My child loves this book! We look for all the hidden objects while learning the ABC's. Plus, she's learning to color within the lines! This is a wonderful book for any toddler! I highly recommend it!

AMAZING FIREFIGHTERS is a special little book in which we meet & make friends with an array of feminine & thoughtful people who offer us glimpses into what it is to be heroic.

Gay Reboli's black & white photographs give us the gift of a thousands unspoken words of the world of the firefighter-such everday images of lockers, fire trucks & helmets as well as a cameo portrait of each woman.

Certainly a good book to give someone you love, someone you'd like to inspire.

'Amazon Dreams' by Anna Randolph is a truly amazing book. Through vivid flash backs, we learn about the life of Paula Deland, and her courageous, lonely battle to end the eons- old struggle between men and woman.
The author writes so well that it allows the usually vicarious reader into her characters mind and heart- one really cares and empathizes with her experiences on a deep level. For me, that is what reading is all about. My favorite parts were the descriptions of how Paula's physical training allowed her not only to compete on an even playing field, but also to own her power as a female and a professional. This is a book that I will read over and over, because the nuances of her journey continue to grow and resonate more fully each time.

Eugenie Anna Schoen-Rene was one, if not the most formidable teachers of singing ever in the United States. This autobiographical account deals with both her personal and professional life: her training with Pauline Garcia-Viardot, her performing career, as well as her presigious teaching career at the Juilliard School and elsewhere, that produced opera superstars such as Rise Stevens and Margaret Harshaw. Schoen-Rene also recounts stories such as the time that she was a chaperone for Brahms, how she became an intimate friend of the Garcia family, her friendship with Enrico Caruso, Nellie Melba, and many more, each one more fascinating than the last. This book is not about singing or technique, which you may expect. Rather, it is about the journey of an American musical pioneer that, through her wide array of experience and opportunity, helped shape America's musical world in her own time, and through her legacy, continues to shape it today. Ms. Schoen-Rene writes in a very clear manner in which varies stylistically from chapter to chapter depending on the subject matter, making for interesting a very enjoyable reading.

Compiled and edited by Emily Foster, American Grit: A Woman's Letters From The Ohio Frontier is an inherently fascinating collection of correspondence from the first half of the nineteenth century, written by Anna Briggs Bentley, a devout Quaker wife determined not to lose contact with her mother and sister. Filled with emotion, a willingness to work, love for her family and her many children, and a great deal more, American Grit provides contemporary readers with a compelling and enjoyable look through a kind of "window of time" at daily life in rugged terrain. A fine work enhanced with brief annotations for clarity, American Grit is very highly recommended for Women's Studies and American History Studies collections and reading lists.

This book, by Anna Selby is the definitive guide for anyone interested in Healing oneself in the "traditional" sense. Long before man discovered writing, the use of Chinese Herbs as a source of medicine and other uses, was widely used throughout modern-day China. This fantastic book describes vividly the ancient "tools" of Chinese Herbalism and how to incorporate them into everyday "modern" life. Filled with amazing facts and refrences concerning this ancient art, Anna Selby cleverly describes how to put this valuable medicinal tool to work for you in the 20th century. Filled with dozens and dozens of illustrations, this valuable book is not only a good refrence to Chinese medicine, but a practical, day-to-day guide on how to incorporate this ancient healing art into your everyday life.

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Anna is the harrowing story of a beautiful young woman's mental breakdown and descent into madness-and of her husband's decision to take of her at home, surrounded by her children, family, friends, and sensitive "helpers," rather than permit her to be institutionalized and sujected to electroshock therapy.

Everybody meant well-from the family who wanted to save Anna's individuality and human dignity, to the doctors who thought that caring for her at home might work, to the psychotherapists, most of them of the Laingian persusion, who thought that in time the problem would disappear. But nothing disappeared. Instead came pure horror, rape, attempted murder, and the agony of Anna's lingering death from self-inflicted burns.

"Anna" and "David Reed" are pseudonyms, but Anna is a tragically true story. Every painfully revealing biographical detail, every lacerating description of the inexorable destruction of Anna's life is recorded with devastating honesty. The names have been changed in order to protect the living; none of us, on reading this profoundly disturbing book, can know how we would behave if confronted by this appalling dilemma.

Anna is the most powerful and moving story of love and the tragedy of madness to be published in our time.

Amanda Haight produced an marvelous, analytical, informative biography of the Russian poet (not "poetess!") Anna Akhmatova. This woman's life was certainly fascinating in its own right, and Haight makes it all the more interesting because of her clear presentation, good organization, and obvious connection with her subject. The poet's life is covered from her birth to her death in the 1960s; in her long life, she saw the revolution, suffered great personal tragedy (often the product of the Stalinist regime), but kept writing through it all. This biography would be interesting to a person who had no prior knowledge of Akhmatova or a person who is familiar with her poetry and wants to know more about the writer. I have always found that Akhmatova and Wordsworth are the two poets I have the most trouble separating from the speakers of their poetry, and this biography is thus a very interesting companion to Akhmatova's work. Haight's writing and research are difficult to find fault with. I also recommend THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA, edited by Roberta Reeder.

I adore this book. With wonderfully subtle grace, the author teaches about friendship and, more importantly, the personality differences of friends -without judgement. The free spirited child is admired but the shy, timid child also prevails. An exceptional choice for a "second child" who may be overshadowed by the "perfect" sibling.

This is a really wonderful book that I had from my childhood, that has been passed onto my child! It's a wonderful book about about a family of bears getting ready during the fall for thier winter hibernation, and then waking up in Spring. The pictures are really captivating and very well done, each page looks like it's a painting....very realistic fall and winter scenes. It's a nice story, and the print size is perfect for babies and toddlers. The book is a little smaller than an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, and made of sturdy carboard. My book is 16 years old and the pictures haven't faded or discolored.