Finders Keepers

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Setting out on the "vacation of a lifetime" Marissa Chabot is well-provisioned with sunblock, rum and a stack of good books. Being one of the founders of Finders Keepers, the successful, high-tech "soul-mate matching service," she knows that vacation romances are hopeless.

When Linda Bartok--tall, dark and beautiful--sweeps her off her feet anyway, Marissa yields to the magic of a storybook rescue, moonlit walks on the beach and longed-for whispers of passion. Though it hardly seems possible that the Amazonian, adventurous Linda could be truly interested in a desk-bound computer geek, the most erotic encounters of Marissa's life complete her surrender.

Vacations end. Real life resumes. Waiting for the phone to ring, Marissa wonders if what she had seen in Linda's eyes could have possibly been true. Had it been a vacation romance? Was she going to end up "losers weepers"?

Finders Keepers, the quest for the perfect mate in the 21st Century, joins Karin Kallmaker's Just Like That and her other incomparable novels about lesbian love, lust and laughter

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Karin has done it again!.......2007-06-13

Not all women are tall, dark, slender and beautiful! Not all romances happen the way we want them. Karin has done it again, another great story for me to enjoy. I enjoy picking up Karin's books and escaping into another, what could have been. I love the way she numbers her books and never tire hearing that she and Maria are still in love.

A Feel-Good Romance.......2007-05-10

Escape to a romantic island getaway and fall in love with these two ladies as they fall in love with each other.

more pleasant escapism .......2007-05-05

You can usually count on good lighthearted entertainment when you pick up a novel by this author and this new story is in the same mold as most I have read by her. Some reviewers seemed to think the story was weightier and more meaningful than I did. I read it for escapism and that's what I enjoyed about it. Two lovely women, Linda and Marissa get thrown together on a romantic island resort and fall in love. Ms. Kallmaker makes these woman and their personal troubles feel quite realistic without going into a lot of depth or turning the book into a downer. This is a nice feel-good romance. It's nothing special and the exotic setting lacks the rich detail I've seen in some other romances, but if you want to take a break from real life, this book will give you a couple of hours of happy reading. Fans will lap it up, as all the reviews prove. I'm a fan of really good romances, not just particular authors. This story and the two main characters are average, but the smooth writing puts it in the top 25% I have read this year, so it gets a 4 from me.

Kallmaker is at the TOP of her game with this one!.......2007-05-04

Wow! I just read Finders Keepers while on vacation, and honestly it's one of Karin's top 3. Not only that, it's one of the best reads you will find in lesbian romance. It has everything and more. Passion, romance, humor and intellectual substance all rolled up in one fine little novel. There is a truly thought provoking story line about body image that resonates with both characters yet each in a very unique way. On top of it, the romance aspect of the story line really grabs your attention and won't let you go! You really have no idea how things turn out until the end and I love the element of surprise. Then on top of it all is Kallmaker's well timed and tasteful interjection of humor throughout the novel that really adds to the pure enjoyment of reading this fine piece of work. It will make you think, laugh, sweat and leave you wanting more. I highly, highly recommend this book. Bravo Karin Kallmaker!

it's a keeper.......2007-04-22

This book revolves around 2 women (and their mothers!) learning about themselves... what from their past is blocking them on the road to who they want to be... and what they must face to become their "own selves".

The internal dialoge gets better with each book. Many chuckles came from the finely crafted P.S.s in the letters never sent. The protagenists in her books always have different careers. I enjoy reading them to learn more about what they do day to day. I missed that bit in one of these characters. I understand why it wasn't there but I can't tell you why because that would tell you a bit about the book that might be considered a spoiler.

I admit to being grumpy that my partner grabbed the book as soon as i finished it, before i could read it over... but as it's a book that i read cover to cover in a day, i'm hoping to have another shot at it tomorrow.

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Thrilling Adventure in Deep Space with a Precious Love Story.
Beam It Down!
Wary of Cross-overs? Don't fear!
Everything but the 'Droid
Not SciFi

Finders Keepers
Linnea Sinclair
Manufacturer: Spectra
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ASIN: 0553587986
Release Date: 2005-04-26

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Independent trader Trilby Elliot is making some not-quite-legal modifications to her starfreighter, when an unexpected visitor falls out of space. Literally. He’s crashed onto the uninhabited planet of Avanar in a crippled ’Sko fighter–the last place you’d expect to find a Zafharin military officer because the ’Sko and the Zafharin have been at war as long as Trilby can remember.

Rhis Vanur is your typically arrogant Zafharin. But to Trilby’s surprise, he doesn’t look down on her or her slapdash ship. Still, Trilby’s learned the hard way that even though she found Rhis, she can’t keep him. She’s just a low-budget jump jockey as far as men like him are concerned. She’s not falling for his offer to help…until Port Rumor reports her best friend missing and Trilby learns that the ’Sko are hunting both her and Rhis. Now they’re in it together for better, for worse–or till death blasts them to oblivion....

