Stone Books

I used this book to learn about history. It's about a boy in 1912 and something that actually happened when a rich man asked people to bring stones to help build the wall of his castle. The illustrator drew great pictures of what the city was like in 1912 and how people lived at that time.(Amazon said it was made of photos but they are actually pictures that are drawn) I did a presentation about it at school and everyone really liked it and now they are all reading the book and saying it is great. (My mom helped with this review)

I read this book in school and its my favourite of the year, It is a real adventure of a boy in 1912. It made me feel like something from history could have happened to me. I really liked the pictures too because they showed how the city looked. Later we found out that all those buildings can still be seen and we can actually visit the Castle where it all happened.

From back cover: "Laura Middlebrook Had Found her Man. Handsome, Risk Take, experience, the one. Without a doubt, war hero Sean Wilder was the one. He seemed the perfect candidate to give her the memories of a lifetime in the few months she had left. Now all Laura had to do was convince him to marry her! Investigator Sean Wilder knew there was something strange about Laura's proposal. The woman was the picture of health. Yet the innocent beauty truly believed that she was dying. It looked as though it was up to hime to show her that her prognosis was obviously a big mistake!"

"I can't believe this is happening to me!" Doctor Cadwallader assured 25 year-old Laura Middlebrook her fainting spell last night was due to too much wine and a too tight corset! Now she overhears her brother Lambdin aka Lamb, talking with his friend James Maclin that she has only a few months left, possibly less. In her progressive weakness she'll simply lie down one day and that will be that and Lamb thinks it's best not to tell her. Since these are Laura's dying days, she's sad she'll take with her no memory of what it means to really live and be physically loved by a man. She feels this must be remedied and she has to convince someone to marry her-quickly!

While Laura is secretly learning her doomed fate, handsome but staid former-Scotland-Yarder-turned-private-investigator, Sean Wilder, has chosen this time to interrupt her brother's conversation. Sean met with Lamb to discuss what he's uncovered about the fleecing within their family shipping business. Sean peaks Laura's interest and she selects Sean to be the one to make her remaining days memorable. She proposes to Sean and against his better judgment, he consents. Sean has secrets of his own. Someone is trying to kill him, but why?

Because of an investigation case, the married couple travel to Paris and have the time of their lives. And the death threats continue, even in Paris. Through all this, Laura falls helplessly in love with Sean and despite his best efforts not to love Laura, he does. They return to England and the mystery deepens. Can this ill-fated couple overcome all obstacles and come to terms with each other's impending destiny?

This quick and easy to read tale pulls at the heartstrings from the first page to the last! Don't pass up this one!

This book is just what you are looking for in a guide to building willow tree chairs . Lots of information , and best of all the how-to sections are very complete and easy to understand . Finally , a how-to book that really delivers ! In short , if you have been dreaming of building your own willow tree chair , then this is the book to get !! This is one of the best how-to guides ever published .

This book is just what you are looking for in a guide to building willow tree chairs . Lots of information , and best of all the how-to sections are very complete and easy to understand . Finally , a how-to book that really delivers ! In short , if you have been dreaming of building your own willow tree chair , then this is the book to get !! This is one of the best how-to guides ever published .

In the library of Civil War literature the Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863, is one of the most under represented large scale battles of the war. One can easily count the number of volumes dedicated solely to the battle on the fingers of one hand.

Having moved to Murfreesboro nearly five years ago I am a regular visitor to Stones River National Battlefield, but I have never been able to make much sense of the battle by my battlefield visits, even when using the park brochure's guided tour. I suppose my confusion about the battle stems from the fact that the park's current 600 acres represents only about 15% of the total area where fighting took place.

Matt & Lee Spruill have come to my rescue with their book, Winter Lightning: A Guide to the Battle of Stones River. With twenty-one tour stops (as opposed to the National Park's six) the Spruill's lead you on a driving tour over the ground, both outside and inside of the park, where the three day battle between the Confederate Army of the Tennessee with General Braxton Bragg at its head, and the Federal Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.

