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Tori Phillips is a wonderful author! It is a delight to read the story of Andrew and Rose. The book is a prequel to Silent Knight and MidSummer's Knight but it takes place after Three Dog Knight. It is wonderful how Tori ties in all the other Cavendish characters into her books! A must read!

This book was extraordinary! I love the character Rose. She was great with her strong spirit. She made the story a humorous one. I hope Ms. Phillips write a sequel to Rose and Andrew's story.

Tori Phillips keeps writing some of the best romance around! If you want to read a book that keeps your eyes pasted to the page, then this is the book for you! It is so funny and heart-warming it brought me to tears! This book will stay on the keeper shelf for years to come!

This was a book that kept me intrigued through out the entire thing. The characters reminded me of well me. Myri may be my name but I am more likeYassima then anything. Lan is a great man to bad about his talent. Youwill have to read to find out what I mean. I love this book all the way down to the core. I would neve3r giv it any less then a 5 star reveiw, (...)

This book is of the high quality we have come to expect from Irene Radford. It is worth it's weight in gold. The Last Battlemage is a great look into the history of Kardia Hodos. It is well thought out and well written. Read it!

I've read lot's of fantasy book's, some good some bad, this is on of the better ones I've read.. This is the second book by her I read, and I still enjoy reading her work..so far she is in class with eddings&jordan It's a book you have to read if you are a fantasy fan. waiting for the next.....

The other reviewers here seem to have missed the point - apart from one comment below along the lines of 'Wood's deep concept are difficult to grasp" however, again I must continue to stress that you shouldn't be reading this review as much as these anyway.
However, If you must ;) - I suggest instead that you read the book first, or Wood's Phamphlet architecture number 12 - War & Architecture - (still avaliable new to those with a bit of initiative)

I wish u luck...

5.5 biscuits outta 5

Very pleased to see work by Lebbeus Woods being published and to hear he is being recognized by the Whitney now in its first show on architecture. I think of Leb when I see Ansel Adam's photograph, 'Moonrise Over Hernandez, New Mexico', considered by some to be the best photograph of the 20th Century. It has a moon hanging over a town set in a landscape, something of an architectural study. And it calls back a show on the Urbana Campus, years back, when Leb was an upperclassman at Illinois studying architecture. Sometimes shows of student projects are pretty standard and tentative; they're required work to get a grade. But here was Leb's uniquely impeccable and stunning drawings. Already mature work, I believe. His presentation included a casein rendering depicting a building in an early evening landscape. Above the building in the sky he had drawn a moon. Nobody should have had the courage to do that, nobody. And you won't see a drawing like that but once in a lifetime. He probably could do line drawings done with a marker and still be museum quality.

This book is the bible for millenium era Architecture, ideal for a world steeped in cyberspace, bioterrorism, and chaos. There is no book that a could more highly recommend!!!

Heroine:  very tall, statuesque

     Handsome ex-soldier Booker Hayes is on a desperate search for his niece: his only remaining relative since his sister and brother-in-law were taken by the Influenza. His trek leads him to the hell that is a 19th century New York city orphanage, but he comes away empty-handed when he discovers his young ward has been sent out west for adoption. 

Good-natured Thea Coulson is willing to help people to the point of letting them walk all over her. The townsfolk, assuming she'll do anything for charity since she's an old maid, ask her to organize a meal for some recently-arrived orphans and their prospective new families. Thea agrees and her tender heart, which goes out to anyone in need, now aches for unwanted six year old mute and crippled Zoe Galloway. The older woman bonds with the tow-headed child and offers to take her in, hoping against hope that somehow she'll be allowed to keep her.
 
Thea's dreams of motherhood are dashed when Zoe's uncle arrives at her Nebraska home and takes the child away to his own piece of land nearby. Realizing he can't build a house and business while watching over Zoe at the same time, Booker offers a compromise to Thea: be his housekeeper and take care of Zoe for him. Willing to do anything to be closer to Zoe and Booker, Thea takes on the job. But tongues start wagging, and Major Hayes decides to offer his lovely housekeeper marriage in order to save her reputation from the bitter town tabbies. Though she yearns for more, Thea accepts his proposal and becomes his wife-in-name-only.

