This book is very interesting and well written. It has pictures which is a good plus. The thing that makes this a good, spooky book is that the stories are local. They are stories that could be similiar right in your own home town. What also makes it a good book is that it was written by someone who lives in the area where the stories take place and he is also the county historian, so the stories come pretty much straight from the source. This is a great book I very much reccomend it.

I received this cookbook as a gift and have made almost ever recipe in it...each one is truly amazing! The cookbook has recipes ranging from easy to more complicated, but the outcome of each is a dish which you will swear was made in a five star restaurant. This book will compliment the library of any person with a taste for fine (vegetarian or not) food. It is the perfect companion to a Vegetarian Cookbook which provides many of the necessities, but lacks in originality. I highly highly recommend it!

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A friend sent me a copy of THE WAITING GAME, knowing how much I value good customer service in restaurants. I found this book to be a thorough and comprehensive review of excellent service. It was both informative and educational, but not boring at all. I recommend it to all wait staff and management alike!

It is refreshing reading a book on faith or religion that doesn't ask or demand too much from you either theologically or intellectually. The prayerful and poetic images speak to you softly and allow the viewer a chance to wander and discover their own spiritual connections. On one level the images and text tell you something simple and direct but if you allow them in they speak to you on many different levels. I would love to see other Bible verses and Psalms depicted in the manner in which the artist Gary Crawford draws. My faith would be so much clearer and simpler.

This book is great for brlievers in magic of all ages. It comes with five easy spells and guides to help tune your magic. An awesome book for anyone who thinks they may have some magic in them or even if they just truly believe in magic. I've yet to try out spells myself but am anxious to do so.

Patricia Crawford and Laura Gowing have compiled an invaluable selection of primary sources concerning the social and cultural world of our seventeenth-century ancestors. I am currently studying in this area and am finding this sourcebook invaluable for two reasons; one, it is choc-a-block with interesting and relevant primary sources, and two, it is an excellent reference for finding more sources. For those who a mere self-learning students of History, I cannot reccommend a more lively, interesting and informative source on seventeenth-century life. A very worthwhile investment.

The Writer's Legal Guide is an invaluable reference for published and unpublished writers alike. Relevant and significant areas of the law are explained in helpful and easy to understand terms. This book is essential to dealing successfully with the business side of publishing, as all writers must at some point in their careers. Learn your rights and responsibilities as a writer, become knowledgeable about Copyright and First Amendment law, and be prepared to handle publishers and agents. The Writer's Legal Guide is well prepared to be your "guide".

Having just read this book I am astonished at it's beauty. The skaters all look at ease which has motivated my daughter to want to do more. Both my daughter and I enjoy reading the book together and it has been a great help after each private skating lesson to understand exactly what my daughters coach has been saying. As a parent it is essential that I understand what my child needs to practise and this book certainly, has not only helped my daughter but has helped me understand much more about this wonderful sport of figure skating. Many thanks to Peter Morrissey

This review relates to the entire Lymond series, which comprises 6 books and begins with this. This series is sheer literary entertainment of the highest order. The pace is fast and the plots are intelligent. The writing is flamboyant and witty. The reader is never condescended to or pandered to. Dorothy Dunnett will ruthlessly kill off lovable characters if her plot requires, which lends a particularly heart-stopping aspect to one's involvement in the plot. Amazingly, her novels are set in real history and populated by many real historical people. I am told by students of history of the period that her research is almost faultless. She brings history startlingly to life, partly by the use of modern prose, which unfortunately results in spoken words being less than authentic to the period, but I will put up with this for the immediacy and realism (to my modern ear) this brings. No one tells a cracking good story with intelligence and wit better than Dorothy Dunnett. Mercifully she does not try to moralise - this is pure entertainment with non-stop action.

An avid reader in my youth, at the start of my working life I found that I could not bear to read another word after a day poring over documents. It was only when I was introduced to Dorothy Dunnett that I went back to reading for pleasure. I was sucked into Lymond's intricate, exciting and realistic world of intrigue and adventure, to which I devoted every spare moment for a few weeks. When I was done I spent weeks after pondering the plot and thinking about the characters. Seldom have I been so overtaken by an imaginary world. I acquired a taste for historical fiction, and even plain history. And best of all, since then I have gone back to reading for pleasure.

I first read the Crawford of Lymond series in the 1970's. I started The Game of Kings and abandoned it after 100 pages; I picked it up a year later and began again, and, once I hit my stride, could not stop until I had read all six. Many writers want you to believe their protagonist is of surpassing intelligence, but one rarely believes it, because the author doesn't have the intellectual firepower to bring it off. Dunnett does. The series is a joy for many reasons: the historical accuracy, the complex characters and plot, and, not least, the extraordinary way she brings it all together in the last pages of the last volume. As I look at the comments of others, I get tired of hearing Americans whine about others using foreign languages when they write; it is our shortcoming that so few of us have even a passing familiarity with other languages. We would be the better for a little stretching of our own intellects through a more thorough acquaintance with other languages, history, and culture.

What is it about the Scots that make them such good romantic figures, in a way that others, the English, the French, the Italians, etc., never achieve? All that wild Highland blood (even in the most civilized, like Lymond) or something else? No matter; you can't do any better than this series.

Dorothy Dunnett is an adventure writer squarely in the Scottish line of Sir Walter Scott (whose ancestors appear in several of the Lymond Chronicles) and John Buchan. Like them, she embraces derring-do, shrinks not from melodrama and thinks nothing of sacrificing plausibility to the cause of excitement. The series starts a bit ponderously--Ms. Dunnett was learning on the job--but readers who make it through The Game of Kings will find each successive book more breezily written and more surely plotted. Readers who love the period details in Patrick O'Brien's sea novels will enjoy Dunnett's erudition and the knowlegeable presentation of an earlier world--the series is set all over Europe and the Mediterraean in the lively but difficult years between the death of Henry VIII and the ascension of Elizabeth I, a time when Spain was the important power in Europe and intrigue was everywhere. Wonderful set pieces and engaging minor characters brighten the later books particularly. A warning: if you get through the first two of this six-book series, you won't be able to stop