AMAZON.COM BARNES & NOBLE 304 pages, Breakaway Books ISBN: 978-1-891369-26-1 Available in both Hardback and paperback. NEPARunner will be featuring a "Quote of the Week" from Marks' book during 2009 This little gem of a book compiles all the best snippets of wit and wisdom uttered concerning the sport of running. It has a bit of everything, from ancient Greek sayings to modern training philosophies, and many simply outrageous opinions. It's divided into twenty sections, including The Mile, The Marathon, Pain, Hills, Training, Medals and Money, Women and Running, Eating, Racing, Cross-Country, etc. Any runner will enjoy leafing through it for inspiration, advice, history, and some great anecdotes. A few samples: "Bid me run and I will strive with things impossible." -- Shakespeare "The only tactics I admire are do-or-die." -- Herb Elliott "Start slowly, then taper off." -- Walt Stack "If the furnace is hot enough, it will burn anything." -- John L. Parker "Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos." --Don Kardong "Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness." --Dostoyevsky "The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." -- Juma Ikangaa "If the Lord had meant for man to run, He would have given him four legs, or least made him late for a bus." --Red Smith "Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, like the muscles of the body." -- Lynn Jennings "If you want to win a race, you have to go a little berserk." --Bill Rogers "Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it." --Oprah Winfrey And so on. There are about a thousand of these aphorisms and pronouncements in the book. Great for motivation or amusement, pre-race, post-race, deep in the middle of a miserable training month -- anytime. Suitable for all ages, men and women. MUST HAVE BOOK FOR ALL NEPARUNNER RUNNERS!-     "Run for the Diamonds: 100 Years of Footracing in Berwick, Pennsylvania (by Mark Will-Weber), is an in-depth (370-plus pages, dozens of photographs) year-by-year history of the fourth oldest road race in America. From the war-whoop sounding Carlisle Indian School runners and the Flying Finns (Olympic champions Hannes Kolehmainen and Ville Ritola) of the “early days” to the 1000-plus fields of today, read-along (run-along) as Berwick pushes toward a rarely-achieved finish line--a full century of competitive racing over the rugged, rollercoaster route that includes the quad-hammering, lung-searing ascent to Summer Hill.” This book was released on November 1st, 2008. You can purchase by visiting Amazon.com You can also pick up a copy at Barnes & Noble in the Arena Hub, Wilkes-Barre- 829-4210, phone before hand and they will have a copy for you in two days if none are in stock.