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Dearest Dorothy, Who Would Have Ever Thought?! (Dearest Dorothy)
Charlene Baumbich
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Charlene Ann Baumbich has won a loyal following of readers with the first three books in the Dearest Dorothy series, featuring the amusing and touching adventures of the townspeople of Partonville. Now Charlene Baumbich uses her wonderful gift of storytelling to celebrate the simple pleasures of life in this heartwarming and hilarious story. The fourth book in the series finds the residents of Partonville preparing for a festive Thanksgiving dinner at the local church. Amid assigning duties and preparing recipes, everyone tries to ignore bossy acting mayor Gladys McKern. Meanwhile, Jessica Joy struggles with an unexpected turn of events, Katie Durbin considers another real estate project, and Dearest Dorothy doles out advice and love in equal amounts to everyone.
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Dearest Dorothy.......2007-04-01
What a FANTASTIC series. I am so glad I purchased them all at once. I fell in love with Partonville!! I have passed them on to my mother and then they are going to my mother-in-law. The characters are so well developed! Can't wait for the newest one later this year. =)
A great series to read over and over.
Dearest Dorothy Who Woould Have Ever Thought?!.......2006-01-17
The "Dearest Dorothy" series is wonderful! You will fall in love with all of the characters and you'll really care what is happening to and with them.
Engaging, entertaining, and inspiring.......2005-12-02
This is Book 4 in the Welcome to Partonville series, which started early in 2004 with DEAREST DOROTHY, ARE WE THERE YET?
I'm new to this series. I jumped in at this late juncture, yet I was quickly hooked. Though the book would be more intriguing to readers who have previously come to know the characters of the fictitious town of Partonville, Illinois, WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT?! stands on its own as engaging, low-action entertainment and inspiration.
Judging by the books' titles (including DEAREST DOROTHY, HELP! I'VE LOST MYSELF!) Dorothy Westra --- who turns 88 at the end of this installment --- is meant to be the series's leading lady. But in this particular book, Charlene Ann Baumbich gives a large cast of characters nearly equal billing. Eight key women, spanning three generations, are members of the Happy Hookers, a group originally formed to meet once a month to hook rugs but now to play bunco, "a raucous, mindless dice game that offered a great opportunity for gab, prizes and dessert."
The book recounts the Partonville goings on for most of a month, after the October Pumpkin Festival, leading up to three events: the November Hookers meeting, a first-ever Thanksgiving Day community dinner --- organized by the Social Concerns Committee of the United Methodist Church in conjunction with St. Augustine's Catholic Church --- and Dorothy's birthday celebration.
Though the November Hookers hostess, Jessie Landers, isn't a churchgoer, many of the others are Methodists who comfortably break forth into silent or audible prayer, for the sick among them, including young Jessica whose severe nausea portends an unplanned pregnancy, and the much older May Belle, who is in bed with a bad back.
Baumbich deftly threads several story lines together. For fellow Hooker, middle-aged grocery-store employee Nellie Ruth McGregor, romance blossoms with a local handyman. The Landers welcome houseguests who stay several weeks. That Thanksgiving dinner gradually gets organized, with or without the help of Acting Mayor Gladys McKern. The new-to-town city slicker and commercial real-estate developer --- Katie Durbin --- mellows and grows to appreciate the small-town (with a population fewer than 1,500): its people, its values, its property.
The narrator's voice is important to this book: a touch of humor; a gentle revealer of heart-secrets (Nellie Ruth has never been kissed); a friendly, unidentified overseer, rallying in support of small towns everywhere that are in danger of being lost to encroaching suburban sprawl.
Like Miss Read, Barbara Pym and Jan Karon, Charlene Ann Baumbich transports you to a place that lingers in your mind, nudging your desire to return.
--- Reviewed by Evelyn Bence
Dearest Dorothy You are Great.......2005-10-10
I so look forward to getting home from work, finishing dinner and then crawling into bed to read more of Dearest Dorothy's high jinks. It is the type of book that keeps your interest but does not assault your senses. You can relax with Dorothy.
Susan Keane, Rockville, MD
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In the intense heat of an oppressive Miami summer, crime reporter Britt Montero is ice cold, her writing relegated to the inner pages of the daily that employs her. But now there's a hot story she's just dying to get her hands on. A female serial slayer is luring men with sex, then mutilating and murdering them with a bullet that bears traces of her lipstick. Dubbed the "Kiss Me Killer," she has already murdered a sheriff and a powerful politician, among others, with her unique "kiss of death." Britt is determined to own the fatal femme's story. But it can only come at a deadly price, as a face-to-face meet goes explosively bad. And suddenly Britt Montero is the news, trapped in the company of a psychopath on a terrifying odyssey through the darkest heart of the Sunshine State…and heading straight to Hell.
