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On a recent trip to Mexico City, I saw an old, previous edition of this work. I was delighted by its stimulating contents. Returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma, I was even more delighted to find the latest edition in one of our very excellent Public Library branches. I am eager to buy this latest edition for myself, and as gifts for some of my friends, for a life-time of enjoyable reading.

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I love to read in Spanish and I was raised in South America, where Spanish books are very easy to come by, but when I moved to the US I found it difficult to find books that could interest me. Cronica del Siglo XX not only enlightens me but it's a great guide book for me and my children, it shows them with great illustrations and simple words the history of a great century, it's a must have for all of those who appreciate a well written and fantastic book, don't miss the opportunity to own it.

I really enjoyed this book. I am an adult beginning/intermediate Spanish student and am always looking for opportunities to practice my limited skills. This books is filled with wonderful folk tales which are a joy to read, and the English translations provide me with immediate assistance.

This is a very entertaining collection of folk tales in bilingual Spanish/English format. The stories range from funny anecdotes of life, to tales that teach the wisdom of the people of the Southwest, to tales of witchcraft.

The translations are sometimes even better than the originals. No wonder because one of the translators, Rudolfo Anaya, is a best selling author and superb writer.

This book offers an opportunity for people who want to improve their Spanish. Read the original Spanish first and refer to the English translation when you get to the parts you don't understand.

The book is great campfire or bedtime reading for kids. Both you and your kids will come out wiser for it.

This was my first CUP OF COMFORT experience. I bought it because my friend Dera Williams has a story in it, and I wanted to read her story about quilting as a legacy. Well, I thoroughly enjoyed Dera's story, and then I started reading the book from the beginning and was quickly pulled in by the beautifully told stories by women who, although just like me, each had her own story to tell. Stories that uplifted me, and made me think of life's possibilities. I highly recommend this book to any woman who needs a little inspiration to kick-start her day, or week, or year!

I love the Chicken Soup books, so I thought I would try this one out. It is very similar and I absolutely loved it. I cried and I laughed throughout the book. These stories really touch your heart.

I gave this book to my 8 yr old as a B-day gift and although she has not read it yet (She got about 20 other books and it'll take a while to get to all of them.) I have to admit that I did read it and I loved it. I liked Curious George as a child and I was so excited to see that he was making a come back. I could hardly wait to introduce my curious little lady to him. She has enjoyed the other Curious George books and I know she will like this one too. We can't wait till the movie comes out on DVD.

The publisher's description of the level this book is deceiving; it is described as a baby-preschool level book. Perhaps the story would appeal to that level (would have to read short passages to hold their attention), but the literacy level to read this book is around 7-11 years I would say. My son who is 10 and has always adored Curious George, read this book and considered it a little below his grade level of reading. It made the book a quick but enjoyable read for him. The title given as well as the spine of the book even indicates that it is a 'Junior Novel'. There is a small section of colorful photos from the movie but the pages of the book are primarily text with a few black and white sketches. My son thoroughly enjoyed this new 'George' adventure and hopes for more (can't wait to see the movie!). It was a real page turner for him.

I enjoyed Daddy by Design very much it only took me a few hours to read that one I thought that it was funny and very fast paced and I loved all the characters especially Trey's mother she was funny and I found myself laughing out loud I have had this book since Feb. and I recently got the chance to read it great read.

Her Perfect wife was also very good I loved the realtionship they had he was the wife/she was the husband I found it to be very interseting to read about a man doing a woman's duties I loved it. I recommand this book to every one.

"Daddy By Design" was a fine story, but I particularly enjoyed "Her Perfect Wife." This laugh-out-loud story was a delight! It was a howl to watch Jack's over-confidence about the 'simple' duties of a housewife run into the brick wall of reality, and I was cheering when Mel finally responded to the needs of her love-starved heart instead of dedicating herself 24/7 to the demands of her medical career. This story will put a smile on your face, beginning to end!

I loved the movie, and I loved the book. The book built on the movie, adding parts and info on scenes and the characters, explaining technical info, and more. It went more into the movie, adding on what happened at Mount Baker in the 1970's (Mentioned in movie, but not explained), and going into other Cascade Volcanoes (Rainier, St. Helens, Baker, Crater Lake). Anyone who loves disaster stories, volcanoes, or Washington State should read this book.

I loved this book. The Movie was Great but the book was even better. Get this book.

