I loved this book. I was impressed with Jolie's strength and the way she got
on with her life despite the fact she lost Alvin when he broke up with her.
Jolie had a lot of stress and trauma to deal with at a young and
impressionable age. She seemed to have had some issues with trust but
resolved those issues. I particularly like the fact that Jolie was
non-judgemental towards her young brother and was so supportive of him and
his girlfriend. Alvin is a guy who despite the macho world of professional
sports, showed a wonderful sensitive side towards everyone. Youngsters,
friends and family alike. A number of the problems Jolie and Alvin faced
came from outside forces, out of their control, but despite these, both
ended together happily ever after. A great plus for readers who love
basketball as well as a terrific romance story!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the romantic tension bewteen the 2 main characters. It's a great story about love lost through miscommunication, and how fate eventually brings you back to the one you love. Ms. Martin-Arnold knows how to write good romance!!

I recently read "Jolie's Surrender", and I found it to be most enjoyable. I usually do not read romance novels, however, "Jolie's Surrender" has converted me. The novel consist of an extremely well written plot, instead of the usual 'moan scenes'. Although those types of scenes are there, they are well placed, and within the flow of the story. After reading "Jolie's Surrender", and reading the reviews for "Eve's Prescription", I am defintiely going to run out and buy it! I highly recommend both books!

even thoughi'm fifteen, I LOVED THIS BOOK!
Karen's dad said she could have a sleepover. But, when Nancy Dawes tattles on her for doodling in her school math book, Karen gets mad. Nancy thinks she didn't get an invitation, (because it got lost in the mail.) but when she gets it, Karen un-invites her and invites the new girl named Pamela Harding to her sleepover instead. But Pamela turns out to ba a snot. She thinks The Wizard Of Oz is a baby movie, (It Isn't.) And she says pizza gives her bad breath. Karen feels so bad, she Re-invites Nancy. It's a great book...

This book was way too cool! I enjoyed every moment of it.I think it was great and I am planning to have a sleepover soon,it sounds like fun.When karen has decided to have a sleepover,she fights with her best friend nancy and she does not invite nancy to her sleepover.Instead Pamela comes and now karen needs nancy's help to stop Pamela from ruining all the fun.I think this book was lovely.

The story takes place at Karen's house. Nancy, Pamela and Karen are the main characters. Karen is a nice girl. She is in the second grade. She has lots of friends. She is funny, but, sometimes she can be serious. Karen and Nancy get into a fight, so when Karen has her sleepover, she does not invite Nancy. Karen wants Nancy's help with solving problems that come up at the sleepover with Pamela. I think this book is fun to read because it was about girls who are always having fun adventures together. Karen has nice friends that look up to her. There was nothing I did not like about the book. Karen is the most interesting character. I learned a lot of things from reading this book. One thing I learned is instead of ignoring my friends when I get mad, I should talk it over. I also learned that nobody likes mean and spoiled people. Lastly, I learned that sleepovers are lots of fun. I would like to read other books by this author like Karen's Cartwheel, Karen's Pumpkin Patch and Karen's Secret.

I read the Q&A section of this book, and the very next day I was hired for the highest paying position I ever had! It doesn't give you answers, but instead it shows you what employers are looking for

Bravo !!! This book got me a job almost right away. The book clearly cut the crab out and points out directly to the important objectives. The book will also prepared you to all questions that are crucial to be hire. Everyone who seeks a job need to read this book, if you want to be hired. Study the book carefully and most important, excersize and try to imagine what questions that are most likely going to be ask. My personal opinion; it is YOU who is in control in the interview instead of the other person.

After using this book as a reference and recomending it to many others; I now have the need to use it while looking for a new position. After rereading it for the 4th time I again found new and useful information that I should be aware of during the job hunting/interviewing process. If anyone is currently looking for a job, or is tentative in their job - get this book today. It is easy to read and give a great many down to earth tips.

Reinhold Niebuhr's small book, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic, is perhaps his most famous and popular book. It has informed and helped to shape the lives and ministries of seminarians, educators, ministers and other prophetic and ethical people since it was first published early in this century. Niebuhr recounts with astonishing honesty the difficulties facing those who would do ministry, and act ethically, in the church today. His criticism is not held back from any sacred topics.

'I make no apology for being critical of what I love. No one wants a love which is based upon illusions, and there is no reason why we should not love a profession and yet be critical of it.'

Niebuhr talks about the shock of coming to realise the limitations of his ministry, going from being a fresh-from-seminary full-of-grace minister to a person confronting another person in the 'real world'. He talks about

'...the difficulty of acting as priest. It is not in your power to determine the use of a symbol. Whether it is a blessing or a bit of superstition rests altogether with the recipient.'

