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Reading Is More Than Phonics!: A Parents' Guide for Reading With Beginning - Discouraged Readers
Published in Paperback by Reading Wings (2000)
Authors: Vera Goodman and Terry Davies
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Invaluable book to have for this grade one teacher!
I picked up your book at Costco and went back the next day for nine more. It is now required reading for every parent who has a child in my class. Many parents have said that the book not only helped them to see reading through the eyes of their child, they saw their own reading in a new light. I am a Grade One teacher and would highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches reading, especially in grade one.

Life is wonderful again in our house thanks to this book.
Brett was struggling with reading. I knew he could do it but how do we help him so he knows he can do it? That is where your book has helped us and I can't begin to tell you how things have changed for all of us. No longer is that dark cloud looming over our evenings at reading time and we now see a little boy who beams every time he reads. This has been an invaluable gift to all of our family and we can't thank you enough for writing this book.

If literacy is an issue in your household, get this book!
"Your book is truly wonderful and clearly illustrates some of the difficulties encountered by beginning readers as well as corrective measures, which can move them onto the right track." - Senator Joyce Fairbairn, Minister responsible for Literacy, Ottawa


The Remembrance
Published in Paperback by Peace Books (01 December, 1996)
Authors: Kendall F. Person, Terry McKinney, and Joann Brice
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The Remembrance by Kendall F. Person
To start, I felt very in tune with each character. The development of each kept my interest peaked and and anticipatory of the plot. The entire story spoke more literally than a typical fiction; I felt as if I was directly involved with each person. Interestingly, I have not had a lot of experience with hardship, lack of money, or lack of opportunity, yet could very easily empathize with this story because it smacks of reality. I feel volumes of strength can be derived for those who are less fortunate if they take a day to read this. And, it most certainly can provide insight and understanding to people such as myself who don't struggle to live. More to the point of the story, I was given a safe way to discover another way of life that can be totally challenging to those involved or could be a more unfortunate turning point, as is more often portrayed.

Engaging!!
All of the great elements of storytelling are encompassed in this fast-paced, erotic thriller. If you are looking for a book to keep you yearning for more, then this is the novel for you.

Mind stimulating and erotically engaging!
The Remembrance has all the qualities of a cult classic and a major Hollywood hit. High drama, eroticism, pyschos and a tender love story knotted up in the middle. A literary enthusiast hardly gets a chance to catch their breathe before this talented author takes you from one climax to another, often leaving the reader breathless in the process. The story evolves around Browne and Misty, married medical students and obviously on shaky ground. From the opening line, we instantly recognize trouble in Browne's eyes and feel a sense of angered pity with Misty for accepting her submissive position within the confines of their marriage. As the author whisks you from one dynamic scene to the next, where he introduces new characters, takes us inside the hallowed halls of historic universities and into the lives of terminal patients, I couldn't help but wonder why Kendall F. Person hasn't hit the bestseller list to date. It's not just his writing style, which appears effortless and transforming, but the story is as original as a Quentin Tarentino screenplay. Each chapter ends on a cliffhanger challenging the reader to put the book down before arriving at the unheard of triple climatic ending. If The Remembrance doesn't scare the lving daylights out of you, if it doesn't leave you in a state of awe or send you on a wild shopping spree to pick up the rest of Person's works (Capturing Spring, An Angry World) it will certainly leave you scratching your head wondering where in God's name did he come up with that.


Rodale's Garden Answers- Vegetables, fruits, and Herbs: At-a-Glance Solutions for Every Gardening Problem
Published in Paperback by Rodale Press (04 May, 2000)
Authors: Fern Marshall Bradley, Terry Krautwurst, and Linda A. Gilkeson
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Rodale's Garden Answers
I love this book, it has become my gardening bible! If I have a question, it has the answer. It has made gardening organically much easier.
Last year was my first year to try to garden organically, and it didn't work out too well. But this year I actually know what I'm doing! I would definatly recommend it!

Fantastic book
I really loved this book because it focused on organic methods first. Also, it goes though plant by plant and lists growth conditions, problems and many options for cures. It also goes through soil and garden development.

