The book No Effect by Daniel Hayes was an excellent book. It was about a very confused 13 year old boy named Tyler McCallister in the 8th grade. He goes out for the schools varsity wrestling team when he's only in 8th grade, soon after that his best friend Lymie joins the team with him who is also and eigth grader. When Tylers Earth science teacher had collapsed and died in school she had to be replaced. The new Earth science teacher was Ms. Williams, Soon as Tyler set eyes on here he fell in love. He started dissing all his friends just so he could get to science class early as possible and stay after as long as possible. He would help her with cleaning and things to do around the class and obey her very well. The wrestling coach who was very mean and strict later on got a back injury while showing the kids a mountain climber. He was replaced with a young man named Chuckie, also Tylers next door neighboor. Tyler worked out really hard so he could impress Ms. Williams who was going Tylers first match. He fell in love with her so much he asked her to his Thanksgiving Day dinner. Chuckie came along too. They were allowwed to bring a guest. Little did Tyler know that Chuckie was dating the womend of his dreams. This made Tyler very depressed but it turns out ok in the end. If you want to learn more of what happened, read the book its excellent.

No Effect is a very interesting book. The main character is the best part of the book. The things he does in his book keeps the reader reading. His love of wanting to become atop contender is amazing. This is my favorite book that I've read. I actually wanted to keep reading once I started. The author explained the book well the way he wrote it. I think this book lets me know that if you work hard you can accomplish anything. The main character shows heart in this book. He pushes himself to accomplish things that are the best thing I like about that character.

In the book No Effect The Charactor Tyler is a Young boy in the ninth grade that signs up for wrestling. He soon finds that it's not what he expected. For Tyler every time life starts to go good something bad always happends. Soon Tyler finds himself inlove with his science teacher Miss Williams, but he finds a shocking secret out about his teacher. I enjoyed his book. To find the secret you should read No Effect.

This book is handy if you're a playwright looking for good names to imitate. It's handy if you're examining styles popular in short plays (many of them ten minutes or less). It's a neato-jet piece of gear if you're learning the language and jargon of the playwrighting scene.

This book is useless if you're a director looking to stage a one-act. The plays are too irregular, and many are too short unless you're running an evening of ten-minute plays. Some are radio plays, which are useless on stage. Some are cuttings or extended monologues. There is no unifying theme through the book, so it's hit-or-miss if what you find will even match any theme you may be looking for.

If you know this going in, the book can be useful to you. Many people like it. I found it a drag.

This really is, as the copy on the back claims, a "stunning and diverse" collection of one-act plays. To get familiar with authors and angles that you may not have encountered elsewhere, you can't beat these short sweet pieces. A lot of the usual suspects, big names snowing off the skills that have made them beloved of theatre-junkies across the nation, and selections by names you've never heard of before (and, for one or two of these, my bet is you will never hear of again). Really a must have collection that will give you plenty of enjoyment & ideas for your upcoming season or that as-yet-unwritten one act of your own. Why only four stars from me? I'm super stingy with the fifth...

Includes: Edward Albee, Finding the Sun; Christopher Durang, Naomi in the Living Room; John Guare, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun; David Hare, The Bay at Nice; Beth Henley, Am I Blue; David Mamet, A Life With No Joy In It; Arthur Miller, The Last Yankee; Tennessee Williams, The Chalky White Substance... and many more!

The story of this book: Mr. and Mrs. Submarine start by bringing their cat in out of the rain, and offering it a corn muffin. Not strange at all. Then they invite the dog in. Not everyone allows a dog in the house, but many people do. Still, this is not strange.

But later, as the friends include a group of chickens, a group of crows, a coyote, and Beethoven, the book gets funnier and funnier.

Young children realize that cows, chickens, and Beethoven don't belong in the house, and realize just how strange and genuinely funny Mr. and Mrs. Submarine are. Kids just LOVE this book!

There is no plot as such. The guests just tend toward the more and more bizarre, and the comments and humor of the book just get more and more chuckly.

The illustrations in the book are colorful and warm, reminding me of bright watercolors.

If you like Pinkwater books, this is a good one. The book surely does NOT "go anywhere," as one reviewer complained. Surely, that is true. This book is funny without going anywhere.

Give it a try.

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Sure, Pinkwater's humor isn't for everyone and the kids will miss some of it. Still, I found the book very entertaining which is something I can't say for most books I read to the children.

This book is very funny, and totally bizarre. Daniel Pinkwater is one of the greatest, and most underappreciated, authors writing today. The illustrations are beautiful, and add to the overall tone of whimsy and wit.

Daniel Easterman is the Nom de Plume of Denis McEoin, professor at Univ. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, an embittered ex-Baha'i.

