Robert Bowen, who lived in Maryland, in 1943 went down to Florida to have basics (if he finishes he would join the 104 infantry division). As fate had it Bowen and a couple other of his 104th friends would be transferred to Fort Bragg where they would join the 401st regiment of the screaming eagles, the elite 101st. Bowen fights in Normandy where he was injured in the ankle. He also fights in the 72-day campaign in Holland (operation Market Garden) and there he participates in the defense of the Island. Bowen also fights at Bastogne but is captured when a German armored division finally over runs Bowen's and the rest of his surviving friend's position. The rest of his book is about trying to stay alive in the POW camp where he and all of his friends are at the edge of death because of the small and some times no rations, and dysentery. Bowen then explains his life after the War, which as you will see is quite sad.

After I first interviewed Mr. Bowen in 1998 I had tears in eyes. These feelings of sacrifice, loss, suffering, courage, and heroism surface again in this superb book. FIGHTING WITH THE SCREAMING EAGLES takes you back to the foxhole.

This book has enlighted me to many phrases in the bible. I can find things much faster than just thumbing through. It is a great addition to my library.

Each Monday evening at Bible Study if we are not sure where to look when the Bible refers to diffferent books in the Bible this A to Z book has really helped out due to some confusing issues that are discussed in the Revelations Book. It would be a great gift and a great guide that each Bible Study should have at least one of. Thanks to a dear lady named Hannah who brought it! It has saved alot of time and you know an hour of Bible worship goes quickly!

In this interactive book, the reader is allowed to try different ways of connecting with potential friends in a new school. It works well to stimulate discussion about ways of meeitng and making friends.

Parenting Press publishes "The Decision is Yours" series of books. Each book deals with common dilemmas faced by elementary or middle school students. At the end of each page, the reader is asked to make an ethical choice. Based on the choice, the story takes a different branching path. Positive, negative and intermediate outcomes are available. The potential outcomes are not sugar-coated. Sometimes even the "right" choice may not have an entirely happy

Carol Watkins, M.D.

This book not only helps children realize that they can make choices that affect their lives and attitudes, but also teaches them that they are not alone in facing the discomfort of being "the new kid." It shows them that their choices can affect how they meet and overcome the challanges of a new school situation. All parents who have children who are relocating should get this special gift for them

A few years ago, I did a course at college in Modern French Drama. It was mostly the usual doom-and-gloom stuff (Becque, Giraudoux, Sartre, Camus, Beckett), with no place for the most popular of 20th century dramatists, the farceur Feydeau. This marginalisation, presumably because Feydeau was both populist and generic, tells us a lot about elitism in academia in these post-post-modernist times. What should be made clear is that Feydeau is not only more fun than the above-mentioned, but both more theatrical and more radical.

Farce is the one genuinely theatrical art form - it doesn't read very well on the page, and rarely works on screen. Whereas 'realist' drama has tried to make the mechanics of drama less transparent to foreground the content, the primary pleasure of Feydeau's theatre is these mechanics: the vertignous interplay between character and plot on the one hand, and the formal choreography on the other, with its fusillade of entrances, exits, disguises, mistaken identities, verbal wit, physical violence, revolving doors, multiple stairs etc.

Feydeau's art has been compared to clockwork, but that emphasis on mechanical precision doesn't do justice to the way he makes the characters plausible and their actions motivated, so that every disaster seems like a natural development rather than an imposed contrivance.

But even these levels of enjoyment would be rather superfical. Where Feydeau truly excels is as a dissector of marriage and bourgeois society (one of the great joys for me reading the play was imagining the cast of Bunuel's 'The Discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie' in the roles): the games, hypocrisies, impotence, violence, ennui. There is much fun in the play's central double role, where the confusion of the bourgeois patriarch with a drunken porter leads to many of the play's confusions, and subversively undermines the middle-class dependence on firm status and identity. What emerges most clearly is the fragility of the intricate social structure when a rogue element threatens to destroy it. In the end, that's all it is, a structure, one that offers a safety net against chaos and chance, but one that doesn't leave much room for personal freedom or happiness.

