The Winter Hare is a story about a boy growing up in the Middle Ages. It's a great book for those who love knights, swords, armor, and battles. The book is about a boy growing up and is accepted for an opportunity for knighthood but he must pass tests in order to prove his worthiness. This book is filled with every aspect that a great book should have. This book is great for kids. It has an intriguing plot and includes words that both kids and adults are familiar with. I suggest it for kids who are 9-14 years old.

This is a great novel. The best Historical fiction ever. I think that if you like mid-eveil stories or history. I love them! It is adventerous and cool. This book is the Best

This is a good historical novel. I learned a lot about Medieval times from it. I would recommend this story to anyone, not just people who like Medieval stories. It is good, exciting, suspenseful, sad, and funny. I liked the time Will received two puppies, one who he called Uther Pendragon, and was promptly piddled upon. As well, the Wallingford family provides a warm and comic air to the more serious part of the story. It is a good read.

When I finished reading this, I felt like a heavy burden on my back was emerging, mostly because of the several outcomes that were portrayed in the book. It amazes me as to how much of themselves these authors are willing to reveal about themselves. Some accounts were quite disturbing, by the way, so I'll tell you now that it's not light reading. Others were all right, but the reason why I gave it 4 stars was because sometimes the varying narrative styles were so different it was difficult to really understand what these women were really referring to.

I was going to title my review "a must-read for all lesbians and bisexual women". But truthfully, everyone would benefit from reading this outstanding collection of coming out stories.

Any woman who is struggling with coming out will love A Woman Like That; it is fascinating, thought-provoking, funny, and wonderfully reassuring. Like me, you may wish this book would never end.

Here's hoping we see Volume 2!

A Woman Like That is an incredible collection of extremely intelligent and fascinating coming out stories. Each of the writers here take us on an adventure, albeit an often harrowing adventure, into the world of their youth. From Heather Lewis's tale of how her father's involvement with the Nixon White House affected her coming out to Minnie Bruce Pratt's moving tale of custody dispute, these writers transform the coming out story into a work of art.

These stories are much more than just biography, they are poetry, pure and unfettered. These authors are not hampered by the desire to be political correct, but only by the desire to tell some truth about their lives, and all are incredibly moving. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the stories kept getting better and better, even though I didn't think that was possible. The diversity of ages, races and geographic territory covered here further adds to this collection's fullness. Lest you think I mean there are token accounts, there are not. Each is fully developed and stands proudly on its own, as well as fitting in with the other works. Tristan Taormino's entry about visiting her queer father as a teenager, and her adventures with her first girlfriend, and Cecilia Tan's amusing and honest tale of her mother coping with (and celebrating) her bisexuality and erotic writing, are especially enjoyable reading.

These tales will be welcome comfort to the lesbian or bisexual reader, but also to any teenager or other person who has every felt alienated, or who simply enjoys biography. The fact that this collection's contributors are all established, published writers adds both fascination to their stories and a quality of writing that is very welcome. These stories stay in the mind long after one closes the book.

On the surface, this young adult novel is about a young girl's adventure in disguising herself as a boy to join the army during the Civil War. On closer inspection, the reader will see this as a metaphor for Wanda (AKA Wayne) Colter's rejection of her female status that has brought her nothing but grief and then her journey into acceptance of her identity.

Young readers will be enthralled while experiencing a bit of history.

The heroine, oppressed by her parents who operate a saloon at the time of the Civil War and threatened sexually by one of the customers, runs off with two young men to join the Union Army. Although Wanda Wayne Colter is a fictional character, there were women who disguised their identities to fight in the Civil War alongside the men. And war from the perspective of a teen-age female pretending to be a male makes an intriguing story. Author JoAn Martin skilfully weaves the horror of the war into the story of a plucky young woman's struggle to overcome an unhappy present and a bleak future. The heroine's awakening desire to change her life and realization of her roots occur through well plotted events. The war scenes are authentically written. Within this short novel, the author keeps the reader's interest with well drawn characters and well constructed scenes. I liked it and recommend it for readers of all ages.

YANKEE GIRL, by JoAn W. Martin, is a delightful blend of history and adventure. The author uses the developing character of Wanda Wayne Colter to paint a detailed picture of the hardship endured during the Civil War. The story begins in the Colter family's tavern in upstate New York setting the scene for Wanda's discontent and subsequent quest for a new life.

