The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 1)
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  • The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 1)
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The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 1)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear , and W. Michael Gear
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At the Dawn of the Age of the Katsinas....A woman runs away in search of a Spirit Helper and never returns....An ancient village is swept into a shattering crime beyond reason, beyond belief....An old man must learn to walk the dark labyrinth of a murderer's mind to find him before he can strike again....A young war chief must enter the mesmerizing word of the insane if he to save everything and everyone he loves....And, a scant moment ahead in geologic time, world-renowned Canadian physical anthropologist Dr. Maureen Coles finds herself excavating a mass grave in New Mexico filled with the brutalized bodies of women and children.From the internationally bestselling authors of People of the Masks comes a novel of terrifying power about madness and murder eight hundred years ago.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 1).......2007-08-08

This book was written to completely interhal you in its content. Making you a part of the story line brinking from one time line to another. I was totally on the edge of my seat all the time. Couldn't wait for the next book to arrive.

4 out of 5 stars An original tale..........2007-05-23

I just finished reading The Visitant. It takes place in Chaco Canyon, a place that's just a few hours from where I live.

I read the other reviews and I can identify with some of the complaints. Yes, the book needed some editing. I didn't need to read about hair being whipped or tucked over and over again. Nor did I need to know everything everybody was wearing at every minute. The relationship between Dusty and Maureen was contrived - didn't buy it. And what's with the weird capitalizations? Being from the area, I do know a few people from the Pueblos, I've never met anybody with a name like Maggie Walking Hawk Taylor or Hail Walking Hawk. Most of the local Native Americans I know are named Lujan, Vigil, Abeita, Russell, Begay, Yazzie. Okay, I have run across a Yellowhair but that's it. Don't get me started on what the characters in the modern part ate and drank in a desert environment. They should have been suffering from heat exhaustion with IVs in their arms. And 107 degrees in Albuquerque? Puullleeese! It rarely gets any hotter than 102 or 103. So there are my complaints. Now about what's good about the book:

It was still fascinating reading no matter how many things there were wrong. I cleared the first 100 pages in a couple of hours. Doesn't happen often. The authors are clearly knowledgable in their field and they kept a fast pace. I thought most of the characters, in both story lines, were pretty well developed. The elderly characters were the most interesting ones in this story and the best in any book I've read. In spite of my complaints with the modern story line I think it was helpful in holding my attention. I usually don't read historicals. The modern characters helped me to visualize the past better. It was also fascinating watching the modern characters uncover the bodies of characters that I thought I'd been reading about in the other story line. It was just a fun, fast, read with a lot of learning about anasazi mysticism and a long dead civilization. It was sad to see the decline of these people. Overall I enjoyed it and am now reading The Summoning God. I think I'm going to have some complaints about the authors grasp of the breakfast burrito when I'm done with that one.

5 out of 5 stars HOLD OFF READING THIS UNTIL YOU READ BELOW.......2007-03-16

THIS THE FIRST OF A WONDERFUL TRILOGY FULL OF WELL-RESEARCHED HISTORY, ANCIENT AND MODERN SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN MYSTICISM (A POINT LIKELY MISSED BY THOSE WHO WROTE THE CRITICISMS IN THEIR REVIEWS), MULTI-SUBPLOT MYSTERY, ROMANCE, AND A THOUGHT-PROVOKING WARNING FOR OUR "MODERN" SOCIETY, BOTH IN OUR MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND OUR TREATMENT OF OUR CHILDREN.

MY WIFE AND I BOTH READ THE TRILOGY FIRST (AND ENJOYED IT THOROUGHLY!!!), ONLY TO FIND THAT "PEOPLE OF THE SILENCE" AND "PEOPLE OF THE MOON" DEAL WITH THE ANASAZI PEOPLE AND HAPPENINGS BEFORE THE TRILOGY. WE ARE NOW READING BOTH "PREQUELS".

WE ENJOYED THE TRILOGY SO MUCH THAT WE BOUGHT COPIES FOR SEVERAL FRIENDS, WITH THE ADVICE TO READ THE "PEOPLE" BOOKS FIRST. IT GIVES GREAT HISTORICAL CONTINUITY, AND MAKES IT A WONDERFUL 5-VOLUME ADVENTURE.

WE ARE SO PLEASED TO HAVE ENLIGHTENED SCIENTISTS LIKE THE GEARS TO GIVE LIFE TO HSTORY.



