This book does not show much of Native art Only has One design and it is not very good

Although the activites in this series are geared to elementary students, they can be adapted and used effectively with any age group. What better way to learn than through hands-on activities? I have used these activites successfully with students in grades 6-8, but must admit that I have enjoyed them every bit as much as my students! If you want your students to have a deeper understanding of and appreciation for Northwest Coast Indian art, then these books are for you. Instead of merely observing art, students will relish the opportunity to create it themselves.

This is a wonderful book for children to learn about Native American traditions and crafts. I first read it in fourth grade, and in ninth grade used the pattern for a button blanket of my own for a Washington State History project!

this book's content was good enough, but it was writen rather sloppily and with no read order, that i could see anyway. the author attempts to lose us by using hard-to-follow words and phrases.

A very thorough and clear coverage of the controversies raised by cults. I gained new insights into the topic and would readily recommend this book.

I strongly recomment this book. It discusses new religious movements from an academic perspective. An excellent antidote to the religious intolerance and panic spread by the counter-cult heresy hunters and the anti-cult thought control advocates.

Is it always wise to write down all your inner thoughts including your sexual fantasies? What if you lose those writings and someone else finds them, would you be embarrassed? What if that person wanted to help you make those sexual fantasies become a reality? What would you do? If you are ready for originality and erotic plotting that has you not only fantasizing, but enjoying every pro-action to each re-action, Indigo After Dark, Vol. V. Ebony Butterfly by Delilah Dawson, is the book to read.

Sharonda Williams and James Cooper knew each other as young teenagers attending the same church. They both separately recalled their first and last date that turned out to be a nightmare. Years later, they meet again when James returns Sharonda's journal. The journal she has been searching for since moving to her new apartment and the same building where she realizes James Cooper resides. The journal becomes the focus of their meeting up again, and the beginnings of a very erotic relationship.

Delilah Dawson's Ebony Butterfly entices you to read over and over the wonderful descriptive, tantalizing methods that gives her characters sexual pleasures. Ms. Dawson's erotic style of writing is excellent and she is definite an author to watch. She methodically puts you in play with the storyline and she meets your expectations. If you enjoy erotic stories, you won't be disappointed in Delilah Dawson's Ebony Butterfly.

Reviewed by Kalaani

Imaging losing your journal which you have kept for the last five years, oh the secrets on those pages. When Sharonda Williams discovers her journal is gone, she is crazy with who, what, when, and where could it be. Why is she so upset? Because the journal contains her deepest darkest erotic feeelings. Indigo V jumps off to a wonderful start going through all the erotica in the journal, then it fizzles out to be no more than a poor X-rated movie. The plot of the lost journal was a good one which is why I gave the book a three...

This book was steamier than your grandma's kitchen when cooking collards!!! Not only was it sexy, but it was also done in good taste. You feel like you KNOW the characters and you never want it to end. I'm a very hard critic, but I don't have one bad thing to say about this book. It is sure to tantalize and awaken feelings in you that you might have forgotten even existed. Put down the Viagara and pick up Indigo After Dark!!

-LaKeshia Middleton

There are now an immense amount of books about teaching writing to incarcerated person, by fiction writers who are teaching writing by profession. This one was less sophisticated than many, with painful cliches throughout. "Freedom is just another prison"?
Gawd.

Starting with "Virginia Dare," and "Will She Understand," Fielding Dawson has moved away from the first-person(al) autobiographical prose he became famous for towards what he calls his "social-focus writing." In those collections, and now finally with "The Orange in the Orange," he has relied on his experiences as an instructor in prison-writing programs to create a new emerging fiction; one not only from personal experience (and no longer using the first-person narrator) but from listening to others. Dawson sees this as an expansion of his art, extending beyond himself, out to other people and their stories. The newest entry in this expansion is "The Dirty Blue Car," (Wake Up Heavy, 1999), a knock-out story that fluidly merges his past and present styles.

