News Books


Books-Under-Review-->Arts-->Genres-->Science Fiction and Fantasy-->News-->27
Related Subjects:
More Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250
News Books sorted by Average customer review: high to low .

News
Reiki the Ultimate Guide, Vol. 3: Learn New Reiki Aura Attunements Heal Mental & Emotional Issues
Published in Paperback by body and mind productions (2006-03-01)
Author: Steve Murray
List price: $27.95
New price: $17.01
Used price: $17.95

Average review score:

A must for every Reiki Healer!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-06-23
While many books, DVDs, etc. SAY that they will reveal the secrets of Reiki, the series written by Steve Murray really delivers.

Here you will learn all the Reiki symbols, the attunements for 1st level, second level, and Reiki master, and much, much, more.

Thoughtfully written, you will find everything you want in this series of books and I highly recommend purchasing them. They are a must for any Reiki healer's library.

It Works!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-23
After being attuned to the 3 Reiki DVD's, I tried it out on 1 of my massage clients. He was more than willing to be my Guniea pig. I asked him not to tell me if anything was wrong, I wanted to see if I could figure it out on my own. While i was performing the session, i felt tingling going all over my hands & going up my arms. I wasn't sure if it was the Reiki or if my hands were falling asleep from holding them up for so long. They tingled all over his body. When our breif session (maybe about 15 minutes) was over, I asked him if he was sore all over. He responded, "Yes! How did you know?" I told him, "I just knew." Still not sure if it was the Reiki, his wife, who is a dear friend, reinforced it for me. She said, "He said he NEVER felt anything like it in his life. He never felt such heat generated from something that wasn't touching his body." I believe this is proof that the Reiki Steve's teachings and attunements work.

His books are so helpful in answering questions that he didn't have time for on the DVD's. So far, my favorite is the "False Beliefs" book. I started out with that book. The others reiterate it & therefore, I believe make the Reiki stronger because you can understand it better. Steve is a wonderful teacher and is so helpful in answering your questions. There is no doubt in my mind that he is an even better teacher in person. If I had the money to visit him in California, I would. He is a very special person. BDB

Steves DVD's, CD's and books are doing me wonders
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-19
This is a great way to learn Reiki. I took a lesson for one and two attunments. But I get more out of Steve Murray's information. I have all of his books, DVD's, CD's. I can go back at anytime to study the information. This way I learn it even better and grow with it. I can't go back to a class unless I pay BIG DOLLARS!!! This is well worth it, it teaches you the same thing a class does. When I did the first attunment I truly felt something, more than I did at a class. It give me more consentration being by myself so I get the real feeling. It's amazing. I now have my Master through this wonderful program.

Eastern Gold
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-16

Ten years ago, one of the worst things that can happen to a man happened to me. And that would be a devastatingly painful condition of the testicle that lasted twenty four hours a day, accompanied by equally terrible rectal pain. I was twenty seven, just bought my first house, just married, just promoted to managing the largest drug store in town, and life was supposed to be grand. And except for working seventy hours a week, things were ok. I felt like I needed something new and exciting in my life, something thrilling. So this translated to buying a Racing-type street bike. I had a bike as a kid, a Suzuki, so I already knew how to ride, and I had really enjoyed it, and missed the thrill of the wind and the speed.
This desire for the exotic would be my ruin. After riding only a couple of months, I think the strain of working so many hours, plus all the heavy lifting I did in the stockroom, plus the notorious strain put on the groin area by the nick named "crotch rocket", it was just all too much. I developed not only pain but down on your knees pain, and had to continue working seventy hour weeks, it was retail, merciless. I kept going back to my urologist and he just could not figure it out, dragging out the damage and pain further over time. Finally after it had got to the point of me having to take a sauna bath Before and after work, I was able to diagnose my self. After about twenty minutes in the hot water I realized that my right testicle could spin completely backwards like a face turning all the way around to face the back. That is not physically posible, and that is called a Tortion of the testicle. A tortion of the testicle which spins more than a 360 on it self can kill a testicle in a matter of minutes, completely cutting all blood supply to the testicle. I think mine had only gotten to 340, so I just had the pain, and the nerve damage and all the strange effects of letting that continue unchecked for six months.
So, after I diagnosed myself to my doctor, I made perhaps a fatal flaw. I allowed him to do the surgery. He needed to basically sew it in place, that was it. But perhaps by that time so much damage was done to the nerves, I was beyond true surgical solution. I had the surgery and my allotted one week recovery time, yeah, one week. And went back to a downward spiral of blinding pain, emotions way out of control, so many different prescription drugs I know they have taken years off my life, divorce, bankruptcy- for medical costs, foreclosure, fighting the state system for disability, fighting my insurance company for my disability long term insurance, monthly prescription costs that look like a New York penthouse rental, to having to move back in with my folks, God bless them.
Now that sums up the past eleven years and I tell you, I have really not had any good news since, I even developed a skin type condition on the scrotum area, probably from nerve damage, that required steroids a couple years ago that probably was going to cut my life span in half. But Reiki has completely healed that skin condition, in just a matter of a couple months, and I no longer have to use steroids and just that alone is a miracle to me!
For the first time in over a decade I can cut back on the meds enough to keep my head clear enough to read and learn again, and that is a miracle to me! I am not stupid by a long shot, I have a Bachelor of Business Management from a major University, an IQ of 160, carried mostly A's and B's, but I am on so many different prescriptions for pain, at such high levels, I have trouble seeing the text on the page, much less concentrating!
Reiki seems to really be helping me in every way, I am using it in every way I can to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, and most importantly, spiritually, because I have been bitter. I have experienced positive rebounds in each of these areas in just three months, if you put faith in the system and just let it work, you can literally cure yourself. Anyone who has read the "Secret" knows that healing with the power of the mind has been discussed as a real mental phenomenon, this is more like the "Secret" on Steroids! Reiki connects you to a sacred source that I can only compare to God, and promotes strong fast healing on all levels. And Reiki is also a system that allows you to direct the type of healing you most need and where you need it, it is hard to explain to those hearing about it for the first time. Usually you get the look. But you have to accept that this system works, there are forces in the Universe greater than humans and no, they don't have to answer to us. My dream would be to completely heal myself 100 percent, and then find employment using this wonderful system, I will keep using Reiki to try and make this a reality. By making this amazing system available to the average to more than average down trodden Joe, Mr. Murray has taken a self-less path of spreading this powerful knowledge to the masses, instead of those who would keep it a secret and sell it for a fortune to a fortunate few. This is a spiritually enlightened man who recognizes that salvation of a generation is worth more than salvation of a federation.
Without Steve Murray's Reiki Program, I would still be declining in health, barely holding on to life, just barely.
I can not honestly say I would be alive right now, had I not found Steve Murray's Reiki Books and Attunement Dvd's.
Steve, Thank you does not seem like enough.

