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I love cats and I loved reading this book. This book contained numorous cat tales that even surprised. I have grown up with cats all of my life. I recomend this book to all.

That's all I can say! I truly loved every moment of reading this book, and at the time I didn't even have a cat! (I have one now...)

I have a Herd of little Fur Babies of my own and this gave me insite into the past and present lore of the cat. I love the every part of this book. It even gives spells using cat parts, but only the good kind such as shed wiskers and claws. A must for any mystical person with a magickal cat.

D.J. Conway has done an EXCELLENT job with this book. There is everything from ancient history on felines, to rituals and spells that you can include your kitty in. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I'm so glad someone finally wrote this book! It's all here -- history, myth, spells your kitty can help you perform, info about the different breeds, touching stories by cat "parents" whose kitties showed psychic abilities, interesting scientific facts about cat behaviour, photographs of exotic cats, folktales, cat deities, etc. Only one thing I didn't like. Was it really ncessary to tell us about cat persecutions and actually show us a picture, albeit an old one from some old horrible time, but, you know, to show us? The truth is harsh and I didn't really want to see a chapter on that in a book I love so much. But, that was only one chapter and the rest of the book is truly loveable. Thank you, DJ Conway, for writing about our furry little bundles of love :)

This book has been one of the many reasons I fell in love with Paris.

In fact, it taught me how to explore Paris on my own during the 5 years I lived there. Beginning with this book, I learned how much history and cultural wealth is hidden in every corner of the city, ready to be discovered. I learned to explore the building façades, their inner patios that sometimes hide gardens, statues and even centuries old temples. I have explored parkings for outstanding discoveries (like the medieval wall on the underground parking on rue Mazarine), etc.

I learned enough of the city history to get me curious and start reading on my own about the kings of France, the history of Paris architecture, and so much more.

I have both an older edition and the audio guide, which is excelent for use when walking alone. However, I noticed that on the latest edition, the walk on rue Moufetard is gone (at least that's how it seems from the index here on Amazon"). Pitty, because I loved the region and the walk itself.

The only danger is that if you go to Paris with this book, you may never want to leave again, like I did.

I've taken this book to Paris three times. Our local library discarded the book and I was so upset. It's wonderful to use in Paris or to remember my trips. I was so excited to find in newly published. I have already got one, which I passed on to a friend going to Paris, now I'm ordering another.

This is a terrific "off the beaten path" type tour guide. These tours take you to areas that other tourists just pass through on their way to the Eifel Tower and Louvre. With this book you experience the real Paris, not the tourist's Paris.

At the beginning of each tour (allow one per day), find a bench in one of the many small parks and read the introduction to the tour. While you take in the sights, smells and sounds of the area, you'll learn a bit of history to set the stage for the tour. The walks are slow and intend for you to really look at your surroundings as you read about the history, architecture and people. I wish there were guides like this for every city!

I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a much earlier edition of this wonderful little guide to the Paris these authors obviously love. The distaff side of the Landes clan has a keen eye for detail and a sharp nose for the unexpected tidbits that make visiting any city a delight.

Directly as a result of following one of the walks I have found a club that is now, years later, a regular stop anytime I am in Paris. Everyone who has an interest in the quiter, more intimate details of Paris should take these walks. The authors' love of the city and their simple love of city life shines through in each of them.

This latest edition is, if possible, an improvement on the previous ones; adding the perspective of a new co-author has improved the product.

The Pariswalks audiotape is an immensely entertaining and educational way to wander through Paris neighborhoods. You can, for a change, SEE what the guidebooks are talking about WITHOUT having your nose in the book the whole time. The narration is humorous as well as informative. Because this Pariswalks audiotape is so good,I have given theLondonwalks audiotape on faith for Christmas to someone about to head for London. I will never travel to Europe again without first checking to learn whether an audiotape is available for my destination city.

This book explains a lot of chemistry in a fun, simple, way. Excellent to read, especially if you are a beginner and want to know a lot. This book is one of the best non-fiction books I have ever read!

I am using this book to teach a study club with girls ages 8-12. I am very pleased with the format, it is easy for all of us to use. Teacher prep. time is minimal. The other instructor has a strong background in chemistry so at first we relied on her but that background is not necessary to sucessfully use this material. I appreciate that although the text is simplified for the age group it still uses proper terminology and is not "dumbed down". The page layout is attractive and easy to sort out. (Not too much crammed into the pages.) Because we have the time and flexibility we do add related experiments from other sources but the provided lab work stands on its own very well.