The Hint book for Organic Gardening
Spend less time reading and more time gardening with this quick-reference guide. The book is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Growing Vegetables, Growing Fruits, Growing Herbs, and Controlling Pest and Diseases. Each section is loaded with tips. In the Getting started section, you will learn about preparing a site, buying the right plants, and how to making Compost Tea. The Vegetable section, not only gives you a detailed write-up on over 30 different vegetables, but tells how to get 100 pounds of tomatoes from one plant. For the do-it-yourself group, there are instructions on how to build a homemade tomato cage.

The book devotes 100 pages to growing fruits. Learn how to make an aphid trap out of a milk jug or how to propagate berry plants and fruit trees. There are detailed care and maintenance write-ups on 12 of the most common fruits & berries.

The Herb section talks about controlling invasive herbs, companion planting, and how to perform a technique called layering.

The Controlling Pest and Diseases section points out beneficial insects and plants. The book also explains organic tricks for solving insect, plant deficiency, and disease problems. I love the way the book uses home products to solve common gardening problems in an easy to read format. This is my favorite gardening book.


A Sad and Terrible Blunder: Generals Terry and Custer at the Little Big Horn-New Discoveries
Published in Hardcover by Potomac-Western Pr (1990)
Author: Roger Darling
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The other prespective: General Terry's Role and Advance
A true revelation on what General Terry actually planned in his two point attack of pinching the "hostiles" between two columns and how the plan was poorly executed. The book provides an excellent overview of the campiagn along with Custer's trials and tribulations. But more importantly the roles of Gibbon and the Terry are discussed in detail. From Gibbon's failure to report the location of large villages that could have saved weeks of useless campaigning/scouting for the hostiles for Terry to Terry's incompetent ability to direct the blocking Montana column into position. This book provides a totally new perspective on the LBH battle. It also reveals the failure of Terry from the drawing of his plan to his hands on field decisions. Routes taken by Terry are covered in detail with excepts from diaries, areial photography and wonderful terrain maps. Darling presents well that Terry carefully planted total blame on Custer through indirect statements that leads one to believe that Custer failed entirely and "paid the price". Terry never mentions how he took a long detour through rough country without obtaining information from his true scouts, his engineering officer who knew the land or the crow scouts that lived there. How he marched only four miles in one day, lead the column to a dead end, and lost his gatling guns in a night march. However, he states in his report that Custer turned down gattling guns as if Custer could expect them to keep up with them while they failed to keep up with Terry's infantry. Some of Darlings critque on Custer's decision making from the divide to the LBH could be challenged but they make the book more interesting. Whatever mistakes Custer made, he received his punishment not just from his own but from many others starting with the command. It appears the campaign for Terry was not just a battle against the Indians but one of a war hero's battle with character.

A blunder strategically, tactically and personally...
In researching the history and decisions leading to, and culminating in, what is now known as the Battle of the Little Big Horn, I came across Roger Darling's work and became so engaged in it I find myself referencing his basic premise in discussions with other like-minded Little Big Horn "investigators". Darling allows the reader to understand each act in this tragedy from a literal, gramatical and historical perspective. While acknowledging what "experts" say TODAY about the events leading to the battle, Darling takes a fresh approach. "Where was Custer when he made decisions, what, precisely, did he base those decisions on and about what and to whom did he transmit those decisions"? This is no 'Monday morning quarterbacking' from an historical perspective; no 20/20 hindsight vision. Darling emphasizes that neither Washington, General Terry, Colonel Gibbon, nor Custer, himself, had the vaguest notion of understanding Indian warfare and allowed their bigotry to hinder any understanding. Darling reveals the Sioux Campaign of 1876 for what is was, a blundering about on the Plains by ill-equipped, ill-trained and ill-informed offiers and men of the US Army - pitted against what every soldier already knew of the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne; the finest force of fighting cavalry in the world. Did Terry and Custer have a clue about the hostiles' location? Was Washington aware the estimates of Indian strength were erroneous by 300%? And was Marcus Reno the most surprised man on earth when he discovered that the small band of Indians he pursued at Custer's orders led him directly against the largest concentration of Indians ever seen on the North American continent? Historical hindsight allows Terry, Custer, et.al. reasonable intelligence about the force they sought to corral and bring to battle. Roger Darling's well researched and in-depth writing reveals a series of blunders beginning in Washington in the Fall of 1875 and culminating in disaster on a Montana hillside on June 25, 1876. Get the book, devour it, think on it. Not only is it great historical reading, it finally makes sense of what happened and why.

