A friend told me about the challah recipe here. It's a marvel, and it's just about fool proof, with great shaping illustrations. I'd buy it again for this recipe alone. This book has become one of my staples. The professional baking tips are very useful, but I have to complain about any baking book that sends you to your friendly local bakery to plead for special ingredients, as this one does. Also, this book is big on baking with steam, which isn't a great idea for your slightly klutzy home baker (like me). But those recipes work pretty well without steam, in my opinion. Okay, so I cheat a little with these recipes--yet the breads still come out yummy! Don't count on this book for desserts, though. It's a BREAD book, and a very good one, particularly for people who want to understand the process and learn to do it right.

I love to bake, and this cookbook has wonderful, easy to use recipes. I get many compliments when I make the pizza and the challah. I also have Bernard Clayton's bread cookbook, but Greenstein makes bread-baking so simple and fun! The recipes are very detailed so there's no way that one could make a mistake. If you love to bake breads, you have to put this cookbook on your shelf.

There are a number of excellent bread books but, for me, this one has it all. The instructions are clear, concise and the recipes have been well-tested. So far I have tried: Challah, Pizza, Sour Rye Bread, Corn Bread (absolutely delicious), Black and Whites (better than from the bakery), Wine Loaf, Bagels, French Bread, Sourdough French Bread (a family favorite) and am about to try Pumpernickel. I have had perfect results every time. Whenever I am looking for a new recipe, this is the book I reach for and if I have a similar recipe in another book, I gravitate to these recipes instead. There a "reading" baking books and "baking" baking books. This is a "baking" baking book and an excellent one at that.

I would very highly recommend this book too. It's romantic and is a great story! It was hard to put down.

This is one of Grace Livingston Hill's best works. This book shows how much a young person can do in the world. She goes through many trials and gets stuck at a house party with a drunk man chasing her. But she is saved by the man of her dreams, both from her awful family and from the attacker. If you like GLH's writting you should read this one!

Yes, the story is excellent, if I do so say myself, but I don't recommend that anyone buy the iUniverse / Author's Guild edition. The photos didn't hold up well in the reproduction, and instead of "bleeding" off the edge of the paper they're set with a one-inch margin, so what was a 7x10 inch book comes out to magazine size.

Far better to buy a second-hand copy of the New Hampshire Publishing hardcover or softcover editor.

-- Dan Ford

I own this book in hardcover and I think it is great that it is available again in paperback. The author hikes through the White Mountains of New Hampshire and across into Maine. But more than a journal of his mini-expedition this is a glancing history of the Whites. Excellent! But the politically correct should take heed because the year is 1975 and the author among other things is a (gasp!) cigarette smoker. Let's hope that he has since reformed!

Good photographs taken along the way. Highly recommended.

This is a great book for anyone who want to save money while at the same time grow your personal investments. There are some great tips within the pages of this terrific advise filled book. Personally I have learned to put away more money each months with this tips and leaned to cut my expenses and grow my portfolio. A definite buy.

Thanks Dave Rye for writing a book about the stock market that the average person can understand. After reading your book, I now not only know how to avoid making stupid mistakes when investing in stocks, but how to take advantage of the market and make MONEY.

Agagtha Christie is the queen of Mystery. There is nothing like listening to her wonderful stories unfold. I highly recommend this one for long drives. You will not be sorry.

This encyclopedia is indispensable to anyone seriously interested in blues and gospel recordings of the pre-WW2 era. Awe-inspiring labor has brought forth a volume of nearly 1500 pages listing, alphabetically by artist, recording data for every known African-American blues and gospel performer whose work was put on disk through 1943. It is not a jazz discography, though a few essentially jazz acts are included. As well as commercial recordings, it also attempts to catalog all known folklore field recordings of the same period, particularly those of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Included are an index of artists, to help locate sideman appearances, and an index of song titles. The work involved here, which has occupied several writers for many years, is awe-inspiring, particularly since the book is specialized enough (and priced highly enough) that it will never break any sales records. A love for this wonderful music is evident on every page.

I bought a copy about 2 years ago and use it frequently, especially with my disk and tape collection. The kind of session data given so generously here was notoriously absent on LP reissues of early blues music. As an inveterate compiler and collator and list-maker, I can't imagine not having this info! The Oxford edition is a sturdy and well-made volume, and I consider the book worth every dime I paid for it, and then some.

One "improvement" I would like to see in a future edition is the addition of some symbol to designate records of which no copy is known to exist. Here and there the editors note that a particular recording has "never been found," but this should be done more consistently. Even with such a notoriously lost 78 as Pm 13096, only the absence of a master number indicates its status. Since 7 types of saxophone are differentiated in the instrumentation chart, I would also suggest that the Queen of Musical Instruments -- I mean, of course, the 12-string -- might be distinguished from the plain old 6-string guitar (perhaps as "12g").

