This book is pure joy. For those of us who have loved our dogs, the stories tug at your heart strings. Karen Derrico captures each dog's story with a peek into other dog owner's heart and how much they loved their special friend. Thank you for writing a book that has been so long in coming, and so beautifully written. This one is a must for dog lovers, pet lovers, and anyone who has ever had that special bond with their pet.

The Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) highly recommends Unforgettable Mutts: Pure of Heart Not of Breed. This touching tribute to mixed-breed dogs features a collection of more than one hundred photo-essays about remarkable mutts. Unforgettable Mutts is certain to make purebred lovers set aside their prejudices about those dogs who are less than "pure."

Around 75 percent of all dogs entering animal shelters in the U.S. are mixed-breed dogs. Sadly, one to two million of these mixed-breeds are euthanized each year. If you are thinking about adopting a shelter dog, CAPS strongly encourages you to give a home to a needy mutt. If you think you can't do without a purebred, read Unforgettable Mutts first. Karen Derrico's delightful book will convince you to change your mind.

Truly one of the best dog books I've seen in a long time! The photos are amazing, but combined with the inspiring, heartwarming, and incredible true stories, this book is definitely a winner. I wouldn't be surprised to see Unforgettable Mutts on the NY Times Bestsellers very soon! If you have even just a mild affinity for dogs, I guarantee you'll love this book!!

In 1995 I fell in love with a strongly believing girl and she gave me several books to read. "Run, Baby, Run" was one of them (it was written in Czech) and one should admit that I enjoyed the book. Nicky Cruz's gang was really very violent, fighting with policemen often and many people there were drug addicts. But a preacher introduced Nicky to Jesus Christ one day and then everything changed...

I recommend this book to any reader and nonreader because i am sure they will all enjoy this book. I have just recently finshed reading it (I only wished I had read it earlier)and wanted to know more so next best thing was to read David Wilkerson's book's (the little skinny preacher) that did wonders for Nicky. It is just incredible how the Holy Spirit works wonders through someone else. I do hope Nicky will write another book, (or has he,I like to know)(as I am in Downunder and get second hand news)as I would like to know lots more.

A very compelling story: A Nicky Cruz autobiography of growing up without knowing the true meaning of the word "Love". Growing up in the streets of Brooklyn, struggling and battling to survive, his fiercest battle is with his innermost demons. He is able to discover with the help of a preacher that everyone is worthy of God's love no matter how much evil is in their past. I first read this book about 25 years ago at 13 years old and the book still to this day has a impact on me. I'm going to refer this book to my son of 15 years so that he can read this story of great inspiration.

Jared Taylor does a masterful job exposing and documenting cases of minority, but mainly black racism and violent crime against whites. Racism and hate are a double edged swords as J. Taylor clearly shows. Although this book is simply an objective report on contemporary race relations(and not white nationalist) it is still a powerful antidote for whites who have been conditioned by schools, Christian churches, and the mass media to believe that they are responsible for poor race relations in America and that, if not for white racism all would be well.

However, I feel the reader is left with the notion that if we simply pursued different policies that this multiracial stinkpot could somehow be workable. I felt the author should have gone on the attack and launched more broadsides against affirmative action, mass immigration and multiculturalism in general. All in all this is still a very good book and a good source of facts and information to argue effectively against left wing and moderate airheads.

If America is ever going to find the truth behind the failed Liberal race-policies, then every American has a moral obligation to read Jared Taylor's "Paved With Good Intentions." Indeed, Mr. Taylor has shown his courage in writing such a book, and he should be applauded for his nobel work. No doubt, there will be those who will claim that Mr. Taylor is a racist. But, the true racists are those who are attacking Mr. Taylor. Mr. Taylor unflinchingly tells the truth about race and crime and how Black racism is proliferating in America. If we are ever going to heal the already damaged race-relations in America, then it is time for us to speak the unspoken truth. God Bless Jared Taylor.

