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Review Date: 5/4/2007
Helpful Score: 1
Above the Line is a dazzling gathering of insights and anecdotes from all corners of the film industry. The interviews (portions of which have originally appeared in Playboy and Movieline) explore from the inside the skills, intelligence, experiences, and emotions of eleven key players who produce, write, direct, act, and review the movies, including Oliver Stone, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Robert Evans, Lily Tomlin, Jean Claude Van Damme, Harrison Ford, Robert Towne, Sharon Stone, and Siskel and Ebert. Witty, scathing, gossipy, generous, the interviewees show just what make the movies work from "above the line"--from the perspective of those whose names go above the title. These are the "talent"--the gifted individuals, often with inflated egos, often torn by doubts--each representing a piece of the puzzle that somehow gives rise to the best in moviemaking today.
Review Date: 7/31/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Shakespeare presented in a way that will appeal to 8 to 12 year olds!
Review Date: 8/10/2006
A Scholastic First Discovery Book
introduces young children to the continents of the world and their countries. Climates, time zones, important rivers and mountains and more.
introduces young children to the continents of the world and their countries. Climates, time zones, important rivers and mountains and more.
Review Date: 8/1/2006
Helpful Score: 1
A collection of hilarious and heartwarming mini essays about real life. Radio Free Bubba can be heard on public radio station, WNCW-FM 88.7 out of Spindale North Carolina every Wednesday at 7:45am or online at www.wncw.org
Review Date: 8/10/2006
Interactive Play-a-Sound® book features:
- Four fun sound keys
- A realistic shutter sound and flash
- A pretend lens that twists and clicks
- A built-in speaker
- A 10-page, fully illustrated, interactive story starring Bob the Builder
- ages 18 months and up
- Four fun sound keys
- A realistic shutter sound and flash
- A pretend lens that twists and clicks
- A built-in speaker
- A 10-page, fully illustrated, interactive story starring Bob the Builder
- ages 18 months and up
Review Date: 8/10/2006
Bob's and his team are looking for his hammer in a silly mixed up "lift the flap" story. 18 flaps
The Buck Book: All Sorts of Things to do with a Dollar Bill-Beside Spend It
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Book Type: Spiral-bound
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Book Type: Spiral-bound
14
Review Date: 1/21/2007
Helpful Score: 2
Learn how to fold an ordinary dollar bill into extraordinary dollar bill creations! Plus, all kinds of strange dollar bill facts and myths.
Review Date: 5/4/2007
From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up'Helen died 130 years ago as a young woman. Unable to enter heaven because of a sense of guilt she carried at death, she has been silent and invisible but conscious and sociable across the generations. Her spirit has been sustained by its attachment to one living human host after another, including a poet and, most recently, a high-school English teacher. While she sits through his class one day, she becomes aware of James and he'unlike the mortals all around them'is aware of her as well. James, who also died years earlier, inhabits the body of a contemporary teen, Billy. James and Helen fall in love, he shows her how to inhabit the body of a person whose spirit has died but who still lives and breathes, and the two begin to unfold the mysteries of their own pasts and those of their adolescent hosts. Jenny, whose body Helen now uses, is the only child of strict religious parents who controlled her beyond what her spirit could endure. Billy's spirit left his body after a string of tragedies resulting from drug abuse and domestic violence. James and Helen court in both modern and old-fashioned ways; here is a novel in which explicit sex is far from gratuitous or formulaic. Whitcomb writes with a grace that befits Helen's more modulated world while depicting contemporary society with sharp insight. In the subgenre of dead-narrator tales, this book shows the engaging possibilities of immortality'complete with a twist at the end that wholly satisfies.'Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright ' Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Grade 9 Up'Helen died 130 years ago as a young woman. Unable to enter heaven because of a sense of guilt she carried at death, she has been silent and invisible but conscious and sociable across the generations. Her spirit has been sustained by its attachment to one living human host after another, including a poet and, most recently, a high-school English teacher. While she sits through his class one day, she becomes aware of James and he'unlike the mortals all around them'is aware of her as well. James, who also died years earlier, inhabits the body of a contemporary teen, Billy. James and Helen fall in love, he shows her how to inhabit the body of a person whose spirit has died but who still lives and breathes, and the two begin to unfold the mysteries of their own pasts and those of their adolescent hosts. Jenny, whose body Helen now uses, is the only child of strict religious parents who controlled her beyond what her spirit could endure. Billy's spirit left his body after a string of tragedies resulting from drug abuse and domestic violence. James and Helen court in both modern and old-fashioned ways; here is a novel in which explicit sex is far from gratuitous or formulaic. Whitcomb writes with a grace that befits Helen's more modulated world while depicting contemporary society with sharp insight. In the subgenre of dead-narrator tales, this book shows the engaging possibilities of immortality'complete with a twist at the end that wholly satisfies.'Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright ' Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review Date: 8/11/2006
30 games to improve your play. Kicking, dribbling, passing, trapping, juggling, defense, goalkeeping, perfect practice & heads up action. For kids of all ages.
