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Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have an exceedingly passionate marriage in this continuing saga of one of the most exciting, intriguing couples in the Jane Austen Literature.
As the Darcy's raise their babies, enjoy their conjugal felicity and manage the great estate of Pemberley, the beloved characters from Jane Austen's original are joined by Linda Berdoll's imaginative new creations for a compelling, sexy and epic story guaranteed to keep you turning the pages and gasping with delight.
What people are saying about Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, the bestselling Pride and Prejudice sequel.
"A breezy, satisfying romance." -Chicago Tribune
"While there have been other Pride and Prejudice sequels, this one, with its rich character development, has been the most enjoyable." -Library Journal
"Wild, bawdy and utterly enjoyable sequel." -Booklist
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Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife.......2007-09-26
A wonderful and inspired sequel to Pride and Prejudice. The devlopment of Austen's characters and creation of new ones, along with adventure, intrigue, love and romance, makes this a marvelous read. I have read it three times already, and look forward to reading it again and again.
Sorely disappointed.......2007-09-10
I recently purchased this book, and, for the first time, actually returned a book to the bookstore. After struggling to read more that half of the book, I had to return it.
Usually, I enjoy even the smuttiest of romances, yet this one only degrades two of the most beloved characters in the English language. The text jumped all over the place. Perhaps it ended well, but after 42 chapters, I had enough.
Darcy and elizabeth, Days and Nights at Pemberley.......2007-09-01
I found this to be well written, but somewhat labored in the presentation. I enjoyed the basic story lines and salute anyone willing to take on the task of following Ms. Austin. An enjoyable if rather over long story.
So sexy, Mr. Darcy!.......2007-08-16
Wow, this book's steaming hot that it influenced me to romance my husband and love on him. This book will show a strong and masculine Mr. Darcy that you will want to read about many times over!
Nights and Days was great., Darcy is great!!.......2007-08-09
I loved the book...the passion is wonderful and easy to imagine the love they shared.
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From the introduction by Rosamunde Pilcher:"A Price for Everything is linked, from start to finish, by Mary Sheepshanks' humor and a rare sense of the ridiculous which bubble up at the least likely moments. I read the book at a single sitting and felt bereft when I finally closed the cover onto the last page.""The house itself seemed to possess her. It was a love affair, and like many love affairs, it was inconvenient." Nestled cozily in the English countryside stands a house called Duntan-grand, proud, beautiful to look at, yet slowly falling apart and riddled with problems. How can Sonia, Lady Duntan so fiercely love such a monster of a house, almost as much as she loves her four children, perhaps more than she loves her husband, whose family has lived at Duntan for over 200 years?For Sonia, restoring Duntan to its former glory has become synonymous with repairing her own sense of self, and refurbishing the house means working closely with Simon Hadleigh, the charming director of the Heritage at Risk Association. But as her marriage seems to be crumbling faster than the house itself; her children growing up quickly; her painting career taking off and Simon awakening in her a long, dormant passion, Sonia realizes that everything has its price....
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Stale Yorkshire pudding.......2006-02-13
In this novel, an upper-crust Yorkshire mum of four tries to save her family estate, which is crumbling around her, and which the house-rich-and-cash-poor family can no longer afford to maintain. I bought the novel because it's part of the "Rosamunde Pilcher's Bookshelf" series. I felt it was big of Pilcher to recommend the book, because a) it isn't nearly as good as Pilcher's own similarly-themed women's fiction, and b) the villainess of the piece is named Rosamund.
I very much liked the author's depiction of the love that people can have for historic homes, which seem to become living beings or characters in their own right. The love that Sonia feels for her husband's ancestral home is far greater than the love she feels, in fact, for him: "The house itself seemed to possess her. It was a love affair, and like many love affairs, it was inconvenient." It's no wonder that Sonia resonates so deeply with the house; it's the only permanent feature in these people's lives, since they regard one another with a coldly calculating impermanence and a sense that, in the end, all human relationships can be discarded when they cease to be wholly pleasant or socially useful.
What's most striking about these characters is that they are often inexplicably detestable. He has an affair, so she has an affair; they weigh the merits of the female orgasm in kitchen conversations with their youngest children; their most serious problems seem to revolve around disagreeable longterm houseguests and a chain-smoking cook whom they hired sight unseen and can't bring themselves to fire, although she can't actually cook. Spoiled, self-involved, and constantly scheming: it's difficult to root for any of these characters, even Sonia.
