This is the first book by Ms Biery and I found it delightful. We start out with Miss Edna Potter in a fictional town called Winslow, Tennessee. She has just retired from the school district that she has worked in for 40 years. At the annual teacher's meeting she stands up and tells all her peers that she is happy to be retiring and is happy to announce that she is a fully licensed private investigator complete with business cards. Everyone in the building is buzzing with the news and Miss Potter can still put the fear of God into those that are around her whether it is students or peers.

Miss Potter's first case is to find Carrie Owens, a missing teenager and when she starts turning up leads everyone in town is amazed. From buying guns to finding suspects Edna Potter is a force to be reckoned with. She is not very customer service oriented and has to keep reminding herself she needs to be more tactful. But in a very endearing way she does grow on you and you do get the sense that she does want to belong and does care about everyone of her students and friends. Her methods may be a little different and Miss Potter does get into a few scrapes along the way, which just makes for a very interesting adventure in this first book. Even Police Chief Duncan who at first warns Miss Potter to stay out of police business is able to recognize that Miss Potter will not be going away. She has the tenacity of a bulldog.

I really liked this book by Miss Biery and hope that she is able to continue writing about Miss Potter. Miss Potter reminds me a little bit of the M C Beaton books with Agatha Raisin as the start. If you like Agatha, I am sure you will like Miss Potter. This was a quick and easy read and an outstanding first effort.

as an importer of mexican pottery I have been to most of the places depicted. The book is great,. factual, I need a copy to find new areas to import from for my mexician pottery business. however the book does need to be updated as it does not refelct the expansion of new styles and new locations of pottery in mexico.

The Potter's Wheel is one of the best books I have ever read about the trials of growing up. 16 year old Laura Blair goes to her grandmother's celebration to open many attractions to the public in a small Pennsylvania town. When she is there, she becomes attracted to her handsome cousin, but her family has suspicions that he is a thief. Something is wrong with her youngest cousin Beth, a skilled dancer, but no one knows what. Her English punk rocker cousin has serious problems that she expects Laura to solve. Her great aunt has Alzheimer's Disease. Then, her mother who is in London on business, commits a shocking betrayal that leaves Laura feeling helpess. Will she find the strength inside herself that her relatives can already see?

... the best feature of the book. It explains step by step for each different types of ceramics (cylinders, bowls, closed forms, vases, lids, plates, etc) with illustrations, common mistakes for beginners and how to fix them. I'm a beginner myself in this creative art form, and this book helped me understand what I should or should not be doing while throwing. Definitely a book for beginners/intermediate ceramists.

Ernest Fischer did an excellent job of blending information about the personal and political life of a largely overlooked Texas patriot. Fischer has managed to keep the book both intersting and factual from the standpoints of Potter's womanizing personal life and his firebrand political life in early Texas, using primary references. Like the other founders of the Republic of Texas, Potter's life had rough spots that many would see as flaws. After being kicked out of the U.S. House of Representatives for castrating two men suspected of dallying with his wife, and displaying other personal character flaws Potter went to Texas for a new start in life. Fischer details how much Potter contributed to the formation of the government of the new Republic and the organization of its Navy.

Fischer has provided the researcher in Texas Navy history with many little known but important facts not likely to be found in other published books. It is also very readable by both researcher and lay reader, written in an elegantly simple yet factual style.

I would rate this book with four and a half stars if it were possible. This book is a must-have for anyone researching the Texas Navy, or just looking for an interesting read on what life and politics were like in early Texas.

Drew was a good stoic, I suppose and Gabrielle was charming. The plot was a little shoddy, as no woman in her right mind would even think of disguising herself and going for months with a bunch of men. She seems more like the "bad" kind of woman whom "good" ladies try to make their men forget. She perpetually lies, and I still don't see how his family could welcome her, even though, I guess, they didn't know of her many lies. But Pepper, the cook, was interesting. All right. i don't mean to burst anyone's bubbles- this was a good story of a desperate woman and a man who tried so hard not to care about others- and fails miserably every time.

Potter's casual, informed prose accompanies stunning photographs of gardens that takes your breath away. Although it includes case studies, it is not a technical gardening book. More importantly, "Secret Gardens" is a mind's eye journey to places that we'd all like to sit and listen, to explore, to just linger...

This is the touching story of how it might have been for the much-maligned innkeeper who found a place for the Holy Family in spite of an overly crowded city. A longtime feud between this hardworking man and one of the shepherds who had been "guarding their flocks by night" is resolved when the Prince of Peace comes to mankind. A great story for juveniles and young adults or for anyone young at heart who likes to imagine "what if..."

This book is a statistics textbook for students of social sciences, not high-end users. I read earlier edition of this book in undergraduate statistics course. In that course, only basics of statistics were instructed. In social sciences, they don't need to know A to Z of statistics for all they have to know is what the function of SPSS or SAS means and what kind of data is needed and how the data would be analyzed in the statistics packages. There is no need to derive the functions in the textbook mathematically as they do in the courses of statistics department. We should understand what the function means, not how it is derived. This book is written in this regard. Unlike orthodox statistics textbook, this book tackles only the meaning of the statistical methods. In doing so, this book illustrates the methods with various field works and SPSS exercises. This is the stance most textbook written for social scientists takes. It seems that this book succeed in achieving the goal. Explanations are succinct and examples are apposite.
But this book is not that useful when you should do real research. Most social sciences articles use more advanced methods than what this book introduces. This book is good enough to beginners, but not so to who would be real researcher. At that point, you should have read more advanced ones already. If not, you couldn't read a piece of article in the common journals.

This story is about a duck by the name of Jamima Puddle-Duck. She isn't aloud to hatch her own eggs because the farmer's wife won't let her. Where ever Jemima was, she would get caught and her eggs were taken away. Then one day Jemima Puddle-Duck went looking for a nest spot. She saw woods in the distance and started to run. Jemima flew down to the woods and saw a stump. A well dressed gentleman was reading a newspaper and Jemima started to quack. The gentleman invites her to go to his house to lay her eggs and she agrees. Was that wise? Read the book to find out. I liked this book because of the surprise twist at the end.