What a beautiful sad story. I really felt like I was there the whole time. It really makes me think about how lucky I am compared to her.

Twopence To cross The mersey is an outatanding book in which a great struggle is displayed, it made me feel like I was a part of Helen's life.

Haunting story of the great Depression in northern England from the viewpoint of a young girl. You share the hunger and bewilderment and struggle to survive. Told beautifully.

Like all the best travel writing, The Sign of the Cross makes you want to visit the places Colm Toibin visits. He travels to out-of-the-way spots throughout Europe, usually during religious holidays. Toibin interacts with both government officials and ordinary people and evokes a feeling for the churches and festivals in a way that makes you wish you were tagging along with him. The book is a combination of travelogue, history, sociology, and personal reminiscence. Toibin is funny and a great prose stylist. You don't have to be religious to appreciate his story.

This was an amazing book. Full of interesting facts and details. It made me want to visit...well nearly all of the places described by the author. If you are interested in Catholicism or European culture and politics, I would strongly urge you to read this book.

This is a great book to read while traveling (it just got me through a trip home on a weekend when winter storms had disrupted airline schedules throughout the entire U.S.!). The chapters are short and fairly self-contained, but each is well-written and engrossing. There's a lot of variety -- from fairly straightforward travelogues such as the accounts of the author's visits to Rome, to highly personal essays on his family and his belated coming to grips with his father's early death. And he's the only ex-Catholic author I've read who's accurately described that odd, characteristic combination of lack of belief in the Church's tenets with lingering reverence for all things Catholic: I'm a 'collapsed Catholic' myself, and I think he got it down exactly right. (Nostalgia for one's childhood is part of it, but it's certainly not ALL of it!) His discussions of Catholicism and the English are telling, and he makes some points about the Irish Catholic treatment of Protestants that most of us, raised as we are with a black-and-white (or, in this instance, orange-and-green!) view of the issue, have never considered. There's a lot here to think about as well as be entertained by, and I recommend the book without reservation.

A lot of work went into writing Ski Skating With Champions. It dissects ski skating like no other book before it. Many intermediate level skiers will find it thought provoking.

The expert and elite skiers many find a variety of technical errors, or that the text is overly complex - lacks a consolidated and simple understanding of skiing, but for the sport racer the book is a good one to have on the shelf. I also recommend "Tao of Skiing" which takes an entirely different approach.

Einar Svensson has put an amazing level of effort and care into producing "Ski Skating With Champions: How to Ski With Least Energy," and it shows.

Trying to capture Cross-Country Skiing technique and be comprehensive yet concise, is nearly an impossible task for a written work, multimedia, or video. Einar Svensson has contributed an important work to the sport.

If you are a serious xc skier, then you have to have this book as a reference on your shelf. I do.

David McMahon, 1993 Canadian National Biathlon Champion

Mr. Svensson's book presents detailed analyses of 17 skate skiing techniques and more. I really liked that each technique was presented in a several different ways. Anyone who has teaching experience knows that two different students may find different approaches to a subject more effective. As to 'technical errors' found by 'elite skiers' I have a feeling nordic skiiers are like musicians. It is said that the only thing two musicians can agree on is the incompetence of a third. Indeed there are a variety of tweeks and variations on each technique that will prove to be effective for each skiier. This book provides ample material for a starting point. This is a really amazing book.

This beautifully crafted story warms the saddened heart. It reveals a grieving heart that risks pain to find love again. This true adventure of a sensitive soul is both a revelation of deep pain and of deep joy. Mrs. Friedman is able to express the decisive moments in which we either continue old habits or venture into deep emotional waters in search of love. Her grief and her triumphs promise hope in a world of loss.

Trail Of The Dove is an eloquently written story, every word flowing like a midwestern breeze. Here is a senior citizen, adventurous,forever youthful and somewhat opinionated, embarking on a cross-country motorcycle trip with her grown son, both of them learning along the way. I found it delightful, easy reading. Recommended for all ages!

Hang on it's going to be a bumpy and very wet ride! A sincere and moving story of a mother and her relationship with her sons. I felt as though I was riding along with Dorothy and living her experiences.

Selected by Brandon & Hill (Nursing Outlook, March-April, 1996) as one of best books for small nursing or medical libraries.

This book was invaluable to me when I was working on my Graduate project on Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. Highly recommend it to anyone wanting a good overview of the topic.

