Berry Books

I truly enjoyed this book. Each of the characters had something that I could relate to. This is my second book by Charlene and I can't wait for her upcoming books.

This is a must read for all ages.

This book touched my heart, mind and spirit in a way I did not anticipate. Ms. Berry truly knows the heart of a woman and the many levels we must hurdle all in the name of love.

This book is definitely a God-send. Looking forward to reading more from this surprising writer.

This book touched my heart, mind and spirit in a way I did not anticipate. Ms. Berry truly knows the heart of a woman and the many levels we must hurdle all in the name of love.

This book is definitely a God-send. Looking forward to reading more from this surprsing writer.

Who hasn't fallen in and out of love once or twice in their life? Love's Deceptions hits the mark when concerning matters of the heart. Being a woman myself, I can truly identify with the characters and their lives. Ms. Berry has the heart and soul of a woman who knows what love's all about. Gives us more!

This book is perfect for anyone that is looking for love, romance, wisdom, and a little suspense. Every woman in this book has either played the roll of one of these characters, or knows someone that has. Charlene surprised me quite frankly, this is the first book I've ever read by her and I am looking forward to reading many more. This book is exceptional.

What I learned from reading this book, was really, how I see myself in so many ways. I am an avid reader and a true believer in God. Through God Almighty,"All Things Are Possible". From the beginning to the ending of reading this book, it was a healing that overcame me in so many ways than one. The spirit of God was lifting me higher and higher. Through the annoiting, God speaks through his people. I find whenever,(one-LIFTS) the Lord's name on high, there's a blessing in store. Reading this book, is just that. I highly recommend, IT IS AWESOME! GOD BLESS

Jacque Major

I was spiritually and mentally blessed by this book. So many of us get caught in positions that we lose sight of what is really important, drawing more people to God. This books helps to put everything in perspective. I highly recommend it for everyone who is about our Heavenly Father's business.

This book is amazing. It truly was a blessing to my soul and really spoke to me. It shined a new light for me and made an impact on my life. It was an inspiration and is something to be read. It shows the power of God's glory and is highly recommended.

This book...The Right Place The Wrong Positon...By K Douglas Berry
The main course of these writings for a prepared people will ultimately be a heart-warming experience. Therefore, I highly recommend this spiritual piece of literature to all readers.
As, the author said, "In a Quest for God,- You must know him to believe.

I must say that reading this book revealed a profound revelation into the dimension of God I had never imagined possible. Through the revelations of the author I was able to understand my relationship with God and the positioning needed to flow in ministry. I highly recommend this composition!

OMG, this was too funny. Nice to have a good laugh every now and then. :)

You Still Ghetto sent me into a laughing fit with each page. I could relate to everything in this book. I'll say it loud.....I'm still ghetto and proud.

THIS WAS A FUNNY, FUNNY BOOK. I SAW MYSELF, MY FAMILY AND MY FRIENDS ON MANY OF THE PAGES. SOME THINGS SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN.

I laughed, howled and made a fool out of myself reading this book. Funny, for folks who can look at themselves and laugh out loud. I saw myself and my family here. We all ghetto, no matter what color, part of the country or how much money you have (or don't).

Like it or not, this book is real. Unfortunately, some people run from the truth. I found myself and people that I know, in this book. It was so funny, as it brought back some memories.

I grew up in Alaska and LOVE berries. I live in Boston now and make it back to Alaska every other year. A couple years ago, I came home with my girlfriend and we did a four day hike near Denali. The forest service had this book at the office near the start of the hike. Thank goodness! I recognized immediately that it was a good book because it fit in the pocket of my rain jacket. As we started hiking, I pulled out the guide. It was early October and the berries were in full form. Over the period of the four day hike, we delighted upon fourteen different kinds of berries. Every one we were able to positively identify within a couple of minutes, thanks to the guide. We found a few poisonous/inedible berries and we were able to quickly identify them as well.

