What a great place to go when you need a break. I really enjoyed the adventures of Gandar, Barto and Malox, the three orphan brothers. This book was really hard to put down, it was exciting, sweet and intriguing. I am looking forward to the next book!!

If you didn't read this book yet you should because you are missing out! Its full of adventure and fun. I rate this 10 star,(I can't on the rating box because it only goes up to 5)and 10 thumbs up!

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Sincerely, Kirkus

In his first novel attempt, Rose has created a fantasy world that makes me feel like I somehow belong there; a world that I can't wait to visit again and again. Tapestry is a tale interwoven with magic and mystery that grabbed my attention and held it until the very last page. I applaud this piece, and I look forward to future releases from this promising author!

I bought this book at the end of my last relationship (a little too late) and realised that barring any major problems in the relationship this little book actually emphasizes all the essential things that a person needs to look at concerning relationships. She writes in very small workable sections that get your mind going. For instance she might use two pages for an introduction then 2 for a forward then the four chapters are made up of 2-3 page topics. Every topic for instance one might be on "small ways to show appreciation" These little topics contain in a very simple forward way how to get back the trust and love in a relationship or how to get the blood flowing in it. I suppose if you are already in a healthy relationship or think about being in a healthy relationship I would suggest the book just as much because it gives you the insight to recognise all the healthy ways to look at a relationship... This book isn't preachy or flat intellectualism, it is a good read. If you need help in a relationship this book makes the idea of bring back life in it very barable. Blessed Be

I recommend this book to anyone in love. It really makes you appreciate and value what you have. It brought tears to my eyes when I realised how much I value the love I have and how special it is.

I found the book very easy to read. I think each chapter should be carefully practiced daily by both partners. I am going to share this book with my Mom and my sister because I think they should seriously apply this book to their relationships.

This is book two of the Egerton Hall trilogy, and much like "The Tower Room," the story is told after the fact. Alice (Sleeping Beauty) is in her room, writing in a journal of roses that her father used as a young man. She tells of the doctors that have come to examine her, why she does not speak or even open her eyes when her family visits her, how quiet the house has been since the night of her party, and the actual preparations for her eighteenth birthday bash. Also, Alice muses upon Jean-Luc, a young Frenchman who was supposed to come to her party but is running late. He might have to climb the gate to reach her. This book is the heaviest in the trilogy, but the most stunning in its simplicity. The reader can figure out what happened to Alice long before she is brave enough to write it down, but your heart breaks again when she finally does. I highly recommend this book and the rest of the trilogy, "The Tower Room" and "Pictures of the Night."

_Watching the Roses_, the second book in the Egerton Hall trilogy, tells the story of Alice, the shyest, most sheltered, most romantic of the three friends. Echoing the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" and a little bit of "Red Riding Hood", it is also the most romantic, most gothic, and darkest of the three books.

Alice was cursed at her christening by her aunt, "the dreaded Violette", who was angry at not being invited; the curse stated that she would be "snuffed out" on her eighteenth birthday. Another aunt tried to mitigate this by wishing her health and a long life, assuring her parents that, while Alice might fall ill or have an accident that year, she would recover. Eighteen years later, the family throws a grand coming-out party for Alice, to defy Violette's dark words. And at this party, Alice is raped.

Alice retreats into silence, hiding in her room and refusing to speak to anyone. Her parents fall into despair as well, drinking and taking sleeping pills, and letting even the precious rose garden go to ruin. Alice sits alone, writing her thoughts in an old notebook of her father's, peppered with his notes on this rose or that. The rose descriptions at the beginning of each of Alice's entries are easy to skim over, but don't--they set the mood for the next installment of the story. Alice wants to break out of her shell, and can't find the strength to do so; the only thing that sustains her are dreams of her long-distance sweetheart, Jean-Luc. How will she "wake up" back into normal life? Read and find out...

