The New Saint Joseph Sunday Missal & Hymnal/Black/No. 820/22-B
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • This is excellent for Mass
  • Meets my expectations
  • Wonderful Edition
  • Sunday Missal
The New Saint Joseph Sunday Missal & Hymnal/Black/No. 820/22-B
Catholic Book Publishing Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0899428185

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This is excellent for Mass.......2007-08-11

I purchased this missile for my daughter in law and she was very satisfied with it. It is almost identical to the red cover and is very useful during Mass.

5 out of 5 stars Meets my expectations.......2007-05-10

Like most churches, we have books containing the liturgy in the pews. But it is really nice to have your own missal. It is well organized and easy to follow from Sunday to Sunday. One of the nice things about the missal is that is provides additional information about the readings, and how they relate to one another.

One thing that could be improved...the book has two ribbon markers for keeping place. Four would be better.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Edition.......2001-06-22

I purchased this for my husband and we are now getting one for his father. It is a handsome edition and has lots of great features already listed in the previous review. My husband and I appreciate the short writings telling us what the readings are about each week...kind of a mini-homiliy. It is very easy to read and understand and helps you to participate in the Mass more fully. This book is good for a number of years as it lists the three-year cycle and you look up where we are in the liturgical calendar rather than only getting the Missal for one year at a time. I highly recommend this Saint Joseph edition!

5 out of 5 stars Sunday Missal.......2000-04-25

This is a beautiful edition, with a hard cover and color illustrations. It follows the mass perfectly. My husband has an old missal from when he was a child and some of the readings have since changed somewhat so this updated version is useful to him. Two ribbon markers hold your place and there are sections on the rosary and prayers.
Black Sunday
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Read
  • Well Written, But Tedious in Spots
  • Thomas Harris' first
  • Very Scary
  • Inspiring -- because it's not that great
Black Sunday
Thomas Harris
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ASIN: 0451217411

Book Description

From the genius of Thomas Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author who introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter, comes his terrifying and prophetic debut of an American who plans an act of terrorism at the Super Bowl—as the whole world watches. But in a mob of 80,000 people, how can they find him to stop him?

The clock is ticking…

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Read.......2007-05-07

Excellent book by an excellent writer. Having read several other books by Thomas Harris I think this one does please. Suspense, action, drama, and well crafted characters make for a great read.

3 out of 5 stars Well Written, But Tedious in Spots.......2007-04-07

BLACK SUNDAY is Thomas Harris' first novel, and is the only one that doesn't feature the character of Hannibal Lecter. This novel instead deals with a terrorist plot to blow up the Superbowl. Unfortunately, this book is not as exciting as the plot would suggest.

This is definitely not the best novel by Thomas Harris. I thought the character development was rather weak, largely due to Harris' decision not to have a central protagonist. He instead presents a large cast of characters in BLACK SUNDAY, and none are sufficiently developed enough for the reader to emphasize with any of them.

This book is also pretty tedious in spots. Harris obviously did a lot of research for this book, but he includes way too much irrelevant detail that doesn't move the story forward. BLACK SUNDAY therefore ends up being a rather slow paced read, a serious problem for any thriller.

There are moments of stylistic brilliance in BLACK SUNDAY, because Harris is a very fine writer. But it doesn't really add up to a very exciting story. If you've never read Harris before, my advice is to read the book he wrote after this one, RED DRAGON. That novel, in my opinion, is one of the finest thrillers ever written.

4 out of 5 stars Thomas Harris' first .......2007-03-18

Thomas Harris' first novel "Black Sunday", is, as all of his works are, very well written and told in an enticing and convincing way. The characters are three dimensional and realistic. You'll never question whether or not the thoughts or actions of the characters are plausible, and you'll not think that this or that is out of line. It has a sense of realism to it, that really makes it scary almost.

