If you are a seeker, Wanting to feel "alive and informed", looking for gods plan/enactment look no further until you read what this book has to say. Here is a highly respected version (By the Renoun chanell Robt.Shapiro) of how/who was involved in the creation of the Universe & Plan. What these "freinds" of and the Creator did to help procure what we (the special Explorer race)are all a part of. Including the role we all and premise we are playing in the grand unflodment of it all. I loved this read and think it will one day become a classic, existing along w/the other R.S. Explorer Race Series books. I've read 5 of them so far and feel they perfectly intergreat w/the other related books I've read!

This is an excellent book for young children. The pictures of a baby playing with a young puppy are interesting for young children. Just about anything that has to do with dogs or puppies will catch a child's interest. The rhyming text is also a good attention getter.

Wonderfully different way of (biblically-based) looking at Jesus. Mr. Crosby is not afraid of quoting other authors to show a concept. He gave additional food for thought to looking at the Jesus of Revelation... never mind the prophetic imagery, look at the person of Jesus through the eyes of John the Beloved.

WEll, I got this book on sale and it did sound interesting. As I was reading through the book, the book is awesome. It went beyond my own expectation. THe author reminds us of how we really are in Christ. DEFinetely recommended to everyone, esp. those who want to know God's love so much more.

From the title, you might not expect this to be one of the best chapter books ever written for young children, but it is. My oldest child is 17 and my youngest 6, so I have been reading aloud for many, many years, and this is one of my all time favorites. In simple, but beautifully poetic language, Clyde Robert Bulla tells a story of an "ordinary" prince, a disappointment to his cruel and snobbish family, who runs away and meets a "monster" who lives with his people in underground caves. Although the humans and the monsters fear and hate each other, the boys become friends, slowly learning to trust and even protect one another. It is a wonderful story, both exciting and psychologically rich, and it deals with overcoming prejudice in a way that makes sense even to children as young as five or six. But it's so good, so beautifully written, that I'd recommend it for children as old as nine or ten. Unfortunately, as I write this, the book is currently out of print, but any decent library ought to have it. And I hope the publishers come to their senses soon and make it widely available again. This is a book every child should get the opportunity to hear.

This book is the first and last choice of my 15-month-old daughter every night before she goes to bed. She delights in the pictures and simple text, and asks for it to be read over and over again. The age description says 4 to 8 years, but even the youngest readers can enjoy the colorful pictures and the story's adorable heroine.

We have always enjoyed all of the regional On the Road Again with Man's Best Friend guides, and bought the Southwest version last summer for a trip to Santa Fe and Taos. We had trouble choosing between the 15 inns and B&Bs in Santa Fe - they all sounded wonderful. We stayed in a lovely pueblo style inn where each day our dog was presented an afternoon treat, while we enjoyed tea and freshly baked sweets. We used the book to find out where to hike with our dog, or take her in and around town. We loved traveling through New Mexico with our dog, but wouldn't have attempted it without this terrific book!

As a mother with an eight year old girl diagnosed with ADD, I embraced this series of books. Phoebe Flowers is a girl with all the same attributes and mindset as my daughter. As ADD can present itself quite differently in girls, this book refers to a girl that my daughter can relate with, and see that she is not all that different. The socializing problems, the lack of friends, and the difficulty in forming friendships is explored in the text of this narrative, from the viewpoint of the central character. With great humour Barbara Roberts explores the mysteries of social cues and poinantly allows the reader to make conclusions on their own. My daughter and I laughed our way through the book together. There were important breaks in the chapters which allowed me to delve into further discussions with my daughter about her ADD and how it affects her, and her environment. This is a must read for anyone with a child with ADD. It is also a must read for any child in the primary school years. All children can relate to the characters, and their predicament.

Am inclined to think that this is the only selection of Merton letters that you will ever need. It presents Merton at his warmest, his most enjoyable, his most gregarious, his most humble. Loyal to old friends and a willing correspondent with new friends, the Merton we find in "The Road to Joy" contrasts happily with both the austere champion of contemplative solitude and the dour progressive who often bristled under abbatial authority.

We have here letters to his Columbia professor/mentor Mark Van Doren, and the ever-whimsical wordplay-concoctions to his chum Robert Lax. We have encouraging letters to a high-schooler in San Francisco, Suzanne Butorovich -- these, quite possibly Merton's most charming examples of epistolary writing. We have letters to his New Zealand "Aunt Kit," and letters to other family members upon learning of her drowning after a ferryboat sinking. We have letters of pastoral counsel, one to an anguished homosexual; and we have letters thanking fans for their kind words, one in which Merton seems pleasantly surprised to be told that C S Lewis liked some of his books! There is a letter to a Massachusetts high-schooler proferring the asked-for help on a term paper. And there are letters about the events of the day, at the monastery and in the world at large. A flavour of some naive sixties hippiedom in a few places, but no matter.

All manner of thing in this collection; surely, Merton at his gladdest and most endearing. And even if we often tire of Merton after ten or more years of reading him, we can return to these letters and be reminded of what first drew us to this most compelling figure.

This book is one of my favorite photography books in my collection. My reasoning is simple, you pick up the book and the pictures are so varied and random that no matter what page you turn to you are pleased. The book offers so much variety; each picture evokes a different emotion and holds a different story. The angles and colors used are stunning and it's coffee table worth is simply invaluable. I give it 5 Stars!

Craft's amazing gifts as a writer are as interesting as is the story of the extraordinary relationship of which he writes. His famous and intimate long-time relationship with Stravinsky and wife Vera makes for fascinating, if not fast, reading. Some of the most interesting people on the planet make their appearance throughout the pages of this massive book (including Auden, Huxley, Spender, and so many more), and all are treated with a prepossessing intelligence, wit and intellectual candor by this remarkable conductor/musician/friend, Robert Craft. If Craft's own art is not that well known to the man in the street, all the better for the role he assumes in his many books about Stravinsky -that of an 'intimate without portfolio', as it were, able to illumine Stravinsky from the inside out, no small feat indeed. Of course, Craft's own art is indeed prodigious, as his many definitive recordings of Stravinsky's music, made since the composer's death, have proven time and again. Page after page of this 'diary' reveals the unique friendship between a genius and his 'brother-son'; Craft's ability to disappear within his observorship in order to reveal the man to whom he devoted such a great part of his life seems infinite, and so admirable. Craft's is a most perceptive mind, a mirror-mind to Stravinsky's in many ways, and more than a glimpse is thereby afforded of one of the titanic creative forces of the twentieth century. He acted as Stravinsky's alter-genius, if you will, and the results here are spellbinding. The book's journey traverses the world, and includes lengthy episodes in Venice, Paris, Los Angeles, Switzerland- all critical places in Stravinsky's history. The pages of the book devoted to Vera Stravinsky, wife, painter, and someone clearly especially loved by Robert Craft, that appear toward the end of the volume after the detailing of Stravinsky's funeral in Venice (of which there is a marvelous photo, the Orthodox priests in fierce array!), are lovely, loving and devoted, and worthy of mention. Craft's books are meat indeed for the Stravinskyphile, and even the uncommitted admirer can find in this work (as in his 'Theme and Variations', in the Dialogues, etc.) an epic chronicling of our time, and will find sure residue of the world's becoming modern through the uncompromising art of Igor Stravinsky. Impossible to overstate either the importance of this book as a testament, or the value of encountering it.