I bought this novel because I was looking for a light, entertaining read, and because we just bought plane tickets to go to Yorkshire and southern Scotland in the spring, so I wanted an armchair-traveling read. Certainly, the book satisfies on the second front. Its Yorkshire location is depicted in fascinating detail, from the wilds of the countryside to the smallish jockeying of parish life. (Sheepshanks has a good wit and is wonderfully observant about the hypocrisy that passes for religion among most people, including her main characters and the tiresome vicar of their community.) But in the end, I was dissatisfied. It's tough to muster up much sympathy for the boredom of a gorgeous main character with four strapping children and a lavish lifestyle, even if money does happen to be a little tight.
Also, the novel had some mechanical problems that became quite distracting. The story is told from Sonia's POV, yet we are occasionally treated to the innermost thoughts of other characters, a rookie mistake that shouldn't happen in a St. Martin's book. Then, too, the book has a glaring number of errors and typos. I'm fairly forgiving of the kind that a good proofreader should catch ("sewing" seeds instead of sowing them, or stress having an "affect" instead of an "effect"). But there were also plenty of plain old spelling disasters that a simple spell-check program should have corrected. Very irritating-not the author's fault, but the publisher's.
In all, though, the most serious obstacle was that I found the novel's characters to be so tiresomely self-involved. Give me characters with what I would consider real problems, and a real love for each other despite their human flaws. Oh, and do pass the scones. --Jana Riess
A longer version of this review was posted on December 7, 2005 at The Review Revolution (janariess.typepad.com).
Characters come to life in this book.......2003-06-21
This is my first experience of Sheepshanks but it won't be my last. Her beautifully written characters are the part of this book I liked best -- particularly the children and adolescents, who are notoriously difficult for writers to get right. Each of the children/adolescents were distinctive and believable individuals. The "heroine" is flawed but likeable, as is her husband and even the vastly annoying mother-in-law. The plot involves an upper class (but not particularly rich) British family living in a wonderful manor house that is falling down around them. There's no money to fix it up (it will take millions) and the husband (who inherited the house, which has been in his family for 200 years) wants to move to a smaller house nearby and sell the white elephant. His wife loves the house and is determined to find a way to continue living there. There are four children, a couple who no longer seem to love each other, a mother-in-law who is wealthy but brings trouble everywhere she goes, a supposed "monk" (brought by the mother-in-law) who is part of a secretive organization called the Brothers of Love, the husband's half-sister, a 16-year-old who gets into scrapes, and a couple of lovers.
Unlike so many books, which could be improved by being edited to be shorter, this book could have been 50 pages longer and I think would have been better. Some scenes that would help the plot seem to have been left out (like people abruptly falling in love with too little description -- suddenly they're there without the reader quite understanding how they got to this point.) I also felt that the ending illness was contrived and detracted from the literary merit of this book.
Nevertheless, this book has real literary merit but is also quite readable. I read it in a couple of days because I was enjoying it so much.
Disappointing book.......2002-01-28
This book had its amusing scenes, but it was too predictable. I read the excerpts here and Rosamunde Pilcher's comments about the book and bought it because of those. I'm glad I bought the paperback edition.
English life and love.......2001-07-13
This was my first look at a book by Mary Sheepshanks. It was a great read-like a modern, humorous form of Jane Austen. The characters held my interest. It seems obvious that Sonia's devotion was more to the Dunstan manor than to her husband. Sonia , an artist and mother, seems quite selfish at times, not really trying to understand her husband, Archie, and he retaliates by having a brief affair. Neither of them seem to work very hard at repairing their marriage. Sonia's mother-in-law is obnoxious but fascinating. The author does an excellent job of describing the Dunstan children, who are lively and individual. I thought the ending was great, not really a surprise but satisfying.The author gives a tantalizing glimpse of life in an English manor house.
