Looking Back On My Life

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This is a touching story of a young teen-age boy growing up in Brooklyn, who had a lonely and unhappy childhood. At the age of sixteen he meets and falls in love with Esta, a lovely, outgoing, and mature-looking girl of thirteen, the sister of his best friend.

Before too long, he finds himself in the Navy on a subchaser during World War II. For a young man who had never been away from home, this is a startling experience. Sol, a Jew, runs into instances of anti-semitism, when he is thrust into a completely different environment.

Shortly, he is embroiled in several invasions of Japanese held islands in the Pacific and in combat with warplanes, including kamikazes. Just before the war ends, he comes home on leave. He immediately marries his sweetheart, who has been waiting for him. The next time he comes home, it is for good.

Uncertain of their future, Sol and his wife Esta lean on each other for strength in raising and educating their four children. Their life together unfolds over a period of almost six decades.

There were extremely happy times and times of great sorrow. No matter the situation, they faced it with optimism and a sense of humor.

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Uncertain of their future, Sol and his wife Esta lean on each other for strength in raising and educating their four children. Their life together unfolds over a period of almost six decades.

There were extremely happy times and times of great sorrow. No matter the situation, they faced it with optimism and a sense of humor.

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Looking Back Over My Life

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Portraits of My Life: Looking Back As an Adult Child of Alcoholism
Maryann F. Lenzi
Manufacturer: Beaver Pubns Inc
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An inspirational memoir of letters, poetry, narrative passages and nostalgic photographs about a woman's relationship with her alcoholic father.

The River of Years: Looking Back on My Life as a Methodist Minister

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The River of Years: Looking Back on My Life as a Methodist Minister

Manufacturer: Cotten Publishing Company
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ASIN: 092585414X

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Autobiography of one of the greatest Methodist ministers of our time.

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In retrospect: Looking back at my life
Charles Alexander Beam
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Looking back at my life
Hildegard Hirsch
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Looking back at my life: Memories of 80+ years and history of two closely related German families: Fresen - Plassmann in the Madison County, Illinois, area

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Looking back at my life: Memories of 80+ years and history of two closely related German families: Fresen - Plassmann in the Madison County, Illinois, area
Edward Heinrich Gustav Fresen
Manufacturer: J. Mottaz
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Looking back to my grandparents
Dora Stevens
Manufacturer: North Star Press
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The first biography of the Nobel-prize winning chemist and peace activist, this book is a winning portrait of an accomplished woman who combined an ambitious career with family responsibilities, often at great cost.

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A woman ahead of her time........2003-08-10

This amazing biography of crystallographer is even more interesting because it is the author's first book. Despite being a non-scientist, Ferry does a superb job of exploring the life of her subject. It is a joy to read, treating with equal respect Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's personal and scientific life. The central role of crystallography (with excursions into biology, chemistry, and physics) is not minimized, but it would be easily understandable to the non-scientific reader. Besides being a woman scientist in Great Britain at a time when women were not even eligible for college-level degrees at some schools, Dorothy was a successful wife and mother, raising several children almost alone while her husband worked in faraway places. But rather than concentrate on the difficulties, Dorothy put all her efforts into pursuing science, and thus she became fantastically successful, eventually winning the Nobel Prize for her work on the structures of Vitamin B12 and penicillin. Everyone in her field respected her, no one suggested her proper place was anywhere else, and so she avoided many of the pitfalls women in science often face. As long as she lived, Dorothy worked for what she believed in, whether it was solving the structures of complicated bio-active molecules, peace, or international communication. She built friendships all over the world, and used her fame and personality to help people. This book will make you a Dorothy Hodgkin fan, which is a tribute to both the subject's worthiness and the author's skill.

Birkbeck, Science and History, (Occasional Publications: New Series - Department of Geograph)

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Birkbeck, Science and History, (Occasional Publications: New Series - Department of Geograph)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Dorthy Hodgkin

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Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Dorthy Hodgkin

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Doyenne of Crystallographers.(Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Doyenne of Crystallographers.(Review): An article from: American Scientist
Linda Schmalbeck
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Great Book!