Paved with good intentions was a really great book for me to read because it basically proved what I've been thinking for a long time that racism in America has gone way down and there probably more then enough goverment programs to help improve racial equality. The fact of the matter is that black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean earn more then whites and their children do better in school then whites. Racists do not differentiate between black Americans and Caribbean and African blacks. In addition, Asians do better economically and educationally then blacks even if they immigrant to this country knowing little or no English! Racisist notions such as banks not giving credits to blacks is not held up when asians are taken into consideration because asians get approved more then whites and no one is saying the banking system is biased in the favor Asians. Jared Taylor does a really good job tackling the ideas of affirmative action and double standards and how they are interfearing with the idea of being color-blind (which was the point of the civil rights movements) by saying that we need to judge people differently on the basis of race and that people cannot be judged against people of other races but only of people of their own race.

I just wanted to tell everyone out there, who is going to or has read the book, its the best book ever. I know Aaron Carter, hes my really good friend,I love him. It was well written and put together very nicely. Everyone out there should read it. I love you Aaron!

Who knew you could do so much reading in one summer? This is the only book I have bought/read over the summer, and let me tell ya, its really good, I read it in a little under 2 days. This is probably the best Aaron Carter book you will ever read since it is a true life story written by the one who knows him best! Mom, Jane Carter, who is also the author of Nick Carter's book The Heart And Soul Of Nick Carter. I recomend this to Aaron fans and also the lonely hearted ones who have doubted Aaron's succsess may need to think twice about critisizing Aaron because of his young age, hey, he wont be this young 4 long! It tells his whole life story including how he was just a 6, going on 7 year old frontman headbanging and screaming covers of Greenday along with his teenage bandmates for a local rock school band, Dead End and what he thought of it. This will surely settle some rumors and untrue stuff you might have heard in the past.And answer some questions like Why soes Aaron want to attend regular school? Why is cotton candy a no-no? Whats it like to be a twin? and many, many more! It is also filled with a color photo insert and some black and white photos at each chapter! Enjoy!

Hi, i am Aaron's number:1 fan and ive LOVED him since he was 7 when his first little web-page came out...I have followed him growing up and untill this book came out I thought I knew every-thing a fan could know about him, but I was wrong this book takes you threw his wonderful life and growing up and family and being on the road...There are breath-taking picture that stole my heart, and a quiz at the end...This book is the best book I have EVER read and it stole my heart, Jane Carter you ROCK.... Aaron Carter you ROCK my world and youve stole my heart....

I think it was a great book. Ann M. Martin did a wonderful job of showing emotions, especially when Abby's father died. I could really picture Abby sitting in the principals office, and inisant 4th grader and hearing the shoking news that her father was gone. You feel like you become the charachter, which shows Ann M. Martin's wonderful writing talent. One of the bad things though, is that it doesn't seem very realistic for a person to write a biography in one weekend. I know from experience that a teacher always catches glitches and you have to write it at least twice. Other than that, it was a good book.

I think that this is one of the best Baby-sitters Club books.Abby has been through a rough time and it's really sad. I liked when Abby and her twin sister, Anna, were first graders, and they had to dress in certain colors so their teacher could tell them apart. I also liked when they were in Sanibel, but I won't spoil the book by telling you the whole story so, bye.

This book is the best, since Abby's the best baby-sitter! I really miss her in the new series, Friends Forever! I wish that there was a real person like Abby, so I could meet her! Please write some more regular BSC books, Ann, I really miss Abby!

The Cold War was a war of nerves. Like all war, it was costly and wasteful. And like most war, determining the key event or strategy that led to its particular end point may be subject to endless debate. Peter Schweizer's point is that but for the strategy developed by the Reagan team and adopted by President Reagan in 1981 to 1983, the particular ending resulting in the collapse of the Soviet Union would not have occurred. The story he tells is compelling. History may well confirm his analysis.

