I enjoyed reading this book, and learned a lot of things. What I learned the most is how to be strong and never give up.

Angel Brown

I was happy to have corresponded with the author a while back and have read the book. This is a type of book like The Dream Merchant in that respect. In this book, you have a young girl who goes into a coma and meets some unique people who encourage,challenge, and sometimes emphasize the importance of having a dream and never giving up. It seems as though it is a book for children, but I, as an adult has also been drawn to it as well and have recommended it to others. My daughters saw the book and now they want a copy of their own.

Destiny Unlimited is truly a life changing novel. The main character is placed in a position were she (Amethyst) has a journey to take. The story starts off with Amethyst going over one of her friends home to play and finds out that her friend really wasn't her friend, but someone who wanted to show off all the material things they had. Amethyst was somewhat upset and wanted to go home. Well, instead of her going home, she wanted to be dropped off in the park. The park was not far from her home and she felt safe in the park. As she was walking home she ran into a man in the park who she wanted to know why he looked the way that he did. (Like a bum).

Well that bum turned out to be one of the most interested people she met along her journey. Some of the other characters also gave her good directions that would eventually help her get through her journey in one piece and return back home with her mother. Some of the things I have learn throughout this whole novel is... having faith and beliefs in what you do will get you through. Then keep your expectations obtainable and make commiments you can keep. Once the seed is planted,imagine it's strengh and proclaim I - AM - A - Genie! (IMAGINE)

Thank you Vanessa Davis Griggs for writing such a novel. My tongue is the pen of a Ready Writer! Keep writing these powerful novels for they will make a mark on today's society one way or another!

The Bluebird Monitor's Guide to Bluebirds and Other Small Cavity-Nesters by Cynthia Berger, Keith Kridler and Jack Griggs. Notice who sponsored this book, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and The North American Bluebird Society, and was printed in 2001. The Bluebird Monitor's Guide is the most detailed and complete, up to date Bluebird information I found for sale today on Bluebirds.

I have to say that I was about as a Novice as it gets in knowing about Bluebirds, but am quickly becoming an expert to be. I live in South Florida, and never had seen a Bluebird until May of 2002. I decided my area needed more of this beautiful bird, and my search for information on Bluebirds, and Bluebird boxes, and Bluebird Trails lead right to The Bluebird Monitor's Guide.

If you are searching for Bluebird information, you will find that there are very few books written about Bluebirds. After ordering and receiving the Bluebird Monitor's Guide, I found I was reading articles which are short, informative, fun, and on everything I could think of pertaining to Bluebirds and their habitat, housing, and food, and the people who care about them.

The book is approximately 8" x 10" of high gloss paper, 128 pages, and filled with beautiful photos. The guide is broken down into five sections which tell you about Bluebirds, and how to attract them; how to monitor Bluebirds; Bluebird Trails, and the equipment used with Bluebirds. The Bluebird Monitor's Guide information all comes by ordinary people, like you and me, whom have been working with Bluebirds for years. And The Monitor,s Guide is written to be understood by young and old, and novice or expert.

The Bluebird Monitor's Guide is written for the person who has only one box or a Bluebird Trail of hundreds of boxes. Since May of 2002 I now actually have twenty Bluebird Trails of 122 houses, with plans of many more for South Florida. I am the overall Trail Monitor of Twenty Monitors. I am helping dozens of people to learn about the Bluebird, from the wealth of information found in The Bluebird Monitor's Guide.

Whether you can only purchase one Bluebird book, or all the Bluebird books which have ever been written, The Bluebird Monitor's Guide to Bluebirds and Other Small Cavity-Nesters should be the #1 Bluebird book in your library.

This is a definite bible on bluebird nestbox monitoring - all sorts of really great and detailed info on bluebirds, problem solving tips for dealing with predators, great pictures. I recommend this one to everyone I know who's interested in bluebirds and monitoring nest boxes.

The Bluebirding world has waited a long time for this book. If you just have one Bluebird nest box in the yard, or hundreds covering miles of territory, this book is a must have. Profusely illustrated with color photos.

The authors of this book did not create a "coffee table" book; they created a work that will guide you through your day to day problems with predators, such as snakes, raccoons, house sparrows, and starlings.

I am a Bluebirder with years of experience, and I learned a lot and keep learning from the book!