Review Date: 5/4/2007
From Publishers Weekly: A welcome relief from the flood of how-to-mother-perfectly tomes, Mead-Ferro's short and sweet book is a reminder not to take parenthood so seriously. The author, who in addition to being the mother of two young children also has a demanding career as an advertising copywriter, has drawn valuable lessons in "making do" from her grandmother, who "had none of the proper equipment by today's standards" yet "never described motherhood as a hardship." Mead-Ferro doesn't care for creating clever scrapbooks, accessorizing the nursery or trying to impart baby genius status to her three-year-old. Rather, she teaches her children that "making do" with their imagination is as good a route to inspiring creativity as any educational toy. She believes in letting her kids learn that the physical world is a complicated place; it's better than smothering, isolating and "child-proofing" the world for them, she says. Rejecting the mentality that results in pre-school admission anxiety attacks and overly competitive soccer leagues for six-year-olds, Mead-Ferro both soothes and inspires as she prompts parents, and mothers in particular, to trust their own instincts rather than that of the "experts." Let the kids get messy, she says, and let them figure some things out for themselves. While Mead-Ferro's not at all sheepish about labeling this approach similar to that of a "slacker," readers will come away with the feeling that the author is in fact a wise veteran who has experienced many of the conflicting messages women face today, and who nevertheless comes up smiling.
Copyright ' Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright ' Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review Date: 8/11/2006
A guide to Chinese customs and etiquette.
Review Date: 8/12/2006
a novel by the author of "Lost in Translation"
Review Date: 10/22/2006
With lavish paintings, charts and photographs, the authors provide an accessible yet scholarly tour of the heavens. Topics covered include basics such as the formation of stars and the shape and characteristics of the Milky Way Galaxy and theoretical questions about the creation of the universe and its form today. (Astronomers "find no end to the system of galaxies, no edges. We do not even have a fluid medium as an analog of the ocean. All we have is empty space.") In the final chapter, the authors speculate on the next potential revolution: the possibility of finding life beyond Earth. A superbly illustrated, mind-opening book.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review Date: 10/8/2006
Covers most basic drawing ideas: faces, basic anatomy, and perspective and then shows you how to punch up your drawings to cutting edge. Explains cutting edge inking and coloring techniques. Compares comic book illustration to television animation for readers who may be interested in crossing over from one medium to the other.
Review Date: 8/28/2006
"a dead honest, beautifully written book that takes you inside the world of alcoholism, and tells you how to get free."- Nan Robertson, author of "Getting Better"
Review Date: 8/13/2006
Winner of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and an American Library Association "100 Best Books for Teens"
Review Date: 5/4/2007
The matching folio to the debut album by the 1998 Grammy Award-winner for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Includes the hit single "Criminal" and nine more: Carrion * The Child Is Gone * The First Taste * Never Is a Promise * Pale September * Shadowboxer * Sleep to Dream * Slow Like Honey * Sullen Girl.
for piano, vocal and guitar
for piano, vocal and guitar
Review Date: 8/29/2006
By the author of "The Perfect Storm". Stories about people confronting situations that could easily destroy them. Not just about fires.
Review Date: 8/13/2006
beautifully illustrated
Review Date: 8/21/2006
beautifully illustrated Scholastic paperback
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