It was a really good book. I'd recommend it. It is about a boy in Kwamala that wants to be a Shaman. He becomes the Shaman's apperentice. Read this book if you want to know if he becomes a Shaman himself. This would be a good book for 10 year olds.

I saw this book on Reading Rainbow today, and I was enthralled by the story and the beautiful illustrations. The episode took Levar to the village the book was about and introduced us to the apprentice, now grown, being teacher to the village and his twin sons. My daughter is only a year old, but just the colors kept her attention. I look forward to when the words will have the same effect, as I'm sure they will.

The Shaman's Apprenctice is one of the rarest of books. It combines an engaging true story with beautiful illustrations. The result in an aural-visual experience that transcends the age of the audience and presents a valuable message to all. It should be required reading for every planetary denizen.

My 6month old son fell in love with this book. Now at nine months old he will only fall asleep for his nap after reading this book and "Green Wilma". A must buy for any library!! The hidden pictures will keep any aged child entertained.

This is a fabulous book, certain to become a favorite! The creative story is written in rhyme, with clever use of humor along the way. The illustrations are breathtaking and silly. I have read this to my 3 year old, 5 year old twins and 8 year old twins. They can't get enough of the fun snowman antics. I've also read this to a Pre-K class and 3rd grade class. ALL CHILDREN HAVE RESPONDED POSITIVELY to this charming story. The best surprise is when you read the last page and learn about hidden images in the book. After reading this book 5 or 6 times we are still finding new images, like the snowman face in the moon.

I've read this book countless times to my 2 1/2 yr old son and he loves loves it. The story is original, beautifully illustrated and just plain fun for an adult to read over and over as a bedtime story. A must have for any childrens library!

Collaboratively written by Mark Nicholas and Jane Christine for young adults with a taste for science fiction, Space Academy: Volume One Of The Kirsten Chronicles is an engaging adventure from cover to cover. Kirsten is an empathic, 16-year-old cadet at the Space Academy who shares a special bond with an extraterrestrial life form called a skeecat. Together they encounter danger and challenge when her roommate and dorm mother disappear. Determined to find answers, Kirsten embarks on a search to find them in this briskly written, highly enjoyable 148 page novel.

Thoroughly enjoyed the book as did friends I loaned it to. Kirsten should give Harry Potter some real competition. Recommend the book to anyone wanting a good science fiction/mystery. It may be written for teens, but even adults can enjoy it. The authors don't "write down", which is a definite plus in my eyes.

Space Academy moves at a fast pace and keeps the reader engaged throughout the entire story. This book is well written and full of realistic dialogue. Although targeted for the juvenile market, the book is enjoyable for all ages.

Bruno Schulz's fictional world is as strange, unique, and fascinating as any you'll ever encounter. He builds each story from a physical, natural detail or a phenomena, and imbues it with such hypnotic and poetic intensity, that what should be an ordinary world is transformed into a dream-drunk and febrile one. There is no gratuitous surrealistic maneuver, but an original world view, and this alone, would you agree, is a rare and treasurable thing in literature.

The stories all deal with the narrator (Bruno) and his family when Bruno was a child. Each story starts out with a beautiful description of the milieu, then moves into stranger grounds where psychological unease mixes with facts. Kafkaesque would be the word applicable to describe Schulz's work (as there even is a story about a man turning insect-like... in this case, the father, not the son) but as researchers surmised, there is no real evidence that Schulz was influenced by Kafka.

What makes Bruno Schulz's prose so heartbreaking is its ceaseless and painful yearning to remember the past; almost every description is a metaphor that is drenched in almost extrasensory feeling. In consequence, every object, every motion, and every emotion remembered by Schulz throbs with a realism that is hot-wired to our subconscious, to our collective and private myths.

If you like reading, you must read Schulz.

To me, truly sophisticated writing lies in the writer's skill in using inventive and colorful similes and metaphors to communicate with his reader. The point of figurative language is not to veil the message but to elevate it from the mundane and create fresh new worlds of images and perspectives.

Bruno Schulz not only understood this concept but was one of its greatest practitioners. In his short but incredibly rich "The Street of Crocodiles," summer has a "senile intemperance...[a] lustful and belated spurt of vitality," rays of August heat form a "flaming broom," the moon acquires "milky reflexes, opaline shades, and the glaze of enamel," a cockroach's sudden emergence from a crevice is described as "a crazy black zigzag of lightning," and newly hatched baby birds are "lizards with frail, naked bodies of hunchbacks...[a] dragon brood." Every page of this magnificently odd little book is filled with such gems.

Not quite a novel, but more than just a collection of stories, "The Street of Crocodiles" is a set of loosely connected chapters about Schulz's boyhood in the small Polish town of Drogobych in the earliest years of the twentieth century. His use of figurative language instills his recollections with a dreamlike quality that hovers between reality and fantasy, such as in the chapter entitled "Cinnamon Shops," where the young Schulz's errand home to get money for his family waiting at the theater becomes an exotic journey into the intersection of his mind and the city. In "Nimrod," Schulz writes about the puppy he adopts and its delicate, meticulous process of learning about its environment. But the central episode would have to be "Tailors' Dummies," in which Schulz's eccentric father declaims eloquently on the relationships between God and Man, and Man and Mannequin.

