This is a wonderful way to begin the Cavendish Chronicles! Even though this is the third book in the series this book is the prequel to Silent Knight and MidSummer's Knight. It is wonderful to see how the Cavendish family got started! Thank you Tori!

The white rose of york was no hothouse flower. Nay, Mistress Alicia Broom was a long-stemmed beauty with a dangerous secret of royal proportions. But for a chance to claim her as his promised bride, Thomas Cavendish would fight the hounds of hell... Though plots and plans and barking dogs seemed to pursue the Earl of Thornbury wherever he went, Alicia knew she'd found a champion. Mayhap Thomas Cavendish was not what people expected, but the gentle knight had become her heart's desire

Talent is one of many good words that come to mind when you read this book! Brandon Cavendish's parents prove once again that opposites attract!

This is the best book I ever read on Family Relationships. This book is not only for males, more importanly for females. This book will give women the information needed to choose a mate, help women who are married restore there mate to his proper place, and to heal women with broken hearts. There trully is a curse on the Family. So please read this book to reverse the curse.

Pastor Goudeaux is definitley a Blessed man!! What a great teacher of the Word too. If anyof these readers are in the Sacramento region, please attend a Sunday Service (Weds nights too) and learn from Pastor Goudeaux...

Life changing experience. This book will benefit the life of any man or woman who reads it. This book has something for everyone. I have read the book and have become stronger and healthier as a husband and a father. I have referred this book to couples and after they read this book reported that long time issues have been resolved in their marriages. This book is truly a life changing experience. An awesome book!

I ran across this book at an airport and could not put it down during the flight. I felt that God was talking to me personally through Karon and helping me navigate my life's issues. Written in an easy style, almost with a recipe-book format to handle the toughest parts of your life with God's help...this book is a must-have for those who are going through troubling times in their lives and are questioning their spiritual relationship with God. I highly recommend the book for anyone looking to not only ease their problems but also looking to build a deeper relationship with God.

If you ever think that God is being quiet and not answering you in your distress, you need to read this book! In it, you will find the answers that you are seeking. Karon Phillips Goodman has a unique way of touching your spirit and your heart in this book on getting through the waiting periods God brings into your life. You will be inspired, encouraged and most of all, at peace...

I bought this book at an airport and put it down while vacationing in NYC one weekend. Upon returning home, I picked it up again & can't put it down. I've since broken out the highlighter & I find myself going back to those pages when I need to. Not only does this book minister to the impatient person, it ministers to the one who is going through a divorce, as with my case. God's timing is not always our own. This book helped me understand that God never leaves us in any circumstance. He's there the whole time, waiting on us to trust in Him. I've drawn closer to the Lord with the help of this book. Karon Phillips Goodman's writing is funny and understandable.

Phillip Gay fuses the romantic intrigues of academia and the psyche of a killer into a cleverly constructed murder mystery. Intriguing; a great read!

This book was sexy, exciting and provided a behind-the-scenes look into the academic world. There were a few editing mistakes that I caught, but besides that it was very well written!

Enjoyable characters, locations, and situations. Couldn't put it down. Lots of action--double murder on page 1. Can't wait for the sequel. Hope there's a movie

If you enjoy tasting the finest of foods that have been all time traditional favorites and you want to know how to prepare them yourself, this cookbook is for you. This book opens up the doors of cooking and makes you an instant expert. Contains the best chili and fried chicken you can imagine. I create 11 to 13 different pies every holiday and the pies comes from recipes right here. People think I am the best cook around, I wouldn't be without this book. The soups will imspire you to not only learn how to create these soups but come up with inventions of your own. Seriously, this book is a must have for someone that really wants to learn how to cook and needs a great recipe that will inspire them to continue. I have a whole library of cookbooks but this is my favorite one and the one that gave me the encouragement to make cooking my hobby. The chicken frickase is the all time best chicken recipe in the world. Make that and mashed potatoes and corn and you will have any man coming back for more.

I have all the series of "The Beautiful Cookbooks" and the America and the Mexico one I believe are among the best ones.