Highly recommendable

4 out of 5 stars Very Scary.......2007-03-11

It is hard to believe this book was written thirty years ago. This story of an American madman hooking up with Palestinian terrorists to blow up the Superbowl is very relevant to today. I just saw the movie Munich and so the terrorist organization Black September was fresh in my mind. Just like Munich, the Mossad is operating in this novel to hunt down Black September. Clues bring them to the US, and without the help of the Israelis, the incompetent American intelligence services would never have known that Palestinian terrorists were planning mass murder inside the US.

I found a few unbelievable elements to the story. Namely, how the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September allowed a beautiful female into its upper ranks. And furthermore, how she then fell for the Vietnam vet plotting to blow up the Superbowl. It is obvious that she was using him for murderous ends, but Harris leaves hints that she was beginning to fall for him.

The plot proceeds at a quick pace and is very tightly and well written. It does not take long to finish this book. Best part: the bad guy gives his ex-wife tickets to the Superbowl he was plotting to blow up.

3 out of 5 stars Inspiring -- because it's not that great.......2007-02-15

For a writer, Thomas Harris' "Black Sunday" is an inspiration simply because it's not that great. Little hint of Hannibal in these pages. Which means that as Harris labored over his writing, sought and found plots and characters that inspired him, he dramatically improved. Which presumably means so can the rest of us.
Here, only two characters are decently developed, and they're both bad guys (Dahlia, Lander) which may not be that surprising, given that bad guys are frequently way more interesting than good guys.
Two characters the reader wants more of are significantly under-developed (Kabakov, Dr. Bauman) and some more marginal characters are somewhat overplayed. At times, it feels as though Harris was never quite sure who he wanted to focus on and who was the most interesting.
Because of the character issues, I really don't care a whole lot about what happens and it's a bit of a labor to read, especially as the writing is somewhat pedestrian and there is little suspense, things unfolding very predictably.
The premise was prophetic and the deadly contraption (a flying Claymore on steroids) fascinating. But the thing feels dated, the execution is mediocre and the best this reader was left with was a sense of encouragement: If Thomas Harris could start here and end up where he ended up, with the brilliance of Hannibal, what can the rest of us do?
Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Engaging and compelling
  • Proud to be a Virginian
  • Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend
  • Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend
Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend
Richard G. Williams Jr.
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
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ASIN: 158182565X

Book Description

Many historians have touched on Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's relationship with African Americans in light of his Christian faith. Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend explores an aspect of his life that is both intriguing and enlightening: his conversion to Christianity and how it affected his relationship with Southern blacks. Covering the origin of Jackson's awakening to faith, the book challenges some widely held beliefs, including the assumption that this spiritual journey did not begin until his adulthood. Furthermore, Richard G. Williams Jr. examines a paradox of Jackson's life: his conversion to Christianity was encouraged by Southern slaves. That faith would one day lead Jackson to minister to other slaves through his Sunday school class.

Exploring in depth Jackson's now famous "Colored Sabbath School," Williams reveals—for the first time—the influence his efforts had on subsequent generations of African Americans. Using original documents, interviews, historical resources, and heretofore unpublished letters and photographs, Williams confirms the veneration with which blacks from Virginia esteemed Jackson, even years after his death—and some to this day. An interview with and photographs of two spiritual descendants of Jackson's black Sunday-school class adds a real-life connection to this fascinating dimension of the famed general's life.

The book also examines Jackson's documented youthful pangs of conscience regarding the illiteracy of American slaves—and how Providence ultimately came to use him to have a lasting and positive impact on Southern blacks.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Engaging and compelling.......2007-05-17

Reviewed by Mark A. Raborn for Reader Views (5/07)

"Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend," Richard G. Williams Jr.'s biographical offering of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, is an intimate and very interesting portrayal of Jackson's Christian efforts and influence on others around him, most remarkably the enslaved Negroes of his era. Expertly written and splendidly researched, Williams reveals a portion of Jackson's character that is predictably amiss in much of modern academia. Indeed, I remember learning about the premature death of Jackson, the brilliant military strategist, who was shot by his own forces; however, I only learned of his enthusiasm for Christ while reading this work.