Gen. Terry, A Different View
Darling has obviously done extensive research and throws new light on the attempt to make Custer the sole scapegoat for the disaster that befell the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Big Horn. As one who has extensively read in Custeriana, I share Darling's views for the most part. I am not sure what Gen. Terry meant when he referred to a Sad and Terrible Blunder, but I think the blunder applies end to end, starting in Washington D.C. and carrying down to Custer and his subordinates. There has been extensive discussion for years of whether or not Custer disobeyed the surviving order that Terry provided to him. Assuming he did, and I don't think so based on my own military experience (e.g. I'd have felt comfortable with a set of discretionary orders like those in marching to Washington D.C.) one wonders what would have happened to Terry if Custer had literally followed those orders as Terry later implied he should have. Perhaps we need a book called CUSTER BLINDLY OBEYS, TERRY DIES. READ THE BOOK AND SEE WHAT I MEAN.


Siberian Village
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) (2001)
Authors: Bella Bychkova Jordan, Bella Bychkova Jordan, and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
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A Personal Geography
Yesterday, 26 April, I wrote a review for you of this book under the above title, & I'm wondering if it is possible to add 2 words to the final sentence of that review. The final sentence said, "It breathes with life." What I'd like for it to say is, "It breathes with life and love." I hope it's possible to make this addition. Thanks!

A Personal Geography
First & most basically, this is a geography & history text, complete with dates, stats, maps, data, 329 footnotes & a 253-item biblio. But it is unlike any such book I've read. As the title says, it describes life on the land of central Siberia by focussing on the tiny village Djarkhan, representative of 250 such hamlets in the huge Republic of Sakha. Djarkhan is in "polar land," less than 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle (1200 miles north of Chicago!), with 8 or 9 months of what I can only call winter. How the people have managed to survive there since 1600, from pre-Czarist to post-Communist eras, is an enthralling, almost unbelievable, story. But the sub-text of the book tells another tale, of 3 Djarkhan natives -- a grandfather who was honored in distant Moscow as the Sakhala record-holder for hay cutting, a mother who was "the most famous plastic oral surgeon in Sakha," & a daughter who is the co-author of this book with her husband, a distinguished American geographer. Thus its 112 pages of text are enriched with 62 personal photographs, reminiscences by villagers & on-the-spot observations. It breathes with life.

An academic book in disguise
I was lucky enough to have a chance to assist the authors in the manuscript typing for this book, getting to read it as I typed. Without any education in geography, this book was easy to understand, but educational at the same time. I have never enjoyed an academic book more than I enjoyed this one. The people and places in the book come to life as stories are told as only a native villager could tell them. A must read for anyone interested in cultural studies.


Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature
Published in Paperback by Vintage Books (1991)
Authors: Lorraine Anderson, Loraine Anderson, and Terry Tempest Williams
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Something for Everyone
I found a lot more than I'd expected in this book. The editor obviously put a lot of thought into her selection of authors and passages from their works. It seemed to me as if these were the passages I would have marked for rereading had I read those works myself. Pretty much every selection struck me as being beautifully inspirational, poetic, or otherwise moving. I'd forgotten how much simply reading about nature can do to lift and heal the spirit. I also learned a lot: I was unaware that so many women have been writing about nature for so many years -- and it was sobering to realize that much of what the earlier authors wrote about no longer exists in our world today.

The author bios themselves make for fascinating reading. (You can't help but wonder how your own life would be summed up in a paragraph or two.) And of course, as I'd expect from any good anthology, this collection inspired me to add quite a few items to my "to-read" list. The nearly 40-page bibliography includes very helpful summaries, and lists not just the sources of this anthology's selections but many other works as well.

Whatever you might expect from Sisters of the Earth, I doubt you'll be disappointed. There should be something in it for everyone -- and it's a pretty book that would make a great gift.

Journeying
I have found this book to be wonderful in the growth process of the spirit. A truly marvelous piece of work, a compilation that is worth a second volume, indeed. This is a perfect "anytime" gift, to your self as well as others that are journeying the spirit.

One of the best books I have ever read
Sisters of the Earth is one of the best books I have ever read. It is a collection of stories on woman's relationship to the earth. Each short piece is written by a woman from the United States from any time in our history - about some connection she has with the earth. I've turned down so many pages in this book and put in little post-it notes saying "great!". After reading one of the stories a new author's work is now available to me. I give this book to others as a gift all the time. The stories themselves are personal reflections of nature that speak softly to me of the wonders I am surrounded by and often fail to notice. These stories remind me of where I really live and how powerful my connection is to the earth. I would love to see a second volume by Lorraine Anderson on this topic, she has selected well. I have also read Cries of the Spirit, also a book about woman's connection to the earth and found it very good also.


