When I read The Loveling by this same author, I couldn't believe that anyone would ever write a book even half as good as that ever again! But she has! Time Quest is very different from the Loveling in many ways, but it still holds the same magical ingredients - an intense love story, great believable characters, and fantasy that by the end of the book you are wishing could be true! I wanted to become one of the characters in this book. It is such a great story! And to those who have read The Loveling, this one has a real happy ending! You will love this story! I can't wait for her next.

WIZARD'S magic with words takes one back in time with vivid descriptions of events. The sequence of events held my interest to the very end. Story of locked box retrieved from mountain by IAN does come to dramatic closure by WIZARD SEAMUS. All characters lend to peak ones interest in this VERY ROMANTIC novel. CONGRATULATIONS to LINDA on a SUPERB STORY of REINCARNATION.

If you've read "The Loveling," then I'm sure you've been waiting for another gem from this author! Well, here it is, and you won't be disappointed! When it comes to Time Travel, romance, adventure, and fantasy, this woman is the queen! The characters are so real, and by the end of the book, you find yourself wishing it would never end, because you don't want to lose these people from your life. There are so many twists and turns, it keeps you reading anxiously from the first word to the last, even reading when you ought to be doing other things. This is a GREAT "get away from it all" story, something you will remember for a very long time. Hope she's working on number 3... I'm ready!

So Welcoming Ways quotes Thomas Moore, in introducing one of its beautiful rituals to introduce children into the world.

This book is a fantastic collection of traditions and ideas for welcoming our newborns into our lives and homes. While I plan to have a traditional Catholic baptism when my baby is born, this book gave me several additional ideas to help honor my child before this date. All family members are incorporated into the ceremonies, to give the child a sense of becoming part of a whole, who is eager to have them join into the family.

World customs are mentioned, and it was a treat to read what other countries do to celebrate their babies. We have become disconnected with the rituals that make up life, and this book is a wonderful way to help new parents develop a way to mark the huge step of welcoming a new child into the home.

This is an amazing book that is beautifully written and packed with ideas. It has several sample welcoming ceremonies that you can do, but it also provides enough information for you to make up your own using different elements of each. I loved the cultural information and the suggestions for creating altars. I think this would make a great baby shower gift and is a must read for all pregnant women.

This is a book that needs to be on the shelf of every parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, god-parent, parent educator, OB-GYN, Midwife, NICU nurse,adoption agency, and anyone else who has contact with infants & families.

I am a parent of two daughters, ages 4 & 6, and I am saddened that I did not have this book when they were born. Yet, I am also a parent educator, and hope to provide many pre-natal families information about this book and the value of traditions. I also plan to give this book as a gift to all of my friends & family who are or will be expecting a child---I feel that it is as important to them as the prenatal information they receive.

The illustrations are beautiful, the text and content inspiring, and the cost exceptional for a book that will/should be passed down generationally.

I think that this is a book that very accurately describes what the winter of 1949 was like. After reading the book I talked to various people that lived in rural Nebraska at that time and they said that what was discussed in the book was very much like what they lived through. I plan on using the book as part of my lessons on Nebraska History for my students.

Excellent,easy reading of real life stories of farmers, ranchers, pilots, US Army personel of a major snow storm that first hit in November 1948 and again in January of 1949. Affected people in the all or parts of 10 western states. A national effort to rescue people and lifestock. A human drama and of heavy losses of lifestock.

The book is fantastic! I thought I knew everything there was to know about sex, but the author taught me a few things. Through the author's humor and the factual information, this makes it a wonderful book!

I was at first expecting to hate the book, you know how like other sex books, I just wasn't involved in them at all, but GirlsTellAll.com is completely different. I would recommend everyone to read it, at least once, but I really find myself reading it to over and over.

VERY INFORMATIVE, FUNNY, AND WELL WRITTEN. THIS BOOK ANSWERS A MULTITUDE OF QUESTIONS, INCLUDING SOME THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT I WANTED OR NEEDED TO KNOW. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ANYONE SEEKING TO KNOW WHAT THE OTHER SEX KNOW OR WHAT THEY ARE THINKING.

Hope they get more in stock. It's a wonderful history of Long Beach, as well as a good source of real ghost stories. We've had our own ghostly encounters in a government building here in Long Beach recently. The author offers some sound advice with how to deal with "unwanted guests."

I loved this book. I love Long Beach and Ghost stories. This book was very informative and fun! I learned some history that I did now know and I also learned that the building I work in is built on the site of a catastrophe and may be haunted. It was a very interesting way to learn some little known facts about Long Beach. The book is a fast and fun read. I would recommend it to anyone who lives in Long Beach, has lived in Long Beach, plans to live in Long Beach, likes to visit or doesn't know anything about Long Beach. Anyone interested in history and ghost stories would love it!

This charming fairytale by the author of the beloved _Secret Garden_ is not just for children, but is a kind of "spiritual tonic" for folks of all ages. Ever since discovering HJKramer's magical edition, I have turned to _Blue Flower_ during times of spiritual or physical depletion and have always felt uplifted and enlivened by its positive message and exquisite artwork.

The book came to me in a strange, "Heaven-directed" way, during a time of immense grief over the death of a relative. I was ripe for its insightful messages that, "If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room for an ugly one"; and "There is no time for anger..." I have always been bolstered by this particular edition, so gracefully illustrated by Judith Ann Griffith, and over the years have gifted a few special souls, adults and children alike, with copies of this delightful book.

The "blue flowers" at the heart of the story have gradually become a sort of shorthand-code between me and cherished friends/relatives; and on special occasions, we sometimes exchange "blue flowers" as a colorful reminder of truths taught in Frances Hodgson Burnett's tale. The "blue-flower code" is simple and speaks directly to the heart, saying, "We choose love, life, and joy over fear, bitterness, and grudges." (Given current global upheavals and conflicts, maybe certain folks in High Places would do well to read this little book and internalize its simple truths.)

