This book might be helpful if you either: 1) Bought the Digi-battle card game and didn't quite understand all the rules. 2) Are thinking about getting into the game and are wondering what it involves. 3) Want a lot of cool pictures of Digimon cards.

There are some useful tables in this book, like which cards you need to play to get to the next level in different situations, but they completely ignore all the cards in the booster decks.

The sad thing is that after a few chapters, the book jumps off talking about the TV series, the animated series cards, and completely ignores the game.

A nice introduction to the game, and the checklist is extremely cool, but if you're already a player and looking to enhance your skills, this is not the book for you.

The heroine of this novel, Lauren Ryder, sees a painting at an art exhibit and becomes convinced that she is seeing herself in the painting. The incident triggers memories of a life lived in the 16th century.

Needless to say, Lauren's dreams/memories disturb her husband and her friends. As they intensify, so does the tension between Lauren and her husband.

While this is a entertaining gothic mystery, it's not nearly as good as some of this author's other books. The characterizations are rather thin and too many major developments are thrown into the plot in rather a hapahzard and unconvincing manner. For instance, Lauren's friend Sandra simply accepts the notion of past lives and/or visions without questions and goes along helping Lauren find the truth of her dilemma. The fact that Lauren suddenly, after five years of marriage, decides to tell her husband she has amnesia and does not remember the first 18 years of her life wasn't handled too well either.

Still, despite some glaring flaws, the story is a fun afternoon read.

I only gave this a three star rating as nowhere in this book are the pitfalls of falling into superioriority complexes get addressed. The ideals are polished and his personal faith explained-- Michael Harper has definitely lived his life doing as God had bade him and given his heart to Him.

But Orthodoxy is more than a set of ideals and philosophies based on God's Word. It's a bunch of people. Once you get in or even part way in, it is just like college when you started talking like a liberal, only with Orthodoxy your language gets peppered with word phrases like, "The One True Way", "The Truth", "Obedience to Father" (who is an emmisary of God and well-- they are human, too)"The One Church" "The One True Church"-- Orthodox Christian Churches can get pretty exclusionary to visitors and don't tolerate struggling parents with fussy babies or any potential struggles very well, and this is the reason that I feel that it started to take off in the US and then pettered out. England needs to watch herself that they become a light on a Hill that people seek, as opposed to a light that only shines on her own members.

A rather quick read with definite Lensman influences. The story chronicles the events of the UN space fleet - one of five power blocks on a future Earth - when the first contact with an alien spieces results in the destruction of Pluto base, followed by Pluto itself and then the Earth.

The political background is a bit dated - with the Soviets being one of the major Earth power blocks - and there is little exploration of the aliens and their culture.

All in all, a good read for a summer evening.

My first note is that the editorial reviews attached to this book by Amazon seem to apply to a different illustrated volume of Hansel and Gretel, not the one illustrated by Monique Felix.

I ran across this on a search for the perfect edition of Hansel and Gretel. The illustrator does an excellent job, but her illustrations are far too frightening for young children. At times, Hansel and Gretel's eyes seem to glow, and the witch is horrifying... her long tangled hair has bones in it. You can almost hear shrieks and groans as you look at the pictures. I showed the picture to a friend of mine (a graphic artist), and she found it very disturbing.

I cannot give the book fewer than three stars, because it is so well done. But I cannot give it more than three, because I think it would scare the daylights out of young children. Granted, Hansel and Gretel is a scary story, but I remember coming across less frightening versions when I was a kid.

This is a good dictionary, consisting of over 70,000 translations, with an interesting game section in the middle to hone your skills. More geared towards the beginning Spanish person.

I found Heart Sounds on a back shelf in my closet. I had bought it years ago but had forgotten it. I'm glad i found it. The story has an unusual heroine, she's deaf. She loses her hearing, or at least most of it, in a gunpowder accident when she's a child. She learns to adapt though by reading lips quite well. After she looses her mother in another mill accident she goes to work for an elderly couple. She encounters the hero when she is trying to save a drowning puppy and falls in the water herself and almost drowns. He fishes them both out and agrees to keep the puppy for her until he finds a new owner. He keeps coming around her and eventually they get caught in a compromising position. He marries her and takes her with him to his home in Maine. After she finds out that he really doesn't love her she denies him her desire but not his bed. He wants her to be the loving and passion filled wife of their first days together. He struggles with his feelings for her but soon finds that she is all he wants. She even saves him when they sail to England to rescue his brother and the hero gets arrested himself. I really enjoyed this book and would like to read more by this author like maybe a book about the brother.

I did enjoy this book. It started out quickly with action. The heroine is a strong woman and the man with a past is written fairly well. The book doesn't require you to think. You might learn a little about firefighting and all in all is a decent, quick summer read. It shouldn't take you too long and the story is interesting enough to keep you intrigued to the end.

My company purchased this book for me at my request - I am a project manager who wanted to get more of an indepth look at the areas that this book covers - while i felt that it covers all the subject very well it is just too expensive for what it is and there are better books that are cheeper.

Midnight Ghosts started a little slow for me. But then I really got caught up in the story of some of men who volunteered to fly for the French during World War I - part of the Lafayette Escadrille. The action scenes in the air in those old planes, the Spads and deHavillands, were really exciting. Two of the pilots (in this novel) later founded a company that manufactured airplane engines. They became obsessed with the competition in 1927 for the first plane to fly non-stop between New York and Paris.
When a French competitor looked as if he would beat Lindbergh, these two men set out to sabotage his plane. The plot took me all over the place - from California to France and Italy and to the little Caribbean island of St. Bart's. Some of it got a little far fetched, but then I realized I had never read an action tale like this one in some time.