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I picked up this book at the store and just couldn't put it down! In fact, I bought 10 copies to give to all of my best friends. "Just the Two of Us" put my memories into words better than I could have myself. It is easy, fun reading that everyone will appreciate and enjoy. The authors Ms. Small and Mr. Dale really capture the beauty of friendship in this wonderful book.

The smiles and good feelings this gave me in the bookstore at 8:30 at nite after a long day made my evening. You have to have a good friend to love it and then you realize how fortunate you are! It is easy reading and wonderful.

Pam Wilson is every woman. She could be your best friend, next door neighbor, or a former college roommate. In The Unlikely Agent you experience her shock when she discovers her parents murdered and her anguish when she reads that they may have been the victims of a Mafia revenge killing.

As Pam delves deeper into the mystery surrounding her parents' deaths, you realize she is walking into very serious trouble. But she doesn't realize it, and you are helpless to warn her. The ending is a crescendo of action, full of surprises and unique twists. In the best style of classic mystery writers, you realize Walker has left numerous clues for you. There is a feeling of satisfaction when you, along with Pam, pull the jigsaw puzzle together.

Walker's style is clean and quick, without needless detail and description. You visualize a motel room even though you don't know the color of the carpet or couch, or the wall paper pattern. But does that really matter? The Unlikely Agent is a cozy novel. It's a perfect companion for a trip, a vacation, or a day at the beach. Violence, sex, and profanity are suggested, but never seen directly. It's fun. The creeps and jerks are creeps and jerks. The villains are pure evil. And Pam . . . well . . . she is your best friend.

The Unlikely Agent is a great read! This book makes you want to be Pam Wilsons best friend. It is complex enough to hold your interest without making your eyes glaze over.

A perfect book to spend a relaxing afternoon with. I can't wait to read the next Pam Wilson mystery.

I picked up this book in a used book store because I had heard of one of the "murderesses", a woman called Constance Kent, from a film "Dead of Night." That's why I started the book...

Little did I know that the book would be one of the most amazing things I've ever read! Highly detailed, immensely educational, and fascinating to read. Ms Hartman must've used a time machine to travel back to this period of history... I felt like I was there. I felt like I got to know not only the women the book profiles, but also the clothes, the homes, the legal system, the newspapers, everything! Ms Hartman made things that happened long ago seem very current and pertinent to today.

To meet these women, some of them horrible, some of them just striving to get by in a very difficult world, was life changing for me. I honestly don't think I've ever read a book that affected me so.

Read this book. Read this book! Women will marvel at how far we've come. Men will find it interesting, too, to see how different and difficult life was for both sexes 'back then.'

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Many thanks, Ms Hartman, for your hard work and dedication.

I bought this book years ago and still reread it. Ms. Hartman has not only told the fascinating stories of these ladies. She has given us a glimpse into the Victorian world in England and France. Her research into women's roles is amazing. There are details of marriage, daily life, and how women coped with their restrictions. If the Victorian way of life interests you, this will be a book you will enjoy over and over.

Dr. Sommers served her internship in a women's prison. She applies acute observation with a feminist attitude to develop insight into the etiology of women's "crinimality," and casts new light on the very word: "criminal."

Dr. Sommers served her internship in a women's prison. She applies acute observation with a feminist attitude to develop insight into the etiology of women's "crinimality," and casts new light on the very word: "criminal." Please note: the correct title is: Voices from Within: Women who have Broken the Law

I'v been following this series from the begining and I have to say it is one of my Favorite.

I love this series, it's just so innocent. (even though by this point makoto is having a few impure thoughts about ito ;} ). The story isn't the most origional one out there, but I still wait for the delivery truck impatiently for it. The chemistry is well handled, and enjoyable. This was my first Shoujo series, so it holds a special place in my heart so to speak. I'm a total tomboy so I normally wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole, I bought it on a whim, desperate for ANYTHING to read, and discovered an addiction, I immediatly ran all over metro ATL to find the other four out at the time and ended up devouring them all in one sitting. My husband even liked it! (took like 6 months to talk him into it)

My only complaint is ito's totally self destructive tendancy to worry about Mako's feelings! Hello! any more attraction and his hormones will start glowing. But I guess it wouldn't be half the fun if they had a happlily ever after in the first book.

Annie, Ursula, Manon, and Penny. They'd been friends at college, close friends -- and on that last, apparently perfect Oxford afternoon they'd drunk champagne and tried to imagine what the future held in store.

Now, they meet again -- same place, and another glorious summer. But Penny is no longer with them, and for the other three, this is a time to confront the reality of their lives. During the course of one highly charged weekend, old passions are revived, love newly found and long-held secrets revealed.

Funny, poignant, but above all life-affirming. Parker's new novel brilliantly pinpoints our hopes and fears at the brink of a new era.

