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I don't often recommend books of poetry but Ms. Shin has a wonderful of sharing the passion of struggles with language. Passion in terms of frustration, enthusiastic joy, and fear of the power of words. Her poems separate the various meanings of English words and terms, break them down and show the hidden meanings.

While many other poets attempt this, they lose the beauty of words along the way, the ability for words to combine and ring a note. Skirt Full of Black is an exception book because it's author never rings a sour note even while de-constructing a language.

Rage becomes "slow like glass as a verb" in this amazing collection of poems. I really enjoyed the insights into both the Korean and American cultures and languages, from a unique perspective. Where do people such as Asian adoptees fit into the narrative of America in general, and specifically Asian America, which has a long history, and isn't going anywhere but deeper? Read this book for beautifully-rendered clues.

"Lift Ev'ry Voice" provides teachers with an extraordinary array of primary sources to use in their classrooms. User-friendly guidelines give educators dozens of ideas for how to have students learn about the abolitionist press, the Underground Railroad, black activists and more. All the images, letters, diary entries, cartoons, and more are right there on a CD that comes with the book. An amazing resource.

As a librarian, I am often asked for the "best" books to use in the classroom. If a teacher wants to incorporate African-American history and voices into their curriculum, this is the series for them. Book 5 of the series, focusing on the beginning of the 20th century, industrialization and civil rights, is one of the most popular. So many teachers are charged with teaching about civil rights and they seek to find new, fresh stories to use with students. These books not only have historical information before each chapter, they also offer student activities and questions for discussion and each book includes a CD with primary source documentation. The set of 5 books is for teacher use and the CD can be used to make handouts to use with the students. It is quite an innovative and useful series and this book is excellent. If you are a teacher looking to bring history alive and to challenge your students to become historians instead of reading the interpretations and opinions of others, this series is for you.

I purchased several of Tom Tierney's historical paper doll sets to augment my family history projects. I have 150 years of family photos which are mostly in black and white, of course, so it's great to see the period clothing in detail and in color. The paper dolls will add so much to my research and my family's appreciation of the historical times and stories. Although I intend to keep the paper dolls uncut, they are printed on card stock which would be easy to cut and not tear apart if well-cared for.

I found that these gowns and the people were beautiful. I could spend all day looking at this book...

Southwest Lite; Full-flavored, Healthy Cooking by American Southwest culinary expert Bob Wiseman showcases fabulous dishes that are heart healthy, weight issues friendly, and absolutely palate pleasing. Superbly illustrated with full-color photography, the dishes range from Cisco's Bagel Bites; Curried Tuna Salad; Buttermilk Meatloaf; and Sweet Southwest-Style Pork Chops; to Cajun Shrimp Scampi; Fried Green Tomatoes; Fiesta Jalapeno Cornbread Muffinettes; and Baja-Style Baked Rice Pudding. With each individual recipe laid out in a completely "kitchen cook friendly" and easy to follow format, Southwest Lite is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to any household cookbook collection.

What a surprise to see such a creative Southwest cookbook. The recipes are not only healthy but sparkle with the zesty flavors of "red rock country." I made the soft-cheesy crackers Wiseman calls "Devil's Kisses" and was dazzled with the great flavor and the zesty touch of chipotle heat, caught me off guard. Indeed a pleasant surprise. As for the photography, what more appealing photos could you ask for. Whomever this fellow Chris Marchetti is he sure knows how to take food shots. This book should be on the shelves and in the kitchens for a long time. I hope Wiseman does another. Pennigan

Those glorious golden age sci-fi pulp magazines have now been reincarnated with the introduction of five trade paperback science fiction novels of galactic adventure, save-the-world suspense, and the merged technologies of magic and science. An absolute 'must' for dedicate fans of robust science fiction adventure is David Lee Summers deftly edited anthology "Space Pirates: Full-Throttle Space Tales #1", a series of fifteen swashbuckling short stories of piracy in outer space by some of the best new writers working today. With their brightly colored 'pulp magazine' style covers, all five of these new titles from Flying Pen Press are enthusiastically recommended for fantasy and science fiction enthusiasts, and would make enduringly popular addition to community library collections.

What a romp. What an assortment. Sad and serious to roll on the floor funny. White-collar pirates and filthy grunt pirates, noble pirates and confused pirates. I enjoyed all of the stories, don't make me choose a favorite. Gotta like the publisher's offer at the back of the book, too. I'll be signing up for 30% off the next books in the series.

The whole book has nothing but photographs of
tile designs, and that was what I was looking
for. Our multi-disabled children are studying
Spain and we used ideas from that book to
paint tiles. Thank you very much.