Reed Wilder is a man on a mission. He's traveled to Texas in search of Lucy Ames, a deceitful woman who broke his sister-in-law's heart, stole a family heirloom and had his brother's child out of wedlock. Her son, Toby, is the only heir to the Wilder family fortune.

However, the Lucy Ames that Reed finds os jos amge; o fmercy. She defends him against two town bullies and nurses him back to health unselfishly and tenderly. Could this beautiful, courageous woman truly be the woman he so resents? Could the feelings he has for Lucy when looking into her warm, brown eyes by real? Could the emotions they share when touching each other be true love?

Reed's journey to Texas was only the beginning. Together, he and Lucy are on a journey of the heart to find out WHAT MATTERS MOST. Ms. Griggs has given us a gentle read about strength, devotion, forgiveness and love. As matters of the heart go - this books is a must read!

Winnie Griggs bursts onto the romance scene with a debut novel that puts scores of well-established romance authors to shame. Her characters are multi-faceted and resonate with realness. They have faults we can identify with and virtues we aspire to. Even the secondary characters are clearly drawn and emerge as distinct people rather than stereotypes. The plot is well thought-out and filled with heart-tearing conflict and a nice dollop of mystery. Buy this book, and then look for more by Ms. Griggs! I certainly am.

I have been disappointed in the last 5 or 6 romance novels I've read (I will be nice and not mention any names of those books or authors.) This book, however, was awesome! I think you will love reading "WHAT MATTERS MOST". Very romantic. Characters are great. I loved "Reed", wish I could marry him myself! There's a little boy in the story, Toby. He is a sweetie. Fell in love with him too. Very clever story. I was really hooked on this one and read the whole thing in less than 2 days because I couldn't wait to find out how it ended. I am always happy to discover a new writer and Mrs. Griggs is a really good find. I will definitely look forward to getting her next one. Highest rating - 5 stars!

Mr. Grigg holds your intrest with his easy to read style, while presenting this thoroughly documented report of how the goal of the United Nations is bring about world peace by having everyone recieve the same UN aproved education and practice their aproved one-world pagan religion. If you disagree... Well, that won't be an option.
Read this book. Learn. You won't get this information on the nightly news.

The author, William Norman Grigg, is senior editor for The New American, a publication of the John Birch Society. The JBS has been at the forefront of the effort to get the US out of the UN. This book, written in 1995, is still an important work. Mr. Grigg has meticulously foot-noted his expose into what direction the UN elite want to take the world, especially the US. Beneath its veneer and rhetoric, the UN is a socialist/communist organization. Its vision of rights is completely opposite of that of America's Founders, as Mr. Grigg explains. Read the book to see actual quotes from Americans who support the UN. You will be surprised, as I was. Our children are being programmed in government schools to accept the legitimacy and authority of the UN, and this does not bode well for the future of this country. I urge you to read this book and, if you want to stay current, subscribe to The New American.

This book reveals the evil forces behind the United Nations. It is not a club of well-meaning, idealistic Christians. The founding of the UN has been the work of Communists. In truth the UN is an organization that has been leading a global campaign against: - the Christian family - traditional Biblical values - the nationhood of America The UN is the world's anti-people planner. How can an organization be so presumptuous that it makes guidelines for world population? This tyranny needs to be ended. Distributing contraceptives to teenagers without parents' consent, and moving the world to an antichristian New World Order. If you are pro-life, pro-family, and pro-gun, then you need to read this book to grasp that this global organization is against your freedoms. The UN is busy promoting abortion, destruction of the family, and eradication of Biblical religion in the name of "social progress". Since I read that book, I am an absolute UN opponent. The world would be a better place without that kind of an organization. What I like about this book is William Norman Grigg's strong Christian conviction that is revealed on every page. He says the truth: the world's only hope for peace is not the United Nations, but it is Jesus Christ! He is the Prince of Peace the Bible says!

Thanks to this book, I am becoming an avid bird-watching. Together with my binoculars, I now have the tools I need to identify most every bird I see in my backyard or when I'm out hiking. An excellent resource.