Great cookbook with wonderfull recipes that are easy to reproduce. Currently looking for another copy to purchase as the moving company lost a considerable amount of our personal items and included was our favorite cookbook.

The book opens with a terrific overview of the personal essay. Not only does it discuss the place of creative nonfiction in the writing spectrum but it gets to the heart of the personal essay -how we express the human experience. Lopate walks us, the average reader, through the choosing and the parceling of these kinds of works and by the end we are prepared for the well laid journey ahead.

The voices are so varied - from George Orwell's beautifully written essay on life in a British boarding school to James Baldwin's piece on his father's death and life as a Black man in America. We feel with each author, cry with them and share in their triumphs. Though the styles are quite different from one author to the next, the common thread is each person's love of writing, their adept manipulation of language, and the most important element of the essay - their honesty in each line.

This is an excellent choice for those are learning the art of creative nonfiction or for those more seasoned readers or writers who truly want a satisfying read.

This has been a great reference into the insight of the personal essay. The introduction is about thirty pages long with rich detail of everything you ever needed to know about the "personal essay". Lopate delves into his selection, rationale and arrangement of this book. Everything you ever needed to know about the essay is here!

The collection consist of seventy-five essays, spanning over 400 years. The first section is called the forerunners, these are the earliest dating from 1600's, included: Seneca, Plutarch, Kenko, Shonagon, Hsiu, Michel De Montaigne. Then, the rise of the English essay: Abraham Cowley, Addison & Steele, Samuel Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, Orwell, etc.

It is categorized for easy identification of types, style and forms of essays. Excellent collection and reference!...MzRizz

A book that has travelled with me for years and well worth all the space in my limited luggage space. I would definitely take this book to a desert island and it would be a book that I would grab off its shelf if my house was on fire.

Time has made me appreciate the voices contained within its cover greatly.

As someone who has to deal with someone who insists that they have MCS, I found the information quite illuminating. It is truly an interesting book which will make you think of their lives have changed.It really gives a humanizing outlook of someone who has to live in a world where everyone thinks you are crazy.

It's a shame this indispensable book has gone out of print because it is one of the best I've read on the subject. Environmental allergies, Sick Building Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome, or Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is the subject at hand, and I think it one of the most important subjects of our time. MCS, despite some doctor's insistence that it doesn't exist, affects every living thing on Earth. An estimated 40 million Americans already show clear and obvious signs of this illness. The rest of us are undoubtedly affected in less obvious ways. We can't afford to ignore this problem.

One of the most fascinating parts of this book, which has stuck in my memory for a number of years, is descriptions and interviews with the sickest people alive with MCS. The descriptions of their symptoms and the great lengths they must go to just to try to live their lives is tragic and fascinating and a warning to us all.

Even though you may not know how chemical poisoning is affecting you, it almost certainly is. Sticking our collective heads in the sand will not help us, and will almost certainly allow things to get much worse before they get better. Inform yourself and read this book.

Peter Radetsky has experience writing popular science books, and this one is very readable. He interviews a variety of sick people, scientists, doctors, and psychiatrists with a wide range of opinions on the subject. Though the role of infectious pathogens is fairly well understood these days, the role of toxicity has been almost completely ignored by modern science and allopathic medicine. This topic must blow open, sooner or later. In the meantime, we can inform ourselves and take a tip from the sickest among us. We don't need to wait for mainstream science and medicine to acknowledge or solve problems before we act to protect our own health.

It's too bad this book has apparently not gone to paperback because the subject is so important, and this is such a well-done job on the topic. For little more than the price of postage, you can inform yourself on a topic of great importance that we have only begun to scratch the surface of.

I'm an allergy researcher and when I came on this excellent book, I sat down and read it cover to cover. Couldn't put it down. The writer is very good, the information new and interesting, and thought provoking. "Sick Building Syndrome" is quite real and affects many people on a daily basis. I am sad to see that this fine piece of work is out of print. If you can find a copy, I highly recommend it. Tom Ogren, author of Allergy-Free Gardening :::: from Ten Speed Press

This book is fabulous. The lovely rythm of the stories and animal sounds intice the little ones to recite the animal sounds. The watercolor pictures are absolutely a delight. I would highly recommend this to anyone with a toddler or young child.

