Falcon Whitelaw son of Garth and Candy Whitelaw (from the book The Wrangler and the Rich Girl)never thought that he would get married. Until one day he saw the most perfect woman, but there was just one problem she was married. Falcon notices that her husband is someone that he played football with in school, so Falcon introduces himself. Falcon and the man agree to go for drinks that afternoon at a local bar. The man dies that night when he leaves the bar drunk.

Falcon wants to offer help to his widow Mara and her little girl Susannah. Only Falcon discovers Mara blames him for her husbands death and tells him she hated him. Falcon leaves thinking he will never see Mara again only to have her show up at his doorstep three years later. Mara needs money and she is desperate, so she asks Falcon. Susannah is sick. Falcon learns that most of his money is gone, but he could marry Mara and his insurance would pay for it. Mara hates him, but knows it is her only choice. Susannah is the link that holds these two together. They both care for her so much. Mara is disgusted when she finds herself drawn to Falcon. Falcon and Mara find themselves getting closer and closer. Each of them wondering what is going to happen to the "marriage" if Susannah dies.

Some parts of the book are truely sad, but there is a lot of love and happiness in spite of it. It is another great Hawk's Way book. The best part is that we get to stay in touch with all of the other characters that we have read about in the series.

If you are writing software which must be internationalized, then there is no question that you need this book and you need Unicode. What ASCII is for the United States, Unicode is for the rest of the world. In this world (particularly this software world) of pontificating know-it-alls-who-don't, it is getting rarer and rarer to find complete compendiums of an entire domain of knowledge which can serve as the seminal reference for all successive work. This book is one of those rare seminal references which has in it the greatest quantity and greatest quality of wisdom and knowledge on the alphabets of the world for use in computer software.

From the perspective of domestic software developers within the United States, Unicode is essentially 7-bit ASCII in a 16-bit unsigned integer. In the immensely popular C and C++ languages Unicode strings behave like ASCII strings:
. Unicode 0/null terminates C/C++ strings, just like ASCII 0/null.
. Unicode has a type in ANSI Standard C and ISO Standard C++ (and ARM-defined C++): wchar_t. For C/C++ programmers, char=ASCII wchar_t=Unicode.
. Unicode has a plethora of standard string manipulation functions already standardized in ANSI Standard C and ISO Standard C++, usually substitute the str with wcs (e.g., strcpy=wcscpy, strcmp=wcscmp, strcat=wcscat) and substitute the char parameters with wchar_t parameters. Abracadabra, your software is well on its way to being able to have strings in any foreign language as well as English.
. Unicode characters are all the same size (16-bit), just like ASCII (8-bit).
. Unicode's first 127 values are essentially 7-bit ASCII values.
. Unicode completely eliminates all that darned "code page" baloney.
. Unicode completely solves all that "How do we stuff that odd foreign character into the printable characters on screen/paper?" problem.
. Unicode is an ISO standard which came from a defacto United States computer industry standard. It is not ivory tower; it is in common use.
. Unicode was developed with you the software engineer and programmer in mind from day one. Unicode was developed with C++'s/C's wchar_t in mind from day one. It all fits together with Unicode.
. Unicode is used as a supported string technology (or the only string technology) in: Java, C++, C, Windows NT, Novell Netware, Solaris, and numerous other computing environments.
. Unicode supports all alphabets in use in the world today, plus alphabet-less languages such as Chinese, as well as languages whose alphabets are still being formalized.
. Because Unicode characters are all the same size, Unicode characters are random-access in that one can access any character (pick a card, any card) and know by looking at its value what that character is. Other multi-byte character sets must be parsed sequentially from the beginning of the string to assure that one has detected what mode some escape sequence has shifted that portion of the string into.
. Unicode seeks to solve every defect of previous multi-byte character sets. Unicode is the fittest to survive. All other multi-byte character sets should be (and will be) abandoned.
. Unicode = exportable software world wide in the global economy. ASCII = limiting your market to the English-speaking minority of the world.
. Unicode = supporting the information systems of all of the foreign branch offices of your company. ASCII = crippling your information system so that it supports nothing more than the English-only offices.
. ASCII = string equivalent of the Year 2000 Problem. Unicode = the fix to language-crippled software.

