I was lucky to obtain my copy of Classic Snooker by Ray Reardon, from a second-hand bookstore back in 1994. This book is a good commonsense guide to getting started and then progressing to a very reasonable standard through the various routines described.

The text on the back cover reads: In Five Minutes Ray Reardon claims to be able to show any player how to acquire the basic Snooker skills.

However, don't judge the book on the 'basic' aspect. This book has information to help even the player who is past the novice stage.

The best thing about the book is in its simple approach. He starts at the beginning, with the basics such as grip, stance, etc., and then progresses steadily through more advanced skills. The chapter on potting (which every snooker player can't wait to learn) is one of the most practical I have read. It actually makes it easy to understand. Other instructional books tell you that potting is all about memory and trial and error...really! Ray shows you that there are definite potting angles which are consistent. Once you recognize them, you'll always spot them.

Positional play, advanced tactics, safety play, etc., are all covered with a very easy writing style.

There's a bit of snooker history within these pages and I'm very pleased to own a copy.

This second collection of Bradbury stories contains selections from A Medicine for Meloncholy and S is for Space. I think that some of Bradbuy's most haunting and beatiful stories are compiled here. The first is the chilling story of "Fever Dream" where a boy knows that is body is being taken over, and yet is helpless against it. Alse contained is the famous "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" and "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed." However, my favorite is the story of all the literary greats, Shakespeare, Poe, and all the dreamers, passing from existence, killed by man's scientific conquest. These stories will leave you cold and contemplative.

Thanks to Marty Sheik and Ray Hester for compiling this delightful photographic memory of "Delaware's Gateway Community," Claymont.

For any Claymonter, or interested Delawarean, this book is a gem. Using photos collected from citizens of Delaware's foremost unincorporated community, the authors have preserved the look and feel of the "town" as it existed in the early to mid 20th Century. This book is a wonderful keepsake or gift for the current or former Claymonter. Importantly, it should serve to underscore the important efforts Claymont is making to rekindle its historic sense of self.

Jesse Mercer was active for God. His theology was strongly Calvinist, and he believed that his life should be spent in active service with the aim of bringing glory to God. This book tells some of his biography, and emphasizes his activity of collecting and publishing Christian hymns. I do not actually own this book, but have checked it out of the library from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. One could only wish that the current leadership of Mercer University (Atlanta, Georgia) which bears Mercer's family name would live with such theological conviction regarding Scriptural truth.

Dear Mr. Yellen and Mr. Kozak,

I just finished reading your book, 'Coach and Us.' I am an avid golfer and found quite a few relevant tips for improving my game.

Your book discusses taking control of the mind and will. Many golf improvement books suggest the same, but don't explain how to do it.

Your book not only explains how to take control, but also illustrates how greater commitment, more practice, clearer thinking and a better attitude, relate to many goals in life.

I will follow the precepts in the book to improve my golf game (I'm sure my handicap will drop); I will also use them to enhance my life.

'Coach and Us' is more than a basketball book, albeit a great one, it is a guide for self-improvement. Thank you for writing such an inspirational story!

Awesome, inspiring, heart stopping. I couldn't put it down. Very good fundamental look at the intricacies of the slot I offense. Nice job Dad!

I bought this book for my mother to give to her cousin, who has spent much time in England and Europe. He loved it! It's chock full of various Cockney phrases which bring back the time he's spent ranging around England. A charming book for the seasoned Anglophile.

Part of the "Voices of the South" series published by Louisiana State University, "Come Back Lolly Ray" is an elegantly-crafted psychological exploration of the secrets, hopes, failures and sterility of small-town Southern life in the 1950s. The author, Beverly Lowry, writes with extraordinary precision and care; she creates both mental and physical landscapes so precisely etched and meticulously envisioned that the reader often will take pause to reflect on the numerous possibilities engendered by these emotional and environmental landscapes. This novel deserves a very wide audience.

Darwing on several established literary traditions, Ms. Lowry uses a central character (Lolly Ray Lasswell) to permit us to examine the texture of life in the ironically-named small town of Eunola. Reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" and of William Faulkner's Southern charcterizations, "Come Back Lolly Ray" mercilessly dissects the lives of the citizens of this emotionally barren city. Lolly Ray, virginal and untouchable, comes to represent, unwillingly and unknowingly, the ultimate symbol of white Southern purity. Her "abandonment" of an unspoken compact with the town propels the plot of the novel. Her parents, Frank and Lucille, symbolize the terrible tensions and unresolved conflicts not only particular to the white South in the 1950s but to unfulfilling marriages regardless of time or place. Other characters, whether they be the town abortionist or the village idiot, the elegant-gone-to-seed cotton aristocrat or the slightly-touched matriarch living in isolation with happy abandon, are sketched with evocative detail and unusual empathy.

Above all else, however, "Come Back Lolly Ray" is a writer's novel. Now a professor at George Mason University, Beverly Lowry demonstraters, on every page, a profound respect for the written word. Lush with visual and emotional imagery, her novel requires patience. For those who can afford a provocative and disturbing view of small-town life and who do not feel the need to rush through a novel whose themes have been explored countless times in our national literature, "Come Back Lolly Ray" will remain in their memories long after having read the book.

THis is the funniest book I've read in a long time... It's something you can easily relate to. Ray's stories are something that you can share and make other people laugh, then they will ask you where they can get a copy of that book. It's a great book for those who need a laugh!

In this book, Dr.Sahelian and Ms.Toews advocate the use of Vitamin C, Echinacia, and Zinc Losenges as well as other vitamin supplements and herbal supplements to boost an individual's immune system to fight off the common cold or flu. If a simple course of the first three referenced items are used at the first symptoms of a cold, and are used several times a day, and for a couple of days thereafter, a common cold can be eradicated most quickly! I've tried Dr.Sahelian's formula and it works! If the cold cure formula is used in the later stages of a cold or flu, symptoms can be dramatically reduced!

This book is written in a very easy to read and use format. Much scientific evidence is provided to back up Dr.Sahelian's and Ms.Toews' claims. In addition, the authors provide a review of herbs used to boost the human immune system and other helpful advice on boosting one's immune system to fight off colds!

A must read for anyone with children who always bring home colds and viruses, or anyone with a compromised immune system. Actually this book could help anyone in fighting the common cold and flu! Nobody likes being sick and losing precious time to nursing a rotton cold! This book with its advice can help!