Rebecca Books

One of the greatest heroes of all time, who deserves more attention. What he accomplished is incredible, and against all odds; taking down communism/playing a major role in its takedown(along with Pope John Paul II). Every school should have this book. It is well written, and truly demonstrates how dreams can become reality, with determination and lots of "courage." Lech Walesa is a true hero.

This is an excellent biography of Lech Walesa, a truly good man who literally reset the world on a whole new axis. The Beatles' 1968 classic "Revolution" could easily be the soundtrack to this book. "We all want to change the world..." very a propos indeed!

A humble shipyard worker, Walesa organized unions on the shipyards and in the mills and factories. He took those reforms steps farther by banging on the drum for social and political reforms in Poland.

Throughout the 1980s, Walesa and a group of people known as the Solidarity Workers were gaining momentum in Poland as the Voices of Change. They met privately in church basements and in people's homes, all the time discussing plans for revamping the communist regime in Poland.

Their efforts paid off. People in Western countries such as England, France, Germany and even the United States smuggled computers into Poland so that the Solidarity Party would have greater access to their intended, global public. Their efforts were not without major challenges and Lech Walesa served a year in jail for his outspoken plea for sociopolitical reforms.

Fortunately for all, his voice carried far and wide. His efforts with the Solidarty Party paid dividends and on June 4, 1989 Poland had its first free election for the first time since WWII. Lech Walesa had literally helped change the face of the world and to tear holes in the Iron Curtain.

June 4, 1989 was Triple Shot Sunday. Ayahtollah Khomeini died; the massacre in China took place and on a happy note the Solidary Candidates won. Tom Brokaw of NBC News was on hand to cover the events in Poland!

Lech Walesa said that his late father Boleslaw Walesa had hoped his children would be able to cast free votes in Poland. Thanks to the hard work of the Solidarity Party, his dream has been realized by Lech Walesa, whose 4 sons and 4 daughters will see that dream of being able to vote in free elections.

Througout 1989, other Eastern European countries broke with the 1955 Warsaw Pact. Ironically, Poland was the first country to make that break. Social changes swept the world and Lech Walesa's voice was heard in the Western World when he came to New York the fall of 1989. He was given a Key to the City and then Mayor Dinkins had him chauffered in the Mayor's car throughout Manhattan. Walesa spoke before the Senate and the House. He was a man who not only helped tear down the Iron Curtain, but to build solid(arity) bridges to the Eastern World.

I think we should raise our glasses to Lech Walesa and the Soldiarity Reformers who made this all possible.

Rebecca tells it like it is!! No BS, no sugar-coating, no plastication! In these days of incredibly difficult and often sad ongoing family situational results, it is very gratifying to finally hear a voice of reality that is not only focused on saving relationships and families, but enhancing them to the point of continued growth and enrichment. Rebecca's experienced voice comes through loud and clear. I give a strong recommendation of this book for both the married that are happy, or that may be possibly struggling -or in more dire situations as well as those that are searching for the ultimate relationship. An injection of enthusiasm, posivitity, and excitement, along with a little adventure is an incredible medicine. Enjoy the journey!!

I'll read it as soon as I get a copy. Seems like it is out of print already. That is too soon

This was a wonderful shopping experience. The item was in pristine condition and arrived in the time specified.

This book has an excellent compilation of authors, writers, poets, and essayists. Here are some of them below;

Sherman Alexie; Sherwood Anderson; Margaret Atwood; Rolfe Aggestam; W.H. Auden; Anna Akhmatova; Matthew Arnold; John Ashbery; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Aristotle;

Wayne Booth; James Baldwin; Toni Cade Bambara; Russell Banks; Robert Brinkmeyer; Cleanth Brooks; Elizabeth Bishop; Lord George Gordon Byron; Emily Bronte; Sterling A. Brown; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Bly; Basho; Buson; Amiri Baraka; Buson; William Blake; Anne Bradstreet; Gwendolyn Brooks; Joseph Brodsky; GEoffrey BUllough;

