As a woman myself, this book is a great read. It touched me in places, that had long since died. Its the journey of four women, sisters, from all different corners of the world. They come together, for there fathers funeral. This book is the discovery of what every woman goes through, the discover of strength, they didnt know they had, of friendships that are reborn again, and learning to trust your heart. Read this on it will take you on a journey of yourself also. Let it make you cry, laugh, and smile so big, you think your heart will burst. A MUST READ BOOK.

I love all of Kathryn's books and SOMEWHERE LIES THE MOON has to be one of her best. Oh, what am I saying? They're all terrific reads, brimming with emotion, fully developed characters, plots and rich settings. Suspense lies inside the hearts' of these characters, and she keeps you wondering about them long after you've closed the book. All of her books are keepers for me, I just wish she would write faster. It's probably one of the reasons why many don't know about this wonderful author. If you like richly told novels, real novels with characters that stay with you for years to come, don't miss this book.

Kathryn Lynn Davis is the kind of writer you rarely see anymore. In this world of instant gratification, it seems like no one takes the time and care to write really satisfying, evocative stories--but Ms. Davis is the wonderful exception. SOMEWHERE is a book you can truly curl up with and enjoy for hours on end, savoring its characters and settings, its passion and wisdom. Like THE SHELL SEEKERS or THE THORN BIRDS, it will give you days of pleasure and you'll wish for it never to end.

I came across this book in a library in Scotland, where I spent a year of my life, and was totally taken by it. Home again in Vienna I tried to obtain it in several bookstores but none of them had it. Then my sister brought it home from a visit to England and since then I've read it about a hundred times. I simply can't get enough of it. The characters are so real and special! On a recent visit to Scotland I also went to Kilchurn Castle and Loch Awe and it is just as described in the book, immensly beautiful! This book was worth every minute of your life, Mrs Davis!!!

This book is absolutely wonderful. I've read it a number of times and passed it along to family and friends. On a recent trip to Scotland the highlight was seeing Kilchurn Castle, where much of the story is set. It was fantastic. And I could just see the Campbell clan living on the beautiful Loch Awe. The story is extra special because it is based on real people and around real events. Kathryn Lynn Davis brings it all to life.

As a teacher and Reading Specialist, I know well the dread many students experience at the thought of research reports. This reaction is due in large part to a lack of knowledge on how best to approach research for different purposes. Likewise, many teachers don't look forward to teaching research skills given the lack of good models and student disinterest. In this book, teachers finally have an invaluable resource for helping students conduct research and enjoy the process!

Easy Steps for Writing Fantastic Research Reports is not just another "how-to" book. Rather, teachers and parents will find multiple lessons, organizers, and checklists accompanied by tips for motivating students. This book not only outlines a model for many research, but also provides timelines and planning models for integrating research into curriculum throughout the year. Most importantly, the model is presented through meaningful contexts that engage students.

The strategies and activities in this book detail how teachers can provide meaningful instruction through mini-lessons that incorporate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills for any appropriate content. Teachers can design instruction around units for any curriculum. More importantly, the ideas in this book don't require fancy materials or preparation. Teachers can begin implementing the suggestions immediately. The wonderful reproducibles allow teachers to read about instruction and put it into practice.

As students progress through the late elementary and middle school years, conducting research is a common assignment. Students are eventually expected to write research reports independently or at home. Providing students with the opportunity to learn effective approaches and become skillful researches is extremely important. There is simply no better guide or text that exclusively addresses developing research skills in the late elementary grades than Easy Steps for Writing Fantastic Research Reports. I've already had colleagues ask where to find this book and beg to borrow my copy.

Kathryn Davis is a master storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Not only does she cast a spell over her readers, compelling them to read on and on, but her subject matter is unique and uniquely presented.

A fictional romantic mystery involving the intertwining of two unlikely characters, an elderly, Danish composer of operas and a young American single mother, the story begins at Helle's hospital deathbed and is told through Frances Thorn, the young mother and sole support of twin girls who was drawn into an intimate friendship by the elderly female composer. When Helle dies, she leaves Frances a legacy: An unfinished opera. Frances is faced with the task of its completion. Rummaging through the things that Helle has left behind, Frances comes to grips with her own identity as she discovers the hidden secrets of Helle's life.

