Kiss of the Bees: A Novel of Suspense

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Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into their world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. Now much has changed. The family has grown larger. There's Lani, the beloved adopted daughter—a beautiful Native American teenager "kissed by the bees" and destined, according to Tohono 0'othham lore, to become a woman of great spiritual power. And now that the psychopath Carlisle has died in prison, Brandon and Diana Walker believe that their long nightmare is finally over.

They are wrong.

The monster is dead, but his malevolence lives on . . . in another.

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"Special Feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains: ""A Statement by J.A. Jance"" an essay by J.A. Jance about the origins of KISS OF THE BEES. Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into their world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. Now much has changed. The family has grown larger. There's Lani, the beloved adopted daughter--a beautiful Native American teenager ""kissed by the bees"" and destined, according to Tohono 0'othham lore, to become a woman of great spiritual power. And now that the psychopath Carlisle has died in prison, Brandon and Diana Walker believe that their long nightmare is finally over. They are wrong. The monster is dead, but his malevolence lives on ... in another."

Customer Reviews:

Buzzing With Suspense.......2006-11-09

As my first time reading a J.A. Jance book, this one given to me by a friend, I thoroughly enjoyed this title and author's work.

Flawlessly written, Ms. Jance also seems to be psychology major in her knowledge of human nature. The portal is used well in her character development and the realistic story plot.

The two shocking villains in the "Kiss of The Bees" story, especially Andrew Carlisle, reminded me of Hannibel Lector in "Silence of The Lambs" for their evil made more potent by such premeditated intelligence.

This attention-grabbing book practically demands to be read in one sitting.

A Long and Winding Road.......2005-08-19

JA Jance attempts to steep us deeper in her beloved Southwest, this time including some Tohono O'otham culture. She plays fast and loose with the timeline to give us bits and pieces of the lives of the characters until we reach the climax. But, instead of being intriguing, this is confusing. All the characters know details we don't until by the time we've already figured them out, they're tardily revealed.

Diana Ladd Walker and Brandon Walker have a very modern family. Both divorced with children of previous marriages, one adopted daughter, and one tossed-in stepson, plus assorted close friends, make this group diverse. Brandon has two sons, Quentin and Tommy, though Tommy is missing and presumed dead. Brandon's ex-wife remarried and had another child, Brian Fellows, who spent time with the Walkers while growing up. Diana's son from her first or second marriage is Davy Ladd. Then Diana and Brandon adopted a Tohono O'otham girl, Lani. Lani and Davy were both raised by an old Indian woman, Rita Antone. Rita and the tribal medicine man, Fat Crack, or Gabe Ortiz, had been close to Looks At Nothing, a blind medicine man, now dead.

Every chapter begins with a piece of an Indian legend, poorly told. The legend ties in at the end, but I hadn't really been paying attention. But, it's supposed to tie in Indian medicine with the events in the story.

Twenty years back, Diana Walker was attacked and raped by Andrew Carlisle. He would have killed her, but she flung a pan of hot bacon grease in his face and her dog attacked. Andrew Carlisle, now blind, went to prison. He was joined a few years later by Mitch Johnson, a trigger-happy immigrant hater who gets sent up by then-Sheriff Brandon Walker. Andrew and Mitch form an unholy alliance of hate against the Walkers. Andrew dies in prison, but he and Mitch formulated a plan for Mitch to carry out on his release. The two also met Quentin Walker, Brandon's eldest, loser son, in prison, and use him as a pawn.
Mitch kidnaps Lani and prepares to put her through an Andrew Carlisle-type murder on tape and blame Quentin, thereby utterly destroying Brandon and Diana Walker. Davy arrives from Chicago just in time to help Lani. Fat Crack uses divining crystals and goes to the scene, leading the others there. In the end, Lani uses her Indian teachings to defeat the enemy.

The climax was gripping, but there was a long, slow, roundabout route to get there. There were too many characters and the back story was too sparsely delivered, making me feel I should have read the prequel first. Though it wasn't bad, it could have been better.

