Allen McGinnis wrote A Members Eye View of Alcoholics Anonymous. He is in my mind one of the most sensible & grounded members I have ever come across. This book changed my perspective on many aspects of my recovery and in a very real way strengthened my foundation for everyday living. A great tool to share with others. If you are an alcoholic and were to only have three books on your shelf, they should be this, the AA Big Book, and the 12x12.

My sobriety library consists of the Big Book, the 12 & 12, and "The Rest of Your Life" by Allen McGinnis! Every new person should have this book and pass it on

Vicki Allen's novel, The Return, is the story of Ashely Stewart, a divorced woman who thought she had found a tranquil place to raise her child and lasting happiness with her second marriage. But a dark threat looms just beyond her sight, threatening all she holds dear, for the man who nearly destroyed her sanity years ago is back. Also highly recommended is Vicki Allen's first book in this emotionally gripping series: For Molly

I was hooked on page 1! I couldn't put it down and finished it in less than a day! Ms. Allen has the ability to get and keep your interest in the story, then POW! surprising you by throwing tragedy into the lives of the characters you have grown to love! At one point I even threw the book on the bed and shouted "I hate you!" to Ms. Allen for allowing so much grief to hit the characters. I can't explain why, but I really bonded with the main character. Reading "For Molly" first will give you more background and insight to the characters in "The Return". A must read for teenagers and older!

Commissioned German translator of Room 105.

I have known the Luedi family and worked together with Marcus (Sydney and Coffs Harbour) long enough to have witnessed their ever-enduring strength of character and the loving care they shared with anyone who happened to cross their ways. If, due to their immense suffering, the Love of God is questioned, then the true Love of God has shone through the lives of Marcus and Marianne as a living demonstration. I recommend Room 105 to anyone who is dissatisfied with too simplistic answers regarding affliction.

I'm in the book business, so I read a lot of books and manuscripts. Normally I'm kind of a tough cookie to impress, but this book got to me. I laughed and thoroughly enjoyed the cross-cultural nature of the Luedi family's adventures thru Europe and Australia. I cried when I thought of losing a child, but it made me think of how we all are given a gift, each day we wake up breathing! And it made me think that I must maximize my relationships w/ friends--and esp. family members--during the days we are given, this side of eternity. An enjoyable read, and inspiring. We CAN have victory over suffering and death! Thanks, Marcus, for sharing your life with us readers. We are the better for it.

PS: Order this book soon and enjoy it and share it w/ anyone who has battled cancer or lost a child or spouse. It will be a blessing!

Edgar cayce said anyone could do what he did......IF... ...they were willing to set self aside.This book is about a man who did just that by folllowing the Same Pattern developed by Edgar Cayce.

This book is an account of the results of one mans achievement of reaching the same state of trance that the psychic Edgar Cayce realized naturally. The Edgar Cayce "Information" predicted that others could teach themselves the method of reaching this trance state and Ross Peterson actually achieved it and made contact with the "Keepers of the Akashic Records" as Edgar Cayce did.

I would encourage Mr. Peterson to write a book clearly outlining the steps that he took to achieve these results as a manual so to speak for others who wish to develop the same ability.

I am sure that it would be a best seller. (Ross Peterson is a name used by the subject of the book when he was on Radio and T.V., should amazon.com wish to contact the subject of the book, please e-mail and I will lend assistance.)

Dear Shirley,

I have just finished reading your wonderful book. I couldn't put it down. It was sensitively written in a easy to read style. You captured the psychology of women in relationships with husbands and other women and fit it to the culture and attitudes of everyday life in the 1800's.

The fact that it is a biography of uour great grandmother and carefully researched has made it valuable historically.

I can't think of a book I've enjoyed reading more. You should be on the Oprah Winfrey show to let other people know now good this book is. Congratulations on your achievement.

