This book is by far the BEST book by Dr. Hahn that I have had the privilege to read! Rome Sweet Home was very good, The Lamb's Supper was an eye opener, and Hail, Holy Queen touched my heart, but Lord, Have Mercy is a beautiful examination and explanation of the Sacrament of Reconciliation /Confession / Penance. He refers to Sacred Scripture as well as the Early Church Fathers, with a profound sense of humor and reverence at the same time. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to know the Catholic faith better as well as someone who just wants to understand the Sacrament of Reconciliation in all it's beauty.
Thanks Scott and God Bless you!

This is another thoroughly enjoyable and insightful book by Dr. Hahn. I highly recommend this book for Catholic and non-Catholic alike. This is a timely and much needed book covering a topic and sacrament apparently and sadly underutilized by many Christians. Dr. Hahn with a characteristic positive approach shows how confession as a wonderful gift not only heals and reconciles but also grooms and maintains the Christian on the right path. One could hardly discuss the sacrament of Confession without looking into what drives the need for reconciliation and that is of course sin. Using scriptural examples like the prodigal son, and St. Augustine's "Confessions", the author effectively illustrates our basic weakness toward sin in ways I hadn't considered before (for example I hadn't considered much the role of the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son). I also liked the discussion of how sin affects the whole mystical body of Christ and how its strength is found in the sacrament of penance. There's lots of good stuff in this book. I picked up a copy of this book before catching a flight for Pittsburgh and then on to Steubenville for my niece's graduation. I drove my niece to Steubenville from Washington State 4 years ago and loved the faithful Catholic university environment. This time for the graduation, I had the good fortune of meeting Dr. Hahn after Sunday mass.

With a style that is engaging and a content that is challenging, Scott Hahn lays out the scriptural foundation for repentance and confession, along with the history of the development of the sacrament.

This is lucid theology! It is also a practical guide for those who find confession difficult. A real eye-opener, this book is a convincing testimony why -- like bathing -- we need confession often.

This book is a favorite in our house. A must for all dinosaur book fans, and a great book for everyone else. The pictures are really colorful and the expressions on the dinosaur's faces are great. My three year old son loves looking at the different dinosaurs and telling me what they're feeling and thinking. There are dinosaurs for everyone in this book. It's hard to find books that break out of the typical stories and themes. This one is has a unique story and catchy verse. (The first time you read it you may stumble over a dinosaur name or two but nobody who cares is listening, and you'll get plenty of practice the next 1000 times through the story.)

Rhyme and rhythm tell the story and beautiful illustrations compliment the text! This book is a favorite of my three-year-old son, and also was his favorite birthday present. We read it through at least 3 times each night before bed! Janice Hart

This book is a blast to read aloud to a child. My four year old daughter loves this book, and is now reading it aloud to me. The story is based on a group of dinosaurs going to a party. And what a party it is. They dance and create an earthquake. The illustrations are as good as the story,an uptempo good-time book. If you know a child fond of dinosaurs, this should be the first dino-story you buy. Trust me, I've read and heard this story over one hundred times, and each time is as much fun as the first.

If you're faced with an encounter with the IRS, I would highly recommend getting this book for starters. Most tax experts will tend to steer you in one of two directions: knuckle under or fight the IRS up to and including jail time (for you, not the expert.) You need to understand what your options are before you seek outside help because all too often the outside help has an agenda that is not in your best interests.

This book does an outstanding job of laying out realistic stategies and options for helping you with tax issues and for working with, rather than against, the IRS to obtain the best possible outcome. It offers a refreshing change in the tax literature. By offering well-grounded, honest advice in a well-written fashion, this book should be in the hands of anyone seeking to resolve a tax problem without "giving away the farm" to the IRS.

Learn what your options are and how best to work with the IRS and you'll save yourself a lot of grief and a lot of green.

Tax This! An Insider's Guide to Standing Up to the IRS, is just that. It provides the insight of an insider that will help you stand up to the IRS in any situation. Little known facts and difficult to conceive strategies are revealed that will help any target of the IRS deal effectively with them or help prevent you from becoming their target. Author Scott Estill discloses all the rights, which are many, that citizens have when confronted with a problem involving the IRS. He gives an insider's look at the culture, attitudes, and seemingly out of control bureaucracy that prevails inside the IRS and prepares you to deal with the IRS at that level also. His information is backed up by references to the Internal Revenue Code, Congressional Law, and established judicial decisions. Tax This also provides clear examples of completed IRS forms, which are many and varied. Overall, this is an informative, easy read for someone like me with little knowledge of the IRS. It will hold your interest even if the IRS isn't breathing down your neck and may be invaluable if they are.

