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4 reviews

DK INK, 1997

boston review
Fabulous art! why, why, why!is this book out of print! put this masterpiece back into print- everyone should be able to see this wonderful,rich work of art. The entire book in itself is a piece of art to own. I am going to research artist Timothy Basil Ering, he has an incredible sensitive touch. His textures, colors and drawings are exquisit. One thinks of Da Vinci or Michaelangelo when ...

A Guide for Using From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler in the Classroom

3 reviews
MARI LU ROBBINS

Teacher Created Resources, 1994

One of my all-time favorites!
I absolutely adore this book. I read it 25 years ago when I was in the fourth grade, and I just recently read it again - and it never lost its adventure, its character, or its enticing quality. Claudia is just as endearing to my outer adult as she continues to be to my inner child...I still couldn't put the book down!

Murder in the Casbah and Other Mysteries: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Original Radio Broadcasts)

4 reviews
Anthony Boucher, Denis Green

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005

Radio is forever
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are well known for their Sherlock Holmes films, which were produced by universal. An interesting fact is that the universal contract provided that each week these two men could have the day off. On this day, they would go into the radio studios of the Mutual Broadcasting System, where they would give two performances of the same show. Remember, in those days, ...

Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Basil

11 reviews
Wiley Miller

Blue Sky Press, 2006

When the lighthouse in Maine is just too boring...
take off with Basil to the utopia of Helios, where your friend, the girl genius, gives you a ride on her pet pteranodon and demonstrates physics based on precise musical melodies. A great book to inspire reluctant readers to read on...and reluctant writers to create. This book is the first in what is so far a series of two. I hope Mr Miller doesn't take too long with a next installment.

Attack of the Volcano Monkeys (Ordinary Basil)

5 reviews
Wiley Miller

The Blue Sky Press, 2008

A book of imagination!
I was lucky enough to get one of the first copies of "Attack of the Volcano Monkeys". I thought the book was very interesting and imaginative. I have read "Extraordinary adventures of Ordinary Basil" also, again with this new book we read it as a family. However, I finished the last few chapters of this book by myself. In this book, Helios isn't the place, Monkey Island is where all the action ...

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

312 reviews

Aladdin, 2007

A proper mystery!
I think you have to be a kid or a kid at heart to properly understand the magic of this book. What kid did not dream of running away? Here is a girl, a very practical girl, who makes that dream come true. She and her younger brother create an elaborate plan to run away and hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Remember, this was written before huge advancements in security. As they live an ...

Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos

11 reviews
Kerry Gammill and J. David Spurlock with an intro by Rob Zombie

Vanguard Productions, 2006

THE BEST ART FROM THE BEST ARTIST
First of all...Like so many reviewers before me have said; almost every boy that grew up in the '50s & '60s anxiously collected our 35 cents every month so we could go to the local candy store & buy the latest issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland. This magazine became our bible & 4E Ackerman became our surrogate father. More than 45 years have passed; but I can still remember those magnificent ...

Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the Scriptures

2 reviews
M.Basil Pennington

The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998

Lectio Divina: devotionally transforming your spiritual life
This is a wonderful book to introductory Lectio, as is the aforementioned (prior post) book by Thelma Hall, "Too Deep for Words". I was able to get both at my public library, but will be purchasing a used copy of Pennington's, for my library. His work is an "informative and practical guidebook for today's Christian" written in a way that stirred my soul to begin practicing Lectio Divina (a ...

Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

4 reviews
Basil Pennington

Image, 1982

Slipping silently into Center
It is with great joy that I accompany the author into the communion of those saints who have mentored both of us; Thomas Merton, to whom he attributes the term, "Centering", Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, Thomas Keating, Edward Hays, the unnamed author of the ancient classic, "The Cloud of Unknowing", among others. His broad acquaintance with spiritual persons sharing the blessing of ...

In and Out of Character

13 reviews
Basil Rathbone

Limelight Editions, 2004

A very thoughtful and sensitive man of letters
I have always enjoyed Mr. Rathbone's performances as Sherlock Holmes. To relish this enjoyment, I have collected the forteen motion pictures and all of the radio plays by Mressrs. Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. None of this familiarity, however, prepared me personally for the reading of "In and Out of Character" by Basil Rathbone. For a number of years, I had attempted to obtain ...

