An absolutely great book about the Bad Old Days of trucking. This work is more than just a dark tale about double dealing and violence in a troubled trade. It just has that ring of truth by an author that lived the life. So many of the scenarios he describes bring to mind stories I personally have heard from the old timers in my chosen profession of trucking. A great read that perfectly recreates a place and time.

This is a totally awesome book about the small produce truckers who brought food to market in post-WWII California. In very straigtforward plain prose, the book tells the story of Nick, the son of Greek immigrants. When his father dies after a long life of just squeaking by, Nick is determined he won't fall into the same cycle, and enters the cutthroat world of independent trucking. The bulk of the book concerns the trials he and his mentor Ed encounter in finding and selling their first load. The writing clearly comes from intimate personal knowledge of the life and the swindles that were a constant part of it. It's a brilliant and fascinating piece of noir literature.

After getting burnt out on contemporary fiction and finding no pleasure in my reading, after putting down yet another book that fizzled after 100 pages, I picked this gem off my shelf where it's sat for over a year. The prose, the images, the timeless energy of the story and writing got my reading muscles working again. Since I live in Oakland and work in SF, the images of those cities written 50 years ago give a fresh, vibrant perspective. Characters come alive, flawed and real. A plot that pulsates.

This book is great.At first when I began reading it I thought it was strange that the author E.B. White had characters that were animals that could talk .Although it is not true that animals can talk, after I began reading the book more and concentrated hard I caught the excitement the characters created.
The book takes place on a very old farm.The characters were like real peolple but one of biggest stars in the book was a little spider called Charlotte.She gave all her friendship to a pig with a lot of courage and love that he needed.

This is one of the funniest books in the world. It's a 8-12 age book.I really like the part in Bosten. If you liked E. B. White's books you'll like this one.

I think The Trumpet of the swan was a great book! If I could I would read The Trumpet of the swan a 1000 times.I wish that I had the book I liked the part at the Ritz.The good part is when he can't speak.Was this book hard to write?This is a cool book.Have you ever wrote a 507 page book.If you did I would think it's hard to do.How many books have you wrote.I think You wrote a lot of books.I bet there great books.Have you ever been in a book contest.I would think you would win. Some day I will write a book.Is The Trumpet Of The Swan your best book?I like the part when Louis hits the two men and saved Serena from her wing geting cliped.What was his first book you wrote.Do you like swans.Is E.B.White still alive.We hope you are. Do you like reading books that you write? Your friend, Kirk and Thomas

This book expresses the true emotion, true challenges, and compelling life experiences of Lee G. Edwards. It gives a very real and powerful illustration of what it's like to go through life constantly faced with social and personal challenges. This book raises the awareness of albinism and has something everyone can identify with. Lee makes himself very transparent and beause of this raw vulnerability, anyone reading this book will be touched and take a peice of Lee's experiences with them.

A compelling read!!! With our national debate on race dominated by "black and white" issues, this book is a real eye opener. It provides an entirely new take on prejudice and discrimination in America today.
Imagine being forced to exist in a never-never world where you have no race to call your own, a world in which you are not only subjected to white discrimination, but those in your own community--including your own father--cannot accept you because you are not black enough. I have never read a stronger indictment of the insanity of racism. Mr. Edwards writes passionately, with raw honesty, generously offering his own trauma and recovery to give others hope A must read for anyone who says they care about social justice.

READING THIS BOOK WAS AN ISPIRATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE! I WOULD SUGGEST THAT EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK. IT SHOWS HOW WE AS A NATION ARE SO JUDEMENTAL WHEN SOMETHING DOES NOT LOOK RIGHT TO US. IT ALSO SHOWS HOW A PERSON CAN BE SO GRAVELY EFFECTED BY THE IGNORANCE OF OTHERS. I THINK WE SHOULD ALL REMEMBER THIS COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN OUR CHILD. AND HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR CHILD WAS TREATED ON DAY TO DAY BASIS AS THIS YOUNG MAN HAS BEEN AND STILL IS TREATED? IT IS TRULY FOOD FOR THOUGHT. AND STILL WITH ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM, HE STILL HAS A POSITIVE AND OUTGOING ATTITUDE AND WISHES TO EDUCATE OTHERS SO CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER LIKE HE HAS BEEN MADE TO. THAT IS WHY I AM GIVING THIS AUTHOR FIVE STARS HE TRULY DESERVES IT AND HIS WRITING SKILLS ARE OUTSTANDING!