5 out of 5 stars A Wonderful New Experience.......2007-01-10

If you care for ancient rituals, combined with modern day beliefs, you will throughly enjoy this book. This is the beginning of a series of 3 different titles. The time period is ancient Indian lore/legend, some of the burial beliefs, and it then connects you with modern day technology. I was surprised to find such detail and information. The three titles carry you through the stories of a couple from their early teens to adulthood, and their children. As well as another story relating to the ancient day families. Certainly worth the read. Thank you for a new series (although old) to delve into.

5 out of 5 stars The Anasazi Mysteries Triogy.......2006-03-15

I got this triogy after seeing a lot of other reviews at first all I cared about was the indian half of the books. but I read the other modern half and liked it just as much. The entire triogy was great.
Visitants
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  • A Modern Australian Classic
Visitants
Randolph Stow
Manufacturer: Univ of Queensland Pr
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ASIN: 070223365X

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5 out of 5 stars A Modern Australian Classic.......2006-06-04

A few modern novels contain pivotal scenes that have stopped me in my tracks. These scenes I must carry around, like rogue radioisotopes in the bloodstream. Randolph Stow's Visitants is one such novel.

Born in 1935 in Geraldton, Western Australia, Stow had produced three novels by the age of 23. Any young Australian deserves a dose of the fifth, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (1965), suffused with love and memory from Stow's wartime childhood. Each should also be served his tart and rambunctious children's classic, Midnite (1967), which sends up Colonial Empire and Patrick White in equal merriment. These two are linear narratives in form, more so than Visitants, first published in 1979 but mainly drafted in the early `70s.

Stow was a Papua New Guinea patrol officer in 1959. In that year, a Trobriand Islands UFO incident was reported widely, but not to his isolated spot. His introductory note recalls that locals in his own sub-district described a similar phenomenon around the same time. A number of years passed before the incidents morphed into fiction. The wait was worthwhile, for Visitants is a finer artifice than To the Islands or Tourmaline, the novels that sprang from Stow's earlier bush sojourn in the far north of Western Australia. Visitants is its own satisfyingly complete neighbourhood, like no other place before or since. Well, maybe that's not 100 per cent true, given the allusions to (among other things) William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

Stow comes out at least equal on points with Golding. He was more the one who could draw on tangible life experience of remote tropical islands. He dares and succeeds with an ambitious structure for his short novel. The structure is an overlapping series of "witness statements" to a 1959 PNG "inquiry" into violent events of cargo-cult and tribal intrigue in and around Kailuana Island, home for the crusty old planter MacDonnell. Another white witness is Mr Dalwood, a greenhorn patrol officer who shares Stow's memories of Perth WA and its riverside university. Also testifying are MacDonnell's attractive young housemaid Saliba, Osana the sub-district government interpreter, and Benoni the tribal heir-apparent of Kailuana.

The main object of testimony is Alistair Cawdor, a patrol officer sent "troppo" by his wife's elopement. "It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there," he says. "My house is bleeding to death."

Cawdor, on the face of it just a swarthy Scot, almost doubles as some kind of dark king spoiling for self-sacrifice, his increasing disturbance a lightning rod for the delusions of race and conquest.

As you read, you don't really have to perceive subtler aspects on any conscious level to receive the organic imprint of the piece. As it takes shape, its striking choreography and comedy are made real by spates of colour, scent and humidity.

Inside such an arena, the evening may be "a pond of turquoise deepening to indigo beyond the islet", or "faded and changed to green: an apple-green peacock-green sky pouring down a pink and golden light". Often the wet air smells of mildew, enhanced by odours of "rotting wood and wood-smoke". Yet the morning wind may waft "the sea and the grass, frangipani flowers and chickens, the leaves that have every smell between vanilla and hay".

At first slightly opaque, the layered structure responds to patient reading, its poetic scenes suddenly stepping up in intensity as they move towards the turbulent conflict and conclusion. Such fiction, to borrow from Flannery O'Connor, resembles an impressionistic painting, which resolves into a complete "world in action told more by showing what happens around the story than by touching directly on the story itself."

