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- Still A Classic
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- Endlessly Re-readable
- The FIRST Classic Lesbian Love Story with a Happy Ending!!
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Curious Wine: A Novel
Katherine V. Forrest
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"The ultimate lesbian love novel."-The Lesbian News
"A masterpiece of lesbian love."-The Sacramento Star
The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible setting that brings Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery. Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, and remarkably beautiful, Curious Wine is a love story that will remain in your memory.
Katherine Forrest is the author of 12 books, including the groundbreaking science-fiction novel Daughters of a Coral Dawn and the enduringly popular Kate Delafield Mysteries. She lives in San Francisco.
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Still A Classic.......2006-11-03
I loaned my copy of "Curious Wine" out years ago, and since I can't remember to who, I decided to pick up a new copy. I read it again and loved it just as much as I ever did. I have heard complaints that the story is far-fetched, but for some reason, as you read it IS believable. Besides, I don't read novels to steep myself in reality. This is a great page-turner and a light, even beautiful, story. A must-have for any lesbian's book collection.
Curious????.......2006-07-31
I loved this book and have read it many times over the years. It is pretty fast paced, but what the heck at least there was no U-Haul involved.
This novel made my heart swell with joy and love.
I offer this novel as a first lesbian must read. Yes, in today's world it wouldn't fly, but it is fiction and it was written quite awhile ago.
Enjoy!
Endlessly Re-readable.......2006-06-15
Curious Wine was part of the beginning of my lesbian book collection (having come out in the mid-80's). It's still one of my favorite lesbian romances after all these years. I am not one to re-read books much, but I do have a short list of select lesbian novels that I tend to re-read every 1-2 years as sort of my "lezzie break" from reading everything else that I do, the majority of which is written by and about straight people. Curious Wine is right smack at the top of that list. (Along with one of Forrest's other novels, Emergence of Green.)
As another reviewer mentioned, this is lesbian fantasy romance. It's not terribly believable that two women meet, fall in love, and decide to devote their lives to each other in the space of three or four days. Normally that sort of thing irritates me in a book. But in this case, it doesn't matter! The characters are so wonderfully drawn, their connection so profound, and the setting so beautifully detailed, that it all works wonderfully in this singular book.
Curious Wine is historically important in lesbian fiction because of the time period in which the story takes place, and the time period in which it was published. Lesbian fiction was just starting to get a significant foothold back then with the help of publishers like Naiad Press. So even if you're not a romance fan, it's worth reading at least once just for that.
For romance fans, Curious Wine will likely take an honored place on your bookshelf, to be taken down and read time after time. No lesbian home is complete without it.
The FIRST Classic Lesbian Love Story with a Happy Ending!!.......2006-03-29
When I was questioning my sexuality (about being a lesbian) in the late 1980's, I was hungry for a book that would give me a positive outlook on being a lesbian. Unfortunately I didn't find or read any sexy, enlightening, and romantic lesbian novels until I stumbled upon 'Curious Wine' by Katherine Forrest. I read this book in a couple of hours and proceeded to read it at least another 50 times (this is no exaggeration.) I love this book so much, I own 4 copies. Also, in 2006 I travelled to Australia and New Zealand with a copy of this book in my luggage (I am NOT kidding!)
IN a nutshell, this book is about a groups of women (mostly acquaintances or strangers) who meet up in cabin in Lake Tahoe for a vacation. Lane Christianson, a lawyer, and Diana, a personnel manager, immediately strike up a friendship which soon develops into something more. Please be warned, this book is a bit dated (the time frame takes place in the late 1970's) but this is still one of my all time favorite books EVER! And at least to me, this book has it all - gorgeous women, fabulous and multiple lesbian love scenes, romantic intensity, and most especially A HAPPY ENDING.
Up until Curious Wine came out, lesbians (espeically good looking ones) living happily ever after was a rare thing (in fact I never read a book that had a happy ending until this one.) By the way, the book on tape of this book is also fabulous. The lady who reads it has this delicious English accent and I listened to it so much, I broke the tape!
Buy a copy of this book. You won't be disappointed (unless you hate romance.)
Good Read.......2006-03-10
The story was easy to read and just detailed enough to fall into the book. I picked this book from another book I read, which is also my all time favorite, "Turning the Page". Curious Wine was titillating enough to stay up and extra hour to finish.
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- THe Curious Wine - 1960's NC Homemake Women of Year Must Decide Between Family and Family?
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The curious wine;: A novel
Mena Webb
Manufacturer: Moore Pub. Co
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ASIN: B0006CZ6D8 |
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THe Curious Wine - 1960's NC Homemake Women of Year Must Decide Between Family and Family?.......2005-08-21
Interesting look at the happenings in one women's life in 1960's North Carolina. Sort of an nearly-incentuous Bridges of Madison county. (don't have an affair with your husband's brother!) The 60's in the south was a turbulent place. Main character is pro-integration while most of the other characters are not. This is not a major theme but does occur and the objectionable word is present.
