This book gives a wonderful vision of a China that does not exists anymore - with lots of color and vivid description of an historic period and a most interesting foreign culture.

Marian Devon writes some of the very best current regencies. They're charming, well-written (as so few are), and true to the Regency era -- unlike many regencies which could really have been set in any era, given the absence of historical detail. Very highly recommended for those looking for something charming and witty.

This book argues for a synergy between child and adolescent development, systems thinking, action research, and professional ethics as Comer helps us to understand how various social institutions must be connected for school reform to be comprehensive and lasting. Much of what is written about school reform fails to consider the impact of institutions beyond the school. American school reform has been like the blind men and the elephant,with pieces of the school being identified as needing reform rather than the whole system and the institutions that support it.There is a common sense about Comer's ideas that seem so obvious. One wonders why his ideas have not become standard operating procedure. Ironically, almost any of the curriculum reforms can fit under the Comer umbrella.

I'm not into short stories but a friend gave me a copy of this book and I was surprised at how engulfed I was by the stories and the poems. Antoinette Grove's "Trees of His Own," Nnedi Okorafor's "Flooded Forest" and Andrena Zainski's poem, "The Narrative Thread or Practices of Kanthas," really struck me. This was a good read.

The author did an excellent job at including many famous shrines throughout the world. Includes many pictures that gives the reader a more focused attention. Many sites include the famous Fatima, Lourdes, Garabandal, Guadalupe, Scottsdale Arizona and many more! Recommended for those interested in the many appartitions and the messages of Our Lady to the World. Great Book I recommend to all. I am not a Catholic, but a Lutheran, and I love this sort of stuff. God Bless!

This book is an EXCELLENT resource which lists all of the major Marian shrines worldwide. It has text which explains the history behind each site, where it is located, times when services are held at the shrine (excellent for planning visitations or pilgrammages...) and has beautiful full color photos of the interior and exterior of each site! It is the next best thing to being at each location. I reccomend this book to all who have a fascination or devotion to Mary.

Silver Right is a moving and telling story of my family struggle to achieve equality in America. This book does a very good job of relating the feeling, fear and turmoil that I felt during those four long years of being the only black family at an all white school in the Mississippi Delta in the sixites. Silver Rights goes beyond the actions of people during that time. It looks at the cilvil right movement on a personal level. This book will make you laugh, and it will also make your cry

Covers the entire Philippines, large portion where the textiles are on people!! Must have for the collector. Get the book while you still can...

This is a delightful romance by Marian Devon (of whose work I have read little). At the beginning, we witness two daughters of the vicar going reluctantly to play music for their grand relations. The vicar's daughters are not good enough for dinner, but acceptable as unpaid entertainment. So Miss Haydon (Lucy Haydon) fumes about the situation through the evening, and contrives a way to bring her younger sister Camilla to the notice of the very eligible guest of the evening Mr Carnaby More, who has recently inherited an estate. While Lucy's aunt Lady Tilney is the usual dragon, Lucy can understand her desperation to marry her daughter off suitably. Lucy's cousins Ada and Nigel (Lord Tilney) are very nice - no wicked cousins here. There is a wealth of secondary characters who make the book come alive, from Lady Tilney herself and the gentle absent-minded Reverend Tilney and his socially astute wife (present only at the end of the book) to several smugglers.

Lucy is happy to see Mr Carnaby More taking an interest in her sister, but is less pleased with his friend Mr Jerrold Drury's comments about the relationship or for that matter with Mr Drury's increasing interest in herself. Why does Mr Drury accompany her to her pupil's and why is he so patient with a small boy (from kite-flying to sea-bathing)? Lucy puzzles that out, as tensions rise within their small gentry circle, and as Mr Drury displays an unhealthy interest in smugglers. Is he a Preventative (a Customs officer) in disguise? And are his insinuations about an old friend to be believed?

If you are looking for a dark gloomy book filled with high drama this is not it. There is plenty of wry humor, including Lucy's disastrous attempt at seabathing. There are a couple of scenes in the graveyard and the pulpit that combine some drama with romance and mild sexual tension. There is the wonderful ending, where a proposal of marriage is received distinctly casually. Read the book.

Rating = 4.9
Recommended = Very highly.

Marian Devon is at her peak in these two romances. Full of laughter and fun, you admire the heroines, both are very funny yet very realistic. You feel like you want to jump in the pages and join in the fun. AS for the heros, very rich (ofcourse) and very likable. I especially like "Sir Sham", it is filled with delightful funny characters. Read these stories and you'll get a taste of Regency romance as it is supposed to be written. Barb from Spofford, NH