Darby is my very favorite book I've ever read. The main character Darby is so cool and real, and the stories she tells about her time growing up in the 1920s with a black best friend are perfect. It was entertaing, pretty, and funny a lot. It even got exciting. She's brave and doesn't try to be, which is the best thing. I've never read a book so fast and enjoyed a story so much for just the way it feels and sounds and kind of goes. I wish all of the characters were around here for me to meet, and I wish I could see Bennettsville where she lives. I try to imagine it a lot now. I try to picture her and back to when she was a girl, and it's so different, like how her twelve year old brother can drive and black and white kids aren't supposed to be friends but they are anyway, even though a lot of adults don't like it. I think it's the best book I'll ever read, with the best type of story and the best way to learn about the past.

Darby took my breath away. It truly did. I teach middle school and intend to put it on my reading list for next year. Without a doubt, kids will love the spirit and courage demonstrated by the title character. A nine-year-old girl growing up in 1926, South Carolina, Darby (amongst simply living and breathing in the perfectly described time period), for the first time in her short life, becomes aware of the racial inequalities and decides to address them in an article she and one of her best friends writes for the local paper. After that, the troubles begin. I don't want to spoil the plot for anyone, but I will say that it is a gripping, exciting story set off by lovely writing and a huge dose of goodwill and humor. Darby will surely become a classic in classrooms and libraries. Two of my students already read the book (one in a day), and they absolutely raved about it. It's good to have strong female characters in realistic rolls, but it's even better when a whole family shows bravery despite the very real possibility that they will end up as social outcasts. (How often do similar fears grip the occupants of our schools?) An exquisite story for all readers, I highly recommend Darby to educators, students, and even adults. :>)

My teacher made us read Darby, and I didn't want to. Now I'm so happy she did. It was the most intresting story I've ever expirienced at school. It was so good that I was entertained the entire time I read it. I loved Darby as a girl and I wish I was her . It's important issues that she was involved in, about race and how everybody needs to get along better in the world. It really might be the coolest story. I know it was the nicesyt a teacher ever made me read. I would read it without a teacher telling me to.

que nos demuestra el conocimiento que tenía Nostradamus sobre la mujer...y su interés en nosotras.
Profetiza muchas cosas que YA SE HAN CUMPLIDO...y otras que parece que no tardarán en cumplirse..
El libro es verdaderamente interesante, y se nota que el autor estuvo investigando muchos años para entresacar de las muchas obras de Nostradamus lo que se refiere a La Mujer.
Las profecías para nosotras, SON BELLÍSIMAS...y muy acertadas!
Es maravilloso vislumbrar tu futuro, amiga... NO TE LO PIERDAS !

DE NOSOTRAS LAS MUJERES !
NO comprendo como es que alguien pudo ver el futuro desde hace tantos siglos, CUANDO LA MUJER ERA POCO MÁS QUE UN MUEBLE, QUE UNA ESPECIE DE ESCLAVA !

Lo que si les aseguro, amigas mías, ES QUE ESTE HOMBRE VIÓ CLARAMENTE NUESTRO FUTURO EN EL MUNDO !
Y no se limita al presente que se inicia con el milenio..LLEGA MÁS ALLÁ !

UN LIBRO SORPRENDENTE QUE VE LO QUE NOSOTRAS NO PODEMOS VER PERO QUE YA ESTAMOS EXPERIMENTANDO !

Comencé a leerlo porque no tenía otro libro a mano, con pocas ganas...¡Vaya sorpresa que me llevé ! Siempre me había reído de Nostradamus y sus profecías, pero después de leer este libro, PIDO DISCULPAS HUMILDEMENTE ! Qu+e acertado! Y olvidense de lo que ya se cumplió de sus profecías y que sirve como prueba de su buena puntería ! lO QUE PROFETIZA PARA NOSOTRAS EN UN FUTURO PRÓXIMO ! ¡YA VI CUMPLIRSE UNA DE ESAS PROFECÍAS, Y AHOTRA, no me despego del libro NINGUNA MUJER DEBE DEJAR DE LEERLO !

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Online stores come and go, especially the big ones, but this book lists hundreds of terrific small online stores that carry really unique stuff. I especially liked all of the stores that sell natural cosmetics and natural fiber clothing for me and my kids. I've had this book 2 weeks and already its saved me lots of time.

I learned a lot about online shopping that I never knew before. But the best thing about this book is all the online stores, listed by categories. I found some neat stores. Loved the party section.

Jon Hobbs is as good as some of the "big name" writers. The Catch has a little of everything--action, suspense, mystery and romance. Jon's book is also very technically accurate, which many books are not. I hope he follows through with his plans to write a sequel. If The Catch is made into a movie, I'll be one of the first in line to see it.

Jon Hobbs is a down-to-earth, genuinely nice guy with a lot of talent. I wish him well in his writing.

