Sterling Reviews

Recently I was given a copy of this book. I glanced through it, and reading the jacket decided to read a bit more. Well, I became so interested in it I have read it all through and must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am not one who is truly interested in war stories, but I enjoy biographies, history, and historical fiction, and this being history as well as a biography of Deak Parsons, the book offered me much that I did not know. I always had a questionable feeling about the atom bomb, what it did, and was it really worth all the lives lost. After reading this book and getting a better understanding of the whole situation, from a better perspective, I can say I now feel better about it. Deak Parsons was quite a man who did so much for his country. The book is plainly written and offers a personal insight into the lives of all who were involved in the events of that time, and made it clear for non-military people like me to understand those events better.

Target Hiroshima by Albert B. Christman is great book that you would enjoy reading. It tells the story of William S. "Deak" Parsons, the man that played a great part in researching, assembling, and finally, dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. If you read this book you will learn about the life and hardships of Parsons as you also receive information on the development of the atom bomb and proximity fuse. An interesting and educational book that I recommend you read.

Quite simply one of the major (self effacing) heroes of World War Two. This book will give the reader a true appreciation of the very practical, and pivotal, contributions that Deak Parsons made to the Atomic Bomb project, and the proximity fuse for anti-aircraft shell project. For anyone who is interested in early atomic and radar history, this is a must-read that will be hard to put down!

Love that guy on the cover!
Mitch Devereaux is from Cajun county and family and a great surprise to Kate Jones. He was not the kind of guy that her sister, Camryn usually hooked up with.

But with the mistaken impression given to her by her sister, Kate could not trust Mitch with her little niece, Arianne. Even though Arianne was supposedly his daughter.

Darryl was all for dropping Kate into the try-net and dragging her, and Remy inadvertantly became Kate's friend as Mitch fought his attraction to her.

Somehow Mitch got the subconscience impression that "Kate" was the ONE that he had been yearning for - to complete his life, his future, his destiny. How could he reconcile this idea with the thought of her being Camryn, who had been such a great disappointment. Yet she, "Camryn", seemed to have given up her boozing and gambling. Was she a better mother?

You have to read how Kate and Mitch finally resolved their differences and found love [uh, even sex] and bonded into a loving family unit with grandpere and Memere.

Highly Recommended -- Keep for you library - great for a second read

Having read and absolutely loved all of her previous
releases, I found Donna's latest to be the most poignant.
It encompasses and makes you feel the full range of human
emotion. I couldn't ask for a more enjoyable read.

Mitch is a Hero with a strong motivation to get his daughter back from his wife who fled from him.Kate is a Heroine who will stop him if he is a threat to her cherished neice. Together their story is a wondrous trip on a shrimp boat across the Gulf Of Mexico from Florida to Louisana .DON"T MISS THIS ONE. Ms Sterling excells !!

An undying tale.. legend... song... Wonderful poetry, the language is simply astounding! I have read the russian translation by Bounin, which was as remarkable as the original.

A book for generations. Mine was published 1898 and given me by my mother whose father(b.1875) gave it to her. It goes to the heart of the Indian race, a people susceptible to mythology and magic as their last great hope. Read it with an open mind, imagination, and for its beauty.

"The Song of Hiawatha" is the best book I have ever been exposed to. Every time I hear the wonderful rhyme of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I begin to think of what this land was like before the Europeans conquered it. It is a wonderful tale of peace between nations and a great book to read to children.

Food for thought is best described on each page of Mr. Leiby's text. Sit and ponder - laugh and share - while away the hours - with thoughts unaware! Thanks so much for a delightful insightful book!

A Reader From Lewisburg, PA August 13, 1999

I have been reading and enjoying poetry and verses ever since my high school days during the 1930's in New York City; and, I have always tried to get a chuckle and a laugh a day ever since. Anything over that was considered to be a bonus by me.

I first noticed G. Sterling Leiby and his verses in many publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Grit, Saturday Evening Post, etc., during the early 1970's, and always got a chuckle or a laugh.

I have been cutting out his verses for my "Scrapbook of Chuckles and Laughs" since 1972.

G. Sterling Leiby has now published some of his verses in a paperback collection: "Verses and Re-Verses," a timely publication in that chuckles and laughs are now, FINALLY, IN 1999, being "discovered" by psychologists and doctors to be of inestimable value to good health.

G. Sterling Leiby's collection "Verses and Re-Verses" is light reading, chock-full of puns and humor, interestingly and intelligently composed, ageless, and can be read and reread and always thoroughly enjoyed.

As a person with a good sense of humor who has always tried to get a chuckle and a laugh a day and anything over that was considered to be a bonus by me, I believe G. Gerling Leiby's Collection" Verses and Re-Verses" is definitely a bonus. It CAN be enjoyed by anyone of any age at any time.

