I was raised catholic and needed a book about holy communion!
This book was simple and easy to follow and asked questions at the bottom about their own communion! Ann just loved it and I
too enjoyed reading it to her! Does the author have anthing on
confirmation? My son Luke is making his next year and would love a book!!

I was raised Catholic and wanted to get Mary a book that would
have her understand the importance of Holy Communion! I felt the book was creative, simple and got the point across about God's Love. I even enjoyed it. It brought memories of my own
Holy Communion!! Does she write any other books? My Son Michael is being confirmed next year and would love a book that would
explain Confirmation on the same level!!

I've read this book. Ms Singleton not only wrote a good book, but a damn good book!! And I could tell, she made no apology for the way she wrote it. I am in marketing and came from a family of entrepreneaurs and this book opened up a lot of memories of my own. I am glad she wrote on this subject - Concubines - and as stated above, she makes no apology. I read a lot of books and her characters are well developed and very vivid. If she is not a college professor of Literature, then she should be. I think everyone should read Chinaberry Lane, Concubines of Yazoo, because afterwards, they will be touched and see life and it's situations (as I do since reading Chinaberry Lane) from the inside out, instead of from the outside in.

I JUST READ CHINABERRY LANE, CONCUBINES OF YAZOO AS I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO OBTAIN A COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, HERSELF, AND GOT AN AUTHOGRAPHED COPY OF THE FIRST PRINTING! YIPEE! IT IS TRULY A GOOD BOOK AND VERY FAST AND EASY READING AND THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE TO READ NOVELS - FAST, THEREFORE THE STORY LINE HAS TO BE EASY TO FOLLOW; OTHERWISE I'D PUT IT DOWN. I TRULY ENJOYED READING MS. SINGLETON'S NOVEL AND WILL PROBABLY READ IT AGAIN BEFORE I PASS IT ON TO MY SISTERS. I HAVE A SISTER IN GERMANY AND ONE IN VEGAS AND WE ALWAYS SHARE BOOKS AND PASS THEM AROUND. WE ARE READING ALL THE BOOKS IN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB AND I HOPE THIS ONE MAKES IT BECAUSE THOSE CHARACTERS, PANDORA, BETSY, EMMA AND EDNA, ALL OF THEM REALLY JUMPS RIGHT OUT THERE AND PUTS YOU IN A TRANQUIL STAGE. I MEAN YOU REALLY GET IN THERE WITH THEM. THE WOMEN CHARACTERS SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE PART OF MY FAMILY AND I WISH I HAD A DOSE OF THEIR CONFIDENCE TO GIVE ME MORE STRENGTH, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF THINGS THAT BROKE MY SPIRIT OVER AND OVER LIKE SOME OF HER CHARACTERS. BUT, AFTER READING THIS BOOK, I FEEL DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD AND THE PEOPLE IN IT. IT IS VERY EDUCATIONATIONAL TOO BECAUSE SHE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN HISTORY, WHICH I AM VERY FAMILAR WITH. HOW COULD SOMEONE TELL IT SO LIKE IT IS WITHOUT GETTING DIRTY WITH IT! I FELT THE PASSION, THE PAIN, THE SUNSHINE ... AND MUCH, MUCH MORE IN SOME OF HER CHARACTERS...LIKE SIMON JEFFERSON AND ORVILLE DERRICK, A COMPLETE REVERSAL OF SIMON. I WISH I HAD A MAN LIKE THAT! I CRIED SEVERAL TIMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN POOR ANNIE, WHO WAS SO FRAGILE, AND GENTLE, WENT CRAZY. THE EVENTS ARE VERY TRUE TO LIFE AND A CHANGE FROM ALL THAT VOILENCE GOING ON T.V. EVERYONE NEEDS TO TAKE TIME OUT AND READ. I GOT A LOT OUT OF CHINABERRY LANE AND IT'S WORTH A LOT IN SO MANY WAYS AND I HOPE OTHERS WILL FEEL AS GOOD AS I DO AFTER THEY READ IT AND I WILL READ IT AGAIN. IT'S VERY DIFFERENT THAN ANY NOVEL I'VE READ BEFORE AND SHE SEEMS TO HAVE PUT A LOT OF EFFORT IN IT WITH LOTS OF CREATIVITY.

