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The Finishing School
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In a glittering penthouse high above Park Avenue, two beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive Manhattan girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances. Feeling pressure from the top to solve the high-profile case fast, Melanie breaks all the rules and goes undercover. Teamed with Dan O'Reilly, a hard-to-resist FBI agent with a talent for making her pulse race, Melanie embarks on a wild chase from the rarefied world of New York's elite private schools to the darkest recesses of the city's nightlife. And, ultimately, into a fight for her life against a devious killer who has no intention of getting caught.
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Michele Martinez, author of the critically acclaimed Most Wanted, which USA Today called ""a breakout,"" brings back savvy, sexy federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas in a new case that pits her against a very clever, very scary killer
In a glittering penthouse high above Park Avenue, two beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive Manhattan girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances. Feeling pressure from the top to solve the high-profile case fast, Melanie breaks all the rules and goes undercover. Teamed with Dan O'Reilly, a hard-to-resist FBI agent with a talent for making her pulse race, Melanie embarks on a wild chase from the rarefied world of New York's elite private schools to the darkest recesses of the city's nightlife. And, ultimately, into a fight for her life against a devious killer who has no intention of getting caught.
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Customer Reviews:
Que lastima! It's really a romance!.......2007-07-05
The premise sounded good--a gritty mystery based in New York with a strong female ADA. Instead, this book is a female-in-jeopardy romance with some gratuitous violence thrown in. The strong female is bullied, successfully, by her obnoxious female boss. She continues to make stupid moves and bad decisions while decrying the possibility of the same from her teenage witnesses. Oh, and every once in a while, the author reminds you that the protagonist is Latina by having her think in Spanish phrases. This is a great title for those who love romances and have a strong stomach.
Just not up to snuff.......2007-04-25
I gave this book two stars because the writing is good, but....make no mistake, it's a romance. The author TRIES to make it a mystery, but there are just too many mistakes. Right off the bat, on page 10 the heroine walks into a room that, "reeked of vomit, feces and spoiling meat". I naturally assumed the bodies had been there for several weeks - nope. They'd only been dead a few hours! Bodies do not start to rot that fast - especially when the windows of the room were open and it was winter! Okay, I gave it a pass, and kept reading but found the characters totally unbelievable and not the least bit professional. On page 47 we had both Bridgit and Bernadette! Oy, why not just call them both Mary? With a darth of names to choose from, why on EARTH didn't the author find two at least a wee bit different? I immediatley got the two women confused. By page 52 we were in a full-fledged romance with sweating palms, heaving breasts and trobbing members. Okay I made that last part up but it was pretty bad. I gave up and went on to read a real mystery.
Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-04-10
Michelle's second book was even better than the first! I'm not completely finished reading it but the excitement is almost coming to an end. I can't wait to read the next one.
Solid, fast-paced romantic suspense.......2007-03-14
When two overpriveleged, popular white teenagers wind up dead from a heroin overdose, Federal Prosecutor Melanie Vargas gets a call from her boss in the middle of the night wanting immediate results. One of the girls, Whitney Seward, is the stepdaughter of an important politician who is currently running for Senate. Melanie is expected to find the drug dealer who sold the girls the heroin, and bring him to justice swiftly and quietly. But to Melanie, this OD case isn't as open and shut as it sounds.
For one thing, the dead girls were students at the elite Holbrooke school, a wealthy private school. On the night that they died, another student went missing as well--a scholarship student, Carmen Reyes. Carmen's father is the janitor in the building where the girls were found, and she seemed to have no connection to the other girls. For this reason, Melanie finds it hard to believe when the same heroin the girls overdosed from is found in Carmen's locker. It all just seems a bit too easy, and Melanie is determined to get to the bottom of things. She wants to find out what really happened to the dead Holbrooke girls, and to bring Carmen Reyes home alive--sooner rather than later.
At the same time, however, she's been assigned to a task force with her ex-love interest, Dan O'Reilly. Dan is a third-generation cop with a body made of steel who Carmen almost dated awhile back. When he winds up on the same case as her, she wonders if she'll be able to stop thinking about his body long enough to get her work done. When these two get together, they have to work to keep their minds out of the past and their feelings for each other, and instead focus on the case at hand and figuring out who would have wanted to murder two innocent teenagers--who it turns out might not be as innocent as they appeared.
