Brady Stoner makes me cry when I think of his manly sensitivity to the women in his life. The characters are so real and inspiring, yet great fun too. I'd love to be like Lynda Austin. I understand there's two more books in the series and definitely will be looking for those too!

The Lost Manuscript of Martin Taylor Harrison is one of my favorite books. The other two books in this series are my other favorites. I like this book because it is real. It is about real people with real problems which is a quality sometimes hard to find in books. Love it!

Love it! Love it love it loveit!!!!!!!!!!:

I was given this book during my travels in Europe. The title scared me off quite a bit. But boredom on trains drove me to reading it. Am I ever glad I did. It was hilarious! I couldn't put it down. When I was finished I read it again. This book is written for everyone. Easy to read funny ,and endearing. You find yourself rooting for your favorite of Melodys many suitors, and booing the ones you dislike. It is just an all around fun book !

There is a bit of Melody Paradise in all of us. She shows you how to keep positive and overcome the impossible, even in the muddiest of circumstances. This is an excellent story of mystical travellers who gather from all ends of the earth. The way Martin Millar jumps backwards and forwards in time kept me riveted right up to the last line. Absolutely loved it!

After reading this novel you would wish to encounter someone like Melody Paradise. Superb in every way, I couldn't put the damn thing down and there is nothing better than a happy ending. I went to see one of Martin's readings and he was better up close and personal. For ages after I couldn't get the book out of my mind...I hope there is another Millar book on it's way IMP Fiction!

Jane Conroy has returned to her hometown to teach ' and finds herself tormented by a sinister stalker with murder in mind. Frightened but determined to continue on and do the job she is there to do, Jane is continually watchful, but thankful the Lord has sent her her own guardian angel in Kyle Manning. Trouble is, Kyle Manning is a preacher's son and a police officer. And she simply couldn't trust the police. Not after what had happened to her father in the past. And she couldn't claim faith in the Lord, either. The only one she knew she could count on was herself. But there comes a time when one needs to surrender and lay your troubles at the feet of your Lord and Savior and ask for His help.

As the mysterious stalker continues to torment Jane, she finds her heart pulling her more and more to Kyle Manning and his loving parents. But can she take that leap? Can she let go and let God take over her concerns and troubles? Can she find faith and allow her heart to the man who has captured it with his tenderness and love?

This sweet, inspirational romance is a well-written treasure that readers will lose themselves in. Well developed characters and an intriguing storyline make this one for the keeper shelf.

Once more, Gail has done a masterful job of keeping her readers intrigued and turning the pages. You'll root for Jane as she tries to determine who the stalker is and for her and Kyle as their relationship grows into love. Don't miss this great read.

How much did I enjoy Gail Gaymer Martin's lastest Love Inspired Book, A Love for Safekeeping? I was almost late for my dentist appointment today because I was reading the last chapter at redlights and finally pulled off the road to finish it! Gail is a master storyteller and she keeps getting better and better. The tension builds as teacher Jane Conroy is treatened time and time again by her stalker. Even her policeman boyfriend, Kyle, can't resolve the mystery or fully protect her. At the same time, past disappointments threaten to sabbotage Kyle and Jane's relationship and they must both learn to trust in God's will for their lives. Get this book. You won't be disappointed!

Being bisexual and polyamory I was a tad sad that the bisexuals are hard to find in the book. Thus this is an excellent book for those who want personal insight into gay and lesbian families. Who want an honest and wonderful look at some fellow Americans and neighbors.

The book is just over 250 pages and consists of wonderful first person interviews and awesome photography. But what I was so moved by and what I hope the reader pauses to read and seriously reflect on is the authors opening text "I have a thin stack of photographs from my fiftieth birthday party. This morning I've drawn them from a crumpled white envelope to look at them for the first time since that evening..."

She then goes on to describe the photos which included her now grown sons and when they were ages seven and eight, and how the photo was taken just prior to her having to take them to her ex-husband who had "..wrested custody of them from me. He had had me declared an unfit mother, because I am a lesbian." How she saw them in her rearview mirror crying as she drove off..." This alone moved me to tears as it was and is such a profound note of how we have allowed the courts to treat people who stop lying and admit they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or polyamory. Thus the book is born and the new life of openness and light is given to society.

Look at the pictures and read the words you will see your neighbor, the aunt, uncle, sister, brother, friend. All hardworking and wonderful. Struggling with the same day to day issues every family struggles with. Professionals in law and medicine, engineering and academia. Blue collar and organic garden minded. All races, shapes and religions.

It is also a wonderful life giving reminder that here in the United States, if you have a birth family who doesn't love you as you deserve, that you have every [darn] right to choose new family from those amongst your friends who will make you feel loved, wanted and needed. This is such a human right and needs to be said more often.

