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by Peter Benchley (Adapter: Karen Wojtyla)
ISBN: 0385901356
Binding/Media: Library Binding - 208 pages
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. EX LIBRARY copy. Library markings present, but no additional writing. This book has some reading wear but is in a decent reading condition.
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Shark Book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2010-06-07
This is an excellent reference book on sharks. Good story-telling and I definitely recommend it for any shark-lover!
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Moves both the unbiased and the ones with opinions.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-05-05
This book, I was happy to find, was more than a simple biography of Peter Benchly and his adventures and actually gave a few facts laced into moving firsthand experiances. One portion of the book contains a story that accurately depicts the position of sharks as the key to ocean food chains.
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Shark Trouble, without the pictures
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-07-15
If you're a Peter Benchley fan, and haven't read Shark Trouble, then it's for you. Very interesting and informative information and stories. The references are also a good to read. However, it is essentially Shark Trouble without the pictures, and with one extra story.
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peters autobiography
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-01-07
anyone who gives this book a rating of less than three stars is off their rocker. this book is fastpaced and exciting.@it tells of the author of jaws and his incredible experience with ocean wildlife. who doesnt want to read about shark attacks and riding giant rays.
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Blah blah blah
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-12-26
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
You know those books that done on and on and on after having a beginning that showed some potential, but not much? This is a classic example of that. I read a review that called this book riveting, so I was tricked into going out and buying it. The review was right . It was riveting if you consider riveting to be that you need rivets to hold you down to keep you from getting up and never picking up this atrocious display of a book ever again. After the first chapter, I took a nap. Midway through the second chapter, if my eyeballs could throw up, I knew they would have after reading a mockery of all books ever written. Howeve it got past the publisher, I'll never know. This book doesn't deserve one star, it deserves negative 57. Ultimately, this bad excuse for a piece of literature is good for anyone who is looking for a book to make fun of. My summary of the book is, "Don't bother reading this book. IT SUCKS"
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by Peter Benchley (Adapter: Karen Wojtyla)
ISBN: 0385901356
Binding/Media: Library Binding - 208 pages
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. EX LIBRARY copy. Library markings present, but no additional writing. This book has some reading wear but is in a decent reading condition.
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Shark Book
Rating (4)
Date: 2010-06-07
This is an excellent reference book on sharks. Good story-telling and I definitely recommend it for any shark-lover!
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Moves both the unbiased and the ones with opinions.
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-05-05
This book, I was happy to find, was more than a simple biography of Peter Benchly and his adventures and actually gave a few facts laced into moving firsthand experiances. One portion of the book contains a story that accurately depicts the position of sharks as the key to ocean food chains.
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Shark Trouble, without the pictures
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-07-15
If you're a Peter Benchley fan, and haven't read Shark Trouble, then it's for you. Very interesting and informative information and stories. The references are also a good to read. However, it is essentially Shark Trouble without the pictures, and with one extra story.
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peters autobiography
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-01-07
anyone who gives this book a rating of less than three stars is off their rocker. this book is fastpaced and exciting.@it tells of the author of jaws and his incredible experience with ocean wildlife. who doesnt want to read about shark attacks and riding giant rays.
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Blah blah blah
Rating (1)
Date: 2008-12-26
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
You know those books that done on and on and on after having a beginning that showed some potential, but not much? This is a classic example of that. I read a review that called this book riveting, so I was tricked into going out and buying it. The review was right . It was riveting if you consider riveting to be that you need rivets to hold you down to keep you from getting up and never picking up this atrocious display of a book ever again. After the first chapter, I took a nap. Midway through the second chapter, if my eyeballs could throw up, I knew they would have after reading a mockery of all books ever written. Howeve it got past the publisher, I'll never know. This book doesn't deserve one star, it deserves negative 57. Ultimately, this bad excuse for a piece of literature is good for anyone who is looking for a book to make fun of. My summary of the book is, "Don't bother reading this book. IT SUCKS"
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by George Williams (Editor: Ann Marie B. Bhar) (Foreword: Martin E. Marty)
ISBN: 0791080978
Binding/Media: Library Binding - 178 pages
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No shelf wear, no writing. This book is an early release from circulation, EX LIBRARY copy in a like new condition. Library markings present.
