If my child doesn't grow up with multiple personalities it will be a miracle. I have found myself calling my Maddie everything but the name I gave her so I wonder if she feels like Hannah. This story is so cute and it's fun to read. I love the pictures and my Maddie likes to hear this over and over.

Parents will see themselves in this cute book about a little girl whose mother calls her everything BUT her name. I think any child who has heard "see you later, alligator" or similar expressions, can relate to Hannah. It is an easy read, and would be good for young children (2-7). It is funny when read with lots of expression and will keep your child laughing.

It's always fun for a child to have a book with their name init. My daughter... loved this book and brought it to school wheneverthere was a special reading event. It's silly and funny and touching. It's on our list of gift books, especially for new-born Hannah's! END

I bought a number of guides to Australia and studied each before leaving. They were all helpful in planning my trip, but Australia Handbook stood out for its coverage of the country in general as well as all the usual hotel and restaurant recommendations. As well as balancing this coverage, I found the book to be up to date and, with everywhere I traveled, anyway, coverage was thorough. Many guidebooks I have used in the past concentrate on the big cities, but this one led me further afield to the kind of places only locals would usually know about. By the end of my trip I was relying almost entirely on it for places to stay and eat, and couldn't find a fault in the choices provided.

I highly recommend this book to anyone traveling to Australia.

We purchased this book before leaving for a six-week trip Downunder. It contained all the information we needed for pretrip planning as well as wealth of information on the country itself. Once in Australia I found it an indispensible aid for choosing what we wanted to see in the limited time we had. The accommodations and restaurants recommended were also spot on, and it was obvious to us as soon as we started traveling that the book is extremely well-researched.

Australia is truly a wonderful place, so it may sound cliched, but this book really helped make our trip everything we had dreamt of. I highly reccomend this book to anyone heading Downunder. It is well worth the investment.

I bought several traveler information type books before my transcontinental trip to Australia last year. This was BY FAR the best! After only a few days, I "packed" the others away.

I use this notebook for my journal. And since the pages are blank, the "reading level" comment isn't necessary. I love being free to write down whatever's on my mind. With free, independent spirits like *NSync, it's easy to do that in this notebook.
I bought this because I needed a new journal and I love *NSync, but since the journal has a hard cover and is spiral bound, the pages stay open easily and it doesn't get damaged. Both are bonuses to purchasing this notebook. I definetly recommend it.

This book (journal) is awsome and I love the picture on the front. Get it! It's all worth it!

YOU MAY THINK THAT THIS IS AN ENTRY JOURNAL FILLED WITH A BUNCH OF JUICY 'N SYNC SECRETS AND GOSSIP BUT IT ISN'T. IT IS A COMPOSITION JOURNAL FILLED WITH LINED PAPER AND IS A GOOD USE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL PURCHASER. THE FRONT AND BACK HARD COVERS HAVE A GREAT GLOSSY PICTURE OF 'N SYNC. INSIDE THE COVERS, THERE ARE SOME GREAT CANDID PHOTOS OF THE GUYS. IT IS A GREAT 'N SYNC COLLECTOR'S ITEM. GREAT TO WRITE YOUR OWN LITTLE 'N SYNC SECRETS:)

Both of the stories in this book were well-written and funny. The characters are quirky, humorous, and vulnerable. True love, of course, prevails. It's a book definitely worth reading.

Jill Shalvis' "New And...Improved" took the tried and true formula of a nondescript female scientist getting a makeover and a whole new outlook on life, and made it fun and believable. The sexual tension was done well, and so was the everyday interaction of the characters. The combination of lust, love, and humor was handled deftly.

Jennifer LaBrecque's "Andrew In Excess" just confirmed my enjoyment of her books. It took the ticking-body-clock theme and presented it with believable characters. It was nice to have the female protagonist be a quirky yet not ditzy person, one who knew her own mind and went after what she wanted. It was interesting to watch the "stuffed-shirt" lawyer-type reveal more and more layers of his character that didn't fit the stereotype. Some of the scenes in this book were laugh-out-loud funny. It's a great romantic comedy.

ANDREW IN EXCESS is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. The heroine, Kat, is a delight from page one, with her quirks and her little dog Toto. And Andrew is fabulous! Watching Kat de-starch the stuffy Andrew had me laughing out loud. Every character, from Kat and Andrew, to the secondary characters are well-drawn and multi-dimensional. I cannot wait for another romantic comedy from the very talented Ms. LaBrecque!

Cute, fast and funny, Jill's New And ... Improved? left me wanting more.

