It's not fair, Jeremy Spencer's parents let him stay up all night!: A Guide to the Tougher Parts of Parenting

It's not fair, Jeremy Spencer's parents let him stay up all night!: A Guide to the Tougher Parts of Parenting
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The best parenting book I ever read, and I've read a LOT

This book changed my life

this book reassures parents that they are doing a good job!

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It's not fair, Jeremy Spencer's parents let him stay up all night!: A Guide to the Tougher Parts of Parenting
Anthony E. Wolf
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Paperback

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Anthony Wolf’s groundbreaking book focuses on the most difficult challenges of parenting post-infant to pre-teen children—setting limits and making demands. Dr. Wolf covers all the class parenting problem areas: family disputes, including who’s in charge (Mom or Dad), sibling fights, and divorce; day-to-day issues such as bedtime, grumpiness, and public tantrums; and problems that might not be problems after all, like aggression, lying, and spoiling. Positive, loving, and, above all, effective, this guide offers parents what they want most: more time to enjoy their children.

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This is a MUST READ Book.......2003-03-15

I have read a lot of parenting books, this one is the best by far. It was as if he stepped in my home and saw our day to day interactions with our kids, and he gave specifics on how to solve each problem. Great Book, I wished I had read this long before now, it would have more peaceful at home.

The best parenting book I ever read, and I've read a LOT.......2002-12-10

Without a doubt, this is the best book I have ever read on handling children. I've read all the classics, and each of them taught me little bits here and there, but this was the only book where every single chapter spoke to me. Not only is the advice terrific, but Wolf gives explanations for some behaviors that otherwise didn't make any sense.

Did you ever pick up the phone when your child was playing quietly? You know what happens, right? Your child suddenly needs your assistance THIS MINUTE and will make it impossible for you to have a conversation. The same thing happens if you get a visitor or run into someone when your child was otherwise perfectly happy. Anthony Wolf tells you why your child does this. And better yet, he tells you what you can do to STOP this!

While implementing his strategy takes some self-control, it is not difficult, and there isn't a lot to remember. The important thing is to be consistent and use his approach whenever you deal with tantrums or interruptions. He calls this approach Robo-Parent. When it's clear that the child is just trying to keep you hooked into an argument, you stop talking and remove the child to his room. At our house we just say "Goodbye." It's kind of like a time-out in that it resets everyone's mood, but there's no clock. The child can come back whenever he's ready to behave. Usually my kids just go to their room and come right back out. It's not a punishment.

In fact Wolf clearly disapproves of punishing children, because he says shaming and hurting is counter-productive. Think about an abusive boss you had and how eager you were to do your best with that behavior. That's how your kids feel too. This approach leads to better feelings for everyone.

Wolf has another book out called _Secrets of Parenting_ which is mostly taken from this book. Buy one or the other as there is a tremendous amount of overlap. Both are appropriate in handling children between 2 and 12; he has another book on dealing with teenagers.

This book changed my life.......2000-09-19

This book tought me how to parent better than any other book I have ever read. People always comment to me on how well behaved my kids are and its all due to Anthony Wolfe. Wolfe tells you in simple (and amusing) ways how to parent without punishment, bribes, or driving YOURSELF crazy! Now, if parenting without punishment sounds like being "soft", its not. I am a much tougher parent than most of the people I know. Wolfe has helped me learn to use my own "power" as a parent to get well behaved kids without threats or punishment. Everyone with kids under the age of 12 should read this book.

this book reassures parents that they are doing a good job!.......1999-06-22

Wow! This is the first book I ever read that explained that when your child says "Mommy, I hate you," it's actually a good sign. I found it very comforting at a time when my kids were crazed as a result of being pawns in a nasty divorce. (Things are better now.) - Carrie in Boston

You need to be a parent to appreciate this.......1997-10-06

My book club read this book while my daughter was an infant. I thought it was sort of psycho-babbly. Then my daughter neared her second birthday, and I searched out this book again. All of a sudden it made perfect sense!

