It's a new year, a new semester, a new chapter in the life of Alice McKinley, and she couldn't be happier. Alice is suddenly elevated to the ranks of the beautiful people, part of the "Famous Eight." And all because she pierced her ears??? Hmm...The fourth book of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice McKinley series continues the humorous yet realistic trend of the previous installments with great sucess:

Alice's father is now dating the beautiful Ms. Summers, and Lester is...serious about a girl? What shock. Alice and Pamela both get their ears pierced and join the Earring Club. Unfortunately, this leaves Elizabeth out on her own, and Alice isn't entirely sure this is what she wants. Paired off (via a list taped to a blackboard) with the "best looking boy in the whole 7th grade," Alice finds that she still infintely prefers her special friend Patrick. Above all, Alice continues to approach each situation with her good humoured, though easily embarassed, personality.

Hey, what can I say? Yet another good book in the Alice McKinley series. But look out! Things only get better (an definitely funnier) from here on...

GREAT!! This story is very realistic and I wholeheartedly recommend it with the usual warning I give when reviewing Alice books: Only read this yourself, kids, or ,adults, give this book to someone if you are sure they will not faint if they see read some sexual things, which they're are a lot of in the Alice books.

Again, this a wonderful book and really provides an insight into a young girl's mind. I actually suggest boys read the Alice series to get a little understanding of how girl's minds work.

Blessed BE!! :) :) :) :)

All but Alice was a great book to read. It is about when Alice wants a bulletin board, her ears pierced, and even joins two clubs-The Earring Club and the All-Stars Fan Club. She works at the Melody Inn for three hours and wants to be part of the "in" crowd at school.
Alice may act different in this book out of the other books, but I know how that feels. You act different when you are in a different and a snobbier club and then realize of how idiotic you were to people who didn't pick on you at all.
It is not like Alice picks on anyone in this novel, but it was cruel of her to embarrass her friend Elizabeth like that. One of the Three Handsome Stooges likes and picks on Alice a lot. Alice feels different and one of the Popular and the Beautiful people at her school.
But the truth is, Alice gets so sick of Brian (one of the 3 Stooges) picking on her. Even in one of the chapters, he puts her face in the snow for fun like it is funny. And on Valentine's Day, her ex-boyfriend Patrick comes over and gives her a big box of chocolates.
Alice didn't realize that she had to share them with him for some weird reason. So Lester tells her that and she reinvites him over.
Lester has a Woman Situation again! Loretta Jenkins (who works at his dad's store) likes him! Lester just wants to take a break from dating and concentrate on homework. Or, in other words, L-I-F-E. Meaning a "non-female-dating-crisis" life.
And turns out that Alice's dad goes out with her 7th-grade Language Arts teacher Miss Summers. Again. And he gives her a Vivaldi cassette. AND, turns out that Alice becomes herself again, kisses Patrick again (because he threw up on the bus and Brian told Alice to make fun of him when he comes back but she comes to the rescue and they talk and then kiss on the bus. Yep. Just like that!), and quits the Earring Club (I think) and the All-Stars Fan CLub.
The letter Alice wrote to a famous rock-star was very funny. Even though it was a joke, the person in charge of it mailed it to the star!
This was a good book for peoples out there who have trouble fitting in with the right people. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is a great author and knows how to describe a junior-high girl's life today.
So if you're bored, then I suggest reading All But Alice.

Cute illustrations and some useful Japanese words make this an enjoyable book to read but I finished it in 10 minutes so don't expect anything more than an amusing introduction to some of the unusual things a visitor would encounter. When I go to Tokyo I will bring this with me for some light reading on the plane.
It is a clever idea though and a good supplememt to some of the drier guidebooks out there.

Yes, it says so in the reviews, but somehow I missed it. I thought it was a travel guide for the "clueless." I can see how it might be amusing to some Westerners though. Now I need to get a real guide book for our trip to Tokyo.... Got any recommendations?

The artist of this book has summed up some of the strange things that Americans will discover when visiting Japan. With headings like "Toire : Terrifying Toilets " and " Venerable Vending Machines " you can't help but chuckle along with the artist as she sees some of the strange differences between East and West. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with a hearty interest in visiting Japan as it will serve as a 'cultural buffer' and ready them mentally for some of the strange sights they'll be treated to!

This textbook was helpful and easy to read. It is a nice introductory textbook into genetics for an individual who has yet to take molecular biology or biochemistry. It seems to be just the right length as well; however, it is rather pricy for its thickness. The major issues that I had with this textbook were that there were several errors throughout the text and even more in many of the figures. The figures were wonderful unless you tried thinking about them, at which point, several errors were discovered. For an introductory genetics student, mistakes in figures can be a large problem simply because students often rely on figures to explain new information. I know that their next edition, the 2nd edition, which is now out, will only be better & I look forward to reading it! :)

The book does a good job of helping the student to understand different concepts of Genetics.

