I love this book because it presents a powerful message in a simple, unsentimental way. The illustrations are amazing -- I'm partial because my daughter and ex-husband were models for several of the illustrations that appear in the book! So thank you, Don Tate. You did a wonderful job, as did the author. A beautiful story about something most of us have a hard time doing: loving our enemies.

simply beautiful, both visually and linguistically...powerful meaning as well...I recommend it highly.

Katherine Grace Bond's talent shines through the deceptively simple prose of this heartfelt, authentic-feeling story. Other reviewers have already posted the general story line. I just want to add that many books in the Christian kids' market drip with saccharine and go for a forced sunny ending; this book is a refreshing exception that will help you open a healthy, substantive, character-building discussion with a pre-teen you love. The combined efforts of a white author and a black illustrator speak convincingly not merely to the issue of race, but also to the core issue of what happens when you love your enemies. A small gem of a book.

I am 34 years old and this was my favorite book as a child. I am certain I learned to read from it and can still smell the pickle and the chocolate mint cookie. I am buying it now for my godchild who is 5 with the hope that she will love it as much as I

A little bunny follows his nose is about is a story about a young bunny who has nothing to do so decides to go on a venture to see what he can smell. While he is on his journey he meets many other kids like him who are collecting all kinds of things for their moms. He goes to the parents houses and smells the things that thier are making and this books lets you smell them too by having a scratch and smell tab on the side. This book is a nice book and would by a fun book to read to your child.

I have a 3 yr old & a 5 yr old...out of there 100's of books that we got at the liberary this is one of the few that they made us go to the store to buy it for them, the 1st one we got was taken everywhere with them,& they lost it & they wanted it replaced right then & there this is the best childrens book I'VE read in a long time. their favorate smell are the cookies,they tell me they wish they could eat them!, anyway this is deffinatly a 5 star book!!!

Romancing Rose by Cathy Yardley leads off with the story of a young woman whose grandmother is determined that she not forget her Oriental heritage. In a bargain to get the old lady off her back for a year, Rose takes a course in her culture, and is in for a huge surprise. She never wanted to fall for an Oriental man, but love does not always do what we want.

Katherine Greyle's contribution DRAGON FOR DINNER, brings her Regency comedic flair to the modern world. Su Ling does her best to be a rebel, even bringing home what she thinks is a motorcycle riding bad boy for dinner just to shock her family. Mitch is not what he seems, and both are about to learn how to prioritize family and love.

THE SPICE BAZAAR moves to Indian culture and gives Sarbeeha Johnson a great start to her career. Arranged marriages and deceptions prove to be quite a tangle for a young couple.

Finally, Karen Harbaugh concludes in LOVE.COM, and two young people with match making parents learn what love means.

***** Normally, multi cultural romance means that the hero and heroine will be African American, and once in a while, Hispanic. There are, however, other cultures, and this collection of stories sheds new light on the Oriental one, with emphasis on those of mixed race. *****

..."While Ms. Johnson's story (THE SPICE BAZAAR) blends
in with the others in the anthology by way of the
generally formulaic plot and the theme of love
overcoming all, the author's authentic rendering
of colorful details, in an easy, readable style
plunge the reader into the complicated web of
expatriate Indian society, still (and perhaps
forever), clinging to everything Indian that
even Indians back home are eager to shed.


Ms. Johnson brings to vivid life the whole
Indian community as plans for Nalini's wedding
speed up and relatives arrive from
around the world. Nalini, now in Chicago
and Lokesh at the Spice Bazaar pine for the
love that must die for duty. The story
has all the ingredients of a suspense-filled
romance and the reader is kept guessing the
fate of the lovers upto the last page."

"The book will entertain on a rainy afternoon
and is a good buy for some light hearted
reading. And perhaps with stories like
'The Spice Bazaar', Indian culture,
like others, will have found its place
in popular and not just esoteric fiction."

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Book Review "Romance Vs. Tradition: A New Tale" by Shireen Joanna...While Ms. Johnson's story (THE SPICE BAZAAR) blends in with the others in the anthology by way of the generally formulaic plot and the theme of love overcoming all, the author's
authentic rendering of colorful details, in an easy, readable style plunge the reader into the complicated web of expatriate
Indian society, still (and perhaps forever), clinging to
everything Indian that even Indians back home are eager to shed.