The Finishing School is the second book in Michele Martinez's series about Federal Prosecutor Melanie Vargas. I never read the first book in the series, Most Wanted, but had no problems following the story without it. Their are a few ends left untied (like how Melanie and Dan met and their past history) but most of it is covered pretty well in flashbacks. I thought the story was fast-paced and entertaining, even though romantic suspense generally isn't my thing. I can usually figure out the endings of these sorts of books pretty early, but that wasn't the case with this one (I did figure it out, but only in the last 50 or so pages). I'd recommend The Finishing School for anyone in the mood for fast-paced and entertaining romantic suspense.
Reads like a romance novel.......2007-03-03
The story was good, but a bit far-fetched. However, the further I got into the book, the more difficult it was to actually finish it (which I eventually did). The problem was that as the story progressed it became more and more like a trashy romance novel, making it difficult to enjoy the story itself.
Unless the author can get away from her emphasis on the childish behavior of the heroine, I doubt I would ever pick up another of her books.
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Cassandra French is a twenty-nine-year-old business affairs lawyer for a movie studio in Los Angeles. She has a creepy, platitudinous mother who is under house arrest for telemarketing fraud; and two best friends: studio exec Claire, who's sleeping with her shrink, and Lexi, a blond man-magnet of a yoga instructor. Oh, and she also has three handsome young men chained to cots in her basement. They're enrolled in Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys.
Cassie has spent years in the dating hell that is Los Angeles, finding man after man who doesn't quite match up to her exacting standards. When Owen, a promising young man she meets at a baseball game, becomes a glassy eyed drunk by the seventh inning, she decides that all he needs is a little push in the right direction; after he passes out in her car, she brings him home, locks him up downstairs, and commences a year and a half of lessons on color coordination, behavior on dates, and ocassionally, sex. Owen proves an able student and is followed by two other likely candidates.
Things start to get a little complicated when Jason Kelly, Hollywood's biggest heartthrob, tries to seduce Cassie into fudging a contract issue on one of his movies. That's no way to treat a lady -- and Cassie has just the cure.
With an endearingly amoral heroine, a pitch-perfect L.A. setting, and a cast of unforgettably warped characters, Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys is a shockingly funny, original, dead on satire of the dating scene.
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delightfully twisted - Garcia knows how to do things right.......2007-09-12
Cassandra French - Cassie Bear to her mother - works as a counsel in business affairs in a movie studio in LA. Her best friends - Claire and Lexi - often go with her out on the town where they try to find the perfect boy for the evening. Oh, and by the way, Cassie has three young men chained up in her basement while she puts them through her Finishing School to be the perfect men.
Written in the form of a journal, Cassie comes across as delightfully amoral and at the same time self-deprecating. She does not at all feel that what she is doing is wrong and, in fact, feels that she is doing the men and the world a huge favor. Of course, when she takes an opportunity and adds a movie star - Jason Kelly - to the School, things become decidedly more complicated.
I loved Garcia's Dinosaur Mafia books, and this book is again a great bit of fiction - romantic comedy, maybe? It is hard to decide exactly what genre it fits into. At any rate, I strongly recommend it for anyone who likes a good laugh - it's a riot.
Funny and original.......2007-07-26
Cassandra French is your typical twenty-something lawyer working in Los Angeles. She spends time with her friends, has a crazy mother (hers is on house arrest), a budding romance with a club owner, and hasn't been to the gym in weeks.
Except, she has one dirty little secret.
Tired of dating the same Neanderthals over and over again, Cassandra decides to do something about it. One afternoon, in a flash of inspiration, she kidnaps a 260-pound electrician who comes on to her at a baseball game, hoping to shape him into a man who will function properly in society. Thus, her Finishing School is born. Thngs come to a climax when she kidnaps Academy Award-winning actor Jason Kelley. Once you get past the fact that this book is supposed to be satire, its actually pretty funny and enjoyable. Although Cassie's friend Lexi is completely annoying, and Cassie's behavior bizarre, to say the least, our narrator has a lot of funny lines. Highly recommended.