I used this text as an undergraduate three years ago. It provided me with a wonderful insight into genetics genomics and introductory molecular biology. The books is highly readable with wonderful diagrams and a marvelous set of probelsm following each chapter. Also note one of the authors Dr. Hartwell is a nobel laureate. I believe a new edition is on the way but I find myself unwilling to part with my favorite genetics book even as a graduate student. The price of the new edition would be especially high like when I bought the 1st edition. I suggest the low budget readers like me to buy used copies of the 1st edition because the prices are dropping fast on used copies. Highly recommended for undergraduates of all levels and as an introductory text for a graduate level genomics course.

I bought two of them,because my brother and his wife are expecting twins. I flipped through one and it has charming illustrations,adequate room for pics,although it seemed to lack enough space for writing on some pages. Well,that is if you really like to write. For two (very) busy parents it should do just fine..!

This book is absolutely adorable! The drawings are so precious and it's not too overwhelming like some of the larger baby books ... it's a fun version of the baby album. My only complaint is that it does not come with the sticky corner tabs that hold photos on the page, so I have to either buy some myself or use some type of glue. No big deal, as I still love this album.

I bought this book for a pregnant friend and ended up keeping it ( and buying her another one).

It is so cute and uses photos to mark each occasion with captions to help with the writing. I wanted a good book for my second child so he wouldn't feel undocumented the way a lot of younger siblings do. This book made it easy to keep track. And it's fun to read through again!

The information in this book is helpful but not neccessary. I enjoyed reading about elves in this book. There is a lot of info on different regions of humans, which at first I thought would be helpful, but there is too much and it limits the creative process. The art work, and I use the term loosely, is horrid, mostly the dwarves. Do not look at the pictures. All in all I'm glad I didn't pay full price.

i really liked this book. i think it expanded nicely on the basic races set up in the forgotten realms campaign setting. some of the new races i really liked, such as the Orogs and the Avariels that i remember from 2nd ed. speaking of which, they brought back probably my 2 favorite specialty classes from 2nd edition-blade singer and dwarven battlerager. granted bladesinger was in tome and blood but this version is much beefier. and some of the feats like high born drow bring the races back to their old glory. i really enjoyed all of the racial feats.
most of the magic items are weak, and i was hoping for new enhancements like were brought up in magic of faerun, but oh well. overall it does what you'd think it would, it gives a gajillion options for making non-human races more interesting.

Three years ago, Wizards of the Coast breathed life into the shriveled, wheezing husk that the Dungeons & Dragons game had become. With few exceptions, their experience with Magic: The Gathering and their other product lines has proven to be a key element in their design of this newest edition of the D&D game, and Races of Faerun is no exception.

This book is an accessory for use with the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (which was very thorough and in this reviewer's opinion a tough act to beat). As usual, the Wizards have outdone themselves with an organized layout, quality artwork, and, most importantly, useful, enjoyable content. This book discusses the history, motivations, societal structure, and character elements of the major races on Faerun (elves, dwarves, halfings, humans, half-elves, gnomes, and half-orces), as well as some of the rarer and more obscure races (planetouched beings such as fey'ir, for example).

The histories are richly details and well-written, making them readable and understandable for all levels of player. Perhaps most interestingly, the histories also shed some much-needed light on the origins of many of the until-now-obscure special abilities of many of the races (for example,a nd most prominently, the preternatural resistance of elves to sleep and charm spells).

For players interested in playing these races, the effective level adjustment system is an innovative way to balance powerful races. This system trades power for advancement speed, slowing a more powerful race's level progression in exchange for special abilities and advantages.

If I have one criticism, it is the quantity of race-specific feats included in the appendix of the book. While scads of new feats are always a welcomed addition for the sake of diversity (and I know the book is called RACES of Faerun), some of these feats are extremely specialized, to the point where I believe they simply could have been included as special racial abilities, or made more general to allow other races to take advantage of them with the proper prerequisite training.

Overall, an excellent book, an excellent buy, and one of the many reason for Wizard's success with the new D&D game.

The book had too many poor photos. They were often so blurry they could hardly be seen. The better pictures were all split in the crack of the book and the good quality photos were of nonsense.

Mr. Reynolds covers a wide range of territory and does a real service to the ballroom dancing community with this book. I found it to be very well-written and informative. I think this is especially good because it was not written by a dance instructor, but a musician with a sharp eye and a love for the human pageant. This is perhaps best suited for beginners, amateurs, and spectators since it is essentially non-technical, yet it's very explicit regarding why people dance and otherwise sacrifice their lives to it.

OK...if you are a professional ballroom dancer, maybe you will find flaws in this book. I've read your criticisms of this book in the Amazon reviews. But, to an amateur (like me) who has only had 25 lessons, I thought this book was thrilling! I loved the color photography of the dancers in their glitzy outfits. I loved learning about what goes on before and after a competition. I loved learning about the history of the dance steps and famous ballrooms. This book gives you a wonderful inside look at ballroom dancing and I recommend it. It also makes an excellent coffee table book. People who don't even do ballroom dancing are fascinated with it and enjoy talking about it. So there!

