I really enjoyed this book. We all know Felicia Mason is an excellent writer. This book just confirms our belief.

Ms. Toinette Blue was an exceptional woman. She had been through the storm and rain after her husband left. She came through and still made something of herself and helped her children through college. Robinson Mayview was attracted to Toinette when he met her the first time in the book "For the Love of You". He knew this was the woman for him. Convincing Toinette was a horse of a different color. There were alot of people to consider in trying to win Toinette's affections. Her son Russell, Jr. was a trip. I was glad Robinson beat the daylights out of him. There were alot of issues in this book. Some were drug addiction, stealing, homeless woman, and abandonment. If you have not read this book, it is time you did. You won't be sorry.

This is the first of Felicia Mason books I've read, but it won't be the last. The love and affection comes through in Body and Soul. Mason reels you in early and keeps you enchanted with Toinette and Rob, taunting the reader with the passion of fire between the couple. If you have any desire for a well written romance, this will definitely satisfy your buds.

I think body and soul is a very interesting book. It shows that you can fall in love the first time you see some one. And the book is very real and I would tell anyone to read it.

Life Prints: A Memoir Of Healing And Discovery is the story of Mary Grimley, who at the age of 6 years became America's first "poster child", dining with President Roosevelt at the Warm Springs rehabilitation center and posing in her wheelchair for publicity shots. Mary went on to became a remarkable scholar in the 1950s and 60s, refusing to focus on her disability and making herself a part of the revolution of ideas. Mason has spent her life struggling against the common cultural prejudice against disabled people, including the sexism of mentors, friends, family, and even herself. It was only after many years of physical therapy and social isolation, that she could emerge from the social and psychological handicaps imposed upon her because of her physical disability to embrace feminism, discover her life's work, and come to terms with herself. Life Prints is a candid, revealing, informative, and exceptionally well written autobiography that is highly recommended for women's studies and disability issues reading lists.

Mason's account of her extraordinarily rich and productive life--traveler, educator, writer as well as wife and mother--makes us question our conventional response to what constitutes a "disability." Despite her inability to walk without crutches, Mason covered more ground than many able-bodied contemporaries. The book is a revelation and inspiration.

This memoir is an inspiring insight into the personal life of a successful professor of English literature at a woman's college in Boston.

We gradually discover that her cheerful outward appearance at times masks a deep and profound private pain. The revelations in this book make it a spellbinding read.

Many of the chapters in Gary N. Carden's MASON JARS IN THE FLOOD AND OTHER STORIES explores the life of a young boy raised by grandparents after the death of his father and abandonment by his mother. As Harley Teester grows, he comes to understand--no, to feel--the traditions, ties, and assumptions that have shaped his family's way of life. As we watch him mature, we see him incorporate his new experiences away from home with his former learning. Harley successfully defines himself not by rebelling against his past but by applying it and adapting it.

MASON JARS won the Appalachian Book of the Year Award for books published in 2000 from the Appalachian Writers Association. As a poet and a playwright, Carden has a master's sense of how voices should sound, and the autobiographical elements of MASON JARS coupled with the polish of his telling and re-telling these stories give his prose the ring of authenticity. Enjoy it privately, but read it aloud to friends if you get a chance. MASON JARS is poignant, bracing, and honest.

We first contacted him after seeing his film "Blow the Tannery Whistle." He graciously agreed to share a few stories with us and told us that "Mason Jars in the Flood" would be out soon.

We were anxious to read the book after seeing his masterful storytelling in the film, and when "Mason Jars" hit the press, we were not disappointed. This collection of Appalachian stories is Gary Carden at his best. Full of humor and nostalgia, this is the type of reading that can be enjoyed by relaxing on the front porch with your feet propped up.

Take a journey with one of the finest of all storytellers as he shares with us tales of growing up in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Gary Carden describes himself as a storyteller. He says he never tells a tale the same way twice, because his elaborations depend on how he is doing with a particular audience. So putting his tales to paper was a formidable task. He was up to it.

The collection is roughly autobiographical. The same essential details, names, incidents, come up again and again, and in spite of Carden's admittance to his tendency to stretch the truth, we know the essence is true both historically and emotionally. In this way, it differs from the writings of some others, like Mark Twain and Garrison Keilor, to whom he will be inevitably compared. Somehow Carden is more "the real thing" than these others. He is speaking from his own life, one that he continues to live.

