This was an outstanding book, full of suspense and left you wanting more. Hurry up with the next one.

Three of us at our office just finished this fantastic suspense novel. It is a very fast read, leading you down one path and then another, you are constantly afraid for the young woman doctor, who has seen the true face of EVIL. This is riveting medical suspense, on the forefront of exposing some disturbing horrors. It reminds you of early Grisham, but with more romance and horror combined. One of our office staff met the author Dr. Michele White at a Barnes and Noble book signing and was impressed, she really knows her stuff. This will be a big summer favorite.

I HAVE BEEN READING THESE BOOKS FOR OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, AND I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THEM AND I CAN HARDLY WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT BOOK OF THE SERIES COMES OUT. ONCE I START TO READ ONE OF THESE BOOKS, I AM MOVED BACK IN TIME AND I RELIVE THE LIFE THAT RENNO AND HIS FAMILY DID AT THAT TIME IN HISTORY. I WAS GIVEN THE FIRST 4 BOOKS BY A FAMILY MEMBER AND I WILL NEVER GIVE THEM UP FOR ANYTHING,THESE BOOKS ARE A PART OF MY FAMILY NOW. I STUDIED NEW YORK HISTORY WHEN I LIVED IN THAT STATE AS A YOUNG GIRL AND MR PORTER IS SO CLOSE TO TELLING IT JUST LIKE IT WAS BACK THEN IN HISTORY. I DO HOPE THAT HE KEEPS ON WRITTING MORE TO THE SERIES.

This book manages to recapture the intrigue and suspense of the first few releases in the White Indian series. Porter revisits Renno, the fourth generation since the original White Indian, in his trials and challenges of Sachem of the band of Senecca Indians displaced with their new brothers, the Cherokee. The story follows Renno as he prepares the next generation of Sachem(s!) to lead the band of Senecca. The authenticity of Porter's research shows, as he details the daily life and struggle, along with his flair for historical accuracy, of this time period. A must-read for any fan of the White Indian series.

This is a very good book with lots of information. These authors understand what it is like to lose an animal friend. It suggests preparing for your animal's loss before it happens so that one doesn't have to think about what to do when the loss occurs and thing's get emotional.

We found out about this book through a link on when we knew the death of our beloved Muffin was soon. It really and truly helped us to prepare ahead of time for what we wanted for him--so we wouldn't be making decisions after the fact. It also reaffirms that fact that the grief one feels for the loss of a much-loved pet is real and not something "silly". While it's not fun to think about, those who have a pet (re. of breed or type) they love dearly may want to have this. There's also a chapter about post-death grief and how to help young children deal with the death as well. Recommended highly!

This is a fantastic book filled with great recipes. It serves as the perfect guide to America's food festivals. And the recipes, despite what the "official" review above states, are simple and easy. This book is not meant to serve as a replacement for the Joy of Cooking or Betty Crocker, therefore basic instructions in the art of cooking are not presented. By the way, if you can read, you can cook! These are recipes made by real people and eaten by real people. And those I have tried are delicious. Of course, there are a few that I think the author presented for local color, and that's fine. It all comes together, giving the reader a true taste of America.

Get a copy of this book if you are planning a trip anywhere in the US this summer. Loads of ideas for enjoying local festivals all over the country and recipes as well. Get to know the locals, by tasting their tasty specialties!

Lots of detail, up to date for 2002.

Wallace White's "Freedom From Lust" is aptly titled! This a topic that men, particularly those who call themselves Christian, wish to keep in the dark closets of their lives.
White's openess and candor help men facing lust (and who doesn't) feel more normal about their desires. More importantly, for those who wish to make some changes, thoughtful and scripturally based reasons and ways to change are provided. And the depth of the book doesn't stop at lust. The freedom to love your wife more wonderfully than ever before and to be much closer to God are natural outcomes of a thoughtful reading and application of this book.
Pastors, lay leaders who are called to help others and individuals honest enough to recognize the damage caused by acting on thier lustful desires will benefit greatly from White's book.

Freedom from Lust is vintage Wallace White...it is frighteningly frank. Pastor White walks boldly where few Christian writers dare to tread. He addresses a topic that few men willingly discuss, though most men will read about it. The book provides insight and encouragement to virtually all Christian men while offering help and hope for those in the thick of the battle. White's writing is laden with applicable scripture accentuated by illustrations from real life. He shares his faith in Jesus Christ through this unlikely topic.

The book can be read in one or two sittings. When the book is laid down, the truths continue to stand tall in the mind and spirit of the reader. It will be thought provoking for some, life changing for others, and appreciated by all who have the courage look for Freedom from Lust.

I was just wondering if there was a book that came after, Life Without Friends, which is about Beverly?

