Jerusalem Inn

Book Description

Bad tidings come to Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant when clues from two corpses lead them to a remote country inn-where holiday cheer turns to holiday fear.

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Sgt. Wiggins Gets a Girlfriend!!!.......2006-07-24

And that's not the only surprise in this engaging story. Ruthven actually converses with "my lord"! Aunt Agatha cheats at cards!! The supporting characters in this series only add to its charm. I recently started reading the Richard Jury series with the first book and it keeps getting better and more delightful as you come to know the various inhabitants. Oh yes...the plot and mystery are also first rate but it's the cast of characters that keep me wanting more!

Charm, Atmosphere, Wit, Jury & Plant = Great Grimes.......2005-02-21

I have read the first nine books in the Richard jury/Melrose Plant series. I have enjoyed each very much. The Jerusalem Inn took me back to The Man with a Load of Mischief in that the snow covered landscapes are the perfect setting for the plot, twists, and curves with which Grimes fills each novel. This is a series to be savored.

Good, Solid Grimes ... again.......2005-02-13

Mystery and thriller series rely on repetition of character, venue and atmosphere, and Martha Grimes' Richard Jury series never disappoints. Set in the rugged Winter landscape near Newcastle, all our regular characters manage to congregate in an old manor house, near a working class pub named Jerusalem Inn. Grimes' books all take their titles from a pub, and this pub is a bit less homey and a bit more basic than some. Jerusalem Inn takes on a certain sinister atmosphere from the moment we first hear of it.

In this book, Jury becomes both personally involved as well as professionally, which leads to certain plot and character twists. As always, solving the crime - well multiple crimes - calls on the talents not only of Jury, but his well heeled friend and unofficial sidekick, Melrose Plant. The rest of the characters all arrive at the Spinneyton Manor - Vivian, Agatha, Ruthven - as well as the required appearances of Racer and Fiona ... but the Scotland yard crew is far less present in this work. Even Wiggins - Jury's faithful and always ailing assistant - plays a much more secondary role.

I liked this book more than others - I thought the pacing was a notch above many of the others. But in the end, you need to like the British Mystery genre to appreciate this - its not just about solving the crime - its about involving yourself in the characters, atmosphere, and joy of the place - that really define Grimes' books and other authors of the same. Great read. Great Grimes.

Near The Top Of Her Form.......2004-08-19

I've read over a dozen of the Richard Jury books by Martha Grimes, but I only read Jerusalem Inn recently. I'd put it near the top of the list. I think The Man With A Load Of Mischief is a bit better, and The Old Silent has a much more complicated plot. Martha Grimes seems to balance the recurring elements of the Jury series much better in this book than in some others. In Jerusalem Inn, we start off with Richard Jury's angst and self-doubt, a recurring theme in the series, but it's not overly done. The mystery of the dead woman is well crafted, and the thread which connects her to the other protagonists is drawn out skillfully over the course of the book. The Long Piddleton characters - Melrose Plant, his aunt, Vivian, and butler Ruthven - add just the right humorous touch, again in better proportion to this book than in some others. There is a pub named the Jerusalem Inn, of course, peopled by a separate group of characters. And, in common with most of the Grimes books, there is an upstart little girl, although again this is more in balance with the rest of the plot than elsewhere. Having read almost all of this series, I'd suggest reading this one second, after The Man With A Load Of Mischief. If you enjoy English mysteries in the classic style, this will not disappoint.