Having already read 'The Tower Room', first in the series, and been given a taster of this story, I was eager to read it, and I wasn't disappointed. It begins just as 'The Tower Room' did, with 'once upon a time', but the fairy tale atmosphere is far deeper in this book, as it should be, because Alice's life is much more rarified than Megan's. There is a hint of something awful from the first page, drawing you deeper into the story, and more hints are added as you progress, a sense of doom overhanging the heroine. You really get a sense of Alice, an only child surrounded by doting adults who are all much older than her, very sensitive and very close to her two friends Megan and Bella, who also act as her protectors. The reader is also made aware of how unexperienced Alice is with men, and how she finds this lack of experience rather difficult faced with her friends' progress. There are many little details which lift the book above the norm-Alice's hint of foreign blood, her excellence at Art, the rose descriptions which serve as a frame for the story, a nice touch which links it back to the original. Finally, I was also pleased and impressed that Geras makes Alice sound different from Megan, despite both stories being told in the first person. An excellent read which I keep coming back to.

This is a well written book that expertly envisions the story of Apple's early years. Rose provides an in-depth look at the people involved and draws out the fascinating stories that surround Apple's early existence. This is by far the most accessible and enjoyable account of Apple's founding. The only problem is that it was written in the early '90's and doesn't reach the amazingly entertaining last few years the company has gone through. If only Rose would write a sequel...

Incredibly fascinating book that takes you on an intense and vivid tour of how Apple was started and what went on behind the scenes. Highly readable and very tough to put down.

West of Eden reads like a novel which makes me wonder if it's all true. After having it gather dust on my shelves for years I finally decided to read it and it's fascinating. I had a hard time tearing myself away in order to get my final progamming assignment done. Whether it's all fact or not one thing's for sure: now that Steve Jobs has been back at Apple for a while I hope Mr. Rose writes a followup!

Wild Woman is an exciting romp that leaves you feeling good. By the end of the book you're cheering for the hero and heroine to get together and you believe they were meant for one another. If you enjoy books that are fun to read and leave you feeling good, then be sure to pick this one up. Ms. Rose is an exciting new voice in the romance genre and I look forward to many more good books by her.

Emily Loughlin is no longer the sweet, innocent obedient woman she once was. After years of feeling unfulfilled, stifled, and frustrated, she's realized that her life really isn't her own. It belongs to others who control and manipulate her for self-centered purposes. Her brother believes she's suffered a breakdown. So he asks Jake Wolf, a childhood friend, to pursue her and keep an eye on her while she's away. Dressing and behaving in an unusual manner, Emily scares Jake with her brash assertion of self. Her clothes are sexually provocative and flashy, her desire to launch a career in designing too risky for the conservative crowd she once hung around. Then the unthinkable happens... Jake falls for the new Emily. Rose writes excellent comedy and hits a universal chord in adult women who have never come into their own. Her scenes are vivid, detailed, and hilarious. If you're not laughing, you'll be touched by this heroine's transition.

The book sounded like fun and I liked the cover. Never read this author, but I will in the future! When good girl Emily decided she needed to change her life, she contemplated some pretty crazy things. (The topless beach scene is hysterical.) But one thing she didn't do--and I'm so grateful for--is decide to have a meaningless fling with the first good-looking guy she met. I've read these books, where the woman (stupidly) engages in a boinkfest with an almost total stranger. Haven't they ever heard of diseases or serial killers? Anyway, Emily picked on the wonderful Jake Wolf. She'd known him, the town's resident bad boy as she'd grown up, but Jake found out quickly he really didn't know Emily half as well as he'd thought... or half as well as he'd like. These engaging characters actually grew as people and I believed their happily-ever-after. Try this book. I'll bet you believe it too.