A gift of healing!

Wonderful!!

heartfelt, thorough, easy to read - and impractical

Heart-Wrenching And Hopeful

Generation Ex: Adult Children of Divorce and the Healing of Our Pain
Jen Abbas
Manufacturer: WaterBrook Press
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Release Date: 2004-04-20

Book Description

Finally, a Book for Adult Children of Divorce–
Written by an Adult Child of Divorce.

One of the hardest truths about divorce is that every split–no matter when it occurs–will have lifelong effects on the children caught in the crossfire. While most people acknowledge our pain during our parents’ parting, few of us realize that our most significant insecurities, questions, and doubts may not show up for years, when we seek our own intimate relationships as adults.

In fact, millions of adult children of divorce feel lost, displaced, or unwanted years after the ink has dried on their parents’ divorce decree. Like them, you may fear abandonment, betrayal, or failure in your own marriage. Despite outward successes, you may doubt your emotional abilities. You may notice that your parents’ divorce affects you more each year, not less. You are not alone.

Through research, interviews, and personal stories, Generation Ex will help you understand the effect of your parents’ divorce on your identity, faith, and relationships, and will give you the tools you need to create a dramatically different legacy.

INCLUDES QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION.

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Great Book!.......2007-07-13

"Think about it. If you glue two pieces of wood together and then pull them apart, it is impossible to make a clean break. As children, we were the glue that bonded our parents together. When they divorced, they may have thought they made a clean break, but we are the splintered remains of their parting."

Remember the line from a popular Tom Cruise movie, "You had me at hello"? Well Jen Abbas grabbed my attention on the first page with her direct, yet friendly style. She makes no apologies for her topic, the pain it may cause to take a deep look inward, or her Biblical frame of reference.

The quote above is the framework for her thoughts. Whether your experience is one of an amicable parting or one that was very tumultuous, as children we were affected. Now, as adults, how do we process the pain, understand how it has shaped us, collect the "splintered remains" and move forward as healthy, whole people? This is the journey Jen Abbas takes us on.

Writing from her own experience and that of hundreds of other adult children of divorce, Miss Abbas presents concrete areas of dysfunction that can manifest in us as adult children of divorce. But, she doesn't leave us there. Each chapter exposes a new piece of baggage with its "effect" and the "hope" of moving forward without it. The chapters present testimonies of the ways the unhealthy piece of luggage has affected others, the components that make up the general dysfunction, and ultimately the hope we find in realizing that as adults, we can choose how we move forward.

Many books dealing with emotional trials present the issues, illustrate the struggles, offer polite advise, and still leave us feeling somehow immobilized. At the end of each chapter Jen Abbas offers practical tools to help us get unstuck and move forward -- word, reflect, challenge, read.

Word: this is a Bible verse that addresses the struggle outlined in the chapter and that gives hope and Godly counsel.

Reflect: these are a series of questions that, if taken seriously, are tools to help you dig deeper into your own situation and understand your own tendencies.

Challenge: this is an action you can take to promote your forward momentum.

Read: this is a list of other resources dealing with the chapter's topic.

If you've prayed, forgiven and tried to forget and move on but you still feel lonely in a crowd, unsure of yourself, unable to make long-term commitments, Abbas brings the good news that these are probably not character flaws but manifestations of coping behaviors learned through the trauma of your parents divorce/s, and once you understand their origin, you can begin to overcome and move on.

Even if your parents never divorced this book offers keen insights to the dynamics every family experiences and the effects those dynamics can have on each of us as adults.

Anyone who has parents can benefit from the wisdom Jen Abbas presents in this great book. I highly recommend it. (Review as it appeared in the Spring 2007 edition of Christian Family magazine.)

A gift of healing!.......2005-10-19

A poem, written when the author was 18, starts the book by describing her parents' divorce as resembling an earthquake, rumbling with rage, anger and guilt that have been festering for a long time.

This powerful poem tells you Generation Ex will be a painful ride toward much-needed healing for adult children of divorce.

The author said: When it came to love and my own adult relationships, what I wanted so desperately (love) was what I feared the most. I didn't want to repeat what my parents did.

Abbas wrote the book not to revisit "the divorce," but to give other adult children of divorce permission to admit it hurt and to give us hope so we can choose to begin to heal that hurt.

Written from the Christian perspective, the author tells the lesson God has whispered to her was that she was no longer the victim of her parents' past. She is God's precious child with a future full of promise in her relationships. And so are you! We don't always know why our God allows us to experience pain, but we can be confident that He has a plan.

This message is about deep pain that led to her healing--and by following in her guided footsteps, your healing can begin too. Some of her chapters are: Make Peace; Redefine Our Family Relationships; Find Home for Ourselves; Seek Wholeness; Learn to Trust; Anticipate Our Triggers; Create Our Own Marriage Model; and Choose to Love. The book has four appendixes of "things to do."

Armchair Interviews says: If you have felt any hurt from a parents' divorce, this book is for you. It is a gift waiting for you to open and explore, learn from and work toward healing. Her advice, resources and message are invaluable.

Wonderful!!.......2005-05-16

Jen just spoke at my church this morning. I have not read the book yet, though and intend on doing so shortly. Jen spoke about how she dealt with the pain and how her it is important for parents to understand that divorce is not a closed subject. It effects children for years and decades to come. She touched on the subject about how important it is for those children to see healthy marriage models as their own view may be broken and distorted. Jen was a wonderful speaker and her growth as a christian showed as she spoke about her parents divorce at the age of 6 and her parents remarriages. Definently recomended

heartfelt, thorough, easy to read - and impractical.......2004-09-11

I have specialized in providing professional education and therapy to divorced, courting, and re/wedded couples since 1981. I am (a) 66, (b) a stepgrandson, stepson, and ex-stepfather and stepbrother, (c) an invited Board member of the Stepfamily Association of America, (d) a contributing editor to 'Your Stepfamily Online,' and (e) the author of six personal-growth and family-relations books.

I recommend this book to readers who want to increase their surface awareness of the typical personal impacts of parental divorce in a Christian context. I do not recommend the book for readers who want to reduce the wounds from the low-nurturance childhood that usually precedes legal or psychological parental divorce.

Like most authors focusing on divorce-prevention, recovery, and (re)marriage, Jen Abbas seems unaware of the effects of four vital factors:

1) the origin and impacts of six psychological wounds from childhood (vs. divorce). Most divorced parents and children appear to be significantly wounded - and don't (want to) know it;

2) the origin and impacts of blocked grief in adults and kids, and how to spot and reduce it;

3) typical adults' unawareness of, and/or indifference to, (a) normal personality formation, composition, and function; (b) keys to high-nurturance families and relationships, (c) effective communication skills, and (d) healthy 3-level grief.

In my clinical experience, these factors will combine to ptrrevent most people from following heartfelt advice such as Abbas offers her readers. For example, "learn how to trust" is a legitimate suggestion - and most children of divorce will be unable to *do* that, unless they work at harmonizing the combative, reactive parts of their personality.

For more perspective, these these articles:

http://sfhelp.org/01/innerfam1.htm

http://sfhelp.org/01/gwc-intro.htm

http://sfhelp.org/01/recovery1.htm and...

http://sfhelp.org/08/divorce.htm

Heart-Wrenching And Hopeful.......2004-08-17

I found that the most powerful parts of this book are about the author's life, including the poem about divorce Jen Abbas wrote at age 18, a letter from her father when she was six, and her heart-breaking memories of her parents' divorce and her mother's and stepdad's breakup. I read this book as a divorced parent--rather than as a child of divorce--and was touched by the author's emotional honesty. I didn't agree with some of the author's all-encompassing generalizations about how children of divorce have trouble forming relationships. However, I think this is an important book for divorced parents as well as children of divorce. Not only does Abbas provide children of divorce with a positive message about the need to move beyond past hurts and embrace the possibility of a happy future. She gives divorced parents great advice about how to treat their children: Don't lean on them emotionally, don't bad-mouth the "other" parent and don't insist your kids spend every vacation visiting all their "houses." Thanks to the author for her bravery and honesty!