Near The Top Of Her Form.......2004-08-19

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Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Headline Book Publishing Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000JDHC5Y

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Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTWW08

8 Titles By Martha Grimes - The Man with a Load of Mischief - Dirty Duck - Jerusalem Inn - The Old Contemptibles - Grave Maurice - Five Bells and Bladebone - The End of the Pier - The Anodyne Necklace

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8 Titles By Martha Grimes - The Man with a Load of Mischief - Dirty Duck - Jerusalem Inn - The Old Contemptibles - Grave Maurice - Five Bells and Bladebone - The End of the Pier - The Anodyne Necklace
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: various
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000Q6HCXQ

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8 Mass Market Paperback Titles By Martha Grimes - The Man with a Load of Mischief - Dirty Duck - Jerusalem Inn - The Old Contemptibles - Grave Maurice - Five Bells and Bladebone - The End of the Pier - The Anodyne Neckl

8 Titles By Martha Grimes - The Man with a Load of Mischief - Dirty Duck - Jerusalem Inn - The Old Contemptibles - Grave Maurice - Winds of Change - Five Bells and Bladebone - The End of the Pier

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8 Titles By Martha Grimes - The Man with a Load of Mischief - Dirty Duck - Jerusalem Inn - The Old Contemptibles - Grave Maurice - Winds of Change - Five Bells and Bladebone - The End of the Pier
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Dell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KJZDOY

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8 mass market paperbacks Titles By Martha Grimes - The Man with a Load of Mischief - Dirty Duck - Jerusalem Inn - The Old Contemptibles - Grave Maurice - Winds of Change - Five Bells and Bladebone - The End of the Pier

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Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Onyx Books,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QOCGF2

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The Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Dell Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000J32AH4

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Jerusalem Inn
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Boston : Little Brown & Co. (1984)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWBBAS

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Very good debut.

A beautifully written book, both tragic and uplifting
He Do the Time Police in Different Voices
David Langford
Manufacturer: Cosmos Books (PA)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592240585

Book Description

A collection of Langford parodies and pastiches incorporating the whole of The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two (1988, long out of print) plus some 40,000 words of additional material.

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Very good debut........2006-09-21

Jeannelle M. Ferreira, A Verse from Babylon (Prime, 2005)

This is a rough book to review. Jeannelle Ferreira has created something of great worth here, but it's hard to figure out how to go about talking about it.

"This is a true story," the beginning of the book tells us. That may not be entirely the case, but it is, I think, an honest story, at least as honest as any of the presently controversial "memoirs" we'll all have forgotten about in five years are. Ferreira based many of these characters on real people, working in many cases with primary source: their letters and diaries, their published works. And, in one case, the weight of family history, as well. From this, she has cobbled together an impressionist tale of a group of Jewish artists during World War II in the Vilna ghetto in Lithuania. While it manifests itself as an ensemble piece, it becomes obvious that its main characters are Raissa Gellerman, her brother Beniek, and Beniek's wife Fayge. A number of others are major characters, including Hirsh, who loves Raissa unrequitedly, and Violeta, Raissa's lover, both also members of the troupe, as well as a select few kapo.

Its greatest weakness, to me, is the impressionism of its style. It wouldn't be such a terrible thing if the narrative didn't also make minor jumps back and forth in time, which can make things confusing. The end result reads, at times, like a [undeservedly censored] offspring of Cormac McCarthy and Philip K. Dick. Which is not necessarily a bad thing; both Dick and McCarthy are excellent writers, with the same basic ideas of just how depraved a society can get, and this is something Ferreira's got her head wrapped around very well. Like McCarthy, she tens to let the vilest of the actions take place just offscreen, with us seeing aftereffects or a flash of skin most of the time rather than getting the full frontal shot-- so in those instances when we do get the full monty, it's all the more shocking. Very effectively done, and a good balance to the confusing bits (which, I should say, are not frequent) in other parts of the book. Like Dick, Ferreira has a finely-honed sense of the potential contained in any dystopian society, and if Lithuania under the Nazis wasn't a dystopian society, I'm not terribly sure what qualifies.

Now having spent an entire paragraph on the idea of weakness, all I can say about the book's strength-- or all I should need to, anyway-- is in the book's writing. These are deeply-felt, excellently-drawn characters that demand your time and attention. The situations they're in are believable-- at least, as believable as anything could be in Nazi-controlled territory in the late thirties and early forties-- and the characters' reactions to their situations are also believable. Ferreira creates the illusion that one doesn't need suspension of disbelief here.

