In 1982 I found this book at The Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, Colorado and I treasure it!! It works beside my copy for Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists Who Came to America by Frederick Weis. My family documented our pedigree to Anne Dudley Bradstreet through our Hazen bloodline, so upon finding these books we were able to document Anne back to the barons who signed the Magna Charta and many other Royals.. How interesting history has become to us!! Someday I hope to buy both these books for my five grown children...and a couple grandchildren. Dorothy Sherwood Bevard

I just got a few of these for the kids of my friends while we were visiting them. The kids (aged 2 and 4) had a blast while we got to "catch up." I had no idea they would be such a hit! And you can't beat the price! Plus, they are educational. You can use them to ask questions - "what kind of animal is this? what kind of noise does it make? where would it go in this picture?" They're just great!

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I was really impressed by this book. In addition to being raunchy, sweaty erotica-- more importantly, being GOOD raunchy, sweaty erotica-- it manages to make a decent stab at a plot (mystery) and includes a few really enjoyable trippy scenes. I wish Mr. Adams would write another as good as this one.

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Mary Ann Adams married Samuel Maverick, a man fifteen years her senior, bid farewell to her privileged upbringing, and willingly embraced life on the Texas frontier of the 1830s. Mary ultimately prevailed over uncommon diseases, primitive living conditions, clashes with Indians and Mexicans, deaths of loved ones, and the loss of innocence.

Mary and Samuel lived in San Antonio, a town with three discordant cultures: Comanche, Mexican, and Anglo. Samuel was instrumental in cementing Texas' annexation to the United States. He was fiercely independent, a quality matched by Mary, and was placed in postions of trust by his fellow Texans - mayor, judge, and state congressman. Samuel participated in the early defense of the Alamo and was a prisoner of the Mexicans for two years. He was truly a man to admire and Mary did that with a devotion that defied time.

Mary Maverick kept notes, correspondence, and other memoranda during her long life and printed a small booklet many years later for a few family members. No copies of her version (1896) have survived. Her granddaughter Rena Maverick Green later examined Mary's written material and prepared a manuscript for publication in 1921. Reissuing Green's manuscript provides a valuable resource for present day readers of Western Americana.

Mary's bold narrative is preoccupied with Comanche raids and conflicts with the country of Mexico. She writes with sadness about the horrors suffered by a 15 year old Indian captive whose "nose was actually burned off to the bone, all the fleshy end gone; both nostrils wide open and denuded of flesh." Mary vividly describes an Indian battle in her town resulting in the death of forty persons, thirty-three of whom were Indians. She had no problem separating the incidents in her mind - one involved unadulterated sadism, the other a battle between enemies. She always faithfully recorded what she saw and heard.

Every day provided unique and gruesome reminders of life on the frontier. Mary reports a pleasant visit to a friend which was interrupted by a Dr. Widemann who came to the front window with a bloody Indian head, gallantly bowed and said, "with your permission." He was collecting specimens from a nearby Indian battlefield and used the window to store one head while he searched for another.

Widemann later boiled both heads and their respective bodies in a large soap boiler located in his front yard. He emptied the contents, including flesh and some bones, into a large ditch which contained the town's drinking water; the same water also used by townspeople to wash clothing and for bathing. The doctor used a skeleton formed from one of the Indians to guard his garden from hungry birds.

Mary Maverick was a writer of uncommon strength who recounted both good and bad times with vigor and poignancy. Cholera decimated the population of San Antonio. Two of Mary's children died in the epidemic - a sad commentary on the unsanitary water that plauged many frontier communities. Mary possessed a fierce love for her family and the deaths of her beloved children tore her apart. Her description of Agatha's last hours is very moving and engfulfs one with the sadness of an unconsolable loss. Less than a year later, Mary's youngest daughter joined her sister. Mary mourned her daughters until the day she died.

There are matters for one to quibble over as the Mavericks were slave holders and intolerant of Mexican aspirations. (Yet the past endures unchanged regardless of our present day abhorrence toward such matters) In addition, some of Mary's recollections are blurred by fond remembrances and don't measure up to historical reality. Even though her memoirs encompass elements of folklore, it is folklore of the highest quality.

The Mavericks were people of extraordinary ability or they couldn't have surmounted the many obstacles and tragedies in their lives. They blazed the path for others and set a standard of individualism, adaptability, and toughness essential for survival on the American frontier.

There is a majesty, passion, and eloquence in the memoirs of Mary Ann maverick that time cannot erode. After a long, loving, and tempestuous life Mary joined the children she always mourned and her live came full circle. This is a very satisfying book.

I'm a cosmetology student and was supplied with this book by the school I attended. If given the choice now I would choose the same one myself. I have learned more from this book than I even knew was out there. It's easy to read, understand, and comprehend. It supplies many definitions and also covers everything on the state exam plus more. It's a must read if you're even thinking about cosmetology. You will then know if this career/hobby is for you.

Minivanity had me chuckling and laughing at loud as I followed Adam and his quest to write his book on being a stay-at-home dad and his attempt to successfully graduate from the Minivan Denial Support Class. Brain Basset's drawings are fresh and the expressions on the faces alone will bring a smile to your face.

This is an out-of-print title, but very much worth tracking down. Audra Adams (who no longer writes romance) was a master at writing romantic and very sensual love stories. I'd put her in the class of Nora Roberts, the Queen of Romance Novels. I'm still hoping that Audra may reconsider her decision and return to romance writing some day. She's desperately needed.

In 1835, an extraordinary series of articles appeared in the New York "Sun," one of the city's newspapers. The articles told how astronomer John Herschel, with the aid of an advanced new telescope, had discovered life on earth's moon. Of course, the articles were pure fiction, and the story has become known as the Moon Hoax. The articles, written by Richard Adams Locke, were published in book form under the title "The Moon Hoax; Or, A Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings." A reproduction of an 1859 New York edition, with a new introduction by Ormond Seavey, was published by Gregg Press in 1975.

Locke's Moon Hoax is one of the most remarkable works of 19th century U.S. literature. Ormond Seavey's intro to the 1975 edition does a good job of placing the hoax in literary and cultural perspective. Seavey notes, for example, that the hoax appeared at "a time when the tall tale was first recognized as a characteristically American narrative" (p. xxiv). Seavey also makes note of the reaction of showman P.T. Barnum to the hoax, and draws a parallel between the Moon Hoax and Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 "Balloon Hoax."

The text of the hoax itself is a charming piece of literature; it could be seen as a pioneering work of science fiction. The text's flavor of authenticity is enhanced by the many technical details about the new telescope; Locke even names the glassmaking firm that allegedly created the lens for the device! Locke's descriptions of Herschel's bogus discoveries are delightful. We learn about the lunar oceans; trees; gigantic, obelisk-like amethysts; unicorn-like creatures; tailless beaver-like humanoids; and most wonderfully, "Vespertilio-homo," the winged human-like species alluded to in the book's title. "The Moon Hoax" is a marvelous book that deserves to be rediscovered by new generations of readers.