My pediatrican recommended this book when my now 13-year-old was born, and it's only slight hyperbole to say that my children are alive and well because Miriam Stoppard! The book gives very practical advice on how to wrap a baby, tips to dress a baby, how to bathe a baby, how to take a temperature, etc. My mother-in-law was in awe of my skills and never guessed that I was so proficient because I'd been reading the book before she came over! The book also has growth charts in the back where you can record your children's height and weight progress and compare it against several norms. I'm reviewing this book now because I'm on-line to order the upteenth copy for another friend who is expecting.

I love this author. She is very down-to-earth. I buy this book and her Pregnancy & Birth book for everyone in my family who gets pregnant.

For first time moms it really lays out everything you will need to be completely ready once the baby arrives.

It breaks everything down so you are prepared and keeps you informed of things you will need well into the first year.

I recommend this book.

With Faceless Enemy, author Miriam Lee has outdone herself. This is a very enjoyable and satisfying book -- intelligently written, filled with believable characters (some you love to hate), and plot twists that keep you hooked to the last word. I can't wait for Lee's next page-turning adventure!

Stayed up way past my bedtime to finish "Faceless". The characters are so interesting and seemed so real. I personally wanted to reach into the pages, seize one nasty individual by the collar and shake!

What an amazing story. My daughter wept as we read through the pages together...realizing that character Rachel could not go out for the winter because she had outgrown her shoes was just the beginning of this beautiful, sorrowful tale about what could have been.
As our children are learning tolerance and acceptance in today's society, it is unthinkable for us to explain the devestation in the lives of these courageous Jews.

This book tells a fiction story about a young girl in a photograph from Roman Vishniac's book. He went to Eastern Europe prior to the Holocaust to photograph a dying civilization: the Jews of Eastern Europe. This story provides a charming explanation for one of the most poignant photos in his book. It is also a wonderful introduction to the history of the Holocaust for young Jewish children. It portrays the horrors of war to any child. Although Miriam Nerlove does not misrepresent the history, she manges to end her story on a note of hope.

This book answered important questions I had never thought to ask about human civilization and religion. Being new to the topic I did find some parts very detailed and a bit dry but the in the end it was all worth it. What an interesting read! Whether you are "new age" or "old age", Christian or not, this will offer very interesting and intelligent arguments on a topic that seems to be really gaining interest. If you want convincing answers read this book.

In the past years with all the movies and books on UFO's, Aliens and doomsday events,a person could think that only Hollywood had something to say on the matter.Then comes along this brillant and timely work and shows us that the world has been visited throughout the ages by other beings. Mrs. Hellman takes the reader on a exciting tour through the pages of the Bible to discuss this age old phenomenon.This book is a must for those readers and thinkers that contemplate the age old question....."are we alone in the universe ? "

Every time we walk into our neighborhood bookstore, my son runs over to find "Haunted Castle." I guess it started when the book originally caught my eye, and so I picked it up. I'm an artist, and the drawings are so detailed and intruiging that it drew me in immediately. To top it off, there's a game to be played throughout the book that both my son and I found extremely innovative. In it, Johnny and Jodie have to find their Uncle Barnaby, and so the journey takes you through the many twists, characters, and wonderful drawings where in the end you really don't know if you're going to actually find him. Because my son is not at the reading level the book displays, it's a great way to spend some quality time together without the TV on! I would reccomend "Haunted Castle" to you if you're one to appreciate tallented illustration, great ideas in writing, and enjoy sharing story time with your children.

Haunted Castle is a book that lets you choose your own path through a terrifying castle. Every time you read the book, the story changes because of the decicions you make. The richly detailed illustrations will keep you entertained for hours and every time you look at an illustration you notice something new. Some of the first rate drawings include a graveyard full of restless spirits, a mad scientist's laboratory, a sunken pirate ship, and a dungeon. Once you finaly find your way out of the castle, there is a surprise that explains the whole mystery!

Although I first came into contact with this book within the Orthodox Jewish community, I believe that "It's All a Gift.."'s positive message can apply to anyone. Miriam Adahan reminds us of what we are often too quick to forget: that every good or bad occurance in life has an inherently holy purpose, and that we must trust that everything is positive in some respect, even if we don't necessarily understand how. For many, the book isn't stating a new concept. Regardless, even for these people, the book is an excellent and convincing restatement/reminder! Truly happy is the reader who internalizes the message of this book!

