One of the few books I have re-read in adulthood, having discovered it in late teenagehood. Very good indeed. Its descption of life for a woman seeking independence in Sydney on the post-WW2 period is excellent, as is the exposition of aging, and the bitter-sweetness of an expat returning to a former home. In the scenes in Brisbane suburbia you can almost smell the frangipani and mango trees!

Jessica Anderson deserves a place alongside the equally masterful Alice Munro. Her prose is flawless, compelling, simple and elegant, and it serves a finely crafted story and page-turning plot. I don't know why Anderson is not better known, but I certainly feel lucky that I found her.

1991 22nd printing includes; Ubu Roi (drama in 5 acts); The Song of Disembraining;2 essays on theatre by Alfred Jarry-"Questions of the Theatre" and "Of the Futility of the "Theatrical" In the Theatre";2 portraits of the author by L. Lantier and F.A. Cazals, several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard and 204 drawings by Franciszka Themerson doodled on lithographic plates. Fascinating little book!

Hugely, magnificently funny. I saw a live production of this play on an education channel some years ago. It is totally anarchic and joyful.

This book was a profoundly touching account of a family's coming to terms with a son's sexual orientation and their journey with him as one who had AIDS. I felt like it was a candid look inside a very real Mother's heart ... a Mom who lives right next door, who somehow enabled me to walk along side the lives of herself, and her family as they came to both understand and accept the uniqueness that was Tim ... as well as the pain of living through his experience of AIDS and his eventual death. I very highly recommend this book. It touched me deeply.

Beverly Barbo writes about her son who dies from Aids. She boldly speaks out about his homosexuality as she deals with watching her son pass away. This book is impossible to put down as it is a very real look at the disease and its impact on her and her family. A must for anyone who desires to learn about A mother,her son, and Aids.

In 1993 We're Back was in theaters. It is my favorite book also , my favorite movie. It was funny and I laughed ,when I read it. It was just great ,everyone should read it. I like the part when all the Dinasaurs screamed, cause they didn't want to get in trouble.

My five year old son loves this book and I've read it to him many times. It's about a group of dinosaurs transported to modern New York and their adventures in the city.

What I especially like about the book is that the humor makes an adult smile and I don't mind reading it repeatedly.

How to, what to; in this day and age of divorce and second marriages, this book is a MUST! I used it as my reference every step of the way and as I planned by non-traditional nuptials, I was delighted that etiquette was still upheld!
Lovely stories from other brides and grooms were told to encourage us to have our own special Scottish ceremony a day we'll never forget!

With me exchanging vows for the 3rd time and my wife for the 4th, this helpful book was a Godsend. The night before the wedding my wife's mother was threatening not to come if my wife's father "brings that tramp" and her second husband was granted parole. But thanks to this well-written and immensely helpful book we took everything in our stride apart from a minor scuffle at the reception between my dad's ex-boyfriend and his then wife.

Wonderful book. It really shows the importance of God in our lives. He can do anything, like this book shows. I really recommend it.

Merry Hanson's friend, Lissa, shows up at Merry's house one night bruised and banged up. Lissa says she can't go home or her father will beat her again. Can Merry help her? This book shows the importance of our tears to God. I really recommend Whispers Down the Lane!

This book is the best book, it finally reveals her true feelings about Jon and it finally shows how Miss Spindler spies on everyone. It is great I suggest that you read it, as well as the rest of the series!!

This book was really good! I read all the others in the series and I think Merry should go with Levi not Jon! I stayed up all night reading this book to find out what happens to her and her cats! I highly recomend this book!

You have to read this wonderful book! I would recommend it for anyone who

likes scary stories. I also think you will enjoy this creepy book if you like spooky

surprises. This story has a very old woman who is claimed to be a witch who's still alive

and kicking!

This story is great because it tells about a handicapped girl doing things she likes

to do, and trying to ignore the fact that she lives in a haunted house once owned by the

witch. ... This story is really spine chilling! The one thing I will not

recommend is to read this book before bedtime especially if you get nightmares. This book

has sneaky surprises on every page and it's hard to fall asleep! If I had to rate this book

I'd give it five stars ***** ! It is one of the best books I've read all year .

I belive this book is an extremly great book that is easy to get into! Beverly Butler did an outstanding job on writing this book! The wording was great! Kirsty is quite the hero in this book, she goes through alot of anger and sadness, and Beverly wrote well enough to actually make you feel her anger towards life. I highly recommend it!