I have never read this book before, but I saw the movie at midnight while flipping through channels looking for good movies. When I started watching the movie from the beginning, I thought it was a fun movie that friends go out and play, but when the movie started getting worse, I got confused. First, I had no idea why they called it The Deadly Friend, but when I finished watching the movie, I understood why. Although part of the movie is super disgusting, but I love it a lot, because it's very touching, sad, romantic, and else. The most melancholy part is the ending, when Sam started remembering her life as the real Samantha and the friendship with Paul, the police shot her when she was running up to him. While she was surrounded by police everywhere, you see her vision started getting more vivid and real, but it's so sad that the police didn't know who she really is and why she killed her father and the old woman who shot Bee Bee. Just hearing her whispering Paul's name the first time in a long time, you feel like if you want something good to happen, just like if she could survive and become the real Samantha. Therefore, I recommand you to read this book or watch the movie. If you ever like these kind of stories, then you should see the movie Artificial Intelligence made in 2001, too.

This book is about a lonely boy named Paul Conway who moves to the small town of Welling with his mother due to a divorce and a horrible accident. He is a scientific genius who built his own robot named "Bee Bee". He falls in love with his next door neighbor named Samantha Pringle. Her father is a raging alcoholic who shatters Paul's life by destroying Bee Bee and killing Sam. Paul takes the robot computer and implants it into her brain bringing her back to life, well sort of. She turns into a revengful monster totaly unlike Sam who murders her father and several others. It seems as if no one, not even he, can destroy this monster which he has created. In short, good book. Pick it up!

This is the German text edition of an exquisitely written and superlative, multi-generational novel, "Of Marriageable Age", which is delicately woven with gossamer threads of human experience. It is a story of human frailties, passions, and cultural traditions. It is a spellbinding tale of several people who become unforgettable to the reader. It is an epic saga of individuals who are connected across time in a way none of them could have foreseen. A wellspring of cultural differences bear upon their futures and send them along paths none of them could have envisioned. It is, above all, a story of forbidden love that would impact on others for generations to come.

This is the story of Savitri, a native of India, a Brahmin beauty, a healer, who fell in love with David, the son of the wealthy English family for whom she and her parents worked. Her love for David would remain constant, despite those in her own family who would seek to destroy it.

This is the story of David, the English boy who grew up in British colonial India and never forgot his childhood sweetheart, despite the cultural and racial roadblocks placed in his path by those who did not have the gift to look into the soul of another.

This is the story of Nat, the boy who straddled two cultures, Indian and English, whose mysterious ancestry threatened to prevent him from being united with the woman who held the key to his heart and soul.

This is the story of Saroj, a Guyanese beauty of Indian descent, who wanted to leave the old ways, the ways of mysterious south east Asia, the ways of India, and embrace those of the west, only to find that her soul mate was one in whom both cultures had made peace.

This is, above all else, a spellbinding story of love and passion that runs so deep that time would sustain it forever. Underlying this story are the threads of a mystery that are subtly woven into its fabric. This novel is a panoramic and sweeping saga that will cause the reader to be swept away by its depth, its richness of language, and its vividly drawn characters, and descriptive detail. The author, a very gifted writer and talented storyteller, has written a novel that will keep the reader riveted to its pages until the very last.

An orphan boy adopted by an English doctor, living near Madras, in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu: Nataraj.

A headstrong teenager, daughter of an Indian lawyer in Georgetown, British Guiana: Sarojini.

Back in Madras, earlier, a cook's daughter, of Brahmin descent but a servant girl in an affluent English family: Savitri.

And a cast of colorful supporting characters: a strong-minded but utterly fallible and therefore most "human" father; several brothers, one mean-spirited, one good-natured but weak, and another one, in another family, loving and mischievous; a willful girlfriend with a penchant for the arts; a mother at times more feminist politician than mom; a busybody mother with a constant need to organize, control and meddle; and last but not least, a wise and patient teacher.

Sprinkle this mixture generously with compassion, humor, love in all its incarnations and that profound understanding of the Indian society which only comes from personal experience; then add the author's personal secret touch.

These are the ingredients of the literary feast offered to the reader in Sharon Maas's debut novel "Of Marriageable Age," bringing together the imaginative powers of a born storyteller with a lifetime's worth of personal experience. And like an Indian meal, her novel is rich in flavors, slowly and skillfully blending a myriad of exquisite parts into a perfectly tempered composition, leaving enough room for each ingredient to develop its full perfume while at the same time creating a new, perfectly composed oeuvre of its own.