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Night of the Wolf interweaves a tale of the Roman Empire with magic, romance, and--lycanthropy. It follows The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt's absorbing story of the coming of age of a young woman who must learn to control and enjoy her wild side within the exotic setting of decadent Rome. This sequel begins by focusing on a mysterious figure from The Silver Wolf, Maeniel, a wolf who must contend with being a part-time human. Some of the other characters are magical in their own ways, such as Dryas, a warrior queen and priestess of the Caledoni. Others are resolutely human, such as Lucius, a Roman noble who finds himself at the mercy of Caesar and Cleopatra. Maeniel gradually begins to understand the quirks of human nature and in time finds that all roads lead to Rome, where Caesar's life is in the hands of Maeniel and his allies. With an adventurous plot, an unusual historical background, and a large helping of steamy sex scenes, this series should be much to the taste of fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon or Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. --Blaise Selby

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The fearsome legions of Julius Caesar have crushed resistance to Roman rule. Watching the tragic aftermath through yellow eyes afire with curiosity and intelligence is Maeniel, a gray wolf . . . and a shapeshifter unaware of his preternatural duality. But a new Maeniel is about to be born from the ruins.

The sight of the beautiful Imona fills Maeniel with unfamiliar feelings and desires, triggering his transformation from wolf to man. In her arms he learns what it means to love. It is a knowledge that will change him forever. When Imona vanishes, Maeniel follows her trail--unaware that he is being pursued by a warrior-woman sworn to kill him. But the hunt upon which the two adversaries embark will lead them farther than they can imagine: to the gates of Rome itself--to the gates of their very souls . . .

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The sight of the beautiful Imona fills Maeniel with unfamiliar feelings and desires, triggering his transformation from wolf to man. In her arms he learns what it means to love. It is a knowledge that will change him forever. When Imona vanishes, Maeniel follows her trail -- unaware that he is being pursued by a warrior-woman sworn to kill him. But the hunt upon which the two adversaries embark will lead them farther than they can imagine: to the gates of Rome itself -- to the gates of their very souls...

"A writer with the vision and scope to conjure up her own thrilling mythos and the craftsmanship to render it in breathtaking, shimmering prose."
ANNE RICE

Customer Reviews:

Grab *this* wolf by the tail.......2007-10-08

I personally tried to like this novel, however, it's a hard book to really like if you're not a novice to Roman history, or ANY history pertaining to that time, because skeptics will find this a hard book to totally believe. For starters, it's more of a `prequel' to "The Silver Wolf", not necessarily a sequel. It talks about how Maeniel became the shapeshifter he is in "The Silver Wolf". With a few added love here and there. However...

The book talks about a certain female deity who was responsible for Maeniel turning to man, but it's never explained how it became so, so forget figuring that out; it's never provided. Maeniel's struggle to become man is short-lived, as the book is dedicated to a bunch of static characters who really don't do much to the plot to drive it forward. The love interest Maeniel has with doomed Imona was interesting, but Dryas, a claimed "Amazon" who must seduce Maeniel and train him to be the key to assassinating Caesar, was the anti-climax of the whole novel. The dialogue is something to be laughed at, since it's corny and half-felt at best.

Yes, this is supposed to be about Maeniel, but rarely so. We find out that the book is dedicated to mostly Dryas trying to rebuild her slowly disappearing culture and save it from the claws of Caesar, to Caesar himself, to Lucius and his power-hungry sister Fulvia. All of these characters meet, but poorly done. Lucilus, a kind-hearted man who plans to have no intermingling with any politics, finds himself in love with Dryas when she is first brought in to be used as sport in the fighting ring. This, my friends, is a poorly done anti-climax, and clearly out of his character.

Women in Rome were not treated in such dirt as the author intends to tell you. Roman women had rights, but that never seems to be the case in her stories at all, women treated like slaves, which was not truly so. Amazons, like Dryas, do not intermingle with men in harmony, of course, but Dryas states that an Amazon is a warrior woman. Not true, at least, not in a historical point of view. Homosexuality in the story is laughable at best, due to the fact that Romans back then did not discriminate against sex: they took lovers of different age and sex. The fact that the Romans seem squirmy with same-sex, and how Lucilus seems surprised that homosexuality is even possible, is a flinch to those who know Roman history well. If you can stomach the many historical flaws in this novel, you might like this, but even if you took that concept out alone, you would find a novel that promises less than what you wanted, with cardboard-characters, lame dialogue, awkward mistakes, and less Maeniel.

Second Book in the Series.......2007-08-28

Alice Borchardt shared a childhood of storytelling with her sister, the best selling novelist Anne Rice, in New Orleans. A professional nurse, she has also nurtured a profound interest in little-known periods of history. She published her debut novel, 'Devoted', in 1995.

As the powerful might of the legions of Rome sweep across Gaul, a land steeped in the ancient teaching of the Druid religion, an epic battle erupts between the shape shifter Manael, a werewolf, and Dryas, the powerful Druid priestess summoned to destroy him.