Beautifully translated into English by Celina Wieniewska, this book belongs on every shelf of intelligent bizarre fiction next to the likes of Kafka, Borges, and Thomas Mann.

I'm sorry to say that I pretty much slept through my first reading of this book. Schulz's illogical and fantastic stories frustrated and bored me. Then I got smart, and read the introduction. Once I understood some of Schulz's ideas - his attempt to recapture the limitless possibilities of childhood and his rebellion against systems and boundaries - I found I could appreciate his writing and wanted to start reading the book again right away. The second time around, I slowed down and even read some parts aloud to myself and found it a very rewarding experience.

My dad wrote this book and I really think it's great and it can help you in the field of property management.

There are many books that I have read that discuss the how's and why's of managing property, but this book is pretty darn complete when it comes to "the real life situation" of owning and managing properties. I am looking for a deal now and think that many tips and the advice the author has in this volume is relable and written well. I have had similar tenant situations and was reminded of how important it is to listen to complaints before over reacting to the crys of the tenant. Just the other day I had a tenant complain of rodents in her unit and as the tenant complained and complained I realized that all she wanted was to be let out of her lease early. The fictious mice she complained about was really a ploy for me to know she was ready to move. I've had hundreds of similar situations where tenants have tried to manipulate me. I'm glad I didn't call the exterminator and spend $ to destroy imaginary mice. I tell this story to express the similarities I've had in owning propety too. Cudos Mr. Weiss...keep up the good work. from a Fan!

With all the books I've read or browsed, each is simply do this do that, do this do that. This "Business Book" is actually enjoyable to raed. It is funny. Certainly the war stories of management, tenant relations, and more are important lessons but the author's make them fun to read. I look forward to hearing Mr Weiss speak or meeting him personally one day cause if he's that right on in print he must be a riot in person. I learned something on every page. It seems Mark has the ability to make the reader say " yea, that happend to me", "Say, that's what I experienced too!"

As a property owner I have had many many situations where I have felt alone in the world. Now I realize that I am not alone. That from coast to coast we proeprty owners share the same experiences. Thanks Mark! Write another book.

I put this book to use very quickly, saved money and saw more places. Orwoll is a skillful guide, clever and knowledgeable.

This book is the best! It answered so many of my questions that I had about traveling. This is such a great resource for traveling. It also give tons of useful websites.

The real world is getting smaller but the Internet, we all know, is growing more complex and difficult to navigate. A few years ago we were reading books the size of telephone directories which contained URLs (the addresses of web pages) for the entire Web. Lately a new breed of books has sprouted, which cover one and only one subject in great depth. The difficult part about writing (and reading) many of these books is that the author needs to be a specialist in two fields: not only his own area of expertise, but also his subject in relation to the variegated resources on the Net. Fortunately, Mark Orwoll is a skilled guide in both these realms, and his new book, e-TRAVEL, is as useful and convenient as a credit card. Sams Teach Yourself Today e-Travel: Planning Vacations, Finding Bargains, And Booking Reservations Online is divided into five parts. The first, "Getting Started in e-Travel" is a guided tour of various resources about the Internet, including a savvy section on the essential theme: "Evaluating a Web Site's Accuracy and Validity." Part II, "Planning a Vacation on the Internet", includes a nifty quiz: "What's Your e-Travel type?" Part III explains how to be your own travel agent, and how to use the Internet to find the lowest rates and fares. Part IV discusses your laptop computer, passports, visas, customs, digital photography, organizing your money, and keeping yourself safe. Lastly, you'll find a collection of practical travel-minded websites. Keep in mind, regarding everything related to the Web, that things change quickly. Recently a number of major airlines announced that they would create a super-website for travelers. I couldn't find this site mentioned in the book, but readers who are interested in news like this can keep updated at Orwoll's daily travel advice column. There's an enormous amount of essential information throughout this entertaining guide. Orwoll, the managing editor for "Travel and Leisure Magazine", has been there, done that, and shared the best of his inside tips. And it's all served up in a witty style: Orwoll is as pleasant a traveling companion as you'll encounter anywhere. Sams Teach Yourself Today e-Travel is almost certain to save us time and money, teach us how to explore the world from our computer keyboards, and improve the overall quality and enjoyment of our trips. Paperback, 302 pages,

Michael Pastore, Reviewer

I couldnt put this book down, even when my girlfriend was on fire. I recommmend this book to anyone who enjoys beautiful poetry and a great story about courage and devotion.

I was a close friend of Ronnell's and Mark Craver wrote an excellent book, which chronicles every high, and low that students are faced with. However, Ronnell had some lows that we never could have expected. I praise Mr. Craver for keeping Ronnell's memory alive and allowing us to experience his memories of such a wonderful young man.