Readers are treated to a look at Denmark and the Danish not found in a tour guide and a sense of the operatic that will move even the most hardened souls to music.

Through Helle and Frances, Kathryn Davis tells us that even in the darkest corners of our deepest secrets, liberty and salvation may be found.

This book is an outstanding resource for the health care professional looking to improve their knowledge and clinical understanding while surfing the internet. Trying to update our personal home libraries is becoming too expensive and using the internet to perform research is the future of health care.

Kathryn Davis' Hell is a magnificent, challenging, dark, challenging book. Melvin Bukheit, in the Washington Post, called it brilliant. The reviews quoted here on line managed to find the only critical review (Kirkus) and to quote the only reservation expressed (in the NYT) at the end of a long, laudatory appreciation of the book. Check it out for yourself!

This is a great book for young adults. Full of suspense and characteristic flairs. Mary Stewart brings alive the silent countryside of Austria with this thriller.

Mary Stewart's Ivy Tree got me hooked on reading and I've read every book she's written. The villain in this book is so memorable I have always remembered his name. This book like all of her books marries romance and mystery but in a way no modern books do, it is romance, not sex. All of her books give you information on either classic works or other historic backgrounds, like the Spanish Riding School, that I got big points from my Humanities teachers from things I learned from Mary Stewart, I never told them how I knew the information. This is one of her best, the people are memorable and the horse is miraculous. Just a treat all round. Read all her mysteries you can't go wrong

Like other reviewers, I read most of Mary Stewart's novels as a teenager when they were called "Gothics". Nine Coaches Waiting and Wildfire at Midnight were wonderful, and among my favorites, but Airs Above the Ground lingers in my memory as the best of Mary Stewart's works. The scene with the old horse on the hillside gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes every time I read it, or even think about it. I went to see the Lippizaners in Austria just because of the influence of this book. Read it--you won't be disappointed.

This is the first book I have read by Kathryn Lynn Davis. I was very impressed. The writing was exceptional . I didn't get bored at all in any part of the book. The book came alive for me when I read it. I took my time to enjoy the book since I read like super fast . This is one of the Few Books I would keep forever and read over and over and over and feel like i am reading again for the first time . I m going to look for it in hardback . If she does come out with a sequel i will be the first to buy it. This story is so good , Its about love and trust and belief in yourself . I could go on and on forever about this book . But they only allow a 1,000 words and thats not enough space. This book is wonderful if you can get any copy anywhere grab it !! I got mine of ebay for like 50 cents. WOW BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER BOUGHT . !!!!!

Sing to Me of Dreams is a beautifully written book. I found it a bit slow in the beginning, but once the Ivys came into the picture the story really began to unfold. The love between Saylah and Julian is allowed to unfold gradually and very realistically. Kathryn Lynn Davis' characters are all drawn with exquisite care and their emotions are real and totally convincing. A beautiful book!

Okay, let me tell you how much I loved this book. When my first copy fell irreparably apart from so many re-readings, I tore all the pages into neat little squares and put them into a silver bowl with some potpourri and burned them. Then I put the ashes into the soil in my flower bed. It was a gesture of respect for one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read. Then again, maybe I'm just a psycho. Anyhoo... I've been waiting none too patiently for the sequel these many years since - unhappily watching all of Ms. Davis' new books come out except for the one I REALLY wanted - the SEQUEL to STMoD.
One more word - has anyone read Jean M. Auel's series starting with Clan of the Cave Bear? The hero and heroine are named Ayla and Jondalar... there are other remarkable similarities between their story and that of Saylah and Julian - except Auel's story takes up 4 books instead of Davis' 1. Someone read them and let me know if you notice. It's uncanny!
PLEASE give me a sequel! I'm dying over here!

