Eva Schloss's remarkable story of survival should be better publicized and used by teachers everywhere, especially since it allows young people to experience the Holocaust through the eyes of a teenager and her mother. Schloss's book is on a level with Gerda Klein's ALL BUT MY LIFE. The writing style is succinct and direct which adds to its appeal to young people.

As I read the book, I wondered for the thousandth time how such events could have occurred in "civilized" Europe in our lifetimes. The addition of a timeline of events related to WWII is especially helpful to students.

The remarkable relationship between this young woman and her mother is a testimony to the power of family relationships grounded in faith in a higher power. It stands in counterpoint to the somewhat strained relationship of Anne Frank and her mother while in hiding. Like Etty Hillesum's diaries and letters, it allows us to see the world through the eyes of a young girl who confronted evil "in the image and likeness of God," yet never lost her faith in humanity.

While I grieve for the author's loss of her father (Pappy) and her brother (Heinz), I rejoice that she lived to share her experiences with generations who may have a difficult time giving a human face to the Holocaust. Her mother's love for Otto Frank was certainly a factor in sustaining him as he dealt with the loss of his first wife and children.

I would love to meet Eva Schloss and her mother, if Mrs. Frank is still with us. The picture of mother and daughter on the back cover of the copy I received through our library really captures the spiritual strength and moral courage of these two incredible women. They have made the world a better place with their testimonies.

I also teach an extensive unit on the Holocaust and Anne Frank. I am always on the look out for survivor stories for teens. This book certainly makes the cut. It is easy-to-read yet does relate the horrors of her experience in the camps. Her relationship to her mother and others in the camps shows the definite role companionship played in survival.

Eva's relationship to Anne Frank is simply a plus for the book. To have lived so close to Anne and even played in her house with her cat makes Anne become even more alive. Eva's relationship with her brother parallels Anne's relationship to Margot. Interestingly, Heinz and Margot seems to have similar personalities as do Anne and Eva. ...Her courage to speak about this terrrible time in history is a reminder to us all to remember what happened and those who are no longer with us and have no one to remember them.

I've read the book and I think it was exellent. Exiting and very sad, sad because it was real everything, it was not just any story. What Eva told was real life experiences. But there nothing we can do about it now else than remember it and tell all about it to the kids when they grow up, it's really important to not forget what happend to the jews and other folk group during the 2 WW. I still pray for them.

favorite scene with annie-
her talk with clare.

stone-
clare making her move on him.

together-
arguing after the saloon incident.

In Evelyn Roger's THE LONER, readers will find a highly descriptive tale, which will quickly transport them back to the exciting life and times that only existed in the Old West. This poignant tale is overflowing with sizzling excitement, passion, and turmoil and will remain in your memory long after you turn the last page. As his name suggests, Stone McBride's heart has been hardened against the cruel injustices fate has unmercifully dealt to him. Living his life as a gambler, he is unprepared when word arrives informing him his father is on his deathbed, and has summoned for him to return to the Circle M to claim his inheritance. To ignore his father's request, would force him to forfeit his share of the ranch to his resentful brother, sister, and manipulative stepmother. Upon his return to the town of Sidewinder, he is unprepared to see his former fiancée, Annie Chapin. Will he be able to live with himself knowing he alone caused the pain which is present in her eyes?
Four years ago, Annabelle 'Annie' Chapin, gave her heart and soul to Stone McBride. What she received in return was enough heartache to last a lifetime. Still suffering from her last encounter with Stone, she is shocked to learn she still has feelings for the man who cruelly broke her heart. Will she have the power this time to chisel away the hard exterior surrounding his cold heart? Evelyn Rogers masterfully crafts stories where the characters are so real they seem to leap off the pages. Stone and Annie are two memorable characters, who finally realize when they are able to trust in the power of love as only it alone would be able to heal and erase the pain of their past.