Cheer up, Richard Armour fans-- the master may be dead but his talent lives on in a retired civil servant named G. Sterling Leiby. This San Francisco resident has a knack for pennning verse and keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. Readers who actually note the gentle poems in such publications as "Cappers," "Good Housekeeping," Grit," and "The Wall Street Journal" will be farmiliar with the Leiby touch, feather-light and inducing chuckles in the most curmudgeonly folks. For nearly forty years , Leiby has delighted editors and fans alike with his puns, comic verse and skewed sense of humor. Now you can own the best of his poetry in this nicely produced little paperback. The author has the ability to to take a common theme and give it an unlikely whirl to upset our accepted point of view. My favorite is titled "Dry Toast" which spins off the first two lines of "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes" and ends up on another planet.

Amy Sterling Casil takes SF's obligatory "What if?" and makes the consequences of technological change both painfully and joyfully personal. For those familiar with Amy's work, this volume contains some well-loved favorites (such as her debut story, "Jonny Punkinhead"), as will as new works of fiction. In "Renascence of Memory," you'll meet an Alzheimer's patient whose health and memory are gradually restored. But is the miracle worth the price of memories perhaps better left forgotten? In "Motherwife," a man downloads the women in his life into his computer. Can he resist the temptation to tinker with their programming? Most especially don't miss "The Color of Time,"--an exploration of mothers and daughters, childbirth and death, love and art. This book won't teach you anything about quantum mechanics or string theory, but it just might teach you something about the person you see in the mirror every day.

If you're familiar with Amy Sterling Casil's work, then you'll know what to expect here: thought-provoking, character-intense, high-class science fiction. If you're not familiar with Amy Sterling Casil's work, then you've got a treat in store for you. Of particular note is her breakout story, "Jonny Punkinhead," which originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

WITHOUT ABSOLUTION is the first collection from science fiction and fantasy writer Amy Sterling Casil-nine stories and four poems by the only four-time finalist and one-time winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and frequest writer for FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION. These visions take you from a far future Arles, France to the starred Mulholland night...highly recommended.

Rollicking, rowdy, not infrequently ribald, and occasionally romantic --Richard Sterling takes us with him as he wanders over half the world and twenty years, eating, drinking, gathering pepper with headhunters and, er --rollicking. Lots of recipes for food and drinks and I've never had a crash with a Sterling recipe, either. You just have to admire a guy who can devise a recipe substitute for Bornean Red Warrior Ants, though he overdoes the tarragon a bit, in my opinion. (Different Warrior Ants?)

I've never been sure whether this was a cookbook, a travel book, or a wonderful life narrative. Or, I'm sure it's all of the above. If you love life and you love food and you love people, you have to have this.

And you really can omit the fire ants without damaging the recipe...

This is a great book for anyone interested in this subject, whether initiate or not. It provides insight from a number of the initial 20th century pioneers, as well as gives us a window into the inner ritual as performed by the more rural indian "initiates". I would recommend this book to anyone interested in using entheogens, writing about entheogens, or anyone who has used them previously and would like a better understanding of their experience. I especially liked the different perspectives such as referring to their experiences as just that-personal experiences rather than simply hallucinations, which implies something false or nonexistant. It provides a profound respect for these experiences rather than a complete dismissal of the experience as nonsense, as our governments and "health" agencies may be tempted to do.

If you want a number of perspectives on the serious use of psychedelics, this is the book! Christian, Buddhist, spiritual, scientific and legal considerations on the subject are presented.

As an anthology, it will familiarize you with key figures in the contemporary psychedelic scene.

This is an intelligent book for people wanting to explore psychedelics for spiritual purposes. It is not a book for "stoners" who just want to trip to see "pink bunnies"

This book is required reading for those interested in opening any form of fashion retail business. The text provides step-by-step guides and well thought-out examples for the reader to follow in preparing a business plan unique to this type of retailing.

If you are entering the world of retail fashion or the fashion industry this book is an absolute necessity. Excellent detailed information taking the reader through the fashion retail process, e-commerce and writing a buisness plan. The CD rom that comes with the book is superior to other business plan software and makes writing a business plan easy.

In 1947, Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered the immediate termination of all investigations of Japanese war crimes and the immediate suspension of the arrest of any suspected war criminals.

In June 2000, Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) said, "You mean our federal government can just say, 'To hell with you, Bataan Death Marchers, and you people who were mistreated (by the Japanese), we are just going to waive all your rights.'"

As disturbing and painful as it may be to read, this is a book all victims of the Japanese, and their next of kins, must read. It's documentation and research is beyond reproach. For many of us, this book will be our 'fall from innocence', if that is still possible.

Fred Baldassarre
Son of a Bataan Survivor

This book is earth-shattering and faith-shaking, a well-documented tale of deceit at the highest levels of the US government. So controversial and potentially explosive are the findings of this book, to wit, that the White House recovered most of the Nazi and Japanese loot and created a secret slush fund for covert political operations world-wide, that the authors go the extra mile and offer, at a nominal price, two CD-ROMS containing 60,000 pages of supporting documentation including the Japanese treasure maps used by the US to recover the gold and other valuables.