Wanda, mistreated by her drunken father and attacked by one of the tavern's customers, decides to disguise herself as a boy. She cuts her hair and assumes her middle name, Wayne. But conditions deteriorate. Wayne is forced to work hard in the family's tavern, fixing meals, cleaning and tending to the garden. When two young Union recruits stop by the tavern bragging about army pay, Wayne decides she can tolerate no more abuse from her family and decides to join them.

But Wayne's troubles are just beginning. Being a girl disguised in a man's world poses many problems. Passing the army medical exam is the first heart-stopping hurdle she must overcome. Wayne develops a strong friendship with Zack and Obie but they never suspect she is really a girl. Zack feels uncomfortable about his strong attraction to Wayne and Wayne is also attracted to Zack.

When the 153rd is sent to the front line, the realities of war hit Wayne hard. Obie is killed, Zack asks to be transferred, and Wayne is injured. Will Wayne be able to maintain her secret identity? Will she ever see her family and best friend, Zack, again?

YANKEE GIRL is a wonderfully crafted tale of endurance and triumph for young adults. With larger-than-life characters, a reader cannot fail to gain insight into the challenges of life in the army during the Civil War. JoAn W. Martin weaves a magical mixture of fact and fiction and recounts a Civil War tale from an unusual perspective. I look forward to reading more from this talented author.

H.J. Ralles
Author of KEEPER OF THE KINGDOM and DAROK 9
Top Publications, January 2001/ January 2002

"African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927," edited by Joan Sherman, is a powerful and rewarding gathering of poems. Sherman has packed a lot into just 82 pages. Many of the giant names of African-American literature are here: Phillis Wheatley, Frances E.W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many more. There are also poets who are perhaps less well-known, but still admirable as literary creators. As a whole, these poets write with an intriguing variety of voices: solemn, satirical, militant, etc.

Many of black America's most important and most memorable poems are in here: Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America," Dunbar's "Sympathy" (with its significant line, "I know why the caged bird sings..."), and Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel." There are poems about slavery, literacy, religion, racial uplift, folk culture, and more. It is interesting to see the juxtaposition (sometimes from the same author) between poems written in vernacular language and those written in very formal English with classical references.

The only weak aspect of the book are the author bios. They are simply too short. Some are only a single sentence long, and they don't contain much bibliographic data. I would have liked a little more for each author. Still, this is an excellent anthology whose compact size and focus make it great both for classroom use and for general reading.

This book is simply amazing. I contains more culture than I have ever read in just one book. I definitely reccomend it to anyone.

The book is broken down very nicely into sections. The topics are introduced clearly and briefly in understandable terms. Following the introductions are some examples that apply the concepts and/or equations. Each example has the step by step solution which is easy to follow and prepares the user for the practice exercises. There are sufficient practice problems with answers to the odd numbered problems. This allows the user to check his or her answer and correct any mistakes.

It's great and easy to understand. It's broken into many different lessons that are really easy to comprehend.

At the very least, quite a satisfactory introduction to the subject of Angels and demons. Moreover, Joan Carroll Cruz approaches this fascinating topic as one of the faithful. This makes for a refreshing change from the breathless and heretical blather put out by misguided New Agers.

The book is well written and researched. But Mrs. Cruz uses the same stories and quotes from a handful of Saints, Blesseds, priests, etc. to make different points (be prepared to read the same passages, verbatim, numerous times throughout the book). I don't think this retreading, as it were, serves her or the reader particularly well. Still, there's something to be said for Mrs. Cruz's vignette, rather than narrative, approach -- despite the redundancies, it makes for a read that is not only fast, easy, and enjoyable, but also informative.

Recommended.

This book i found incredibly helpful and informative. As a student writing a research paper concerning good and evil, I found this book the center of my research! I reccomend it as a research book, a bedside read or even for fun. You wont be upset you read it.