We first meet each of the three protagonists when they are children: Nat(araj), whom the nuns running his orphanage have baptized Paul in order to give him a "proper" Christian name; Saroj(ini), on the brink of her teenage years, dreading the day that her parents will find a "suitable" husband for her; and Savitri, who talks to animals, has inherited a secret gift of healing never to be used for personal gain or it will be lost forever, and lives "from the inside out," as opposed to most other people whose "thought-bodies" make them live "from the outside in."

Over the course of several decades, we follow Savitri, Nat and Saroj as they make their way into adulthood and as each of them faces their own personal demons. Nat, modestly brought up by his adoptive father in a small Indian village in the hope that he, too, will become a doctor and dedicate his life to helping the local rural population, must learn to overcome the temptations of city life when he is sent to London to study medicine. Independent and willful Saroj fights her traditionalist father for the right to have an education and a profession and grapples with the issue of marriage - arranged and otherwise - supported, it seems to her, only by her African high school friend Trixie and by Trixie's feminist/politician mother. And Savitri must pay a bitter price for her forbidden love of David, the son of her parents' British employers, when from a childhood of ease and happiness she is propelled into an adulthood laden with more than her share of hardships. As the novel progresses, slowly the three storylines come together and we learn how the fates of its protagonists are interrelated.

While "Of Marriageable Age," as the title indicates, deals extensively with love and the concept of marriage, examining it from both the Western and the Indian point of view, it is by no means limited to these issues. Indian society and family life as a whole are under Sharon Maas's looking glass - families and society on the Indian subcontinent (particularly its southern part), but also in British Guiana and in London. And so are the meaning of cultural heritage and its preservation, nationality, prejudice and racism; British condescension towards Indians, and the contempt of Hindu Brahmins for the caste-less British and Africans. Sarojini especially, feeling after her arrival in England that there is no nationality she can truly identify with and fearing that she will always be an outsider, discovers that it is much more important for her to simply be able to say "I am," without having to add anything else; to assert herself in her own right, quasi as a nation of her own.

Much of the novel is set against the background of the lush tropical gardens and elegant mansions of Georgetown, British Guiana, and colonial Madras. Undoubtedly its German title, "Der Zaubergarten," was inspired by this setting. Yet, there is also the indescribable poverty of India's countryside, where one prolonged and severe rainy season is enough to wipe out entire villages, kill their old, their sick and their children, and destroy their houses, fields and livelihood. And there is the chaos, noise and dirt of India's cities, particularly Madras - a major turnoff for many a visitor from the West and even something that Sarojini has to get used to when she first visits India, searching for her roots and her place in life. Sharon Maas makes us understand that all of these things are parts of India, as germane to the subcontinent as its immensely rich historical, cultural and social heritage; and in the process, she truly does create both an enchanted and an enchanting garden, populated by complex people, beautiful inside and out - a sparkling kaleidoscope of colors, images, sounds and scents. Like the best of Indian cuisine, reading this novel is an exhilarating experience, leaving the reader completely satisfied and at the same time longing for more, and regretting that it eventually has to come to an end.

I have read to the half of this book. But I plan to read the rest. One day, my cowoker came to me with a book in his hand, "Hey! buddy, you should read this book if you want to work with .HLP." In the afternoon I went to a bookstore and took the book(It's not inexpensive). As a beginner, I have learned a lot of information about .HLP. I'm now looking for the upgrade edition of the book.

Thank you everybody. Be happy all of you.

It is hilarious and telling that this book has been put back into print recently. That indicates how successful HTML Help has been as a standard (it's not cross-browser, not cross-platform, and not good for single-sourcing in a .chm and website, due to unresolved ActiveX objects). This book is the standard on WinHelp, which is officially back from the dead, and it's a fine book, covering principles of hypertext design, authoring tools, and the bells and whistles supported by the WinHelp viewer. The one patch needed for WinHelp, though, is Synchronize Table of Contents (and a persistent navigation window).

This book was my favorite, and I'm more that sure that no Digimon book is like it. This was such a relief and surprise of how they defeated Devimon. Well, I'm not telling you anymore since it's so good, except that you can't miss this one.

This book was my favorite, and I'm more that sure that no Digimon book is like it. This was such a relief and surprise of how they defeated Devimon. Well, I'm not telling you anymore since it's so good, except that you can't miss this one.