This werewolf fantasy is cleverly entwined with the story of Julius Caesar's conquering of ancient Gaul and will appeal both to reader's of fantasy books and those who like historical novels.

A wolf's hair short.......2005-07-21

Not my favorite of the three books to be honest. Granted it does give a great bit of Maniel's background, as per his transformation from wolf to man...but it didn't really give a clear explaination as to how...or really why. You understand the underlining causes, but it still seems very vague, as if the author skimmed over it and hoped we wouldn't notice.

Werewolves at the Fall of Rome.......2005-01-25

This book is a great book about werewolves. These are not those monsters you see in so many books and movies, but powerful and elegant creatures, for the most part anyway. Alice Borchardt's protaganist is Maeniel, a werewolf. This focuses on him and his pack, of which he is the leader. (He is connected to Guinevere the Warrior Queen in Ms. Borchardt's other books.) A great deal of research on ancient Rome was done as well. The details is incredible and sometimes not for the squeamish.

Night of the Wolf by Alice Brochardt.......2004-01-30

Night of the Wolf by Alice Borchardt

In this, the second book in Alice Borchardt's Silver Wolf series, we find the author taking us further back in time. The first half of the book is about Maeniel, the mysterious bridegroom from The Silver Wolf. The book takes us back to his origins and the time of Julius Cesar. We learn how he became a shape shifter and watch as he struggles to understand and learn the ways of men.

The second half of the book focuses on Lucius, a wealthy Roman citizen, and Dryas, a Caledoni queen with a desire for the death of Julius Cesar. While I enjoyed both halves of the book, there seemed to be almost two complete, or rather incomplete, stories taking place. I was able to follow the plot, but at times was left wondering why I was doing so. Still, I found the second half of the book entertaining and I particularly liked the character Philo. Philo seemed to be what Mir and Blaze (the last druid priests of Gaul) should have been.

Aside from the fact that the book was supposed to be about him, there seemed to be little point of Maeniel being in the second part of the story. He was given a bit of a role at the end, as if to justify his continued existence, but was mostly left hanging out with his tongue lolling out of his mouth.

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Having accompanied her father to Montana to open a trading post, Marissa McHugh falls in love with the wildness of the land. But her love for the land pales in comparison to the passion she feels for Night Wolf, the handsome, fearless chief of the local Cree tribe. Torn between duty and destiny, they follow their hearts down a forbidden path...

Customer Reviews:

EEE GADS.......2007-06-12

This book was horrible!!! The couple fall in love at first site, they hardly speak to one another the entire book and the only love scene in it is so tame it could be rated G. There was no tension between them, no fights, no laughing...it was just plain bad!
I don't know how this author keeps writing books.
Don't waste your money.

NightWolf NightWolf NightWolf.......2005-01-07

In all my reviews about Cassie Edwards writing I tend to build her up and her books, its because she is one of the greatest writers of Romance, of Indian culture, of mystery, love, suspense, everyone of her books talks to you and teaches you something. This is another great book, it shows you Cassie Edwards at her best, all her books bring apart of the past and teaches it to you surrounded around a great love story. I just fall in love with her stories.

Long time fans of Ms. Edwards will welcome NIGHT WOLF........2003-12-03

In 1846 Montana Territory, Trader Joe's daughter Marissa McHugh and Cree Chief Night Wolf meet for the first time when he makes some young bucks return stolen potatoes to Father Mulvaney. The two of them are instantly attracted to one another and could easily be in love at first sight. Both know they cannot acquiesce to their feelings. He must marry a Chippewa that will lead to an alliance that will help keep his people safe. Her father pressures her to marry a military officer from nearby Fort Harris.

As Night Wolf and Marissa struggle to do the right thing, she learns a biological family secret that shakes her to the core. She turns to the man she loves for solace. Now their passion is out in the open, but Night Wolf has a duty to perform that is more important than his personal feelings, making it impossible for a permanent relationship with the woman he loves.

Though the resolution of Night Wolf's dilemma occurs too easily and the plot lacks conflict between the lead couple (all troubles are external), fans will enjoy Cassie Edwards' latest Indian romance. The story line provides deep insight into the Cree lifestyle in the mid nineteenth century while also providing a well developed love story. Long time fans of Ms. Edwards will welcome NIGHT WOLF.

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In the belief of the Gond tribe, the lives of humans and trees are closely entwined. Trees contain the cosmos; when night falls, the spirits they nurture glimmer into life.

A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, this handcrafted edition showcases three of the finest living Gond masters. This collection of their distinctive styles is enchanting-an excellent gift for those fascinated by trees, art or folk traditions.