I have waited for this conclusion to the McBride saga, and believe me, Evelyn Rogers did not let me down. You tied everything into a neat bow and gave a truly magnificent ending to a wonderful saga. Your talent is awsome!!!! I can't wait to see if the four of you write other books on the McBrides. I you will.

As a newcomer to merchandising, I found this book's explanations of key terminology and tips on merchandise planning to be very helpful. The math, however, was entirely too simplistic to be of much use. This book contains an entire chapter on how to use a calculator. If you're looking for a good general overview of the field, this is a good book. But anyone with an elementary education should already know the math.

IT WAS PRACTICAL-EASY TO FOLLOW-AND MADE MY JOB SO MUCH EASIER! NOT AT ALL LIKE TEXTBOOKS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL DUMB--NEVER GOT LOST--HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

THIS IS TRUE THAT YOU PROVIDE DETAIL ABOUT MERCHANDISING ,AND I FOUND IT THE BEST ONE IN THE WORLD OF LIBRARY

It's a very good source of information if you only want to learn about panic disorder, but for me It was like reading my every day life, It did not help me at all, instead I felt helpless.

At what point does our life transition from "normal" to "impaired" and how can we take an active part in healing? Author Evelyn Barkley Stewart has approached Neal Cassidy in her ability to put herself into print and make it perfectly believable. The sudden overwhelming changes that occur in our lives follow the rule that "our biography becomes our biology". For anyone suffering from the debilitating problems of panic disorder this book is a must read. It is important to find the beautiful person that exists at the center of what appears to be a dysfunctional life. The emotional fabric of our body, that dictates our existence, has many rips that can easily become a rent in the garment. Returning to a functional "normal" life is possible if one listens to this author and actually knows her sincerity. I have experienced her wisdom and can say that I look forward to each new day with the memories of my less than perfect past.

I could not put this book down! Like the reviewer before me, I read it cover to cover in one sitting. I have struggled with this disorder for many years and found it a great comfort to read a story so similar to mine. This is a disorder which is very isolating and misunderstood. There are parts of this book which I felt I could have written. Thank you Ms. Stewart for your honesty and courage!

Ms. Rysdky refers to allot of other books in her writing of this one. So, I'm not too sure how much information is truly of her experience. I recommend this book to someone who is just curious, like I am about Shamanism.

This book is concise and well written; and I am VERY happy that she does not recommend the use of halucinogenic drugs.

This book has assorted meditations, and a few Shamanic journeys the author has taken. To give you an idea of what you will see and experience.

I especialy enjoyed Chapter 10 (Spiritual Ecology)Pages 93-102.

Ms. Rysdyk mainly focuses on Shamanic journeys into the lower & upper worlds.

I have three minor complaints with this book.

1. Ms. Rysdyk completely ignored the subject of protection. (in the beginning you should never journey alone (without your totem animal) because not all spirits are friendly (especially in the middle world). You should cast a medicine wheel and call in the white light or smudge the area to protect your body while you are out and about. If you want help with this E-Mail me.)

2. Ms. Rysdyk completely ignored the subject of integrity. (When you give your word to the spirits; they expect you to keep it. To use a Shamanic motto "Walk your talk".)

3. On page 57 Ms. Rusdyk relates the journey to get help from her power animal in getting a new job. (I perfer the term "Totem Amimal". The Spirits are there to help when you need it. They expect you to help yourself too; instead of using them as a crutch to get through life.)

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Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)

Modern Shamanic Living was worth the price for the first chapter alone. In it Evelyn Rysdyk gives those of us who have despaired the condition of our world and our individual lives hope for a new way to find the wisdom that will remake our lives for the better. Step by step the succeeding chapters unfold a practical spiritual path that has completely changed my life and those of several friends. I believe this book is a must read for everyone.

