This was a really good super special. A good job you're doing,Ms. Martin, and keep up the good work!

The Baby-Sitters Club aregoing on a school field trip. When they arrive on the bus, a terrible thing happens. The bus crashes but luckily no one was hurt.

Meanwhile, the Baby-Sitters are having a blast! What kind of vacation did they exactly have? Read this book and find out!

This book that I read was very fun. It taught me a lot of things to do over the winter. When I read this book I was scared that Stacey was going to get very ill, because how she has diabetes. I love Ann Martin's books because they are very enjoyable to read. I love the Baby Sitters because they have a nice career, personality, and a lot of love and care for the children they baby-sit.

This book that I read was very fun. It taught me a lot of things to do over the winter. When I read this book I was scared that Stacey was going to get very ill, because how she has diabetes. I love Ann Martin's books because they are very enjoyable to read. I love the Baby Sitters because they have a nice career, personality, and a lot of love and care for the children they baby-sit.

These are beautiful stories told with great humor and heartfelt emotions. I fell in love with these characters and Beth Bauman's pitch-perfect writing. Can't wait for her next work!

I loved Beautiful Girls! I loved these wonderfully rich stories that are brimming with life. With enormous charm and humor, Bauman writes about growing up, being beautiful, or un-beautiful, and the search for love and connection. The writing is exquisite and the characters are amazingly alive. These stories reminded me a little bit of Lorrie Moore's work. This is a book I want all my friends to read. A terrific debut!

I was told to read Beautiful Girls from a respected friend. I hesitated because I do not like to read short stories. Nevertheless because the stories were short I began to read them.
To my surprise, I found each story to read like a novella.
The author is very talented. Each story comes full circle and most remarkably, each story has meaning and heartfelt warmth. Surprise! I remommend the book highly. It is a very good read and the author is very talented . I am looking forward to her next series of short,long or first complete novel.. I recommend Beautiful Girls highly!!

an electric dazzle of color light all infuse these poems, a terrific joy to read. it's on my nighht stand right now... a true talent!

This volume contains poems and prose-poems that are autobiographical (I assume), biographic and mythical. In the biographical series of interned Japanese, the poets' confidence that the story itself is sufficient creates very effective poems - simple language, well chosen details - and a person is drawn. In the mythic poems she uses more "poetic" language and imagery while retaining a highly effective simplicity. In the biographic poems, the segment that includes prose poems, there is a different sensibility, one drawn from hunting, from social isolation as the child of a war bride - a bride who married the enemy.

The most impressive feature of this volume is the confidence of the poet - the trusting of her skill, the power of story, the power of words. While much of the message of the poetry regards the policy of internment, the destruction of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, racial prejudice, childhood embarrassment of parents that are "other" etc., there is no trace of the diadactic in the poems. The poems simply sing.

A large passion guides these poems from the first line to the last. From tragedy to simple pleasures, an entire range of human emotions is chronicled in this unique collection of poems. Beyond Heart Mountain is a moving experience; a great addition to your library and life.

If the poet Wallace Stevens had known of this book, he might have titled it _7 Ways of Looking at a Bigfoot_, after his famous poem about blackbirds. This text describes several entities, all similar in appearance, but none of them identical from one chapter to the next: in one, Bigfoot is a shy but inquisitive humanoid creature living in the Sierras, communicating by growls, roars, whistles, and light flashes; in another an Indian legend come to life. The creature then becomes, in successive chapters, an ape improbably living in San Bernadino and Oklahoma; a voice of the ecology movement, telling us to live according to nature; a visitor from another world, a research animal sent out by those who pilot UFOs, a phantom who vanishes on being shot, yet leaves footprints; and one of many unexplained phenomena observed on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Though all these entities appear as huge, hairy anthropoids-like beings, their differing characteristics make it unlikely that they represent a single phenomenon, at least not a material one.

It is the first book of its type that I know of. It appeared at roughly the same time as John Keel's _Mothman Prophecies_, in which Keel posits that UFOs and other strange phenomena are manifestations of intelligences from another dimension. Similarly, Slate and Berry portray Bigfoot in many ways, material and paranormal, but with an emphasis on the data which has been ignored by materialist cryptozoologists, who see Bigfoot as a primate not yet recognized by mainstream science. As they emerge from this work, then, these creatures are monsters of the id, or phantoms from another dimension, spirits of the earth speaking to us, or psychic anthropoids.

