Garth Whitelaw is the oldest of the Hawk's Way Whitelaws. Garth met Candy three years earlier when she came to the ranch with her father. Candy was only seventeen and head over heels in love with Garth. Garth was much older and pushed her away. Now here she is three years later, a little more grown up, tougher, and a lot more of a woman in Garths opinion. He agrees to ler her stay at Hawk's Way so that Garth can teach her everything he knows about the business. Garth makes it clear that he would like Candy in his bed, but nothing more. Garth has a bit of a rough edge that sometimes made me cring, but we also find out why. Garth is a hardened man after seeing what his parents did to each other. We find out a lot of interesting information on the Whitelaw parents that explains so much. I look back at Garths behavior in the previous books and now I understand his extreme behavior. I am not saying what Garth does is right, but understandable. Candy realizes she is still in love with Garth but she has to convince Garth that he is capable of love. Another great Hawk's Way story.

I was getting desparate when my 13 year old began to lose interest in writing. A gift she once enjoyed had become laborious and boring as she plodded through the typical textbook style of learning. I came across Joan D. Berbrich's student-friendly book "Writing About Amusing Things" and was instantly intrigued. As the title suggests, this workbook offers the student a wonderful outlet for expression, while at the same time teaching the student how to apply valuable writing skills and techniques to their own creativity. Included throughout the book are vocabulary words relating to the subjects being covered, brief writing exercises, proofreading excercises, sample paragraphs and suggestions for the students writing assignments. Exercises include writing paragraphs, essays, letters, short story, verse and more. While the student is learning good writing skills they are being reviewed in basic grammer skills as well, such as punctuation and sentence structure, nouns, verbs, adjectives prepositions and more.

I handed the book to my teenager, whose writing desire had been nearly completely stifiled, and watched as her love for writing has begun to blossom again. She now willingly writes a paper every day and enjoys being able to use her creativity and cleverness to write about things that are interesting and fun.

A few years ago (haha), I was privileged to study this book during my high school Creative Writing course. Now, I am the Creative Writing instructor and I cannot adequately praise Ms. Berbrich's work! The book guides students in turning their "snippets" of creative thought into works of quality prose and poetry. Thanks to the skills this book teaches, models and reinforces, students can use what they have learned from Writing Creatively in any piece for any forum.

Writing Mysteries for Young People is an indispensible reference...
If a writer wants to write a mystery for children, this book gives specific directions. Writers will be able to pick up a mystery and spot the tried-and-true framework that marks a successful mystery novel (or pick apart a poor one). All the information a writer needs to know is there. Learn what a "plant" is. Make a chart to show where all characters are at any given moment in the course of the mystery so alert readers are satisfied there is no cheating.

One of the few texts that seems to be out there for the mathematics classroom surrounding the idea of writing is the book by Joan Countryman titled, "Writing to Learn Mathematics." I found much of it very interesting and applicable to my work with portfolios and communicating mathematical ideas both orally and in writing. She illustrates different types of writing that can be used in a math class to illicit different kinds of responses from students. Her work includes actual student samples of writing, as well as commentary on what kinds of insight she gained about student understanding (or lack thereof), that might not have been gained from a more traditional test/quiz. If you are interested in incorporating portfolios, math autobiographies, or other kinds of writing in a math classroom, this is an excellent resource.

Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards' writings about their travels to Egypt had long been ignored. In this book, the author provides short biographies of these three amazing women; she also analyzes the letters sent to family members and their publications. A serious book, offering only 12 black and white photographs, this is recommended material for those interested in learning more about these remarkable women.

Book Description: The Year 2000 How To Guide for Medical Laboratories As the Year 2000 (Y2K) approaches, can you be sure that your laboratory will be ready? The Y2K date problem is old news in the Information Systems industry. Over the last four years the problem was made public through the media, literature and various symposia. The Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania estimates that as many as 15,000 medical devices could be affected. Often referred to as the millennium bug, software and medical devices containing embedded chips may not be able to distinguish between the centuries 1900 and 2000. Will your laboratory equipment and software recognize that "00" comes after "99"? And how will "00" be handled?

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I am a thirty-four year old teacher and mother of two. One ofmy favorite childhood memories was when we had a snow day from schooland I spent the whole day curled up with hot chocolate, an electric blanket, and A Year in the Life of Rosie Bernard. I loved the book so much that I read it over and over. This is a very touching tale of a heroic little girl. It is a timeless story for any avid reader young or old. END

This 367-page collection of short stories includes: Ruth Rendell (Liar's Dice), Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky (Settled Score), Lawrence Block, Carole Nelson Douglas (The Maltese Double Cross), Edward D. Hoch, Ed Gorman, Reginald Hill, Michael Z. Lewin, Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess (The Last to Know), Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins (Cat Got Your Tongue), Charlotte MacLeod (The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner), Loren D. Estleman, Norman Partridge, Jeremiah Healy (The Winfield Trade), Bill Pronzini, Nancy Pickard, Robert Barnard, Peter Lovesey, JUne Thomson, Jan Grape, Barbara D'Amato, Edward Bryant (While She Was Out), and Pat Cadigan (True Faces)

Yettele Babbeloski lived in a tiny room over the baker's shop in Ostrow, a town so small she could see the whole thing from her window.

She had no children and her husband Mendel had died. She was a very nosy sort of person, always talking. When she got tired of addressing her walls and chairs, she went and talked to others.

Now Tillie Schnitzele the dressmaker couldn't make a living, what with Yettele telling everyone she purposely made dresses too small. And no one would eat Goldie Pishkin's chicken soup any more, because Yettele had said she added sawdust to her matzah balls. Then she saw Yussel Farfel take an apple from the fruit stand and before long the story had spread that he stole a whole bag of apples. He nearly lost his job at the butcher's shop.

Soon no one would talk to Yettele any more, so she was forced to see the rabbi with an especially interesting tidbit about Moishe Mushnik's shoe. "Some people might be hurt by your stories," he said.

"What harm can come from a word?" she asked. "Certainly no more harm than from a feather."

Offering help, the rabbi advised his errant congregant to take a feather pillow, cut off its top, and bring it to him. But when she got outside with the pillow, the wind arose and grabbed the feathers, casting them about. She finally got hold of the near-empty pillow and arrived at the rabbi's door, covered in down.

"Go out and find all the feathers," he advised her next.

The rabbi used the feathers, of course, to teach Yettele a lesson. You'll have to buy the book to find out exactly what that was. Based on a story told by Rabbi Dennis Math, this tale amuses children. Parents should be happy with it too. Alyssa A. Lappen