By TT reviewer Lynne Temple [full review on our website]

Patricia Diamonte begins her move to New York with an explosion. From out of the smoky haze, a hero emerges. Dylan Stone with his powerful, commanding voice ushers Patricia out of a dangerous situation.

Once she has been pulled to safety, Patricia realizes that she has nothing. Her purse, briefcase, and the last of her money are gone. Somewhere in the debris of the explosion are the material things that she desperately needs, including the key to her brother's apartment. Given two dollars by a kind paramedic, Patricia arrives home and is visited by Dylan. With their personal and professional lives intertwined, Patricia faces a personal crisis with the knowledge that her brother Eddie was adopted. Eddie returns from Paris with his new wife, Michelle, making Patricia feel even more out of place living in the small apartment with them. Then, while talking to her brother, a crushing blow comes when she finds out that she was also adopted. Her life begins to spin out of control. Many questions plague her: Who are her real parents? Why did they give her up? And the heartbreaking wonder of who she is. Patricia is torn with personal conflicts, work deadlines, and her valiant search for her true identity. Her biggest challenge may be keeping Dylan by her side.

This was a wonderful, fast paced book. I had a hard time putting it down as each page entranced me with the particular insight of adoption, and intrigued me with the questions that are brought up when you feel as if your entire life has been a lie. As each chapter went on, I felt I had a good inkling of the outcome. This is a refreshing book that left me anxious for a sequel.

As a molecular biology student I find this book a very good quick reference. It outlines all the major terms and explains them very well. As far as doing reports and assignments is concerned, for me this has got to be the most valuable starting point. It contains excellent diagrams which are easy to understand and follow. I would recommend this even to a non biologist. Naz Bradford

The photos are beautiful, the book gives you a lot of ideas for themed parties and menus. The author also gives you step by step instructions and checklists for every party. It is a wonderful book and a must if you are in the business.

This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of nutrition for horses. With all of the charts on every vitamin and mineral needed for equine's, it is very easy to understand for the lay-person. This book goes into great detail on precise amounts needed for each type of discipline and what you may need to add or subtract to "balance" your horses diet. I would strongly recomend this book for any and every horse owner's library.

For young readers this is a wonderful depiction of a historical saga put in language that is uncomplicated and exciting! I would recommend it for Sunday School classes and reader's clubs!

I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as Medea--it settled an argument too on how it 'originally' ended.

An authoritative reference / textbook containing "thumbnails" of applicable evaluation theory and practice by experts in the field.

The current U.S. Poet Laureate has this to say about "Every Sky":
"Eleanor McQuilkin well understands poetry's power to compact
huge meanings into small spaces and to provide a place where
emotion and wit can happily coexist. Her concise and
circumspect poems are clever, heartfelt, and brimming with
canny observations. It is a joy to hear her clear voice come
off the page. --Billy Collins

And Anthony Hecht (Pulitzer Prise winner in poetry):

"Eleanor McQuilkin's beautiful, artfully arranged collection
of poems begins unassumingly and modestly with the common
consolations of rural life--with gardens, birds, trees, wind
and weather--and opens gradually to embrace more and more of
the world. Along the way it findss room for mischief, for
tough honesty, for humor and gaiety, as it expands into distant
and exotic parts, finally to arrive, in what is its deeply
moving and eloquent culmination, at an "undiscovered country"
revealed in the same spare, honest language with which her
journey had begun. "Every Sky" is as severe, as lovely, as
forlorn as some of the paintings of Edward Hopper; as witty as
the music of Erik Satie; as lean as the poems of Stephen Crane;
as unflinching as the photographs of Walker Evans. But its
terse and powerful ending, with its rich, orchestral
resonances, is altogether and triumphantly the work of Eleanor
McQuilkin. --Anthony Hecht

Iremembered this book when I was A child about 8yrs. old and I am now 27 and this book has been on my mind since. can hardly wait to see if this the one I am looking for.

Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."