Energy and Light.....
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-15
When we accept the premise that we are all beings of energy and light, the next step in Reiki healing is within the aura. As with all of his books, Steve Murray guides us with calm authority through the layers of the aura and teaches us how to see the auras and apply Reiki to any situation in which we humans find ourselves. This book builds on the knowledge gained in his first two books, "Reiki The Ultimate Guide" and "Reiki The Ultimate Guide Vol 2" (Chakra healing). To be even more effective in Aura work, buy Murray's dvd "Psychic Attunement" and the CD "Reiki Aura Music Attunement". After viewing the dvd, I found my intuition greatly increased and had some pleasant "psychic" experiences. These products take Reiki to a new and exciting level.

Light & Healing,
Marilyn Brenneman, RN

News
Some Things That Stay
Published in Paperback by Berkley Trade (2001-05-01)
Author: Sarah Willis
List price: $15.00
New price: $7.25
Used price: $4.50
Collectible price: $15.00

Average review score:

A Nice Coming of Age Story
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-16
This is a really touching coming of age story in the 50's. The mother has to go to a sanitarium with Tuburculosis. The father is stuck in his own world of painting. There are 2 siblings, Robert and Megan, that are coping in their own ways with the abandoment issues that arise from not only the mother's illness, but the father's inability to handle the situation. Tamara is left basically in charge of everyone. Besides the obvious issues that are going on, there is the storyline of the number of moves the family has endured and how much they are wanting a permanent home.

I enjoyed reading this book very much, but it didn't touch me as much as some of the other coming of age stories like, Whistling in the Dark, The Book of Bright Ideas and Cold Rock River. Those stayed with me after I was done and while I really enjoyed this coming of age story, it's not one that will stay with me like some other ones.

Still it is well worth reading and I highly recommend it.

What a good book!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-24
This is a story you were waiting to read, full of life-size characters... the type of book you don't want to finish.

And a first novel? ... wow. I can't wait to read her next one!!!!

Just LOVED this book!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-26
I just love Sarah Willis' writing style and felt this book was equally as wonderful as her book: THE SOUND OF US. It didn't take too long for me to be totally drawn into this story of Tamara and I felt myself rather sad at where the story ended. I just wanted to keep knowing about her and her family and how their lives turned out. I highly recommend this book and hope anyone who reads it becomes a Sarah Willis fan. If you haven't yet read THE SOUND OF US, do yourself a favor and read it! It's real good reading. There isn't a single downside to SOME THINGS THAT STAY. I loved Tamara and her view of her world. The characters seemed utterly real and engrossing. The last sentence of the book was the perfect uplifting end to Tamara's story.