(Canberra Times, June 4, 2006)
Birds of California;: An introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, ... visitants, and hypothetical subspecies,
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          Randolph Stow: Visitants, Episodes from Other Novels, Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Essays
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                  5 out of 5 stars Urban fantasy at its very best.......2004-12-21

                  This collection of stories is both moving and profound. Fairytales for grown ups touching on everything from the creatures of the wild wood and city scapes to the majic of the southwest. Jilly Coppercorn, Sophie and the others come to life with each and every page. Charles de Lint writes from the perspective of the female mind exceptionally well! And I find myself revisiting the wonderful, frightning and often delightful town of Newford more and more often......... Highly recommended for anyone who loves good stories with a common thread.
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                  Imagine a city--cold, hard, concrete jungle on the surface, but, down that dark alley or disused cemetery, magic has begun to unravel the gray fabric of realism. Charles de Lint succumbs to his fascination with the outsider in all of us, and writes of lonesome goth kids, newbie lesbians, strippers, Gypsies, angels of death and mercy, and even vampires and ghosts in a style that is remarkably refreshing after so much sword-and-bodice formula fantasy. Moonlight and Vines is a medley of fairy tales for the alternative crowd, with most of his city grrrls and boys sporting combat boots and wounded souls. De Lint crafts his stories with soft edges but indelible images:
                  I can feel a foreign vibe in my apartment, a quivering in the air from Teresa having been there.... My furniture, the posters and prints on my walls, my knickknacks, all seemed subtly changed, a little stiff from the awareness of her looking at them. It takes a while for the room to settle down into its familiar habits. The fridge muttering to itself in the kitchen. The pictures in their frames letting out their stomachs and hanging slightly askew once more.
                  Hardcore horror/fantasy enthusiasts might find the author's habit of imbuing each protagonist with a sense of wonder and self-discovery slightly saccharine and hackneyed after the umpteenth happy ending, but longtime de Lint fans will be delighted. --Jhana Bach

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                  Familiar to Charles de Lints growing audience, Newford is the quintessential North American city: tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see. In Moonlight and Vines, de Lint (called one of the worlds leading fantasists by the Toronto Star) returns to this extraordinary city for a collection of short tales.

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                  5 out of 5 stars Fantastic Fantasy.......2006-02-25

                  I usually have no patience for short stories, but I love those by Charles de Lint. I know of only one other person (Ursula Le Guin) who can consistently write short stories that I love. Charles de Lint writes interesting characters. Many of the ones in his short stories are also in one or more books, so for a fan this is a bonus. More information about Georgie or Sophie or Jillie. I am a constant fan of how well Charles de Lint writes women characters and I love the occational story about women who are attracted to other women. Thank you, Charles.

                  5 out of 5 stars Charles de Lint at his social conscience best.......2006-01-01

                  This is reprint of an early Newford anthology with most of the entries having been written in the mid to late 1990s; "If I Close My Eyes Forever" and "In the Land of the Unforgiven" are brand new entries. Each well written tale brings to life the common theme of social justice for even the fringe. As always the tales come from the perspective of those either at the bottom rung or in the ooze below the food chain instead of the power brokers. Thus the audience sees Newford in a different light than typically seen (while politicians at all levels and both parties rapture culpability on TV, those left behind "starred" in the pictures on the news during Katrina); fascinatingly this also may leave the tales' protagonists in jeopardy of being put away for not seeing the proper light, in this case the magic of the city. MOONLIGHT & VINES is Charles de Lint at his social conscience best, but done in an entertaining slice at life.

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                  5 out of 5 stars Magic in the real world.......2005-07-12

                  Fantasy that takes place on another world, with a bunch of characters' names that look like someone stepped on the typewriter keys, is not my thing. (I do make the exception for Tolkien, since his world is based on legends from ours). And most urban fantasy is very dark and depressing, as if magic can't exist on our plane without becoming warped and twisted. I have been a de Lint fan for many years, since reading Moonheart -- his brand of urban fantasy appeals to me, since I love the idea of 'other' impacting on our world. His creation of Newford is typical of any big city anywhere in the world -- there is good and bad about it, light and dark, much like magic itself. I have read all the Newford stories, and this collection is by far the best of them all. I have read a couple reviews that complain de Lint's writing here is too 'happy', that it lacks an edge. I disagree -- the stories don't all end happily. What he has done with them, however, is have them end hopefully. Things may not be perfect for the characters by the end of the story, but whatever problems they still have, they are now equipped to deal with them. I don't need 'happily ever after', but I do like 'this too shall pass'. And I so want to visit the Wordwood .... Buy, beg, or borrow a copy of this, and prepare for one of the most mystical and amazing reads of your life.