Mean Characters, Little Empathy.......2003-10-23

Jance is a strong storyteller, but I didn't enjoy this novel because too many of the characters are mean-spirited. I didn't like spending time with them and didn't want to read about them. Yes, they had reasons to obsess over revenge, but since I never felt they were justified, I didn't feel sorry for them. Jance builds suspense, however, and vividly depicts the Tucson setting.

This stand alone is a departure for Jance, but I'm not convinced she's stretching herself in believable ways. For example, she has a jailed inmate talking about "rewriting a scenario." Maybe this has happened, but it doesn't ring true. She's also quite didactic here. She wants to teach her readers about Native Americans, but this book about violent revenge is the wrong venue to do so.

good story spoiled by too many flashbacks.......2003-05-23

J. A. Jance pays homage to Native American culture in this thriller set in the Arizona desert. Each chapter starts with an excerpt from Indian folklore, which ties together the character development and the story. I found the excessive number of flashbacks easy to follow, but annoying. This book is not up to the standard of the Joanna Brady series.

still no calls from Harvey Weinstein?.......2002-09-19

I wonder if Jance wrote this just to get a movie credit based on her novel. One cannot help but be suspicious of writers who shift gears in their careers and write in a Tom Clancy or John D. Macdonald style just because that's what film-going audiences like. I do not think this is a bad thing, but I, like some of the reviewers here, are so fed up with cliché plots that just borrow from i.e., Macdonald's "Cape Fear," or use that tired Native American romanticism that certainly sells the box office tickets through the roof. As for her writing style, she really should stay away from those scenes where character developments have not fully grown. What we're left with are people who are one dimensional like both the Walker parents, Davy, his fiancee, and to some extent, Lani, who just never convinced me that she had the fire of the budding Medicine Woman. Her male voice is very forced machismo that is typical of female writers who are testosterone-challenged. The men in this novel just weren't credible when they spoke. I kept seeing Jance speaking for them. So we're left with a high-concept piece that is still waiting for Hollywood to call and possibly star Penelope Cruz as Lani Walker. What's the Tohono O'otham word for "2 thumbs down?"

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Fabulous second book in second dread empire trilogy

Back into action, but left hanging
An Ill Fate Marshalling
Glen Cook
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0812533798

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Fabulous second book in second dread empire trilogy.......2006-08-04

This book is yet another gritty, well-written addition to the never completed second trilogy of the dark empire series. Counting the prequels, this is the 7th book published. It occurs almost entirely in temporal intersection with Reap the East Wind until the last 50 pages or so, but deals with many events which were only alluded to in the previous book and also regurgitates a number of events from East Wind from the viewpoints of other characters.

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i think the most powerful impact of the story is the incremental fall of bragi ragnarson from within. You can see his effort to avoid dealing directly with the threat from greyfells from within, and the path this puts him on.

The sequel to this novel, The Wrath of Kings, was completed in the late 80's but was stolen, along with Cook's documentary materials for dread empire, from his house and has never been recovered, so the unresolved conclusion to the story (the book ends with a few very large loose ends) may unfortunately be permanent. I wonder if Haroun (who vanished after killing 'O Shing and Friends' in Shinsan in All Darkness Met, edit - I realize haroun was apparently killed in All darkness Met 06/2007) would have played a role in the obvious set-up at the end of this novel.

This might be the first time cook did a novel which in great part regurgitated events in a prior novel from different viewpoints, but in this case it works well.

Aside - the construction of the game Ragnarson gambles his kingdom's treasury on is somewhat reminiscent of one of Cook's stated major influences, Jack Vance, who among other things excels at creating whole societies, customs, and even games out of whole fabric. One good example which reminds me of this sequence can be found in The Face, but there are many in Vance's writings.

