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This is an essential book for the shorter courses in maternity nursing, e.g., 4-8 weeks long or as a refresher for professionals.
Features in this book include: Women's Health and Reproductive Issues; Conception and Development; Pregnancy--Normal and High Risk; Labor--Normal and High Risk; Birth--Normal and High Risk; Postpartum Care--Normal and High Risk; Newborn Care--Normal and High Risk.
Nursing students and professionals.
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Maternity-Newborn Workbook--Awesome!.......2007-07-18
This workbook was so helpful for this class, i decided to keep my for review later on. This book is very closely related to the book and helps you to put the subject to use. I highly recommend this book!!
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This all-in-one guide shows parents and students how to select, apply to, get accepted by, and pay for college, from the experts at America's #1 educational consulting firm.
The rules of college admissions have changed, and the competition today is tougher than ever. It's no longer enough to fill out a few applications and wish for the best. Students not only need to excel, they also need to make their applications stand out from the crowd.
Parents often wish they had a personal coach to help their children navigate the process. The New Rules of College Admissions is like having your own team of expert advisers guiding you every step of the way. Each chapter is written by a former admissions officer from top universities -- including Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern -- and each chapter covers topics to help you
• Create a list of the "best fit" colleges
• Develop a strategy for standardized tests
• Prepare for and ace the interview
• Navigate financial aid options
and much more. Your family's journey to college admissions success begins now. The New Rules of College Admissions will help simplify today's complex college admissions process and lead to an acceptance letter from the college of your dreams.
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A MUST READ!!!!.......2007-08-16
Get out the highlighter and post its if you have a college bound child is high school. This is the best book I've read on the grueling process of college admission. It is specific in it's suggestions for every type of student.
The "Helicopter Parent" Guide to College Admissions.......2007-07-05
This book is right up the alley for all those helicopter parental micromanagers out there in cyberspace. If you are one then great, this is the book for you. If you are a student, pass on it as it speaks to only the parent. There are much better student guides out there than this. The book speaks to what active role(s) the parent should take to help get their child into the right college. I bought it thinking it would be a great guide for students and parents alike. It is not. It is a guide for omnipresent, low hovering, fueled up Moms and Dads. Good luck kids! May you find out who you truly are at the campus of your dreams - hopefully far away from your "life coaches".
Read this book before applying for college.......2007-05-13
The best thing about this book is that it tells you what colleges NOT to apply to. It shows you how to match your GPA/SAT scores with colleges that are looking for students in that range. If your GPA is 3.2 and you want to go to Stanford, you are not going to get accepted so don't waste your time, emotions and money applying there. Look for colleges who take 3.2 GPA students. It also cautions you against applying to schools whose GPA range is way lower than yours. The authors suggest that you will be bored in such a school.
Must Read for Parents of High Schoolers.......2007-04-26
Great book. We learned a number of admissions tips and strategies that helped our son get into college.
We will certainly hold on to the book and reference it when our sophomore starts filling out her applications.
why this book isnot satisfactory.......2007-04-17
Although this book has some valuable insights - how to interview with colleges, how to set up a timetable for your college admission work( which other books have covered quite competently ),it also has some glaring inaccuracies - its section on SAT Is and ACTs is uninformed and inaccurate. It presents SAT I's as offering a 1600 score when the current SAT I is scored on the basis of 2400. Consequently, the SAT I and ACT tables are completely irrelevant. The differences between the ACT and the SAT I are inadequately and erroneously described and so are not helpful to students who are considering which test to take. This book could not be "new" rules of college admission.
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- Charming and engaging new novel from this highly skilled author
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Bidding for Love
Katie Fforde
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When Flora Stanza’s uncle dies unexpectedly, leaving her a 51 percent share in the family antiques business, it gives her the perfect chance to leave her glamorous but less than happy London life for the quieter life of the country. Unfortunately, her cousin Charles and his fiancée Annabelle don’t seem pleased to find Flora and her very pregnant cat on their doorstep.
Flora knows almost nothing about antiques, but with her London apartment rented out, her cat about to burst with kittens, and a mysterious man warning her about Annabelle, Flora has little choice but to accept her cousin’s offer to stay in their abandoned holiday cottage, miles from anything remotely like what Flora considers civilization.
Soon, though, Flora is fighting off dinner invitations from the devastatingly handsome Henry and hiding her eco-friendly lodger, William. Could it be that country life isn’t so dull after all?
