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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
$2.99
Wal-Mart employees are being exploited, but not as badly as the Chinese. Don't buy anything made in China! Wal-Mart stores have destroyed local mom-n-pop stores; and not just one mom-n-pop per city/town, but several! They take good paying jobs away from the hard working and then give them the pitiful job at their huge stores.

The Cost of Discipleship
$15.00
This book addresses true disciplship, and not the superficial type we see so often today. If you are seeking a deeper relationship with Christ, this book is a must read. One reviewer says it is "densely written", and I have to agree. I am reading each chapter three and four times to let it all sink in. And questioning if I can actually live up to these standards.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
$12.95
Wal-Mart employees are being exploited, but not as badly as the Chinese. Don't buy anything made in China! Wal-Mart stores have destroyed local mom-n-pop stores; and not just one mom-n-pop per city/town, but several! They take good paying jobs away from the hard working and then give them the pitiful job at their huge stores.

Cost: A Novel
$15.00
"Cost" tells the story of a New England family in various states of decay, and how they cope with the devastation of heroin addiction. It would be easy to dismiss the characters as a collection of privileged whiners if they didn't have at least some redeeming qualities. As comedian Richard Pryor observed, drug addiction is suddenly considered tragic as soon as suburban kids start overdosing.

Divorced art professor Julia Lambert is the central character of "Cost" who struggles to hold her family together as they gather in Maine for a hastily arranged drug intervention intended to help her youngest son Jack, a part-time musician living in Brooklyn. The meeting leads to conflicts among the family members, including her father, a retired neurosurgeon who's unrelenting in his disdain for everyone, and her mother, who's losing her memory to Alzheimer's. The parents' mental condition provides a platform for an examination of the relationship between the physical brain and the psychical self, a well crafted backdrop to the study of drug addiction.

Parts of the book are very harrowing, especially the vivid descriptions of Jack's feelings as he withdraws from heroin. Other parts are overbearing in their symbolism, such as the family's frantic maritime search for Jack, briefly lost at sea with his older brother Steven. Still other parts are preoccupied with heavy-handed criticism of President George W. Bush (who's not named, but is portrayed as an unrepentant liar--for all I know, author Roxana Robinson is talking about Bill Clinton, but I doubt it). Despite these minor distractions, I thought the book was worthwhile.