A very good debut novel. Watch this one, she's going places. *** ½

A beautifully written book, both tragic and uplifting.......2006-03-16

Before going to sleep last night, I decided to start A Verse from Babylon. Holocaust literature may not be the best thing to read right before bed, but once I got started, I couldn't put it down until I'd read the whole thing. The story is presented not so much in the way that tales are generally told, but in the way they're relived in the memories of those who were there - piecemeal, not in chronological order but in an intuitive order based on association of people or events. It made me think of the way friends will take out old photographs and talk about the people or places in them, moving from picture to picture, one person remembering this-and-such thing about so-and-so and another recalling a different event or even the same event from a different perspective. This nonlinear progression might make some readers unhappy, but it suits the story very well, and Ms. Ferreira pulls it off beautifully.

The author tells us at the very beginning that there is no "happily ever after" to this story, and it's true. Still, I couldn't find tears for this group of young people. Tears are for the dead and the dying - and this handful of artists lived so fiercely, the candles of their lives burning bright and intense despite the constant threat of death and the continual reality of starvation and disease. One could argue that the characters were already dead ("dead men walking", as the saying goes), that in the Nazi-controlled ghetto of Vilna, death was inevitable, and one would be correct. The book isn't about death, though. It's about the resilience of the human spirit, the determination to continue living right up to the moment that life is snatched away. Even though their world is taken over by madmen, and atrocities become the order of the day, our friends are still able to laugh and find beauty, to create art, to make love. I finished the book with my dry eyes burning and my heart breaking. The story is rooted in death and tragedy, but on later reflection, I realised that it's also uplifting. Not a book for everyone, but certainly one for me.

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The bestselling parenting guide featured on "Oprah" and "Dateline" is revised and updated with new signs

For every parent or caregiver who has struggled unsuccessfully to decode baby grunts and grabs, resulting in tearful frustration for both adult and child, there is Baby Signs. Based on 20 years of research, this one-of-a-kind classic shows you how to encourage your baby's use of nonverbal gestures to enhance communication. Simple hand movements signify objects, events, and needs, so your infant can enjoy interactions with you that otherwise would have been impossible until they could talk. New features of this revised edition include helpful tips on incorporating Baby Signs into the day care setting and more than 50 additional illustrated Baby Signs.

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Great research, no need to make up signs.......2007-10-11

This is a great tool for learning how and why to sign with your baby. I don't agree with making up signs though. We already have signs established in our Deaf Culture. Why not use theirs and allow it to be used later in life as well? I would recommend buying this book for the information but I bought a sign language dictionary with it, Teach Your Tot to Sign from Stacy Thompson and it has every sign that I have needed in it. It helped me so much to bring it along with me in my car and if I don't know a sign, I quickly just looked it up and my daughter learned the "real" sign for tree. Good luck and signing is a wonderful experience in our family, I hope it is in yours too.
Annette

I can't wait to talk with my baby........2007-10-01

I'm still reading this but I am almost finished. It provides really good information about how and why to use baby signs. I also really like that their information is based on actual research that they have completed. I didn't realize all the benefits that can come from using baby signs. I look forward to being able to talk with my daughter soon.