A quietly memorable coming-of-age in a bygone era...
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-22
At fifteen, Tamara Anderson hates being different. But thanks to her parents' free-thinking ways and vagabond spirit - totally contrary to the conventional 1950s American lifestyle - Tamara and her younger siblings Robert and Megan start over in a new school each year. In fact, moving every spring is about the only thing the trio CAN count on.

The year of 1954, however, things are different in a way that no one could ever have anticipated. Tamara's mother has become sluggish, no longer seeming to care about her former passions. At night, she coughs incessantly, as the family tries to pretend nothing is wrong.

Meanwhile, the family's acquaintance with their new neighbors, the Murphys, threatens them spiritually and emotionally. The Murphys - especially eldest daughter Helen - are devout Baptists, intent on "saving" the atheist Andersons.

Yet despite her parent's vehement objections, Tamara finds that she's eager to embrace the concept of God. She wonders about his nature, why he would let her mother become ill - and whether God might just be the only thing left to save her family from total disaster.

This quietly-told story of a young girl's coming of age, their struggles to stay afloat both physically and emotionally when they're faced with the possible loss ofo their mother, and the idea of what really constitutes conventionality is bound to leave an impression upon readers' minds.

Great Book Club Selection
Helpful Votes: 10 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2007-06-22
In the spring of 1954, Tamara Anderson is fifteen when her family moves into the pretty farmhouse across the road from the tar-papered house. Tamara is the oldest of three children. Her father is a painter whose landscapes require new locations for inspiration. The family moves yearly arriving weeks before the end of one school year and leaving weeks before the completion of the next.

Some things that stay is a coming of age story in which Tamara faces more than the standard fair of parental misunderstanding, sexual awakening and sibling confrontations. Raised in an extremely liberal, atheist family, Tamara has of none of the body/sex hang-ups so many of us grew up with and her sexual awakening is refreshingly guilt-free. Moving constantly, she dreams of stability and a more-than-fleeting connection into society. In the course of the story, she tries out the Baptist church with the neighbors from the tar-paper house--neighbors who are more than the junky cars littering their front yard. In light of her atheistic upbringing, Tamara's contemplation of God, organized religion, prayer, and fate vs faith adds an interesting layer. She faces ethical dilemmas, maternal illness, paternal selfishness, and, of course, sexual awakening.

A deep, meaty story, Sarah Willis' Some things that stay is a great book club selection. My book club read it and loved it. The concepts raised yielded plenty of spirited conversation. I recommend it.

Reviewed by: Laurel Bradley, Author of A Wish in Time
A Wish In Time

News
The Spider and the Fly
Published in Hardcover by Barron's Educational Series (1987-03)
Author: Mary Howitt
List price: $3.98
New price: $23.99
Used price: $2.39
Collectible price: $18.51

Average review score:

great story for your daughter
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-06-03
This book is great! The illustrations are so impressive that even though they only black and white your children will love them. We spend time on each page just looking over the illustration each time we find something we didn't see before. And the story, WOW! This story is a must for every little girl. The story teaches young girls not to be niave and believe every little flattering word someone is telling you. In the end all that sweet talk may just be fooling you so someone else can get what they want, like the spider getting the fly. I will be reading this book more often to my daughters as they get older!

a GREAT book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-20
This style of the book reminds me of Edward Gorey. The illustrations are fabulous, if the matter is a bit dark. I have bought this for numerous friends after finding it at a unique bookstore in Portland, OR. Everyone who reads it ends up loving it.

A+ book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-19
wonderful story with a twist at the end. Wonderful illustrations. Don't in an old spooky way.

Great!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-17
This book is amazing. We LOVE it! I love reading it to my daughter, because its a very easy read with a great cadence, and its fun to pour over the illustration to find something new every time. Tony DiTerlizzi is an awesome illustrator, and I am looking forward to seeing more stories illustrated by him.

Excellent Product & Prompt Delivery
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-15
This item was exactly as described in the item description. It was in the original packaging and is in excellent condition. I am very satisfied and I highly recommend this seller and product to everyone. This is an excellent book by an excellent author!

News
Tarot Plain and Simple
Published in Paperback by Llewellyn Publications (2002-09-01)
Author: Anthony Louis
List price: $16.95
New price: $5.15
Used price: $4.00
Collectible price: $16.95

Average review score:

THE VERY BEST BOOK ON THE TAROT OUT THERE TODAY!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-24
This book is very easy to follow and informative for the beginner to advanced reader. This is my personal favorite book on the tarot cards. This book is divided in suits, as all 3's are placed together, etc. This makes it so easy to find the card info that you are looking for quick! When I do a reading and refer to it in this book, something in the reading of a particular card that I am searching the meaning to just jumps out and BINGO, this is what I need to hear at the time. Overall, this is a SUPERB BOOK that will get you started in this. I sometimes refer to the cards when I have a question. The cards just give me more advice and insight than anything else. The readings and answers given show me what MAY happen if I do nothing to change the situation. I do not look at this as a fortune telling but more of advice and getting my questions answered. This is why the cards help. Only I can work on my future!