Hallam ptovides us with a wonderful book on the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, Edward II and Edward III. Each of the reigns is examined in detail with a series of essays written by experts in medieval history. The 113 essays cover a wide range of topics and provide the reader with a vivid history of Europe from 1216 - 1377. Contemporary chroniclers tie the book together. This beautiful book contains over 235 illustrations (in color and black and white), five detailed maps and a genealogy chart showing the interrelationships between the English, Scottish and French Dynasties.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in medieval history.

I read the British edition and found it fascinating. This book is for the general reader interested in English medieval history. It is not a scholarly piece of work, hence it is easier to read and more entertaining. Every aspect of the life in medieval England (and a little of France) is covered as well as the rule of the Plantagenet dynasty. There is lavish use of photographs and colorful illustrations which brings all the information more into perspective. I highly recommend it for general reading.

Elizabeth Snell's The Churchills: Pioneers and Politicians in England, America and Canada is a tantalising look at a fascinating family. She traces the early family line to the West Country in England and then follows some of the more interesting descendants across two continents and over a 400 year time-span. What I particularly enjoyed were the the very spirited and evocative characterizations such as of the Nova Scotian "Rudder" Churchill, or of the Canadian, Senator Ezra Churchill," ...the piercing eyes either side the high-bridged aquiline nose set between the thick thatch of gently waving side-parted hair and the Lincolnesque beard...". A beautifully researched book- Fascinating.

An extraordinary book on an extraordinary family. A must read! Inspirational, expirational and perspirational! The Churchills : pioneers and politicians : England, America, Canada, is a magnanimous family history of the late idiosyncratic, Sir Winston Churchill, and in particular, the "blood, sweat and tears" of his many ancestors

i loved this book! this is one of the best books on the town of natchez, anyone looking for info on anyone of the many fantastic houses in natchez should bye this book! i looooooooved that one house, longwood, interesting architecture.

This is a fabulous book, filled brillant color photo's of manywonderful ante-bellum homes. I am proud that someone finally wrotesuch a great,detailed, and informitive book. If you like classicsouthern architecture than this is the book for you.I give this book 5stars!

This was an entertaining and fun read. I know next to nothing about the early film industry, so I got to learn a little bit as well. I'll confess to knowing one of the authors -- we went to high school together. Knowing Elizabeth Brackman was what made me buy the book, but the story itself made me read on and finish it. Once I was fifty pages in I was hooked.

For me, the most interesting part of the book centered around the past -- one of the characters fled rural Georgia in the 1920s following the lynching of a young black man. I wanted to know a lot more about that period and the incident. The book wavers between the seemingly very serious to frivolous, and on several occasions I laughed out loud. Luce and Coco spend most of the book twisting an assortment of young men around their fingers. Having been occasionally twisted at that age, it was fun to read about it from the other perspective. Well worth reading, I would highly recommend it.

This was a fascinating story of two girls exploring the outer limits of their lifestyle. One of the characters, Luce, is a 20 year old college dropout who has inherited an estate from an aunt who was a minor silent film star. There are occasional flashbacks to the life of the aunt, some of which were more interesting than the main thrust of the story. The only real drawback was that the very frequent drug references were annoying. All in all a really good read.

Chester Krause, et.al.'s Collecting World Coins widens the focus to world coins from 1901 to the present, appearing in its updated 9th edition to cover 330 coin-issuing countries and states. Over 20,000 coins are listed by date and valued in up to four grade levels. The black and white coin photos here are even more extensive and essential for identification.

Adequate-resolution black-and-white photographs of the vast majority (if not all) of the 20th century world circulation business-strike coinage.

Especially historically accurate. For example Germany is divided into the coinage of various coin-minting units of government over its tumultuous and shattered 20th-century history: Anhalt-Dessau, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Hamburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lippe-Detmold, Lubeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg, Prussia, Reuss-Obergreiz, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe, Waldeck-Pyrmont, Wurttemberg, German Empire (1871-1918), Weimar Republic (1919-1933), Third Reich (1933-1945), Federal Republic of Germany (West & unified) (1945-present), Saarland (1945-1957), and German Democratic Republic (East)(1945-1990). I consider that nation-state categorization alone impressive and intimate knowledge of coinage production in Germany, let alone the over-300 coin types documented among all of those coin-producing governments. Similar detail is taken with a multitude of other countries worldwide, with whose history I am less familiar.

