I bought "Heritage of the Star" (UK title) when I was 11, more or less at random from the Puffin Book Club, and it remained my favourite book for years and was lent to everyone I know. It was one of the first science fiction books I had ever read that made me THINK (and wasn't just Boys Stuff in Space), and its outcome surprised and amazed me. It had never occurred to me that there could be sequels, so I was delighted to find this trilogy at Amazon and finally read the rest of the story. Science (and Science Fiction) may have moved on, but this remains one of the best stories for teenagers (and everyone else) I've ever read; it deserves a much higher profile - buy it for yourself and every young person you know who likes to daydream and think about the bigger things in life.

I first read "This Star Shall Abide" when I was 11 or 12, but it wasn't until I was 26 that I managed to locate and read "Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains" and "The Doors of the Universe." The rerelease of all three books in a single omnibus edition is fantastic news for anyone interested in intelligent science fiction. The narrative follows one enormously sympathetic character who is notable for his overriding, unflinching honesty. As a young man, he gradually comes to resist the limitations of the caste system into which he has been born-- but this is just the beginning of a long and tortuous road to maturity. The other characters whom he encounters along the way, while rather modest in number, are also memorably and movingly drawn. Ms. Engdahl's work does not rely on flashy technology, kooky aliens, or gory battles to keep her reader's interest. Instead, she has conceived a world where abstract issues of faith, truth, knowledge, love, loyalty, and obligation have uniformly concrete consequences for its people's continued existence. To have such high stakes riding on individuals' morality and resourcefulness is what makes this such a gripping read.

The first book in this trilogy, This Star Shall Abide, literally helped determine the course of my life. It took years before I realized I was following a similar course to that of its main character, a course I first read of when I was in about fifth grade. The main character, Noren, is unflinching in his search for Truth with a capital T, a search that demands that he face the hardest of questions and challenge the heirarchical status quo of the world he was born into.

You don't have to like or even be interested in science fiction to love this story. It's about the highest strivings of the best of humans. It's a terrific model in many ways for the right way of approaching the world. It's smart, it's cleverly constructed, and it's challenging.

The second book I find a little thinner in its reverberations in my life, although my personal struggles -- which on the second book's subject also mirror the main character's -- have led me to essentially the same conclusions. The story grows richer each time I reread it.

I only found out today that there WAS a third installment in the saga. I look forward to reading it.

This book confirms what we all know but refuse to acknowledge...our food, our environment and our general outlook on life will be our downfall. Thanks to Dr. Hazel Parcells and Joseph Dispenza we can take heart in knowing all that can change. This book is a must for anyone concerned about health and well-being. It offers practical advice for daily living, but most of all it offers HOPE

I am a former student of Dr. Parcells. I believe her work is on the cutting edge of health and healing. She has changed the way I treat my patients. Her philosophy from Live Better Longer teaches people to take responsibility for their healing instead of living out the doctor's diagnosis.

The author does a masterful job of exposing the remarkable work of Dr. Hazel Parcells to a wide audience in a way that is enjoyable and yet very practical and informative. The consciousness of this planet has never been more prepared to embrace this beautiful message. That if we understand natures healing principles and take responsibility for our own health we have a chance to "Live Better Longer". Thank you Joseph Dispenza for bringing us this message of hope.

This book is a great BSB book. It has a lot of facts that I didn't know about. It contains info of how each of the boys got together. This is a great book for any Backstreet fan. If you have not read it then you should. It's very interesting. And it's got plenty of pages(152) to keep you reading. Also at the end it has two websites of the Backstreet Boys and a time line. A must have! P.S. It's 3 years old so on some of the info is not tue any more(you know like Kevin and Brian aren't single any more. Because duh they are married!)

I thought that this book was awesome!!!! Most of the info. was correct and I learned a lot of new stuff. Although I haven't read the official book yet this one probably comes in second place. I have been a loyal Backstreet Boys fan for 1 and a half years, and this is by far the best book that I have read yet!!!!!

This book had lots of good facts and I especially liked the pics in the middle. They really added to the book. Every real Backstreet Boy fan should at least read this book once. The facts were mostly right, and I learned a lot about the BSB.

I got this book when I was a child and I thought it was a scream! I actually laughed so hard it hurt!

Beth-Ellen, Harriet's shy and retiring friend is the perfect foil to the outspoken, brash, wonderfully assertive Harriet of Harriet the Spy fame. Both girls have summer homes in Water Mill, Long Island, their families' retreat from Manhattan when school gets out. Beth-Ellen lives with her kindly grandmother, who has some rather neanderthal ideas about imparting information concerning puberty, but who is a nice sort after all.

Harriet has not put down her pen and notebook. Seems that somebody else has taken up writing that summer. Quotes from the Bible and parodies of Scripture are seen throughout the Water Mill community. Naturally suspicion turns to a summer girl named Jessie who aspires to be a preacher when she grows up. Chock full of Biblical knowledge, Jessie has a morbidly obese mother and twin brother and a cute preschool sister. There is no mention of a father.

