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I am the author of this book and need to notify potential buyers that I have cancelled my contract with Xlibris. They are not supposed to be printing and selling anymore copies of Stillbird. A second edition of the book will be available next year published by Pushpa Prakashan Ltd. of Pune India and PPL has exclusive rights to publish this book. Altho I see that Xlibris has deleted the book from its website, no one has deleted it from this site. So please be aware that it is NOT in fact available within 24 hours and not available at all from Xlibris. Thankyou Sandra Shwayder Sanchez

Anonymous is a powerful writer whose portrayals of Nature read as beautifully as poetry. In a manner similar to many literary classics, the author depicts Nature as a beautiful, infallible, and eternal backdrop for the imperfect lives of the characters. Here's a typical passage: "The winters of southern West Virginia were lovely in a soft misty way; the evergreen trees blended with the skies of a multitude of soft grays and here and there a splash of some auburn leaves that had clung to the tree despite the wind and occasional snows. And then there were the days of crystal brilliance when snow covered everything in a diamond light that shone beneath perfect blue skies..." Anonymous also uses symbolism effectively. For example, in a scene where Stillbird is washed away by a flood, the author writes, "The water came in so suddenly with a rush, through the large front entrance of the cave, and Stillbird could not seek to escape in the face of its strength...the water washed her out of the cave, as her body and limbs were bent around outcroppings of rock and slid along the mud out into the deep and wide impression on the outside...the water had filled her up inside and the pressure from within and without was painful, unbearable, worse than giving birth, and it occurred to her that perhaps this was what birth was like, and she realized that the earth that had nurtured her in the dark womb of the cave was now giving her up to another life." Throughout the book, deeper layers of meaning abound beneath the surface action. The author has not only created characters who serve as archetypes but who are beautifully sketched. For example, "Rose of Sharon stood one evening in the garden where she had been picking the first tomatoes for the evening meal and felt the breeze blow her skirt around her legs and watched the leaves of the tree flutter like her skirt and show their silver undersides in anticipation of the coming storm, and she felt the rain-laden wind on her cheek, and she cried and cried, knowing she wanted to be pure poetry, wanted to fly and drift with the clouds and yet, there she stood with a basket of tomatoes on her arm and a child and husband inside the too-warm house waiting for their meal." Beautiful, with a melancholy mood, Stillbird-by-the-River and Mary Queen of Scots leaves an impact on the reader, as good literature should.

Every night I made my mother read this to me, and once she finished, she always knew to read it again. One of my all time favorites.

when i read sven's bridge. it was a colorful story that i could not wait to turn the page

One character in this book is the Swoose. A swoose is half goose and half swan (except the swoose's name is "Fitzherbert.") Fitzherbert is the color white. The swoose wanted to visit the queen and see her father who is a swan. I like Fitzherbert and want her to be my friend. She also met a water-vole on her way to see the Queen and her father. You should read this book. I like it.

One character in this book is the Swoose. A swoose is half goose and half swan (except the swoose's name is "Fitzherbert.") Fitzherbert is the color white. The swoose wanted to visit the queen and see her father who is a swan. I like Fitzherbert and want her to be my friend. She also met a water-vole on her way to see the Queen and her father. You should read this book. I like it.

This book is priceless! I got sap on my car, so I found on the internet to clean it with alcohol, which helped with the sap, but it left a residue behind. After looking on the internet again to clean THAT, I remembered my book, which I bought years ago while still living at home. I flipped open the book and under the "Cleaning Products You Should Never Be Without", Ms. Cobb said to use a paste of baking soda and water. I did just that and sprayed white vinegar after I was done (my mom told me to use that). TA-DA!!! A clean windshield again!! All Hail The Queen Of Clean!!

Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean, is the most helpful book I've ever owned. She has answers to everything...couldn't live without my copy!!!

In my opinion of course. Ellery Queen fans are kind of divided between those who love the technically intricate whodunits of Ellery's earlier career and the more psychological and introspective mysteries of the later era, but I love them both. This is one of the latter ones.