Williams presents Jackson as a spiritual philanthropist who worked in earnest to bring salvation to his fellow man, relating numerous accounts of his Christian witness to those in bondage. However, this writing is not only a testimony of Christian faith, but a valuable historical chronicle of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's life and character, both as an individual and as a professional soldier. Williams takes the reader into Jackson's world with such clarity and ease that it would seem he was actually there, pen in hand, throughout the journey of Jackson from orphaned child to Major General; through mortality and burial and a legacy of character, faith and bravery that transcends the years.
Of Jackson's work with the Rockbridge Bible Society (the "genesis of Jackson's black Sunday School class"), Williams writes (as quoted from one Robert Lewis Dabney, a contemporary of Jackson): "The free blacks of the quarters, all of whom he had visited in their humble dwellings, and encouraged to give a pittance of their earnings to print Bibles. He argued that these small sums were better spent thus than in drink or tobacco; that the giving of them would elevate their self-respect, and enhance their own interest in the Holy Book."

Williams goes on to write: "One can picture the devout and zealous Presbyterian deacon (Jackson) knocking respectfully and confidently at the door of a free black's shanty, hat in hand, perhaps becoming a little doubtful about soliciting funds from such impoverished members of society. After noticing the poor condition of the humble home, somewhat ashamed, Jackson may have considered turning and walking away before the door opened. Imagine Jackson describing the work of the Bible society to these illiterate blacks: the publication of tracts and books for Sabbath schools and education for the ministry. He would be soliciting donations for reading materials from those who could not read." Scenarios like this certainly offer one a different and, perhaps, a clearer perspective on the life and character of Stonewall Jackson.

Williams' style is engaging and compelling: offering the reader a sense that you really come to "know" Stonewall Jackson as a person, a friend and as a fellow Christian believer. I highly recommend "Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend" to anyone with an interest in extremely well-written historical accounts with an uplifting, positive tone.

5 out of 5 stars Proud to be a Virginian.......2007-04-20

This is an excellent book about a side that most people do not know about Stonewall Jackson. Not only was he a great general, but he was also a great man and christian. I found this book easy to read and really enjoyed it.

4 out of 5 stars Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend.......2007-03-29

I find this book extremely interesting. The other side of General T. Jackson and the work he accomplished within the Confederacy. A must for the students of Stonewall Jackson.

5 out of 5 stars Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend.......2007-01-11

This is an excellent work on the in-depth Christian character of Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson. Mr. Williams has obviously spent countless hours gleaning the information contained in this volume. His interviews with several direct links to the Lexington Colored Sabbath School add just the right touch to tie all the information together.
I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking information on the true character of T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson.
Every Other Sunday: The Story of the Birmingham Black Barons
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    Every Other Sunday: The Story of the Birmingham Black Barons
    Christopher D. Fullerton
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    ASIN: 0963612824

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    Every Other Sunday is a social history of the Birmingham Black Barons and their role in Birmingham's African-American community. This study examines the Black Baron's role as a source of pride and professionalism for Birmingham's African-American community. It traces the team's evolution and highlights the Negro League careers of Black Baron stars including Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, Piper Davis, and Artie Wilson, among others. This study also highlights Rickwood Field, the home-field of the Black Barons, as well as examining team-life on the road. E.O.S. also includes a C.D. of Black Baron interview excerpts, a photo section citations, and bibliography.
    Black Sunday: Ploesti
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Great Overview and Photo History
    • Well written text that is based on facts, not opinions.
    • Stunning history & photography outweigh typographical errors
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    Mike Hill
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    ASIN: 0887405193

    Book Description

    Tidal Wave! August 1, 1943. The legendary low level raid on Ploesti, Rumania by the 376th, 93rd, 44th, 389th and 98th Bomb Groups, is described by author/historian Mike Hill in this new large format, 50th Anniversary book. Never before published photos taken during the raid, many from the original negatives, dramatically show the raid, and give the reader a sense of the intensity of fierce flak, and aerial combat. Mike has interviewed many of the surviving veterans of the mission, giving the story a personal flavor from the unique view-point of the crew members. Also included is a complete listing of the aircraft and crews that flew the mission. Mike Hill also the author of The Desert Rats: The 98th Bomb Group and the August 1943 Ploesti Raid. The dust jacket artwork for this new book is by Mike Boss.