A Delight.......2000-11-08
Dreamy Sonia was once a promising artist. She still paints, but in a vague sort of way. Her real life encompasses four children, a stale marriage to a dull but nice man, and an incomprehensible but fierce devotion to her husband's crumbling manor, Duntan. All of Sonia's passions and hopes revolve around saving the house, which needs extensive and costly repairs. She has, however, no firm plan to save it, and dreamily drifts through her days hoping for a miracle. She manages to do this despite an influx of the most hilarious and finely drawn characters: a part-time cook whose best efforts defy even the E. coli bug; a mother-in-law, Rosamunde, who is part grande dame, part hippy; Rosamunde's late-in-life teenaged daughter Martha, who is apt to go punk at the very worst times; and a shady erstwhile monk, who is described so well we can almost smell him. These creatures float in and out of Sonia's and Archie's life, as does Archie's buxom mistress, who is married to an irritating, French-spouting snob who is called "Jolie Roger" behind his back. Need I say more? This is a great read, charming, evocative, and well-written. It combines real insight with humor and charm.
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For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fightingThread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky toravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragonsthey flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reachthe planet's surface. But the greatest dream of the dragonriders was tofind a way to eradicate Thread completely, so that never again wouldtheir beloved Pern be threatened with destruction.
Now, for the first time, it looked as if that dream could come true. Forwhen the people of Pern, led by Masterharper Robinton and F'Lar andLessa, Weyrleader and Weyrwoman of Benden Weyr, excavated the ancientremains of the planet's original settlement, they uncovered thecolonist's voice-activated artificial intelligence system -- which stillfunctioned! And the computer had incredible news for them: There was achance -- a good chance -- that they could, at long last, annihilateThread once and for all!
Cover art by Michael Whelan
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A time for every purpose under heaven.......2007-05-25
Overall, I have really enjoyed reading the Dragonriders of Pern series. I must say though that this particular tale didn't do a whole lot for me at first. The story builds on the events related in an earlier book, "Dragonsdawn", a book I found rather dull and slow going. In the first hundred pages so many characters were mentioned that I seriously considered making a flowchart to help me keep them all straight. I felt the Artificial Intelligence Voice-Address System did far too much talking, and I wasn't keen to see the Aivas implement the industrialization of Pern.
But about half way through the book, the dragons take flight and the story really kicks into high gear. You'll need to tighten your riding straps as Aivas sets in motion a chain of events that literally changes the future of Pern. I stayed up way too late just to see how the story ended.
This is definitely a must read book in the series. It is also a satisfying read with a bittersweet resolution that leaves a lump in your throat.
Great if you like Sci Fiction.......2007-05-13
The Pern series of books from Anne McCaffery are great. Better if you read them in order, (look online at her website for recommendations). This is futuristic science fiction, but if you liked Aregon, you would probably like this series too
A Nice Return To Pern.......2006-12-24
This is the fourth Pern book I've read, the first three being Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. I skipped Renegades of Pern on the advice of Amazon reviewers, and I was able to slip back into the Pern universe without any trouble at all. Really, the only thing I missed seemed to be the digging up of the nearly sentinent computer, Aivas, and within the first few pages of All the Weyrs of Pern McCaffrey begins to describe what this will mean for her planet of telepathic dragons and their riders.
Aivas is full of more knowledge than the people of Pern have held for a long time, and is more than willing to share it. Most importantly, he knows a way to eliminate Thread from Pern forever- a plan that will take nearly five Turns to play out. All the Weyrs of Pern tells the story of those five Turns. Some Holders and Craftsmen are hesitant to trust Aivas, even going so far as to refer to him as "the Abomination", and try and vandalise things the Craftsmen make as a result of Aivas's teaching.
Characters that were secondary, like Piemur and Sharra, grow in All the Weyrs of Pern, and some light is shed on some that we've known in the Pern universe for a long time, such as Masters Robinton and Fandarel. F'lessan also gets a brief chance to narrate, and his few chapters were one of my favorite parts of the entire book. Still, there was one character that continued to annoy me to no end- Jaxom.
He was spoiled and arrogant in The White Dragon, but that was easier to shrug off, as it didn't do anything to the plot. In All the Weyrs of Pern Jaxom gets even more spotlight, as his white dragon Ruth proves that his good qualities far outweigh the bad. Jaxom seems to take this as a reason to be openly haughty to characters like Lessa and F'lar, and you can't help but wonder how he gets away with it, especially when he turns around and orders Ruth not to "show off", exactly what he himself is doing. It's annoying the no one can seem to do anything without Jaxom and Ruth's help, and how Jaxom somehow ends up as the leader of sorts of Landing. What made him so much more capable than the other young characters that were also learning from Aivas? At least back in The White Dragon I didn't care about Sharra...now it seems that Jaxom doesn't even deserve her.
