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Capucine: Home To My Heart, Janet Spaeth
Capucine Louet and her sister Aliette were taken from their mother and their home in Acadia. Their father was killed by the British and the sisters were shipped to a convent in New York. They haven't seen their mother since. Capucine keeps a journal of what has happened.
Now the sisters are back home in New Oreleans,determined to find their mother if she is still alive. Michael LeBlanc is also Acadian. He's attracted to Capucine, but he's a Christian, and Capucine's heart is so full of hatred for the British there's no room for love.

Joie DeVivre by Lynette Sowell
Fifty years have passed and it's Jos'ee Brossard's eighteenth birthday. the LeBlanc family has raised her and she loves them all, except Edouard, the oldest son. Wounded in the war, he has a limp, a scarred face, and lives a quiet life in his secluded bayou cabin. She's half afraid of him.
Then Papa Leblanc makes an unexpected announcement, the betrothal of Jos'ee to Euodard. In two weeks the priest will marry them and there's nothing they can do about it. Jos'ee finds comfort in Capucine's journal.

Language of Love by Janet Lee Barton
Nicholas LeBlanc has just returned from the war. It's December, 1918 and he's happy to be back with his family at Bayou Teche. his father has died, his mother hasn't recovered from the loss, and his brother-in-law's little sister, Suzette, has moved into his house, living with his mother, sleeping in his room. He moves to the cabin. To his dismay his beloved Cajun language is being banned by the government and Suzette, the local schoolteacher, is teaching the children English. Nicholas doesn't like the changes in his life. Then he finds Capucine's journal.

Dreams of Home by Kathleen Miller
Justin LeBlanc has raised four sisters and just married off the last of the brood. He's ready to hit the road on his motorcycle, with his laptop, sleep in cheese motels, and eat bologona sandwiches for breakfast. After all the years of being responsible for his sisters, he's free. His biggest problem at the moment is the bossy lady photographer taking wedding pictures.
Lucy Webber, photographer and owner of Lucy's Lens, the new photography shop in town, grew up as a military brat, traveling all over the world. All she wants now is to settle down, and she likes Bayou Teche. Amanda, Justin's sister, tries to play matchmaker, but there is no way the professor who wants to rome and the lady photographer who wants to put down roots can agree on anything.
Time to check out Capucine's journal.

Bayou Brides spans four generations of couples, with four very different stories by four talented writers. If you like romance, you'll like this one.

Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (10/06)

"Bayou Brides" tells the story of four generations of one family, living on the banks of the Bayou Teche in the heart of Cajun Country. The stories of their life, love and redemption are told in this inspirational romance.

"Capucine: Home to My Heart" by Janet Spaeth
Capucine knows she must be strong when the British tear her and her sister Aliette from their mother's arms. Her heart is hardened and she vows to find her mother and "make the British pay for what they have done, I will never forget."

Capucine remembers her mother quoting her scripture. "Where your treasure is there will be your heart also," but she doesn't truly understand the meaning behind the words. When Capucine and Michel LeBlanc paths cross he comes to love her but she is not sure she knows how to love. Writing a journal assists Capucine in sorting out her thoughts and in talking to the Lord. Through love, patience and God's will, Michel teaches Capucine how to love and how to forgive.

This is a beautifully written love story. The characters are strong and well developed. The plot flows smoothly. The print is large and easy to read. The love story of Capucine and Michel is beautiful; it contains a purity that few stories contain today. But this goes beyond love story; this is a story of forgiveness.

"Joie de Vivre" by Lynette Sowell
The LeBlanc family has raised Jos'ee Broussard. She and Jacques always assumed they would marry, but when his oldest brother Edouard returns from the war scared both inside and out things change. Jos'ee has always expected she would marry Jacques and both she and Edouard are shocked when father announces the betrothal of Jos'ee and Edouard the eldest son. Edouard thinks he wants nothing more than to be left alone but finds that he's beginning to care for Jos'ee. The journal Jos'ee finds written by Capucine helps her find strength to love Edouard even when he doesn't want to be loved. It is only when he thinks he has lost her that he is willing to admit his love for her.

This is a beautifully written story and caught my interest from page one; I could hardly wait to turn the page to see if Jos'ee and Edouard could truly come to love each other. As the couple struggled to find love for each other I felt their pain. This is a wonderful story and my favorite of this anthology. The characters jump off the page and demand that you come to know them. This book teaches lessons of commitment and love.

"Language of Love" by Janet Lee Barton
"Language of Love" is a beautiful story written about a man that does not like change. Nicholas LeBlanc has seen terrible things at war. He returns to a changed family, his papa has died, his sister in law is expecting and Suzette the new schoolteacher is living with his family. Suzette is teaching the children to speak English instead of Cajun. It seems like too many changes too fast. Nicholas knows Suzette has been a blessing to his family and when she asks him to help her interpret Cajun he knows she will be a blessing to him.