My English teacher read this book to our class while we read Homer's Odyssey to contrast the modern epic to the classic epic. I must say that Craver's epic is much more gripping than that of Homer and provides a fantastic story for any sports or literature lover. It managed to capture my attention just after hearing the first few sentences. The cover doesn't do this book justice either, so don't judge the content of the story by it. Also, for me, the story takes place right in the Northern Virginia/Fairfax area so I know exactly the schools that Craver is talking about. Highly recommended.

One of the truly great and underappreciated submarine thrillers, Potemkin gets it right where it counts. We have the ponderous nuclear submarines, their technology, the cat and mouse game of submarine warfare in the cold war, the tensions caused by the catastrophic power these machines can unleash and the tensions of the men who hold this power in check. But more importantly we also have the crew of the submarine USS Barracuda, a Skipjack class sub whose fate will come as no surprise to those well versed in the lore of cold-war submarines. Instead of creating various crew members as mindless cogs who run Barracuda, Joseph offers a range of the types who would have presumably served in the Navy in 1968 - fervent anti-communists to liberals (as liberal as the could be and still serve). Joseph's main character - Fogerty - isn't meant to be a hero - his flaws and lack of real direction outside the sonar suite make that impossible - but his drive, self-created political theory and unwillingness to follow rules elevate him over the heroic rule-breakers of other techno-thrillers. With Sorenson, a young sonar operator who hopes to be the best, Fogerty seeks to hunt down what may be a new class of Russian nuclear sub (the Alfa). The pairing also allows Joseph to create code-words that frame the tension of cold-war submarine warfare, phrases like "Cowboys and Cossacks" and "Plutonium Pizza". very convincing.

I bought this entirely because of how much I enjoyed Mark Joseph's 'Typhoon' (also exceptional) and it seems as though I made the right choice. Anyone who enjoys a good submarine story and wants it to be as realistic as it gets--as well as incredibly entertaining--this novel certainly fills the bill. Tom Clancy can be credited for making submarine's popular, but he is by NO MEANS the king of the underwater adventure. There are a large variety of sub stories out there to read, but very few are actually any good (Michael DiMercurio is one of the great one's) but I can say in total honesty that 'To Kill The Potempkin' is as solid a techno-thriller as I have had the luxury to read.

This one took me by surprise by taking place at the very height of the Cold War in the 60's, when the art of submarine warfare was being written and re-written daily. The game of cat & mouse under the sea was as dramatic as ANY fictional story, and although this IS fiction, it reads almost like an on-sight account of what actually happened. America, while far superior in sub design and nuclear technology to the Russians, was behind in one crucial area: subs made out of titanium. It is SO expensive that the Navy never actually made use of it...but the Soviet's made many subs that could dive amazingly deep BECAUSE of their titanium hull-design. The undersea game of kill or be killed takes on a new dimension when a Russian sub is thought to have imploded after having gone too deep...but did she really go down...or did they 'fake it' by playing sound efx that only sounded like a sub breaking up at extreme depths--places that no U.S. sub could go...this is what we get to enjoy on this very exciting and realistic portrayal of naval life on a Skipjack class sub in the 60's. Mr. Joseph is to be commended by giving us a top-notch techno-thriller which succeeds on EVERY level. Simply wonderful. Highly Recommended.

If you like Tom Clancy, you must read this book.

This is truly the best of the techno-thrillers/military-thrillers I have ever read. Believeable, detailed (but not bogged down by details) and exciting. Great characters. If anything, this book is better than anything Clancy has written.

Filled with intriguing facts--from the origin of Bono's name (a hearing aid store called Bonovox, which means "good voice" in Latin) to the story of how the band got its start (a notice posted by Larry while all the members of the band were still in high school)--Mark Chatterton has compiled an extensive guide to one of the greatest bands of all time. With a fresh and entertaining writing style, this encyclopedia is highly recommended for both casual and fanatical U2 fans.

Its about time someone truly wrote an authentic "Encyclopedia" about U2. I bought it for the soul reason that it's about my favorite group (yes i am a fanatic). My opinion might be a little biased but I think if you've ever wanted to know anything, and quite possibly everything, about U2 then this is the book. Its not to be read like a normal book, but to flip through it. Come across a concert you might have attended, find out some tidbit about the members or the band as a whole that you didn't know, or just as a refrence for the fellow fanatic.

This is my U2 Bible. It has everything you ever dreamed of knowing about U2, and it answers questions you've never even wondered about the band. It lists every single song ever recorded by the band and all the facts on them, the book has bios on all the band members, the stories of the tours, specific incidents in U2's career, and gives a wonderful history of their musical career. There is also a lot of facts about the band before they came together to form U2. I mean, how many people know all there is to know about U2? Well, read this book cover to cover, and you'll know probably more about U2 than they can remember for themselves! I used this book for a research paper on the band and used a good 50% of it as my main source! It's a must for any die-hard U2 fan. THE GOAL IS SOUL!