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.

The collaborative effort of Dan Cameron (Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York); David S. Rubin (Curator of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans), and art consultant Estill Curtis Pennington , Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art Of Douglas Bourgeois showcases the live and work of American figurative artist Douglas Bourgeois. His subject matter ranged from the everyday citizenry of Louisiana, to pop-culture artifacts, environmental concerns, social issues, iconic "Golden Age" Hollywood personalities, to contemporary rock 'n' roll. Comprised of three insightful and informed essays enhanced with reproductions of key works raging from 1975 to 2001, Baby-Boom Daydreams is a welcome and highly recommended addition to personal and academic 20th Century American Art History collections.

One might think that a love triangle between a young American woman, a Grecian painter, and his gorgeous wife would make too common a theme for a romance novel. Well, it does. Love triangles have been around since early writing, and are with us to this day all over television. Even so, author Katie Estill makes a decent attempt at producing an interesting story in her first novel, "Evening Would Find Me." Unfortunately, too many faults keep me from raving about this book. [Sorry to break the string of stellar reviews]

By telling the story in the first person, I can't help but think that the author has thrown herself into the character of Sylvia, a woman who flees to Greece after her mother dies. By page 16, she's falling in love with Ari, a painter who happens to be married to a goddess-like (of course), but schizophrenic woman, Althea. I won't go into details, but lots of juicy, emotional events follow, some with tragic consequences. Overall, it's an okay story that held my interest, but didn't move me very much in the end.

That Ms. Estill is enamored of Greece is obvious. Aside from having lived and traveled there for five years, she over-seasons her novel with as many Greek phrases, names of places, and food items as will fit in a little book. That may sound picky, but I would have prefered instead that the space be used for describing the Greek culture and/or developing characters. ESPECIALLY developing characters. In my opinion, the author shrouded the principal figures (and even the country) in so much mystery and enchantment that it was hard for me to know them. What about Ari's sister-in-law, Elena? She had an absolutely intriguing demeanor and could have been a fascinating force in this plot, but alas, there was more to be said about the quirky way Greeks like their coffee than about this interesting woman. Same for Sylvia's elderly neighbor, Mr. Lapidus.

It may sound odd, but I would have been happier with this story if it were longer (i.e., a more involved plot and deeper characters) and had flowed better between images and time frames. For fans of romance novels with lots of emotion and interpersonal conflict, this book will probably be to your liking. Better yet, it might actually provide a good basis for a screenplay. As for me, I felt like I was looking at a nice tapestry with too many worn-out spots.

Evening Would Find Me--one hot kiss of a tale by Katie Estill--makes a perfect holiday stocking stuffer, or Valentine's Day gift. Estill's first novel brilliantly portrays a young American who settles in Greece, determined to make her own way. Sylvia Harris, a college grad, still has much to sort out from her Ohio childhood--memories of her mother's alcoholism, her parents' divorce, her mother's death from cancer. Bright, passionate, she stumbles into a love triangle with a Greek artist and his lovely, deranged wife. The sensuous tussle, gorgeously orchestrated by Estill, climaxes in a whirlwind of sex, death, guilt, and redemption. The story takes only a few hours to read, but casts a fine, luscious mood that, for me, lingered for weeks.

The scenes and images in this novel are so vivid that they have stayed in my mind months after reading it-- pictures of a park in Athens, apartments, houses, cafes, the ocean. The story is of an ordinary life slipping almost unnoticed into extraordinary circumstances. There's an unobtrusive poetry in the writing and a keen sense of people as they are-- good and bad mixed together so that the same character is both admirable and wrong-headed at the same time.