I was at the lowest place in my life when someone gave me a copy of Pastor Cain's book, "The Blessing is in Your Hands". It changed my life. I started reading it and I couldn't put it down. I have read it over and over again. I am presently reading it and I am on my 10th time. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy. If you are believing God for a miracle, especially in the area of finances, this is the book for you!

This anthology consists of nineteen well-written new stories that focus, for the most part, on how everyday people react when pushed over the edge. The contributions are fun to follow as each story adheres to the premise though the scenarios differ between the contributions. This in turn leads to the reader in several cases placing themselves in the precarious situations in order to ponder how they would have acted. The authors are some of the leaders of the mystery/suspense genre and obviously everyone took the tasking seriously to the benefit of the audience. The trouble with this book is that the tales are so good this reviewer broke a personal commandment of reading no more than three shorts a day (to fully savor a collection), but this time finished BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS in one sitting as will most readers.

Harriet Klausner

Some might find it biased, but a very good book to read to get the Serbian Royalist Chetnik perspective of World War Two and their strugles against the Communist Partizans, Nazi's and Fascist Croatia.

I have read a lot of Westerns , Mountainman books , but this is one of the best so far .

This story broke my heart. My family has served at Weirton Steel for over three generations from the ranks of the hourly to the in-house engineering staff, to the management team. The account of Phil Smith has been known for a while, but this is the first time I have seen it in print. Hopefully, business students will take these events to heart to prevent a future tragedy such as this.

The stories of America's struggle for independence and the European wars against Napoleon's empire are well known, but the campaigns of Bolivar, San Martin and O'Higgins in South America have not been studied to the same extent in the English-speaking world and have rarely provided background for historical novels in English. Patrick Wilson Gore is breaking new ground, therefore, with this look at the role that Americans and Europeans played in Bolivar's campaigns. Bolivar's Right Hand is a fast-paced book, well-written by someone who knows his military history. Jack Hardhammer is a hero cut from the same cloth as Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.

Marjorie Saiser is a Nebraska wordsmith. Whispers of the Niobrara, Keya Paha, Platte, and prairies run rich through her poems. I felt a poignant fullnes in my heart while reading this book, because the author sees life as it was and is. Nothing blocks her view of beauty, joy, despair, the supernatural or commonplance when Ms. Saiser puts her words to paper.

In "Once", she tells of her father taking her mother's picture. It's a picture the young husband will carry with him to war:

...crossing the equator, a plains boy in New Guinea
carrying among the baby pictures my
mother young and true and lovely,
long legs bared to the sun.

Learning of her daughter's pregnancy in "We Get the News" far outstrips the news of car bombings and business as usual:
Flower in my daughter's narrow body,
I want to think there is that which prevails.

A deformed chick is the object lesson in "I Let My Daughter Down":
...Something happened,
I say, in the egg. My daughter's eyes
are lovely. Fairness. A chance
for everybody. She names him
Pegasus.

Marjorie Saiser sees love everywhere - in old photographs and letters, in fields, mountains and oceans, by the perfume counter at Dillard's, in once strong hands that falter - and shares that love with us.

Ms. Saiser writes - creates - with a very fine hand.

One of the most truly useful books to come along in a long time. This book needs to be in the hands of every elementary teacher. The ideas are useful, practical and easy to implement. Once more, all of the suggestions that I have used in both my elementary class and my masters college classes have been met with success. They show ways to bring the joy back into learning in this test concious atmosphere. As adjunct faculty to Nova Southeastren University in Ft. Lauderdale, I recommend this book to all of my college students as a source they must have. It is always wonderful to see a book by real teachers for teachers. My thanks to them for sharing some of their "tricks of the trade" that make them such successful teachers. Education needs more like them.

BOOKWORKS: Making Books by Hand is published by Carolrhoda Books of Minneapolis, and so filled with projects that adults working with children may want to be selective in suggesting something simple like a collage & accordion book as a first step.

Whatever is chosen from the many varied examples is bound to be colorful and fun and give confidence which will lead to more complicated creations. Making the paper is a wonderfully squishy adventure which surprises and delights most beginners, even adults. Coloring or marbelizing paper is exciting,too. Sometimes words just tumble from one's imagination and soon the young artists have stories to write down, and perhaps decorate with block prints.

Gwenyth Swain introduces many interesting facts about the history of book-making, and you will feel the enthusiasm of the children pictured as they learn to make something "from scratch." The Minnesota Center for Book Arts offers classes to hundreds of lucky students but your library or community arts group could sponsor similar workshops. Participants could experiment with pop-ups for greeting cards, and make small bound books for special gifts. Their imaginations will suggest projects you can add in the back of the book.

I use this book in my classes that I teach on witchcraft it is a very practical book