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Another attractive French Restaurant book. Yawn.

Pourcel Brothers Cookbook: Our Recipes from La Compagnie des Comptoirs
Jacques Pourcel , and Laurent Pourcel
Manufacturer: Hachette Illustrated UK
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1844301249

Book Description

Identical twins JACQUES & LAURENT POURCEL are 3-star Michelin celebrity chefs with award-winning restaurants in France, Japan, and England, food shops, a food magazine and a cooking school: La Compagnie des Comptoirs. This original cookbook encompasses La Compagnie des Comptoirs's ideology as a company: the introduction of spices and ingredients from the Middle & Far East into Western-especially Mediterranean and French-cooking. The Pourcel Brothers' cuisine is fusion cookery, blending international flavors, textures, and cooking techniques to produce exciting new recipe ideas. Divided into areas of the world (the Mediterranean, Asia, the West Indies), this lavish cookbook also features wonderful images and narrative sections on cultural and culinary histories across the globe.

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Another attractive French Restaurant book. Yawn........2005-06-20

The `Pourcel Brothers Cookbook' by twin brothers Jacques and Laurent Pourcel, the owners of several restaurants in London, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Montpellier and Avignon, France is a reasonably priced ($29.95) oversized volume which has the look of being primarily an advertisement for their restaurants, especially the ones in southern France. It also has the look of a volume destined for a quick trip to the bargain book table, but with one or two good features to redeem it from mediocrity.

The first strong feature of the book is its photography, which benefits from pictures of very nicely designed restaurant interiors in both France and England. The second strong feature is the dual index of recipes, listing all recipes alphabetically by title and by chapter. The third and best feature is the chapter introductions that have very nice little takes on world cuisine.

The biggest single limitation of the book is that it is a restaurant book through and through. What's worse, it is a restaurant book for a two (Michelin) star restaurant, which cannot reach and retain its two stars without offering fine, original examples of French `haute cuisine'. The problem with this is that this is the type of dish that is not easily translated to the home dinner table. This is especially true with the level of competition, at least in American markets, among excellent homegrown restaurant cookbooks by Eric Ripert, Frank Stitt, Patrick O'Connell, Thomas Keller, Rick Tramonto, Bob Kinkead, Todd English, Charlie Trotter, Daniel Boulud, and Michael Romano. And, that doesn't even graze the surface of the Italian and French Bistro cuisines represented, for example, by Mario Batali and Tony Bourdain.

Among other things, the dishes are limited by mixing hard to find ingredients and a relatively large amount of prep work. This latter situation signals recipes that are prepped for dozens of servings at a time. When these dishes are scaled down to a few servings, it means you need to prep a small amount of a lot of ingredients.

The Pourcel cuisine is deeply fusion based with lots of dishes combining ingredients from all over the world. In a provocative essay on modern fusion being a lot like what happened when New World produce was introduced to Europe, the authors justify their dishes by saying they are simply doing the same thing that happened when the galleons brought back tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes back from America.

I suggest that there is a major difference and that the authors' premise has a serious flaw. Tomatoes, peppers, beans, and potatoes took root in European cuisines because they grew easily in Europe, especially around the Mediterranean. We do not see olives and olive oil overrunning Mexican cuisine (going in the opposite direction) because olive trees simply did not grow well in Mexico. So, dishes that mix eggplant and pineapple simply didn't work 300 years ago, because the pineapple did not grow around the Mediterranean.

Unlike most books by Keller, Ripert, and the others, this book offers no great insights into restaurant cooking and dealing with ingredients. The statements they do make, such as their talking up their fusion cuisine simply does not impress me.

If you happen to like collecting restaurant cookbooks, this is better than some, since the French and the English know a thing or two about putting together attractive books, but if you are simply after unusual new recipes, I recommend Fredy Girardet's recent book (`girardet Recipes from a Master of French Cuisine). Girardet is commonly considered the best French chef currently active in the kitchen.