I have searched high and low for comparable field guides for other areas in the world. I haven't found anything even close. Most books are too big, with too many unhelpful pictures. Verna's book has a razor-sharp focus: what berries can I safely eat on my hike.

Buy this book. Use it. And then frame the pictures you take of all the smiling, berry-covered faces.

This book is a must if you spend anytime outdoors in Alaska. It's sectioned off by berry color, shows the plant while bearing fruit as well as without so you can identify the plants even out of season. It shows which are edible and which aren't as well as shares some of the uses for each, such as some are good for jams and jellies, others aren't as flavorful but make a nice extender in recipes. I lost my first copy a few years ago and HAD to get another one. I highly recommend it!

This tidy, pocket sized book is the perfect companion for hikes and camping adventures. The pictures are clear and in color with nice views of leaves and stalks so that identification may be obtained even while a plant is not bearing fruit. This is an excellent choice if you're serious about safely tasting the unknown.

Very informative book. Pictures are clear for identifying plants. Pocket size is a plus!

A well written book about how love affected the mindset of Southern males in the Civil War era. However, most of the book is not, as the titles suggests, about the war period. It does begin with sketches of men's feelings during the Civil War, but most of it deals with their views in the 1840s and 1850s. The book, which makes heavy use of the Southern Historical Collection and the papers of planters and other members of the elite, is structured as a series of biographical sketches. The sketches illustrate how men--including the South Carolina Fire-eater Lawrence Keitt--felt about women and manhood, and the book provides some much needed insight into the sex lives of the Southern "aristocracy." One young man, for example, loses his virginity to a prostitute, who gives him VD. He joins the Confederate army eventually, but later succumbs to syphilis. As an explanation of the Victorian, romantic mindset of the Southern white male, the book succeeds. As an explanation of why men volunteered for the Confederate army and endured four years of slaughter, it is not as useful. True, troops wrote often and longingly about their loved ones. Most Confederates soldiers, however, were not married. If they were bachelors, they might have suffered the hardships of war in the hopes of winning the hand of a sweetheart. As Berry says at one point, slavery could not make a man march. That's perhaps true, but Confederates were not thinking of their sweethearts when they showed "no quarter" to black troops at the Crater or Fort Pillow. In suggesting troops fought foremost for women, Berry depoliticizes the war. If slavery was not that important, then it blurs the line between Northern and Southern troops' motivations. True they were all Americans, but they also saw differences in themselves that led to armed conflict.

This book is an excellent examination of perspectives of southern masculinity. Belongs with Cash's Mind of the South and Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor as pivotal works on the mentality of the South. Takes a much more emotional glance at the southern male than the two other aforementioned works. Looks at the mentality of the southern male through the contexts of honor, religion and romance. Thoroughly researched and an enjoyable read. An essential addition to the library of anyone interested in the Civil War or southern masculinity.

All That Makes a Man really humanizes the Civil War. Too many histories of the conflict lament only the mangling of so many bodies. There is no sense of the abrupt end to so many life stories. By going back into the antebellum period, the author makes sure the reader knows the generation who fought the war BEFORE they got killed. By the time they do start dying you have a much better sense not only of how it happened but of what was lost. It wasn't that bodies died or hearts stopped beating; it was that somebodies died and all their hearts contained -- emotions, memories, promise -- was poured out like water. If you want a different perspective on the war, I highly recommend this book.

"All that Makes a Man", By Stephen Berry is the first installment of what should be a notable career for the young historian. As far as first books go, this one delivers the goods and never allows the reader's interest to wane. This is the story of the average men and women caught up in the maelstrom that was the Civil War, as told from the Confederate perspective. Berry provides insight into the motivations and pressures of southern manhood. He crafts a story that begins with the linking of manhood and patriotism in the formulating period of the rebellion, the love for woman as being central to a soldier's will to continue the struggle, and finally the reclamation of manhood and love to disengage from the humiliation of a losing war effort. By using the letters of the soldiers, the author provides evidence to support his claim that men do everything for the love of a woman, especially during the hyper-masculine victorian era. "All that Makes A Man" is recommended for anyone willing to penetrate deeper than oft repeated Civil War battlefield history to learn more about the reasons so many were willing to sacrifice everything.