Originally published under the title 'Apartments for the Affluent,' this book is aimed at a very narrow audience indeed. Alpern takes us through 75 luxury Manhattan apartment houses in chronological order, from 1869 to 1974. Each building has a full-page b&w photograph, a diagram of a typical floor plan, and a quarter-page-or-so description. Alpern explains the reasoning behind the various room arrangements, and how that reasoning evolved over the years. I enjoyed this book immensely, but it's not for everyone. If you ever walked by an older high-rise apartment building and wondered how the rooms were arranged and why, this slender volume will fascinate you. Otherwise, you may prefer a book that's a more general survey of the topic (including some by the same author).

Finally I got a hold of this book! Great floor plans; but as usual, I would have liked more interior pics (hardly any).

This book provides excellent descriptions and floor plans of many of New York's finest apartments. It proved to be a great guide book on a recent trip to the city.

Full of bright,highly expressive illustrations and loaded with plenty of amusing "the-tah" in-jokes,this is a book that is equally geared to both young and adult readers. A real treat!

For anyone who loves the theatre and is either a kid, or one at heart (and who isn't) PAMELA'S FIRST MUSICAL is wonderful. Not only is the story great fun in an Aunty Mame-meets-Eloise kind of way, but it is filled with many of the recognizable greats of the Broadway stage. A book to read, to keep, and to give.

Wassertein scores! This winning story is full of incredible illustations and a wonderful story. A four-star hit!

Even though I have been studying the occult for years as well as being raised around it, I never studied much of the kaballah. This book is great for learning the backbone of the study and the Tree of Life, yet for those of us who have been studying in general, it doesn't make us feel as if we have to start from the beginning again. It was a great starter to more in depth books such as Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah and others. It isn't a boring read either (though some parts go slow as it is more in depth). I took it with me while travelling for work in between conferences and such. Great book and deefinitely recommend it whether you are a beginner or someone advanced wanting to study a different aspect of the occult such as the Three of Life.

I have found all of Ted Andrews books to be practical, helpful and insightful- this work has some of the most practical tools for magicians studying pathworking and is an excellent reference text

Ted Andrews further develops the ideas and practices of his book "Simplified Magic". In this book he gives the details and correspondences that lead to a deeper understanding of qabala, the Tree of Life and of course, oneself. Ted's "Imagick" approach to practical qabala is very straight forward and easy to follow. The advanced meditations and pathworkings contained in this book really helped to deepen my qabalistic meditations and my understanding of them. Many thanks to Mr. Andrews for getting me started on the path.

"The Olive Fairy Book" has got to be one of Andrew Lang's best. In this volume, he strays from the more commonly known tales, and instead publishes a collection of exotic tales from Muslim/Hindu countries. I've never heard many of the PLOTS before, and we all know that many fairy tales share common plots. These tales are surprisingly different, and delightfully enjoyable. Anyone who is tired of the traditional Europeon tales that, while still fantastic, are just too well known, this book is a wonderful addition to anyone who enjoys folklore. The pictures are amazing, too.

This has got to be one of my favorites of Lang's color collection. "The Olive Fairy Book" contains tales mainly from the Hindu/Muslim countries, but also has a good amount from Anatole France and Denmark. These are the lesser known tales and fables that are certainly worth a read. They're fantastic! The drawings are beautiful, too. Many people only recognize the European tales, and should know of the fairy tales of other cultures. They are rich, beautiful, and full of creatures and places unheardof in Celtic tales.

I received this book as a gift for my 16th birthday and my friend laughed as she told me it was in the pre-school section. This book of fairy tales, coming from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan, opens you up to an entirely different culture and I enjoyed every page. I would also suggest reading this to children just as every fairy tale book to open them up to ideas of other ways of life (and also allow their imagination to run wild!) The drawings are also beautiful and fit the book perfectly.

I felt as though Mr. Kelly really understood me. It was as if he could look inside my soul and understand my deepest longings, cares and troubles. I look forward to reading more of his work in the future.

I found this book while rooting through the trash of a relative of the authors. And how appropriate because this book rooted through the trash of my SOUL. In these pages I found such dizzyingly accurate descriptions of boozing and womanizing that I walked around in a daze for weeks. I quit my job, got a divorce, and sold my possessions. In hindsight those were poor decisions but I had been blindsided by the genius of "One Last Dance". Mr. Kelly is the finest artist of this, or any, generation (with the possible exception of Family Circus writer/illustrator Bill Keane). I eagerly await his next collection of poetry "One Last Vodka-Tonic". Until then I shall wait in the woods, naked, staying warm and subsisting only on the brilliance of Mr. Kelly's poetry. Kudos Mr. Kelly, may your pen and your brandy snifter never run dry.

