Why aren't there new adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec? 2 are definitely not enough. Tardi is witty and exciting in this outre plot set in late 19th century Paris. Absurd, amusing, a must read!

Forgot Kirby, Barks or the other old geezers the best cartoonist of the 20th century is Jaques Tardi, Adele Blanc Sec got it all twisted plots, great characters and dark satire. But why hasn't the amazing graphic novel Ici Meme been translated to English?!

Paris, un univers fantastique et poetique et une bonne intrigue... Get it!! It's really an amazing trip!

Claire and Loon are twins -- and witches. Their grandmother is a powerful, five-star witch -- and they don't even have one star yet! Determined to get their first star, the sisters practice more spells to help them get more powerful. But they have trouble -- their father is about to marry a dreadful woman, and her name is Fluffy. Fluffy will make their lives miserable -- and the twins have to stop her. They don't know if they can use spells powerful enough to stop their father from marrying her, and it's a big risk -- but can they take it? Witch Twins is a hilarious new fantasy by Adele Griffin. It could have used more plot and been a little longer, but if you're looking for a great witch story, this new fantasy is highly recommended.

I enjoyed this book so much because it reminds me of me and my best friend Chelsea.The twins are always up to no good like us!We were in [a local bookstore] after a soccer game and had to pick out a book and then we saw this one and laughed because it was just like that.It is also a very good book to read with your best friend like me and Chelsea.

Claire and Luna look like ordinary, ten-year-old identical twins. But they're not. The girls have inherited magic powers from their maternal grandmother, and are on their way to becoming witches. When their father announces that he's marrying his girlfriend, annoying Fluffy, the girls are devastated. They fear that Fluffy will steal their father, and possibly even persuade him to move to her home state of Texas. The desperate girls are denied help by their grandmother, who insists it's against the rules to change Destiny. Claire and Luna are on their own if they want to stop the wedding, but their plans will have unexpected and hilarious results. This was an entertaining, funny book that I reccomend to young readers who enjoy light, humorous fantasy novels.

'Sons of Liberty' was a very majestic book. I know a lot of my peers who could relate to the conflicts that occur in this story. 'Sons of Liberty' was writtin by Adele Griffin and was a nominee for the '1997 National Book Award'.I would assume that this book would be intended for 7th and 8th graders; possibly 9th. It wasn't too sophisticated but there were a few arduous, or hard, words. Out of five stars, I would give it 3 stars. The only aggravating thing was that it took so long to get to the main point. I read half of the book before I actually got to the main conflict. When it got to the remarkable incident, the story had meaning with schocking details. It made up for itself and became a pretty good book.

This book is about a boy, named Rock. He lives with his army-like dad, his smarter, older brother, baby sister and his mother who is on the brink of going crazy. The dad is very abusive and treats Rock and his brother, Cliff, like soldiers. Rock believes what his father says when he criticizes the boys. However, Cliff is smarter. He has a plan to try to keep his family together. Cliff plans different ways to make things better for the family. He also helps Cliff and Rock's friends.

Rock is not a good student. His dad has convinced him that school is not important. He finds he really likes History. His history teacher and friend is the only person that understands him him. He has an assignment to write a paper on the American Revolution. Throughout the book, he relates his family and personal experiences to the characters, events and times of the revolution. This book was a 4 star because it's aimed at 5th to 7th grade readers. I'm in ninth grade; it just didn't hold my attention. The plot and characters were interesting but it's definitely a book for younger people.

My book is about a 13 year old boy named Rock. He has lots of problem she has a father that is vary abousive,and has a mother that is agoraphobic. He has a friend named Cliff and he got a new friend named Liza. Cliff is trying to get the familey bake together and at the end of the book Liza moves away and the familey has gotten bake together and the dad is not that abusive anymore .