Those familiar with world literature know that Iran has always been home to great poets.
Omar Khayyam and Hafez have been household names in the West for over a century. And Rumi is now almost as popular as a pop-star in the United States.
What few people in the West know is that Persian poetry did not end with the classics.
There was a revival from the 1920s onwards, reaching its peak in the 1970s.
The first phase of the revival produced such poets as Nima Yushij, Hushang Irani and Golchin Gilani.
The second phase produced Mehdi Akhavan and Manuchehr Sheybani.
The third phase proved the richest, producing Simin Behbahani, Nader Naderpour and Yadollah Royai along with Forugh Farrokhzad and Sohrab Sepehri.
In this volume Behbahani, Naderpour and Royai are introduced to the English-speaking public for the first time.
The introduction sets the scene for appreciating these three great poets.
The translations have an easy flow, capturing as much of the different styles of the three poets as possible.
This book is a must for all lovers of poetry.
It is full of gems that must not be missed.
Andrea Keame

Presented in this surprising volume of poetry, the sonnets of Simin Behbahani , the lyrical laments of Nader Naderpour and the playful poetical puzzles of Yadollah Roya'i, present a veritable gift for all lovers of poetry.
The three poets show that poetry, the greatest of Persian arts, is alive and well, although in exile.
It is time that the rest of the world rediscovered Persian poetry.
This book is a good place to start....

While classical poetry from Persia has been known in the West for more than two centuries, it is surprising how little is known about contemporary poetry from Iran and other Persian-speaking lands.
One might come to believe that Rumi, Omar Khayyam and Hafiz had no descendants.
This book, however, introduces three such descendants of Persia's great classical poets.
The best of the three, to my mind, is Mrs. Simin Behbahani who also seems to be the most traditional.
But there are also moments when Naderpour's poetry rises to the loftiest peaks of imagination and eloquence.
Royai's poems are engimatic and intriguing. He is a surrealist in the European, mostly French, style while also maintining roots in the Sufi tradition of classical poets.
The introduction is well-written and informative. It offers a brief history of modern Persian poetry and its principal themes and preoccupations. But it also provides the social and political context in which Persian poetry was modernised.
The translations, though uneven, appear strong and full of life as the original poems.
The introduction mentions a number of other Persian poets, including Sohrab Sepehri and Mehdi Akhavan Salless, known to this reviewer from occasional translations of their work into English and/or French. I think both should have been included in this volume, perhaps, along with another great contemporary of theirs
Manuchehr Yekta'i. May be in another book?
For those who wish to enter the world of mdoern Persian poetry this book is a good primer. Pierre Benedile

I picked up "Towers of Trebizond" mainly because of the title, as I am an avid reader of literature and travel writing on Turley. Macaulay's books seems simple and a good laugh at the first read, but is a book with many layers of meaning. Even the genre of the book is hard to define. On first look it is just a novel, on the second look, it's similar to a travelogue and is no doubt written based on the author's personal experiences. On the third level, it's a dissertation on religion and morality. Through recounting the travels of a group of English missionaries in Turkey, Macaulay brings out the importance of the differences between the East and West, in religion and culture, and also how one sticks to one's impression of the unknown (in this case, Russia) though one has no actual experience or encounter in this regard. The book is illuminating in its discussion of relationships, love, betrayal, friendship, religion and morality and it's ultimately about lives and the choices we make in them. What's right or wrong is not absolute and instead is relative to the environment one lives in. Through the beguiling humour of her characters, Macaulay is able to discuss important issues we confront in our lives without taking sides or being judgemental and leaves us to make our own conclusion about what we value and deem important.

One of the strangest aspect of this excellent book is that the sex of the narrator is left undefined. Most people (including the blurb writer on my edition) assume that Laurie is female, but there is no clear evidence for this; and indeed the adventures described -- in remote rural Turkey in the 1950s -- would be remarkably intrepid for an unaccompanied female. But nowhere is this commented on.

Not only that, but Laurie's lover, Vere, while presumably being male, is never explicitly referred to as such and the author goes to some lengths to avoid using gender specific pronouns.

Which raises the question, whether the "sin" which Laurie is in, and which excludes him/her from the Church, is more serious than heterosexual adultery.

