Three children of a widowed mystery writer strives to solve the murder next door - to get their mother some publicity (and maybe a love interest). This is a great read! Read it years ago and adopted the children's secret language to use with my friends. Am still reading it at least once a year. If ONLY the movie made from this book (starring Dean Stockwell as the son, Lynn Bari as the mother and Peggy Ann Garner as one of the daughters) could be re-released on videotape!! It was a three-star rated movie and beats anything other old movie shown today!

I'm very happy to see this book back in print. If you're a Rice fan as I am, you've probably had to scour used book stores, desperately seeking any beaten up old copy of a novel by the once famous, now forgotten, Craig Rice (under one of her many pseudonyms).

Though it lacks the alchohol-inspired zaniness of her Malone books, this novel more than makes up for it in charm.

The three children of a rather neglectful mystery writer (yes, the novel has autobiographical elements to it) solve a murder and play matchmaker for their mother at the same time.

If, after reading the previous sentence you're still with me, I recommend you give this book a try. It may be Rice's most-loved novel, and no wonder. I didn't want it to end. The children are charming and sweet without being too charming and sweet, if you know what I mean. The mystery itself is rather slight, but you won't mind.

The lightness and humour of this book were exactly what I needed during a rather difficult time. For that reason I'm breaking my usual rule and giving it five stars.

The ghost of tricia martin was a fantastic book. i really enjoyed it because it was a little sad in some parts. I felt a little sorry for Andrea though.

This truly is a wonderful book. It has afghans of varied difficulty; great detailed technique illustrations and some beautiful and ingenious designs. I guarantee that you will find several afghans that you will want to make for those special people in your life.

I recently bought Home Sweet Home because I am interested in American art and crafts, and it is full of beautiful pieces of art. More importantly, though, I really felt like I was learning about the lives and history of early Americans, through their artwork. Especially in an uncertain time like this, it was somehow touching to get such an intimate view into how early Americans depicted their homes and communities. I'm planning to buy several copies for Christmas presents!

This book is a must read for anyone interested in life in general in Japan. I loved every bit of it and enjoyed the strange but interesting truth about life in Japan. Author adopts Tokyo as his home and learns to love what he got there and forget about what he missed there. I grew up in Asia and live in the US and have been to Japan and his comparison of living there as opposed to US is astonishingly honest and truthful. He writes beautifully about the issue of space, culture, and everyday etiquette, cross between the industrial and the rural Japan like a storyteller. If you are someone who grew up outside Japan and are going to live there, you must read this. If you also want to know what life in general in Japan is, this is a great book. Author is trying not only to live there and raise his family but also to love the place he chose to live in. Lively, entertaining book.

I have a copy of this book and give it to my customers to help them decide what it is exactly that they would like to have their remodel project resemble. I have recieved numerous contracts awarded by the books ideas. It has just about anything you could want for your home. It also takes alot of running around to obtain samples for my clients, but not anymore. The pictures are fabulously clear. Great tool for my remodeling and custom home business! I am purchasing another due to the popularity...

Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel.

I have found this book to be insightful and compelling, and I recommend it.

The following text comes from the back cover of the book:

In this groundbreaking book Charles Scruggs identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the twentieth-century African-American novel, resulting in a rich fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Sport of the Gods" through Toni Morrison's "Beloved."

Scruggs begins by discussing the treatment of the Great Migration to the city in African-American writing from W. E. B. DuBois and Dunbar through the Harlem writers, establishing both the continuities and breaks between that tradition and that of the writers coming after the Depression. He then considers how four post-Harlem Renaissance novelists - Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison - conceive of the modern city. Scruggs shows how these four writers see the African-American's relationship to elite, popular, and mass forms of culture in city life. He also explores the ways in which their writing presents "alternative spaces" that exist alongside of, and often counter to, the visible configurations of the dominant culture.

I have owned and used this book for the last ten years. I have used it so extensively it is now literally falling apart! Ms Ross has thoughtfully put together a book that has a spot or entree for every possible resource you need to successfully run a household and avoid the hassle of looking through your city phone book. The book is beautiful to look at with the delightful illustrations. The thoroughness of the possible needed resources encourages you to think more creatively in caring for your home. I have YET to see a similar book anywhere and I have LOOKED. The publisher needs to REPRINT!

I loved the book Trouble at Home. It really showed lots about how valuable family time is. Elizabeth, Jessica, and Steven try to stop their parents arguing but it doesn't seem to help. It shows what can happen when a family has problems.