Owens Books

This book is an excellent source for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Youth and their supporters. This book is full of relevent information, tons of statistics, and plenty of excerpts from interviews with youth about every aspect of their sexuality. READ THIS BOOK!

Quick & Easy Glass Painting by experienced crafter and experienced glass painter Cheryl Owen is a simple guide to quickly and easily creating joyful and colorful glass painting projects at home. Offering 15 step-by-step sample projects with explicity instructions, ranng from transparent to frosted glass paints, tips, tricks, and techniques, full-color photographs, and much more, Quick & Easy Glass Painting is an enjoyable hands-on, how-to guide. An excellent resource for do-it-yourself hobby and conversation pieces, or just plain fun.

This is an awesome book! It was written very well and has a great story! It is a mystery! It is one of those books that you can't really talk alot about because if you do you will give the whole plot away! But for a short synopsis.... It is the story of a women who has a wonderful life, it actually seems quite perfect, and all of the sudden she begins having odd dreams, the only thing is that these dreams don't seem like dreams at all. That is when she meets a stranger who might hold the key to what these dreams mean and show her that her perfect life might not be as perfect as she believed!

I can't wait for her next book to come out!

Walker is a young man for the first time far from home who is lost in the mountains at the beginning of the winter. He tries to reach the pass but seems that he has lost his track. And then he meets Horace, a big man who lives alone in a cabin among the mountain. Horace has no earth to leave alone the lad and brings him home with him.

A big snow arrives and another one and seems all to natural for Walker to remain with Horace: but Horace has some stranger ideas, he loves to touch and to kiss, and he loves to do that to men! And Walker, who is a total innocent, never has done that never with a woman, is enthralled but this man. And maybe when winter will pass, Horace will keep him in the cabin...

Walker is a poor lad, innocent of life and of sex. Maybe he is not gay, maybe if he had met a girl he could have married her, but he has met Horace and Horace is so gentle and insistent and the things they do together are so pleasant... so wickedly pleasant. Horace is a tought man: he has lived much, he has seen more, and now he only wants a quiet life in his mountain cabin. But if he can share that life with a willing lad like Walker, he sure will do everything to keep this man.

An interesting reading, very arousing, even if I hardly can believe that a man in the last year of the nineteen century could know and make the things that Horace makes to Walker. So you can amuse yourself with the defloration of Walker by the hand of Horace (literatelly) and see how he slowly falls on the wicked side of live.

The latest book in the "Meet the Author" series, Read A Zillion Books is a picturebook autobiography of Jerry Pallotta, who has written a wide variety of alphabet books that feature amazing facts on specific subjects. Meant for young readers in grades 2-5, Read A Zillion Books tells of Pallotta's efforts to proofread his stories, his travels meeting children in fifty states, his visits to schools whether speaking to one class or three thousand kids, and more. Full-color photographs on every page add a bright touch to this simple and fun introduction to the life of an ABC book creator.

"....Dorothy Watson is Professor of Education at the University of Missouri - Columbia, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education and is Chair of the Department of organizations, Dorothy has been involved in research, curriculum development, writing, and presentations in the fields of reading and language development.
She is coauthor of Reading Miscue Inventory: Alternative Procedures and numerous other books and articles."

"Caroly Burke is Professor of Language Education at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy and children's literature.
She was involved in the earliest miscue research with Ken Goodman and continues to be known for her work in inquiry curriculum, reader interviews, and miscue studies.
She is a co-author of Reading Miscue Inventory: Alternative Procedures and the first edition of Reading Strategies: Focus on Comprehension."
[from the back cover]

".....Reading Strategies: Focus on Comprehension is appropriate for teachers with varying degrees of experience and expertise in the teaching of reading.
Therefore, this book may be read in a variety of ways....."

".....Individually and collectively, we have had considerable experience teaching children, adolescents, and adults in elementary and secondary schools and in teacher education programs in colleges and universities.
Our teaching experiences have been enriched by our research and involvement with teachers in curriculum planning and professional development.
In association with Ken Goodman, we have been involved in miscue analysis projects, taping the reading of hundreds of readers of various ages and proficiencies and analyzing their miscues in order to learn about the reading process.
Our research also involves studying early literacy development, documenting the ways readers become consciously aware of their own miscues, their personal views of reading, and the effect of these views on their reading.
We also are actively involved with teachers/researchers studying literacy learning in their classrooms.
We are ALWAYS RELATING RESEARCH AND THEORY WITH PRACTICE."
[from the book preface by Yetta M. Goodman, Dorothy J. Watson, Carolyn L. Burke]

It was a wonderful first time for me purchasing from Amazon. The books came in perfect conditions and in a timely manner. I am very satisfied with the results of my purchase.

This was a great book. Can not wait until Sailors Take warning comes out. A book you do not want to put down until you have finished it.

This is a book of The X-Files episode "Leonard Betts". It is one of the scariest episodes, and the end of it leads to the revelation of Scully's cancer, which is obviously a very important event in the history of The X-Files, as any fan of the show will know. It is also hardback, which I greatly appreciated, and is well worth the money.

Barbara Owen succeeds in condensing more than 200 years of registration practice in a working volume. The book is organized by time period and nationality, allowing the reader to assimilate the trends of each of the organ "schools." Each chapter is prefaced by a list of the relevant composers, as well as stop lists of representative organs. Perhaps Owen's signal accomplishment is a combination of historical awareness with the practical needs of the performance. For instance, after giving the background on the Italian voce umana stop, she suggests that one can replicate the sound on a mechanical action organ by coupling two 8' principals, with one detuned (half drawn). Overall, a practical reference for the performance of 16th, 17th, and 18th-century organ music.