With a minimum of fuss and a maximum of reading pleasure, Macaulay's narrator takes us along on her adventures in northern Turkey with her eccentric, camel-riding Anglican aunt and a grumpy missionary. Her aunt's mission is to study the condition of women in Turkey; the priest's, to convert Muslims; and the narrator's, to draw pictures for her aunt's "Turkey book" and enjoy some travel. This simple premise yields a rich harvest of comic character studies and a gradually unfolding, more serious subtext in which Laurie, the narrator, struggles with her agnosticism and the adultery she has been carrying on for ten years. Macaulay has a wonderfully deadpan writing style marked by compound sentences strung together with "and" and often ending in a short, droll phrase. She is so amusing that you hardly notice how emotionally reserved her narrator is, as she recounts her Anatolian adventures with and without her aunt and the priest - exploring Trebizond, heading into the mountains in search of good fishing, alone on the camel with a high fever and money running out, cadging favors from a fellow Brit whose personal duplicity she has discovered and could expose, meeting her mother and her mother's wealthy "protector" by chance in Syria, and traveling to Jerusalem. Until it's back in print, find it at the library or through used book sellers.

This book is great... it has helped my family a great deal in dealing with the loss of my brother... I only wish that there had been more poems... It touches the heart in only a way that someone who has gone through the experience could... i am sorry that she had to go through what she went through but i am greatful that finally someone had been able to expression what others like myself feel... Thank you....

Only a mother can understand the loss of a child. For those mothers that have suffered just a loss and are unable to express their feelings, I recommend reading Trophies and Treasures. I thank the author for finding the courage to express her feelings and bless her for her generous heart in sharing those feelings. God Bless

I found this book to be written openly and honestly. You are able to see, through the words of a grieving mother, her search for peace. This book is beneficial not only for those who are grieving now, but for those who have suffered grief in the past; and for friends and family as well.

This lady sure does know how to cook !! Other "chefs" sound like they get tired of food and can't tell you about their recipes....not Ms Shulman !! She's good. I have a few of her vegetarian recipe books and I never get tired of them.... In fact, if you were to come into my kitchen and see how mutilated her cookbooks are, I would be embarrassed. She gives you a little narrative to each recipe and that really make you want to try them. GOOD ONE !!

THE VEGETARIAN FEAST is a real trooper of a cookbook. Its endurance in print and in my kitchen are testimony to its strengths: 1) Mediterranean inspiration is apparent; 2) the author is conscious of not going overboard on high fats and offers some lightened recipes; 3) the food is attractive and varied; 4) every recipe includes suggestions for inclusion in 3- and 4-course menus; 5) there are some highly workable recipes here you cannot find anywhere else (or at least easily); short cuts, like using canned cooked beans, are suggested where appropriate; 7) most, if not all, ingredients can be easily found, even beyond metropolitan areas. Most of the dishes are from the author's catering repertoire, including her easy signature wheat crackers. This is a great book to ransack for ideas even if you do not ultimately use specific recipes. Vegans beware: eggs, honey and dairy are present.

When can you ever say that about a cookbook? I got online because I need a new copy: my 1986 copy is dog-eared, my dad re-glued it for me and it's finally coming apart again. If you want real recipes with useful instructions and a french flair for flavor, check this one out--it's been my favorite ever since I left home.

I truly loved this book. For once, because it's part of my own past, Paul Hertel was my mother's uncle. And second, I like Mrs. Falkenhagens style. It was great for me to learn about my ancestors. Now I understand much better my own urge to discover the world.

"Wilderness Beginnings" is truly an adventure story about two people facing seemingly insurmountable odds both in Pre-WWII Germany and in the wilderness of British Columbia during the 1930's. This true-life book is extremely well written and an easy read. The story draws you in from the start and holds your attention throughout the remarkable journey. There are times it is difficult to believe this is not fiction. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages.

A true life adventure of a young German immigrant who migrates to the wilderness of British Columbia during the mid 1930's. The adventures and brushes with death from the natural elements remind me of Jack London's "Call of the Wild".