Zack Prescott
Eighty Four, PA

Having spent a number of years flying the old aircraft around the Bahamas I couldn't help but enjoy this book. Hobbs has not only weaved a great tale, but the characters are so believable. These folks that make there money flying junk, in junk are a rare breed, and it takes a talented author to get their unique personalities in print. For a first book he has shown talent that the fiction writing commmunity has not seen in years. I literally can't wait for the sequel and/or anything else this author has published.

Great thtiller, couldn't put the book down. Great for all ages.

This is the best book that I have found on weight training. I needed a thorough book to get started and this was it. Other than my very lackluster lifting durig high school I have never seriously lifted, so I am far from an expert on lifting. I must add however that after having looked at many books on weight training I feel like a bit of an expert on the literature. What I found was that most books are geared to those that already know the subject. These books assumed many techniques I did not know, implied that I needed to work out about 3 hours at a time for 8 days a week and rambled on and on and on.

The Idiot's Guide to Weight Training thoroughly introduced me to everything that I needed to get started. After reading this book, I walked into a fitness store, bought the starter equipment I needed and started to lift. As I write this I am bit sore from the first few lifting sesions, but I am excited and looking forward to the future weeks and months. This book helps with equipment, clothing, eating, stretching, excercise instructions, routines and safety. The authors have provided a very thorough, readable and motivating book. In my estimation this book is an extremely valuable addition to the topic, and is indeed as far as I can tell the best book available to the beginner.

Having lifted for years, I was looking for a book to inspire my mother-in-law who has expressed an interested in weight training but seems intimidated by the "foreign-ness" of the gym scene. When I stumbled on this informative and surprisingly amusing book, I knew I'd found what I was looking for. While this book is clearly written for beginners -- picking a gym, basic technique, etc. -- it offers some good routines for experienced lifters and debunks various myths that you constantly hear in the gym like "I don't want to lift heavy weights because it will make me 'too big'." The illustrations are helpful and the prose easy to follow. If you've thought, "I've got to get back to the gym" or know someone who feels the same, check this book out.

I find this book lends itself to everyone who comes into my home. It keeps getting borrowed. It is light and humorous reading yet extremely infomative. Fitness buffs rounding out their knowledge base and those hesitantly looking into beginning a weight- training regimen will find this book an enjoyable read and an informative resource. Just hold on to your copy......

My three year old little boy Nicklas loves this book to death he thinks it the greatest book he has ever heard me read to him, he likes reading it over and over again. He loves the noises the clothes make when froggy puts them on. And he also loves when the mother frog yells for froggy and asks himm if he forgot to put something on, ands how embarassed froggy gets when he forgets to put on his underwear.

This is an excellent story for all to enjoy. It is fun and entertaining for the young and old. A must read by every parent and to every child. A book your little ones will want you to read to them over and over agin. And you will enjoy doing so.

I read this book to my pre school class and they just loved it, especially when Froggy forgets his underwear. We bought copies of this book to give to all of the children for christmas. My daughter Melissa is going to graduate in May with a teaching degree so I am buying this book to give to her so she can share this story with her class. Great Great Book for young children

A quirk of many Ars Magica players is that they have a particular edition they value above all others: mine was third edition: to my mind, it was the apex of the games origionality. At its best, Ars Magica was an intensly colourfull game that gave modern players a filter through wich they could percive a fantastic medival world. It was a mix of judith tarr and prof. umberto eco, and propably the best thing mark rein . hagen ever made.
Unfortunately, the current owners of the game do not get all that. They seem to think that its supposed to be a "realistic" simulation of the middle ages: not that the middle ages are not intresting enough on their own, but that just wasnt the point of Ars Magica. Its name means "the Art of Magic", and it was supposed to focus on what was OUTSIDE the medival world: its cosmology was one never thought of in medival times. The main characters are outcast wizards, not, say, knights.
Also, i have a terrible suspicion that the current owners overuse of historical material is due to a lack of ideas of their own. Even the colours used in the game - books have become more grey.
One last thing: the rules have always been a bit heavy - going (even a simplified version of rolemaster can manage to be quite complex), but the basic dice system is easy and logical enough, so with a bit of practice a storyteller should be able to manage with a few general rolls. The fourth edition people should have kept most of them unchanged, i understand.

Before Jonathan Tweet moved to Wizards of the Coast, and before Mark Rein-Hagen created the WW's World of Darkness -- they created Ars Magica. This is a wonderfully detailed, and realistic medieval roleplaying game. The magic system is the best there is! The fleshed-out combat system, and the fact that you play 3 characters from different social strata are also wonderful features. The first RPG to have troupe-style play, and it's quite a treat for gamers seeking substance. Minor complaint: I wish there were a few clear and concrete examples of the rules being used during play; in some places the text is dense and a bit hard to digest. But don't let this fool you, the rules are really quite simple -- the presentation just needs to be streamlined.