I waited a long time for this to be republished in England. It begins just as the other two did, 'once upon a time', but Bella is actually speaking the words. I was looking forward to this book, not only for the story and the wrapping up of Alice's and Megan's tales, but also to discover Bella's mind.
Bella is the most flamboyant and rebellious of the trio: she is constantly compared to Carmen throughout the trilogy, a nod to the allure she has for men and her troubles with them, and she is the one who keeps up with popular culture. However, although Bella loves Elvis and other rock'n'roll singers, she is deeply touched by the world of jazz and the blues. And this is a perfect example of her character: though she can seem shallow, arrogant and irritating, inside Bella is actually quite thoughtful. The agony of the blues and jazz touches her because she has had sadness in her life, the dynamics of the original fairytale being unchanged. As before, the stepmother, whom Bella wanted to love, despises her beauty and does everything she can to stifle her spirit. Therefore, Bella is, in fact, probably the most isolated of the trio, because she seems the most invulnerable. Geras brilliantly reveals the insecurities behind Bella's façade: her doubts about love, just as real as Alice's and Megan's; her distress about what happened to Alice (she was the one, after all, who decided to protect her that first night); and most of all, is Marjorie really as hostile as Bella thinks she is, or is she really being 'melodramatic' as everyone else says?
The sense of doom that permanently hovered over 'Watching the Roses' is subtly changed here into a creeping suspicion, as Geras brilliantly mimicks what happened to Snow-Drop in the original fairytale, even managing to get the bit about Bella's colouring. Bella adores to sing jazz and blues, to get rid of her agony, and even the title of the story comes from a song in the story which is about chasing the blues away. The meeting of her 'prince' in Paris, on a holiday after her A-levels, is incredibly romantic, but typically the course of true love does not run smooth and he disappears, leaving Bella vulnerable.
As both Megan and Alice's tales reach their end, Bella feels left out, remarking that 'it would never, never be only the three of us ever again'. Where is her happy ending? And why does she keep seeing a white cat every time something strange happens...?
This story is powerful, but also sensitive as it probes Bella's mind, her defiance of the adult world and rules as personified by her stepmother, her refusal to pity herself, but also her longing for love, the one who is protected instead of the one who protects. However, it does make you wonder what it was like for Megan alone on holiday with Dorothy, and what Alice did in France. And what is Bella going to do after the end of the story? Marjorie is especially well-detailed: her jealousy of Bella is increasingly sinister, but Geras also ridicules it, and gives the reader the satisfaction of a kind of show-down between the two. Bella herself emerges as a fully rounded character, and the story ends in a very romantic, upbeat way, typical of her. Yes, there is sex, but as before it is dealt with as a fact of life, something that girls on the verge of womanhood would obviously think about. 'Pictures of the Night' will not disappoint fans of the series.

The third and final installment of the Egerton Hall series, _Pictures of the Night_, is a retelling of the Snow White story. Our heroine this time is Bella, the most flamboyant, rebellious, and wild of the three girls. This is the only one of the books not told in a diary format, which I found to be an excellent touch, since I could never see Bella sitting down long enough to write a journal.

Wanting to get away from her jealous stepmother, who is upset because her hairdresser thinks Bella is prettier, Bella crashes at the house of a band, the Magnificent Seven, with whom she sometimes sings. They get a gig in Paris, and Bella runs off with them for the summer, telling her father and stepmother that she's staying with a friend's aunt. She finds ecstasy on stage, and two very different kinds of love, but always there is a whiff of fear in the air. For Bella is constantly meeting strange women, women who remind her of her stepmother, who rave of her beauty and then give her gifts which always somehow result in Bella becoming ill. Then she returns to Egerton for the fall term, and she and her friends discuss their future plans, and Bella does a lot of soul-searching. And the band is getting ready to play one last big show--and this time her stepmother will be in the audience.

Bella can be obnoxious, shallow, and callous, but I accept that, because making her "sweetness and light" wouldn't be true to the Bella we saw in the first two books. My only gripe is that Miss van der Leyden does not appear in this book. Dear Ms. Geras: Please write a book about everyone's favorite housemother. There must be a story there.

This is a great book that is the last of the trilogy. Bella is a wonderful lead character and this is my favorite book of the three. It follows Bella, a hip British schoolgirl in the early sixties, and her escapades with her seven bandmates, her falling in love with someone she saw once and was then wisked away from, oh, and her evil stepmother trying to kill her. Sound familiar? Bella's story is Snow White's, of course. This is a very good read, especially when read with "The Tower Room" and "Watching the Roses," the first two books in the series. Enjoy!

i enjoyed this book because it really makes you appreciate the plight of others less fortunate than ourselves. i have never read adele wisemans' books before but i think i will read further as she demonstrates extraordinary talent in capturing the sacrifice and struggle of the human heart.