_The Land of the Blue Flower_ is very enthusiastically recommended for hearts of all ages, and Kramer's gorgeous edition is sure to become a family favorite.

Though the story carries a brilliant message of hope for us all, if we can affirm our connection with the earth, it is the lovely illustrations that bring home this heart-felt promise.

On almost every page of this classic tale the artist has embellished the authors words with delightful and imaginative representations of the story.

For a timeless message of hope treat your children and yourself to this book.

Britain's only significant post-modern writer. A national treasure, scandalously neglected in her own country.

Ivy Compton-Burnett's first novel, Dolores, was a sprawling and sentimental romance. She was deeply ashamed of it. In Pastors and Masters we see her own distinctive style first launched, laconic, ironic and understated. The story is set in a private school and contains the usual mixture of upper middle class misfits. It is a style that demands close reading. But it makes you laugh out loud on trains and planes.

The Postmodern Bible provides what is as close as anyone will ever get to a contemporary handbook on "postmodern" methods of approaching, reading, using and interpreting the Bible. One might ask why such a book is needed. I would reply that this book is needed because it implicates the readers of the Bible in the matters it wishes to bring to bear in biblical study. This book attempts to show (in my estimation) that reading the Bible is a social act, a personal act, a political act and a cultural act. And this book preaches what it practices for it is written by a self-styled "Bible and Culture Collective", a group of scholarly "young turks" no less, who amply demonstrate that projects worked on together need not end up being mish-mashes of the wants and desires of those composing them.

This book has both direction and drive. In seven compact yet thorough discussions we are introduced, in theory and practice, to seven contemporary approaches to the practice of biblical reading. Many, if not all, of these (reader-response criticism, poststructuralism, feminist and womanist criticism) are hardly novel outside of the biblical field but then that seems the point of this book; that is, to attempt (or continue to attempt) to intergrate biblical studies ever more closely with, or into, literary studies and cultural studies. This seems the pervasive agenda of this book.

I must admit that I have an interest in reviewing this book, however. I was taught for three years as an undergraduate by one of the "Bible and Culture Collective", Stephen D. Moore. I can confirm that the Collective, if Moore be an example, do indeed practice what they preach in this book. I have to say it sets the Bible on fire in new and exciting ways. If you want to engage the Bible from some new angles or just want to get up date and clear in your mind on contemporary methods of biblical interpretation then get this book. It has no serious challengers in its field to date.

If you've ever been puzzled by the formula of 'post-modern' and 'biblical studies,' then you'd be wise to pick up this exhaustive and personable piece of academic fervor. Among others, The Postmodern Bible fuses epistemological, religious, and cultural frameworks into a textual craft that will keep you poised with more questions. I recommend this book to anyone who takes the Bible seriously - whether you're a theologian, academic, or a heady poser, you'll want to have this book on the shelves of your mind.

The first poem I have ever won an award for is in this book. It is in honor of my Father which is entitled "Thank You Daddy". It was an honor for the International Poets Society to select ME to have this poem published. For any new peot out there,poetry.com is a wonderful place to go. I have read many poems in this book and they are wonderful. For any poet, it is a great book and for those that are not, it is a heartwarming book to read with the biographies of some of the authors in the back of the book.

It's not hard to understand the reason "Rainstorms and Rainbows" caught the poetic core of writers across America. The book was compiled by the International Library of Poetry, and most submissions were handled by Poetry.com in a poem contest. The poems were required to be 20 lines or less, and within those 20 lines, the authors entered their thoughts, feelings, moods and opinions. Reading through just the first few pages sends a wave of inspiration through your whole outlook on life. As apparent in most popular poetry, there is a fair amount of depression-backed poems here, but there are breaks in the clouds. The poems are displayed approximately 8-12 per page, and at 200+ pages, that's a lot of reading! It was originally made to be a coffeetable periodical, which it seems to handle quite nicely. I review this book as one of the contributing authors to it. I received my copy a few weeks after it released to the public, and was blown away at even 11 year olds who spoke clearly about life and the preminitions they have about growing up. There are even bios about the authors in the rear of the book, and an author index for fast searching to a particualr contributor. For the price, you can buy several books at one time boasting to be true poetry, but the magnatude of this book defies all other compilations I have read to date. I highly recommend "Rainstorms and Rainbows", even as an author trying to get inspiration. You'll won't find a modern day poet compilation like this for a while, so get your inspiration while you can.

For children, this is a superb read. Rest assured, though, it gets better with age. As my all-time favorite book, I even bought a special-edition hardcover to pass on to my own little girl. 'The Secret Garden' is a delightful story that can be interpreted on a variety of levels, from a beautiful little story to an intensely moving classic, and each time it is read a new Truth can be derived. I highly recommend 'The Secret Garden' to both children and adults, preferably read from childhood into adulthood.
As an aside, unfortunately the movie version of 'The Secret Garden' is no match for the book. It presents a trite and overacted children's piece that isn't suitable for idiots. I wouldn't subject my child to it.

It's amazing for me to read a book in tree days and want to read it again.I'm a Chinese,but I just can't resist the story line printed on the cover,and I bought a English version.I thought I can read it slowly and prectice my English,but I finished in only three days. Three person who can't love and got together in a great house.Mary,Collin,and Mr.Craven was teached what love is and how to love others by theyselves and by a magical natual-love boy,Dickon.And finally the great house bathed in terror came bake to the arm of the love. I can't write too much about this book.The ending will make you laugh with happiness and make you cry moved by the ending. You really should not only read it,but also own one.