to read.

My suggestion for a future edition is to put the actual Bible text in the book so that it's all there in one place instead of having to do a lot of distracting flipping.

After starting to read the Bible but never being able to complete the task, I thought that I was hopeless. A lot of books within the Bible repeat the same information, but I just thought I was getting names and events confused. Frustration and confusion would build until I gave up. This time I have had an easier time because I am reading about an event in one book and then immediately reading about the same event in another book instead of reading about it several days later.
I am also encouraged because I feel like I have achieved something each morning when I check off the day's "assignment". The book contains a timeline which reinforces events and each day is set up with the readings split into different events which helps me to review.
Finally there is a verse to reinforce the day's major points. All in all, this book has been a great blessing.

The contents of this book include timelines and outlines surrounding each day's reading, each week's reading, and the year as a whole. Cover to Cover also contains maps of journies made by the Isrealites, daily thought sections, key scripture to memorize, and has many more study sections than I could list. I think the best part about this book is its organization and flexibility. The progressive days are numbered, as opposed to dated, adding to the flexibility of when to start reading this book. This format for reading the Bible I am finding refreshing. Putting all the passages in context has helped me understand God's Word in a more meaningful way. I am finding it truely a joyful journey through the pages of the Bible. I have recommended it many times and am buying it as a Christmas present for several people on my gift list.

Lewis Carroll sends Alice on a second set of adventures in some territory that is beyond our world. This time she crosses a mirror and enters a game of chess. She will eventually become a queen but she will in all possible ways express her deep desire to rebel against a world that is seen as having too many limitations and frustrating rules. She will in a way rebel against the game of chess itself when she comes to the end of it and pulls the tablecloth from under all the pawns and pieces to have peace and quiet, to free herself of absolute slavery. But what is she the slave of ? Of rules, the rules of the game, the rules of society, the rules of education. Of words and their silly ambiguities that enable them to mean both one sense and its reverse, that enable them to lead to absurd statements and declarations that completely block her in blind alleys and impasses. But at the same time, her return to the normal world that transforms those adventures into a dream, is a rejection of such adventures and of such rebellion as being absurd and purely fantasmatic, dreamlike. There is in this book a rather sad lesson that comes out of this ending : children can dream adventures, can dream perfect freedom, but reason brings them back to the comfortable world of everyday life and submission. And there is no other way possible. This book is pessimistic about a possible evolution from one generation to the next thanks to the retension of childish, childlike dreams, forgetting that the world can only change and progress thanks to the fuel those dreams represent in our social engine.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

"Through The Looking Glass" is, perhaps, not QUITE as good as "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland", but it's close enough to still rate five stars. Not, properly, a sequel to the first book, there is no indication at any point in it that the Alice (clearly the same individual, slightly older) from this book ever had the adventures in the first one; there is no reference to her previous adventures, even when she once again meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Obviously, the two books are intended as parallel adventures, not subsequent ones.

The most memorable bits from this book are doubtlessly the poem, "Jabberwocky", as well as chapter six, "Humpty Dumpty". But all of the book is marvellous, and not to be missed by anyone who enjoys a magical romp through silliness and playful use of the English language.

(This review refers to the unabridged "Dover Thrift Edition".)

Carrol was a profound and wonderful writer, and Through the Looking Glass... is definate proof of this. Though there isn't much evidence that he was a pedophile, you shouldn't grade his works simply on who he might or might not have been. Through the Looking Glass... is one of the greatest works of literature in the english language, and will continue to be despite the author's supposed problems.