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Still Holding My Own
Tim Hampton
Manufacturer: I Opening Productions
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Still Holding My Own is about a young black man (Tim Hampton) going to work in the State Prison as a Guard at the tender age of 19. Tim faced many challenges and almost lost his life in a huge riot. This book details incidents from riots to sex scandals that occur behind prison walls. This book comes with a free audiobook.
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Positivity from negativity........2006-12-03
As a former Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice Correctional Officer myself, I love how Tim Hampton tries to pass the message that others that have been inside these walls should be passing themselves. Great read!
MUST READ!!.......2006-06-29
Riveting and thought provoking!Tim's experiences bring to the forefront a topic vastly under adressed in our society, yet with 2 million americans incarcerated and the crime rate showing little sign of slowing down-we MUST contemplate the punishment versus rehabilitation issues..most of these young men and women will resume a place in our society and sadly they return more violent and angry than before.
Very Needed.......2006-06-07
Still Holding My Own is they type of reading material that can really help today's young people see what it is really like behind bars. I am so happy that Tim Hampton had the courage to Tell-It-Like-It-Is. I think his experiences will help others chose a different path in life.
Highly Recommended.......2006-06-05
Once you pick it up, you can't put it down. It's addictive. This book is written in a way that makes you feel like your best friend is telling you a story. You feel like you just have to know how it ends.
WOW.......2006-06-02
Holding my own is a excellent book,it really touched me.It's deep. Once you start reading you won't want to put it down.
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- Love and Triumph over Alzheimer's
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Still Holding Hands
Stacie Ruth Stoelting
Manufacturer: Publication Consultants
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Endorsed by Celebrities: Randy Travis, Pat Robertson, Shirley Jones, Pam Thum, Senator Charles Grassley, Kathi Macias, Joan Burney, Bob Cornuke, Carl Kerby, Margaret McSweeney, Ann Platz and more.
Romance. Adventure. Alzheimer's. Victory. Hope... All of these fill Still Holding Hands. Still Holding Hands, based upon fact, written by Stacie Ruth Stoelting at age 15, quickly moves through a gripping story of love and triumph over adversity -- a story of faith. Discover why celebrities and readers alike love Still Holding Hands, ... Read it yourself.
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Love and Triumph over Alzheimer's.......2005-01-05
Still holding hands, a true story, tells of the lives of Ray and Hilda Beamer. Stacie's grandparents, a close Christian couple, capture love and triumph over Alzheimer's disease. Before anyone can fully understand another's problems, you must climb into their shoes to experience the situations. This book informs people about the affects Alzheimer's disease has on families of victims. The book also includes humorus, adventurous, and Christian romance stories. If you want to read a hear-warming, page-turning book, read "Still Holding Hands".
Highly Recommended!.......2003-11-29
Stacie Stoelting has a ministry to families suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She spreads hope, love, and joy through dramatic programs full of speaking and singing which she presents... If you know of people suffering from Alzheimer's or are suffering from it in your very own family, you've got to check out her ministry. She'll even pray for you.
Here's her ministry's web site: www.stillholdinghands.org. Lots of pictures and info. Still Holding Hands is HIGHLY recommended!
Best Summer Buy!!!!.......2002-06-14
This is a great book in so many ways. If you need a good summer read, get this one. As far as my advice, buy this book for anyone in your family touched by Alzheimer's or another serious disease. It'll touch your heart. It did mine.
Amazing book.......2002-06-14
"Still Holding Hands" is a remarkable piece of reading material! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this incredible book. I am impressed that Pat Robertson of "The 700 Club," Randy Travis, and Senator Chuck Grassley all recommend this book! It is amazing that such a young girl was able to write her grandparent's story (dealing with Alheimer's disease) like an educated adult. I felt like I was a part of the Beamer family - it touched my heart. This book educats people about the affects Alzheimer's disease has on families of victims. Not only does "Still Holding Hands" inform people about Alheimer's (through real life stories lived by her grandparent's) it also includes humorus, adventurous, and Christian romantic stories. I urge all to buy and read this page turning book. I could hardly put it down when I read it. I will definately read it again in the near future!