My background is in Medieval History and the Arthurian legends. While I have enjoyed RPGs in general over the years, I have never really felt fulfilled by them. Ars Magica changed that.

This is a grand game, not only in terms of system, but also in scope. You are not slogging around odd underground defense installations finding monsters sitting in room with a king's ransom in gems; instead, you are part of a community and your interests are first in foremost in the esoteric study of arcane lore and magic. Assuming you are a mage. The Companion and Custos (Grogs) have a slightly different take on life, but they are lower down the Great Chain of Being.

This game assumes that in the Middle Ages the world was what people believed it was. Demons are real. God is above all else. Faeries are around every corner. Within this context, you, the player, are an anomaly -- a mage with great power, socially shunned (at best), but in the end subject to the world around you and the constraints placed on your magic.

The system is elegant, requiring only 10-sided dice. The magic system is magesterial -- huge, flexible, yet limiting the lesser magi until they have a chance to learn. Most of all, the game puts you within a real world and makes you feel enmeshed in it.

If you are looking for a truly fine RPG, this is it, hands down.

Despite the cheesy cover art, Whitley Streiber put together a pleasant little read in his pre-Communion days. He has the usual trouble male authors frequently have when trying to write about the intimate thoughts and feelings of a woman, but otherwise it is good enough. I did, however, keep thinking of questions he had left unanswered after I finished the book. Naughty Whitley.

This is a great book to read, if you can find a copy. It has elements of paganism, fantasy & horror. A young woman's experiences in a small community, clashes between a pagan compound and a local christain group.

The wild hunt bit in this book is great! Wonderful fantasy book for pagan readers!

Well as I am No great writer, I'll make this short and shiny. The imagery in this book was amazing, throughout the book I felt as if I were part of the Covenstead, as if I was there to see all that was occuring,I gained feelings for Amanda Walker, Robin and also a slight pang of sympathy for Constance. The book created a wall of unexplainable atmosphere for me . In a short conclusion I reccommend this book to any one with an intrest in witchcraft, or alternative communities. I am dying to read more from Strieber.

This book is particularly interesting in light of Gene Brewer's novel (and now film) "K-PAX", based on "The Jet-Propelled Couch" episode in this book. In this episode, we meet the original model for prot -- not a homeless person, but a respected scientist. Conjecture has it that he may have been science fiction writer Cordwainer Smith. In any event the story is fascinating, and Lindner writes in a clear, mature and intelligent style. Well worth it!

I have been doing psychotherapy for years and always find it fascinating to see how childhood experiences lead to the development of problems. There are lots of books about the theories, but the actual cases always seem much more striking to me. This book is fun to read if you are interested in looking at these kind of connections. I wish there were more books about this, but the subject seems to be out of vogue these days although people still have as many psychogenic problems as ever. I don't particularly like the books that make case material like this too artistic and flowery; this book describes the characters to the point. The examples part of "The Road Less Traveled" was also good in the same way.

I read the "The Fifty Minute Hour" in the 1960's and was particularly impressed by the chapter "The Jet Propelled Couch." In the mid 1990's I was telling my teenage daughter about the chapter and we went out and bought the book to see if dad remembered correctly. I did and she enjoyed the book as much as I did. It is a classic. I believe the scientist in "The Jet Propelled Couch" was at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The "Fifty Minute" comes from Freud. He advised therapists to reserve ten minutes to cool down after a session with a patient and to prepare for the next patient. In this post-Freudian era patients are seen back-to-back and the hour is fifty minutes to increase revenue, not to cool down. In fact the hour is now down to 40 minutes and even 30 with some doctors!

Unfortunately Lindner's next book "Prescription for Rebellion" as I remember was a dud. Really disappointing let down after the FMH.

This book was very easy to read. It was a great book! I really enjoyed how Mr. Niemeyer provided practical advice in how you can live by God's word. I highly recommend this short book to anyone interested in applying a popular Scripture passage to your everyday life.

Todays society often emphasizes excess, materialism, anger and hatred. It can all too often lead us down a path away from God's word and leave a void in our lives. In 'Harvesting Spiritual Fruit', Jon Niemeyer provides the fruit to fill that void. This book captures the spirit of true happiness. A great 'read' for anyone seeking to focus on true happiness and what truly is important in one's life!

Harvesting Spiritual Fruit is a direct path to God's true Love and Happiness. Mr. Niemeyer uses the fruit of the spirit from Galatians 5:22,23 to guide us to deeper relationships with God, family, and freinds. This book is an easy read that helps us to emmulate Christ's love(for us) in all of are interactions with each other. The end result can only be God's true Love, Joy and Peace in our lives.
This is a truley wonderful book that I will use as continuous reinforcement for how I should live my life. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in obtaining true happiness in their life.