Laura's Rose is a really great overview of the life of Rose Wilder Lane. Of course it is more of a booklet, so you don't get a great wealth of information, but still it brings up lots of details things that dedicated Little House fans will find interesting.

Francis Schaeffer does not produce much among the "light reading" category. This book is refreshingly different than his others in that you catch a glimpse of the man behind the mind. It's subject matter focuses on specific advice/counseling for people that have written questions ranging from organized religion to intimacy in marriage and friendship. The "letters" have been compiled over 30 years ('53-'83) from individuals that had written to Schaeffer. They are categorized into three sections: 1) The Reawakening of Spiritual Reality, 2) Spiritual Reality in Daily Living, 3) Spiritual Reality in Marriage, Family and Sexual Relations. His answers are biblical, humble...always personal. In a day when radio and even church counseling resembles a fast food chain...(hasty & premature answers), this book provides an ear that truly listens to those seeking guidance.

If you own Christopher Hilton's "Alain Prost", you probably won't find many things new in this autobiography. But the fact that everything is told by the 4-time world champion himself puts readers in the best position to see why he did this and why he did that. You will find yourself racing in Alain's cockpit, and learning much from his reasoning.

Alain Prost is never as good a writer as Christopher Hilton, who has been a journalist for years. But this book, translated from Prost's original French version, does not come with long and artistic narration and brings readers right to the "fast lane". You will find it even more readable.

You'll know Prost's history better by reading Christopher's book. But only by reading this autobiography will you know Alain Prost better.

This book starts with an interesting introduction of his childhood before moving to Prost's racing career from kart racing to his record-scoring season in 1988. It ends with a rather strange chapter stating the author's desire for privacy. The great thing is that it comes with a handsome photo of Prost skiing. An additional chapter is added to include the 1989 season and Prost's 6th Brazilian GP victory in a Ferrari in 1990.

The best thing of the whole book, however, is that it contains excellent photos of Prost, and many good ones in his childhood. Lovely. You can't resist.

Westerlund walks us through life at a deceptively unhurried pace. Her considerable talent for finding excitement beneath the surface of ordinary things creates a climate of subtle curiosity. What will happen next? We have only those clues of which the characters themselves are aware.... until - as it happens in reality - a situation comes to the epiphany of recognition. Readers are caught up in quiet events before realizing how powerfully these events expand into double meanings, become firm decisions and change lives forever. This book made me see everyday life in a new light.

I found this book to be very interesting in its depiction of Michigan as a territory. The book describes Lucius Lyons efforts in surveying the land, acting as liaison between the local native americans and settlers, and serving as Michigan's representative to congress. Many other business and personal details of the man are found in this book. I recommend it to those wishing to learn more about the settlement of Michigan.

The adventures led by Mary Poppins are always warm and bright without a speck of evil or darkness, and make me smile. With her, the most far-away things such as the sky, cloud, moon, and stars are drawn nearer, just in front of me, and all turned into some warm and friendly ones. In this book, Mary Poppins introduces me to some lonly Stars who love herbs in a Midsummer's Eve and then to the Man-in-the-Moon who always awake and watch on things, surrounded by stacks of deserted but still lovely stuffs. After the trips with her, you(as well as I) may find yourselves(I really do!) seeing the herb pots and thinking the Stars, or drinking a cup of hot coccoa and being sorry for the Man-in-the-Moon who can't indulge himself with even a cup of soothing drink that will make him sleepy. Mary Poppins is the One and Only who can make us like this !

This is a companion to the very good introduction text Statistics by Freedman, Pisani et al. If you have the least bit of math background, you must look at this book as you read the main text. Still, there is a lot of room for at least mentioning the more serious mathematical treatment of the subject. This is because there are quite a lot of readers who are very confortable with undergraduate mathematics, but know absolutely no statistics, and mentioning the underlying mathematics would make things a lot more clear.

Lettie Lane paper dolls are some of the most detailed dolls I have ever found! There are lots of accesories that come with each doll, hats, parasols, etc. Some of them even have extra dolls, like a nurse maid for the toddlers and a grandmother for the little ones. I think these are almost better than the originals! A great purchase, get your siscors ready folks! I bought these when I was younger at the Vanderbuilt Mansion Gift store, even then I was stunned by the beauty of these dolls!

This started a little slow, but soon picked up after a few chapters. This is not really a mystery or detective novel, although it does have some of those elements. It will have a strong effect on the emotions of the reader.
I tried to find out something about the author, Morgan Lane, but he/she seems to be as elusive as the famous painter who makes a brief appearance in this story.

The New Portuguese Letters written by the Three Marias is based on a volume of 17th century letters, supposedly written by a young Portuguese girl, Mariana Alcoforado, whose father placed her in a religious convent when she was sixteen. When she was 25, she had a love affair with a young French officer who, subsequently, abandoned her and returned to his country; he later became a Marshall of France. Her five love letters to him were published in France.

TheThree Marias have written letters between the nun and her former lover. In addition to those, they have created/invented poems, letters, essays to, by, and between a multitude of characters whose lives, directly or indirectly, through the generations have touched Mariana's.

The writing is , by turn, lyrical, haunting, heart-breaking, sensuous, condemning of the male-dominated society and begging to be read. The voices of women are being heard: a daughter who is [seduced] by her father; a mother who rejects the daughter she bears after being impregnated by a man other than her husband; a woman whose husband leaves for the New World and never sends for her; a daughter forced to marry a man she does not love; a dowry-less daughter exiled to a convent and condemned to a celibate life; women who are raped, actually and symbolically, by their husbands.

The letters, essays, poems reflect not just women in the 17th century, not just in Portugal, but today and in countries all over the world. The Three Marias speak for all women who have been or who are silenced... Although I enjoyed the book and recommend it highly, I gave the book a "4" rating because I found the poems difficult to understand.)