When DJ Woodward learned her father was alive, despite the fact that her mother had always told her otherwise, she was fuming! It didn't occur to her that her mother had been trying to protect her for 30 years. After all, what was so threatening about a long lost father? But why was DJ so reluctant to tell her own 4 year old she had a grandfather?

Adam McAllister was fuming, too. Why hadn't DJ's mother told her the truth about Larry Galloway? Didn't she realize she was putting DJ and her daughter at risk? His hands were tied by his job-as DJ's bodyguard. Worse, he was beginning to care less about the job than he did about the woman herself.

If he couldn't tell her the truth, how could her ever keep her safe?

This book give a great overview on the prehistoric life in Kentucky. It includes information about artifacts, where and how ancient people's lived. It also includes a section on when the Indians met the white settlers. This is one of the best Kentucky history boks I have ever read. I actually based a 5 page essay on it and got an A! This book is great.

Ms.Lewis brings a culinary treasure tale to her readers. The recipes are time tested and do not disappoint. It's a fine blend of elegant creations, and down home hearty favorites that revive memories of your Southern Grandmother on Sunday. This is the definitive work on Kentucky cuisine and her collaboration with some of the finer Kentucky chefs spread the rich tradition of the Bluegrass state in style. Burgoo, Cheese grits, and Kentucky bourbon sauces lay the foundation for a book that is well worth the read. Apologies to Emeril, but this book kicks southern cooking up a notch!

Kew Gardens, a village in Queens about twelve miles from Manhattan, has been home to movie stars and Broadway performers (Charlie Chaplin, Miriam Hopkins, and Will Rogers), authors (Anais Nin and Dorothy Parker), and even Nobel Prize winners (Ralph Bunche). In many ways it has been a community ahead of its time.

Author Barry Lewis is a New York native who has lived in Kew Gardens for thirty years. He teaches architecture and interior design in New York City and has contributed to a number of guide books. As a resident of the neighborhood, I was happy to come upon this nicely researched, amply illustrated, and intelligently written book on one of New York's more successful and resilient residential communities. Lewis does a good job of giving the history of the Kew Gardens and of explaining how it differed from other experiments to create residential garden communities within large cities in the early part of the twentieth century. He explains how the tone was set at the very beginning by the community's developers, Albon Man and his offspring. They sought to create a workable diversity within a harmonious whole: both commercial and residential, with both private homes and apartment buildings, and which allowed a number of architectural styles. The flavor of the community was also one of diversity (unlike its neighbor, Forest Hills, Jews and people in the performing arts were welcome from the beginning). Residents of the community will certainly enjoy reading this book. But so will students of urban planning and architecture.

The book includes a bibliography consisting mostly of articles cited in the text; it would have been more helpful if it also listed a few more comprehensive works on urban development and architecture. The book could also have benefited from a glossary of architectural terms, an index, and a walking tour that would take people past significant landmarks discussed in the text.

This is one of the best books for young people I have ever read. It's very inspirational and motivating. You can change your community - or the world! This book empowers young people to dream and act.

This book reads as if it was started with a great burst of energy,lost steam somewhere along the line,was abandoned,picked back up,dusted off,put down again,and then finished off for a payday...I had great expectations for this work as Charles White was involved,the Killer was clean and sober and was eager to tell his story (set the record right) after his ex wife (and probably only true love) Myra came out with Great Balls of Fire which was made into the movie of the same name.Unfortunately,well... we get a rambling,somewhat incoherent hodge podge of rehashed stories that have been told and retold for the most part,and Jerry Lee really adds nothing new to them. There are some worthwhile nuggets;Jerry's brief profiles of some of his contemporaries,a few words on his substance abuse problems,and some great color commentary of touring life during the early days,however,what becomes apparent is that most of the time EVERYONE AROUND the Killer seems eager to tell jerry's life for him and he either lets them because it serves his purpose ,or he is resigned to this type of treatment,or maybe he is so crispy that he just doesn't have it in him.Whatever the reason,this book is definitely NOT THE story of Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis as it should be told.
This book is still a riveting read simply because one never knows where the rambling might lead!The frustrating point is knowing that this effort could have been so much more IF the Killer could have reached down inside and demanded from himself and from those around him that he be heard.