                  3 out of 5 stars Walking Wounded.......2005-06-27

                  The short stories in Charles de Lint's `Moonlight & Vine aren't really fantasies per se - rather they are tales of wounded people - mostly women, who are lonely, despairing, lacking self worth or confidence, unable to maintain healthy relationships, sexually confused, and carrying around old hurts from abusive fathers, departed lovers, and totally dysfunctional families. These people don't take their problems to therapist. Instead, they work them out through encounters with ghosts, vampires, guardian angels, and various spirits and creatures from the spirit world of faerie.
                  I first encountered Charles de Lint twenty-one years ago when I read his excellent novel `Moonheart'. His unique style of urban fantasy and mixture of old and new world mythologies intrigued me and drew me into his work. Over time, however, his writing concentrated less on the elements that drew me to him, and more on the themes of wounded people working out their recovery through his fantastic world of faerie. While I'm sure there must be a market for this type of writing, it holds no appeal for me. I stopped reading him for a long time, but this past month I decided to give him another try to see if perhaps he had returned to his old magic. Unfortunately, the answer was no. In `Moonlight & Vines' he has given over almost entirely to writing about the walking wounded - emotionally crippled characters. The fantasy elements that are present are so peripheral to these stories that it could almost be removed entirely without significantly changing them.
                  I believe that De Lint has discovered a niche market with these psychological tales of women wounded from sexual and physical abuse working out their healing and that he now caters to it almost exclusively. In `Moonlight & Vine" he includes a strong current of lesbianism - usually women discovering that they can make connections with other women rather than with men who have always abused them; this appears to play to the same audience. He writes well enough, and if you are drawn to the subject matter, you should enjoy his work. If, however, like me, you find the whole thing rather dreary, you will want to avoid `Moonlight & Vines'. De Lint has come a long way from his outstanding novel `Moonheart', and the magic that vibrated through it is only a distant echo, almost lost within the psychodrama of this collection of tales.

                  Theo Logos

                  5 out of 5 stars Magic is alive, and that is not always pretty.......2003-02-25

                  Charles de Lint has an amazing way of writing; I can only compare his style to Guy Gavriel Key, which makes me think that there is something truly magical in the waters up in Canada. When de Lint writes, you feel a strong tug at your deepest core; you know he is writing about a truth, even if you have yourself never seen balloon people -- they are true on a level beyond something seen on the news.

                  Many writers currently seem determined to make faeries and other magical creatures very nice, very sweet, and altogether sappy. In these short stories we find nice creatures. We also find not quite so nice ones. We also find quite horrid ones, ones that would make our nightmares sit up and take notice. We find here the wellspring for artistic inspiration and the black void that leads to drug overdoses, the spirit of freedom and the freedom that goes too far and leads to madness. Here is hope, despair, and every other emotion, sometimes whispering, sometimes crying defiantly, but always with a sense that there is a truth here, no matter how much it may seem like a "mere fairy tale".

                  This is an important point -- de Lint is writing about reality, about real lives, about real feelings, about real emotions. There is a touch of magic to this, from the woman who doesn't want to admit that she sees things others do not, to the man who falls too in love with a photograph. What de Lint is writing about is what makes us ourselves, whether that is very good or very not good; he writes about fears, lusts, emotional expression, distrust, scams, and dozens of other human activities with a passion and an honesty that few can match or manage. In the end these works may be seen as parables, as internal explanations, or almost anything else, but ultimately they are beautiful works, very poignant, and full of sadnss, beauty, joy, and fear. They are raw expressions of all that happens in our world, coloured slightly by a dusting of the fey and the careful tread of a coyote in his moccasins.

                  Read, love, cry, and feel.
                  Moonlight & Vines A Newford Collection
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                    Moonlight & Vines A Newford Collection
                    Charles DeLint
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                    The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930's
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                      Isaac Asimov , and Charles G. Waugh
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                          Russell Chandler
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                          One-Pot & Clay Pot Cookbook
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                          Jenni Shapter
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                          This beautiful book is divided into ten easy-to-use chapters, with recipes for every meal occasion and every course.

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                          5 out of 5 stars Misleading Title, but Worth its Weight in Saffron........2003-04-08

                          I bought this book without even looking inside it. That is testimony to the quality of "The Cook's Encyclopedia of" series, of which this is one, though it has been renamed for some reason.

                          I was initially disappointed, because my idea of one-pot cooking is that the contents of the one pot be a main dish, not a side dish. Many of these recipes are really side dishes. Not many people would consider Ratatouille as being a main dish, for example.

