Back Cover:

"SHELTER FROM THE STORM
Trace Dalton had spent three long years searching for the mysterious woman who had changed his life forever. But when the famous film star finally found Christy Reno, nothing could convince her that he wanted her for keeps, nothing could prove to her that she need never again face life's storms alone.

Christy had thought of Trace every day for the past three years, and she thought of him now every time she looked into her daughter's eyes--eyes that were so like the child's famous father's. But Christy could never be part of this man's world. And she was determined to hold fast to what she had--even if it meant losing the only man she had ever loved."

This storyline has been done a million times: a rendevous and subsequent child. But this is the first time it has been done with believable reasons why the mother did not tell the father. This story is gripping in its emotions, description of the storm and its characters. You would make the same decisions Christy did based on her history. And Trace was allowed the time to grow (3 years) without it seeming like a 'miracle' had taken place. The love scenes were also right on mark. They were real! This is a fantastic book you should not miss.

This was the first Justine davis book I ever read, and it's great. You have a handsome hero and a gorgeous heroine, yet it's not their looks that matter, it's the fact that he's madly in love with her, and she with him. Ms. Davis has always been brilliant at writing about that emotion we call love, and here she does a sterling job. Parts of this book had shivers coursing down my spine. The characters are believable, with flaws enough to make them human, yet not so many as to make them unlikeable. All in all, this is one of her best (and I've read virtually all of them! )

Rosa Guy wrote the Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III. I liked this book a lot. I think she did an excellent job with the characters and keeping it realistic. I would rate these book 5 stars because it's really interesting and makes you want to read it.

This book was a great book and I'd recommend it to everyone. This would be a great book for a teacher to have as a class reading book. It's very educational and self finding. I suggest that all young adults read this book because you would definitly "LOVE" it!

My daughter loves Veggie Tales and wants me to read this book to her over and over again.

My son plays this tape constantly. We all have it memorized! It's an excellent story about loving your neighbor, even when your neighbor is someone you wouldn't ordinarily love. A retake on the parable of the Good Samaritan... complete with charming music.

Virtual You! will take teen girls on a journey that will change them from the inside out. Within the pages is an inner "makeover" that will have outward results. Girls are encouraged to step out and trust God with every area of their lives. This fun, interactive book dicusses love, purity, relationships, personal make-up - everything girls need to grow into Godly women. Jimmie Davis' friendly and conversational tone gives girls the feel of receiving guidance from a long-time, trusted friend. The contemporary format and language makes it especially appealing to teens. This book is a must for teenage girls and would be a great small group study.

As a teacher and leader of teen girls, I'm excited to see an interactive study like Jimmie Davis'Virtual You! Often it is difficult to find a book that challenges teen girls to think on a deeper level without being so tedious that they lose interest. Virtual You! provides a great balance. The computer theme used in the book is perfect for today's youth, who spend untold hours online. This book does a wonderful job of encouraging girls to think beyond the immediate regarding matters of dating, sex, and marriage, among other things. Virtual You! is a great choice for a small group study for girls.

Great, funny book. My grandson 7 years old was traveling with us to Hawaii, this book was perfect. It was all about the misadventures of a little boy traveling with his Dad on his first trip to Hawaii. Not only was my grandson laughing and laughing but so was I. He couldn't wait to finish the book as we read it waiting in the airport and then on a interisland flight.
My Grandson made sure when he left Hawaii that he didn't have any
lava rock with him after reading the book. He wants more of the Zack file adventures.

This was the first zach files book I read to my then-6 year old. When we got to the part with the Goddess we were both laughing so hard that the rest of the family thought we went nuts. Since then we have read a bunch of other Zach books. They are all great. The most amazing thing is the Greenburg can introduce concepts (in this book ecofriendly tourism?), parallel universes and reincarnation so naturally that kids can really understand as if they've always known. I think Zach files jump started my son's love of reading.

The author uses his concrete experience as a farmer in the San Fernando Valley to develop a fine point about the "low intensity" character of Classical Greek warfare. He argues that, the Greek city-states waging warfare through part-time citzen militias, the war strategy of all Greek polities centered on the idea of forcing a pitched battle in order not to keep citzens away too long for harvesting at home. The means used to force such a battle being to disturb the enemy's harvest, which, however, given the low technology tools avaliable and the resilience of the crop-species - specially olive trees - could never amount to permanent damage. Therefore the general low-intensity, boarding game character of much of Classical Greek military history. A fine argued, important book, specially for the firm grasp of the concrete realities at play.

