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34 reviews
Marisa De Los Santos

William Morrow, 2008

Read "Love Walked In" first or you won't "Belong to Me"
I'm a great lover of women bonding books. Two of my favorites over the years have been The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney and Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik. The description of Belong To Me brought to mind these two favorites so I was eager to get started with it. What I didn't realize, however, was that there was a prequel to this book, Love Walked In. Had I known that, I ...

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

35 reviews
Miranda July

Scribner, 2008

Amazing
This was an amazing collection of stories. "Someting that needs nothing", "making love in 2003", "birthmark" and the last story were absolutely amazing. I couldn't put it down. Awkward and thought-provoking, Miranda July is my new idol. Just amazing.

Does God Belong in Public Schools?

1 review
Kent Greenawalt

Princeton University Press, 2007

Well thought out conclusions.
Columbia University law professor examines the relationship between religion and the U.S. public school system. Analyses court decisions about constitutional limits. He does a good job tackling one of the truly intractable problems encountered in applying the Constitution to public life. As the publisher mentions, under the First Amendment, the government can neither establish religion nor ...

Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying

8 reviews
Stan Davis, Julia Davis

Research Press, 2007

Excellent For Schools
This is an excellent book with many practical strategies and tips to reduce bullying. However I found Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullyingto be even more helpful as a teacher. What I liked most here, is that it gives a whole chapter of lesson plans and activities as well as designs on how to create and build an environment in the school, class and at home that is ...

Belong to Me LP: A Novel

34 reviews
Marisa De Los Santos

HarperLuxe, 2008

Read "Love Walked In" first or you won't "Belong to Me"
I'm a great lover of women bonding books. Two of my favorites over the years have been The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney and Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik. The description of Belong To Me brought to mind these two favorites so I was eager to get started with it. What I didn't realize, however, was that there was a prequel to this book, Love Walked In. Had I known that, I ...

We Belong Together: A Book About Adoption and Families

16 reviews
Todd Parr

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007

Great book about adoption
This is a wonderful book for small children. The pictures are a lot of fun and it has a very relevant message.

The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups

19 reviews
Joseph R. Myers

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2003

Small Groups Pastor's Perspective
This book has given meaning and a new understanding to what I experienced in my neighborhood as a child. On summer nights, people lounged the remainder of their day away on their front porches. Others who were taking a walk would stop and linger for conversation. Conversations tended to be light hearted, but sometimes burdens were shared. I loved my neighborhood because I belonged to it. ...

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

27 reviews
Richard Rohr

Crossroad General Interest, 2003

On your "Must Read" list
Father Richard Rohr's book Everything Belongs gives birth and expression to a contemplative, reflective heart. He invites one to enter into a new level of spiritual awareness that everything belongs. We are all one, brothers and sisters, connected and interconnected in God's Creation. This leads to awe, wonder and gratitude: Contemplation!

Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible's Central Story (Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective)
Christopher J. H. Wright

IVP Academic, 2008

This latest volume in the Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective series mines the Old and New Testaments for insight into the notion of salvation articulated in Revelation 7:10, in which the gathered multitudes render praise to God "who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" Christopher J.H. Wright, renowned scholar and champion for the church in the Majority World, considers the amazing promise in the picture painted here: that God is ...

Your Body Belongs to You

21 reviews
Cornelia Maude Spelman

Albert Whitman & Company, 2000

Protect your small children with this book
I bought two of these little books so my children could read them to their preschool kids. It gives even preliterate children the ability to talk about things that might happen to them, despite our best efforts to protect them. If they know how to talk about improper touching, we can intervene much quicker. Besides, kids like it when we read to them.

Where in the World Do I Belong?? Which country's culture fits your Myers Briggs personality type?

4 reviews
Brent Massey

Jetlag Press, 2006

MBTI goes international
A welcome addition to the MBTI canon, Brent Massey's well-researched book examines Myers-Briggs type by country and countries by their Myers-Briggs type. Particularly strong in areas where the author has personal experience (the USA, Japan, INFPs), this book will shed a considerable amount of light on why it is that you sometimes don't feel like you quite belong in your own country, yet why you ...

You Belong to Me

58 reviews
Johanna Lindsey

Avon, 1994

Vasili - OMG - what a sexy sexy sexy man!!!!!!!
I LOVED this book - of the ones of hers I've read, this is probably my favorite Johanna Lindsey so far. The hero Vasili and the heroine Alexandra are perfect for one another. There was a lot of adventure in the story, and though they bickered quite a bit (trying to get one another to break off their betroval), I really liked them both and 'felt' for them because it was so obvious they ...

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

17 reviews
Amin Maalouf

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

extremely important
Maalouf's point on globalization is that it can be (should be?) seen mainly as an extension of modernity. Modernity, in turn, can be (should be?) seen as a project, originating in Europe, that is as yet incomplete and in many cases self-serving for those who have taken "the white man's burden" upon themselves. Modernity brought with it -- through colonialism, conceptions of nature and culture, ...

The Battle Belongs to the Lord: Overcoming Life's Struggles Through Worship

8 reviews
Joyce Meyer

FaithWords, 2002

The Battle Belongs to the Lord
My attention was gripped from the very first sentence and held "captive" throughout the entire book. It was well written and spoke to issues we all deal with in our desire to grow and mature in our relationship with God. This is the first book of Joyce Meyer's that I've read and I have been greatly blessed by it. I highly recommend this book for anyone who struggles with fear and defeat in their ...

That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown

7 reviews
Cressida Cowell

Hyperion, 2007

Three Silly Chicks Review
Reviewed by Three Silly Chicks -- Readers, Writers, and Reviewers of funny books for kids. Emily Brown loves Stanley and Stanley loves Emily Brown. Emily is a little girl and Stanley is an old gray rabbit. They are best friends. Best adventurers. Best EVERYTHING. Life is great for this pair until the Queen "kindly" notices Stanley and decides she must have him for her own. She tries to ...

We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation (Erma Konya ...

9 reviews
Elias Chacour, Mary E. Jensen

University of Notre Dame Press, 2001

If you want to see the Truth for what it really is.
If all people thought and lived like Abuna Chacour war would not exsist. A true follower of Jesus Christ, Abuna truly walks the walk and talks the talk. How can anyone Not read these books and how can anyone having read them not believed every word as gospel? American Christians especially supporters of Zionism need to wake up and realize what they are really supporting. How silly to think that ...

Who Belongs Here?: An American Story

2 reviews
Margy Burns Knight

Tilbury House Publishers, 1996

we need this book
Who Belongs Here is not as well known as Knight's other books probably because it is of controversial nature. But books such as this gem are perhaps the most important in our culture today. While the concepts in the book may go over the heads of youger children, an intriduction to taboo topics at an early age will prepare them to face realities as they grow. This, of course, depends on ...

You Belong To Me

146 reviews
Mary Higgins Clark

Pocket, 1999

A good read
Not a bad book, the bad guy is not obvious until the end. A bit contrived, but not bad.

Your Heart Belongs to Me
Dean Koontz

Bantam, 2008

Salvation Belongs to the Lord: An Introduction to Systematic Theology

9 reviews
John M. Frame

P & R Publishing, 2006

Excellent Introduction to Systematic Theology
In Salvation Belongs to the Lord, John Frame expertly and honestly presents an introduction to systematic theology. As a complete beginner/novice in the understanding of systematic theology, I found Dr. Frame's book to be wonderfully intriguing, leaving me eager to dive deeper into systematic study. Though it appears to be written with the seminary (or perspective)student in mind, don't let ...

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