This REALLY WORKS!!!.......2007-08-24

I waited till my daughter was 9mths old. I started with "All Done". Right before I let her out of the high chair, I'd say All Done & wave my arm. She didn't catch on for a few weeks but I kept at it. Then one day, I was pressuring her to eat (as all moms do at some point) and she began waving her arm! As soon as she waved her arm, I took her out. She got really excited and began waving her arm when she was done playing, or swinging or diaper changing. When possible, we would stop what we were doing to respect her wishes and reinforce the sign! That was at 10 months and just the beginning. By the time she was 13 months old, she could sign 22 different words. We used a lot of the book's signs and were making up signs for animals, vehicles, objects, actions and she picked up a sign a day. We'd say the specific word along with doing the sign like this book suggests and she picked up both. She was doing over 50 signs by the time she turned 15months old. Now she's only signing words that she can't speak. She's talking so much at 16months. Everyone told us that she wouldn't talk if she signed because she'd have no incentive but we trusted the book and persisted with signing and I have to say that really paid off! We had no issues with anger or frustration since she was consistently able to tell us what she wanted. Signing also helped in distracting her when she didn't get what she wanted and kept her entertained on long car rides. :) This book really helps to do it right.

Should have purchased sooner.......2007-08-09

I bought this book when my son turned one. He was getting really frustrated that he couldn't communicate with me. Right away I taught him how to sign for eat and drink. I wish I would have started with him earlier. His language skills picked up really fast after his first birthday and he was able to learn the words quicker than the sign. I found the book a good, quick read and the signs easy to learn. I would start with my next baby at around 9 months.

Who Teaches asdflaksdf as a language.......2007-07-20

I received this book and initially was excited but then realized the signs were made up. I don't want to start teaching my child the world is flat. Sign language will be helpful to know in years to come but where's the expanded dictionary of made up signs and symbols?

Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, New Edition

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Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, New Edition
Linda Acredolo; Susan Goodwyn; Douglas Abrams
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFKG82

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Useful reference plus very interesting information

Very informative, interesting,

The Way of Tea: The Sublime Art of Oriental Tea Drinking
Km Chuen Lam , and Kai Sin Lam
Manufacturer: Barron''s Educational Series
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Tea Box, The

ASIN: 0764119680

Book Description

The Way of Tea is a journey back in time to the origins of tea cultivation and Oriental tea ceremonies. It is also a book of advice, describing how to get full pleasure and benefit from tea today. The ways in which we store tealeaves, then prepare and serve this exquisite brew, influence tea's properties and affect its taste and aroma. Master Lam Km Chuen and his wife Kai Sin offer expert guidance on the essentials of the tea serving art. Separate chapters are devoted to . . . The Tea Story—the origins of tea cultivation in China, and the spread of tea drinking and tea ceremonies from Asia to Europe, then later to America . . . Cultivating Tea—the many varieties, which fall into general categories of green (non-fermented), oolong (semi-fermented), black/red (fermented), and white teas . . . Preparing and Serving Tea—the importance of correct storage and water purity, and methods of preparation and serving ... Healing Teas—discussion of health benefits of teas, supplemented with approximately 20 recipes that incorporate ginger, lychee, ginseng, dry orange peel, and other healthful ingredients. Modern science has come to recognize many health properties in tea—qualities that tea connoisseurs have known about for centuries. Full-color photos throughout.

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Useful reference plus very interesting information.......2004-05-30

The book contains very interesting folklores related to Asian teas and introduced some of the author's favorites. Kam gives a brief introduction to few of the finest teas in the world, and much on the popular teas. Then an interesting tea ceremony. Although at some points I don't agree with the author, I do recommend this book to whoever interested in teas. A pleasure to read.

Very informative, interesting,.......2003-12-13

The Way Of Tea is the flip side to a book like "The New Tea Book" -- it goes in depth on a number of subjects and has information tea connoisseurs may not have known. For those who are mainly familiar with information about tea presented from an Indian standpoint, this enhance your knowledge, as it's more about the teas of China.

One of the first things this book covers in great detail is the history and production of tea. Its history starts in 2700 BC and goes up through modern day -- but don't be afraid, it's not like reading a textbook. It's still light and quick read with a lot of great information.

Then there's a good section on the making of teas and varieties of teas. I learned a lot about the preparation of types of teas -- that is, how they're made before they get to you. There's also a lengthy discussion on the proper preparation of teas, and how to serve them. This includes a discussion and series of photos on the gongfu method of tea preparation and serving.