Best Tarot Book Out There
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-26
This is the best Tarot book out there and I have a few ..smile.. This book gives simple words for each card to remember that will get you reading in no time.

Rave Reviews
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-05-04
I must say this is one of the best books on interpreting the Robin Wood deck that I have found. I have been reading with the Robin Wood deck for going on 12 years and the explanations that the author gives are great. His meaning of the cards has enhanced what I have learned from the book written by the author. So the only thing you really need besides this book is the one written by Robin Wood.

A Must Have
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-10-28
When I was gifted my first deck of cards 6 (almost 7) years ago, I purchased this book, as it was highly recommended. I haven't purchased another book about tarot in all this time. And even though I've been reading cards for awhile, I still check this book out on occasion. I think it's an excellent book if you're just starting out. Although I've never purchased any other books on tarot to compare it to, I've never had the need to. Personally, I think that says a lot for this book's perspective and content.

The only additional information I've really ever looked up was spreads. Although this book has a few, it doesn't have very many. (But google can take care of that matter with ease.)

As much as reading cards may be intuitive, I'd still recommend any beginner to have this book on hand. The books that come with tarot decks generally don't have information comparable to this one. And considering how inexpensive it is to buy this book used, you'll more than get your money's worth!

My Beginning Tarot Students Turned Me On to this Book
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-07-29
My beginning students were showing up to class with this book and I found that their instincts about it were right - it is clear and comprehensive. The author has some wonderfully keen insights, easy to understand card meanings, including reversals, and thought provoking exercises. He used the Robin Wood deck for illustrations, a deck that could be termed a Waite-based deck, and this is refreshing as it is a personal favorite of mine and is one of the most popular decks available -- even after all these years.

News
Vengeance in Death (Eve Dallas Investigation)
Published in Paperback by New English Library Ltd (1999-01-21)
Author: J.D. Robb
List price:
Used price: $70.64

Average review score:

The sixth book is the best yet
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-06-25
In this book, a brilliant and sadistic serial killer is targeting Irish immigrants in New York. His methods are sickeningly brutal, and each death is different. With the very first death the killer draws Eve into the mix, calling her to boast about the murder and to give her a riddle to lead her to it.

Evidence points straight to Summerset, Roarke's devoted 'servant' and friend and the bane of Eve's domestic existence. While it quickly becomes obvious he's being set up, proving that in an official capacity is another matter.

While there's a familiar theme here of Eve's cases bringing her into conflict with and causing her to investigate the very people she cares about, it's carried off far better in this volume than in some of the others. Summerset's reasons for distrusting police are extremely well-founded and far too deep-set for him to shake off. The reasons why Eve can figure out that he's innocent but can't easily keep him out of jail are clever and believable.

A new and highly entertaining series character puts in an appearance (McNab, a flamboyant electronics expert with the police force). Eve and Summerset are forced to stretch (and break) their veneer of civility. And Eve and Roarke have to face, and embrace, more of his past than she's even been aware of up until now. There are no easy answers, and their only chance lies in being able to manipulate and outwit a killer who believes he's the instrument of God's vengeance.

The character development is beautiful, the pacing and tension are gripping, and the mystery is fascinating. I highly recommend this volume of Robb/Roberts's in death series.

Good book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-10-03
The J D Robb series has me hooked. I was very happy that Amazon has back copies on had at a reasonable price.

Great
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-07-19
I love this series... you must read it to understand. It's all about a homicide detective named Lt. Eve Dallas and how she goes about solving a case which always seems imposibble to solve at first.

Great Book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-05-09
I love all of the books in this series ! The book was received in perfect condition.

Vengeance
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-06-24
This book is well written. I do not enjoy reviews that give too much of the storyline away, suffice I should say this book does not let me down from the previous Lieutenant Eve Dallas series. However, it will stand-alone, you do not have to read any other book in this series to know what is going on with it. I would not spoil it for you if I were to tell you that the murders start off extremely grisly and get very personal to the investigator. You gotta' love this book because, Lt. Eve will not stop until the killer is found. The suspense kept me going till the end.

News
Vocabulary Cartoons: Building an Educated Vocabulary With Visual Mnemonics
Published in Paperback by New Monic Books (1998-03)
Authors: Sam Burchers, Max Burchers, and Bryan Burchers
List price: $12.95
New price: $4.20
Used price: $3.23
Collectible price: $12.95

Average review score:

Word association makes easy to remember vocab words!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-09
BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT! It was recommended to us by a reading specialist.
It makes it very easy to recall definitions. I actaully bought it for my
6th and 3rd grader. They will read it for fun. LOVE IT!

vocabulary cartoons book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-10
I am very happy with this book. It's fun and easily to read, my grandson love it. He read it almost every day.