This real world also presents problems. Parishioners tend to ask practical questions, rather than theoretical ones. They ask, Why won't Jesus heal me? Didn't he heal others? It is in the Bible, after all.

'I do believe that Jesus healed people. I can't help but note, however, that a large proportion of his cures were among the demented.'

He talks about the practical limitations of doing ethical ministry and prophesy for the average pulpit preacher.

'I am not surprised that most prophets are itinerants. Critics of the church think we preachers are afraid to tell the truth because we are economically dependent upon the people of our church. There is something in that....'

Finally, Niebuhr comes to have realistic expectations of the church and his own ministry in it.

'The church is like the Red Cross service in war time. It keeps life from degenerating into a consistent inhumanity, but it does not materially alter the fact of the struggle itself. The Red Cross neither wins the war nor abolishes it.'

Niebuhr in this small work has given great insight. Barely 150 short pages of his journal from 1915-1928 as a parish minister--although he became much better known as a philosopher in later years, this book is most likely his best seller, and the one with the most profound day-to-day impact for his readers.

A must-read for anyone with a calling to ministry; a should-read for anyone in a helping and caring profession. It gives insight into how to remain human and fallible in the face of a congregation's (and one's own!) expectations of holiness and godly perfection.

This is a collection of Neibuhrs short essays. Each one stands on its own as a reflection of reality as applicable today as it was decades ago. I like it so much I am rationing it, reading one or two essays a day and stopping to think about the lesson in each one. These are sermons that are not "preachy" recognizing the human frailities and what should be expected of us. A book for the ages in my opinion

In this marvelous book, which has graced my library for more than forty years, Professor Niebuhr shows himself as a young pastor who grows into his Detroit working "man's" parish. He courageously confronts his struggles, inward and outward.

He writes with a wit that I didn't always find in his more explicitly theological writings. I particularly identified with an early observation, "It is easier to speak sagely from the pulpit than to act wisely in the detailed tasks of the parish."

Another early observation shows him realizing what most of us must experience in our youthful ministries, when he speaks of repeating himself in the pulpit, noting, "A prophet speaks only when he is inspired. The parish preacher mus speak whether he he is inspired or not. I wonder whether it is possible to live on a high enough plane to do that without sinning against the Holy Spirit."

I would whole-heartedly recommend this book for any young pastor.

Jessi is accepted to Dance New York for a three week time span. She feels sad about leaving her friends but when she gets there she feels she's in another world. After three weeks is up of dancing at the acadamy she given a chance to dance there permanently now she has two choices stay with her friends or follow her dream.

In here, Jessi Ramsey, an eleven year old fantastic ballerina, is offered the chance for a two-week class in New York--a dancing class! Go Jessi! And it's away from school! So Jessi is psyched and all her friends in the Babysitters' Club will miss her but they are excited for her as well. When she gets to the city, she is reunited with an old friend and makes new ones, plus she's staying with her cousin and his wife. They're very nice to her. She also likes it that they're artists and her cousin's wife plays the piano! New York City is very exciting but everyone's waiting for Jessi at home--right? Plus Jessi wants to go back--right?

Wrong. Jessi is accepted to be in the full-time program for the experts and has a very tough choice to make: her #1 goal or her friends and family back in Stoneybrook, Connecticut? What will she decide to do?

This is the first book about Jessi since book #103 Happy Holidays, Jessi. It was really good though. Jessi gets accepted into Dance New York, a excellant ballet school. She gets to work with one of her heroes, is reunited with Quint, and makes great new friends! Jessi love living in the city and has a hard time coming back. Meanwhile at home Mallory misses Jessi like crazy! Becca is furious at Jessi for leaving her. This book really tells you that home is where the heart is. I loved this book and I hope you do to! :)

As a one-time bookstore owner, I still recognize reader appeal, and this book has it! It's a romantic adventure, a finding himself novel, but most of all (and the best part to me), it is a spiritual book. The American Indian Spirituality is particularly effective and moving. I highly recommend this book.

The Journal of Martin Quinn: a Mythopoetic Quest presents as a "man's book" but we women can appreciate it too. Through the eyes of the protagonist we learn what it is to move through different cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions and philosophical states of mind. Martin's brains, looks and personality open doors for him wherever he travels, yet his private angst makes of him a perpetual outsider, trapped in a bleak interior landscape where the love he seeks is perpetually out of reach.

Reed's depictions of intertwined lives ring true, whether deployed in the arid beauty of the American Southwest or in exploding crucibles of conflict in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Joel Reed has the rare gift of being able to portray the thoughts, feelings and experiences of non-mainstream characters with a startling immediacy that deconstructs facile assumptions about "Us" and "Them".

I believe this book can engage and intrigue readers along an extended continuum, ranging all the way from fanciers of Carlos Castaneda's mysticism to devotees of the hard-edged journalism of Ruark and Hemmingway. Yet, there is much in this text which speaks to the alchemy of human relationship, and which resonates with very different bodies of literary work entirely -- such as those of Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison.