    , over 350 b/w photographs, 9" x 12"

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Great Overview and Photo History.......1999-08-08

    As a researcher on this topic for a relative of one of the 98th pilots lost on 1 Aug 43. I can only support and endorse the comments from tdolson@byu.edu from Provo UT , July 10, 1998 Stunning history & photography outweigh typographical errors Michael Hill has re-visited one of the most dramatic bombing missions of World War II. It was the longest bombing mission to date in the war, by the only bomber with the range to do it. He leads you through the exact targets and squadron placements, by name of pilot of each B-24 aircraft (178 of them), and simultaneously unfolds the "big picture" of the low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania. At least one bomb group was told in their final briefing, "coming back today is secondary." What a nice send-off to crews who had been training in the Libyan desert with exercises in formation 50 feet above the sand dunes! This dramatic mission resulted in the loss of over 360 crew. Some planes returned with corn stalks in their cowlings! The extensive list of crews, by airplane, and many photographs of planes and crews make this a must purchase for those whose relatives participated in the raid. The main distraction from the book is the extensive typographical errors, inconsistencies and mis-spellings of crew names, names of planes, and so on. But I am richer and my family history is stronger because I have read this book. Thanks, Michael, and thanks to the publisher for investing in a visually and textually compelling work. (If a second edition or printing is planned, perhaps a re-editing to keep the errors to fewer than can be found in this review could be undertaken.)

    4 out of 5 stars Well written text that is based on facts, not opinions........1998-10-11

    This book is very well written, and the minute by minute sequence of the Ploesti raid is exciting to follow. Much of the text is written in a first person point of view, and is not the usual boring documentation of historical events. As you read through, you feel as though you are hearing the crewman's stories firsthand. The smell of burning fuel and the heat of the flames is not hard to imagine, if you let your mind wander a bit. The numerous photographs are some of the best reproductions I have ever seen in a WW II volume. They follow the text accordingly, and are not all jammed in one spot as some books tend to do. The only "flaw", in my opinion, is the lack of extensive interviews and photographs from the German and Romanian defenders on the ground at the time of the raid. Other volumes on the Ploesti raid have touched on these interviews and photos, so the information is out there. Perhaps a volume two on this subject will appear in the future.

    4 out of 5 stars Stunning history & photography outweigh typographical errors.......1998-07-11

    Michael Hill has re-visited one of the most dramatic bombing missions of World War II. It was the longest bombing mission to date in the war, by the only bomber with the range to do it. He leads you through the exact targets and squadron placements, by name of pilot of each B-24 aircraft (178 of them), and simultaneously unfolds the "big picture" of the low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania. At least one bomb group was told in their final briefing, "coming back today is secondary." What a nice send-off to crews who had been training in the Libyan desert with exercises in formation 50 feet above the sand dunes! This dramatic mission resulted in the loss of over 360 crew. Some planes returned with corn stalks in their cowlings! The extensive list of crews, by airplane, and many photographs of planes and crews make this a must purchase for those whose relatives participated in the raid. The main distraction from the book is the extensive typographical errors, inconsistencies and mis-spellings of crew names, names of planes, and so on. But I am richer and my family history is stronger because I have read this book. Thanks, Michael, and thanks to the publisher for investing in a visually and textually compelling work. (If a second edition or printing is planned, perhaps a re-editing to keep the errors to fewer than can be found in this review could be undertaken.)
    The Sunday Outing (Ernestine)
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • A Summer in a Black Girl's Life
    The Sunday Outing (Ernestine)
    Gloria Jean Pinkney
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    4 out of 5 stars A Summer in a Black Girl's Life.......2001-06-04