Amazing!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-27
I bought it becuase the reviews are so positive and it's great! it's really easy and fun to recite words with these cartoons and I acutally color them when looking at them make more fun as well as keep me concentrated. I'd definetly recommend it if you consider yourself as a visulizer...just types of people who read best to learn!

Fun and Easy
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-20
This is a fun and easy way to learn vocabulary words. Who doesn't want to learn effortlessly? Now you can "read" cute cartoons and expand your vocabulary at the same time! I've been using this book with my students for years -- always good for a memborable laugh!

Vocabulary Cartoons I and II
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-10-18
I have used these Vocabulary Cartoons since the first editions were available. I think the students enjoy this type of study. I have loaned many of my copies to students and colleagues. I am glad to see the extra vocab in the 2nd edition. I even have some of my own that I have added. This also makes a good project for the "talented artists" who may not enjoy studying vocab, but who learn as they provide cartoons. These students have fun as they learn. They work with students who provide the meanings and links. We highlight a synomym.The name Burchers comes to mind when I think of Vocab Study. You should invite students and teachers to submit their ideas. (I am retired, but I know this would be such a good project.)

News
Butterflies & Hiccups: A Guided Pregnancy Journal
Published in Spiral-bound by New Beginnings Production Company (2002-07-01)
Author: Laurie Wing
List price: $19.95
New price: $10.00
Used price: $2.86

Average review score:

Perfect for First Pregnany, Great Quality Book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-09
I gave this to my best friend, who is pregnant with her first baby. I had been looking at other journals and this one looked more on the fun and cute side opposed to all serious. When I got it it was so nice, bright colors and the pages were high quality. The book has alot of fun questions in it and even some for the dad to be! Also has a format that would help someone still to it, sometimes journals can be hard to continue. Where there are questions and then space for the answers...and not questions that would involve pages and pages of answerws. Some of the questions may seem silly to fill in now, maybe a bit on the corny side, but these answers to these questions are going to be exactly what you are going to reread and remember for years to come!

Great preggo journal~
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-13
I loved this! So many fill in the blanks so that you can remeber after you forget! I should have just jotted more down, but i still am glad i used it!

Love this journal
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-06-12
This journal asks the questions you'd love to see your responses to when your children are much older. I really like this journal. Someone gave me one when I had my first child. And I ended up buying one for my second pregnancy. If you enjoy guided journals (where they ask tons of questions throughout the entire 9 months), you'll be pleased with this one.

A Mom's Choice Awards Recipient!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-12-09
The Mom's Choice Awards® honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigner-Clark, Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times Best-Selling Author; LeAnn Thieman, Motivational speaker and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books; Florrie Binford-Kichler, Founder of Patria Press, Inc.- an award-winning independent publisher and Member of The Children's Book Council; Tara Paterson, Certified Parent Coach, and founder of The Just For Mom Foundation(tm) and the Mom's Choice Awards®. Parents and educators look for the Mom's Choice Awards® seal in selecting quality materials and products for children and families. This book has been honored by this distinguished award.

Great Monthly Pregnancy Journal
Helpful Votes: 12 out of 13 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-25
I wanted a "pregnancy" journal to document key events during my pregnancy and found exactly what I was looking for in Butterflies & Hiccups. Initially, I considered a "daily" journal but in reviewing some of the pregnancy journals online, I was impressed with Butterflies & Hiccups. It is a "monthly" journal, which really turned out to be perfect... daily would have been overkill, especially since there are many days that pass where there's really nothing to document. This journal has excellent preprinted questions as well a blank page for each month for documenting additional information, perhaps not covered by the preprinted questions. Each month, the journal covers topics such as changes/symptoms, doctor visits, and has a page for placing a photo to track pregnancy progress (and more). It goes up to nine months then continues on to the "Birth" with a checklist of what to pack in the hospital bag, preprinted birth questions, a photo page for picture with baby, a page for baby info (name, date/time of birth, height/length, etc). It also contains a section to document the Baby Shower. The journal contains a 'Baby Keepsake' pocket, perfect for holding ultrasound pictures. There's also an attached ribbon bookmarker so that you can go straight to the page where you left without having to flip through the journal... and it's spiral bound. Highly recommended PREGNANCY journal... this is NOT a BABY journal.

News
Chasing Hunter
Published in Paperback by BookSurge Publishing (2007-10-17)
Author: Cort Malone
List price: $15.99
New price: $15.99
Used price: $13.99

Average review score:

I Enjoyed "The Chase"
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-07
What a chase!!!! Not only was it a lot of fun, but engaging. I enjoyed the character's first person perspective that as a reader led me to feel tied to the story.