I found this book to be very helpful for those who are in trouble with the IRS. As a tax professional, I often am contacted by clients who receive IRS notices. Most of these cases are pretty simple matters, and could be resolved without my involvement, if only the client new a little more about the IRS, as wasn't so intimidated by them. This book helps chart a course of action to take when dealing with the Service, and shows the average taxpayer that dealing with the IRS does not have to be the nightmare that most people think it is. I highly recommend this book.

As a 46 year old father of 2 young children, I have found this book to be very informative and very humorous(actually at times horrifying for fathers to be). The book could be classified as humorous horror for fathers. Peter Downey touches on all important aspects of childrearing in a down-to-earth, easy to read, practical, "lets get our hands dirty on this" fashion. Fathers with children will really identify with the problems discussed in this book. He doesn't shy away from touchy topics like sex, nudity in front of the children or physical discipline. He's obviously read the "professionals" on childrearing and his advice on how to deal with the many problems we dads encounter reflects this, but is also heavily flavoured with his own personal strategies developed on the frontlines of being a dad to 3 children himself. Of course, if you're a perfect dad, doing everything right or if you're not a dad you may want to read the book for it's humour, with which Peter is not stingy.

A great book! Mr. Downey entertains while delivering important, every-day advice to new dads. Dad's will laugh out loud and feel re-assured that they're not total failures at fatherhood. With his unpretentious writing style and unique brand of wit, Mr. Downey covers everything from baby's first steps to "permanent" birth control options, and he never fails to entertain. Dad's can only hope that Mr. Downey continues to share his thoughts and experiences through his children's pre-pubescent and teen years.

Finally, a down-to-Earth, no-holes-barred reference book for new Dads. No fancy terminology - just creative terminology. No detailed psychological analysis from a group of doctors who pride themselves on using 10-syllable words - just the blunt facts from an everyday-Dad's point of view. An extremely humorous, yet insightful view into Dadism.

A perfect follow-up to Downey's "So You're Gonna Be A Dad". I could only hope he continues his wizardry of words addressing prepubescent teenagers!!

This is truly an exceptional and unexpected book - one that leaves a strange, haunting feeling with the reader...something like what one experiences after having read "The Stranger" (Camus) ...although it actually shares more striking similarities with "Story of The Eye" (Bataille). The strange worldliness of the children in this book, while disturbing, seems somehow natural...and the writing is fluid, learned and simple - a very fulfilling read.

I picked this book up from a remainder stack at a local bookstore because I liked the title... I'm keeping this book because it took me for a ride that few contemporary works of fiction have. A thoroughly enjoyable read, full of startling twists and intelligent writing.

I began this book while waiting for my maseusse to arrive to relieve a bad migraine and was upset she was coming. I did not want to put it down. I have given over a dozen copies away and read it five times. It is perhaps the most exquisite writing I have read in contemporary terms, not to mention handling such dark territory. Absolutely superb.

I am new to David Morrell's works, but that will soon be remedied, after I listened to the unabridged version of his short stories.

Not only are the stories EXCELLENT, but I imensely enjoyed the author's commentary before and after each one.

And he makes his points, plots and story lines, with little vulgarity, which is becoming much too common in the latest Stephen King works.

Kudos and I will be hearing more.

There have been several times that I have bought an anthology like "Prime Evil" so that I could read an otherwise unreleased Stephen King or Clive Barker story, and ended up being blown away by the stories of David Morrell. Finally, K-Tel-like, everyone can enjoy these powerful, imaginative stories without having to buy a dozen other books.

While this collection does not contain all of Morrell's short fiction, it does contain all that I had read in other anthologies, most notably the powerhouse novella "Orance is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity," one of my all-time pieces of fiction, short or otherwise. I am a fan of author notes in collections, and Morrell doesn't disappoint. While he doesn't expound the way that, say, Harlan Ellison does, there are short notes before each store in addition to a Foreword and Afterword, and these add a texture to the book that I think makes your first read more enjoyable and increases the re-readability. Plus if you've already read a couple of these in anthologies it is nice to see the author's perspective instead of the anthology editor's perspective before the stories.

I read this during a particularly hot summer week and found it to be perfect for this setting...the stories are engrossing enough that I forgot about the heat, and a few times I caught a genuine bit of a chill! Anyone who enjoys dark stories or speculative fiction should give this great book a read.

Ordinarily I am not a huge fan of horror stories, but I can honestly say that Black Evening is frightfully fantastic. This spine-tingling collection of sixteen tales explores the dark side of greed, power, and madness. Morrell is able to pack a lot of punches and twists into his short (but not so sweet) stories. Moreover, his writing expresses his compassion and intelligence like that of an accomplished literary great.

