Drugs, Death, and Auras: A Story of Love Review

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Drugs, Death, and Auras: A Story of Love ReviewI really enjoyed the book. Started reading it right after my Sunday morning newspaper....and finished it that afternoon.
Great read. Loved the characters! I really enjoyed the good/evil - right/wrong aspect. Why do good people do bad things...can people really change??
The dynamics of the Irish Catholic family was well conveyed. I also liked the Bay Area location...the mention of Campbell, California especially made me smile!
I was quite surprised on several occasions...thinking something different was going to happen.
I love the idea of the "Committee".
I can just imagine it on the screen....some really nail biting moments!!! I want Casey Affleck in the movie!!Drugs, Death, and Auras: A Story of Love OverviewIn Drugs, Death, and Auras: A Story of Love, new author Brian L. Murphy writes an engrossing coming of age suspense thriller set in the 1970s. Wildly taut, this compelling, fast-paced, character-driven plot examines how men wield power for good-and evil. Based in San Francisco, The Committee is comprised of elders who are bent on making the world a better place no matter what the cost. When members Arthur Gorman and John Ferrel hatch an unorthodox plan to rid the streets of heroin users, they enlist the aid of a chemical researcher who discovers a way to lace drugs, specifically the East Coast heroin supply. When their old friend, Ron Patterson, uncovers the mass murderous plan, he enlists the help of Tim Conolly, a recent graduate he mentors. As the committee members, each with the power to interpret auras, choose sides, one thing is certain, the power to see intention and purpose is both a blessing and a curse.

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The Assignment: The Thin Skinned Rebel Series - Book 1 Review

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The Assignment: The Thin Skinned Rebel Series - Book 1 ReviewTo those readers who didn't get a chance to grab this book when it was first published, you really missed out! Even though, yes, there were some typo's due to oversights from the publisher, it did not detract from the storyline! I'm looking forward to Catelin's next adventure............if you like reading a book that you just can't put down, you'll thoroughly enjoy reading anything by Catelin Hoover!The Assignment: The Thin Skinned Rebel Series - Book 1 OverviewDave Knight, a young Christian minister accepts the assignment to pastor his first church unaware of how deeply the former minister indoctrinated the church with false beliefs. Hired by Reverend Wiseman Dave's assignment is to discover what has caused the church to lose members and to return it to a viable church Upon arriving at Midpoint Dave is stranded at the airport due to a sudden illness hospitalizing Reverend Wiseman. As Dave decides to locate a taxi he blindly collides with a young woman: His college sweetheart Shirley Adam. Dave learns she is still unmarried, working as a private duty nurse and that she never received any of the letters he wrote her while he was in seminary. Shirley offers Dave a ride to the church. Touring the parsonage together Shirley's vivacious spirit becomes depressive, Dave discovers a terrible wrong was rendered by the former minister which hurt Shirley so deeply she is reluctant to return to church. As Dave begins his ministry he learns there have been many members of the church who were hurt by the former minister. Determined to right these wrongs, Dave begins to rebuild the church, with his efforts constantly challenged by three of the church's officers. In Dave's attempt to bring the church back to the Lord, he finds no time to court Shirley and risks losing the only woman he loves. As his work hours increases he ignores his body's signals of the on-start of a serious illness. Will Dave loose Shirley, his health and the church? The closing chapters hold the answers to this inspiring story.

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Desperate Highway Review

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Desperate Highway ReviewDesperate Highway
This book is an amazing true story of a man that didn't believe in anything or anyone. He lived his life in a manner that became challenging just to get through the day without the prospect of being locked up or worse. God put him through the ultimate test that would easily break any normal human being. This man is a true inspiration to anyone that is facing tough times; whether it be incarceration or otherwise. Props to the author, Jesse Stretch. Awesome read! Should be made into a movie!Desperate Highway Overview

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No Greater Sacrifice Review

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No Greater Sacrifice ReviewJohn C. Stipa's debut novel, "No Greater Sacrifice" is in the genre of Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code", "Angels & Demons" and "The Lost Symbol" but is totally original in concept and plot and takes no back seat to any of them. This thing rocks! Take the elements that made those stories so wildly popular, mix them with all of the elements that thrilled fans of the Indiana Jones adventures and you get the tremendously satisfying thrill ride called "No Greater Sacrifice" by John C. Stipa.
This book is a top-notch, exhilarating and (dare I say?) "brilliant" page-turner that kept me up until the wee hours several nights in a row. The plot is complex and deftly crafted. The twists and turns come at a furious pace. The two main characters (charming, ex-helicopter pilot, David Arturo and the sexy, adventurous archaeologist Renée d'Arcadia) have genuine emotional depth. The mystery they're confronted with is a real puzzler steeped in ancient mythology and esoteric lore. The narrative moves along at a quick pace. The action scenes explode across the page with tremendous descriptive power. The writing is impeccable. The final quarter of the book is hold-on-to-your-seat stuff and the ending is worth every minute it took to get there. Have I left anything out? Did I mention this thing rocks? Strap yourself in and hang on. You're in for a terrific ride.
Gary Val Tenuta
Author of The Ezekiel Code
2012 is coming...Or is it? The clock is ticking...The code must be deciphered!No Greater Sacrifice OverviewWhen feisty archaeologist Renée d'Arcadia is summoned to France to take part in the reading of a will, she is plunged into a maelstrom of deceit and destruction to solve a 100-year-old mystery originating from a sinister church where nothing is as it seems. Renée joins forces with David Arturo, an ex-helicopter pilot with a troubled past, to interpret clues cleverly hidden in tombstones and classic works of literature to find artifacts scattered across Europe. Racing against time, Renée and David must overcome their inner demons to outmaneuver a network of evil bent on destroying them. What they find in each other just might provide answers to some of mankind's oldest myths.