This book combines a good old murder mystery with a bunch of Middle Eastern terrorists for a book long gunfight. This is a good book. It had it all, a great story, good characters, wonderful action and a quick pace. This is just a good old exciting book. The author peppers the book with plot twists that keep the reader on his toes. This author writes in a way that is tight and slick that keep you interested through out. This is a solid murder mystery. Just do not get used to any of the characters, because they do not last long. Ok, so the detective that is used is straight from central casting, but that book is not bad. The story comes together and you believe it. I would have liked a bit more depth on the locations and characters, but not a bad read.

Wow! I was up until 5 AM finishing this novel. YOU will enjoy it as much as I did - don't let the length disenchant you. Great characters. Intricate plot. Superb dialogue. You can't ask for more!

Daniels' poetry is just prose, and his prose is, well, just slop. This book is just plain awful.

I like Jim Daniels' stories because they are about real characters. And, he tells his stories with an honest voice. Too often when I read short stories, I feel that the writer is trying to impress me. I don't know if it's MFA programs or what, but many fiction writers seem to put craft, style, and experimentation over character, story, and authenticity. Not Daniels. He's about the character first. When he's got someone's story in his hands, he treats that character with dignity. He tries to tell the character's story as honestly as possible. He doesn't let overly crafted writing get in the way of that telling. Too often craft and style are the writer saying, "Look at how clever I am." But, when Jim Daniels writes about a character he wants the reader looking at that character only. He shows real respect for his characters.

Tough characters, sparse writing with an outcome that is rich and full of heart. The stories stay with you.

This book was just nominated by RT Book Club for Best Harlequin Intrigue for 2002!

Below is the review from Romantic Times in which Premeditated Murder received 4.5 stars (fantastic):

TOP PICK! Augustus T. Riley is on a mission. He believes that Charlie Larkin committed murder and is getting away with it. Devising a plan, he pulls into the one-horse town of Utopia, Montana faking car trouble. Imagine his surprise when he realizes his primary suspect is a petite woman in mechanic's overalls, who fires his blood and sparks his desires. As the best mechanic in five counties, she knows a car trouble pretense when she sees it, but no man ever made her feel like Gus does. PREMEDITATED MARRIAGE by fan favorite BJ Daniels is a suspenseful tale, blended artfully with a romance that will warm your heart. It teems with small-town characters who change their fears into dreams. Fans of romantic suspense won't be able to put down this page-turner. Definitely a keeper! 4 1/2 stars - Top Pick RT Book Club

Daniels' Premeditated Murder is one of her best. I picked it up after reading a review of it in Romantic Times in which it received 4.5 stars and was a Top Pick. Daniels' characters are spunky and entertaining. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery.

This is really a good book for Java Developers who wish to develop XML based applications. Couple of chapters have good examples and explains concepts in a very clear format. Also the book is upto date with all the latest concepts in XML world.

I have been working with XML for a while now, and this book offered a great coverage of most aspects of what XML application developers need to know. I am not able to keep up with everything happening in this very broad part of the industry - and this book provided enough coverage of the areas I'm not able to focus on on a regular basis to help me stay current. I'd recommend it for anyone who's working with specific areas within XML and want to stay current with the broader scope of what is going on. I'd also recommend it for anyone who is new to XML and wants to know the various Java APIs out there.

This is surely one of the Best Books availale in Market for Java Developers. I have been waiting to read a Book which covers all the latest XML API and how use them using latest Java Tools. Thanks to Wrox Publications for bringing this book to us. It covers how to do XML programming using all the latest Java API line I/O Sockets, Developing Presentation Logic, Developing Configuration and Deployment logic, Using XML in B2B applications. In short no other book in Market provides such a clear understanding of how to develop Java Based XML Applications.

Also it clearly explains how to use the latest Java Based XML Parsers like Xerces, Xalan and more. Friends if you need to get upto date with all the latest Java Based Parsers and different XML API, then this Book is really the Best one.

Told in the first person, this is the tragic story of the life of the social climbing Roxana - it reads (as I suppose it was intended to read) as a guilt-ridden confession.

Abandoned (with her five children) by her profligate and irresponsible husband, Roxana rises to wealth by a series of affairs with well-connected men. Not to give away the ending, but the achievement of wealth does not result in anything like happiness.

Due to the way she was treated, Roxana has a highly critical view of marriage, and advocates equal rights for women. Although he puts such opinions in Roxana's mouth, Defoe makes it clear that (for the time) these were extreme views - Roxana goes too far in her cynicism and amorality. I thought that Defoe's point was that women should be treated far more humanely than they were, but not that they should be treated as equals.