Back into action, but left hanging.......1997-10-20

This is a follow-up to Reap the East Wind. This book is where the Dread Empire story truly begins again. Many references to the earlier books will probably be frustrating this time for those who have not read the Dread Empire trilogy. The characters have grown from their trials, but this doesn't stop them from getting into new trouble. The battles are smaller and more personal, but no less serious for those involved. While each earlier volume is self contained, AIFM ends with a cliff-hanger that has never been resolved. The next volume has been written, but never published. Perhaps the success of Cook's recent books will lead to this series being reprinted and continued. These books deserve a wider audience!

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The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.

• A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher.

• This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings.

Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya's son T. K. V. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value.

In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level--physical, mental, and spiritual." This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga--poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy--and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle.

This is a revised edition of The Heart of Yoga.

Customer Reviews:

T.K.V. Desikachar writes a powerful book.......2007-08-12

This book is powerful and moving. It is interesting to see the modern history of yoga described in this book. I don't know how helpful it was to me in creating my own practice, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

My Favorite Yoga Book.......2007-07-24

I have over 60-70 books on yoga, as I'm a yoga teacher. And I will say that this book is in my top two, if not number one. It covers everything from asana, to sutras, philosophy, and more. A true must-have for anyone serious about yoga.

a yoga teacher must have.......2007-07-03

This book is full of valuable info for teachers and serious yoga students. This is a must read. Includes Pantanjali's yoga sutras that are 1. in english 2. easy to understand translations.
I really enjoyed reading about the life of Krisnamacharya and his philosophies on life and yoga. This book is an easy read, I highly recomend it.
Jennifer

Very interesting.......2007-07-01

It is a very good book that I recommend to any yoga teacher or student!

Heart is where you start.......2007-05-12

Book is good for understanding yoga and why it is practiced and an ongoing learning process.

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Great, very in depth book

Utterly Scrumptious

Meticulously crafted

For serious ice-cream lovers.

Hey, this is America

Frozen Desserts: The definitive guide to making ice creams, ices, sorbets, gelati, and other frozen delights
Caroline Liddell , and Robin Weir
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Williams-Sonoma Collection: Ice Cream (Williams-Sonoma Collection (New York, N.Y.).)

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Moderately priced machines for making ice cream have made the pleasure of homemade frozen desserts accessible to everyone. Once you've used one of these gizmos, Frozen Desserts by Caroline Liddell and Robin Weir may be your next step. Giddy as a dish of super-premium ice cream can make you feel, Liddell and Weir take their subject seriously. Their book opens with a comprehensive and fascinating history, starting with the first recorded appearances of frozen desserts during the Tang Dynasty in China. The sections on ingredients and equipment are thorough. Among the more than 200 recipes, you will find nine for vanilla ice cream, a truly drop-dead chocolate ice cream, and Rocky Road. There are also a host of less orthodox offerings, including Bellini Sorbet, Gin and Tonic Sherbet, and Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Peanut Brittle.

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The most thorough, comprehensive, and authoritive book on making ice cream, sorbets, gelati, parfaits, and granitas, served with a generous and delightfully entertaining history of frozen desserts.Combine one part nostalgia, a dash of history, a level teaspoon of advice on equipment, ingredients, terms, and techniques, plus a generous helping of more than 200 recipes, and you have the makings of this loving, dazzling tribute to frozen desserts.Caroline Liddell and Robin Weir have spent eight years in passionate pursuit of everything ice cream. After tracing its evolution across every continent, poring through stacks of background literature, and studing its chemistry, they colelcted, developed, and meticulously perfected dozens of recipes using nine ice-cream makers, then made sure each recipe could also be created in the kitchen without an ice-cream maker.Their excellent and totally reliable reciples range from the familiar to the exotic, and represent the best French, Italian, Asian, Middle Eastern, and American interpretations of the dessert no one can get enough of. The majority of recipe are original, but classic favorites are included too, for those who like their chocolate and vanilla pure, simple and creamy cold. With such frozen adventures as Green Tea Ice Cream, Tequila Granita, Basil Flavored Lemon Sorbet, and Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream to choose from, you'll find the perfect grace note for every occasion as well as the classic "sides"--such as oven-baked wafer cones, crisp almond cookies, and decadent butterscotch and chocolate fudge sauces--that are indispensable for proper ice cream enjoyment.