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An introduction and close examination of Japan's indigenous religion
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-09-10
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Part of the scholarly and educational Religions of the World series, Religions of the World: Shinto offers an introduction and close examination of Japan's indigenous religion. Shinto defies simple categorization; it involves the worship of kami, which can be translated as gods, nature spirits, or spiritual presences. Yet kami are not seen as fully transcendent deities, but rather as that which is called down into our world. There is no place or person deemed the most holy, nor is there a set dogma, and the rituals and festivals connected to Shinto simply preach harmony with nature and people. Unlike Buddhism, Shinto focuses upon creating happiness within life, not the hereafter. Author George Williams, Emeritus Professor of Religion at California State University, Chico, is well-versed upon Japanese religion as his numerous published articles attest. Religions of the World: Shinto discusses sacred depths perceived in sound, story, action, space, time, and the ruler, and reflects upon the Shinto's presence and role in modern-day Japan and the world. Black-and-white illustrations enhance this plain terms resource accessible to lay readers and scholars alike, which gives an excellent grounding in the complexity and worldview perceptions of Shinto.
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by Sharon Flake
ISBN: 0786813075
Binding/Media: Paperback - 176 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Book in good condition with minimal reading wear. EX LIBRARY copy. Library markings present but no further markings or imperfections.
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The Skin Im In James' review
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-05-23
I give this book 5 stars because it was a great book. I can relate to the main character because I am her age, and Im in the same grade(but Im not African American). I used to be made fun of a lot like Maleeka does in the book. The setting is in a Ghetto town, i dont remember what state, I dont think the book mentioned it. Maleeka's main problem was the she was trying to fit in but she was made fun of, and getting in trouble because of Charlese and the twins. She is poor and her dad is dead. Her mom is keeping up with the stalk market and the economy.
Maleeka has to put up with Charlese and her new teacher, Ms.Saunders, who has a skin disorder which she has a white strip across her face. Ms. Saunders is also made fun of but can take it because she has traveled all over the world, and was made fun of all over this world. I liked her because she was self-confident and didnt care what people thought or said or saw. she called herself, "Smart, sassy, sexy, and SELF CONFIDENT". Maleeka has to put up with Ms.Saunders trying the make her do more work. But Maleeka likes doing one assignment, a diary piece of a slave girl.
When Charlese wants to give Ms.Saunders some pay back, they trash Ms.Saunders class room. and Maleeka sets some valuables on fire, she gets regretful and cries in the corner, finding out after that she set the curtains on fire. Charlese and the twins dont get caught, but Maleeka has to work. Later on she spills the secret and Charlese is sent to another state to live with relatives. And Maleeka gets more, but you have to read it to learn the rest, but if you did Im still not going to say.
By James Mcdermott.
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Maleeka gets some backbone
Rating (4)
Date: 2010-04-21
I thought the book The Skin I'm In was well written because
in the story Maleeka is a very smart girl who gets tease alot
for being darker than other kids, and wearing clothes her mother
sew. Then she hangs with girls who don't respect her and calls her
names. Maleeka finds out that everybody is not your friend, and even
after all the teasing she learn to loved herself. This is a good
book for teenagers to read.
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Great Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-12-06
This is one of the best books i ever read and it is very interesting to read.IT's about a girl named Melaka who is always being teased because of how she looks and her clothes.Her father died when she was young and ever since then her mother has been sewing clothes for melaka.The problem is is that her mother can't sew that well and kids tease her about her clothes. Her so called friend charlese agrees to give her clothes but melaka has to do charlese's homework.I loved the book alot but i didn't like it that melaka kept taking mess off of charlese. And theres this boy named john john who makes up a song about how she looks.He makes up a song about her being so dark.Theres a teacher named ms saunders who is a new teacher at the school.Alot of kids talk about ms saunders beacause the scar on her face.But ms saunders doesnt take no mess.At first maleka doesnt like her but soon she realizes that ms saunders isnt that bad.I think that this is a great book with a great ending.It teaches people that you should know that you are beatiful no matter what other people may say or think.I really did not like charlese beacuse she was always talking about melaka and she just uses melaka.
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aber s.
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-08-18
When I first read ''The Skin Im In''.I was very glad to have picked it up.It made me feel like reading plenty more books.This book is telling about a teenage girl going through some things and that made me relate to the character.Whenever I can relate to a character in a book I can visualize easier.Whenever you visualize you can understand the story better than when you are just yelling out words.
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Mom of pre-teen
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-08-16
I thought this was an great book for girls and it easy to read. I think the book gives you insight of a girl with some difference and how she deals with the peer pressure in 7th grade. The main character struggles with friends and just trying to fit in. She has a great new teacher that also has some difference that helps her get on the good side of the tracks.
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by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 0452260116
Binding/Media: Paperback - 337 pages
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride. No writing, no highlighting. Copy in very good condition with minimal reading wear.
