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B*witched
Published in Mass Market Paperback by SMP Paperbacks (1999)
Author: Anna Louise Golden
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a great book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
This is a great book for all Bewitched fans. Its packed with tons of info, and pictures.I love Bewitched so much, and think they should get more publicity.They are coming out with a new album at the end of the summer, and I am so gonna buy it!!!!! You should too. If you like this book, you should also buy Bewitched:The official book.


S Club 7
Published in Mass Market Paperback by St Martins Mass Market Paper (2000)
Author: Anna Louise Golden
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Great book on S Club!
This book is filled with information on the band. Bios on them all, how they got started and more. I highly recommend for any S Club fan.


Backstreet Boys
Published in Mass Market Paperback by St Martins Mass Market Paper (1998)
Author: Anna Louise Golden
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I would recommend this book to every true BSB lover!
This book had lots of good facts and I especially liked the pics in the middle. They really added to the book. Every real Backstreet Boy fan should at least read this book once. The facts were mostly right, and I learned a lot about the BSB.

This tops it.....
This tops it. All of the books I ever read this one I think is the best. It tells about every backstreetboy. It has instresting facts that really can make you laugh, & sock you. There's topics about Nick, A.j., Brian, Howie, & Kevin. This book is the best yeat & I think all the backstreetboys fans would agree.If anyone wants to talk about Nick just e-mail me!! Thanx.. Love-tracy

A great book for fans
This book helps me write articles about them easily. It is a great book for people who don't know a whole lot about them. It gives you each members background and how each of them met eachother. The pictures are great in the middle. This book is one that everyone should read. (=


Brandy: Sittin' on Top of the World
Published in Mass Market Paperback by St. Martin's Press (1999)
Author: Anna Louise Golden
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brandy I enjoy your music
5 stars brandy I enjoy your musi

Brandy is THE BOMB!!
I LOVED the book,Brandy:Sittin'On Top Of The World. It was really informative, and since I AM Brandy's #1 fan, it was fun to read. It was great reading about all what Brandy had to do and her determination to reach were she is right now, which IS on top of the world!

It's neat and it gives a lot of info on Brandy.
It's cool and it gives a lot of information about it


The Spice Girls: The Uncensored Story Behind Pop's Biggest Phenomenon
Published in Paperback by Ballantine Books (1997)
Authors: Anna Louise Golden and Maureen O'Neal
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It was a fascinating book on the then FAB FIVE!!!
It had tons of detail and cool pictures!If you liked those other phony Spice books you'll love this REAL book about the coolest band today,THE SPICE GIRLS!!!

fantastic
This book is great.I have every single spice girl book,poster,cd,magezine that has come out since the spice girls started.I even have all the spice girl merchandise.I am a spice girl die-hard fan.This book I would rate one of the better spice girl books.I even have the spice girl book that is out of stock.It was really good also (because the spice girls wrote it themselves).

THIS BOOK IS THE BEST!
THIS BOOK IS REALLY COOL! I AM A REALLY BIG FAN OF TEH SPICE GIRLS AND IT TOLD ME A LOT OF STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW BEFORE! IT'S ALSO A VERY GOOD WRITTEN BOOK. IT'S VERY SAD THAT GERI LEFT THE GROUP, BUT I HOPE THERE ARE MORE BOOKS ON THE SPICE GIRLS! GIRL POWER FOREVER!


The Spice Girls
Published in Paperback by Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) (1997)
Author: Anna Louise Golden
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Very Good 'Older' Book!
I loved this book. I got it in around, 1997 and read it all in one day. If you don't already know its a chapter book filled with information and every little known fact of the spice girls that you can hardly imagine! Ofcorse there are much, much newer books right now but if your looking for something that discusses the spice girls from day one, how they started off, this is the book for you!! It has some black and white pictures on lets say, uhh.. every 10 pages. Spice Girls websites at the back and some cool intersting stuff.. there is a chapter on each spice girl including geri [published when she was still in the group] and its just totally awesome. I am normally picky with books that contain real people.. but this book is real informitive!

I LOVED IT
Thsi book is so awsome! I LOVED it !! i am a major spice girls fan ive been to 17 of there concerts around the world. They are my role modles. This book was soo wonderful. It talked about each one of them plus some. And i dont have a favorite i love um all:)

IT IS EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
It is the best book I've ever read and I recommend it to any Super Spice Girls fan.


The Fat Flush Plan
Published in Audio Cassette by McGraw Hill/Tdm Audio (2003)
Authors: Ann Louise Gittleman and Anna Fields
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Excellent plan - loss 32 pounds in 3 months & still losing!
A friend had recommended detox related books by Ann Louise Gittleman. While researching those, I came across the Fat Flush Plan book. I am very thankful that I did! ALG's explanation of the liver as a fat-burning organ sold me on the plan. I use to eat tons of junk food, pre-packaged convenience
foods and processed foods like deli meats. In the first two weeks on the plan, I had lost 11 pounds. Now this plan is not for the faint of heart, it requires a change to your way of eating and living; BUT, it is worth it! You are taking supplements to improve your overall health and help out your liver. You're getting the poisons and toxins out of your system by following this plan; and, your body will thank you for it... I don't hear those strange gurgle noises in my body that were coming from the liver area; plus, I sleep like a baby. Thank you, ALG!!!