This little book is in fact a toy, a companion volume for Truth or Dare games. I received it yesterday and had not yet the chance to "play" it with a group of friends, but scanning it I'm sure it will be great fun. Hearing the sincere (please!) answers to these questions may be intellectual voyeurism at its best. However, a small caveat is in order for couples: some of the questions may indeed prove flammable, as another reviewer has noticed. Would you enjoy hearing your sweetheart's answer to: "If you wanted to be aroused over the telephone by someone other than your current lover, who would be best at it?" Most people wouldn't. I do not think this is a flaw in book, on the contrary. I believe that jealousy is a turn on for most people, although only a few will admit it. Some more provocative questions were included for their benefit, and for the benefit of those who would like to try the limits of their sexual tolerance toward their companions. Anyway, couples should approach the book light-handedly.

If you're going to take a road trip with a mate, or even some close friends, this is a great book to bring along!

Everyone that comes across this book at my place can't get enough of it. They even took it from me once. It is a great way just to start some interesting conversations and get to know people. Fun at small gatherings or just with another person.

In the first chapter of THE STONES OF FLORENCE Mary McCarthy weighs in against everyone who might want to know about Florence who deeply irritates her: casual tourists, Europeans who love Florence deeply... who, you might wonder, is the book intended for? But once she gets this out of her system (though not ever entirely--as the book continues she often takes little sideswipes at everyone, even including Goethe!), the book settles down to be a very idiosyncratic and informative study of a city Mccarthy loves and knows well. Skip the intro (or at least try not to let it get under your collar) and keep plugging along: this is a highly readable and fun little book.

McCarthy writes with wit about the history, current conditions(1964, when the book was published) and tourist attractions in Florence. Her advice is invaluable for finding little-known churches, and her descriptions of life in the city, and advice on when to go and where to stay, are vivid and helpful for any traveler in Italy.

There are several reasons to go for Mary McCarthy's THE STONES OF FLORENCE. You are about to go to, are in or have been to Florence, Italy; you enjoy the literature of travel; you appreciate a well-written book. I fall into the latter two categories and thoroughly enjoyed this idiosyncratic work. McCarthy wrote this in the very early 1960's when the very nature of Tuscany's chief city couldn't help but attract tourists at the same time it seemingly did everything to discourage them. She swiftly dispenses with the contemporary city and spends the book peering back into its Renaissance soul, primarily the 14th through the 16th centuries when Florence was the Western center of intellectual activity. What emerges is the picture of the greats-Dante, Giotto, Brunellseschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico, della Robbia, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Cellini, and various Medici to name a few-functioning amidst social, political and occasional natural upheaval. As she suggests about one artist, perhaps the productivity was inspired by the need to make order out of chaos. That and no doubt the fact that the Florentines used and valued art in their daily lives in ways that it is not today. That science, engineering, architecture and art were closely aligned offered cross disciplinary assistance is also key-without the mathematicians, for instance, would artists have been able to as easily co-opt perspective and volume?

THE STONES OF FLORENCE is both direct and impressionistic. McCarthy's prose moves right along, never bogged down by a "perhaps" or the need to recite contemporary opinion. Her progress from the 14th to the 16th century is zig-zaggy, so that most of the Renaissance is spoken of as if on a continuum. There is a sly wit at work (in the personality contest, the score is Leonardo 10, Michelangelo 0) and McCarthy presents a strong spine-she is unequivocal about the decline of the Renaissance in the 16th century as the major players moved away from Florence and the populace fell into a "gee-gaw" mentality.

This is a travelogue and, after a fashion, an art history catalogue, and yet there are no pictures (in this edition). That and its not too chronological organization would suggest an abstract mess but it is nothing of the kind. I became very much aware of how much of the Renaissance was covered in my early education as every reference brought up old lessons and visits to museums out of the tar pits of memory. I felt at home, not at a loss.

This book defies a brief explanation. I sensed deep passion in the author as I read her words, a passion for her family's weaknesses and strengths, a passion for knowing herself, a passion for the power of architecture, and a passion for her great-grandfather, the infuriatingly complex architect, Stanford White.