"The Sacrifice" was a landmark in Canadian literary history, the first runaway world bestseller. It is a national shame that this title is now out of print. World class writers like Wiseman and Kogawa are all too often ethnicized into oblivion by our culture. If this must be their fate in a still-parochial nation, perhaps those descendents of the old north end of Winnipeg can take a fresh look at Wiseman's powerful work and find a way to make it available to new generations. Wiseman's three great and out-of-print titles, "The Sacrifice", "Old Woman at Play", and "Old Markets, New World" cry out for a benefactor. Izzy, where are you? Works like this can easily sell out a Canadian run of 10,000.

The book The Voyage is about the journey from eastern Europe to America in 1904(30 years before World War 2)to escape the oppresion, persecution, and poverty in Eastern Europe. The main characters in the book are Jewish and have to live in the steerage compartment of the S.S. Danzig for two weeks and go through a lot of things, good and bad. On the S.S. Danzig lots of important things happened. People met new friends, they fell in love, they got sick, they died, they stole, and the helped each other stay alive.
I thought this book was good writing and interesting but it wasn't very good about talking about all the horrible struggles and conflicts of the time. The author also brought in all the characters at the same time so it was hard to keep up becasue you weren't quite sure who everyone was. I think it explained how regular life was like for teenagers back then very well. What i learned the most about from this book was what it was like to take the voyage from eastern Europe to America as a strong healthy teenager. I don't think this book is very hard so i would say it is for younger readers. I also think it is more of a fun read than a informational read.

I was so dissapointed when I found out that this book is out of print. Although there wasn't much action, the main point of the book was the characters, and they were all so amazingly well developed that I even understood the perspective of the boy nobody liked. This book gives a great picture of wat it really must have been like to travel to America on a ship as an immigrant. A must read for anyone who likes really full characters you can really like, or anyone who had anscestors on these ships who wants to know what those months were really like for them.

While the author slavishly subscribes to hypodescent, she provides good historical detail on how the privileged social and educational opportunities of Southern multiracials were due to their often close ties with whites fathers and other relatives (as opposed to the myth of the callous white rapist slavemaster "breeding" more slaves). These privileges created the myth that mulattoes and mixed-whites were the "flower of the colored race." These "mulatto elites" filled the "Negro" colleges and universities and reinforced the idea that intelligence comes from "white blood." When you recognize this history, you can see why many people still make the ridiculous claim that losing non-blacks to a "multiracial" or "white" category will somehow destroy all the progress that "blacks" have made. Many of them probably still have the tacit belief that intelligence comes from "white blood."

This book was an eye-opener in that we get to view another way of African American lifestyle that many of us are unaware, black as well as white. Slavery forced us into a divide and conquer theory among blacks but Ms. Logan Alexander's family never forgot their African heritage and dedicated themselves to uplift the race leaving a legacy that is still intact. I recommend this book and look forward to reading her new book, Homelands and Waterways.

Miss Alexander book will help me with my own family history. The Barnes family of Hancock County Ga. Which were also freed people of color. Many thanks to you Ms. Alexander!!!! You have done a excellent job!!!

Before I begin my review, one thing that needs to be corrected. Anne Delobel is not the illustrator for Adele Blanc-Sec. Tardi drew AND wrote all of the books in the series. Delobel is Tardi's colourist.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec are a wonderful insight into Belle-Epoque France. Most people are only familiar with the high-cultured and very controlled aspects of French society and are therefore unaware of those aspects which are grotesque and cynical. Tardi's simple but effective style portrays this perfectly. It, as well as his dialogue, allows him to depict the Belle Epoque's distrust of authority, obsession with the underworld, and fascination with the occult in a style which is caustic and deliciously witty. Read some Tardi and he will show you a France which is far more complex and gripping than the "ooh-la-la" world that most people have come to expect.

The reviewer before me asked if there were any more books in the series. There are about six others, but they have not been translated to my knowledge. I would certainly rate "Eiffel Tower Demon" five stars, but I would rate the translation lower. Having read the original, there are certain nuances in the French language which are difficult to translate into English. Having seen parts of the translation, I couldn't help but feel that there was something missing.

But that aside, I would still recommend the translation. Tardi's work is virtually unknown in most of North America, and it's about time that its brilliance received the recognition that it deserves.