As a home school mom, I was looking for something that would be easy to use, understandable for my upper elementary-jr. high kids, and have experiments that used simple items found around the house. This text was perfect. The teacher's manual explained how to give the information and how to conduct the experiments. The lower level Chemistry is great for my 2nd grader too, and follows the same information chapter by chapter that the 2 older children are doing.

I bought this for my 3rd grade son, who is homeschooled. He loves science and I was a chemistry major in college. I do believe that you do NOT need a science background to teach well from this series. We are loving every minute. The curriculum does a wonderful job of bring complex topics down to a level that upper elementary children can understand. Use the lab book- it really cements the understanding of the topics and it is FUN! We had 2 other kids over when we did the marsh mellow experiment and they loved it! (neither one had read the lesson so we had to explain it to them- but it went over well!) This is a secular curricula, so for those who feel they want a religious based science curricula this may not be the one.

Ive really enjoyed this book. Currently I am using it to teach 17 3rd-6th graders in a homeschool co-op.

When Mum got me this book from the library I just fell in love with it. Rebecca's World is arguably my favourite book from childhood. Later she bought me a copy and I read it so much it became well-worn and tattered. I lost that copy but I was extremely lucky to find another.

Looking back at it now, I can see it was ahead of its time with its sterling message of mass deforestation brought about by greed and short-sightedness and the ecological consequences which brought misery for all. Nowadays the book would be extremely topical, so why not bring it back? Even better, why not bring it to television or the movie screen? Okay, it may be a little too weird to translate (The Bad Habits and Tongue-Twister Monster, for example, may not work so well on the screen)but you never know.

There is one error I have noticed: Rebecca has seen "television science-fiction programmes" - so why do the illustrations show her clad in Victorian dress?

I was looking at all the other reviews of this book, hoping to find the answer of where it is! I had a copy when i was young and read it till it fell apart, i don't know where it is now, but i like another reviewer really want my children to read this book, it has everything you ever need as a child growing up. extremely funny, educating about the world we live in, how good friendships are so rare in this day and age, that to find a good one you are truely greatful. It leaves you not wanting to put it down as you are in this other world Terry is writing about, to put the book down is like shutting this planet off!

This book opened my mind to the realm of science fiction. It was my favourite book as a child and I cherish it still. It sits on my bookshelf now that I have discarded many of my childhood bits and pieces, having moved countries and grown up.

A teacher at school read Rebecca's World to us as a class when i was 9, at the time the environmental theme wasn't apparent becasue it was before people realised the problem. I recommend this book to everyone, particularly to teachers, because everyone I know who ever read it as a child rates it as amongst their favourite book. I wouldn't say that this book changed my life (except for spending far too much time in second hand bookshops trying to find a copy) but even when i read it now, it sparks off my imagination. Any book which makes you want to know the characters better is great in my book, and I'm still sad when the story ends because I want to know more about the world, and the characters. I eventually found a copy, and it is one of my most treasured possessions, probably more so because the child who owned it before me carefully coloured in the map at the front, and the pictures at the back. This should be on every childs reading list.

Excellent, a childhood classic indeed. It's because of Terry Nation that Peter Pan gave it all up for neverending childhood... the kind of story with warmth and vision that children will remember for a lifetime.

While Elaine may have life & liberty, she has rarely known happiness. Into SUNSET TERRACE she moves with her two daughters after three years on the road. 12 year old Hannah, her sister & turtle settle in for a long hot summer. Here they get to know the other families & Hannah is taken under the wing of the fiercesome Bridget, a foster child with a past & a not-so-nurturing present. She also has a daring & dangerous sense of adventure & courage.

SUNSET TERRACE could have been unrelentingly depressing, after all what's romantic about welfare moms & their damaged children? Except Rebecca Donner has infused her debut novel with an intense look into children's live as well as realistic hope in the way Elaine searches for a better life.

Rebeccasreads recommends SUNSET TERRACE as a devastating & hopeful glimpse of the pursuit of happiness.

Forget 'The Lovely Bones.' If you want beautiful prose and a gripping narrative, Sunset Terrace is it. It's a gritty, heartbreaking, realistic portrayal of loss and redemption, told alternately from a mother's and daughter's perspectives. The author doesn't candy-coat anything. The book is almost like poetry.

I grew up on Sawtelle in LA and was reminded of things I had forgotten while reading this book. Very evocative.

Donner does a remarkable job of putting you inside the heads of her characters, especially the 10 year old Hannah. Her ability to make Hannah's (to an adult's mind) illogical thoughts seem perfectly reasonable rises to the level of Lynda Berry, whose little-girl characters also occupy a bleak and forbidding urban landscape.

