This book was a terrific read. It is about a very religious girl who beleives that lieing and stealing are the most horrible thing in the world. Emily's father and her family don't have any money. Her father finally goes out one day and says he won't come back until he has money, even if he has to steal it. Emily is absolutely horrified that her father would steal. Emily and her mother run into more problems with money when her father leaves and her mother falls ill with worry. Emily is supposed to go live with her uncle, the banker, but because of a young boy that is the bankers worst enemy, that is not possible. Read this book to find out how Emily survives in the woods with the boy, who tells her lies and then tries to rob her uncles bank with her help but some one gets in their way. How will Emily explain that she didn't mean to steal and how will the boy explain to Emily about all the lies! See how Emily Upham gets her revenge!

I love her very much, strange but cute, sometimes ugly... i bought it as my 26 birthday gift anyway!!! nothing to hide--> also means that the lock with the jornal is out of order!?!

The thought that Emily Bronte might have actually experienced some of the passion she wrote about in Wuthering Heights is intriguing. I enjoyed the romance between Alex and Selena and the breaking of the "gypsy curse". My only criticism would be the characterization of Alex's ex-girlfriend who I thought was too one-dimensional in her jealousy of Alex. Since she was supposed to be a Bronte scholar, I thought her reaction to the discovery of Emily's letter wasn't what I would have expected. I also thought that Alex's reaction to Selena's subsequent destruction of the letter was a bit too understanding.

For a recent trip we bought a large number of sticker and activity books for our toddler. These in the Sticker Stories series were very popular and helped make the trip a pleasant one.

There are seven cheery and colorful two-page spreads and one one-page picture on which to place stickers. These show Emily Bunny and her friends enjoying a tea party. There are over 70 reusable stickers to place within these scenes.

We will definitely buy more activity books from this series.

People who come to like wine will sometimes be put in a strange situation, They enjoy wine and are happy if only they can find a bottle to their tastes. At the same time, for some reason or other they will decide that they need to know about wine. Most wine books are written so technically and systematically that they will be confused and will think that wine is difficult. This is a big mistake and wine is not difficult at all for those who want to enjoy wine. This book tells only basic facts on each region of the world and grape variety. This book also contains lots of hand-drawn illustrations, which are really amusing. No technical terms are used in explaining basic facts, so everyone can enjoy this book.

Emily Osborn has written a romance which has as its setting the old plantation which was built on the lake from which our town gets its name. Names have thinly-veiled pseudonyms such as Lake Johnson for Lake Jackson, the Grace family instead of the Groce family, and Pelican Island Plantation instead of Eagle Island Plantation. The heroine of the story is Laura, who was adopted by the plantation's overseer and his wife after Laura's birth parents died of cholera. Laura is in an interesting social situation, not of the landed gentry, but also not a slave. She relates to the slaves and the landowners but never really fits into either group. She is attracted to the young son of the plantation owner and also the tutor who comes to Fairhope to teach the children there. The book helps the reader sees what everyday life was like on a Texas plantation before and after the Civil War. This is Mrs. Osborne's first published novel and it is a good story, especially to people interested in the history of the Texas Gulf Coast.

...P>I bought THE FOUR GRACES for my wife. It had been a particular favorite of hers for a long time, and she had lost her copy. She had searched and searched, but I found it at Amazon.com, and I surprised her with it one Christmas. Needless to say, she was thrilled. I wasn't quite sure what all the fuss was about-- it didn't look like my kind of book at all-- but it made her happy.

About a week ago, I found myself with nothing to read. In my life, this is a tragedy: the equivalent of being abandoned, swimming in mid-ocean without raft or life jacket. Then I saw my wife's copy of THE FOUR GRACES (read and re-read by her), thought to myself "You only live once" and picked it up.

I was very pleasantly surprised. It is a delightful book, light and lovely, hearkening back to a time and style long since past. It is the story of one summer in England during the Second World War, and it details the lives and adventures of the four daughters of the Rev. Mr. Grace in a small country village.

D.E. Stevenson is the grandaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, but her style owes a great deal more to Austen and Trollope (two writers directly referred to in the novel) than it does to the creator of Long John Silver and Mr. Hyde. That being said, the author she perhaps most closey resembles would be Angela Thirkell.

Stevenson's dialogue is smooth, rich, and a treat to listen to (because that is what you do when you read conversations between her characters, you hear them), and the plot, while simple and straightforward, is fun to follow.

I really enjoyed myself, and while it is still not my style of book (at least not for a steady diet) as a change of pace, it is the equivalent of a new and tasty light dessert. Anyway, I've read it now...

I read this book as a teenager and now I want to share it with my daughter. The book takes on some very serious issues and the chareters are so real. The setting of the book is in my hometown (St.Louis) so I was really able to relate. I read this book over 15yrs ago and the storyline still sticks with me. I'm seeking other books by the author.

this was the first book by Emily Carmichael that I have read. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading her other ones. It is set in the old west which is one of my favorite time periods plus it had alot of humor which I always like in my books

Imagine a complete history of architecture where every building looks like it belongs on the back of a dollar bill. Nothing but engravings, around 750, all works of art in themselves. It results in a new way to learn. You simply read the brief captions, try to skim over the niggling details of names, dates and locations, and, after a few dozen examples, you find you're getting a much better education than if you had merely read an essay. Even though they're organized for you, you're still somewhat forced to do the work of assembling the styles yourself. And you'll enjoy the exemplary design and the coated pages and cover, which seem to represent the state of the art.