A Beautiful book for those who love Victoriana & also enjoy making things that fit in with antiques. Some of the projects are even from the Victorian era. Lots of color photos throughout the book. If you love Victoria magazine---this book is for you!

This is a beautifully written and exquisitely photographed guide to both the spiritual as well as physical lives of gardens and their gardeners. I can think of no book like it -- either in its fine writing or in its brave scope. The writer lays bare her thoughts and feelings about the cycles of life while strategically leading us through the gardening year with good, solid gardening knowledge. This can be read in all seasons in all zones, at every stage of life. Truly, this is the way to garden.

This book has everyone from Bill Cosby to Woody Allen talking about basketball. I've been using the books the excerpts are from as my new reading list.

I am a fanatic when it comes to dyeing and weaving my own yarn. I really enjoyed this book's dyeing techniques and the methods of extracting natural dyes from their sources. This book is great when it comes to teahing other people about hoow to make their own dyes. I even got my son into dyeing whit natural methods, my son is 14 and usually hates to take any of my advice. This showshow great this book really is!!

This book is undoubtedly the best book I've ever seen on weaving. It starts at the beginner's level with an explanation of weaving vocabulary and progresses to unravel all the mystery about the multitudes of loom types and the intended use and potentials of each. There is an abundance of drawings and photographs, not only on how to weave different patterns, but also photographs of finished projects to inspire you. An incredible book! Even the book itself has a beautiful protective book cover. A must for everyone interested in weaving from the beginner to the advanced. Highly recommend!

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I felt like this book really helped me to understand that it is uncomfortable to discuss the death of a friend's child, but that there is a great need for the grieving family to talk about their lost loved one. This book helped me to understand better what my friend and her husband must be enduring. I know that I will not understand their individual feelings, but the author has shared what her grieving was like to help those of us who are friends of the grieving families.

Enter, if you dare, the mind of a teenaged boy with all its conflicting tenderness, violence, sexuality and vulnerability. Author Larry Hand has not so much painted as etched in hard lines, a portrait of Buddy Barnes, one of four sons of a south Georgia tobacco farmer.
Hand takes a character that could have been easily stereotyped into a 1950's James Dean rebel and gives him edges and angles to be explored and depths to be plumbed. His vivid images will both terrify and delight the reader. Buddy learns early to cope with the harsh realities of life among the laboring class by developing an imagination that channels his violent inclinations into fantasies. When singled out for derision by his first-grade teacher who labels him "backwards," Buddy pictures her being eaten by a giant praying mantis. "The big green thing turned, reached out its long arms, grabbed Miss Pritchard by the head, and ripped it straight up off of her body. A shower of crimson liquid spewed all over her desk and splattered some of those snotty little rich kids sitting up there in the front row. Then it placed its gigantic jaws around her head and clamped down, the way a hog bites into a watermelon. Her brain splattered across the chalkboard and made little puddles all over the floor."
Yet when Buddy later speaks of the girl who would break his heart, he reveals a poetic soul at odds with his violent imaginings. "When I first saw the girl I would love forever, she had jewels in her mouth." He later explains as he sips water in a sweltering tobacco warehouse, "... She used to wear braces on her teeth. When I kissed her, she tasted just like metal. It used to remind me of drinking water like this. ... out of a tin dipper. ...always cool...and sweet." However, when taunted by his cousin about losing the love of his life, Buddy turns again to his murderous fantasies. "I didn't say anything, but in my mind I stuck a pitchfork into his belly and twisted, allowing his guts to spill out onto the patch of white sand next to his car."
The year Buddy graduates from high school, he must decide what really makes a boy a man. When threatened with a gun by his cousin, Buddy considers making his illusory massacres real, which would certainly start a family war. "That's the way it ought to be ... the way it's always been. Brothers taking up for brothers. Cousins taking up for cousins."
Larry Hand writes from personal experience and a sensitivity that allows the reader to smell the pine trees, tar, and tobacco fields of south Georgia and to feel the angst of a young man in conflict with his own soul.

Every town should be blessed with such a great record of their rowdy past, and thanks to Neil Carmony for editing this diary and making it available to all. George Hand came to Tucson in 1872 as an enlisted man and died there twenty years later. It is unusual for a blue-collar male to be so faithful to writing, and through his words one gets a clear view of his side of life in the Wild West. Sometimes it wasn't so wild, as boredom, heat, dust and disease took its toll. Hand describes the Mexican flavor of Tucson, the various types of settlers, forms of entertainment and just plain everyday life.

A collection of stories women dominating men and invariably masturbating them to delighful orgasms. Very explicit.