This is not an academic work. It is more a multiple memoir. Most of Mr. Schweizer's citations are of interviews he conducted of major figures in the Reagan Administration. It also reads like a cookbook with one recipe. The ingredients-military buildup, economic embargos, support of regional conflicts in Communist lands, and most important, adoption of the strategic defense initiative-are set up in the first part of the book. These ingredients were more or less in place by the end of 1983. The book then becomes repetitious, sort of like telling the cook to stir the pot and then stir the pot some more. In the end, Gorbachev comes on the scene, recognizes that the pot has boiled over and takes it off the stove.

Other authors have been critical of the Reagan team's efforts. Schweizer points out that some of the criticisms were expressed by team members (especially Haig and Schultz) at the time the secret decisions were made. As time passes and peace allows for a more expansive view of the events in the 1980s, criticism will likely increase. A book such as this one will be all the more important then, as a reminder of what was done and how and why it was done.

Tom Clancy dedicates Executive Orders "to Ronald Wilson Reagan -- The Man who won the War". Schweizer explains why Clancy is more correct than all the news media and intellectual elites who scorned Reagan when he was in office and have ignored his achievements ever since.

Much of the news media and liberal academia would have you believe that Gorbachev was the hero who modernized the Soviet Union and liberated it from the past. Schweizer outlines in detail the long strategic effort to defeat the Soviet Union through a multiplicity of specific strategies. From delaying and minimizing the natural gas pipeline to western Europe, to working with the Saudis to bring down the price of oil (the number one source of hard currency for the Soviet Union), to actively working to cut off technology from reaching the Soviet Union, to launching an arms race of high technology systems that would bloc obsolesce the old systems and force the Soviets into an exhausting effort to keep up, to financing opposition forces in Afghanistan, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Central America.

Again and again Schweizer shows the methodical determined efforts of the Reagan team to undermine and roll back the Soviet Union. Trying to describe the end of the Soviet Empire without Reagan is like trying to describe the South losing the Civil War without mentioning Lincoln and Grant. This book should be read by every citizen interested in just how effective their country can be when it has a strategy and courageous disciplined leaders.

Once in awhile a book comes along that has that special quality of illuminating a real world mystery. Robert Caro's biography of Johnson and Albert Speer's memoir are two such works. Peter Schweizer's Victory is another.

For years I wondered, as I read news accounts and histories, why no one had a logical explanation for why oil prices had dropped so dramatically in 1985, when just a couple years earlier pundits were saying the sky was the limit for oil. And why, shortly thereafter, did the Eastern Bloc begin to crumble, soon to be followed by the Soviet Union itself? Then why did the Bush Administration see fit to conduct a war to liberate Kuwait and protect Saudi Arabia? And were all these momentous events related? The answer is yes. Victory describes clearly how they all were indeed closely related.

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was worried that he would be overthrown as the Shah of Iran had been, either by Muslim extremists, or by Soviet backed revolutionaries. At the same time, the Reagan Administration was interested in the economic strangulation of the Soviet Union. The source of most of the USSR's hard currency was the sale of its oil on international markets. So a deal was struck.. The US would guarantee the security of the Saudi monarchy with AWACS jets and Stinger missiles and, ultimately, US armed forces. In return, Saudi Arabia would flood the market with oil, driving the price for a barrel of crude from $35 down to $10.

With its oil income cut by 70%, Moscow could no longer buy the technology it needed to keep pace in the arms race, let alone dole out largesse to Poland or East Germany. And when Iraq invaded Saudi Arabia's tiny neighbor Kuwait, it was time for the US to uphold its part of the bargain.

Victory aptly describes this and other maneuverings to win the Cold War, such as the support of the mujahedin in Afghanistan and of the Solidarity movement in Poland. It is based largely on interviews with such key players as Caspar Weinberger, Robert MacFarlane, George Schultz, Richard Pipes, Herb Meyer, and Richard Allen, so that it provides an almost palpable sense of being in the White House as the strategy was crafted. It effectively gives the lie to those facile commentators in the media who claim the Soviet Union fell of its own weight. It didn't. It was pushed.

