I picked this book up during a discouraging, lonely period in my life, and it really helped me put it all in perspective. The beautifully clean, understated writing paints a gripping picture of the enormous challenges Kitty Crockett faced and met during the Depression as she struggled to save her family's apple farm from repossession by the bank. It's a tale of true heroism. It gives a real feeling for the hardships that people faced and for the reserves of the human spirit that people drew on to endure these hardships. Can you imagine having to do grueling physical labor from sunup to sundown without having enough to eat, never being really warm in the winter, being constantly in debt, and yet getting up each day and doing what has to be done? Kitty Crockett is one of the most memorable characters I've ever met in a book.

The Orchard, a Memoir, is a great book. Last week I was on a long flight back to San Luis Obispo from Omaha and I had this book with me, a gift from my mom. I started reading it and totally forgot about the flight, never noticed the movie they were playing. A good number of times tears were just pouring down my face and I'd wipe them away, wondering if the people on the plane around me thought I was a bit crazy.
But I tell you, I'm crazy about this book! Honestly, I read a good deal and this is easily one of the most interesting, deepest, most powerful books I have read in years. Although true, a memoir, it reads just like a fine novel. I was so totally absorbed reading this rare gem of a find, that it was difficult to realize that the author had died some 20 years ago--she, Adele Crockett Robertson, seems so real, so full of life, so gutsy, so immediate.
Briefly, this is the story of a young girl, a smart, educated girl with a good head on her shoulders, who loses her job in the great Depression, and goes back to the family farm to try and save it from the bank. The many people in the book all come to life perfectly and there are surprises aplenty. I am a gardenwriter (author of Allergy-Free Gardening)and have farmed myself, and I appreciate what Adele went through. I would also add that this is no doubt the best picture of life during the Depression I've ever come across.
I plan to review this book every place that I can, because to my mind, this one is so good, so readable, so well worth reading, so enjoyable, so satisfying, that it completely deserves to be a best seller. Do yourself a favor and read this marvelous book!

The late Adele Robertson's story of her attempt to save her family's property by establishing a commercially viable apple orchard during the Great Depression is a true gem. Robertson, who later went on to become an award-winning columnist for the Ipswich Chronicle, writes in a clear first-person voice. At times wildly humorous and often poignant, the story is superficially about growing and selling apples. What it is really about is self-reliance and courage. It is no wonder that so many New England high schools now include this book on their reading lists -- Robertson (with the help of her daughter Betsey, who retrieved and edited the manuscript after her mother's death) has produced a riveting work that speaks to a woman's need to "make it on her own" without ever preaching about it.

Reading Bay Wolf Restaurant Cookbook is almost like taking a trip to this exceptional restaurant. The photographs and commemorative menus are stunning and the recipes are terrific, but it is the warm, generous personality of the staff, particularly Michael Wild that are expressed in the text that impresses me most of all. You'll want to share this treasure.

This book is so sumptuously photographed that it is inspiring to cook from, to look at, and to read. The writing is clear and beautiful, and the recipes have very thoughtfully been kept to a single page making it not only a gorgeous book, but one that can actually be cooked from. It is a delight from start to finish, and it is the sort of book that not only would make a beautiful gift, but also an essential part of the kitchen.

The Bay Wolf Restaurant Cookbook reads less like an ordinary cookbook and more like a well-written letter from a dear friend. The reader is, in essence, invited into the charming and interesting world of Michael Wild and The Bay Wolf. The photography is stunning, recipes inspired, and the cover art by Rupert Garcia is brilliant.

It is clear why the restaurant has such devoted clientele, employees, and merchants whose satisfaction is unmistakable. After reading The Bay Wolf Restaurant Cookbook I was inspired to hop the metro nearest my little Parisian apartment, buy a bottle of Californian wine from the local Wine Bar, and make a Duck Cassoulet. . .in the middle of August.

Bravo to Michael Wild, Lauren Lyle, G. Earl Darny and Adele Novelli Crady!