Way Better than Chick Lit.......2007-06-26
This book was enough to give me ideas about locking Eric Garcia in my basement and chaining him to a word processor so he'll write more books. A writer with his immense talent should surely have written more than five by now. I'm a huge fan of his Rex series, and I absolutely loved this book. Not too many men can write a female character this well, that alone earning him some respect. And the story was great, too.
Cassandra French is a lawyer in business affairs at a studio. Her best friend Claire is an executive at Fox, and their trio is completed by Lexi, a thin, sexy yoga instructor. Cassie's life seems fairly normal, except for her housecoat-wearing mother who accosts strangers on the street and asks them to call Cassie on her behalf, since she has been banned from using telephones as part of her sentence for telemarketing fraud. Cassie's one other little quirk is the three men she keeps chained in her basement. Owen, Alan, and Daniel are all promising young men she met who all had small, fixable flaws that Cassie convinced herself she could correct through a program of positive reinforcement. One by one she added them to her Finishing School, and things were going just swell until she impulsively adds a fourth student, a famous Hollywood star. Things start spiraling out of control, leaving Cassie no choice but to call on Claire and Lexi to help, but things get even worse when her friends take so quickly to the idea of Cassie's Finishing School. I had no idea where any of this was going or how it was going to end, so I kept eagerly plowing through to the exceptional conclusion.
This book is a fun, lighthearted romp through the twistedly sane mind of Cassandra French. I found myself laughing out loud throughout. Eric Garcia writes great books, and I wish he'd get busy and write more.
Wasn't worth finishing.......2006-08-30
I did the same thing as many other people: started reading it, didn't like it, and skipped to the end, hoping for an outcome I didn't find.
I don't often give books up without finishing them. This was one of the few.
Oh, one another thing, the book jacket, which I didn't read before picking up the book, describes Cassandra as "endearingly amoral." For me, those just aren't two words that go together.
If you like characters who behave selfishly with no consequences, this book is for you.
And as for the laughs? I read about 150 pages before I skipped to the end. I didn't laugh once. Not in my head, and not out loud, either.
One of the funniest..........2006-08-15
and most creative novels I've read recently! Loved the male take on chic-lit novels. Hilarious concept!
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- Not Sparks' best, but a fine close to a great career
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The Finishing School: A Novel
Muriel Spark
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The lethally witty and morally penetrating new novel by one of the world’s most admired writers
College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction.
Nobody writing has a keener instinct than Muriel Spark for hypocrisy, self-delusion and moral ambiguity, or a more deliciously satirical eye. The Finishing School is certain to be another Spark landmark, an addition to one of the world’s most lauded and entertaining bodies of work.
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I just don't get it.......2007-02-03
Sparks reviews are excellent so perhaps I'm missing something but the lack of effort angered me. A husband and wife teaching well-to-do highschool students and managing secrets and demons (including their own) - what's not to like? Unfortunately this book was almost like a screenplay. I could see the actors going through the motions but the book provided no insights or motivations. This is another British minimalist novel that shirks in-depth analysis. It feels like a cop-out; like the author is saying, "I'm going to present all this information as if its very insightful but really there's nothing here." Very disappointing.
Not Your Everyday.......2006-08-07
Witty and memorable... that was my impression from the first chapter. The story itself is about a (nomadic) finishing school, Sunrise College. I laughed at what they were actually learning there and the obsession war going on between Chris and Rowland. It's like watching a British soap opera with style. Very entertaining.
Not Sparks' best, but a fine close to a great career.......2006-06-26
Muriel Spark continued to produce excellent stuff to the end of her life. Her first novel appeared some 50 years ago. Her last (assuming there is no posthumous work awaiting publication) was The Finishing School. Like most of her novels, it is very short (in the neighborhood of 30,000 words), and sardonic in tone. It invites comparison with her most famous novel, _The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_, in being about a school and about the relationship of a teacher to the students.
