Add A Little Spice was a pretty good book about a guy from California named Connor Monroe who goes to a small town in Arkansas trying to convince Gina Calvino and her aunt to sell their families secret combination of spaghetti sauce spices. It was a good book that I had fun reading and is just the perfect light reading book that only has about 180 pages and can be read in a day or two which is perfect if you don't have time to read a book that has over 300 pages or you just finished reading a book that has over a thousand pages and you want something more lightweight and less time consuming!

Agents Of Darkness is the type of novel designed to hold the reader curious and involved page after page. Well-written and surprisingly world-conscious, the espionage-oriented book takes the reader from the Far East to California and on to Pennsylvania where the book's finale takes place.

Main character Galloway is instantly believable and his predicament alarmingly real. He is down, but not out and beckons the reader to feel for him as he battles himself, his life and a nemesis given birth by his country.

With a surprisingly unfair ending, Agents Of Darkness may disappoint some. Having said that, the book lives up to its path of bloodshed and evil.

Had Phillip Marlowe been working his L.A. beat in the 1980s, he might have been a bit like Robert Cambell's Private Investigator Whistler. Whistler works the underbelly of the city in much the same way Marlowe did. But L.A. has become even more corrupt and morally bankrupt than in Marlowe's day. The sort of human predators that Whistler runs up against are a product of our modern media age. "Alice in La-La Land" is a solid entry in the Whistler series and a good read for anyone who likes detective fiction.

I am currently reading about South Africa and this title intrigued me. A Victorian spinster accompanied her brother to the unsettled regions of South Africa in the 1850's and lived to tell the tale. The enterprising spirit and stamina she discovered in herself surprised all her contemporaries --- including herself. It was a time when women were beginning to realize that they, too, could live intelligently and comfortably in the world and could experience lives of value without a husband.

If all the merit of this book lay in seeing the world through the opening eyes of a Victorian woman, it would be interesting, but it could have been set in an English garden or in the middle of the ocean. This book also allows us to look at the society of the Zulu tribe before they were impacted so heavily by white colonists. Feared warriors they were, but they were also hospitable to travelers, shrewd cattle herders and traders, and excellent managers of the environment surrounding them. Their outposts served as wayside inns for the hunters and travelers of the times. Because their wealth was concentrated in cattle, the center of their society was extinguished by the bovine flu. Only after that disaster was the tribe vulnerable to integration by other societies. Catherine Barter's observations of them as she traveled are as valuable as they are rare.

Any novel written by an immigrant with the colonizing spirit is bound to be one-sided. Is it racist? Yes. Is it autocratic? Yes. Is it historically accurate? As far as one can tell. Is it worth reading? If you are willing to wade through cultural arrogance to glimpse a tribe as it was. I'd do it again.

Cal McKinney is a carefree live for the moment rodeo man. Cal loves the rodeo and had no thoughts of settling down until he met boot designer Serena Davis. Serena wants Cal to be the spokesman for her boot company, but Cal has different ideas. Cal agrees to be the spokesman, but only if he can become a partner in the company. For Serena her boot company is everything and she has no intention of letting Cal have a piece of it. Cal has no intention of going away and he plans to get Serena to change her mind. Meanwhile, Cal wants to see Serena on a more personal level. They are both attracted to each other, but Serena has a secret that keeps her from getting close to anybody. Cal not only has to break down the wall Serena has around her business, but also the one around her heart.

This is a good addition to the Crystal Creek series. I must admit that I did become a bit aggravated with Serena. Cal proves that he will stand by her and love her, but she still insists on pushing him away. If Cal wasn't so determined and hardheaded he might have lost Serena. This book also has brief appearances by characters from previous books. Lynn's story (White Lightning) is up next and I look forward to reading it.

This is a great book focusing on northern Guatemala, southern Yucatan and Belize. It has great pictures, and some excellent text on identifing characteristics, with a key in the back. I will be using it in the Carmen del Playa and Merida areas, and will let you know how I feel about it after the trip.

The area map is not the best, but that is a minor problem. You ought to have a map of your own anyway.

Writing from a unique prespective and weaving together two apparently unrelated topics, Mr. Campbell does a wonderful job exploring how to claim being a southerner without taking on the mantle of racism. This book especially is of benefit to clergy exploring how to stand in the light of the gospel while excavatingthe past and looking to the future.

I picked this up for a new frugal newsletter I've started and most of the things just never dawned on me. It's a complete book listing other uses for common items you probably have around the house from a simple cube of ice to worn out garden hoses. Very helpful for recycling for free. One thing I wondered dawned on the author, almost everything cleans chrome.

This Cliffs Notes volume looks at four comedies by Aristophanes, but begins by looking at the three great Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, in order to put the work of the comic playwright in appropriate context. "Lysistrata," the celebrated anti-war play, is covered by providing a List of Characters, followed by Summaries and Commentaries on each scene of the play. However, the other three plays by Aristophanes are covered without breaking the plays into discrete units (although the authors do discuss the specific structure of Greek plays in their analysis of "The Birds"). For two of the plays, "The Birds" and "The Frogs," there are specific points of analysis signposted in the commentary section, but for the most part this little yellow book with the black stripes deals with these plays comprehensively. Those who like to find specific sections dealing with particular literary elements will find this volume to be a little less user-friendly. As always, the analysis is first rate, especially if you have read the plays are therefore able to absorb the additional insights.

I have read this book before and it was so good that my college roomate took the book with him. it is excellent history of the notorious rap group mogul luther Campbell, in his tell all history of the dirty rap game. and how he came to be the first black own record company CEO.