This story is beautifully written and the plot is well developed and flows smoothly. The characters are well defined. From the moment Nicholas arrives home you feel his discomfort and frustration, knowing he fought for his country and knowing that now his country is expecting his people to adapt their language. Maman is a strong woman suffering from the loss of a husband but finding strength for the Lord and those around her to go on. This is a story of change and learning to allow the Lord to lead our lives. I enjoyed this story tremendously.

"Dreams of Home" by Kathleen Miller
From the moment Lucy Webber and Justin LeBlanc meet they find each other of interest Lucy is a photographer and Justin is a professor. While photographing the old family cabin Lucy finds the journal from the seventeen hundreds, written by one of Justin's ancestors. Capucine has written, "Life is full." Both Lucy and Justin long to say those words. She has longed for family roots. "Justin has never used his heart for fearing losing it." When Justin is offered the opportunity to write a book on the family's Acadian cabin he asks Lucy to be the photographer. Together they discover that it is only with each other and the Lord that they will find that "life is full."

The strong attraction between these two opposites is obvious from the beginning. The plot is good but it took me a little longer to get involved in this story. It is well written and the characters are well developed. Each character thinks they are longing for something different but in the end what they are longing for is each other.

The connecting threads woven in these stories are the cabin and the family connection. This is a beautiful anthology by four authors and four different stories each well written, each dealing with a different generation. "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Psalm 92:1." This is a family of generations built on faith in the Lord. I have truly enjoyed reading "Bayouo Brides." It is with great joy that I highly recommend this book to those that enjoy good Christian romance.

In my opinion, THIS is the book that should be used in women's Bible study groups. Many women want to feel more empowered but unfortunately must turn to worldly sources for encouragement. That's sad because the message for women often promoted in churches doesn't truly reflect the heart of God.

We don't need another book telling us about gender differences, something most people know anyway. We don't need any more books about how to be a more "feminine" woman or "submissive" wife. We need something to help us work past harmful stereotypes and work together the way God intended and this is it!! The sources on gender "roles" just don't cut it anymore.

This is one of christian eqalitarian books that affected me most in being factual and devotional and target oriented all at the same time. Also, this is the book that I found many women pick up to read or buy when offered.

I was vaguely familiar with the extent of mining in WWI due to a TV special on one of the history channels, so I decided that I would like to know more and bought this book. The team of authors with various backgrounds put 25 years worth of research into this work, and man, does it ever show. Superbly researched, extremely well written, and jammed full of crisp, rare period photographs and maps, topped off with a high quality printing. No way will you be disappointed with this book, and should you ever have the opportunity to tour the WWI battlefields, you'll never look at the ground beneath you feet the same again!

This is how books should be produced. Clear reproductions of contemporary photo's, beautifully executed line drawings that help explain & illustrate the text and clear color modern photos of what remains on site today.

The book covers the deep tunneling 'war' in Flanders in great detail, with the other tunneling sectors - where conditions were less difficult - in less detail & in their own section. And does so from both sides, which is still uncommon in any modern military books - most being written from the point of one side or the other.

I have also recommended this book to acquaintances well outside the military history field - it is an excellent book for those interested in 20th Century engineering and equally to those with an interest in archeology - I expect to see some of the techniques described in this book being used in future field excavations in anthropology.

This is Beverly Barton at her best. JT, the hero is wonderful, every woman's dream! The heroine strong, determined but still in need of protection. One of the best in the protectors series.

Blackwood's woman is the best of Barton's Protectors. It has some magical elements (like the rings) but somehow it seems realistic dream come true. The heroine has been raped and hero has only one eye after the accident. Together they find a way to be a pair. J.T. protects his woman and together they fight the problems. The heroine's rape is an important and interesting theme in this book. She needs to find the key to be a woman totally again after a traumatic experience. J-T. makes sure that every other male around knows whose woman heroine is. This book is definitely worth a reprint.

And... Washington (the horse) was good ;-).

This book is bigger than I thought it would be, but our 2 year old grandson so enjoys it even if it is bigger than his lap. The art work is wonderful.

The size of this book and the simple bright pictures made it an instant hit with my son. We also have the Trucks book.

I bought the book cause it was cheaper and it is what I was looking for a long time, also it's a classic book for the people do bonsai.