Beth-Ellen, on the other hand becomes reacquainted with her mother. Seems that Beth-Ellen's mother was a society lady, preferring parties and travel to raising a child. Beth-Ellen's natural father left some years earlier.

The reunion is a bust. Beth-Ellen's mother, Zeeney, is just as flighty and superficial as ever. Her stepfather just says "hup" and loves martinis. They try to make Beth-Ellen over, straightening her hair and choosing her clothes and insisting that she leave her grandmother and come with them. Beth-Ellen refuses, wins her case and Harriet cracks THE case -- the identity of the Secret Writer!

This book is a riot!

In third grade my third grade teacher decided to read us the beginning of "Harriet the Spy." While she got as far as when Janie tells Harriet about dancing school, she had the sequel, "The Long Secret", in the book corner of our classroom, and only one person knew about it: me. Since that day in third grade when I noticed the copy, I've read it a hundred times if not more. Who can't resist the rough and tumble Jenkins family or Zeeney or Wallace ("Hup!"). Or Bunny or Agatha or Harriet or Beth Ellen? Your life will be changed after reading it. Trust me.

Some years ago, I sought this book at the mall. The cover instantly got my attention, because my Harriet The Spy book featured the same art as this one. Once I realized it was a sequel to Harriet The Spy, I didn't even hesitate, I bought it right away. This book blew me away. I've never heard of a sequel being so extrodinary before, but it was. After I finished, I was upset, because I didn't want it to end! I've read it over and over several times. This book is well worth 5 stars! I would recommend it to Harriet fans of all ages.

This book is worth reading, but it contains no real helpful information except to "go get help". The author is a trained professional, and you do feel like you are sitting on a sofa but she is doing all the talking and not saying much. Perhaps my reaction to this book is because I had already read other books that went indepth on these subjects and she merely touches them. Sorry Sue.

if you are looking for tools and courage and inspiration to stand up for what you truly feel inside--to trust and act on your instincts and gut feel-- this book is a Must Read. A Primer on How to Value Yourself and Stop emotional abuse. I have given copies of this book to many of my women friends.

This book helped me to see why we burden ourselves with so many things to do and even when we don't want, we were brought up to be nice and please everyone, not being able to say no without feeling guilty and making ourselves less stressed and happier. I wrote to Sue after reading this book and thanked her for sharing such good information.

I read Louise Cooper's Time Master trilogy and the first book of the Time Master prequel series (when Chaos rules), and enjoyed them for their chilling, vivid imagery. They were un-put-downable. I had to read through the night to finish them. Cooper has one of the most original, malign, and imaginative minds in the fantasy business. When I was unable to locate the two other books of the Time Master prequel, I started working my way through one of her earlier series: the Indigo books, of which "Nemesis" is the first.

"Nemesis" is the story of a Celtic Pandora named Anghara who opens the wrong box and lets evil back into the world. There are large sections of imaginative, Cooperesque fantasy and well worth reading. In fact, I've already ordered the second book in the Indigo series. However, overall I'd have to guess that 'Nemesis' is one of Cooper's first ventures into fantasy. The heroine is an arrogant, impulsive, headstrong adolescent who doesn't really change through the course of the book, even though her whole family is slaughtered by the demons she frees, and her lover is condemned to purgatory until she can rescue him.

The lover is the character I really feel sorry for. He is brave, kind, and completely innocent of wrong-doing and yet he is condemned to a particularly awful life-in-death while Anghara-Indigo escapes pretty much unscathed from her own act of wickedness (her hair turns gray and a few months into the plot, she sprains her ankle).

With occasional pick-me-ups from the Earth Mother, Anghara-Indigo sets out to recapture the demons she let loose on the world, hindered by her nemesis (an evil copy of herself with what appear to be vast supernatural powers) and helped by a talking wolf.

'Nemesis' is a good fantasy and worth reading, just not as good as Cooper's later books.

I read these books probably five or six years ago when a friend lent them to me. Of course, since they are so hard to get a hold of, she made me give them back to her right away, so I only got the chance to read them once. I have been dying to get my hands on my own copies ever since. Although each book could probably stand alone, I recommend that you read them all, in order. Indigo is an intriguing heroine, a headstrong princess who inadvertently makes a terrible mistake and is forced to spend decades setting things right again. Although these books are very hard to find, I highly recommend you put in the effort - they are worth it!

This is a very good book to start a very good series! I had never read Louise Cooper before, but I will definitely read more of her books now. The story begins kind of slow, but more than makes up for it through the whole book. It is an excellent story of an obnoxious princess who, out of arrogance and foolhardiness, ruins her perfect life and curses the world when she releases the seven demons in the fabled Tower of Regrets, and must not rest (or die) until she restores peace to the Earth Mother. It has many, many qualities, emotionally, suspensefully, and most importantly, fantasy! Three cheers for Louise Cooper!!

