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When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parents Guide to Healing and Recovery

5 reviews
Kathryn Brohl, Joyce Case Potter

Jossey-Bass, 2004

A Must Read for any parent dealing with this situation
I wish this book had been given to me the first time we started to uncover this mystery with my 4 1/2 year old daughter. Once we entered the "system" the experts seem to forget that the parents are starting at "ground zero" and have a lot to learn. Even after begining counceling, working with Children Services etc... there were so many unanswered questions and our personal struggle with denial ...

Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

1 review
Harper Barnes

Walker & Company, 2008

Never Been A Time
Interesting reading but not enough detail relative to the "cast of characters" - would have enjoyed it more if additional time was spent on the "ordinary" citizens and their reactions/involvement in the event.

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Alice Walker

New Press, 2007

The New York Times -bestselling book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called "stunningly insightful" and "a book that will inspire hope" by Publishers Weekly . Drawing equally on Walker's spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, ...

We Have Been Believers: An African-American Systematic Theology

2 reviews
James H. Evans

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1992

A great analysis of a distinct theological tradition
In his book, We Have Been Believers, James Evans seeks to examine the subject of Systematic theology from a uniquely African-American perspective. Part of the difficulty in doing this is that by its very nature this tradition does not have the history of formal theological development, rather the theology has arisen from practice and context rather than specific academic treatises. While it ...

I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America

7 reviews
Byron Hollinshead

Doubleday, 2006

A Mixed Bag
It was a clever idea to ask prominent writers to imagine historical moments, but like most compilations of various authors, this book has some great articles and a few real duds. My favorite is William Leuchtenberg's recreation of a confrontation about civil rights between George Wallace and LBJ, two men who rose from the same poverty, one of whom transcended his past and one who was mired in ...

Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies

3 reviews
Brett Kahr

Basic Books, 2008

Scientifically Analyzing Sexual Secrets
I think that most people have sex lives that they are fairly happy with, and it surprises me to learn that 90% of the people out there are sexual fantasists, routinely screening some sort of interior porn film in their heads just for the sake of getting off. If you ever feel ashamed of having such fantasies, prepare to have an uplifting experience in reading _Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head? ...

Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel

14 reviews
Ann Pancake

Counterpoint Press, 2007

Layer upon layer
This book is as deep and powerful as the sludge ponds it tell us about. It was so interesting I had actually to find out the real events of the Buffalo Creek disaster. But even pictures can't effect you like the raw emotion in this book. Well written, emotional, and hard edged. Read it, weep, discover, and then pass it on!

Been There, Should've Done That: 995 Tips for Making the Most of College

24 reviews
Suzette Tyler

Front Porch Press, 2008

An absolute must-read for anyone preparing for their first (or second, or third, or fourth!) year of college
Been There Should've Done That: 995 Tips for Making the Most of College is a collection of wisdom and insight garnered from the real-life experiences of college graduates across America. The tips offer invaluable information that most guidance counselors don't cover on everything from boosting one's GPA, to the pros and cons of joining a fraternity/sorority, dealing with roommates, staying safe, ...

We Have Never Been Modern

5 reviews
Bruno Latour

Harvard University Press, 2008

a great, new work; serious social theory for scientists too
For this reader, Bruno Latour's book is one of the most ambitious, original, and important reformulations of social theory since 1989. It is getting lots of attention among scholars, and deserves a wider public. The press reviews here don't do this book justice. Latour, for those of you who don't know him, has been at the forefront of the emerging field of "science studies", the history and ...

You've Been Warned

390 reviews
James Patterson, Howard Roughan

Vision, 2008

Loved It Had Me All The Way
i gave this an easy 5..one reviewer , that didn't like this , said he got it at an airport..i think this pearl would make great plane reading..that's what i intended to do..by the end of my speed reading class i went from 365 words to 370 words per minute but my instructor understood giving me an 'A' anyways..i just can't, and don't want to, read any faster..i'm a slow reader..370 words, ...

Even You Can Learn Statistics: A Guide for Everyone Who Has Ever Been Afraid of Statistics

5 reviews
David M. Levine, David F. Stephan

Prentice Hall, 2004

More than 40 Years Late
Knowing how to apply and interpret statistics is more important than ever. This book teaches the basic concepts that lay the foundation for understanding the statistics commonly used in finance, quality control, marketing and science. The authors employ a "concept-interpretation" approach to learning. For each important statistical concept, there is plain-language definition that uses no ...