Starting with "Virginia Dare," and "Will She Understand," Fielding Dawson has moved away from the first-person(al) autobiographical prose he became famous for towards what he calls his "social-focus writing." In those collections, and now finally with "The Orange in the Orange," he has relied on his experiences as an instructor in prison-writing programs to create a new, emerging fiction; one not only from personal experience (and no longer using the first-person narrator) but from listening to others. Dawson sees this as an expansion of his art, extending beyond himself, out to other people and their stories.

This book not only will not help you with your teenager, it could very well make your life a living hell. It talks a lot about how to play mind games with them and talks nothing about the trust building and responsibility training that is necessary to work with any child. Example: If your child chooses not to take a shower or put on deoderant, this book suggests dousing them with the grossest smelling perfume that you can find. This not only shows complete disrespect for your child but it teaches the NOTHING except cruelty. If you need help a better book would be - "Uncommen Sense." It is an excellent book and gives you great advice.

As a therapist who works with very difficult adolescents, I believe this book provides a wealth of information on helping parents remain calm and in control when their teenagers are losing it. It is very common for teens to attempt power and control struggles with their parents. Most parents respond inappropriately by losing control of their own emotions when reacting to their adolescent's need to test the limits. With the controversy that surrounds abuse issues today, parents are often at a loss of what actions they can take that are legal and appropriate forms of consequences for their child when the child is out of control. This book offers wonderful ways for parents to respond. When these techniques are done with calmness and emotional control as the book suggests, parents can respond in ways that are not harmful to the child yet remind him or her of their boundaries within the family system. As the authors boldly proclaim, it is essential for parents to change the way their family system functions when it is obvious that the current methods are not working. It is true that oppositional human beings will not change their resistant behavior until they are uncomfortable with the consequences of that behavior. This is the goal the parent is seeking: to enforce uncomfortable consequences that are NOT harmful or abusive in order to produce a motivation for change in the child. When children are responding with extreme opposition to any form of appropriate boundaries or discipline, they do not respond to reason for they are only seeking one thing: power and control over their circumstances to get what they want. This sounds so much like the manipulative behavior of the terrible twos and I believe it is an extension of the same drive for independence that has gone out of control. It is not safe to let children rule their own lives in this manner for they are not wise enough to resist the urges and impulses within their minds and bodies. They end up on drugs, stealing, prostituting themselves, or worse, they may end up dead. Parents must realize their responsibility to protect their children and do whatever it takes to provide safe and reasonable consequences that will motivate their child to change the negative behavior. All forms of discipline should be done in a loving manner. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is to calmly enforce uncomfortable consequences on a consistent basis that will provide some form of motivation for change. Wonderful advise for parents! Superb! Excellent job ladies! Keep up the good work!!!

Our home has become a place of constant nagging and resentment, moans and groans, and dirty looks. This books is helping me to not get angry at my teenagers, yet still get their behavior back on track. It is a VERY practical book that is not bogged down in theory. It has been a great inspiration to me and it makes me eagar to face another day with my teen.

This book is so full of inaccurate observations of the German people as well as there society that it makes me sick. Over and over the author states how Germans have no sense of humor and how they are cold in there interactions with others in society. How inaccurate these statements are. Every German I have ever met is friendly, warm and fun loving! The author also talks about there way of living as if it was 1920. The only positive thing I got out of reading this book is phone numbers for government agencies, and conversions for Metric and Celsius. Don't read this book. Go to Germany instead and see how the German people are for real!

I also recommend Culture Shock! Germany

First of all I would like to say that when I read jjmojo from PA review, I just laughed. I am sure he knows many Germans and finds them wonderful. However it is clear this person has not lived in Germany for any length of time. If, I am wrong perhaps it was in Berlin or Munich. I am living in Germany and have been for 4 years. I live in the south, outside a city and life is very much like america in 1950. The book is very accurate, people are very self centered and laugh at the expense of others. I have many times seen people needing help and no one except myself has offered assistance. Children are not taught to be nice, the people in this culture learn to look for themselves first and formost. It may be a nice place to visit but.......Like I said if you are going to live here, especially outside the big cities, read the book.

