I consider this book one of Dixon's best ones. While I wasreading it I was on the edge of my seat. I recommend this book toeveryone.

This book was action paced all the way! It starts that Joe and Frank get tickets to see the Oylimpics. Then they hear that a threat note is handed out and accidents start happening. The bowl that holds the flames explodes and nearly kills them. Then their is to much chlorine in the pool and oil on the highbar hurts Kyung Chin ( a chinese gymnastics). So the Hardys go undercover to find out whos done it. Good amazing book!

This book is absolutely beautiful. I have used a friend's copy to get ideas for my tattoos and I finally needed to buy my own copy. Sailor Jerry was/is the quintessential tattoo artist of the '40s-'70s and is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. People are once again appreciating the humor and the detail of his work. For anyone interested in the art of the tattoo, the book is an essential purchase. My next piece is his classic cowgirl for my back (oh, and I am a woman and I can appreciate that his stuff was not just for sailors).

Hardy Clemons is a seasoned pastor & leader of the Co-operative Baptist Fellowship. In his two pastorates of Austin, Texas and Greenville, S.C. he has endeared himself to hundreds of persons who have entered the portals of grieving. He relates his own journey with close friends through the process of grieving.

In reading this short, simple, yet profound little book, those who deal with grief are likely to discover new approaches from Hardy Clemons' stories. He does not write with complex terms, but uses illustrations from the lives of his friends and his own 'balcony people' like Wayne Oates, John Claypool, Fred Craddock and Grady Nutt. He describes his own personal grief in the losses of these intimate friends, all noteable ministers.

He concludes his stories with the issue of 'growing through your grief.' He makes use of scripture, poetry and words from his 'balcony people' like Carlyle Marney and C. S. Lewis. His final chapter appropriately, lists pass!ages of scripture which fitly summarize his approach. Several close friends have found this little gem to be valuable in helping them face their grief.
Chaplain Fred W. Hood

What's the cutest animal in the zoo? Well, it's the snow leopard! It's almost extinct because its coat is so valuable, and one is missing from the zoo and so was the princess who donated her!

When Frank and Joe were walking in the zoo, they got an important clue when they saw the elephant with another little elephant. They believed that it was the same kidnapper who had both the princess and the snow leopard. How this was a clue, you'll have to read the book to find out!

I liked this book because it was scary and cool. I like scary Hardy Boys books. Right at the last moment, it's thrilling when you think the Hardy Boys might die, but they don't. When I'm reading a Hardy Boys book, I can't stop reading it!

The Secret of the Island Treasure is another awesome Hardy Boys story. In this book, Frank and Joe revisit the site of their first success, Tower Mansion. The book recalls incidents from The Tower Treasure, which means that the paperbacks are a continuation of the original 58 hardbacks. The Hardys go on a treasure hunt using a map found in Tower Mansion, but get double-crossed and later triple-crossed at the end. It is a great book and worth searching through used bookstores and on the internet to find it. Awesome story!!!!!

If you are looking for a collection of Hardy's poetry, look no farther than this collection. The Penguin editors have done an incredible job of organizing the dense, complex body of Hardy's work into a very readable collection. This is more than just a simple "Hardy's greatest hits." Yes, there are the standard favorites here, but there is also an impressive collection of the writer's more obscure work. Reading the entire contents of this book is the best way to see the breadth of Hardy's existential and metaphysical angst.

Gerard Manley Hopkins is the greatest English poet to ever put pen to paper, bar none. Yes, even better than Shakespeare. Every student of English lit should read Hopkins. Hopkins writes from a profound love and awe of God and the beauty of His creations, but also from a deep despair resulting from chronic depression. His mastery of classical English combined with his magic use of sounds and word inventions is sheer genius. Read him.

I found this book to be exceptionally interesting; I hadn't been prepared for it to grab me so thoroughly at the very beginning and never let me go. The first chapter is a great portrait of Kinsey's "Childhood from Hell," raised by an egotistic, brutal control-freak father who was also a hypocritical extreme Methodist. Just as an example, when the young Kinsey announced that he wanted to be a biologist (rather than an engineer, his father's choice), his father broke with him -- forever!

Kinsey then put himself through school and wound up with a Ph.D. Cleverly, he then wrote a general biology text -- an excellent textbook which generated considerable revenues and raised Kinsey out of poverty. He pursued the gall wasp with incredible energy and tenacity for the next 10 or 20 years, and made his reputation as one of the premier biologists of his time.

Kinsey was a worker bee, who amassed tremendous collections of data, and drove his subordinates as hard as he drove himself. He devoted much thought to the sexual frustration and misery of his youth, and was appalled at the ignorance and frustration among his Indiana students. He conceived the idea of a "marriage course," and the experience of teaching that led to his first attempts at taking sexual histories.

Within a few years, this became his career, and he pursued this new collection of data just as ferociously as he had the gall wasp. Almost singlehandedly, he revolutionized the atmosphere for sexual discussion in the United States (although Freud had to come first, and break the absolute silence on the subject!)

Looking back, it becomes clear that Kinsey was a devoted and compassionate human being, as well as being a great scientist. Truly a hero of the 20th century. I think you'll enjoy this book, and enjoy getting to know a very interesting man.

Shadow Killers involves ninjas,kidnapping,smuggling,and karate.Just when you think the Hardys are going to get beat up some one comes to the rescue.In the book armory's all over the east coast are being robbed and they are in the same towns where the karate competitions are being held.It turns out that Yakuza are involved in it.This book is action-packed and very exciting.You have to buy this book!