A Good Friend: How to Make One, How to Be One (Boys Town Teens and Relationships, V. 1)

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Winner of The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval

The success of virtually all interpersonal relationships hinges on the ability to be a friend.

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Everyone needs one good friend. With this touching gift book, artist Becky Kelly gives friends everywhere one good little book to share with their close friends. Captured here are those magical memories of those moments in our friendships that we cherish. From sharinig a snack to jumping rope, friends will recall the good times with the good friends who shape their lives. True friendship is shown in little ways- and this book is a perfect example. Becky Kelly's ethereal watercolor paintings capture the wondrous spirit and magical moments of friendship. With enchanting art and lyrical words, One Good Friend is a book sure to be cherished - for a friend who already is.

Customer Reviews:

Great Book To Give To A Special Friend!.......2006-09-20

I just recently bought the book "One Good Friend"
for a very special and dear friend of mine,
Dawn Dowgiallo Hartson. I wanted to buy her
a gift just to relay the message that our
friendship means so much to me and that I
cherish our friendship...so when I went
looking for a book that says just that...
I really did not come across any until I
looked up Becky Kelly's line of books.
The illustrations are adorable and precious!
"One Good Friend" is the perfect book to
clebrate friendship!

FRIGHTENERS (1) One: For the Love of Pamela; The Mask; Old Hether's Picture; Cera; My Very Good Friend; Lost Soul; Homicidal Maniac; If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee; Dissolving Partnership; And Now the Pact; The Quiet Man; A Walk Along the Beach; Catomado

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Panic Freak?

FRIGHTENERS (1) One: For the Love of Pamela; The Mask; Old Hether's Picture; Cera; My Very Good Friend; Lost Soul; Homicidal Maniac; If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee; Dissolving Partnership; And Now the Pact; The Quiet Man; A Walk Along the Beach; Catomado
Mary (editor) (Kay Leith; Sydney J. Bounds; Joyce Marsh; Bernard Taylor; Pamela Vincent; A. E. Ellis; Martin Ricketts; Terry Gisbourne; Frances Stephens; R. Chetwynd-Hayes; Dorothy K. Haynes; Julia Birley; Adrian Cole) Danby
Manufacturer: Fontana Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0006135102

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Panic Freak?.......2007-03-15

Have you ever known a child you felt was a little horror? Have you ever had noisy neighbours that just drive you crazy? If so this may be the book for you. contains 17 scary tales to tantalize your bedtime reading. All the stories are new works appearing in print for the first time. They vary in length from super short to medium. The longest read is 20 pages.

I had not read any horror stories since my adolescence so I picked up this book wondering if I was 'past it all.' To my pleasure I found these stories all held my attention, while some turned out to be quite original.

So be prepared for the horrible, the weird, and even the gruesomely funny.

Loving One Another: Beginner's Stories on Being a Good Friend

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Excellent gift for a good friend!

Loving One Another: Beginner's Stories on Being a Good Friend
Neta Jackson
Manufacturer: Multnomah
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 094556466X
Release Date: 1993-06-15

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Excellent gift for a good friend!.......2002-04-07

This book instills positive traits in your child regarding making the right choices in different situations. Children are able to relate to these fun animal stories. Each one starts out with a Bible verse pertaining to the story, then backed up with questions you can discuss after the story. Eight great stories in this treasury.

The Adventures of One Feather - Book One: One Feather Makes a Friend (The Adventures of One Feather)

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The Adventures of One Feather - Book One: One Feather Makes a Friend (The Adventures of One Feather)
Daniel Joseph Farside, illustrated by Tracy Fisher
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412028086
Release Date: 2006-06-30

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Panic Freak?

