Cameron Books

Get this, and you won't need to schlep around any other travel guides - it has everything you'll need. Very user friendly, and great suggestions (especially for someone's first trip to Eastern Europe).

I'm a 'tweener when it comes to travel: Too old for the hostel racket, but not rich enough to hit every 5-star. So when I travel, I generally take two guidebooks -- Fodor's, the old reliable when it comes to hotel and restaurant recs, and Rick Steves, for practical stuff like the best way to getting from airport to hotel and discount passes and such.

I like Rick Steves' attitude toward travel, which is to be as local as possible. I also like that he has definite opinions and that he prioritizes his listings. Even when you don't agree (and I don't a lot of the time) it still helps the planning when you have only a limited amount of time.

Well, I bought this guide because I was hitting 3 cities in it -- Berlin, Prague, and Budapest -- and was frankly a little disappointed with the dearth of useful information available. Now don't get me wrong: When I first picked it up, there was definitely some stuff I could use. But with the vast resources available (for free) on the internet, I realized this book's shortcomings. Check out www.inyourpocket.com, which has more current restaurant, bar and nightclub listings; terrific calendar of events; better directions from airport to downtown. Plus lots of website links. And you can print it out or download to a PDA! (No, I don't work for them.)

Perhaps it's unfair to compare a book, which must be researched and edited 2 years before it's printed, to a website, which can up updated to the minute. But then the book has got to offer something more, something extra, something the website can't offer. And this book doesn't. (Well, there is a good color Berlin map at the front.)

This book may be worth it if you are planning on going to several of the cities listed, instead of the 3 I needed. And I am not a rabid Rick Steves hater like some. The book is just bland and I probably won't even carry it when I go on my trip.

Disregard previous review - is not of this book.
SHADOWS is the story of Guy Hamilton and Leah Cornish.
And his love for a married woman [at least when he met her].

When her husband, Charles died after eleven years of marriage Leah wasn't sure where to turn.
Then she received a sympathy note from Guy Hamilton offering to help her in any way possible.

Imagine her surprise, when she leaves everything she knows to run for help to Guy and when he arrives he is dressed in black with a clerical collar. She sees that the feelings she'd harbored for him would have to be forgotten.

This is a wonderful story of how a woman must make the most of the circumstances and get back on her feet and start life over again. Her husband had gone through a small fortune and left her with nothing but her determination to live again.

And Guy? He is widowed but fighting the emotions he carries for Leah.

Definitely a good read. will recommmend.

Having enjoyed the Mckeon Brothers stories so much, I was excited to find this anthology of sorts. Finally we get to find out if Sal and Dori ever make it happen. But the story has a few interseting twists and some angst. that at times seemed to be a bit over done.

Dori finds she must come to terms with who and what she is to make a new start. Part of the plan includes divorcing her husband who left her at the alter, for another woman. But now two years later the problems keep mounting when she needs his help when she finds a baby in her back seat with a note saying the bio mothers no longer can care for him, oh yeah the baby come with $11,572 as well. Although both Sal and Dori join together to take care of Max, will it be enough to bring them together and keep them that way?

Not a fan of overbearing Latin men, I was especially pleased to find I really liked Sal. A great hero for our Dori if only she would quit whinning, but in true Mckeon fashion she rises to the occasion leaving the reader satisfied as well as the entire Mckeon clan.

For those who have read the other McKeon brothers books this is a must read, allyour favorites are back. And you get a backlist Stella Cameron story in the bargain, for the price of a single title. Not bad and a great read!!

I loved the suspense, but the story line dragged until close to the end.

If you stop before the end you will truly be disappointed. The end nothing less than sensational.

This book was purchased for a childrens literature class that I was currently student teaching in. It really held the interest of the third graders class as we ventured to explore Malta and other islands of the Meditterean. It is an excellent book to incorporate history to young minds and held the interest of all the young students I was teaching. I followed up with actual pictures of the temple and also had the children comment on how they thought Xrina's life was different and the same as theirs. I hope to continue with the series of the book and further the childrens interest in history as well!!!

This book was purchased for a childrens literature class that I was currently student teaching in. It really held the interest of the third graders class as we ventured to explore Malta and other islands of the Meditterean. It is an excellent book to incorporate history to young minds and held the interest of all the young students I was teaching. I followed up with actual pictures of the temple and also had the children comment on how they thought Xrina's life was different and the same as theirs. I hope to continue with the series of the book and further the childrens interest in history as well!!!