The twists and turns just kept me going to the very last page. (I elbowed more then one person in the crowded train trying to get comfortable to enjoy the read during my commute.) More then once I thought "how is Jake going to get out of this one?" There were also times that I wanted to skip pages to find out what happened - but dared not to because every time I thought I had it figured out, Cort had me on another road.

The tastefulness in the writing is obvious. You could see that NOT one detail was spared in not only describing the characters, but the city setting and touching on details that most writers would not dare to or fumble over.

This was a great read - Kudos to Cort!!!

Very Good First Book!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-23
This book was well written and I was caught up in the intrigue,twists and turns, etc.

David

Hey there Jake Hunter . . .
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-02
. . . times are tough in New York City. You know how that song gets stuck in your head and you just can't stop thinking about it? That's how I feel about this book. Except instead of annoying you with the same bit of melody over and over during the day, this book brings a smile to your face. While you're reading it, you can't stop thinking about what may happen next and you look forward to learning all you can about the characters. When you're through with it, you just want to find as many people as you can to read it so you can talk about those same characters and the plot twists. Just what a book is supposed to do. If you haven't read it yet, buy yourself a copy so you can join in singing its praises.

Suit up with Grisham,Patterson and DeMillle
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-12
Having been immersed in the pits of NYC investment banking and as a civil litigator for over 35 years I feel uniquely qualified to say that Cort Malone's depiction of the suspense and intrique of the underbelly of those worlds is right on the mark. Even as a rookie, I feel that he can suit up against Grisham, Patterson and DeMille and would be an odds on favorite in keeping your page turning attention.
Bruce W.McAlbert

Crack This Spine Immediately!
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-16
In support of a new author I bought copies of this book for all my family and friend readers for Christmas. Of course I bought one for myself too, especially being a fellow attorney (and aspiring author). I put it on the stack of yet-to-be read books that I always have and read a few before finally picking it up and cracking the spine. Well, by the time I was 20 pages in I realized that Malone's next book will cut the line and be read as soon as I have it in my hands! The character development and plot twists were great fun and I got so wrapped up in the storyline that I couldn't wait to find a free moment to visit my "friend" Jake and find out what he was up to in the big City. I am anxiously awaiting the next book! I'm offering "reader" services free of charge if I can have a sneak preview! I have also been inspired to delve back into my own novel! So thanks for a great story and the push to get me into my own!

News
Circles in the Stream (Avalon Web of Magic, 1)
Published in Paperback by CDS Books (2003-08)
Author: Shelly Roberts
List price: $4.99
New price: $1.69
Used price: $0.01

Average review score:

oh no.
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-11-25
After reading the stellar reviews I purchased this book for my 13 year old sister. All I can say is "Blah". This is some of the lamest young fantasy I have ever read, needless to say she never got this book. Falling prey to a host of storybook and fashion cliches Emily the spunky loveable red-head, Adriane the quiet and mysterious raven haired guide at the Raven's Wood Animal Preserve, and Kira the blonde valley girl princess tromp about in a terribly typical manner discovering magic from another world and befriending a host of magical animal companions. Perhaps I've been spoiled by J.K.Rowling, but Rachel/Shelly Roberts writes as though the young women reading these books are stupid. Upon reading "Circles In The Stream" I was a little surprised that it was considered appropriate reading for a 13 year old!

On a less negative note, if you have a little girl about 7-10 that enjoys reading- this will be right up her alley. Certainly not a classic novel but one that is a "safe" fantasy book that younger readers can handle with ease. For all you not so little girls out there try "Howl's Moving Castle"- a charming fantasy novel and love story- or if you prefer a series Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums are an excellent age-appropriate set of fantasy novels.

Exellent!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-19
This book is the best I have read ever!
The book is mainly about, friendship,magic, and the love of Animals, for those parents out there if you want to know more about this book and the series, go to....

http://avalonclubhouse.piczo.com/

This book a no put down, something to treasure. Shelly Roberts has a true talent for book writing!

Highly recommanded to Magic lovers everywhere!

lOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2005-11-12
this book is awsome!! Right now I'm middle of reading trail by fire but anyways this is a must read! I love all the magic in the book and friendship. Every thing is so magical. If u lov magic well this is a book for u!!

avalon
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2005-10-30
this book is the best its nice and thick and super interesting i wish i had the auctal book i took it out of the libray if you cant decide to buy it or not buy it you wont be disaponted also another good seires isw w.i.t.c.h.

Totally out of this world!!
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-17
I loved it! Emily is this new girl in town and is lonely but doesn't mind as her mom is a vet so spends most of her time with animals. As she gets adjusted to the town one day this sick animal comes with these brutal green gashes that everybody thinks is pioson. Not just that but dogs are soon found dead by the wildlife perserve. Emily decides to explore until she finds a stone that later turns beautiful like in all differnet rainbow colours. She later meets a girl Adriane and becomes fast friends. They learn to except the magic that entered their lives and most of all they learn that magic is strongest when your friends are there to help, and not to mention a magical world with evil lurking everywhere.