Customer Reviews:

Great, very in depth book.......2007-06-12

If anything, this book provides too much information and the recipes are a little complicated (probably due to the columns of numbers making it international). The layout also wasn't thought out as well as it should have been... example, my favorite recipe for ginger ice cream references the sugar syrup recipe on another page which then references a chart to get the amount of sugar syrup you need on yet another page (if you don't want to do the math yourself). The book requires patience and isn't for the recreational ice cream maker who wants a recipe for strawberry ice cream.

However, that said the recipes are fabulous and truly gourmet. I get rave reviews whenever I make the ginger ice cream and it is my most requested recipe I make. There are so many recipes and techniques to try, I will never want for another frozen desserts cookbook. This is the definitive guide for those cooks with patience and devotion to technique.

Utterly Scrumptious.......2007-05-20

The reason I bought this book was because of a section at the end of the book: The Chemistry of Ices. It gives the proper ratio of ingredients to successfully create your own recipes. Using these measurement, I have been able to invent my own ice creams (with spectacular results, I might add).

It upsets me that this book has gotten such bad reviews, because every recipe I have tried from it has been absolutely delicious. While some of the ingredients may be difficult to find in the U.S., the book has over 200 recipes so there's plenty of recipes with easily accessible ingredients to choose from. The espresso ice cream and the ultimate chocolate ice cream were like samples of heaven in my mouth.

It's an amazing book, and everyone who has sampled the results of these recipes has raved about them, so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE if you're considering buying this book disregard those (rather close-minded) negative reviews and buy it. You won't be disappointed.

Meticulously crafted.......2007-04-01

If the presentation of the book were somehow "thicker and glossier," I would like it better. I dislike many of the figures in the book, particularly those portraying old advertisements. Those tastes aside, I think many of the reviews on Amazon give the book too little credit. This book is researched in meticulous detail, from the history of ice cream through the details of production of all the recipes. The guide to ingredients is helpful in ways I have not found elsewhere. It is clear that the authors have themselves produced every recipe in the book, and they've left clear enough instructions that I can, too. (I'm not a very good cook.)

It is true that several recipes include ingredients that would be hard to find in rural America. Some reviewers think that is a negative. Actually, it isn't negative. There are plenty of recipes you can make with ingredients you can get easily. As a bonus, if you ever do get your hands on exotic ingredients, you'll already know what to do with them. Proper guidance is included for European and North American measures.

In a world that has too many half-researched cook books, I think it is important to give proper credit to authors who take the trouble to craft their book with great care. These authors have.

For serious ice-cream lovers........2006-11-20

Not everybody likes really fine gourmet icecream, but if you do this book is perfect. I've eaten gelato all over the world, and the pistachio recipe from this book, while complicated, is among the best I've eaten - as good as anything I had in Florence, the home of gelato. If you're looking for easy, no fuss - this is not for you. It is written for the UK audience and takes no shortcuts - there are plenty of other ice cream books if you want easy.

Hey, this is America.......2006-09-08

If I had the option, I would give this book only a 1/2 star. I agree wholeheartedly with other reviewers: this book is written, organized and intended for a British/European audience. This would be fine, except that it was never made clear in the descriptions of the book. There are many recipes that are interesting, but as a chef, I can look at them and know that they will not work. Ingredients for many of the recipes are obscure, to say the least, probably only available outside the US. It's a curious and quaint book, but of absolutely no use to me personally or professionally. I WISH I'D READ ALL OF THE CUSTOMER REVIEWS AND READ THEM CAREFULLY, but mostly, I wish I'd bought the Williams-Sonoma book.