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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience Review

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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience ReviewIn 1983, while the rest of the world looked away, a civil war broke out in Sudan between the Islamic controlled government in the north and the people of the south who were Christians or animists. This conflict would eventually result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, more than five million people driven from their homes and would would force two million Sudanese to seek refuge in neighboring countries. Among these refugees was a group of at least 20,000 children aged 7 to 17 years of age who were separated from their families and forced to make their way alone over hundreds of miles of an unforgiving wilderness until they finally arrived at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northwest Kenya where the United Nations Committee for refugees created a sanctuary for "The Lost Boys of Sudan." By that time, more than half were lost to starvation, disease, attacks by wild animals, and bandits.
I first met the Lost Boys in Kakuma in February 1998, while on an inspection tour for the U.S. Department of State. I was amazed by their story and was even more amazed by their dedication to each other and to making the best of their existence at Kakuma. Even though there were food shortages in the camp. They asked if they could get more books and teachers because both were in short supply and education was the most important thing in their lives. I learned that they were still at risk in Kakuma and that hardly a week went by without one or more of the boys being kidnapped and forced to fight in the civil war. These were children to whom fate had dealt a cruel hand but who were adaptable enough to survive. As there was no future for them in Kakuma, I made the decision to recommend that they be resettled in the United States.
After a great deal of debate over issues such as the boys' ability to adjust to life in the U.S., the decision was made and the surviving Lost Boys, about 3,300 were resettled in the U.S. In The Lost Boys of Sudan, Mark Bixler follows the paths of four of the Lost Boys, Jacob Magot, Peter Anyang, Daniel Khoch, and Marko Ayii as they arrive in Atlanta, and begin their cultural adaptation to America. It was not an easy transition and Bixler does an excellent job of describing the journey from a refugee camp with no electricity or plumbing to the land of consumer excess and MTV. Bixler describes how the boys had to put their education dreams on hold while they found jobs and dealt with the reality of earning a living in the U.S. Once they had found jobs, the boys discovered ways to go to school so that they could return to Sudan and help rebuild their country. Their dedication in the face of huge obstacles makes for an inspiring story.
Bixler also does an excellent job of explaining the history of the Sudanese Civil War, the Dinka culture that most of the boys were born into, and the continuing struggle in Sudan. He reminds us that as this book is published the war in Sudan continues with the deaths of thousand of Sudanese in Darfur province of Sudan. There has been a "peace agreement" signed but the killing still goes on and refugees still come to Kakuma for sanctuary.
This book should be required reading for every student in America. To our sham we often take our access to education for granted, and the story of the Lost Boys emphasizes education as an empowering tool where individuals can improve their lives and truly become whatever they want to be. Few in our country have gone through the hell that these boys experienced on their journey to American. Their story is a lesson for all of us and Mark Bixler's The Lost Boys of Sudan is a book that should be read not only by people interested in Africa or refugees, but by everyone who cares about the future of America and the world.

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Jake's Choice (To Save a Life) Review

