Owens Books

A Fanicful Story of This and That! The illustrations are simply gorgeous in this hardcover book! It is a cute story, told in rhyme, about Amy, who wants to bake pies, and how Ben helps her to gather the needed supplies. As they are working, they hear a fifer and he announces that there is to be a fair. They rush off to the village to join in the fun. Along the way you are introduced to the various trades and merchants who were common during Colonial times. Amy and Ben eventually meet up with General George Washington in their trip about the village and he gives Ben his tri-corn hat. Each letter of the alphabet is featured on the pages of this story and it is a great way to introduce the Colonists' culture to young readers while reviewing the ABC's! Be sure to also catch "A Colonial Williamsburg ABC" if you like this one.

Must have for any Bible Student or Theologian. Great 4 vol. set. Easy to use for Biblical Study. Hebrew and English side by side. So helpful.

Having recently lost a loved one, I thought it would be hard to read about a husband whose dead wife keeps "visiting" him, but she's so gentle and loving and apparently not heartbroken about dying that her visits are actually very comforting. Once I started reading, I found it impossible to stop! This book drew me in immediately, took me outside myself and my grief, and keeps me involved and interested.

The story of J.T., Kelly, Jeff and Nancy is so engrossing and the characters so real, the reader gets the feeling that they're just ordinary people they might meet in their own everyday life - people they see everyday but don't notice the pain, fear, and drama that's just beneath the surface. This book is well written, insightful, and compassionate, and when I came to the last few chapters, I was only sad that my great read was coming to an end.

I want to read anything else that Elizabeth Owen has written, and I'm certain that after reading "Angel of Trevi" so will others.
Date Added: 09/06/2007 by Georgette Filgate

I read this prior to The Horseman on the Roof. Probably not a good idea even though the author indicates that Angelo is a prequel of sorts. The events found in this novel/study kept throwing me as I read Horseman eventhough I was well aware that it is a character study of the Angelo in Horseman. Perhaps if I had read Horseman first my preference would be reversed. In any event...

This novel/study is a love story! Compact, austere, wrenching! What I did not get from Horseman, I got from this book..lyrical, lovely Giono! For example: "We must take care not to grow passionately fond of anything that is not worth the trouble." Angelo continually muses over how his heart has been stolen by a lovely perfume-fragrance which comes to symbolize a life worth living. What lady wears such a fragrance? Will Angelo ever meet her? The answers to these questions lie in both Angelo and The Horseman on the Roof.

The text consists of a pattern of numbers followed by plural nouns. This makes it easy for students of English as a second language to follow.

If you teach Asian students, who usually have trouble with the plural form, you might like this book.

Perhaps the most difficult of Rudolf Steiner's written works, "Anthroposophy; a Fragment" rewards a careful study. The work on the 10 senses is articulate such that the reader can begin to explore these modalities directly.

Equally significant to any of the content of this work is the struggled style in which it is written. Steiner never finished writing this work (or at least was never satisfied enough to publish)primarily because of the difficulty in finding a language which could hold this highly particular and objective description of phenomenological research.

The introductions are both helpful, especially Robert Sardello's preface which stands on its own as a significant step towards a new psychology based in a revisioned phenomenology. For those interested in reading an example of a highly individualized articulation of some of the perceptions which Steiner points to in this work, I would recommend reading Robert Sardello's groundbreaking work in spiritual psychology, "Love and the World".

This books examines what the Church today and in it's history has ignored "Apostasy", mainly those false doctrines, those who call themselves "christians" but by their fruit and results arent. As with every Owen work, exposition is clear and his knowledge of God's Word is incredibly shown. Although he was writing against the biggest apostasy of his time (which still lingers in ours) Roman Catholic Church, it's principles are applicable to the whole dispensation of the Church.

Other good books I have find on this theme are The Truth War, John MacArthur which takes an historical as well as a modern view of the apostasies of our times. Also JC Ryle's 1800's classic "Warnings to the Churches". We often forget the many warnings our Lord gave against false teachers, doctrines, etc. they fill the whole of scripture. Our biggest discernment tool like JC Ryle once wrote is pure Bible study, diligence in searching Him in the Scriptures.

What a good book. I wanted to help save the child that grew up in such a horrible way. For her to turn her life around after what she had been through, was amazing to me.

For anybody who seeks a new, critical angle to re-evaluate the May Fourth tradition and legacy of China, this book is a must-read. It largely contextualizes and historisizes the May Fourth discourse.

My father was buried at Arlington in 1987. Upon my visit for that service, and subsequent visits, I found very little in the gift shop and in bookstores at the time. As I am involved in the design profession as an art director, I am also a bit more choosy. I was drawn to this small, elegant book when I first noticed it on a shelf in a bookstore years ago. I purchased it on a visit to DC in 1991, and serendipitously, met and worked with the photographer, Cameron Davidson, years later on numerous years of commerical photography shoots, nationwide. I was amazed to learn he had photographed the wonderful book I chose above others to remember my powerful visit to Arlington with. Cameron's exquisite images truly evoke the feeling of visiting Arlington, and the writers words support his photos. His family has military ties and it comes across in the way he uniquely 'sees' Arlington. My only wish is that this book was larger, and still in print. Anyone with any connection to Arlington deserves to be able to obtain this lovely book.