A touching and wonderful book. Donner is a marvelous storyteller.

City streets are the playgrounds of the children who live at Sunset Terrace, and patches of dead grass, trash-strewn lots and cracked concrete bordered by battered chain link fencing. Summer days are spent stealing cigarettes and candy from the neighborhood market. These are the beneficiaries of the trickle-down policies of the '80's, living in a vast economic wasteland, families kept together by women who work at minimum wage jobs and buy groceries with food stamps.

Elaine arrives at Sunset Terrace with her two daughters, a year after their father has committed suicide. An itinerant chef, Elaine moved her girls from job to job, motel to motel, all across the country. Hannah, nine, lonely and confused by her father's death, was responsible for younger sister, Daisy, while their mother worked late shifts at various roadside restaurants. Rent-controlled Sunset Terrace, in So. California, is a step up for the small family, a new start.

Hannah wants friends, but doesn't know the rules, ever on the wrong side of belonging. Bridget, an iconoclastic nine-year-old foster-child who lives downstairs, captures Hannah's attention. Bridget is street savvy, already a victim of ... abuse, the kind of child easily dropped through bureaucratic cracks, shuffled from one place to another. While Bridget carefully courts Hannah, Elaine finds herself feeling sorry for the girl, often including Bridget in family gatherings, while unaware of the girl's dark side. Bridget's smart mouth and intimidating behavior draws Hannah like a moth to flame, the vague promise of a walk on the wild side. Hannah is unprepared for the escalating violence of their games, as Bridget is more and more mean-spirited. Eventually, Hannah grows distant, less trusting, disturbed by Bridget's demeanor.

A woman in the complex talks Elaine into attending a Parents-Without-Partners function, where Elaine meets an eligible man, Sam. For Elaine, the genial and loving Sam is unexpected, like winning the Cinderella lottery, a way out. Without him, they are trapped in an indifferent world, surrounded on all sides by poverty and social decay, their sojourn at Sunset Terrace only a respite on a downhill slide. During their last few days, Hannah and Bridget clash frequently, especially when Hannah defends her younger sister from Bridget's unnecessary meanness. Although furious, Hannah agrees to a final game, one that has unexpected and life-changing consequences for both girls.

The families of Sunset Terrace live a marginal existence, prey to unstable financial circumstances. Affordable child-care for working mothers is as realistic as the Emerald City at the end of the Yellow Brick Road. Sunset Terrace is a scathing social commentary on the disastrous effects of poverty and a system that ignores the most vulnerable in our society, sweeping them aside like so much detritus. We are not in Kansas, Dorothy. Meet the fringe-dwellers, one step away from homelessness, dancing as fast as they can. Luan Gaines/2003.

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A great success both with grown-ups of Swedish descendence and their grandchildren (hard for a Dane to admit). A Swedish "Paradise Lost".

This is an amazing book that gives so much information on the environmental features of Sweden that adults as well as children will be fascinated by the tale.

This is a wonderful book--This edition has BEAUTIFUL illustrations. Nils has one harrowing adventure after another and he also changes from a selfish boy to one who treats animals and other people with care and concern. All this while also teaching the geography of Sweden--an added bonus. It does involve him being bewitched until he learns his lesson so if you have strong feelings about this sort of fantasy you wouldn't want it, but to those who are OK with fairy tale level fanstasy you should find it enchanting.

It's a wonderful, kind-hearted tale. I readed in Russian and am delighted to find it in English. Will pull children in as well Harry Potter did. In my opinion it's an even better book. It's kinder for one, and it celebrates nature.

Nils is a typical troublemaker in a village in southern Sweden who pulls the tails of cats, throws rocks at geese etc. Then he finds a gnome and teases him as well, but the result is that he is shrunk to the size of a sparrow so all the creatures he was mean to can get their own. Too ashamed to show his new self to his family, he travels with the wild geese on their annual migration to Lapland.

What follows is a picaresque and description of the natural world of Sweden from the south to the north in terms of the environment, the animals and the life that they lead. The flock of geese is a matriarchy led by the experienced and assertive Akka. In his travels, Nils learns helplessness and helping others and has many adventures involving magic flutes, a castle with rats and an underwater city. He also learns respect and admiration for the animals and the natural world.

This is a children's story with some features rarely found in other books (such as the matriarchy and the focus on the natural without too much "magic" - although the animals do talk) which makes it memorable.

My son and I were introduced to this book at story time at the local library. My son, 15 months, loves the book and helps me read it. It's very simple and quite captivating for my son who loves books. I only wish I could find it as a board book. Highly recommend.