    A wonderful story of Ernestine, a young inner-city Black girl who dreams of taking a trip on the train. The story, appearing to be set in the 1950's or early 1960's, takes the reader into the daily life of Ernestine, exposing her hopes, dreams, and fears as she interacts with her friends and family. Simple activities and how life without many financial resources was lived during the time period are brought to life. A great book for Black History month or cultural awareness lessons.
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Post-war working class England brought to life.
    • nice piece of work
    • ...a smashing slice of industrial English life (and tedium)
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
    Alan Sillitoe
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    Binding: Paperback

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    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Post-war working class England brought to life........1999-10-10

    Sillitoe's work shows Arthur living his life to the extent his class boundaries will allow. Drinking, womanising, and violence dominate Arthurs life away from his lathe. We follow him on the breathless ride that is his life in the first part of the novel Saturday Night, and then on his reajustment to a calmer more sustainable life in Sunday Morning. The perspective the reader is given is Arthurs if only he could articulate it. This allows the reader to experience the working class perspective without the limits that somone lacking the education to express themselves as effectively would have. This is the key to the novel as the reader can utterly empathise with Arthur. A working class novel that does not focus on poverty but how class frustrations are expressed makes a welcome change.

    5 out of 5 stars nice piece of work.......1998-09-05

    one of the best books i have ever been forced to read. my english class is reading it. an awesome novel.

    5 out of 5 stars ...a smashing slice of industrial English life (and tedium).......1997-10-24

    A working class man in northern England, Sillitoe bring to life the way it used to be. Between cups of tea, Woodbines, too many pints for sobriety and a long list of ladies, our man Arthur spends his days in mindless bicycle manufacture and his nights forgetting it all. There is the smell of coal smoke in the winter air, the taste and crunch of fried bread and bacon, the scent of a woman and the hard reality of no exit. Arthur came from a family who had spent too many years on the dole, a situation now repreating itself in England. Prosperity was a full larder and an endless supply of cigarettes and new clothes. Sillitoe has captured it all in a book which still breathes the life he infused into it almost 40 years ago.
    Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Excellent Anthropology
    Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)
    Marla F. Frederick
    Manufacturer: University of California Press
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    Book Description

    To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives.
    Gracefully combining narrative, interviews, and analysis, this book explores the personal, political, and spiritual commitments of a group of Baptist women whose experiences have been informed by the realities of life in a rural, southern community. In these lives, "spirituality" emerges as a space for creative agency, of vital importance to the ways in which these women interpret, inform, and reshape their social conditions--conditions often characterized by limited access to job opportunities, health care, and equitable schooling. In the words of these women, and in Marla F. Frederick's deft analysis, we see how spirituality--expressed as gratitude, empathy, or righteous discontent--operates as a transformative power in women's interactions with others, and in their own more intimate renegotiations of self.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent Anthropology.......2003-11-11

    I had a chance to read an early copy of this book. (Full disclosure: I know Dr. Frederick personally.) As an anthropologist of religion, I very much appreciated her careful ethnographic work in understanding the subject of African-American spirituality. As she points out, the Black Church in the U.S. is generally understood in political and institutional terms; individual experiences of faith get elided into the overarching category of "The Black Church." Thus whether people see this church as a good thing (progressive social institution, empowering ideology) or a bad thing (patriarchal institution of control) they do not necessarily see the nuanced understandings that individuals can hold. Frederick's book is a wonderful companion to those focusing on the history of the black church as an institution or political agent by bringing in the ethnographcially rich element of faith, interpretation and agency from the 'ground up.' Her own perspective as an anthropologist trained at Duke, now a faculty member at Harvard, an African-American woman from the South and a practicing Christian provides a richness to her analysis and relationship with her subject that is often absent from these sorts of works. Well written, interesting, and fun to read.
    Black Literature and Literary Theory
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      Black Literature and Literary Theory

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      Binding: Paperback

      GeneralGeneral | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | Classics | Comic | Contemporary | Literary
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      10 Super Sunday Schools in the Black Community
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        10 Super Sunday Schools in the Black Community
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