I am enrolled in Corporations I in law school right now and was dying until I purchased this book on the advice of another satisfied student. So far it is such OUTSTANDING resourse I feel like I'm cheating. A lifesaver.

UPDATE: The book was also a lifesaver during the exam I just took. A great resource.

This is an excellent biography, carefully researched and documented, of a man of great character. This interesting book thoroughly explores the life of the favorite son of the South's most famous general, admired by all-- both North and South. Must reading by those interested in Southern History and American Cavalry.

Eleanor Agnes Lee was the daughter of General Robert E. Lee, the famous Conferderate Commander in the War Between the States. This is the journal from her girlhood. I thoroughly enjoyed it. There are many books about Robert E. Lee, but there are very few about the rest of his family. This is one of the only sources on his third, beautiful daughter, Agnes, and lets us see better the life of the Lee family. It tells of her faith, her struggles, and her wonderful relationship with her family. I loved this book!

This was a fascinating study of our local history, I live approximately one block from the site of the Monte Vista Hotel, and I had no idea it ever existed there. Some of the other buildings I do remember from my childhood but the stories that go with them were til now were unknown. Like a lake at the end of Hillrose street, I had heard about it several times but I always thought it was closer to Sunland Park and now I see pictures of how beautiful it must have been there. I would greatly recommend this series to anyone who is interested in a study of our local history, Ms Tiernan has taken the time to shuffle through old newpaper articles and family histories and brought them all together into several dramatic story lines that are well worth reading. Sunland is my home town, born and raised, I always thought it was a beautiful place and you've made it even better, Thank you.

I really enjoyed the poems and would like to hear more from the author. Her poems were very touching and uplifting. I would like to encourage her to keep writing because she can help soo many others through her experiences. Mary is definetely speaking for those of us who are afraid to. Please continue to write it will help us all to come out and tell.

I had vainly considered myself to be fairly knowledgable about current American writers until that beautiful Sunday morning of 7 September 97 when I turned to the Book World section of my Washington Post and read an essay written by a septuagenarian author named Mary Lee Settle. She told it like it is, revealing how the literary marketplace of modern-day America has slid into a disgraceful period of not publishing unless it has a virtual guarantee of profit. Their business theory: only young writers can bring us a long stream of profit. I read her personal revelations with interest, likening them to my own experiences. For I, decades ago, had four hardcover trade books published by three different,notable publishers, and now - after a hiatus self-imposed in order to make myself financially secure - was finding it difficult to get published again. My age?

"Who is this woman?" I asked myself. "Her statements," I know, "are nothing but the truths. She tells it like it is. How refreshing!"

Then, on the subsequent Sunday, I was joyriding around on the net, accessed Amazon.com, and saw that this lady who was apparently considered "over-the-hill" had 39 - yes, 39! - books listed.

How could I not have read her? "I must correct my deficiencies," I told my deficiencies," I told myself. So, I scanned up-and-down, perusing the titles of her 39 entries. So many made the decision hard. Probably because I am, as she, a native Virginian and had just returned from a short vacation exploring the back roads of West Virginia, I chose her "Know Nothing" - a book billed as a novel that is a history of the western part of the State of Virginia, just prior to the Civil War and that land subsequently becoming the State of West Virginia.

I found it to be more than a history. I marveled at its rare eloquence; the conversations of Blacks with Blacks, Blacks with white people, and white people about Blacks. The vernacular and patois were perfect. Except, true to the actual;ity of that era, the term 'Black' was never used. It had not been invented at that time. It was always 'nigger' - a designation then, of itself, mot bearing any rancor or disrespect.

Soon, I was in love again. I saw that there existed out there, somewhere in the netherland of authors personally undiscovered, a will-o'the wosp who eluded me. She piqued my imagination. She of the intriguingly-beguiling persona - a mature person of the same generation as I, who had been blessed with the gift of verbally portraying people and events as they really were. I must meet her, I thought. She lives in Charlottesville, only about a 2-hour drive from my home in Fairfax.

Then, after the impetuosity of initial fascination wore off, I realized I am still in love with love. It would be best for us to never meet. What if a faux pas were to burst my bubble? I have found that the older one gets the more he or she needs a visionary shelter, a person who serves as an icon of one's dreams. That is the raison d'etre' of writers; to be the untouchable cloud in a heaven of imagination.

I recommend this vintage book to any and all, especially the current generation of "people of color."

Charlottesville, VA, home of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe and of the University of Virginia, now offers up a new contribution: Mary Lee Settle. This book is a thrilling read, yet it's so evocative of the time in which it is set that Prof. Stephen Innes of UVa assigns it to his undergrad's (of whom, by the way, I've never been one). Try it, you'll like it!

I originally thought that the main focus of this book would be about veterinarians, in fact, it covers the whole range of animal related careers, from working in a pet store to becoming a vet, and all the places you could go after you've become a vet. It has a very helpful chapter on the process of getting in to vet school. The financial aid and acceptance policies are different from those of other schools, and all fall under a single overseeing board for all the schools. All the schools are listed here along with contact info for each. All very detailed.

It was the great literary critic Northrup Frye who said that most of western literature has the bible as its source. The children's book, Snuffles Makes a Friend has a resemblance to the biblical story of Noah and where the lion and the lamb lived together without the lamb being consumed. We all know that polar bears are powerful creatures yet in Snuffles Makes a Friend, Snuffles, the polar bear, is a vegetarian. Snuffles prefers raspberry tea and sweet potatoes to meat. The issue of social anxiety is also raised in this book as Snuffles makes friends with her next door neighbor Percy the Penguin, the latter being quite shy. This book is beautifully illustrated and printed on durable paper. It is a fair example of literature which aims for the facilitation of social interaction among its young readers and fair-mindedness towards neighbors.

This is a great book, if you can get throught the first chapter. I had to read this book over the summer for school and I thought it woul be a real boring experience, but it turned out, I really liked it. It is a story about Nathaniel Bowditch, he grows up during the Revolutionary War and loves to learn. He becomes an indentured slave because his father can not support him and his sibilings. This does not stop him. He becomes a ship captain and you go through most of his life hardships and all.

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch was an excellent book. It was hard for me to put the book down. Nathaniel Bowditch-Nat-has life long dreams of going to Harvard. He is wonderful at math. The only problem with Nat's dream is his family is poor and the Revolutionary War is going on. His family has many seafaring men in it. Soon he sails and on his trip he learns many different languages, many errors in Moore's book of navigation, and discovers a new way for taking a lunar. This is a very good book!

This book was so well written! My boys ages 6 and 9 loved this book and so did their Dad. They read well past bedtime every night and talked about "Nat" during the day. When we finished the book my boys were interested in stars and navigation and had a keen interest in sailing ships. They even looked up Nathanial Bowditch on the interent and found the details fascinating. "Wow, it's a piece of living history," my 9 year old said of the story.