This is my favorite book!.......2002-06-13
"Still Holding Hands" is a spectacular piece of literature. I recommend it to everyone! Stacie Stoelting is an amazing young author who indeed has a gift of displaying her feelings on paper. There are in-depth descriptions about her grandfather's mental decline, his childhood stories, and the Christian romance between him and his wife. It is a very well-rounded book. I felt as though I was part of the Beamer family dealing with an Alzheimer's stricken victim. It nearly brought me to tears during some areas of the book. However, "Still Holding Hands" is humorous in other areas. It is amazing that the book has been recommended by Randy Travis, Senator Chuck Grassley, and Pat Robertson of The 700 Club. If you want want to read a heart-warming, page-turning book, read "Still Holding Hands". I could hardly stop reading it.....I may even read it again!
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Bruce Wagner has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, in each of his novels, dissected and sometimes disemboweled Hollywood excess.
In his most ambitious book to date, Still Holding, Wagner immerses readers in post-September 11 Hollywood, revealing as much rabid ambition, rampant narcissism, and unchecked mental illness as ever. He infiltrates the gilded life of a superstar actor/sex symbol/practicing Buddhist, the compromised world of a young actress whose big break comes when she's hired to play a corpse on Six Feet Under, and the strange parallel universe of look-alikes -- an entire industry in which struggling actors are hired out for parties and conventions to play their famous counterparts. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, ferocious and empathetic, Still Holding is Bruce Wagner's most expertly calibrated work.
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Lookalikes and their Discontents.......2006-03-09
The Buddhist material is problematic, for Wagner fails to make us interested in it, and when poor Lisanne becomes obsessed with Buddhism, it stopped being even amusing and just became deranged. What a shame, because otherwsie STILL HOLDING is the best of the five novels by Bruce Wagner that I've read. Funny how time has made it sort of a period piece already, and it just came out 2 years ago! Time, that makes fools out of us all, has certainly played a trick on Mr. Wagner, for his book is a funny satire of the vacuous celebrity enjoyed by a top star couple obviously based on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
Here they are called Kit Lightfoot and Viv Wembley. He comes off rather well, he's a honest person just trying to do a good job, but she's a rancid, egocentric and heartless user whose public happy face disguises her loathesome character inside. Gee, maybe Wagner does have some women issues? Anyhow of course the real life story (when Brad left Jen for Angelina Jolie and began collecting children of the globe with the latter) is far more compelling and weird than anything presented in this novel.
I most of all enjoyed the plot of the celebrity lookalikes, men and women with no special talent who nevertheless fulfill their own functions in the specialized, professional Hollywood world. There's a vicious killer who resembles Russell Crowe, and a sweet somewhat daffy ingenue called Becca who's a dead ringer for Drew Barrymore. At first I thought that the lookalikes should have rather different personalities than the stars they resemble--like the Russell Crowe one should not be so prone to violence--or the Drew Barrymore one should not share her lookalike's ditheriness and giggling fits. But hell, why not? The fun begins when Spike Jonze decides to make a movie written by Charlie Kaufman, set in the world of lookalikes, in which Jonze casts both lookalikes and, in minor roles, the stars they imitate. It sounds like a great film, one of the few fictional movies I'd actually pay money to see. Now only six more months till our next Bruce Wagner fix with the publication of THE MEMORIAL, can't wait!
Fabulous and heartbreaking.......2004-09-13
It's quite a feat for an author to manage to be both hilarious and disturbing, but my hat is off to Bruce Wagner for doing all that and more. I stumbled upon this novel by accident and couldn't put it down. Like many of us, the author seems to have a love-hate relationship with the entertainment industry, so this book is at once a scathing indictment and a mournful love sonnet to Hollywood. I can't imagine how he wrote something so complex and wonderfully affecting, but this book both made me laugh and really broke my heart. Wagner acknowledges and appreciates our fascination with Hollywood while at the same time really condemning it in a number of shocking ways that will really make you think. A wonderful read by a really gifted writer.
Nasty Laughs at Show Biz Vanity.......2004-08-18
There's something refreshingly unforgiving in Bruce Wagner's lacerating Hollywood satire; those readers who've had a love/hate relationship with the movie business, an attraction-repulsion dynamic that loves movies themselves and yet is sickened by the business culture that makes it possible, will find the nasty laughs here telling, truthful, and an overdue joy to read. Anyone else who desire something redeeming to emerge from all the bad faith, a kind act or sacrifice arising from some forgotten reservoir of decency would be better off seeking less severe wit. Wagner mines the old joke about Hollywood that "underneath the tinsel there's more tinsel", and obviously appreciates Jean Baudrillard's theories on simulacara,
where the slavish and stylized impression has replaced the real; set this heady abstraction on to the business of celebrity lookalikes and the community that arises among them, we get a twisting , funhouse mirror of Hollywood , a parallel existence that mimes the worst and most inane features of the stars they imitate. Wagner, in addition, writes like a wizard.