(And we won't even discuss the obvious and total superiority of Unicode over EBCDIC!)

In short Unicode is good for the software industry. This book is the official reference for Unicode from the inventor of Unicode: The Unicode Consortium.

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As the mother of a 10 year old daughter who loves both cooking and social studies, I was very impressed by the authors' creativity in combining both into one excellent volume. The choice of recipes were very appropriate, from the standpoint of preparation by a child, what youngsters like to eat, and what the region is known for. What makes this kid-friendly cookbook unique, though, is the interesting information about the states that preceeds each entry. I found myself reading through the pages to learn fascinating information about the history, local customs, etc. without even needing to cook anything that day. It gives you something to pass the time while your meal is in the oven, too! Truly a great book--I highly recommend it!

One of the best books I've read on infertility. It is easy enough for the everyday person to read yet it offerd the medical turms I needed to know. It is very comprehensive, well written and insightfull; I would reccomend it to anyone who is looking to learn more about infertility. The book also offered insight into both male and female problems.

Kidnapped by Indians while on her honeymoon in America, the Englishwoman found happiness as a wife of an Apache chief. Unknown to her English husband she had been pregnant when he left her wounded when the Indians attacked. Sarah had found peace and happiness until her Apache husband was killed. Her adopted tribe faced a journey to a reservation in Florida. Sarah knew she had but one choice but to return to England and claim he son's birthright. Although her son had been raised for 16 years as an Apache he was an heir to a great Yorkshire estate, his father an Earl.

The Earl believing she died in captivity, he married again, never forgetting his first wife. When she returned he drove his 2nd wife insane and banished his gypsy mistress. Sarah would risk all to secure her son's future, but could her savage son learn to live as an Englishman?

Lots of twists and turns, plots and subplots. Almost like reading a soap opera. Enjoyed the book emensely.

Most vegetarian advocates are prone to selective citation of the scientific literature, quoting those studies that support their ethical beliefs, but omitting mention of the science that is contradictory. Sabate's Vegetarian Nutrition does not do this, and is a fair review of the literature. Each area of concern is addressed with a complete review. Does eating meat cause disease or do other factors in the vegetarian lifestyle than abstention from meat confer health protection? Are vegetarians and vegans at greater risk for nutritional deficiencies? Sabate explores these and other questions with thoroughness and integrity.

Paul Bergner, Adjunct Faculty in Nutrition, Naropa University

This is a reasoned and scholarly approach to women's history in a specific place and time without being too scholarly and narrow.

Perkin covers the span of Victorian England in time, place, and class.

The tone is measured, even while delivering facts sure to outrage - it was perfectly acceptable in the country fairs for a man to sell his wife and well within the law for a man to claim every cent his wife earned.

Perkin's concluding chapter shows how far women came in one country, in one century, but is ever mindful of the suffering it took to achieve it.

This collection of lesbian fiction, not all by lesbian authors, is a marvelous assortment of voices from around the world. From such big names as Violette Leduc, Emma Donoghue, Makeda Silvera, and Dionne Brand, to new-to-American-eyes writers like Jeanne d'Arc Jutras, Yasmin Tambiah, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, this anthology has definitely opened my eyes to the diversity of lesbian fiction. I only wish there was more available by some of these authors here in the US! This book only whets the appetite like standing in the middle of an international food festival, not knowing which morsel to savor first.

One of my favorites that I drag out every year or so and reread. He's not too proud and she's not unbelievably manhating.

Ten of the poems in this book were wrenched from my innermost feelings... All of the poems are a true experience of the women who were and are touched by entering the man's world of war. I didn't carry weapons, didn't walk the bush, but I saw the carnage and felt the then seeming helplessness of the wounded bought in by dust-off. Intolerant of being helpless, I lived my tour in numbness and left Vietnam as only a shell. Who wouldn't in those conditions? To see and feel the real experience of war - read and know what it's like to walk in this woman's combat boots. N. Griffiths