Perhaps winter in Northern Michigan brings out my desire to prove to myself that there ARE people in the world who are colder than I am, and that's why I have been reading mystery novels with Alaska settings. Whatever the reason, "A Deadly Quiet" is one of the best I've read in recent months. Christopher Lane's prose is masterful, and evocative of the shivering stillness and sheets of snow. The characters are sharp against the landscape, and the setting is unusual and intriguing. I recommend this book: it's well written and suspenseful. Perfect for a quiet evening by a fire!

With a minimum of apparent editorial intrusion, Dear Mother... compiles a huge number of letters from Georgia soldiers in the Civil War. They range from the ridiculous to the sublime. Spelling and grammar do seem to have been edited, and it's impossible to tell what has been done to the content, but I trust they are essentially unadulterated and thus represent a useful source. The only real complaint I have about the book is that in most cases the rank and unit of the letter-writer is not given, making analysis a little harder.

The third and fianal decalog with the doctor in it. ...And Eternity in a hour is one of those stories that starts well but ends in a bad way. Moving On is a great story with out a doctor but it has sarah and k-9 in it but it is the last k-9 story and ends in surprise. Tarnished Image is one of the best First Doctor stories in the decalogs and it is made in the form of a newspaper articles. Past Reckoning is not a good story. UNITed We Fall is the second best story in this book , the doctor in new york is a nice idea. Aliens and Predators is very bad. Fegory is the second best Gareth Roberts short story and is very good. His Chelonians' are not as good as normal. Ccontinuity Errors is the best and greatest story in all the decalogs. Can not say it all. Timevault is a good fourth doctor story but it fails in the plot. Zeitgeist is not one of craig Hintons' best stories. Again Craig Hinton has done some thing wrong to the TARDIS and the doctor is trying to find it. All in All this is a great book.

Two men and two women, all mentally ill, meet in a desolate French convalescent hotel and become their own tiny insular society. They spend much of the book engaging in conversations and semierotic acts which seem utterly pregnant with meaning despite lacking any sort of meaningful foundation whatsoever. This book is built around a whirling nihilistic emptiness which grows more and more pronounced as it proceeds. In the final pages the void roars in every word. Minimal, terrifying.

The interview with Duras that constitutes the second half of the book ranges from the provocative to the opaque.

A Minor Opposition (Romance) Janet Lane Walters New Concepts Publishing - June 1999 ISBN: 189029951 - CD Rom

Laurel Richmond returns home from India with a raging fever and cough. Her best friend, Megan, was supposed to meet her at the airport, but sent her brother, Dr. Alex Carter, whom Laurel had a crush on when she was younger. Laurel faints and is taken to the hospital where she is diagnosed with pneumonia. She is ordered to stay in the hospital, which she is dead set against. She hated the hospital because of her parents' deaths and her months of painful rehabilitation. Alex convinces her to stay at least until her fever goes away. When she is released from the hospital, she goes to Alex's because he has a full time housekeeper to look after Laurel.

Laurel is still in love with Alex, and Alex has feelings towards Laurel, but he will not let those feeling develop. He distrusts rich women because of his first wife. Will Alex learn to trust Laurel? Come along on their rocky road and see if they can overcome their past scars and build a life together.

Janet Lane Walters has written a very warm and charming love story with characters that you feel connected to. You sense their sorrows as if they are your own. I would love to see another installment of these characters.

Pam Stone

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Swank chose the right time and place to write a book of baseball told to him by the men who played that game in the minor leagues in San Diego. He gets the former Padres to pour forth with the stuff that is still important in the memory of a now 70-something-year-old almost major leaguer. What is still a lingering joy, and what wounds are yet to be healed? These questions are answered in each of vignettes. The pleasure in reading the interviews is the honesty of the script--hearty and forthright, non-politically correct. Swank's choice of San Diego was perfect since he found many of the players still living there, and in the neighboring southwest sunbelt. The historians of San Diego should not overlook the value of this book. Swank has arranged the stories chronologically as the players appeared on the scene, and you can feel the mood of the country as it goes to war an underdog and returns victorious. There are lots of pictures of players and places, particulary the ball field itself. Swank constructed a scale model of the field, a tribute to his enthusiasm and dedication to this fine work.

This book brings back the many forgotten works of William Wurster. It balances the architect's story and illustrations well. I recommend this book to architecture enthusiasts who want to reach beyond mainstream architecture.

As an instructor of Accent Achievement for several years at corporate and educational settings, I can recommend this student book and teacher's manual as a follow up for a basic accent course for intermediate or even advanced student levels. It is also a great resource book and possible alternative text to the more popular Clear Speech by Judy Gilbert. I believe it requires a high level of expertise on the instructor's part because this text looks deceptively easier than the underlying principals represented in it. So to make it work as a tool, the instruct must be able to present it and supplement it effectively.

For the individuals looking for a self-study program, this is an especially good text when purchased with the cassettes and done as prescribed by the author. I believe that the benefit would be tripled as a self-study program, after an individual has completed some type of formal class with a trained instructor initially. I would recommend it for the high intermediate, advanced students and or those who have been in the US for 12+ years, again, if you pay close attention, know your target errors you need to work on and use the book with the tapes, it can be an effective self-study program.

As we follow the developing story of Minke, we watch his footsteps leave the place of the former story and begin to explore the outside world through the study of medicine. It is clear that this study will yield for him government employment and the opportunity to help his fellow people. At the same time this is happening, he is constantly aware and being made more aware by those around him of his own people and how little he knows about them since his preference for Dutch language and education i.e. the filter of colonialism prioritizes everything and weights it in a certain manner. Influences from a developing China, the Philippines and a budding new anticolonial spirit begin to flourish in the greater environment and bring freshness, humility and depth to concepts previously understood only in a colonial fashion. In Footsteps we watch Minke grow in consciousness, develop leadership skills and independence and begin to listen to a different drummer both in terms of who his people are, and what he might best do, for them and with them. His path is changed and word by word, experience by experience, we are present at the birth of an organizer, a political journalist and a nationalist critic.

Excellent guide for the more economy minded. Gave detailed suggestions for cheaper lodging, meals, sightseeing, etc. All up to date with fine reviews.