An important novelist.......2004-03-05
The novel STILL HOLDING has to be considered in the context of Wagner's previous two novels: I'LL LET YOU GO and I'M LOSING YOU. What they add up to is that Wagner is an important novelist who is telling the truth about certain kinds of lives that are lived in Los Angeles and other parts of America in the early twenty first century. He can be entertaining, but he aspires to do more than that, and on the whole, despite the many flaws in his novels, he succeeds.
Wagner is immensely gifted--he can write superb prose, he creates fascinating characters, and he knows how to tell a story. He is also stretching, really stretching, to address life's most profound issues, and if he doesn't quite pull it off--as the understandable complaints from other reviewers about his depiction of Buddhism indicate--he is certainly artistically courageous.
Of course he has weaknesses--he over-writes: his prose often needs pruning and at least 30% of the overall length of his second and third novels are hard to justify; he has a serious anti-woman issue; his subject matter can be extreme--one often rises from a session reading a Wagner novel with a strong urge to take a long hot shower; and despite the fact that he obviously knows how to tell a story, his plots tend to flag severely in the middle of his novels, picking up (but not always) in the last 25%.
This complex of strengths and weaknesses means that Wagner is not all that accessible, which is why some of his less committed readers are disappointed. But he is trying to tell us something real about the times in which we live. He is seriously talented. He is one of the few important newish novelists writing in America today.
FINALLY A GREAT NOVEL ABOUT HOLLYWOOD.......2004-03-03
Since I've also trudged across this country by Amtrak, because of my own fear of flying, like a character in this terrific novel, I followed a friend's recommendation and bought this splendid and funny novel. What a treat. It examines Hollywood like a strong lethal and very funny (you laugh out loud) magnifying glass - following wonderful characters - including the self-absorbed life of a wannabe actress, who is a Drew Barrymore look-alike. It is all about the people who spend their lives scratching on the screen door of show business. Blocked like flies from ever getting close to the glamour of Hollywood they long for, we laugh and cry as they make their quest to find nirvana in this very nasty place. These fringe people are dealt with by Wagner with wry social commentary. This is a must read and I will read it again, when like poor Lisanne, I make my cross country journey east curled up in my sleeping car bedroom with this great book. Bravo to Mr. Wagner.
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Guide to the Holdings of the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives
Barbara Lewis Burger
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Moving on,holding still
Peter Simon
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Still Holding
Bruce Wagner
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EMEA HDD October Price Survey: DT Prices Are Holding, But Mobile is Still Falling Fast
IDC
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IDC notes that the results of the October HDD price survey show that the DT drives are holding at July levels as vendors show margin sensitivity. However increased competition is driving the margins out of the Mobile segment with declines of 9% from July. Enterprise drives show moderate declines.
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"Don't think you can come sneaking back here if you are ever out of a job!"
Florina's father was furious when, after a lifetime of drudgery, she finally developed the courage to rebel. But there was no danger of her returning home. Florina loved her job as a cook in the household of eminent consultant William Sedley. And it wasn't long before she realized that she loved her employer, too. But she had no chance of attracting his attention when he was engaged to the glamorous Wanda!
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A Differently Wonderful Neels Story (5+ stars).......2006-12-01
Book Description: "Don't think you can come sneaking back here if you are ever out of a job!" ... Florina's father was furious when, after a lifetime of drudgery, she finally developed the courage to rebel. But there was no danger of her returning home. Florina loved her job as a cook in the household of eminent consultant William Sedley. And it wasn't long before she realized that she loved her employer, too. But she had no chance of attracting his attention when he was engaged to the glamorous Wanda!
This Neels deviates from her norm. Sir William Sedley is a handsome, rich, titled British Doctor of Pediatrics and Senior Consultant. Florina Payne, Cordon Bleu Chef is the daughter of a British Father and a deceased Dutch mother. This combination allows the author to have a British Doctor and include descriptions and cultures from both countries. She throws in a beautiful wicked girlfriend, an awful father, and a horrid male character to add "a little" drama.
