This was a wonderful reading experience. A view of Bahamian life in the earlier part of this century. A worthwhile read for every Bahamian and non-Bahamian.

This pictorial book is a splendid representation of the beauty of the Chester County Pennsylvania country. It makes a wonderful addition to any coffee table - your guests will love it and it will inspire them to discover the many attractions that are available to them. Red Hamer has captured the essence of the unspoiled beauty of the nature, history, architecture, culture, and people of the area. This is one of four books, one for each season, that you will endear for a lifetime. Once you have looked in one book, you will want to see them all. What an investment!

I read this book and know the author personally. Both are works of genius.

My daughter LOVED this book. Sometimes I would hear her laughing from the other room as she read it. She would even bring up some of the issues she read about during dinner. She said that even though it was written by adults, it was presented in "her language" (funny, I thought she spoke English like the rest of us). She really liked the chapters by Mark Bernstein and Keith Hawkins in particular. Thanks for a great read. Go MAD is great!

Chester Eagle's first book, recently re-released under the title of "House Of Trees", takes us into East Gippsland in the 60's and traces the patterns of life in that small community in the far south east corner of Australia. Although posing as fiction, the real people are quite close to the surface. Indeed, many local identities were publicly outraged (but privately pleased) when they saw themselves in this book. But the book is more than a contemporary picture of life. As Chester explores the characters, the familiies and the dramas he uncovers their connections to the land and their connections to the past.

Moving further and deeper into the remote areas of East Gippsland, into the narrow valleys and decreasing populations, we are presented with an opportunity to gain glimpses of the past. These people of the land still have strong connections with the history of their tiny settlements and we find that they also have strong connections with each other.

The book is presented in two parts. The first part is a portrait of a most unusual person living and dying at Butcher's Ridge - north east of Buchan. The second part of the book is a rich landscape of people and places. It paints an evocative picture of East Gippsland in the 60's.

Hail and Farewell is now itself a part of our history. It is an accurate representation of a world fast disappearing.

All right, right up front, let me say that no veteran of the Pacific War and no one who was deeply moved by it should miss this book! First, Hap, the navigator/bombardier, introduces you to the eleven crew members on his B-29, the Rover Boy, the five that survived the war and the six who didn't. The theme throughout the book is "completing the circle."He completes the circle with his crew. He finds where each is buried and what happened to each that survived. After that he completes the circle with the Japanese people and the mission over Tokyo that he didn't finish because he was shot down. He actually finds one of the "good guards" and a "good interpreter" that he knew when he was a prisoner. He finds the actual fighter pilot who shot him down. Two honorable warriors on opposite sides meeting after the war is always poignant. We, at kilroywashere.org appreciate that he only included the honorable ones. In fact, he says: ". . . I felt at ease being with the families and children and grandchildren of our former enemy. I do not feel that my feelings would be the same had some former despicable guards (Horseface, Watanabe, and several others) appeared in my range of vision." He also does not succumb to the revisionists who claim we were wrong to drop the atomic bomb. He quotes an actual document from the National Archives that proves that the Japanese planned to kill all prisoners. "Had an invasion (of Japan) taken place, every Allied POW of the Japanese would have been killed immediately. We knew that and sweated out each day. The atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved our lives." A great book! Don't miss it.

James Howe did it again. I'm a teacher and my students love all of the James Howe "Bunnicula" books! Perfect to read aloud. The children were happy to see their favorite characters involved in another adventure.

The author does and excellent job in an interesting manner on "how not to say Mass". It give the bad practices that are so often seen in parish liturgies. He gives a no nonsense approach to the liturgy and gives the reasons from Rubrics and the instructions of the Sacramentary on why things are done. He is not a liturgist by training but has done more than most liturgists in explaing the ritual(s) and making them more meaningful

Poignant, haunting, humorous.
This memoir captures the agony of youth with brilliance, restraint, and plaintiveness. So much is conveyed using so little ink. This is the memoir, the graphic story, Zen art at its finest. One of my favorite books.

This is a great book not only for enhancing your negotiation skills, but also general everyday management skills.