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ASIN: 0006141706

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Panic Freak?.......2007-03-15

Goodbye My Good Friend: Memories of Lost Animal Companions & Loved Ones

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Goodbye My Good Friend: Memories of Lost Animal Companions & Loved Ones

Manufacturer: Agreka Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0977707229

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Compiled by a Veterinarian. Youth especially have a difficult time with the loss of a beloved animal companion. Because often times it is their first exposure to death, or the animal is their very first best friend. Grief over the loss of a beloved animal companion can be devastating and isolating. Many times society doesn't recognize or accept the depth of grief that children experience. Goodbye my good friend. Goodbye til we meet again. Goodbye is so hard to say. After the uncontrollable tears of sadness, we begin to heal, sometimes very slowly. Gradually, as we begin to heal, we remember our lost loved one with mixed emotions of grief and joy. And often times, without the slightest warning, we feel a delicate tear on our cheek. A fragile tear created mostly by love. May these stories and poems provide comfort and guidance to youth that have lost a beloved animal companion. Stories and poems by adults and children, 27 drawings of their pets.

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One Good Friend
Michael Sage
Manufacturer: Joan Sage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966981308

Top dogs: The bad ones growl a lot and dig in the wrong places, but the good ones are some of the environment's best friends. Who's who in the new Republican Congress.: An article from: OnEarth

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Top dogs: The bad ones growl a lot and dig in the wrong places, but the good ones are some of the environment's best friends. Who's who in the new Republican Congress.: An article from: OnEarth
Jill Davis , and Jason Best
Manufacturer: Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FW086
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1099 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: Top dogs: The bad ones growl a lot and dig in the wrong places, but the good ones are some of the environment's best friends. Who's who in the new Republican Congress.
Author: Jill Davis
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Volume: 25 Issue: 1 Page: 28(5)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

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Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provides accessible accounts of the particular dress ‘ways’ associated with a considerable variety of lifestyles. Churchgoers, ballerinas, Muslim schoolgirls, glamour models, ‘vampires’, monks and country gents all fashion a social self through dress. These cultures all have characteristic forms of displaying the dressed body for social visibility - whether in religion, sex, performance, or on the street. In contrast to much of the literature on dress, which often assumes a lack of agency on the part of the wearer, contributors to this book focus on the conscious manipulation of dress to reflect an identity that is designed to look ‘different’.

Why do people choose to mark themselves off socially from others? What are the costs and benefits? For every dress ‘identity’, there is a corresponding set of entitlements and expectations as to behaviour and belief. ‘Priestly’ bodies inhabit a different universe of response from strippers, just as ‘Gothic’ bodies experience the public gaze differently from ‘Methodist’ ones. Where one look commands respect in one setting, in another it can incite antipathy and rejection. Contributors tackle head-on this ‘paradox of dress’ - its potent power to unite and divide. Evidence of the dressed body’s social ambiguity as a medium of consensus, on the one hand, and conflict, on the other, provides a glimpse through dress into an elementary condition of social and cultural life that has all too rarely been part of historical and sociological discourse.

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In this second volume of stories about the popular hamster Hamtaro, his owner, Yukari, and the Ham-Ham gang, Hamtaro chews his way into big trouble - he gnaws through Yukari's favorite book, and chews the ribbons off the Christmas gifts! When he can't resist frolicking in a bag of wrapping paper, he ends up getting put out with the garbage! Will Hamtaro ever find his way home? These adventures are color illustrated throughout with extra interesting facts about real hamsters, and a fold-out Ham-Ham Clubhouse plan.

Customer Reviews:

Great Book for Hamtaro Fans.......2003-10-06

Hamha! This book is part of a seris of Storybooks by Ritsuko Kawai and became a great hit in Japan. So great, it become a anime and was shown around the world. I have this book and shown my friends who alos love Hamtaro. They fell in love with it. Sure, it shows pictures of Hamtaro peeing and haveing babys with Momo (Bijou is so much better! Don't you think!). But DUH! Hamtaro's a hamsters and hamsters do that! Children can learn leasons about taking care of hamsters. I have a hamster named after Bijou and this book taught me how to take care of her. This was my frist one and I can't wait to read the 1st and 3rd. From a true Hamtaro fan. Bye-Q!

Come On, Give It A Chance.......2003-09-22

Disregard the prudish review above. My three-and-a-half year old laughed out loud when the hampster peed. The other "situation" suggested to be inappropriate was this: at the ending, Hamtaro was given a wife. All the book says was he "got close" to her. And later, baby hampsters appeared. This book was written to be a primer for real hampster ownership. Anyone with animal pets (or livestock) knows that they poop, pee, and reproduce. Children are alright with that knowledge.

