Compiled and edited by Nasario Garcia (Professor of Languages, New Mexico Highlands University), Comadres: Hispanic Women Of The Rio Puerco Valley is a unique and ground breaking survey of Hispanic-American women and their manifold contributions to the evolving culture of New Mexico, especially during the first ten years of statehood. Ranch life, the evolution of Spanish dialects, the struggles to birth and raise children, and so much more are accessibly covered in this unique anthology of vignettes, anecdotes, and revealing glimpses into New Mexican daily life. Black-and-white photographs enhance this outstanding collection of brief yet personable tales, each of which is rendered in both Spanish and English. Comadres is a very strongly recommended addition to Women's Studies, American History, and Southwest Regional Studies academic reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

This was a great book. In this book, the twin's cousin Kelly Bates comes to visit them. But she is sad and is hiding something from them. It turns out that Kelly's mom, Laura Bates, is divorcing Kelly's dad, Greg Bates, because he is so irresponsible. If you like this book, you should also read S'isters At War,' Sweet Valley Twins #111, to learn more about Kelly and her family. I definitally recommend that you read this book.

This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in culture, Silicon Valley, and the ethnographic methodology. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the people and unique culture of a technology based community. The author simulaneously paints an accurate portrait of the South San Francisco Bay Area while intoducing us to the complex lives of individuals who live, work, and volunteer there. This book is a sharp contrast to jargon-laced papers or tedious textbooks. Information on the area and culture are wrapped around the narratives of real people and their ability to survive in an exceptionally fluid society.

In Three Mountain Township, Kentucky, Methodist Minister Dan Thompson and Constable Ray Hall attend the funeral of Geraldine Shrewbridge. Although the senior citizen peacefully died in her sleep, funeral director LeRoy Whiteker asks the two men to take a close look at the corpse of Jonah Haycatcher, who died when he fell off his tractor and was run over by the disk. LeRoy shows his two visitors a bullet hole in the back of Jonah's head.

Ray changes Jonah's death from accident to homicide and begins an investigation into the man's background. He quickly learns that Jonah has had a previous alias and had a belief that he was a reincarnation of the Prophet with Nineveh being DC. Because Jonah moved here not that long ago with his flock, the Children of the Lamb of God, Ray enlists Dan to help on the investigation in case religious questions surface. This case alone is difficult enough, but the duo also has to contend with a DEA agent who is busting half the county for growing weed.

CRIMSON CREEK is a warm regional mystery that focuses on life in Appalachia Kentucky. The story line stars a warm protagonist who has fallen from grace and is exiled to Three Mountain Township where he regains some of his lost esteem. The who-done-it is entertaining, but the tale belongs to the various characters living in this hilly county as they make the constable and the minister seem like real people involved in a murder mystery.

Harriet Klausner

These two have given to us not only different bike tours throughout the beautiful Shenandoah Valley; but an excellent history to go with each tour. Recommended places to stay, visit and to eat are given as well.

roy macgregor is at his best here! i have read all of the screech owl books, but this one is one of my favorite. AMAZING!

The seven year old twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield go out with their mom (Alice Wakefield) to a fancy department store, they are going to help their mom. They can't get into too much trouble when their with their mom? CAN THEY?

I loved this book when I first read it years ago for a college classroom, and I would like to use it immediately for adult church members who take the Bible as ground and authority for faith. Aukerman takes one significant passage of the Bible after another and insightfully brings out meanings clearly in the Bible which speak precisely to the contemporary world (he does this rather like the close readings of Erich Auerbach in Mimesis). This may be the best book I have ever read on the issue of a Biblical view of war and peace. Timely, urgent, readable, timeless.

At my high school, this story was on a literature reading list. It's the biography of a German girl who helps victims of a concentration camp during World War II. I found this book extremely moving. Highly recommended.