This is one cookbook that you can actually read! Besides the tempting recipes, there is a lot of other information to digest. As to the recipes themselves, some are quite simple, others are much more elaborate. I found the relating of the recipes to Sherlock Holmes mysteries to be the real treat of the book.

The first time I found a copy of this book, I was most pleasantly surprised! I never even knew such a cookbook existed. As a lover of both Sherlock Holmes and British food, I am happy to add "Dining With Sherlock Holmes" to my collection of Sherlockian literature and numerous cookbooks.

Among other scrumptious items, I found a recipe for potato pancakes that I tried for Chanukah with perfect results!

I highly recommend "Dining With Sherlock Holmes"---and if you're not a Sherlock Holmes fan, this book just might "convert" you!

A very rich, charming story! Great characters

Clay, strong, powerful to die for winds up almost dead when a beautiful, young - soon to be a nun discovers Clay in the garden of a convent. Hallie, a seventeen year old angel takes tender care of Clay. She gets to feel like a normal young woman would feel. She realizes (after her first kiss with a man like Clay) that a life at the convent becomes no longer an interest. Clay, who tries not to fall in-love again after losing his wife by rape, can't help but feel drawn to Hallie who heals his heart, who lightens the burden of guilt for the last 2 years of his life. After his loss, he only feels anger, revenge.. forgets that life is worth living for. He left his 5 year old daughter, Anna, with her grandparents to seek revenge and take the law into his own hands.

Hallie thought abandoned by her father discovers Frank, her father in a town only to learn that her father is the Sheriff of the town.

Hallie and her Father reunite but Clay is thrown into jail when Frank discovers Clay is wanted for killing 5 men..

Read the book.. It's a must... Great book.

One spring young Betsy is packed off with a trunk of clothes, three reading books and her silky blanket to stay with her grandparents while her mama and daddy wait for the new baby to be born. To keep her occupied Grandy and Nana show her three large glossy white eggs they found down by the river. Besty gets to take care of the Honker eggs, both before and after they hatch. At the end of the summer it will be time for Betsy to return home to her parents and for the Honkers to head south. But it being responsible for her "Honkers," Betsy learns a lot about life and what it means to be a parent. If your children enjoyed the movie "Fly Away Home," then they will probably enjoy "Honkers." Jane Yolen tells her tale with a charming and poetical simplicity and Leslie Baker provides soft watercolor illustrations that match the text. "Honkers" is an enjoyable tale about a child learning about both mothering and independence.

Betsy, a soon to be five year old sister must go visit her grandparents out of town until mother has the baby. Betsy transforms from a scared little girl who must travel on her own to a mothering, independent child. She changes when she has the opportunity to care for new born "honkers". I really liked this story because of the many emotional issues that the character experiences. Feelings of fear, loneliness, homesickness, independence, and acceptance are all introduced. Children can really relate to these emotions. This inspiring book portrays to students a child's journey towards acceptance. Experiences children go through growing up...accepting changes.

It is a good book if you are interested in inventions and how they are involved in everday life, but it follows that formula that a lot of other books with the same topic

What is fascinating about this book is the surprisingly unglamourous uses to which NASA technology has been put: it's not tricorders or machines that vanquish your foe with a directional pulse of pure energy that have trickled onto the terrestrial market, but heat resistant paint and non-stick coating for frying pans. Which is probably no bad thing. All in all an excellent read.

An exciting tale of Jack Frost and his son Charlie.It's been a year since Charlie's dad passed away. And now Chriatmas is rolling around again. While Charlie is making a snowman on his lawn he finds an old harmonica his dad gave him. When Charlie blows the harmonica Jack comes back to life as a snowman.A fun and fast paced book that will leave you Breathless.

Twelve-year-old Charlie Frost has just gotten out of school for the winter/Christmas vacation. His dad, Jack Frost, has promised to come home. But Jack doesn't always keep his promises. So Charlie is hoping Jack will come. What I liked about this book was that there was a lot of exciting parts, like at Charlie's hockey game. I didn't like the middle or the ending because Jack dies in a car accident going back to his family. It was really sad. I would recommend this book to readers who like fun/emotional, adventurous books.