Stanford was generous and careless, creative and self-destructive, maniacally disciplined and utterly irresponsible. While he selflessly gave his heart and soul to his massive stone buildings, he thoughtlessly shattered the hearts and lives of the people around him. Even while he was racked by ill health, he drove himself in his work life AND his recreational life as if he were immortal. He either believed he could never die, or knew he surely must and so didn't care.

The sexual portrait of Stanford can be rather harrowing: The countless love nests he set up around New York; his systematic debauchery of young women (many of whom fell in love with him); the attorneys he hired to hush things up; the endless supply of cronies he found to join him in his nocturnal plundering--his appetites--and his ability to feed his appetites--knew no limits. As for Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty who arguably played a role in Stanford's murder, I'll just say she wasn't the first girl to ride in his red velvet swing.

Finally, two notes. This author presents architecture, and its impact on the human psyche, in a beautiful, moving way; she breathes life into the bricks of Stanford's buildings. And her depiction of the Gilded Age is superb. It's the stuff of a great trashy Summer novel. Except it's real. And probably still goes on today.

I should also warn future readers that there's a fair amount of incest in this book.

Powerful, lyrical writing builds the story of Stanford White one layer at a time. The writer, his granddaughter, is uniquely qualified to tell the tale of genius gone awry. You'll remember this story long after you finish it -- a sure sign that you've experienced not just a book, but true art.

I initially read this book on a library loan as a small part of research for a project I was doing. Now I'm back at Amazon to purchase it. It's one I want to read again in leisure time, to savor, not only for the wealth of history it provides, and the painfully honest look into family self-deceptions, but for the absolutely beautiful writing it offers. The courage she shows in telling this story, and the honest treatment of her family (which I expected her to protect and make excuses for) and painstaking fairness to other characters, sometimes at the expense of her own history, is breath taking. Many of Ms. Lessard's descriptive passages are almost musical in quality, without ever falling to sappiness, and they bleed a depth of insight that one sometimes grasps only at a second glance. Her metaphorical passages are the most beautiful - I will never forget many of them. A joy and a privilege to read. Again.

This book was recommended to me (a male) by a PhD candidate (female) in enology (wine studies) in response to my locating and handing her a somewhat-difficult-to locate copy of James Watson's admittedly painful-to-read but otherwise sincere memoir of the Cambridge scene surrounding the elucidation of the structure of DNA by two guys and a gal. I searched extensively for the McClintock book, out of loyalty to my friend, read it, and found it enormously informative, lyrically sustaining and theoretically stimulating, but ultimately frustrating as a coherent book because it really wasn't a conscienciously documented biography, its "scientific" diagrams of meiosis/mytosis and the corn cycle were confusing, it mixed basic explanations with unexplained terminology, and its theoretical claims concerning the whole organism weren't really thought through - the alleged necessity of including cytogenetic, holistic evidence was by its own revelations undermined by the conclusion that the self-regulation of genes was entirely genetic, rather than influenced by the cytologic or protein-containing environment. I simply don't know who this book was written for - perhaps "the widest possible audience." Conclusion: this book, full of wonderful anecdote, compelling presentation of genetic theory and its historical development, and terifically stimulating discussion of the nature of scientific and gender-limited communication, is ultimately marred by an apparent impatience to bring it to press (and profitability and reputation-enhancing publication) without due regard to biographical standards, clear integration of tri-partite intent (biography, feminist panegyric, popular science), and fundamental clarity of presentation. I learned from it, but grudgingly.

All in all, this was not a bad book. It contained valuable information on the life of Barbara McClintock. For any of you not familiar, she is a geneticist who devoted her life to studying corn plants. She discovered transposable elements (jumping genes) which won her the nobel prize. Her work is inspiring, and this book has fairly good coverage of the details, but not the best. Still one I will add to my library.