I was so pleased with the overall appearance of this book that I didn't even make it to the house to read it. I sat down at the picnic table and scanned it cover to cover! Backyard Fruits and Berries is helping me to identify and care for fruit trees and berries on a newly aquired property where the gardens have been neglected for years. The photos and illustrations are superb and the author instructs the reader how to make and use homemade organic products. This book is perfect for any beginner like myself. I even returned to purchase a second copy for my mother who already has basic knowledge. Thank you.

This book is well organized and pleasing to read. The encyclopedia section is very informative as to ease of care, suitability for containers, recommended varieties, etc. There is also a good section on pruning and training of trees, which is the scariest part of growing fruit, in my opinion! A very good primer for the beginner!

I bought this book as a gift but when I recieved it, I loved it so much that I wanted to keep it for my husband! Lots of information with pictures to help you with the various diseases fruit trees get. I would definately recommend this book.

I've bought a few other books on backyard orchards and have been disappointed. I found this book at the library and it's the best I've seen. The other books made pruning seem very intimidating so I've been putting it off. After reading this book, I feel like I'm ready to give it a try. It covers all the fruits that interest me, even oddballs like currants and persimmons. The book contains all the things a beginner needs to know such as solving pest problems (insect, disease and animal), how/where to plant, pruning and a number of other subjects. The chapters are arranged in a logical sequence and the book is very easy to read. The second half of the book is devoted to the different fruits. Fruits are arranged alphabetically and there is anywhere from one to four pages devoted to each one. Even though this may not sound like much, each page is nicely arranged and gives a wealth of information. I especially like the handy symbols on the outer edges of each fruit page. For example, one very handy symbol is "attention required". One gardening glove means it's easy to grow, two gloves means some attention is required, three means moderately difficult and four means the plant is demanding. I've had a rough time with my peach tree and sure enough, the book gives peaches four gloves (demanding). Wish I had read this book before I started planting my orchard. I plan to buy a copy of this book for use as a reference.

We checked this book out from the library and my three year old daughter fell in love. :) We have had to check it out so frequently and my daughter asked so sweetly not to check it back in that we decided to buy it. It recently kept her occupied for over an hour on a long trip. She likes to help me cook so she really enjoys the cooking theme of the book. It has a nice message about sharing and is fairly pleasant to read over and over. My daughter now has it memorized and will "read" it to her younger brother.

My 5 year old daughter Loves this book, because she can read it by herself. Its a very good book for children just learning how to read. It is also very cute.

My 3 year old daughter loves this little book!

Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are planning a little picnic when each of them discovers that they are missing an ingredient to make their favorite treat. It teaches the value of sharing and has lovely, colorful graphics to make it a must have for little Strawberry Shortcake fans.

This little book is very cute with bright, colorful graphics; it teaches the value of sharing! My three-year-old daughter loves it!

My daughter loves anything "Cinderella" and this book is her favorite one plus the fact that the cover and illustration is really pretty.

You really can't go wrong with SS! All the books and movies are wholesome and entertaining. I love reading them to my daughter and watching the movies with her. Actually, my son loves them too but would never admit it to his friends (he's 9). Good thing he has a little sister ;)

We had this book in soft cover and lost it. We purchased this hard cover book and we found the book we had lost the next day. My daughter was happy so it made us happy.

Thanks!

Okay, I admit it. My daughter received this book as a present and I rolled my eyes. I expected this book to be way too saccharin to stand reading it... BUT it is really cute and my daughter and I both enjoy it.

[Btw- don't know what is wrong with the front cover shown above. It is, in fact, in full color and not a line drawing.]

In this book the premise is that Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are going to play dress up and act out the story of `Cinderella'.

Most of the storyline is kept. The stepmother and sisters are mean. They keep Cinderella too busy to get ready for the ball; and they try to keep the prince at the end of the story from meeting Cinderella and fitting her with the shoe, etc.

