This is a wonderful collection of poems, prayers, and quotes from many sources, ancient and modern. This book can be picked up and read a little at a time or all at once. It can be read simply for your own enjoyment or used in prayer services, classes, meditations.....

Look out! Here comes a new look for Basil. First Basil's riding on the back and a quiet burro enjoying the scenery, all those tumbleweeds, heading for the West to solve a mystery at the Grand Canyon when before you know it he's hit with another tricky case, The Case of the Smiling Smugglers. Will Sherlock Holmes of the mouse world and Dr. Watson of the mouse world be able to solve two cases at once? And find the evil person behind all this

A Canadian by birth, Naismith, a physician and minister with additional degrees in education and psychology, also invented the football helmet and taught sex education. Naismith never made any money from the game he invented. In fact, he refused fees when he spoke about basketball in public, and he once turned down a substantial sum to endorse cigarettes. Amos Alonzo Stagg, a YMCA facility member and a player in the first basketball games, recommended Naismith to start a basketball program at the University of Kansas. He took the job, which he held from 1898 until his death in 1939, though he coached basketball for only nine years. The inventor of the game is the only coach in University of Kansas history with a losing record: 53 wins and 55 losses. An amazing man and a wonderful look at his YMCA invention: basketball

Michael Foreman's whispy watercolours are the perfect accent to these lovely little stories written by Terry Jones (Former member of Monty Python) They are also perfect for reading aloud to a child, and there is even a nice little moral for each tale. The Fishy story teaches you not to be full of yourself, and the Beastie story teaches children not to eat too much sugar (among other things) You may be surprised to find that Terry Jones is in fact an excellent writer of Childrend's stories, and Of course Foreman's illustrations are always beautiful. I would recommend this book to anyone who has young children, or someone that simply loves Fairy Tales or whimsical art. (Like myself)

In all the books written about The Beatles, the Australian tour of July 1964 is usually dismissed with the three word reference "Far East Tour". This book was the first attempt to redress that injustice. Quite simply, the Beatles tour turned Australia upside down. In Adelaide 600,000 people gathered outside the hotel where they were staying (Adelaide had a population of 1.4 million). John Lennon told reporters "This is the greatest reception we've had anywhere in the world". In this book, acclaimed rock historian Glenn A. Baker chronicles the tour, and the visit to New Zealand. There is one glaring inaccuracy - it is claimed that the group slept with hundreds of young girls during the tour. This has been discredited by Ringo and George. Anybody familiar with the group would know that there was simply no time for this type of funny business, besides Brian Epstein kept them on a tight reign and wouldn't have allowed it. This part was probably included to get some cheap headlines in Australia's more salacious tabloids. One interesting section is the information on Jimmy Nicol, the stand-in drummer who filled in for Ringo during the first half of the tour. There is also the devastating photo showing Nicol sitting in a deserted airport terminal waiting for the flight back to England. All in all this book is a must for any serious Beatle afficionado. It gives a stark illustration of a country still coming to grips with not only a rock tour but a whole social phenomenon.

I love the Beginner's Bible Series. The stories are short and simple enough for any child to understand. Every time my 2 year old sees Noah's Ark, she says, "Jesus loves me." Isn't that what we want to hear? The pictures are colorful and pleasing to look at. Just right for any 12 - 36 month old.

This book does a nice job of presenting justification for clinical integration, and goes further to offer practical guidelines. In combination with Searight's book, it would make a good course on the topic.

A funny, skeptical and at the same time highly spiritual book. Corey, an independent Christian Scientist, who taught many of the luminaries of his time, eg in Hollywood, at his best: missing no chance to make a good joke, and at the same leading the reader deeper and deeper into metaphysics. I had laugh and smile a lot when I read this book; at the same time, I was touched by Corey's deep understanding of metaphysics.
Highly recommended!

Benjamin Franklin helped the woman's movement of the 18th century. Through the use of a hoax, Franklin helped to spread the word of woman's treatment by the justice system. By creating a person, Polly Baker, a person that exsisted only on paper; he was able to give the people a champion for women's rights. This book is fascinating as well as an important historical record.

This book is about a hamster who accidently dirties the new page of his book. He tries all sorts of things to get the page clean, and of course nothing works. The illustrations are charming, and there is absolutely no text. You can describe what is going on or have the child tell what they see. My daughter "read" it when she was in first grade, and now as a senior in high school, she is still looking in the library for it, just one more time.