This was my third Imogen Parker book and I was not disappointed! Once again, her very real insightfulness....her delicious details....her "I know you!" kind of people, flesh out the pages from the outset and you are drawn into her skilled and sophisticated story-telling as it unfolds through exquisitely recognisable settings and landscapes.
This book takes us to London and Oxford where the tale is spun around the lives of four richly different women. We toggle effortlessly between their earlier lives as students and their current contexts some 20 years later.
Having hunted high and low for someone to please me the way the wonderful, wonderful Mary Wesley did, I can tell you that I absolutely LOVE this writer.

This book was given to me as a gift and I never expected to find it so interesting. It's extremely lively, well-written and filled with fascinating stories of the women who were unfortunate enough to find themselves incarcerated. The stories are based upon a careful analysis of a wealth of primary sources that have never before been brought to light. Anyone interested in women's history or criminal justice over the last two centuries will discover new insights. I was especially disconcerted to realize how much a woman's race, class, ethnicity and other factors determined what happened to her in the criminal justice system. Since the book goes up to the present, it should be required reading for contemporary criminologists as well. However, I admit that I skimmed part two which is filled with statisical analysis which is not my forte. In my opinion the greatest strengths of this book include the interviews with former prison personnel, quotes from parole hearings, letters from prisoners, psychiatric reports, punishment records and relevant photographs.

I read this book on the advice of a friend and was very impressed! It is one of those rare works of history that is both an impressive scholarly work and a very interesting read. As an historian myself who has done some work on the significance of gender to the history of 19th and 20th century insane aslyums, I found that her conclusions concerning the way race and gender assumptions often guide attempts to "reform" wayward women rang true. As an attorney who has both prosecuted mostly men for white collar criminal offenses and defended men and women, as well as immigrants and people of color in criminal court, it was fascinating to see the historical roots of some of the obvious characteristics of our current criminal justice system. Chief among these is the notion that both crime and criminality are socially constructed categories. When people in different social circumstances engage in the same behavior, the underlying motivations for their actions and their social consequences are often construed very differently by prosecutors, judges,juries and parole officers. Mara Dodge demonstrates this in concrete and persuasive ways by telling the stories of women's experience in the Illinois penal system over a broad span of time. The bottom line is that reading the book made these women and their experiences real for me and made me more interested in understanding the way that our society and legal system treats people differently according to their race, gender and social class. 1835 was a long time ago, and yet in many ways it seems that our society has not changed all that much.

Charles Henry spins and weaves this story from the beginning and you are captured immediately. I have not read a book like this in a long time that requires me to complete the book as soon as possible. I really enjoyed this book!

His main charactor, Chad Henson, becomes so real to you that you want him to have his romance with the dead Francis Lanford and you want it to happen now. This is a story in time travel and I like how he combines the historical information with the current history. All of you movie star buffs will enjoy this also and I would make it a must read. I feel most certainly, that this will not be the last book that you will see from Mr. Henry.

I want to thank the author immensely for sending me this fabulous work that kept me engaged on a train ride from Baltimore to New York. The book had me so enthralled that I was at my destination before I realized I had left my starting point.

The story has some overtones of a Richard Mattheson novel (Somewhere in Time) as Chad Henson (his name is similar to the author's) becomes infatuated with a recently deceased movie star named Frances Langford. Frances' magical voice is what does the trick for Chad. Through means kind of out of Jerry Lewis type movie, Chad is able to travel to the past and meet Frances, first as an elderly woman and then her more younger self. Chad is convinced that Frances was always searching for her perfect mate when she sang Will I Ever Know and that Chad himself is that perfect mate.

The author goes on to perfectly capture the mood of the 1940's and its many Hollywood icons. Telling any more about the book would be a spoiler but I hope the Mr. Henry will let me know when the next installment of the story will be ready because I can't wait for it to come out!

This was purchased as a gift for my friend but she already had it and loved it.

Winter of Wonders is such an intriguing sequel to A Fall Together in the Cirlcle of Friends Series. A real cliffhanger, too. Jennifer O'Neill has the ability to take you right where her characters are emotionally. There were times when I would have a tear streaming down my cheek from the passion of her words. If you want a great read, buy a Winter of Wonders! It won't dissapoint you ...

Sheila Kitzinger, has done it again! This book contains all of the messages that women need to hear about thier sexuality. With chapters that cover the basics, to indepth coverage of intimacy, sexual abuse, menstruation, and many other topics. If only this book was around the house when I was growing up!!

An excellent book for anyone who is a woman or loves awoman. Women, give this book to your partner! This book describes howwomen experience sex and what role sex plays in a woman's life. It also describes how women have successfully obtained meaning, substance, and fulfillment and satisfaction. It is a book that will give young girls confidence, knowledge about their body, and awareness about what society is trying to tell them to do and how they can assert themselves to be who they want instead of what others tell themto be. Partners gain understanding about how sex is a whole body and mind experience for a woman. Women feel fellowship with the stories shared and gain advice on dealing with problems. This book doesn't generalize and is always open-minded. If I ever have a daughter, I would give her this book.