I was intrigued after the opening chapter as there was an interesting twist in the hero's (David) relationship with the heroine (Caroline) that isn't detailed on the back cover blurb. Let's just say David did something that impacted the heroine's life greatly. It was certainly nice to encounter a hero who actually had a flaw (besides the usual Type A, aggressive personality), one who wasn't just a white knight riding to the rescue.

However, despite the promising start, the book became very repetitive. David constantly repeated his need to "protect Caroline." It seemed like every chapter ended with his vow that he'd stand between Caroline and anyone out to hurt her. And it felt like David and Caroline rehashed in their minds the night Caroline's stepfather died every 4-5 pages . Halfway through I thought, "OK, I GET that David MUST protect her, and I GET that he is tormented about the night of the murder." It's one thing if each reminiscence is different and allows you more insight into the character. But after the 1st few, nothing new was gained and I felt like it was just filler.

Despite that flaw, the book was a nice, formulaic read. I enjoyed the relationship between the 2 characters and the 2 smaller side stories were interesting enough without being intrusive to the main storyline. The epilogue wrapped up everyone's story a bit too neatly but didn't effect the book greatly.

Another very good book in the protectors series. Very riveting. Have read the other books in this series. Looking forward to reading Matt's story and later on Ellen's story.

I have read many, many, books in my lifetime, some good and some not so good, but the Protectors Sweet Caroline's Keeper is one of the very good. The plot keeps you interested from cover to cover, the main characters Caroline and Wolfe are realistic in their actions and the sub characters are also good, I would definately buy this book (I have) and it is a keeper.

I Especially liked the Preacher who was like a brother to Caroline and Caroline's assistant who loved him, they were very colorful characters and the rich almost brother and debutant girlfriend as well, I was kept in suspense until almost the end about the main bad guy which was great as usually I can figure it out before that, so if you like a good romance and mystery this is definately the book to buy.

I bought this book thinking that it would be really good like the other Prima Pokemon guides. Their Silver/Gold guide is very comprehensive - with more information than the Nintendo guide. But this book is awful. The Ninentdo Version is so much better. If you want a good book for Pokemon Stadium get the Nintendo Guide book. They have full stats on all the Pokemon in the back including which HMs and TMs each Pokemon can use and their skills and their weaknesses. This book only tells you the the type of Pokemon and what it evolves to. My mom can tell you morea about Pokemon and she knows practically nothing. So don't waste your money! DONT BUY THIS BOOK. I am returning mine!

I would say that the nintendo power versions better. nintendo gets 5 stars. you can buy the nintendo guide...

Its a great giude for any body. It really helps you too.

Complicated but intriguing plots bring an introduction by Dr. Barton of Mike Calvert, a police detective in Austin Texas. Other characters in this multi-plotted thriller include a car dealer, a computer hacker, attorneys, a real estate broker, government agencies, politicians, and medical professionals all playing active parts in this author's early novel. Revenge, greed, corruption, & murder surround these characters and intertwine the plots together. The ending leaves an open door for several of Dr. Barton's strong characters to make future appearances in his novels.

HIGH RISE by A. Keith Barton is a fascinating thriller about an unlikely duo, a cop near retirement and a young health care executive with a brilliant career. Set primarily in Austin, Tx., the story features murder, corruption of greedy politicians, the sabotage of a growing health care industry and the involved detective work of the unlikely pair. The main plot and the parallel plots all come together to a very surprising end. Having lived in Austin for many years, I enjoyed the setting and the way familiar Austin locations became part of the story. It made it real for me. I found it to be a thrilling suspenseful story and it was a great book to read.

As someone who does not regularly read mysteries, this book came as a pleasant surprise. There are enough plots and subplots to keep you interested but not enough to get you lost. Further, the pace and unraveling of the mysteries encourage you to read on. My only minor quibble, and it is minor, with the book was how one of the key villains was unmasked; it is a complaint I have with many movies and TV shows as well. In one brief moment, someone steps up to a computer of myriad databases and magically produces the results of a very complex search. However, that is very minor compared to the rest of the book. In fact, the ending caught me completely off guard. All and all a good read!

I'm gaming guide for bellaonline.com and when I saw the previews for Jet Force Gemini, I instantly went out and bought it. We grabbed a copy of this book after finishing the game to see if we missed anything. We hadn't, but the book did! Despite their overly-detailed microsecond-by-microsecond photos, there were mistakes and wrong information. It would have been better if they gave the instructions in a more logical manner, and cut out on the gloss. It's OK if you want reading material to look at pictures, but for real information you can do much better than this elsewhere.

this is a verey good guide.no maps but you dont really need them with all the screen shots. a small bit of info is wrong but it dont realy matter.some of it makes you want to yell "DUH!"because it covers every millisecond of the game (sometimes twice). this guide is essential if you want to beat the game with your sanity intact.it can be a bit tricky to find what you want to know.they should of cut down on the fancy pictures and made it a bit more interesting to read. however it is defently worth its price.its a big help and i thank everyone at prima for making such a awesome guide.