Additionally, there's a series of homeopathic style recipies for tea as various cures. While some of these may be effective due to the placebo effect, I have tried some of these preparations for my girlfriend when she's sick and she said she felt a little better soon afterwards (without me explaining what I was doing). While it's not to be taken as evidence of effectiveness, it may work a bit. Be aware that if you can't get to a place that specializes in Asian foods, though, you may not be able to do many of the recipes.

In any case, this is a great book and almost anyone can learn from it.

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The 18 stories in this collection represent the imaginations of writers renowned for their horse tales, such as James Herriot, Anna Sewell, and Enid Bagnold, as well as other great authors including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, who offer their own unique visions and experiences with the noblest of creatures.
BEST HORSE STORIES is a diverse collection of tales about all different breeds. You'll root for Kipling's The Maltese Cat, an appropriately uncommon name for a polo pony who inspires his team of underdogs in the heat of a match. How Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive and Mr. Winkle to Ride shares—in pure Dickensian style and humor—the tale of "four friends and their four-footed companion," and their lesson in how difficult it can be to get to your destination if your horse doesn't want to take you. And Herriot's An Expensive Operation reevaluates who is the higher and who the lower of beasts when a veterinarian has to deal with a beautiful and noble horse for a patient, but a client who's as stubborn as a mule.
Illustrated with vivid line drawings, BEST HORSE STORIES is a celebration of this graceful animal that will delight horsepeople and animal lovers alike.

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This is a good horse lover book.......1998-10-31

I think that this book was a good choice of stories and it was well organized. I liked the stories a lot and I love horses. This book is filled with classics and new ones.

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Classic Family Adventure
You'll Laugh out Loud!
Saving Blue and Our Youth
Saving Blue and Our Youth

Saving Bluestone Belle
Strawberry Shakespeare
Manufacturer: Diamond Star Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0977433536
Release Date: 2006-10-24

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Saving Bluestone Belle is a rollicking adventure about Homer Easton, a quirky ten year old who sets out from his California home on a perilous journey to rescue his beloved albino mare, Bluestone Belle, from horse thieves. Along the way, he discovers the horrific reason why 'Blue' was taken and that he himself is in grave danger! Whether he's tracking Blue across desert and sea or infiltrating the horse-nappers' fortress, Homer's very life depends on his ability to outfox his terrifying opponents. Can Homer marshal his unique strengths to save his own life and rescue Blue? Animal lovers of all ages will treasure this tale about an endangered horse. Kids will love the breathless pace and surprising twists and turns. They'll laugh out loud at the madcap predicaments Homer gets himself into, and cheer him on as he proves himself an unlikely hero. With ten full-page illustrations that capture the most dramatic moments, Saving Bluestone Belle tells a heartwarming story that inspires young readers to be the best they can be.

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Classic Family Adventure.......2006-09-08

Young Homer Easton's world crumbled around him when his parents divorced and his horse Benny Two Shoes died. Homer vicariously lived a life through the "Lone Ranger." A whiz at computers, Homer set up an online company to sell Western paraphernalia.

For his tenth birthday his father presented Homer with a magnificent white horse to replace Benny Two Shoes. The horse was repossessed due to a misunderstanding at the bank. Two desperado type characters loaded Bluestone Belle into their truck and hauled her away.

The story revolves around Homer, Dr. Willoughby, his psychiatrist, Joe, his personal trainer, and Maria, the family maid, and their efforts to save Bluestone Belle from a band of criminals.

Narrow escapes, thrilling chases, and death defying risks keep the reader in suspense throughout this fast paced adventure story, for kids, ages 9-12.

The characters are zany and loveable. Maria's frequent use of Spanish phrases gives the story an added dimension.

The illustrations by Mike Bitz are clever and expressive. The author has demonstrated an uncanny sense of understanding of this age group in her choice of vocabulary in both the narrative and in the dialog of her characters.