Customer Reviews:

An amazing book for art lovers..........2007-05-14

I first saw this book at a local bookstore, which quickly sold out before I could get a copy. This book is a unique collection of the silkscreen prints of three separate artists from the same cultural tradition in India. Every image depicts a tree and is accompanied by a short myth about the creation or transformation of that tree. The art style is tribal, using intricate patterns of dots and lines. If you are a fan of tribal art styles and mythology, you will treasure this book for a long time to come. I would hesitate to recommend the book as a children's book for children under a certain age to more conservative parents, given references to suicide and drug use, in particular marijuana and alcohol.
On the whole, however, I found this to be an amazing and incredibly beautiful book. I look at it and read it often. The computer images do not do justice to the rich color and texture of the images.

Three Shades Of Night (World of Darkness (White Wolf Paperback))

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Like wading through pudding
3 NOVELLAS IN ONE WORLD OF DARKNESS ANTHOLOGY
Things that go bump...

Three Shades Of Night (World of Darkness (White Wolf Paperback))
Janet Trautvetter , Sarah Roark , and Myranda Sarro
Manufacturer: White Wolf Publishing
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ASIN: 1588468704

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Shadows Run Deep
There is a taint in Chicago, a barely suppressed shiver of horror that touches all who make their home in the city. In this collection of three connected novellas, vampire, werewolves and mages all pursue their visions of power. Each novella tells part of the story of the hidden monsters of the Windy City.

Customer Reviews:

Like wading through pudding.......2007-03-23

I found this book to be an extremely hard read due to it's implausible character interactions and disjointed plot line(s). The conversations that take place between everyone sound like a poorly run convention game with inexperienced players. Combined with the repeated use of the "yeah, this kind of thing is (insert adjective), but this time it was REALLY (same adjective)". Unfortunatley the First story in the book suffers the worst, therefore giving a bad starting point for the other two. It seems like the main character has more things happen to him than actually doing things. Every major plot movement is instigated by the Main Characters literally stumbling upon seemingly random events or items, which may or may not get explained away later. Most are just left there for you to forget that they were mainly just accidents or incidently encounters. It's like Indiana Jones walking through Manhattan and accidently falling through an open manhole to discover an ancient indian burial ground underneath.

The only plus i have for this book it's that it does present the use of the supernatural powers in a neat and concise way and one could convceivably benefit from reading this book, if they wanted to have better imagery on the different powers.

3 NOVELLAS IN ONE WORLD OF DARKNESS ANTHOLOGY.......2007-03-18

THREE SHADES OF NIGHT has an interesting premise; it tells the same story from the perspective of characters from three different lines in the WORLD OF DARKNESS game line; vampires, werewolves, and mages. As game fiction, each story (and each one was penned separately) is interesting as flavor text for its respective game line. The reader sees how sample characters interact in the Chicago setting, what their societies are like, and how their special abilities manifest themselves. And I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the entire book and would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the WORLD OF DARKNESS game lines.

THREE SHADES OF NIGHT does suffer some drawbacks, however (which is natural, considering the innate complexity of the undertaking). There are two worth mentioning here; first, there is the problem of the interaction of the three novellas. The first is the vampire one, which tells a great story and could stand alone very nicely. The events are well-developed, plenty of mystery, and whatever happens behind the scenes (covered in the other two novellas) is reasonable to be outside the scope of "The Murder of Crows". The second, on werewolves, tells some of the same events from the werewolf perspective but has plenty of additional material with a fresh perspective. The gimmick is cute at this point. The third story is on mages, and by now I didn't want to read the same events from yet another perspective. The author fortunately clued in on this and left a coda to represent events done to death. However, it makes the mage story much weaker than the others because it isn't complete (nor entirely coherent).

This brings the second point - you need a good conspiracy to unwind the same mystery from three different perspectives. Unfortunately, a bad conspiracy comes off as contrived or incoherent - THREE SHADES went for incoherent. Some of that is necessary - for instance, information presented as mysterious in one novella is well understood in the other, and the clues are supposed to all fit together. However, many parts are never well explained but are central to the story. I didn't understand the point of the Crone ritual in the vampire story, the difference in the 2 main spirits in the werewolf story, or why they were in conflict. Or what the voices were in the mage story. I understand that they tie together in the end, but they come across more as plot devices than integral parts of the story.

Still, all three were a good read (maybe the first 2 moreso); the book as a whole was pretty compelling and I stayed up pretty late just to finish it. It has its flaws, but they don't obscure the work in its entirety.

