Songs in the Night is a wonderful guide to the Christian year, particularly centered on Advent through Easter. Each meditation, written in beautiful free verse, leads one to new understanding of God's gift to us in Jesus Christ. Highly recommended.

Having known the author for many years, I have read his devotions and am proably biased! His words are spiritually thought provoking and soothing.

The host for the bookclub I'm in, choose this book as our 'read' for last month. We all enjoyed it, but for different reasons. I enjoyed reading about the information about his mother that Mr. Lovett was presented with & were it came from. My friend Pat has been inspired to search out information about her birth mother. Not to only find out what her birth mother was like, but to get health records & etc. We all were impressed that this very touching book was written by a man. How wonderful to read something this sensitive that is written by the gender whom usually prides themselves to be 'tough as nails'. We all agree that sensitive men are the best! We all live in a small town (Kernersville) that is located about 10 miles from Winston-Salem. We are planning to go see if we can find the house that he grew up in next time we are in W-S. Authors can have 'groupies' too!

This book deserves to be a real "sleeper" hit -- it's a remarkable read, both for its content and its honest presentation. The story of the author's quest to "know" the mother he never really knew starts off as a modern, suburban detective story of sorts, and along the way becomes something much more profound. The author's direct, no-nonsense narrative makes you feel like you're at his side for each new revelation. Some discoveries made me smile and nod with recognition of similarities to my own family, and some left me much more deeply moved; I think anyone who reads this book will have the same experience. This book would probably be a great gift for someone in your own family.

An engrossing account of a young man's quest to know the mother he lost to cancer at the age of two. He searchs for his mother through stories of friends and relatives, through official documents and medical records, through mementos and snippets of information gleaned from old correspondence. Charles Lovett's story of this journey will touch a place in all of us. It is a story of profound loss and the courage to face that loss and come out on the other side, whole and with a peaceful heart.

I bought this as a gift for my best friend who collects all things Coca-Cola. However, while it was in my possession, I did get a chance to reveiew some of the recipies. They cover a wide range and use ingredients I'd forgotten about (remember Fanta?) or wished I had (powdered milk and vegetables that I didn't even know came in canned form)!!! But even if you never wanted to learn how to make Coke Glazed Ham or learn about any of the other things Coke can do: Check it out for the novelty--Coke is an evolving relic of Amer ican culture and history and the recipes were all created by consumers--not the company itself!!

The book Muffins and Breads by Patricia A. Ward is a outstanding book that makes cooking breads and muffins easier than other books, and whats most important it makes cooking fun. I would have to say that it's one of the most intriging books that are involed with making you understand the way to make a certain bread wihtout confusing you. Patricia if I may this is a book that is really worth buying, you won't reget buying this book like you would with other books. Her book has many worth-while making so my advice is to go out and buy this book, if I can do it you defenitly do it. -Amber Erin 13

An all-'round excellent biography of an important figure in Atlanta and the New South. More importantly - and teachers, take note - this book is terrific for history classes. The author places Asa Candler, founder of Coca-Cola, in context of his times, and so, students also can learn about the Reconstruction era or the Roaring '20s, for instance, while reading about Candler's life. Upper-level high school students could handle the text, but college students and plain old adults wouldn't find the text "too easy." I'm assigning it to all my students.

This historically-arranged selection of poems about warfare and its effects on the human mind, body, and heart, covers nearly 200 years between the late 1700s and the 1960s. Produced in Britain, and read by two British actors, Paul McGann and Regine Candler, it concentrates on English poets, with short forays into works by American authors.

Warhorse selections - "Charge of the Light Brigade", "In Flanders Fields" - are mixed with less well-known poems like "The Dead Statesman", a surprising (at least to me) burst of post-WWI bitterness from Kipling. Glory and horror intertwine from the earliest works to the most recent, but horror dominates as the present approaches. Changes in attitudes about war and patriotism come to vivid life. The effect of hearing these works read aloud is almost one of traveling in time. Paul McGann reads the lion's share - not surprising with so masculine a subject matter-and is IMO much the better reader, tho Ms. Candler is strikingly effective in places. The majority of works are from WWI - the period that produced so many gifted poets - and in them one hears older, strongly-held beliefs about Duty and Country clashing with the despairing fury engendered by the incomprehensible waste of trench warfare. McGann is able to bring understanding and force to everything from innocent jingoism to pity, from rage to transcendance, without forcing the material. His readings of WWII and Cold War pieces (Reed's "Lessons of the War", Lowell's "For the Union Dead", and McGough's "Icarus Allsorts" are remarkable) bring home the fear and ambivalence felt by a humanity realizing its power to destroy itself and the earth that supports it.

I found this book very easy to read, and completely understandable, its emphasis on the "User Point of View" is remarkable, it is well structured and concrete; the section: "Bottom line" at the end of every chapter is very helpful.The cons is that it touches very briefly technical aspects of the Intranet.

Thanks to this book, I finally appreciate some of the differences between the Internet and an intranet in terms of corporate communications policies, screen design, infrastructure, project management and security requirements. As a layman, the technical glossary has been helpful to me in my current job and projects and I refer to it several times a week. Good insight on the people side (politics, etc.) of corporate intranet projects. My thanks to the authors.

I am a tech-type guy who was trying to lead an intanet project. The "suits" just didn't understand what I was getting at, and I couldn't get at what they really wanted to do. They started calling me GEEK-SPEAK-GUY. I lucked on to this book (which is definitely for non-tech types) and bought copies for our lead team. Suddenly we were speaking the same language. We understood the issues, had a good sense of what a good site should look like, and started developing our own site and our own corporate style guide. Candler must be a real asset to Federal Express Corporation. Thanks guys.