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Completely Delicious.......2007-05-12
If you are a Katie-holic like I am, you are going to eat this book up with a spoon. Like all her books, Bidding for Love is a sugary concoction, light on substance, heavy on delicious guilt. Because honestly, all her books are pretty much alike, and honestly, they say little--but in such a captivating, wonderful, can't-put-it-down way! And this one is truly one of her best, I don't know why, because all the characters in her books characters are charming, and all her plots are equally lovely--but this one has KITTENS in it!
We meet Flora on page one. A beautiful young trendy Londoner with a closet full of designer clothes and a social life full of the best clubs and restaurants, she has sublet her flat and come to a sleepy countryside village to check out a business she has inherited from an uncle. Stanza and Stanza is a struggling auction house, and Flora now has more than 50% ownership. The other owner is her unbearably stuffy distant cousin Charles (Fforde often has people named Charles in her books!), who loathes Flora on sight, and ditto.
But Flora is more than she seems. And she is determined to learn the business, take an active hand in it no matter what Charles (and his horrible fiancee Annabelle) has to say--and to make sure that her pregnant cat Imelda (because she loves shoes!) has her kittens in peace.
All of this fluff comes together for a perfectly satisfying ending, and of course it is happy, this is Katie Fforde!
A perfect summer read. Simply lovely.
Charming and engaging new novel from this highly skilled author.......2007-03-10
Bidding for Love, released in England as Flora's Lot, is another charming and engaging novel from Katie Fforde. Her heroine finds herself deeply involved in helping to run a low-profile auction house and bring it into the twenty-first, post Antiques Roadshow, century. While her innocence is a trifle overdone, she is nonetheless delightful, impervious to insults and perhaps more crafty than she initially appears. Her adventures as she works her way towards success in love and in business have their humorous side, even as the reader knows that she will succeed in the end.
Ms Fforde is an excellent author whose works, concededly not heavy going, draw the reader in to the world of her heroines. She is a superb writer who makes her characters and their worlds come alive. The high quality of the writing, the charm of her style and her characters, and the humor place these books on a higher level than the usual chick-lit.
For reasons I do not understand, Ms Fforde seems to have remained relatively unheralded in this country. Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher and Georgette Heyer will love this author. To say nothing of fans of Antiques Roadshow.
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This comprehensive text has set the standard for maternal-newborn nursing textbooks. New content and pedagogy have been incorporated that will prepare nursing students to be flexible, creative, and professional in the face of the trends toward home healthcare and community-based nursing, a growing multi-cultural population, and increasingly sophisticated technology. Address alternative healthcare delivery settings. Community in Focus boxes describe innovative community- based nursing programs in operation throughout the U.S. Home care and community-based nursing care are integrated throughout the text. The Women's Health Unit retains comprehensive coverage of women's health and is now revised to focus more on ambulatory, community-based nursing care. Critical Thinking in Practice Boxes use a case study format to encourage readers to solve problems and make decisions based on what they've learned. Critical Pathways provide readers with time-sequenced guides of anticipated care for healthy women and newborns and address the trend towards collaborative, outcome-driven managed care. Assessment Guides summarize assessment findings and help readers make distinctions between normal findings and variations. Research in Practice Boxes reflect the latest research findings for clinical practice. For anyone interested in learning about maternal/child nursing.
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Great reference for NCC Maternal-Newborn certification.......2004-07-07
There were several recommended books to study for the NCC certification, but I found this one the most complete. It explained things more in-depth than most of the standard Maternal-Newborn books that I have read. The only caution I have is that the book was published in 1999, so some of our guidlines of care have changed in the last 5 years.
It will cover all the basics, clearly and organized.......2001-01-12
This book is very well organized and the only problem i found with it was there were not many pictures to help define some of the material. It covers each topic in good depth and in a clear concise manner and i enjoyed this books clarity alot more than other ones i have read.
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- Lost Children
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ASIN: 0064410021
Release Date: 2002-12-24 |
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Will the truth harm them -- or save them?
When Nigeria's corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safety, their father, an outspoken journalist, decides to smuggle the children out of Nigeria and into London, where their uncle lives. But when they get to the cold and massive city, they find themselves lost and alone, with no one to trust and no idea when -- or if -- they will ever see their father again.
The Other Side of Truth is a gripping adventure story about courage, family, and the power of truth.