The quibbles are quite minor. There is really nothing about this book that I don't like. Casual blues and gospel fans certainly don't need it, but it will be indispensable to those with a more serious interest.

This is wonderful story!! If you haven't read this book, I suggest it. Poppy and Rye is a story about two mice. Poppy visited to Ragweed's house to inform them of his death. Poppy was very mournful but she met a young man mouse named Rye who looked like Ragweed. And she is falling to Rye.

Poppy and Rye is a story about two mice. Rye and his family move away because beavers came to build where his family lived. His father tried to convince the beavers to move. He did not suceed, nor did Rye. Poppy lives in Dimwood Forest with a porcupine named Erith. Poppy was Ragweed's fiance. Ragweed is Rye's older brother. Poppy goes on a search for Ragweed's family to tell them that he is dead. Back at home, Rye leaves a note telling his parents that he was going out to venture the world. Poppy sets of right away as well. Poppy and Rye meet in a meadow. When they meet again, they get into all sorts of trouble! To find out about all the adventures, you must read the book.

With wonderful expression and a heartwarming story line,POPPY AND RYE is wonderful.This 200 page book was just the appropriate length,and not once tiring.The wonderful plot of two mice madly in love is juvinily romantic,and the insincere personality of Mr. Caster Canad is delightfully entertaining.(And I mean that,sincerely) The Numer One veteran of writing books has to be Avi.He knows how to grab your heart on page 1 and not let go until the very last word.I also suggest you read one of his earlier works,THE TRUE CONNFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE. Live long Avi!!!

Although I grew up in Maine and had heard of this book as a child, somehow I managed to not read it until recently. I literally could not put it down until I finished it. Donn's survival in the face of incredible hardship is a story that is extremely harrowing and intense. It shows how the body and mind react when pushed to the very edge of death. I defy anyone not to be moved by the ending!

When a boy loses his dad and his brothers on a hike, he mostly shows what not to do when you're lost on a mountain on Maine. This is a true story that took place on a real mountain. The mountain he gets lost on is snowy, cloudy, and has a lot of wildlife. He has to find food, water, and shelter all on his own.

My grandma recommended this book to me and I recommend this book to you. This book is exciting and tells you what it's like being stuck on a mountain in Maine. This book also tells how the boy turned out after he survives.

As a fourth grade teacher I have read this story aloud in my classroom for two years. I've never read a story that captured the attention of my students the way this book did. Even my "hard-to-reach" boys were enraptured by Donn's adventures. A must-read for anyone who likes exciting true stories about courage and adventure.

After reading the reviews of Amazon.com, I decided to read this book as part of an English assignment. I had a hard time putting this book down. If you like old-fashioned writing, this book is certainly one you should read! The blurb on the jacket cover isn't very appealing, but the book is much better than the editors make it sound. I recommend this book to anyone over the age of twelve who loves good literature.

The Catcher in the Rye is the best book I have ever written. I am a 15 year old, and no other book I have read has described a teenager as well as J.D. Salinger. At first, Holden Caulfield arouses the reader's sympathy, but quickly changes to frustration b/c one cannot tolerate Holden's kvetches for too long. One might interpret Holden as severely depressed and in need of a sgrink, but for me, I think Holden was actually a portrait of the typical teenager. Read this book!

When you ask the question, Would you read this book? Well I'll tell you why I would. Personally, I would read this book over and over again if I had the time. The Catcher in the Rye is a novel that is based on a teens life who has faced many challenges in his life. He went from going to a prep school and failing out, dealing with his brothers death, where to stay at night, who to call when he needed to vent about lifes troubles and worrying about telling his parents he failed out of prep school. He also told a lot of white-lies, but who doesn't? This book shows a lot about how a person deals with many troubles in their life, and how to move on and become a better person. Someone said,"Once you've found what your looking for, it's yours, go for it and don't look back." My favorite part of this book was comparing it to my own life. I may have difficulties in my life, but I have never given up. Like Holden, I wasn't very popular in high school either, but I never gave up the hope of thinking that one day people might like me for who I am. I'll do what I have to do, to get through life being happy and satisfied with what is before me. But and I quote, from my senior highschool year book, "I'll stay the way I am because I don't give a damn". That's just the way I am. In the book it said that Holden represses his emotions and pains inside, if he would have just let them out once in awhile, he would have had a better way of making decisions in his life. I was told many times before, don't give up on life when you are struggling, keep trying and smiling and you'll go far, farther than you can believe. But like I said before, I would read this book over and over again if I had the time in between my busy schedule. I've already read it twice, once in high school and now, my freshmen year of college. I would recommend this book to those of you who are understanding the troubles of highschool, and/or anyone whom may be struggling with the walks of life known to be difficult.