Normally I don't have patience to read novels. I ordered Bitter Root Blood because the cover looked interesting but as soon as I read the first page...I was hooked! This book reads like a well written movie...the characters and surroundings come alive and surround you...this is probably one of the most creative works I've ever read.

This book is very easy to read and easy to understand. It brings the entire discussion of reincarnation and Christianity into perspective. I highly recommend it.

Hayne's Automotive books are the best. Very informative. Everything is explained plainly and thoroughly. The pictures are extremely well done and very helpful as well. I highly recommend this, and all auto manuals by Hayne's

Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "The wild and wonderous novel of the glory days of sailing ships -- of Cleo Penhallow, a tantalizing beauty who is all things to all men and more ... Cleo propped herself up on her elbows and studied Mark's slim body. She reached over and playfully unbuttoned his trouser front. He didn't move, instead he closed his eyes and smiled. She quickly stripped off her undergarment and like a mountain wildcat she pounced upon him, her warm breath exciting him all the more ... There is a sub-plot of murder as we follow the sailing routes around the world during the gold rush and tea trade era, before the advent of steamships."

A book itself in need of very few word to describe its greatness. A wonderful interpretation of the migrating soul!

When in print I had purchased 3 to pass along to friends.

This book is a treasure. Mr. Van Dyke obviously has the soul of a poet, and within his graceful prose he paints vivid and soul-stirring pictures of some of the most beautiful places on earth. He describes in fine detail observations he made on a long trip, on horseback in 1898/99, over, around, and through the lower deserts of Arizona and California. He leaves no stone unturned as he describes the magnificence and beauty of each aspect of the desert, and pulls no punches in his criticism of man's destructive intrusions. To Van Dyke, the play of light and shadow, the star-pocked night skies, the ragged and jagged ranges of mountains, the perfectly adapted plants and animals, the sometimes shifting sands, and the silent river barrier known as the Colorado are each part of the unique sum which is, in its own harsh and angular way, a paradise of color, form, and life: "The Desert."

Speaking as one who has lived on and wandered through this same desert for nearly forty years, I can attest to the accuracy of Van Dyke's physical descriptions and, perhaps more importantly, I can note that I've found here both the magic and the majesty which he so ably describes. Still, this isn't a book for everyone. Those who prefer the gleam of glass towers and the roar of jet planes to flaming sunsets and yapping coyotes, save your money. Van Dyke wrote, "Not in the spots of earth where plenty breeds indolence do we meet with the perfected type. It is in the land of adversity ... that finally emerges the highest manifestation."

He was right, and he leaves us "The Desert" as evidence.

This is really good book

When Sean and Brian stay with their friend Alan and his family in the wooded area of Grizzly Hill for the weekend, they are told to stay out of the woods, but their curiosity leads them to the edges of the woods where they see glowing eyes and clawed footprints.

An excellant first book for the soon to be fly fishing addict. Clear, concise and extremely well illustrated, "Fishing Nymphs, Wet Flies & Streamers: Subsurface Techniques for Trout in Streams", introduces the novice fly fisherman to terminology, fly presentation, stream entomology and an understanding of the stream environment enough so one could enter their local fly shop and feel they have a starting point from which to ask questions. The photos and illustrations are not gratuitous but lend extreme clarity to the trouts behavior. The text is concise enough to move you through a broad introduction to the subject quickly and clearly but you will certainly want to explore more books on the sport to round out your understanding. I wish this series by "The Complete Fly Fisherman" (check out the other titles) had been my first books because they are so clear. Buy them as a gift for yourself or someone you know that is starting out. They'll like it.