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Spellbinding, universal in its appeal
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-06-16
Egad! What if I hadn't discovered Toni Morrison in college?! Thanks, Dr. Harding at Mississippi College! Featuring a male protagonist--something rare for Morrison, who nearly always gives powerful female characters center stage--"Song of Solomon" is one of the most riveting examples of "bildungsroman" (coming-of-age story) I've ever read, right up there with "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This book is heartbreakingly beautiful, spellbinding in its breadth, universal in its appeal. It so moved me that I chose it (along with "The Bluest Eye" and "Jazz") as the subject of my thesis. It's essential to read Morrison, one of America's greatest living writers, and this volume is a good place to start. You'll likely end up wanting to read it more than once.
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Toni Morrison is like an animal
Rating (4)
Date: 2010-05-31
This book from Toni Morrison is not too bad, it's actually OK. What I like about Toni Morrison is that she is a no-nonsense writer. She perceives the world in an animal like way. She has a total natural acceptance of the bodily processes of being human, white people often have a much more schizophrenic relation to their bodily processes, where they feel ashamed and they are not natural with their body in the same way that Toni Morrisons characters are. Reading Toni Morrisons book one gets a sense that violence is an integrated trait of Afro American culture, virtually all her characters are violent and it seems like violence is an accepted way to solve problems instead of talking about them. In Toni Morrisons universe the shadow of slavery still exists, the characters have relatives which have been killed by white people in racist attacks down south.
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Very satisfied--customer for life
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-05-04
I was really surprised at how quickly the book shipped! The price was excellent, considering a new copy of this book at a major bookseller is about fifteen bucks. I will definitely use this seller (Owl of Minerva Books) again for purchasing books and am extremely happy with the quality of their service.
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You'll Thoroughly Enjoy This Work
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-12-30
Classic literature framed in mid-century African-American culture by the Lorain, Ohio native. Many layers, moving and throught provoking."
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Melody to the Mind
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-12-17
This book is like a melody, an intricate beautiful song playing through the mind as the reader moves through the chapters, hanging on the edge for the next gorgeous sample of writing.
Toni Morrison brings the reader into a story, whisks them away, and suddenly they are launched into the heavens as the ending of the book brings a new understanding, a new essence of life, a new desire to be the best and most open person you may ever be!
Song of Solomon is by far in my top three favorite novels. My life was changed, my heart was changed, everything just plain old sang when I read this novel. A MUST have for fiction lovers who enjoy being elevated to the next level versus just simply entertained. Thank you Toni Morrison!
-Co-Author of The Healing Patch Cookbook, Julie Cara Hoffenberg - [...]
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by Beverly Kusuya, Naoko Ozeki
ISBN: 0582228042
Binding/Media: Paperback - 56 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. This copy is in a very good condition with light reading wear, but has minimal marking on the inside.
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by Tamara Schmitz
ISBN: 0843132213
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 32 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride. New, unread copy. Publisher's overstock copy with a publisher's mark.
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Review from Books That Heal Kids
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-06-07
I'm all for the power of positive thinking. It's nourishing - especially during complicated family times. Children don't have to be the victims of divorce. Standing On My Own Two Feet teaches simple lessons: that the divorce is not their fault, parents love you unconditionally, and emotional strength can be developed through positive thoughts. Kids perceive divorce completely differently than the adults in their lives. Sometimes on the outside they may look like they are going strong, but often on the inside they are muddling through. Make sure you provide access to bibliotherapy as part of their healing process. As a school counselor, I use this one quite a bit.
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Great for ages 3-6
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-04-02
I especially like this book because of its main theme is that divorce is not the child's fault. There is one page that says "sometimes my mom and dad don't get along, but it's not my fault". This is the only reference to parental disagreement, which I appreciated. (Other books I bought spent far to much time devoted to fighting parents). Also recommended: Two Homes by Claire Masurel
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Great Book for Toddler Boys
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-02-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
My son is only 3 and he can identify with the main character, Addison, very well. He asks to read about Addison at night before bed and he feels a connection with him because both he and Addison have two homes. It's a great book, wonderful pictures, and a great message overall for children that have divorced parents that are both still apart of their lives.
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Very Positive, Helpful Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-10-06
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Great find!! I purchased this book to help my 4yr old son during our family's divorce. I particularly liked that it is not skewed from either parent's point of view like some other books that I purchased. It focuses on how the child is not to blame for the changes going on and that both parents still love (& will always) love them.
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Standing on my own Two Feet: A Child's Affirmation of Love in the Midst of Divorce
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-09-11
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I sent this book to my sister's granddaughter whose Mom is going through a rough divorce. My sister read it to her and raved to me about the book. She felt it was an excellent read for her granddaughter.
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