A fascinating story set in a fascinating world. Granted, it's aworld with which I am already familiar but it didn't seem to me that areader unfamiliar with the world would be hard-pressed to understand what was happening; Cassada seems to me to do an excellent job of providing background information to the uninitiated without boring those readers familiar with the White Wolf universe. The book did not read like a chronicle of a gaming campaign; the characters were fresh and compelling, and the plot flowed well. Neither did it seem to end unfulfillingly, as beginnings of trilogies frequently do; while we have seen a plotline that is left incomplete as a lead-in to the next book, enough loose ends are tied up that it does not feel as though we have simply read the first third of a story; we've read a full story, and there are others to follow. If there is a criticism, it is that there are a few too many sidhe (noble) characters, compared to the other kith. But this is truly nit-picking; this is a marvellous tale.

I had never read a book about faries before, until my friend bought me this book. I was a little skeptical at first, because of the nature of the book, but once I started reading it I was compelled to read even more, as I learned about a world I knew nothing of. I have read all three books in this triliogy, and love them all! I must have read each one 5 times. Anyways I would Definetly recommend this book to anyone who reads even the slighest bit of Science Fiction or Fantasy. Please if you read this and am as happy with this book as I am e-mail me and give a review of your own, or just tell me what you thought of it, cause you know it's nice to keep in touch with people who share similar interests. My address is AMERRYMAN@HOTMAIL.COM again I give this book a ten and I'd give it an eleven if I could! P.S. Read the other books as well! (The Court of All Kings), and (Shadow on the Hills).

The Toybox, first book in the Immortal Eyes trillogy, is one of the richest novels based on a game that I have ever read. It begins with a young girl attempting to deal with her newfound knowledge of a fairy society living in San Fransisco, of which she is a part.

A cast of characters is introduced, comprised of changelings and humans with enourmously diverse personalities. The story then immediately takes you along a rich tapestry of fae lore and modern fantasy, ending with you wanting even more.

I heartily recommend it.

This book isn't just for enforcement people. For someone like me who isn't a law officer and just wants to understand how terrorists and drug traffickers work, this book is great.

I always thought of terrorism and drugdealing in simplistic terms of what happens in the street. Now I understand how the system works and why our fight is so unsuccessful.

What I learned:
Our laws change slowly in response to rapid innovation by the traffickers and terrorists.

Horse-and-buggy standards for banks like "know your customer" are pointless in a modern world economy.

The worldwide supply of drugs is variegated and impossible to control. As a result, our approach to fighting drugs by cooperating with drug-producing countries is stupid. My guess is that a bread-and-butter approach of customs inspections and death penalty for dealers and launderers would work better. The mindset of modern law enforcement is dead wrong.

As icing on the cake, it was interesting to learn that the Afghanis, Arabs, and Iranians who attack America for our moral degeneration are number 1 in heroin production and smuggling.

A few disappointments:

Richards barely treated terrorists. If he had, his book would have had more mass appeal.

Some of the explanations would have been clearer with flow diagrams.

I still don't understand why layering is so effective. It sounds as if a simple computer trace would unpeel the layers.

This book is not light reading. But if you really want to know how the world works, it's worth the effort!

I became acquainted with James R. Richard's Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering : A Handbook for Law Enforcement Officers, Auditors, and Financial Investigators when it was used as a text in Utica College's Economic Crime Management Master of Science Degree program in the Advanced Economic Crime as well as the Legal Concepts of Criminal Fraud and Corporate Criminal Liability graduate courses. After quickly thumbing through it, I immediately recognized that it truly contains a bounty of useful, pertinent and relevant information.

Extremely well written, it is a well flowing, very easy read that is both highly informative and enlightening. The book provides a very extensive and detailed examination of organized criminal enterprises engaged in international financial crime. The book fully details the specific steps of the placement, layering, and integration stages of money laundering as well as fully itemizing the techniques and uses of non-financial institutions (casinos, securities et al.) in money laundering. The expanded international focus documents a very detailed and thorough examination of the scope of global financial crime. The book fully integrates an expanse of information on banking, money laundering and cybercrime basics, international criminal organizations - in both a national and international context - in a manner that is easily understood by the reader.

As a police officer, I would highly recommend this book as a "must have" for the reference shelf of federal, state, local or corporate based investigators engaged in financial crimes inquiries and analysis. For the non-professional who is interested in organized crime of a more cerebral nature, the book is more than worth the purchase price.