I am blessed to work with the author of this well written novel. I am an avid reader and was given a copy of "On the Edge" by another co-worker. I took the book home and immediately started reading it and from the onset, I found it a book that I absolutely couldn't put down. I don't want to give away any of the contents or storyline, however, I will say this, if you are struggling or if you are challenged in your christian daily walk and just can't explain some of what goes on in your life, this book will OPEN YOUR EYES to the tricks/schemes/wiles of the enemy. Parker, thank you for allowing God to use you to write such a powerful book. It's an eye-opener and a life-changer, indeed.

This book is absolutely amazing! Until I read it, I didn't truly have God in my life. I always felt so unworthy and it was beyond my comprehension that God would forgive me of all of my sins and except me as one of His chosen. My sister who was finding so much joy in knowing God was at the library one day and saw "On the Edge". She'd already read it and, on a whim, decided to check it out for me to read. My family and I went on a cruise about a week later and I took it along. All I can say is it totally changed my life! It just clicked for me, I gave my life to the Lord aboard that ship and slowly I began to change in ways I didn't even know I needed to. I truly started to understand it was real when my family noticed the huge difference in me and I began to find pure joy in studying His Word and having a personal relationship with Him. That was five years ago and just recently God led me back to it, I ordered it online and it was even sweeter reading it the second time. God has truly gifted the author in being able to relate to the soul and I will forever be appreciative of His gift through F. Parker Hudson.

This is one of the best books I've read about the reality of the spiritual realm and the impact of prayer (of lack thereof!) on the salvation of souls. The Sullivans and the other characters in the book are incredibly realistic - I could have been reading about any number of people I know. The author gives us a realistic glimpse of the way blinders are kept on unbelievers minds through "anything goes", "just this once", "everyone is doing it", and "it's not THAT bad"....the deadly impact of NOT knowing God or His word and having any foundation on which to base decisions.
He also very well describes the serious the consequences of God's own people failing to pray. I've definitely taken a hard look at my own prayer life and how I can better help the lost souls around me: be there for them as a friend, speak up, and PRAY! The book is biblically based and very solid in Christian theology. Really makes you think, and keeps your interest all the way through!!!

This book is fantastic. It is not just a book about football. It is a story of people. You don't have to be a Satints fan or football fanatic to love this book. My wife and 15 year old non-football fan daughter truly enjoyed this book. If you love stories about people and real life, this is the book for you. I was actually a fan in attendance at most of the events in the book and the skillfull story telling had me back there reliving those wonderfull moments. Great Job!!!!!

I am a woman who occasionally, reluctantly watches football because that is where my husband is, and that is where the couch is, and that is where the potato chips are. After reading One Dream, The NFL by Mr. Falgoux, (during nighttime football games), I have a new appreciation for where these guys begin, and what they must go through to reach the pinacle. Woody has revealed to me the player, for all that he is and all that he is not. I now watch the games with a new respect and a peaked interest because I can relate to players as individuals, with a common dream. I think this is a great birthday or Christmas present for the people who love sports, and for the others who think they do not.

In July 2000, eleven undrafted rookies showed up at the New Orleans Saints training camp - 10 players and a fledgling writer - brought together in pursuit of a dream. In this his first novel, Woody Falgoux pursues his own dream as he follows 10 undrafted rookies through the most challenging 6 weeks of their careers. The odds are heavily against them. Beyond the rigors of training camp, the players face the unsettling question of who they are if the dream dies - complicated issues at delicate times. Balancing perseverance and tact, Falgoux delivers an insightful perspective of these players, as well as training camps and the business that has become professional football.

Everyone has dreams. Falgoux does justice to his and the those driving the 10 rookies at the focus of this book.

The single biggest reason to watch this movie is that the star himself was in fact the single most decorated war hero of World War Two, and he is convincing here playing himself with dignity, sincerity, and humility, which, of course, Audie Murphy always had in spades. The movie was adopted from his best-selling autobiography, which my Mom let me read after blackening out all of the four letter slang (as she called it). Perhaps it shows that he was my childhood hero, and I still have a personalized autographed photo somewhere reading "Thanks, Barry, for being my fan" that a friend's mom got for three or four of us ten year olds at the time this movie was released in the mid 1950s. It was the first movie I saw ten times. And I wasn't alone; Murphy was a national icon.