Neels fans are sure to love this one.
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Featuring stellar contributions from some of today's most masterful practitioners of speculative fiction, Beyond Singularity presents fourteen visions of a tomorrow where rapid technological and genetic breakthroughs have rendered humanity obsolete.
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interesting views beyond humanity.......2007-02-20
This is a very good showcase for different futures where mankind has changed beyond understanding. Yet the writers manage to maintain our interest for the characters and we can feel with them. Robert Reed's story was really spellbinding, and the ending quite satisfactory. But all the stories have something to recommend them, and if you are looking for a taste of fascinating strange futures, this is the book for you.
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Beyond Future Shock begins as a pre-WWII love story that flows into an allegory and, ultimately, a powerful morality tale. It demands an answer to the question: What will become of mankind in the not-so-distant future, when we are faced with the dire consequences of our own trans-corporeal fusion into machines...and beyond?
Three young, brilliant Germans form an intense friendship in academia. Heinreich and Lise later marry, but Hans, who has become a fervent Nazi, exposes Lise and her Jewish family. Lise escapes but her family is sent to Auschwitz while Heinreich, a test pilot, is coerced into fighting the war against American bombers to keep his wifes family alive.
After the war ends, neither lover knows that the other is alive. Heinreich is expatriated to develop military jets for the Americans; Lise, caught by the Russians, is forced to help them build nuclear bombs; Heinreich becomes a wealthy industrialist with an American wife. A Cold War KGB assassination attempt destroys his family, except for his son, Douglas, who becomes an oil futures trader. When Douglas is killed in the World Trade Center terror strike, grief, loss, and ambition drive Heinreich into the world of Arab oil and retribution. At this time Lise, freed from the collapsing Soviet Union, retires to Paris.
From this point forward, the story explodes into one of scientific vision: youth cocktails and human minds capable of being uploaded into mind-space servers. It is only then that Heinreich and Lise are finally reunited. But it is a time of fear, when these mind-space servers take on the characteristics of aggressive and powerful predators seeking to control the Earth and threaten the survival of humanity in the ultimate post-Darwinian war.
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the past the future.......2007-04-06
great book. i'm a history major that enjoyed the telling of the past & how it connects to the future. this book does exactly that and more. i would recommend and also tell you that it is an easy read.
Cannot wait for the movie.......2006-01-03
The love story between Heinreich and Lise, which takes them from their childhoods in WWII through the age of youth restoring technologies in the 2020s and beyond reminded me very much of Dr. Zhivago. Lise, a physicist, is a German Jew. Heinreich, a nobleman and fighter pilot is German. Just when they begin their lives together, they are torn apart by the forces of history, and try as they might to reunite, fate works against them. Yet, as science and technology advance, often for the purposes of war, these two do more than survive. In America, thinking Lise is dead, Heinreich thrives, becoming a wealthy aerospace industrialist. In Russia, Lise, also thinking Heinreich is dead, works on nuclear weapons. In their 90s, when stem cell and nanotechnology lead to youth restoration coctails, they reunite. Humanity seems on the verge of curing all its ills including death. But the power of pro-active evolution, no longer driven by chance, but by science, leads to the ultimate war for survival of the fittist post-human beings across the Solar System. This time Lise and Heinreich, using his vast aerospace resources to save humanist rebels and refugees, cling together. Suddenly, gripping the book ever tighter, you're thrust into a huge, strong science fiction 21st century techno-space battle. I cannot wait for the movie.
Belleno
Engrossing futuristic tale.......2005-12-25
I have to admit, I would have never picked this book up had it not been for the shameless plugs Dr. Alaniz, the author, has placed all over this site like some kind of cyberspace Burma Shave commercial. Now back to THIS book...The love story is not that engaging, but the fact that the science behind the story could happen in the near future in the way that Dr. Alaniz lays out the story is very frightening because it hits so close to home. The fact that the Richard Cheneys of the world could upload their brains into servers once their bodies give out, plug into limitless amounts of knowledge and thus wed the incarnate evil of the human soul and all of its insatiable appetites with all of the technology and knowledge available to man is chilling. 30 years ago DNA technology was just a dream, now it is commonly used as "the finger of God" to indict criminals and to free the wrongfully imprisoned. Thus, the idea of a permanent upper class that can never be overthrown because it shall always be smarter than everyone else due to nanotechnology and genetic engineering is an idea whose time is coming very soon. I would like to compare this work by Dr. Alaniz to Carl Sagan's "Contact", and it does compare in daring and originality. However, ultimately "Contact" was a hopeful work and I find the truth behind this book just frightening. Highly recommended.
