You can almost hear the water hitting the rocks of the Caney Fork River as you look at the photography of Howard Baker and John Netherton. The seasons may change but the canyon walls stand guard over this beautiful 10000 wilderness area on the Cumberland Plateau near Chattanooga, Tenn. Profits from the sale of the book go to the Bridgestone/Firestone Centenial Trust for maintenance of the area.

I was pleasantly surprised by this anthology of collected works by Barbara Baker. It gave an beautiful, rounded, poetic description of Shanghai from 700BC-Present by various, inspired authors. A must have book due to content and styles of writing.

Pastor Baker has well written and organized this book for pastors and ministers.
Every pastor and minister should definitely have this book in his or her personal library. In this book you will discover truths that they won't teach you in seminary. If you are an associate minister aspiring to become a pastor this book is for you. Pastor Baker covers these essential topics.
1.The Pastor as Pastor
2.The Pastor as Preacher
3.The Pastor as Teacher
4.The Pastor as Healer
5.The Pastor as Priest
6.The Pastor as Prophet-Servant

Please bless yourself and your ministry by gaining knowledge from this book.

Bless Your Spirit!
Rev. Matt Yarbrough, Jr.

As a teacher and sports fan, I found myself unable to put this book down. The book recounts the life of John Baker, an elementary teacher and track star, who was stricken with cancer at a young age. His stuggle to deal with the disease and continue his career, is an inspiration. In addition, you get to know his family and friends and how he helps them accept his disease. Reading this book will inspire you to not take what you have for granted and live for the moment!

a hardened bachelor editor runs up against a young irrestible would be author, she proves she can do the job, with heart, a returning fiance, a widowed sister-in-law add twists to this again delightful story by Emilie Loring. I have read most of her books and find up-to-date romances set in another time. In the style of romantic comedys of the forties They would have adapted well to the screen. When our hero Stanley Holbrook fall for our heroine Sherry Winthrop, he doesn't know what hit. Story has Loring's usual intigue this time a crooked politician, trying to take down our hero's newspaper by force and attempted kidnapping and arson. Again a nice book for a read by the fire.

Another terrific book by Nancy Baker Jacobs. THE SILVER SCALPEL has everything---an interesting plot, a likable, resourceful detective in Devon MacDonald, suspense, humor, and a dash of romance.

Be sure to read the two previous books in the series, THE TURQUOISE TATTOO and A SLASH OF SCARLET, as well as Ms. Jacobs' other suspense novels.

For the bi-lingual child or one trying to learn English or Spanish this is a wonderful CD and song book. Favorite songs include the Little Red Hen, which most people will recognize as a story from childhood where none of the other animals will help the hen plant the wheat, weed the garden, or harvest the wheat but they all want to help eat the bread. Another fun song that was new to me was Little Parakeet. But it was so much fun that I found myself singing it over and over again. Professionally done and fun to sing to while learning or practicing another language, it is a delightful product to share with children.

As a teacher and youth minister, the Simulation Games series (books 1-4) are excellent resources. Most of the games are fun and applicable to life and can be used for kids 7-18. You have to expand on the breakdown sessionS but they bring up excellent discussion points and the students learn and have fun at the same time. I have used this series for 10 years and would not do without them.

Once again esteemed Professor Colin Baker of Glamorgan University in Wales, utilized his outstanding research capability and clarity of expression to bring to life another of Nyasaland's last three British governors. Dr. Baker's accurate and vibrant depiction of the earnest and dedicated Sir Glyn Jones, the last Governor/Governor General of the Protectorate, is a highly readable tribute to a most skillful and tenacious Civil Servant.

Since I knew Sir Glyn and the book's entire cast of characters for many years, I have a particularly keen sense of appreciation of this biography. The reader will be absorbed with Sir Glyn's masterful orchestration of colonial Nyasaland's transition to independent Malawi, tactfully working with the brilliant but mercural Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, Malawi's Founding Prime Minister then President, outraged European settlers, bumbling Colonial Office officials at Whitehall and the jealous Nyasa elite vying for personal power.

Professor Baker's outstanding books are written against a background of exceptional documentation and scholarship, yet are all thoroughly enjoyable reads by anyone interested in British Colonial and/or African history. Once begun , you cannot and will not put them down!