Frozen desserts : the definitive guide to making ice creams, ices, sorbets, gelati, and other frozen delights

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Frozen desserts : the definitive guide to making ice creams, ices, sorbets, gelati, and other frozen delights
Caroline. Liddell
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTHVMC

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General dog info but that's about it

Reviews can be misleading

Quite a disappointment.

Don't Waste Your Money or Time

Who Moved My Bone: A Guide for Multi--Dog Households
Theresa Mancuso
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Book Description

Dog training and care take on a whole new dimension when there's more than one dog in the household. Owners find themselves surrendering the bed (because it's easier than hearing the dogs whine), skipping vacations (because it's harder to find a sitter for more than one dog), and skipping social events (to get home to their pooches).

Who Moved My Bone? is a lifeline for those who have more than one dog—and the perfect preparation for those who are considering adding another dog to their families. As this reassuring book shows, it is possible to have more than one dog, keep all of them happy, and still have a life.

This wise and affectionate guide answers such crucial canine conundrums as how to:

· Establish good street manners for dogs that walk together
· Prevent feeding time from being a frenzy
· Play games that do not cause jealousy
· Travel with dogs—and know when to leave them at home
· Help a dog cope with the loss of a packmate

Pack living is truly a dog's natural habitat. Written with tenderness and authority by a longtime multiple dog owner, Who Moved My Bone? provides every bit of information the leader of the pack needs in order to realize the special benefits of sharing a life with more than one dog.

Customer Reviews:

General dog info but that's about it.......2005-09-24

This book caught my eye for two reasons. One - I have three dogs and am considering another. And two - as an avid reader of business management books, I thought it was a cute play on the book "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard.

All-in-all, Mancuso does a decent job of explaining the basics of how to introduce a new dog to your existing canine family, although the bulk of the book is simply about general dog info (i.e. first aid, medical care, feeding). It is definitetly a better resource for someone who has decided to add a second dog to a one-dog household. As we are now four dog household, the book didn't have a lot to offer that I didn't already know. However, the book is not a total loss to the already experienced dog owner. It includes a very comprehensive chapter on canine emergencies (anything you could possibly imagine) as well as a very detailed chapter on making the decision to put an elderly or ill dog to sleep. Not scenarios that you want to think about, but experiences that we may all have to face.

Mancuso does spend a little too much time boasting about her own dogs and after a few chapters it becomes a bit hard to take.

So, if you're looking for a book on general canine care with a snazzy title and nice cover art, this is the book for you!

Reviews can be misleading.......2005-08-03

I purchased Theresa Mancuso's book when my 4 dog family was moving on to 5 dogs (we now have SIX!!). Our last dog to be added was a German Shep dog with onging health problems. I found Ms. Mancuso's book to be a delightful read, something that rests easy for a few pages or chapters right before bedtime. It also helped me integrate my doggie family more tightly than before.
Unlike the other reviewers, I felt that every chapter had something really good to offer. Even if you already knew it, hearing it from a different perspective helped me to adjust the relationships in my pack. Yes, Ms. Mancuso brings her experiences gleaned from interactions with her own dogs, BUT that's what make the book real. It's not just theory or lesson plans. I can relate to what she speaks about. For example, my favorite chapter is "Talk to the Dogs, and They Will Tell You." And it covers a sense of spirituality of "dogdom" and how we as humans, fit into their realm.
If you're looking for a totally "practical" and hands-on training book, you might find this book a little "light." However, if you've lived with dogs and sensed their ways with things from a more spirtual aspect, you will find this book most enjoyable, and right on target. I can't tell you how many times I have gone back to the book to see the "big picture". That's pack life!

Quite a disappointment........2005-07-24

This book was a disappointment. The cover picture is great, but inside, it's what most owners of one dog already know. It doesn't get into the real dynamics of having multiple dogs, but tells the owner, they will have to train two and have more vet bills. Most people would already have figured this out. I recommend "Feeling Outnumbered" by Patricia McConnell if you want more information about multiple dogs.