An old friend of Ellery, Howard Van Horn approaches him seeking help. He's been suffering blackouts and fears he may have committed a crime during one of them. Ellery follows him to Howard's New England hometown of Wrightsville - a town that Ellery knows very well, for twice Ellery has been there, and each time Ellery's a murder has occured for him to solve.

Already uneasy, Ellery meets Dietriech Van Horn, Howard's father, and Sally, the old man's very much younger and very attractive wife. As Ellery gets more involved with the Van Horns, and a series of odd, almost irrational crimes happens, his intution tells him one thing - there's definitely murder in the air, and he may be powerless to stop it.

"Ten Days' Wonder" is, in my estimation, Ellery Queen's best novel. It completely overwhelmed me the first time I read it, and it is a novel that not only delves into the secret lives hidden beneath small-town exteriors but also into the very heart of Ellery's own psychology. The clues are before the reader - all fair, no hiding - but when you and Ellery think you've got the solution, a final, delicious, deadly twist and a nasty surprise awaits both at the end. An ending that a friend of mine has described as feeling as if someone had sideswiped you with a nightstick. A high-water mark in the series.

This book, coupled with the book that follows it, Cat of Many Tails, are the best detective novels I have ever read. Not only are the plots carefully constructed, but the level of characterization is nearly unparalleled in the detective genre. This is one of the riskiest mystery series novels ever written, and one that stands up to substantial rereading. Buy it. Read it. You won't be sorry.

The Usborne books are beautiful, I have a 3 year old and 14 month twins, they all love the cute drawings and the textures, the short texts are good for their attention span, but if you want you can linger in the page and comment on details. I would definiteley recommend these books to anyone with kids!

This is a book for baby princesses! Has great sturdy pages and extra special touchy feelys and sparkles. There is a red dress, bows, a sash, tiara, fan, and a crown to touch and feel. I am not crazy about the sash idea because it is not something you would commonly hear. Maybe a ribbon or necklace would have been better. I would like it if they came out with a second princess book. That would be fun!

I am currently writing a novel that includes time-travel, and wanted to get it right. This lead me on a quest to find good books on the subject of time and this turned out to be one of the best. It is a clearly written, well-organized, exhaustively-researched, and deeply thought-out from both the philosophical and scientific points of view. Though Dainton limits himself somewhat (with good reason) it is the most comprehensive and well-explained book of its kind I've found. He uses very little jargon and includes a glossary for those of us who haven't taken the prerequisite courses. It has wide-breath and could be used as a textbook covering the ideas of many thinkers in the field. Somehow, he even made McTaggart comprehensible. I believe one chapter reflects more of Dainton's own research and that is the one that deals with consciousness. I found it so fascinating I ordered Dainton's new book, "Stream of Consciousness."

I didn't buy this book at first because there are no editorial reviews here on Amazon (as of 2/8/08) and no search inside. As it happens though, "Time and Space," was recommended in the forward of another book I was reading, "Travels in Four Dimensions," by Robin Le Poidevin (good but not as clear and comprehensive as this one).

If you'd like to search inside this book, I found you can do it in Google Books and while you're there you can read a peer review on the back jacket.

Well, fairly comprehensive. There is no mention of the crucial ideas of Henri Bergson (Relativity and Simultaneity, Time and Free Will, etc.), who basically debunked relativity as a merely mathematical tool with no real physical consequences.

But other than that ommission, this is about the most thorough book on the subject of time that I've ever read (and I've read a LOT of books on the subject of time). If you're time-haunted person, then this book is a must-have.

Versed in the theories of Foucault and post-colonialist writers, Griffin does a wonderful job of letting the Disney story speak for itself even when it doesn't quite match what theoreticians might expect. Nevertheless, as Disney surreptitiously reaches out to the gay market, Griffin makes clear that it is with an eye to profit from the segment without disowning it cherished 'family' brand image. I compare the attitude to those who organize Gay Pride Parades--the business sponsors often feel politics distracts from the Spectacle meant to promote their wares!