Trouble begins to brew when Booker's friend and ex-army buddy, a Native American by the name of Red Horse, joins the Hayes family in a whites-only hotel dining parlor, which leads to a shooting at their homestead and threats of jail-time (or worse) for Booker from the bigoted Marshal and townsfolk. Will Booker and Thea survive the dangers of the western frontier long enough to be able to see past their marriage of convenience and realize the love they have for each other?  
     
What worked for me:

     Thea and Booker were an enjoyable couple and easy to feel sympathetic with. In addition to having such a warm and tender romance they managed to stir up some pretty good sparks between them in some rather steamy love scenes.  

Tall blonde Thea (think supermodel Emme) felt uncomfortable with her height at the beginning of the story but gradually overcame her feelings as she began to trust Booker.

What didn't work for me:

The plot was fairly predictable; you have a pretty good idea who the villain is and how (s)he will be unmasked. 

Overall:

    This was a very pleasant read. The story is well-written, features a large cast of interesting characters, and provides enough small details to give an authentic frontier flavor. Fans of Western Historicals should enjoy this one.

This is the 4th book that I have read by C. St. John and every one is a keeper. I highly recommend that this one is added to your library.

Ex-Major Booker Hayes finds a jewel of the prairie in Thea Coulson when he is trying to locate his little niece. He is not looking for a wife but does not let opportunity pass him by.

Little Zoe needs a mama and someone to love her [and help plant her acorn] -- Thea needs some one to love her and banish her too-tall image and provide her with a family of her own.

Lucas needs both Thea and Booker to bring stability to his life and to teach him to trust adults. And of course, Booker's friend, Red Horse helps even though he remains in the back ground of their lives.

Finally a heroine who remains true to herself and waits for a husband to teach her the mysteries of love. [Real love and respect]. And does she tantilize him! [grin] - Truly a great story of basic need and love and sharing. She stands by her man.

There are not enough words to express the satisfaction and enjoyment ones gets from these truly human characters.

This was the first book that I have read by this author...and I wasn't disappionted. Booker Hayes has come for his niece who Thea has been raising. Thea is considered too tall for any man to want and doesn't trust that Booker wants her for herself and not just as a mother for his niece. If you are looking for a story that leaves you with a happyending this is a book you want to read.

Book 3 in Red River of the North opens with Penny writing to the absent Hjelmer who has fled the area to avoid a "shotgun wedding" trick. Even though he is young and immature, he is a hard worker with an eye for the future and inside information on the plans of the railroad. Kaaren delivers twins, nearly dying. One twin is not healthy and Lars cannot accept his deaf daughter. School is in full swing in the prairie schoolhouse, with Kaaren as teacher.

Ingeborg and Haaken travel a far distance by train to escort home the seriously injured younger sister of Kaaren. Solveig is a bitter, disappointed young woman who was on her way to join her sister, but whose future is crushed in a train wreck. Face scarred and barely walking, she goes home with Ingeborg and Haaken. Olaf, Kaaren's long lost uncle, mysteriously turns up after a long absence and his many talents make him useful and loved.

Penny has finally decided to travel to Fargo for work and further schooling. The farms continue to progress - a large wooden barn now graces the homestead of Ingeborg who gives birth to another baby, Haaken's first biological child. Metiz continues to weave in and out of the lives of the pioneer families. Her grandson, Baptiste, stays with his friend Thorliff to go to school and help with the farm work.

As much as she balks, Ingeborg gives up her plowing and hunting after teaching young Thorliff to take her place. As usual, tragedy does not pass over them without leaving scars. A tragic fire, blizzards and failing farms cause loss of life and dreams. Agnes give birth to a stillborn daugher. She harbors intensive anger toward Hjelmer for hurting her dear niece, Penny.