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A former news reporter and retired private detective, Linnea Sinclair has managed to use all her college degrees (journalism and criminology) but hasn't soothed the yearning in her soul to travel the galaxy. To that end she's authored several science fiction and fantasy novels, including FINDERS KEEPERS, Gabriel's Ghost and An Accidental Goddess (all of which Spectra will reprint). When not on duty with some intergalactic fleet she can be found in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with her husband and two their thoroughly spoiled cats. Fans can reach her through her website at www.starfreighter.com.

From the Paperback edition.

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Thrilling Adventure in Deep Space with a Precious Love Story........2007-10-14

Linnea Sinclair has created the perfect blend of deep space adventure by mixing love and passion with a genetically enhanced hero and a lovely, spunky heroine who find themselves responsible for saving the galaxy against the dreaded 'Sko. Thrown together by chance on a deserted planet, Trilby pulls Rhis from a crashed space fighter, and takes him to her ship to treat his injuries. Once Rhis regains consciousness, He attempts to hijack Trilby's ship, planning on returning to his ship, where he is the Senior Captain. Finding himself on a dilapidated ship where Trilby is in the midst of repairs instead of an alien 'Sko ship, Rhis joins forces with Trilby to repair her ship, and to return to "civilazed" space lanes to pick up Trilby's next job which she desperately needs so that she can make payments on her ship, and to just survive. Unbeknownst to Trilby, Rhis has gained control over the ship and is taking her back with him to his area of the galaxy. Thus Trilby becomes part of a team Rhis has organized to stop the evil Sko from taking over the galaxy.

I adore this story. It is filled with heroism, adventure, betrayal, courage, and the ability of love to redeem a lost soul. I would give this book 10 stars if I could, but I am limited to only 5. This book is a Keeper.

Beam It Down!.......2007-08-01

Yuck. A badly written romance novel with a pinch of science fiction thrown in to fool the unwary SF fan. Rotten story, unbelievable characters, ridiculous and confusing political situation, and a cutesy C3PO knockoff from Star Wars. As far as the romance goes, it it unbelievable and badly handled. As far as the science fiction aspect goes, it reminds me of lemonade made with half the amount of mix that the recipe calls for--dull, dilute & making your wonder why you're wasting your time on it. I read the first 1/4 of this dog & then skimmed the rest just say I'd finished it. Now I wish I'd saved myself the disagreeable experience. Do NOT waste your time on this!

Wary of Cross-overs? Don't fear!.......2007-06-08

Sometimes I'm wary of cross-overs. I like Romance just fine, but I've got to be in the mood for one (usually am just looking for a light, easy read). I don't mind reading the SF-themed romances, but if I'm in the SF section of the bookstore, I really would prefer something a bit more hefty.

Well... These books have a LOT of Romance in them, but also enough story and action and complexity to be satisfying on the SF level as well.

I have to admit I used to really enjoy the Space Opera genre of past decades. I think Catherine Asaro is doing her job to keep that alive single-handedly. Sinclair's books have a lot of the old Space Opera feel. Good space adventure with battles and intrigue and interplanetary travel mixed in--with good characters and personal relations mixed in.

This particular story also has quite a Star Wars like feel (first trilogy, 4-6), which was odd at times, but also good. (Most of it was due to the term "droids" and the presence of a protocol droid that talked too much.)

The heroine is a rough and tumble girl from the wrong side of the tracks, running solo in her own rust-bucket of a ship, engaging in suspect trading runs. The hero crash-lands almost in her lap, a dangerous military type engaged in an interstellar war. And of course, these two opposites attract when they find mysterious plots against their peoples --and involving them personally.

So if you like Romance mixed with your SF, or even just a good old-fashioned SF adventure, I'd give this a try!

Everything but the 'Droid.......2007-06-08

I had a good time with this book, which was very much a mainstream romance novel. I can deal. What got me though was the blatant C-3P0 "homage". It was the one part of the whole story that made me just groan.

Aliens are very alien and overall, this had a nice Cold War feel to it, complete with a language that had a bit of a Russian twang to it. It's a good fluff read.

Not SciFi.......2007-05-31

I really don't mind a bit of romance in SciFi, otherwise I wouldn't have enjoyed Miles Vorkosigan series or Liaden series. However, this is practically pure romance and worse, predictable and cliche romance.

I've picked this and another book by Linnea Sinclair (games of command) since they ended up on many lists which contain books I liked. I actually wondered at some places whether I am reading the same book. Short, blonde, spunky green eyed heroine and tall muscular dark hero, intensely attracted to each other, have lots of misunderstandings because he is a supersoldier lab product, and she is ashamed of her origin. Eventually of course there is a happy ending, after lots of "action" which doesn't make sense, with poor descriptions of politics, enemies, and battles. Blech.