Etiquette for Outlaws
Average customer rating:

Not all that great

This book sucks

Maybe For Wannabe Outlaws

Too Watered Down for "Real" Outlaws

Good idea for a book but only did a fair job

Etiquette for Outlaws
Rob Cohen , and David Wollock
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0380801523
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Book Description

Curious to find out:

what to wear to a Fetish Ball?
the difference between "sticky green" and "backyard boogie?"
which piercing has the worst pain factor?
how to find the best bookie?

Find out the answers to these questions and many more as Etiquette for Outlaws teaches you how to live it up in style with tips on:

Tattoos
Graffiti
Motorcycles
Suicide
Gambling
Strip Clubs
Alternative Sex
Drinking
Swinging
Jailhouse Fighting
Gangs
Piercing

Customer Reviews:

Not all that great.......2006-03-26

This is an interesting but ultimately unimportant look at life as an "outlaw." It's valuable for the entertainment value and, if you're completely unfamiliar with tattoos, strip clubs, drinking in bars, casinos, and drugs, a handy introduction that isn't informed by anti-drug propaganda.

That said, there are very few people who have no familiarity with this sort of thing. And if that is you, think about getting another book that is more neutral about those subjects, and not striving for humorous effect.

The humor is not exceptional, but it would make an entertaining and unusual coffee table book at the home of someone completely outside of the counterculture. It's the easy, home-game for anyone who wants to go slumming in dive bars, strip joints, or pre-Disney Times Square, but who doesn't actually want to be shocked or leave the house.

The short interviews with notables are entertaining, particularly those with Penn Jillette and Pat Boone. (Who knew they would ever share a sentence?)

This book sucks.......2006-03-21

This book sucks. Seriously, it's really stupid. I read the entire thing in what felt like fifteen minutes, and I think grade schoolers with an internet connection have probably IMAGINED more realistic protrayals of how gangbangers, rock stars, and strippers act. The interviews suck: who cares about that old guy from Jane's Addiction visiting prostitutes? Why couldn't the author've found a more engaging, literate porn star? The sections about "gangstas" are great, as the author asserts that gangbangers do not victimize so-called innocent bystanders (all robberies, muggings, and property crimes in bad neighborhoods happen to rival gangmembers.) The section about smoking seems to be written for, like, Cub Scouts or something, and is filled with such sage advice as "never throw a match on the floor" and "pipes are for pussies". Writing a book encouraging people to smoke more, uh, respectfully is for pussies. As a matter of fact, this entire boring book is for pussies. Old "The Cosby Show" scripts would be more cutting-edge than this book. Don't buy it!

Maybe For Wannabe Outlaws.......2005-05-06

According to its back cover, Etiquette for Outlaws promises to teach you how to live it up in style with tips on tattoos, graffiti, suicide, motorcycles, gambling, strip clubs, piercing and more. But a word to the wise reader: take this book as tongue in cheek, because that's what it is. Maybe the title is not quite accurate. One can't help but to think that the publishers did some heavy-handed censoring, forcing the authors to tone it down. Too bad.

The authors cover a variety of presumably "outlaw" topics such as how to avoid a DUI, how to tip a hooker, how not to look like a schmuck at the blackjack tables, etc. But the writing is pretty weak and a lot of the jokes and bon mots seem forced at times, while other times they're just not funny at all.

Most of the advice should be common sense for the sane person, i.e. when you gamble, expect to lose money. I'm sure any would-be outlaw or anyone who has been to Vegas already knows that. You don't need this book to tell you.

Too Watered Down for "Real" Outlaws.......2005-04-08

Ever wonder how much you should tip a hooker? Or how to avoid a DUI?

Oh, admit it. You're curious about what life is like on the bad side of town!

Pros
When it's good, it's very good

Cons
but when it's bad, it's horrid.

