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I read this book many years ago. I had been collecting information on lefthandedness for a long time with the thought of writing a book of my own. Well Leigh beat me to it! Although it is marketed as a lighthearted look at lefties, all the information is there. I cannot find my copy so I'm going to order 5 of them for myself and my lefty friends.jk

Typically an anthology only holds a story or two that stands out, but this book differs: one, that there are actually 6 stories rather than only 4, and second, all 6 stories are entertaining, well-written, and well-plotted. Dorothea Donley's "Taste of London" is a fairy tale of two cousins spending the season with distant cousin Lord Aldford and his friend, who help Miss Amberly resolve the scandal of her family's past, with help from the Prince Regent. Jean R. Ewing's "Notorious Lord" sends a Viscount in his friend Mr. Grenville's place to woo an "antidote" of a prospective bride, except that the bride has also switched places with her friend Miss Fraser to avoid the expected Mr. Grenville. But the clever Miss Fraser has already recognized Viscount Beaumarais! In Paula Tanner Girard's "A Matter of Honor", a wild Irish princess is forced to marry a duke according to an ancient agreement between the Irish lords and the duke's ancestors. But the language barrier and a little trickery wed the duke to the girl before he can tell her about his betrothed before he carts her to London! In Jenna Jones' "Duke of Diamonds", a duke intends to humiliate a house of scheming, marriage-minded women...then too late discovers the one innocent in the pack of cats. In Meg-Lynn Roberts' "For All Eternity", Christina Granford had seemed to love Viscount Fulbrooke those years ago during the season, but had broken his heart when telling him she was already betrothed. Now a widow, they've been forced to stop avoiding each other... In Marcy Stewart's "Lady Constance Wins", Constance's three adorable older cousins meddle and convince an American to pose as competition to a man informally promised to Constance...but stalling in asking her for a formal pledge. This is a great anthology to curl up with in a warm bed on a rainy day.

This is an excellant book with very useful diagramatic and grapic details of operations and good descriptions of both old and new procedures. Most chapters have been written by pioneers in the field and there is a lot of practical advice added to make the book a valuable addition to the library of urologists and trainees alike. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to be in the library of all urological institutions and practitioners alike. The book is also reasonably affordable.

This is the best adult urology atlas. It covers most of the basic urologic procedures and a well put together way. If you do surgery on the GU tract, this is a must have book.

This volume is an essential guide to every surgeon who practices urology. Also great stuff for residents in urology. A must-have.

This has the best explanation on searching I've seen so far; with the Java examples I have already written some sophisticated code to access our LDAP servers. It's thin and to-the-point. I picked this up after reading a glowing recommendation in Dr. Dobb's.

Just picked this book up and was very pleasantly surprised at the richness of the code examples (lots of good java) as well as the crisp explanations of directory integration concepts and terminology.

I have used some of Clayton Donley's popular LDAP APIs such as PerLDAP on some of my projects and I thought I'd take a chance on a book written by him.

This is the 5th book in my library on LDAP / Directories and I find his book to be the most current and useful. Mr. Donley devotes quite a few pages to the whole issue of LDAP - XML integration and I was able to apply several of his DSML examples to my current work.

LDAP Programming, Management And Integration by networking software expert Clayton Donley (CTO of OcretString, Inc.) is a straightforward and "user accessible" computer programmer and system administrator's guide to LDAP, the leading Internet protocol for directory-like information using identities, preferences, security privileges, and so on. Instructions for working with LDAP in the Java or Perl computer languages; numerous examples and excerpts of sample code; step-by-step troubleshooting and programming techniques; and much, much more fill the 326-pages of this commendable educational resource and reference.

Although the author needs a crash course in the proper use of titles (she refers to her viscount hero as Lord Francis Knollton several times, and to his stepmother as Lady Lydia), readers who can overlook these errors will discover a lovely tale featuring a sweet heroine, an honorable hero, and a fully realized supporting cast, all rendered in an understated, Austenesque style.

Here's what I've been harvesting lately from movies, tv shows, and fiction: the value of witnessing characters who struggle with their problems but are unable to see what it is in their make-up that makes the struggle so hard. The audience can see it, but the character can't. I won't stay with stories where the myopia's artificial, where the author seems to be pointlessly tormenting her characters with awkwardly contrived boils and toils. I'm engaged by writers and directors who present this struggle with authenticity. I imagine exposure to this quality of fiction might help me with my own struggles. If you're into that, I recommend Donley Watts' new novel, Reynolds.

A little bit of word play in the opening sentence of Reynolds made me smile, chuckle to myself. It seemed incidental then but when I finished the novel, it seemed to contain the whole story. The title character is goofing around in his liquor store after closing. Ray Reynolds is listening to music, sliding around in his sock feet, and waiting for his lady friend, whose name is Joy.

Waiting for Joy.

Waiting for joy?

Turned out not to be that much joyful about Joy. Downright sad, really. Not much joy for Joy, or Reynolds, or for many of the other characters who experienced the beautifully rendered cycles of East Texas seasons with them. Too much waiting, not enough joy.

Reynolds' mom was waiting for leaf-raking to rise higher on her husband's priority list than it would on hers. To Edwina's credit, she finally stopped waiting. Unfortunately for her beautifully shaded back yard and the fortunes of at least one blue jay (and maybe Edwina herself), she didn't stop waiting soon enough for a half-measure or even a simple full measure to satisfy her need for action.

