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- Great Resource if you want to celebrate Biblical holidays
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Walk With Y'Shua Through the Jewish Year
Janie-Sue Wertheim , and
Kathy Shapiro
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ASIN: 1881022404 |
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Holiday comes from the words Holy Day -- which always means something we want to remember and commemorate in a special way. Jesus did! When Jesus (Y'shua) was growing up in Nazareth, the cycle of Jewish holidays provided natural opportunities to grow in wisdom and stature in favor with God and man (Luke 2:52). Knowing and following the same cycle that He did will give our children, grandchildren and kids of all ages the opportunity to likewise grow. Your family will be blessed and enriched! This is a great resource for all those who love to learn and to teach. Fifteen Jewish holidays are explained with illustrations and examples, and a special place to record your family's celebration experience and create a living heirloom. From the staff of Jews for Jesus to you.
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Trickery.......2007-04-09
This book is by The folks of "Jews for Jesus", (a cult). If you want a book on Christianity go to that section, it's quite extensive. If you want a book on Judaisim for your kid, don't buy this book. If Amazon is wise it will take this missionary propaganda off of the Jewish book section - as it does not belong there.
Great Resource if you want to celebrate Biblical holidays.......2007-01-05
This is a wonderful book to help people who want to celebrate Biblical holidays. It helped my family to create all new traditions.
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Walking Through Pregnancy and Beyond: How Expectant and New Moms Can Walk Their Way Through a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy and First Year
Mark Fenton ,
Lisa Fenton , and
Tracy Teare
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This is the ultimate resource to answer any expectant or new mothers' fitness questions. Based on personal experience, fitness experts Lisa and Mark Fenton offer valuable inspiration and advice on walking through pregnancy. Walking can be the key to health and happiness and
Walking Through Pregnancy and Beyond is the tool to help get you there!
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Helpful book.......2006-08-26
This is a good book that gives practical advice on how to start or modify a walking regimen during pregnancy. I think it would mostly be useful for beginners who don't know how to start, but it does have plans for moderate and competitive exercisers who want to make sure they are not overdoing it while maintaining a higher intensity. The book reminds me a bit of DK books, with their vibrant photographs. There are some sections on strength training and stretching, and the second half of the book discusses walking during the period after the baby is born, which the authors divide into four postmesters. Overall, a good book.
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- Beautiful, full-color illustrations
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The Navajo Year Walk Through Many Seasons
Nancy Bo Flood
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ASIN: 1893354067 |
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For the Navajo people, the new year begins in October, when summer meets winter. The Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons follows the Navajo calendar, and provides poetic descriptions of the many sights, sounds, and activities associated with each month. In November, there are string games and stories; in April, planting of corn, beans, and squash; and in July, rodeos and monsoon rains. Follow Coyote through the year, and explore how the Navajos observe the rites and passages of each month.
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Beautiful, full-color illustrations.......2007-09-07
Nancy Bo Flood, a teacher at Dine Navajo College, presents The Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons, a children's picturebook chronicle of the year month-by-month on Navajo land. Each month has both its English and Navajo name presented, though The Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons is not a bilingual book. Beautiful, full-color illustrations that reflect an abiding love of the natural land, created by Navajo Nation resident Bill Whitethorne, distinguish this charming month-by-month book.
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The Daily Walk Bible With 365 Devotional Helps to Guide You Through the Bible in One Year
Bruce H. Wilkinson ,
Peter M. Wallace , and
John W. Hoover
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At This Time, a Seasonal Walk Through the Liturgical Year
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Hour's Walk Through Yerba Buena The Town That Existed For Eleven Years, Seven Months and Five Days, Then Became San Francisco
David Magee
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I made it through the Storm: My fifteen year walk in Michigan State Prison
Sylvester Long
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More beyond: A walk with Christ through life
Frank H Seilhamer
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Paths of Peace:1 Year Devotional: A Weekly Devotional Walk with God through the Year
Beryl Adamsbaum
Manufacturer: Crusade for World Revival
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Beautifully presented in hardback, this one-year devotional is divided into 52 meditations. The book enables thoughtful but busy people to engage in serious but leisurely reflection on each week's theme. You are helped and encouraged to walk with God every day of each week, thanks to the meditations, Bible verses, poems and prayers.
