I really liked Kari it was a very faced pacedc plot and kept me very interested. I found it quiet easy to relate to. Everyone is embaressed sometimes, and if you haven't wait until your bf comes over to pick you up for your date. I also found Kari a very likable person, but personally i really liked lucy a lot better.

I'll admit - I read historical romances for fun because I love history and I love a good story. Rarely do I find one that I would ever give five stars to, though. This book was amazing. I read it in 1993 when it first came out and I just finished rereading it. This has got to be one of the best Maura Seger books out there. It is set in England about 11 years after the Battle of Hastings. Unlike many medieval romances, this one really seems to capture the spirit of its time. The reader sees the emotions of the English and the Normans with regard to the Conquest and the uneasy acceptance of Norman rule is shown through the thoughts and actions not just of the governing Normans, but of English church officials, former warriors and others. The story is effectively told partly in the third person and partly through a narrative written by the heroine Aveline in her convent as she labors over the Bayeaux tapestry. Flashbacks to the actual events leading up to Conquest are also helpful. They give depth to the main characters and show some of the ambiguities of the actual Conquest of England of which most readers are probably not aware. The relationship between the English ward of a convent and the Norman official who oversees her work is convincingly and beautifully told. Some romance readers may complain about the lack of steamy sex scenes, but personally I don't consider that a defect. I'd rather have a good romantic story driven by intricate plotting rather than sex any day!

Emily von Plotz writes an advice to the lovelorn column in San Francisco. She chances to meet "Texas Lonesome," an unpolished but well-meaning fellow who wants to learn about proper decorum so as to meet a lady to marry and share his wealth with. Emily, of course, decides that she would be the perfect lady... but her well-meaning eccentric reletives (and their dachshunds) always seem to get in the way.

TEXAS LONESOME is absolutely delightful! I loved the dogs ;) I loved the plot twists, the ending escapades, the glimpses of San Francisco, and they way we were reminded that this was 1895--all the little improprities that a reader in 1995 wouldn't think of, like *gasp* sharing the same piece of furniture! the secondary characters were hilarious, and I'd love to see Thomas, the hero's best friend, get a book of his own. There were lots of LOL [laugh out loud] parts in this book, and lots of bits I had to read to my husband--a sure sign of either a very funny or very horrid book; this is definitely funny and not at all horrid. Thanks, Alice!

Definitively the maximum! only for the authors' quality (many countries), photos and inclusion of information already turn it indispensable. It is the reference in pediatric dermatology.

I am using this text in a Community College FRE102 class, and find it very effective, especially in reinforcing the concepts presented in the base material. Having taken FRE101 from a different book, I find this one is much better. My wife, who is a French teacher, looked it over, and is quite impressed with it. Many times she has said "I wish our book had that!" The practice sessions are quite good, but in my opinion there are too many "votre partenaire" exercises. Some of them could be rewritten to more advantage as personal exercises.

I bought the book/tape/cd/workbook set through the school bookstore. They are quite good, but as with other French tapes I have used, the speakers are too fast for beginners. (I.E. Me!) Also, the tapes go with the book, and the CD's go with the workbook. It's nice to have them separate, but one must be able to play both.

This book is about a boy named Harris Harper. He wasn't very popular. One day he went on a stroll with his bike. There he encountered many secrets. Read this book if you want to know the secrets. This is a very good humorous book but contains no illustrations, and I would recommend it to the 6th graders for reading.

Time Steals Softly tells the story of growing up in the Ohio Valley during the revolution. Anyone who has lived in this area will recognize landmarks, family names and historical events. By the end of the book one feels they have lost their friend Lydia Boggs Shepherd Cruger.

This is a very good book decribing the need for a simpler lifestyle for the benifit of the individual as well as the environment. The author has a couple chapters devoted to practlical ways of living that are benifical to our spirits, our relationships, our health and our environment. Lots of quotes and references to other writings on the subject.

Sometimes a book just strikes a cord in you and it's hard to explain why. The story of Bennie and Jon is so sweet yet passionate that I've read it countless times and never tire of it!

Elizabeth Jones is the only daughter of a staunch patriotic family during the early stirrings of the American Revolution. She meets Jon a bumbling, slow-witted Redcoat and she immediately becomes his unofficial protector. What she doesn't know is that Jon is really Jonathan Leighton who is only pretending to be a bumbling fool while he works undercover for the Americans. Elizabeth finds herself falling in love with the simple-minded Jon, a big, gorgeous man who she feels is perfectly suited to her.

Their romance developes and heats at a pace with that of the growing resentment of British interference in colonial life.

I so recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a sweet, passionate love story, with beleivable characters set against the backdrop of a tumultuous time during our history.

This book is very involved - mazes, a cool decoder which you place over different areas on each page. Turtle Quest will keep an older child occupied for a few hours, and will provide a lot of one-on-one time with parent and younger child. I suspect that the book reviewer, in saying that the book was confusing, couldn't figure out the puzzle on the pyramid page - my six year old and I weren't the least confused. We WERE very challenged! WE figured it out. And we had a lot of fun.