Raymond Carver; Ann Charters; Anton Chekhov; Kate Chopin; Amy Clampitt; Lewis Carroll; Hart Crane; Countee Cullen; Billy Collins; Wendy Cope; A. Cinna; Adelaide Crapsey; Stephen Crane; Lucille Clifton; Marilyn Chin; Samuel Charters; e.e. cummings; Samuel Taylor Coleridge;

Edwidge Danticat; Joan Dayan; Emily Dickinson; Robert Duncan; Hilda Doolittle; John Donne; Rita Dove; Paul Laurence Dunbar; James Dickey; Jill Dolan;

Ralph Ellison; Louise Erdrich; T.S. ELiot;

William Faulkner; Richard Ford; Sally Fitzgerald; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Carolyn Forche; Robert Frost; Rose C. Feld; Jessie Fauset; Francis Ferguson; Sigmund Freud;

Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar; Gabriel Garcia Marque; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Susan Glaspell; Nadine Gordimer; James Gargano; Louise Gluck; Thomas Gray; Richard LEighton Green; Allen Ginsberg; Linda Gregg; Philip Gerber; Sir John Gielgud;

Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ernest Hemingway; Zora Neale Hurston; Toby Hiller; A.E. Housman; Robert Herrick; George Herbert; Robert Hass; T.E. Hulme; Thomas Hardy; Jim Harrison; Robert Hayden; Seamus Heaney; Langston Hughes; Anthony Hecht; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Lorraine Hansberry;

Issa; Henrik Ibsen;

Shirley Jackson; James Joyce; Tom Jenks; Ben Jonson; Erica Jong; Randall Jarrell; Thomas H. Johnson;

Franz Kafka; Jamaica Kincaid; J. Gerald Kennedy; John Keats; Galway Kinnell; Jack Kerouac; Yusef Komunyakaa; Etheridge Knight; Hugh Kingsmill; H.D.F. KItto;

Jhumpa Lahiri; D.H. Lawrence; Audre Lorde; Mina Loy; Denise Levertov; Primo Levi; Robert Lowell; John Lahr;

J. Hillis Miller; Katherine Mansfield; Guy De Maupassant; Herman Melville; Rick Moody; Bobbie Ann Mason; Dorothy Tuck McFarland; Archibald MacLeish; Marianne Moore; Edwin Morgan; Andrew MArvell; ANdrew Motion; W.S. Merwin; Leonard Mustazza; Arthur Miller;

Jim Naughton; Lorine Niedecker; Ogden Nash; Helge Normann Nilsen; Benjamin Nelson;

Flannery O'Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Tim O'Brien; Tillie Olsen; Frank O'Hara; Wilfred Owen; Alicia Suskin Ostriker; Sharon Olds;

Grace Paley; Edgar Allan Poe; Annie Proulx; Dorothy Parker; Alexander Pope; Francesco Petrarca; Ezra Pound; Marge Piercy; Allen Polite; Linda Pastan; Sylvia Plath;

David Reynolds; Christina Rossetti; Lou Reed; Edwin ARlington Robinson; Theodore Roethke; Norman Rosten; Dudley Randall; Ishmael Reed; Adrienne Rich; ARnold Rampersad; Willy Russell;

Leslie Marmon Silko; John Steinbeck; Kathleen Westfall Shute; A.O. Scott;
Stevie Smith; Carl Sandburg; Percy Bysshe Shelley; William Shakespeare; Shiki; Wallace Stevens; Ann Stevenson; Wislawa Szymborska; Gary Snyder; Anne Sexton; Gary Soto; Sophocles; Sir Tom Stoppard; Sir GEorge Bernard Shaw;

Amy Tan; Cheryl B. Tornsey; Lord Alfred Tennyson; Dylan Thomas; Joan Templeton;

John Updike;

Helena Maria Viramontes; Paula Vogel;