This is a biography of LaBaker written by one of her many adopted children. He gives the inside dish on his mom, including that both she and his adopter father were gay. He points out too that she did have some self-loathing issues regarding her race as well. This book has a great photo section. It helped me to see the ugly side of Josephine that wasn't fully presented in the great movie by HBO. I am not sure it is the best work out there, but it is a must-read for any Josephine fans and scholars. In addition, people that study Black Americans abroad or French naturalized citizens should read this.

A perfectly balanced expose of this legendary and highly complex superstar: Amoral in extremis, manic and delusional, but blessed with indomitable human spirit. Excellent historical perspective throughout.

A beautifully written biography which does not succumb to the tawdry, despite its detailed narrative of Josephine Baker's pathologically decadent lifestyle.

Absolutely the best biography of J.B., bar none. A Must Read for Paris cabaret enthusiasts.

This adventure pits the players against a StarMech warhulk (an automated AI capital ship) left over from the Second Galactic War. The warhulk, having been badly damaged in the war has finally succeeded in repairing itself and is now eager to pick up where it left off. Some interesting ideas and subplots, and the AI personality of the warhulk, Ares 22 (complete with dark humour) is especially well done. Players have to contend with a traitor within their ranks, an assault by a commando team, not to mention a race against time and a Concord fleet massing to blow the warhulk into tiny particles. I just wonder if this adventure was inspired by Edward Bryant's short story 'Pilots of the Twilight'...

Players must board and deactivate a robotic warship. Cool! The only weak point is the art--the warhulk itself, Ares 22, looks a bit cheesy in a few spot illos, which detracts from the overall mood and feel of the book. Add a star if TSR had used art as good as they had in Planet of Darkness.

This is a wonderfully inventive book about numbers for children -- but you'll be disappointed if you buy it as your child's FIRST numbers book.

The book consists of number exercises that are just too sophisticated for a typical pre-schooler. My three-year-old loves the book but is interested in the colorful illustrations and the idea of numbers, not the actual questions that the book poses. He just isn't ready for its brain teasers that require the child to scrutinize the page for clues to the answers!

Your child may find the book charming because it features the same adorable rabbits in Alan Baker's series, but don't expect too much interaction early on.

My 2 1/2 year old loves this book. We have many other number books that she likes, but this book is her favorite. She knew how to count before I bought this book and now she really owns the concept of counting things out. The questions and concepts in this book are wonderful and creative. It is a challenging book. She has learned a lot from it. I highly recommend this book for toddlers who like to count and be challenged.

I agree with the other reviewer of this book that, as a guidebook, it is useful but not unsurpassed. When I went to Costa Rica I took it along with a copy of Lonely Planet Costa Rica with me and I was covered. This book is worth it though for the photographs alone. The photographs are so good they make you want to get to every nook and cranny of Costa Rica and find these stunning people, places, and things. National Geographic totally lived up to it's name with this one.

Over the years I must have read about 20 guidebooks about Costa Rica. Like the most of others this book does have something to offer the traveller. However, I prefer the author's other book, "The Costa Rica Handbook." If you're looking to move to Costa Rica or spend an extended period of time there, you should read "The Golden Door to Retirement and Living in Costa Rica." It offers an excellent introduction to the local scene.

This was an enjoyable vampire novel. Baker does a good job of building up an empathy with Ardith, the novel's central character. Via a set of nasty circumstances she goes from being a conventional-contientious student to a wild-child vampire and sets out for revenge on the people who did this to her. This is the last thing she had ever expected to happen to her - and would never have happened when she was "good". This is a novel I'm glad I've read and I'm looking forward to the sequel "blood and chrysanthemums".

This is just an early version of Nancy Baker's Kiss of the Vampire. If you can't get this one, you should try the later version. Baker does a great job of showing the slow transition from meek, well-mannered human to vampirism. She really lets you get inside Ardith's head as she makes the transition.