What I enjoyed about this book is that it covered not only the people like me (gay, male, plans to have children), but it also gave me an insight into some others who have very different lives but the same issues of "alternative-ness." It actually contained a few surprises and gave me some ideas about how a family could be built from things I'd never considered before.

a look into the lives of different people. it makes one think that one in simular cercumstances is not alone.A infomative book that shows real people in real lives. well done!! It does need though, more family portrates of transgendered people. Im glad I waited over two monthes for this book.

I loved this book. I definately would recommend reading this story about Elaina and Ren Daniels. The story takes place 9 years later when Ren is out for revenge and in the middle of this, he ends up running into the very woman he was grateful to. The story goes on from there. I had fun reading this because throughout the book, Kat keeps you wondering about what happened 9 years ago and how Elaina was a part of Ren's past. It's nice to read a book and have so many emotions,including passion, about it. I think Kat does a great job with that! Thanks Kat.

Elaina engaged to be married to a man she doesn't love because she feels she owes a debt and that is her way of repayment, meets Dan Morgan, a man who looks very much like Ren Daniels, the man she fell in love with as a little girl. We find out early on that Dan is in fact Ren, returing to exact revenge for an accident that could have cost his and his brother's life. Ren also has obligations and commitments that he can't ignore. Therefore, this story is about two people who love each other (and realize it fairly early and not at the end) but are committed to others. I really enjoyed this story very much. I haven't read all of Ms. Martin's books but so far this is my favorite.

Elaina and Rey's story is amazing. Both are torn by duty - but united by love. If you're looking for a strong hero, hot romantic love scenes - this is the book for you.

What a hilarious book!I've read it a t least a hundred times and yet i cant help laughing the next time i read it!It is a really good book.My father had bought it in the 1970's and now it has been completely worn out.Unfortunately , no new copies are available.Such masterpieces should not get extinct!

This book will take you right back to your early years! In fact, as an adult you will actually understand more of Don Martin's jokes. I laughed so hard I almost fell down.

Captain Klutz is great. Sadly, my copy of this book (and of part II) was donated accidentally. Hopefully I can find another someday.

For anyone interested in world peace, Mary King's book, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action, is a must read.

In the post cold war era, the battling forces of conflict - war and negotiation - peace have changed. From 1945 to 1990, the United States/Soviet Union standoff shaped public policy. The absence of the super power conflict has created a void and the opportunity for regional controversies has emerged. The essence of Mary King's theme is to utilize the people-based non-violent practices of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as the major new forces for peace and conciliation.

Mary King's whole background and international experience makes her a unique voice. She cut her teeth in the 1960's in Mississippi, active in America's civil rights batles, working with Julian Bond and Martin Luther King, Jr. From there she has been one of the world's leading spokespersons and activists working on the international scene on behalf of women's rights, civil rights and peace. Her first book on civil rights in Mississippi won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Journalism.

Mary King has woven together photos, quotes and her own reflections in a manner reminiscent of the popular GANDHI THE MAN by Sri Eknath Easwaran. Her subject is broader, however, in that she gives us not only Gandhi and King but some of the more dramatic leaders of nonviolence in the modern world. The need for information and understanding about this subject and these people cannot be overstated. Mary King was superbly qualified to respond to that need, and she has done so beautifully in this volume. I agree with previous reviewers that it should be in the library of every school and college.

There are not nearly enough books published in English on the extremely important topic of nonviolent social action. I am a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and realize how very many publications there are that examine all aspects of the use of violence/force in international and inter-group relations. But sadly, few of those books give much sober assessment of the huge limitations there are on the effectiveness of coercion-based actions (e.g. in Kosovo, Bosnia, etc.) This book helps to provide an antidote to that. In addition to giving full descriptions of Gandhi's and Dr. MLK's thinking on the power of nonviolence, the author, Mary King, also provides some fascinating material about the effectiveness of nonviolent acts in more recent struggles.

I have written a regular column on global issues for 'The Christian Science Monitor' for nearly a decade now. In the past couple of years, I have also been blessed by the opportunity to work as a writer with an extremely inspiring group of Nobel Peace laureates, including the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, and others. (Based on that work, I wrote a book called "The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss our Global Future".) It was significant that nearly all the laureates I worked with mentioned both Gandhi and Dr. MLK--who was also himself a Nobel Peace Laureate--as prime inspirations in their own work and thinking. So I was looking for one reference book that I could use myself, and to which I could refer readers, that would provide a broad overview of the thinking of those two men. I was delighted to find it in Mary King's book, which ideally should be placed as a source-book in every high-school and community library in the country!

Wonderful book! If your into Martin's, this is a great read. This one's better than Walter Carter's book...