Ms. Johnson brings to vivid life the whole Indian community as
plans for Nalini's wedding speed up and relatives arrive from
around the world. Nalini, now in Chicago and Lokesh at the
Spice Bazaar pine for the love that must die for duty. The story
has all the ingredients of a suspense-filled romance and the
reader is kept guessing the fate of the lovers upto the last page."

"The book will entertain on a rainy afternoon and is a good buy for some light hearted reading. And perhaps with stories
like 'The Spice Bazaar', Indian culture, like others, will have
found its place in popular and not just esoteric fiction."...

I found the book as helpful as the telephone yellowpages in a strange town. The easy to use format leads you to the right place quickly and efficiently. I found things I didn't even know I was looking for. Excellent easy to handle guidebook.

This is the 4th edition and I buy it every year. It's very resourceful and saves much time from trips to the library. Very thorough and credible in the quality of links. The tiny cd travels lightly in my planner, as well.

Once again Ms. Lindell and Dr. Hersh have done excellent job...whenever I need to find something fast I just look it up, and go! This small handy pocket book is packed full of websites, for all your medical & health internet searching needs, there isn't a subject or topic that you can't find! You name it this book has it! Well laid out and easy to use and small enough to take with you! I highly recommend this excellent resource book to any health, medical, or legal professional. Great resource for students, too!

In this book, Kate and Justin are together (again), Chelsea and Connor are flirting, Grace likes this pilot guy, and Alec, well, I dont really know anything about his situation. Anyways, all Im gonna say that out of the 2 books that i read, this one is definatly the best. Im not gonna say what happens in this book other than I already said cuz if I say one thing, it'll lead to another, and I'll say that, then I would tell you what the whole book is about, then you wont have 2 read it.

i think this book is better than the first one. ROMANCE is the main topic in this book...kate and justin are back together, and things are as good as ever. chelsea hooked up with someone and so did conner...if you liked the first book then you will love this one!

i loved this book!!! i thought this was one of the best books in the series.in this book connor and chelsia finaly get together!!!and something big happens at the end but im not gonna say anything else u will have to find out for your self and read this awsome book which i recomend to anyone who liked the first ine because this one is much better!!!!

History has portrayed Millard Fillmore as a weak and pompous president; when instead 'he possessed extraordinary strength of character and an enviable tenacity of purpose --as well as an admirable personality.' The cause for this discrepancy is because most history books have been based on the reports of his enemies, most notably Thurlow Weed and William Seward. Fillmore, who assumed the presidency upon Zachary Taylor's unexpected death, rose above factional politics, allayed sectional strife by promoting the Compromise of 1850 and was a respectable, if at times indecisive, president.

Serving only two and a half years as president, it is not surprising that Millard Fillmore has been given short shrift among historians. This book helps history rediscover the importance of Fillmore's brief tenure. Fillmore assumed office with the country in turmoil over the question of extending slavery to the territories acquired after the war with Mexico. His predecessor, President Taylor, was presumably on an course which would have led to civil war in 1850. Fillmore carefully guided the country toward compromise and away from war. Although his enemies argue that there should be no compromise with slavery, Fillmore's prudent, but politically unpopular stance did preserve the union. Unfortunately, future presidents did not follow Fillmore's example and the country was split in two as a result of uncompromising sectionalism. This book is an excellent study of both President Fillmore and the rise and fall of the Whig Party. The book traces Fillmore's career along with the founding of the Whig party in New York as a protest again the secret organization of the Masonic Lodge, to the accession of a Whig president, to the party's degeneration into a nativist, secret organization of "Know-Nothings."

A wonderfu read for anyone interested in the Republican Party. Fillmore's political life was tied to the rise and fall of the Whig Party and the subsequent replacement by the Republican Party. The reader will discover that the role of the daily newspaper when reporting about politics has not changed since its inception.

A young woman is found murdered outside a lesbian bar, and Kate Delafield is on the case. The young woman was a prostitute and a junkie who was rejected by her judgmental parents, all of which gives Kate a plethora of suspects. During the investigation, Kate has a brief liaison with a woman from the lesbian bar, and ultimately reconnects with the lesbian community, which she hadn't done for years. And when Kate discovers who killed the young woman, it's a jolt to the reader as well, even if, like myself, you suspected it. Forrest is a gifted writer, showing in her second Delafield mystery the reasons why she has such a devoted following.

This was the first in the Delafield series that I read and I've been an addict ever since. This book, along with Beverly Malibu, is one of the best in the series and an excellent read. Great story of how lesbians react to their own who wear badges, and how those women officers deal with it.

This book is perfect to me. Every actor seems to be alive. And if you know L.A., you know the Nightwood Bar and every place in this book.