As a side note, Mr. Richards also gives an excellent presentation and lecture on the topics and subject matter covered in his book.

My father wrote this book. Even though I am only eleven years old I already want his job. I love to read and learn and I am very interested in this field. I read his book and I can finally understand what he's talking about at the dinner table! He now tells me about his cases in the car and I love hearing about them. This book helped me learn about things I wouldn't have learned about in college. It really opened my eyes to what was out there. Good work daddy! PS - Your kids books that you wrote for us are just as good! Publish them!

I'm a huge fan of Sheila White Sampon's books. Not only do my kids love them, but I adore reading them to my kids. There's a beautiful and simple quality to the words and pictures, and this makes for easy and fun reading and looking. But under her seemingly simple stories and pictures is a mastery that shows her deep understanding of kids and life.

When I ask my kids which book they want me to read, they often pick up one of Sheila White Sampon's. Her books are harmonious and life-affirming. It's my great pleasure to read them often to my kids. Bravo to Ms. Sampon!!

I have admired other books illustrated by Sheila Samton. 'A Tree for Me' is particularly magical, and the repeating refain in Nancy Van Laan's poem works hand-in-hand with the drawings to great effect. I'm an architect, so the drawings have always been a big attraction - but one that the children in my life seem to enjoy too!

I am an art critic and curator. This book is a delightful poem with incantatory repetitions that kids love. The illustrations are enchanting -- witty, engaging, and wonderfully colored. Samton's images add another layer of meaning to van Laan's amusing rhymes. Both text and illustrations stand up to repeated reading and close looking.

I was in college when I first met Denver Butson (crazy man, Italy semester again- but maybe this time with hot water?). Great person, master poet, entertaining teacher -managed the Pisan Cantos steps from an Italian princess and literary heir.
Tryptich is self help for everyone who finds themselves burning.

Denver's mastery of exact word useage portrays volumes of meaning. Tiny rays of light in his darker works flirt with the reader. His good news? There is always hope!

Do you know what a "textual marriage" is? Are you familiar with the poetic form "ghazel"? Have you mused recently over crows? Have you considered the difference between drowning and dancing? With this first collection of poetry from Denver Butson, a challenging and forceful new voice has emerged in American poetry. A textual marriage is a poetic form Butson invented that alternates successive lines from two different texts--in one case, a sensational NEW YORK POST article and a poem by Kenneth Patchen--to create a startlingly orginal poem. A ghazel is a Persian poetic form as intricate as a sestina. "No one waves to the blackest birds." Crows. This image resonates throughout the collection: black wings, the darkness, the common-ness of the common crow (first introduced in association with a brother who did or did not commit suicide). And, curiously, in one poem it is the absence of the word "crow" that sustains the poem. And is it possible to read the verb "waves" as the noun to introduce another central image? That of drowning? Briefly, this collection teases and stimulates and excites the reader's mind. As Butson notes, "These broken syllables / we try to re-form." Language, imagination, image, meaning. Denver Butson is a poet of depth, complexity, and strangeness who has a brilliant career before him.

I was initially reserved in my approach to the book 'cos I thought it would be boring and would contain too much theology.
I was proven wrong. I could see the interplay of man and God in shaping our history and now fully understand that indeed "He works all things after the counsel of his own will". I was taken with the literary style that I could not put it down desiring to find out what would happen next to Luther. It is awesome to know that Omniscience wields Omnipotence to achieve the counsel of the Omnipresent God.

I have read this book under separate title, and D'Aubigne presents in it a wonderful picture of Luther the man, from the perspective of an author who knows Luther's Lord. Much more readable than Bainton's work, and with a touch of the older style of writing that has now been lost.

This is a very good book about Martin Luther. Before I read this book, I did not know what he wrote his theses about, but now I know he wrote it to condemn the evil sale of indulgences.

The TWO GARDENERS in question are Katherine White of New Yorker fame and Elizabeth Lawrence who wrote a garden column for years for the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. White's columns on gardening written for the New Yorker magazine were compiled by her husband E. B. White (CHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE) and published after her death in 1977 in the book entitled ONWARD AND UPWARD IN THE GARDEN. Lawrence wrote a number of books, including THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE and THE LITTLE BULBS. Her book THE MARKET BULLETINS was completed by the New Jersey gardener Alan Lacy. The market bulletins were wonderful publications farm women in the South used to communicate information about seeds, plants, animals, receipts (what they called recipes), and other items they for sale or being sought. Elizabeth shared a good deal of information about the market bulletins which were not published north of Virginia with Katherine whose one interests lay with garden catalogues when their friendship began.