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Lost Children.......2007-05-31
Sade's father is a famous journalist in Nigeria, a country in turmoil. He insists on writing the truth of the corruption of the people in his country, and therefore he is constantly in danger. His newspaper staff is always having to move their office to different locations in order to avoid being shut down and possibly killed by the Nigerian police. Sade's father, though, thinks that his work is important and will result in a better place to live for twelve-year-old Sade and her ten-year-old brother Femi.
Then one morning while Sade is getting ready for school, her mother is shot in their driveway. It is thought that Sade's father may have been the intended target, but the entire family is terrified. If Sade's mother could be shot dead in her own driveway, what could happen to the children?
Immediately, plans are made to smuggle the two children out of the country and into London, where their uncle lives. They will be safer there and when their father can obtain a passport or sneak out himself, he will join them. It is important that this plan happen quickly and secretly, since the passports of the entire family have been confiscated. A woman is hired to sneak the children out as her own, using fake passports.
When Sade and Femi get to London, the woman ditches them and disappears. They can't find their uncle anywhere. They are lost. A police officer takes them in to help them, but they are so used to the corrupt police force in Nigeria, they don't want to answer any of the questions truthfully. Femi stops speaking altogether. The children are put into a foster home and enrolled in school, but their real worry is their father. Will he be able to find them again? Will he even get out of the country safely?
I really liked that Sade and Femi were so strong. They were in a really bad situation, but they handled themselves very well. They did make some mistakes, but they were well thought out mistakes. I also liked learning about the political situation in Nigeria. I hadn't realized how bad things were there.
The Other Side of Truth.......2005-05-24
Beverly Naidoo has done a great job in this story of educating the reader about the conflict in Nigeria. This story is about two Nigerian children, Sade and her younger brother Femi, who are sent to London to escape danger in their home in Nigeria. Their mother was shot and killed after their father, a journalist, writes a story about the country's generals that strikes a nerve with someone. In a desperate measure to protect them, their father sends them to London illegally to live with their uncle. Upon arriving in London, their uncle is nowhere to be found. The children are all alone in a strange and sometimes dangerous city. This story follows these children through living in their new world: from nearly being deported, to living with foster parents, and to struggling in a hostile school environment.
This is a great story that I enjoyed, although I personally thought the story was predictable at some points, for example when the kids are reunited with their father. However, I still recommend it, particularly if you are wanting to learn about Nigeria.
The author mentions some pretty important things about Nigeria, like the murder of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was an Ogoni activist who protested the treatment of his people by the goverment and the Royal Dutch/Shell oil company. Saro-Wiwa and eight other activist were hanged in 1995.
Lost in London.......2005-03-05
The Other Side of Truth, one of the best books ever made is by Beverly Naidoo, an outstanding author. She has won many awards for her books including the Carnegie Award, Silver Smarties Award, IRA Teacher's Choice Award, and the ALA Best Book for Young Children. This book has a suspenseful plot and exiting characters.
In the book, there are some mournful events that happen, let me tell you their story. Two kids, Sade and Femi live in Nigeria with their mom and dad. Their dad, a journalist, writes an article that gets him in trouble and ends up killing their mom. Sade and Femi fly to London illegally in hopes for a new, safe life with their dad who will soon be with them in London. They get sent to London with an unknown lady who later in the book ditches them at the airport before they can find their uncle in which they were going to stay with. Sade and Femi find their uncle's work, when someone tells them the police are looking for him. They are stranded with nothing but what they can carry until the police find them. They get put into a refugee program where they live with a stranger until their dad comes to London. They start getting letters from their dad when later on they figure out he's sick. There is a pleasing ending that I'm sure will satisfy you.
The Other Side of Truth has great character development. Sade, one of the main characters, is a creative girl that has an imaginative mind. She makes up names for people she knows by their personality. In the book two of the names she makes up are Miss Policebusinness and Hawk Lady. I'm sure you'll get a laugh out of the names she thinks of. Another character that was well developed was Femi. Femi, also one of the main characters, is a stubborn child that won't take any orders from anyone except his dad. In the book he won't get fingerprinted so he can be a legal member of London until the police tell him he'll be put in jail. Both characters are unique in their own ways.
Another thing the author did that I happened to enjoy was that she used remarkable word choice. For instants, one sentence is Uncle Tunde no longer hid his "agitation." Also there is a sentence that says their aunt pressed them against her and "murmured" a prayer. Lastly, one sentence from the book is, Grandma "presided" over the same house. These words, I thought were all very descriptive, it was cool the way the author did it.
