Stores Books

This book is the finest compendium of information on thehistory and tools of assessment that I have ever seen. This is amust-read for any guidance counselor, teacher, school administrator or parent that is dealing with exceptional children.

Taylor includes assessments of the screening tools, their effectiveness, and recommended usages. His reporting of research is up-to-date and easily understandable.

oooh, this is a GOOD one! A wonderful use of alliteration in presenting the alphabet. The pages are all mini-stories, each using one letter of the alphabet. (First page is all A words, second all B words....)

I happpen to work for this company and I know a lot of the Aubuchons and the Morans. They are a good company to work for and the owners are very easy to talk to and are very personable. This is a family run company and they truly treat their employees like family. The third generation is running the company (CEO) and the fourth generation is in charge of the internet while the 5th generation was just born. The book is very well done and the pictures reflect what they had to endure and how they lasted 100 years. That is quite an accomplishment in todays big box store environment. A fascinating look at what the stores were like for the past 100 years and how they have changed to keep up with modern retailing and how they have adapted to the 21st century.

Book review by Edna Boardman, Bismarck, North Dakota

The cover of this book says, "...this rich resource work is a truly Russian-German anthology in the fullest sense." This reviewer was puzzled by this statement because it is not accurate to the contents of the book. The book focuses closely on the travail of only the Volga Germans during the early communist years in Russia, and does not deal at all with the immigrant experiences of either the Volga or Black Sea groups. It wanders off into works about the ancient gods of the Germanic peoples of the far north. There is nothing wrong, of course, with tailoring the scope of a work to something less than a reflection of the whole, but it is hardly an anthology that deals with the German Russians in the full sense as blurb about it indicates. That said, it provides a piercing view of the agony of the Volga community facing dissolution, and that is worth knowing about.

The book is divided into parts: The poetry of Peter Sinner and his wife Kamilla, related poetry by persons, some non-German Russians, who shared his world view and imitated his style, poems and short essays by other Russian Germans, writing by Sinner's son, and work by Samuel Sinner, who grew up on the Mojave Desert in the United States. According to a
biographical sketch by Reinhold Keil, Peter Sinner, a teacher in the German villages of Russia, lived for a time in St. Petersburg, then returned to his Volga homeland. Samuel Sinner's bio sketches say he was arrested several times for his anti-Communist-regime views and disappeared in 1935 in the time of massive purges; some of the Sinners and others whose work appears were university-based intellectuals in Russia. Samuel Sinner is a US scholar interested in his German Russian heritage, in "Jewish mysticism, philosophy, theology, world folklore and mythology, ancient history and languages, ancient Jewish and Christian apocryphal literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and quantum physics." He is also interested in genocide studies.

The poetry of Peter Sinner is the heart of the book. He tells of the love of the steppe, as Americans write sometimes of the prairies. I observed wryly that you could write of that love if you didn't have to get out and do the hard work of farming it, but Peter had some of that work in his life experience. Many of his poems are veiled political commentary. Samuel, to his credit, "spoon feeds" the reader so that the symbolism makes sense. Stalin and his henchpersons certainly wouldn't have liked being depicted as wolves, but Peter flings his characterizations into their faces like a handful of rocks. He foresaw what would happen to his German people because he knew the plan was already in place; the Czar had planned to export them just before the Communist Revolution provided a reprieve. Peter lived through the famine times caused by government requisitioners who came and stole their food, and is blunt about describing his people's experiences. The Volga Germans did not have the German army to push them westward, as did many Black Sea Germans; they could not escape, as a number of Mennonite groups did. It is chilling to understand their raw feelings, their helplessness, as they realized that they were to be destroyed as a people, shipped to the east and far north of Russia without anyone in the world noticing--or caring.

A curious thing about this book is the generous use of classical German/Scandinavian symbolism, primarily in the poetry of persons other than Peter Sinner. The poems occasionally drop references to traditional Christian symbols such as crosses and chalices, and some phrasing borrows from the Bible. Peter would have grown up in a traditional Christian home on the
Volga, where he would have become acquainted with the church, even clandestinely, during his time; in some of Peter's poems, the solace offered by the church comes through clearly. But Samuel is clearly taken with Odin and the other ancient Germanic deities and writings, and these images overpower the Christian symbolic environment of the book.