This is a pretty damn nice debut. The story Many Many Elephants is probably worth about twenty bucks alone. we're boppin around Southeast Asia to britian and around the world in a hundred and ninety six pages. Bring on the Novel man!

I have not read the book, but I have read the manuscript which is in a file called healthy.zip which I came across on the Web 3 years ago. This book is the best book I have ever read which deals with the current social crisis between men and women in the United States. There is another dimension to the turbulence in relations between men and women and that is social change and gender politics which have, for the most part, occurred in the last 30 to 35 years.

If there is an answer to this very serious problem which is creating a society in complete disarray, it is contained in this book!

I stumbled across the idea of using the Myers Briggs personality profiles for romantic relationships by reading "The Intimacy Factor", which, sadly is out of print now. I have found the test result to be extremely useful in relationships of all kinds. The author has created a system which may well come to be recognized as the very first system which could actually be used to cure the ills in romantic relationships which are so pervasive and destructive in our American society today.

The use of this system on a widespread basis might well spark a social revolution of its own.

I decided to learn lace knitting after never having done any other sort of knitting before. If this had been my first book on the subject, I would have saved myself a lot of time and frustration. I've been working from it for a couple of months now and it all makes sense to me. To use it you should know how to cast on and off, how to knit and purl, and how to do a yarn over;she will explain the rest. The diagrams of the basic stitches used are in the back and are quite clear. The book, which is beautifully designed, is divided into two sections. In the first, the author shows you how to knit, section by section, a reproduction of a historical knitted lace sampler. The stitches vary from simple ones with a few rows per design motif to quite complex ones with motifs composed of many rows. The second section explains the theory behind pattern construction. It is very clear and well organized. The author explains things such as why certain stitches work well together, how to build patterns out of combinations of other patterns, and how to make your own charts. In other words, it teaches you how to free yourself of pattern books. The given patterns, however, are very fun and beautiful to knit. I highly recommend this work to experienced knitters and beginners alike.

An L. Francis Herreshoff Reader

Index:

The Ameica

Yachting in the 1900's

The Names of Some of the Yacht Sails

The Names of Some of the Rigging

Ropes

Marine Pictures

Some Reasons for the Peculiarities of Vessels of the Past

Captain Charlie Barr

Naptha Launches

Cutters, Laying-to, etc.

Lapping Jibs and Double Spinnakers

Nathenael Green Herreshoff

Tarantella (Catamaran Chronicle)

Safety First

H28 or the Building of the Snarke

Naming the Yacht

Trailboards and Figureheads

Small Coal-Burning Stoves Aboard Ship

Wooden Plates

Some Hints on Model Making

Discourse on Displacement, etc.

A Few Comparisons of Puritan and Mayflower

W. Starling Burgess

The Design of Fishing Vessels

Thoughts About Yachts Especially Designed for Ocean Racing

Charles E. Nicholson

A Sail in the Alerion

The Dry Breakers

Frostbiting

A Midsummer Night's Sail. Each chapter is an essay written for publication in a magazine now extinct called the Rudder. In some cases the article are only interesting from the perspective that they were written long ago from a different point of view than today. Others are simply excellent stories that convincingly describe past yachting history.

This is one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read. The story of the original America's Cup race is facinating and different from other versions I've heard. I believe it is an accurate description of the race and it debunks part of the myth of the America's Cup and puts it in perspective. A later essay, on Capt. Charlie Barr, describes how the America's Cup became more famous. Captain Barr was an outstanding seaman and leader and it was his skill and seamanship that won several of the America's Cup races.

This is a classic book and worthy of a place on your bookshelf. Please bring it back into print.