I bought this book for my grandson when he was a few months old, based on the reviews here. He is now almost a year old and still LOVEs it. When given a choice, he always picks The Baby Goes Beep, and I sometimes have to read it over several times in a row. The down side is that it's not interesting from an adult's point of view. In fact, my daughter refuses to read it to him any more! However, it is a must-have from baby's point of view.

As a children's librarian, I can't say enough about this book. Every three months or so, I read this book in storytime to the toddlers and their reaction is amazing. The children love to sound in for the beeps, las, and smooches. Even the most distracted of the children tends to tune in for this special book. It is now a special treat for me to read this book and it shows on the toddler's faces each time I bring it out.

Bright and lively, bold and colorful, this book immediately caught my eye. Its lovely rhythm and simple, warm sense of humor were delightful to nuzzle in. Both as a parent and as a psychologist who works with young children, I found the book right on in its use of repetition and bright colors, inclusion of a loving family (including the cat!), and the joy the baby takes in sounds and other senses in exploring the world. "Beep" if you love this book! And the baby goes flip, flip, flip, flip through its pages again and again!

The Baby Goes Beep is one of my son's favorites. He's 16 months old and loves the bouncy, rhyming text and sunshine-bright illustrations. Best of all, he loves to give the book a kiss when we get to the "baby goes smooch" page spread. This book is an excellent choice for babies and toddlers.

As a side note, this book was a Charlotte Zolotow honor book for 2004 -- the award given for the best picture book writing of the year (the Caldecott is for illustration). Kudos to O'Connell!

From the beautiful photos to the delicious recipes, this book had it all! I especially enjoyed the mention of the burgers in Hawaii. This book is great for burger connoisseurs like myself and I would recommend it to burger lovers everywhere!

Everything about this book is wonderful - from the layout and glossy photos to the incredible recipes. It's a burger-lovers dream. I bought a few extra copies to take as host/hostess gifts for backyard BBQ's this summer. It's a great addition to any cookbook collection.

Not only do you get new beef burger recipes, but also step by step instructions to creating lamb, chicken, buffalo, turkey, seafood and tofu burgers (to name a few). There is a handy list of burger do's and don'ts. I love the burger and side dish recipes contributed by celebrity chefs with famous restaurants. Finally, the stuffed blue cheese burger with apple and bacon rocks!!!!

Overall comment is it is really a nice book. The recipes are fairly simple and generally have common ingredients. A lot of cook books ask for some weird stuff that you have to drive across town just to get. I like how the author gave variations to some recipes. I also really like each comment beforehand. It gave a more personal touch on each recipe and something perhaps the reader could identify with. I have been to Turtle Creek Mansion in Dallas so that was nice to see plus the recipe from Hawaii.

Heard about this book in last week's New York Sun. I've made three recipe in preparation for my memorial day party. All of them have been delicious.

This is an excellent book. All African-American women should read it to understand their position and purpose in the Kingdom.

This book makes us look within ourselves to find the God that lives within us as well as helps us seek deliverance from things that hinder God's plan for our lives. Such an annointed book! This guide helps us to seek the holy spirit as our guide daily in all areas of our complex and sometimes stressful lives. Talk about spiritual growth and maturity - it's ours if we choose it! This books shows the map and gives directions on how we get there. I highly recommend it to both young and old women of every race and walk of life!

This book is the only one of it's kind. It is a spiritual bible, in a sense, for women of color. Buy this book, my sisters! You won't be disappointed! You will be enlightened like never before!
It answers many unanswered questions.

The teachings in this book is so touching and timely for African American women who seek to allow Christ to live through them and to make a better world for themselves, family, friends, church and the world. Every person of African descent should read this awesome book filled with holy scriptures to guide the reader. My profound thanks to the author!

This book will truly change your life if you consistently apply the principles taught. The author is empathetic, clear, and inspired. She tells you exactly what you need to do in order to experience the peace and purpose of God in your home, work, and life in general. Read this book more than once, and be prepared for a challenge. Some of her words are hard to take, but they're true and Bible-based.

This is far and away the best book I have ever read. It was a real page turner. A friend suggested I read it, and I suggested my mother and my daughter both read it as well. My mother said she actually cried while reading it (something she has never done over a book). My daughter laughed and said Willa Mae was "the Forrest Gump of West Virginia". It was a rich documentation of WV history, and included several events that I did not know. I am a WV native from near Hawk's Nest State Park, and was fascinated with its pre-history. What a wonderful book!