This book was a unique book I'm sure you'll appreciate. It has many different elements to it that make you want to keep reading. Even though it's sad it makes it a good book to read. Other Side of Truth was suspenseful and action packed, a real page turner. It is a delight to read for silently or out loud. I recommend this book to anyone. I would give it 4 out of 5 stars in over all. The Other Side of Truth is an awesome book.
A Truthful Review.......2005-03-02
Many people have read adventure stories, but none of them will ever amount to this one. The Other Side of Truth is an amazing story that shows true determination and courage. Not surprisingly, it has won numerous awards such as the 2000 Carnegie award, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and ALA Booklist. Beverley Naidoo wrote this incredible story in the year 2000, and I think she did a fabulous job! She also wrote three more African tales. They are: Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, and Out of Bounds.
In the Other Side of Truth, you will be stunned with the thrilling plot. Young Sade and Femi Solaja live with the rest of their family in an African home. Their father writes the truth about situations that happened in his country in a local newspaper. Because many people do not agree with his articles, his wife is deliberately murdered at their home. For protection, Sade and Femi are sent off with fake passports and a fake mother to London. There, they are supposed to meet their Uncle Dele and wait for their father to call. When the kids get to London, they are intentionally abandoned by their guardian and left trying to find their missing Uncle. But another problem strikes! Uncle Dele hasn't been spotted by anyone for months! Fostered from home to home, the kids firmly try to survive school and other challenges that face them. When they find that their father secretly escaped to London, Sade is desperate to find a way to keep him there and become a family again.
One reason I appreciated The Other Side of Truth was because of the author's incredible word choice. She carefully chose descriptive words and phrases that keep the story packed with clear visual images. "Truth Keeps the Hand Cleaner than Soap" is just one of Beverley Naidoo's astonishingly clever lines. This one in particular certainly makes you realize what she's the message is trying to say. The thought of "the air beginning to stiffen" even makes me tense up! It's such a strong grouping of words. In the beginning of the story when Mama is being murdered, the phrase, "growing scarlet monster" is a superb way to describe the blood trickling slowly down the woman's leg. Sade's idea of jail is remarkable. The cold metal bars and unsociable service send a chill down your spine. You can really see what she's thinking about just by reading the vocabulary. The magnificent word choice in this novel was one reason I valued it.
I was truly amused and impressed by how the author could take characters in the story and make their actions and dialogue come to life. For example, minor characters in the story all had unique names. "Mr. Yellow coat" and "Mr. Hair tail" were only a couple. The attitude of those characters shined upon others in the book, and the person reading it. Femi's manner was exceptionally unpredictable. By the end of the book, he had really taken an unexpected turn. Two girls at the school, Marcia and Donna, play the "bad guys" in the story. Their roles were so believable and realistic. It's astonishing how the author can show the kindness of the characters. From "Mr. Hair tail" defending the kids in an unfair robbery to Jenny rescuing them in a time of need, these characters just seemed to come alive!
I definitely recommend this book for more advanced readers who would like a challenge. It made me think, laugh, and even cry in some parts. You will want to read The Other Side of Truth again and again. The determination of the characters really gets at you while you read this extraordinary book. Trust me; The Other Side of Truth is a novel you just won't want to miss!
truth.......2004-06-01
A truly sad book, but a good choice for the Carnegie Medal. It sweeps you away to England where most of the story takes place. You feel like your there. For ages eleven through around twenty.
The main character, Sade and her brother, Femi have to go to England after they saw their mother's murder. Their father is a journalist who writes the truth and Nigerian soldiers want him dead. They have to go to England separately and use different names. They get there but they can't find their uncle. Where could he be? They journey through the streets of England looking for any kind of shelter.
Where is their uncle? Who will take care of them? Will they ever get home to their family? Will they ever see their family again? How will they get over this terrible nightmare? Read "The Other Side of Truth."
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A Little Princess (Unabridged Classics)
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The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
As the popularity of the recent Lemony Snicket books proves, children never get tired of reading about orphans and their misfortunes. So Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1905 story about a pampered little rich girl who suddenly finds herself poor and fatherless should continue to entice generations of fans.