                          So why the five stars? Well, the ratatouille recipe is the best one I've ever seen -- simply wonderful! Also true of the other 20-odd recipes I've made from this book. Commenting on the review by Mr. Moore, where he says "the spices and combination of ingredients have a decidely European feel": He is quite correct, when the dish is a European one, such as Jansson's Temptation, Seafood Risotto, Cassoulet, or Italian Lamb Meatballs with Chilli Tomato Sauce (all of which are excellent, by the way -- the tricky risotto is particularly well-explained).

                          However, when the book moves further afield, to Morocco for five different tagines (the shellfish one is particularly good), or to India for a Goan Fish Casserole, or to Thailand for a tofu curry, I can assert that the ingredients, spices and techniques are absolutely authentic to their regions.

                          As with all of this series of books, the layout is almost perfect -- they'd be better eliminating the pointless "technique" photographs and enlarging the recipe font, but it is never necessary to turn a page while working on a recipe. The comprehensive index also works well -- rare in a cookbook.

                          I've only found one recipe where I immediately disagree with the author, and that is the otherwise excellent Chicken Gumbo. Where is the file roux? I know that excellent gumbos can be made without file, but if you're only going to include one gumbo recipe, it should have file in it. Strange omission, because the other recipe from Louisiana, the Jambalaya, is completely authentic.

                          One other gripe is that slow cookers are never mentioned, even though slow cookers are an absolute natural for many of these dishes. The author goes on at length about the different types of clay pot, but I have never noticed any actual advantage to clay pot cooking except for the presentation, when you walk into the dining room with tagine in hands, place it in the middle of the table, and whisk the top off with a flourish. It's just a small gripe, however, because most of these recipes can be done in a slow cooker without any change whatsoever except for increased cooking time.

                          I have five books from this series, and all five of them reside permanently on the top shelf of my 200+ cookbook library. I have used this one less than the others, but that's only because I got it fairly recently.

                          4 out of 5 stars Beautifully Illustrated for European Cuisine.......2002-02-20

                          I purchased this book because I was looking for some recipes and tips for using my Romertopf clay cooker. The book does a thorough job of discussing the various types and techniques for cooking with glazed and unglazed clay pots, and examines other one-pot techniques (pan-frying, stir-frying pot-roasting)as well. But the real beauty of this book is the wealth of illustrations. Each recipe not only includes a picture of the finished dish, but several pictures showing the 'how to' of the recipe directions. The recipes are divided into clearly numbered steps again accompanied most of the time by an illustration.
                          I would have given this book five stars but for the fact that the book is designed primarily for European cooks and includes many recipes for dishes not particularly common in American kitchens. There are many dishes using lamb and the spices and the combination of ingredients have a decidedly European feel. That is not intended to be a negative comment as I intend to expand my culinary experience by trying some of the recipes that I have never tasted. But for Americans who like more traditional fare and are like me, looking to learn more about cooking with a clay pot, this book may be a disappointment.
                          Quick & Easy Cooking Collection: One-Pot, Slow-Pot & Clay Pot Cooking, 30 Minute Cookbook, and Four Ingredient Cookbook
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                            Quick & Easy Cooking Collection: One-Pot, Slow-Pot & Clay Pot Cooking, 30 Minute Cookbook, and Four Ingredient Cookbook

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                            ASIN: 1844772527

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                            The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook: Flavorful One-Pot Recipes for Your Crockery Pot
                            Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                            • Beautiful Illustrations, Simple Recipes, BUT.........
                            • An Excellent Cookbook
                            • Bought on a Clearance Rack
                            • 'Ultimate' is a gross overstatement!!
                            • Sophisticated easy recipes!
                            The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook: Flavorful One-Pot Recipes for Your Crockery Pot
                            Carol Heding Munson
                            Manufacturer: Sterling
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                            When you come home, after a long day at work, wouldn't you love to have a delicious, healthy dinner all ready and waiting, filling the air with an irresistible aroma? You can--by tossing some vegetables, meat, or fish into a slow cooker in the morning and then just letting it simmer into a robust stew, light soup, or pasta sauce. Not only do these recipes require little preparation time, but each has an incredible marriage of flavors that results only from lengthy cooking. And, they're low in fat and sodium, too! You'll get simple instructions on how the equipment works so that you'll feel like a real chef as you whip up such mouthwatering temptations as Grecian Beef Stew, Winter Vegetables with Cheddar and Croutons, Italian Tomato Soup, Twice-Cooked Almond Potatoes, Easy Turkey Meatballs, Rainbow Trout with Orange, Banana-Almond-Maple Custard, and more--all marvelously yummy.