The latter part of the book contains translations of work by persons who write hard poems and essays about predatory communist attackers, about famine and death and despair. Some of Peter's harshest work appears here. Samuel's own work includes mystical pieces that have nothing to do with the Germans from Russia except that he, their author, is of that background.
Some of the works in this collection are labeled with the author's name and its date of writing; some have neither and the reader feels disoriented. The work, unfortunately, lacked an editor who would have pushed Samuel to greater clarity in its conception and organization.

So, should you read it? The Germans from Russia have few enough poets, and the poetry of Peter Sinner is haunting. Nobody ever told me before that the steppe was beautiful. Nor had I ever felt quite so clearly how helpless the people felt as they guessed their coming destruction and how intense was the anger against their communist oppressors. Feel free to skip the mystical
essays. An anthology for the whole German Russian experience this is not, but in that the best parts illuminate a very dark corner of the Germans from Russian experience, a part of our history that fades in our awareness with each generation, it is worth picking up.

I bought this book because it was one of 12 volumes in a series. I've found it to be not only the best of the series, but one of the best books I've ever read. Dr. Mullins interprets the Christian faith via the belief that every soul is competant to relate to God without mediation through other humans or human institutions. From this conviction he draws six truths (axioms) of the faith. The axioms deal with one's relationship with God, other Christians, and society. The language is written on a common level (for 1908), but is rich and carefully expressed. In addition to the 12 chapters of the title there is an excellant selection of additional short writings by Dr. Mullins. This book has helped me to gain a new perspective of my beliefs and has strengthened my faith. My only complaint is that it lacks chapters 13-17, which I found in an original 1908 copy.

This book was developed from the popular Bargello Quilt class taught regularly at Piecemakers Country Store in Costa Mesa, CA. The techniques are not difficult, but I think you'd want some basic quilting experience to feel comfortable with this book. The results are stunning!

Harry Ellard had amazing foresight in 1907 to write this book. Without it, most details surrounding the formation of baseball's first all-professional team (Cincinnati Red Stockings) would have been lost. The book is written in a Victorian style with tremendous detail about the people and places which fostered Cincinnati's historic franchise. Harry gives as much attention to the 1867 and 1868 Red Stockings as he does the fabled 1869-70 team. Afterall, Harry's father, George Ellard, was one of the fathers of professional baseball and operated a sporting goods store in downtown Cincinnati, and Harry simply views the 1869 team as part of a long evolutionary process. Harry also explains how his dad came up with those first uniforms with red stockings which led to the team's name -- first, the Red Stockings, and later, simply the Reds. Harry gives careful attention to Cincinnati locations important to the franchise. A marvelous document.

When given the news that my father-in-law was going to pass away, I called the library and requested any books they might have to assist me with addressing the very sad but real issue of death with my 2 young children. This book was one of the many in the stack they put aside for me. That night, my husband and I read this story to our children and not only did it help us to explain the situation to our children but it helped us to begin our grieving process as well. Since the passing of my father-in-law, I have ordered a book for each of my children to keep as a keepsake - in memory of their grandfather. This is a wonderful story - an excellent resource to have on hand or gift to give someone that has children that are in the midst of losing someone or have lost someone.

This is a must read book on Vietnam and is a classic study in the power of arrogance of command. LTC. Terry de la Mesa Allen Jr., the son of General Terry de la Mesa of WW II. Ltc. Allen, against sound and good advice, lead his unit to death and distruction getting himself killed in the process. Generally in Vietnam those leaders of arrogrance do not suffer ill and usually get promoted. Sadly in this case Mesa got killed a lot of wonderful people. General James Shelton delievers an exciting blow by blow of this sad fight. I first heard of this sad affair while serving in Vietnam in 1967.

Paul Posey

I love this book. Just love it. Readers are treated to a myriad of photographs of the Beatles throughout their careers and are regaled with anecdotes and Beatle history. This is a must have for all Beatle fans and those who are just coming into their music. This book gets rave reviews and a hearty yeah, yeah, YEAH!