Young readers will identify with Homer's sense of loneliness as his parents choose career and freedom instead fulfilling parental roles. Romantic innuendos give promise to reconciliation when Homer is kidnapped while attempting to save Bluestone Belle.

This dramatic adventure story is an excellent choice for the classroom, for family night reading, and holds potential for an award winning family film. An excellent read for the whole family.

You'll Laugh out Loud!.......2006-07-14

This is a delightful book. Fom the first page you get the exciting feel of being Homer, a smart 10 year old entrepreneur who sees every challenge as just something to overcome on the way to his goal: saving his beloved Bluestone Belle. There is a wacky cast of characters who range from the quirky adults whose job is tending Homer, his well-meaning but clueless parents, to the thrillingly rough villains. I read it to a group of wildly enthusiastic 4th graders. They loved the cover, and kept looking at it to guess what might come next: a meeting with a lion? a shark attack? We laughed a lot as we read, and the fresh modern vocabulary gave many opportunities to discuss idioms, new technology, and figurative language. They learned new words and phrases. The situations Homer encounters brought up discussions about loneliness, wealth, independence, loyalty, and characters who grow and change. It was perfect for asking "What would you do?" My own teenage daughter enjoyed the book too. I recommend it highly.

Saving Blue and Our Youth.......2006-07-10

Saving Bluestone Belle is recommended for ages 9 to 12; however, this 70 year old found herself unable to put the book down until she finished it. What fun and excitement! Vivid descriptions make this book an enjoyable experience. You feel like you are there. Teachers and parents will find the hero, Homer, a good role model for young people to take control of their lives, no matter what their circumstances. Homer demonstrates that you don't need admiring peers or perfect parents to be successful. All you need is passion and wise persistence. Homer uses his wits instead of brawn and aggression. For a children's book to sell, adults have to enjoy it, too. I see 'Bluestone' as a novel that kids and parents can enjoy together. Also it will appeal to boys who normally are not interested in reading fiction.
N Lester, MA Counseling

Saving Blue and Our Youth.......2006-07-10

Changing Times: The Story of a Tennessee Walking Horse and the Girl Who Proves That Grown-Ups Don't Always Know Best (Treasured Horses)

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Inspiring!
good book
Very good book

Changing Times: The Story of a Tennessee Walking Horse and the Girl Who Proves That Grown-Ups Don't Always Know Best (Treasured Horses)
Deborah G. Felder
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0590316575

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Inspiring!.......2003-08-11

I love this book! It is great how lucy gets to keep Clipper! The drawings in this book are amazing! I have to say, this is one of the best horse books there is!

good book.......1999-08-22

i have a tenn. walker horse and i think this book describes the breed perfectly and the way the book is written makes you feel like you were really there you should read this book you will be glad you did i was

Very good book.......1998-04-18

It is 1912 in a small town in Tennessee. Ten year old Lucy loves her family's horse, Clipper. So she is dismayed when her father decides to get a car and sell Clipper. Can Lucy come up with a plan to keep her horse?

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Best Book of Horse Stories

Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HYTLZE

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Best Book of Horse Stories
Pauline Rush Evans
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ODMFV0

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Best Book of Horse Stories
P. R. Evans
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0385005768

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Best Horse Stories

Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Best Horse Stories
Juliet Smith
Manufacturer: Faber And Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PDGE2K

Best in Children's Books #26, Stories Incl: The Wild Swans, A Horse for a Prince

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Best in Children's Books #26, Stories Incl: The Wild Swans, A Horse for a Prince
Different Authors
Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2OSUW

Best in Children's Books: The Story of Early America, the Very Little Girl, the Elephant's Child, Poems of the City, the Shoemaker and the Elves, a Child's World in a B C, Your Breakfast Egg, Life in the Arctic, the Saddler's Horse, et. al.