Adherence to the paranormalist approach is the greatest strength of this study; it is admirable that they review the accounts in this book on their own terms, rather than trying to shoehorn them into the expected materialist paradigms. Its only weakness is an inconsistency of voice: the chapter titled "Terror in a Mountain Resort," for example, seems to have been written for another, less professional publication, though the evidence presented is consistent with the rest of the book. Still, the book is a valuable archive of information ignored by mainstream Bigfoot researchers. It is recommended less for those who want a narrow interpretation of the Bigfoot material or a hard look at the physical evidence within mainstream scientific terms, and more strongly for those who want to read paranormal, psychic, and New Age narratives centering on our hairy fellow traveller.

First off, this book gave me the willies. It has a lot of information on the subject especially the events that took place near the Sierra's in the late 60s early 70s, but it relates the information in a well crafted narrative with atmosphere. Good at presenting possible supernatural/extradimensional aspect of sasquatch phenomena

When I read Slate and Berry's book in 1976, it finally helped the Bigfoot phenomenon "make sense" within my mind. The psychic/interdimensional component of this phenomenon has been sadly overlooked since the 1970's and even then, no book summarizes this approach better than B.Ann Slate and Alan Berry's own look into the subject. I would urge all researchers to spare no resources in finding this book. No library can be said to be truly complete without it.

When 19-year-old Phoebe Desmond finds out she's pregnant--and is subsequently dumped by Tyrus, the middle-aged "emotionally disturbed" father of the child--she travels to Paris to have her baby in the company of a friend, Marlys Hightower. During her six-month stay in France, Phoebe falls in love with Ben Reuben (a rich artist friend of Marlys' who lets Phoebe board with him), and she exposes some shocking secrets along the way.

It's been years since I've read this book (sometime during my junior or senior year of high school), but this is still one of my favorite books. Phoebe's first person narrative and wit is wickedly amusing and honest. If you like adult books by Judy Blume, then you might like "The Book of Phoebe." Highly recommended.

Goodbye, tongue-tied! hello saucy! I just memorized all the great lines from this way too much fun book, and now I can mow them down at parties when the talk turns snappy. I only wish Phoebe had come into my life sooner! I can't wait for the author's next book!

The Book of Phoebe is one of those books that you h ate to see end. Phoebe Desmond is a heroine who is both irreverent and spiritual in the best sense of both words. When Phoebe finds she's pregnant as the result of her first love affair, she takes off for Paris determined to have her baby without having to tell the baby's father that he is a father. In Phoebe's opinion he doesn't deserve to know. While she thinks of Paris as an escape, it turns out to be more of a learning experience than Yale ever was , teaching her more about herself than she sometimes wanted to know. She's funny, gutsy, courageous and all those good things you want the people you read about to be. This is a story that begins with a girl coming to grips with some major events in her life, events, which might have traumatized someone else. What they did for Phoebe was turn her from a girl I liked very much, into a woman I liked even more. The writing is first rate, the laughs and the tears nicely interspersed. It's the kind of book that makes you feel a lot better for having read it.

I have never been a fan of fiction, not even as a child. If I did pick up a book of fiction I always read the END, FIRST. I reasoned that it was a huge waste of time to wade through a book only to find the ending was a bitter disappointment.

Ann's book was a rare exception. I read it all, from beginning to end and in its proper sequence. The book was exciting, colorful, rich with southern history and intrigue, multi-faceted characters, and roller coaster emotions. An interesting saga with obvious opportunity for a sequel.

Of all the personalities, Morganna was my favorite. She was young, beautiful, strong, vibrant, passionate, impetuous, shrewd and complex. Yes, she was also vain, selfish and shallow, but maybe she'll grow out of that in her next adventure. I'm anxious to know what adventures await her and her beloved officer.

I have passed Ann's book to two friends and bragged that I know the author - "passin' along" is a high compliment. Congratulations - no doubt the sequel will be equally entertaining.

There are some books with which one must disavow all knowledge of the present day, and immerse oneself completely in the period of the story. Briars, by Ann Gray, is just such a book. It is a tale about a family in the South coping with the outcome of the Civil War. Each character handles the various crises in his or her own inimitable style, and each character grows from the experience either positively, or negatively. The subject of this book covers a very sad and difficult portion of Our Nation's history, and I found myself taken back in time to how people must have felt and acted in the 1860's. The characters are so real, I often felt as if I was reading an actual woman's journal from the period describing her family and nearby friends. Throughout all the hardships is a strong woman's faith that a far greater Force than she is in power, and that she and her family are surely guided by His Hand. I look foreward to other books by this author.