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A shocker about three women.......2004-01-03
First there's Britt, our heroine. A self-actualized reporter enjoying her career and her on again/off again affair with a cop. Then there's Althea, the discarded trophy wife whose claims of being in peril are dismissed by everyone, including her family, as a pathetic plea for attention. Then there's Keppie, the sexpot serial killer (perhaps based on Aileen Wornoss -- sp?). What a thrill ride! As a fiction reader, I would have preferred it if Buchanan had tied up the loose ends a bit better -- was Britt ever investigated for the role as Keppie's accomplice, whatever happened to young Joey, does Keppie ever meet what seems to be her ultimate fate? But maybe the author handled it this way because this is how life is ... we don't always get the answers we want when we want them.
Mayhem, but not mystery.......2001-01-28
Edna Buchanan's prose style catches me up and sweeps me along, every time. It's descriptive, accurate, tense. And usually, Buchanan's plots and characters catch me up as well.
But not this time. Keppie, the serial murderess, is so wierd and wired that she is only an oddity, evoking no empathy from the reader. Her victims gradually lose individuality and become one senseless victim after another. And Britt Montero, erstwhile girl journalist, ends up being stupid and self-indulgent: she does anything for the story, including ignoring those around her who desperately need her help.
So much for the characters. It's also true that there is no mystery. Keppie is a mass murderer. Britt is a girl reporter in a dangerous situation. Joey is a small boy who exists merely to arouse our sympathy, and then disappears. The cops are after everybody. They catch Keppie, free Britt, and send Joey home.
But for the masterful prose style of Edna Buchanan, this novel deserves a miss.
The Passenger Seat.......2001-01-16
Edna Buchanan is a writer with a wonderful conversational style. Five minutes into reading her gripping non-fiction or her Britt Montero books and I feel like I'm back with an old friend. Buchanan doesn't disappoint in Garden of Evil. We are quickly caught up in Britt's hectic business life and almost non-existent personal life. We find her at a low point in her career as she is assigned tedious and demeaning stories and has to fight again to show her bosses what a great reporter she is.
This time she is on the trail of the Kiss Me Killer - a woman who murders sexually predatory men. Things begin to click and Britt is able to connect with the killer. After a disasterous meeting Britt is kidnapped by the killer and unfortunately this is when the books begins to fall badly.
The life seems to go out of the book as Britt becomes a passive captive watching the killer, Keppie, committ mayhem. Maybe there is an inherent problem in having the protagonist of a mystery series be quite so helpless. The same problem seemed to hurt L is for Lawless, Sue Grafton's only Kinsey Milhone misfire. There is also a hideous scene where Britt is aware that Keppie is going to murder a harmless man while Britt takes care of his very young child. Realistically there is probably nothing more that Britt can do but the scene is very creepy and the moral implications of Britt allowing the man to die without putting up more of a fight are never explored. The novel even ends passively with Britt having little to do with the capture of Keppie but again, uncomfortably, having some complicity in the death of another, far less innocent man.
Any book by Edna Buchanan is worth reading. But if you have never read one of her books before, I suggest that you start with an earlier Britt Montero book and come to this one later after you are already addicted to Buchanan's imminently readable prose.
Some Good, Some Bad, Some Evil.......2000-10-10
The small stories at the beginning of this book were the best part. In the main story line, the killer's character was well developed and believable but Britt as a hostage just did not ring true. Although Britt admits, at the end of the book, that her actions were foolish and irresponsible, it left me wondering how such a smart and savvy woman wouldn't have figured this out in the beginning. The ending came as no big surprise. This was a fairly interesting character study, but as a mystery it was sadly lacking
A worthwhile read for mystery buffs........2000-07-05
In her latest book, Garden Of Evil, Edna Buchanan's alter ego, Miami News police reporter Britt Montero (Buchanan's alter ego) gets lucky and follows a couple of Miami's finest to the site of a particularly gruesome murder. A politician of questionable character has been found in a rent-a-room-by-the-hour motel. He's been shot in very personal places, with pictures of his wife and kids left on strategic parts on the body. A Viagra pill nestles in the dead man's chest hairs. Britt would've normally been surprised at the killer's MO, but not this time. For the past few days, a woman knick-named the Kiss Me Killer been on the loose picking up unsuspecting men, having sex with them and then killing them in a most brutal fashion. Her public spree begins with a sheriff in northern Florida and continues as she makes her way south into Dade County, Britt's territory. Because she breaks the story in her paper, Britt eventually ends up in a dialogue with the killer, who wants Britt to tell her side of the story. In order to get the exclusive story, Britt agrees to meet with the woman. However, the police are involved, so Britt has to wear a wire. Of course, the killer is smart enough to outwit them all, and Britt ends up as her prisoner and the killing continues. The author lost me a bit when she brought an innocent child into the fray. Maybe she wanted the reader to know just how sick and twisted the killer was, but, to me it was a bit over the top. And I didn't really understand one of the subplots involving a former Orange Bowl Queen, but it didn't detract from the main story line. Although the ending was a bit unsatisfying, maybe the author was laying the groundwork for a sequel. I disagree with Britt's conclusion about there being "evil" gene that caused the killer to act out her fantasies. Maybe it was the sex at six years old that turned her...or her mother's past.... or the fact that she grew up unloved and unwanted...or maybe she saw what her mother did to those men...or maybe it was the taunt of the kids at school that first gave her the lust for blood. I didn't have sympathy for the killer, but I could certainly understand how she might be wired differently from the rest of the world. I read the book in one sitting, and although I have serious doubt about Britt's reluctance to free herself from the hostage situation, I liked the story and look forward to reading more about her life as a reporter in a city that certainly contains a lot of dark and humid secrets yet to be told. What a joke of a book....I don't know if you publish PANS, but I thought I'd send it along anyway... Terry H. Mathews Reviewer
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This book encompasses the extensive work of Dr. Perry and her successful years as a therapist and surgeon, renowned for her expertise in human gait.
