I„Sd like to share just a few words about fresh edition of „cAngels¡K„c. It is a shear pleasure ( the other day I get hardbound version of this book ) to hold, to caress, to touch, to look, to turn pages of this little art wonder. It is obvious that people who produced it are not simply highly skilled pro, but also demonstrated that it is a labor of understanding and love for them. Over my life spin I shuffled through many book productions but it seems to me that this one stands out with its perfect design, typesetting, interface of text and drawings and all other contributing features.
It cannot escape any intelligent person no matter how ill equipped he(she) is in the skill of reading how much intuition, talent, sophistication, elegance, charm delivered through the entire body of those rhymed lines, how much intellectual power possesses author of these thoughts who overcome immense hurdles in order to excavate and bring to reader in such an eloquent form all flayers of subject that occupied her mind.
Introduction by H-J Gerigk is a very prominent recognition of author's achievements in its entirety and speaks from the prospective of the circle of intellectuals where author is clearly belongs. Yes, I believe that there is significant strata of heavy weight learned thinkers (sometimes they are slanged as eggheads ) who are starving to get this kind of intellectual food on a table, the only one that they can recognize and consume. In that sense this book of philosophical poetry catapulted huge potent rocket into that camp and I will not be surprised if these poetical tractates will become milestone in their circles. Lets wait and see.

My congratulations to the poet,
Mark Averbukh

Thanks so much for your insight on this subject. I am a black college student and I am at a college where the ratio of blacks to whites is probably 1/50. Our college is small and the population of students is estimated to be 2500. In this case most of the blacks are on one of the sports teams. Where are no cultural diverse classes here for anyone here to take. This year we got a new program called Cultural Anthropology. I feel that it is necessary for everyone not just African-Americans to take a cultural diverse class to learn more about someone of another race or creed. I feel that as far as we have come as a society there are still some things we have yet to accomplish. Being the only Black in most of my classes I feel it is necessary for everyone to understand and comprehend how someone else feels and understand there history and why they, if they do, feel the way they do about certain subjects. Students, I feel, would love to learn about their history and why not put those same feelngs into learning about someone elses.

Dr Robert H Davis has gathered together scientific publications into a very worthwhile book on Aloe vera. It is aimed fairly and squarely at the scientific/medical researcher with an interest in the uses of Aloe vera in particular, or complementary therapies in general. Dr Davis has an impeccable academic background, and has spent the last ten years researching in this area, so he was ideally placed to compile this text on the latest developments in Aloe research. He is an advisor to the International Aloe Science Council.
Anyone with a keen interest in the Aloe vera story will find the hard science contained in this book of great value. I strongly recommend it.
Jane Davis

We originally checked this book out at the library. Our three year-old son insisted on reading it five to ten times a day for two weeks! Everyone from parents to aunts to grandparents agreed, this one is a hit.

As a teenager not many of my friends like children's books, but I have and always will have a profound affection for them. "Cherries and Cherry Pits" continues to be a favorite of mine- your minds eye can relish on the fresh, colorful drawings whilst you read of the simple pleasures derived from a yummy little fruit. This book always leaves me with a little dance in my step, an artistic itch in my fingers and a mouth watering for cherries

This book is very informative and helpful in understanding a different concept on mongoloid children rather than the conventional thoughts. It is certainly very inspiring to read. The information are invaluable especially for parents of these children. It certainly give new hope for all of us.

This is the single best book that I have read in my life. I think that everyone should read it; like Vera says in her introduction, the more people who read it and are aware of the horrible waste of life, especially young life, that war is, the less people will allow it to happen. This is a great book for anyone, but especially the young- I am a teenager myself (13), as Vera was (she was 19, but oh well), and it is so much more real- what she thinks and feels and believes are so like ours, even written 85 years ago, and it makes her tradgedy seem so much more real when we see how much she was like us. It is a story of what true love is, also; when we read fiction we think "Oh, that couldn't happen in real life": here it is, it did happen, but they were only allowed a taste of what it could have been like before it was snatched away from them again. It's a reasonably hard book, guys, but it is worth it: you'll never read a better book and it will show you, if you havn't realised already, how horrible such a war is in the deaths of people so young, bright, brave, kind, and brilliant people as Roland, Edward, Victor, and Geoffery.

