The Wind in the Willows #1: The Riverbank (Easy Reader Classics) (No. 1)

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The Wind in the Willows #1: The Riverbank (Easy Reader Classics) (No. 1)

Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and of course, Toad of Toad Hall: these characters have captivated children ever since the early 20th century, when Kenneth Grahame wrote his gentle and humorous tale. Kids will still feel the magic today, as they happily make the acquaintance of Mole, who is seeing a river for the first time ever, and his new friend Ratty.

The Wind in the Willows

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The Wind in the Willows

Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and the mischievous Toad live a quiet life on banks of the River Thames with the rest of their animal friends. But Toad tends to get into trouble, and his passion for cars eventually results in his being caught and kept a helpless prisoner in the remotest dungeon of the best-guarded castle in all the land. Dressed as a washerwoman—and with some help from his friends—Toad manages to escape the castle and begins his journey home to Toad Hall. Originally published in 1908, this magnificent new edition of Kenneth Grahame’s charming tale brings the animals' adventures to life and is accompanied by more than 70 new illustrations from award-winning artist Robert Ingpen. Fans of all ages will enjoy reliving—or reading for the first time—this heartwarming story of friendship.

Thai Cooking Made Easy: Delectable Thai Meals in Minutes (Learn to Cook Series)

Thai Cooking Made Easy: Delectable Thai Meals in Minutes (Learn to Cook Series)

Thai Cooking Made Easy brings over 60 magnificent Thai treats into your kitchen. From fiery hot soups to tangy seafood dishes, this book captures the savory tastes and heavenly flavors of Thai cuisine. Step-by-step recipes show you how to make evergreen Thai dishes such as tom yam soup, pineapple fried rice, and jub chai (mixed vegetables stew). More than 60 full-color photographs bring each dish to life on the page, with flavorful sauces, delicious salads, tempting main dishes and sinful deserts making this the perfect introduction to Thai cuisine. The important elements of this book - the straightforward recipes, careful ingredient listings, and step-by-step instructions - will have you cooking up a Thai culinary storm in no time at all!

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Let's Cook Thai with Ruth

Let's Cook Thai with Ruth

This is a wonderfully clear, concise cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes and colorful photos that represent various Thai dishes and the lovely art of Thai display. The book fits perfectly on any shelf, and the spiral allows it to lay flat so you can simultaneously follow directions and prepare food. It is well arranged and thought out, and the mouth watering recipes are simplified for people on the go. This is a definite for your cookbook collection! Highly recommended.

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The Digital Photography Book

The Digital Photography Book

I have enjoyed photography as a hobby for 50+years. I own a Canon 20D and am a Scott Kelby fan. He is a great photoshop expert, yet emphasizes the importance of getting the best possible shot when taking the picture, to make your time in photoshop more enjoyable. You don't have to work as hard if you make the correct exposure to begin with.
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The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Photography (Amphoto Guide Series)

The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Photography (Amphoto Guide Series)

I picked this book and another by Kelby (The Digital Photography Book) based on reviews from this site and recommendations from several photography forums. When the two are compared, it is no contest Miotke's book wins hands down. That's not to say that Kelby's book is terrible, it is, in fact, quite good.

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Treason (Navy Justice, Book 1)

Treason (Navy Justice, Book 1)

This book was written by Don Brown, an ex US Navy JAG Officer in 2005. I ordered this book well over a year ago, but only recently saw these words from the prologue.

"I am recruiting a new breed of Islamic fighter. A fighter who can blend into the Western Landscape with fluency in English, with the ability to instantly ditch his turban for a business suit...." Hussein's black eyes glinted, drawing Abdur in. "A fighter with the willingness to don a U.S. Military Uniform for the cause of Allah."

In view of recent events, this book sent shivers down my spine. Does Don Brown know something the rest of us don't? Highly recommended!!

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Last of the Breed

Last of the Breed

This book, however, is different. This is the kind of authentically detailed story that is his hallmark, but it is more modern. It is about U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, whose forbears were Sioux Indian. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in the USSR, he is captured, and no one but he and his captors know he is a prisoner. He escapes a prison camp, and is forced to survive the Siberian wilderness in an effort to make it to the Bering Strait, which he will have to cross to get back home. He is pursued relentlessly by a Yakut scout who knows the land intimately. Joe Mack must think like a Sioux to escape.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Wow. I was barely able to put this book down for a second after the first few pages got me completely hooked. Suzanne Collins narrative here has an immediacy to it that, when combined with the very dramatic life-or-death plot, is incredibly compelling. It's entertaining, and incredibly disturbing all at once. If this was merely a good read, I would have given it 4 stars, but they say great art leaves you changed after you experience it... and this book definitely did that. Suzanne Collins has, with one amazing work, propelled herself onto my top shelf.

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Swift (Hardcover)

Swift (Hardcover)

This hardback book is like others by the same author -- excellent writing in a high-quality book. The author does extensive research before writing, and it is clear when reading Blake's books and looking at the amazing illustrations. My five-year-old son is completely engaged by this author's stories and learns from them. We recommend the other books by him as well. It tells the story of a boy, his father and their dog on a hunting trip. Something goes wrong, and the dog plays a major role in helping the boy to rescue his father.