This is a very useful little book. We bought this because we live in Seattle and recently bought a bird feeder that's now being visited by all kinds of birds. The book is really helpful - it starts with a few pages of info about how to attract birds to your garden and then the rest of the book has colour pictures of birds on the right-hand side page and writing about them on the left. The birds are organized by type, but also by colour which makes them pretty easy to identify. I think this is a great book for beginners like me who just want to know roughly who's feeding in their garden!

This little field guide (6" x 4") is great for carting around. The west edition covers the states west of the Rockies very well. The full color book begins with a foreward about attracting birds. The next few pages describe how ot look at a bird, how to read the range maps, and how the birds are organized in this guide. And then here comes the birds! On each left bage, there is a catergorized column with the catergory name at top (catbird and bluebirds, chickadees and titmice, crowned sparrows, etc.), followed by range maps and a cool fact. On the ajoining right page, the birds are shown (male and/or female and/or juvenile). I think this is a great little field guide.

Wonderful, moving, complex, compassionate. There are several astute reader comments already written in reviews for this book on this site so I will just add one thing. In addition to being an astonishingly well-crafted portrait of Nazi society, of individual dreams and disappointments under a cruel dictatorship, I believe that Eldred-Grigg has written Kaput! as a mirror for the reader to examine his or her own life--somewhere in this vast novel, if we are honest, we can all find someone like ourselves--and to realize that each choice we make, each of our relationships, provides us with the opportunity to affect the lives of those around us in either positive or negative ways. So often readers hold books at arms' length; it is easy to pass judgment on others, whether on characters in a book, or on our neighbors. Few books combine brilliant story-telling with profound moral value. Kaput! is one such book.

The book starts slowly with the daily life of Aryan women in Berlin on the verge of World War Two. We meet the 'nice' young wife Betty, her outrageous mother Klara, her dedicated Nazi neighbor Frau Grau, and a whole host of other varied characters. Afterwards we follow all these new friends and enemies through the War. You start to dread the day when the Allies will begin dropping bombs on your new friends. The day comes, and soon your friends start to be crippled, murdered ... by the good guys, the Allies! The themes and characters of the novel are timeless. The book deals with love, trust, power. We encounter generosity and selfishness, kindness and cruelty, desperation and passion. You need to be patient with the book, though. Think of it as a longterm investment for your mind and your heart. No one is murdered or falls madly in love on the first page, and it takes quite a few chapters for the action to pick up. But pick up it does, and accelerates into a ravagingly powerful novel from there.

This novel is the greatest read I've come across for years. It's tough, it's gritty, it's intelligent like very few works of fiction - but it's full of warmth and gentle irony.

It's a story about women. But it's not just a typical 'woman's book.' It's about war and death and babies and fighting to stay alive and dancing to the sound of swing in wartime Berlin.

Nobody has ever told this story till now! I've always been fascinated by the question of what it was like to be an ordinary kind of woman who had the bad luck to live inside the 'Evil Empire' of Nazi Germany. And the bad luck to live under the bombs dropped by us Allies. Lots of books have come my way telling me about what it was like to be a heroic resistance fighter, or a persecuted Jew, under the German Reich. I've never till now read a book about living, feeling, confused civilian women - women like you and me - who're too busy trying to put food on the table and cope with the bombs to be able to be heroic. Maybe theirs is the real heroism.

A group of great characters - bossy snobbish mother, wisecracking sister-in-law, cute kid, lots and lots of characters, all centered on the wonderfully deftly portrayed Betty. Betty's a young mother, and she's the heart of the story.

Beautifully written, without being smartly arty. You can tell that each word has been carefully chosen, but you don't have to slow down to admire the artistry. You just want to keep reading, because you care - you care about the characters, you care about their lives, and you come to care about the whole big rowdy city of Berlin.

A big book, too - and you don't find a lot of really 'big' books these days. It's the sort of book you lose yourself in for days or weeks, coming to know all the characters. And it's a shock to emerge from reading the pages and realise you're empathising with the people your parents or grandparents were told to hate and fear during the Second World War.

A beautiful, readable work that has heaps to say to anyone interested in women and war.

Unlike other translations I've read, this version doesn't seem stilted or precious. It's clear, digestible while preserving poetic grace and style. The introduction is well worth reading before you get to the guts of the book. I keep buying copies because I seem to give this one away a lot.