Things that go bump..........2006-06-29

This is a great book for a summer read, particularly for night owls who like to read by starlight. Shape-shifting werewolves, punk vampires, and benign mages with banal day-jobs tell the same story from their very different perspectives in 3 linked novellas. The best of the 3 is "Birds of Ill Omen", by Sarah Roark. Her characters are the most fully realized and her prose is by turns witty, wry, and wise. You don't have to be a WOD fan to sink your teeth into this one. Pull up a deck chair and enjoy a spooky little escape into the fantastical demi-monde of Chicago after dark.

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Excellent Fast Paced entertaining Adventure!
Read This Book and Get the ENTIRE SERIES
Not a great adventure
A wolf in albatross clothing.
Wolf in Night is one of my favorite wilderness sci-fi novels

Wolf in Night (Tales of the Wolves)
Tara K. Harper
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0345406362
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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THE TIME IS NOW.

Raised on a foreign world where telepathic wolves hunt in the mountains and mysterious aliens guard against the encroachment of humanity, Nori has grown up scouting in the wilderness. Like her mother before her, she searches for dangers that could devastate the isolated towns scattered across the countryside.

But the wolves have already encountered those forces. Now, disturbed by the sense of death along the broken cliffs of Ariye, they reach out to one who can help them. Unsuspecting, Nori answers the Grey Ones’ call–only to find herself mentally bonded to a half-grown, ferocious wolf.

Spies and assassins stalk the scouts and wolfwalkers while a deadly threat, once thought to be contained, spreads across the land. Caught between the wolves and the horror of plague, and with hired hunters at her heels, Nori is hounded deep into the wilderness to begin a journey that must end in victory . . . or death.

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THE TIME IS NOW.

Raised on a foreign world where telepathic wolves hunt in the mountains and mysterious aliens guard against the encroachment of humanity, Nori has grown up scouting in the wilderness. Like her mother before her, she searches for dangers that could devastate the isolated towns scattered across the countryside.

But the wolves have already encountered those forces. Now, disturbed by the sense of death along the broken cliffs of Ariye, they reach out to one who can help them. Unsuspecting, Nori answers the Grey Ones’ call–only to find herself mentally bonded to a half-grown, ferocious wolf.

Spies and assassins stalk the scouts and wolfwalkers while a deadly threat, once thought to be contained, spreads across the land. Caught between the wolves and the horror of plague, and with hired hunters at her heels, Nori is hounded deep into the wilderness to begin a journey that must end in victory…or death.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Fast Paced entertaining Adventure!.......2007-10-08

This book inspired me to back track and read all of Tara Harpers other Wolfwalker novels in the series. Was able to get all but one book. I Highly Recommend this non stop, fast paced, action packed, engrossing, entertaining series of novels. Get the series it will not dissapoint!

Read This Book and Get the ENTIRE SERIES.......2006-07-31

If you like fantasy books or if you don't like fantasy books it doesn't matter because you'll love this book (and its series). Tara Harper has written an incredible fast-paced, thoughtful, action, adventure story.

The characters are believable; you will at times love and hate them. A genuinely interesting setting as well as a very exciting story..... Good reading!

I am a long time mystery book reader, but this book has now changed my reading direction towards fantasy/ sci fi. I found this book so enjoyable that I've now almost completed all of Ms. Harper's books.

Not a great adventure.......2006-03-24

I've read all of the "WolfWalker" series that Tara K. Harper has written so far, and don't get me wrong, but they are really deep engrossing novels. But after a while of reading the same sub-plot, things seem to lag, and you would wish you'd read something better.

Almost all of the characters in the Wolfwalker series think the same (they're all pessimistic, basically, with no enlighting character), and there's danger all the time. That's great to see in a novel in which the world its based on is not made for humans, but it gets really old after a while. I thought that "Wolf in Night" would feature the daughter not looking so like Dion, who, I've lost interest(Dion was a headstrong woman in the first book, but turned into a whining broken wreck through the rest of the books). If Dion and Araunur were saying that this New World was a danger zone, they wouldn't compain about how it sucks in the series. To me, the only Wolfwalkers I've seen are black-haired, violet-eyed women.

This story doesn't get to the point, either. It tends to lag a lot and I skipped several pages to avoid eyestrain. The wolves in the book aren't much of an elightment either. Rishte is a kick-ass wolf, but he reminids me a lot of Hishn, and like every other wolf that popped up in Harper's universe. And they don't exactly act like wolves; they're so savage they're like biwadi, but with telepathic abilities.