Mason Jars generally follows a sequential path. The hero of most of these stories is Harley Teester, his name steeped in North Carolina rhythms. His adventures - more the adventures of others in which he somehow becomes involved, really - start when he is eight or nine years old and continue, on a bumpy path, to his present age. They take us from the simple naivete of a child who can make no sense of the odd reference to such things as "the trouser worm" to the sophisticated and wise understanding of the older man.

While the first several stories read like chapters in Harley's biography, others diverge. There are the "grandmother stories", in which Carden creates grandmothers who are not quite socially correct, who will fill a child's head with gruesome tales and revel in the effect. It's easy to imagine Carden giving wing to this primary character in front of an audience.

There are also tales of the supernatural, and his own versions of myths and legends. What overlays all in this diverse collection is a sense of hope, of good, of the essential goodness of man. It doesn't come from having been raised in a bed of roses or from having everything come easily to him. Perhaps the optimism is a result of the adversity he has weathered and survived. More, perhaps, from the pleasure of being able to capitalize on it in this way.

What an eye-opener! I would hate for my competitors to read this. If I can implement half of the ideas in this book, I'll be on easy street. It was short, sweet, and full of solid information.

I had not heard of the authors before this book came out. However, I expect that to change. These guys have their fingers on the pulse of what is going on out there. They don't pull any punches and they tell it like it is. Their ideas are a mixture of common sense and genius.

When I read a book on how to improve my business, I want information I can use. "Sales Utopia" wasn't a bunch of theoretical, mumbo-jumbo. It had straight forward sales and marketing strategies that I look forward to implementing. It was very interesting.

This is an excellent Latin reader. If anyone is looking for a selection of Latin texts that have plenty of variety, this is the one to get!

This is not just a great Latin reader, it's one of the best anthologies I've seen in any language. Actually, it's two readers in one: the first half amounts to a digest of Roman history down to Augustus, based entirely on original texts, while the second offers a literary history of the same period, mixing prose and verse. Both halves proceed at approximately the same pace, beginning with very simple Latin and ending with selections of moderate to advanced difficulty. Passages average a page long, or just long enough to fill a single period of class discussion. The notes are amazingly good. Besides clarifying difficult points of grammar or syntax, they call attention to many cultural and political details which otherwise might fly right past the tyro.

Appropriate for students who have completed Wheelock or the equivalent. (And superior, in my opinion, to the Wheelock reader, even though this one seems drier.) Every Latin student should have a course in this before going on to study individual authors.

For students who have absorbed basic grammar, this text is an outstanding basic reader. The early passages are simple enough to read with pleasure. The vocabulary is thorough but the strength of the book is in the notes. Every grammatical point is carefully explained so each passage is packed with painless instruction. The passages chronicle the history of the Roman republic. A better bridge between the inevitable conjugations and declensions and reading fluency is impossible to imagine.

Eventhough I'm too young to fall in love (at my age, only a crush will do), I think this romantic novel by author Connie Mason is an excellent, high quality romance. Connie Mason, of course, has written other great romantic and steamy novels that melt a woman's heart. And they have plots. For women, romance novels are not only sex stories, they are a means of escaping our dull, modern life and experiencing a romance we all wish we had in a time of exciting change in history. In Brave Land, Brave Love, Ben Penrod is the Australian proprietor of his family's land. He moves to England where he engages in an affair with an upscale Victorian woman of low morals. Eventually, he runs into Tia, a young lady masquerading as a boy of the steets to avoid problems. She lies to Ben saying she is a prostitute. Eventually, she passes off for his wife to fool Ben's London friends. Tia is a feisty, hot-tempered, passionate and vibrant young woman who ends up getting Ben's heart. The story unfolds to reveal intrigue and adventure. Ben and Tia are exemplary romantic figures- she is sexy, confident, mature, he is a playboy, an adventurer, brave and eventually a one-woman man. The love story is incredible. I recommend this highly.

I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN I ENJOYED READING IT AND I ALSO LOVED READING WILD LAND WILD LOVE THE SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES I GIVE BOTH BOOKS A 5 STAR RATING MRS CONNIE IS A GREAT AUTHOR AS FAR AS I AM CONCEREND.

This was another one of my "maiden voyages" as I have never read anything by Connie Mason until this book. I have another book by her that I intended to read first, Shiek, but wanted to test the waters with this book.

