The book is even better than I expected. The authors packed a lot of highly useful and easy-to-find responses and techniques that will help me succeed in handling tough questions and personal attacks. great ideas and a fast read.

Excellent book. Complete and readable. Helped me with problems in communicating. Excellent suggestions of how to answer difficult questions.

If you want to complain and whine about how difficult and confusing the current job marketplace is, you don't want to buy this book. But if you're serious about taking charge of your life and creating the future you dream about, NOW, BUY THIS BOOK! This book tells you more than just the facts about today's job economy -- it gives you concrete activities to help you integrate the creative with the practical. Imagine having a career that is fulfilling AND pays the bills, and then make it happen with this book!

Me Myself and I Inc. 10 steps to career independence has professionally helped me to better assess my career choices, my interests, skills, values and to better learn about the drving principles for why I work. As a career management trainer, I read many books on topics related to the changing workforce, transitions & job search strategies and I feel people will get more for their money out of this one book, than many others combined. The authors do any extraordinary job in liking valuable exercises to each chapter giving the reader an opportunity to develop a workable plan for achieving greater career satisfaction. I find the material new, interesting and full of interactive techniques to apply in your work-life/career planning. For individuals currently in transition, this is a MUST HAVE book! For individuals who want to achieve optimal career satisfaction this book is an excellent way to enhance your personal vision,action plans and goals for the future. You can skip around the chapters easily to find information and tools to meet your particular needs.

I am the mother of Melissa's neice Stephanie who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at the age of 18 months. Since that point Melissa has been very instrumental in organizing fundraisers to aid in research for Cystic Fibrosis. Her efforts have included a Fall Festival in 1998 held at her home and a Christmas Festival which included sales of this book. Her efforts aided by support of other families affected by Cystic Fibrosis and generous members of the community have yielded in excess of $17,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The book is a charming story about a little Christmas tree named Noella who is discarded by her owners but later experiences a Christmas miracle! This book will be enjoyed by all ages.

This book is short but perhaps one of the best new efforts out. It teaches us a lesson that something old and worn is not always worthless if we just give it a chance to be seen in a different light.

I was really impressed by the storyline and the graphics. The fact that the proceeds will go to Cystic Fibrosis was also a determining factor in purchasing this.

This author has a great big heart.

Loui's work caught me by surprise. It is both well thought-out and interesting enough to keep the readers attention. This is a difficult subject to write an in-depth study on. The book succeeds where others do not.

Loui has written a smart, penetrating book that manages to compare and contrast Murasaki and Proust in ways that are both interesting and instructive. The similarities between these writers have always been noted, but finding something new to say about those similarities is hard, and Loui has risen to the challenge brilliantly.

The Dobsons teamed to compile this phenomenal masterpiece of devotions with wonderful insights for parents. It is not only spiritual uplifting and insightful, but it contains a weath of practical advice. I also recommend [ THE PRAYER OF HANNAH ] by Kenn Gividen and other works by either of the Dobsons.

Wow, this book is SO good. It puts many of my thoughts on paper. Dr. Dobson gently reminds us of our goal as parents. He teaches us how to teach them, how to pray with and for our children. We're reminded that these are God's children and the goal is to guide them to love and serve him. I can't wait for the day when my God says 'Good job my faithful servant'! I'm buying this for all my friends and family.

Move over Edna Buchanan, James Patterson and Sue, the alphabet lady, there's a new kid on the block by the name of Shirley Linkhart.
Better clear a time slot for reading this one ... you REALLY CAN'T put it down. She grabs you on the first page and doesn't let go. It's a mystery, it's exciting and it's fun.
My copy is making the rounds of the neighborhood and everyone is loving it.

Don't pick this up before bedtime, as I did, because you won't be able to put it down til you're done. Suzanne--an accountant turned sleuth--is one of the most enticing characters in print and is likely to charm us again in future adventures.

The characters are diverse, and many are quickly suspect as the possible murderer of Margaret, a wealthy, elderly woman who is/was gullible and susceptible to maniputlation of the most devious kind. She also is a character with scandalous secrets in her past. Once Suzanne is convinced Margaret was murdered, Suzanne herself becomes a target who must be stopped.

The town's deputy sheriff has a romantic interest in Suzanne, which complicates her sleuthing and adds a whole new dimension to the story.

Should be a candidate for Best Mystery By a New Writer.

This is my 22 month old's favorite book (she calls it "Colour Babies"), and it's still fun to read after many reading sessions. The stories and illustrations show a real slice-of-life that fascinates toddlers.