Eudora Welty; Alice Walker; William Carlos Williams; Robert Penn Warren; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Big Joe Williams; Richard Wilbur; William Wordsworth; J. Walker; Richard Wright; Miller Williams; Phyllis Wheatley; Walt Whitman; James Wright; Virginia Woolfe; Tennessee Williams;

Susan Yuzna; William Butler Yeats;

The stories in A Little More Than Kin are totally dazzling and absorbing. Rebecca Kavaler is a daring writer who explores every cranny of human nature, and doesn't hesitate to expose what she finds--and what she finds is startling, in comic and tragic ways. Plus the writing is masterful: Kavaler is a true original, and makes the English language feel utterly fresh and invigorated. Lovers of good fiction will treasure this very smart, very special book.

These stories, centered on wonderfully, entertainly, dysfunctional families, include some real knock-outs that you won't soon forget: "Sisters," "Give Brother My Best," "Pigeons," and "Pets" are about as good as short stories get. If you haven't read Rebecca Kavaler yet, don't wait.

My toddlers LOVE this book! It is just delightful. The story is endearing, the rhymes delightful, and the illustrations bright and colorful. My 3 year old asks to hear it every night. And I like reading it to him not only because the words are fun to say aloud, but because of the book's positive message for children. That message is: be comfortable being yourself. I strongly recommend this book to all parents of pre-school children.

My toddlers LOVE this book! It is just delightful. The story is endearing, the rhymes delightful, and the illustrations bright and colorful. My 3 year old asks to hear it every night. And I like reading it to him not only because the words are fun to say aloud, but because of the book's positive message for children. That message is: be comfortable being yourself. I strongly recommend this book to all parents of pre-school children.

For starters, I just received 12 copies of this superb book with wonderful illustrations and a valuable message to children on the importance of listening to their parents.

Most importantly, the proceeds from the book sales are going to the most magnificent foundation to help the people of Zimbabwe who are living in the most desperate place. The author, Thelma Sithole, started this foundation. I had the pleasure of working with Thelma and know she is first class; and her foundation is critical to saving, healing, and educating the people of Zimbabwe. I urge you to buy many books, give them as gifts, and spread the word. Please take the time to learn about the Tekeshe Foundation at http://bvj.com/tfo
If you are not familiar with what is happening to the people of Zimbabwe please go to WWW.NPR.ORG and type in 'Zimbabwe'. Just for starters:
World: Zimbabwe's Economy Teeters Out of Control
Jul-11-2007, All Things Considered
...supplies were plentiful, Zimbabweans would still have a hard time feeding their families. Inflation is reportedly as high as 11,000 percent. At that rate, a tube of toothpaste cost...

What a wonderful little story this is. It is about letting children know to always listen to their parents. The illustrations are BEAUTIFUL! They are so sweet. The illustrator sure has a knack for bringing this cute story to life. I think it would be a delightful book for schools.

As a retiree from the Reader's Digest I thought I had my life in very good balance. Financially secure, sound relationships, and Spiritually aware.

Wow, did I learn about myself! The personal mapping, evaluating of long held views, and making the time to see where I really stood, was profound. I cannot recommend more highly that you read and participate in this "adventure." I can only dream how sucessful I might have been had I discovered this in my primary working years.

In the past 17 months since I purchased and devoured "A Life Plan," I have read more books than I totaled in my previous 56 years. My relationship with my wife has never been so complete. I look at my fellow man differently and in spite of the downturn in the stock market, I am more financially sound.

The best part is that I have now learned ways to widen my path and I am just now starting to really live life. Through "Living at the Summit," I have found my bliss.

Living at the Summit is a wonderful book for people who genuinely want to commit themselves to improving their life.

This book provides the necessary tools that are essential in creating a fulfilling life. Goal setting, map making, overcoming resistance, affirmations, are a few of the treasures that one uses in discovering riches that are waiting to be in their life.