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Best in Children's Books: The Story of Early America, the Very Little Girl, the Elephant's Child, Poems of the City, the Shoemaker and the Elves, a Child's World in a B C, Your Breakfast Egg, Life in the Arctic, the Saddler's Horse, et. al.

Manufacturer: nelson doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E3FP2G

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This Collector's Value Guide to the popular NASCAR driver includes full-color photos and values for the Wonder Boy's die-cast collectibles, secondary market prices for his trading cards, career highlights and a detailed biography. It also includes features on other Jeff Gordon collectibles. Don't forget to check out our other great titles such as: NASCAR, Hot Wheels, Dale Earnhardt and more!

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Do you know how to calculate how much paint you'll need for your dining room? Do you know when you should use paint pads instead of paintbrushes? Do you know what pattern you're supposed to follow when you use a roller to paint a ceiling? These and other basic steps are answered in How to Paint: A Complete Guide to Painting Your Home. You will also learn the effects of your color choices. A long, narrow room, for example, can be made to appear wider by painting the short walls a darker color than the long walls. Appetites stir and conversation comes alive in a red dining room. Such knowledge is extremely helpful when it comes time to paint a nursery and you've decided whether your intention is to stimulate your child or create a quiet, restful place. How to Paint also introduces the proper tools for the job and explains when to use short-, medium- and long-nap rollers. (Respectively--when applying glossy paints to smooth surfaces, when you want to give flat surfaces a light texture, and when you want to paint a surface that is already textured, such as stucco.) The main gripe about this book is the constant attempt at self-promotion. Must every gallon of paint and every brush pictured have the stamp of House Beautiful, the magazine that put out this book? Thankfully, there's no effort to recommend brand names in their section on picking materials, but it nonetheless makes you wonder about their objectivity. At times, the book is also a tad bit too simplistic. It tells you, for example, that you don't have to paint every room in your house the same color. It seems safe to assume that anyone who would bother to read a book on painting already knows that much. Still, How to Paint makes good use of color photos and most of the observations are more reasonable than simplistic, making this a worthwhile book for the beginning painter. --John Russell

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- Offers instructions for painting the interior and exterior of a home. - Explains how to choose the right tools. - Includes tips for storing and disposing of paint and paint products.

How to Paint: a Complete Guide to Painting Your Home

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How to Paint: a Complete Guide to Painting Your Home
Creative Publishing
Manufacturer: Creative
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Binding: Paperback
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While it may be possible to be too rich or too thin, you can certainly never have too much storage. Good storage is both an art and a science: it is about making your space work ? about the house as a living machine, customized to answer the specific needs of our individual lives. Efficient storage is as desirable in a country house as in an urban studio, but it is key in all homes where space is at a premium. In today's home good storage is vital, and a general increase in possessions means that it is more important than ever. Whether in a family home or small apartment, cupboards to conceal and shelves to display your treasured items can be designed to match your personal style. Throughout the book, easy projects and unusual space-saving ideas offer imaginative solutions to common storage needs within every room of the home, from how to keep the kitchen clutter-free to using vertical space in the hall.

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Recipes and Ideas: Storage
Kasha Harmer Hirst
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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ASIN: 0811830705

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When it's time to put things in their rightful places, Recipes and Ideas: Storage shows you how. Who doesn't want to transform those chaotic areas in the house into sleek, orderly spaces? Whether it's a jumbled home office, a cluttered kitchen, or a living room in disarray, this practical volume cuts right to the chase, providing dozens of stylish storage systems that will organize a messy space, and help keep it organized. Chapters devoted to each room in the house offer inspirational design ideas, hard-working storage solutions, and step-by-step recipes that provide extra space in a jiffy. The Practicalities section in back provides all the necessary information on materials, how-to techniques, and suppliers. Whether you live in a cozy apartment, an open loft, or a spacious home, Recipes and Ideas: Storage will help you achieve the order and efficiency that will make your home the restful place you always dreamed of.