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Better than Sappy.......2006-07-18
A Little Princess follows the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl whose mother died when she was a baby and who has been sent to bording school. She has the finest clothes and toys and anything she wants but isn't spoiled (the story is a fairy tale, by the way). She imagines herself as a princess and wants to be kind wise and just. She does good deeds as her way of "scattering largess to the population." This results in her being the social butterfly of the bording school and earns her the animosity of its queen bee. All this changes in an instant when her fortune is lost and she becomes a scullery maid in the same boarding school. She works all day, sleeps in an unheated attic, and is underfed. She now imagines herself as a princess in disguise, and continues to try and do good deeds for anyone less fotunate. But now she has another identity too - a soldier, like her father, who must live on rations and bravely face each day.
I didn't find this book to be overly sappy and sentimental, but it got close to the borderline at times. There were plenty of discussions of dolls and lacey dresses and ribbons. I read this as an adult. I guess these are supposed to appeal to little girls who want to have a little princessy playground and so would love to read about ribbons, but I think descriptions of lace would have put me off as a child as well. Like I said, these only get borderline sappy, probably because Sara soon becomes penniless and enters the lower class. As a scullery maid she experiences hunger, phsychological abuse from the bording school mistress, and a grinding work schedule. This is not sugar coated for the children, but it isn't the focus either. The focus is on Sara's internal thoughts, her relationships with her few loyal student friends, and what she thinks of the neighbors and the new people she meets and things she sees. So even though there is all this poverty it is there as a setting and not because the author has an axe to grind. Strangely enough, this book came across as realistic.
This is a children's book, but functions as a book for adults as well. For example, the estate agent's diplomacy in getting Sara hired by the bording school after she is found to be penniless has some subtlties that are going to be more real for older readers.
I recommend this book to all. It is a children's book that works for adults too. It skirts the border of sappy, but for me didn't cross over at any point. It was a good story that I read through quickly and did not get bored with or bogged down by.
What a Great Book!.......2005-12-02
I read this book to my first through fourth grade students last year, and they loved it! Even the youngest were transported to another time and another place through this book. Our school targets students in need (mostly lower-income, minority children), so Sara's story really is a world away from the lives they know. Yet they truly enjoyed this book, and so did I!
A GREAT STORY.......2005-10-15
This book is more dated than THE SECRET GARDEN, but it's still a great story. It's hard NOT to identify with Sara Crewe.
I loved this book as a child (though not as much as I loved THE SECRET GARDEN, which I think is a better book). However, A LITTLE PRINCESS is far better than most books written for children! It tells a great story and it makes you think, even if some of those thoughts make you uncomfortable, like the thoughts about differences between rich and poor children.
For a modern, well-written book about a girl at an English boarding school, read Libby Koponen's BLOW OUT THE MOON. It has the same classic feel, though the American heroine is very different from Sara and MOON is quite funny in places.
Must Read Book!!!.......2005-09-26
This book has been one of the best I have ever read! Frances Hodgson Burnett made me picture everything happening in the story. It's a magical book that I think anyone should read at one point in life. In this great book Sara Crewe was a kind and genorous person. She cared a lot for people who needed more than she did. In hardships she held her head up high and still thought of herself as a princess. I think everyone should read this book because it teaches you that you need to appreciate what you have, and give back to others in need.
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
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A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve.
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A must-have volume!.......2005-01-25
It's been years since I've read aloud from this wonderful anthology to my twin sons who are now 16. But they still remember vibrant, lively selections like "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward ... " (The Charge of the Light Brigade) and "The Ransom of Red Chief" (which they loved but didn't really "get" until they were about 13). I credit this wonderful book with providing truly excellent literature to feed their hungry young brains. This book is part of their current success in school and life! BUY IT for your child or grandchild - or donate it to your local school library!
Awesome book! Highly recommended!.......2002-05-24
This is a keeper! Your kids will love to have you read aloud from this book. It is a compilation of stories arranged according to age-appropriate listening levels. All are well-known stories from well-known authors. Many stories, particularly the longer ones, are only excerpts; the editor has deliberately done this to whet the listeners' appetite.
If you like this book, you will like its companions: More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children, and Classic Myths to Read Aloud.
Wonderful book for grandparents to give to grandchildren!.......1998-01-29
My father gave this book to me to read aloud while we traveled in the car. I have 4 children -with different attention spans -from teenagers to a Kindergartener- they all listened!! I loved that at the beginning of the books it would give us words thay might not understand and definitions. I loved the idea of knowing how long it would take to read a particular story. Classics that I have not read in years and classics that I have never read were included. If you are going on a car trip this book is a must! Great idea for grandparents to give or have around to read when grandchildren come to visit.