The Finishing School is set at College Sunrise, a school run by Rowland Mahler, a 29 year old who had a long ago success with a play and is now frustratedly trying to write a novel, and his wife Nina Parker. The school moves each term -- in part, it is suggested, to escape bill collectors. It is in Switzerland this term. There are nine students, apparently all around 17 years old, presumably having finished high school or the European equivalent, and now being "finished" -- either to head on to University or to other pursuits. One of the students, Chris, is writing an historical novel about Mary Queen of Scots.
The fulcrum of the novel is Rowland's jealousy of Chris. It becomes clear that this jealousy, ostensibly of the likely smashing success of his novel, has a homoerotic component. (Even though both parties are apparently heterosexual -- Rowland is married, though his wife is having an affair and plans to leave him, while Chris seduces several women during the course of the book.) Rowland spends much of his time fantasizing about killing Chris. Chris, meanwhile, ignores his classes, writes his novel in secret, and entertains visits from publishers and film producers.
Flitting around this central conflict are the problems of the other students and staff. One girl plans to become a minister (shades of the nun-to-be in Prime), another's father is suspected of smuggling, a couple are trying to arrange to get married to one or another of the boy students. The staff are involved as well, sleeping with the students on occasion, and planning their own futures. And the neighbors, a young woman and her somewhat older nephew, are also drawn into the intrigue.
It is told, as ever with Spark, in a very spare fashion. Several months pass quickly, odd people are described doing odd things in the most deadpan of fashions, and by the end we know them fairly well and we know their fates. It is dryly funny, enjoyable to read and archly believable despite all the unusual characters. It is not, I think, nearly as good as Spark's best work -- in part it is not really about as much, I don't think -- but it is a fine piece of fiction.
Pirated book-copyright violation-buyer BEWARE!!!!.......2006-05-05
Very disappointed to get this book which has no bar code and clearly appears to be "home project" of copyright violation: Poorly bound with delayed delivery. As a collector of books, any one would be disappointed to get this wreck of disjointedly bound, unauthentic appearing copy of a book. I have contacted the publisher to investigate a possible copyright violation. It is a shame that Amazon.com is the cybervehicle of such books!
Your tax dollars at work.......2005-12-19
The US government has done a lot of the reviewing work on this for me. The Library of Congress catalog entry (who does these?) reads as follows:
1. Creative writing -study and teaching - Fiction. 2. Teacher-student relationships - fiction. 3. Lausanne (Switzerland) - fiction. 4. Fiction-authorship -Fiction. 5. Married people- fiction. 6. Teenage boys - Fiction
That does describe a lot of it. All that's left for me is to put in a bunch of superlatives and give it five stars. An amazing thing that should be irrelevant is the author's date of birth (1923). I was reading the latest Muriel Sparks with enjoyment as a teenager. I didn't think I'd still be doing it in 2005. This is sparkling (sorry) up-to-the minute satire with never a cliché or a wasted word.
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In TunFaire, a city of gorgeous women, powerful sorcerers and dangerous magic, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.
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Utterly Ridiculous.......2007-08-28
After reading 90 pages, I still had no idea what the story was about. The book went into the trash.
Give Us MORE Garrett !!.......2006-05-31
I don't know what it is about this guy Glen Cook, but I just cannot get enough of him. Any character who claims beer is his favorite food and redheads are his favorite sport is my kind of guy. If someone told me it was possible to blend the fantasy lit world of elves and fairies with the Dectective Noir world of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, i would laugh in their face. However, Glen Cook does exactly that. And it works. I have laughed my way through all eleven Garrett books and I can't wait for more. All I can say is I hope Mr. Cook considers taking some more time off from his job at the General Motors light duty truck plant and writing us some more Garrett. I cannot get enough.
Plaid Platinum Pants.......2006-03-31
It feels like it has been forever since the last Garrett, P.I. novel. Glen Cook, who has some truly dark fantasy series to his credit has always used this series, starring a mundane tough guy detective (think Archie Goodwin) and his partner The Dead Man (think an undead Nero Wolf in an elephant suit), as his lighter side. Garrett is usually the butt of the jokes (both his mouth and his romantic abilities keep him in hot water) and The Dead Man provides both magical and mental assitance (as well as a good deal of sarcasm. The result is a steady stream of adventure, crisis, and smirks.
