I really enjoyed the book. It covers stories with wonderful details. The book allows for extra detail, but at times there are some irrelevant stories.

Everyone's friend in need, country girl Lizzie Hammil, inherits half of a New York advertising agency. She starts her adventure by flying to New York to pick up her half of the reins. Her partner, Alex Whitmore, wants to buy her out and send her back to Podunk Corners, and finally have control of "his" agency after years of dealing with her instinct and adventure driven uncle. Instead they make a bet for the control of the company. She needs to show a profit for the month she runs the company while he takes care of his twin, and very rambuncious, four year old boys and home without the use of a housekeeper. Who is going to win? A fun, quick read. Ms. Weaver created likealbe characters and the humor and chemistry between Lizzie and Alex was great. Lizzie is a capable and smart woman and is not afraid to go with her instincts. Alex learns that not all in life is best when approached logically, especially love and parenthood. And you can't help but like a man who loves his children. I especially enjoyed "the bet" and Alex's trials and tribulations at being Mr. Mom. Never underestimate the skills of Motherhood. Ms. Weaver reminds us, and created a humorous and warm love story to remind us.

A great photography collection compiled by Elton John when you view the show at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA. He has over 2500 photos in his collection and the show is a good look at the history of photography even though it only exhits 320 works from the collection.

The "heroine" of Der Hahn ist Tot, Rosemarie, is an interesting character who sucks you into her isolated life. The book offers an array of seemily unsympathetic characters who come together to provide the circumstances through which Rosemarie navigates herself. The disappointments of her past have apparently left Rosemarie a numb woman with little or no understanding of the difference between right and wrong, love and obsession. However, the more one reads the more one is intrigued by the warped sense of reality that permeates Rosemarie's actions. It was a refreshing book in the sense that her path is constantly unexpected and yet rational for her. This combination seems to infect the reader with an indifference to what happens to most characters and, yet, a desire to follow Rosemarie's story to the end.

There have been many books that I have picked up and began reading only to discover the book didn't answer all my questions. With books that give a history, I like a complete story, not a book that assumes you already know a great deal about the subject. This book provides a very satisfying history of the English Formal Garden and a lot of inspirational subject matter. A great book for any garden lover or lover of the English Landscape.

This is an excellent book for those newly interested in Pablo Picasso. It has a thorough history of his life, and a solid sampling of his artwork, not just the most famous examples. The writing style is somewhat informal, which can be good or bad, depending on your tastes. Also, it is a very compact size (about the size and shape of a CD) so it's wonderfully portable, but also pretty short.

Children's book author Dana Whittington wouldn't have found him if the wood box hadn't been getting empty. On her porch, covered with snow, was a man that she pulled into her remote cabin before he could quite freeze to death. With the phones out and roads closed, she's alone with this stranger. Pushing aside proprieties, she strips him and gets his unconscious body warm, realizing that he looks like an old fashioned desperado. As they come to know one another, Dana's impressed by his obvious love of his daughter. She's terribly shocked to later learn she'd harbored a fugitive who had been serving a life sentence.
Seven months of helpless, frustrated anger characterizes his life. Remy Leverette is not a murderer, despite what they say. Friends have turned their backs on him, so he doesn't dare trust the truth to a stranger. He can't forget the sight of his wife on the bedroom carpet as if she had passed out again; then he smelled the copper scent of blood. He worries that his daughter would grow up as he had, always trying to atone for his father's sins. But he refuses to leave a legacy of shame for his daughter; instead, he's determined to prove his innocence. With no where else to go in the frigid Canadian winter, Remy returns to the resort where Dana works on her books, slipping into the main building and hoping to conceal his presence. When she discovers Remy, Dana cannot bring herself to betray the man who thinks so much of his daughter, or even her own heart.
The honest, down-to-earth warmth and motivations of the characters in FIGITIVE HEARTS by Ingrid Weaver results in a very pleasant read. Although the plot is markedly predictable, the quality and depth of characterizations can't help but touch the heart. Even the cat Mortimeter, who stars in Dana's children's books, makes his presence delightfully known through the narrative, as he tolerates the antics of his humans with grace. Recommended.

This book presents a very detailed historical account regarding Georgian styled homes. It does not provide much interior design details/suggestions. It also has more of an European slant than American which makes it difficult to bring together architectural details that would look more appropriate in the US.

If you love Ingrid Bergman, here is a book full of beautifully done professional photos of her. These 99 photos are taken as far back as 1935, when Ingrid was starting as an actress in Sweden, and up to 1970 during her filming of "Walk in the Spring Rain". Though all photos are in black and white, they shine with her luminescence and her peaches and cream beauty. The book's focus is the photos, but there is an introduction that gives a short, but interesting biography of her career. This is a good book for a Bergman collector or a Hollywood legend movie buff.

This book gives the reader a good idea of what it is like to live in the Twin Oaks community. Less theoretical than books on the subject by founding members, it reveals what it is actually like to spend time in the community. It was an easy, entertaining read that still managed to inform.