Imagine being devalued simply because you are a woman in a man's career at a time when that made you an oddity. Then imagine having a mind brilliant enough to identify and understand transposable elements at a time when your science is so far ahead of everyone else's work that they cannot understand you or take you seriously. Put those two factors together and imagine how much confidence and courage it took for her to stick with her studies of maize genetics until everyone else caught up with her. Even if you're not interested in her science, you can't read this book and not be inspired by the woman. Dr. McClintock is my hero on many levels.

Newly widowed Contessa Caterina Donati suddenly finds she has been set free from the loveless marriage she had been trapped in for many years. She seeks to put a final end to her painful past by fleeing from the mysterious circumstances that are evolving around her husband's untimely death. Her travels take her to Belmare; there she is determined to rebuild her cherished ancestral home. What she doesn't anticipate is the ghostly curse that has been placed on the helpless estate. Roberto Vela is the one man who steps forward and proclaims he will do battle with the evil forces. Will she be able to trust a man with a face like a God and a voice like the Devil?

With midnight blue eyes, Roberto Vela's gaze penetrated Caterina 'Kate' Donati. Before him was a stunning young American solely in need of his assistance. By agreeing to come to her aid, will he be placing her life in jeopardy by exposing her to the dark turmoil that surrounds his very existence? Can he take the chance to give love an opportunity to bloom? Or will his haunted past be enough to destroy one so fair and pure?

Once again, Ms. Rogers has pulled out all the heavy ammunition and used it to create a beautiful compelling Gothic Romance. As always, her writing talent stands alone in serving to uphold the romance genre. Few authors can only hope they will be able to mimic the talent of Evelyn Rogers so they too will be able to produce a timeless treasure. Every book I read by this much-loved author only strengthens my belief that she is one of the best in the romance industry. For anyone new to romance, do yourself a favor, and begin by reading one of her legendary books. What you will find is an unsuppressed talent that is sure to go down in history!

I simply loved the Grotto!! It was well-written, well-plotted and well-told. I have always found Evelyn Rogers to be a master storyteller, and the Grotto is no exception. She is one of my favorite authors, and this book moves her up higher on my short list of favorites. Thank you, Mrs. Rogers for a book that kept me up long into the night, and kept me turning pages. It was most deserving of a 5...

Set in Italy, during the 1800's. Contessa Caterina Donati was all alone. Her father had drowned at sea, en route home to America, shortly after she married Conte Pietro Donati. Pietro's idea of making love was painful and humiliating. Thus the short marriage was not blissful. Then Pietro met an untimely death. Young Caterina was left with no one to turn to, little money due to Pietro, and only the Donati villa with its barren fields to go. Knowing all within the seaside village of Belmare would hate her, not only for being an American but also for having the name Donati, Kate went to The Villa Falcone.

Kate was determined to work the land and bring life back to the fields and the village. However, the Donatis had brought ruin to Belmare and its people. Few would work for "the Contessa." Those few who would, did so only on the condition that no one from the village knew they did. Only one man, Roberto Vela, was as determined as Kate to make the fields prosper. Kate was attracted to him from the beginning, but danger lurked around Kate and Roberto kept too many secrets. And whenever harm came to Kate, he was suddenly there. Was he to be her savior or her executioner?

***** When I found the name Evelyn Rogers on the cover of this book I was ecstatic! That name meant I was about to be transported into a new dark realm of romance called "the Gothic"! So few gothic stories are written anymore even though there are many fans of the genre out there keeping careful watch on the bookshelves of major stores.

Recalling how much I loved Devil In The Dark, her last gothic release, I was unable to stop myself from immediately opening the book and beginning to read. I was not the least bit disappointed! Once again Evelyn Rogers has created believable characters that I could easily sympathize with and care for. Then put them in the haunting setting with danger everywhere. Highly recommended! An enjoyable read! I look forward to this author's next release! *****