An added bonus to this book is the foreward at the beginning of each story. Morrell discusses his development as a writer and shares with the reader his personal tales of triumph and tragedy: from his meeting with his idol, writer Stirling Silliphant, to the death of his teenage son to bone cancer. Each story seems to be weaved around an event that touched Morrell's life. This authenticity makes for a more eerie read. For example, "But at My Back I always Hear," is about a professor who is stalked by a female student infatuated with him. Morrell himself faced this dilemma while teaching at the University of Iowa. Other scary topics covered include an art historian who follows his subjects' break with reality and ultimate demise; an amateur writer who becomes a best-selling novelist with the help of a ghostly typewriter; and a high school football team that is victorious because the coach is dabbling in witchcraft and produces an evil good luck mascot.

Two of the stories in Black Evening won Best Novella, Horror Writers of America Award. One story was a nominee for this same award and one other story was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Morrell stated that the first piece of advice he received as a young writer was to write about what he feared most. Obviously he took that advice to heart and left us with some chilling entertainment.

This book has comforted me in the last year every time I have felt that life was immensely difficult and that I just could not go on. I have given it to people I care about in the hopes that Dr Peck will do them the kindness he has done me.The book has also reassured me that the energy within me is kind and compassionate (in the words of Gary Zuvak)and that everything happens for a reason and usually we are made stronger by our experiences.I often re-read the chapters on love and grace as they still have the power to move me as they did when I first read them.

The most interesting thing about this book is that it throws light on how much we have misunderstood love to be.It clarifies what exactly love is. He has made a detailed study of the holy scriptures both from the east as well as the west.Though the topic can become very complex but Mr.Scott in this well researched book has kept it as easy as possible to understand.It is a must read for a better perspective in life.

I had a chance to read this book several years ago, but I did not realize the gravity of each word until I made the mistakes which the book warns against, today as I was reading it I found how incisive it is to the understanding of human psychology.Though lessons of life can only be learnt by living through them, keeping the knowledge given in this book in mind definitely would be worth it.

I really have enjoyed the book, Operation Firebrand. Great perspective on Christians and the military. One of the storylines was great example of how good things happen out of bad situations. It has a good rescue mission. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. His book detailed enough to get the point across without bogging the book down in the story line. It was also done very nicely without being over done so that I, a female (and blond at times) would understand it. It's nice to get a guys perspective. The writing style is also great for having a lot of interruptions and having to put it down, without having to go back 10 pages to remember what is going on. It's also a book with some depth and I found it hard to put down. It definitely kept my interest.

This was a great book, I stayed up late to finish reading it. This is one of those books that when I finished it I wished there was whole series of them! Definitely get this book.

All I can say is WOW. I just finished the book, and I wanted to tell how much I enjoyed it. It is quite a different direction from the computer fiction, and I am glad that he took that step. At first, before I began reading, I was wondering if you really should have moved away from the computer genre, but now, I am pleasantly surprised and really glad that you did. I read an average of about one book every two weeks. It is probably one of my most favorite things to do in my spare time. Of all the books that I have read this year, I think this is maybe in the top five, right there with another of my favorites "Blessed Child".

I am a Macon State College student majoring in education and I read A Passion for Teaching for a class. I really enjoyed this book because I felt as though I was able to peek into the lives of different teachers. It was like I was reading their personal journals on why they teach and how they are able to stay passionate about the profession. I also enjoyed this book because it was easy to read. I found this book useful because it proved that after spending several years in the classroom, teachers can remain excited and passionate about teaching. The one thing I didn't like, however, was that there were no articles from a middle or high school math teacher's point of view.

I am an Education student at Macon State College. I read A Passion For Teaching for one of my classes, and it is a wonderful book. I believe that any educator would find this book enjoyable and informative. It reminded me of a Chicken Soup for the Soul book. I loved the personal stories that the teachers told and the enthusiasm that the teachers felt. If you enjoy stories and enjoy learning while you read, then this book is for you.

I am a college student majoring in education and I had to read A Passion for Teacher for a class. When I first picked this book I didn't even open the cover. I felt the title of the book said enough for me to know it was something I wanted to read. Now that I have read the book I am so glad I went with my first feelings about this book. It was so refreshing to hear positive comments from veteran teachers about teaching. Each excerpt spoke to me and had something I needed to hear. There are quotes in this book that I will reflect back on throughout my career. In a time where schools and the teaching profession are thought of as less than desireable, this book gives me a true desire to continue my education and teach simply for the love of teaching! Bravo to all of these veteran teachers!