In The Saddest Pony Lightning find a pony named Ginger. They think Ginger's owners are mean. Because she is not treated correct.
Can the pony pals save Ginger?

I totally do NOT agree with that reader from canada.My nan is pretty old and she is NOT dead.My pony Acorn's mum is almost 25 and she isn't dead!
Pam and her Pony Lightning meet Ginger the Pony[Not saying how].She is old and not looked after well.Pam,Anna,Lulu,Lightning,Acorn and Snow white need to help her and her owners.This is a touching story that relates to loving all animals especially Horses.A good no Great book like all books.Read it it's great.

It was a great book! I like all pony pal books! Pam and Lightning find an old pony. The owners of that pony don't take care of her properly. The Pony Pals want to find out about the pony's owners and why they don't take care of her. They are thinking of a plan to help the pony.

This truly was a great book. It was one of those books that you couldn't put down. There was one problem in it though, it should've been based on Eva Braun instead of Hitler. But do read it.

I have read a number of historical fiction books about the end of the war and this is one of the better one. I liked the story line; it is believable once you get into the book. The author spent some time developing the plot and because of that you start to believe it. An interesting group of main characters fills out the book so that the pages really fly past you. This is a good effort by this author. If you liked this then I would suggest you look at Fatherland by Robert Harris.

I've searched all over for this book because it's out of print. Read it, when you go to bed at night, you'll expect to read about it in the morning newspaper. It's soooooo realistic you will be back in time and experiencing Hitler and the war. It's not a historical novel but fiction written so well you will definitely think you are there! It's addictive and one of the reasons readers love to read! Enjoy!!!

I read heaps of crime fiction novels and found this to be certainly interesting but in parts the storyline was hard to follow. Also I found some of the characters definitely unlikable. Maybe the author will iron out some of these problems in his next novel.

I try to tell readers if they are getting their money worth when they purchase a book and this is one that is well worth the money. Readers who like these legal thrillers will not want to put this book down until they discover "who done it". I changed my mind several times during the read. It is a very quick read and different from most.

This book is one the best legal thrillers that I have ever had the privilege of reading!

After being ignored by her husband, a powerful attorney, Meagan Heller begins an affair with a handsome stranger. Soon afterward he is found dead in a hotel room and all of the evidence is pointing towards Meagan.

There are so many twists and turns in this book, I don't want to give away much of the plot. If you love a good mystery, then this book is for you! You'll never guess who the real killer is and the motivation behind the crime. I've read many mystery books over the years and this ending shocked me! I literally gasped out loud as I read it. You can't go wrong with this great book!

I thought this book was okay. It had plenty of snowboarding, but there was too much competition between the two brothers. I really liked though when they finally realized that they have to watch out for one another.

I enjoyed this book because I learned a good lesson from it. How you shouldn't break a promise, the one Freddie made to his dad. He got what he wanted in the end by doing the right thing. I would recommend this book a friend.

... I really liked this book. I liked it because I am a really sporty girl. I you like stories with sport adventures and a pretty easy reading level you would like this book. This book is also a fun book to read. When I read a lot of the book at one time I could barely put it down. If you think reading is nerdy then try this book. You will think very different about reading after this book. I thought I was going to hate this book but I ended up loving it. I hope you take my advise and read this book. You won't be sorry.

This book accepts that theology serves only for Christian church. Theology must serve the needs of all religions. So we can not accept that its function is only to serve for Christian church and must serve the needs of the church.

There isn't much more that I can say besides WOW! Paul Tillich uses a modern existential analysis of the human condition, and then a radical reinterpretation of the Christian tradition to understand and conquer the bleak condition of existential estrangement.

In this volume, Tillich examines the conditions of existence and the feature of Christianity which makes it distinctive among religions: the Christ. Explaining that all religions are meant to diagnose the human condition and to provide ways to reunite man with his essential being. He shows how sin, guilt, and pride are marks of the estrangement of man from his essential self and how religion has consistently and traditionally explained this facet of his existence.

However, he then begins his reinterpretation of the Christ event as the "bearer of New Being," where Christ is the model for all to reunite themselves with their essence - to exist without being overcome by estrangement.

In the book, Tillich uses an easy-to-read and uncomplicated prose to explain his ideas. No where near as complex as other thinkers, but easily as intelligent and dense, Tillich's Systematic Theology is the best attempt at a systematic reinterpretation of the Christian message I've ever read, and is a must-read for anyone interested in a discernible and acceptable rendtion of the Christian story in the world today.

Anyone who wants to do any type of serious theological work must be well-versed in Tillich and his theology. His masterpiece is a wonderful place to pick up this experience. Read it and you'll find yourself coming back to it again and again.

My 3 year old son LOVES this book! I had to purchase it for him last year after renewing it several times from the library. Wonderful illustrations and simple prose. My son "reads" the book himself. Highly recommended for those children who love trains.

