September 2011 | Hanover Evening Sun

The Storyteller of Marrakesh: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"What matters in the end is the truth".With these words the author takes the reader into a world rich in tapestry and entertains them with a well-plotted tale.The title character invites the readers to join his audience and then takes them on a journey that is both page turning and satisfying. It would...

The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I will preface this by saying that I am just beginning my path back to God and that I have tried reading many Bibles but often felt like I was left feeling like "yeah, that's all well and good but what does this have to do with my life right now?".Last fall, I lost my job. That was a devastating event...

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the book on Dickinson I have always been waiting for, and wished I could write. Though I have loved Dickinson since I first started reading poetry and have brooded on a number of her poems and have even visited her residence in Amherst, Vendler's endless array of superb insights prove my previous...

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I received this book via the Amazon Vine program. It's the no-frills, pre-published edition complete with typos and inexpensive binding. My understanding is the final edition has a map or two + some lovely photos to accompany the story. I certainly could have used both but honestly, this book was so...

Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Armitage is #1 when it comes to bedding and garden plants, and this book shows it. His manual is a top-notch resource and includes his own personal insights into each plant. Unlike other references that are boring and dry, Armitage makes the material spring to life!The line drawings in this book are...

The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Resources in this world are not distributed evenly, especially the precious gift of time."When you take risks, the consequences can be horrible and deadly. If you don't take risks, the consequences will eventually be deadly anyway, it just may take longer. Jim Davidson and Mike Price, climbing buddies...

The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This play-by-play description to the turmoil that followed the capture of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861 is exciting and comprehensive, but it is the vignettes of people north or south, famous or unknown, who put their stamp on history that I found the most intriguing elements of the book. Was it providential...

Day by Day Kid's Bible: The Bible for Young Readers (Tyndale Kids) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)this is a great book to get children, I'll say 2nd to 5th grade, to read and understand important stories in the bible. It is a day by day reader that should take around 7 to 10 minutes depending on reading skills. there are some illustrations to break up the copy. stories that might appear in different...

The Risk of Darkness (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the third book by Susan Hill that I have bought and read. While Simon may not be everyone's idea of a policeman, he is complicated,deep, and interesting. His family background and interaction with them are interesting and complex. This book finishes the story of the missing child begun in the...

Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Everyone with the slightest familiarity with Joseph Campbell, of course, knows the famous catch-phrase: "Follow Your Bliss". And everyone pretty much knows what it means, as well: Figure out whatever your passion is, and responsibly and diligently move forward, and pursue it... for the rest of your life......

The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The theme of this beautifully written and breathtakingly illustrated book is that great garden design may be enriched when it references and embraces creative elements that are found in the plastic and performing arts.Such a phenomenon is called synergy in industry and in horticulture it is metaphorically...

Gardens of Luciano Giubbilei Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book has all the right components to make a splash. Fine publishing, superb photography, brilliant and interesting text to acknowledge one of the best Italian garden designers. At the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show 2009, Giubbilei produced one of the most endearing gardens, one that many wanted...

Spencer's Mountain Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you enjoyed watching The Walton's on TV, you will probably enjoy Spencer's Mountain, since apparently the show was based-on this book. The names are different, and you get a greater sense of the financial and social challenges facing the family, and there is no radio for the family to gather around...

Leaving Van Gogh: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Remember the scene in director Jodie Foster's film "Little Man Tate" when Fred, the boy genius, is asked by his mentor why he thought painter Vincent Van Gogh depicted a solitary white iris amidst an entire field of the purple variety? Fred's simple yet profound response, "Because he was lonely," seems...

Christy Miller Collection, Vol. 2: Surprise Endings / Island Dreamer / A Heart Full of Hope (Books 4-6) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although I am an adult, I've enjoyed all the Christy Miller stories. Christy is the sort of person I would have loved to have had for a friend durin high school, and I think many girls can relate to her. The pacing of the stories is sometimes a little slow, and the supporting characters, especially Christy's...

Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I first discovered this book when I asked a physics professor down the hall for an explanation of diffraction and refraction in relation to some daytime sky phenomenon. He handed me Seeing the Light, and before long I coveted the volume. The authors dress down optical physics into explanations that anyone...

The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (The Terry Lectures Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Abrams and Primack have created a book which can and SHOULD be read by everyone.They give credit to the ideas, thinking and writing of visionaries like Thomas Berry, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme (among many others) but the approach they bring is FRESH, clear and resonant adding in several new notions...