2. The perfect gift for Valentine's Day, this delightful padded box contains 40 postcards that say "I Love You" in clever and creative ways. Perfect for penning a romantic valentine or sending a sweet note to friends and family.

    I love, love, love these postcards! Perfect not only for those who loves keeping postcards but to those who loves the idea of LOVE and spreading it by sending these really cool creations! The postcards are neatly put in a box that has a soft upper feel when you opened it and there are 40 irressistably different and deliciously creative-made postcards with one subject- LOVE(of course!). These postcards celebrate LOVE in many unique ways. I had sent some but I think I just had to buy one box for me to keep as these postcards are just awesomely done and the box that came with it makes keeping these much easier. These are not those cheesy lovey dovey normal types but just simple postcards of love with really superb illustrations that are so NOW which makes make me want to purchase another box for the LOVE of me. Highly recommended not only to be send on special days but any days, or everyday. Hey,it is LOVE that we are talking about!!! -- Ben Read more.
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  3. A small-sized commitment of time is all you need to create these picture-perfect postcard quilts! Give, trade, or treasure these 4" x 6" mini-greetings--and make a one-of-a-kind quilt in an evening.
    * Follow one step-by-step project to learn the technique; then get inspired by more than 85 creative variations, all shown in close-up photos
    * Choose a novelty fabric to start; then learn to develop your own themes with photos of fabric and embellishment collections
    * Embellish postcards with machine satin stitching, ribbons, yarns, buttons, beads, rubber stamps, costume jewelry--there's no limit to what you can use!
    Fabric postcards * Fiber postcards * Artist postcards * Trading cards

    A thorough book on making your own postcards that is geared to both the beginning and advanced artist. The photos of completed postcards are worth the price of the book! Steps for making postcards are explained well and can be easily followed by anyone--sewer or non-sewer. The materials that can be used just begin to wet the appetite of anyone interested in making postcards. Everyone will enjoy reading and looking through the book! --The weaving quilter Read more.
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  4. Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time by Guy Finley

    This little book is such a joy! Guy Finley's The Secret of Letting Go is one of my favorite books of all time. And this book, Letting Go A Little Bit at a Time, takes all my favorite quotes from the bigger book, and puts them in a format that is perfect for savoring and mulling over each one. It really is the best of the best. I want so much to let go of all my blockages and all those voices inside my head, and with this book I can focus on one lovely pearl of truth at a time and let it do its work. My whole day can be changed in a moment. Here's an example of just one quote from the book that shows what I'm talking about: "Never accept any negative reaction you may have as the only possible answer to your present challenge." Reading that immediately lifts me out of the dark world my thoughts have created, and gives me a broader view of life with endless possibilities. I will definitely keep this book by my side so I can dive into it again and again. -- A reader

    I wish I could give everyone in the world this book for Valentine's Day, because it steers us toward the True Love we yearn for. Here's an excerpt: "The true spiritual warrior never fears feelings of helplessness, because she recognizes such states as the heralds of new powers to come, like storm clouds before spring flowers." --Lisa H. Read more.

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  6. Steve Dancy is set on experiencing the West. At first glance, he is nothing more than a dilettante Easterner intent on writing a journal about his adventures on the frontier. He's not running away from a hopeless life. To the contrary, he's educated and seems to have enough money for his simple needs. Although anxious to avoid trouble, he can be pushed only so far, and when he chances upon some bad men doing unspeakable things to a woman, he feels he must take a hand. It isn't long before he's caught up in gunplay, which leads him into taking desperate measures, including buying a bank and a hotel, and influencing the upcoming gubernatorial elections. Dancy is a far different man than these Westerners think he is. Wealthy after selling off his Eastern businesses, maybe he should have told them what kind of goods he sold, because he's sure not like any other shopkeepers they know.

    This is a fast paced tale with an interesting hero. In structure, with short chapters, crisp dialogue, and lots of movement, it's reminiscent of a thriller. Sadly, neither of the women in this story were enduring, the older too evil and crass to believe, and the younger far from worthy of the infatuation the hero apparently feels toward her. The motivation seems weak for all the mayhem that ensues. Still, you'll certainly find enough twists and turns to provide an entertaining and exciting story. -- Western Writers of America Roundup Magazine, August, 2008 Read more.
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  7. In this, his third adaptation of a Chekhov play, Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Mamet offers a contemporary, highly accessible version of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters. Working from a literal translation by Vlada Chernomordik, Mamet has rediscovered the characteristically modern chords in this powerful play and breathes new life into a timeless classic. This is Chekhov rendered in direct, colloquial language marked by Mamet’s finely tuned ear for dialogue.