The weeks of the year are divided into the four seasons, with a short introduction to each season's walks. The themes are clearly stated so as to enable you to dip into sections relevant to your situation. Many of the themes overlap to present the Christian life in it fullness rather than treat each theme as a compartmentalised entity in its own right. If we are followers of Jesus, then we will live for him and try to please him wherever we are and whatever we may be doing.
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- Hard back one year devotional
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- Inspired by God's seasonal rhythm in creation
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A Walk on the Y'ld Side: Memories from 40 years of Teaching and Coaching Youngsters through the Auspices of the YMCA
Chuck Hines
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Chuck Hines, an All-America athlete in his younger days, enjoyed a 40-year career with the YMCA, during which he taught 15,000 children to swim and coached numerous national champions, some of whom became gold, silver, and bronze medalists in Olympic and World competition. He received recognition from the YMCA as a Distinguished Director of Physical Education; was inducted into the Western North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame; earned the Western North Carolina Humanitarian award; and carried the Olympic Torch. In this book, he recounts his YMCA adventures and explains why it is such a cherished and popular international organization.
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- Written by John's biggest fan
- Irritating and Cliched
- Better than expected!
- Schuerholz proves his genius
- Good baseball stories mixed with some leadership tips.
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Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM
John Schuerholz ,
Larry Guest , and
Bob Costas
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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ASIN: 0446696536 |
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He lost two Cy Young winners in two years, signed a 47-year-old to be his starting first baseman, played 17 rookies in 2005, and still took his team to the playoffs. Baseball is John Schuerholz's world--everyone is just playing in it. Now, in BUILT TO WIN, the legendary manager takes readers behind the scenes of the most successful franchise in recent history--and shows how his unique philosophies and leadership have helped the Atlanta Braves achieve something no team has ever come close to accomplishing. He candidly peels back the curtain, from his first World Series with the Kansas City Royals to his departure for the struggling Braves. No sooner did Schuerholz arrive than they won their first title in 1991...and the rest is history.
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Written by John's biggest fan.......2007-07-28
First of all, I've been a Braves fan for 30 years, so I appreciate the success of the Schuerholz era. Having said that, this book is really terrible.
Schuerholz comes across as a pompous blowhard who wants us to know that he IS the best dressed man in baseball ("dapper" & "stylish apparel" are used in the book), and that he and Tom Glavine know more about wine than idiots like Stan Kasten. In fact, we get three pages on a Chateau La Fleur Petrus Pomerol, vintage 1961 - oh yeah, that's great reading!! Add some incessant name dropping and a pile Management 101 anecdotes and you get this opus of self-love.
I really thought I'd enjoy this book. It's too bad the big guy didn't stick to baseball and leave the management cliches for someone as impressed with the author's insights as the author himself. It's almost as if Schuerholz is desperately seeking his share of the credit for the success of the team; so much so that he tries to convince the reader that his management expertise is more responsible for the team's success than the organization Bobby Cox had in place when the author arrived in Atlanta. I'm not buying it, John - even though I was dumb enough to buy this book.
Irritating and Cliched.......2007-07-09
An occasionally interesting look into the mind of a successful MLB general manager is marred by insipid management book cliches regurgitated from far better motivational books.
If this book had stuck to the inside stories, it might have been a modern baseball classic, but Schuerholz can't seem to resist slinging tired bromides about commitment and teamwork. When he talks about baseball, Schuerholz is a joy; but when he babbles about his "leadership strategies," this book jumps the rails.
Methinks this book might be a better library or bookstore skim than a take home purchase.
Better than expected!.......2007-04-07
As a long-time baseball fan who has heard all the interviews and read a lot of baseball books, I fully expected "Built To Win" to be a rah-rah, gung-ho baseball book in the spirit of the interviews that Tommy Lasorda always gives the media. I also expected nothing resembling "inside info" that I hadn't read elsewhere. So I was very pleasantly surprised that the book isn't at all like that. As a 15-year Braves' season-ticket holder, I learned a lot about the organization and gained a greater respect for Schurholz and his staff. The only negative thing I can say about it is that Schurholz repeatedly hammers the point that his philosophies are all full of goodie-two-shoes attitudes. While that's not a bad thing . . . in fact it's quite admirable in this day of schmuck-dominated business dealings . . . it gets a little old after a while.