The evening of December 30, 1862 found both armies facing each other northwest of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in opposing lines of battle, stretching diagonally from the town's west to its north, and each preparing to attack the other's right. Which ever side to launch their attack first would have the advantage. At sunrise, Bragg and his Confederate Army was the first to strike.

The Spruill's follow the battle chronologically as it progressed, following the action as the Confederate troops rolled up the Federal right and sending Union regiments, one after another, fleeing to the rear, to the Federal's stand at The Round Forrest, and finally to the fighting at McFadden's Ford on January 2nd. At each stop we are provided narration by the authors, giving the reader an overview of what happened, and then we are presented with a balanced view of the action from both sides with first hand accounts from the soldiers who were there, usually from official reports, but some times from diaries or letters.

The book contains 41 maps, which vary widely in scale from theater maps down to maps on the regimental level, depending on the situation or topic being covered. One only reading the book may find the maps a little cumbersome as north is not always oriented to the top of the page. This book was intended to be a tour guide, and the maps are presented to the reader at each of the stops as the reader would see the landscape that is in front of him. Therefore if you are directed to look to the southeast, southeast would be oriented to the top of the page. Not only do the historic roads appear in the maps but also the roads of the present and are clearly marked, for example: "Medical Center Pkwy (today)."

Not only have Matt & Lee Spruill added a book to the small library shelf dedicated to the battle, they have also given me a greater understanding of it. I can now point to a spot of land just south of the present day Medical Center Parkway and say with confidence that is where my great great grandfather, Walter E. Partridge (Company F, 36th Illinois Infantry) was during the battle.

At the end of 1862 after a series of defeats, the Union won a clear victory here. This is one of those under reported battles and more important than we think. Lincoln thanked Rosecrans saying that the nation could not have taken another defeat. Additionally, Lincoln said he would remember this victory as long as he lived.

The Spruills continue the tradition of excellent Civil War battlefield guides that are so valuable to walkers. These detailed guides contain directions, participant's accounts and good historical information telling us what we are looking at after telling us how to get there. Each one is a required addition to my library and packed for any trip to the field.

This is truly the "don't leave home without it" item.

for being one the first few people to get the book i was lucky to say that i loved the book and didnt know how hard it was for jewish people growing up with being different. I learn a lot from formly dating the author of the book for 6 months and if you ever get a chance to meet her or talk to her i recommend you do since she will in lighten you on the books subject and will bring joy to all that meet her in person so i recommend buy the book and bring a smile to your kids faces when you take the time to read it to them.

I received Winter's Silence today, and absolutely LOVED it! It was so riveting that I finished it within a few hours of receiving it. As a teacher, I can identify with young Emily and how she feels because I encounter prejudice and misunderstanding among children quite a bit. I thought that Ms. Silberstein accurately captured the feelings that a young child would experience when encountered with not only peer problems but problems at home.

As a Christian, I did not realize the struggle that many Jewish Americans feel on a daily basis: the struggle, the ridicule, and the misinformed opinions against them. This book showed me what other people with a differing religion go through, and I feel I learned how to handle this if I ever encountered this situation in the classroom.

Again, what a wonderful, insightful book!

This book, published in 1981, still has plenty of powerful information and data for the person wanting to get a real feel for the ongoing revolution in Cuba. Especially as it revolves around women and their role in Cuban society in every level.
The introduction by Elizabeth Stone is valuable in giving serious background information to the Cuba before and after 1959 in the context of women's role in the struggle and in the battle for acceptance as equals in the home and on the job. However, the rest of the book is dedicated to primary source materials---from speeches by Vilma Espin and Fidel Castro, two of the long time leaders of the Cuban revolution--- to actual legal documents such as the "Maternity Law for Working Women" and "The Family Code". Women even after the revolution had to deal with the ideas of machismo such as "There are things even Fidel can not change!" They had to deal with the fact that even with a revolutionary government they still lived in an under-developed country with scarce resources.
How did this government turn around the Cuban legacy of menial jobs, if any, for women? Its high infant mortality rates? The illegality of abortion? Reading this book will give you the answers to those questions and many more.

