"This Montana Home" is a really good book. I would encourage any one who likes to read about two people just getting out of a really bad relationship and starting a new life with someone they have been looking for, to read it. No other book that I have picked up kept me wanting to read until I have finished it, but this one has. I enjoyed reading it because it made me feel as if I was a character in it. If you like to be kept on the edge of your seat until the end than you should pick this one book up and read it. Even if you don't like to read but pick it up I can almost promise you that you wont want to put this book down.

Sherry Lewis writes a story that touches the very core of your heart. Clint and Gail both have reasons not to get involved - reasons their heads keep reminding them of - reasons their hearts are ignoring. Circumstances have brought them together, but it will take something more to make their relationship work - it will take a whole lot of love.

I understand Sherry has a new book out soon, and I can tell you it won't be soon enough for me!

Nathan Lewis' THREE COLLECTIONS was a refreshing read as well as a learning experience. This poet and writer lays it all on the line in three collections: his thoughts, his women, his love, his learning. This book is definitely poetic, and speaks the words of many black men. I thought this writers poetic testimonies were so great that I definitely passed this book on to my brother who is not an avid reader of anything. But guess what? He could not put this book down. He immediately identified with the author's experiences and admired the charisma and sense of honesty in each poem. This book is a profound testimony of hope and redemption for any reader who dares to pick it up. I recommend this volume of poetry not only for black men, but for every man and woman because it speaks boldly from the experiences and issues that are maligning our men, our women and our times.

In spite of the tough-looking photo on the cover, I found "Three Collections" full of insightful, vivid, thoughtful poems. Comprised of sections from three of the authors series of poems, "The Women," "My Roaring 20's," and "The Brenda Poems", this books offers a little something for everyone. "The Women" details poems written about women from all walks of life; "My Roaring 20's" is a gritty, realistic look at Lewis' second decade, chronicling troubled relationships and growing self-awareness; and "The Brenda Poems" are a collection of dialogues between the writer and the (I think) fictional Brenda. The author cleverly uses this device to address issues in male/female relationships. I'm not usually a fan of poetry, but reading this book (recommended by a friend who also writes poetry) made want to dig deeper into the genre.

I feel this work significantly surpasses Franklin's "From Slavery to Freedom" in organization, scholarship and literary excellence. Immensely relevant, it is expressed with heartfelt vibrance. Certainly the "people-making process" captured here should be understood by all Americans in gaining a more realistic perspective of the dynamics that made this country. This work brings together eleven leading historians in a classic presentation seldom achieved for readability, cogency and effectiveness. It is a must in any African American library.

this made it on my top ten outside reading list for my first-year requirement course, The African Diaspora and The World 112, at Spelman College, Atlanta GA.

I came across this book a few years ago and it gave me understanding beyond any book I've ever read. It was difficult to read at first because it was an overload of truth. In a simple yet very deep and profound way the author explains how we can overcome some of the most troubling emotions in our lives, emotions for which we often seek therapy or medication. Andrews exposes us to the fact that most of our emotional and pyschological problems are a result of intricate decisions and actions we make to protect a self that we really should just expose. And It's so much more.
The lessons in this book are real. It contains truths of which many spend a lifetime searching. Truths that are presented to us daily in life but for some reason we cannot come to an understanding.

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Andrews talks about what he calls Ethical Therapy. His main point is that it is psychologically healthy to act ethically, to treat others well, to conduct yourself with very little pretense, to try to do what's right and tell the truth, etc. He presents considerable scientific evidence for this assertion (which you don't really need, because once you look at your own life through this assumption, you get plenty of direct experience demonstrating its validity).

For most of the book, he shows how a greater level of integrity can solve psychological problems. Each problem gets its own chapter. Chapter titles are: Beyond Depression, Beyond Guilt, Beyond Fear, Beyond Anxiety, Beyond Addiction, etc.

It is a surprisingly practical book. I'm the author of the book, Self-Help Stuff That Works, and I am an expert on what is effective. The suggestions Andrews puts forth in this book are simple, powerful, and extremely effective. I highly recommend this book.

I bought and read this book when the softcover was first released, and had the chance to glance at it again just recently. The book has not lost any of its incisiveness and sting. James' astute and direct analysis of Black intellectual life has been long in coming. She articulates opinions that many people have probably had, but have not had the guts or gumption to put out in public. It's about time that public (and well paid) intellectuals such as hooks, Gates, West, and the others got some real criticism. I highly recommend this book, which should be required reading in introductory and advanced Black Studies programs. Its incisive and on-target critique of postmodernism alone is reason enough for it to be included in the curriculum. This feminist volume is rich in ideas, insightful in its critique, and is a refreshing antidote to most of the postmodern B.S. floating around the elite caucasian, leather-coated campuses these days.

Joy James' radical synthesis of political philosophy and African American feminist philosophy is at once provocative and intellectually explosive. Drawing from such diverse areas of intellecual inquiry as African American philosophy, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Lesbian & Gay Studies, postmodern and postcolonial theory, Critical Race Theory, and political philosophy, Professor James puts forward a relentless critique of contemporary African American intellectual life that leaves both the "conservative" and the "radical" sides of the African American intellectual arena suspect. In her employment of insights culled from the nascent Africana philosophical tradition, and both the classical and contemporary African American social and political philosophy traditions, James critiques and offers correctives to African American public and private intellectuals of no less distinction than bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West. James' books also provides a severely needed critique of W.E.B. Du Bois' much mangled feminism, Anna Julia Cooper's often overlooked contributions to Du Bois' thought, and Ida B. Wells' anti-lyching radicalism. Applying discursive formulations and practices normally reserved for the most highly revered among the Western European philosophers, Joy James utlizes her training as a political philosopher to elucidate a path of out the impasse that African American intellectuals seem to be caught in. This book is absolutely a must read for anyone interested in African American intellectual life, African American critical theory, and/or African American feminist philosophy.