Warfare and Agriculture is a scholarly, yet very readable, analysis of the effects of war on agriculture and rural life in classical Greece. Drawing heavily on contemporary sources, Hanson clearly illustrates the inextricable connection between war and agriculture in the Greek world. With the notable exception of Sparta, Greek infantrymen typically were farmers themselves who were often torn between their role as ravagers of agriculture in enemy territory, and the need to tend to their own crops.

Hanson's main premise is that many previous analyses of agricultural devastation in classical Greece have overstated the severity of its effects. He points out the ravaging was usually a means to incite battle with enemy infantry rather than an end in itself, and argues convincingly that the ravaging often associated with the seasonal cycle of warfare, while certainly contributing to hardship among the invaded population, was far from complete and had relatively short-term effects. Drawing on his first-hand experience as a farmer, Hanson illustrates some of the practical difficulties with destroying the olive trees, vines, and grains that formed the staples of Greek agriculture. In the course of his analysis, he brings to life the Greek countryside and its relationship to the urban center of the polis.

Although Warfare and Agriculture will be of interest to any reader interested in the classical world, it is probably of greatest interest to readers with some familiarity with Greek history. The extensive references to contemporary and modern sources, including many recent sources cited in the Updated Commentary to this revised edition, guide the interested reader to a wealth of additional information on the subject.

This book is about a girl showing her little brother how to dance. The text is a poem, with a fun, dance-like rhythm. For example,

"I stomp my feet. I clap my hands. Arms up, arms down, I spin around."

A child can imitate the actions, and expand on them with their own creativity. The colors are vibrant and the artwork is beautiful. I like the family context also, because it is modeling an older sibling teaching a younger one.

My daughter loves this book. She tries to do the dance moves as I read each page.

This is a fabulous book to guide you on a "civil rights history tour." If you don't believe me, stop by my web site, Bluejeans' Place, to see all the places I visited by following along in the book. There is even one picture that shows this book in it! I could not have documented all the civil rights sites off the beaten path as I did with this book.

The directions given generally get you right to the door or site you are looking for, even if that site has disappeared over the years and only rubble or an empty lot remains.

There is a lot of detailed information in the book that doesn't seem important until you pull up in front of whereever they are talking about. For example, when you swing around the corner to the location of the funeral home where Emmett Till's body was taken too, you could actually see the same clock above the garage that was shown in a 35 year old picture. In another place, the book pointed out the Neshoba County murder victims worked in an upstairs office on a certain corner in Meridian and the sign shown in the picture is on display in a state museum in Jackson. If you visited both locations, those details were right there plain as day in front of you! This is better than one of the old Fodor's tour books!

I say that because, at the end of Amistad, John Quincy Adams says something about how the Civil War would be the last battle of the American Revolution. But in fact, you could make the case that the civil rights movement was the conclusion of the Revolution. And this book really beautifully takes you back to the places and people of the Movement. It's still possible to visit many of the places, and many of the participants are still alive. But you don't hear as much about these people and places as you might expect, and this book captures them before they are lost to history. It would be a great book to buy to take the children on a tour of the civil rights movement.

this book has been instrumental in helping me identify six new weed seeds i previously didn't know.this book has been very helpful to me being in the grain export buisness.if you are into weeds this book is for you.

For those of us who are either professionals, amateurs, or curious people. As greater and greater interest grows in discovering and growing native grasses and forbs - this book becomes more valuable. No key is required , and even if you don't know the species, it is possible to get a genus.

Thes book should entice readers to start their own seed identification collection. With a 10 power hand lens one can become an expert in an old but newly emerging area of interest.

Both my children love this book. At first, they just loved to pull out the puzzle pieces and feel the different textures. Then, they learned to put the puzzle pieces back in the book. Both kids love to carry this book around wherever we go -- they just love the way it feels and the bright colors. This book is always one of the most requested for reading... a toy and a book all wrapped up in one!

"Soft Shapes" books by innovative kids are wonderful! They're soft & easy to take along almost anywhere. They're colorful. They have large puzzle pieces - great for little hands. My 2 year old daughter loves these books & they're terrific for entertainment & learning! We work on reading/phonics/words, recognizing the shapes of the cutouts, colors of pages & cutouts, placing the puzzle pieces in the book correctly, counting items, animal sounds for the "Animals" book, textures & alliteration for the "Whose Back is Bumpy" book (love the frog page!), opposites for the "Big And Little" & "In And Out", plus other things. All the shapes from each book or all of the books combined can be used for play, such as creating a town, or a farm, etc. Each book is made of foam, so it's easy to wash & great for the tub or sticking to mirrors, windows, sliding glass doors, etc. There are so many possibilities with Soft Shapes Books! We can't wait to get all 4 mini's or the 2 new texture shapes - Dinos! & High Tide!