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Build Up to A Lackluster Ending
I liked it
SHOCKER
depressing
not what i would have expected

Finders Keepers
Fern Michaels
Manufacturer: Kensington
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Jessie Roland always knew that her feelings for her parents--dislike and disgust for her mother, less than love for her father--were anything but what a child should feel, especially for the parents that had given her a privileged childhood filled with private schooling, lavish vacations, and any gift that her heart desired. But try as she might, something always kept her from truly loving the Rolands. Strange dreams of a yellow dog and a stroller hinted at the truth, but Jessie couldn't recall the fateful day when Thea and Barnes Roland had stolen her from her stroller, leaving her pet retriever Jelly to chase after their car for miles, only to return to Jessie's stunned parents without the golden-haired little girl. Now a woman, and armed with a sizeable trust fund, Jessie moves far away from her parents to start a new life in Washington, D.C., where a new job, new apartment, and a new man awaits her. Tanner Kingsley is handsome, charming, and hiding something. Jessie's involvement with him will lead to happiness, heartache, and the full realization of her hidden past--a past she must come to terms with before she can find true peace.

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Build Up to A Lackluster Ending.......2007-03-20

I loved this book, so much so that I've read it more than once. My only problem with it is the ending. So as to not give it away, I won't be specific. There is a lot of meat to this story which makes it very believable, but the ending isn't what I expected it to be and I was disappointed.

I liked it.......2005-11-02

This is the 3rd book I have read by Fern Michaels. I liked it a lot. I had a hard time putting it down.

SHOCKER.......2003-08-29

This book was so interesting from the beginning and sad from the start. It has a terrific story line and slyly plotted. While your reading this you'll feel sadness along with happiness. Definitely a novel with a lot of mixed emotions and an excellent must buy must read !!

depressing.......2002-09-17

I hated it, It was a fast read but too many plot changes. I never really got to know the characters. It made me depressed that Jessie never found love, its supposed to be a romance novel right????

not what i would have expected.......2002-05-20

I am normally an avid fan of fern michaels work but this book was a disappointment!! i felt like there was not enough insight into jessie roland's life as a child when being raised by her kidnapper parents and that also it tended to ramble on at times! There are some parts of the book that i enjoyed but this will not be a book i would choose to read again!

Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million

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a good quick light read.
How to loose $1.2 million in one week
Good reading at the beach...
To be read in one sitting (if at all) because you may never pick it up again...
Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million
Mark Bowden
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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ASIN: 087113859X

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Following best-selling and award-winning books such as Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden has won widespread acclaim for his ability to report true-life events in riveting detail, with a singular eye for human drama. Now Finders Keepers recounts a mystery that captivated the city of Philadelphia when $1 million went missing. Hard times had left Joey Coyle -- a likable longshoreman from the close-knit working-class neighborhood of South Philadelphia -- living with his ailing mother and struggling to support a drug habit. One afternoon, Coyle was on his way to score drugs when, just blocks from his home, he found two curious yellow containers lying in the street. As it turned out, they had just fallen off the back of an armored van, and they contained $1 million in unmarked money from a casino. From the moment the cash disappeared, Detective Pat Laurenzi, with the help of the FBI, worked around the clock to find it. As the story exploded onto the front pages, the entire city was swept up in the hunt. Joey Coyle, meanwhile, shared the money with everyone from his girlfriend to complete strangers to the neighborhood's most notorious mob boss, who allegedly helped launder it. Coyle would live his next week in a drug-fueled whirlwind, planning his future as a rich man even as he grew terrified that he was about to be captured, even killed. Finders Keepers is the remarkable tale of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary moral dilemma, and the fascinating reactions -- from complicity to concern to betrayal -- of the friends and neighbors to whom he turns. Loaded with intrigue and suspense, this is a gripping new book from a versatile and evocative chronicler of American life.

Customer Reviews:

a good quick light read........2007-02-07

very entertaining but a little short for my taste. being a fan of Mark Bowden brought me to this book and I'm glad I read it, but honestly I should have bought it at half-price books.

How to loose $1.2 million in one week.......2006-07-01

Some of you may have seen the movie "Money for Nothing" with John Cusack. Some of you may even like it. The movie is partially based on the true account of Joey, a Pennsylvania drug addict, who back in the early 1980's caught a brake in life. He found $1.2 million that fell off a truck and over the course of a week managed to loose most of it, before getting caught by FBI. Apart from the incredible luck this man had, nothing else is much interesting about what happened with him. Readers of the book will find out the numerous stupid choices he makes in an effort to keep the money.

Bottom line - the book is interestingly written, but the story is ridiculous and doesn't deserve the time it takes to read it.