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Jake's Choice (To Save a Life) ReviewJake's Choice is an awesome sequel to the Britts' To Save A Life book. Seldom do authors improve on their first book, but the Britts have hit a home-run with this one!
Jake's Choice is a study in contrasts as the lives of Jake and Amy continue to unfold. Jake goes to Louisville, KY to live out his dream of playing college basketball for the much-heralded Cardinals while Amy is left behind in Oceanside, CA to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams after giving up their daughter Emily for adoption to a wonderful church couple.
For Jake, who postponed going to Louisville for a semester to be with Amy during her pregnancy and the birth of their daughter, life starts to unravel the minute he gets there. The transition from former high school basketball star and popular man on campus and new Christian to another anonymous face arriving on a college campus jars his reality. There are no warm welcomes. Nothing. He finds himself with an interesting roommate (who hasn't been there?) who's also the basketball team, but worst of all his teammates dis him for not arriving sooner and being there for the team. Add to that the fact he isn't happy with the churches he visits and you have the recipe for the disaster that unfolds in the pages that follow.
Amy, on the other hand, is attending a community college in Southern California, and is living with regrets about giving up her daughter Emily. As her story unfolds, she begins to run with Andrea and eventually gets together with Cari, the youth pastor Chris' wife. Amy comes to faith in Jesus Christ and wants to share what's she's learning with Jake.
What unfolds is these two people who are living in opposite parts of the country are moving in two different directions: Amy closer to God and Jake further away. My wife drew a picture for me while we dating that amply illustrates a beautiful principle that applies here. On a piece of paper she drew a triangle. At the base of the triangle, on the left hand side, she wrote Me; on the right hand side, she wrote You. At the top of the triangle, she wrote God. Her point: as we each drew nearer to God we would be drawn closer together. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case with Amy and Jake. Amy drew nearer to God and Jake did not. Their relationship suffered as a result of this.
Without giving up too much of the story: Amy follows God's direction for her life and lives out her dream of going to Stanford University and is blessed beyond her wildest dreams. Jake, on the other hand, tries to win the approval of his teammates, makes bad choices, and goes through one trial after another. It isn't until an elderly man from the first church he visited in Louisville comes back into his life and challenges him to glow - to let his life shine before men so that they may see his good works and glorify his Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16)- that Jake starts to get his life back on track.
In my 23 years of walking with the Lord I have read a number of Christian books, both fiction and nonfiction, but I'll tell you in all honestly, apart from the Bible, I have never in my life read a book that truly puts into proper persective what it means to be a Christian than Jake's Choice. This is a must read book, as is it's prequel To Save A Life. May God continue to use Jim and Rachel Britts in a mighty way to reach the lost and hurting for Christ. May the story continue!Jake's Choice (To Save a Life) OverviewThe second novel in the To Save A Life series finds Jake Taylor at college thousands of miles apart from his girlfriend Amy. Befriending a young girl with a traumatic history leads Amy back to the father who abandoned her. Jake's position on the Louisville basketball team lands him in the midst of parties, beautiful women...and one decision that will shake him to the core. When everything Jake believes is challenged, will he go with the flow or stand alone for what is right? One choice will change everything...

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Medjugorje The Message (Christian Classics) (English and English Edition) Review

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Medjugorje The Message (Christian Classics) (English and English Edition) ReviewNot being a terribly religious person when I read this book, I was almost embarassed to buy it but I'm glad I did. It truly got me to thinking about what is possible in this world and if I believe in Mary, why not be open to the possibility that she is still here with us, warning us to be faithful as she did at Fatima? A very objective book, about the author's travels to Medjugorje, Yugoslavia prior to the Bosnian war. It'll definitely make you think.Medjugorje The Message (Christian Classics) (English and English Edition) OverviewWith refreshing candor and self-deprecating humor, Wayne takes the reader with him on the adventure to Medjugorje that radically and permanently changed his life. You will discover the apparitions of the Blessed Mother along with him, as he chronicles the ways that the Virgin Mary continues to speak to the world today from Medjugorje. This is the bestselling book on Medjugorje in the English language with over 380,000 copies sold.

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Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage Review

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Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage ReviewI presume to suggest that this book be read in combination with Jere Longman's Among the Heroes. Frankly, I am unable to appreciate the full nature and extent of Lisa Beamer's grief, following the death of her husband and others aboard United flight 93. As she explains in this book, her primary challenge since then has been to overcome that grief while somehow providing for the needs of their three children. (Daughter Morgan was born in January, only a few months after United flight 93 crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.) Although she has written a bestseller, and continues to attract media attention, Lisa Beamer remains focused on her children and the work of the Todd M. Beamer Foundation whose mission is to assist other children who have also lost a parent. The title of her book refers to her late husband's last recorded remarks just before he and others aboard the plane attempted to overcome the terrorists who had skyjacked it. ("Are you guys ready? Let's roll!") They knew what had already happened on September 11th whereas those aboard the other three flights did not. Huddled to the rear of their plane, several were able to call loved ones and then recited the Lord's Prayer before rushing the forward area.
Those who read this book expecting a detailed account of those final moments will be disappointed. (That is why I highly recommend Longman's book.) What Lisa Beamer shares in this book is her abiding religious faith, probably without which she could not cope with the loss of her beloved husband. She is also determined to help others to understand who her late husband was and why his heroism is "so Todd." She suggests that he was "more than a half hour of time on September 11." Of course, the same can be said of everyone else aboard that flight as well as of those aboard the other three flights and of everyone else who perished at the World Trade Center and at the Pentagon.
It has been less than a year since the multiple of tragedies occurred and it may be several decades before we will be able to fully grasp the nature and extent of heroism both in the air and on the ground throughout that tragic day...and during the weeks which followed. Lisa Beamer has written an inspirational account of her own experiences. Although apparently there have been indications at least some resentment of her celebrity, with which she seems to be uncomfortable, she observes that "I haven't gotten that sense on my interactions with the other families. I do my best to say what happened on that plane was teamwork, that there are a lot of untold stories and other heroes" aboard United flight 93. Perhaps in time, we will learn more about them. Perhaps those "untold stories" will be added to Todd Beamer's.
My final comment is that, now more than ever before, we need to re-define heroism so as to include otherwise "ordinary" people who, when faced with a life-threatening crisis, respond with extraordinary courage. May our beloved nation always have Todd Beamers to accept that challenge...and Lisa Beamers to help us to appreciate them.Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage Overview2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to have confidence and hope for the future.

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