A solid translation of the fascinating and passionate story of Dionysus in Thebes, although it lacks the lyricism of other translations. Woodruff's version is meant to be performed aloud, and so it has more of the feel of a play to it. Students of literature and classics might want a different version; students of drama and theatre would be interested in this translation.

If, like me, you had Greek Tragedy down as an austere thing, full of parched plains, unswerving Fate and dour verse, then 'The Bacchae' might come as a pleasant surprise. It has these things of course, but the first quality that shocks is the vibrant, fervid excess of the language. The story concerns Dionysus, the God of wine, the Life Force, the Chaos of the Irrational etc., who inspires a possessed devotion in his acolytes, as they express themselves in high-flown, ecstatic rhapsodies. Not every one takes this proto-hippie's divinity seriously, in particular the family of his mortal mother, led by the impetuous teenage king Pentheus, who sees all this Bacchanalia in the woods and mountains in loose robes as so much lechery. Dionysus exacts such terrible revenge on these unbelievers that 'Bacchae' makes Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus' look like a Julie Andrews vehicle.
If Sophocles' 'Oedipus the King' is the first detective story, than 'Bacchae' might be the first police procedural - a central sequence sees Pentheus arrest Dionysus and interrogate him, a scene as tightly written and suspenseful as any thriller. But detection and policing, embodying the forces of reason and the Law, have no power against the Irrational or Unknowable, and Pentheus is soon made mad, his order and sense of self in tatters. The terrible grip of irony familiar from Greek Tragedy gives the play a violent momentum, but the most extraordinary scenes take place offstage, related in vivid and tumultuous monolgues by messengers - the whirlwind revenge of Dionysus' female followers on the forces of surveilling civilisation, and the cruel enactment of the God's revenge. This idea of hearing about improbable catastrophes but not being able to see them adds ot the supernatural terror that is the play's fevered life-blood.

I am a classical history major with a focus on poetry and drama. I have actually read Bacchae in Attic Greek and I have to say that I find this translation to be one of the most fluid and natural of any that I have ever read. I would highky recommend this to anyone looking for a well-written, very gory introduction to Greek theatre. This edition is also great for using as a script, wheras many translations are good only for reading. I just put up a production using this translation and my actors were very comfortable with the wonderful language Woodruff uses.

I read this great book called My Brother, My Enemy by Madge Harrah. This book is about a boy named Matt whose family was killed by susquehannok Indians. Matt is a young Virginian who lives next to a forest. It turns out Matt's best friend named Naoken is a member of the susquhaennok tribe. Matt then decides he wants revenge on Naokan because he found his arrows all around their cabin. To get the revenge he joined an army of plantation owners organized by Nathaniel Bacon. Matt had a problem because he found out that Naokan tried to stop the massacre and he was now a prisoner of Bacon's army. Now Matt has to choose between getting revenge and helping his friend escape.

I like this book because it has many qualities such as it is partly suspenseful, exciting, and sad. It's suspenseful when Matt finds Naokan and his sister Pomanah hiding in the bushes and you're wondering if Matt will let them escape or turn them in. It happened while Matt was a member of general Bacon's army and invading the Susquehannok camp. The book also had some very exciting parts like when Matt was trying to free Naokan and Pomanah during the war. One was when Matt went to court twice, the first time they said he was innocent, and the second time he was sentenced to be hung. He also marched with Bacon's army to Jamestown. Another exciting part was when Matt and Bacon's army invaded Noakan's tribe . Finally, Matt and one of Bacons men named Hansford came up with a great plan to free the prisoners. Finally it was sad when Matt came home and his family was dead.

The theme or message from the author of this book deals with the topic of following your heart and doing the right thing in the face of tragedies. One way the author emphasizes this theme is when Matt's dad tells him, 'Do what you think is right.' Another example happened when Matt had to make a choice of freeing his Indian friends from Bacon's army. It also emphasized the theme when Matt's family was killed and he decided to join Bacon's army to fight the Indians who were massacring the settlers. I would recommend this book because I could count tons of great reasons to read My Brother, My Enemy.