- by Simon Cleveland

Good reading at the beach..........2006-05-31

I actually read the entire book in a few hours while sitting at the beach in Gulf Shores. While it does not have the depth of Bowden's other work, it was a fun read. The main character, Joey Coyle, is an idiotic junkie who manages to piss away huge amounts of money over a short period of time. I laughed a few times and couldn't generate any sympathy for Coyle as his life spun out of control. The best part of the book will be your own daydreams as you wonder what you would do with $1.2 million.

To be read in one sitting (if at all) because you may never pick it up again..........2006-05-18

A detailed chronicle of a lost soul that finds a million dollars yet still can't find himself. Bowden assembles the pieces of a pre-fabricated story that simply isn't worth a writer of his talent.

Never quite earning your sympathy or even your hopes for a happy ending, Coyle settles for your pity... but fails in earning even that. Is it a greater tragedy that opportunity goes unfulfilled or that such opportunities fall where no other outcome is possible?

The story never manages to raise itself above the status of neighborhood lore, belonging somewhere on the shelf next to Rocky V in the annals of Philadelphian history.

Finders Keepers.......2006-03-08

The Book Finders Keepers is about a young man named Joey Coyle. This twenty-eight year old boy was addicted to a drug called methamphetamine. It all began on February 26, 1981. Joey woke up in his bed at his house on Front Street in South Philly. This day started off just like all the others, but Joey didn't know that this day would change his life forever.

Joey and his friends, John Behlau and Jed Pennock went for a ride to a dealer's house, since Joey ran out of drugs and was getting quite nervouse. When they got to the house they found he wasn't home and decided to take back roads home. as they drove past the Purolator Armored Car Company on Swanson Street, they noticed a little yellow tub in the middle of the road. Inside the tub were two big white canvas bags. Joey was always picking up things so they stopped and Joey got out picked the two bags out from the tub and read the tags on them "Federal Reserve Bank".

The boys went back home and opened the bags. they were shocked at what they found. The two canvas bags held a total of 1.2 million dollars! The most money Joey and his friends had ever seen! So joey being a normal human being had to tell all his friends, his girlfriend and his family. Soon almost everyone he knew, about him finding all the money. That next day the incident was on the news. THe T.V. announced 1.2 million dollars fell off the back of a Purolator Armored Car yesterday afternoon. As soon as Joey heard this he started felling anxious, nervous, and scared people would be after him to take what he called "his money". After all he had found it and in his mind the rule was "Finders Keepers"

Joey got so scared of getting caught he asked his friend
Carl Masi if he could help him. Masi said he could ask his friend, one of the most notorious organized crime leaders in Philadelphia, Mario "Sonny" Riccobene. Masi said Sonny could take the bills to Las Vegas and get them broke down to smaller bills, since all of it was in 100's. Joey gives him 1/3 of the money and hides the rest in different places.

The story gets out and the police start to catch up with Joey. Joey tries to get out of the country with the help of a friend and fly to Acapulco, Mexico. Just as Joey is getting on the plane the FBI caught him. Joey is charged with theft, conspiracy to commit theft and receiving stolen property.

In the trial the defense pleads insanity and the prosecution persist on the charges. Will Joey get out on insanity or will the prosecution get through to the jury? Will all the money be returned?

The story has a tragic ending because it was all too much for a simple kid from South Philly. Through a sequence of events, this day started Joey spiraling out of control. He no longer could make any rational choices. It was all about the money that he thought was a gift from God and hyis father who had died years before.

I would recommend this book because it shows what is wrong and right and puts down the line. It also shows that any type of theft is wrong even if you are insane. I really liked this book and I hope that if you like this review you might read this book.

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Finder's Keepers
Finders Keepers with a Child?
Finders Keepers. Find this book and keep it!
Definitely a Keeper!

Finders Keepers
Sharon Sala
Manufacturer: Avon
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ASIN: 0061259535
Release Date: 2007-03-27

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More than anything in the world, Molly Eden wants a child—and then one day she finds one in her backyard! But this is no abandoned toddler. A man has followed the mischievous boy onto her property, a concerned father whose rugged good looks take Molly's breath away, while the sadness about him tears at her heart.

Joseph Rossi never expected to find his tiny son running into the arms of an unknown woman, but Joey craves a mommy and it seems he's chosen one—and Joseph approves of his choice. What chance could a single father possibly have with an enchanting free spirit as sweet and sexy as Molly Eden, who must have a hundred men clamoring for her attention? Still, he knows in his heart what Joey knows: that Molly is the one. Now he must prove it to her and show Molly a man who is more than just a daddy—but also a tender and passionate lover...and, perhaps, the perfect husband.

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Finder's Keepers.......2007-08-26

Sharon Sala always provides a good read.
One never knows just what direction her tales
may take and this, Finder's Keepers" is no
exception. The book was received in a timely
fashion and in the condition as advertised.