Why might an Ohio housewife and mother circa 1850 dispense disparaging cliches to her daughters such as "better the devil you know than the devil you don't", or encourage loveless, albeit, financially secure marriages for those daughters? Why might she find herself unable to credit her daughters with the innate intelligence to
realize their aspirations, despite her firsthand knowledge of their abilities? Why, moreover, might she express the rigid perspective that her daughters could interpret as their true inheritance; the belief that flawed judgment is a universally female characteristic?
Shirley Allen's biographical novel, based on the life of her great grandmother Roxanna Britton, provides the historical context to, if not answer, at least ask such questions. In a social and political climate that does not allow women to vote, to have money, property or identity outside of marriage, we experience the consequences for one exceptionally gifted, resilient daughter who has the good fortune to find male partners who see beyond the gender role assumptions of the time. Roxanna realizes and develops abilities including teaching, farming, homemaking, motherhood, single parenting, dressmaking, enterpeneurship, homesteading and property ownership. Whether selling eggs to establishing financial independence or designing dresses for a shopkeeper's marketing, Roxanna is freshly creative, adapting herself to utilize and maximize the circumstances of the moment.
Married at nineteen, widowed and at age twenty two, mother of two baby girls,
she moves from her own home in Cleveland to her parents home in Avon. Due to hardship, the extended family then moves to Brimfield, Indiana to join Roxanna's maternal grandparents. There she witnesses the critical tongue of her grandmother towards her mother. This multi generational pattern of nonsupportive female
relationships is captured by Allen via the three generation household, clearly a reflection of the broader cultural attitude toward women. Although this is sufficiently convincing proof of the lack of status of women, Roxanna must reside with her new husband, Amos, in his parent's home, where her mother-in-law competes to retain her
role as Amos's primary resource.
Finally, in 1865, a move to Chicago brings a change of status for Roxanna; she may and does purchase her own property. But Chicago brings other difficulties; oldest daughter Sylvia has left home, only to be found one year later, eight months pregnant, murdered by her husband. Chicago 's great fire is depicted vividly, the dangers of city life, the harshness of a mushrooming commercialism without laborer restrictions is made specific. In Chicago, Roxanna meets her first husband's sister, Lizzie. An active suffragette, it is Lizzie who begins to stir Roxanna's awareness of the political and social disparity between men and women.

Roxanna moves once again with her family, this time to Nebraska for homesteading. Daughter Martha has married an abusive, alcoholic husband who uses her for target practice. It is Roxanna's ingenuity and adaptation that confronts the injustice.
Paralleling the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves, women's plight is poignantly illustrated. Death of children is a common occurrence. The exorbitant work day hours devoted to manual labor and child care precludes us from consulting
women writers of the time. However, through this reconstruction of Allen's foremothers, coupled with a rapidly industrializing America, we are permitted a glimpse of the grace and courage of our founding mothers.

This book may be small, but it has a big meaning. It's about a girl named Sadie who made a snowman in her back yard. Unfortunately, some birds ate the "eyes", a squirrel ate the "nose", and a raccoon stole the "mouth", and the snowman melted down. So the next time it snowed, Sadie made the snowman all over again, but the same thing happened again. The animals stole all the ingredients, and the snowman melted away. This happens to her a few other times, but she never gave up. To find out how Sadie resolved her problem, read the book today!

This is a great book to read to children. It helps to show them that no matter how many times you may fail, or however many times something goes wrong, to keep on trying because things will work out in the end.

This story has real nice illustrations. Here's what the book's about: Sadie is a girl who is trying to make a snowman. The first time she makes a snowman some animals eat what she used for the eyes, mouth, etc. and then he melts. Sadie gets depressed but the next time it snows, Sadie makes another snowman. Problems come up for each one she makes. Can Sadie find a way to solve her snowmen problems? Find out when you read this book.

I found "Sailing By Grace" to be very inspiring! Not only is this book a collection of wonderfully written poems, but the author has taken the time to include a Biblical truth that applies to each of his poems. His opening comments challenge the reader and put the poem in context to be enjoyed to its fullest. Truly a work of art from a man who loves his Lord, his family, his church and those whom he has had the privilege of impacting! I highly recommend this book!