This is the best Mussar book I have ever seen, including the classics. Adahan succeeds in walking the fine line between oversimplification ("I suffer because I have sinned") and heresy ("God would like to help but He can't"). One-slogan summary of the book: "Hashgacha Pratit is an attitude". (Then, as Hillel said, Zil G'mor. Or, in this case, do the hard work of acquiring that attitude.) (For Christian lurkers: "Hashgacha Pratit" is the same as what M. Scott Peck means by "Grace"

I read about this book in the August 2000 issue of National Georgraphic magazine, and grew very eager to read it. For years I've been searching for ways to explore family roots in Shepitikava, Ukraine, around and prior to 1920. This book provides details I would not have found anywhere unless I did the on site research the author Weiner has done. What a find! Aunts born in Shepitivka prior to 1920 still live today and will be mesmerized by the details I will soon point out to them. For that matter, their father, my grandfather, may well be pictured in one 1920 photo of Jewish men in Shepetivka at the cemetary's new gate.

I recently received my copy of this long awaited work by Miriam Weiner. In addition to providing the first tangible inventory of what the regional archives hold, in regard to the history of our Jewish families, this book gives a wonderful pictorial overview of the area. One which most of us could only imagine until now. It does so by providing photos of the places our families inhabited in the past, contrasted, in many instances, with how those same places appear now.

The vivid past jumps off the pages of this beautifully formatted book, just as the lure of the book's vast archive document inventory tempts the reader with its research possibilities for the future.

This book is a must for anyone contemplating research into their family history in Ukraine and Moldova, and a treasure for those who are merely curious about the world our ancestors lived in and left behind.

I read 40+ pgs of this book in the bookstore alone. I just moved to Nogales, AZ in January and I have found this book to be very helpful in providing me a background of the Ambos Nogales areas. The book is very well written and keeps you interested from cover to cover. Living in the area and being able to directly relate to the book is a plus, however anyone interested in the US-Mexico Border would find this book to be a spectacular read. Enjoy!!

must also read Miriam Davidson's "Lives on the Line." Maybe I'm a bit biased since I live here in Southern Arizona twelve miles north of our border with Mexico. But Davidson writes such sweet, firsthand-experience prose about other realities I see here -- like the Mexican migrants who have, for decades, crossed the border to keep Americans fat and sassy. The risks they now are taking have become obscenely dangerous, with the US spending billions upon billions to protect-- futiley -- our southern border.

Davidson's book is the first one I've read from cover-to-cover in one sitting since I read Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." She's actually the better writer who shares the same themes.

But one does not have to live near the border with Mexico to understand that our friendly, much older, south-of-the-border nation's problems are really ours.

Besides, the Mexican border is now up in Minnesota -- isn't it, really?

This is a must read.

What better way to judge a man than to see his unedited, straight from the hip letters to his daughter. I have read just about all there is to read on Groucho, but this is my most prized possession. This book shows Groucho's philosophies on family relations, government, love and home life. I felt like a fly on the wall of a private phone conversation. The letters revealed a man who had a heart of gold and a tongue of silver. I was amazed at how his wit in letters was no different from that on the screen. Big thanks to Miriam for letting us look at the private side of one of the funniest men ever.

These letters show a very human side of Groucho Marx. Through all this you get to experience first hand his great wit and sense of word play. There were many dimensions to this man, and these letters provide an inside look at what made this man tick. Many thanks should be given to his daughter Miriam for this personal look into her father's life.

I read Miriam Lee's last book, Deadly Probe, & enjoyed it a lot! This book has all the same elements, intrigue, romance, suspense & surprising plot twists. I had trouble putting it down, and though I'm a slow reader, I finished it in only two days. I recommend this suspense book to anyone who likes mystery or romance. And, if you like them combined, you're in for a fun treat! Can't wait for Ms. Lee's next book. Mary Higgins Clark, look out!

Combining a cunning scenario of a vacation cruise and numerous characters, Miriam Lee has given us a page-turner you end up unable to put down. Or let me put it this way, I was so eager to find out what was going to happen next, I took the book with me on a morning walk and ended up slamming into a lightpole! The ending in particular had me grappling with WHO DO I CHOOSE as the culprit? I chose wrong, to my surprise, and this makes MASQUERADE JOURNEY a book that will stay with me. No more lightpoles, though.