The subtitle to this book is "Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia 1880 - 1920." The principle reason for the deeply-embedded poverty in Central Appalachia is the fact that the region continues to be a colony of industrial powers. Beginning in the mid-19th century, iron, coal, railroad, and timber companies teamed with national, state, and local politicians to exploit the natural resources -- coal and timber -- and the people of Central Appalachia. The result was devastation of a culture, destruction of a people, and destruction of the environment. And, I am incorrect to use the past tense -- clear-cutting of forests continues and "mountain-top removal" mining continue to destroy the culture, communities, and landscape of Central Appalachia. Lewis' book is an excellent description of what happens when politicians and industrial leaders join in league to exploit a region.

Note that this book deals with events of 1880 - 1920 -- so why is it important today? Because what was done to Central Appalachia in that period is being done to the rest of us today under the guise of "economic globalization." For example, the people of McDowell County, WV, are powerless in the face of Norfolk Southern (railroad company) because NS owns 85 percent of the land in the county. Just exactly what do you think will happen when "global" corporations own the factories, the minerals, and the workers? The experience of Appalachia with industrial and political exploitation is the same experience that awaits all of us under "economic globalization."

I enjoy historical narratives about turn of the century logging in West Virginia. Many texts cover the economic aspects of logging in terms of the timber processed. Other books detail the milling process or the lifestyle of the lumberjack in the WV wilderness. However, this is the first book I have encountered that describes the social ramifications of the logging industry in defining the WV culture. Ronald Lewis has opened up new discussions of how early steam technology impacted the remote lifestyles of West Virginia. This book gives a fresh viewpoint that is needed in re-evaluating the romanticized description of Appalachian lumbering in the last century.

None of the young people in this collection seem to be having a good time. The stories are set in contemporary or seventies America (one in London) Three are about teenagers. The young adults have unsuccessful artistic/acting careers and not-very-successful love affairs. The style is spare detached New Yorker. One of them "Trouble People" was in Seventeen. It's about a boy bucking peer pressure and befriending an unpopular unattractive girl. I liked the first one best, about a girl with a rather horrible father who dies.
I bought this a long time back on the strength of some rave reviews. It was borrowed by a daughter who recently returned it, telling me how good it was, and I re-read it and agreed with her.

The New Yorker doesn't publish as many good stories as they used to. I used to look at the "Contents" every week, to see who would be featured. An Updike story was nice. A William Trevor story, even better. A Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala story and I'd give a little whoop of joy. But there was also something special about finding a Sara Lewis story.

The first story I ever read by her was "Perfect Combinations" in the New Yorker. There is a sentence in that story that I'm sure has popped into my head a hundred times since I've read the story; it is certainly one of the most moving sentences I've ever read. Rather than spoil it by quoting it out of context, I'll leave it for you to discover.

What does Sara Lewis write about? If you can characterize a Lewis story, I would say it involves a person whose life is a little more complicated or a little more confusing than the person really knows how to handle, and the story tells us how the character works his or her way through it. A story about a high school senior failing geometry and being courted by the ugliest girl in the class. A story about a woman who receives a visit from her stepdaughter, not much younger than she is, with whom she has never been able to communicate. A story about a man whose girlfriend suddenly loses interest in sleeping with him.

As a writer, Lewis excels in being able to very quickly convey the personality and situation of the character. The characters are for the most part likable. The writing pace is quick, with a gentle humor.

Lisa Lewis is a wonderful poet, caring teacher, and attentive mentor. I'm blessed to have gotten the chance to work with her, and I definately recommend this book, which excels at re-thinking some of the basic elements of human nature.

Lisa Lewis' first collection of poems reads like the average third or fourth book- in voice and craft, it feels and sounds totally mature; it is a dark and unflattering world for a single woman out there, and these completely unsentimental, narrative- descriptive, long lined meditative poems tell it like it is-- they are frightening in their lack of illusion, or self-deception, or even emotion-- they record all the events of the speaker's and others' lives with fierce kind of objectoivity. These are smart, tough poems which give back in spades what the world dishes out. A rare collection. Lewsi' second collection is not, by the way, as strong, but this is a star. This is like reading the National Enquierer for real folk, told by the people who were there. Check it out, Mary.

This should help with your college, learning experience.

This book is a must have for any student enrolled in University Physics. The solutions contained within are useful, and are applicable to the world around us.

If you're looking for clear, fun, expert advice about the books children truly enjoy look no further. Every parent, grandparent and teacher should have this on their shelf. This is THE best book to buy for a baby shower gift.

As a children's librarian I am constantly seeking out adults who like books for kids as much as I do--Valerie and Walter fit the bill. This is filled with books that kids will actually like and want to read--I wish I could give a copy to every school teacher who makes up a summer reading list full of books that were published 50 years ago and then wonders why no one read any of them over the summer. A wonderful resource for parents who care about what their kids read, as well. Bravo.