I really enjoyed this little book, easily read in one sitting. And even better, I asked my husband to explain some terms used, which got us talking sports together, like just what is a 3-6-3 double play? Drawings are terrific. And I actually learned something, always a plus. A keeper. A gem from page 108: "Good pitching always beats good hitting and vice versa." Credit Pittsburgh Pirate lefty Bob Veale.

Great, silly kid jokes that my husband & I like a lot, and the artwork is very appealing, too. I was put off by the 2 weapon jokes, though I recognize that I told similar jokes when I was little. It's so dissonant with what we tell our son, though, that I'm shelving this book away from the ones we read with him.

The day this book arrived, I sat down to read a little bit as ADD runs in our family. Well, I read the whole thing in one setting (obviously I don't have ADD as reading can be one of their strongest challenges).

Marriage, family and child therapist Cameron Lorenc has a story to tell--and it is his. When he was 58 years old, he realized that he had ADD--and that it had affected his and his father's entire life. Personal stories will help you see in yourself or someone you love, what causes struggles and what comes easy.

Now as a professional who works with many families with children with ADD, or adults who have certain issues--when Lorenc hears certain comments, he asks them whether they have ADD.

The checklist of 20 "Common ADD symptoms" was eye-opening for me as the mother of a son who spent years of frustration, humiliation and sense of failure in school. As a parent--or an adult who wonders--if you read nothing but the 60 self-assessment questions on page 26, you'll learn about or confirm things!

If only my son's teachers would have had this book, his elementary life would have been better. Lorenc says that elementary teachers are better at using the three learning styles/modalities of visual, motor and auditory. A child's conversations, questions and behaviors can help parents identify and determine which modality their child works best in.

Here is where effective parental and teacher help can make a difference. Teaching a skill over and over might be the only way to help your child, because when he "suddenly" gets it--when the switch if flipped on--it is worth the time. This is where your child can learn to learn how to work around, over and through the glass wall. Once however your child hits middle school and then high school, their fate might be set. The "glass wall" might just be more than your child can face every day.

Lorenc journaled his adult "medication journey" of non-stimulating and stimulants to find the right intervention, showing the importance of balance as well as the subtle changes and aspects of having ADD.

Armchair Interviews says: IF you or someone (of any age) you love has ADD or you suspect they do, run, don't walk, to order this book. It will lift the cloudiness of the unknown and help everyone involved.

Finally an author who tells it like it is. In Aftermath, Anne Cameron writes brilliant, funny, and sometimes overwhelming social commentary on the ins and outs of abusive families and the child welfare system in Canada, and presumably, around the world. No stranger to the subject, this is one of several books Ms. Cameron has written focusing on strong matriarchs who attempt to take back control of their lives and their extended families. Set in British Columbia, the book opens with Fran and Liz growing up, and coping in their own ways with their experiences, through years of denial, bad choices, healing and moving on. Meanwhile, social worker Anna Flemming tries to cope with working in a system that works for everyone except the children who need it. This is not a feel-good book about the modern day self-help recovery culture, but a reality-based, cynically optimistic version of life for those of us who choose to move through the world without years of primal therapy and Prozac. A slice of life novel for the rest of us. This reviewer would like to put Aftermath in the hands of every senior bureaucrat in the child welfare system.

As someone inclined to write letters like there's no tomorrow and sample dozens of stationery deisgns, I found the Bad Girl's Mix and Match Stationery delightful. The quality of the paper's really good, the designs are pretty and the colors are vibrant. It includes a few extra stickers (some with sayings such as "yummy", "love ya", and "naughty") and well, it's just whimsical and in a word, fun.

There are 4 different designs of sheets and envelopes which match really well so I'm not too inclined to mix, rather than match. The sheets are also different, one is completely blank, the other one has a little drawing of the bad girls as a letter head and my favorite is a mad-libs kind of thing where you fill in your own bad girl letter. It's a bit unusual, yes, but fun to do once in a while (and I have to say, it's been appreciated).

I have to admit that it's not so much of a grown-up set but it makes up for it in its fun factor and it's nice for giving some variety to the everyday things. Colorful, very pretty and yes, just a lot of fun and I'd say quite worth it.

The author has succeeded in providing a wealth of information in a highly readable manner. Banking history has the potential to be extremely dull, but this book, through the use of numerous anecdotes, manages to avoid this. The book still offers the reader considerable insight into Scottish economic history and is a good complement to Richard Savile's more academic history of the Bank of Scotland.