This book contains all of Weider's best principles. If you want to know some new things that can make your workout interesting. When you design your own workouts, don't use the ones the pros use until you have put on some lean muscle on a less strenuous program.

I personally thought this book was a real winner. I have read this book many times cover to cover, yes this takes a while. I use it for reference all the time. It spells out exactly what and how to do all exercises. It also contains great photography of the stars in action. This also contains much information, many pages, great pictures, and pure content for the price. The only other book that is comparable is Arnold's Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.

As an ACE-Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Specialist, I have to give this book a high recommendation. The beginner will get a good introduction to physique development. The more experienced will get ideas for adding variety to their programs. The photos are a bit misleading for the beginner - you'll never look like that unless you use drugs. However, all the technical information is good, and I like the presentation. This book is a real bargain!

I am not able to rate this book because I have not received a copy yet. It was ordered back in Aug. 2-3 air delivered and I would take a used book but this is required reading material for me in the Navy. I have to have this book ASAP.
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This book is not a U.S. carrier development history in general. Although it touches some historical events before 1943, its focus really falls on the period of 1943 - 1945 when Essex class carriers became the backbone of U.S. Navy. The author provides a great mixure of internal politics and operation history to illustrate the emerging Air Navy's growing pains and delights. This is a well written book for history-oriented readers. Readers who are more into technical details should seek other books such as Norman Friedman's "U.S. Cruisers : An Illustrated Design History".

This book is light on the details of the fast carriers from a hardware view,and heavy on the inside politics of the us navy.The events involving the carriers during the war were well covered.

This book is written in installments: first-person narratives by people who know the main character. Most of them are only a few pages long, and few of the narrators repeat. Thus, it's impossible to really sympathize with any of them. The main character himself, gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, is hard to like: we never get into his head, and from the outside he looks like just another gangster. The reader sympathizes briefly when he's wounded and imprisoned, only to be put off when he commits his next act of mindless violence or drunken stupidity. The post-Civil War American West, as presented by the author, whacks the reader over the head with violence, lawlessness, and what I felt were rather gratuitous scenes of sex with prostitutes. I'm all for "gritty" historical fiction, but here it sometimes seemed like the author was just trying to show off. Without emotional content, grit is just an irritant. Having said all that, the book is intelligently written and apparently well researched, and it might be somebody else's cup of tea more than it is mine.

There was nothing like the American West in the history of the world and figures like Hardin exemplify it; deadly, brave, sad and foolish all at once. His death seemed a relief because by 1895 there was no place left for the bravado of a gunslinger who would draw over an insult.

I found the writing format, the telling through other's eyes, less engaging and certainly less tasty than Blake's current style.

This was some book ! Absolutely outstanding in every respect - as a story, in its style, very exciting, excellent dialect, really funny in spots, ..... Chapter by chapter I went from hating the arrogant ... (John Wesley Hardin), to wanting to be a Hardin. If he really was as portrayed in this book (which I doubt), he was mostly the kind of person I respect - leave him alone and he'll buy you drinks all night long and otherwise give you the shirt off his back. Meddle in his business, get in his face, or harm his family and he'll whip you or kill you. Now don't get me wrong. Any reader would try to see where they fit in, in that day and time and I am pretty much left with the sad conclusion that I would have probably been a sorry, boot-licking peddler of some kind . . . . not a Hardin.

Read Jetty Man and STOP! Mullet Run, after 500 pages, never got started. It drifts around aimlessly with very weak character development. The writer, copyist and editor all missed several obvious errors in the text which shows this was a real rush-job. While I heartedly recommend Jetty Man, I do not think you should waste your time on this sequel. Reynolds should never have killed off Uncle Bobby in Jetty Man who was by far his best character developed. Nothing develops in his second book. Jessie, the green-eyed Oak baby finds out her past which is not the least bit interesting. I wish Reynolds would have put a bit more time into "creating" in this book. Seems like these are the poor cuttings left on the floor of Jetty Man's creation. Sorry to say but this one's a dud! READ JETTY MAN!!

Loved it. If you read the first, you have to read the 2nd. I couldnt put it down.G.W. Renyolds III keeps you in deep in these lives as they unfold and always wondering what is going to happen next. I would strongly rec. it Cant wait for more W.Jarrell III

The infamous oak tree has roots embedded deep into the soil of mayport. Reynolds has only just begun to uncover these roots of this small fishing community through his writings of Jetty Man and Mullet Run. Mullet Run will keep you immersed into the southern lives of these drawn out, sexually-seasoned characters of G.W. Reynolds III. His vivid storytelling, once again, breathes life into the myths of the oak tree and stimulates arousal of sexual fantasies to all who read his writings. Reynolds, masterfully continues to unveil more of these silent, bewitching, exciting, breathtaking sensations and situations that evolve from a day in the life of this small village and all who become involved in it. Don't get left behind by not reading Mullet run. If you have read it, hang on tight as Reynolds can only penetrate deeper into the orgasmic soil of mayport in his upcoming novel "Oak Baby".