Friends for Life, by Ellen Emerson White, is a very intense mystery set in Boston. Susan McAllister, a high school senior, moves back to Boston with her family. However, after only being back a few days her best friend, all-american Collen Spencer, is found mysteriously dead, and when the cops find drugs in her locker they assume it was a drug overdose. Susan knows Collen would never do drugs, but everyone tells her that she's been gone a couple of years, how does she know Collen hadn't changed? She believes it is murder, and has good reason to. She starts investigating the drug scene at school, and as she gets closer to identifying the killer she puts herself in more danger. This is an excellent, heart-wrenching book, a book you can not put down until the end. The characters seem to come alive, and if you like this book you'll find the sequel, Life Without Friends, equally riveting, as the main charcter this time is the exgirlfriend of Collen's killer. I have read this book many times and every single time I still am saddened by Collen's death and cry when the killer is caught. I totally recommend this book.

For Gioconda Belli, a woman's sexuality and female identity are inseparable from an expansive and nurturing love of the world. In her poetry, the longing for a society in which people construct a future together is animated by an inextinguishable erotic, maternal, and transcendental loving desire. The poetry in FROM EVE'S RIB, a selection that includes Belli's early as well as recent work, is revolutionary in that it links an intense eroticism with the insurrectionary spirit of the Nicaraguan people.

"Her poetry [is] at once extremely sensual and politically direct...a kind of public love-poetry that [comes] closer...to expressing the passion of Nicaragua than anything I ever heard." --Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile (Penguin, 1987)

"Her lessons in eroticism and her deeply engaged social conscience and her feminism, her historical perspective and her personal, passionate imagination have marked her poems with the indelible hand print of originality." --American Book Review

"From Eve's Rib" is a collection of poetry by Gioconda Belli of Nicaragua. Her work has been translated into English by Steven F. White. This is a bilingual edition, with the Spanish originals and English versions on facing pages.

Belli's voice is passionate, lusty, sensual, tender, and politically aware. Many of her poems are woman-centered; she writes about menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, physical love, and pride in being a woman. Many poems deal with the Nicaraguan revolution and its aftermath. One of the best poems in the collection, "The Dream Bearers," is a prophetic poem of hope in which Belli celebrates those who dream "not of the world's destruction, / but of building a world of butterflies / and nightingales." Also memorable is "Conjunction," in which Belli reflects on the women writers of past generations. This is a fine collection of poetry that I enthusiastically recommend, particularly to those with an interest in women's studies or Latin American literature.

I'm standing in the Great Hall of one of Birmingham, Alabama's largest cathedrals, chatting amicably with two nicely-dressed white women who are pillars and patrons of their church. Wonder how it is possible that these two genteel ladies turned out to be so very, very different form their contemporary, Sara Mitchell Parsons.
These three women are Privileged White Class people, educated in the ways of the Old South, conversant with all-white country clubs, free from racial persecution of any kind.
What made Parsons reverse direction, give up social standing and become an Atlanta civil rights activist in a day and time when to do so was actually a life-endangering act?
Why did the other two women remain placid and content in their social roles and blatantly disdainful of all civil rights activities of black people, even to this day? "They (Those Black People) just aren't grateful. They don't appreciate the fact that we (White Folk) gave them good livings and brought them up from the savages they were."
This book is a plain-spoken narrative about a white person's journey through the confines of bigotry, racism, intolerance, hatred and concrete-solid Tradition. Parsons comes out on the other side feeling a lot better about herself and a lot less tolerant herself--intolerant toward the status quo of Southern White Bigotry.
Take a look at this modest book. It came out at a time when the McWhorter book about Birmingham got lots of well-deserved attention, occluding the release of smaller books like this. But this, too, deserves your notice. It tells a similar story, but without all the spice, lenghthy detail and scholarly overstatement. Both books should be issued together in a slipcase.
(For a copy of the entire review of this book, contact me at jimreedbooks.com)

Sara Perry was raised as the typical southern white lady. She was to assume the role of dutiful wife, devoted mother and hostess for her husband's social set. As Sara Mitchell she carried out her role of the southern house-wife which included a lovely home, Negro maid and status in the upper class community of Buckhead in Atlanta, GA.

All was going well for this southern white matron but the seeds of discontent stirred in her life. She wanted more out of life than a role. Slowly but surely a change was to occur which would change her life and the fabric of the world in which she grew up.

Contained in these pages in the memoir of a woman who had it all but made the step to get involved in the battle for civil rights regardless of the cost. Her battle ground was the Atlanta school board, her church, family and marriage. Caught up in the fervor of the Civil rights movement we see how a woman of privilege made the steps of becoming an activist.

Parsons' story is an eye-opener of the role southern white women played in the movement. Her being a part of the affluent class makes her story all the more remarkable due to the pressures she would endure. Her tale is one in which everyone should read to get an understanding of the thoughts and feelings of a woman who put her status at risk.

What I find most interesting concerning her tenure on the Atlanta school board are the issues she addresses concerning education in addition to the integration question. The issues she addressed in the 1960s are the same ones with us in the year 2000. You will get an idea about how "concerned" the majority of the board was with education.

This dynamic woman broke the rules of convention of her day. She of course is not a saint but an example to follow in having the courage and fortitude to step out for what is right. I highly recommend this as a primary text for those studying education, civil rights, and female empowerment.