All the Weyrs of Pern leaned more closely towards science fiction than fantasy, unlike most of the Pern books before it. Since McCaffrey considers her works as science fiction, this is to be expected, and I didn't mind. Though this wasn't my favorite Pern book, it was a very nice closing to the former Pern era, with flying Threadfall as the main plot point. I'm looking forward to reading The Skies of Pern, and seeing what happens next.
An epic book.......2006-08-28
I read this book right after Dragonsdown, and I found it really good. It shows you quite a different background from the Pern Series, but it is nevertheless a really good book in which old Pern and today Pern meet to give birth to a new Pern. I suggest it to every fan of the Dragonriders.
Very Satisfying.......2006-08-10
This is a better follow up to the Original Dragonrider series overall than the Renegades of Pern. It focuses on the attempts of most of the major characters from the original Dragonriderand Harper Hall series to alter the course of the red star to end the threat of thread for future generations with the help from AIVAS, the intelligent computer undearthed at the original settlers' landing area. It jumps around between characters a lot like Renegades, but it has a more cohesive story line. The ending is poignant and somehow fitting.
The only complaint is that there are some inconsistencies between this and the earlier books and also even within the books. For instance, Jancis and Piemur share their first passionate embrace (and perhaps a bit more) literally only a day or two before they help to unearth Aivas in Renegades. Yet in the opening scene of All the Weyrs (which is a continuation of the closing scene of Renegades), everyone knows them as a couple. Also, Jancis is a Journeywoman smith at the end of Renegades, but is introduced as a master in the opening chapter of All the Weyrs. Later people refer to her as a Journeywoman again and later again as a master. That seems like something that should have been caught by editing.
There are some other inconsistencies as well. In earlier books (Dragonquest and the White Dragon) it was impled that all dragons could travel in time if their riders knew when they were going and could visualize it (and the visualizations were often pretty vague like the rainforests of Nerat at Dawn in Dragonflight). Later it was suggested that some dragons (like Ruth) were better at doing it on their own intuition, but it was still implied that all dragons, even inexperienced ones, could do it if their riders knew when they were going. N'Ton even said in the White Dragon that "He didn't know of a weyrling who didn't use that trick occasionally to be on time somewhere." In All the Weyrs it is implied that only some of the bronzes and queens (and Ruth) could time it at all unless given very clear coordinates by another dragon with a good time sense and in fact, they were kept in the dark about the fact that they were timing it during some of their missions to the red star (even though this draconic ability was no secret thanks to Lessa's adventures in Dragonflight). Aside from this bing different from what was implied in earlier books, there is a bit of an elitist notion that crops up from time to time in these books of "only telling most people what they really need to know" that is a little irksome to me, but that is a personal bias. Interestingly, this societal predilection is also blamed in the books for the loss of so much of the ancients' knowledge, so maybe this dilemma is not lost on the author.
One question I have is that in the earlier books it was implied that the "red star" stayed in the inner soalr system (and was quite visible) spinning out thread for the entire 50 year pass. McCaffrey changed it so that the Red Star came in and out somewhat more quickly but left thread ovoids behind crossing Pern's orbit. Neither explanation is completely satisying from a astronomical view as comets and with siliar periods are in and out of the inner planetary area within a few months and Pern's orbit would only intersect the path of the red star a couple of times per year at most. But some scientific license is needed in most science fiction books.
Still it is a good book that should satisfy Pern fans. It is not a good book for someone who hasn't already read all or most of the earlier Pern books, however, but that is the case with later books in most series.