Story of Harold
Published in Paperback by Avon (1985)
Authors: Terry Andrews and Edward Gorry
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Stunning and stays with you a long time
I read, and reread this book, probably 5 times. I came to Amazon.com to find another copy since I have lost mine. It is a story of redemption and finding your way in life. The hero is a children's author, who has some kinky sexual habits (bisexual, S&M). He simultaneously becomes involved with a small child with emotional problems (and part of the text is a children's story starring Harold), and a homeless man who wants to be killed. You have to read it to understand the subtext, but it is truly a marvelous novel. I heartily recommend it, and hope Amazon can find me another copy.

A terrifying, moving, funny, cerebral masterpiece.
It's amazing more people haven't found this book! Wry, passionate, aloof, deeply moving and disturbing at the same time. (Perhaps its explicit qualities turn some away, but for once an advertising blurb is profoundly correct: it IS "about everything important that goes on between people". Although it may be catagorized as a "gay" novel, it is not narrowly focused on gayness, just as gay people ourselves are not "just gay" but have the full spectrum of human concerns. At times painfully funny, at times hauntingly poetic, and times even fierce, unafraid to show its darkest shadows as well as its piercing lights, everyone with a heart and a head should experience this novel.

Brilliant, funny, and definitely twisted
This is one of my all-time favorites. The narrator is an author of children's books (and according to the cover, "Terry Andrews" is the pseudonym of a well-known children's author!) who is in a series of relationships with both men and women. Unfortunately, his one true love (and hottest sex partner) is married and doesn't love him back. This isn't really a "gay" novel, but has some pretty explicit same-sex (and hetero sex) scenes. Oddly enough, it's ultimately a warm, thought-provoking, and pretty funny book.


Survivors
Published in Unknown Binding by Weidenfeld and Nicolson ()
Author: Terry Nation
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A Classic
I recently bought a used copy - it was the most I have ever paid for a book in my entire life, but worth every penny! I should mention that I veiwed the TV series many years ago and got hooked, but I never realized there was a novel that the series was based on until I was browsing through the many used books websites. If you ever are lucky enough to run across a copy, I highly recommend it! You may even want to check out your local public library. Enjoy!

The struggle to survive a global disaster!
Survivors - Terry Nation, the creator of Dr Who and Blake's Seven.

Recent apocalyptic stories have been of the "asteroid hits earth, tidal waves and earthquakes everywhere" variety. But this is a more traditional "virus destroys 99.99% of the population" type, and is as a result far more interesting and satisfying. After all, everything is left standing, all the machines and cities, but there are too few people to make anything work.

A new strain of influenza spreads by means of air travel. One person infects ten, they each infect more, soon the virus has spread throughout the world, travelling by jet. Just a 'flu at first, but the mortality rate is almost total. Within a month, almost everyone on earth is infected and dying. Everything stops, as everyone is sick or dead. No transport, no electricity, no hospitals, no government, nothing.

In our society, everyone is just a small part of a larger process, everyone is specialised. Imagine waking up to a world where all of the knowledge, ability and expertise had just died along with the vast bulk of the population - you and I probably know less than a stone age man as far as living in a world like that is concerned! And that's what this book is all about - the struggle to survive when you have no idea what to do, and no-one is going to come and help you.

The heroine of the story is Abby, who gets sick, but lives. As she recovers, the world is suddenly an empty and lonely place. She looks for others, and eventually joins a small community trying to rediscover how to farm, build and live with diminishing technology. Resources are scarce and getting scarcer - petrol is more valuable than useless gold - but some bands of survivors are happier to steal from others than to work to rebuild the world. Abby is our eyes and ears in this harsh world, as we follow her in her search for her son whom she hopes also survived. Abby eventually has to make a hard choice whether to keep her search alive, leading to a tragic finale.

When I read this book as a teenager, I was amazed at the incredible detail of the story, how Terry Nation portrayed all of the consequences, big and small, of a world so devastated by disease, as well as the scope of the disaster that befell the world. In this story ALL of civilisation come to an end in the matter of a month or two, and the plausibility of the story is frightening! But in addition to a fabulous story, well told, there is the human drama, played out against a backdrop of hardship and desperation.

