September 2012 | Hanover Evening Sun

The Lost Art of Gratitude: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)You have to believe that author Alexander McCall Smith has a special fondness for his main character in "The Sunday Philosophy Club" series, Isabel Dalhousie, for he has created for her a seamlessly agreeable life. She is intelligent, well-educated, well-to-do and beautiful. She has a handsome, sensitive...

Brotherhood of the Wolf (The Runelords) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is much better than the last book, and it is developing into a true epic unlike some other series (*cough Goodkind cough*).I have to say though, the whole concept of endowments and such grew tiresome halfway thorugh the first book. While it is a novel concept, Mr. Farland seems to be using...

Imagining Egypt Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is really a children's book and not suitable for anyone who is looking for genuine reconstructions of Ancient Egyptian buildings. The pictures are pretty enough, but the information is, unfortunately, minimal. For those interested in serious archaeological treatment, look elsewhere.JLRClick Here...

Family Matters Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As Mistry makes clear in this novel, the "one important story [is] of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption...Just the details are different." With these themes as the bedrock of his story, he depicts the world of a multigenerational Parsi family in Bombay, their world changed forever when Nariman...

Watercolor School (Learn as You Go) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a novice watercolour painter and devoted bibliophile, I have found a new way of spending my hard-earned money: Watercolour books. However, this one might be one of the last I buy, as it's really useful. bought the book yesterday and I am delighted with it. The advice on how to do things is sound,...

Olive Farm Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)While the allure of a foreign land is a subject often plumbed by such attractive sojourners as Peter Mayle (A Year In Provence) and Frances Mayes (Under The Tuscan Sun), British writer/actress Carol Drinkwater offers refreshingly original musings on her love affair with southern France. She is particularly...

McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (McGuffey's Readers) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I purchased the first two readers and after reading through them decided to buy the rest of the series. This is a wonderful reading program and my two children, ages 6 & 8, love reading these short little stories. Both of my children are good readers so we use the readers to increase their fluency...

By Willoway Brook: Exploring the Landscape of Prayer Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book offers a beautiful description of the changing seasons of the prairie landscape while paralleling it to our growing, changing prayer life. Gives you an opportunity to reflect on your own life with an encouraging tone.Click Here to see more reviews about: By Willoway Brook: Exploring the Landscape...

The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a fun book. It's a nice book to read a chapter at a time as a bedtime book, because nothing particularly stressful or traumatic happens. The chapters are reasonable short and benign. There is tension, there is some drama, there are rich characters struggling with their individual challenges....

A Private Inquiry Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"A Private Inquiry," set mainly in St. Ives, in Cornwall, is both an engrossing mystery and a compassionate exploration of self-deception and ultimate awareness. It is a story of two women, whose lives intersect through the machinations of a third. At first, the book seems merely to be about the increasingly...

The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Much better than the prequel, The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again has our old favorites from the first book, plus a whole new group of really interesting women that anybody can relate to.What I liked best about this book was that friendships transcended age barriers, and that women in their 60s were valued...

The Legendary Neversink: A Treasury of the Best Writing About One of America's Great Trout Rivers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"The Legendary Neversink" is a keeper. 15 years ago I learned that The Neversink River in the Catskill Mountains of New York is where dry fly fishing was introduced in America. It was developed and spread throughout the county until "the Catskill School" became the American School. This book offers further...

Vermont Farm Women Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My wife and I just returned from a Fall Foliage vacation in Ver mont. On a coffee table at a Bed and Breakfast we stayed at, we found a copy of this book. It is the stories of variouss women who own and do the back breaking work of farming. Some have lived on a farm all their lives, others have left...

Jonas and Sally Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jonas And Sally, the first of Rich Foss's hopefully prolific writing career, was one of the most compelling and beautifully-written novels I've read in ages. It is a realistic but hopeful look at what human beings are capable of, from a collapse into sexual perversion to the triumph of an indomitable...

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Do you remember that magic moment when you first open a book and realized you've met what will be an old friend, one of those books you know you will think about for ages, that you will reread over and over again (if you read like that, which I do), and that stands a chance at actually changing your...

The Gold Thread: And Other Stories of Young Faith Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This publisher takes our families highest good to heart. These stories read to our children and grandchildren help mold character, illicit great questions, and provide a means to build a moral conscience. Can't say enough good about this book and also the book "Just David" The format and printing are...

The Patchwork People Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In the novel The Patchwork People, Louise Lawrence, a British author, follows a young man's life named Hugh go though many obstacles of trying to keep his head above water. His family is on welfare and is struggling tremendously. Hugh meets this girl in a train station named Helena who is on the higher...