Finders Keepers with a Child?.......2006-05-15

Since I've only started reading Sharon Sala in the last few months, I'm working my way backward. FINDERS KEEPERS is one of her first books and you can really tell a difference in her writing styles from the present to the past. She has evolved into a dynamite author from a decent writer as shown in this book.

FINDERS KEEPERS centers around Molly Eden, a florist with a secret desire. Molly's a really nice person - one of those rare finds in the world and her past is one in which her naivety has been exploiTed. One day a toddler, Joey, comes into her backyard while she's barbecuing and asks if she's his mom. Huh? Then his panicked dad, Joe, stumbles over and everyone can see where this storyline is headed.

Both Molly and Joe have secrets in their pasts that they want to leave buried, but with the ensuing romance that's impossible. Seems Molly was engaged and pregnant. A horrible auto accident left her unborn child dead and her unable to have future children. The worst part is that her fianc? was actually a married man and his wife paid Molly a visit in the hospital. Nice, huh? And if that's not bad enough, Joe's ex-wife didn't want Joey and was easily bought off and made to sign a contract giving full custody to Joe. Seems like Joe's ex and Molly's ex were a pair meant for each other - too bad they didn't meet in this book, that would have spiced things up a bit.

The book dances around each past while going along the typical romance avenue. It becomes a bit of a bore until Joe's ex shows up trying to figure out a way to extort more money from Joe. This throws Molly into a tailspin, not knowing if she can truly believe Joe. Hmmm... yep, it's a typical romance plot line.

The characters are charming but don't come with a lot of meat to them. There is a bit of humor tossed in - Molly's two employees at the Garden of Eden flower shop reminded me of Fred and Ethel Mertz from I Love Lucy fame. I wish more book time would have been given to them. Joey is adorable and the perfect child. Joe tries his hand at romantic endeavors but falls a bit short, but it's enough for Molly. Molly is a strong character but has glimpses of being an airhead. Overall they were likable even though you won't remember them months later.

The storyline was predictable but enjoyable. It is a nice way to spend a few hours and the book is a fast read, otherwise I may have gotten a bit bored towards the end. It lacked that certain something that grabs you and won't let go.

Finders Keepers. Find this book and keep it!.......2004-03-12

Molly was devastated when an accident caused her to lose her unborn child and left her unable to have any more children. She was barbequing in her garden one day a few years later when a three-year old cherub in red shorts came up to her asking if she was his "momma." The cherub was Joey Rossi, and he was followed a few minutes later by his hunky dad, Joseph, also only in red shorts!
Molly's instant bond with Joey is a sight to behold. Molly and Joseph's feelings took longer to cement but once it does, the author shows us they are really meant for each other. Sharon Sala gets it right once again in Finders Keepers, a tale about second chances at love, finding love again after painful relationships and betrayals.

Definitely a Keeper!.......2002-01-03

This was one of my first Sharon Sala books and I loved it! When litle Joey Rossi stumbles into neighbor, Molly Eden's backyard, she is not the only one thrown for a loop when Joey claims her as his mommy. Single parent Joseph Rossi is attracted to the beautiful lady next door, but can't decide whether she is attracted to him for the man that he is, or for the fact that he has a child, something that Molly can never have. As the two get closer, someone from Joseph's past, that he wants to have nothing to do with shows up to complicates things even more. Molly has to learn to trust and believe that the feelings that she and Joseph have for each other and little Joey can withstand anything. This book kept me glued to it for 199 pages nonstop. Short and sweet. It has made a Sharon Sala fan out of me. Now on to the trilogy of THE JUSTICE WAY!

Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools (JOSSEY-BASS EDUCATION SERIES)

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Keeping Teachers
Hire the Best/Keep the Best

Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools (JOSSEY-BASS EDUCATION SERIES)
Susan Moore Johnson
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This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of fifty new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It highlights the cases of ten, whose stories vividly illustrate the joys and disappointments of new teachers in todays schools. The book documents why they entered teaching, what they encountered in their schools, and how they decided whether to stay or move on to other schools or other lines of work. By tracking these teachers eventual career decisions, Finders and Keepers reveals what really matters to new teachers as they set out to educate their students. The book uncovers the importance of the school site and the crucial role that principals and experienced teachers play in the effective hiring and induction of the next generation of teachers.

Staffing the nations schools presents both challenges and opportunities. For teacher educators, district administrators, educational policymakers, teachers, principals, and staff development professionals, Finders and Keepers provides valuable insights about how to better serve new teachers and the students they teach.

