Your price on this book ~ The Birds of Africa (Vol 5) ~ is no better than buying it anyplace else including from the publisher.

Regards, Wayne

this book is a must have for blacks aswell as Native americans in Rhode Island and Conneticut it has 90 % of what most people are looking for ancestors and concrete genealogy so if you find it get

Those serious about African-American and women's history MUST include this encyclopedia in their reference collections.

No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will explain the story of the Springhill, Nova Scotia mining disasters. Its author Roger David Brown tells the story with the miners' own words. This book is haunting and bone-chilling to imagine being trapped underground. The book has several black and white photographs. For Anne Murray fans, there's a picture of her and her Anne Murray Centre as well. Which makes perfect sense since Anne is from Springhill.

Blood on the Coal is blood-curling suspense, yet historical, and extremely well written. I highly recommend this book and have rated it excellent.

This is a wonderful book. In James Herriot's usual heart-warming fashion, he tells the tale of a farmer's loyalty and fondness for his oldest cow. I began reading it to my son when he was two. I often cannot make it through the book without crying, and I have to explain that my tears are tears of joy. Very useful in discussing compassion concerning human relationships with non-human animals.

Blue Horizons, by Irene Bennett Brown, portrays the status of women during the frontier period with wrenching accuracy. It's hard for contemporary readers to envision a time when "the gentler sex" had few legal protections and were basically the property of their husbands. Her story continues with the characters from the first book in the series, Long Road Turning, and focuses on the courageous Meg Brennon. Hunted by a sadistic husband who has already crippled her for life and will do anything to get her back, Meg attempts to get a legal divorce at a time when the courts were cruelly disposed to dismiss claims of mental and physical abuse as "provoked" by the victims. By exposing her location and new identify to her husband, which she must, if she appeals to the courts, she risks incurring more abuse or even death. In St. Louis, she befriends Hamilton Gibbs an excellent lawyer and truly compassionate human being who is awed by the strength of the disparate group of women who are creating the town of Paragon Springs in Western Kansas. Not only is Blue Horizons a moving, face-paced story, Brown's details on women's rights in the 1880's could serve as a text for sociology students. Adding to the tension are attempts to destroy the fiber of the precious fragile community by a rancher, Jack Ambler, who sees town-building as providing legitimacy for the homesteaders. Blue Horizons is a masterful blend of fiction and history. Definitely recommended for the discerning reader.

Reading this book was a breath of fresh air. I have not read such beautiful prose since finishing Gimpel the Fool by Isaac B. Singer. Within a few sentences of each story I felt myself being transported to the tropical local of each story. The protagonist/girl/young woman of each story melded into a single character trying to find her place in a crazy world. I was sad to see each story end, as I felt I wanted to know more. All young women should read this book, so they will know they are not alone in their journeys

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This is the French version of the popular "Goodnight Moon." Iwas looking all over for some simple French storybooks to read to my baby (now 12 months) and was delighted to find this book we are already familiar with. I haven't used my French much since college, but I would like for my baby to learn the language at a young age. I have purchased other French children's books on-line but found they were for older children (those who won't be flipping the pages every 5 words) and required a French dictionary nearby for my limited vocabulary. Since I have pretty much memorized the English-version "Goodnight Moon" and so has he, this is a good one for us to start out with.

The book of chantries is an absolute necessity. Mages, like humans, are social beings. They require interaction with other Mages. The Book of Chantries allows mages and storytellers to focus on the social aspect. It allows players to group together to create a chantry or to even join the largest of all chantries, Doissetep.

In the book there are detailed descriptions of Tradition Chantries, Technocracy Constructs and Nephandi Labyrinths. Each of these includes information on story ideas, NPCs, Locations, Nodes, History, Art and much, much, more.

The book also has a section that explains how to create chantries. In this section are details of how chantries are defended, how sanctums work inside chantries, how nodes are added, and the horizon realms chantries can have. And many other bits and pieces.

The Book contains Information on a few rotes. This is probably the most useless page. The rotes are short, boring, uncreative, and a waste of space. On the bright side it only takes up one side of a page so it does not lower the over all value of the book to much.

There is also a short story called "Harvest Time". This centers on a Verbana hereditary chantry owned by the Crombey's. It is an OK story. It is original and an asset too anybody looking for a new idea for a story, however I did not care for the ending it suggested and take a different route every time I use it.

Altogether a great book! A page is wasted on rotes, but everything else more than makes up for it. A must have for every mage player and storyteller interested in chantries.