Number of coins produced each year are given as are prices for typically 3 grades: very fine, extremely fine, and uncirculated.

The only way that Kraus could "improve" this book is to release a 19th century edition, an 18th century edition, a 17th century edition, and so forth, because it is disappointing to have the history truncated at 1901. Although I am not aware of such per-century editions slicing horizontally across the world, Krause has produced vertical slices by country, such as the history of German coins spanning multiple centuries, which of course overlaps in the 20th century with this book.

I really enjoyed this book. The heroine is Capt. Valerie Wentworth, an Army protocol officer stationed at the Pentagon. I was thrilled to see that Ms. Ashtree got all the pre-9/11 Pentagon details correct. The hero is Viktor Baturnov, a colonel in the Russian Army assigned to the Pentagon for a month of training in U.S. Army supply procedures. Col. Baturnov's ulterior motive, however, is to get his ailing son to the U.S. for much-needed heart surgery. He's planned everything carefully, but he's on a very tight schedule, and when one thing backs up, everything else gets knocked off course as well, and the pressure on him mounts throughout the book. Valerie knows she runs a real risk to her career if she helps him, but it's hard not to want to help him and his son. Viktor's a great dad, and this aspect of his character is very appealing. It makes it easy to see how Valerie could fall for him. His character and commitment to his son would translate to a good relationship for her, as well. He's handsome, caring, smart, and nice, and it doesn't take him long to figure out that Valerie is the one for him. This was a very pleasant story, that progressed believably from initial meeting to the HEA. It never felt strained. The author writes well, and the story was engaging and flowed nicely. I believed in the characters and their actions. I wish Ms. Ashtree much success, and I'll continue to look for future books from her.

Colonel Viktor Baturnov arrives in the United States prepared to spend a month learning supply movement techniques at the Pentagon. He doesn't share his hidden agenda, which involves flying his son into the United States for heart surgery. His superiors would not appreciate his manipulations that put him in the United States endeavoring to aid his son. He finds himself immediately drawn to the protocol officer acting as his escort, but Viktor cannot allow himself to be distracted. Perhaps if he keeps his actions professional and courteous, she'll aid him if he asks for help.

Someone has been toying with Captain Natalie Wentworth's assignments, and, consequently, her career. She ordinarily deals with generals, ambassadors and heads of states, leaving assignments like this one to lesser officers. Instead, she's currently assigned to a Colonel with a secret, and she wants to know what that secret is. Sympathy, however, could easily compromise her career. Soon she finds herself choosing between love and duty, requiring that she reevaluate both her priorities and her goals.

THE COLONEL AND THE KID by Elizabeth Ashtree will tug at readers' hearts. While a little slow in the beginning, the pace increases in relationship to the pressures on these dynamic characters from separate worlds. The pressure created by the child's illness, and the willingness to sacrifice anything to save him becomes a strong motivation to bring two military people from opposite sides of the world together. Secondary characters are also vividly realized, with a well meaning mother whose frequent phone calls seem timed to drive Natalie crazy. Another delightful secondary character nicknamed Angel will likewise capture readers' hearts. Indeed, she deserves her own book with her infectious personality and daring. Ashtree's resolution to the conflict doesn't disappoint, making THE COLONEL AND THE KID a terrific read. Very highly recommended.

This book is really amazing...I have tried many of the recipes and have been thrilled with all of them (particularly Grantham Gingerbread Cookies- I never liked gingerbread until I tried these). I also liked the fact that there are recipes for savory cookies as well as dessert cookies. The recipes are easy to follow and prepare (two four year olds helped me with a couple recipes), with all the ingredients, preparation times, etc. neatly displayed. There are so many recipes that you can go festive, exotic, or traditional. DEFINITELY worth the money...happy baking!

I have been making recipes from this book for a few months now, and all of them have been delicious! I take the cookies to work when I make them, and every time I get numerous requests for the recipes. Not only does the book have a very wide range of cookie recipes, it gives great tips on making your recipes work, what equipment to use, etc. Definitely recommended.