The complete guide to finding your way and getting there safely. Burch, the director of the Starpath School of Navigation in Seattle, Washington, covers every topic that I can imagine is relevant to sea kayaking, including reading and using navigational charts, dead reckoning and piloting, determining paddling speed, estimating distance from a landmark, maintaining a heading while paddling in a crossing current, and tidal effects relevant to navigation. Each example is accompanied by clear diagrams which help illustrate sometimes difficult points. This book is written specifically with the kayaker in mind; it's not an adapted version of a small-craft navigation manual. Burch strove for completeness when writing this seminal manual, but also kept the layperson in mind by maintaining his clear style throughout the text. His years of teaching experience and immense navigational knowledge are obvious from reading Fundamentals. The book will take more than one read to absorb all important information and all the techniques the author decribes, but you will never need another source. This is the kayak navigation book to buy if you plan on doing any sort of ocean kayaking.

This book tells you what you need to know about navigation to safely paddle a sea kayak in the great outdoors.

It tells you how to read a nautical chart, how to use a compass or GPS, and how to navigate by "the seat of your pants". The book desicribes fundamental saftey issues and tells you how to avoid getting run over by large ships, trashed in tide rips, or hopelessly lost in the fog .

This book is absolutely REQUIRED reading for anyone serious about covering large distances in a sea kayak. If you paddle, get this book and read it many times!!! The material in this book has to be second nature to you if you want to be safe in "big water".

The first 5 chapters cover the court-martial of Monitor Corps Surgeon-Captain Lioren, who, dissatisfied with the verdict given in the civilian hearing held just before the story opens, has insisted on "its" (actually he, but "it" is polite interspecies usage) right to a court-martial. He's not defending himself; quite the contrary. He's *prosecuting*, and asking for the death penalty, regarding the Cromsag Incident, wherein most of the planet's population died as an indirect result of his treatment; the incident is shown unfolding in flashback, interspersed with the trial.

O'Mara, against Lioren's wishes, is acting as his defender, and argues that his only fault is that his perfectionist standards - Lioren has lived only for his work - have made him far too hard on himself. He actually requested his transfer from Sector General to the Monitor Corps in search of an environment with higher standards of discipline.

Lioren (who loses his fight to commit judicial suicide) has sworn never again to exercise his status as a Resident Physician; the Monitor Corps can't use him. But O'Mara, who abhors waste, claims him as a trainee for the psychology department, in its tradition of taking talented insubordinate misfits under its wing. (See _Code Blue: Emergency_ for the story of how Cha Thrat, the other non-human member of the psychology department and O'Mara's co-counsel in the court-martial, made the same transition.) Note that the psychology department, officially at least, isn't there for the *patients*, but to catch any signs of problems developing among the hospital *staff*, as well as running the Educator tape system that allows physicians of one species to treat patients of another. One of the routine assignments of the department, for example, is to evaluate progress reports from tutors on various trainees. (The Nidian tutor Cresk-Sar, for example, may look like a fluffy red-gold teddy bear, but his reports are so hideously boring that even the penitential Lioren will do almost any other assignment on his plate before wading through them).

White's galactic civilization has non-interference directives, but unlike some other fictional universes, these directives can be waived in light of good sense, as in Cromsag's case, wherein the population was rapidly heading for extinction. But in one case, the decision of whether to interfere with a less developed culture isn't theirs to make, and the hospital now has a *very* uncommunicative member of that species under treatment. But Lioren, whose problems are so much worse than those of any of the patients, and who no longer has any career or dignity left to lose, has begun to develop a certain talent for getting the most unlikely people to speak with him in confidence...

Some long-term patients from previous books appear as Lioren adapts to his new job: Khone (see _Star Healer_), part of the long-term project of treating its/her species' inherited phobias; the Protectors of the Unborn; and Dr. Mannen, who in his old age has fallen from his lordly Diagnostician status to that of patient. The Carmody incident referred to by Braithewaite, incidentally, is from "Sector General" in the collection _Hospital Station_.

IRRELEVANT NOTE: The Bruce Jensen cover art on the 1st US paperback edition is a full-face view of Hellishomar in his ward, complete with the gantries supporting the lights and equipment for the surgical team shown to scale. And you thought *Emily* from _Hospital Station_ was big...

I reviewed "The Genocidal Healer" once, but pieces of the review disappeared somewhere between me and the end product. Here we go again: "The Genocidal Healer" is part of James Whites "Sector General" series. "Sector General" is an enormous hospital ship/space station that is staffed by and serves a multitude of highly divergent intelligent species (including humans). It has been the setting for an entire series of novels by James White, and none of them have been disappointments. This might be the best of the lot, however. On one level, this is a well-written, fun, and exotic future-space story that flows rapidly. It is also a story of redemption and the need to accept imperfection and to settle for mere excellence. The main character is an alien, highly moral, and highly skilled doctor who, in his zeal to cure a plague amongst a just-discovered species that has been almost decimated, almost causes their complete extinction (a few survive). The surgeon, Lioren, is reprimanded, but feels this is too lenient, and seeks the death penalty. Instead, his superiors accept his resignation from medicine and assign him to the psychology department. Through his own tragedy and a study of many religions, he becomes a highly effective "Healer of the Mind" and saves himself along the way. This is the best of an excellent series of books. THIS NEEDS TO BE REPRINTED, PLEASE!