My son LOVES it! He carries it around all the time! Playing with the laptop computer, cell phone, and reading the briefcase book!

This storybook offers children a chance to be like Mom/Dad as they take their briefcase to work. We are on our second book since my children wore out the first one from playing with it so much. It is complete with all the "necessities"of the working world today. It's Great!

This is one of my favorite Trixie Belden books. I really enjoyed it a lot.Trixie and the BobWhite's go to England to learn about Honey's ancesters. Trixie uncovers a mystery dealing with pickpockets and a mysterious tour guide.

This is one of my personal favorites. Trixie and some of the BWG's go to England to find out about Honey's inheritance and run into danger. Between pickpockets and Shakespeare, the Bobwhites learn more about Honey's governess, Miss Trask. Trixie is really in her element, even though no one else can figure out why she's so worried about their guide.

I have rarely read a better written book or one that moved me more. This book tells with incredible honestly the feelings the author had while dealing with the diffecult birth and stay in the hospital of her daugther. As the mother of a son that also spent time in a NICU, it was so wonderful to read a book that was not afraid to tell how it really feels---instead of just focusing on "miracles" or on how to be "advocate for your child" or the focus of so many other books on this subject. Whether it was talking about how insensitive nurses can make you feel, or about how you are observed by the staff in all you do, it was as if my feelings had been written down for me. Thank you, thank, Kathryn Rhett, for writing this book.

Quite simply the most moving book I've read all year. Just as Rhett and her husband watch over their newborn daughter in ICU, this memoir monitors the infinite, subtle gradations of pain, fear and guilt with the same exacting attention they pay to their child's vital signs. Beyond hope or despair,the book seems ultimately a story of honesty and the simple bravery of facing the future.

I was a member of the Congregation in Lincoln ten years ago, and knew Larry Trapp personally. This book is a great insight into how I remember the situation, and to that great deed of Cantor Weisser. I recommend it fully to everyone out there. It will help you understand the emotion and meaning Larry Trapp added to our lives.

The first part of this book is a frightening portrait of a dangerous, unstable neo-Nazi. After reading what the book reveals about the personalities of some of these people, racially mixed families might pause before visiting certain parts of our country.
Cantor Weiss's ability to show tolerance and kindness to KKK member Larry Trapp is extremely moving and awe-inspiring. One of the things I learned from this book is that Weiss's capacity for forgiveness actually has deep roots in the Jewish tradition.

This is a charming book by a skilled Southern storyteller. Darrow takes what could be a lightweight folk tale and adds a sophisticated moral that doesn't underestimate its (young) readers. The illustrations nicely compliment the book, adding just the right amount of whimsy.

This was an wonderful story. My child loved the illustrations and the "fiddle-dee" and other repeated phrases throughout the book. It was a long story but flowed very well keeping my child's interest to the very end of the book. She loves the horse named Old Thunder and the tale about how the biscuits were made. We also plan to bake the biscuits from the recipe on the back cover. I recommend this book to anyone with small children with a love of horses and horse stories.

Covers software development, implementation of software packages, and knowledge management. A basic theme of the book is to relate the system to the business processes. There are many useful detailed lessons learned. We have found a number of these to be valuable in my department. The same applies to the checklists. There are two sections of each chapter that are also good. These are what can go wrong and how to speed up the implementation. The book is more in tune with the real situation that you find in IT with limited resources and time. The book also gives recognition to the fact that legacy systems will be around for a long time. Many other books assume that these can be replaced or ignored. We spend over half of our programmer time on legacy systems maintenance so that allocating the rest of their time is a major concern-which this book addresses. Another good idea is that in software package evaluation, you do not focus on software features, but instead on what capabilities the packages are lacking. We used this idea to select different accounting software than if we had used features. The book is easy to read and can be used by non technical people. Several of our business managers have found it informative. In the next version of this book, the authors should expand their guidelines.

This book focuses on guidelines to implement software with the emphasis on time. It deals with software development, packages, and knowledge management as well as maintenance and enhancement. The book does not preach a specific method, but instead provides common sense guidelines for both users and system professionals. A useful chapter is the last one which discusses how to deal with a number of problems that you are likely to encounter. This was very valuable to my group. Some of these issues are top management commitment, managing multiple vendors, dealing with user expectations, handling changing requirements and creeping scope just to mention a few. The focus of the book is on systems rather than technology in general. There is a good chapter on outsourcing. The life cycle that is presented begins with assessing the current business process, defining the new process, and then deriving requirements and benefits from a comparison of the two. This is an improvement over the standard approach of interviewing and gathering requirements from a system rather than a process perspective. The book should be expanded with more guidelines, but is good as is.

One Tiny Baby was my 10 year old son's first book. Somewhere during those 10 years we'd lost it and just a faint memory of it remained. When our daughter came along two years ago, I desperately wanted it to be her first book also and the great quest to find it began. I found the book to be extremely cheap if ordered used but was worried about the condition I would receive it in, however, desperation won out and I ordered it anyway.
When the package came the whole family ripped into it like it was a great Christmas present. We were totally shocked to receive a "used" book in such great condition. It looked like a new book. We were all very pleased.
As I read it to my son for the first time in a long time, we all cried. It feels like a lost piece of our family has been returned. Thank you to everyone that made this possible. We'll treasure this book forever.

This book is a counting book, from one to ten.

It is a fun book with excellent illustrations that talks about the birth of Jesus, starting with one tiny baby. Other numbers are the possible sheep, puppies, spiders, and roosters in the stable. Angels and shepherds are also counted. Two pages are used for each number until the book ends. The last two pages are miniatures of the book. On one page each character is placed next to the others like it, so the sets build one side of a triangle; the other page lists the numbers again without the poetry that was in the book to make it easy to read.

There is actually nothing specifically about Christmas in the book. It is just about the nativity. But since my family has read it every year since it came out during the Christmas holidays, I think of it as a Christmas book.

"Parkinson's Disease: Assessing and Managing Unique Nutrition Needs" is written for the health professional. A newer and updated manual is: "Parkinson's Disease: Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy." Books of interest for people with PD, families, caregivers, and PD support groups are "Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's Disease," and "Parkinson's Disease and Constipation" (audiocassette/booklet set). You may also visit the National Parkinson Foundation website and sign up for my forum "Ask the Parkinson Dietitian Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD

I can't recommend this book highly enough - well written, common sense, and has made a big difference in the quality of my mom's life. I refer to this book almost daily - seems to answer all nutrition related questions re: diet and health in the context of Parkinsons Disease. A godsend.

When I first unwrapped this book, my mouth dropped open in amazement! The first thing that strikes you about it is how gorgeous the photographs are....but as you read the recipes, you realize that there is no let-down here. They sound just as delectable as the photos are beautiful.
A delight for those who love to cook, an inspiration for those who want to cook, and even if you don't cook at all, this is a beautiful book to have!!

For those of us in love with pears, this is it! Beautifully photographed and essayed work on the variety and use of this fruit.

For the different, try the Asian Pear rounds with Smoked SalmonCream Cheese or the Wine-Poached Salmon with Pears and Shallots.

If you're a pear afficanado as I am, try and find yourself this little gem!