Schuerholz proves his genius.......2007-02-22
A great "bio" of the streak of the Braves. If you're a die-hard Braves fan, you'll love this book. If you're into the management of baseball, you'll love it as well.
Good baseball stories mixed with some leadership tips........2006-09-09
As a lifetime Braves fan I may be a little biased, but as a lifetime baseball fan I think I can make a fair review. It seems like Schuerholz wanted to write a book about how to be a great leader in the business world, but he just could not stop talking about all the interesting behind the scenes baseball stories from his career as a general manager for the Kansas City Royals and the Atlanta Braves.
These stories make this book a fun read for baseball fans. Schuerholz talks about the Glavine debacle, trading for Barry Bonds, stealing Maddux away from the Yankees, and trying to sign Arod among other things. This book is a must read for Braves fans, and a pretty good look into the life of a general manager for baseball fans.
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BUILT TO WIN: INSIDE STORIES AND LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FROM BASEBALL'S WINNINGEST GM. Foreword by Bob Costas
John. Schuerholz
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Living and Working in France, 2nd Edition
Genevieve Brame
Manufacturer: Kogan Page
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This practical and friendly book is an essential companion for those planning to live and work in France. Informal and original, it will help with both preparation prior to departure and provide all the information necessary to settle in smoothly on arrival.It gives guidance on all aspects of the working world, such as the legal structure of French companies, organization and hierarchy, taxation, social legislation and professional ways and customs. In addition there are sections on travel, health, finding a new home and schools for the children. Far more than a mere guidebook, it also explains the mysteries of the French way of life.
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The Best Places to Buy a Home in France, 2nd Edition: A Survival Handbook (Best Places to Buy)
Joe Laredo
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ASIN: 1901130142 |
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An important new edition of the best-selling book about where to buy real estate in France. Contains essential information to help readers find the best region and town to suit their lifestyle and requirements. Essential reading for anyone planning to invest in real estate in France.
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Crying Out Loud: Life in a Sixties Rock Band
Sean Hutchinson
Manufacturer: John Daniel & Co
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A Welcome Retrospective.......2005-01-24
Writing is a means of digesting one's past -- and that's exactly what Sean Hutchinson did in this rollicking account of his experiences in a sixties rock band. Crying Out Loud captures the self indulgent mood of the psychedelic sixties: earnest, but warped idealism mixed in with inevitable hedonistic pursuits. He does not shy away from taking a critical look at the massive hype that accompanied the scene -- the self destructive tendencies, and the unabashed desire to be cool, hip, artsy. Yet, he exults in the idea of being in a traveling band, playing a colorful array of gigs, and meeting people from all walks of life. Sean Hutchinson stayed true to himself, remaining the astute observer, while the world spun wildly around him.
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- I am a sixth grade student at CCMS
- The Crying Rocks
- An incredible ending.
- Richie's Picks: THE CRYING ROCKS
- How they change each other's life makes for a moving saga
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The Crying Rocks
Janet Taylor Lisle
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About Joelle's life before she was found -- brought in from the railway depot, a scrawny five-year-old child -- there isn't a lot known for sure.
"And don't ask me! I can't remember anything," she snaps at anyone who pries, including the weird kid named Carlos who sits in the back row in Spanish class. But when Carlos, collector of arrowheads and Native American lore, tells her she looks like a girl in an old painting of Rhode Island's Narragansett Indians, Joelle can't help sneaking a look. She's surprised by a flicker of recognition.
It's Carlos who leads her through the forest to the ancient Crying Rocks, where howls on windy days are thought to be the spirit voices of children long ago, flung from the boulders to early death. The terrible story draws Joelle into the downdraft of her own memory, to a window, a shadowy mother, a freight train escape from Chicago. It also leads her toward the history of a lost American people, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in her family.