Mind Blowing!!!.......2005-12-06
I completely agree with my friend Cathy's review, but as a concerned bioethicist, I worry that most of humanity might soon become insignificant in light of near future biotechnology. Alex's book, through the entangled lives, deep romances and awesome adventures of his living characters, has only made my fears worse. Whereas I have feared that within 10 to 20 years the ultra rich will be able to buy highly expensive, highly improved invitro produced offspring, leaving our kids in the dust of post-Darwinian evolution, Alex warns us that the super rich are likely to simply use their billion dollar resources to upload their minds into large supercomputers in thirty or forty years. Then the rest of us will be truly left in the dust. To me, Beyond Future Shock is a book filled with ideas that everyone should hear about, or see if this visually graphic epic is ever made into a block buster movie.
Randy
Great to the last page.......2005-12-06
Wrapped in a compelling love story than spans hundreds of years, Alaniz's novel is a solid science-based fiction dealing with humnanity's fast approaching bio/nano conversion to transhumanity: the so-called Singularity. (See Ray Kurzweil's new book, "The Singularity is Near" for a good, science based treatment of Singularity; Kurzweil claims it is no more than 50 years away.)
Beyond Future Shock, while carrying you away to scenes of romance amid vivid battles scenes, past, present and future, makes you think about the religious, scientific, and ecnomic promises and perils of Singularity
A Nazi combat pilot and his Jewish wife are torn apart during WWII. One gets to the know the hapless couple, Lise and Henreich during their "school" days at a Hitler youth academy all the way through the outbreak of WWII, when Lise's Jewish ancestry is revealed by a jealous "friend" of Heinreich. A beutiful romance is torn apart. The treatment of WWII, of its aerial combat and death camp suffering in particular, is painfully vivid. From the end of WWII through the Cold War, and the new war on terror, Lise (who ends up working for the Russians on nuclear weapons) and Heinreich (who emigrates to the United States and becomes a super succesful aerospace industrialist) do not reunite until they are in their late nineties in the late 2010s, when the first stem cell based "youth coctails" are being released for general consumption.
The world, on the edge of "killing" death through modern science, is, however, energy starved, and conflict between Luddite religious factions is rampant. Things only get worse when bio/nano brain chips, originally designed to cure Alzheimer patients in the early 2030s, enter the black market, and people begin to "upload" their brains into mindspace servers. The new beings, freed from slow, accidental evoulution, begin to evolve into ever more advanced and agressive beings through bio/nano technology, and a war involving every single transhuman erupts over possession of mindspace and energy resources.
Yet again the ex-Nazi combat pilot and his wife find themselves facing a world on fire. Heinreich and Lise use their vast aerospace resources to build a moon base to house mindspace refugies and humanist rebels who are trying to bring peace back to Earth. The battle between Earth and the humanists spills into the solar system. At stake is the future of transhumanity. Will a few, or even a single, ulitmate post-Darwinian super being take over the whole of the Solar System?
Chatherine Houghton
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Rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, New Thought, like Science of Mind, is captured by the idea that our thoughts create our lives, not the other way around.
New Thought: A Practical Spirituality is the perfect introduction to this exciting, living faith. The book's editor, Mary Manin Morrissey, is a leading New Thought minister of the Living Enrichment Center, and the author of the popular Building Your Field of Dreams.
In this volume, Morrissey collects brief, powerful essays from today's most popular New Thought clergy. Each piece addresses issues you can use right now to improve your life.
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- Swimming in the Volcano: A Novel
- Ten Years Later Volume II: The Labyrinth
- The Art of Uncontrolled Flight: A Novel
- The Catastrophist : A Novel
- The Cripple and His Talismans
- The Day the Leader Was Killed
- The Friendly Snowflake
- The Funeral Party: A Novel
- The Gates of Sleep (Elemental Masters, Book 2)
- The Groves of Academe
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