I think that this book was excellent. I have never read a book by Joan Hohl i usually read Diana Palmer or Sandra Brown. But this book was great the hero in it was wonderful and kept you on the edge of your seat.

I took a big risk when i bought this bok. I had never read a romance book, and hadn't even read the description. This book is about young girl who livs in the middle of nowhere, and works as a waitress. She meets and falls in love with a handsom business man, and makes a risky deal with him. This bok ket me on the edgeof my seat, ad i recommend it to any woman who believes in true love.

This book makes a great gift for the any nature lover. It is well illistrated and full of facts.

The great thing about this book is that there is an engaging, funny illustration on one page to set the stage and pique the child's interest, with simple rhyming text, and then on the other page there is a detailed paragraph on the featured critter full of interesting facts, vocabulary, and science concepts. So this book can be used by beginning and more advanced readers. The combination of humor and information is a winning combination for kids. I can see preschoolers and parents reading this book together, and then middle elementary school kids coming back to it later when they are looking for information to write reports.

I have had the pleasure of meeting Joan Younger now that she's older. This story of her pioneering days as a girl reporter--the fascinating world personalities she met, the private problems she faced--undergird the strength of character and the incitefulness of her mind. She faced the issues of women's liberation decades before it had a name as she struggled with an unstable husband, a new baby, and a demanding job in the whirlwind world of reporting during the war. From shopping with Eleanor Roosevelt and traveling with Madame Chiang Kai Chek, to a scoop on research into contraception--and health food, Joan gives readers a priveleged view into the swirling events of exciting yet dangerous years that changed our world forever.

Anyone interested in the role of women in journalism and, in fact, the role of women in general during the war years of the 1940's will find this a significant book. Joan Younger has written a fast-moving account of her professional and personal life during those times - makes for most interesting reading.

When Rose and Lila's parents go to Africa for a year, for their work as doctors, Rose(age 10) and Lila(age 8) must stay with their maternal grandmother,whom they hardly know. As they snoop through her house (Book 1), they soon discover that "Far Nana" has a few secrets worth knowing. "Far Nana" runs a doll hospital from her home and has the intuitive skill of listening to the stories of the dolls she repairs. She tells these stories to the girls in the first person, from the point of view of the doll. In these books, the reader is reading the ongoing story of Rose and Lila's adjustments to living with their grandmother and the historical story of a doll, in a story-within-a-story format.

In "Glory's Freedom" the girls hear the story of a wax doll, owned by a girl on a Southern plantation, who escapes the heat of the coming summer in the arms of girl running away from slavery. I found Glory's story to be a captivating lesson in history, slavery, and friendship told with characters that children will relate to.

In Lila and Rose's story, they learn about auctions by attending a doll auction with their grandmother. They take this experiential knowledge of auctions and quickly relate it to the slave auctions they hear about in Glory's story. The girls' become further interested in Glory's story and have a chance to talk to her current owner about the unusual way Glory was found and they find a story that must be told.

The reading level for this book is for grade 3. I would not recommend this series for readers younger then 6 years of age because the intertwining stories may be confusing. A paper doll is included in each book, which may be of added interest to some readers.

When a plantation-owner's daughter named Arabella gets a beautiful wax doll from England, she scorns it because it's not the exact doll she wants. May, a slave girl, likes the doll and helps name it Glory. When May gets in trouble for back-talking another plantation owners' daughter, she must escape on the Underground Railroad. For reasons I won't give away here, we discover that the doll is in danger and must escape too. They travel together in a manner devised by May. The doll winds up hidden in a house for over a hundred years. When she's discovered she is finally able to tell the world about May's journey.

Along with this historic story we also hear the story of Rose and Lila and their grandmother, who runs a doll hospital. By watching the repair of Glory, we learn how a wax doll might be repaired and we hear about Rose and Lila's growing friendship with a neighbor girl.

The humor in this book is subtle, but really great. My girls now say "Up and Adam" to wake each other up. If you've read this book, you'll get that. The conversation between the various dolls is witty. We have read all 3 Doll Hospital books together. This is our favorite so far. Good humor, good tension, great story! Excellent!

This book is a handy companion come spring time and it is prep time for your yard. There are many useful ideas, some not exactly practical , like a "handy" cart that looks like one of those golf carts(but made of wood)to haul your gardening tools and supplies around the yard, but there are enough to make this book worth your time. Myself I just use a 5 gallon bucket to haul around my most used tools. Good ideas often spawn new insights leading to one's own ideas which can be better or more suited for one's needs, thus is the case with this book. The book has illustrations to compliment the ideas which are often tips offered from real gardeners. My feeling is if one can pull a few time saving ideas from a season of chores it is time well spent resting in the shade between jobs browsing this book. Browsing is the right word because it is a book that can be read in sections according to needs. There are suggestions for low maintenance plants that are proven to minimize time spent caring for, including annuals that replant themselves, and perrenials that just keep on giving and suggestions for problem areas. This book is a reference source that will give you a quick fix for problems that come with maintaining a yard. One of the beauties of this book is the use of seemingly unrelated materials for the yard, like 2-liter bottles with holes burried in the vegetable garden for concise watering near each plants to keep weeds down. I have read many Rondale Press garden books and this one rates right up with the best of them. Recommended for practical gardeners who like "new" ideas that work.