I was luckily led to Adele Tinning following the passing of my boyfriend, Alvin Lorenzo. She made it possible for me to speak to him on his birthday (his 26th) . Adele knew nothing at the time of who I wished to speak with or any of the particulars. Alvin came through loud and clear, a unbelievable experience that moved her friend Helen to tears- I am still so thankful. I remained friends with Adele until her passing a few short years later. This woman was so giving, never asked for money, she only gave and gave to others. I miss her very much, she was so special. I am so thankful that I was able to find her book here (she used to give them to people without charge), I loaned mine out a while back, never to see it again. Thank God.

(...)The book is so significant in the simplicity of language, straight forward message and can be opened at any page at any time in your life for a message to be given to you. I have given away many copies of her book and whenever I need the comfort of advice and clearness of thought, I get my copy of God's Way of Life and randomly open it's worn pages to the message I need for that moment. It has never failed me and I am sure it will not fail you. (...) Her book should be shared with others.

I have know Mrs. Tinning since I was 8 years old, I was lucky enough to sit at her white table and talk to the spirts and also see some one I love be healed, she was a wonderful women, with the bluest clear eyes I have ever seen. I am now 46 years old, and still keep going back to her books.

This is book two of the Egerton Hall trilogy, and much like "The Tower Room," the story is told after the fact. Alice (Sleeping Beauty) is in her room, writing in a journal of roses that her father used as a young man. She tells of the doctors that have come to examine her, why she does not speak or even open her eyes when her family visits her, how quiet the house has been since the night of her party, and the actual preparations for her eighteenth birthday bash. Also, Alice muses upon Jean-Luc, a young Frenchman who was supposed to come to her party but is running late. He might have to climb the gate to reach her. This book is the heaviest in the trilogy, but the most stunning in its simplicity. The reader can figure out what happened to Alice long before she is brave enough to write it down, but your heart breaks again when she finally does. I highly recommend this book and the rest of the trilogy, "The Tower Room" and "Pictures of the Night."

_Watching the Roses_, the second book in the Egerton Hall trilogy, tells the story of Alice, the shyest, most sheltered, most romantic of the three friends. Echoing the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" and a little bit of "Red Riding Hood", it is also the most romantic, most gothic, and darkest of the three books.

Alice was cursed at her christening by her aunt, "the dreaded Violette", who was angry at not being invited; the curse stated that she would be "snuffed out" on her eighteenth birthday. Another aunt tried to mitigate this by wishing her health and a long life, assuring her parents that, while Alice might fall ill or have an accident that year, she would recover. Eighteen years later, the family throws a grand coming-out party for Alice, to defy Violette's dark words. And at this party, Alice is raped.

Alice retreats into silence, hiding in her room and refusing to speak to anyone. Her parents fall into despair as well, drinking and taking sleeping pills, and letting even the precious rose garden go to ruin. Alice sits alone, writing her thoughts in an old notebook of her father's, peppered with his notes on this rose or that. The rose descriptions at the beginning of each of Alice's entries are easy to skim over, but don't--they set the mood for the next installment of the story. Alice wants to break out of her shell, and can't find the strength to do so; the only thing that sustains her are dreams of her long-distance sweetheart, Jean-Luc. How will she "wake up" back into normal life? Read and find out...

Having already read 'The Tower Room', first in the series, and been given a taster of this story, I was eager to read it, and I wasn't disappointed. It begins just as 'The Tower Room' did, with 'once upon a time', but the fairy tale atmosphere is far deeper in this book, as it should be, because Alice's life is much more rarified than Megan's. There is a hint of something awful from the first page, drawing you deeper into the story, and more hints are added as you progress, a sense of doom overhanging the heroine. You really get a sense of Alice, an only child surrounded by doting adults who are all much older than her, very sensitive and very close to her two friends Megan and Bella, who also act as her protectors. The reader is also made aware of how unexperienced Alice is with men, and how she finds this lack of experience rather difficult faced with her friends' progress. There are many little details which lift the book above the norm-Alice's hint of foreign blood, her excellence at Art, the rose descriptions which serve as a frame for the story, a nice touch which links it back to the original. Finally, I was also pleased and impressed that Geras makes Alice sound different from Megan, despite both stories being told in the first person. An excellent read which I keep coming back to.