Life in the American "underworld" is fascinating to Americans who live above it. This is why Mafia movies are so popular. The underworld is where people disregard the law and develop their own culture and rules for behavior.

This book promises to reveal all of the naughty secrets of the underworld and provide some insight about etiquette and proper behavior for the outlaws who live there. Unfortunately, the book doesn't quite live up to the promise, mostly because the publisher would not allow them to treat the subject as irreverently as it was meant to be treated.

The Writing
First of all, the book could have been better written. While the authors have the writing and marketing skills to produce this book, they don't really have the talent to cover the subject matter in a compelling or entertaining way. It's not that they didn't try to entertain. When you read this book, cover your head and watch for jokes falling flat. There's one on every page.

(Okay, okay, the jokes are occasionally funny.)

The other problem I have with the authors' style is that they are obviously writing for an audience of men. Perhaps the reason I didn't think the jokes were funny is because I don't have a penis. The writers do at times attempt to cover the female viewpoint, but usually they simply apologize for giving only the male perspective and move on. If a woman had co-authored this book, it would have been a very different--and far better--piece of work.

The Illustrations
The cover art is great: cartoon-style depictions of strippers, head-bangers, gamblers, and drinkers. The photographs inside the book range from painfully bad to cheesy. In the chapter about bars and pool tables, for instance, there is a dark grainy photograph of the corner of a pool table that looks like it was taken accidentally by a drunk person tripping over the carpet while staggering across the floor, gripping his Polaroid in one hand and his beer in the other as he lurched and stumbled his way to the bathroom to yarf. I suppose the picture was included for the five adults in the country who don't know what a pool table looks like. None of the pictures are remarkably good or well-planned. It seems clear that the authors finished their manuscript and then decided they better put some pictures in.

The REAL Problem
The real disappointment about Etiquette for Outlaws, though is the sad way that the publishers (for legal and liability reasons, I'm sure) forced the writers to water it down and to include warnings, disclaimers and cautions in every chapter. When you open the book, the first thing you come to is "A Word From Our Lawyers" and you can immediately get a feel for how freaked out the publishers were about releasing this subject matter to the mindless masses. The writers make a game attempt to make it funny, but the constant reminders about the legality and the stupidity of the behaviors described in this book will irritate anyone with any common sense at all. The people who need these warnings and reminders don't read books!

The Content
"Etiquette for Outlaws" is divided into seven chapters:

I. Traditional Vices - what the authors call "the basics." This includes booze, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, gambling and strip clubs. The sections on drinking and gambling are boring. They probably should have been left out completely. Is there really any mystery associated with the proper etiquette of drinking? Either you know how to handle your booze or you don't. And if you don't...again, you're probably not the kind of person who reads books.

As for gambling, if you are the kind of person who's interested in knowing whether it's polite to play three slot machines at a time or how to correctly place your bet at a craps table, you probably gamble enough to already know these things. If you don't gamble enough to know the ins and outs of a casino, it's probably because you're not into it and you'd just be bored by this section of the book, as I was.

II. Sex - covers basic sex, porn, cybersex, alternative sex and swinging. Here's where the good stuff begins. No problems with this chapter, although a female perspective would have been nice.

III. The Accessories - tattoos, piercing, wheels, guns, knives, meat, and leather and fur. This chapter has some interesting stuff about tattoos and piercings.

The chapter on bikers is lame. It reads like a motorcycle safety pamphlet at the County DMV Office. This is not the stuff a typical person wants to know about the biker lifestyle. If the authors couldn't get the goods on Hell's Angels, they should have just left this section out instead of trying to fake it.

I have no clue why there are sections on meat, leather and fur in this book. Having grown up in Texas I have never found eating meat to be an underworld lifestyle. The meat section of this chapter deals with proper ways to deal with vegetarians when they rag on you about eating meat. I've never seen a real live vegetarian, but according to this book they are prone to say things to you while you are scarfing down a hamburger, like "Eating meat perpetuates a cycle of violence toward animals," and "That animal you're eating once had a face and a beating heart."