I'm sorry, but Tara's books aren't what they've used to be. If she took a break from the main characters' lives and wrote a wholly different book that had nothing to do with Dion, or Dion's desendants, the Wolfwalker world would be more interesting, and therefore, more readable.

A wolf in albatross clothing........2005-09-08

I picked this book at the library in a scramble to get a pile before the Labor Day closings. I am usually a speed reader and was initially uncomfortable with the new vocabulary and settings. I kept vowing to put it away and stop wasting my time on a confusing tale of human/wolf relations. Something niggled at my mind and I finally got into the book with a hunger. Now, after having read the atomic action, I plan to obtain the series. I wish I had found "Wolfwalker' first so I didn't waste so much time vacillating whether to complete it! I am a national park ranger and Tara knows of which she speaks.

Wolf in Night is one of my favorite wilderness sci-fi novels.......2005-08-18

Wolf in Night is a rapid pace action adventure sci fi novel set in a near wilderness civilization on a lost and forgotten planet. Its new central character is a woman named Nori who possesses a psychic bond to wolves that gives her extraordinary sensory advantages over would be predators, both human and animal.

I enjoyed how the main story unfolded from the foreshadowing in the beginning chapters and how its threads led to the creation of an intriguing new reluctant hero Nori for this series. Several old and new mysteries about the world are solved along the way. Brilliant but evil characters lurk at every corner. Fast paced action and a thread of philosophy to boot. I highly recommend this book.

Children of the Night (Vampire, the Masquerade)

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Great for Storytellers
Experienced roleplayers only.
A Warning
Very valuable resource
Good, yet perhaps unnecessary

Children of the Night (Vampire, the Masquerade)
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Customer Reviews:

Great for Storytellers.......2001-08-05

The way that Vampire: The Masquerade works gives a storyteller a lot of freedom to create. But sometimes it is good to have the help of a few pre-created characters too, especially lower gen ones. A very helpful section of this book gives guidelines for designing low-gen characters which I wished I'd had sooner. The book is divided into three sections: Sabbat, Camarilla, and Independent important/powerful figures. But it could really use an index so you can find clans or roles more easily. I'm intergrating into our game this summer in fact.

Experienced roleplayers only........2000-07-27

This book contains detailed backgrounds and portraits of some of the most powerful cainites around. While some of the vampires such as caine and the regent along with the inner council aren't here (for obvious reasons) it is still very uselful for playing politics and when your players start killing everything they see just have a justicar roll on in and whoop his arse. If they can take the justicar then just spruce him up a bit so he can "compete". The information in this book is not meant for players and they should probably not read it if you plan on incorporating any of these power forces into a chronicle.

A Warning.......2000-06-10

This is an excellent resource, but, as stated in the book itself, if your players characters are powerful veterans, these archtypes don't have a chance against a PC with a Shotgun and Level 7 Celerity, but if you're players are mature, which they should be if they've played long enough to achieve Level 7 Anything, its wonderful to roleplay politics within the World of Darkness and this book helps a lot with the key NPC's.

Very valuable resource.......2000-06-06

This is a wonderful gallery of important storyteller run characters, with full stats and background histories that give a good feel for the characters' personality and outlook. There are exquisite portraits of each character by artist Christopher Shy (which earned this book another whole star from me.)

The book still does maintain mystery about powerful figures like Caine (of course) or the Regent of the Sabbat (no more information about her or her predecessor either, apparently) but they have some really well detailed Sabbat cardinals as well as the current crop of Camarilla justicars and their archons. Some of these are characters who have been mentioned in past source books but never detailed. (The Gangrel Xaviar, for example, or Cardinal Strathcona.) There is also an independents section with examples of the Inconnu monitors for various cities. They assume that you can fiddle with these as needed and provide a basic formula for calculating the typical level of abilities for ancient vampires so that storytellers can make their own.

My main nit to pick with this book is the fact that the selection of the characters listed seems arbitrary. Some are favorites culled existing source books and fleshed out or updated here. Others seem to have been made up just for this book, perhaps because there are future plans for them in or because they would seem to make interesting story hooks or because they are examples of a bloodline or character type. There seems to be a disproportionate number of Assamites- even a Methusalah whose stats are supposed to be mere suggestions of what it can do. (I guess they have plans....) Omissions are curious, too. Theo Bell is here, for example, (he's an archon) but Jan Pieterzoon is not. There are Setites but not Hesha. Or how about this- three of the four figures on the cover are Anatole, Lucita and Beckett. Their stats are NOT GIVEN in the book (? ) but those for Lucita's friend Fatima are given (she's an Assamite, right?) And these are just examples.