This is one of the most relatable collections of Poetry I have ever read. Andrew Kelly has a true gift.

When America declared war in 1917, Carl A. Brannen was an 18-year-old freshman at Texas A&M. He finished out the fall semester of his sophomore year and then enlisted in the Marine Corps in January 1918, reporting for boot camp in February. Immediately upon graduation, he was shipped overseas to France to join the American Expeditionary Force under Gen John Pershing's command. After more training in Europe, he moved to the "front" to join the 6th Marine Regiment under the Army's 2d Division as a replacement for marines killed in the first 48 hours of the battle of Belleau Wood. Brannen kept a very good diary. We discover that he is not a heroic figure-just a marine trying to stay alive. He knows that a foxhole or trench is a valuable piece of real estate in face of murderous machine gun fire. Brannen understands and appreciates the difference between his gas mask and those the French have (they are better), so he watches for a spare one. He knows what hunger is and how much a hot meal means, when he can get one. He also knows what thirst is and how uncertain resupply is in a combat situation. Brannen quickly learns the difference in the sound of the explosion of a gas, shrapnel, or high-explosive shell. He stayed in Belleau Wood until it was captured on the first of July, a great morale victory for all the Allied armies. Brannen wasn't relieved until 16 July 1918. Instead of receiving a period of rest and recovery, he and his fellow marines were trucked to the battle area of Soissons, where he participated in an advance led by tanks. The Germans countered the attack with near-point-blank artillery, killing Brannen's best friend. It took only 40 minutes for his regiment to be nearly annihilated. Brannen, however, is a survivor. He participated in battles in Saint-Mihiel, Mont Blanc, and the Meuse-Argonne. Following the armistice, as a member of the 2d Division, his unit became part of the Army of Occupation. Pershing kept the army sharp by means of a rigorous postwar training program. Brannen writes about how morale plummeted in this situation since most soldiers only wanted to return home. Just when Brannen began to feel down, he was selected to join the ranks of a regiment referred to as Pershing's Own. He had fought with the 4th Marine Brigade in every major battle and had survived-a claim few people could make. The 6th Regiment, composed of three thousand men, suffered 1,161 killed and over 4,656 wounded for total casualties of 5,817.

Over There is a very moving book. Brannen, who knows he was lucky to survive, is a quiet man in a heroic way. If it were not for his son and some dedicated scholars, the papers, photographs, and diary entries that tell his story would have been lost. This book, together with Robert Asprey's At Belleau Wood, provides a poignant reminder of just how terrible war really is.

Carl Andrew Brannen died the year I turned 18. The same age he was when he began his journey through the Marine Corps, into France and back home to Trinity County, Texas. I have visited his battlefields several times and have used "Over There" as a field reference guide. In the summer of 1999 I stood in the Soissons battlefield with my 4 children as they lay in the same road in about the same place their great grandfather clutched the earth for a dozen hours or so waiting for the German counter attack or darkness or death which ever came first. He with a couple of dozen Marines were all that stood between the German line of defense and the rear echelon for most of that fateful day. I read his account out loud to them as we walked down the road and know that it brought insight and meaning to them as it would any American. Knowing that there are thousands of decendants of war veterans with stories untold, I highly recommend this book as a way to begin your own personal journey to discover the trail, Washed with Tears, as my Uncle Joeseph Patrick Brannen, C.A.Brannen's son, and one of the authors of this book, might say. C.A. Brannen's point of reference for his experiences was that of his uncle Eaph Dial, a Civil War veteran of Hood's Texas Brigade, who from 1862 to 1865 fought in most every major engagement his brigade was a part of. Like Eaph Dial, my grandfather was also a part of every action the 2nd Division participated in between June of 1918 and the end of the war. His war decorations include 5 battle stars all of which are featured in this book. C.A.Brannen's dash across no man's land at Soisson's and Blanc Mont Ridge was often described to me as child listening with great awe, as similar to the Confederate attacks at Gettysburg. There is a bit of every American in his story and ought to be read. It is a quick read, complete with historical research to confirm his accounts and is perfectly suitable for readers of every age.

These memoirs have been quoted in Toland's book on WWI and now in Farwell's book. It was good to go to the source because of the writing of the Carl A. Brannen, the editorial comments from the editors, and then the addition of the excellent view of the son in 1990. This should be a must read for every Marine and for anyone who wants to know about war.