Women in Cuba, who had been maids or prostitutes if they worked outside the home under the U.S.-backed dictatorship in the 1950s, joined enthusiastically in the 1959 revolution. Their hopes and determination were reflected at the 1966 conference of the Cuban Women's Federation(FMC) in a banner which said: "One million women working in production by 1970." In his speech before that banner, which is included in this book, Fidel Castro pointed out that thousands of child care centers, laundries and dining halls in schools would have to be built to make it possible for women to be gainfully employed in their hundreds of thousands.

Indeed, the "Thesis: On the full exercise of women's equality" adopted by the Cuban Communist Party in 1975 and also included in the book, states, "large numbers of women . . . leave productive activity, pressured by the objective and subjective difficulties they face in their family and social environment." But by 1980, thousands of day care centers, all free, had been built and over 800,000 women were working outside the home.

This inspiring book gives a picture of how the Cuban socialist system run by workers and farmers has improved women's lives, offering preventive medicine in every neighborhood, including birth control information and supplies, as well as abortion, all at no cost. We'll need to emulate the Cubans and get rid of the capitalist system that profits from paying women less and promotes thinking of ourselves as less than equal. Even then this book will be valuable as an example of confronting the challenges ahead in eradicating the oppression of women.

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I have been in the field of Early Childhood Education for over 10 years and I am always seeking resources that will making the job of "Working With Young Children" a little easier. I think this book is a great resource and definately worth buying.

This absolutely is the best textbook on the market for preparing to teach preschool children. The quality of the book reflects the author's intense dedication to early childhood as a teacher, center director, and University professor.

The book takes a much needed "how to" approach and is written in a clear and concise style. Beginning with understanding the characteristics of young children at different ages, the book is comprehensive. It includes everything you need to know to set up a creative developmentally appropriate environment; manage a classroom; plan an inviting curriculum, work with parents, etc. The hundreds of colored photographs help the reader see and understand quality indicators needed in outstanding early childhood programs. Treat yourself and order it today!

These journals have a flex-rubbery cover so you don't have to worry about getting them wet. I have about 7 of these journals so far. I always get a new one when working on a new project. When writing my first book (Rib Tunes), second book (Vertical Blinds), screenplays, and using as 'word journals' (poets will know what I mean), I always come back to these journals. I never have to worry about taking it everywhere I go. They seem to last forever. I love them!

Why? it is flexible, some what water proof because of the cover if you place it on a table and it's wet (cafe writers you know what I mean) just wipe.

it is bound well and doesn't fall apart with use. I still have one from 7 years ago (filled) and it holds up wonderfully.

not to big or heavy, not too small that you fill it in a week.

love to see a built in bookmark (ribbon) but now i'm just nitpicking.

This women of God was and is truly a vessel of The Most High. You've Got The Power, breathed life into the phase "I'm going in to bring others out." It allows us and showed me that once you've been delivered from your sick bed - get up, there's someone else who's lying in one and needs to know about the power and virtue that raised you up. She's unlocked the door of bondage with the key of deliverence, to let others know there's a way out, and that You've Got the Power to get out.

I'm expecting to here more from this anointed women of God, I place a demand on her anointing even now in the name of Jesus!

This book opened up many areas of understanding of deliverance. Without a shadow of doubt, I realized that I truly have the power through Christ Jesus. This book is scripturally based and is clear. This is an excellent book to minister in the area of deliverance. Every deliverance minister should have a copy of this book in their library. We are truly delivered to deliver and we do have THE POWER!

My dad loved this so much for father's day that he's forcing me to read it. He told me about how he got kinda misty when he read the stories and thought about the days when everyone wanted to be a cowboy or an astronaut. Thanks amazon.com for bringing back those memories. Happy Trails