"At a time when expectations of teachers have never been higher or the challenges of teaching more daunting, Johnson and her project team show how the choice to stay or leave is forged in the early months of becoming a teacher-through hiring practices, pay and other resources, relationships with students, colleagues or administrators, and opportunities for learning and leadership. This book should compel attention from anyone concerned with the future of teaching."
-Judith Warren Little, Carol Liu Professor in Education Policy Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

"Finders and Keepers is a must read for superintendents, district administrators, principals and anyone who cares about the retention and recruitment of high-quality teachers to public schools. The book is both informative and insightful, and above all, it inspires the reader to action."
-Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent of Schools, San Francisco Unified School District

"Knowledgeable, skilled and caring teachers represent our best hope for educating all our students well. Finders and Keepers, about real teachers in real schools, tells us how we can overcome impediments together, creating a more genuine profession for teachers and more learner-centered schools for all our students."
-Adam Urbanski, president, Rochester Teachers Association and director, Teacher Union Reform Network

"If you think that this generation of teachers is like the last one, think again. Not only is this book full of insights about the desires and needs of new teachers, but it also provides compelling stories about what the best schools do to keep them and grow their skills. It is a must-read for policymakers, superintendents, principals, and everybody else who cares about quality education."
-Kati Haycock, director, Education Trust, Washington, D.C.

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Keeping Teachers.......2004-05-11

Finders and Keepers perfectly describes my colleagues' and my experiences. We are Ivy League graduates committed to progressive public school education. After five years of teaching in New York City public schools, even the most tenacious of us has been forced to shrug her shoulders and conclude that, "this job is just unsustainable." Finders and Keepers argues that this need not be our trajectory. Johnson and the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers accurately identifies the range of demands on new teachers, and proposes practical and achievable solutions that will enrich the learning environment of any school.

Finders and Keepers sounds an urgent call to attention and puts an end to the finger-pointing game. All players-administrators, principals, superintendents, teacher preparation programs, veteran teachers, union leaders, and policymakers-share responsibility in adequately preparing our schools for the new generation of teachers. We need to make teaching a sustainable career.

Hire the Best/Keep the Best.......2004-05-08

Every administrator, supervisor, education college professor should own this book. Too many novice teachers leave the profession before they really get their feet wet. This text will help professional educators who mentor teachers realize more fully the challenges and difficulties that beginning teachers face. The value of this book is that the problems of beginning teachers are clearly related from teachers on the job. We as educators must provide the right climate for these wonderful new teachers; this book will provide the insights into those challenges and the alert those in charge of teacher preparation and those whose responsibilities including hiring new recruits as to the myriad ways that the system may be failing our brightest and best candidates for the teaching profession. The answers come directly from those struggling through their first and second years in the profession. This book will be an excellent source to find and keep our best teachers.

Finders Keepers? (India Unveiled Childrens Series, 1)

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BEAUTIFUL illustrations
Smiple and Inspiring
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Finders Keepers by Robert Arnett, Smita Turakhia
Finders Keepers by Robert Arnett

Finders Keepers? (India Unveiled Childrens Series, 1)
Robert A. Arnett , and Smita Turakhia
Manufacturer: Atman Press
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ASIN: 0965290026

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BEAUTIFUL illustrations.......2005-12-30

"Finders Keepers?" by Robert Arnett has been honored with the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award of the Publishers Marketing Association for Best Multicultural Book of the Year, the Independent Publisher Outstanding Book of the Year, and the Seal of Approval of the National Parenting Center. This book is better for school-age children, as it really provides a geography lesson, a study in ethics and a brief insight into Indian culture.

The book tells the true story of an experience the author had while traveling through India. He had just bought some postcards when a young Indian boy tapped him on the elbow and held out Arnett's wallet, which the boy had picked up when the author accidentally dropped it. The man thanked him and offered him a reward, but the boy refused to take any money, insisting that he should not be rewarded just for doing the right thing.

I'm in LOVE with the brightly colored illustrations by Indian-born Smita Turakhia, who said she was inspired by memories of the place where she spent her childhood. In fact, even the youngest kids enjoy looking at the pictures, so I skip some of the more technical stuff when I read it to them.

Smiple and Inspiring.......2004-05-11

My mom got this book for me and I love it.I shared with whole class and my teacher read the book to us. They liked the meaning of NAMASTE and the colourful pictures.
My favorite part is the honest boy who teaches you honesty in a very simple way.

FindersKeepers - a good book.......2004-05-08

I got this book as a gift. As an Indian-American it helped me learn more about my culture. I took this book to school for "show and share". All my friends and teachers enjoyed the stories and the nice pictures. Especially the picture with differnt kids holding hands around the world. my teachers also liked that theme. Thank you.

Finders Keepers by Robert Arnett, Smita Turakhia.......2004-04-12

This is a very good book. In the story a boy finds the author's wallet and gives it back instead of keeping it and he doesen't accept a reward. He says,"I don't need a reward for doing the right thing."

The story plot is really good. The illustrations are good too.
You should read this book because you will learn a lot about customs in India and values of being a good person.

Finders Keepers by Robert Arnett.......2004-04-12

This is a great storybook and I like the pictures. The bus picture is the best picture and it would be fun to ride on top of a bus. I think other children should read this book too.