Defoe also explores interesting issues surrounding the moral effects of both extreme poverty and great wealth: "... for tho' Poverty and Want is an irresistible Temptation to the Poor, Vanity and Great Things are as irresistible to others..."

In the edition I was reading, the editor had done his best to maintain Defoe's original spelling and style. You have therefore to put up with the peculiarities and inconsistencies of Defoe's grammar and spelling. Either you're into this or you're not, but I prefered it that way. The lack of chapters or other breaks in the text was a bother: I don't know enough about the literature of Defoe's time to judge whether that was normal, or whether Defoe deliberately avoided the use of such "artificial" stylistic devices in order to maintain the feeling that this was someone giving her confession. Unless you're able to sit down and read the novel at one sitting (I wasn't) it means that you have to judge carefully when to create your own breaks.

Although "Roxana" had plenty of points of interest, I felt that it was over-long. Defoe had made his case long before the end, and although the ending is shocking and tragic, the pathway there could have been shorter.

This novel follows the progress of a woman who is left by her husband with only her servant. She vows never to be poor again, and climbs her way back up the social ladder by using men and her body. The novel, while possibly intended as a conduct book to show women what happens to those who sin, reads today as a portrait of a woman trapped between society's views and her own upward movement. A very interesting, and at times disturbing, read.

Daniel Defoe has a way with words, lovely piece of words. I would advise you to read this book slowly to eat up the words.

An interesting story of a remarkable woman with unusual strength and deep insight into faith, Christ and christian living. Thus defenately worth reading. Yet the book left me spiritually hungry; I would have wanted to hear more Ruth's own voice, get closer to her and her way of figuring things out. That would have also brought more warmth into the biography. A book called "Coffee and conversation with Ruth Bell Graham and Gigi Tchividjian" fills that kind of needs better.

Ruth is a remarkable woman, with an interesting childhood, young adult and adult life story. She is a picture of a godly, submissive wife who is not a doormat....(something this world needs more examples of!) I recommend it, especially for young Christian women who are engaged or newly married.

A well written biography of one of the best examples of a Godly woman

Set in places all over Greystone Farm. Piglet in a playpen is about a piglet who is the runt of a whole litter and there is not place for him to stay. Because the mother tries to smash it because ther little piglet is to small and if they don't move it the piglet will die.

The main characters, Mandy and James are two kids who love animals. Mandy's mother and father are both Veternarians who work at Animal Ark. Mandy and James go into the Animal Ark to get James Cat to get his treatment and Mrs. Hope tells the kids about a problem that she just heard about with an animal concern. The kids were very worried. Mrs. Hope tells the kids to bring the owner something.

As soon as they heard of the probelem they were off. When they got to Brandon's farmhouse which was the owner the kids looked for the runt piglet called Ruby. When they find Ruby they saw the little piglet farther back then the rest. Then she found the owner and gave him the food for Ruby. He was very suprised that she was even there.

In conclusion the piglet went to the Animal Ark. He had got his treatment and he kept the pellets as told and the little piglet lived happily with his mother and the rest of his siblings. Mandy and James did all they could to keep the piglet alive and that is what they did. So they were happy and so was Brandon Gill he was happy that the little piglet survived tooo even thought he did not like pets that must but he shore loved his little piglets and the mother pig.

Piglet in a Playpen

Set in places all over Greystone Farm. Piglet in a playpen is about a piglet that is the runt of a whole litter and there is not place for him to stay. Because the mother tries to smash it because their little piglet is to small and if they don't move it the piglet will die.
The main characters, Mandy and James are two kids who love animals. Mandy's mother and father are both Veterinarians who work at Animal Ark. Mandy and James go into the Animal Ark to get James Cat to get his treatment and Mrs. Hope tells the kids about a problem that she just heard about with an animal concern. The kids were very worried. Mrs. Hope tells the kids to bring the owner something.
As soon as they heard of the problem they were off. When they got to Brandon's farmhouse, which was the owner, the kids looked for the runt piglet called Ruby. When they find Ruby they saw the little piglet farther back then the rest. Then she found the owner and gave him the food for Ruby. HE was very surprised that she was even there.
In conclusion the piglet went to the Animal Ark. He had got his treatment and he kept the pellets as told and the little piglet lived happily with his mother and the rest of his siblings. Mandy and James did all they could to keep the piglet alive and that is what they did. So they were happy and so was Brandon Gill he was happy that the little piglet survived too even thought he did not like pets that must but he shore loved his little piglets and the mother pig.

Ruby the piglet is the runt of the litter, and there is no room for her at Greystones Farm. But Mandy and James love Ruby, and they can't accept that she has to go. Mandy and James think that they can turn Ruby into a prize-winning pig. Will Mandy and James turn Ruby into a prize-winning pig, and get her to be able to stay at Greystones Farm.