The railroad is coming and the time for proving up their land arrives. Both the Bjorkland widows are remarried with families. Extra people share both homes now. A large sack house stores their grain for direct loading on the train.

The book ends with their town becoming a water stop for the railroad, a real town with a real name, Blessing. In spite of the author's confusion with family relationships and forgetting Kaaren's married name, book 3 still deserves 4 stars.

There is much happiness and hope in this book. Ingeborg's marriage to Haakan is a wonderful blessing to her and her children. There are some new characters to add spice to the books and the discovery of Grace's deafness to add tears, but Kaaren and Ingeborg's faith continues to grown in the face of the difficulties that come from farming and joys of proving up their homesteads.

I am giving this book five stars because this series is eons better than others I have read. The characters are human, quirky, and loveable. Their struggle to tame the land is not glossed over as it is in so many historical novels. Even the details of their everday life ring true.

However, having read the first four books, I have a few questions. What is the order of the Baards' children? In the course of _A Land to Call Home_, Gus is older than Rebecca but then Rebecca is older than Gus. Do the Valders have children or not? In this book they do but in book four they do not, if I remember correctly. Finally, Penny is Agnes' neice, so why is she referred to in book four as Agnes' daughter's aunt rather than cousin?

I am a Catholic, so I find this book to be very funny and entertaining. I never experienced the strifes with the nuns because I was in a modern setting (I am 17 now, so it wasn't long ago), but I understand the humor because I have heard stories of Catholic nuns. He plays with a lot of stereotypes in this book and makes it funny. The book is fast paced and has many funny stories of his childhood. A very entertaining read!

This book is a series of memoirs from a boy growing up in the far south-west area of Chicago known as Mt. Greenwood. It centers on his description of life as a Catholic boy going to a Catholic grammar school. Let me say here that I am a Protestant, but I grew up in this same neighborhood and had many Catholic friends so the situations were very familiar to me. The author's delema when he first learns about the different kinds of sins and his struggle to get through the week without sin in case he doesn't make it to confession is a sensitive but funny episode. All of the characters and places in this story are real, if described though the eyes of a boy, of course. If you grew up Catholic or grew up among Catholic children (or grew up in Mount Greenwood, Chicago) this is a must-read!

You'll laugh yourself silly with this book. Too bad it isn's available any more for purchase. I wanted to give a copy of it to a priest I know. He read the last book "The Unoriginal Sinner and the Icecream God" and used it in one of his homilies. I wanted him to have the full effect of the whole set. Guess I'll have to lend him my dogeared copy from MANY years past. I'd higly recomend this book as a comical look at many Catholic school childrens upbringing. Much of it is just plain silly, at other times, he hits it right on the nose. If you find it....BUY IT!!!!!

Rowena McBean is a character that you will find yourself cheering onward as she protects her son from the evil side of her clan. After her husband is killed under suspicious circumstances, she embarks on a do-or-die mission to ensure her young son is raised as a future clan leader should be....all the while fending off passionate advances from the alpha males in the nearby clans.

This book is so awsome, I did'nt want it to end. Once you start you can not put it down. It feels like you've been warped back in time to a heart pounding, beautiful, excitng place you wont want to leave. I've read plenty of romance novels this ranks in my top five! I would like to read other of Barclay's novels although they are very hard to find.

This book is so fabulous. I could not put it down. The beginng of
the book leaves you feeling Rowena's heartbreak over Lion Sutherlands
disappearance. She weds another man, who knows she is carrying Lions
child. There is a great upheaval of the clans and Rowena is bound to
protect her husbands clan, the Gunns, and her son, Paddy, is to be the
heir. Lion returns home and meets Rowena again, the same sparks fly
between them. After much battling and intrigue, Lion meets Paddy and
realizes that Paddy is really his son. Rowena is a strong, beautiful,
passionate lady and Lion is a strong, handsome [and] courageous....I
have read this book 3 times and want to read her previous books in the
Sutherland series, but I can't find them.