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Eight Collectors Collecting
Lush, fascinating view of collecting and natural history

Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors
Rosamond Wolff Purcell , and Stephen Jay Gould
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Eight Collectors Collecting.......2001-05-05

I have to start out by confessing that I bought this book for the pictures. I am fascinated by the photography of the grotesque, and Rosamond Purcell holds high rank in this rarified genre. She is noted both for her own original work and her recording (museum, collection, etc.) work. Her photography in "Finders, Keepers" is remarkable, strong carefully composed images with lush color. Just as notable is her reliance on natural light and the simplest of Nikon cameras and lenses.

The only part of the book I originally read was Purcell's Afterword. It is a delightful exposition on her romance with collectors and museums, revealing a thoughtful, philosophical professional with a strong creative sense. After that much reading I was satisfied, and the book took its place on my shelves with Purcell's other works, to be referred to when opportunities of my own appeared.

Having decided to review it, I discovered, to my embarrassment, that the book was actually about something. The text, far from being the filler that often appears in photographic volumes, turned out to be a series of gemlike studies of eight collectors of note, consisting of Peter the Great, Phillip Von Siebold, Willern Von Heurn, Eugen Dubois, Walter Rothschild, Agostino Scilla, Thomas Hawkins and Louis Agassiz . Some of these men are popularly famous and others are known only to other naturalists, but they are all interesting. Their collections, sometimes known only from fragments are breathtaking.

The author of these essays is Stephen Gould, paleontologist and occupant of the Alexander Agassiz Chair of Zoology and Curator at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Despite these rather awe inspiring credentials his style is delightfully accessible as he reveals each collector's life and passion to the reader. If you like paleontology, or natural history, or glances into the strange mind of the collector you will find this a refreshingly pleasant volume, providing an equal share of education and delight.

Lush, fascinating view of collecting and natural history.......1998-10-08

One of the most beautiful books I own, combining Purcell's precise and beautiful photographs with Gould's intelligent and accessible writing. Finders, Keepers combines the diversity of living things, history, scholarship and art in an immaculately designed and printed whole. Absolutely stunning from start to finish.

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001

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An Excellent Collection
A Five-Hundred Pound Gorilla of Poetry

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
Seamus Heaney
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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In addition to his well-regarded verse, Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney has amassed a body of prose works over the last 30-plus years, previously published chiefly in three separate books. Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001, offers a "best of" (of sorts) as Heaney sifts through previous writings and offers a variety of strong works, from memoir to lecture transcripts to literary criticism.

Long regarded as one of Northern Ireland's premier contemporary poets, this volume shows us that Heaney has a sharp critical eye as well, giving us probing analyses of his literary mentors (such as William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, and W.B. Yeats), European poets (Edwin Muir, Philip Larkin, and Ted Hughes to name but a few), and other prominent European and American poets (T.S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz, Sylvia Plath). Additionally, Heaney includes pieces on the writing process and his evolution as a writer that are insightful and engaging. In "Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland," Heaney describes what the poet sets out to achieve:

In that liberated moment when the lyric discovers its buoyant completion, when the timeless formal pleasure comes to its fullness and exhaustion, in those moments of self-justification and self-obliteration the poet makes contact with the plane of consciousness where he is at once intensified in his being and detached from his predicaments.

Whether you're a fan of Heaney's poems or not, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 is an excellent critical resource--one into which it is well worth digging. --Michael Ferch

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Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?"

Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."

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An Excellent Collection.......2002-11-14

As a person of Irish descent, I am especially proud of Seamus Heaney's contribution to poetry and literature study. His voice is uniquely Northern Irish, but his understanding of that which makes language and literature deep spans the world--its ages and cultures. With a poet's vision, Heaney latches onto the resonance of words and images that explicate the human experience, in Icelandic sagas, Dante's verse, Milosz, or fellow Irish writers.

Heaney's aim in this collection of prose writings (some have been previously published and some are lectures) is to "celebrate and take possession" of poetry's excitement and exuberance. Each piece is autobiographical, in that his approach is not strictly the performance of formal literary criticism, but is rather the creative sojourn a poet can take into the depths of his own craft, to call the poetic spirit home. As he says, his central preoccupations are: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and his contemporary world?

Heaney's leading article is "Mossbawn," which describes the County Derry in the 1940's--as an 'omphalos' or navel which marks the center of the world--whereby one gets the sense that Heaney is a young Stephen Dedalus attempting to locate himself in Ireland, his community, and the world at large. His sentences are rich and carefully worded to evoke just the proper provincial image. He talks about his first forays in reading literature, rhymes, and the formidable Byron and Keats.

The next piece, "from Feeling Into Words" talks about the craft of writing poetry--his "Digging"--lines from Wordsworth. The next articles in Section I are interesting and special--on T.S. Eliot, living in Belfast and No. Ireland, being an Irish student and writer who writes in an English language.