This interpretation of the Tao Te Ching is poetic, meaningful, and moving. It is in no way "new agey". This translation, in my opinion, is far superior to the Stephen Mitchell translation. I don't know why that book has so many more comments than this one. I highly recommend this version above the Mitchell book.

This is a great book for two reasons. The first reason is Ray Grigg's translation of the Tao Te Ching itself. There will never be a definitive English translation, but Ray Grigg manages to bring it alive for modern Western readers. He ignores the literal sense of the original Chinese in order to convey the sense and underlying meaning of the message.

Secondly, his description of the history of the Tao Te Ching and the difficulties in translating the text provide a further valuable insight. I highly recommend this book.

I recently had the honor of meeting Ricky at a conference on ocean science at the Scripps Instituion of Oceangraphy where I work as a writer and where Grigg was a grad student. Ricky is a true hero; rare these days, and I believe one of the last of the genuine Great Watermen of the '60s. If I could climb inside a book and live there, this might just be it!

It's not just that Ricky Griggs (aka Richard Griggs) is a world-renowned expert in the geography, formation, and function of coral reefs. It's that he happens also to be a nearly life-long surfer, and this book is a perfect example of bringing passion to one's practice of geography (and consensual relations; the title is an exquisite double-entendre). There are some wild turns.

It's a beautiful book, and one also consumately energetic. The color plates show someone who has lived in Hawai'i through the modern evolutions of surfing. That he did it as a famed scholar is all the more amazing. This is a better book that Kary Mullis's autobiographical tome (*Dancing Naked in the Mind Field*) -- and were I asked, as a betting man, to wager on who's the better surfer, I'd settle on the esteemed Prof. Griggs in the proverbial New York minute. A majorly fine read.

This book fell into my hands at the store. I was weeding through the patch of offerings on subjects like Tao and Zen when, literally, this book fell into my hands. I peeked. I had the sense the the author knew how to organize his subject and so I took it home and began to read immediately.

I have a Ph.D. in History, so the first part of the book, the history part, was relatively easy to get through, even though there were a lot of unfamiliar names in unfamiliar languages. The author keeps the number of names one needs to remember to a minimum.

The second half of the book is about the doctrines. It is a gem beyond compare!! It is succinct, there is no mystification added by the author to skip over things he does not himself understand, and it is to the point. These three are rare in the field.

This could be a text, but I think it is better thought of as a "home companion." Beyond a doubt, Grieg has mastered the unmasterable and spoken the ineffable.

The most definitive and readable work on Zen that I've ever read. In all my years as a student of Zen Buddhism (Soto), I've had a difficult time with the sutras and other Buddhist doctrine. Yet, I continued to enjoy the practice and the members at the Zendo where I studied. I often commented that I felt more a "Zennist" than a Buddhist, but was unable to describe or define the feeling..... Then I stumbled on Mr. Grigg's book. I'm re-reading it now, for the third time in one year. Mr. Grigg's history of Zen and the split with the sixth patriarch:Hui-Neng, was one of the best "enlightenments" I've experienced in my studies. I'd die to study with Mr. Grigg! I'm heading for a small island off B.C.!!

My reading has included various Buddhist doctrines, even some Tibetan, but the earliest Zen and original Tao have rung truest for me while Buddhism feels too much like the idle promises of organized religion. As soon as I began this book I knew Ray Grigg had done the work of "proving" a hypothesis that Alan Watts and Thomas Cleary often suggest.

This is a bright book with beautiful photography that will keep you looking, however, it wonderfully distills plant information into a concise and useful format that will keep you gardening. No mumbo jumbo or trying to beat you over the head with how difficult or how much of a green thumb you need to plant these flowers and have hummingbirds attracted to your garden. Makes me think we all could do it!!!

The most useful gardening book I've ever purchased. It's not only beautiful to look through (the images alone are worth the price) but the information is presented in such a clearly understandable manner. Site specific recommendations, pertinent info at your fingertips, it's well organized and easy to glance through for a quick tip or answer to a question. But the first-person stories of the authors' own experiences are what makes this book a standout. It's not only a useful read, but an interesting one, as well.

The presentation of information is well organized, easy to read which will appeal to the general public. Having a southern california hummer garden I especially liked the section on plants. I will use this section as a reference as i add plants to my garden.

This book should be available in nurseries and gardens where books on birds and plants are available for purchase.