Dan Barton's backround as a Teacher of Graphic Art's makes this one of the easiest and comprehenseable book on Bonsai ever written. Dan has a very easygoing style that reads well. His section on Black Pines is the best reference for anyone who is trying to devlope a quality Bonsai. This is a must have book for beginners and old hands alike

I was so amazed at the depth and array of photographs in this beautifully conceived book. The interviews of the brides are so moving and insightful, and the photographs are at times breathtaking. I bought three copies just for wedding and shower presents and the women I gave them to couldn't have been more appreciative. What a gem this book is!

This book is wonderful! The images are breathtaking. The stories made me laugh and cry at the same time. One book every "bride to be" must own. It truly is magical.

I just finished Cardiovascular Pathophysiology by Kusumoto and I was truly impressed. I will be entering a pre-med program next year, yet I understood every word of the book. I've read a fair amount of medical textbooks out of interest, yet this is the first one that read as easily as a novel: it gives you all the information you need (ie basic physiology) to understand the pathophysiology of the most common cardiovascular syndromes and doesn't assume that you already know everything. This must be an amazing book for medical students if a high school student can understand its content! The diagrams are clear and frequent, the questions at the end of each chapter are helpful but there are too few of them (4 or 5 per chapter) The systematic approach to each disease makes the content coherent and clear. The information is detailed but not so much that it becomes sterile academic jargon. A must for anyone interested in cardiovascular syndromes, even more so for medical students.

I just finished Cardiovascular Pathophysiology by Kusumoto and I was truly impressed. I will be entering a pre-med program next year, yet I understood every word of the book. I've read a fair amount of medical textbooks out of interest, yet this is the first one that read as easily as a novel: it gives you all the information you need (ie basic physiology) to understand the pathophysiology of the most common cardiovascular syndromes and doesn't assume that you already know everything. This must be an amazing book for medical students if a high school student can understand its content! The diagrams are clear and frequent, the questions at the end of each chapter are helpful but there are too few of them (4 or 5 per chapter) The systematic approach to each disease makes the content coherent and clear. The information is detailed but not so much that it becomes sterile academic jargon. A must for anyone interested in cardiovascular syndromes, even more so for medical students.

I thought that this book was very informative and interesting. It contained details that I never knew about Clara Barton and the Red Cross. A very interesting story about a woman who became a professional nurse and started an important organization.

I bought this to use in my 6th grade reading classroom. It is excellent to use to teach reading skills such as main idea, author's purpose, or summarizing. I put it in a center and students have 10 minutes to use the book for an assignment. Since it is at a lower reading level, students have success in building skills to use in higher level texts.

This book is a good addition to the grade 1-6 classroom library.

EXCELLENT. This book, which is really a thesis paper, was very well written. The bibliography, about 7 pages long has many other great references cited. This is an excellent book to start with for those wishing to learn more about the transformation of Germany into a military power between the wars.

During the 1980s the CIA�s Office of Research and Development, under its �Deception Research Program,� conducted conferences on and analyses of strategic deception: its history, theory, and prospects. Barton Whaley, who as an MIT researcher had amassed the world�s largest database of political and military deceptions and stratagems, and had authored the definitive account of how Hitler hoodwinked Stalin ("Codeword Barbarossa"), became one of the Deception Research Program�s principle investigators.
"Covert German Rearmament, 1919-1939" was originally a research paper, written for the Deception Research Program, on how Germany consistently violated the Versailles Treaty disarmament mandates and prohibitions on rearmament from 1920 to 1935 and got away with extensive deceptions, despite British, French, and American on-the-ground inspectors. Germany collaborated extensively with Soviet Russia to evade Western treaty constraints. The parallels to the post-Gulf War UN inspections of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction deceptions are manifold.
Once Hitler came to power and unilaterally rejected the Versailles limitations, Germany switched to a deceptive strategy of exaggerating its air power and land power while hiding its sea power. Whaley describes how every naval power in the 1920s and 1930s cheated on naval limits, but Germany cheated more, vastly understating the displacement of its capital ships. As a result, the Royal Navy had to deploy two or even three capital ships to challenge the German monsters, such as Bismarck. As a result, Germany completely evade the spirit and the purpose of the naval limitations; to keep fleets in balance and avoid a naval arms race.
By deceptively exaggerating German land and especially air power, Hitler successfully bluffed the British and French over the Austrian Anschluss, the reoccupation of the Rhineland, and most significantly over Czechoslovakia at Munich. Thinking he could bluff again, Hitler invaded Poland, and started the most catastrophic war in history.
About the author: Barton Whaley, among the best-known analysts of deception, is author of "Stratagem, Deception and Surprise in War;" "Cheating and Deception" (with J.Bowyer Bell); "Codeword Barbarossa;" "Soviet Clandestine Communication Nets;" and "The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic."