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Escape the world you know and enter a literary world with this collection of nine great and inspiring books. Works include:

The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
My Man Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
Bones in London (Edgar Wallace)
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Stephen Leacock)
Alice in Blunderland (John Kendrick Bangs)
Sylvie and Bruno (Lewis Carroll)
Napoleon of Notting Hill (G.K. Chesterton)
The First Cyber Death Extravaganza! (Scott Douglas)

If you enjoyed this collection look for other books in the “Greatest Hits Series.”

• Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way?
• Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day?
• Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores?
• Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems?
• Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of a home?
• Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATM machine?

What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me That Attitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic, attitude. If you have a child who is arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!

• Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way?
• Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day?
• Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores?
• Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems?
• Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of a home?
• Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATM machine?

 What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me That Attitude!  parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic, attitude. If you have a child who is arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!

Escape the world you know and enter a literary world with this collection of thirteen great and inspiring books.

Agnes Grey
The Awakening
Emma
Frankenstein
Jacob’s Room
Jane Eyre
Little Women
My Antonia
Mysterious Affair at Styles
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
The Yellow Wallpaper

If you enjoyed this collection look for other books in the “Greatest Hits Series.”

Forget everything you’ve heard about the travails of the freelance writer. In Damn! Why Didn’t I Write That?, Marc McCutcheon contends that “you can learn the trade and begin making a respectable income much faster than most people think possible.” To illustrate, McCutcheon lists 17 pages of bestselling titles, including Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance (150,000 copies sold) and Golfing, a humor book (525,000 copies sold). McCutcheon himself wrote a few well-chosen titles and claims to be “easily support[ing] a family of four, working part-time.” How? Think niche, says McCutcheon. Think backlist. Think about perennially hot topics like dieting/weight loss, relationships, parenting, health, low-fat cooking, sex, spirituality, money/finances, cats, career and leadership, and computer and Internet. McCutcheon is quite helpful about things like contract negotiation, agents, proposals, and promotion. He also confers a real can-do attitude on his readers. “In the corporate world,” he says, “tall, beautiful people rule. In the writing world, even Yoda can climb to the top of the success ladder.” –Jane Steinberg

The title says it all. This combination pep-talk/how-to guide by best-selling author McCutcheon (Roget’s Super Thesaurus) offers encouragement to amateur writers who want to support themselves (and their families) by writing. Demonstrating how lucrative the publishing industry can be for the right idea at the right time, McCutcheon describes the process from idea, research, query letters, and proposals to agents, contract negotiations, and promotion. At each step, he offers insights from personal experience and shares the experiences of several well-known best-selling authors. Chapters provide suggestions to develop habits that will lead to successful full-time writing, with tips like reading trade journals on a regular basis and clipping articles from magazines and newspapers to jumpstart research. The summary of provided is a list of helpful magazines, web sites, and organizations and a descriptive sample of standard formats for manuscript submission. Not much is new here, but the commonsense approach is both upbeat and practical. A worthwhile addition for libraries supporting writing programs. Denise S. Sticha, Murrysville Community Lib., PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Television, games, the Internet, peers and other forces shape children’s morality, but consultant and educator Borba (Parents Do Make a Difference) argues that it is parents who provide the most enduring modeling and instruction. Kids, she asserts, should be fortified against the onslaught of increasingly negative cultural influences violent video games, nasty music lyrics by parental involvement and guidance. Designed as a guide for parents and caregivers of children from three to 15 years old, the book describes an epidemic deficiency in the moral development of American kids and outlines seven virtues (Empathy, Conscience, Self-Control, Respect, Kindness, Tolerance and Fairness) to be engendered in children. Devoting an identically designed chapter to each virtue, she defines the virtue in accessible and secular language. She then provides a test for parents to assess their children and offers practical actions parents can take on a daily basis. Throughout, her tone is pragmatic and optimistic. She advises parents to make sure they are providing a moral example that they would want their children to follow in other words, watch their own behavior. She advises parents to be direct about their own moral beliefs and encourage specific virtuous behaviors. Borba concludes the book with a helpful resource list. A packed storehouse, this helpful, informative and hopeful book will be dog-eared over years of consultation. (July)Forecast: Many readers will recognize Borba’s name; as an expert on “bullying,” she makes frequent TV appearances, and on Oprah’s Mom Online she is the “Moral Intelligence Pro.” This book is timely; given public debates on media violence, and the prevention of juvenile crime, it’s likely to be widely read and referenced.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Writing with confident authority and providing good, current references, Borba offers “a step by step blueprint for enhancing your child’s moral capacity” the ethical compass that charts a youngster’s moral fate. She first defines seven intertwining “essential virtues of moral intelligence and solid character”: empathy, conscience, self-control (these first three form a “moral core”), respect, kindness, tolerance, and fairness. Ensuing chapters suggest how to incubate, nurture, and master individual virtues using realistic, workable methods. The book recalls Becky A. Bailey’s Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline (LJ 2/15/00), which frames “loving guidance” in seven-part structures (seven values for living, seven powers of self control, etc.). It’s also similar to Borba’s own Parents Do Make a Difference (Jossey-Bass, 1999). All these books have noble goals yet require a high initial investment of energy and time; this is not a quick fix but a way of living. Of course, many of those who really need Borba’s book won’t read it; if more people mastered these traits, the world would be a different and better place. Recommended for larger public libraries. Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Hartford
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