I picked this book up at my local library, and my 2yr old has carried it around ever since, he's had me read it to him several times a day. Even my 5yr old daughter finds it a great book to learn to read, with it's simple sentences..."This Train is old, This Train is new." I couldn't think of any better starter book for children than this one. It just so happens to be my sons favorite subject...."Trains"!

This book caused a tantrum at the library! My younger son found it there, and we read it through a few times, but forgot to take it out. When we got home and he realized this, he was so upset! He had instantly fallen in love with it, and we wound up buying it. The text is as simple as it can be---each page just says something like "this train is long" or "this train is short", but the pictures are detailed and colorful and the kind true train lovers can look at for hours. His favorite is the LONG, LONG train. This is the kind of book that young kids can memorize and "read" easily, which they love to do. I'd certainly recommend this for any member of the train loving set.

Fine, absorbing literary novel follows the exploits of expatriate American stuck in Singapore because he has neither the ability nor the luck to go anywhere else. The novel has a nice atmosphere which reminded me of Graham Greene, Saul Bellow and Gore Vidal, and effectively evoked the sleazy underbelly of Singapore that still exists in that now outwardly squeaky-clean, but sinister city-state. I read this book while living in S'pore and was surprised how many attitudes and actions of the eastern and western characters were reminded me of the Singapore of today. So I felt the book worked in two ways, as a great, entertaining read for anyone interested in just a plain good book, and also as a fine evocation of the eternal aspects of Singapore. Saint Jack was also filmed - the film version is interesting because it captured the old colonial look of S'pore before the current regime of Harry Lee Kuan Yew tore most of it down, replacing it with souless concrete tower blocks. Yet the sleazy atmosphere remains, and comes out at night especially. Theroux's Hong Kong novel, *Kowloon Tong,* captures perfectly that other Far Eastern city state at the time of the 1997 Handover (I was living in HK at the time) and is also recommended, both as a fine read and as a fine description of the place. For a good non-fiction account of Singapore, try Stan Sesser's *The Lands of Charm and Cruelty,* with a great essay on S'pore and "the fear that even the best educated Singaporeans feel towards their government."

Below his somewhat crusty exterior, Jack Flowers cares - sometimes deeply - about the "flotsam and jetsam" he bumps up against - on the streets, in the bar, in his brothel. He really won't show it ... nor, perhaps, will he even admit it to himself ... but he does. And he has "all the time in the world" to do so, in his own backhanded way.

Paul Theroux cut some of his teeth on this early novel, and it holds up remarkably well on second reading. Somewhat acerbic, sometimes touching, "Saint Jack" is a true pleasure.

Sure, lots of authors have done their take on the expat lifestyle, but few have done it better than Mr. Theroux has in St. Jack. This is a smart, deceptively simple take on the 'allure' of life abroad. A great book, even if you've traveled no farther than your mailbox; though, for those who have, the desriptions of people living abroad not so much because they want to---but because they're afraid to go home--- are right on the mark.

Poetry is the most difficult writing to translate. Since it is impossible to retain the content, psychic distance, syntax, and rhytmn, the translation of poetry is about sacrifices. I found Felstiner sacrificed meaning far too often in his admittedly admirable attempt to keep the rhyme scheme, etc. The problem with his approach is that he ends up writing words that are not Celan's. (If the reader doesn't know German, then the translator can get away with this). Having returned his book to the bookstore, I am still in search of a translation that I find true to the original. anyone recommend another?

This is a great, highly satisfying translation of the poetry of a tortured genius whose voice rang through holocaust death camps into 21st century living rooms. The metaphors of Celan are of tragic acuity, & his tropes & experiments will keep you awake at night. He didn't write to avoid the real world. He wrote so that he could clench in his sore fists the very world that clenched him in its. The prose selections at the end of the book, speeches he gave, are also very, very interesting & provide a different angle by which to view his great mind, of how he spoke when not funneling the thinking into a certain art.

Paul Celan is now considered one of the great postwar poets, perhaps the greatest poet to come out of the Holocaust, and the 2nd most influential German poet after Rilke. His most famous poem, "Todesfuge" (Deathfugue) is considered the most important poem on the Holocaust.

But beyond all that hyperbolic praise lies a poet who defies easy description, whose poetry is both demanding, difficult, beautiful and lyrical, and who deserves to be read by a wider audience.

Felstiner provides us with one of the 2 best bilingual editions of Celan's most important work (the other is by Michael Hamburger), and supplements it with a very well written introduction and translations of Celan's most important prose writings, including the Buchner speech "The Meridian". These prose pieces will be essential for students of Celan, and cast an important light on the poems.