Lawrence and White corresponded for several decades. The two women discussed their gardens, their columns, their books, and their lives. In the early part of their correspondence, they often wrote each other by return mail. Toward the end of Katherine's life, the letters were few and far between as illness began to affect her movement and ability to see. In spite of their suffering, they continued to observe the world around them and relay how things were going in the garden-the latest blooms, the ravenous mice, the unexpected cold snap, the new greenhouse. Their words remind me of the hope and comfort women have long experienced when a letter from a loved one arrives. As my 87-year old aunt with whom I still correspond says, it doesn't matter what you write, the smallest thing matters.

The editor of this collection of letters Emily Wilson, quotes a librarian who remarked after having read the letters Elizabeth and Katherine wrote to each other, "I got a feeling of moral interdependence on a creative level. Somehow I had viewed the creativity of successful people as a strong force that perhaps needed channeling but not encouragement. Now, on this new-to-me-plane, I see again that no man is an island."

As the editor of TWO GARDENERS/KATHARINE S. WHITE AND ELIZABETH LAWRENCE, I welcome hearing from readers. I am now writing the biography of Elizabeth Lawrence and would benefit from hearing others' understanding of her, both in these letters and in her books. Emily Herring Wilson

Delightful! The correspondence of 19 years between White and Lawrence is insightful, informative and elegant! Their letterse (far more elegant than e-mail) give us glimpses into life in the 60's and 70's and beyond. This book, which is expertly edited by Emily Herring Wilson has inspired a perennial garden at our Wisconsin home and a renewed interest in the writings of E.B. White, not to mention the writings of Katharine White and Elizabeth Lawrence. These two career women and ladie were supportive and encouraging of one another for 19 years!

Ulster's White Negroes is an exellent book for all interested in political conflict and social issues. It is writtten from someone who had first hand knowledge and had actually participated in the political process of Northern Ireland. It is a very quick read that will spark your interest in the subject.

In Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection, Fionnbarra Ódochartaigh presents a balanced and insightful account of the social, economic and political conditions that ultimately led to the current conflict. Based on his own experiences and those of others, he describes conditions in Derry and throughout the North between 1967 and 1972. In this book, he gives detailed accounts of events occurring through the initial development of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, to calls for fair employment and housing practices. Ódochartaigh continues through the Internment period and concludes with the events of Bloody Sunday. After both of these, nothing would ever be the same again. Most important is his description of the initial seeds of the struggle that are all to often forgotten: political indifference, bigotry, British/Unionist elitism and the economic deprivation of Catholic communities throughout the North of Ireland.

This analysis highlights the often forgotten fact that the conflict began as peaceful acts of resistance and nonviolent civil protest, not as acts of revolution. While providing detailed descriptions of human right violations and sectarian violence, this book highlights the often overlooked and everyday conditions that impacted Catholics communities: poor housing opportunities, few chances for employment and a system biased against improving the social and economic conditions of Catholics. This framed the origins of the conflict in a more identifiable light. The events that took place are more the result of everyday social and economic conditions, than they are of age-old symbolism and struggle. Due to Unionist/British responses to a legitimate and justified call for equal rights, the conditions that led to the current struggle were born out of necessity, rather than radical design. One can only wonder what could have been if these protests had been met with constructive debate and responsible political action instead of RUC and British troop deployments.

Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection should be required reading for anyone interested in the origins and evolution of the Troubles. Those interested in the achievement of peace with justice in the North of Ireland owe it to themselves to read this account and understand the events of those early days in Derry and Belfast. This is particularly true for those outside of Ireland, who are often presented with misleading representations of the historical basis for the current struggle. In light of events currently taking place, recognition of the basis for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement and the corresponding response by British/Unionist forces, will prove valuable in understanding the problems facing the current peace process.

Ulster's White Negroes sent me back into the throes of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 70's, when I was there - as Fionnbarra's book brought clear realization to me that Northern Ireland was "there" also. Poignant, to the point, ultra emotional and yet on a lighter side - the humor of internment. What a grand author, and what more could any reader wish than to be put into a space of the "real" past. Thank you Fionnbarra. I can't wait to "relive" with your next venture! Chara, Roisin