Section two engages various interests: English writers and poets, Yeats, No. Irish poets and poetry, Kavanagh, P. Larkin, Dante and modern poetry, Z. Herbert, W.H. Auden, R. Lowell, S. Plath, Kinsella, E. Muir, Marlowe, John Clare, H. MacDiarmid, D. Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle...," E. Bishop, and R. Burns.

Section Three: S. Smith, Calvino's "Mr. Palomar" (an excellent book and review of it), Norman MacCaig, Ted Hughes, and C. Milosz (who writes marvelous verse).

This is a superb collection. I also recommend Heaney's meditations on Frost. He always attempts to uncover--to 'dig into'--features in poetry that make it 'good,' and in so doing, he immerses himself in a loved craft and discipline, to create vibrant, poetic prose. One gets the feeling here that Heaney is showing-off his 'finders keepers' treasures--his favorites--his cherished agate marbles, which clink and rattle in a bag of sensuous word play.

A Five-Hundred Pound Gorilla of Poetry.......2002-06-26

I'm a fan of Heaney's poems, but I'm very uncomfortable with his status as a "major" literary figure on the world stage. The title of this book says it all. Heaney's career, as poet as well as critic, has consisted entirely of finding and keeping--rarely of making. He has been very successful at appropriating and synthesizing the ideas and techniques of others (esp. Lowell, Hopkins and Yeats) into a satisfying if never very original whole. In choosing this title, he apparently now sees fit to congratulate himself for it. Originality may not be the highest quality--how many are ever truly original?--but somebody of Heaney's prominence ought to do more than just recycle the successes of admired precursors. "Finders Keepers" would be an apt name for his collected works as well, and far more honest than what it's actually called--"Opened Ground." In addition to the influence of the perennially confused Swedes, I think Heaney's outsized success is largely due to his comforting conformity to easily recognizable tradition--critics, especially those of a conservative bent, eat this kind of stuff up. If you want to read a real innovator, also Irish, who really opens ground--and for that reason will never have "Winner of the Nobel Prize" trumpeted across her covers--check out Medbh McGuckian.

Finders Keepers: Finders Keepers #1 (HeartQuest)

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Finders Keepers (loosers weepers)

Finders Keepers: Finders Keepers #1 (HeartQuest)
Catherine Palmer
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
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Award-winning author Catherine Palmer presents the first novel in another HeartQuest series. Fiery Elizabeth Hayes is determined to preserve Chalmers House, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antiques business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans. Together they learn that God has the best plans of all-if we will only surrender to him.

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Somewhat predictable, somewhat rushed, but overall enjoyable.......2006-12-18

I liked the book a lot...but it is far from perfect, and it's very flawed. The dialogue at times is very forced, and the romance can be very rushed. While little Nick's tendency to say words wrong is endearing and adorable at first, it quickly gets old, and it just seems redundant. I liked all of the characters a lot, and they were all believable and realistic. I did enjoy the book, so I would recommend it, but be reminded that this is far from a deep, profound Christian novel.

I loved this book.......2003-06-26

When I first got this book and started reading it and found out there was another book also I could not wait to order it. I loved the story line and was so involved I felt I knew the people myself.

a good book.......2001-11-05

This book has a little bit of everything--romance, loss, backstabbing gossip, secrets that are finally revealed and inspiration. Elizabeth must decide to come out of her comfortable existence and face the rest of the world...Zachary helps her by forcing her to confront the present. Little Nick is a hoot all throughout this book--the innocence of the young is truly a remarkable thing.

There were parts, now that I am done reading it that were predictable, but while you are reading it, you don't necessarily realize it.

A good book, and I would recommend it for an easy escape.

I love this book!!!!.......2001-06-28

I love this book. It has romance and mystery!!! Elizabeth is a single mother who adopted Nick in hopes to settle down. She lives in a small town where gossip is escencial. When Grace, Elizabeth's nextdoor neighbor, die's Elizabeth's controlled world is turned upside down. She is now facing something she never could have imagined. You'll love this book. It'll keep turing the pages!! I'm so happy there is another book. You won't regret reading this !!

Finders Keepers (loosers weepers).......2001-01-15

When my best friend started reading this book, I read the blurb on the back and thought to myself "There is no way I would pick this book out. It sounds so corny and Janette Oke-ish." When my friend finished reading it, she insisted I read it, too. I didn't have any other wonderful weekend plans, so I agreed.

I couldn't put it down.

I find most books similar to this one have underdeveloped characters and predictable plots. In Finders Keepers, the characters were never really developed, but from what I understand, this is a series, so maybe in time that will be corrected. The plot was not entirely predictable, there were some twists and turns that made the whole thing interesting, albeit a little unrealistic.

All in all, however, despite its faults, it is a very good book, and if you are looking for something to do on a quiet Friday night, give it a try!

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