Bradley H. Sinor's DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS collection is a well-crafted, thought provoking, and entertaining set of five fantasy and alternate reality short stories.
The new look on the twists of fate and life in "Everything and Nothing" and "The Adventure of the OTHER Detective" make you think about how things COULD'VE gone in other circumstances. The three stories set in the "Merovigen Nights" universe are so well done and self-contained that even someone new to that universe and Sinor's work can enjoy them on their own.
This is a "must have" for anyone familiar with Sinor's work, and a good introduction to him for those looking for a new author to read.

This study is an engaging often humorous read that does not follow the stereotypical media representation of the Muslim women. In this easy to read yet scholarly study, Holmes-Eber invites us to meet tens of real Muslim women. Not the mistreated and oppressed media cartoon, but women that we can relate to and understand. If you are looking for yet another sensationalized depiction of downtrodden Arab women find another book. If, however, you would like to discover what real Muslim women are like, this is one of the few and far between books that you should read.
I read the book in two nights and found it utterly refreshing! Especially in light of recent events this book will help all of us Americans to see Arabs and Muslims as people first, making us question the Arab enemy image that we are continually bombarded with. This book is truly a contribution to cultural understanding and hopefully world peace.

Great book for understanting charts and diagrams. It's a beginners guide for presenting information with pictures and drawings by Nigel Holmes. Would you know how the USAtoday snapshots fever began? This book remarked the eighties infographic style. It's a classic.

This is an absolutely wonderful book on one of France's best-know female directors. Very scholarly yet enjoyable and readable.

Ernest Holmes founded the metaphysical Church of Religious Science. The New Thought philosophies espoused by that and a number of other metaphysical groups utilize terms of art which frequently appropriate and redefine common usages from Christian, Buddhist and Hindu theology. This book provides a helpful guide to the reader--whether adherent to New Thought ideas or not--to understand "what the words mean" in New Thought writing. Holmes has a conversational, Sunday preacher writing style which is easy to digest. As any apologist for a faith might, his elucidation of the terms includes a fair bit of advocacy of the ideas. The mildly evangelical undertone, however, does not detract at all from the usefulness of the book as a study guide in the terms and ideas of New Thought. New Thought ideas pervaded our popular culture for the better part of the 20th C. such that many New Thought ideas are no longer seen as "new ideas", but instead as mainstream truisms. Holmes would undoubtedly find this entirely appropriate, as he did not claim for his faith an exclusive message or a freedom from influences outside the faith. New Thought is interesting in and of itself, but it is also a fascinating window into a very American system of theology. Although this work is a "dictionary" of "terms", it is not dry reading. Holmes instead is clear and reasonably simple in his language. Holmes' great gift as a writer was to be able to write popular theology which was not unduly laden with abstruse ideas. This work exemplifies the best of his writing, and is an excellent starting point for anyone who wishes to understand better just what the New Thought adherents believe, and the language of this branch of American metaphysics. The skeptic or believer in a different faith may find much to disagree with in Holmes' work, but the book is nonetheless a good exercise in just what Holmes did believe and preach. In some instances, New Thought writing can seem to be all "positive thinking" and no system. Holmes' work seeks to systematize the ideas, without alienating the reader. In the main, the work succeeds in this task.

One of the most sought after reference/photo/history books on the history of the Dodger baseball franchise. Be sure to get the original 1975 edition because later editions have several deletions.

This book was one of the best poetry purchases I have ever made. It had poetry ranging all over Doyle's stories and several key characters as well. The illustrations were made to feel like the poems described the illustration, not vice versa.

Dr.Hatherns Daughters captures your attention in the first paragraph of a mother giving birth, in the middle 1800's, to a child that will be the last face she ever sees. This book is a wholesome tale about 3 sisters post-civil war and the loves and experiences that mold each one to maturity and life rich with adventure and love for one another. Dr. Hathern has just lost his second wife to childbirth. Left a widower with twin girls and a baby, he is now ready to marry again and upset the content situation the girls have created for themselves and their doting father. This is a book you will not be able to put down and remarkably without the shock and obsenities of many of todays romance tales. You will finish this with the same feeling you had after reading "Fried Green Tomatoes". I recommend to all!

While showing respect for the views and privacy of Amish individuals, Doyle Yoder captures the beauty, simplicity, as well as the complexities of their lives and cow paddies.