Reluctant Angels creatively captures the early days of Los Angeles, its filmmaking industry and police corruption. Author Guy C. Taylor cleverly assumes the voice of Midwesterner Mary Jane. Like many newcomers to California, Mary Jane tests her wings and grows with the community -- during the depths of the Great Depression.

Readers share Mary Jane's challenges in single parenthood, her second marriage and a fledgling business. A talented but unknown dressmaker, Mary Jane eventually designs and sews outfits for such stars as Joan Crawford and Claudette Colbert. Mary Jane's conversations with relatives, neighbors and friends treat readers to some spicy celebrity gossip, the leading news stories of the 1930s and even some tidbits about Hollywood's famous eateries and landmarks.

This book brings to mind the excitement and growth of the movie industry and the people who made it all possible. I greatly enjoyed reading Reluctant Angels.

She's a lowly canine cop. He's a renegade cop gone wrong. Once the department's best narcotics detective, Marco Angelosi lost his job, his freedom, and very nearly his life for a woman who seems to have wanted only a single night's pleasure. He underestimates their connection. One tumultuous night, in which they share an intimacy so profound that neither can shake the effects, connects them forever despite her refusal to see him again, even despite his arrest.

Only two things could keep Paige Burkett from Marco: prison and death. Prison's already failed. He'd been sentenced to four years for theft and tampering with evidence. He could have gotten less time if he had shown remorse or offered an explanation; instead, he stoically accepted his sentence. In fact, Marco cut a deal with a drug lord to protect Paige; now his partners have reneged on the agreement, setting up the accident that should have killed him. Worse, his former officers comb the field for Marco, planning to return him to prison.

Marco had charmed her, bedded her, and beguiled her; now Paige has lost her heart and soul to the renegade cop. The juxtaposition of the secretive fugitive and the man who carves planes for children and bounces babies on his knees isn't lost on Paige. He's a man of shadow and light, and Paige fears she will always feel this chemical, electrical connection. Despite the facts that he shot at her and kidnapped her, Paige can't stop her feelings for Marco, or her determination to do her duty and turn him in.

Vickie Taylor's THE RENEGADE STEALS A LADY weaves a tangled web of deception and corruption as this sexy hero protects his lady. Remarkably conceived, dazzlingly executed, the result is a complex tale of cops gone wrong that will keep the reader guessing till the end. Suspicion and lust give strong characters both motivation and conflict, resulting a sizzling read. These are memorable characters that live in the reader's heart and imagination long after the last page is turned. Add a terrific dog, and THE RENEGADE STEALS THE LADY comes very highly recommended.

When I finished this fabulous book I realized the only thing missing was someone beside me to lean over and light my cigarette. Wow. What a great read. On the very first page, author Vickie Taylor drops us right smack dab into the middle of a hot, steamy love scene. And then we're off on a wild ride. The heroine, sexy Paige Burkett, is bright and sassy, but she meets her match in the smoldering gaze of renegade cop, Marco Angelosi. Vickie Taylor's trademark wit and sexy, erotic dialogue propels the story forward, and we are bound to the page as the heat rises. Plot twists and intrigue spring up on every page. It's a non-stop thrill ride of love - exquisite and triumphant. Brava. Another great book from a really great writer. I couldn't put it down. Thanks so much.

I teach a Bible class to preschoolers and I purchased this book as a guide for my "how to be good lessons," which I use in conjuction with the Bible lessons. I start each lesson with a "how to be good lesson" found in Right Choices and then proceed to the Bible lesson. The structure of the book is great - one subject per story, simple questions to ask the children, a prayer and a scripture. The children grasp the concepts and are quickly learning the basics of how God would have us live.

We picked up this book while looking for a guide for our family devotions with our three year old. The structure of the book is great - one subject per story, simple questions for you to ask your child, a prayer and a scripture. Our three year old grasps the concepts quickly and is learning the basics of how God would have us live. We have enjoyed the book as parents and our son asks to have devotional time and brings us the book.

This review refers to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge....

Get swept away to a world of dreams in this beautiful collection of Coleridge's best poetry.Open this book to any poem and you will immediatly be transported to fantastick worlds and mysterious voyages.You will find no need to get caught up in trying to anaylze, you'll just be caught up in his words.The reader can identify their own experiences within his works, and make their own interpertations.

Coleridge will stir your imagination with such great works as the adventurous and ghostly voyage of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"(in the entire 7 parts),the dream land of "Kubla Khan", and my personal favorite,the sadly unfinished other worldly fairy tale of "Christabel".

You'll find many others of his classic poetry that emcompasses both worlds of dreams and reality. "The Pain of Sleep", ""The Fruit Plucker" and "Time, Real and Imaginary" are examples of these.Other works included are "If I Had But Two Little Wings","Songs from 'Zapolya'", "Youth and Age", and the beautiful "Frost at Midnight", all stories of love and life.

There are many more wonderful writings to be found here and they are both ageless and to be enjoyed by any age. There are poems to be read aloud almost as songs.There are poems to read to yourself as well.

"He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."...
From"The Ancient Marnier"

A great gift for yourself or the poetry lover in your life...enjoy..Laurie

Coleridge is the only English Romantic poet I like, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the main reason. However, this collection also contains another long poem that is often overlooked--Christabel. This a very haunting poem which was unfortunately unfinished when Coleridge died. As for the rest of the selections, Kubla Khan is really the only short poem of the same quality as Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

This woman writes the funniest books. I wonder where she gets her sense of humor! I had to read the book the second time to catch all the underlying subtleties and murmurings

This is another in her series of private eye Haskell Blevins books. Taylor does a nice job of describing life in a small southern town. The mysteries are usually good enough to keep you guessing. Plus, Haskell's dog is so weird, it's funny -- worth buying the book just to read about the poor psychotic pooch. The storyline is pretty convulted, but this is such a fun, fast read. I keep hoping there will be more Haskell novels. They are perfect for summer reading.