The text is broken down into four sections: Fundamentals, Normal Gait, Pathological Gait, and Gait Analysis Systems. In addition to the descriptions of the gait functions, a representative group of clinical examples has been included to facilitate the interpretation of the identical gait deviations. The book includes detailed laboratory records and more than 450 expert illustrations and photographs.
Gait Analysis is the essential reference for all health care professionals involved in musculoskeletal patient care, and has already been incorporated into many athletic training programs, university physical therapy programs and gait workshops across the country.
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Clinical significance of the most common pathological gait patterns. Patient examples to illustrate elements of normal and pathological gait. Over 450 illustrations and photographs with detailed descriptions providing essential information at a glance.
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FUNDAMENTALS: Gait Cycle, Phases of Gait, Basic Functions
NORMAL GAIT: Ankle Foot Complex, Knee, Hip, Head, Trunk and Pelvis, Arm, Total Limb Function
PATHOLOGICAL GAIT: Pathological Mechanisms, Ankle and Foot Gait Deviations, Knee Abnormal Gait, Hip Gait Deviations, Pelvis and Trunk Pathological Gait, Clinical Examples
GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS: Motion Analysis, Dynamic Electromyography, Ground Reaction Forces and Vectors, Stride Analysis, Energetics
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Encyclopedia of Chinese Food and Cooking
Wonona W. Chang
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Chinese cooking bible.......2001-12-05
This book really is the book to own for chinese cooking. I have recently tried several recipes and was really happy with all of them. The book is pretty stark--ingredients list and very simple directions. But it has hundreds and hundreds of recipes. If you enjoy cooking, this book will give you tons of great ideas for recipes of your own. If you happen to get a copy, don't give it up, because it's out of print.
Excellent and Indispensible reference.......1998-10-21
I have the original 1970 edition of this work and was looking for a copy for a friend. It's worth giving to those who appreciate real Chinese food. It's a very stark book - not much text at all, and the recipes are of the "Add A to B to C" type, but if you are competant in the kitchen, then you only need the ingredient list, anyway. It's truly an encyclopedia - its collection of dishes are complete, and the regional information is given for each. This book makes it criminally easy to plan a Cantonese dinner party or a Mandarin luncheon and to be assured of doing it right. All in all, my copy is perhaps the most well worn kitchen reference I own.
Indispensable tool! A foundation book for the dedicated.......1998-09-30
This book is the most complete and interesting book of authentic Chinese cooking I have read in years. The first step are the photographs and information of Chinese foodstuffs. Including the pronunciation of the chinese form of the namme and how and where to find them. This gives the timid a flying chance at getting things right. Then on to the recipes. While there is a distinct lack of photos in this book, the assembly and cooking instructions are quite precise. The tastes are very good. Although they do not do much with Americanized meals, you can put one together once you are familiar with the book. They include diatetic recipes as well as vegetarian. I have bought all the copies I could get my hands on last time I got to the bookstore and gave them as presents. It is worth the effort to hunt it down.
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Whether your style is classic, modern, or gorgeously dramatic, this comprehensive sourcebook will inspire you to find the perfect ring, band, and other wedding day jewelry to treasure for a lifetime.
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The Beauty of Wedding Jewelry.......2004-11-08
Discussion about the technical aspects of wedding jewels but where this book really excells is in the pictures and references to celebrities. It is great to see the jewels up close and personal with thoughtful stories about the reasons behind the design.
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Written for architects, designers, and anyone involved in planning and designing assisted living facilities, The Essence of Home offers a fresh look at an area of design that is becoming increasingly important as the elderly population continues to grow exponentially. Through in-depth interviews with residents, staff, administrators, and family members, as well as an exhaustive review of architectural and medical literature, auther William Brummett has identified what it takes to make a facility feel like "home." It is not enough to merely add cosmetic or decorative touches to the typical hospital or nursing home structure; rather, the facility must be designed specifically with a sense of home in mind, taking into account not only the physical capabilities and limitations of the residents, but the emotional and psychological needs as well. The Essence of Home looks at 38 significant problem-solving design considerations, and contains two in-depth case studies. Detailed illustrations and graphics provide a visual sense of the concepts discussed in the text. An annotated bibliography and comprehensive list of references provide additional sources of information.
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excellent.......2001-12-13
As someone who has built and manage an ALF and plan on expanding, this book is invaluable. It breaks down the art of architecture as it relates to senior housing and makes suggestions for certain elements that a non architect can easily achieve. A great "how to" book for someone who wants to build a facility. Also, after reading, I'm sure my knowledge base on the subject is better than the vast majority of architects.
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