My daughter (age 2) is nuts for this book. What she likes about it is the expressiveness of the baby's face as he/she (sorry, but as many times as I've looked at the pictures, I still can't quite tell which it is) cries for the runaway bunny and then finds it again. It's been great for teaching her about sadness, happiness, and love.

This book has wonderful photos and the story is simple and sweet. I have a TWO year old daughter and like all two year olds she dosn't like to sit still long but when I pull this book out of my collection of over 100 children's books she climbs up on my lap and I recive her full attention. Also it is a wonderful book for first readers. My six year old supprised me when she started reading it the other night. My children ages are 9months-6Years of age and all of them seem to find something they like about the book.

Of the hundred-plus books my two children (3 and 2) have, they always return to the Barefoot Books' "Mother Goose Remembers" and this one. "Bunny and Me" is charming and lovely, with careful and non-cheesy photography/artwork. The baby's face (and the lop-eared bunny's, too) is full of expression: amusement, curiosity, sadness, joy, contentment. There's a simple story the child experiences with the baby: baby and bunny, baby loses bunny, baby finds bunny, baby and bunny are happy. The text rhymes simply without strain, and babies are delighted by lines (with accompanying images) like "baby wears beads/bunny wears beads" and "bunny kisses baby's doll/baby laughs." Every baby and small child I've encountered gravitates to this book and can't read it often enough.

this was a great book. its about two sisters the younger has ocd and the older has to take care of her. if thats not enoguh they feel constanly compared to there older siblings who died years before. then a painter nmaed a nnie comes in to there life and makes it better.

I can confidently state that Adele Griffin, when I read her other books, will probably become one of my favorite authors. I LOVED "The Other Shepards". My older brother died in a car wreck when I was a toddler, too young to really know or remember, so I sort of understand what Holland and Geneva were going through. (I loved their names. I wish I had a name like Geneva.) Holland seemed to be the realistic older sister -- wishing to help Geneva but becoming understandably impatient at times with her sister's bizarre behavior. I didn't realize Annie was a ghost till the end, though I thought she seemed pretty peculiar. Not much actually happened in the story -- I'd call it a novel of adjustment -- but it was a pleasant read. I'd highly recommend it.

this is a really great book! from the start u are drawn into the story and the main charachters. the story is about thier time spent w/annie, a sort of imaginary friend and how holland and her sister discover new things about themselves and learn to sort of live thier lives in the present instead of basing it on the past. it's kinda hard to explain but i reallly recommend reading it for yourself!

The book would better be titled "The First world squeeze", because if we go by the parameters of this book, what we find is a purely First world crisis.This crisis infact looks like a boon for the labour-cheap thirdworld or developing countries. But, combined with the on going hi-tech revolution, it could mean a elite class in the third world also. This is the sort of reality we find, as we observe the yawninig gap in the developing countries also, between its rich and poor. So, it looks like that the world's poor are being pitted agianst the rich and privileged few of the world more and more as the Globalization advances. Going by the present trend in polarisation of the classess world wide it looks-the day is not far off when the working class of the world would rise in unison, to deliver a death blow to the global capitalist system- as predicted by Karl Marx 150 years back.

I read Global Squeeze when it first came out. It's much more realistic than any others I've read since. (Future Perfect, Maestro, Independently Wealthy) I can see no hope for our middle class due to the job exports in all occupational categories. For the latest real world view read Business Week, Feb. 3, 2003, "The Global Job Shift."

We are in real trouble.