This is absolutely the best book I have read about poetry of the heart! I used to know Moi and bought the book from her when it came out and havent seen her in over 4 years! :o( She was supposed to put out another book of the same sort and I havent seen it. Moi's stories in Seasons of the Heart hit home with me and I cannot choose a favorite story out of it the whole thing is wonderful! Moi I hope all is well with you and please read her book everyone it is Tres Bien! Definetly the best!!!!

this book opens the hearts and minds of the one reading it...it is one of a kind. It is a must read book....and you will then understand the Author, Moi Taylor

Karlin and Taylor wrote a classic text on stochastic processes in their "A First Course in Stochastic Processes". The second edition of that text was published in 1975. This sequel came out in 1981. It is not only a second course but it is also intended as a second volume on a larger course in stochastic processes. The authors show that they are continuing from teh first course by picking up with Chapter 10 after the first book ended with Chapter 9. Many of the topics in the first book are continued in this text including Markov chains and Diffusions. Heavy emphasis is placed on point processes and their applications including Poisson and compound Poisson processes, population growth models and queueing processes.

In financial derivatives, people are generally dealing with all kinds of stochastic processes. This second course focuses on diffusion processes and prepares one with adequate knowledge to go ahead and understand how options are priced. This book itself does not touch any financial theory and will be of great use to people in genetics, mathematics and physics alike (finance also, of course). The authors give a chart of logical dependence of all the chaptors so you do not need to read every single corner if you are only interested in a specific topic. Readers are assumed to know Calculus and some basic probability theory. Knowledge of Brownian motion is not required and the authors succeded in keeping the math accessible. Although a mature senior might undertake this book, math in this book is not sloppy at all. Another thing I liked this book very much is there are so many excersices at the end of each chapter and one can check if he understands the materials or not. It's quite fair to give this book five stars.

Judith Taylor's work never fails to provoke a doubletake. Her unique voice wends through these poems with a quiet authority, juxtaposed against a pervasive sense of doubt and wonder at her surroundings and circumstances. While so much of modern poetry searches for a fresh image, Taylor seems to have found and employed most of them here. The work is both fun and illuminating. The book's "Mood Sonnets" provide sentence after sentence of the "concrete surreal," each line related to the next by music and the deep suspicion that we are all, somehow, connected. Taylor's ability to confront the self, with all its flaws and charms, lets her get away with anything and everything.

Judith Taylor's poems creep up on you. You read them as you might listen to a dream retold, hearing at first only the conversational tone, the charm, gradually seized by the imagery. Imagine that--gradually seized, an event that could only take place in a dream, or in a book. Her poems are full of knowledge worn easily, experience held lightly; they give you more than you expected, and never give away too much. Her love poems, written in response to Japanese medieval and 17th century literature, are especially beautiful, and to this reader, especially pertinent. Her mood sonnets (14 line poems, each line a complete sentence) are reminiscent of her first book, Curios, but are more playful, relaxed and diverse in tone.

As an open partisan of Mark Taylor's scholarhip, I was delighted to find that he has outdone himself in SHAKESPEARE'S IMITATIONS. His prose sparkles with a bravura wit truly inspired by the verbal and structural play of Shakespeare's own invention. SHAKESPEARE IMITATIONS tackles the best of the best: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, HENRY IV, PART 1, HAMLET, and THE TEMPEST. With great yet unassuming erudition and with an unflagging perceptiveness, Taylor pursues the kaleidoscopic question of Shakespeare's mirrorings of antiquity, of contemporary literature, and of his own creations. Even on the rare occasions when I find myself disagreeing with him, Taylor's arguments compel a re-thinking of these four great plays and a renewed appreciation of the infinite capacity of Shakespeare's (to say nothing of Taylor's) imagination.

Andre Gide's concept of the mise en abyme which has become a wide-ranging and controversial tool in literary understanding is deftly applied here by Mark Taylor to four of Shakespeare's most complex plays. Although the theoretical background is French and thus somewhat elliptical in expression, Taylor's prose is fresh, clear, and a pleasure to read. Difficult matter gracefully communicated.

I was intrigued when reading the promotional material for this book that it was lauded as being on the same magnitude as the Potter saga. To be honest, when I read the first few pages, I thought "Here we go again...characters like the Death Eaters, teenage boy in magical capers.". It made me cynical from the start. I truly believe that had Harry Potter and his world not come along, this book would have stood up more on its own merits rather than appearing to be a Christian response to their unfounded fears that Rowling's books incite children to want to practice black magic and stray from the "path". The religious subtext becomes frankly too much for me, and although I can take a little of everything, this took the biscuit, as we say. There's a fine line between making a point and forcing a point. As a Christian kids book, it's fine, wonderful even, but as a piece of fiction, it reads more like an exaltation to God and a denunciation of the rest. For my money, there's a better book out there...go find it!

The shadowmancer is a enthralling read and i was lucky enough to meet G.P Taylor and get a signed copy of this book (not hearing of him before hand), the book is more similar to anything by J.R Tolkien than anything else i've read though it does'nt quite reach the quality of J.R Tolkien it's not that far off. It would be good to see G.P Taylor do a epic such as Lord of the rings and who knows what it may manifest into. This is a good read for people into the fantasy genre and feel like something to read thats a little bit different with which involves witches and other mythological creatures.

Wow! What a brilliant read! Tons better than Harry Potter. I couldn't put it down. To my way of thinking G.P. Taylor is as good as Tolkien.More pleeze!