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It's wonderfully tactile and surprisingly simple—no wonder crafters everywhere are getting "hooked" on wool! From folk-art accents to funky accessories, these hooked and appliquéd projects will wow crafters with their quick-and-easy appeal.

• Create hooked purses and rugs, plus a footstool and picnic basket lid; or appliqué table mats and a game board—13 projects in all

• Projects come from popular designers including Pat Cross, Nola A. Heidbreder, Wendy Miller, and Polly Minick

• Includes an introduction to needle felting—the hottest new craze in wool crafting

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Great Patterns.......2007-01-11

I found this book useful not only to rug hookers but they are great patterns for needle punch too.

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A very good starting reference........2004-10-29

Covering not only a wide variety of herbs but some trees and shrubs as well, this book contains easy to follow instructions for successful growing. Just as important it tells you how to properly harvest so that the plant is not harmed and how to dry so that the essential qualities are not lost.

It also includes sections on the eastern and western use of herbs in healing, creating your garden, and an unfortunately too small area on making tinctures, lotions, salves and the like. The only other thing that I would have found helpful is a cross reference on ailments as it takes some time to find the right herb for the problem. But that is only because there is so much good information to sort through.

two thumbs up.......2001-02-24

The book Growing and Using Healing Herbs is a good book to corespond with the book A Century of Spells by: Draja Mickahavik. If you are in to the Craft and spiritulality of nature and it's healing powers, I really thing that you will like these books. Growing and Using Healing Herbs tells you how to grow the herbs and A Century of Spells tells you how to use them to enrich your life by bring you closer to God and it will open new doors that have never been seen.

I loved this book.......2000-05-15

I use this book very often for learning how to grow and care for my herbs and also for finding them in the wild. It also has information about the use and preparation of various herbs for teas, poultices, salves and oils.

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GROWING AND USING HEALING HERBS

Manufacturer: Wing Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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Growing & Using the Healing Herbs
GAEA AND SHANDOR WEISS
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The Healing Power of Herbal Teas/a Guide to Growing, Preparing and Using Herbs for Alleviating Minor Ailments

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The Healing Power of Herbal Teas/a Guide to Growing, Preparing and Using Herbs for Alleviating Minor Ailments
Ceres
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Growing & Using the Healing Herbs
Gaea and Shandor Weiss
Manufacturer: Rodale Press
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ASIN: B000O5YHWS

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AMAZING BOOK!!

Alternative Conception

This book is a very thorough source if you're a lesbian or single woman trying to concieve

Excellent Resource

excellent book

New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, & Birth
Stephanie Brill
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Book Description

The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth has been thoroughly updated ensuring that this book remains the best source for women embarking on this most important step. Authors Stephanie Brill, the co-founder of the nationally renowned Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services, draws upon her years of expertise in working with lesbians, single women, and all the many faces of alternative families.

Brill covers the latest information in insemination and fertility technology and presents the most up-to-date information on developments in all areas of conception and pregnancy, including:

New fertility drugs and protocols in fertility clinics that have become standard since publication of the first edition
How to time for self-insemination based on age considerations
The special needs of butch women and women who are transitioning from female to male
Expanded coverage of safe-sex practices during pregnancy

The wealth of information included in this indispensable volume makes The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth the definitive resource on childbirth for the new American family.

Stephanie Brill is co-founder of Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services in Berkeley, CA, which has achieved national recognition by helping thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals with every aspect of creating a family. Brill is also the author of The Queer Parent's Primer and serves as the director of Maia.

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AMAZING BOOK!!.......2007-05-28

This book is fantastic - gives you all the details from when babies are just a mear thought, to when the real little munchkin is in your arms... All the details you don't normal hear about when speaking with doctors etc. This is a womans real life account of her own experiences and what she went through - it's so easy to read you feel as if you are sitting there with a friend chatting for hours.
Well worth the purchase - it provides you with contacts/groups/places to go all listed at the back - it would be great if I could find a book like this for a lesbian mother to be in Australia. AMAZING BOOK!!! THANK YOU!!

