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This pedometer is just what I was looking for! It’s easy to use and wear. Great addition to any fitness program at a reasonable price.
Jungle Jam and Friends

This book was required reading for a course I am taking at Unity Village…and I approached it with some hesitation. What a delightful surprise! The writer involves you in the story, is witty and perceptive throughout. Delicious phrases and thoughts. Above all, what he has to say makes sense. He clearly shows not just the story of “new thought” (which is really very old thought), and the philosophies of each writer, but how we got here in the context of each period of history, and how the thinking of those periods play out in modern times. He makes our “friends in high places” come alive. You can hear them in his words.

Gwen Meyer
Friends in High Places

If you’re searching for some type of Louis Auchincloss novel of manners where dust settles gently on a leather bound book as the autumn sun slips beneath the horizon or a gauzy soft-focus novella in the manner of Marina Rust’s “Gatherings” populated by characters full of patrician self-loathing and ennui look elsewhere. Jane Stanton Hitchcock presents us with a “murderers row” of personalities who are all stranded at the peculiar Washington intersection of income, intellect, and influence. From the outset it is clear that each and everyone of these people is capable of murder and in dispensing with the trivialities of their individual existences she allows each one of her characters to breath down the back of your neck, take you by the hand, and brush their lips along the nape of your neck. To be sure they have issues and the first order of business on any given day in DC is establishing and protecting their territory and murder really is one of the least offensive crimes that many of the denizens of the Capitol have committed. As has been widely reported many of the characters in this book are reputed to based upon current inhabitants but to simply dismiss this novel as a lightweight beach read is a mistake for in the same manner that Joyce understood the citizens of Dublin and presented them in a less than flattering light to make a point about religion Hitchcock employs the same ruse to make a point about naked political and personal ambition. According to Hitchcock, “A lot of serial killers have accomplices” and in Washington many people have assistants. They both serve the same purpose. So take some time this summer and spend a few hours with some “Big people, doing big things, in a big way and making no excuses for it.” You’ll never view the rich and powerful in the same light again. If Mick Jagger had written a song about Washington instead of warning the unsuspecting not to “Bite the Big Apple” lest they “bite the maggots” he might have to
Mortal Friends A Novel