Personally I don't think the brother is ever going to leave his wife for the main character.
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Tarzan and the Lion Man
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Tarzan and the Lion Man
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0450019020 |
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A program for fostering positive relationship-building habits in children to help alleviate and even prevent childhood depression
Raising an Optimistic Child offers you tools for creating a positive, supportive family atmosphere that helps children who are already depressed and can even prevent this crippling disorder. Steps and additional techniques will help you combat your own depression, tackle parental issues, and enhance learning and coping skills. It also alerts you to circumstances that put a child at risk for depression and suggests ways to ward it off.
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A Highly Recommended Book for Children of ALL Ages !.......2006-04-11
Finally, an easy to read book that approaches child rearing with love, compassion and humanity in a straight forward and honest manner. Teaches how to be and not to be with every turn of the page. So informative and inspiring is "Raising An Optiministic Child" with it's easy to read format, with it's ample examples and it's encouraging approach. It's not only a guide book for child rearing but a book which inspires, gives hope and guidance and reminds us of how we all need to treat children and each other as well as how we all would like to be treated regardless of AGE! A must have book in every home library and in everyone's reading and learning repertoire.
Latest and Greatest Wisdom.......2006-03-20
"Raising an Optimistic Child" has captured the latest and greatest of parenting wisdoms, but that's not all. As a child therapist of 3-5 year olds and a daycare provider of toddlers, I am pleased to say that it has affirmed my intuitions and greatly informed my practice, with children and adults alike.
This book has reminded me once again of the paramount importance of our earliest years, and the caretaking relationships that surround them, in predisposing us to mood disorders later in life. It is a thorough compilation of the key ingredients that make for a healthy human, combining the most up-to-date psychological research, together with all-too-undereferenced ancient wisdoms and some refreshing new "ah-hah's."
Dare I say it? I agree wholeheartedly with most, if not all, of the book, including the authors' de-pathologizing of children and their sensitive examination of the sticky subjects of drugs and over-diagnosed ADD/ADHD.
While very easy to read, the excellent guidance may not be so easy to do. At least the best information is nearly all in one place, as is the optimism to "have a go" at it.
I am so glad I read this book. I can't recommend it highly enough - to parents, teachers, childcare providers, therapists, couples, and adults who struggle with depression and/or other psychological challenges or know someone who does. In short, everyone.
Not just for parents.......2006-02-12
I'll bet there'll be a lot of parents of children over the age of six who'll curse the authors for not bringing out this book earlier! I wish I'd read it twenty years ago. Still I'm now set up to be a really good grand-parent.
"Raising an Optimistic Child" is streets ahead of anything else written about raising optimistic children (and I've been reading a lot of child-raising books lately). It's clear, intensely practical and very simple to follow. In truth much of the information in the book is useful for people of any age who want to be more optimistic - even people like me in their 50s!
I never realized, for example, that a daily 20 minute walk in the park was the best cure for ADD/ADHD in children or adults. My husband has adult ADD and we tried this out - amazingly it really works!
The relationship techniques that Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry lay out (and they should know as they have, according to the book, been happily married for nearly a quarter of a century) are practical, simple and again, are really effective. And not just with children!
I'm giving this book to my mom-to-be daughter. It's the best present I could possibly give her - and her baby!
A Sure Fire Blueprint for Optimistic Kids.......2006-02-12
Recently Time Magazine reviewed this book and called it "a fine blueprint for a noble aim: to send out into the world more children equipped to find the beauty all around them." I've just finished reading "Raising an Optimistic child" and I'm determined to change the way I parent my 2 and 5 year olds.
Amazingly this is the only book I can find which is written for parents of kids under six.
The authors - who wrote an earlier best-seller called "Creating Optimism" - eschew the familiar child-centered approach. Rather they take a `relationship-centered' view. What is most important to the emotional well-being of a young child, they say, is the relationships between the adults around him or her, particularly between the parents.
"Raising an Optimistic Child" is solidly how-to. The book has marvelous tips for such issues as work/life balance, dealing with ADD/ADHD, how to select the best child care, how to monitor the sort of media that children are exposed to and how best to work out the problems of blended families or even being a single parent.
At the same time as having a very, very user-friendly style, the authors back up everything they say with really solid research.
I thoroughly recommend this book to all those who are already parents, or who are thinking of becoming parents or are in the position of looking after children.