This book gives a wide variety of authentic Spanish tile designs - with no writing. The pictures are printed on only one side, quality, hi gloss paper, and is truly a beautiful book - far exceeded my expectations. I purchased it as reference because I was designing a Spanish tile design quilt. Very helpful.

If you are an artisan looking for unusal and beautiful patterns, I think that you'll enjoy this c.d., as well as the other ones from Paned Expressions Studio. The images are presented in both black and white and in color and can easily be modified to suit your needs or wants. I have enjoyed working with them and plan on purchasing additional c.d.s of his.

Just about every flower you'd ever want to capture in stained glass in this collection. These are the best patterns available today. Every piece so lifelike you'd think there would be a lovely fragrance emanating from the floral windows when you get them done. Every pattern is shown in glass to make choosing glass easier. Thanks so much for offering these great designs to the rest of us who can't draw!

This is a great bible for reading if you have trouble with reading bibles with white paper and the letters bleedthru the other side. None of that with this bible AND the words are easier to read and see due to the color in the background. I find that out of the dozens of bibles I've owned this is the one I'm able to sit down and read the longest without eye fatigue. Also is a nice quality bible with nice with an exclusive color study emphasis. I purchases the duo-tone and prefer the feel over the bonded leather. This is my second color bible. The first one I took too many notes but it's still in great shape. Has held up well.

This Bible is really cool. All the verses are color coded to 12 different colors representing different things like God, family, faith, sin, commandments, history, love, discipleship, evil, salvation, outreach, prophecy. It helps to read the scripture in context with this color coding system. All the words of God in the OT and the NT are written with Bold underlining, like some NT's has Jesus' words in Red, this one takes that concept and applies it to the whole Bible.

This translation is the NIV. It has a lot of helpful cross references taken from the NIV Study Bible. This used to be called "The Rainbow Study Bible", I have the KJV in that and this one is exactly like that one with just a different translation and name. I prefer this kind of Bible that has helps, but doesnt tell you what to believe.

I bought the Brown bonded leather edition. I would have preferred to pay a little more and get a geniune leather edition, but they dont make a geniune leather edition which is a shame. But this bonded leather edition is nice.

It comes with a bookmark so that you dont have to keep looking up what the colors represent at the front of the book, which is nice. It comes with book introduction, outlines, and as I mentioned earlier a nice cross reference system. It has some in text maps and pictures which help with putting the Bible in its proper context. It also has some maps in the back, with an NIV concordance. As well as some study aids in the back like Table of weights and measures, know what God says, 100 popular Bible passages, 365 scriptures to memorize and meditate on, One year Bible reading plan, personal Bible reading calendar, subject guide, where to find it, outline of Old Testament in history, plus the concordance and maps I mentioned earlier. So as you can see this could be a total all in one Study Bible if its all someone had access too.

I prefer the NASB translation to the NIV. But my Church uses the NIV, so this is going to be my devotional and Church Bible. As I mentioned earlier I have the Rainbow KJV and like it a lot, but its harder to understand the older english, plus I wanted to have a copy of the translation used in Church so I can follow along without confusion. Im real impressed by this Bible, just wished they would make a Calfskin edition or something equally nice for a cover so that this Bible would last a lifetime. The contents of this Bible is second to none and thats what counts. Im glad this was made available.

While in the college trying to find DJ's class, Stephanie meets a cute and nice guy named Eric who thinks that she's a freshman at college! Since then, Stephanie starts to act mature in whatever she does, thus forgetting many things. Then one day at the college, Stephanie finds Eric kissing a girl!!!.......

Stephanie Tanner spends a day at college trying to find D.J'sclassroom. She meets a nice girl Sara and Sara invites her to herparty. Then Stephanie meets this boy Eric who he thinks she is a freshman and askes her to write a artical about a freshmans life. Pushing her schools works aside, she spends most of the time working on the artical.Then when she was sure that he liked her, with her spirits high she headed for a classroom.Sure enough, there was Eric but he was kissing Sara. Stephanie doesn't want her secret out but what could she do.......... It's a outstanding book. I 'd recommend to everyone...

This production won three 2008 Audie Awards -- for audio drama, original work and production.

This is audio theatre at its best! AudioFile rates it as one of the best new releases - "A blackly humorous melodrama." Most people know the tale of the murderous barber and his partner in crime, Mrs Lovett, the local meat pie producer. This is a delightful retelling of the tale based on the original Victorian "Penny Dreadful" - stories released in serial form in a London rag. This production is a small touch racy and completely lurid.