Stewart Books

I bought this book for my step-mother to thank her for being a wonderful grandmother to my children. It is filled with poignant stories about all kinds of grandmothers illustrated with stunning black and white photographs which really capture the essence of the grandmother-grandchild relationship. It is the kind of coffee table book you can really enjoy picking up from time to time and getting lost in the emotional stories. I recommend it as a gift for any grandmothers or grandmothers-to-be.

A tribute to Grandmothers. This is a beautiful set of photographs and prose that should almost be considered good poetry. It's a story of 23 grandmothers and their grandchildren. Sometimes the grangmothers are famous, like the author Judy Blume, sometimes the grandchildren are famous like big name NBS star Steve Francis. Sometimes they are just grandmothers.

It reminded me of the recent research explaining how important grandmothers were in cave man days. They could babysit the grandkids while momma was out gathering food.

This is a beautifully produced book, and just in time for the Christmas season. If you can't think of anything else for Gramma or whatever you call her, you could do a lot worse than this book. I suspect you'll see it displayed on her coffee table.

Putting three women with the same name in a small town at one time may sound quirky, but Stewart manages to make it work. The eerie proposition of three husbands who could quite possibly be willing to commit murder kept me guessing until near the end. Marmalade, the library cat, manages to save the day and still stay a completely believable feline throughout the book.
I'd say this one is a definite to put on your reading list, even if you're not a cat person.
And don't forget to read the other colors in the series, too. Fran Stewart is a winner.

Fran Stewart does it again. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but each of her "Rainbow" series delights and entertains. I was introduced to her novels recently, and they've simply charmed my socks off. Or if I were wearing socks, they would. As far as what I think of the series as a whole?

Fran Stewart has created a thoroughly endearing character in Biscuit McKee--fallible enough to be undeniably human and feisty enough to be thoroughly lovable. Biscuit wants nothing more than to live quietly in the small Georgia town of Martinsville with her husband and her Marmalade cat, but fate and family don't always cooperate. Biscuit faces each challenge life throws at her--and there are plenty of those--with determination and a little help from her cat.

Fran Stewart's Biscuit McKee stories are beautifully written, incorporating a blend of down-home wisdom and humor guaranteed to both charm and entertain.

Thank you, Fran, for your wonderful Biscuit McKee series!

Dr Neal Schultz makes the ultimate house call in the form of his new book that gently takes the reader by the hand and leads her down the path to skin care enlightenment. Get out your highlighter pen, relax and curl up with what may well become the consummate reference book for savvy skin care consumers. Dr. Schultz has a devoted clientele that has been benefiting from his expertise for over twenty-five years. His calm, reassuring approach to skin care science creates a comfort level for those who may be overwhelmed with having to make decisions about which new product or treatment to try. Make an appointment with "It's Not Just About Wrinkles" and you won't have to spend time in the waiting room to see results!

If you want to have perfect skin, this is the book for you. I bought this book and already feel my skin is softer and younger looking than it was two weeks ago. Dr. Schultz finally explains how important it is to know your skin type so you can use the right products for your skin and ailments. Goodbye dull looking, tired looking, brown and blotchy skin. Hello gorgeous!

There seem to be two big books available on the Group of Seven. The newest one is by Silcox. It has a superior cover---which is great to have on an art book. However, the Hill book seems to, overall, have a better selection of plates. Silcox is all color, but I was very pleasantly surprised by how compelling some of the black'n'white images were in Hill's book. I'd say that Hill's book has 15% B&W images, but they don't detract. In any event, it seems like the Hill book is occasionally available at considerably less cost than Silcox. Both books are wonderful.

I bought the book solely based on the price and number of pages as there was no review - however if you want to know about the Group of Seven this is the book to get. It has many excellent colour images of paintings, black and white images and photos, and a lot of background info.

where every paragraph leaves a distinct impression. Ellen Hart writes with a deft sense of place and time which mysteries often lack.

She has also crafted her main characters well to convey a sense of friendship, intimacy, and an amazing sense of humor.

This not only fine writing within the mystery format, it is fine writing, period.

Needless to say, the lesbian element was handled beautifully. This is the kind of statement about gays which should be made because it transcends the garish, tabloid styles of too much of the media (or, counter-media) and presents the human side... of human beings.