News
Creating Money: Keys to Abundance (Roman, Sanaya)
Published in Paperback by HJ Kramer (1988-01-01)
Authors: Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
List price: $12.95
New price: $4.10
Used price: $0.13
Collectible price: $12.95

Average review score:

Lives up to its Title
Helpful Votes: 17 out of 17 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-25
This is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read many books on manifesting, magnetising, prosperity, spirituality - and this book incorporates all four in a very cohesive way that makes sense.

Whereas some books lean towards more on the "spiritual side of abundance" rather than the "money aspect" this book doesn't lose its main subject "money" which I found very satisfying. Also, some authors focus mainly on "deblocking" and "resolving money-related-issues and feelings" which I personally believe only gets you to the "zero state" (you've just gotten rid of a problem, but you haven't become "much richer"). This book has exercises that helps you to magnetize clients, a number of customers, and a sum of money which I found very helpful.

Bottomline is that the book delivers what the title suggests.

I have several books by Sanaya Roman, and the other books are focused more on spiritual aspects, but this one really does a neat job of talking about money, about creating money.

In terms of "immediate results" this book comes second to another book I have written by Babaji (sp?) but I still find myself reaching for this book over and over again, especially when I am in my "entrepreneur mode" of thinking.

Hope some of this helps. Namaste.

Stop Delaying Your Good Once and For All
Helpful Votes: 27 out of 29 total.
Review Date: 2006-09-26
For years I struggled against two things that I thought (and felt) were in total opposistion with each other; God and money. I really felt that the two were exclusive of each other. I was a "good" Christian. I thought more about Jesus than I thought about money. But I also thought that if Jesus ever did return to Earth I was gonna saddle him with some of the bills I had incurred waiting for his butt.

Sorry to sound so irreverent...actually, I'm not.

Now that I have purged the "label" of Christian from my belief system and consider myself a Spiritual Being living in a Spiritual Universe, I really get what Jesus was really trying to teach while here upon this Earth. He was trying to get us to remember that God is our Source for every good thing and everything is good because everything is a manifestation of Spirit.

I can feel some of you growing a little irritated and you are right, it is irritating. Truth is often very irritating because it makes us question those beliefs that we have not only believed, but worshipped. I made a god out of Lack. I made a god out of debt. I made a god out of never having enough. I had author-ity issues...in other words, I thought I had created my life.

I didn't create my life...Spirit did...Spirit does...Spirit will always be creating and recreating my life and God has put every good thing within me. We all come "factory equipped" with abundance, prosperity, and plenty.

So, what the hell went wrong? We started believing more in lack than in supply. We believed more in a future hell than a Heaven of now. We believed that somehow God wanted us to be poor, miserable, and unhappy during our stay upon this Earth because afterall, if we accept our sufferings now, our real treasure will be waiting for us up in some future realm.

Nonsense.

Jesus said, "Hey, dudes, lookin within...Heaven is now...you're looking in the wrong spot. You are looking outside of yourselves for God and God is always right where you are. You are breathing God in...You are breathing God out....you're a manifestation of God...Heaven isn't a place...Heaven is you..."

Talk about pushing the freaky buttons. We gotta put this cat on a cross. He's speaking blasphemies and heresies and all sorts of stuff that's hitting too close to home. So they killed Jesus. Murdered him. Watched his blood flow to the ground.

You can kill the messenger, but you can't kill the message.

The message is that life is meant to be a joyous experience. Stop idolizing your lack. Stop embracing your limitations. Stop catering to fear. Take the focus off of "not enough" and put the focus on the truth, "There is always more than enough. Abundance flows to me now. I easily and effortlessly attracting more and more and more good into my life now. God is my Infinite Source of every good thing. I am blessed. I am a blessing. My life is rich, full, happy, and prosperous."

This book will remind you that you are a magnet and that you are always attracting things into your life. We can't help it, that's the way we were created. But what are we attracting? That's the real question. If you have money issues...which 99.9% of us do in some way, get this book and devour the thing. Don't sit there and intellectualize the whole thing. Get it deep into the marrow of your bones that you truly deserve to be rich and if you are rich you deserve to be even richer. There is more than enough for everyone here to be rich, prosperous, and plentiful.

It is time for the dis-ease of poverty to be wiped out forever.

Just think if Jesus did come back and you were dressed in rags and driving a 1973 Nova. He'd say, "Dude, didn't you listen to me? C'mon, man...I was hoping you'd take me to dinner tonight. I didn't wait around for 2,000 years to eat a sandwich in the park with a person that looks like a bum."