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All the Weyrs of Pern
Manufacturer: CORGI BOOKS (TWLD)
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All the Weyrs of Pern
Manufacturer: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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It's the dawn of a new age in Acts of God, book three in the Christ Clone Trilogy. Mankind is seemingly on the brink of its greatest adventure, as people evince psychic powers, miraculous gifts of healing, and the ability to recall past lives. Christopher's blood is injected into those willing to receive "the mark," with unusual results, and those who refuse are hunted down and decapitated. As the final battle between Yahweh and Christopher draws to its conclusion, Decker Hawthorne begins to have doubts about the powerful world government he's invested in. Don't miss the exciting conclusion of the Christ Clone Trilogy. --Cindy Crosby
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It's the dawn of a new age in Acts of God, book three in theChrist Clone Trilogy. Mankind is seemingly on the brink of its greatest adventure, as people evince psychic powers, miraculous gifts of healing, and theability to recall past lives. Christopher's blood is injected into those willing to receive "the mark," with unusual results, and those whorefuse are hunted down and decapitated. As the final battle between Yahweh and Christopher draws to its conclusion, Decker Hawthorne beginsto have doubts about the powerful world government he's invested in. Don't miss the exciting conclusion of the Christ CloneTrilogy. --Cindy Crosby
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After nearly six millennia of stagnation, humanity stands at the brink of its last evolutionary step. But it is a step that has come at a tremendous cost. One third of the world's population lays dead, the Pacific Ocean is barren, and the forests of North and South America are smoldering wastelands.Those who have survived face a fundamental choice: follow Christopher Goodman, the Messiah of the New Age, or cling to the worldview and deity that have wrought this destruction.Goodman has brought peace and offers the human race an end to sickness and disease, and the means to attain eternal youth and godlike powers. Yet incredibly there are still those who resist and threaten the unity, which is essential to achieving the planet's destiny. Their opposition leads to continued bloody tribulation and ultimately to Armageddon, the final battle between good and evil.
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Then there came this one!!!.......2007-09-01
The first two books were great and so was this one. That is up until the end. Worst possible ending. I was so dissapointed that I almost threw the book away, but I didn't think my trash can could hold that much garbage... ergh!
Disappointing .......2007-07-22
The first book in this trilogy was an engaging and thoughtful thriller, a what-if change in history. The 2nd and 3rd parts after Christ clone veer more towards preaching without the hook of a good novel. Too bad.
Acts of God.......2007-01-11
A wonderful book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading and passing on to my children. It was captivating and a remarkably reasonable portrayal of the second coming of Christ for His blood-bought church.
the worst.......2006-11-10
Well written, but the story is getting worst as more you read. The end is just incredible, just for laughts
Wonderful details, weakens 2/3 way through.......2006-06-15
One of the most powerful parts of the Christ Clone Trilogy was following Decker Hawthorne. Unfortunately he is killed by the Christ Clone about 2/3 of the way through the book only to be brought back in the last chapter. Another powerful attraction of this story is the subtly of the Christ Clone himself; a subtly that is shatter right before he kills Hawthorne, again, weakening the overall impact of the novels in my opinion. Regardless the details of the plagues and struggle at the end of days are well-written and intense. As with most of these ventures into the End Times there seems to be a warning about combining religion and politics yet I wonder if those who write these can see the danger that some Christians today who wish to combine the two are risking? Are those who want to install their religions into politics playing into Satan's hands?
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- BAKE AND FREEZE DESSERTS: 130 DO-AHEAD CAKES, PIES, COOKIES, BROWNIES, BARS, ICE CREAMS, TERRINES AND SORBETS
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Bake and Freeze Desserts: 130 Do-Ahead Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Brownies, Bars, Ice Creams, Terrines, and Sorbets
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ASIN: 0688123473 |
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BAKE AND FREEZE DESSERTS: 130 DO-AHEAD CAKES, PIES, COOKIES, BROWNIES, BARS, ICE CREAMS, TERRINES AND SORBETS.......2005-09-03
I have made several (5) items out of this book so far, and they have all received rave reviews from the recipients. I found this book at the library and had to get it for myself. You must love to bake.
I bought, I read, I ate!.......1998-08-24
Bake and Freeze Desserts is a great way to learn about baking while producing fantastic desserts to eat immediately and/or freeze for later! Elinor's recipe's console me, an amateur cook, and lead me through the recipes with ease. She answers every question as it pops into my head and I always learn something about ingredients or techniques when I read and use her books. I love how Elinor tells you how the batter will look or when you know a cake is done. And how great to spend a free evening baking to pull out a fabulous dessert a few weeks later to amaze and delight your friends?! I highly recommend Bake and Freeze Desserts to those used to baking and to those who aren't!
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This volume brings together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections. Together these collected writings examine the part that objects play in our lives, how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
Interpreting Objects and Collections begins by setting out the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. This is followed by a collection of papers discussing objects variously as historical documents, functioning material and as semiotic texts, as well as papers which examine the politics of objects and the methodology of object study.
The papers in this second part look at the study of collections in their historical and conceptual context covering many topics including the use of collecting to structure individual identity, its effect on time and space and the construction of gender. There are also papers discussing collection and ideology, collection and social action and the methodology of collection study.