I feel she jumped around in the story a lot. I got lost after the prologue. I like the idea and point of the story, that a woman and a man from two different worlds could fall in love, but how it happens is a little far fetched. I did not like it that well, but someone else might.

Overall, I gave this book three stars because I found I didn't like it much. I read the back cover, and the blub sounded interesting. I also read it because I love reading Science Fiction and Fantasy Romances.

I was a bit dissapointed. The plot had an annoying tendency to be boringly slow sometimes (for instance, the book is almost halfway through before the hero and the heroine meet each other and have their first conversation), and totally too fast at other times (example: They jump into bed with each other, when they've only exchanged one or two meaningfull conversations.). I felt like there wasn't enough interaction between the two characters to warrant the kind of feelings they had for each other. The plot was far-fetched, even for a Fantasy Romance, and I found the way the characters reacted in certain situations hard to relate to. I felt that maybe the author should have spent more time developing the romance, and narrowed down the first hundered pages to about fifty. Another thing I disliked was the way she wrote her sex scenes. I felt that the timing was completely unrealistic, not to mention that the act itself wasn't anything special. In all, I must say that I think the author can do better.

I enjoyed this book so much, I loved the way the story came together. I loved the way she fit the wolf aspect into the story. The heroine was so much more real being unable to make up her mind and then when she does she begins to understand the mistake that she may have made. It made me think how would I choose when faced with a situation that is permenant. What could I give up? What would I need to keep? Then of course there is the fantasy of a new and possible land that may be just beyond our reach in an area we have yet to walk upon.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has the imagination to accept what MAY BE POSSIBLE....it's a keeper.

This book is about two girls who were really good friend. And one day when they were walking home from school, Susan went one way and Toni went the other way. The next day, in the morning, Toni received a phone call from the hospital, but Toni didn't pick it up. Her mom did. Toni thought it was one of here family members but it was about Susan. A drunk driver had hit her last night. Susan was dead. When Toni found out she didn't know what to do. She missed school for three weeks and when she went back to school her grades began to drop! At the end she found out how to fell better, but was it that made her feel better??
I really don't like reading book but this one was cool because it is something that actually entertained me and not a lot of books entertain me.

Breadsticks and Blessing Places- an Great Multicultural Book for kids!

This book is about a black girl named Toni who struggles with 6th grade math along with other growing issues. Her two friends, Mattie and Susan, stick by her. Mattie has no patience for flighty, fun-loving Toni and yet, she still helps her study. Susan, on the other hand, won't even answer Toni's letters while she's in New York!! That, on top of studying to get into King Academy, is making Toni even more depressed. Toni is very smart and gets "A's" in English and Reading but cannot get word problems and fractions in Math. To get into King Academy, you have to have good marks( A's and B's). Toni just has to get into King or else she'll have to go to an all Black school. She really wants to go to a Black and White school but she has to get her grades up in time!! Then, in the middle of the story, right after Susan and Toni and Mattie have a great day, Susan gets killed by a drunk driver!! Toni basically falls apart. She skips school, stops studying, and doesn't even want to go to her own friends funeral!! Will Toni pass the math exam and deal with the loss of her best friend?? Read the book to find out!

I liked this book because it talked about realistic things that could happen to anyone. It also it talked about how to deal with death and pressure. Toni didn't like it when her friend died because it made her sad. Toni didn't even want to go to her best friend's funeral. Toni was also mad because at the funeral her friend was dressed in a pink dress which she never wore. This was a great story.

This book is not a futuristic romance as the cover states but is a fantasy that had some great ideas but didn't deliver. The demons and the magic are disapointingly downplayed and there is verylittle dialogue making this a dull read. The couple are okay people but didn't engage my emotions END

I really enjoyed this book. It moved a little slow until about half way through it, but it was worth the wait to read. There were so many questions that I had, then it really started to take off once they got to the "Valley". The ending was a little strange though. It didn't totally answer all my questions about the "demons" and how they got to the valley in the first place. This is most definately not a quick read. Like I said it is slow almost dragging in the beginning, but it makes up for it at the end by explaining most of the history about why these two people got kicked out. It doesn't however describe why these two are being let back in. If you sit down to read this book, have lots of time or plan on putting it down.

