Todd has just gotten his own motorcycle and one of the Wakefields rules is "NO MOTORCYCLES". But even the serious levelheaded twin flips out. Liz is determined to RIDE with Todd with or without her parents consent because it so happens that many other girls are DYING for a ride. Elizabeth can be sooo possessive. Out of mild jealousy will she disobey? This book was great and surprising. Buy it and read it now.

"No motorcycles!"That's the first rule in the Wakefield's house ever since their cousin died because of one. But when Elizabeth's boyfriend, Todd, buys a Yamaha, Elizabeth can't ride on one but other girls can... and they do. Elizabeth is filled with jealousy whenever she sees a girl putting her arms around Todd's waist when on his bike. Will Elizabeth disobey her parents and take the risk on one of those "death machines", or will she just stand there and watch other girls climbing all over Todd???

The Deathlord of Ixia is certainly one of the most well-written books in the Lone Wolf series. Following up Lone Wolf #16, The Legacy of Vashna, The Deathlord of Ixia takes the reader to the icy word of Ixia, where the Deathlord has been released and the entire fate of the universe you know rests on your hands. From the climactic voyage to the doomed city of Xaagon to a spiralling voyage through time and dimensions to the Plane of Darkness, the reader will be catapulted into agreeing that Book #17 of Joe Dever's immensely popular series is indeed a masterpiece

For a game book, Lone Wolf is certainly outstanding. The detailed discription, charachter options and everything makle it truly excellent. This book was no exception, and certainly one of my favourites. I especially like that you are able to finally deal with Tagazin. Just one thing though: Ixiataaga is impossible! I've tried at least fifty times, and I cannot defeat him! :-P

Mystery, suspense and intrigue are all present in this book that is part of a super chiller collection. The Wakefield twins are unexpectedly involved in a murder mystery while spending the summer at an internship at The Sweet Valley News, in which they may become the next victims! Their brother's friend is the main suspect, and is he really capable of such a crime? THat's what the twins intend to find out for themselves.

Liz and Jess are happy to get internships at the Sweet Valley News(Jess only happy because of a cute guy working there, of course). Steven Wakefield, the twin's brother, is having Adam Maitland, a good friend of his, stay at the Wakefield's house. Jess has two things that she wants to accomplish-make Seth(the cute guy) notice her, and she wants Liz to like Adam, even though he has a girlfriend. She thinks that she has done both. First of all, she makes some pretend scoops to make Seth think that she is very smart , and she writes a pretend love letter from Adam to Liz. Seth thinks that Jess doesn't know very much when he finds out that the stories aren't real. Liz is very confused about the love letter and she doesn't know what to do. None of these are a big deal, though, when Jess becomes an eye witness to murder! The problem is that he saw her, too, so Jess is in great danger. The victim is Adam's girlfriend, Laurie Hamilton, and unfortuneately, Adam is charged with murder, since her body was found in the trunk of his car. Jess knows that it isn't Adam, since she saw the real murderer. Matters aren't getting any better when Liz turns in the pretend love letter as evidence against Adam. The murderer needs to be caught, so Adam doesn't have to stay in jail. The twins are in great danger, since Jess was seen. I can't tell you any more, you'll just have to read and find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Born in 1961, I'm on the early edge of GenX (some would say I'm a Boomer--till I slap 'em!), and reading this book made some things fall into place for me. Like why I want to go to church, but when I do, I can't stand being there. It's not a place where people gather to support one another and to learn by confronting the hard things about life--it's a religion mill where people go to plaster over the hard things about life. That is not what I want or need. The previous reviewer is right--until there are churches that are willing to preach to people's despair and doubt and the apparent pointlessness they feel--NOT to talk around it or try to make everyone into Up With People clones--there's nowhere for us to go. And that does s--k because WE NEED GOD. Hopefully this book will open some eyes, though since I'm only the second reviewer I'm not too hopeful.

A note to Boomers: You always wondered why we Gen-Xers seemed so messed up. When you read this book, you will know why: we have no family. And that is why God appeals to us--He is the Father we never had. So why don't we show up in church? Because no one there is talking about God. If you think laws, or pop psychology, or clever sermons will convert us, you're off track: it's the forgiveness, family, and fatherhood God offers. Go back to that and watch what happens.

