Too often, other history books focus on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. The Baltimore Book is NOT that kind of book. It is both a history of "the other Baltimore" and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African Americans, and women's history. This lively book tells the history of the city through the eyes and emotions of its working classes.

The Book has many engaging interviews, colorful sidebars full of information, and maps of sites for a unique kind of bus tour of the city. It's a very readable book. I highly recommend it.

This is a great conclusion to the Daughters of Liberty series. It is about Barbara, a young girl living in Revolutionary War Philadelphia. Barbara is spying on British soldiers when they steal the wagon she is hiding in. Will she be able to escape? READ THIS BOOK TO FIND OUT!

The lovely illustrations bring children into the warm and reassuring world of this sweet and gentle story. Everyone would want a wonderful babysitter like Mrs. Duck. Text and pictures bring out the best in each other. The illustrations have exquisite detail--the pictures on the walls, the toys on the shelves--that make the book a delight to return to again and again.

This is the third book of Bear's adventures. The illustrations of Patience Brewster are a perfect match to Winthop's story. Bear is a charmer; he becomes big brother to a huge panda bear: Roly-Poly. We could only wish there were more books about Bear.

Bear's playing hide'n'seek. He hides in the closet with the Christmas presents. Should he take a little peek? Bear is wonderful. The illustrations are more than perfect. I love Bear.

This book covers everything a massage therapist needs to know, things I wasn't even taught in massage school. If you want to know it all, get this book. It is wonderful and I plan on using it as THE massage book for the massage school I am opening this year.

This is a wonderful book for adults and children alike. It's printed in Singapore, as one can readily tell from the book's hefty semi-gloss paper and wonderful inked colors. The cover, uniquely padded and soft, begs for little hands to hug it and carry it around. Complete with all the Beatrix Potter illustrations generations have come to love, the rhymes are clever, simple and sure to become a night-time story frequent request. The size of the book is ample, good for sharing/holding the book between child and parent.

Comet "Bob" is back and the town of Endicott, Indiana is celebrating. Why the comet passes over this town is a mystery, but some still believe in the legend: when someone born in the year of the comet makes a wish when Bob passes over the town, the wish will come true on his next visit. Rosemary wished her nemesis Willis would get "what is coming to him" when she was 15. Now he's back to study the comet-from her attic!! And seeing Willis grown and gorgeous may have what Rosemary really felt for him all those years ago coming back; little did she know he felt the same... (This follows "Bride of the Bad Boy" and precedes "The Virgin and the Vagabond.")

A funny romantic story between a welknown editor and the features editor of the daily. The story has the power to make its readers laugh and cry at the same time.

The scholarly, yet concise and readable "Before the Boom: Latin American Revolutionary Novels of the 1920s," is a treasure, whether you are interested in Latino artistic contributions to world culture; the relationship between literary, political, and scientific disocurses, or the Taoist or postmodern nature of language. The book introduces English readers to a heretofore invisible area of Latin American literature known as Vanguardia: an artistic rebellion rich in innovation and technique (elsewhere known as Modernism), but overshadowed by the later Boom writers (1960s). On many levels, this is definitely a must-read. Dr. Martinez has done a fine job of rescuing a forgotten morsel of Latin American literature. Her book makes it possible to enjoy novels that not only preceded, but actually carved the way for the Boom and for many other "postmodern" writers.