Where the story deviates is that the girls are vying NOT for the princes hand in marriage, but for the chance to live at the palace and care for the `royal berry crop'. Decidedly better, in my opinion, than all the emphasis being on marrying someone one hasn't met yet.

Four Stars. [B+]. Very Good Read-aloud. Drawings are what you would expect; large and colorful, simple and sweet.

What a read! I first sought this book out after reading elsewhere about Chuck Berry throwing Keith Richards off stage at a peformance where Keith was sitting in. This book was the cited reference for the incident. Intrigues, I sought out and bought this book. I knew very little about Chuck Berry, the man, previous to reading it. While his career was sadly sililar to many rock stars, the rise, the fall, the cheats, the double crosses, and the tragedy of it all, it still was all original enough to hold my interest. Well written and an easy read, if you are interested in Chuck or just good Rock and Roll stories, by all means, buy this book!

Great Book. Very informative. A thorough body of research was completed in order to have this book published. I thought I knew all about Chuck Berry until I read this book. I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Chuck's. The book is balanced and pulls no punches. No wonder the biography is unauthorized. It contains information that is both provoctive and endearing.

I've been reading this book for the last few months (it's been my reading material on the train on the weekends hehe) and it's been an enertaining read of the life and hard times of Chuck Berry.
Previous to reading this book, I had only heard Chuck Berry's music and loved it, but did not know much about the man himself.
Bruce Pegg has done a good job of detailing Chuck's life, from the early days in The Ville, his begginings in music, Racism in the USA in the 50's, Chuck's relationship with Chess Records, concerts, all his court appearances (the Mann Act Trial, the Southern Aire Restuarant Video Tape Scandal (which I first heard about on E! News!) plus much more.
There are some great photos in the book which i'm not sure have been seen before.
Pegg also has also rounded up all the important people in Chuck's life and they all give interesting comments.
I haven't read Chuck Berry's offical Autobiography, but upon reading this, i'm sure this gives a much better view into his life.

As a long time fan of Chuck Berry, I have tried to read everything I could find about him, from enclyclopedia's to Rolling Stone Magazine. Over the past 20 years, I have tried to piece together the various differing messages about him, from musical genius to "difficult to work with" entertainer. This book puts it all together in an extremely well written and well documented manner. Pegg ties together all of the pieces with a lot of information and insight otherwise unknown, with interviews of principle persons in Chuck's musical and professional life. He is obviously a fan of Chuck's, but the book is very honest with the facts and never sensational.

If you are a fan of Chuck Berry, please do yourself a favor and get this book. You will not be able to stop reading it! I think it also would be helpful for anyone interested in the social/historical milieu of this time period in relationship to black entertainers in general as well.

I am not sure when my mother bought this book for me, but to this day I use it as a guideline to help with tidying my room. I am 23 now and I occassionally find myself wading through all my "stuff".
This is one of those books that are dear to me; one whose lessons will, no doubt, stick with me throughout my life.

This has got to be one of the best books from one of the best series I ever purchased. My son, who has ADHD, used to sit clueless in the middle of his totally chaotic room and not even know where to start. While I tried many times to explain to him how to clean his room, and modeled/helped him, he never seemed to get it. We got a copy of this book, and worked with him using it once. He used it himself afterwards, and now at 17 he still cleans his room using the steps given!! This book was a life-saver (his that is!!)

I ditto the 23-year-old. This book calmed a lot of tension between me and my parents! Many more years later, this book still sits on my shelf and today I use it as a reference tool as a Personal Organizer. Julie Morgenstern is great, but nothing beats what you learned as a kid!

This is one book in a collection of "how to" type books for children. I read this book as a child, and now as a mother, would love to use it as a reference for teaching my own children. Each step in the process of cleaning a bedroom is clearly spelled out. The pictures use humor to maintain plenty of interest. I highly recommend it to other parents, or kids with basic reading skills!