So go figure. But don't worry. You'll find lots of uses for what's here.

Good, yet perhaps unnecessary.......1999-12-21

I found the information in this book very useful, however I don't think that it was necessary to give this much detail on some major powers in the world of the Vampires and taking that power from the individual Storytellers.

Libellus Sanguinis 4: Thieves in the Night

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Watch your purses... and your kingdoms!
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Libellus Sanguinis 4: Thieves in the Night

Manufacturer: White Wolf Games Studio
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Binding: Paperback

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Watch your purses... and your kingdoms!.......2002-03-19

Three clans seem to stand on the very fringes of Cainite society. Not because they are lone wanders like the Gangrel, nor because they follow a path of corruption like the Followers of Set. These Cainites are the margin simply because they are too difficult to control or deal with. The Ravnos follow a path that only the gypsy can fully understand. Nosferatu cling to the shadows, shunned due to their appearance. The Malkavian are avoided for they are fully mad and seek to know "Why?" By far these are three of the most difficult clans to play because of their marginality. This volume lets players know the deep intricacies of each clan and how each survives the Long Nights while being almost shunned by mortal, and Cainite.

Ravnos are fueled with the blood of wanderers. They move where ever their winds or whims take them. To many they are seen as a nuisance, or even worse as vagabond thieves that or only good for execution. How little they see this clan may be more closely knit than all others because of their treatment. How few notice these Cainites are everywhere. They can walk around as if unnoticed because all others wish to shun and avoid them. The Charlatans are masters at deception, and their section serves to illuminate the vast ability at trickery they possess. Their chapter holds not only more Chimestry abilities, but also a new background to help a Charlatan avoid prying eyes of mortal, Church, or even Cainite.

Next are those atrocious looking Nosferatu. Each carries an ancient curse to twist their bodies into monsters while also twisting their hearts into something else. Nosferatu are the less seen and less understood of the thieves. They possess powers to communicate over distances that boogie the mind. They almost have an Internet before electricity is even discovered. This section delves into their advances in Obfuscation as well as giving more backgrounds for the Nosferatu to cultivate his or her network of information. No secret will ever be safe with these Cainites around.

The last clan in this volume are the Malkavian. Just as a Nosferatu is twisted and deformed on the outside, the minds of the Malkavian are likewise twisted. Each Madman sees the world from a very different point of view. This section takes their madness out of the comic realms and puts the dark edge that they have always had back into the clan. Instead of lunatics running around the street dressed as clowns, these are brooding, plotting, methodical Cainites. Each seeking answers to an age old question, yet never finding what they need. This chapter expands their knowledge and power letting players fully enjoy the painful madness of these tortured souls.

In summary, if you need to create memorable characters from the margin, this is the book you need. The clan specific applications of disciplines will grant fresh life to overused, well-known disciplines. Adding this to any core books can only help increase the dynamics of a game. Enjoy, and just keep asking yourself... "Why?"

Bulding on Excellence.......2001-02-14

White Wolf does it again - the fourth book in their Libellus Sanguinus series offers intriguing new information on the Vampire clans in the Dark Ages, interspersed with myriad tales, myths, tidbits that can easily spawn 100 new story or character ideas. This book details the history and status of the Malkavian, Ravnos, and Nosferatu, shedding much-needed light on the intricate inner workings of these clans. All new character templates offer some fresh ideas on who might find their way into these cursed brotherhoods, and the resource information is a must for all Vampire storytellers, whether playing Vampire: the Dark Ages or Vampire: the Masquerade.

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eerie atmosphere of John Dickson Carr comes back
Macabre and Miraculous
Impossible? No, not really

The Night Of The Wolf
Paul Halter
Manufacturer: Wildside Press
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Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There cannot be a rational explanation for these and other hideous crimes; and yet there is. Each story is a glittering example of the brilliant plotting and atmosphere of foreboding that characterized the Golden Age of detective fiction.

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eerie atmosphere of John Dickson Carr comes back.......2007-09-03

I am just half way through this amazing collection of short stories, and can't wait to express my gratitude to this Frenchman. The book is full of ingenious impossible crimes immersed in the John Disckson Carr-ish eerie, Gothic atmosphere. Paul Halter's book is a must-read if you love JDC's work. The only regret is that there are still so many novels by this amazing author out there, only in French! I do hope there will be a wise publisher to have all Halter's masterpieces of murder mysteries translated...