Major players include Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon, both Allen and John Foster Dulles, Douglas MacArthur, John McCloy, and the famous unconventional warrior Edward Lansdale. What we learn from this book is that those writing about "blowback" (the consequences of unwise US actions) have barely scratched the surface. What we learn is that rather than truly seeking to help the Japanese, Chinese, and other looted nations recover in the aftermath of WWII, the most senior leaders of the US government, no doubt with the best of intentions, actually conspired with Nazi bankers and the Japanese imperial family to create a Black Eagle Trust controlled by a very select hand-picked cabal in Washington.

Originally used to fight communism, the Black Eagle Trust, according to the authors and as thoroughly documented by the book and the two CD-ROMS (which I am happy to have in hand), quickly became a global slush fund used to bribe national leaders and manipulate elections around the world. This fund remains in existence today, making the Swiss Holocaust funds seem like loose-change. According to the authors, major banks are "addicted" to the funds and would face collapse if public investigations resulted in a forced return of this gold and related certificates to the rightful owners.

The authors have produced a magnificent work of both scholarship and investigative journalism. They document the extent of Japanese looting of Korea (beginning in 1895) and China as well as the other countries in the "co-prosperity sphere." They document the manner in which Japan hid most of the gold in the Philippines (some in Indonesia), and were forced to leave it there from 1943 onwards, when US submarine interdiction became too effective to risk shipments homeward.

I found the level of detail in this book to be quite gripping. The ingenious nature of the Japanese burial sites, with caverns below the more obvious tunnels, with sea-water protection, with maps created in reverse--and the in-bred cruelty of the Japanese, thinking nothing of burying all of the US and other national slave labor *and the Japanese engineers* alive as the final stage of protecting the looted treasure, leave one stunned.

The authors document the central role played by Lansdale in recognizing the opportunity and then briefing MacArthur and then President Truman. According to the authors, the architects of the Black Eagle Trust were three advisors to President's Roosevelt's Secretary of War, Henry Stimson: John McCloy (later head of the World Bank), Robert Lovett (later Secretary of Defense), and Robert Anderson (later Secretary of the Treasury). They made the case to Roosevelt, and presumably to Truman after Roosevelt died, that it would be impractical to return the looted gold to the rightful owners, in part because many of the looted countries were now under Soviet control.

The authors, who conducted many interviews in support of the work, including interviews of former CIA deputy director Ray Cline, who they say was involved with Lansdale and the gold in the 1940's and remained involved with the black gold through the 1980's, provide copies of documents showing the redirection of the looted gold to 176 bank accounts in 42 countries. The gold was then used to support the creation of gold bearer certificates that were in turned used to bribe the most senior officials around the world.

The authors tell a shocking tale of how quickly MacArthur chose to collaborate with the very leadership of Japan that declared war on the USA and was responsible for genocide and looting in Asia on a scale rarely achieved by anyone else. Bringing the story up to date, the authors show how prior attempts to investigate the Black Eagle Trust have led to the ruin of individuals such as Norbert Schlei, at one time deputy attorney general to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. While I have no direct knowledge and cannot be certain myself, I believe the authors have provided a sufficiently compelling case to warrant an international investigation concurrently with a General Accounting Office investigation to be chartered by Congress with unlimited supeona powers specifically directed against classified personalities and archives.

If this story is true, and I personally think that it is, then the US government, in active collusion with the very people the American people fought to defeat in WWII, has been guilty of fraud and depravity on a global scale and against the best interests of both the American people, and the against the rightful owners of the looted gold and other treasures. The authors may well have uncovered the last really big secret of the post-WW II era, and in so doing, opened the way for a restoration of the balance of power among diverse nations, and a sharp delimitation of the abuses that appear to characterize American leadership when it thinks it can rely on secret gold and stolen oil to engage in imperial adventures and domestic improprieties. As an American citizen and voter, and as a person of faith who believes that we must do unto others as we would have them do unto us, I find this book to be shocking, credible, and a basis for popular outrage and demands for truth and reconciliation.

I learned of this book from Bill DeMain of Swan Dive at one of their performances. Unbeknownst to me, Bill has had a very active "other life" penning witty letters to companies under the pen name of Sterling Huck. One page into this most unique book and I was on the floor laughing uncontrollably. Sterling Huck leads us through a vast array of letters that he penned to various corporations and famous personalities. Although his letters are total gems of creative genius, much of the hilarity comes from the responses he receives in return. This book is a great read and one that you'll be telling all your friends about.

This is a great book to take along on a long flight, or keep next to the can. The letters are outlandish, yet somehow believable, and you'll be laughing long after you put the book down. My favorite was his offer to The Seattle Mariners to work at their games as a "roving barber," shaving the fans in the stands.

Mr. Sterling Huck is a prankster of the first order - smart, funny, and possessed of an imagination that just won't quit. He may want to become King Vitaman II, or shave fans at a Seattle Mariners game, or add the missing "g" to Dunkin' Donuts store logo . . . it's all very subtle and very funny. Also, he doesn't rely on any profanity or potty humor, which is refreshing.