May 2012 | Quotes From Hitch

The Rapture: The Pretribulational Rapture Viewed From the Bible and the Ancient Church Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it. As co-creator of a website that promotes leaving behind a Rapture Survival Kit for those that will be left behind and the return of Jesus, this book is at the top of our list as a must have for the Rapture Survival Kit. If you want to understand...

Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)David Morrell's name may not sound familiar, but his works should spark recognition. Rambo. Brotherhood of the Rose. If you haven't read them, you may have seen or heard of the Rambo movies or TV miniseries. Who can forget Sylvester Stallone as Rambo in his black headband with his exposed sweaty muscular...

The Big Book of American Heroes: A Young Person's Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)this is an excellent book for teachers because it provides information on a variety of people from many different backgrounds and talents.Click Here to see more reviews about: The Big Book of American Heroes: A Young Person's GuideClick here for more information about The Big Book of American Heroes:...

The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Sheila Anderson's QUOTABLE MUSICIAN offers quotes and vignettes from a range of musical genres, from rock to classical to hip hop music. More than a thousand quotes are accompanied by explanations of their origins, making for a title which goes beyond a quote bible to explore the insights into musicians...

Wedding Blessings: Prayers and Poems Celebrating Love, Marriage and Anniversaries Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great book for anyone who believes true love still exists and who believes in the power of the written word as a means of expressing that incredible emotion. Wedding Blessings contains well-known authors such as Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and numerous up and coming writers from...

The Godfather Classic Quotes Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book has been a long time coming. One of the absolute greatest movies of all time has been quoted in all it's glory. Each of the classic lines are here from "Fredo you're my older brother" to "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes!" Each page is elegantly illustrated and some quotes even reference their...

Hillel: If Not Now, When? (Jewish Encounters) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hillel may be the only ancient rabbi that most Jews, and many non-Jews, have heard of. The Jewish outreach program on many university campuses is named after this famous rabbi. And many people have also heard (part of) Hillel's famous statement summarizing the Torah while standing on one foot: "What...

The Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare: 427 Quotes, Excerpts, and Passages Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A very good an fun read. Instead of a long alphabetically-sorted list, the quotes are presented in an enjoyable fashion. The typography is very good. A keeper.Click Here to see more reviews about: The Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare: 427 Quotes, Excerpts, and PassagesThe fool doth think he is wise,...

The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)John Steinbeck had a high interest in marine biology, one that helped forge an extraordinary friendship with Ed Ricketts in the 1930s. Ricketts, the model for Doc in CANNERY ROW, was a professional biologist living in Monterey. He proposed an exploration of the Gulf of California and in the spring of...

The Quotable South: A Compendium of Eclectic Quotes About the South Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)What a fun book, full of surprises. I have never seen a book of Southern quotes and, had I, I would have expected it to be full of hackneyed, predictible quotes about the traditional South. But this is all over the map, all in all a lot of funClick Here to see more reviews about: The Quotable South:...

The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding (Fiction from Modern China) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Subtitled "a novel of foot binding", this book was first published in China in 1986 by the enormously popular Chinese writer, Feng Jicai and translated into English in 1994.Told as a "once upon a time" story, the writer skillfully combines myth, reason and a compelling tale while bringing the reader...

Dove Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Years ago, when I was growing up, I read the account of Robin Lee Graham as the young man who sailed around the world alone, and also got married along the way, in three installments of the National Geographic, circa 1965-1970. These articles so affected me that I also wanted to sail around the world....

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum. Highly recommended.Explaining Hitler is a misleading title, for the focus is primarily on the Jewish academic community's attempts to explain Hitler-to put it in grossly oversimplified terms, this is somewhat like the prey explaining...

National Geographic Simply Beautiful Photographs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of the most exciting books that National Geographic has published in recent times. One stunning image after another it lives up to its representation by showing the best photos found in the National Geographic archives. There is little text in this book and it relies heavily on the quality...

Forgotten Fire (Readers Circle) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am not going to waste anyone's time here and re-summarize the book. What I will say is this.I am a 10th grade teacher and I assigned this book for the first time this year to my 10th grade World History students. The student reaction to this book was unbelievable.Repeat: I forced students to read a...

One Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"The truth of the matter is, to find happiness we don't have to become something other than we are, we just have to stop pretending to be something we are not."Reading this book ignited a memory of a love song from decades ago, and the chorus went like this: "It's only words - and words are all I have...

Thank God It's Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Seven Last Words of Jesus on the cross have inspired a variety of religious devotions over the years. In many churches, people gather between noon and three in the afternoon on Good Friday afternoon and hear reflections based on these poignant and powerful words of Jesus. Methodist Bishop William...