I like your style! Thanks for a good book -- when can we hope for the sequel? From one little ole (term used loosely here) Southern girl to another - thanks, y'all!

As someone who is reluctant to read anything more than once [I keep very few books in my home, reselling them all], I can convey my feelings about this book in one sentence: I have read this book over fifteen times. I find something new each time. I find myself thinking about the book at odd times: driving down the road, a casual phrase in a conversation. It is a quiet, poignant little story. Well-told, realistic characters. Read this book. You'll be glad you did.

First off, let me say the movie version of this book, while well acted, chops the story up in ways that kills some of the best things about the book.

This is one of those books that is tough to describe. I've read it several times now and find new things everytime. Beattie does an incredible job of creating these people who walk through their own little world, trying to deal with the hand that life has dealt them. They're just like us, selfish, unaware, worn out in places, but full of humanity. There are acts of kindness, warmth, vulnerability in these people the author has created. This is what makes this book, you follow these people along an episode of their lives and wonder where its going to go. I find that when I take a step back, I question where they end up, but while I'm in it, I don't.

At the heart of the matter is a love story, an awkward, imperfect love story about a man who is obsessed. It drives him through his days, drives him into doing dumb things, and gets his friends and family to roll their eyes.

An excellent read, the first or fourth time around.

themes like the concept and importance of marriage and how music is "the soundtrack of our lives" help make Chilly Scenes of Winter a wonderful, Catcher-in-the-Rye-esque experience. One of my favorites.

Thought it would be rehash of other marketing books--nothing big, nothing new. Wrong. Good stuff on the trendspreaders, versus the trendsetters. Makes me rethink do you wanna be Alpha or Bee, and if you're a marketer, if you're wasting money chasing the first versus the third one to try something new. I know the authors' work from NEXT, but this BUZZ is much more focused, and insightful, also a very easy read. It's almost too fun to be a business book.

This book is written by real visionaries who thoughtfully and thoroughly open your eyes to the truth about marketing in an information saturated society. Nothing works harder or better than word of mouth and instead of waiting around and hoping it might happen for your business, buy this book and learn how to create it. You'll be amazed at the fascinating stories, ideas and practical applications crammed in this enormously intelligent book that will help you understand how to create successful buzz for your business.

Buzz is the sort of business book that lay readers will find informative and fascinating. The examples are timely and thought provoking, helping me understand why some products and campaigns are successful and others are not. In today's marketplace, the consumer needs to be as savvy as the marketer.

This is an absolutely wonderful book for all women. It walks you through many Catholic traditions plus it features daily devotional stories all written by women. It helps to translate God's word with everyday devotionals. Plus it highlights women of the bible every weekend. THe sunday readings allow you to learn how to use the women of the bible to pray for those around you. This has really been my first devotional bible and I have really used it to open up my life to God!

This Bible is very easy to read, and it has inspired me to learn more about our faith and our relationship with God. The explanations provided are simple enough to understand, and provide a starting point for further reading if one is so inclined. I strongly recommend this Bible to all Catholics.

Inspirational plus. This Bible is my treasure.

I loved this story, it was funny romantic and cruel all at the same time. I really like the way that Cinderella got back at her mean and evil step mom and step sisters. She did not deserve to be treated the way that her step mom treated her. But when her fairy godmother came and helped Cinderella get dressed and go to the ball. And the ending was pretty cool when the prince and Cinderella got married the same day that the prince found her.

I gave this to my 3-year-old daughter as a Christmas "extra" last year. She LOVES it! It is one of the books that she brings me on a seemingly constant basis. Although it is a bit long for a before-bed-read, it keeps her attention and is a wonderful story.

She is currently OBSESSED with anything and everything Cinderella. She has the original video, "Cinderella 2", several toys, and even her own Cinderella dress-up costume. This is by far the Cinderella item that she uses the most. She would have me read it at least twice a day if I'd agree to it! It's not that I don't want to constantly read it because it's a bad book or anything. I would just prefer a little variety in my life:) The best thing about the book in my opinion, is the pictures. They are beautifully done, and are appealing to all ages. I highly recommend this book for your little Princess!!!

Best love story told ever of all time! And if you ask any one else they will tell you the same thing. What kid hasn't heard the famous classic tale of Cinderella. If they haven't they should. I'd give a 100 stars if I could.