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Jo Gartin's Weddings: An Inspiring Guide for the Stylish Bride
Jo Gartin Manufacturer: Rodale Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1594862613 Release Date: 2005-12-27 |
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The secrets of Vogues recommended wedding planner are now available to brides everywhere. Celebrities such as Brooke Shields, Courteney Cox Arquette, Molly Shannon, and Taye Diggs have turned to Jo Gartin for invitations, unique celebrations, and weddings with a special twist. Now, Gartin has compiled the ultimate inspirational guide, designed to help any bride make her fairy tale come true. Dozens of lush color photographs capture Gartins signature style as she presents captivating ideas for creating beautiful bouquets, breathtaking tabletops, and thoughtful take-home treats, just to name a few. In Jo Gartins Weddings, readers will: explore Jos custom stationery portfolio as she presents an array of her most-requested invitations accompany Gartin as she joins renowned designer, Monique Lhuillier, to present sought-after styling tips learn how to transform bargain wedding dresses into one-of-a-kind gowns that would stop Vera Wang in her tracksfor under $500! discover fun ways to present and serve cocktails, hors doeuvres, and sweet treats be seduced by to-die-for ideas for cake decoration that wont break the bankCustomer Reviews:
great ideas.......2007-08-25
Creative, inspiring, modern..........2007-07-12
Easy, Simple, Stylish.......2007-07-06
Modern and unique .......2007-01-16
Loved it!.......2007-01-15
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Jo Gartin's Weddings - Inspiring Guide For The Stylish Bride
Jo Gartin Manufacturer: Rodale Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RIYF0Q |
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Highland Hearts (Zebra Historical Romance)
Hannah Howell Manufacturer: Zebra ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0821769251 |
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Exciting, Hard to Put Down Read!.......2004-07-09
Exciting, sweet love story........2004-02-18
I have to say, I was pleasantly suprised. This book was not only good, it was exciting and filled will adventure.
Revan was soooo sweet to Tess. He protected her and cherished her. Tess was also really neat. She had a quick tongue but was also sweet. I loved how she wanted to look pretty for Revan whenever she got the chance.
In short, if you do buy this book, you won't be disapointed. It is a sweet, adventurous love story that will leave you feeling happy you took the time to read it. Revan and Tess were such a cute couple!
Not Quite Right.......2003-06-09
Highland Hearts.......2002-10-31
An "OK" book........2002-08-04
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The Poet and the Pauper (Seasons of the Heart, 1)
George MacDonald Manufacturer: Bethany House Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764226592 |
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Heart-gripping Tales Filled With Mystery, Suspense, and Unexpected LoveThe special value volume combines two of George MacDonald's most beloved novels. The Baronet's Song tells the enchanting story of "Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands." Gibbie is a seemingly destitute orphan, whose lifethough he is unable to speakcommunicates truth, innocent love, and goodness. The Shepherd's Castle continues the story of Gibbie's best friend, Donal Grant, in a classic tale of love, dark secrets, and true Christian character.
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A beautiful character portrayed!.......2003-11-18
I read the "Curate's Awakening" with interest, but the story of Gibbie is a cut above, absolutely touching and meaningful. MacDonald artistically and movingly paints a picture of this young, neglected, then orphaned, mute boy who has a beautiful heart, despite his difficult life.
What "gets" me is that he refuses to play at being a victim, although one might jump at the chance--for he is cruely treated in several instances. The book kept me throughout Gibbie's youth until his young adulthood.
The beauty of the characterization and the fictional storyline make a thoughtful, heartwarming read and healthy escape.
Hats off to Phillips for the edit.
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The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
Robert S. Carlsen Manufacturer: University of Texas Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0292711948 |
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"A vivid, complex, and concise portrait of cultural continuity, social cohesion, and conflict in a town of Tzutujil Maya-speaking people of Guatemala.... Carlsen launches into an exploration of the capacity of these people to persist through centuries of oppression and of the culture to survive and regenerate even under circumstances of extreme violent repression.... a novel and eminently readable approach to local-level social and cultural history."