In the Delafield series, this book ranks as one of the most, if not the most, meaningful stories. It didn't have the love scenes I so deeply enjoy reading but the story line more than made up for that. Excellent reading!

Katherine V. Forrest, in her Kate Delafield series manages to present a tight, taut mystery along with a political statement, which she doesn't present in a heavy-handed manner. The two just seem to blend seemlessly and if you want to ignore the message (if you can), then you can simply enjoy the mystery. Kate and her dullard partner, Ed Taylor, investigate the murder of Teddie Crawford, a very "out" gay man. In fact, even he calls himself a queen. Teddie was stabbed about 40 times, which indicates to Kate that it was more than just a simple robbery. The first half of the book describes Kate and Ed cornering the killer. The fact that the killer, himself, was hurt badly is a big help to Kate as well as the description given by one of Teddie friends, Gloria. Watching Kate using her interrogative skills to trap this man is very tense, especially since she knows that without a confession all they have is circumstantial evidence. As good as the "law" part of the story is, the "order" part is really more fascinating and suspenseful. Kate has found out that the killer's attorney is someone she knows slightly but someone who knows her secret. Throughout the trial, she wonders how he will try to bring it out and taint her testimony. Sadly, no matter what the outcome of this fictional trial, Forrest shows that gaybashing is alive and well in these United States.

I read this book in one afternoon. I was drawn in by the emotion of the killing as well as the trial. I found this book to display the court system at it's weakest and loved the heroine, Kate.

I loved this book. I just found the Kate Delafield series and can't wait to read all the books in this series.

The author tells a modern allegory about the sacredness of the human soul, its needs, longings and hidden potentials for healing. It poses that Mental Health Services fail in the long run by offering people medication rather than a movement toward wholeness. He demonstrates a path with heart where all roads--both for therapist and client--lead inward to creative and mystical elements.

This is a must read for therapists, patients, clients or anyone on a voyage of personal discovery.

Wish there were more novels with such touching subject matter. Exceptional!

Mystics in the street is a refreshing humanistic view of the essential aspects of psychotherapy: spirituality, mythology, ritual, love, grace.

The author's grasp of the vital creative, imaginative and mystical elements of life relieves us of our sense of personal inadequacy by confirming it then transcending it. He affirms our intrinsic wisdom enabling us to embrace our own process of being and becoming. This book renews my sense of enthusiasm in my practice of treating people vs. disorders.

Bryon Sabatino M.C. Psychotherapist

This is a first rate travel book on Greece, covering some of the mainland and several interesting islands in the Aegean Sea. Author Katherine Kizilos, daughter of a man who emigrated from Greece to Australia, does not cover all of the country, but such is not her intention. She brings to life some of the various corners of Greece, and does so with wit, enthusiasm, and in an informative manner.

She begins the book with visits to several islands. We travel to Syros, an island that is struggling but is still productive, with a declining though still active seaport. She takes us to Thira, the shattered island as she calls it, the ancient name now in use again, though in more recent times it was known as Santorini. Once part of the Minoan civilization, a cataclysmic volcanic eruption nearly destroyed the island around some 3500 years ago and may have been the source of the eventual extinction of the Minoans. The island's ruins boast many of the hallmarks of that great civilization, including multi-storied villas equipped with running water and flushing toilets. Now, it is filled with sweating, complaining tourists she writes, many of whom are not appreciative of the ancient ruins or even of the old ways of the islands, and has gone in part from an island of proud fishermen and farmers to one of shopkeepers and waiters dependent on tourism. We also visit Lesbos, most famous for being the island of Sappho, less so for the undeservedly obscure Theophrastus, who was renown in ancient times, esteemed by Aristotle; regrettably the island's more famous ancient artist overshadows him. The island is subject to periodic pilgrimages by lesbians, to the combined embarrassment and wonderment of some of the island's residents. I would have liked that the spent more time on the island of Ikaria, but she was pressed for time. Not one of the "stony, sun-flooded" islands that dot the Aegean, instead it is rich and verdant, and for a time was an independent country, as it was the first northern Aegean island to free itself from Turkish rule.

I really enjoyed her visit to Patmos, the so-called island of the apocalypse. It was on this island where St. John wrote the Book of Revelation, his "esoteric and doom-laden prophecy." I loved how she compared it with Thira; in that island, the results of an apocalyptic upheaval are easily visible, yet on Patmos "the dark thread of apocalypse" was invisible, difficult to see, but perhaps more real. Kizilos visited the shrine where St. John was said to have written, yet was unable to get any sense of the man or his writings, instead encountering yet more tourists, oblivious to the deeper meanings of the cave where he worked, directionless hedonists, filled with "manic, purposeless haste."