I have just purchased and read the new exciting third edition to transcultural nursing. The new updates not only provide an indepth understanding to the various cultural groups, but leaps ahead of its nearest competitors by adding in-depth understanding of biological variations particulalrly those genetic in nature. This book has been the standard for some 10 years. I am again delighted with this work and would highly recommend it as the first book to be bought to understand this extremely important topics.

I bought this book in hopes to provide me with useful information, to use in my work at a pediatrics clinic, we are in a very diverse neighborhood. It covers every possible nationality, with brief, very discript information, in an easy to look up format, I've brought it to work to share, and my co-workers, physicians, nurses and others are finding the information facinating as well as providing us with insights to the other cultures that we work with day to day.

Selected by Brandon & Hill (Nursing Outlook, March-April, 1996)in bibliography of best books for small nursing and medical libraries.

This is a must when working with a culturally diverse patient base. Can save a lot of time and headaches when caring for an immigrant population.

Kate's colleague and friend Max manages to find her in her Berkshire hideaway. He convinces her to go with him to Maine to check out the literary files of a recently deceased author. Apparently, burglars have been seen in the area and Max is worried about the valuable papers. While there Kate finds the body of one of her students on the rocks.

This is a really good Cross novel. There are two main interwoven plots with a few sidelines. The mystery is difficult to solve and keeps your interest all the way through.

This is a slow-paced, detail-heavy mystery novel that will please people who really love and know literature. Loaded with imagery and references from the classic 19th and 20th century canon, it might be difficult to truly enjoy or appreciate by someone who does not. The novel is written in very intellectual and academic prose (lots of big vocabulary words -- after all the heroine is an English professor), but is nevertheless appropriate and entertaining, not too dry. The mystery unfolds extremely slowly -- in fact, until the second half of the book you are not really sure what the mystery IS -- but there is something tantalizing about this, and it makes the book feel as much like a "regular" novel as a mystery (so even someone who does not usually read mysteries might very well enjoy it). The last quarter of the book speeds up dramatically, with lots of unanswered questions, new clues, and even a bit of old-fashioned suspense; the ending is simple but somehow seems to fit just right. I did enjoy this book, and it was a quick and pleasant read, but I can warn you in advance that if you do not like literature, or reading very intellectual novels, you will probably find it boring. If the story of an upper-class English professor trying to solve a mystery surrounding a recently deceased British writer appeals to you, however, then pick this one up and give it a go. It's not an amazing book and it won't blow you away, but it's not expensive, and it's certainly good reading for a rainy day or a long trip.

"A bit of homicide, much wit, and lashings." Scholars, famous writers, literary circles. A taste of Walt Whitman, Wilde, Eliot, Oxford. Dissertations, literary executors, biographical writings.

This book has ideas for crafters of all tastes. The projects in this book range anywhere from victorian to country. Although this book doesn't stand-out as a favorite among my collection of craft books, it is well organized with nice pictures of all the completed projects. If it wasn't for all the clever ideas in the children's chapter (and a few good dessert recipes too), I probably would not keep this book.

Impressive to find in one book so many different, easy to make and fun to do, ideas. My children had fun making the painted shirts. Continue with books this fun. Hope you introduce Leisure Arts for The Spirit of Halloween too!!!!

This book is full of inspiring decorations and recipes. Several decorative ideas/creations would be easy for children to do and yet still be appealing to adults. There are decorative ideas that would be approprate for the "country" look or a more "formal" atmosphere. I think it's great!

Hansen's book is a staple in any adventurer's library whether you ski, hike or bike. He's to the point. With so many trails to cover in both peninsulas it's tough to stay current. He should update it yearly.

This book has some of the best trails in Michigan and directions to all of them. It lets you know the level of difficulty for each one. I recommend this book for anyone interested in exploring the great outdoors.

This is an excellent book for anyone who lives in Michigan. We've used it for hiking and cross country skiing, and it provides excellent accurate information.

This book is a perfect example of how the "ordinary" maneuvers of nations can be made into a work that is genuinely fun to read. At the same time, Toscano gives us an informative look into some of the most opaque institutions in the world: Israel's nuclear program, the Mossad, and the Shin Beth. The only readily apparent negative about this book is the lack of precise citation of sources by Toscano, making it difficult to independently verify information.

Triple Cross is a beautifully written expose on Israel's atomic bomb factory and the man who revealed this to the world. Mr. Toscano has gone to great lengths to accurately describe the events surrounding this revelation. I was so rivited to this book that I read it in one sitting. Toscano should begin work on a screenplay, since I anxiously await the movie.