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More Fluff than Detail.......2003-02-11
Though the pictures and layout are indeed beautiful it is unlikely that anyone but the most skilled and well-equipped person would be able to reproduce the parties shown in the photographs. Most people won't have the supplies necessary for the tablesettings or even the activities, and will not want to spend the money necessary to acquire them. Recipes are not practical or tasty. Suggestions are not detailed enough to truly employ in any kind of meaningful manner. Text is filled with fluff and flowery sweetness and leaves the reader wishing the authors had spent more time with truly detailed instructions for the preparation of a tea party.
A wonderful and creative help!.......2000-01-08
My daughter and I had many fun hours planning and hosting several parties for some other small homeschooled friends. We mixed a few recipes and substituted some games to suit a diverse age group. Our guests were very complimentary and we received many hugs in thanks.
Taking Tea With Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fancif.......2000-01-08
My daughter and I had many fun hours planning and hostingseveral parties for some other small homeschooled friends. We mixed afew recipes and substituted some games to suit a diverse age group. Our guests were very complimentary and we received many hugs in thanks.
One of the best tea party books available!.......1999-08-19
No tea library should be without "Taking Tea with Alice". It is well-conceived and a source of many creative ideas. The photos are wonderful. I particularly liked the children's photos and have found them useful in prompting ideas for other children's tea parties. The table layouts are accurate and beautiful. The ideas presented are within the means of any tea party organizer. This book is a good value and not filled with fluff. An informative, fun book for all ages!
isn't it just precious!.......1999-07-15
According to the inside back flap, one of the authors works for an advertising agency. That makes sense, because this book looks and reads like an ad. It keeps telling you how sweet and darling everything is, until you (or I, anyway) want to be sick. Lots of annoying photos of children. Not enough photos to show you which foods go with which recipes; you have to guess from the larger photos which still don't indicate which of the microscopic things on the table are the foods in which recipes. The quality of the recipes is inconsistent; they seem to use different words for the same ingredients from one recipe to the next, and some ingredients and procedures are given "Victorian" names and never explained. Other recipes consist of "ask your local baker to make this for you, or look in some other cookbook." Not satisfactory. This is definitely a guide for *children's* parties, with suggestions for menus and activities for children. I suppose you could translate the ideas to parties for adults, if you can get past the breathless sentimentality of the prose, which is all about making things oh-so-special for the little ones. Why do I sound so annoyed by all this? I don't have anything against children or their parties. What bothers me is the emptiness of the prose and the cutesiness of the design, combined with the lack of really useful photos, captioning, recipe treatments, and historical background that would have given this book some substance.
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This forward-looking training book provides an accessible, positive reinforcement training method to replace the obedience methods of the past.
Training is essential for dogs to live peacefully and happily among humans. If you're a dog owner who seeks to build trust rather than establish dominance, you'll appreciate this approach to training that emphasizes listening, observing, relaxation, self-help, change, and games. Chapters cover lifestyle management, body language and attitude, socialization, housetraining, nutrition and exercise, grooming for health and self-esteem, creativity and games, and other important lessons.
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Read this book for a Really Great Relationship with your dog.......2002-08-14
Readers all over the world are better off because they can benefit from the Ross's great pet dog training advice.
Pet dog owners in Southern New Hampshire have been benefiting from their classes for years.
Great Reading and Learning.......2002-01-28
This book was very informative, easy to read with associating pictures. I especially liked how chapters 6 through 11 were broken into lesson plans (e.g.) Chapter Six, Lesson Plan:Week #1. Chapter 3, Recognizing Canine Calming Signals was very interesting. Twelve calming signals were introduced by the author in a manner that was easy to understand. I can see how this chapter is essential for training and observing other canines. I highly recommend this book for training your dog. No canine owner should be without it.
Great info for abused dogs........2002-01-21
I was given a 5month old German Shepard that had been abused verbally, and physically, no socializing, no housbreaking nothing.
I purchased this book and started reading every part of it, I was determined to make this dog a good dog. It worked, everyone that knows my dog Ranger cannot believe the progress that was made with him.
This book helps you think the way the dog thinks and is very helpful from that point of view. I would recommend this book for anyone who ownes a dog-----especially a puppy!!!!!!
Thank you Moe & Gary Ross awesome job.
great dog book.......2002-01-08
Everything about this book is positive amd if you love your dog that's the way it should be. How nice to teach our puppy that the world is a great place and learning is fun!
Train Your Dog, Change Your Life.......2002-01-05
I found this book to be extremely helpful and easy to read with "down to earth" information and examples. To reinforce the information, there are also very helpful "homework" assignments that are easy to incorporate into a very hectic schedule. Results were obvious within the first two weeks - my puppy suddenly started listening and responding just the way I wanted him to! THANK YOU!!!
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Collecting British Toby Jugs
Vic Schuler , and
Francis Salmon
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ASIN: 1870703901 |
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Acre-for-acre, flowers are the most profitable-as well as the most beautiful—crop on the farm. In The Flower Farmer expert flower grower Lynn Byczynski provides a complete introduction to raising a cornucopia of cut flowers for home use and for sale to retail customers, florists, and other markets.