My daughter (now four) loved this book when she received it. Now my two-year old son loves it. We refer to it as "Bath water's hot" since that is the first story. The stories capture my children's interest in a soft, friendly way. Much like a warm, bed-time hug. Both children seem to associate with the characters. Best of all, you can read the stories again and again and not want to scream. Many thanks to Ms. Hughes.

Shirley Steinman''s Only Paper, Merely Words presents a poetic voice with echoes of Emily Dickinson. There is a self effacement reminiscent of Emily''s writings from Amherst. The necessity to communicate with a larger world beyond the realm of hearth and home is the same.

This book of poems is like having tea in the afternoon with an old friend. All pretense has been stripped away because time is too precious to waste on superficiality. There is no easy sentimentality here or, at times, even easy reading. There are tears to be wept over the human condition, and there is also laughter. The vitality that lies in small things celebrates life''s eternal truths. She speaks of love and death, gardens, small animals and children. There is an intermingling of not only the horrors that exist in the world but of the joy and tenderness that lives there as well.

It is not an insular work. It reaches beyond a farmhouse in rural Michigan to encompass and examine events beyond the small circle of our individual lives. In ""Her Brothers"" she writes of the brother who went to war and who came home, and she remembers that ""his screams of terror rent the nights."" She captures, in just a few words, the terrible cost of warfare paid by its combatants. There is no glory here, only the unvarnished truth about a young man, and the unbearable grief that will haunt him for his entire life.

The nature writing compares to that of Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold. Of the flower in the poem ""I Would Have Cosmos"" she writes:
I''ve always loved the cosmos
Since I first learned their name,
white and rose and purple,
swaying colors at the end of day.
Now I find them vibrant yellow and orange!
Peace not dying but aborning.

The world of death and war and destruction is unerringly and critically examined. Its brutality and senselessness is made human through the personal stories of pain and suffering. There is no easy forgiveness here for violence and aggression, and no glossing over of it, in these pages.

A reader, as always, comes unsuspecting upon the material to be read as on a journey with no known itinerary. Thus begins an experience which enhances and enlarges our understanding of the world. This book of poems fulfills those expectations. We travel along unknown roads and wind up at unexpected destinations. And in the process we learn more about ourselves and the life around us.

Strangely enough it is not a poetry of hopelessness, although that itself is justifiable in these days of possible nuclear extermination. Like Rachel Carson''s Silent Spring it issues a call to all of us to cherish and protect the natural world in which we live. As one woman''s journey, Only Paper, Merely Words is like a quilt pieced together from the various fabrics with which all of life is fashioned. In her work we see between the weaver and the loom an inseparable whole.

Mary Johnston

I will say up front that I'm prejudiced when it comes to this writer as she is a long-time friend...however, i truly did not know the depth of her poetry writing until i read this book..it covers a multitude of subjects, from family, friends, politics, peace and lack of it and trying to achieve it--to stretch pants!!...while reading, i laughed, cried, shook my head, nodded in agreement and when i came to the last page, i wanted more...her writing flows on the page as i know it flows from her very soul..the reader will be blessed by reading Shirley's words..i hope she gathers up more scraps of paper that contain her thoughts from over the years and that soon there will be a volume II.

My boss has this book to get ideas for designing custom homes for high-profile clients. I have read the book from cover to cover but every time I open it, it seems like I discover anew more pictures & details of these beautiful homes. These Palm Beach houses were built as if they were competing with one another for the title of 'most splendid work of art'. Most are not sprawling mansions or overly complicated expressions of the wealth of their owners. They are, however, fine examples of the architecture of Palm Beach summer homes of the 1920's priveleged upper class.

I love this book. Of course It would be nice if there were floorplans. And as usual one closes the book wishing he could see more photos of each of the houses. But there are many stunning photos. Kudos to the photographer. It is well worth the money and I will get it someday if I can no longer borrow it from my boss.

This fine coffee table book is filed with wonderful photographs of a small selection of some of the finest mansions in the country. The ranges of houses from Adam and Regency, to simple clapboard, to Spanish/Moorish is excellent. The text is informative, accurate and well written. If interested in South Florida fine architecture, this book is a must.

This book will not only change your relationship with your children but also with your spouse, relatives and co workers. It's not a how to book so much as a new way of being. Learning to listen to the wisdom that we all have within brings us to a new level of consciousness and understanding. I have had great success using this book in two years of parenting classes, I would use no other. The results are long lasting.

This a book on how to parent from the viewpoint of both the child and the parent. It helps teach parents to take a look at not only what their children are doing but also how you may be getting a limited view of your child. The book is a guide to seeing your children in a new light; A point of view you had at an earlier time in their life. It points you to take a look at their world as well as your own. I would highly recommend this book to all parents who wish to have a close personal relationship with their children.