My Mother's Success, even with limited mobility
My mom of 65 years is overweight and somewhat disabled. The doctor has encouraged her to lose weight and eat better. While at a local natural food store, I spotted the Fat Flush Plan book and bought it for my mom. She has tried other plans unsuccessfully for one reason or another. This plan seems to fit all of her doctor's recommendation: no sugar, limited dairy (digestion problems) and low fat. We tried Stevia as recommended in the book and it is a great sugar substitute. We added flaxseed oil to her diet as well as ground flaxseed in the Long Life Cocktail. Exercise was our biggest challenge but we are successful at mom sitting on the rebounder and bouncing that way. Our walks are not real fast but it certainly has improved how she feels. There are days she can't walk but looks forward to when she can. We're 7 weeks into the program and she has lost 10 pounds and about 5 inches. It's slow go but she feels so successful on this Plan. The meal plans in the book are a good guideline and we have modified or adjusted then as needed. If you have a loved one in the same sitation, give Fat Flush Plan a try. It's certainly good to see mom's health improving.

Lost Weight and Stayed Off
I'd just like to say that the Fat Flush plan really works! Three months ago, I bough this book on a whim. I tried the Fat Flush plan for 1 week. I did not complete the 2 week program because I got a new job and was moving to a new place. Basically, my routine was thrown off.

The first two days were difficult, I was irritable, and tired due to withdrawal symptoms forewarned by the author. But I pulled through and on the third day, I was feeling fine again. By the end of the week, I had lost 9 pounds! I have never been able to lose this much weight in such a short time in my life. The great thing was that I did not have to miss any meals or spend 4 hours at the gym.

I still have 25 more pounds to go, but I justed wanted Dr. Gittleman to know the most amazing thing. Although I only stuck with the Plan 1 for a week, I have not gained back a single pound even though I am now keeping my diet prior to Fat Flush. It know is not the best practice, which is why I am planning to go back on the Fat Flush Plan very soon.

For those of you who are wondering if this works, please give it a try. I feel that the ingredients in the recipes promote great health and you should do it for your health, if not anything else.


Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library)
Published in Hardcover by Everymans Library (1992)
Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Alymer Maude, Louise Shanks Maude, Aylmer Maude, and John Bayley
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The complex conflicts of society and the conscience.
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is undoubtedly one of the greatest works of literature ever written. It is by no means a "light book" or an "easy read." As the reader diligently reads through this voluminous, 800 plus page, novel they live and experience the struggles of the characters. The novel centers on the two contrasting yet interwoven plots of the honest, loving and faithful relationship of Princess Kitty and Constanine Levin contrasted against the socially and morally condemned adulterous love affair of Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. The novel's epigraph "Vengeance is mine, I shall repay; saith the Lord" alludes to the novel's theme of divine retribution, where the choices and actions made by the characters are either rewarded or punished by God. Anna Karenina is not a victim of fate or destiny but of her own selfishness and dishonesty to herself and others which leads to her eventual demise. Kitty and Levin are rewarded with happiness and a successful marriage because of their honesty and unselfish love. Anna Karenina delves not only into the human conscience but also into the conscience of Russian society; it is also full of symbolism for example Vronsky's tragic horse race, which symbolizes his part in Anna's destruction. As I read through all of the reviews I noticed that an important issue was neglected even from the review written by the publisher and that is that Levin is a partial autobiography by Tolstoy. Levin's strong inner conflicts, agnosticism and search for meaning in life was a reflection of Tolsoy's own beliefs. I wrote a term paper on Anna Karenina and through all the reading, research and time I put in paid off immensely and not just in terms of the grade. Although I at times resented Anna for her selfishness I could empathize with her struggle for independence which she never achieves. I cried when she killed herself yet hated her for this final act of selfness. This novel is a complex weaving of characters, emotions, and struggles but in the end the reader is rewarded by Tolstoy's pure genius.

What a surprise!
I was on a binge where I was reading only 1,000+ page books, and so I decided to hit "War and Peace". However, as fate would have it, I heard a quote from the writer Ayn Rand who called "Anna Karenina" the "most evil book in serious literature". Well, as soon as I heard something like that I knew I had to find out for myself!

I read this book, and I have no idea what book Rand was skimming through when she arrived at her comment but it surely wasn't this one. This book is not "evil" in any way, shape, or form! I found it to be a tightly focused exploration of the rigidity of socially accepted relationships versus the desire of the individual to be personally fulfilled. In presenting this conflict, Tolstoy was not using Anna to illustrate the evils of adultery or non-conformity. I do think he targeted the tragic contrast in how male and female adulterers are treated. He also, through Kitty and Levin, explores the constraints faced by women as they seek true love.