"The Clearing: A True Story of Childhood Survival and Self Acceptance" grabs you from the first page. You are instantly captured by the strength of a Mississippi family trying to achieve the American dream in spite of the turmoil of the sixties.

It's a wonderful story of a very lovely young lady and her quest to be the best person she can be inspite of tremendous adversity during the beginning stages of her life. She was adopted four times from birth to age eight. The joy of the story is the young girl's relationship with her grandfather, who gives her the moral foundation to accept all people and to follow her childhood dream to become a writer.

I personally met Ms. Yancey at a book signing. Not only is she a good writer, she is personable and friendly. I highly recommend this book.

This book contains a collection of the some of the best music, and tops it off with an informative preface on Joplin's work and sheet music cover images of every song.

Yvonne Vera's talent is amazing - she is gifted with the ability to relate stories set in her native Zimbabwe with stunning literary grace and beauty, opening the lives of her characters to the readers' eyes and hearts, laying bare the lovely and depraved and everything in between. That she does all of this and additionally illuminates and brings forth the universal aspects in each and every instance bears witness to the fact that, while she may be an African writer, writing about African people and events, she deserves to be recognized, admired and honored by the world at large - and the world at large owes it to itself to discover her talents.

BUTTERFLY BURNING is set in a Rhodesian township in the late 1940s - long before Independence from British rule. The black citizens (who, in reality, weren't recognized as citizens in their own country) were reviled by most of the whites, looked upon as a source of cheap labor and criminal activity. They weren't even allowed to walk on the sidewalks with the 'imported' white citizens. The heroine of Vera's novel is a young woman named Phephelaphi - orphaned as a young girl and raised by a close friend of her mother, she is filled with a burning need to always become more, to see her life expand without limits. This longing became widespread in the hearts of women in the West many years later with the rise of feminism - women sick of being relegated to cooking and cleaning, aching for more of an education and more of a chance to find their place in the world. Phephelaphi's yearnings lead her ever forward - emotionally, socially, and with respect to a potential career. When her path crosses with that of Fumbatha - an older man with a kind heart and a bruised and battered past (as many in Rhodesia were) - she finds love and security, and, for a while, satisfaction and fulfillment. With all of the love he can offer her, however, Fumbatha cannot fulfill all of Phephelaphi's needs - and her search to meet these needs brings her both joy and sorrow. The joys she experiences will raise your heart to the heavens - and her sorrows will break it.

As in her newest novel, THE STONE VIRGINS, Vera breathes palpable life into her characters - they are immediately acceptable and accessible to the reader. The physical settings - both the natural world and the world of the township and city - spring to life as well through the careful brush-strokes of the author's words. All of it blends together into a style that entertains on one level, certainly - but this writing will affect the reader on many, many levels. There is a depth and beauty here - and a natural grace - that is a rare thing in writing. Vera's novels are short (two of them, WITHOUT WORDS and UNDER THE TONGUE, are contained in one volume), but don't be deceived - once begun, they expand exponentially, and they will resonate within you for years to come.

I found this book while browsing my local library shelves.

The story of a young woman's longing for selfhood in an Arfrican township during the 1940's speaks volumes to all of us who have felt, at one time or another, trapped in the seeming bleakness of our surroundings.

The writing is startlingly beautiful in its imagery, rich and full of bittersweetness like chocolate. The words come in floods and tides, you are literally overwhelmed by her words. They, alone, give their own experience.

The story of Phephelaphi is visceral: you do not merely read about her life, but feel it through her pain. Vera writes with the African closeness to nature and being; it is not an easy read, but one that will stay with you long after the last page is turned.