We are all children of the universe. It is time to act like we are...talk like we are...dress like we are...and FEEL THAT WE ARE!

Peace and Blessings, children.

FINALLY !!!
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2007-08-20
I've been looking for a book like this one for over 5 years, and I finally found it. I've believed for a long time that the same ability that allows us to heal ourselves of physical ailments without use of medicine or other physical treatments must also make it possible to "heal" our financial lives. I've found many self-help books that are aimed at helping us improve our financial lives, but they're all based in and limited to conventional financial techniques. I've read dozens of books on "how to improve your life using spiritual techniques" ... and while many of them get into considerable depth on exactly how to use such techniques to heal relationships, physical problems, etc., none of them has ever devoted more than a brief chapter or two on what's really required to use spiritual power to heal our financial lives. I was beginning to think that such a book had never been written.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I got past some of my own emotional baggage about money. Those of us who consider ourselves "spiritual" often have issues with having, saving, investing and just enjoying money. Many of us were taught that the love of money is the root of all evil. Well, once I saw and really let go of my own issues about wealth and allowed myself to see that it's just another form of benefit we're meant to enjoy in this life ... the next DAY ... this book crossed my path. And it's EXACTLY the book I knew somehow in my heart HAD to exist.

In short, this book is about how to use the same spiritual power many of us have used to reshape other parts of our lives (health, relationships, vocations, lifestyle) to completely transform our financial lives and our general experience of abundance and prosperity. Far from being a brief or vague treatment of the topic, the authors take us step by step through the mental and emotional work we need to do to tap into our spiritual ability to draw to us the wonderful financial experiences we want in our lives. As my partner and I read this book together, we kept stopping to say to each other "this is just EXACTLY what we've been looking for."

The power of Love ... our spiritual power to create all and only that which benefits us and those around us ... can be used to create the wealth and prosperity we long for. As we read the chapters of this book that walked us through the "how to" of creating wealth, it mirrored our own instincts about the subject so perfectly, it was as if the book had been written for us. Written in 1988, on one level, I can't imagine how I never saw this book before. But I know that my own issues about actually EXPERIENCING ... HAVING ... ENJOYING money fully ... kept me from finding it. As soon as I was ready, POOF ... the book appeared in my life.

What does this book teach, in general terms? #1 - That as a spiritual being, you have the ability to create unlimited benefit in your life ... and that includes financial benefit. #2 - that the way to create that benefit is not through hard work, worry, greed or worldly risk. #3 - That the path to creating completely beneficial wealth ... wealth not only in terms of money but also in terms of free time, spending your time doing what you enjoy most and what benefits those around you most ... in ALL forms ... lies in taking personal responsiblity for the thoughts and feelings you have within yourself about prosperity ... and activing taking steps to change those thoughts and feelings so that you use your spiritual creative power to bring into your life the wealth you want. #4 - That it's not only POSSIBLE to experience the abundance you want while doing with your life what you really want to do most ... doing what you love most is essential to opening yourself to the abundance you have the power to draw into your life.

Easy to read, logically put together, the authors do a wonderful job of showing us exactly what we need to do to learn to use our spiritual power ... the miraculous creative power of love ... to experience total financial healing. They present a book in some ways similar to Louise Hay's books on healing your body and life through the use of the mind and heart. But where "Heal Your Body" focuses on using love and the power of our thoughts and feelings to take responsibility for transforming our physical health, this book does something similar in the real of finances, and it does a wonderful job.

I just purchased and read this book in the past few days ... I'll keep you posted on the real world results as they develop. But if my experience using this book is anything like my experience using the writings of Louise Hay, our financial challenges should soon be as much a thing of the past as are my old ulcer, knee problems, hyper-acidity, chronic head and neck aches, tendonitis and coutless other problems that used to plague me that are now completely gone.

IT'S ALL MANIFESTATION....THE SECRET...
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2006-07-25
I bought so many book on how to make money and prosperity...but this is one of the best...it helped me to shift the energy and unlock the body energy...nonetheless is FANTASTIC when it explain how to become a MAGNET...AWESOME!!!
QUANTUM PHYSICS AT WORK...

a real gem
Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-25
Ive had this book for many years, and keep going back to it. There are exercises in the book to help you make the aspirations concrete by writing it out in addition to the visualizations.

Whenever I have a money issue, I randomly pick a page and see what message it has for me at this point in time. Unlike some other new age postive thinking books, the downside of things is not ignored. This is well rounded inspiration that shows you how to deal with the kinks as well.

The author even says that you must get practical knowledge to compliment the metaphysical awareness. From my point of view, you must have both, for there to be a balance. It is whole brain thinking.


Books-Under-Review-->Arts-->Genres-->Science Fiction and Fantasy-->News-->27
Related Subjects:
More Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250