I was pleasantly surprised in Tia's character, who dressed as a male from the streets of London, complete with the foul language to match not once, but three times: once when she lifted Ben Penrod's wallet, again when she left his house for the bad side of London, and again when she escaped Damian Fairfield's abuse for the Austrailian Outback. This says something about the type of security they had back in 1819. I admire her courage for keeping her secret marriage to Damian Fairfield until chapter twelve,when her husband came banging on the door at Penrod Station, demanding she be returned to him. I'm glad he was killed by Cress because Tia would have died by the time she was 21 if she remained with her abusive husband.

Ben Penrod's attitude toward women and marriage was appalling, even if his brothers had to fight to keep their wives, which was a bad example. I mean, he was arrogant, self-centered, and self absorbed. The woman he got caught in bed with, Caroline Battersby, was no slouch either being spoiled, coniving and down right rude to Tia during the dinner party. She planned to trap Ben in bed when her father came home early. No wonder he wanted to run. I expected more of Caroline and her father. Evidently, their tentacles didn't reach as far as Austrailia.

For someone who didn't want to be married, I find it amazing that Ben Penrod lusted after Tia's body and refused to let her leave once they were at Penrod Station. Yes, he fought the desire to marry but lost when he found out he couldn't live without Tia or stand the fact that another man was touching her body. I also found it ironic that the word love never exisited in his vocabulary until Tia came along. He even refused to admit he was in love with her, even though the signs were there.

I admire Tia's strong character, which is similar to Perdita Lyford's character in (the late) Barbra Cartland's "The Daring Deception". Both women were running from abusive situations.

I do plan to read more of Connie Mason in the near future.

I just finished reading this book cover to cover and feel very confident about moving on to the next stage of my CCNA preparation, practice tests and simulation! I've been using the CCExam software from CCStudy.com as well as a few other practice tests and am amazed how easy a lot of the questions were after reading this book. Just an indication of how comprehensive this book is.

More important, in my opinion, is the book's "readability"! I'm sure there are numerous books that cover the exact same information as this book yet might not be written in a manner that is clear and simple to understand, especially for Cisco newbies like myself. This book is just a lot of fun to read.

Finally, I really enjoyed the "real world" tone of this title. It isn't written for someone who's bound for the testing center, but rather for someone who needs to apply the knowledge at work in the field. I'm certain that I'll constantly be using this book as a reference even after passing the exam. Very cool.

All in all, I'd like to recommend ICND to the Cisco neophyte who's looking for that great "First Book" to start off his or her Cisco library. I'm really glad I got this book and I'm sure you will be too.

Good luck on your CCNA!

I read ICND by Cisco Press before. I found this book used on Amazon and bought it just because it was cheap. Now I can not put it down. This book is far better than Cisco Press' ICND. It has about 100 more pages than Cisco's. To me it is worth every minute spent to read this book.
I passed CCNA in December. So, I don't have the exam pressure. I am reading this just for fun and enjoying it.
I strongly recommend it over Cisco's ICND if you intent to take CCNA test.

I pass ccna2.0 with 935/1000 today. All I have is this book and Boson exams. I've read my friend's Todd Lammle book. I think this book is much better than Todd's. Todd's is written for passing the exam. For the ICND book, you actally learn the CCNA stuff in depth. I strongely recommend this book for everyone who want to pass the CCNA2.0 with FULLY understanding.

"Life is Unfair!" is a novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko of the first two episodes of the Fox television series "Malcolm in the Middle." The authors do a very nice job of taking that initial pair of teleplays for "The Pilot" (by series creator Linwood Boomer) and "Krelboyne Picnic" (by Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein) and turning them into a seamless whole. Thus we are introduced to Malcolm, who is horrified to learn that he is not simply weird but a certifiable genius. This means being untimely ripped from his relatively normal classroom and being sent to the class for the "gifted" students, which is just a way of hiding the fact that everybody in the Krelboyne class is a nerd a freak or possibly both. Malcolm gets off to a bad start with his new classmates and the prospect of a talent show in front of all the parents does not make our hero any happier. Besides, we have not even mentioned Malcolm's parents and his brothers, who are all apparently conspiring to make things even worse.

There has also been a definite effort to clean-up things a bit for the juvenille reader in this first "Malcolm in the Middle" book. For example, we no longer have the litany of past offenses for which Francis was banished to the Marlin Academy in Alabama and Lois greets Ms. Miller wearing a bit more than she actually did in the pilot. Such things are to be expected I suppose. However, . . . I do . . . not think . . . that Stevie . . . ever spoke . . . in bursts . . . of only . . . one word . . . I think . . . he always . . . does two . . . words at . . . a time . . . Although I . . . may be . . . wrong about . . . that. Ultimately this book is an interesting trade off. On the one hand, Mason and Danko have provided a more realistic version of the television show, but on the other hand it is the manic zaniness of this collective of crazed individuals that makes the show so compelling (just think of the opening of the episode shown after the Super Bowl where Hal and Dewey try to get a spider out of the house only to succeed in pitching it out the front door and right into Lois's open mouth). However, there is really no way to capture such inspired lunacy on the printed page, which means the authors made the right choice. Then again, maybe the show has become more surreal as time goes bye and maybe this is something we must remember.