Macabre and Miraculous.......2007-01-22

THE NIGHT OF THE WOLF is the English language debut of French genre novelist Paul Halter, who has been acclaimed here and abroad as the present-day successor to the grand detective master John Dickson Carr (1906-1977). Dickson Carr was well known for his eccentric detectives and his penchant for impossible crimes (locked room mysteries, no footprints, tricky alibis) all told in true Golden Age style with plenty of chills and atmosphere. Pennsylvania born, Carr had a bad case of Anglophobia, and his best known detectives were British; England formed the mise-en-scene for nearly all his best novels (in a few instances, effective scenes were laid elsewhere, like the French sequences in HE WHO WHISPERS). The books he laid in the USA are pretty dim.

Paul Halter must have an England thing going, or else an overly developed sense of the homage, and this is what makes the stories in THE NIGHT OF THE WOLF, even the crumby ones, so charming. His period sense is always picturesque, even when anachronisms pop up threatening to shipwreck the narrative. His detectives, the magician Alan Twist and the 90s aesthete Owen Burns, are effective cariciatures. What makes him great? His spooky conceits and then the storytelling power that blows them out into the world of obsession and puzzle. This book is recommended not only to fans of Golden Age detection, but to all of you interested in wonderful writing.

The opening story, THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, is one of the best, and readers will not soon forget the image of a snowman in a cul-de-sac, draped in a soldier's kit and rifle, who attacks a stranger passing by on the street, leaving him for dead then resuming his quiet snowman ways.

THE DEAD DANCE AT NIGHT brings us to an underground crypt, locked of course, in which the heavy coffins have been shifting about, falling out of their niches and in general acting disreputably. The explanation will surprise you, but the story itself is peopled with lifeless, dead figures. Halter's not great at characterization, and you can barely tell one straw man from another. THE CALL OF THE LORELEI has another puzzle plot, feels rushed, and the conflicts of the Alsace-Lorraine region insufficiently sketched in to provide much of a backstory to the murder story.

THE GOLDEN GHOST introduces another strain in Halter's writing, the pure Dickensian, as he reinterprets Dickens' CHRISTMAS CAROL with a vengeful ghost plot. Here the mystery element drops out nearly completely, replaced by a haunting symbolism that hits every note it's supposed to. He is a masterful writer in some ways, nearly inert in others' a curious case, like Dickson Carr combined with Dreiser's sense of fate and evolution.

THE TUNNEL OF DEATH, like Carr's FATAL DESCENT, describes a murder committed on an elevator (here an escalator--an amazingly long one) carefully watched and guarded. THE CLEAVER uses its Western American setting to beautiful effect; it's the story of a premonitory dream of a murder that somehow comes to life. It's the sort of Western tale that Karl May used to write in the World War I period, tales of Old Shatterhand. Here it's old Ben, and the little town is called "String."

THE FLOWER GIRL combines the Christmas elements of THE GOLDEN GHOST with its twisted plot that opposes a Scroogelike miser to the "innocence" of a child, with the strict detective elements Halter is best known for. You will never guess the ending, and I leave it to you to decide whether or not it is believable in any way; Halter sets up wonderful situations (this one involves Santa, his sleigh and reindeer, and whether or not Santa could kill an evil man if provoked) and provides solutions remarkable in their simplicity and radical style. After the heights of THE CLEAVER and THE FLOWER GIRL, the remaining three stories seem pedestrian, and RIPPERMANIA in particular is this Dario Argento ripoff that Halter should never even have tried writing, it's beneath him.

Halter is said to have written dozens of novels too in which his genius flourishes in full form. Someone quick, bring them to us in English! In the meantime congratulations to Wildside Press for issuing this adventurous volume, and to the translators Robert Adey and John Pugmire for making Halter's sometimes "haltering" style sound halfway like real speech. My chapeau is off to them all.

Impossible? No, not really.......2007-01-21

This book is a must for fans of the impossible crime story. It contains 10 stories, most of them "locked rooms". I had heard a lot about Paul Halter before reading this collection, and I wasn`t disappointed. The style is "golden age", due to Mr. Halter's admiration of John Dickson Carr. In my opinion, this book is a masterpiece. It has everything, from originality to interesting settings. I hope Mr. Halter's novels will be translated into english. I cannot wait.

TIGERS OF THE SEA: Swords of the Northern Sea; The Night of the Wolf; The Temple of Abomination - Cormac Mac Art

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TIGERS OF THE SEA: Swords of the Northern Sea; The Night of the Wolf; The Temple of Abomination - Cormac Mac Art
Robert E. Howard
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