Most people know of only one book by Thackeray: his witty and savage masterpiece VANITY FAIR. PENDENNIS, perhaps his second-best book, is certainly no slouch itself: a funny, rollicking Bildungsroman, PENDENNIS chronicles the adventures of a loveable young man who almost always manages to get himself into trouble, and his tribulations with the several attractive women in his life (including his young mother). There are some definite slow patches to the work, but for the most part it moves almnost at a rip-roaring pace, and it has none of the overseriousness that mars Thackeray's later works (such as the fascinating, but slowpaced THE NEWCOMES). This is Victorian reading at its most pleasurable, if not its most intellectually challenging.

This is without a doubt one of the funniest and enjoyable novels I have ever read! Do not let the length of the book scare you, Thackeray's brilliant and unique style makes it an easy joy to read. I admit there are some lulls but overall PENDENNIS will earn an honored place on any bookshelf.

As usual, Jessica's sticking her nose in where it doesn't belong. A good book.

The best book that I have read all year has to be Left at the Altar by Kate William .One of the reasons is because the book is like a mystery but then it turns into romance then back to a mystery. The next thing is the details of the story turns out the way you don't want it to! It's like somebody's going to kill somebody but that person kills them self instead. The final reason I like this book is the description of the story they explain everything of every detail so you would understand it better. Let me give you a brief summary of the book. The main characters are Elizabeth, Jessica, Sue, and Jeremy. Elizabeth and Jessica are the two twin sisters, and Jeremy and sue are the couple that supposed to get married. Until one day Elizabeth catches Jessica and Jeremy kissing. But poor sue doesn't know a thing. Then one day any old regular day Sue got a tragic letter saying that she has cancer. But Jessica gets stubborn and won't let Jeremy get married. So Jeremy has only one choice, should he or should he no?. I think that every body should read this good but tragic mystery.

I gave this rather slight book four stars partly I was so ecstatic to find it. As a tremendous fan of William Maxwell, it was a treat to be able to learn a little more about him. Wilkinson is a graceful writer, and talented in his own right, but I found myself skipping the parts about his life in my eagerness to get to more about Maxwell. Wilkinson mentions in passing that this book should not serve as a biography of Maxwell, and it's not one. However, I do hope such a biography is forthcoming. I also hope that this book might spark renewed interest in Maxwell's work, which in my opinion is overlooked and under-appreciated.

"When I was twenty-four I decided that I would try to become a writer," [p7] writes Alec Wilkinson in the opening pages of My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell. Young Wilkinson was then introduced to one of the legends of 20th Century American literature, William Maxwell, who would become like a second father to him.
Maxwell (1908-2000) was both a brilliant novelist (his 1937 novel They Came Like Swallows is considered a modern American masterpiece) and a legendary fiction editor. At The New Yorker magazine, Maxwell helped shape a generation of writers by editing such luminaries as J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, and Vladimir Nabokov. When Salinger finished the manuscript of The Catcher in the Rye, the first person he showed it to was William Maxwell. [p93] Wilkinson learned Maxwell's lessons well: he would himself become an award-winning novelist and, for the last twenty years, has worked as a writer for The New Yorker.
My Mentor is an engaging literary memoir in three parts about three men: Alec Wilkinson, Wilkinson's father, and Maxwell. Part One is mainly about Maxwell's early life and development as a writer. Throughout, Alec Wilkinson's adoration for his mentor is unabashed. He is to be commended for using Maxwell's own autobiographical writing to tell the story of how his mentor became both a man and a writer. By using Maxwell's own writing, Wilkinson gives us a clear sense of just how accomplished a writer Maxwell truly was.

Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois; his young life changed forever when he was ten years old and his mother died. This traumatic childhood event would shape much of Maxwell's later writing. During the Great Depression, Maxwell moved to New York City where he was hired to work at The New Yorker, then under the editorship of Harold Ross.
Maxwell would spend four decades at The New Yorker, editing other writers' work while spending his spare time on his own fiction. Maxwell befriended Kirk Wilkinson, Alec's dad, after the two met while waiting for a commuter train. Kirk Wilkinson was brusque and outgoing; Maxwell was sensitive and introspective. Their friendship was a marriage of opposites.
The two men, both of whom worked for magazines in New York, drove together to the train station each morning. "Maxwell's dependence on my father," writes Wilkinson, "was practical, and my father's dependence on Maxwell was emotional. He knew no one else like Maxwell-so receptive, so kind, so quick to respond to gestures of friendship." [p6]
It was through his father that Alec Wilkinson found his "second father," William Maxwell: "Because I was afraid of my own father," writes Wilkinson, "I was drawn to someone who was his opposite." [p108] Maxwell served as Wilkinson's writing coach and closest confidante: "Maxwell was privy to every decision of any consequence that I made during the last twenty-five years," Wilkinson notes. [p168] Maxwell taught young Wilkinson about writing, about living, and eventually, about dying with dignity.
Through Maxwell, as described in Part Two of My Mentor, Wilkinson learned the art and craft of writing. They "worked side by side for fifteen years." [p87] Maxwell would read Wilkinson's prose, explain how it might be improved, and then might take out scissors and cut and paste the whole manuscript, rearranging the sentences in order to improve the whole. Wilkinson learned the all-important lessons of simplicity and economy and rhythm. If My Mentor is any evidence, Wilkinson was a stellar pupil. The book is elegantly written; the prose is both accessible and often quite beautiful.
With Maxwell's help, Wilkinson wrote and published his first book about the year he spent as a policeman on Cape Cod. It's a subject that Wilkinson writes lovingly about in the early pages of My Mentor. He was admittedly a lousy cop, smashing up his police cruiser on more than one occasion, but he adored the work and the camaraderie with the other policemen.
The third and final part of My Mentor is about Maxwell's death in 2000, at age 91. Wilkinson visits his mentor's deathbed: "He was extremely thin and frail, and I knew he must be dying, but all I felt was the happiness of being with him." [p150] Maxwell then, in a fitting end to their relationship, reveals how proud he is of Wilkinson.
My Mentor is a marvelous book about a marvelous, transcendent friendship between an old man and a young man. Maxwell's kindness comes across on every page, as does his wisdom. Those unfamiliar with Maxwell's impressive opus will, after reading Wilkinson's loving account, likely find themselves seeking out the master's sadly-neglected fiction. Maxwell was clearly a great man, as well as one of this nation's great writers and editors. Alec Wilkinson was fortunate indeed in his choice of a mentor.

This is a story about vaqueros. The part I liked about this book is when the devil steer was taken down by David Baca. It was a very interesting description.

This was a book that I first read in seventh grade, I loved it so much that I baught it the next year at a book fair. It shows the struggle between a boy and his pride, I would recomed this book to any person it is a wounderfully riten book.

"Wonder Woman: Amazonia" is an interesting and complex (albeit a somewhat convoluted) tale set in an imaginary Victorian-era England where proper ladies wear chains and the British army employs powerful, flying vessels to wage war. In "Amazonia," William Messner-Loebs explores Victorian cultural ideologies about patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism and gender roles. Drawing on William Moulton Marston's original Wonder Woman stories, Messner-Loeb's has crafted a feminist tale this is an homage to the original and features familiar characters such as Etta Candy and Steve Trevor. This graphic novel is published in a slightly oversized edition (8" x 11") to accommodate Phil Winslade's atmospheric drawings which recall wood engravings and are beautifully embellished by Patricia Mulvhill's subtle use of color. Read this story and find out why the word "amazonia" was "whispered from woman to woman and never without a shiver."

I thought that this book wouldn't be that great, but the story is really gripping. It takes place in London around the time of Tarzan and has a lot of interesting parallels. This Wonder Woman is submissive until the end. The art is pretty good, though Phi used too many black lines on the faces. It was also sad to see Steve Trevor, the noble character of the comics, turn out to be a most heinous villain.

This story is about Indiana Jones, the famous hero, when he was a youngster. Indiana and his friend Herman are home from school vacation and are in England to help their fathers explore Stonehedge. When they arrive they find all the workers are being scared away by strange and scary things. It is Indy and Herman's job to discover who is scaring the men away. The boys discover a group of dark robed men led by a bad wizard. Indy and Herman must solve the mystery of what these men really plan on doing. This book was very exciting and also taught me about history. Read this book to solve the mystery of Stonehedge.

In this book, Indiana Jones is brave as he battles mystery after mystery, searching for clues. I recommend this book and all of the other Indiana Jones books to all lovers of action.