I found this book to be the best I've read so far in regards to a sugar free diet. I had been on a no sugar diet for awhile and thought I knew everything. Boy was I surprised! Who knew there is sugar in table salt! I ended up (gladly) throwing away half of the food in my kitchen. Get the Sugar out is extremely informative even if you don't want to cut your sugar to that extreme. It's very easy to read and understand. It is chock full of great tips and recipes which are also very simple to follow and tasty too! Anne Gittleman also does a great job of offering brand names so you know what to look for when your shopping. I use this book constantly as a reference...it was the best ten bucks I ever spent!

Gittleman's book proves effective because it focuses on cutting refined sugar out of the diet. Refined sugar has been stripped (over 90 percent) of its natural ingredient and is a man-made, processed chemical that can lead the body to many illnesses. The body has zero use for refined sugar. This book does not read like a story. It can be opened up at random and offers useful pointers. The book literally has 501 pointers and they are numbered for easy reading. It also includes many recipes. What is most important about Gittleman's book is her insistence to not substitute refined sugar with aspartame or saccharin. (Please before you use these sugar substitutes, educate yourself about them). I am also impressed that she suggests the use of Stevia (which the FDA won't approve, because, God-forbid, it is good for us). Sugar is everywhere, in everything. Learn how to recognize this with this wonderful book. You will not be deprived with Gittleman's delicious suggestions and you will do yourself and your body a huge favor.

I felt that this was an excellently written and was easy to read. I had read "Sugar Blues" immediately before this and "Get the Sugar Out" was most definitely a far superb book. It seemed to stick to the subject and appeared to stay more with facts. "Sugar Blues" seemed to be more opinionated and outdated. All in all "Get the Sugar Out" was very helpful and useful to me. After reading it I can certainly never look at sugar the same or eat it without feeling guilty. The book brings up points about sugar that I have never thought of before. I have began to eliminate sugar from my diet and I am amazed at where sugar is hidden in every day food that I never dreamed would have sugar. I have already began to notice a tremendous difference in my energy level and have lost a couple of pounds. I would highly recommend reading this book to anyone who is interested in bettering their physical and mental well being.

This collection of Phoebe Gloeckner's comics is definitely not for the faint of heart, but it's worth a reading. If you haven't read her novel, Diary of a Teenage Girl, I think you will find this book a better introduction to her work. The themes are much the same and the comic art is very well done.
The subject matter is pretty bleak.

I can't say enough about this author/artist. I've just finished reading the book and am almost speechless. For anyone out there still dealing with demons of their own less than perfect childhoods, this book takes on the feel of a close friend in the same situation. The author, in a semi-autobiographical fashion, recounts a childhood of sexual abuse, drug abuse, and general coming-of-age well before it ever should. Full of amazing illustrations (Gloeckner is a lauded medical illustrator as well as excellent cartoonist), this book is sure to please anyone looking for something different, and in my case, cathartic. I don't think I could begin to recommend this book highly enough. I'm just glad that I live in a day and age where this book is not only allowed to be published, but can earn accolades as well (the least of which is from me). Thank you, Phoebe!

A Child's Life is hard to read but even harder to turn your eyes away from. Her child-like drawings combined with adult events and content perfectly express the difficult adolescent limbo between girl and woman.

I bought this book thinking it also had the cassette with it. It does not. Customer reviews which write about the cassette are followed with a note from Amazon that it is a review for the "Hard Cover" edition.

If you notice right below the reading level for this item, it says "Hard Cover". So I thought that this was the edition that includes the cassette. It does not.

The book seems great otherwise, but you MUST know French and be able to read music though. It is difficult to know what tune you should be singing in if you can't read musical notes.

My 4 year old niece who doesn't know a word of French learnt to sing a long after a few days. My 3 year old son loves to listen to the songs, and reading the book while listening to the music. The book is pleasing for children will lots of illustrations. We also use the book to talk about what's on the pages and can spend a long time just reading it! This is a great gift idea.

My 9.5 month old son lights up the minute I press play. We dance and bounce to these adorable songs while I am learning the words. I am very amused that he enjoys this cassette more than the ones I have with children's songs in english.

On reading Mrs Rampersauds truely mind tickling book I thought to myself, now this girls got talent, she'll go all the way. The cleverness yet simplicity of her playful rhymes humoured and amused my little nephew before he laid his little head to sleep, while my 2 year old niece thought, now heres a woman who knows what us kids want. A book that should be added to every childs story-time. Without a doubt, a cracker.

I read this book to my three-year-old and he loved it. It's one of the books he asks for by name. He loved the rhymes and couldn't wait for me to turn the page.

Both of my children (ages 3 and 7) love this book! My 3 year-old loves the rhyming words and brightly-colored illustrations. My seven year-old loves to read it to her sister and listen to the giggles it evokes. Bravo!