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This is a very funny, poignant collection of stories from Mr. Leiberman's life. For those of us who were lucky enough to have him for English 12 AP at Evanston Township High School, it is wonderful to read the stories and be able to hear his voice in your head. While the stories are great to read, nothing beats seeing him perform them in front of you, the way he grins and his eyes light up as he gets ready to perform. Thanks for everything, Mr. Leiberman, and thank you for the gift of these wonderful stories!

So, whether you knew him or not, these short stories will take you for a nostalgic trip through your own real or imagined past.

This is the book I thought would never exist. As good as Young's previous two volumes on St. Louis streetcars were, this one soars into a totally different category. Here are photos most of us didn't even dream existed of all the significant streetcar lines which went into the suburbs of St. Louis, including rare shots of the St. Charles/Woodson Road line which ran along the north side of St. Charles Rock Road in a really remarkable and ambitious trolley construct; of the Creve Coeur Line; of the City Limits line, including the loop at Ferguson and the junction with the Berkeley line (which in summer was surrounded by deep woods); the Clayton dinkey and the Brentwood dinkey (what an odd little line that was) and so much more. My father was a Public Service motorman and in the 1940s as I was growing up on his one day off we would walk down Kennerly Avenue from Hamilton to an impressive set of double concrete stairs and walk down, down to the right-of-way at the Suburban Gardens loop to catch a City Limits car out to Ferguson or, sometime, the other way to Maplewood. We also rode the Kirkwood line and many others. When the streetcars went so did the weekend trips--the buses were totally dull as they stuck to the streets while the trolleys whizzed into the woods seemingly far from any street (if you look very, very carefully you can still trace the City Limits line; part of the Creve Coeur right-of-way exists untouched north of Dorsett Road west of Lindbergh; and the Brentwood-Kirkwood power house is still standing in Brentwood just east of Brentwood Boulevard where the Kirkwood line came in the street from its private right-of-way). My memories of those trips and those times has never dimmed. To have it all in photographs is so wonderful. This book is beautifully organized and designed and Young is the most economical and balanced of writers. This book will make a wonderful Christmas gift for anyone who grew up in, lives in and rode the cars in St. Louis. By the way, every house my parents ever bought was either on a streetcar line or turned out to be on one (the biggest shock was finding our home on Ferguson Avenue in Pagedale was on a street that had a line no one remembered had existed). Their first townhouse in Hazelwood turned out to be adjacent to the old Florissant right-of-way. When they bought a townhouse in Maryland Heights I set about sleuthing and sure enough, they were adjacent to the Creve Coeur right-of-way. The house I live in here in the suburbs of Chicago and the one I lived in previous: Both on abandoned electric railway routes. There's somethin' in the stars here, folks.

This book is absolutely amazing. First of all, the pictures are beyond gorgeous. I used to look at them for ages when I was a kid. There's so much happening in them, the colors are so lush, and most of all I thought they captured the spirit of the individual characters quite well. The illustrator deserves commendation.

The story itself is wonderful. In a small space, without a hint of pedantry, it covers "issues" like urbanization, pollution, community, politics, and activism. While being a heartening, optimistic story about community and what it can do for children, the book also manages to be healthily skeptical about politicians. The basic story is that the kids want a playground. After making a big fuss at city hall (and being mistreated in the process), the story becomes a public relations issue for the mayor, so he promises them a playground--and proceeds to do nothing as the newspaper story winds down. Eventually, the kids and parents take action into their own hands and--after doubting themselves--get a wonderful playground together through their collective action.

This retelling can't do justice to the book because it loses all the flavor of what is really a lovely story. I've loved this book since I was very small (for the record, I'm 18 now and I still read kids' book!).

I liked this story because it compells those of the Africian-American descent to stop the geneocide of their own, by stopping the violence of gunfire. The author gives an intriguing solution by suggesting the sense of family must come back and a very original bank system be put into operation.

I had the distinct pleasure of studying with Professor Fishman during the summer of 97. We worked from this text and we walked the streets of East London until I thought I'd drop. For the first time I understood the British Literature I'd been reading and studying. I walked where the poorest of the poor lived and saw with my own eyes how the East End influenced American history and how it changed the face of the world. It all starts with this book. Thank you, Prof. Fishman.

Duncan has written a superior romance in Streets of Fire (Harlequin Superromance #407, 6/90). It concerns recovery on several interlocking levels. There's the central situation (fairly common in category romances) of confronting an old relationship that hit the skids. But what a difference in this treatment of it--the woman (Sydney Foster) has managed to deny her incestuous relationship with her father, which led her to a life as a prostitute on the streets. She's now a successful entrepreneur. Her old lover (Nick Novak), the policeman who rescued her and later got shot in the line of duty, comes back into her life when he needs help recovering from a catastrophic brain injury. This relationship is highlighted by the orphaned girl Sydney takes in, and through whom she must confront her past and true present. The setting of Calgary here is convincing and effective. Best of all, the descriptions of depression and its aftermath give the lie that category romances are only lightweight wastes of time. The book has some of the inflated prose of other Harlequin titles, but its subject, characters and plot put it in a class of its own. Strongly recommended

This amazingly well written book sheds light on the life of John and his apocalyptic eschatology as never before. After having the chance to meet Dr. Bob Royalty and discuss the life of John with him, this book was a natural progression in my understanding of the teachings of John as well as the full story of early Christianity. I highly reccomend this book to anyone interested in the religious philosophy of the Ancient Mediterranean World as well as those simply interested in the search for meaning in life.

I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.

IT IS VERY WELL RESEARCHED AND FUN TO READ.

Interesting,informative pictorial book

A stunning book that I have never read, but I feel that anything written about this glorious boulevard should be an award winner. Congratulations to it's writer, and I find it hard to cope with that it is 'out-of-print'.