Once I tuned into the voice and adjusted the knobs on the tape player, this proved to be an excellent choice for in-the-car reading. The stories are reasonably short (one cassette each, as a rule) and quite entertaining. There's not much of the left-wing propaganda that comes out in the television series. This is just Rumpole using his ingenuity and accumulated experience to deal with an assortment of cases, from the woman accused of pushing her husband off their yacht to the policeman accused of taking bribes. There's even a case that Rumpole regrets winning when he realizes his client is guilty after all!

Good stuff, and I hope to listen to numerous additional tapes like this one.

Dale told me that keeping diaries during the war was strictly prohibited....so he reconstructed the air battles over Germany years later. As a bomb group leader, his descriptions of losing planes and their crews brings the incredible air war effort into vivid detail. As a commander who was responsible for sending men on dangerous missions, he had to have a steel resolve about the rightness of the war, his country and his God. This is a real narrative which includes insight into his troubled family life--an unwelcome by-product of fighting a war half a world away.

This book, I believe, is based on the author research for RAND. It is an excellent book about air bases defense against attacks from ground forces. Based on detailed case studies, the author pointed out the vulnerability of modern air bases to ground attacks. Although the author also described the effective measures used by USAF to defend air bases in Vietnam, it is very clear that a clever enemy can use a relative small unit to harrass and even cause quite a damage to the air bases.

No matter how powerful an air force is in the air, it is still very vulnerable on the ground. And this is really a problem that none of the modern air forces can igonore.

Mary Whelchel has shared some spiritual gems in this book. It was a delight to read and each chapter challenged me in more ways than one. Using the eagle as a guide in this book allowed Mary to effectively get her message across. I have a new-found respect for those majestic birds and will never look at them the same way. All Christians will find this book enlightening and I guarantee you will walk away with at least one new piece of knowledge on eagles. More importantly, you will be spiritually uplifted and encouraged.

This is a lovely book full of nuggets of wisdom, however I wouldn't recommend it to the beginner on the spiritual path. It deals with angels, most of us can deal with that, but it also deals with fairies & gnomes. I can't say that I've ever been aware of them, but I would not flatly say that they don't exist. I've experienced stranger, but wonderful things. If fairy tales are too far out for you--well forget it, but if you have an open mind, it's a great book full of wisdom. The style reminds me of The Book Of The True Life (The Third Testament) which is Jesus oriented, but believes in reincarnation. It is the first book of White Eagles that I have bought & when I get done writing this I'm buying 2 more.

This book offers an excellent and detailed account of the artist's interesting life and features plates of his paintings. His work went beyond paintings, however, and this is where I was wishing for more. Holm was very active in other forms of northwest native art and in my opinion his work with wood crafts may be even more impressive than his paintings. Some of his paintings of persons look a bit rough, faces are especially stiff. However, the paintings of northwest coastal scenes are extraordinary in how they evoke the watery atmosphere of that region and in the perfect detail given to native art and craft. For example, he details the chisel marks on paintings of canoes and lodge beams. A very good book, and far more than a book of pretty pictures. Holm's lifelong association with native northwest peoples and crafts makes for good reading.

If you like nice, clean, romantic reads, this book is for you. There is adventure and mystery and exotic locales. The story starts in Scotland, goes to exciting Asia during an uprising, and back to the peaceful glens. There are great characters along the way. Check out other books by this author.

This short book tells the story of a young man, Paul Matthew Taylor, whose drive to find God at the age of 17 blinds him to what a year later he realizes is the most important thing in life, namely, love. The crisis generated by his determination to force God upon his first girl friend, Julie, leads him to discover Seattle, alcohol, drugs, sex, a girl who wears a nose ring and boys who wear earrings. His earlier, secluded life, as an only child living in a Northwestern Washington town, dominated by the presence of the sea (seething ocean) and the beauty of nature (that damned eagle), seems to have left him poorly prepared for his new life. But slowly and resolutely, with a determination that reflects an inner strength that he probably is unaware of himself, he emerges a more mature and sensible human being. I found his transformation to be believable and a good read. A book to be recommended.

I'll admit that quite a few of the books that I manage to salvage from the bargain basement bookrack aren't exactly Pulitzer Prize winners, but this one surprised me.

Catherine Cookson (a native of England) is a new author to me, even though she published this story nearly twenty years ago. She writes a fictitious account of a girl who is orphaned and responsible for the care of her younger and sickly sister. The twosome find themselves as domestic help on the farm of a gentleman farmer. The farmer's wife is bed-ridden and dying from a prolonged illness. A regular soap opera progresses as the gentleman farmer contends with the moodiness of a bed-ridden wife and the two orphans find themselves growing up in the country.

Certainly, the story is not the century's blockbuster of all time, but sometimes all that it takes to please dear reader is a nice, clean, pleasant tale.... not always a heart-wrenching, on-the-edge-of-your-seat-thriller, or impossible mystery to occupy our time under the reading lamp.

If you are lucky enough to find the story in the bargain rack, don't hesitate to pick it up. It may be the best 25 cents that you ever spent.

Foster's tale is a combination turn of the century western, romance and mystery. His attention to detail is excellent, particulary firearms, period photographic technique and geography. In a pleasant change from the usual western plot his hero, Ray Rapp, is an itinerant photographer...not a cowboy!
The primary setting for the story is the Colorado Rocky Mountains, centering on Creede and Wagon Wheel Gap. This rugged country is well known to the reviewer because the conclusion of his PINKERTON EYE is set there and Foster describes it well. Finding the double eagles through a clue in the lines of an old song cleverly ties together the multiple plots at the conclusion of this interesting story.