Their arrangement was simple. Marketer Hope Sumner wants to become the next vice-president in her company. Lawyer Sam Sharkey wants to become his firm's next partner. In a world where appearances are everything, they each need "arm candy" to present the appropriate look at seasonal events. So they make an agreement; they will attend this season's parties together, looking appropriately sappy and making lover-like comments without the emotional vulnerabilities that accompany usual relationships. Then Sam suggests that they become lovers as well, since sexual fulfillment is sorely lacking between the tightly booked schedules of their Palm Pilots.

Meanwhile, Hope's ready to make changes in her life. She hires an interior decorator to make her apartment more livable. While Mavbelle Ewing brings feng shui to her apartment, she also surreptitiously erases the sharp lines from Hope's life. Suddenly a carefully controlled schedule and work aren't enough to fill Hope's existence. Sam likewise finds himself drawn to the very emotions he professes to avoid. With his law firm representing Hope's company in an upcoming lawsuit, however, trouble approaches on the horizon. Soon they will find themselves facing not only a personal crisis, but also a professional one that will leave them questioning their morals, their values, and their priorities.

Author Barbara Daly pens a delightful holiday romance in A LONG HOT CHRISTMAS. The charm lies especially in the details from the feng shui decorator who never seems to send a bill, to Hope's creatively constructed Christmas star. The deeper issues of their professional lives never overtake the narrative, but beautifully highlight the brittle and superficial appearances that conceal their strong personalities. The ending is especially wonderful in the way that Hope and Sam cheer victims of a Christmas tragedy. A lovely read that shouldn't be confined just to Christmas, A LONG HOT CHRISTMAS comes highly recommended.

No wonder this book was nonimated for a Rita award for Best Temptation. Only Barbara Daly could find sex and humor in plumbing pipe. Entertaining at every page-turn, with a lemons-into-lemonade ending. Now onward to the 'sister' stories in her double Duets!

I am a male, first time romance reader and found this to be light and entertaining, a lot of funny interludes and the characters each believable for something I really didn't plan to take seriuosly. I want to see what happens to Faith and Charity in the future. A good read.

"Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740" is the second volume in Joy Hakim's "A History of US." The first volume covered how the first Americans crossed over from Asia to become Indians and the first Europeans, mainly the Spanish but also the French and English, began settling the New World. This volume focuses on the narrow string of settlements established by the English that became the thirteen colonies whose people began moving westward and who also started to question the relationship they had with England (there is a small amount of overlap between this and the next volume, which covers period of American history from 1735-1791).

Hakim begins with a preface that looks at the vast mixture of ideas that were brought over from the Mediterranean world and took root in the Americas. Along with the first chapter, which talks about the comet that appeared in 1607 as a portent of great changes for the world, this preface sets up several key themes that will be revisited throughout this and future volumes. "Making Thirteen Colonies" has 42 chapters and it the book is divided into five main sections. The first (chapters 2-12) tells how English settlers came to stay by establishing the first permanent colony in Jamestown, Virginia. The second (chapters 13-23) looks primarily at the Puritans arriving in New England, although Hakim also touches on what was happening between the Indians and the Spanish in the southwest. The third section (chapters 24-30) tells about the mid-Atlantic colonies, most notably New Amsterdam/York and Pennsylvania. The fourth section (chapter 31-39) returns to the South, looking at not only Ole Virginny but also the two Carolinas and Georgia. This unit also looks at the Triangle Trade and other considerations that united the four southern and nine northern colonies. The final section (chapters 40-42) is a transitional unit, that looks at how the colonists began to move westward and the stage was set for the period of history that would make those thirteen colonies into a new nation.

One of the great advantages to writing a ten-volume history of the United States is that unlike most standard American history textbooks "A History of US" is able to clearly establish the unique identities of each of those original thirteen colonies. I recently finished reading an excellent series of books, each of which was devoted to an individual colony, and Hakim ends up being closer to those volumes than she does the standard textbook. Consequently, in addition to the traditional stories about Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown, William Penn and the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Salem witch trials, Ben Franklin as the quintessential American, and Daniel Boone finding routes through the mountains, Hakim establishes an individual identity for each colony.

