If I ever read a moving book, this was it. Putting the past behind you is so difficult for some of us, whether it is good or bad, and you can feel the narrator's struggle as he is forced to put things behind him that are similar to those that we all experience.

Brave and dreamlike, romantic and uplifting, It was produced in New York last spring. Fox is a major talent. Keep your eye on her!

This book is #12 in the Satin Slippers series. In this book the main character, Leah Stephenson, goes to Vermont for a summer dance program. While she is there she meets an old ballet school rival and things turn upside down. This book tells a great story about teenage girls trying to become ballerinas and dealing with all the emotions that go along with being a teenage girl. I would highly reccomend this book to anyone who loved dance or a young girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina.

Dallas Schulze brings the reader three romances in one book. You will enjoy this book of love and discovery.

OF DREAMS AND MAGIC...Jack Ryan has felt dissatisfied for sometime. From his career in the family bank to his engagement to a woman that would make the perfect banker's wife, Jack can not put aside his feeling of disquiet. When he meets Sheri, Jack feels something he has never felt before, but will not admit it, because his life is going along just how everyone expects. Sheri is someone that always wants to make people around her happy. When she meets Jack when he comes to the cabin where she had been caring for his uncle for the last three years of his life, Sheri can't describe the feelings she has for him. All she knows is that she's falling fast and hard.

THE MORNING AFTER...Lacey Newton woke up on the morning after her thirtieth birthday to find herself in bed with a man and a marriage certificate that she didn't remember signing. When Cameron suggests that they give their marriage a try, she figures she has nothing to lose. As the weeks go by, she realizes that she has more to lose than she thought and starts to make a hasty retreat. Cameron McCleary has wanted to have a family, but could never imagine a woman that he would want to spend the rest of his life with. When he's with Lacey, he feels a contentment that doesn't make sense to him, since she was a virtual stranger the day before they were married. When Lacey starts running scared, Cam will do anything to show her that they can make their marriage work.

A SUMMER TO COME HOME...Jake Quincannon has come home to Riverbend after a twenty year absence. He comes home to find closure to the first nineteen years of his life, but finds more than he expects to find. He has a hard time reconciling Paige Cudahy with his ex-girlfriend's plump little sister, but the proof is right in front of his eyes. A summer affair is all he has to offer, unless Paige can change his mind. Paige has always had a crush on Jake, and she finally has the chance to prove to him that he is worthy of having love, something that he hasn't had enough of in his life. It takes more than she thought though, especially when a secret comes to light that has stayed buried for twenty years.

Happy reading!

A synopsis of the story can be found under the comments on "Remember Summer". In my opinion, this is one of the author's best earlier works and I can't wait to see what she does with it.

'The Summer House' is the first Alice Thomas Ellis book I read. Although I have read two of her novels since, as well as many of her 'Home Life' articles (not to be missed!), 'The Summer House' has remained my favorite. As anyone who has read her books knows, her prose is unmatchable. Divided into three parts, each with its own narrator of the same events, the author astutely captures the voices of a young, confused woman about to be married, her mother's middle-aged worldly friend, and the elderly mother-in-law-to-be. This book is witty and at times hysterical. I highly recommend 'The Summer House' to anyone interested in reading Ellis' work.

I love this book!!!!!!!!!! It is about a girl named Nelly.She makes a potion.Then when she is washing her grandmas hair she mixes it in to the shampoo!!!!!Then her grandma keeps geting younger.Read this book to find out what happens next.

I think quite a lot of people will be able to relate to this story in one way or another.
It is the story of three friends and a summer of great change. Jo and Harold (friends since birth), meet the new girl on the block, Beth. She is unlike anyone they have ever met and is the catalyst for a summer that will shape the rest of Jo's and Harolds's lives.
Extremely well paced, this story builds towards an ending that is both shocking and touching.
Highly recommended!

This is a great story about three best friends who each have wonderful adventures in Paris. This book is about romance, friendship, dreams and goals, and choices. Too bad it's out of print, though. Qian L.

I read this fabulous book in my final year of university. My professor of Slavic Literature in Translation assigned it to me and I had to write a paper about it. I wasn't sure what I was in for.

As it turned out, I absolutely enjoyed both reading and analysing this book. So much so, in fact, that I still recall the characters and the premises. I even remember some of my favourite quotations from Ms. Salivarova's witty and thought-provoking story.

Her depiction of life in communist-Czechoslovakia of the 1960's is compelling. There are many disturbing images of desperate people clawing for power in a system where power was supposed to be shared equally. The author does a fine job of showing us how human nature rears its head regarless of ideology or even good intentions.

I particularly liked her use of dog and cat symbolism. In this book, some characters act like dogs at their worst. They pant and whine before the master, which is communism, and they are so eager to please that they blindly do the bidding of those in power. They lack independence and original thought. This (as much as I like dogs) is typical doggy behaviour.

Cats, as Salivarova says "...are majestic and free, even in a cage." The dignity and stalwart independence of cats shows through in other characters who don't openly rebel but neither do they drool and wag their tails. They survive in their communist cage with quiet grace. I got the feeling that the author is a cat-lover to the maximum, another trait which endeared her to me.

My crude description of Zdena Salivarova's wonderful prose simply doesn't do it justice. Get a copy of this difficult-to-find book and treat yourself. It's worth the effort, the time, and the money.