I'm a fairly big Disney fan, and also a big fan of subculture studies and media studies. So, this book is right up my alley. I am not gay, however. This book is filled with insight that helps to reinterpret Disney films from the silent era to the present day with a 'queer sensibility'.

The familiarity the author has with the many decades of Disney material (primarily animated shorts and feature films but also the animated films and TV shows) is impressive. What's great is thanks to Disney's releasing of the Treasures collection, the average reader can follow along to just about everything mentioned in the book.

Overall, a great read.

Hired as a music tutor to Princess Victoria, who is isolated in the forlorn surroundings of Kensington Palace, Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart (rumors of his death were exaggerated) becomes involved in the personal lives of her relatives.

Mozart is charmed by his spirited young charge, but dismayed at her virtual imprisonment by a mother desperately attempting to keep her away from bad influences. Ah, but is Mama herself a doubtful example? Is her alleged lover pilfering funds?

Mozart accompanies the Princess and her retinue when her mother reluctantly allows her to meet her illegitimate cousins, the numerous Fitzclarences, born of King Williams long liaison with the actress Mrs. Jordan. The visit is fraught with political significance, as the country does not like the estrangement between the King and his heir. The interactions of the extended family are well drawn and extremely interesting. Characters are brought vividly to life. This is the personal side of court life that so rarely makes it into history.

Violence at the happy gathering causes Mozart to suspect that someone is out to remove Princess Victoria from the line of succession.

A thoroughly enjoyable book. I wish there were more in the series.

Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart is an aging and neglected composer who, in 1830, is summoned to Kensington Palace to give piano lessons to eleven year-old Princess Victoria, the niece of King George IV. Mozart takes an immediate liking to the charming Victoria and sensing that her life may be in danger, decides to try to protect her. After King George IV dies, Princess Victoria becomes heir apparent to the throne and William IV is the new king. The book has a light-hearted tone. Victoria, Mozart and William IV are an extremely likeable trio and the plot is nicely resolved.

This book is a great gift to those of us who enjoy Celtic music, and especially the Great Highland Bagpipe, and wish to enrich our understanding of the origins and traditions of this increasingly regarded art form. Gibson focuses on the bagpipe as an instrument "of the people," who used the pipe and its music more or less for everyday and special occasions, from entertainment at the hearth to music for weddings and funerals, the latter of which, perhaps ironically, is what most people today associate with the bagpipe. But Gibson also intelligently, and sometimes rather provocatively, discusses the other piping tradition, the grand and myth-laden one of ceol mor ("big music") or piobaireachd, the classical music of the Highland pipe, a strict and often dour-sounding theme-and-variations form that may have developed from harp music, and which has tradionally been viewed as the "original" and somehow more artistically worthwhile music of the pipe. In developing his major themes, Gibson masterfully describes the history and culture of Scotland and, eventually, Cape Breton, where so much of the piping tradition was carried forward in perhaps a purer (and, amazingly, not at all sentimentalizing) form, after the Clearances and emigraton had taken their toll on Scottish culture. Of special interest is Gibson's denunciation of the eternally heard claim that the Highland pipe was proscribed as an instrument of war, along with all weapons and Highland dress, after Culloden in 1746. He effectively shows that from a legal standpoint this was never actually the case, though in a way, he simply spoils a lovely if somewhat silly myth that has only added to the romance of this impressive instrument. A must-have book for every Celtophile and lover of pipe music!

This is an absolutely fabulous book for anyone interested in the tradtional style of piping that has gradually disappeared over the years. It is well documented, follows a logical course of instruction from Scotland to Nova Scotia and gives quite a bit of what I think is extremely interesting information about the old "community pipers" of Cape Breton and their parallel style of piping. I've read and re-read the volume, highlighting areas of import and interest as I went along until my volume looks like a well-thumbed and multi-indexed textbook - which in my case, it is. The only area of disappointment is that I wished it contained more photographs of some of the old-time pipers like Joe Hughie MacIntyre, etc. But, the text makes up for any shortcomings in that area and is definately a MUST read for pipers with an interest in the beginnings of their craft or anyone who just enjoys the skirll of the pipes. I highly recommend this book.