Reynold's dad stopped waiting too. Ray senior stopped waiting for the marital tension to resolve itself under the roof of the neglected old house, stopped waiting for his improbable gift to the world to drag itself from under a dusty tarp and finish inventing itself.

My guess is that Reynold's brother Perry is still waiting for Armageddon to come and promote him to his rightful stature among men. Despite an epiphany that pointed to action, I think Perry's wife Beth might still be waiting for her husband to share his inner life with her.

And Reynolds is still waiting for the right woman to walk through the door of his liquor store on a remote lake, instead of figuring out what he wants and going out to get it. We can see that; Reynolds can't.

I lived in this part of Texas in 1959 and I can't believe how wrong Watt has gotten it. None of it rings true, not the description, not the characters, none of it. If you want to read a book that captures the heart of Texas read something by John Graves or Cormac McCarthy.

HALEY TEXAS 1959 is an American classic. I loved these two fascinating novellas. Don Watt's powerful voice and storytelling ability is as rare as it is mesmerizing. Like John Sayles or Raymond Carver, Watt unflinchingly explores tough questions--racial, spiritual, family--with courage and integrity. The novellas confront the notion of family values as they explore father-son/mother-son relationships and the nature of familial fidelity and ethical responsibility as well as greater social issues of racism, small town politics, spirituality, conscience, honor and truth. Watt is an expert craftsman and first rate fiction writer. With the authority of someone who intimately understands small town life, Watt has created complex characters whose stories are utterly compelling. And he depicts those characters with clarity, intelligence and compassion in language that is never dull or disappointing.

If you're looking for a great read, pick up HALEY, TEXAS 1959. Buy a copy for a friend. It might be the best money you spend all year. You won't be disappointed.

I read the review in the Dallas News Readers Section, Immediately "one click" ordered it from Amazon.com and read it within a week of ordering it. I enjoyed it very much and will read it several more times. Mr. Watt has truly captured the climate of the Henderson County of the 1950s that I remember. I am a year or two older than he, but, as a resident of a near by small Henderson County town during those times, I remember yearning for and saving for firearms in Spencer's Hardware and have even attended some of the churches he describes so well. I relived the effect the mind-set of the condesending old church elder he describes as well as the shadow religious ferver can cast over a family. There is no way I can describe how well he captures the climate of the times and I wish I had the ablility to express myself with such honesty and integrity. He is such a powerful writer. This is a great book...one to treasure and keep.

This book is anything but a romance! There is not only no romance, the heroine doesn't even make a definite decision as to which of the men she wants by the end! or why! This book is long, drawn out, and very short on real plot. The most exciting moment is when a doctor friend of the herione finally explains away the mystery that has driven the entire book plot. VERY BORING! The characters seem two dimensional and trite, and the story itself reads like a rewrite of a thousand other recency intriques. Save your money and time, don't bother reading this!

The plot turns on a young lady who likes to be helpful, she helps one of her two suitors to see that he ought to follow his dream and pursue a career in archaeology. Problem: there were no careers in archaeology in the period. Lord Elgin, the purported role model, was, depending upon your point of view, a collector or a thief. He waltzed into Athens, chipped the marbles off the Parthenon, and carted them off to Bloomsbury. All of the nattering about wives following their husbands to archaelogical digs is anacronistic to say the least. Nobody on earth had ever excavated a site until Queen Victoria was well into middle age. That said, the real weakness here is the very paltry romance. The heroine meets her Romeo a few times, we understand that they find one another intelligent, but no sparks fly, certainly there is no romantic tension. Oh, there is a very mildly interesting murder mystery.

Certain elements of this story--an unexplained death, an extended family whose members harbor secrets, a young woman living in genteel poverty who finds herself caught in the middle--reminded me of the Gothic novels of the 1970s. While it was nice to revisit the favorite genre of my teenage years, the mystery was not mysterious enough nor the romance romantic enough to satisfy.

Lady Charlotte has spent too much of her time mothering her younger brother, the new duke, to take time for herself. Fortunately, she has the counsel of Sir Roland, her father's friend, to steer her through the hard times. Sir Roland decides that since the young duke is 19, it is time for him to go to Oxford to get an education and time for Charlotte to pamper herself. But first, a calculating school miss's schemes must be thwarted and a newcomer's gentle presence cultivated.

This book is simply boring. Though Charlotte and Roland are supposed to be the main characters, Ms. Donley spends no time on them and all of her time on the secondary characters, including the brother, his flirts, Roland's sister, and her flirt. There is absolutely NO developing romance between the main characters, though we are supposed to believe so by the end. In addition, none of the characters are very compelling and the plot adds no additional excitement to the mess (the main conflicts are wading in a pond unchaperoned and stealing/borrowing a bonnet--all done by secondary characters). Charlotte, especially, comes off bad in the beginning as she is perceived as a managing, whining woman (though her image improves as the book progresses). The 19-year-old duke acts like a confused 13-year-old going through puberty and not like any a normal young man I've ever encountered. The dialogue is stilted, and I only recognized the "funny" parts when the characters laughed at their own jokes.

I think that this book deserves 2 stars and not one simply because the writing style is not so bad.

When it was all over, I simply didn't care what happened to the characters or the plot. I finished it today, and I hope that this book remains only in my short term memory and then fades completely from my consciousness.