Tolstoy is a consumate creator of three-dimensional characters. In addition, the scope of this novel is unbelievably large, exploring all types of relationships from old married couples to swinging singles. With a story this intricate there are probably dozens of interpretations as to what it all means, and I enjoyed reading other reviews here and learning what other people thought. It added to my own understanding. Only great literature can still generate that kind of reaction over a century past the original publish date.

Despite the obvious merit of this book, I almost wish I could go to 4.75 stars rather than 5. It may seem picky, but I feel that the way Tolstoy stapled his own socio-economic views onto this novel - especially and most glaringly at the end - was just awful. Those views seem out of place in this story, and should have been developed in some other book. Towards the very end, I felt these passages became especially pointless and even immature. He made the same type of error at the the end of "War and Peace," as well.

In any case, other than that one slip there's nothing but brilliant writing here. "Anna Karenina" is easily one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature.

MY LIFE CHANGED
In my sophomore year of college, I was assigned ANNA KARENINA to be read in one week. ONE WEEK! Somehow I did it and it changed my life. I came back to the Tolstoy novel in the summer between my sophomore and junior years and then again in grad school. I just finished reading it for the fourth time.

Everything you've heard and read about ANNA KARENINA is true. It is one of the finest, subtlest, most exciting, most romantic, truest, most daring, charming, witty and altogether moving experiences anyone can have. And you don't have to slog through pages and chapters to find the truth and beauty. It's right there from the first, famous sentence: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

This new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is wonderful and deserves your attention even if you already have a favorite version of the book. Pevear and Volokhonsky are considered "the premiere translators of Russian literature into English of our day." Working, as I do, in the Theatre, I hope they take on some of Turgenev's plays.

Anyone who believes in the power of Art, especially Literature, must buy and read this book. I promise it can change your life. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.


5ive
Published in Mass Market Paperback by SMP Paperbacks (17 March, 1999)
Author: Anna Louise Golden
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Reads Almost Like A Novel
Golden tosses interesting tidbits about England into her writing. Not only did I get to learn about a recently popular band, but I also found out that there are two kinds of rugby, that Birmingham is in the middle of the U.K, and that an awful lot of young Englishmen are leaving school at age 16.

The book was written at the start of 1999, when Golden had hopes that Five would someday be big in the U.S. Unfortunately their second album stiffed in the U.S. and Five's manager Bob Herbert died. In a way anyone who reads this book knows how the story ended even though Golden herself did not.

Good book-but,......
This book is really good, but of course there are some mistakes-Scott's name,and b-day.Scott's birthday is November 22nd,1979! Nothing else was wrong with it in my opinion.There's some great pics of the guys in the center.Has info on their songs.Overall- a good book on a great group!I think other Five fans would enjoy this book even though there are some mistakes.

THIS BOOK ROCKS!
This is such the best book. It tells you everything you need to know about the best band ever, 5ive. It told me stuff I didn't even know before, even though I'm the biggest 5ive fan alive. I suggest you buy it, it rules!


Color in My Garden: An American Gardener's Palette
Published in Hardcover by Atlantic Monthly Press (1990)
Authors: Louise Beebe Wilder, Anna Winegar, and Penelope Hobhouse
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Lovely reproduction of an older book...
"Color in my Garden" by Louise Beebe Wilder was first published in 1918. Wilder wrote a number of books that made her America's answer to England's Miss Jekyll. Where Miss Jekyll informed the landed gentry, Mrs. Wilder informed the less landed Yankees.

This book covers a year in the life of her garden Balderbrae--a summer home she and her husband owned and developed in New York state. Although a book written in 1918 might strike one as non-relevant to modern homeowners with smaller grounds, it is not. "Color in My Garden" still resonates with wonderful ideas.

Mrs. Wilder was an artist who created three-dimensional art with live plants of varying colors, textures, heights, and scents. She not only had an esthetic sensibility, she was a horticulturalist who understood the nature of her medium. Her descriptions of plants and her garden designs are still relevant. Many of her ideas have been copied--over and over--but most of the copies are not as striking as the original.

Mrs. Wilder believed lighting was a critical element of garden beauty. She was one of the first persons to develop a white garden and a scented garden for moonlight nights. She also developed gardens that looked best at high noon in summer. She understood that light changes all year as well as all day, and that even moonlight varies with the seasons.

Some of her plant combinations included Lillies and Irises, Hollyhocks and Delphinium, and Red Poppies and White Valarian. Since her grounds consisted of many plots, one could replicate a particular beds in a small yard. I have planted Red Poppies with White Yarrow in a small urban garden.

Lately, I've read many articles and pieces describing garden thugs--a term I first saw in Allen Lacey's "Garden in Autumn." Mrs. Wilder called them outlaws many years ago. I would have given this book 5 stars, but the illustrations are not terrific--they're pretty, but are watercolors that may disappoint the snapshot-camera-loving reader.


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