Alternative Conception.......2007-05-21

Any woman, lesbian or straight, who wants to conceive will benefit from reading this book. You'll find out about alternative treatments to help you conceive.

This book is a very thorough source if you're a lesbian or single woman trying to concieve.......2007-03-27

I bought this book partially because the Rachel Pepper book was not available immediately and I'm very pleased that this is the book I ended up with!

Coming from her experience as the head of Maia Midwifery in Northern California, Stephanie Brill covers not only the anatomy and physiology of what you need to know, but also the emotional aspects of trying to get pregnant. This book covers many topics - options of ways to track your fertility, increase your fertility, the pros and cons of known donors versus frozen sperm, even the logistics of inseminating, whether at home or at a clinic.

The only reason I have given this book 4 stars out of 5 has to do with the fact that this book covers a lot of alternative health treatments which may be difficult for people who are more aligned with Western medicine and do not believe in herbal treatments, acupuncture, and the like.

Best of luck to any woman who gets this book and is trying to conceive!

Excellent Resource.......2007-02-26

This guide is a very thorough collection of information for lesbians contemplating starting a family. Even though the references included are US specific, the information was still relevant to me as an Australian, and gave me a sense of where to go for further information. I especially loved the information on non-birth parent feelings and anxieties etc. I would highly recommend it.

excellent book.......2006-12-22

i had been trying to get pregnant for a year. i bought this book, read it cover to cover and was pregnant within 2 months. i swear by this book. i honestly don't think i'd be pregnant if i hadn't bought this book. it's not just for lesbians, either. i bought it for my straight friends, who are also trying to get pregnant.

Book Description

This is an elegantly produced biography and art book, with an underlying love story. In large coffee table format, 11 " x 11", with 404 pages, the biography part of the volume is richly illustrated with colour and early black and white photos. The text is poignantly enlivened with many of Judith's letters and poems. The art section contains more than 250 colour plates of her outstanding art work. The layout and design of the book are of award-winning quality, making it highly suitable for presentation as a gift.

The book will be exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 1999 and it has been accepted by Germany's Stiftung Buchkunst for entry in the prestigious world-wide book design competition at Leipzig (March 1999). Canada's foremost printing firm, Friesens Corporation, printed the book and consider it one of the finest books they have produced. They will enter it in the Printing Industries of America competition for the Benjamin Franklin Award for book design and book jacket design. It is also being submitted for various awards for its writing. After its launch it was a bestseller in hardcover.

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Written just five years after the end of World War II, this is Margaret Samss moving testimony of life in a Japanese internment campthe can of Spam hoarded for Christmas dinner, the clandestine radio hidden in her sewing kit, the beheading of other prisoners for transgressions. With her husband held elsewhere as a prisoner of war and with a small son to protect, Margaret broke the rules both of society and of her captors to fall in love and bear a child with a kind and daring fellow internee, Jerry Sams. Her picture of prison life, with all its hardships, heartaches, and surprising humor, is unforgettably real.Ralph Graves, author of Share of Honor

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Great Read.......2000-07-20

Whether you're interested in WWII or not you'll love this book. Wonderfully written, this emotional tale of love under the most dire circumstances is sure to make you laugh, cry, feel. Margaret and Jerry Sams are an inspiration to all. And even at 90 their love is still as strong as ever.

Love triumphs........1997-11-28

This very interesting autobiography is the story of a conventional young American housewife who becomes separated from her husband in the chaos of the Philippines of 1942 and is imprisoned with her young son in a brutal Japanese internment camp. In her struggle for survival she meets and falls in love with a fellow prisoner, whose child she bears, at great risk, and in the face of opposition from fellow inmates and captors alike.
Sams' story, expertly and sensitively edited, is a frank and touching love story as well as an epic of survival, and will be of interest to students of 20th-century American culture and mores as well as WWII readers.

(The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

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Forbidden Family: A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines 1941-1945
Margaret Sams
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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Forbidden Family A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945
Margaret *Author SIGNED!* (Lynn Z. Bloom, Edited) Sams
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FORBIDDEN FAMILY, A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines 1941-1945
Margaret Sams
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