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I am a sixth grade student at CCMS.......2006-02-02
I am a sixth grade student and I read The Crying Rocks by Janet Taylor Lisle, its about a girl named Joelle, who was adopted when she was five years old by her adopted parents who she called Aunt Mary Louise and Vernon. In this book she looses a loved one though. She also makes friends with a boy named Carlos, who is in her Spanish class. They both spend most of their time together learning about these Indains who lived years before and where killed by a surprise attack by the English. Her and Carlos go into the woods to see an old Indian council place where she sees visions of what happened to the Indians in the land, and what they did for a living. She finds a painting in the library that she sees two girls on a hill watching the other Indians like they were out cast of the tribe but Joelle rembers them as if they meet before. When she goes to the Crying Rocks with Carlos she learns something about him that he hides from her even though see doesn't mind but she also finds something in the swamp that scares them and then to make things worse they hear a load moan. So now they are wondering what made that noise and where did it come from?
I loved this book so much it kept me reading late into the night wondering what would come next. My favorite part was when she goes to the Crying Rocks and when Carlos tells his secret . I think this was Janet's best books and I will read more of them too. So I hope you like this book as much is I did .
The Crying Rocks.......2005-09-26
This was a wonderful, historically accurate fiction novel. It is easy enough for children to read and interesting enough for adults to enjoy. It covers subjects regarding adoption, abandonment, native americans and the idea of not knowing where you belong as a child. Highly recommend!
An incredible ending........2004-07-26
Fourteen-year-old Joelle, who is adopted and lives in Marshfield, Rhode Island, doesn't know much about her past. All she is aware of is that she was brought in from a train station when she was just five years old. "I can't remember anything so don't ask me!" she yells irritably to anyone who snoops, including Carlos, an eccentric kid in her Spanish class. But when Carlos, a collector of arrowheads and Native American lore, tells her that she resembles an Indian girl in an old mural of Narragansett Indians in their school library, she can't resist taking a look. She is dumbfounded by a spark of recognition.
When Joelle asks her adoptive parents, Uncle Vernon and Aunt Mary Louise, about her past, they tell her what happened but she doesn't believe them. Then, while on a hike, Carlos tells her about the Crying Rocks, where howls on windy days are thought to be the spirit voices of children who were flung from the boulders to an early death. Joelle doesn't believe that story either until one day, while at the Crying Rocks with Carlos, she hears crying and screaming. After her Aunt Mary Louise dies, she grows more and more curious about her past, not to mention the cries and screams. Will Joelle ever discover the truth behind the Crying Rocks and her past? Or will both stories be a secret forever?
THE CRYING ROCKS had an incredible ending, and I agree wholeheartedly with Joelle's attempts to learn the details of her past. If you enjoy reading touching books about friends and family, read this one to find out what happens to Joelle and her family.
--- Reviewed by Ashley Hartlaub
Richie's Picks: THE CRYING ROCKS.......2003-11-05
" 'So tell me about these Indians who were supposedly around here,' she says, as if she's never heard of Indians before. Which is laughable. Half the names of places in Rhode Island are Native American. There are statues of Indians in the parks and plaques that tell where this treaty was signed or that attack happened. Everyone has heard of the Indians, they just don't think about them that much. Indians are ancient history here, like three hundred years ago or more."
"One little, two little, three little Indians
Four little, five little, six little Indians
Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians
Ten little Indian boys."
I was a little kid on Long Island back in an era when in circle time songs you'd as easily count ten little Indians as you would count six little ducks or ten green and speckled frogs.
A few years further on, in the mid 1960s, I chose "The Indian Tribes of Paumanok" (a Native American name for Long Island) as the topic for a social studies report. And while this raised my 10 year-old state of consciousness a few notches, I still had a heck of a time envisioning the booming suburbs where I lived as having been a vast woodland sheltering those peoples.
In contrast, thirteen year old Joelle, the main character in THE CRYING ROCKS, has such an ability and inclination. In fact, she can sometimes imagine someone from the distant past following her. Joelle, who was adopted at five by "Aunt" Mary Louise and "Uncle" Vernon, has that hunger to know about her own roots. In sharp contrast to her "heavy and earthbound" adoptive parents, Joelle is such a tall and striking seventh grader that a group of little neighborhood girls worships her from a distance, imagines her to be royalty, and emulates her style. But it is clear to the reader that something awful must have happened to Joelle as a young child, since she cannot remember the mysterious and unspoken circumstances in which she came to be discovered at the railroad depot of the northwestern Rhode Island community where she has since lived.