                            Customer Reviews:

                            2 out of 5 stars Beautiful Illustrations, Simple Recipes, BUT................2004-01-25

                            I was very excited about dusting off my crock pot and simplifying my life! This is a beautifully illustrated cookbook that is nicely organized. The recipes are easy to follow. Unfortunately, the results are something else. The "Country-style Chicken Stew Provencal" had a great aroma but the chicken was overdone, the potatoes underdone, and the stew had far too much garlic to be palatable. The Portobello mushrooms turned everything a muddy color. I hope others have had more success with this very attractive cookbook.

                            5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Cookbook.......2003-03-10

                            I borrowed this book from a friend and loved it. I totally disagree with a previous reviewer who said these meals were involved, contained ingredients that were hard to find and not very appetising. I stay at home with two very young children (both under 4), so trying to do anything complicated in the kitchen is out of the question. Thank God for crock pots. So far I have made the Meatball/Bow Tie Pasta soup, the Chicken Stroganoff, the Chicken Casserole with Swiss Cheese and the Cheese Tortellini soup and they have all been hits. Based on how well I liked this book, I'm going to buy Munson's pressure cooker cookbook.

                            3 out of 5 stars Bought on a Clearance Rack.......2003-01-22

                            I bought this cookbook locally and I got it very cheaply. It is worth that, but I would not buy it full price. It has some good recipies in it, but many that are either very invovled, call for obscure ingredients, or aren't appetizing at all. but there are some that are a little different, and a good variety of more up-to-date recipies for slow cooker meals.

                            2 out of 5 stars 'Ultimate' is a gross overstatement!!.......2002-02-18

                            I have tried two recipes from this book and liked the results of neither. The Asian Stir-Fry Stew was no substitute for a stir fried dish and a waste of good scallops. The Hearty Corn Chowder with Peas looked nothing like the accompanying photo and tasted so bad, that it went from the crock pot directly to the garbage disposal. The book has many beautiful illustrations but I am reluctant to waste good ingredients (and money) on a book that is long on promise, touting itself as the 'ultimate', but short on results. For people wanting to create a delicious meal with a short preparation time, 'Crock-It' is a better choice. For those of you who have the time to create more gourmet meals with your slow cooker, 'The Slow Cooker Ready and Waiting Cookbook'is an excellent resource.

                            5 out of 5 stars Sophisticated easy recipes!.......2001-09-28

                            I really like this slow cooker cookbook. It's easy and has a variety of recipes that are healthy and low in fat. Nutritional analysis is provided for each recipe. There are a lot of creative recipes, not just your usual slow cooker fare. There are also a lot of beautiful photographs. This book is better than a lot of other slow cooker books I've seen. I'm sure there is something for everyone in this book!
                            One-pot, Slow-pot & Clay-pot Cookbook
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                              One-pot, Slow-pot & Clay-pot Cookbook

                              Manufacturer: Hermes House
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                              Binding: Paperback
                              ASIN: 0681323388

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                              Wonderfully flovored comfort food that's both easy to prepare and easy to serve. Over 180 one-pot, slow-pot and clay-pot recipes from around the world, with useful cook's tips and step-by-step techniques.

                              The Collector's Guide to Harker Pottery U.S.A.: Identification and Value Guide
                              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                              • Want to Know More!
                              • The definitive volume on Harker Pottery
                              The Collector's Guide to Harker Pottery U.S.A.: Identification and Value Guide
                              Neva Colbert
                              Manufacturer: Collector Books
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                              5 out of 5 stars Want to Know More!.......2003-10-01

                              Neva's daughter -- I saw a lovely set of Harker dishes at a shop, but I don't know the pattern. Would you help me identify it? Contact me at kdavis@cir2.com

                              5 out of 5 stars The definitive volume on Harker Pottery.......1995-07-19

                              OK, I'm biased. My mother wrote this one. Many of the pieces featured in the book are part of my collection. But it's still the ONLY book on Harker Pottery, America's Oldest Pottery. This book not only includes beautiful pictures of Harkerware, but also includes a price guide and some history of the pottery industry of the Ohio Valley. Harker is a contemporary of many currently collectible potteries such as Hall and Homer Laughlin. While not as valuable currently as Autumn Leaf or Fiestaware, Harker's Cameoware is becoming increasingly popular. Harker is also the only manufacturer of ceramic serving forks and spoons as well as beautiful ceramic rolling pins

                              Made to Wear: Creativity in Contemporary Jewellery
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                                Janice West
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                                    School of Visual Arts Gold: Fifty Years of Creative Graphic Design
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