Ojibway Heritage (Basil Johnson Titles)

2 reviews
Basil Johnston

Bison Books, 1990

Ojibway Heritage
I read this book for an essay and I LOVED it. Johnston's use of stories beautifully revealed the spirituality of the Anishnabe-so much so that I discovered my own spirituality and place in this world by reading it. I wish to get my own copy to share with my children, which is what led me to search this website for the first time.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the sacred ...

The Unfortunate Tobacconist & Other Mysteries: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1-6

11 reviews
Anthony Boucher, Denis Green

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2003

Classic 40's radio mystery
If you like old time radio shows then this series is a 'must buy'. I owned the cassette tapes from the original release of these sets back in the late 80's. True reproduction right down to the Petri winecommercials. It's a neat trip to the past and is a must every Rathbone / Bruce fan.

St. Basil's Hymnal: An Extensive Collection Of English And Latin Hymns For Church, School And Home (1918)
Basilian Fathers

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Arranged For Feasts And Seasons Of The Ecclesiastical Year ; Gregorian Masses, Vespers, Motets For Benediction, Litanies, Etc.

Basil's Search for Miracles

7 reviews
Heather Zydek

Conciliar Press, 2007

A young man's struggle to fit in, and what he learns along the way.
Heather Zydek, an Orthodox Christian, is a free lance journalist and writer of fiction for young people. Her books are written with an effort to instill Godly thoughts in her young readers, while at the same time giving her young readers an Orthodox Christian perspective on the all too often controversial and confusing current issues facing young people today. _Basil's Search for Miracles_ ...

Complete Poems

1 review
Basil Bunting, Richard Caddel

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003

Basil Bunting - A Neglected Voice
It is often said prophets are never appreciated in their own land, and in the case of Basil Bunting this adage seems particularly apt. Praised by Ezra Pound, whose disciple he was, and feted by the likes of luminaries William Butler Yeats and TS Eliot, his work remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1966, when the (North of England based) Fulcrum Press brought out Briggflatts, an ...

The Original Art of Basil Wolverton

2 reviews
Glenn Bray, Doug Harvey

Last Gasp & Grand Central Press, 2007

Wolverton forever! Thanks to Glenn Bray!
Thanks to Glenn Bray for putting out this monster of a collection of Basil Wolverton's work. This volume is filled with previously published and unpublished works. I felt like I was four years old again looking at the sketches for the unused Topps "Make Your Own Name Stickers". That's how old I was when I first remember seeing Basil's amazing illustrations. Wolverton is the reason I became an ...

Unofficial Guide to Casino Gambling

6 reviews
Basil Nestor

Wiley, 1998

Easy tor read... very informative... Enjoy!
I originally bought a copy of "The Unofficial Guide to Casino Gambling" on impulse, at a book store, while researching a totally different topic. (I'm one those people who wander around bookstores for hours and always end up finding something interesting to buy.) The border notes hooked me into the purchase. I had to read more. The main text was even better... easy to read, often gently ...

True Self/False Self: Unmasking the Spirit Within

3 reviews
M. Basil Pennington

The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000

Another Excellent Book
This book contains the best explaination that I have read on the idea of the True Self and False Self...ideas that are crucial for understanding many of the writings in mystical spirituality and ourselves. I have read the book four times and every time I re-read it I find something more in it. Fr. Pennington's ability to make accessible for the layman the often specialized vocabulary and ideas of ...

St. Basil the Great on the Holy Spirit

3 reviews
Saint, Bishop of Caesarea Basil

St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1980

A must read
All too often we in the West tend to forget how influential Christianity has been on shaping and forming our culture. In St. Basil's work on the Holy Spirit we see how exacting the early Christian faith was in articulating its beliefs. St. Basil the great is known in Orthodoxy and one of the fathers of the Christian Church to bear the title, "Great." When you read this seminal work you can feel ...

The Basil and Josephine Stories

5 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner, 1997

Review
I really liked this book. And this isn't coming from some super-articulate adult. This is coming from a 14-year-old High School Freshman. It really shows you what life was like back then in the early 1910's, and how teens back then deal with the same stuff as we do, such as popularity, dating, cars, etc.

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