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Pirate Latitudes: A Novel

Pirate Latitudes: A Novel

Michael Crichton's "Pirate Latitudes" is everything you're looking for in a pirate adventure. It doesn't necessarily do anything new with the genre, but it will satisfy those who found the popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" films too over-the-top and cartoony.

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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel

How could you NOT like a novel featuring the likes of Walter Gibson and Lester Dent (chief scribes of The Shadow and Doc Savage, respectively), a pre-Dianetics L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein, Louis L'Amour, Chester Himes and the re-animated corpse of H. P. Lovecraft? The answer is, you CAN'T. An affectionate, well-crafted tribute to these masters of pulp fiction, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a book that wears its heart on its sleeve, a crackling good yarn brimming with non-stop action, warm humor and casual mayhem.

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The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)

The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)

Wells's first novel is one of his best: it has lived on in the imagination of the Twentieth Century, breeding all sorts of children - some rather gainly like Jack Finney's delightful "Time and Again", some less so. This beautifully written novella blends Darwinian speculation and Marxist nightmare with a page-turning narrative of high adventure - still fresh and vivid after 110 years. It ends on a note of poignancy and optimism that seeks to balance the horror and despair that has come before, and leaves you in the quiet hush that follows a tale well told.

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Running to Oblivion

Running to Oblivion

This reconciliation introduces him to May Marquez, the stepdaughter of Foster's boss, an exiled Colombian coke lord named Esteban. May asks Trevor to help her escape from Esteban's sordid control and he agrees to help her. Little does he realize that it will draw the interest of Dallas Bertram, a DEA agent who is investigating Foster's drug connections.

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The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show

The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy,
Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show

Readers will find a short review of the Biggest Loser's way to lose weight- which is sensible- you eat right and exercise. Then comes the heart of the book- over 100 recipes for the various meals like breakfast, snacks, etc. And unlike a lot of cookbooks, each recipe shows you exactly how many calories, fat grams, protein grams, carb grams, fiber grams, sodium, and cholesterol it contains- which is nice for a wide variety of other populations such as those with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.

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You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

This book taught me that you aren't really eating "normally" on most diets. Your body confuses a diet with a time of famine and is trying to keep you alive. Your body doesn't know that you can afford to lose the weight, and that the "famine" is self-imposed. It explains the role that chronic low-grade stress (work, relationships, etc.) plays on weight gain.

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1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes

1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes

If you cook gluten-free meals, this cookbook is sure to become an indispensable kitchen companion. You'll discover recipes for every meal of the day and every occasion, from favorite foods you never thought you would be able to eat again to foods kids will love and elegant dishes for entertaining. Throughout the book, you'll find a wealth of detailed, practical advice on staples of the gluten-free kitchen, including tips on reliable brand-name products. Here is everything you need to discover just how easy and tasty it can be to live gluten free!

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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

The author manages to do justice to both his subjects, Louisa May Alcott and her father. He also creates an excellent picture of the time and explains the transcendtalist movement. Besides L.M. Alcott and B. Alcott one learns a lot about Emerson, Thoreau, Elizabeth Peabody and other luminaries of the time. The book is fact driven, there are often long quotations from original material and it is very well written. A most enlightening book, bringing its subjects and their surroundings to life. I originally bought this book becasue of my interst in L.M. Alcott but by the end I found her father at least as interesting.
I read this book like a thriller, finishing it in three days.

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The State of Jones

The State of Jones

“There’s lots of ways I’d rather die than being scared to death,” Knight said, and it was a defining statement. At almost every stage of his life this yeoman from the hill country of Jones County, Miss., took courageous stands. The grandson of a slave owner who never owned slaves, he voted against secession, deserted from the Confederate Army into which he was unwillingly impressed, and formed a band called the Jones County Scouts devoted to undermining the Rebel cause locally. Working with runaway slaves and fellow Unionists and Federal soldiers caught behind enemy lines, Knight conducted such an effective running gun battle that at the height of the war he and his allies controlled the entire lower third of the state. This "southern Yankee,” as one Rebel general termed him, remained unconquered until the end of the war. His resistance hampered the Confederate Army’s ability to operate, forced it to conduct a third-front war at home, and eroded its morale and will to fight.

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Lees Lieutenants (3 Volumes In One Abridged) : A Study in Command

Lees Lieutenants (3 Volumes In One Abridged) : A Study in Command

This book is an abridgement of the original three-volume version (the footnotes have been taken out). It is an incredibly well written book. It is a history of the army of Northern Virginia from the first shot fired to the surrender at Appomattox - but what makes this book unique is that it is a biography of around 150 Confederate officers. The book discusses in depth all the tradeoffs that were being made politically and militarily by the South. The book does an excellent job describing the battles, then at a critical decision point in the battle, the book focuses on an officer - the book stops and tells the biography of that person, and then goes back to the battle and tells what information the officer had at that point and the decision he made. At the end of the battle, the officers decisions are critiqued based on what he could have known and what he should have known given his experience, and that is compared with 20/20 hindsight.

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