"Sailing By Grace" is truly a work of art. As an editor, I found this book to be beautifully put together and inspiring. I highly recommend "Sailing By Grace" to anyone looking for a book of comfort and God's grace.

The best book for the money, and I have read them all! Clearly explains MP3 and other aspects of digital music. Great CD, too.

I have read several books on MP3, and this is definitely the best for beginners. It explains all aspects of finding, playing, and creating MP3 files. While it is easy, it contains enough technical information for advanced users, as well.

The included CD is worth the price of the book, and is the best suite of MP3 programs and utilities I have seen!

This 54-page 5-chapter book tells the story of Joe Browder's successful 1969 effort to defeat the planned construction of a major airport 50 miles from Miami in the Big Cypress Swamp. As head of the Miami chapter of the U.S. National Audubon Society, Browder felt that his only chance to stop the destructive development in the swamp would be to gain support from others. He convinced both old-time alligator hunter Gator Bill and Miccosukee chief Buffalo Tiger to join his fight.

Next Browder drafted Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Douglas had written her legendary book, River of Grass, in 1947. He drove her to the site of the jetport, where some trees had already been cut and the swamp drained. She decided then and there to help. The people of Florida could have a jetport or the Everglades, but they couldn't have both. The former, if constructed, would destroy the latter.

Douglas formed the Friends of the Everglades and took the fight to Washington D.C. and then Interior Secretary Walter Hickel and Secretary of Transportation John Volpe. They ordered an environmental study, which found that the jetport would so pollute the Glades' water, its lifeblood, that all wildlife there would be threatened.

At last, Joe Browder too made it to Washington, where he met with President Richard Nixon. Transportation Secretary Volpe supported the jetport, while Interior Secretary Hickel opposed it. Nixon sent his daughter Julie to Florida to see the Everglades. When she returned to Washington, she told her the President that the Everglades were a national treasure. Nixon called a press conference and opposed the jetport.

This is a great book for children, which shows what can one person can accomplish if only he tries. And of course, it extols the virtues of one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Alyssa A. Lappen

While written as a social studies textbook for young children, Save the Everglades is the most accurate account ever published about the time so many years ago when environmentalists, Native Americans and the people who lived and hunted in the Everglades joined together to protect America's most endangered National Park.

Save the Everglades is part of a series of 28 books edited by the late historian Alex Haley (of Roots fame), written to help children understand how change in America is made by real people. Haley placed this book about a conflict between protecting nature and building an aiport in the same category with the series' book about the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott -- books about people working together, making choices about what kind of communities they want to have.

Save the Everglades tells how very different people who all shared a love of nature fought to stop political leaders and real estate developers in Miami, Florida from building what would have been the world's largest airport, just a few miles from Everglades National Park and within the Big Cypress Swamp, the wildest and richest part of the Everglades. Hunters, alligator poachers, Miccosukee Indians, school children and environmental leaders started a national campaign that convinced the President of the United States to withdraw federal money and permits for the airport project, and then to buy the Big Cypress and make it part of the Everglades protected by the National Parks System.

This book is about one of the campaigns that helped bring together the national environmental movement of the 1960s, but the book is also important for people who care about today's environmental issues, because Everglades National Park is, in the year 2000, once more threatened by another airport project sponsored by Miami political leaders and real estate developers. So people in Florida and across America are once more appealing to the President of the United States to Save the Everglades.

To make the publisher's first draft more suitable for children, the author added some false drama (fear of flying) and eliminated some true drama (death plots by real estate promoters, oddly enough referenced inaccurately in a more recent book about Florida, Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief). The writer of this review is also the principal subject of Save the Everglades, and so can personally confirm that with those exceptions, the story is accurate.

Scripts for just about every ailment and situation. Excellent languaging. Very useful. A great help for any Hypnotherapist. I use it in the Hypnosis section when I'm teaching NLP. It helps my delegates get an idea of how to structure their trance language. A great help. Thanks to Roger Allen for this contribution to the world of Hypnotherapy.

An absolute must for any student of hypnotherapy. Excellent material, well presented in a readable and helpful manner.