    I recently went to a reading of this play by a theatre group here in Philadelphia that I really enjoy. Although I could write a very positive review of their reading, I'll try and focus on the writing itself. This play presents a masterful peek into societal life for three sisters living in a relatively small Russian city of 100,000 people. The theme of living in your memories or living in your hopes is a major theme that is magnificently played out across the play's long four acts. Each of the main characters has a catch phrase or speech that they deliver a variant of in each act, the first time full of hope and happiness and with each passing act with more and more despair and hopelessness. The three sister's arcs into unhappiness and depression weave together to create a very cohesive whole. I thought the contrast between the three sisters and their one brother played perfectly into the development of the sisters' characters. In fact, the contrast between the male characters and the female characters was very interesting all around. The transformation of Natasha's character was also an interesting shift. I found the character of Solyony to be one of the only male characters that compared to the three sisters, but I can't put my finger on why. Watching the town fall apart through the lives of the sisters made for a great play. If you can stand some slow plot development and lengthy dialog (ie, it is a Russian story), you should really check this play out! -- Jeremy C. Ellis
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  8. Mostly written at the end of a busy Senate day, after his children went to sleep and before he went to bed at 1am, The Audacity of Hope is what a political treatise should look like, from a president who will redefine the genre as much as he looks like redefining the role of president. Full of the passion, commitment and tear jerking eloquence that we saw and wept at uncontrollably in his victory speech, it shows how he became the US president elect and, with any luck, why he will make a good job of it. --Boyd Tonkin and Katy Guest Read more.
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  10. Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feyman by Richard P. Feynman


    There can be no argument that Richard P Feynman was a genius. He has been a hero of mine since I was very young, probably because my father also greatly admires him and spoke to me about Feynman and his unique personality from time to time. There are some great stories in this book and they will make you laugh out loud. Feynman was always so full of life and he was curious about absolutely everything from a very early age. He would always want to know, "How does that work?" or "Why is that the way it is?" or "Is there another way to do that?" He would also latch onto something and decide that he wanted to do it, and to do it really well. For example, witnessing the bongo-playing in Brazil inspired him to learn to play like that and not like some studio-taught purist. He achieved it through dedication to his objective and sheer passion. What made Feynman a genius? Well, there were lots of factors that contributed to his status, many of them discussed in other reviews of this book, but, my reason for putting him into that classification was that he was capable of explaining the most complex of matters to a five-year-old. That is TRUE genius. I have read this book many times. It is a short book and will remain amongst my collection until the day that I die. If you haven't read it already, you should. You really need to read this book. I can guarantee that it will change at least one aspect of your life! --Lance Mitchell Read more.
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  11. It could well be, as the age of art bling turns to bust, that Sarah Thornton's acute and zesty tour of the market and its movers will soon read like past history. No matter, her book will survive as a hard-thinking but high-spirited memorial to that strange millennial period when contemporary art offered a glittery rendezvous for talent, ambition, hype --and shed-loads of free floating cash. From decision time at the Turner Prize to a hot acution night at Christie's; from a frenzied-selling souq in Switzerland to the grandiose village fete of the Venice Biennale, Thornton swoops with a trained eye and sharp claws on the makers and breakers of reputation. She brings to light the bizarre mechinery that keeps studio showbiz on the road, and in the headlines.--Boyd Tonkin and Katy Guest. Read more.
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  12. Nation is an exceptionally good book, rewarding to read; it is aimed at young people, and I think that it would appeal strongly to the best in fourteen-year-olds everywhere; however, even though I haven't been fourteen for many years, I enjoyed it very much and recommend it for all ages.

    It has many of the characteristics of Terry Pratchett's work, but it does not fit easily into any category. His humor is there, as is his relish in deflating the balloons that make up the given wisdom of human culture; the allusions that make every book he writes a delight, a puzzle, and an unending source of new discovery at each re-reading are there; none of it is present to the degree that any of it would be in a Discworld book.

    A continuing idea running through his work is that of the alternate universes created at each decision point. One picks up a fork; alternatively, one may not have picked up a fork, and by not doing so may have created a different reality, the fork-not-picked-up universe. Nation takes place on an earth where a good many different utensils have been picked up at different times from what we know, but it is still recognizable as a nineteenth century when Britannia ruled the waves.

    Although it is an entertaining book, it is not primarily a funny one. The themes it deals with are overwhelming--loss of the entire cultural framework that makes life in society meaningful, death of all that is known, the futility of traditional coping mechanisms in the face of such loss, the need to build a new life from within when all that has been known before was an old life imposed from without. The young hero has lost everything--even the coming-of-age ritual he was to go through the day of the tragedy. The repeated theme of the book is "When much is taken, something is returned." The reality is that the something returned is the result of work and determination, not a free gift; it's easy to give up, difficult to take what little you are given and make what you can of it. The story of the book is the tale of self-discovery after the boundaries have been wiped out, and of the attempt to build a new foundation for a society based on truth. Even through all the humor, there is also an ever-present sadness and grief for what was lost that wrenches the heart. Above all, it is a book to make one think.

    I do not know of any other living author who is as cherished by his habitual readers as Terry Pratchett is, as both a writer and a person; nor can I think of any other who so richly deserves the cherishing. --E. Schechter Read more
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  14. Breaking Down (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer

    When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

    To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.
    Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life--first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse--seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?
    The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. Read more.

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