Clark Books

Mary Higgins Clark always writes a wonderful story that is full of great characters. I can usually relate to something in her stories and this one is very very good. You should definately buy!!

The book arrived in great condition and in a timely manner. I would recommend this seller.

Intense study of Origen's thought, with probing chapters on how he viewed the beginning and the end, education, spiritual growth, the devil, the Fall, all of which is documented from primary sources. The first book in English to consider the whole range of Origen's thought through the concept of spiritual transformation. Though well documented and indexed, the scholarly depth does not affect the style, which is quite smooth and can be read by someone without knowledge of the field. Would be useful to those interested in ancient Christian thought, the Bible, Christian philosophy and, especially, spiritual transformation.

This book was FANTASTIC! It is so well written that I literally hated to put the book down. The author is a personal friend of mine and I always knew she had the talent to write a great book, and "And the Violin Cried" exceeded my expectations to say the least. The characters have wonderful personality and depth, their feelings are real, and the conflicts they face are things that all kids - and adults - go through at one time or another in their lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone who wants to read a "real" book that has topics and lessons that apply to all people, not just kids.

This is the revised and updated 2002 version of the original 1989 one. Paul Avis is thorough in his presentation of Anglican thought and theology from the Reformation up to the present. Part One treats the sixteenth century and the formation of Anglican ecclesiology vis a vis Cranmer and Hooker. Part Two treats the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the likes of Lancelot Andrewes and William Laud and John Wesley and the Cambridge Platonists and the early Latitudinarians. Part Three treats the nineteenth and twentieth centuries vis a vis the High Church revival of the Oxford movement and the Low Church Evangelicals and the liberal Catholic tradition of F.D. Maurice and the shape of "modern" Anglican thought, theology and ecumenism. The book is packed with useful information about the main thinkers and thought of Anglicanism and is free of partisan bias so High, Low and Broad Church types will find it equally useful as a resource.

Kendall Fredrick Person has written one dazzler of a novel. A master of the English language, his words aren't just to be read but savored, talked about and explored. The story evolves around an accident involving a young child and how everyone in his world reacts to the trajedy. While the novel certainly lives up to its title, Person is careful not to offer a tragedy without hope. Ironically, the novel actually is about redemption of the human spirit and the ongoing quest for peace, tranquility and love. There is a host of charaters, from Arizona and Johnnie, the child's parents, to Dave Roberts the leader of a white hate group, Ricky Swift, the leader of a Black hate group and unbelievably, God Almighty himself. Only a novelist who truly understands the craft of writing could combine fact and fiction, hate and love, and redemption and condemnation within the same story without missing a beat. His words literally take a reader inside of the book where you can feel every angry word and are overcome with conviction at the present of the Holy Spirit. This is not a religious novel, but rather attempts to show us how to locate our inner peace even when the world is burning down around us. If Person's latest release doesn't catapult him into mainstream, then this truly is An Angry World.

As an emerging science teacher, I really was attracted to this book. It doesn't say what age the book goes up to, just 9 months and up. I feel that it is a good book to introduce habitats to kindergarten students and maybe a little older. It is a great basic introduction to habitats. Though my daughter is a little young for it, she really enjoys looking at the photos and is already learning from it, such as the fact that spiders make and use webs to catch insects.

We received "The Animals' Train Ride" in a box of books that my mother had saved from my childhood to give me. Oddly, it was not actually one of my books though--I think it was probably my aunt's; it is from before my time. In any case, it quickly become the favorite of our three year old, and mine too.

The story is imaginative. The water-color paintings are clever, charming, and beautiful (especially the family of field mice). It is funny, and it has every hook that a 3 to 5 year old would ever respond too--trains, critters, little critter kids getting in trouble, etc.

The only question I have is why they don't republish the good old ones like this--they would surely be hugely popular today. My other old-time favorite, Digger Dan, is a bit dated, but this classic is still good as ever.

Wonderful sequel...I thoroughly enjoyed this book taking me back to life in elementary school with characters and personalities of all types. It teaches a lesson of understanding and acceptance from many perspectives. This would be a terrific book for any upper elementary or middle school class library. Sharing this book as a class opens up discussion on many life issues that kids face while also touching on issues of Asperger's Syndrome without being preachy. Terrific story...now I must find the prequel JACKSON WHOLE WYOMING. Joanna K-V, Author A IS FOR AUTISM, F IS FOR FRIEND.

This autobiography covers the first four decades of the life of Kenneth Clark. It is written with great elegance, irony and humor. It tells of his growing up as only child in a family of great material wealth, of his early love of works of art, of his remarkable apprenticeship as the assistant of Bernard Berenson( In this it gives a vivid portrait of Berenson, a summary of his life- work ) and his coming to head the 'National Gallery' and be a leading figure in the World of Art.
It is a book which not only gives an inside look at the world of art acquistion, the world of the great museums, but also provides an interesting set of social portraits of those in the social worlds Clark made his way through.
An outsider, and loner Clark was nonetheless a keen observer of people. Aside from Berenson there are many notables in his gallery from Edith Wharton to Winston Churchill.
Still the heart of the biography is Clark's love of works of art and his appreciation of them. Whether it was hanging paintings in the family's private gallery or trekking with Berenson through Tuscan villages in search of great works of art Clark found himself most at home in this world of aesthetic delights.
I found the work an especially enjoyable one, and particularly loved his description of the life at Berenson's I Tatti.
Whether he is writing about the disastrous moral effect of being superrich and having no one who dares oppose one's every whim and wish, or about the way Berenson who dreamed to be a Goethelike poet- thinker sold his ideal future away by becoming the 'expert authenticator' of masterpieces Clark gracefully provides insight and knowledge into the human situation.
This is, in terms Clark would I believe, approve of, a truly 'life-enhancing work.'