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Words from a Traditional Sun Dance Chief

Detailed View of Sun Dance Religion

This is the real thing!

Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography
Michael Oren Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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ASIN: 0806126027

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Words from a Traditional Sun Dance Chief.......2006-07-09

Thomas Yellowtail was Shoshone/Crow Sun Dance chief for many years. Here, he discusses his life and the Sun Dance path he walked. You will find his admonition to those who are self-proclaimed Sun Dance chiefs as well as his vision about the difference between the Sun Dance way and the Peyote/Native American Church way. Yellowtail was a strict traditionalist--you will find no woo-woo fluff here. He was a well-respected man amongst his people.

Detailed View of Sun Dance Religion.......2005-07-28

Part One of the book is an account of Thomas Yellowtail's life and it has some interesting factual information. Yet the section on spiritual miracles in the "Indian Medicine" chapter was unconvincing to me.

Part Two of this book is a precisely detailed account of the correct ways to perform ceremonies and rituals in the Sun Dance religion. These include the Sun Dance, Vision Quest, Sweat Lodge, monthly prayer meetings and daily prayers with a sacred pipe.

Natural worship is present in the Sun Dance religion, but beyond that I didn't find spiritual insights that applied to me on a personal level.

What impressed me the most was the dogmatic fortitude of preserving these traditions against the difficulties of reservation life. If it wasn't for traditionally minded individuals like Thomas Yellowtail and John Trehero then many tribes would have lost cultural traditions that have been handed down for centuries. Their efforts to bridge the past and the future are a living gift.

This is the real thing!.......2004-02-04

I have read quite a few books on Earth-honoring indigenous spiritual traditions all over the world. Particularly in New Age circles, there is quite a bit of cotton-candy fluff written for mass consumption to make money for the writer. Then there are the dry, dusty, detached tomes such those by Mircea Eliade written by academics for academics, both the writer and audience usually being white non-practitioners of these traditions.

This book fits neither category, and points out the huge dearth of factual, authentic, detailed information about Native American traditions, from the viewpoints of the practitioners themselves in their own words. It is the biography of a traditional Native American healer and leader of their sundance religion. Yellowtail shares a lot of information about the purpose and preparation of the sundance and other major and minor practices that I had not come across before. It really helps the reader understand that daily prayer and practices form a huge part of traditional Native American spiritual life, much more so than suggested by the myriad works of nonpractitioners.

At times, the description of life before being forced onto reservations seems too good to be true. But nostalgia being an apparently universal human quality, the perhaps overglorification of a lifestyle Yellowtail never lived (he was born on a reservation) can be easily overlooked. The focus of the book is largely the actual experiences of Yellowtail, and they are quite illuminating. It is the spiritual counterpoint to "Cheyenne Memories" by John Stands in Timber.

Almost more importantly, the book describes how the Crow tribe recovered some of it's spiritual practices such as the details of having a sundance ceremony, from the medicine man of the Shoshone tribe, John Trehero. Due to repressive US government policies, some tribes lost the lineage of successive teaching of their spiritual traditions. The all-important one-on-one instruction from teacher to student was lost within those tribes.

The description of a sundance reintroduced and growing to the point where a larger than usual lodge had to be built to accommodate all the dancers, is a wonderful accomplishment. It leaves the reader with a sense of hope that these vitally important traditions, and the understanding they generate of the importance of working and praying together to accomplish the good of the tribe, and therefore the rest of the world, will continue to grow and flourish with succeeding generations.

The western industrialized nations are using (abusing) natural resources at a rate far exceeding the capacity of nature to replenish them, all in the name of greed. And the root cause of this is believing the Earth, and all of the growing things on it to be inanimate objects, things, rather than the living, sentient beings that they are. As long as the belief system of those in power and the millions who put them there sees the natural resources of the Earth as things rather than beings, life for all of us is imperiled. But if the sundance religion and other Earth-honoring religions continue to grow and thrive, there is yet hope left.

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