I picked up the wrong book at the book store and was a bit disappointed at the summary on the back of the book but as I started to read I couldn't put it down!!! I stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it on the 2nd day I started it and now I'm looking for more of her novels to bye.

Emma, Lady Wortham, is struggling to support her six-year-old daughter and her grandfather, so she's turned to crime: disguised as the Bond Street Burglar, she robs the houses of men who fleece her grandfather at cards. She's risking scandal, and worse, if she gets caught - but then, she's already the subject of scandal. For she is the estranged, cast-off wife of Lucas Coulter, Marquess of Wortham, the wife he discovered was already pregnant when he married her seven years earlier.

And now Lucas is back, and Emma wants a divorce, so she can marry someone else.

But Lucas has never forgiven Emma her betrayal of his love and trust, or the fact that she tried to deceive him and make him father another man's child. So he's not about to give her what she wants, especially not if it means that she will drag his family name through the mud yet again. So he refuses to give her a divorce. However, having seen her again, he is reminded of her beauty, and of the fact that he's never actually taken her to bed. So he offers her a bargain: live with him again and bear him an heir, and then he'll divorce her.

But what Lucas doesn't know is that Emma was actually raped. Her daughter Jenny is the child of her rapist, and Emma herself has never recovered from the trauma and pain of her one experience in men's passion. So, although she steels herself to accept Lucas, when it actually comes to letting him sleep with her, she panics.

To Lucas's credit, he believes her about the rape, and from then on he is kindness itself when it comes to giving Emma time to get accustomed to his touch and to being intimate with him. Dawson handles this aspect of the book very well; contrary to the other reviewer's comment, I didn't find the sensual element of the book at all frustrating. Emma is getting over being raped violently; of course she's not going to throw herself into lovemaking with Lucas in an abandoned manner the first time they're together!

I don't know what it was about the book which left me with a lukewarm response; I just know that, well-researched and -written though it is, this book didn't engage me in the way a story by Balogh or Beverley or Putney or a couple of other writers do. However, this book is certainly a good read, and I'll keep an eye out for others by this writer.

... a beautiful lady and her handsome lord learn that true love conquers all.

Well, that's the premise of the story.

Emma, Lady Wortham, the exiled wife of the Marquess of Wortham, goes to see her newly returned husband to ask for a divorce. She wants to end their farce of a marriage in order to give her daughter a father who will love her. The Marquess, Lucas Coulter, has his own reasons for wanting the marriage to continue, at least for awhile. Number one on that list is the all-important heir. And Lucas intends to make sure that Emma provides him with one.

ONCE UPON A SCANDAL is an entertaining book. The characters are well-drawn, and the plot moves quickly. But this book could have been improved. Lucas and Emma's relationship seems to be a series of building up to a sex scene, then breaking it off, and building back up again. Although the reason behind the break-offs and retreats is very understandable and believable, the constant cycles of up and down left me feeling like I was on a roller coaster (and getting off a roller coaster is *not* a pleasant feeling for me).

I also found it distasteful that Ms. Smith made the law officer in this book such a repulsive toad. Emma had been stealing jewels to support her family. Granted that she was in need, but because of the utter repulsiveness with which the Bow Street Runner was presented, Smith made it seem like the law shouldn't even have been questioning Emma's second-story work. It would have been much more interesting to see the Runner as someone who was simply doing his job, and then finding that maybe Emma's was a case that shouldn't be prosecuted.

ONCE UPON A SCANDAL is good, but it could have been better.

You get amazing twists and turns from the characters of this book. You feel as if you are standing on the sidelines watching the entire story unfold. I got attached to the characters because Barbara Dawson Smith gives a uniqueness to her characters which is a welcome change from the ordinary. I am going on my 3rd book written by B D Smith and can't decide which one to read first!