Don't Waste Your Money or Time.......2005-07-20

This book offers a clever title . . . and little else.

This book contains very little practical advice about multi-dog households. The majority of the book is general dog info (i.e. first aid, medical care, feeding). Beyond that, the author spends far too much time gushing over her own pack of German Shepherds. For me, this was irrelevant and not applicable at all to my own situation.

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Antique silver objects made for specific uses often reside in curio cabinets but are little understood today. In the late 19th century, many unusual novelties were created for various purposes. In this new book, two experts of silver explain why and how they were used. Here are calling card receivers, cane handles, tussie mussies, perfumers, dresser sets, curling tongs, glove stretchers, ring trees, lorgnettes, skirt lifters...flasks, cigar cutters, mustache combs, watch stands...bodkins, sewing birds, hem gauges, needle cases, pin holders, spool knaves, thimbles...memo books, page turners, stamp boxes, bookmarks, paperweights, pen wipers, pounce pots...baby rattles, tongue cleaners, ear picks, medicine spoons...egg cups, muffineers, casters, and more. Now you can identify your curios and gain understanding of their uses.

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Great for making quick Christmas gifts

Beaded Needlecases - A Book of Instruction and Design
Jennie Might
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Binding: Paperback

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A wonderful project book for peyote stitched needle cases and amulet bags. This book contains twenty beautiful enlarged "true to life" color patterns. Photographs of models of many of the patterns add to the attraction of this book. Included with each pattern is a list of suggested Miyuki Delica bead colors to use, as well as the Delica beads used to create the models in the photographs. A beaded needle case makes a great travel project because of its smaller size.

This wonderful book is a must for all bead-weavers. Sized for needle cases, the patterns can be used to make amulet bags as well. The book opens with complete instructions and diagrams for even-count tubular peyote stitch, as well as instructions and diagrams for flat-round peyote stitch used to make end caps for a needle case. Measurements are given in standard and metric. The instructions are clear enough for a beginner, and most of the book is filled with patterns for those stitchers who don't need the instructions.

Each pattern contains a list of suggested Miyuki Delica and beads to match the colors of the pattern, but feel free to make your own selections. Titles of the patterns show you the variety of designs.

The size of these projects is for today's busy life. Smaller than amulet bags, needlecase projects can be finished quickly. Their smaller size also lends them to being great travel projects, easy to pack up and take with you at a moment's notice.

Photographs of models of many of the patterns adorn the book's covers. Suzanne Cooper, well known to beaders, has lent her name to this book by writing the forward. Inside, each pattern page also has a tip to enhance your beading experience. At the back of the book is a blank graph which you can photocopy and use to begincreating your own designs. Also included at the end are a bibliography and Internet beading references for those looking to expand their beading repertoire.

Customer Reviews:

Great for making quick Christmas gifts.......1999-04-18

Beaded Needlecases saved my rear at Christmas. I had no money, lots of beads, but no time to bead the kind of complex designs I like to do myself, so I whipped out this book, chose one Celtic knot pattern for one friend, the other Celtic knot pattern for another friend, a flower pattern for a third and began finishing off my Christmas list. Most of the needlecases took only a couple of evenings in front of the TV to bead and finish. I found the directions clear and easy to follow, and the hints very helpful. The patterns are clever and large enough to see for someone like me who has to bead with her glasses off. Review by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, author of Beadtime Stories

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Evelyn Fairbanks grew up in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s along Rondo Avenue--the heart of St. Paul's largest black neighborhood. Her book tells the warm and human stories she recalls from those years in the then-vibrant community that was doomed to disappear with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s. "It is important for me to tell these stories, because I want others to know some of the people, events, and places that made up my neighborhood."--Evelyn Fairbanks

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The Mormon Intrigue
Rondo A. Murphy
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The Days of Rondo (Minnesota)
Evelyn Fairbanks
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A school/community relations plan for Rondo all-day kindergarten

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