I bought this book for my mother for Christmas and she has not been able to lay it down since she started reading it. She loves it and I am sure that I will be reading it when she gets finished. My mother lived in Page, WV during her teenage years and has been able to relate to the area that she is reading about which only made the book more interesting, I'm sure. She lived there during the great flood of 1932 and this is discussed in the book. She would like to see more by this author and I can hardly wait to get started.

What a wonderful story. Only a poet with a heart as big as our mountains, the keen insight of a storyteller and a love of family that is burned into her soul could do justice to this story in the manner of Rebecca Cale Camhi.
This book grabbed me on the first page and never turned me loose, I don't think I have ever gone through so many emotions while reading a book as I did with this one. The Characters were so real I had to keep reminding myself that it was a story. I kept hearing echoes of my Father, my Mother, my Grandma, my Grandpa, my Uncles and my Kin.
There is a unique mystique about being a West Virginian that few who have not been born and raised here understand. It is so hard to describe or explain, because it is spiritual. Rebecca has captured it and woven it throughout her book. It starts where her story starts and ends, well it don't end, it is still here in these hills and in our hearts.
If you have not read this book you are robbing yourself of one of life's good experiences.
I sure hope there is more where this came from.

"Who says, "You can't go home again"? I just relived my West Virginia childhood through "Deepwater Mountain," one of the best historical novels I've had the pleasure to read.

"Had Thomas Wolfe grown up in the Appalachian Mountains of WV, as I did, I think he'd agree with me. NC doesn't hold a candle to WV.

"A Kincaid in Kincaid, next door to Camhi's Page, I remember my parents, Todd and Minnie Kincaid, taking me to visit Great Grandpa Poley, Great Grandma Lizzie, and Creedy in their little house with the toasty warm coal fireplace. They lived "just up the road a piece" from me.

I can't recall ever reading a book faster than this one. Saying I was mesmerized is a fact. Willa May and Daniel became my family in Chapter one and I simply felt overwhelmed emotionally when I had to leave them. I do hope Camhi will continue with their family saga. I recall feeling the same when I read John Galsworthy's first novel about the Forsyte Family.

"Camhi has that wonderful knack of capturing the reader and making her feel a part of history. Her characters are realistic and she teaches WV history, obviously having done her homework. I can see "Deepwater Mountain" becoming a required reading in WV English and History classes.

"In fact, I see Willa May as John Denver's Mountain Mamma in "Country Roads," which many people say put WV on the map. Anyone wondering about WV, the most Northern of the Southern states, the most Southern of the Northern States, and the most Western of the Eastern states, and the most Eastern of the Western states, should grab the opportunity to find out about Wild, Wonderful West Virginia by reading "Deepwater Mountain."

Shirley Dawn Kincaid Walker(formerly of Kincaid, West Virginia)
6309 Alderwood Bay
Woodbury, Mn 55125

I grew up in Kincaid, West Virginia, which is right next door to Page, Robson and Deepwater Mountain, the places that Rebecca Camhi brings to life again in her book, Deepwater Mountain. I traveled through these small towns for four years while commuting to college at West Virginia Tech. Becky has brought back the memories of traveling that wicked road, dangerous to this very day.

This book brings back vivid memories of my great-grandfather Napoleon Kincaid and my Uncle Harry Cale. I can still see Napoleon, "Poley," as we called him, delivering his moonshine on Page Road just a few miles south of Deepwater Mountain. (By the way, Becky, we were always told that "Poley" never got caught by the Feds, but that he had a lot of close calls.)

I can still hear my father and grandpa Tibb talk about Poley, Lizzie and Creedy. When I make my annual visit to clean the gravesites at the Kincaid Cemetery here in Kincaid, and see the gravestones of Poley, Lizzie and Creedy, it brings back all those memories that Becky described in this wonderful novel. It is hard to explain how we West Virginians feel about our state: when we meet another West Virginian, no matter where we've traveled, it's as if both of us have come back to the hills. It's in our hearts!! Becky has truly captured this spirit throughout her entire book.

Those in my generation who were born and reared in Kincaid, WV, can relate to Becky's book because we actually lived the life of her characters from 1940 to present. And when we look back through Becky's eyes, we can see ourselves at the very beginning. Becky has truly captured the motto of West Virginia "Montani Semper Liberi" (Mountaineers are always free!)

Once you pick up this book, you won't put it down until you have finished reading the entire book. Becky Camhi is a truly remarkable author. Each chapter is a surprise, and you just can't wait for the next one.

I look forward to Becky's next book, but will be hard for her to top this one.


Douglas L. Kincaid, Sr. of Kincaid, West Virginia