This is a very effective piece of economic reporting and must be one of the most acute pictures of 'capital in the raw' that I have read, a desmerizing tonic to the endless litany of neoliberal triumphalism. Neither Marxist, nor doctrinaire, it unwittingly scores a bullseye of indirect marxist analysis of the one-and-the-same process that is the invariant of the capitalist system. This isn't even a radical statement. Slogans one way or the other are stopped in their tracks by facts here, and facts that induce momentary helpless shock, quite short of firebrand indignation. We don't live in a global democratic system. Therefore we don't live in a democratic system. Capital has beaten the pants off sentimentalism here. Democracy so-called is a good front, but otherwise an inconvenience to the predators described herein. The author produces one horrendous
statistic about forty thousand people controlling 81 trillion in assets. Capital.
Not much more needs to be said.
Your move, unless you are powerless, a democratic nobody. Checkmate?

WestBrook and Ratti cover all throws taught in Aikido up to black belt level. There are full walkthroughs of all projections and immobilizations in the book, and modifications to them. There is also a section on the jo - short staff - that includes a kata for you to practice. Unlike other books, Westbrook and Ratti cover smaller, but some of the more important, aspects of aikido, including start positions (kneeling, crouched, standing, etc.), etiquitte, hand-to-weapons defense, history, ki development, ki usage, philosophy, and so much more. I have been in martial arts for well over a decade, and this is by far the finest literature on aikido I have ever seen. Complete with pictures, walkthroughs, philosophy and the like, Aidkido and the Dynamic Sphere is on par with "Secrets of the Samurai" (same authors). Both are absolutely fantastic and comprehensive.

I've been in the martial arts for 20 years and in Aikido for 5 years. In that time I've read a lot books on the martial arts and over the last 5 years I've read several Aikido books. Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere is by far the best I've ever read. It is a down to earth, nuts and bolts look at the art of Aikido. Other books are too congested with difficult to follow philosophy and spirituality. This book,however, is full of useful information for both beginners and advanced students alike. I WISH THERE WERE MORE BOOKS LIKE IT!!!

As an Aikido "newbie", who joined and left various Aikido Dojos for a few good years now ... I found this book to be an EXCELLENT source about Aikido. It covers EVERYTHING new students would want to know, plus ALMOST everything a veteran would like to know (Aikido, after all, has a LOT of variations and moves..). It covers the philosophy of Aikido, the History of Aikido, the etiquette of Aikido, and of course, the Art itself. The whole book is full with -lovely- illustrations that are great to look at, especially at all the techniques covered in this book.

Anyhow, I've done some research before purchasing this book, and I firmly believe this is one of the greatest, if not the best, books you can read about Aikido.

Moving to the city?

Moving around in the city?

Looking for someplace new to explore over the weekend in the city?

Ingest media about the city and are tantalized but clueless about the neighborhood references?

GRAB THIS BOOK NOW!

Zany's manages to be a succinct yet comprehensive reference for every neighborhood in every borough and a couple in Jersey.

It provides at-a-glance lists of demographic info, public transportation access, average rental and purchase price, and distance in minutes to both downtown and midtown Manhattan. It also offers (compared to my experience accurate) overviews of noise levels, parking availability, family-friendliness, safety considerations, entertainment options, restaurants, public green spaces, and shopping.

While packing maximum info into minimum space, the well-written snack-sized histories and characterizations of neighborhood vibe also make it an addictive read.

Final Word: Interesting fun for any NYC fan, indispensible survey for would-be renters or buyers before contacting a broker.

This is so well written and organized, it is the only guide you'll need. I also bought If your thinking of living in...New York Times book and Monster.com's Relocating to NYC and surrounding areas. I wasted my money on those other two books because unlike Zany's they were mostly fluff and made it sound like all neighborhoods were equally good.

In contrast Zany's gives you detailed enough information that is "straight up" and not sounding like a salesperson for the hood. The descriptions give you a nice feel for the intangible aspects of any community. By organizing each neighborhood into things which are relevant to everyone, but not weighted equally by everyone, you can select what things are important to you and make your own decisions based on what is important and appeals to you.(e.g. safety, schools, parks, shopping, household income, diversity, etc.)