Anyone who came to adulthood, wish they had, parented one, or are perplexed by them, will not be able to put down The Journal of Martin Quinn. Understanding the manchild in the Chihuahuan Desert has been attempted but never as successfully as by this Reed guy.

When I was younger (when the book first came out) I couldn't read this enough times! All of Ann M Martin's books have been a joy to read. I have obviously outgrown the Little Sister series, but I've read some of her other books as well. At the time I read it, I just loved it. I'd reccomend for younger girls, 8 and under.

I was 10 when I read this. It is a great way to teach kids about the aspects of caring for a horse in a fun way. It also teaches the value of friendship. p.s I'm not really 12 I'm fourteen but I can't use the adult's form.

I just like this book because Karen and her friends Hannie and Nancy go to Pony Camp.And her pony Bluebell is going to camp.The other campers tease she and her friends,their names are Casey and Mary Grace.

This is definitely one of Ann M. Martin's best mysteries. Ireally like this book because it's so well written. A mansion has beenrobbed in Stoneybrook and the BSC is on the case. This book has aninteresting plot and a very surprising ending. END

I think this was a GREAT book! I don't particularly like mysteries, so I was very glad when this book came out. Kristy and the Cat Burglar kept me wondering who the culprit was until the very end! You should DEFINATLY read this book!

This is one of the top five! Kristy is walking home one day and hears glass breaking. What could it have been? Kristy(of course) has to investigate. She finds out that a buglary has taken place. Kristy and the BSC begin to investigate, and find out they are dealing with pros. Then the police arrest a VERY surprising person. To find out more read the book.

This is by far one of the best fictional books about aerial warfare. One of the more interesting aspects of 'The Last Dogfight' is the way in which the plot evolves to show both sides of the conflict, without actually taking an amoral approach to which view is right or wrong. It leaves the reader with a deeper sense of understanding of the conflict as a whole. A masterful piece of writing that deserves to be in any collection; and well worth the money. ;)

Possibly, the very last of their kind, gallant WWII Air Warriors, pitting each other's country, skills, beliefs and raw emotions. From the very beginning to their "Last Gunfight at the Ok Corral of the skies".

No other book or, story comes as close as Martin Caidin's "The Last Dogfight" which will inspire readers of past, present and future. Leaves the reader with a balanced feeling for both sides and, a reflection as to what the "Greatest Generation" was really about. A MUST for any future writer and/or our young generation that needs a honest example of our valiant past's valiant warriors.

I read this book years ago, when I was a teenager. It was one of the best books I'd read up until then, and remains as such to this day. Though strictly fictional, it's depth and detail bring a genuine sense of reality to it's pages. I have recommend this book countless time to friends with an interest in fighter aces and their aircraft, because it's such a well written piece. If the closest you ever get to the controls of a fighter is reading this book, you could do a lot worse. I highly recommend it!

For more years than Rush Limbaugh has been alive, Martin Duberman has been writing about the cause of social justice for everyone. In "Left Out", he superbly shares his essays and thoughts over the last 35 years. Whether he's battling the neos over freedom for Gays and civil rights for blacks, whether he's twisting arms to write a book on the not-so-moral outlook on a good ol Southern boy, the works are solid and lively. A very clear and persuasive argument and reasoning why the Left is the only place left for those who care. Remember that from womens to civil to gay rights, the Left was on the right side and the conservatives were in the wrong. Do not miss this book thats not afraid to state that clearly and eloquently!

Martin Duberman fully and completely erases the false distinction between scholar and activist, and shows how a clear moral vision must inform scholarship, and how only good scholarship can make for persuasive political activism. These essays, ranging over a thirty year period, reveal that it's the left in American where true patriotim and love of country reside, because only on the left is the belief that America can do better, and actually live up to its promise. Duberman has sustained this posture of compassion and refined his scholarly erudition for over 30 years. Whether discussing women, blacks, gays and lesbians, Duberman's moral sensibility is unfailing. In these times of ironic resignation and crass if trendy cynicism, his consistent vision is inspiring.

Martin Duberman writes with a combination of persuasive scholarly research and a strong sense of personal passion. This book is a thoughtful collection of his essays exploring so many different and important issues. What makes this book so interesting for me is the fact that these essays were written over the last 35 years,helping the reader understand not only the complexity of many of these issues, but the social environment at the time each essay was written. Duberman's insight and empathy come alive. Duberman's introduction, and his notes throughout the book, enhance each essay. His "leftist" spirit has not waned, and these essays are not only well written pieces with important messages, but they are a tribute to Duberman as an important figure voicing the concerns of those who were "left out" in the last 35 years, today, and for the next 35 years!