Garrett's problem this time is that he woke up from a perfectly good night of sleep to discover a child called Penny Dreadful has convinced Dean, the housekeeper, to provide a home for a bucket of unusual cats. In short order a number of people (mostly in plaid pants) are trying very hard to kill Garrett. This serves as a distraction from the job Garrett has been hired to do - find out how crime czar Chodo Contague became a vegetable. Making this a bit complicated is Belinda Contague, a beautiful, intelligent, warmhearted psychotic with a yen for the detective. But that's life in TunFaire.
In case this sounds too tepid there is a family of alcoholic pixies, a homicidal vegetarian elf, a born again blacksmith, and a really deadly redhead in the mix, and they are Garrett's friends. You don't want to know about the bad guys or the not so bad guys. The Dead Man, who prefers to sleep is woken up by the chaos and the only thing worse than not being helped by a four hundred year dead corpse is being helped by one that thinks you are a congenital idiot.
These tales are unalloyed fun. Cook often ventures into serious matters, but only for short visits. One of Garrett's weaknesses is a streak of integrity that often gets him into bad situations that he should have lied his way out of, but he is no angel. While this is fantasy, even the exotic creatures have a touch of believability to them. Bad puns, bad neighborhoods, and crazy citizens aside, TunFaire is still the place to be when you need a change of pace.
Fantasy Wolfe.......2006-03-25
Okay, I confess, I bought this volume based on the cover art and the blurb on the back. I was trapped in an airport and had nothing to read (quelle horreur!), so I grabbed this volume because I liked the weirdness it seemed to promise.
It was an excellent choice. I was lucky to "chance" into something this good.
The novel is strong and intelligent. Better still, it is really funny. The characters, human, extra-human and otherwise, are fun and interesting. I enjoyed it mightily.
The blurb on the cover of my copy of the book calls the series "Fantasy Noir." I suppose in one way, that's a moderately appropriate assessment; Cook is certainly familiar with the conventions of the Noir genre, but that isn't really the direction he is going in this volume, Whispering Nickel Idols is actually a fantasy echo of the Rex Stout turn of mind.
What I'm saying is that the novel is a Noir/Cosy Mystery hybrid (mostly Cosy) with fantasy elements thrown in. This is excellent...I like all three turns of mind. The fantasy elements are really the fun bit, since a lot of the character color of the vignettes is based on the character styles of the varying "others" who inhabit the fantasy.
Regardless, the reason I mentioned Rex Stout is because the novel very much takes its primary cue from the Nero Wolfe stories.
Cook's narrator, Garret, P.I. is far more like the amiable Archie Goodwin than "Noir," tough guy Mike Hammer or Sam Spade, and the literary allusion and "wiseacre" attitude displayed by the amanuensis is pure Goodwin. Also, just as in the Nero Wolfe stories, the principal of the firm (The Dead Man) is immobile and actually does the brainwork while the narrator is really the prime legman and personality.
The Dead Man even sends Garret out to collect the persons he wants to interview, just as Wolfe sends Goodwin out.
The real giveaway though, was the Dead Man's "speech patterns," which are pure Nero Wolfe.
This is not a criticism, nor is it intended to be, I enjoyed the volume a great deal...it a far stronger and friendlier Wolfe pastiche than any of the "authorized" attempts to create posthumus Rex Stout-styled mysteries since his death in the 1970's.
The strength of the novel is in its wit, but there are plenty of broad physical slapstick jokes that liven things up.
This is a solid novel and is entertaining enough to even please the "Fantasy Challenged" of the audience.
The closest I can come to a criticism of the book is that it seems to be a mystery in search of a plot: until very near the end I wondered just what it was Garret was supposed to be investigating. It's not that the story is short on crime (small "c"), it's more that it is short of A Crime (caps). Not to worry though--the situations that Cook sweeps us through function nicely as self-sufficient vignettes.
This is the good stuff...
One of the Better Garrett Novels.......2006-03-20
"Whispering Nickel Idols" is the 11th book in the Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I. series. It's set in the town of TunFaire and centers on Garrett, ex-marine private eye with a heart of gold and a lot of sidekicks. These are great stories, mixing the noir detective genre with the fantasy genre to great effect. All of them more or less stand alone; if you wanted to you could pick this up as your first Garrett novel and have a pretty good feel for what was going on. But to better appreciate the universe of Garrett's friends, it's better to start earlier.