" 'Back in the woods there's a place where they used to meet. A high council place. There are trails, too. You can tell they're old Indian paths because of how deep they're worn down. It would take hundreds of years of feet to wear down a path like that.'
" 'Hundreds of years of feet?' she says. 'Give me a break.'
" 'A thousand years, even. Some artifacts are that old and more. What's amazing is how their culture got wiped out when the white man came. Fifty years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Narragansetts were all gone, thirty or forty-thousand people who lived right around here.'
" 'What happened?' Joelle asked in spite of herself.
" Carlos stares at her. 'Disease, first, then they were killed off. The last few were sold into slavery down in the West Indies. It's one of those histories people don't like to remember.'
" 'But you do?'
" 'I'm part Indian.'
" 'Really?'
"Carlos stands up straighter and looks at her defiantly, as if she might have a problem with this. She registers again his gray eyes, his brown hair, his long thin face. " 'You don't look--'
" 'Just a small part,' Carlos says quickly. 'Like about one sixteenth or something.' "
The innocent and tentative relationship that develops between Carlos and Joelle--that of close friends whom the reader imagines/hopes will later become boyfriend and girlfriend--is impeccably drawn. Sometimes as if a pair of bumper cars, sometimes utterly in tune, the connection between these two kids who are finding themselves winds its way through the tension of the story to an absolutely fun and joyous scene where the two are dueling each other with quotes from their research.
THE CRYING ROCKS asks hard questions about the values and behavior of the Europeans who came to America as well as that of the Narragansetts who were there when the ships arrived. The author skillfully ties these questions to treatment of arguably "less fortunate" groups in twenty-first century society. Janet Taylor Lisle has an ability for crafting a story that is taut and powerful while maintaining the limits which allow for this story to be used in middle school classrooms. THE CRYING ROCKS will find a home in those classrooms and is a tale that will surely have readers thinking and asking about their own roots.
How they change each other's life makes for a moving saga.......2003-10-05
Grades 7 and up will appreciate this warm story of Joelle, who discovers a likeness to Native Americans which will change her perceptions of who she is and Native history. Her new friend Carlos who has introduced her to this history has his own hard secret to reveal - one which involves a family loss and a hidden guilt. How they change each other's life makes for a moving saga.
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Child Crying Rock: Because The Blood Remembers
Debra A. Chase
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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ASIN: 189365205X |
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It began with Thomas II who remembered.
And remembering, he saw through other eyes, many other eyes. Some young, some old. Always male. Always they were of the forest, of the people. He remembered back to Phillip, King Phillip, and neither questioned nor worried why he knew what he did. It was simply a matter of blood. His blood knew that of Phillip.
Sara Walker remembers too, but not as much as her father, Thomas II had. In her the old blood had curled in upon itself and what self preservation had blocked from her memory had also locked her outside of aging, forcing her to watch those she loves age and die, leaving her to go on alone. Concealing this curse has drawn her back to where it began, because someone has threatened to draw the wrong attention to the farms and through those, to her.
Intending only to get close enough to stop him, Sara instead lands practically in his lap, to find the color of Michael Renault's skin bringing bits of the past alive. Making her recognize the same unexpected beauty that had destroyed Simeon.
Caught up in her excuse for being there, she finds her own ghosts grinning back at her and the dark blood coming alive. Old blood and Michael's dark beauty are opening the floodgates of her memory and the choice that drove so many of her line to madness is now hers to make. She can choose safety, half-life... or she can bring the past alive again and choose the blood, skin and heart that can begin to heal them all.
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Janet Taylor Lisle The Crying Rocks.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Peter D. Sieruta
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
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ASIN: B0008EE2DY
Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 617 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Janet Taylor Lisle The Crying Rocks.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Author: Peter D. Sieruta
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The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: 79
Issue: 6
Page: 750(1)
Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Stones crying out and rock-witness to the narratives of the Bible concerning the times of the Jews
L. N. R
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Stones crying out and rock-witness to the narratives of the Bible concerning the times of the Jews: The evidence of the last years
L. N. R
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Stones Crying Out: and Rock-Witness to the Narratives of the Bible Concerning the Times of the Jews: The Evidence of the Last Ten Years
Ellen Henrietta White) Anon (LNR) (Ranyard
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ASIN: B000J0Z2DG |
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