However, the main strength of this series is how Hakim engages young readers, the same way you would expect a "real" teacher to do in a "real" classroom. This shows up primarily in her ability to anticipate and answer questions that students might have (e.g., why the Indians were not enslaved). I can easily see why this series is popular with parents who are home schooling their children. The book is richly illustrated with dozens and dozens of historic paintings, etchings, drawings, maps, engravings, and assorted reproductions. The margins are crammed with interesting facts, definitions, and quotations, and features on topics such as Land Green and Africa: The Unknown Continent are sprinkled throughout the book. The After Words this time around are devoted to cartography and has some superb examples of 16h- and 17th-century maps. It is easily to see why this series has impressed so many people and why Hakim is able to get such good responses from young students who are used to getting their information from computers and the Internet.

I love this series!! Told in story style, you get details and interesting tidbits that you wouldn't get in ordinary text books. I have always felt that history was a vital part of our school curriculum and these books make the going easier. Even if you are just a history buff, instead of student, you would enjoy these!

Our two children are home-schooled, and as we have started collecting the newly issued quarters, the kids came up with lots of questions about them and the origins of each state. This book, along with its companion volumes has answered all our "coin questions" (unlike the Encyclopedia Britannica!) The book is written clearly and simply enough for my 6 year old to grasp, and interesting enough to hold the attention of the adults!

This book has adventure! An inspiring read for any medical student. Dr. Lemke shares riveting case histories that could only occur in the bush. The use of tupperware implant to treat a paralyzed eye -- the need to argue with natives in sign language not to leave the operating table while cut open mid-surgery -- the dilemma of providing treatment to a culture with unique but life-threatening traditions. As a medical student, I appreciated reading through Dr. Lemke's thought processes while having to ethically and medically navigate the need for unusual treatments. Dr. Lemke also makes astute observations about how African tribal lifestyles prevent many diseases common in western countries such as tooth decay and appendicitis. In addition to the medical aspect, Dr. Lemke shares an incredibly open-minded portrait of Cameroon's somewhat unknown native tribes.

This book is a classic depiction of what is really going on in Cameroon to the eyes of a foreigner who has never been there before. Being a native of that country, I think that the author himself is very explicit as to what he truely experienced while living and mingling with people from a different culture and ethnicity. If you have never been to Cameroon let alone Africa, I would PERSONALLY reccomend this book. To the author of this book, I would say GOOD JOB and more power to your elbow.

REVIEW
Man No Be God
Bushdoctor in Cameroon

I have read this book and reread many parts many times. It is always a delight and brings back many wonderful memories. I smile and relive precious times. The people, places and predicaments come alive with the author's clear details and compassionate descriptions. Although I lived in Cameroon and was a coworker of Dr. Lemke's, the huge number of precise details cited here about the culture, the country and the medical conditions amaze me. Now we see the value of the little notebook kept in the author's breast pocket and all the notations he put in it. This book contains a wealth of factual information as well as a fascinating account of hundreds of people and their problems. Since Dr. Lemke's years of work spanned more than 30 years, he includes the follow-up and feedback of many interesting cases plus the growth in the development of the country.

I highly recommend this book to anyone planning to live or work in Cameroon, or other developing countries. Certainly, it is a "must" for medical people. Both the technical and emotional challenges of facing unknown or untreatable illness one after the other become real. The cultural insights presented are enlightening; the humor, constant and comforting; and the people, real and loveable. When you meet them, you will enjoy them more if you have read this book.

For those who want to experience Africa from the armchair, you will have more than you can imagine here. A little medical background will increase your understanding but is not necessary. Explanations of the life and culture are interesting and well done. This is a true account of life in developing Cameroon.

Thank you, Dieter, for writing this book and sharing your life and your heart with us - again. You shared while you were in Cameroon, and here you continue to do so. This is another good example of your pace setting.