I was surprised she made a trip to Istanbul, home to a small and declining Greek population. Caught in a perhaps an increasingly Muslim society, victims still of a past (though perhaps improving) Greece-Turkey rift, many stubbornly hang on in that ancient city, once capital of the Greek Byzantine Empire, and still home to the head of the Greek Orthodox Church. I enjoyed how she contrasted the Greeks who call Istanbul home to the non-Greeks who call Thrace in northeastern Greece their home. There we met Turks, Muslims who have been in Greece many generations and know no other home, as well as even a small community of Nubians, descended from servants of an Ottoman emperor and a group of nomads, the Sarakatsans, who had once grazed their flocks on the peaks of the Balkans, but now have largely abandoned those ways. Yet all of these people are part of Greece too, ethnic minorities that are not always accepted or understood by those in Athens but are all a part of Greece.

A good portion of the book was spent in the towns of the Peloponnese near the Gulf of Corinth where her father grew up. It was here more than anywhere else in the book I got a sense of what it was like to live and grow up in Greece. Like most of the rest of Greece, it is a land of declining villages, as sons and daughters flee to busy Athens for jobs or even overseas. Olive groves grow weedy with brambles, grape vines are no longer tended, houses once inhabited for generations lie abandoned, in some areas only the scattered shepherds remain, particularly in the "cold and solitary country" of mountainous Peloponnese. Whereas there was once a complex relationship in families between the pethera, or mother-in-law, and her nifi, or daughter-in-law, the nifi made to do many tasks to prove her worth, sometimes the target of vented frustration from the pethera's days as a nifi, now the pethera are anxious to please the often well educated nifi, immensely pleased when she visits her mother-in-law's village from the busy and prosperous city.

Vividly the author shows that Greece is a land struggling to cope with its past. Its people still sometimes obsess about the Greek-Turkish rift, even though the author makes apparent that is more of a problem for Greeks than for Turks. The country still struggles with the German occupation during World War II and the later civil war, smaller villages still bearing scars where neighbor turned against neighbor and whole families were betrayed over petty greivences. She provided the stories of several who were caught in both conflicts and they make for gripping reading.

The country though is also trying to cope with the future, with declining rural populations, the rising importance of the tourist industry (some Greeks actually upset that all many foreigners ever want to see are old stone ruins), and even with Albanian refugees, disliked but needed as rural workers. Kizilos, like many in Greece, is uncertain about the future, but I think she is ultimately hopeful, as the Greeks have more than anything else proven to be a resilient people

This book is about travel in Greece. It is not organized with care, and this is one of the things I most enjoyed about it. The reader sorta follows along as the writer takes him to this or that corner of the mainland and the islands without a preestablished itinerary, and that's the way it should be in a relaxed place like Greece. The descriptions of some places are superb and there are lots of interesting characters, each with his own emotional baggage and fascinating story. Some of them are likeable and others are pretty awful. The best thing about the book is the close connection the writer has with some of the people she writes about. They are her family and some of them have suffered fiercely from wars and political conflict, but the worst suffering is what the land itself is undergoing in the name of "development:" abandoned groves and fields, empty villages, people unaccustomed to the modern world and left without hope for the future, some not even able to understand the possibilities of the future. Since she is an Australian of Greek descent, the author knows there is no going back from Western values and attitudes, but her book asks what is so great about such attitudes and ambitions if embracing them means we have to leave behind the tenderness, beauty and love of the land that are still the basic principles of life in many areas of Greece. Interestingly, the writer is remarkably even-handed in dealing with Greek/Turkish relations. I would recommend this work to just about anyone, even those who are not particularly interested in Greece.

Sparked by childhood stories told by her father and a natural curiosity for the truth, Kizilos retraces the steps of her father to find the heart and soul of her roots. This entails a journey of not only the mainland, but several small islands and villages where the past struggles violently with the future.

Told in a concise and vivid way, she is both straightforward and philosophical. In contrast to other travel accounts, Kizilos' writing is accessible and often emotional because she is both a journalist who understands how to write for the public and a woman who feels life.

Because she travels to several "unknown" places in Greece -- not just Athens, Mykonos and other popular places frequented by tourists -- readers looking for something off the beaten track can appreciate her more.