Book Description
What would Tim Diamond, the world's worst private detective, do without his quick-thinking brother Nick? The bumbling detective and his kid brother are at it again in these three hilarious, fast-paced mysteries. Whether it's finding out who flattened a philanthropist with a steamroller in The Blurred Man, outsmarting Parisian drug smugglers on a vacation gone miserably wrong in The French Confection, or catching the murderer behind a deadly class reunion in I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, there's never a dull moment with this crimesolving duo around. Find out if Nick can get to the bottom of these mysteries before Tim messes everything up, or worse, gets them both killed.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book!!!.......2007-05-30
This is a fantastic book. From trying to figure out who flattened Too-nice-to-be-true philanthropist Lenny Smile in "the blurred man", to trying to find the "Mad American" with a pack of sugar in "The French Confection", to trying to catch the murderer in "I know what you did last Wednesday", Tim and Nick Diamond, or rather Herbert and Nick Simple, are sure to have hilarious adventures, due to Tim's dull-mindedness.
I think this book is a great book. It made me laugh out loud at some parts, and I was very scared at some parts. It was mostly because Tim is so unintelligent, and he gets the two boys into a lot of trouble. I recommend this book. However, I think this book would be good for younger kids, maybe ages seven to nine. Anthony Horowitz has created a laugh-out-loud novel that people are sure to like.
"Three of a Kind".......2005-12-23
Anthony Horowitz continues his enjoyable Diamond Brother's series with the "Three of Diamonds" in which 13 year old Nick, the real brains behind the operation, must solve the crimes before his dumb older brother, Tim, gets them killed in these three hilarious mysteries. In "The Blurred Man" an American asks Nick and Tim to solve who killed his friend, the too-nice-to-be-true philanthropist, Lenny Smile. In "The French Confection" Tim wins a trip via a yogurt to France and Nick finds himself embroiled in a Parisian drug plot. And finally, in "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday", Tim gets invited to an old class reunion where someone is killing off all of the old students. And before long, it's Tim's turn to die. As always, Horowitz cleverly plants his clues and the story is never boring with Nick's sarcastic voice and Tim's hilarious antics. These fast-paced, action-packed and just pure hilarious mysteries are a quick read for all those avid mystery fans out there. Not to be missed!
Nick Brennan loved this book........2005-12-01
This was a fantastic book! It was two books in one, a great deal.
In th first part Nick and Tim are asked by an American man to try and find out what happened to Lenny Smiles, the mysterious man that he had donated millions to. As the truth unravels esplosions, gunfights, and car chases frequent the pages.
In the second section they are in Paris. They meet a mysterious steward who gives them a package of sugar while trying to tip them off about a drug smuggling ring between France and Britain. Police, sweet sellers, and Texas oil entrepuners are the new friends here.
In the final section a reunion with a classmate becomes a weekend chalk full of murders and memories.
This is an awsome book and should top you or beloved's Christmas list!!
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With Frommer's, family vacations have never been so easy. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places local parents and kids like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go they've done the legwork for you and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges, and tells you which ones are kid-friendly. Every Frommer's with Kids Travel Guide is up-to-date with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and outdoor activities. You'd be lost without us! The all-new first edition of Frommer's London with Kids reveals London's most fun and educational experiences for kids. It's full of incredibly detailed tips right down to which hotels offer cribs and rollaway beds and which restaurants offer high chairs. Inside you'll learn where to find hands-on, interactive museums; children's entertainment, from concerts to puppet shows; kid-oriented shopping; plus all the best parks and places to play. Let Frommer's London with Kids show your family the exciting sights and sounds of London.
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Very helpful.......2006-08-01
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It creeps up on you, it does........2007-01-26
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming (Grove, 1965)
I spent the first act of this effort from our most recent Nobel Prize winner for literature thinking "my, this is all well and good, but what is it about this play that had everyone telling me this needs to be the first Pinter I read?" Then came act two, and I understood it.
The Homecoming starts off (as you might expect given that first paragraph) unassumingly enough; a man and his wife of six years return to his ancestral home. His brothers, uncle, and father live there, and are meeting his wife for the first time; the brothers, roustabouts both of them, act a bit oddly (well, actually, a bit naturally) around the wife at first, but there's nothing terribly out of the ordinary. In fact, there's a surprising lack of family tension; the normally prickly father welcomes his wayward son home with open arms.