I am an 18 year-old senior in High School, and I have read Carol Ellison's Women's Sexualities for my Psychology AP class. Reading about other, more experienced women's sexual experiences has helped me define my own views of sexuality, and has given me a chance that not every girl has, to learn from my elders the mistakes not to make. Ellison's book is detailed, informative, and interesting. It is well-written, and she gives many view-points for each topic, showing what happens rather than what should happen to women sexually. I recommend this book to any women who wants to know what other women experience. I especially recommend this book to teenage girls on the brink of adulthood, around the time that they start to experiment sexually, and young-adult males who want to understand the experiences of their girlfriends. With new information in every paragraph, there is much to be learned from Dr. Carol Ellison's Women's Sexualities.

For over two millenia, powerful Feminine Mysteries handed down from generation to generation of women have mostly been enervated, forgotten, and buried. With and without conscious intent, women still shelter our sexuality from religious persecution, social control, relationship obligations, and our own parents' (and sometimes our children's)sexual inhibitions. Although they may be dormant, the Mysteries are by no means dead to us. The time is ripe to reclaim our right to sexual wholeness. This doesn't mean being sexually active, it means being all of who you are, including celibate.

Dr. Ellison has written a book to help those of us who want to discover, uncover, or recover our natural, healthy sexuality. She has done this through voices of American women of all ages, from all over the U.S., who speak candidly about their sexual energies. The book is divided into four sections: The sexualities of women Development: The path to sexual womanhood Sexual partners: Licit and illicit Erotic pleasure

In each chapter, Dr. Ellison gently, and with deep understanding, redirects our conditioned thinking about sexuality and give us facts, she lets women, themselves, tell us the many ways of claiming and reclaiming sexual energies, and gives the reader an opportunity to consider and act on issues in her own life. Topics include childhood sexual discoveries; sexual attitudes and values; love, sexuality, and sexual boundaries; first intercourse; partners and contexts; consensual nonmonogamy and affairs; masturbation and fantasy; sexual satisfaction and partnered sex; varieties of orgasms; sexual concerns and problems; creating pleasure with a partner; and my own personal favorite: sexual self-acceptance. Although written for women, men will get a good idea of what we are about sexually, it's that spelled out.

This is not another techniques, fantasies, and gimmicks book to turn you on when your integrity has turned you off. It is about sexualities, your energy for life, who you are as a woman and how you can be more fully you, whether or not you are in a relationship.

This book is an effective tool for women's groups to reawaken, rekindle, and support our increasing self-knowledge. I am recommending it not only to clients but to friends and to my adult children. And, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, myself.

I recommend Beverly Levine's World War II: We Were There. In 42 personal recollections of nineteen women and twenty men, we get a detailed, close-up view of how the Second World War shaped the lives of those who lived through it, whether or not they were on the front lines. This theme of personal strength is particularly relevant in today's uncertain world.

Each recollection has something special to offer the reader. None of those telling these stories is famous, yet each reveals important life lessons. Sara Levi recounts a childhood paradise on Rhodes where her Spanish Jewish family had moved when the Jews were kicked out of Spain in 1492. She describes the flower-filled, candy-sweet, sunny life among Turks, Italians and others, then contrasts it starkly with her sisters' survival and return from Auschweitz.

Howard Sosbee remembers riding in a troop train through North Platte, Nebraska. The local farm women boarded the train with home-made doughnuts, pastries, cookies, strudel, "everything you could imagine," giving it all away to boys like their own sons, far from home.

George O'Hara's job was to develop a battle cemetary at Normandy. "It was a rough job, dealing with dead bodies." Lois Widom writes of her family's reaction to her older brother's death. "In my own life, I became a pacifist," she says. Upon a recent visit to her brother's grave marker at Arlington Cemetary, "the person buried next to my brother had been killed quite recently. I was horrified that this was still going on."

Merle Levine was an aerial gunner over Europe. "The war was actually a short time of our lives -- I've lived 75 years and the war took two -- but it's the thing you remember...those war experiences are always with you."

Beverly Levine does a masterful job of editing and organizing the stories into this wonderful book. Each section represents a period of time, from the late 1930's as France and England declare war on Germany, through the atomic bombings in Japan. Her great gift as editor is as an excellent listener. Each voice she brings to the printed page is distinct without any heavy-handedness or sentimentalism. Through skillful editing, truth-filled gems in each story come to the surface and glitter, offering us the chance to learn from and admire not just those whose reminiscences are in this book, but the people, strangers even, around us in everyday life who have lived through similar experiences and merit our attention and respect.

This book is filled with interesting stories told by real persons who lived through the difficult times of World War II, a time when we knew who our enemy was. Each story offers a new perspective and can be read independently. The stories are also wonderful for reading aloud. Find out what it was really like in the 40's.