The translations of the poems themselves are quite good, and at times brilliant, such as the innovative way that Felstiner translates "Deathfugue," subtly interweaving the original German more and more in the repetitions of the chorus until the poem ends with two lines entirely in German. The effect is chilling. Felstiner deserves the translation award he won for this book solely on the basis of this one poem, which shocked me anew when I read it in his English translation.

If you are unfamiliar with Celan up to now, this is a good place to start. If you are already an admirer of Celan's poems, this will be a welcome addition to your library. See also Felstiner's biography on Celan, "Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew".

This was the 1st book I've read by Collins. Very good book for avid readers. If you don't like books, you won't like this book. I felt like I was along with him on his journey for a home in Hay-on-Wye. I especially enjoyed his "side journeys" into different topics. In a way, after reading this book, I felt like I had read about 50 books. Fun book - I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes books, period.

Paul Collins has written a book that is part memoir, part travelogue, and two parts documentary. "Sixpence House", (Lost In A Town Of Books)", ostensibly is a book about one writer's decision to relocate his family from Victorian San Francisco to a Welsh town of 1500 persons. Hay-on-Wye is the town and it easily could be the setting for a novel in any of the last five centuries. This piece of Wales has everything from the requisite castle with a self-proclaimed king, to over 40 sellers of antiquarian books.

What the author and his wife did not expect from this picturesque community was the possibility that when buying a house they would have to face arcane events such as gazumping and gazunding, and as buyers having no representation while sellers have no obligation to share the defects of their home. (How to say caveat emptor in Welsh?) A 500-year-old house is likely to have some faults as they imagine and find to their dismay. Even when in the 16th century apartment they are faced with rooms that are painfully small, where natural light is simply an idea, and events like a shower with water pressure are no more than a memory left some 3000 miles away.

In the midst of myriad daily adjustments the couple is attempting to raise their young child and the author is gallantly trying to finish his first book. Paul Collins gives readers a new view on the effort required to get published as well as the tasks of finding a title that is hopefully unfamiliar to readers, combating editors who wish to amend his writing, and even a paper shortage caused by the printing of 800 pages 5 million times. The latter represents the first edition of JK Rowlings's fourth book in the United States.

The village and the idea of making a new home amongst the residents gradually, yet steadily, changes from the romanticized idea many of us would create in our own minds, to encompass many of the same grinding realities creating a new home would present anywhere. One of the books charms is the historical arcanum that the author includes rather effortlessly during the tale. A walk past a cemetery invokes a short history of the watch, the early shapes associated with death that they took, and the rather prescient shapes of watch that Mary Queen Of Scot wore during her abbreviated life. The author also tells the story of an unusual explorer of London's sewers, and the time he took while underneath the royal household to break in to song, and the odd circumstance this may have presented to those living in the royal household.

Mr. Collins has written a book that is well worth your time, and likely to be several degrees different from many of the books you have read.

After reading "Sixpence House"by Paul Collins,I have made plans to visit Hay-on-Wye.I want to see Booth's Castle and maybe have a ham sandwich with him in his kitchen at the Castle.I want to see the water in the basement of Sixpence House and the "Beverly Hills"area of Hay.I want to go to Pemberton's Book shop and meet Diana and know that she is ok after her mandatory visit to Cardiff.I want to spend much time in Booth's Bookstore and look for a copy of "Hunting Indians in a Taxicab" and a copy of "I was Hitler's Maid".After reading "Sixpence House"by Paul Collins,you will want to do these things also.

A Review by Ryan

A boy named Colm goes to his lake house for the summer to hang out at Lake Barstow. He goes through many changes mentally while at Lake Barstow with the likes of his mom and dads divorce and girls. Colm is always swimming and by the end of the summer wants to swim the whole lake by himself. He will first deal with the adversities of his mom and dads divorce. Will Colm pull through and give the swim team another shot. You'll have to read the book to find out!

One thing that I liked about this book was that it was so easy to understand the struggles of a high school kid since I am one myself. The book never got off track and it left me thinking each time I put it down. I also like how the authors portrayed the characters in this book. For instance, Colm was a shy kid at first but once he would open up to people, everyone would like him. One thing I didn't like about this book was that it didn't leave me with a shocking feeling that you get with those great books you read. I also thought the climax was weak. It didn't get me on the edge of my seat.

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading a straight forward book that's easy to understand but doest have many high points. However, there were some funny parts in this book.

This book was great! I loved it because it focused on the basic teens problems but added a little humor on the side! The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because it was a short book but other than that it was more than perfect!!!

My then 13-year-old daughter and a male friend of hers read this book about two summers ago. Recently I heard the boy talking with a group of other boys at my house about not liking to read, commenting that it was a drag. I reminded him that he had read Paul Many's book and had seemed to like it, and he said, "Oh yeah, I forgot. I really loved that book. I'll have to find it and read it again. Then I'll loan it to you guys."

I have given this book to many young teens, and it seems to make a real impression on them.