The movie truly is a classic; tightly directed, poignant, honest, accurate, and showing gripping combat without being gory or maudlin. It sometimes decends into travelogue movie-theater type newsreel moments, but these are thankfully rare and forgiveable. On the other hand, this is an interesting and absolutely true story of a common and uneducated boy from rural Texas who wanted more than anything to be a soldier and serve his country, and his subsequent deeds and patriotism above and beyond the call of duty inspired a whole generation of us who wanted to imitate his call to country. Unfortunately we walked into another time and the miasma of Vietnam. But that's another story for another time. Escape back to a time when the moral choices were clearer, and a real live hero was available to act his way memorably through an accurate recounting of his extraordinary if abbreviated military career. He may be gone too soon, the victim of a plane crash in the early 1970s, but his lifetime admirers remain. Enjoy!

When are you ever going to see a great hero playing himself in his greatest moments? If "Saving Private Ryan" was too gory for you, here's a movie that shows the glory and pain of WWII, but without the gore. If your grade-school kids want to know about the soldiers of WWII without them having nightmares, have them see this film. Audie Murphy is great in this role -- even though it is his story, it becomes the story of ALL the soldiers (although Audie does have the best moments). The fight scenes are gripping, and it really does feel 'real' rather than 'staged'. I would also recommend that you read Audie Murphy's book of the same name to get the whole story. Definitely Audie Murphy was the greatest U.S. soldier in the 20th Century!

I first read this book as a young man before entering high school. The book and Audie Murphy became a symbol of not only what one man can do, but what one man can stir in the friends and comrades around him.

Murphy's acts, thoughts, and efforts described in this book make him an absolute hero not only during the war, but should be displayed for generations to come as a man that believed in our country and the American Cause. It is the ideals that he fought for, and the American people that he believed in that make this book a must read for all types of people that would want to feel good about the United States of America and to be personaly uplifted and moved by the challenges that this soldier endured and overcame.

Pete Wright is the attorney who turned things around in special education by winning the famous "Shannon Carter" case holding that parents did not have to wait for lethargic or negligent school districts to help their children. Carter held that the parents could place the child at an out of district school and get reimbursment later, whether the school they chose was approved by state or local authorities or not.

I am an attorney who has handled literally hundreds of these special education matters.Be this book, I would have to carry an armful of materials to a hearing or an IEP meeting. Now its all in one paperback volume.

It is also in language the non-lawyer can understand. (and even lawyers). It is also laced with the Wright's wisdom from their many years as pioneers in this specialized field of law.

Don't go to a hearing or school IEP meeting without it.

Reviewed by William Laviano, Esq. Laviano Law Offices P.C. Ridgefield, Ct.

This is a great resource, putting all the laws, rules and regulations that are relevant to special education in one handy place. In addition to the actual copies of laws, notation of relevant case law is a really useful addition. Overviews of the laws/regulations and commentary are extremely helpful.

This book is a valuable resource for school psychologists, and it is required reading for my graduate course covering legal and ethical issues for school psychologists in training. Knowing the regulations and the law will help professionals plan programs that meet the needs of children and the requirements of the law.

I recommend it highly for parents, also. Parents are many times at a disadvantage because they do not know the law. With this book as a reference parents can be a fully participating member of the special education team.

As a parent of a child with autism, I have faced many struggles.
Working with the public school system to provide my son an appropriate education has been the hardest struggle by far. I have read Wrightslaw: Special Ed Law and From Emotions to Advocacy by Peter Wright and have found them to be an invaluable resource for parents of special needs children. As with any disability, parents must educate themselves in order to help their child. These books are loaded with information that is essential for parents who wants to be strong advocates. I recommend these books to every parent who has a child in the public school system.