This is a great book, one you won't forget.

An enthralling tale from cover to cover
I'd never seen the TV series before I read the book, but I quickly became engrossed in the plot concerning (particularly three) survivors of a deadly virus that wipes out the majority of the world's population. It was so fascinating that I had to read it from cover to cover in one sitting. The book is written in a simple way, and there is no sci-fi jargon to get your head around. It specialises in complex characterisation of several characters, so that the reader can understand the emotional aspects of such an event through the lives of its survivors. However, it also mentions other characters so that the reader gets a sense of the rest of the newly-destroyed world. Despite the bleak subject matter, the book comes across as being more enthralling than depressing. The ending will leave you reeling for days and, beyond that, you will finish this book quietly contemplating your own existance in this comfortable world.


Terry Rosenberg: Drawings Inside the Dance
Published in Paperback by Terry Rosenberg (1995)
Authors: Jeffrey Hogrefe and Terry Rosenberg
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Beautiful Drawings
If you love art and dance this is the book for you! I love it and never tire looking at it! Rosenberg has gift for capturing the magic of dance with his drawings. It's no wonder that some of finest dance companies in the world have invited him to their studios so he may capture the beauty of their dance. I highly recommend this book for all art and dance lovers.

terry rosenberg: drawings inside the dance
The 49 drawings in this exhbition catalog are genius. Terry Rosenberg draws during rehearsals of American Ballet Theatre, Mark Morris Dance Group, Dance Theatre of Harlem, etc. The drawings are remarkable as they capture movement with an instantaneous touch of the hand. The sensitivity of line, eraser marks, and smuges of charcoal and pastel create a depth of space and time unique to the history of art. The essay by Jeffrey Hogrefe brilliant.

Dance
Terry Rosenberg is a master artist who draws abstract representations of dance, working from actual dance companies. This is a catalogue of his work. In it, you can see his amazing talent. Dance becomes a function of energy itself, and the lines of the dancers in motion suggest the physics of movement, yet it comes out very beautifully, whether or not this was the artist's intention.


Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions
Published in Hardcover by Duke Univ Pr (Trd) (1999)
Authors: Marion A. Ellis, David Gergen, and Howard E., Jr. Covington
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Tarheel Required Reading
Every Tarheel, or any non-Tarheel who has an interest in one of the most important political figures in the South, Terry Sanford, should read this book. Senator in the NC General Assembly, Governor, President of Duke University, and US Senator, this book covers it all. It provides an interesting look at Southern politics, and how our past still effects us to this day. There should be a "Six Degrees of Terry Sanford" game, as he can be linked to practically anybody in the field of NC or National politics. Kerr Scott, Lauch Faircloth, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, The George Bushes, Al Gore, Jesse Helms, Jesse Jackson, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Dole & Erskine Bowles (both front runners from their respective parties in the 2002 Senate race) and the list goes on. Terry Sanford witnessed great movements in history. The race issue in the South, a political atmospheric change, the wheeling and dealing of politicians. Throughout he kept his values and goals, which helped him become a symbol of Progressive policies, and helped place Duke University into national prominence. This should be required reading!

Must reading for Tar Heels and politics buffs
Anyone who lives in North Carolina will learn much about the state's recent political history in this book. And anyone who is interested in progressive politics should read it too. Terry Sanford's forward-thinking approach to government is an inspiration, particularly in the areas of race and education.

Well-researched, insightful, and inspiring.
Former North Carolina Governor and United States Senator Terry Sanford is one of this century's outstanding political leaders. While serving as Governor in the early sixties, Sanford became known nationwide for his commitment to improving education in North Carolina.

Covington and Ellis' biography of Sanford offers a great deal of insight into Sanford's formative years and his political career. The authors researched their subject thoroughly, and the reader gains a great deal of insight into North Carolina politics and into the historical forces shaping the country.

Many of Sanford's colleagues, family, and friends were interviewed for this book, and their stories and perspectives add depth to this book. Many of the characters in the book are still active in North Carolina politics, including "Jimmy Hunt" (as he is referred to in the book) who now serves as Governor of North Carolina.

People who still believe that our government can be a force for good, and that a political life can be synonomous with a life of public service, will be inspired by this book and by the life of this outstanding public servant.


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