Then, of course, everything goes to pot in the most entertaining manner possible. I have spent years reading thousands of volumes wondering why it is that everyone has to over-emote; The Homecoming is the absolute, perfect antithesis, and I spent the entire second act wishing that these characters inhabited at least half the novels I've read in the past decade. They're deliciously perverse, and so very deadpan about it. Now, while Pinter is busy creating these characters and putting them into interesting situations (and the situations are interesting enough that the entire play can take place in a single room), he's offering some excellent satire on the family dynamic, but Pinter is talented enough to let the satire speak for itself while he concentrates on the story at hand, the mark of a man who knows how to write.
This is very good stuff, and I'll definitely be diving farther into Pinter in the coming years. *** ½
Home is where the heart is.......2005-11-07
5 stars going on 10. It will take me weeks to digest this one. Little bit of a surprise, eh? So Pinter is not just a political campaigner.
The quality of the dialogue knocked me off my feet. Conventions seem well-established but aren't quite the expected conventions. The family is close but not quite the expected closeness. This is hardly a dysfunctional family: it's just a family not functioning as you might have been taught a family should.
I recently watched the 1973 American Film Theatre performance of this play on VHS. Vivian Merchant, who also starred in the American Film Theatre's version of Jean Genet's "The Maids", plays Ruth in "The Homecoming". How to expect a better cast? In the hands of those incredible actors, this play slammed into me. It will take me days to find suitable words to describe what hit me. Unlike the plays of Pinter's friend Beckett, "The Homecoming" can't be dismissed as Theatre of the Absurd. Not that there isn't absurdity, but that Pinter works hard to interwine it with familiar daily routines.
No boring moments. At the beginning the hostilities seemeed contrived but very soon a lot more was going on. Most of us aren't as creative as this family in finding a way to make the family work ... and most of us probably wouldn't want to be. But they are close and not just because of what they share during this visit. The father especially struck me as rising above his angers to find a love (however unconventional) for his sons and that warmth became unmistakeable as the play progressed. No? Well, something special is going on in "The Homecoming" and I'll probably need many passes to understand what it is. But, with such rich dialogue, many passes seem warranted.
this play shows its age.......2002-01-30
This play caused a great controversial stir when it was first performed in 1965. This is supposed to be a classic example of an existentialist and absurdist play. It was Pinter's first stage play and the one that made his reputation. Although it was very daring and shocking in 1965, the play has aged and lost its freshness and original power, in my opinion. There are many other portrayals of dysfunctional families that have retained their freshness and power--such families have been a mainstay of drama from the time of the ancient Greeks. Shakespeare and even fairy tales have built themselves around exploring the dark and abusive aspects of the family dynamic. So Pinter's on to nothing new or radical here. The script as such is blatantly misogynist. The one female role, Ruth, has no lines that sound human--she comes across as a stilted android. Ruth is so obviously not a real woman but a male projection of lust, fear, possession, hate, and paranoia. I recently saw this play performed in Manchester, UK, and have to wonder why people still think this play, with all its misogynist posturing, is relevant to a contemporary audience. If it were just a black absurd comedy, it might have worked better for me, but Pinter seems to be aiming at something deeper and more menacing yet can't seem to make up his mind if we're supposed to be feeling sympathy with his characters or taking them (and the underlying meaning of the play) seriously or not.
Family Reunion to Avoid.......2001-07-31
Pinter at his darkest and most experimental.
This play's first and second acts are of equal length down to the line.
Sexual deviance, abuse, name calling, assault and torture: these are the norm. These people make the rest of our families seem pretty good. The play is twisted and as much a psychological journey as anything else.
Pinter lives up the claim that his plays were like, "Beckett in doors," with this one. Though most of Pinter's plays have a dark edge to them, this one may even cross over the line, if you are paying close attention to what is really going on.
Worth reading at least twice, after the shock from the first time through, the second read (if read closely), becomes even darker and more forbidding.
Wonderfully written, and further proof that Pinter is one of the masters of modern British drama.
It's Theatre of the Absurd, people!.......2000-11-22
I agree that this play could be viewed at totally crazy, but it's supposed to. I really loved this play. I think Pinter has an excellent way of making us step back, and be disgusted and enjoy a show at the same time.
It's not supposed to have a beginning, middle, or an end. It is more like real life than realism is. It's not a life full of 'Drama,'it's more like real life, only we can find it funny because it's not happening to us.
Read Pinter with an open mind, and a sense of humor. Try not to take him litererally, but read the subtext.
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