Like Ionesco et al after him, Feydeau locates the decadence of this society in the breakdown of language, and much of the comedy comes not only from characters with cleft palattes and thick Spanish accents, but in the misinterpreting signs and modes of communication that are supposed to make this world ordered and coherent.

Finally, a plot with a comedy Spaniard and a violent hotel manager must surely have influenced 'Fawlty Towers', one of the few non-theatrical works to replicate the technical precision and emotional undertow of Feydeau's work.

I reccomend this book to EVERYONE! It is the best play I have ever read. I enjoyed it so much that I directed the play myself! Buy it today!

-Davé!

I am related to the author, so this was a very personal book. I can still remember the only time that I have ever met Caroline like it was yesterday because she was somebody that really stood out from most people. This is a very inspirational read, and it really teaches you to make the most of your life, because you can never be sure how much time you have left in your life, there are no guarantees. It is a very useful book for someone who has lost a love one, to help them cope with their loss. And I would recommend it to anyone even if they haven't lost a loved one, because it is truly an amazing book, that will give you inspiration, and hope when you need it most.

Betsy, if you're reading this it's Zac....

To those of us who knew "Caroline E.", Betsy Anderson has been an inspiration. Her remarkable text reflects a deep and contemplative spiritual life, one that many of her friends stive to emulate. Her tribute to her amazing daughter will also, undoubtably, help other broken hearts to heal. The journey through "Fly On, My Sweet Angel" liberates the reader from the all-too-often downward spiral of grief, allowing for a new appreciation of the departed individual's life to transcend the immediate sorrow. Five stars for a tremendous emotional and spiritual achievement!!!

Nathalie F Anderson is a great poet. Her language is rich, but unpretentious, full of meaning, but light and accessible. And, what is most important, her poems are most relevant. Buy this book, it's got a very reasonable price for all the treasures it contains.

Nathalie Anderson's beautifully-textured poems are a combination of fine writing, wry humor and serious subject matter.

Anyone who has read Anderson's wonderful autobiography ('My Thirty Years' War,' 'The Fiery Fountains,' 'The Strange Necessity,' all sadly now out of print) must read this novel -- it has the same ebullient, erudite tone and the same passion for life. Many of the characters' names are thinly-veiled pseudonyms for the real people in Anderson's life, and Mathilda Hills fills in the blanks in her long introduction which explains how she came to find this manuscript. This is a priceless piece of Modernist history and a great lesbian love story, but I think it will be appreciated best by those already familiar with Anderson, founder of 'The Little Review,' and her personal history.

Much thanks to Mathilda Hills for bringing this story to us! This beautiful and lyric love story is only heightened by the biographical information Hills provides. I hope the publisher will eventually provide a paperback edition, so more people would be enticed to read this stunning tale.

This is a book of some of the BEST Sci-Fi stories ever. With such authors as Poul Anderson, James P. Hogan, Ray Bradbury, Gregory Benford, L. Neil Smith and Dafydd ab Hugh you can't lose. The stories don't just focus on freedoms and rights, but also deal with time travel, murder and some are in the form of poems. So, come, visit Free Space and enjoy the future of mankind. Just make sure to leave your hang-ups behind and bring lots of money!

This book combines two things I really love: short stories and science fiction...with an added bonus - libertarian themes! Stephen King once said that if novels are like long romances, then short stories are like a brief kiss. 'Free Space' gives you tongue.

This book shows the true courage of a person who had to endure so much.

Anyone who has lost a loved one should read this book! Ms. Anderson has suffered the loss of her Husband and Son in a plane accident. Rather than wallowing in self pity, or committing a contemplated suicide, Ms Anderson describes the journey that she went through in order to survive and continue living.

The faith that she has sustained her. Her experiences in calling upon this faith may be able to assist countless others to survive similar losses.

If you are suffering from the unexpected loss of a loved one, or if someone you know is suffering, this book will be a significant aid in easing that suffering.

I purchased this book to use with my students to help them develop their visual perceptual, perceptual motor, and problem solving skills. The puzzles vary in presentation and level of complexity, so you will be sure to find something to suit. The kids are having fun, so they forget about the fact that they are also learning important skills.

This Book is a fun and exciting book that varies from crossword puzzles to picture matches and many more fun games and puzzles. You should get this book.