You are gently challenged and rewarded while working at your own pace. Reap the benefits and those around you will also be recipients of your success.

As owner of Time Of Your Life, Inc. ... I continually come in contact with people looking for new ways to enjoy life. Creativity, passion, purpose, relationships are the integral parts of everyones life that need nurturing.

What might you be? Your possibilities await. Your answers are easy when you work through Living at the Summit: A Life Plan!

...for this fund of invaluable information. I highly recommend this book along with Meyer's other stellar gem, "Views From Our Shoes," which addresses the needs siblings of people with special needs have.

This book lends the voice of hope, confidence and clarity to the experiences many people whose siblings with special needs have. It not only sheds light on many questions that often crop up, it also provides a safe forum to explore any and all sibling related issues.

I like the way Meyer respects his readers' intelligence. It is so critical, in fact paramount for people to be informed about the special needs their siblings have. That is a good way to foster honest relationships and inclusion within the family. That also promotes acceptance of the members who have special needs.


Meyer's book serves as a medical, legal and educational advocate. It provides much needed information about services in these areas. I especially liked the part where people are strongly encouraged and rightfully so to make provisions for their children with special needs and to keep the other children without special needs informed of these decisions. People with special needs are vital members of their respective families and each person impacts upon the lives of others. That is still another reason why it is so crucial to have frank, open discussions with all the family members so as to keep the lines of communication open and to prevent secrets and fear. The fear of the unknown and the lack of communication causes problems and helps no one.

I wish this book had existed a generation ago! I can't recommend it highly enough and it is a book for everybody, parents; all children; educators; medical professionals and the world at large. I love this book!

I am a Japanese and I am a "sibling."

I encountered this book and Don Meyer's Sibling Support Project in October of 1997. At that time, I was struggling to persuade the staff of a (sibling) group that support for siblings was as important as support for people with special needs. In my view this book gave me confidence and shed light on my road to start a new sibling support group.

Some uncommon feelings, opportunities and concerns that siblings might have are described in Chapter 1. Medical knowledge of various disabilities are written about in Chapters 2-6. Since siblings are not often informed about their siblings' disabilities by anyone, it could cause more concern; this book's objective is very important. You can also get basic knowledge of laws, programs, and services for persons with disabilities and their families in the U.S., in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8, an uncommon concern is discussed: where will my sister (brother) live when she (he) grows up. The authors continues by stressing the fact that parents should tell their plans for their disabled children to their "normal" children, and offers suggestions for doing this.

Since this book is intended for young siblings, it is easy for me to read it as a foreigner. Reading Chapter 1, tears welled up in my eyes. I could relate to many things: friends, unselfishness, accepting differences, guilt, overinvolvement, understanding, embarrassment, loss, maturity, worry and loneliness. I wish I could have read it in Japanese when I was a child ! I strongly recommend young and adult siblings, parents and service providers to read this book all over the world, because siblings need peer support and information in a straightforward manner.

Having adopted a daughter from a foreign land, I hold the value of these works with respect, dignity, and the innocent viewpoint of a new parent. Works from several contributors compel the reader to delve into long-laden thoughts to potentially share with loved ones. This is a grand collection to touch all.

I loved this book. I've been trying to get my parents to talk more about their past of late (and as an English teacher, I try to get my students to do the same)--so I found the book invaluable. I was especially taken with the work of Jennifer Robinson--what a writer to watch!

Mama loves lots of things, but most of all is spending time with her children is the message sent in this sweet book. It is told by her children about the activities their mother loves, but sharing her love with them means the most to their family and the sentiment comes across really well. The illustrations are soft and done in watercolor and mesh very well with the text. I'd recommend this book for any mother and her children.

A lovely book to read aloud to child, to give as a gift to all the Mamas you know... Don't miss the magic as Rebecca Kai Dotlich's charming, musical words cavort with a family of lovable pigs created by Kathyryn Brown. A *must have* for Mother's Day and all the other days of the year as well.