My two-year-old and I get a huge stack of books from the library each week. This is the first one we are going to purchase for ourselves. We both absolutely love this book. She loves making the animal sounds and the illustrations are beautiful. I plan to make this a standard part of all future baby gifts as well! You can't go wrong with this one!

Our 22 month old loves this book! The suggested age-range for this book is too old and cannot be held captive by this simple story; it is fit for toddlers. Our son loves to participate by making the correct animal noises during the sing-song like language. It's fun to read as parents. The illustrations are detailed water-colors with humor. The best page includes the animals wearing each other's faces. This creates a "puzzle" which you can point and decode with your youngster. Our son loves this page where they are all "ixed up!" Our rating: five moos.

This book is the rambling memoirs of Usumah ibn-Munqidh, 1095-1188. His lifetime very nearly tracks the time of the First Crusade through Saladin's reconquest of Jerusalem. Usumah was a member of the noble family of Shayzar, but was exiled by his jealous uncle. He became a high-ranking government official in Egypt, then in Damascus.

Usumah's memiors is an invaluable description of ordinary life during the time of the Crusades. Usumah spends more time in battle against other Muslims than against the Crusaders, and often travelled to Crusader lands for business or on diplomatic missions. His descriptions of Western Civilization are fascinating.

I recommend that you understand the basics of Crusader history before reading this book. Read Runciman vol.1 and 2 and Maalouf's "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes." Both Usumah and the editor assume that you already know basically what happened.

I suggest that you keep Runciman vol. 2 handy at all times. Usumah jumps backwards and forwards in time and it is sometimes difficukt to follow him. He also suffers from the medieval curse of obsessing on a topic and writing about it to death. The topics that fascinate him are wounds and hunting, and his discussion of these topics can get a little tedious.

But overall, a really cool book that I highly recommend to my fellow Crusades-freaks.

Usamah calls his book "Kitab al-Itibar" or "The Book of Instructive Example." True to its title, there is much to learn from this book, but what I found very interesting were perhaps things other than what Usamah wanted us to learn. For example, it was interesting to note the Arab perception of Franks, the relationship between Arabs and Franks during the first of two centuries of crusades on the Eastern Mediterranean, and aspects of the life of a prince and some commoners as well. The stories about hunts are numerous and tend to get boring, but they tell us of a rich fauna that is now largely extinct (lions, leopards, etc.). Usamah's talk of old age provides a sobering philosophical view of life.

What an excellent job by Philip Hitti who translated the manuscript from Arabic! Considering that the manuscript was lacking in things such diacritical marks (dots on Arabic letters), punctuation, etc. it is truly an amazing that he was able to pull this book together in the manner its stands. Thanks to Philip Hitti we can enjoy Usamah's book: it is truly a delightful read!

Unlike any other history book, this is a first hand account, day to day life of an Arab Syrian prince in the time of the crusades; He talks about his advantures, feelings and thoughts, it's just like going back in time almost 1000 years. If you like history and especially the crusades, this book is a must. I go back and read this book every once in a while, it's entertaining and informative.

It's kind of like a bound collection of op-ed pieces...which I like...on topics I may never confront personally from a point of view hopefully as different from mine as it can get. Gotta disagree with the Bachelorhood assesment. I found his last collection Portrait of my Body to be more focused and more intimate written by a man who already has spent 25 years reviewing his life in print.

I absolutely loved almost all the essays in the book: some of them were so engrossing, I got on the wrong train to work because I was too busy reading them. I find these eassys a bit more divrse then the "Best American Essays" and tighter than the ones in "The Pushcart Prize" collection. Phillip Lopate is a wonderful essayist in his own right, and he has chosen wisely.

OK, man, I'm gonna go read this book -- The five stars stand for your passionate, exasperated review!