I also like the "editor's picks" which I found very helpful and included a little something for everyone (Best Bang for the Buck, Hippest Hood etc.). Using the book nearly exclusively we were able to narrow it down to two hoods that were in our price range and met our criteria for a good place to live. Well done!!

Unfortunately, this book's title is misleading because it doesn't help you find an apartment; rather, it helps you find a NEIGHBORHOOD. Zany's is a detailed look at most of the neighborhoods of Manhattan, Brooklyn and parts of Queens. In that regard, I loved it and found it extremely beneficial because it was so educational. I live in Manhattan but I have been wanting to move and this book has helped me narrow down locations to where I can afford to live, as well as which neighborhoods would be best for me and my needs. And they're very thorough. They even list some of the newly formed (or newly named!) neighborhoods, such as Clinton - formerly Hell's Kitchen, and give you information about average rent and sales prices on apartments, neighborhood safety, parking, schools, restaurants, night life, transportation and general living style. Also, despite the un-P.C. nature of some of these statistics, people are still interested in a demographic breakdown of a neighborhood's population, and so they tell you who lives there by race, age and income levels. I think this book is a great resource for anyone who is thinking of moving to a new neighborhood in New York City. You might even find a neighborhood that you never heard!

Contrary to what one reviewer wrote, this is not the *only* book on parenting you should read. I'd recommend Faber and Maslish's other books, How to Talk so Kids will Listen..., and How to Talk so Kids Can Learn... I give this book four stars, simply because I've given the others five stars each, and I wanted to show that you should perhaps read these books first.

I found this one in the library, somewhat desperate at a time when my two-year old was regularly trying to pinch and scratch my newborn baby. What to do? It felt awful. I clutched Siblings Without Rivalry to me like a lifebuoy.

Did it help? Emphatically, yes! There is tons of helpful material here, especially the stuff about helping children to express their feelings appropriately, and the advice to treat children uniquely rather than equally. I was worried that the authors might just rehash what they said in How to Talk so Kids Will Listen..., but they don't. The format is familiar - case studies, cartoons etc, as is the general approach to life, but the content is a real development.

I have to admit that some of the book is less relevant when one of the siblings in question is still a young baby. But I'm glad I read it when I did. I'll be coming back to it in the future.

My sister spoke very early and her first words were "I'm telling mommy!" From the moment she arrived home from the hospital, we were locked in mortal combat. Our rivalry finally ended when I left home at 18. We are now good friends, but I wish that my parents had read this book during our childhood. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, authors of "How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk", share years of experience gained through their own parenting trials and through those of the thousands of parents who have attended their workshops. Their aim is to teach parents the skills and techniques necessary to redirect rivalry into cooperation. Topics such as teaching parents to stop treating their children equally instead of uniquely, helping children express their angry feelings acceptably, motivating children to solve their own problems, and handling fighting are expertly covered. This best-selling book puts the reader right into the middle of a fictional workshop, sitting with other frustrated parents, asking questions and working out solutions. Each chapter begins with questions aimed at helping parents to understand and acknowledge the feelings behind a common problem. The book then describes the communication skills necessary to defuse the rivalry and gain cooperation instead of arguments. Theory is put into practice in cartoon form. A problem is presented in a cartoon, which shows the "typical" way an untrained parent would respond, and then the way the problem could be resolved using the new techniques the authors teach. The last chapter of the book explores ways in which we can mend fences and renew our relationships with our own adult siblings. Several poignant stories illustrate that it is never too late to learn effective communication skills. I found this book useful for parents of only children, since the skills presented are as useful for dealing with one child as for many. For parents of two or more children, this is a MUST READ

I am in love with this book. When my second child was first
born, I read the first chapter or two of this book and found it
very useful for dealing with my older child's jealous behavior.
Now that my second is 1 1/2 and the two children are playing
together and having so many conflicts, I picked the book back
up and read it from cover to cover. There are so many helpful
anecdotes. The book has given me words to handle so many
frustrating situations. It is one of my favorite
books on child-raising!