Too much pictures and less information. Good pictures but some info is wrong.

This volume (as well as the series in general), is somewhat helpful for application of the text, but it certainly should not be used in isolation. I found this one to be rather shallow in that it gives little time to the historical situation in the text. A better commentary that includes extra focus on application, but without diminishing original meaning and history, is the NIV Application Commentary on Luke by Darrell Bock.

This commentary is the third one written on Luke by the same author. It focuses on contemperary application of Luke's message. One might need another (more detailed) commentary to determine the original meaning of the text. Those with necessary training in the Biblical Greek should consult his two-volume commentary published by Baker.

This is a great resource for preparing sermons on Luke, or even for just reading along while you read Luke in your own home. It's easy to read, and gives valuable insights. I'm glad I bought it.

This book screamed: "Those that can, do; those that can't teach and write books like this." In a day and age when marketing, thanks to the reach of the Internet, has reached new heights in ingenuity this book is ingenuous and stuck in the 80s. With all the dot.coms there has to be a ton of proven marketing whiz kids who can teach all of us a trick or too. Instead, we have a fuddy-duddy professors who have no experience in today's marketing dynamics and techniques trying to tell us what they think it is all about. Where is the credibility?

This book presents opposing (sometimes even clashing) perspectives on many current issues in marketing. As a beginner marketing student I find this book tremendously helpful in gaining an understanding of marketing fundamentals and an awareness of what is appropriately or inappropriately being marketed to us all on a daily basis. YOU decide which side you are on after reading the issues. This is an excellent format and a well written book.

As a graduate student in business, I feel that this book should be an essential part of any marketing curriculum. Its format is nicely laid out by the authors in a way that encapsulates the most controversial issues in marketing today. Each issue is accompanied by articles which come from the best-known authorities in the marketing game. The best part of the book is that both sides of each issue are presented in equal proportion and there is no apparent bias by the authors. The topics are current, interesting, and thought-provoking. This is the best text I have seen in marketing in some time and I give my resounding recommendation.

This book was not an "I couldn't put it down" type of mystery, but it was good. I liked the main character, Jolie, but I wasn't too crazy about Max. This was my 1st book by this author and probably will not be the last.

There are so many similarties that it's hard not to compaire the two. This book isn't at the level that "After the Night" but if you loved the book as I did then this one is for you.

Twenty years ago Jolie Royale came home and found her aunt and mother lying dead. While looking over her mother's dead body she is also shot several times. Jolie doesn't remember who the killer was and Lemar (The man who attents to her families lawn) is accussed of the murder. Fast forward twenty years later, Jolie's father has died and it time she has come back home. Jolie has mixed feelings about the whole thing, but she wants to put the whole thing behind her and move on. But to do that she has to face her stepmother whom her father married a year after her mother's death and her stepbrother Max whom she once had a school girl crush but can no longer stand. Soon things change and Jolie figures that it is now time to find out who really killed her mother, aunt and lemar with Max's help. But unearthing the old murder leads to a whole lot of trouble, while the real killer waiting for Jolie to remember.

Two decades ago in Sumarville, Mississippi, Jolie Royale barely escaped with her life, but her mother, aunt and the gardener were left dead. Though officially ruled a murder-suicide, as the gardener was allegedly her aunt's lover, Jolie knows better. Though she saw the face of the killer she cannot identify the person because she cannot recall what she actually seen.

Now her stepbrother Max Devereaux asks Jolie to return to her family's plantation, Belle Rose, for her father's funeral. Jolie would prefer to stay away from her hometown, not just because of the bad memories but also because she loves Max who hates the Royales. However, there are some folks who prefer that Jolie not come back including her stepsister. Amongst that crowd exists an individual who fears that the plantation may trigger memories so Jolie might recall a certain visage. That individual targets her as the next victim with only Max to protect her.

Though amnesia has been used a quadrillion times as a plot device, Beverly Barton provides a fresh tale due to a sizzling romance starring two engaging protagonists. The story line keeps the tension high, as the audience never knows who the culprit is until the tale is completed. Though the subplot involving the stepsister adds little depth except as a symbol of local antagonism to Jolie's return, readers will know that WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW is a strong romantic suspense.

