A_Tale_of_Two_Cities-Charles_Dickens

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Sydney Carton, a bright young man who has seemingly wasted his life, acts behind the scenes to effect a higher justice within the maelstrom of power struggles and spy intrigues between France and England, and persecutions by the government and the governed in France. He loves a young French woman named Lucie Manette, who marries his good friend Charles Darnay, a teacher of languages with a secret aristocratic background. Set against the fiery backdrop of the French Revolution, story seems quite different from Dickens’s other famous novels, but has little to do with politics – it is, in fact, antipolitical. It’s more a story of personal loyalty, friendship, and communion, even in turbulent times.

Psycho-Robert_Bloch

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Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother

Mary_Poppins-Travers_P.L

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From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!

L_A_Movie-Philip_Prowse

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Lenny Samuel is a detective – a private eye from L. A., California. Lenny solves different cases such a missing persons, blackmailing, corruption, people protection, security, small crimes – such problems are met every often, but sometimes it’s even murders.Only two types of cases that can be refused by detective are marriage issues and divorces. Like others small detective agencies, Lenny’s ones has not have a great success, it is only enough for rent of apartment and office, but Samuel happy with this. Lenny likes to go to the cinema, especially when there is no case to work on it. Once he was watching a movie with the popular beauty moivestar Gail Lane. He was fascinated by her but realized that he would be even acquitted with such woman. But for his surprise after several days he became a sort of bodyguard of Gail Lane.

Meet_Me_In_Istanbul-Richard_Chisholm

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Angela is Tom’s fiancee and must meet him at the airport in Istanbul. She had been worked in this old city for a several months. Her firm exports and imports different things: lamps, brass ornaments, trays etc. Her duty is arranging of that business. When Tom arrived to Turkey, she didn’t meet him, it wasn’t alike for her. He tried to find Angela but he couldn’t. Tom became more anxious when strange man in the raincoat started to follow him everywhere. What happened? Where is Angela? Answers for all of this and other questions Tom’s and his new Turkish friend Kamal would find in their fascinating adventure over Istanbul.

Two_lives-Helen_Naylor

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Young boy Huw lived with his father and brother Gareth in a mining village Tredonald, in South Wales. They father has been drinking since his wife died. Huw and his brother worked at mine as other of men from village. Once Huw met schoolgirl Megan and they fell in love immediately. Megan’s father – Mr Jenkins disapproved such relations, he wished a better future for her daughter then to be a wife of miner. He wants for to go to college and became intelligence and smart lady. Nevertheless young people continued to meet secretly and settle to get married. But suddenly Huw and his father have to leave for Canada. They promised each other to be in touch and after Huw returning to get married.

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The Best Children's Books #3

Cloudette by Tom LichtenheldI would like to give credit to this book as the sole reason my son is not afraid of thunder storms. Despite that thunder sounds like angry clouds fighting, it's hard to be afraid when the clouds are as cute as little Cloudette. The illustrations are simple but very polished. The story is adorable without being annoying cute-overload. It's just charming and a great read at bedtime (especially on a rainy or stormy night).

The Best Children's Books #2

Zoomer by Ned Young
By the title I initially thought this was a book about a really fast dog. Not so, but he is a ridiculously talented one. Zoomer is everything that comprises a little boys wild imagination. The writing is very creative and original. The illustrations are probably among the best I've seen ever (and I've seen a lot of illustrations). It's part of my job to hire illustrators and I'm guessing I could never afford this hugely talented guy. Whoever set the type could have avoided a few tangents but I'm just picking now. It's a a must have for a little boy or girls library.

The Best Children's Books

I've probably read thousands of children's books over the years but there are a very few that stick with me. If you're looking to give your kids the best, cream of the crop, kids book experience and may be a bit overwhelmed at the vast selection online and in bookstores, ask your friends. Seriously, reviews on Goodreads and Amazon may not give you the best advice. You most likely don't know the people giving reviews and can't really trust that their tastes and your tastes are remotely similar. Odds are your friends will give you the perfect advice you need.

If you don't have any friends or friends with kids I'm starting a new review series of my personal favorites. You can trust that no one asked me for my opinion but they're going to get it! Ha! Just kidding, I'm actually very nice when I've had some sleep and a chai tea and an almond scone wouldn't hurt either...

Well hears my first review. Enjoy!

Mary Recommends 
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Who would have thought a guy that makes some of the creepiest photographs could be a children's book writer. Really, Shel Silverstein is about as photogenic as a zombie's drivers license and he doesn't care. You know, good for him. They put a huge picture of him grimacing (that may be his version of a smile because I've never seen a pic of him smiling) on the the back of the hardcover book I got. He's obviously got a wonderful weird sense of humor for which he gets his first star.

The second star is for being a dude but making a book to make kids appreciate their moms. He's either a big momma's boy or had a lovely unappreciated mother he wanted to make it up to. Either way, his mom is probably very proud. I haven't researched his life so he could be a horrible demented person but the message in the book is clearly positive.

The third star is for illustration that encourages my son to color. Not that I'd let him color in this book but every time he sees the black and white illustration he feels the need to color something. The minimal art is classic and relaxing next to some of the eye bursting, over the top art in some cartoons today. There is nothing here that makes a kid want to jump on their bed before sleepy time. For helping a kid relax, one more star.

The last star is for gift-ability. That means I can give this to anyone for a birthday, Christmas, baby shower, etc and it holds a classic, nostalgic, cozy value that makes it a better gift than some plastic thing they'll break in a week.