Life is Unfair is Based on the "Pilot" and "Krelboyne Picnic" episodes of the Hit TV Show Malcolm in the Middle. You can re-live both episodes just from reading the book, which is why I loved it! Experience the humilation and humor Malcolm goes through, just from reading the book. I love the series! (Maybe becuase I am a big fan of the Show)The reading level isn't too hard, so it is a "kick-back-and-relax-while-you-read" kind of book. It is not confusing so you don't have to think while you read. I'd recommend this book as well as the other books in the series. Defintly check out the "Water Park" book in the series. (#2) You can surely re-live that episode easily too! It had cool and funny moments just like the show! You so will not regret reading this book. Every moment is worth it and there are no dull moments! Check this book out!

Jordan

Based on the "Pilot" and "Krelboyne Picnic" episodes, you can re-live both episodes just from reading the book, which is why i loved it! Experience the humilation and humor Malcolm goes through, just from reading the book! I am 14, and i love the series! (well maybe cuz im a big fan of the show but ya know...). The reading level is very easy, so it is a "kick-back-and-relax-while-you-read" kind of book. It is not confsuing so you don't have to think while you read. I'd recommend this book as well as the other books in the series. Definitley check out the "Water Park" book in the series. (#2) You can surely re-live that episode easily!! :)

Am I Am, is a very compelling story that would make you want to read the whole book nonstop. This book would get you hooked from beginning to end. It deals with real life experience that goes on in todays world. It makes you see things in whole different perspective. You shouldn't change the way a person look, feel, or act. It would only make things complicated, it'll make you lose your love ones. You can give them advices instead of trying to rule their lives. Alyssa Naylor who is a teen model in highschool, loves giving her friends makeovers and dressing them up. She met a cute boy name Dante Michaels. They become closer while having to work on a project together for their English class. She soon changes the way he looks by giving him a haircut and gradually buying him expensive clothes and taking him out to fancy dinners. He soon relizes that he has changed and confronts her. He soon relizes that she changed him for the better. I recommend this book to teens who have problems accepting the way their boyfriends look, acts, and feel.

I really like this story because there were alot of parts were I just wanted to say awe that was so cute. I think the characters relationship was a good relationship. They really help each other grow in different areas of life. Dante' help Lyssa grow in her career choices. Dante' helps her decide for herself what she wanted to do with her life. And Lyssa help Dante' grow socially.By introducing him to school dances and showing him how to have more fun with his life. In all relationship you should learn and grow from them. Which I think is a good thing. I think you should really check it out!

This teen romance was definitly one of the better books in theseries. I love all the books in this series but this one wasdifferent. It showed teens in a different light. I think teens will appreciate the fact that the characters weren't "Typical" teens. Anyway, It was a very well though novel that was worth reading.

This work of Gardner is so great! Gardner was able to combine suspense with a tinge of humor. It will keep you glued to your seat and keep you guessing who is the real murderer.

When I first read this book, I was going through a book store, looking for Agatha Christie, when I stumbled upon this book. At first I was sceptical, not sure how good it would be, after all, it was about a lawyer. As soon as started the first chapter I fell in love with the book! The different characters. The smooth talking Perry Maon. The reliable, feminine Della Street. Paul Drake, the detective relying on soggy hamburgers to fill in for steak dinners. A very compelling book to read!

and that's good! Of course, I am talking about the old black and white one hour episodes, which , even though before my time, I enjoy immensely in syndication. This was the first Perry Mason I have read and I was amazed how well it stacked up to the show. Or, I should say how well the show measures up to the book. As I was reading the story I could visualize Perry Mason (a la Raymond Burr), and his cast of Paul Drake and Della Street as if I was watching the book as a movie. There are plenty of nasty characters, convaluted motives, and a slick attorney in Perry Mason. If you liked the show, the book follows the same pattern of developing the storyline. Nasty person that no one likes, murder, many suspects, wrongfully charged heroine, and the savior Perry Mason. Lot's of fun!