Clever plotting; rare character subtleties; solid, often unexpected, humor; special insights; an unusual location with deft understanding of the urban university society.

Yes.

I don't know who I liked more, the lesbian sleuth Jane Lawless or her slightly overweight (yeah!) buddy Cordelia! More than just a "whodunnit," this book is part character study, part Minnesota travelogue, and very much a good read. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It is amazing that this book was published in 1937 because as I just finished reading it in the very early stages of 2008, I couldn't believe how complex and intelligent this book is. I think it might be rough going if a reader is not at least a little bit familiar with Shakespeare's Hamlet, but it is still worth the effort. Innes was a remarkable writer, and his Inspector Appleby was marvelous! There are more than enough red herrings and blind alleys that Innes leads you down as you read this book. The murder at the huge manor house of Scanmum is irrevocably tied up with the play Hamlet, and it's up to Appleby to determine what is fact and what is fiction. He must try and find what appears to be an obscure motive, and he is up against a particularly ruthless and intelligent killer. This is an excellent classical mystery from the very early Golden Age, and I recommend it highly.

This classical suspense novel, first published in 1937 might be difficult to follow for readers who are not already familiar with Shakespeareýs ýThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince Denmark.ý

However, it is well worth reading, not only for the richly allusive mystery, but also for the characters who create and act out its tragedy. The author engraves his brittle, upper-class English in diamond-point prose. He etches their wit with acid. They are never dull. To misquote the Bard himself, ýAge cannot wither Innesýs characters, nor murder stale their witty dialogue.ý

For the length of the tragedy at least, the reader will inhabit the manor and precincts of Scamnum Court, principal seat of the Duke of Horton---ýIt is a big place: two counties away it has a sort of little brother in Blenheim Palace.ý

After the second murder of the evening, C.I.D. Inspector John Appleby gives the reader his impression of the place, while searching through its corridors for the Duchess of Horton:

ýMoving about Scamnum at night, it seemed to Appleby, was like moving in a dream through some monstrously overgrown issue of ýCountry Life.ý Great cubes of space, disconcertingly indeterminate in function--- were they rooms or passages? ---flowed past in the half-darkness with the intermittent coherence of distant music, now composed into order and proportion, now a vague and raw material for the architectonics of the imaginationýHe recalled the great palaces --- now for the most part tenantless --- which the eighteenth century had seen rise, all weirdly of a piece, about Europe. Scamnum, he knew, was to be a different pattern; would reveal itself in the morning as being --- however augustly --- the home of an English gentleman and a familiar being. But now it was less a human dwelling than a dream-symbol of centuries of rule, a fantasy created from the tribute of ten thousand cottages long perished from the land.ý

Everything in ýHamlet, Revenge!ý is done on a grand scale. The Duchess of Horton persuades her old friend, the Lord Chancellor of England to act the part of Polonius in her amateur production of ýHamlet.ý Her husband is cast as Claudius, King of Denmark and she herself plays his Queen. Their daughter, Elizabeth is Ophelia. The greatest Shakespearean actor of the day plays the Melancholy Dane.

All of the playýs characters are put on edge by a series of mysterious messages, culminating in a quotation from ýMacbethý, ýýthere shall be done a deed of dreadful noteýý Then the Lord Chancellor is shot to death at the very instant in the play when his character is supposed to die by Hamletýs sword.

Appleby is called in to solve a murder that ýwas planned, deliberately and at obvious risk, to take place bang in the middle of a private performance of Hamlet.ý

The young C.I.D. Inspector is also charged with recovering vital State documents that the second-most important figure in British government had with him when he motored down to Scamnum Court to strut and fret upon the ducal stage. Until the very end of ýHamlet, Revenge!ý the reader can never be sure if he or she is reading a murder mystery or a spy story.