This well organized volume provides concise, easily accessible info on specific plants for the average garden as well as suggestions for mixing varieties into complementary gardens. Definately a must have for a serious gardener as a reference volume for a garden library.

This book is being used in our Nearly/Newlywed Sunday School class and it is very useful for those who have recently met their partner and still have a lot to find out about them. My husband and I dated for almost 5 years before we got married, so some of the exercises cover ground we did years ago. However, some make very good points about learning to love, honor, and respect each other. It is also nice that this book comes in a 2-pack so each partner can read at their own rate.

We were given this book by our pastor to read through before our wedding. We did enjoy reading it, and taking the time to answer their questions was really worth the while in getting to know each other better before the Big Day. We still use it every so often to keep on learning about each other in our non-daily lifes.

Gudrun's Tapestry is a compelling story of one woman's life, a Burgundian woman whose people are among the many victims of Attila the Hun. Some years after her home at Worms is destroyed, Gudrun's dreams of a peaceful life with her love, Sigurd, are shattered by the beautiful valkyria, Brunhild. Gudrun risks what is left of her personal life by setting out to destroy Attila.
Schweighardt has drawn on history and poetic myth to create a context for a tale of the most basic human emotions--love, greed, jealousy, and revenge.
Although the story is set over fifteen centuries ago, these characters from the Dark Ages are revealed as people whose motivations and actions are clearly recognizable to us. After all, is the pursuit of a dragon's gold really so different from the pursuit of an expensive sports car? Jealous lovers still lie to get what they want; families nearly destroyed by tragedy still find the will to rebuild and be happy again. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
But there's more here than just a great page-turner of a tale. This is a story as skillfully woven as the tapestry within it. Schweighardt plays the woof of Gudrun's time spent in the city of Attila over, under, around, and through a warp of Gudrun's personal history. Schweighardt reveals the past as its impact becomes meaningful. In that way there are two stories of Gudrun's life here--the events that forged her character, and the use the fates made of that steely determination. It is fascinating to read the two intertwined.
I believe this book has the potential to be a surprise bestseller if only the word gets out.

This is an astonishing book! It leads the reader into a strange historical landscape--the world of Attila the Hun--and effortlessly (or so it seems) provides the details to make that time period and the people in it very, very real. Schweighardt's extensive research is impressive, yet it never holds the story back, "dries it out," or weighs it down. Instead, we're given a complex heroine on a sacred mission. Her mission drives the story forward at a breathless pace, but Schweighardt refuses to rely on plot alone. She has created a protagonist who experiences it all--love and hatred, passion and despair, strength and weakness, courage and fear--and placed her against a backdrop of unfamiliar and often shocking historical events. Gudrun's voice is convincing and often heart-wrenching, and the story she tells is one that stays with you long after you close the book. This is a novel in which history (or more correctly, her-story)and myth collide. It is a tour de force for this very talented writer and a perfect reminder that real people, as well as those in myths , legends, and stories, can transcend their circumstances and triumph. A definite must-read.

I'm not much of a book reader. I usually stick to magizines and news paper articals;But I must say I consider this book to be one of the better Books I have read. Some parts seemed to drag on forever, but then again Their were so many suprises and secrets that it all evened out. If I do ever decide to read a book or novel I like to read Gothic Mysteries. This book struck my fansy when I saw that it had the word Haunting in it. For the most part The Haunting of Lamb House was very injoyable!

This book describes the intertwined lives of the persons who live in Lamb House over the course of many years: a crippled boy whose greatest desire never comes true; Henry James and his infatuation with various younger men; and other characters. And I do mean characters! These are not run-of-the-mill folks. They are interesting and quirky and unique. I also sensed some tongue-in-cheek pokes at sexuality, which were amusing. The entire book is enjoyable.

This book was SO good. I gave it to my sister for her birthday and she can't get enough of the book. The pictures are great and they describe each breed with descriptions and everything. If you were looking at getting a dog, or you enjoy to look at dog breeds, then this book is definatly for you!!!!

This book has tones of info on dogs and if you want say an Irish setter, than you can look and see how much energy it has,how much room it needs,how much food, and how much grooming it needs.All the info for a perect dog you want!

I have had this book for several years as a hand-me-down. The language is hysterical! Refers to making overalls for "your old man". But, the layout could not be simpler! I have made caftans from this book and impressed myself even! It is out-of-print, but let Amazon try to find it for you if you want a book that makes sewing simple and doesn't have patterns with 15 pieces each!

I did home-ec class, learned sewing in Girl Scouts and from my mom. None of it would sink in.

What it took was two far-out hippie mamas who trace their pants onto fabric, add seam allowances, cut out, and sew together.

This book is pretty basic, but you can turn out some pretty sweet clothing pretty easily. The clothes are, well, some of the most dated things I have ever seen, but the techniques could be used on anything (besides I like the clothes in there....)

The real kicker is the language used in this book, not only groovy, far-out etc. but they discuss what to do if you are afraid of "( ) up." That is the only time I have EVER seen that particular term in a sewing book and I nearly laughed my face off.

This is the perfect way to learn to sew, encouraged to try try try again, and told how to fix it, and that it doesn't really matter if you ( ) it up a bit.

This book was well rated in the Whole Earth Catalog, and you should really try to track it down, nothing even compares to it! (except the sequel -- Son of Hassle-Free Clothing!)