DO NOT HESITATE....to buy this book. It is a really great book. It takes you back, all the way to Germany and the Stauffer influence on Martin Guitar. It has all the different models and the history of changes taking place not only with the company but the effect upon the instruments they were building. Maybe I'm just crazy about acoustic guitars but now, I have a greater appreciation for this genuine American guitar company. Richard Johnston and Jim Washburn really did knock the dust off lots of cool Martin guitar memorabilia too. Inside the cover is and acknowledgement to Dick Boak as Consulting Editor, he is a Martin man through and through and wrote the text for Martin's Kit Construction book and drew the plans, I do believe. This is an authoritative book and great photos on most of it's 264 pages. Yeah, I kinda liked it, and you will too if you like acoustic guitars, especially Martins. Two thumbs up, Five Stars.

Like most guitar nuts I'm a Martin lover. I thought that enough books had been written about the company and there was nothing more to say. I'm happy to admit I was wrong. The writers went the extra distance getting personal stories and never before seen pictures of some of the most beautiful guitars ever made. Surprisingly, the authors also delved into the less than rosy times, labor disputes and the near end of one of the country's oldest family run businesses. The book is the type of "bible" that you can return to often and learn something new. I couldn't give it a higher recommendation.

Martin Prechel need to get in contact with the alive members of the music group Juljuj Tijaax to write and outspread the story. Especially Diego Tiney.

Prechtel's book is incredibly beautiful, describing the life, loves and rituals of a small town in Guatemala, Santiage de Atitlan and the changes that have occurred there. As a companion piece to the Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, which is equally profound, this book leads us away from the Shamanistic and into the everyday life of these beautiful people. The book is full of the wisdom of the past regarding such things as marriage, teenage years, birth and death. My emotions and memories of the indiginous peoples of this land are brought vividly to mind in this book. I have lived and worked for many years with Pueblo people and am struck by the many similarities of belief and ritual.Prechtel is a fantastic writer who keeps one wanting more!

This being third in the sequence of Martin Prechtel's books that I'd read this year, completion of the triptych brought my understanding to critical mass/tears in view of how much has been lost in Guatemala's entry to the 21st century. However, these writings make it highly probable that the loss is not complete, or unmourned. His books embody the very processes he tells of; for example, his mention of customs which are made to be broken: people's learning the significance of who breaks them, how, and when they are broken or allowed to be broken strengthens the culture.* His own experience of out of sequence initiation illustrates this, but beyond that, the fluidity with which he passes between poetic and humorous storytelling and epilogues in a more philosophical tone invites inner dialogue in the reader. He is well aware of the modern consumer mentality as a ghost layer mimicing an underlying spiritual void, when he taunts the readers at the outset that many will voraciously consume his books and move on, without fulfilment. *This realization is the most important one passed from mentor to initiate in any culture. My mentor at the same period (the 1970's)was a halfway-house worker who realized and taught others that we were not there to enforce a culture on the mentally ill, but rather light-heartedly yet seriously to help them draw the line as to what they could expect to get away with and more importantly, not get away with, in this life, and to plan accordingly. Indigenous music and language being preserved and used in their celebratory (if no longer ritual) uses may be all we have left to work/play with. Prechtel does well to begin his story with his introduction to Mayan music. The depths have not yet been plumbed as far as the role music plays in initiation, since the printed word is not the right medium to convey this. It struck me as wonderful that a Peruvian flute band were playing their hearts out last weekend in Portland, Maine, at the last visit of the Tall Ships- a proper "send-off" to the ghosts of Conquistador navies by a very much alive pre-columbian musical band.

The Dean brothers are 2 of the most innovative artists of the 20th century. Roger has designed many of Yes and Asia's album covers (Drama, Yesshows, Asia, and Alpha are all featured in this book!), designed tour posters and booklets for other major rock bands and contributed on the Album Cover Album books. His brother Martyn has designed many of Yes' stage sets (Topographic Oceans, Drama, and Relayer) and has acted as Yes' photographer both for album shots and on tour. Together and seperately, Roger and Martyn have also worked on animation, video games, architecture, and an invention of Martyn's which is called a retreat pod (sort of like a futuristic sleeping bag with the options of an entertainment center!). I'd like to see this gem back in print and see a 3rd volume where Roger and Martyn have left off since this was published.

Creating a sucessor to VIEWS is a hard enough concept, but Roger Dean has produced another master document of his work. Following along the same path as his first book, again we get the album size/shape presentation and tons of full color reproductins of Dean's sketches and renderings. This book was the first whereby I truly grasped Dean's illustrations as architechtural renderings, as lots of the projects covered in this volume are 3D projects worked on with his brother Martyn: built YES stages, modelling retreat pods and designing home and buildings. Imagine a YES album cover as a dwelling, and grab this book to show you how and why it is possible. Stunning follow-up, fantastic production values not seen often in modern paperbacks.

A blend of many different art forms, they combine architecture, fantasy art, music. How can two men be able to design for all areas of life. Read this book to find out. I have owned a copy for fifteen years and still find something new each time.