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Gran Gran's Best Trick: A Story For Children Who Have Lost Someone They Love

1 review
L. Dwight Holden

Topeka Bindery, 1989

FANTASTIC
This book is fantastic. It should be read by every grandchild who has a grandfather that is dying from cancer. It is VERY realistic and explains living and dying in a manner that is understandable to children. I reccomend this book HIGHLY.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends: Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More ...

6 reviews
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, ...

HCI Teens, 2005

GREAT BOOKS!
Chicken Soup the Real Deal: Friends I just recently read Chicken Soup the Real Deal: Friends. This book is a very good book. It tells many stories of people who are really close to others, or have had a problem with friends in the past. I think that Chicken Soup books are very easy to read, it also doesn't take long to read them if you can relate to the stories in them. I have always loved ...

Where is My Bennie?

5 reviews
April Robins, Celeste Robins, ...

AuthorHouse, 2007

Great bedtime story
I read this to the grand son at bedtime and he started repeating the line "where is my bennie?" every time I finished one of the search areas. He really liked it. This a good book to read at bed time.

The Best Seat in Second Grade (I Can Read Book 2)

3 reviews
Katharine Kenah

HarperCollins, 2005

Humor for a Second Grader
I bought this book for my grandson who has just completed the first gade. I think the book is funny. The vocabulary is easy enough and the illustrations are excellent. Even without them, a beginning reader can picture everything. It contains a strong appeal to the senses, and the situations are easy for a second gader to relate to. I highly recommend this book.

I'VE LOST MY BEST FRIEND (Diary S.O.S., No 1)

3 reviews
Megan Howard

Random House Books for Young Readers, 1994

Great series
When Amy and her best friend of seven years Rosie have a fight when Rosie joins the popular crowd, Amy gets upset about it and writes about it in her diary while befriending new girl Heather, whom Rosie hates. However, in the end Rosie sees her mistake and stops the popular girls from picking on Heather and Amy. This book is really realistic and it's a lot of fun to read. In particular the author ...

My Best Sweet Potato

3 reviews

Atheneum, 2006

My Best Sweet Potato - Beautiful and Excellent
"My Best Sweet Potato" is a magnificently illustrated book with soft colors and amazing drawings. Small children love it. Not to be outdone by the drawings, the story is also very touching. What child doesn't have a favorite stuffed toy who you as a parent are terrified will be lost? Follow this simple but beautiful and understandable story and you'll be sad and happy. I highly recommed this ...

The Best Christmas Ever

2 reviews
Sylvia Green

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2001

Touching Holiday Story for Young Readers
Young Puss is a country cat, and has been all his life. He adores small-town living, as he knows all the animals who surround him, and has his own very territories. That's why he's shocked when his owner, Jenni, moves him to a city filled with traffic, and unfriendly people. Puss quickly decides that this isn't the life for him, and heads towards home. However, unbeknownst to Puss, home is over ...

Lost Desert bonanzas

1 review
Eugene L Conrotto

Best-West Publications, 1963

Treasure Hunters
This is a fantastic book for anyone interested in lost mines and lost treasure.....it is a must have for the serious treasure hunter. The book is full of maps and artist renderings, indian lore and gossip about lost or abandoned treasures. From ship wrecks in the Salton Sea to expeditions across the desert...anything dealing with lost gold, silver, gemstones and treasures in the deserts. There ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #11: A Beautiful Sunset (Dark Horse Comics)

2 reviews
Joss Whedon

Dark Horse Comics, 2008

Think "Conversations With Dead People." The Big Bad, Twilight, Reveals Himself to the Scoobs
Joss Whedon is back in a big way. If you've entertained the idea that he might have "lost his touch," get ready to be wrong. Joss scores another 100 points for this one-shot comic, "A Beautiful Sunset," which has a lot of stuff we've been waiting a long time for. + Buffy fights the Big Bad of the season for the first time, which is always entertaining. The fight/flying scenes are the ...

Angel Falls: Life is a game to be lost by those best at it.

1 review
Oliver Dick

iUniverse, Inc., 2006

Worth Reading
Angel Falls covers a surprising number of philosophical topics including religion, racism, nature vs. nurture, and predestination in a concise read, tied together with a story of two very different (yet both morally upstanding) individuals. Part I is written like non-fiction while Part II steps into a somewhat supernatural future.

Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly (Smart Pop series)

47 reviews

Benbella Books, 2005

Firefly Fans - a must read!
A collections of essays for Firefly fans. I enjoyed reading each one. "Finding Serenity" brings a new prespectives to this short lived TV series.

Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World

15 reviews
Davy Rothbart

Fireside, 2006

FOUND II is a great find!
Found II is a great book! I absolutely love it. There are plenty of letters, notes, photos, lists, papers and other oddities that people have left behind. I like how they set the book up, too. They group a few things together that have the same idea/theme. The only thing I thought would make this book SOOOO much better, is if it was in color. But aside from that, I LOVE IT. I will be buying FOUND ...

The lost weekend (The Modern library of the world's best books [258])

9 reviews
Charles Jackson

Modern Library, 1948

One of the very best American novels
I read "The Lost Weekend" after seeing the fine movie starring Ray Milland. The movie gripped me, and hit close to home, but I felt that there was a quality to the writing that made me seek out the book (which was out of print at the time). Boy, am I glad I did. "The Lost Weekend" is an absolute literary masterpiece, capturing a 5-day drunk from an inveterate alcoholic with such chilling accuracy ...

Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, And Forgotten Items from Around the World

54 reviews
Davy Rothbart

Topeka Bindery, 2004

A PEEK INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES....
I love this book. I did wish that it was in color, but the pictures and the notes are so voyeristic, I almost felt guilty for reading them! My favorite was the one where the mom and son were writing sitcky notes to each other about these scrambled eggs that had been in the refrigerater. And a grocery list that included 1 lb of Heroin....oddly interesting. I noticed that some of the names looked ...

Weekend at the Movies: The Best Retreats from Reel to Real : Innocence Lost Retreat : Dave, Pleasantville, ...

1 review

Abingdon Press, 1999

Blockbuster
The back cover says it all "Youth and movies go together like popcorn and soda." This 1999 ninty-seven page paperback from Abington Press is a terrific resource for youth ministers, priests and teachers to provide a fun filled retreat experience for youth in their church, school, or youth group. This "how to" manual provides leaders with everything necessary to conduct 14 different theme ...

Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget

22 reviews
The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine

Cook's Illustrated, 2007

Wonderful recipes and wonderful stories
I got this from the library and then had to order it. I've tried four recipes and they are all wonderful. My husband, who doesn't really like ham, loved the Ham Pie. The Blueberry bait boy is wonderful. The Kolaches were very tasty, low in calories and little sugar. The Ruskas were good (although could use a little more spice)but the dough was amazing and I'm going to use it in other recipes. ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #9: No Future For You Part Four (Dark Horse Comics)

2 reviews
Joss Whedan

Dark Horse, 2007

BKV Brings His "Faith Arc" to a Close
This issue had a lot riding on it. As it is the climax of "No Future For You," it had to be more intense, more poignant, and overall better than the first three issues of this arc. It also had to live up to Issue #4, the issue that ended "The Long Way Home" arc. This issue, despite how good the other three were, is the last statement that this arc is going to make, so it had to be the most ...

Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound Vol. 1

4 reviews
Noah Adams, Davia Nelson, ...

Highbridge Audio, 2000

My gift for the holidays
Quirky - odd - historical - rich - multi layered - surprising - intimate - sweet - intriguing......are words that come to mind when I listened to this collection of stories. Cigar Stories was incredible! Tennesse Williams - fun, funny, compelling - Someone recording the sound of Aurora borelais? how bizarre ! how fantastic ! The pitchmen in Carnival Talkers... LBJ and the helium filled astronaut ...

Lost horizon (The Collector's library of the world's best-loved books)

96 reviews
James Hilton

franklin library, 1981

My favorite book of all time
I think the first thing that struck me was how timeless this story is, the search for a personal utopia, the subtle morality, the ideal of moderation. The quotes struck me as so appropriate for the modern age, even though the book was written in 1933. "laziness in doing stupid things is quite a virtue." "Time enough for everything" and the ever popular "the meek shall inherit the world," an old ...

The Best of Bombeck: At Wit's End, Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own, I Lost Everything in the ...

4 reviews
Erma Bombeck

BBS Publishing Corporation, 1994

PLEASE-give Erma to future generations!
Erma Bombeck will always be one of my heroes. I still have her picture from the cover of Time magazine hanging on my "Wall of Fame" in my laundry room, along with my college diploma, a picture of the first woman to run for Vice-President, and various cards with special significance from family and friends. When I was a young mom, her writing always reminded me that laughter is better than tears. ...

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