The book offers detailed, manageable plans for flower growing on a scale ranging from a backyard border to a half-acre commercial garden. It will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, including:
Home gardeners who want growing tips from professionals, so that they can enjoy an abundance of flowers year-round in fresh and dried bouquets;
Passionate gardeners and small-scale growers who want to raise and sell cut flowers in season for additional income;
Small commercial farmers who want to increase farm revenue or even make a living from selling field-grown, specialty cut flowers.
The Flower Farmer provides a clear, realistic look at both the benefits and the challenges of growing flowers organically for local markets. Chapters include information on:
The best varieties of cut flowers—an A-Z list of more than one hundred recommended annuals and perennials, spotlighting the cultivars that are grown by professional flower farmers
How to cut, store, and preserve flowers for long-lasting beauty
How to dry flowers for crafting or for a dried-flower business
Flower-arranging basics from a designer's perspective
Extending the season with woody shrubs and trees
Marketing options for commercial growers, including sales at farmer's markets, supermarkets, florists, and wholesalers.
Sprinkled throughout are profiles of successful flower farmers—from Vermont to California, Texas to Wisconsin—each of them providing a unique perspective proving that growing flowers can be as profitable as it is satisfying.
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Not the best book on the subject.......2007-04-04
The author spends a great deal of time telling you how to plant, transplant, fertilize, etc. She spends way too much space on basics of horticulture. Surely, anyone interested in selling flowers already knows how to grow them! The Ball RedBook would be a better reference for plant-specific growing advice. This book has extensive information about marketing and field yields, but I would take her advice with a grain of salt. I do not agree with some of her calculations and her other information is so far off the mark that I do not trust her opinions in this regard either.
The best info in this book is from her "case studies". The farmers she interviews give good information about their methods and mistakes, but very few specifics about the most important topic: preservation. Just as top chefs will alter recipes so that no one can duplicate their materpieces exactly, most flower growers are very tight-lipped about their secrets and will write pages and pages without giving specifics. This book is true to form. "Proper contitioning" tips go no farther than adding sugar or asprin, or buying commercial (and expensive!) potions.
My greatest complaint has to do with her guide to cut flowers at the end of the book. Some flowers that keep beautifully (after conditioning) are dismissed as having "no vase life". For example: Poppies and Cleome are dismissed as lasting a day or two, but using certain methods my Cleome lasted 2 WEEKS in the vase and won a blue ribbon at the county fair, and poppies can fetch $5 a stem and last 7-10 days if you do it right. "Flowers for Sale" by Lee Sturdivant has much better conditioning and plant selection information.
Thorough book.......2007-01-19
My daughter picked this book out over every one she could find on this subject, after an extensive library search.
The one book you need to start........2005-08-23
If you are just starting out, looking for a business or just love cut flowers, this book will get you off to the right start. What to plant and how much, for getting started. Highly recommended.
excellent.......2004-02-10
I am in the flower buisness and this book is an excellent resource of quality information. I've read many other books of this type, but this one is by far the best.
The Best.......2002-04-18
This is the best book We've found on the subject. We're starting a "cut flower" business in ME. It's an invaluable resource, and it includes lists of flowers, care, feeding, when to plant etc. etc.
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The Country House : Classic Style for an Elegant Home
Jenny; Wormleighton, Alison (editor) Gibbs
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All in color! "Gibbs explains in detail the evolution of country style in the same way she examined the history of window treatments in Curtains and Draperies: History, Design, Inspiration
. Beginning with the middle ages and continuing up to the 20th century, she delineates the history of the country home, then proceeds room by room to explain how each room was furnished and how its function changed to fit the lifestyle of the inhabitants. Pictured is a formal style of grand country homes in England and the United States, unlike the cozy cottages found in the books reviewed above. Professional interior designers and students will find this an excellent sourcebook."--Library Journal
. "Gibbs has a talent for taking the historical perspective of an interior and showing how it can bloom in the present day."--The Christian Science Monitor
. Trim size: 8 3/4 x 11.
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Quick Solutions for Great Type Combinations
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ASIN: 0891345183 |
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Great resource.......2006-03-02
Good starting point for learning about how to combine font styles in designs. I found this book in an art book buying club and it helped me see what others really could not teach me. I learned more about classic font styles and ways to use them together more powerfully in my designs. Now I recommend this to my students.
Great typeface ideas.......2000-07-28
I found this book in the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. It has lots of print media samples and lists the typefaces used. What to combine with what is always a question on my mind and this book answers that question or at least is a good starting point.
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God Loves Nurse Aides
Shema Hewitt
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