ýHamlet, Revenge!ý in my opinion is one of the top ten mysteries of the last century, reaching the same rarified heights as Sayersýs ýThe Nine Taylors.ý

It is much less known to American readers, possibly because of its authorýs richly allusive style. Innes was a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1949 until his retirement in 1973. He was a Lecturer in English, and he did not talk down to readers of his detective fiction. Either they were familiar with the Bard, or they would miss out on half the enjoyment of ýHamlet, Revenge!ý

Now in an updated and expanded third edition, The Hawaiians Of Old by Betty Dunford is a 234-page fact-filled history book about the native Hawaiian people. The Hawaiians Of Old is written for children, but will appeal to readers of all ages who want a general overview of Hawaiian history. An informed and informative text goes into depth about the intricate culture of the islands, including native stonework, net making, worship, government, and much, much more. Full-color illustrations intersperse and enhance this fascinating, well-researched, superbly written, and very highly recommended introduction and survey of Hawaiian history.

how they harvestede the taro. how they grew the taro.what is its parts called.about the water and the wate ditches.all about thetaro patches.preparing the taro. when did they eat it and the rest of the things about taro

This is a very professional and lovingly written book with a sense of humor. It's a story about a daughter's path with her very strong minded mother through her last several years of life. It involves hard truths and other family members caught up in this cycle of life. If you have gone through, are going through, or have never gone through this situation in your lifetime, there are still compelling passages that make you want to complete this warm hearted and insightful book.

I found this a hard book to put down. It describes the last several declining years in the life of the author's mother. Even though it drives relentlessly toward an end that we all know, it does so with such compassion and humor that I was drawn in. The guideposts, the revelations, the insights and the poignant moments pass more and more rapidly, keeping me involved and fascinated to the very end.

Along the way we get to know the characters: mother, daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren, doctors, nurses, administrators. Most of them play their roles well, with genuine caring and sensitivity, but sometimes with attitude or misunderstanding. Both the uniqueness and the universality of this experience of death make it the ideal vehicle to explore the many dimensions of love on a pilgrimage we all will make.

Perry has written at least one other book, Pushing Sixty -- Behind Me, which is a collection of humorous experiences or misadventures. I'm impressed with her range, humor and elegant style

This fascinating book addresses, and counters, the many false interpretations of Hegel that have grown up from the start of his system to the present day. To be sure, these defenses, in the midst of much 'setting the record straight', might be challenged as partisan or excessively one-sided themselves, yet the fact remains that many attacks on Hegel have failed to grasp the nature of his thinking. This is not even a 'pro-Hegel' statement, being of equal relevance to those critics of Hegel who end up thrashing in the labyrinthine subtleties of his influence, and dialectical logic.
This works both ways, as Hegel is pressed into the service of ideology by his friends. Worth the price of the book twice over is the series and expose on the 'end of history' mythology now liberal propaganda a la Fukuyama. This material arriving via Koyre and Kojeve with assistant packaging by Alan Bloom constitutes the core Hegel phantom in State Department piece de resistance that graced the end of the Cold War. It is a good example of the Hegel you thought you knew, but definitely didn't.

This fascinating book addresses, and counters, the many false interpretations of Hegel that have grown up from the start of his system to the present day. To be sure, these defenses, in the midst of much 'setting the record straight', might be challenged as partisan or excessively one-sided themselves, yet the fact remains that many attacks on Hegel have failed to grasp the nature of his thinking. This is not even a 'pro-Hegel' statement, being of equal relevance to those critics of Hegel who end up thrashing in the labyrinthine subtleties of his influence, and dialectical logic.
This works both ways, as Hegel is pressed into the service of ideology by his friends. Worth the price of the book twice over is the series and expose on the 'end of history' mythology now liberal propaganda a la Fukuyama. This material arriving via Koyre and Kojeve with assistant packaging by Alan Bloom constitutes the core Hegel phantom in State Department piece de resistance that graced the end of the Cold War. It is a good example of the Hegel you thought you knew, but definitely didn't.

After reading this book, I must say that this is probably the finest work of Donald Jack. The jokes and punes are so subtle that you can read the book several times (As I have done) and discover new ones each time. A witty and very entertaining book.

For those who have followed the trials of Bart Bandy this book will not only bring you up todate on his misadventures, but bring back the enjoyable moments of his checkered past. If you haven't read the previous Bandy Papers - do so if you can find them. This is the best of his adventures as he trips his way through history. Hilarious!