Another amusing, absurd detective thriller from Tardi and Delobel. Plucky crime reporter (and committer!) Adele Blanc-Sec is still reeling from the murder of her lover in Adele_and_the_Beast when a series of mysterious plague deaths attract her attention. In spite of the incompetent assistance of a Sherlock Holmes wannabe and the clumsy efforts of the police Adele successfully unmasks the conspirators of a sinister Assyrian cult. Talk about surprise endings!

Tardi's Adele Blanc-Sec series mixes humor, horror and Belle Epoque steampunk with panache and wonderfully drawn characterization. The series includes 5 or 6 more books and is a must for all fantasy fans.

This commentary fills a large gap between the usual superficial Bible commentaries and very advanced works like the International Critical Commentary. (The volume on Esther in that series is anyway hopelessly out of date.) It provides a lot of solid information in a large solid volume but without overwhelming technicalities. Its attitude is that Esther is a comic novel, presumably with no historical basis for its plot although the background details are confirmed by modern archaeology. Don't expect light reading, but after you have read this you will have learnt a lot.

Fully half of this book is devoted to a discussion of the background of the work and its interpretations. It is quite helpful in understanding and interpreting the text. There is a ten page bibliography that makes it clear the work was exhaustively researched and many points of view were considered.

The author's presentation is not so complex to loose the lay scholar, but is detailed enough to provide an excellent resource for study. This book is well suited to the lay person studying on their own or preparing for congregational bible studies.

I really struggle with cravings for breads and sweets, but the blanced approach of Adele Puhn's program has helped me curb these hunger pangs. The diet has also helped to alleviate a headache that I've carried for the last two months.

It's basically an eating schedule: protein and whole grains for breakfast and lunch, veggies and fruit as snacks throughout the day, and the most "sensible" dinner I've seen in any diet book. She explains the basis for developing the program and why it works. It's inspiring - you CAN be free from cravings.

Adele's mindset is that this way of eating is a way of life, not just a diet. Of course you can't live without ever having another piece of cake or glass of wine. The program allows for that - requires it, in fact.

This book easily earned five stars. The program is relatively easy to follow, the dietary guidelines are in keeping with RDAs and other programs with high success rates, and the book conatains a helpful section adressing the psycological aspects of dieting.

I first read this book and tried this diet in 1997. By combining it with exercise (low impact - walking) I'd lost 10 pounds in a very short time. I could see and feel a major difference in only 2 weeks. I'm no nutritional expert or anything and I've never been able to follow those diets where they tell you specifically what you have to eat at various times of the day but the program works. This book worked for me because it gave me a list of choices and the overall principles involved in controlling my cravings (blood sugar levels). I love sweets and in 5 days by following this plan, my cravings for sweets were gone. Most diets seem to talk about cutting out the fat in your diet to lose weight. We underestimate the impact that sugar has on our diets - at least I did. Over the years, whenever I feel myself getting above my desired size, I revert back to this diet. It always works. I've just lost another 6 pounds and intend to lose another 4 at least. I've incorporated some of the principles in my everyday lifestyle such as eating something within (I think its) 30-45 minutes of when I wake up, the snacks every 2 hours after breakfast and the 2 snacks in the afternoon. I also started buying no sugar peanut butter after I read this book. I still do. It's not nearly as good as Jif, but I realize what the sugar does to me. I highly recommend this for anyone who's interested in weight loss. I've been trying to convince my sister for years.

A must read!

For anyone who has ever tried to lose weight, this book is the one for you! I've tried just about every diet out there but Adele's plan really works. I've been doing the 5-Day Miracle Diet now for two weeks and have already lost 9 lbs. More importantly, just like she says in the book, my cravings are gone and I have more energy than I've ever had in my life. I admit I was skeptical when I started her plan but on day 5 I noticed a huge difference in my energy level. I no longer need my coffee in the morning or any sweets throughout the day.

Her plan may sound complicated at first but once you follow it for 5 days you don't even have to think about it anymore. Like she says the weight just falls off and you feel wonderful! I can't say enough about Adele's book and how it has changed my life in just two short weeks. This book is not just about losing weight, it's also for anyone who wants to be free of cravings forever and have more energy than imaginable to enjoy life!