The plot involves the criminal underworld, the attempt of law and order to assert itself, and sartorially challenged religious cultists. And lots of kittens. It's as enjoyable as any of the Garrett books that I've read, which is to say quite a bit. These aren't terribly deep, but they're a lot of fun, perfect to curl up with on a rainy day. If you've ever enjoyed mysteries and ever enjoyed fantasies and don't have a problem with really witty anachronisms, I couldn't recommend this more.
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Focuses on the lives of fifty-two men in Scripture to help the reader approach the story of salvation with fresh eyes. The book offers a unique devotional program, combining five elements: the man’s story, a closer look at the man and how his life applies to that of the reader, Bible study, promises, and prayer.
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Incredible! .......2007-10-10
My husband LOVES this book. He has been using it this past year and we are now buying it for friends!
Great Resrouce for Small Group Study.......2006-09-26
I bought this book for my own devotionals when it first came out. The five-day format helped me not only hear the story of the Bible in a new light, but more importantly relate the trials of each man in the Bible to my own life. I have since used this book as the basis for our men's ministry Breakfast and Bible Study. The men involved have also said that it has helped them read and apply the Bible to their lives in a timely and manageable way.
Man's suffering for God's glory.......2002-11-18
WOW!
Here is a book that allows one to see how God can use anyone to do His work or pave His way. Having learned about these men as a child, Men of the Bible, allowed me to further relate to their sufferings and blessings. Men have been struggling with the same issues for centuries. What was their response to suffering and how their action plans all have allowed me to evaluate where I need to be as a follower of Christ.
If you are looking for a daily Bible study about 52 men that breaks down Their Story, A Look at the Man, His Legacy in Scripture, His Legacy of Promise and His Legacy of Prayer....Men of the Bible has been a tremendous tool in my spiritual growth.
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Recognizing that men and women face unique spiritual needs, these 365 convenient, concise, and uplifting devotionals help readers focus each day on God's priorities. Each day's selection includes a key NLT Scripture verse, a devotional reading, and a suggested Bible passage for further study.
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Non-Ficiton: These 365 convenient, concise, and uplifting devotionals help readers focus each day on God's priorities. Each day's selection includes a key NLT Bible verse, a devotional reading, and a suggested Bible passage for further study.
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Start every day with a few moments with GOD !.......2007-07-06
Thsi is the first book from Stewart Brisco. This was given to me by my pastor and I recomend this for every man who needs to take time every
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The devotional I've found yet.......2003-12-24
This is by far the best devotional I've found yet. I have search for a devotional that mixes a scripture reading with insightful application and had been fairly unsuccessful until now. I have been reading this daily on my Pocket PC and completely love it. There are times I want to call all my friends to tell them about what I've read. I have been a Christian for many years and have solid understanding of the word. Taking that into account, I don't know how great it would be for a new/baby Christian. Nonetheless, I have tried many devotionals and this is my favorite by far!
Excellent Book.......2002-11-05
This is an excellent devotional; concise, yet rich. I have not read the whole thing, but what I have read so far as quickened my heart for God and inspired me to live a more Godly life. I particularly like the readers on the CD.
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Designed to encourage readers to spend time reading and meditating on the truth of God's Word, these brief devotions, based solidly in Scripture, are ideal for reading over morning coffee, waiting in the car for children after school, or anytime people "on the go" want to make the most of just a few minutes. These devotions will encourage men and women to meditate on God's Word daily, even in the midst of a busy, active schedule.
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Designed to encourage readers to spend time reading and meditating on the truth of God's Word, these brief devotions, based solidly in Scripture, are ideal for reading over morning coffee, waiting in the car for children after school, or anytime people "on the go" want to make the most of just a few minutes. These devotions will encourage men to meditate on God's Word daily, even in the midst of a busy, active schedule.
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- The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library)
- The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These
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- The Stories of J.F. Powers (New York Review Books Classics)
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- The View From Pompey's Head
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