Something Big Has Been Here

10 reviews
Jack Prelutsky

Greenwillow, 1990

Silly, goofy and fun fun fun!
This collection of Jack Prelutsky's silly and goofy poems is a must-have in any self-respecting poetry collection. The subjects of the poems range from mask-wearing earthworms to a room-trashing robot; from wishes to be bigger, to fishing in the desert. Children will laugh at the fearsome pirate "Captain Conniption," terror of the seas, who always obeys his mother. Many will sympathize with the ...

The Groom to Have Been
Saher Alam

Spiegel & Grau, 2008

A love story inspired by The Age of Innocence , about a young man and woman thwarted by tradition and the fears of a world suddenly defined by tragedy Just as Nasr, a young man with a vibrant professional and social life in New York, begins to prepare for the arranged marriage he hopes will appease his Indian Muslim family and assure him a union as happy as his parents’, he starts to suspect that his true love has been within his reach ...

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics)

37 reviews
Richard Farina

Penguin Classics, 1996

A specter of Cornell's past ?!
Farina captures with his semi-autobiographic book the spirit of the 60s as well as the spirit of Cornell and its campus life as it used to be and maybe sometimes still is. Sometimes crude and to some maybe offensive, often surprising, but never boring, Farina tells the story of his hero Gnossos Pappadopoulis and his friends and opponents. Gnossos seems to navigate free spirited and independant ...

What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?

20 reviews
D. James Kennedy, Jerry Newcombe

Thomas Nelson, 2005

An Incredible Resource on the Impact Jesus' Teachings Have Had on the World!
This book documents the positive impact that Jesus' teachings have had on the world, including Christianity's impact on the value of human life, education, the founding of America, civil liberties, science, economics, sex and the family, health and medicine, morality, art and music, countless lives, and much more. No other person has made more of a positive impact upon cultures around the world ...

Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System

5 reviews
Susan Sheehan

Vintage, 1994

Devastating!
I devoured this book in one night. I was shocked and saddened by the story of this young woman and her family's history with the New York Foster Care system. The thing that surprised me most about the book is the family's unwavering hope that someday they would be reunited, despite the horrible poverty and dysfunction in their lives.

I Wish I'd Been There®, Book Two: European History (I Wish I'd Been There)
Byron Hollinshead, Theodore K. Rabb

Doubleday, 2008

The Authors and Essays in I Wish I’d Been There®, Book Two Josiah Ober · At the Deathbed of Alexander the Great Tom Holland · Hannibal Crosses the Alps Theodore K. Rabb · Christmas Day in the Year 800 John Julius Norwich · Venice, July 24, 1177 Katherine Fischer Drew · Magna Carta and the King’s Men Barbara A. Hanawalt · Rebel Leader Confronts King at Smithfield in 1381 Lauro Martines · Ten Thousand Brutes in ...

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

6 reviews
Leon F. Litwack

Vintage, 1980

Indispensable study of African Americans after emancipation
Few populations in history have gone through the dramatic changes that African Americans underwent at the end of the Civil War. People who had suffered slavery for generations suddenly found themselves free, a welcome yet uncertain status that required considerable exploration and adjustment. Leon Litwack's book examines this transition, concentrating on how freed African Americans perceived ...

It Must Have Been Moonglow: Reflections on the First Years of Widowhood

9 reviews
Phyllis Greene

Villard, 2003

A well written book
There is a comonality we all share in grief when we lose a loved one. How great it is to read that we are not alone in our feelings. Thank you Phillis Greene for sharing this book with us. I highly recommend it. Kathrine Peterson author of Write from Your Heart, A Healing Grief Journal Healing Stories of Grief and Faith (2002) After the Tears, A Gentle Guide to Help Children Understand Death ...

Been There, Done That

16 reviews
Carol Snow

Berkley Trade, 2006

MUST READ!
So I buy a ton of chicklit books and I really loved this one. It is a must read, funny, quirky and the main character is easy to relate with. I read it over a few days and I had a hard time putting it down, so its safe to say it is enjoyable and easy read.

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