Someday I would truly like to meet a vegetarian who would say these things to a Texan gnawing on a barbecued rib. I'm afraid I would actually ask to see the size of his nards, because it would surely take a grand pair to say such a thing out loud in Texas.

The gun section is simply a gun-safety brochure with several smart-asss jokes thrown in to try and make it interesting. Anyone who doesn't already know these simple gun safety tips is not the type to read a book, so this information is wasted here. Besides, what does gun safety have to do with being an outlaw??

IV. The Lifestyle - covers basic street etiquette, fighting, jokes, crapping, farting, burping, masturbating, and music scenes. Nothing remarkable here. The inclusion of the body function sections is a good indicator that this book was written by men for men. Where's the section on menstrual etiquette? Is it rude to ask a stranger to borrow a tampon if you're in a pinch? Is it acceptable to admit to being on the rag in mixed company? Is it okay to stash a few fem-hy products at your boyfriend's house for an emergency or to mark your territory? The answers to these questions would be much more interesting to me than whether or not it's polite to make potty noises in a public restroom or what to do if you fart audibly while having sex.

V. The Professionals - proper etiquette for porn stars and visitors on the set of a porn movie, etiquette for rock stars, groupies, street gangs, graffiti artists, prostitutes and BDSM.

VI. The Aftermath - what to do when you've gone too far. This chapter covers rehab, jail, court, homelessness and suicide.

VII. Travel - some very interesting material on the favorite travel destinations of the underworld, such as Tijuana, Amsterdam, Cuba, Bangkok, and sex on a commercial airline (joining the mile-high club).

I don't want to give too much of a negative review of this book. I did enjoy reading it and I would recommend it to others. But sadly it is not what it could have been.

Good idea for a book but only did a fair job.......2003-12-30

This book covers many alternative life styles and undertakings. It is just unlikely you will gain much insight from any one single "outlaw activity". But if you are the kind who has not have any exposure to the alternative life styles, there might be enough information here to make the book worthwhile.

Average customer rating:

Terrific book
Fun book for kids to read along to

Twenty-Four Robbers
Audrey Wood
Manufacturer: Child's Play, Int'l.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1904550355

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In Audrey Wood's joyful celebration of this traditional skipping rhyme, twenty-four robbers return to the same house again and again. What do the need, and what is it for? Kindness and generosity show the robbers that stealing is not the only way, and teach them the value of sharing. Count twenty-four robbers on every spread, and join in the shouting!

Customer Reviews:

Terrific book.......2006-12-08

If you can find the hardcove of this, buy it for your toddler/crawler. The pictures are great, colorful, full of detail. The expressions on the faces will delight parentes as they read this over and over to their child.

I recommend the hardcover, because both my 1-5 year olds banged this around for nearly 7 years; the softcovers won't hold up to that kind of use. But, if that's all you can find, get it anyway. Both you and your children will love it.

Fun book for kids to read along to.......2004-03-31

Children learn to read by recognizing (memorizing) increasingly large numbers of words on sight (developing a reading vocabulary). A book like this is one that progresses in a cadence (is singable) and thus, easy to memorize. A great book for new readers, because as they memorize while looking at the book, they begin to recognize and add new words to their reading vocabularies. They don't even realize they are doing it. How do I know this? Well, I am in my mid twenties, and I can remember almost all of this book, though I haven't seen it for about 20 years. I remember reading it over and over. It was one of the first books that I learned to read. Just the other day, I woke up reciting the opening line from the book, and decided to try to find it. I would highly recommend this book for parents trying to interest their kids in reading. It is one that you won't get tired of, even though you might read it about a thousand times!!

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Three Little Robbers
Christine Graham
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0805080945
Release Date: 2007-09-04

Book Description

Jo, Flo, and Mo are robbers who live on a lane. Jo is strong. Flo is loud. Mo is quick. They rob people who come up the lane. But when they go to rob the old lady who lives on the hill, they find that she has nothing at all.

The brave little trio comes up with a plan to help the old lady—and they don’t have to steal a single thing!

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Etiquette for Outlaws
Rob Cohen
Manufacturer: HARPERCOLLINS @ PUBLISHERS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QBNX8O

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