Harriet Klausner

Mary Barton is the first novel of Elizabeth Gaskell, a female writer who left her influence upon other English writers of the 19th century, like, for instance, Charles Dickens. The book is only an average view about Manchester life in the 19th century, focusing its attentions over the extreme poverty of the working class, the first labor conflicts in the pre-dawn of the Industrial Revolution, all this connected with a tender love story between the young Mary Barton and his old time friend Jem Wilson.
In fact, the murder of the young mill owner, Mr. Henry Carson - he too an admirer of Miss Barton - is not well developed and is not the central point of the novel because the reader knows all the time who is the real murderer. So, it's not a surprise at all the ending of the trial and the revelation of the real murderer in the last chapters.
Miss Gaskell has a simple and an almost näive vision of the social problems that harassed the working class in England when the Industrial Revolution started. Even though, we must recognize that she made a good work trying to denounce the insensibility of the English government about the problems of the workers and their families and the inflexibility of the mill owners and other high economic classes to negociate with their subordinates.
Mary Barton is a book that will hold the attencion of the readers, men or women, because Miss Gaskell has an elegant style and really knows how to tell a good story. Another great vintage of this novel are some great characters portrayed with flavour and undeniable charm, like the old and friendly Mr. Job Legh and the hard and anger John Barton, Mary's father.

Gaskell wrote one of the most vivid descriptions of the gap between rich and poor in this novel of the Manchester 'hungry forties'. The plot is driven by the device of a murder of young factory owner's son, but this story line is more an excuse to present the story as a novel (and to serve the demands and expectations of the novel form as it was understood at the time) than it really is the center of the book. The romance and the mystery (although still well-written) are cursory in comparison to the loving detail that Gaskell lavishes on Alice Wilson, the temptation of Esther and all the little points of life in deep poverty.

Worth reading, particularly if you're a fan of the novel (or history) of the period.

Actually I read this book in three days' time (it can be even faster if I don't have to go to school). Anyway, Mrs. Gaskell's depiction of the working class people in Manchester during the 19th century was so vivid that you can just *see* and *feel* how the rich and the poor's lives were like back then by turning the pages. I believe no one who had read this book will not to some extent feel pity for the tragic hero, John Barton, in the story. But aside from this formal social theme being presented in the novel, there is also a very strong sense of religious/moral theme in it (espeically near the end of the story), as well as some drama and romance in it. Definitely worth a read, especially to those who are interested in Victorian Literature.

When I was a teenager, the BBC aired a dubbed version of the PRC's television version of "Journey to the West", and ever since, I have loved the story of the Monkey King. Being unable to find that series on DVD (or VHS, for that matter), I decided to buy this book to read to my son.

The book does an excellent job of introducing the character of the Monkey King, and tells the portions of the story that it covers well, and on a level comprehensible to children. It is hugely abridged, however, and ends only partway through the original story, with no attempts to tie up loose ends.

As a result, my son wasn't really satisfied with the open-ended plot, and there also weren't enough of the little subplots with the interesting secondary characters to make the book as memorable as it really should be. The book would have been a solid 4 or maybe 5 stars if it had just gone on a bit longer, either to bring the story to something resembling a conclusion, or to explain why there wasn't such an ending in a way as accessible to children as the rest of the book was. Incomplete as it is, though, I can't recommend it that strongly.

This is a very readable version of the monkey king classic. The sentences are short and simple, written in standard American English. The book is packed with action and is lots of fun to read.

The character of monkey is rather naughty, like Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn.

The pictures have a definite Western slant to them, which is rather amusing.

Monkey King is classic Chinese literature, suitable for children (there are literally hundreds of different versions of cartoons of him made for children!). Though the first half is quite violent in areas, it is because he has not discovered Buddhism, thus he learns his lessons and resists violence after he is converted/cleansed by Quan Yin. Also, the violent parts of the book are very brief, usually only a sentence or two long. Children and adults could enjoy this novel when it is kept at its fantasy/novel level.

this was the best book I ever read, Yeah!

"Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law" by Peter Malanczuk is one of the best books on International Law for scholars and students of law, now a days. The text was re-written by Professor Peter Malanczuk (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) with aditional information based on the new developments like International Environmental Law or International Economic Law.

Certainly the basics of the book correspond to older editions, but new chapters make it a clear example of an "International Law" book than a modest "Introduction".

The text is well written and the concepts are in order. However, definitions about important international legal institutions were missed, for example, International Environmental Law, Custom, etc. These and other definitions are important for students in order to have clarity on the institutions and the subject.

The book, however, is well structured, keeping the interest of the reader on the topics of International Law and giving information on every topic to search further on in other sources.

I hope that the book will have translation to other languages.

As a student studying Political Economy, and hoping to pursue International Law at the graduate level - I find this book to be informative and an enjoyable read. Not only has the author taken steps to make sure the content is interesting and detailed, but the material is also unusually absorbing and has me "hooked".