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The Everything Knitting Book: Simple Instructions for Creating Beautiful Handmade Items for Your Family and Friends (Everything Series)
Jane Eldershaw
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Knit handmade gifts for your friends and family!
Once again, knitting has become one of the hottest hobbies around. From local knitting groups to Hollywood stars, it seems as if everyone is joining in on the trend.
The Everything® Knitting Book is a simple—and comprehensive—guide to get you started. From blankets and sweaters to hats and scarves, The Everything® Knitting Book offers you all you need to know to create exceptional items for yourself or as gifts for family and friends.
The Everything® Knitting Book takes you step by step through the creative process, helping you choose the right yarn, find the appropriate needle, pick a pattern, and learn a variety of stitches. If your creative spark takes you beyond the basics, you'll learn how to devise original patterns, decorate knitted garments, and knit with more sophisticated materials, such as lace.
The Everything® Knitting Book provides easy-to-follow direction on:
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Packed with clear line art and featuring a magnificent eight-page color insert, The Everything® Knitting Book is a must-have for knitters of all levels.
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The Way We Live... series of books focuses on the best forms of living and style in various parts of the world. The Way We Live... By the Sea presents wonderfully detailed examples of new and traditional designing and living by the sea. From holiday villas in France and sturdy stone fishing cottages on the Scottish islands to sleek modern beach houses in California and Caribbean cabanas, the book is a comprehensive compendium of every type of residential structure found by the ocean. To complete the picture, the book showcases how seaside dwellers link their homes to the sea via terraces, decks, jetties, platforms and private beaches and then examines the use of colors, materials and textures that bring the seaside theme into interior design. The book offers the best that life near the sea, from houses built over the water to life aboard private boats. The Way We Live... By the Sea is sure to be a source of inspiration for anyone fortunate enough to have a seaside dwelling or for anyone who aspires to incorporate seaside grace and beauty.
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Beautiful images.......2007-05-18
This is a beautiful book for anyone who loves the sea. In looking at it I was immediately transported to ocean locations - very relaxing and pleasurable. There is a lot of variety in the book and I enjoyed the ideas for sea based furnishings which can be used as much in the city as by the ocean. The only additional thing I would suggest for future editions would be to incorporate images from a wider choice of countries.
If The Sea Calls You.......2006-07-15
This beautiful book will transport you to the sea of your dreams. The photographs are evocative and dreamlike. Whatever your sea dreams are, you will find them in this book.
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A Day by the Sea (The Way We Live)
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From one of the most popular — and most prolific — illustrators of all time, 236 powerful drawings created by the artist during his trip to Spain in the 1870s. Includes a haunting view of Barcelona’s prison of the Inquisition, dynamic portraits of the huddled poor, soaring interiors of cathedrals, and fiery Spanish dancers.
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- how can a human being have to endure this?
- An autobiography that reads like an adventurous novel!
- Of what "stuff" are you made? Find out in this true tale.
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How Dark the Heavens: 1400 Days in the Grip of Nazi Terror
Sidney Iwens
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how can a human being have to endure this?.......1998-12-26
the author writes in a "detached" style.I guess that is the only way he could recount these horrible experiences inposed upon him by subhumans. It is a superb diary.
An autobiography that reads like an adventurous novel!.......1998-12-25
How Dark the Heavens is a valuable resource of historical information on the Holocaust, and an authentic recollection by a survivor. It is unique, in that this book pulls the reader into the story as would a novel.
Of what "stuff" are you made? Find out in this true tale........1997-08-24
Perhaps you, like I, at times wonder of what stuff you are made. In a truly horrible situation, would you do what it right at all cost? Would you have the inner fortitude to persistently march forward, to place your life at risk for the good of others? Often, and sadly, I suspect I would not; but, my ego hopes I would.
Lithuania might be an unfamiliar name to you. But, this true story invites you to join the author in his nightmarish run from the Nazis during World War II. You'll know what it is like to be suddenly wrenched from your home, country and family by the pursuit of others out to exterminate you, simply because you happen to be in the way.
In his flight, the author chooses paths of moral and physical courage, in order to preserve meaning for his life. Would I have joined him? Or would I have given up? What about you? Here's a chance to "test your stuff," at least in the safe pages of a good read.
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