The practical work of Aldo Rossi is known to may, and has attracted a great number of followers for its common-sensical approach to architecture, at a time (the 60's) when Modern architecture ran out of steam and fell into a vacuous "play of forms" without sense nor content. Yet the theoretical foundation of the Rossian work remains fairly unknown, and it is distilled into 2 works: the paradigmatic "Architecture of the City", which was a serious attempt to readdress the role of architecture in the urban context [something ignored by most Modernists]; and the "Scientific Autobiography" which is a witty essay of a great architect's discovery and experience of architecture and life... This work,the "Architecture of the City", is definitely the more scholarly of the 2 books translated into English, and despite some of its contestable aspects [the romanticization of the Mietskaserne in Berlin for instance], it still presents itself as one of the key documents on urban thought in the twentieth century, along with Corbusier's "Urbanisme" and Koolhaas's "Delirious New York". Definitely recommended for students of Architecture and Urbanism...

i liked it and would recommend it to a friends family

The authors seem to out do themselves with each new edition that comes to press. Most text books are out of date before they go to press and certainly before the instructors can make their lesson plans for the students. By the instructor using the work book and the guide with this text you will have an unbeatable combination. Simple language and the technical blend and the student is able to comprehend with minimum difficulty. The previous editions have retired to become reference texts and so will the Third Edition when the Fourth Edition becomes available for this Instructor of a Certified Nursing Assistant Class at our local Technical College.

I am using this textbook for a CNA course. I looked it over before registering for the class and the textbook attracted me to the course. It is colorful, well-organized, and thorough. I was impressed with the range of topics covered and variety of ways material is presented and re-enforced. The study aides and headings are easy to use and it is easy to read. I would recommend this book to anyone who will be working with the elderly in a long-term care setting.

Though this story easily deserves 5 stars, it suffers slightly due to the author's agenda (she was commissioned to write a geography book for children). Knowing this, it is easy to hurl criticism at those chapters that seem to exist solely for the purpose of education. Nonetheless, once this minor fault (and I am not really sure you can call it a fault) is recognized, the story of Nils is a fantastic one, seemingly not at all distant from native folklore and fairy tales, rich with an earthiness that simply doesn't exist in modern children literature. Of course, Lagerlof does more then simply make a modern day fairy-tale. There are passages here that are simply too delightful for description; one which comes to mind is a gathering of all the animals to celebrate the coming of spring--the image and significance crafted by the author are bound to stay with the reader for a life-time. I haven't read anything else by Lagerlof, and only found this book by accident at a local vendor. If I have any complaint it is that Dover does not offer the sequel to this work (at this writing anyway), though apparently another publisher offers it at a much higher price. I think anyone who enjoys folktales/folklore and whimsical animal fantasies (I.E. Wind in the Willows, the Moomin books, etc.) will find this book very rewarding and enjoy the opportunity to read an unknown classic (in Sweden, Nils actually appears on their money!)

When you read this book if you read it by yourself or to your children it pulls you right in. The beautiful destriptions of the land gives you a geographic picture. The stories give you good examples and the whole book gives you something that you will never forget. This is a book you want to read over and over.

My dad read me this book when I was just young in Swedish. He is from Sweden and wanted his children born in America to know the culture and history of his homeland. That is what this book is about. It's actually a story of the geography of Sweden from the south up to the north. Taken from the view of a young trouble maker,who shrunken, rides on the back of a wild goose you get to experience the adventure with him. A delightful, delightful book.

Diva by Monika Fagerholm is on my all time top 10 chart, but for some reason it took me several months to get into reading her first novel. I read this book in Finnish, so I don't know if the translation's good, but I can assure you that it takes some work to spoil this brilliant book. Perhaps not quite as magical as Diva, this novel is in any case a wonderful study of childhood, family relationships and changes in society. There's always some sadness in Fagerholm's world, but it's sweet sadness, very close to a certain kind of numb satisfaction. Her style is unique. Strongly recommended.

This book is written in a captivating style. It is dreamy and innocent and lets the reader make his own conclusions. It celebrates summer, imagination and childhood (most of the book is narrated through Thomas, 9 years), but in the same time it is a melancholy book. I have read the book in Finnish and I hope that the English translation is as good. I sincerely recommend Wonderful Women by the Sea.

Monika Fagerholm's first novel is a marvelous evocation of Finland in the 60s, covering two Finland-Swedish families who meet every summer at their vacation homes. A big hit in Scandinavia, this novel should be of interest to American readers as well. Fagerholm is finishing a new novel in Swedish, Diva, which should be published soon.