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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
Heather Coburn Flores
Chelsea Green, 2006
Wonderful Book
This book has so many great ideas that I just had to have it. She makes many great "eco" points that had me going "ah, I never thought of that." I'm very glad I purchased this book.
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The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Betty G. Birney
Aladdin, 2007
Stop and smell the roses...
Sometimes we get so caught up in doing things and going places, we forget about the things around us that are so important and beautiful! We forget to smell the roses. This book is so easy to read and you want to read it. I was intrigued by trying to figure out what he ...
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Frommer's New York City 2009 (Frommer's Complete)
Brian Silverman
Frommers, 2008
America?s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer?s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. More annually updated guides than any other series 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides ...
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Touch and Feel: Touch and Feel Neighborhood Animals (Baby Einstein)
Julie Aigner-Clark
Disney Press, 2008
My Two Daughters Love This Book
This is a wonderful first book for babies. My oldest daughter loved her first copy so much that it fell apart because of so much use. I ordered two more copies (one for her -she is now 28 months old) and one for her younger sister (14 months old).
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The End: A novel
Salvatore Scibona
Graywolf Press, 2008
Worth savoring
Scibona's first book made me realize what a lazy reader I've become. I began this one in my usual fashion, fully intending to skim it, skipping the dull details and anticipated awkward prose, just to see what this new author had to offer. Somewhere in his first ...
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Seedfolks (Joanna Colter Books)
Paul Fleischman
HarperTeen, 1999
Almost certain to make my best reads of the year list.
Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks (Harper Collins, 1997)
I've read a lot of books in the past few weeks, as I often do right around the new year for some reason. The best of them this year was Seedfolks, a kids' book about a community garden in Cleveland and how it came to ...
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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
David Simon, Edward Burns
Broadway, 1998
The Corner, maybe the most relevant book on the topic
The Corner clearly tells us about the life of inner-city neighborhoods and its inhabitants. The dark side of the world is revealed through extremely realistic descriptions, terrible moments of life that are so usual in there. The gap is deep, the suffering is obvious, ...
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Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
Diana Butler Bass
HarperOne, 2007
Reflections after a congregational study
I would like to express my appreciation for "Christianity for the Rest of Us." As the pastor of a small, struggling mainline congregation, much of what Diana Butler Bass has written here resonates. My congregation just spent almost six months with this book. We used ...
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Tell Me a Scary Story... But Not Too Scary! (Book & Audio CD)
Carl Reiner
Little, Brown Young Readers, 2003
I won't jump (out of my skin) if you won't...
Wouldn't you just know that Carl Reiner would create a funny scary book? When the title says, "Tell Me a Scary Story...But Not Too Scary!," you know you are in for some scary fun!
How scary? Look at the figures making up the words "Scary Story." My goodness, but ...
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods : The Science of Early Childhood Development
Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, Youth, and Families Board on Children, ...
National Academies Press, 2000
super terrific
This book is a staple in the early childhood mental health field. It represents everything good in the promotion of social-emotional development in our society. Creating neurobiologically friendly environments for young children is a crossroad our society faces in an ...
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Mr. Putter & Tabby Spin the Yarn (Mr. Putter & Tabby)
Cynthia Rylant
Harcourt Paperbacks, 2007
Putter is so sweet
My son and I love the Mr. Putter books. They are nice stories with some cute situations to give the parents a chuckle. These really keep my son's attnetion (the suggested age is 4-8; my son is younger).
I believe this is the newest of the Putter and Tabby books. ...
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The Boy Next Door
Meggin Cabot
HarperCollins Publishers, 2002
an excellent fluff novel...
i had heard of miss cabot through her books the princess diaries....this one was interesting because she tells the whole story through emails.....i had read one other writer who had done this ( rocki st. claire ) and she had done a good job with the format....
miss ...
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Third Edition
Jay Macleod
Westview Press, 2008
Moving and Troublesome
I read this years ago in an anthropology/sociology class in college, and I can say that it still carries as much weight today as it did then. Jay manages to weave entertaining narration with factual reporting, resulting in a moving work that points a critical finger ...
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Frommer's Dubai
Shane Christensen
Frommers, 2008
America?s #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer?s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. ? More annually updated guides than any other series ? 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides ? Outspoken opinions, ...
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Our Library
Eve Bunting
Clarion Books, 2008
When Miss Goose announces that the library is going to close forever, Raccoon and his friends spring into action. Where will they get the help they need to save their beloved library? In books, of course! This cheery tale from ever-popular author Eve Bunting shows how important libraries are to every community. Facing a dilemma that is all too ...
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