Choice
"Carlsen's descriptions of rituals and beliefs are extremely valuable and detailed... and will be particularly useful to students of the ancient and modern Maya."
Linda Schele
After a decade of military occupation known as la violencia, the Tz'utujil-speaking Maya of Santiago Atitlán stood up to the Guatemalan Army in 1990 and forced it to leave their town. Yet that act of solidarity did not close the widening internal divisions that threaten to destabilize the community from within. Ironically, after 500 years of resistance to physical and spiritual conquest, many Atitecos now seem eager to abandon traditional Mayan culture.
In this compelling ethnography, Robert S. Carlsen explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in this representative Mayan community. Drawing on documentary evidence, he argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continues to play a defining role in the religious and social life of the community. At the same time, however, he shows how the twentieth-century consolidation of the Guatemalan state has steadily eroded the capacity of Mayan communities to adapt to change and has caused some local factions to rejecteven demonizetheir own culture.
This book reflects fifteen years of field research in Atitlán, where Carlsen learned Tz'utujil, was accepted into a local cofradía (Mayan/Catholic religious society), and was a first-hand witness to la violencia. It thus presents a rare insider's perspective.
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Tragedy and Triumph in a Guatemalan Town.......1998-10-22
E. Michael Mendelson writes: The subject of this extremely well written and readable book is Santiago Atitlan, the largest town of the Tzutujil Indians on one of the world's most beautiful volcanic lakes: Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. The town has long been famous with tourists and with anthropologists who have been studying it since at least the Nineteen Twenties. One of the principal deities in the Maya-Christian religious syncretism of Atitlan-the Maximon or Mam-even made Time Magazine coverage when it was attacked by Catholic clergy in the 1950s.
In a sense, the attempted conquest of the Maya and Maya resistance to it have continued from the 16th century Spanish Conquest down to the 20th century Civil War (in most ways a war against the Maya Indians) and Carlsen does a brilliant job of investigating four centuries of both continuity and change. In the last half century, a major crisis has been developing on the lake due to increased population and shortage of land. The move of so many local Maya from agriculture to commerce may be the reason why, Carlsen argues, traditional native religion-agriculture based-is having a hard time surviving against Orthodox and Charismatic Catholicism, militant Evangelical Protestantism, and contemporary media-driven culture. Commerce is not doing sufficiently well to save the town when set in the context of Guatemalan capitalism, itself vulnerable to increasing globalization. Further undermining the situation has been the Civil War, culminating in the December 2nd 1990 massacre of civilians by the Army-though local pride in forcing the Army out the town as a result of the massacre remains strong.
While this is Carlsen's main concern here (one is sure there will be further books), he manages to include a great deal of fresh and resonant information on Atiteco traditions. There is, among much else, a wonderful chapter on the central Tzutujil concept of "Flowering Mountain Earth," linking Sun, Corn, and Humans in an ideology descended straight from the great pre-Spanish classic text Popol Vuh, as well as a condensed but most insightful essay on the continuing cult of Sacred Bundles in Atitlan. Like all good anthropologists, Carlsen achieves a delicate balance between empathetic participation and objective study. His long dedication to the town is evident in the depth and warmth of his vision. The book is blessedly free of jargon and is illustrated with a wealth of excellent photographs. It cannot be too highly recommended.
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Highland Heart (Harlequin Historical, No 111)
Ruth Ryan Langan Manufacturer: harlequin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0373287119 |
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Ok but not great.......2006-09-03
it's my pleasure to be the first one to review this book.......2002-12-31
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My Heart's in the Highlands; a Play
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace and company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FMP63O |
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Brave Highland Heart
Heather Kellerhals-Stewart Manufacturer: Fitzhenry and Whiteside ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0773730990 Release Date: 1999-01-01 |
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Wherever my father puffs out his cheeks and plays the bagpipes, my brothers go to visit a friend. Our dog creeps under the bed, the horses flatten their ears, the hens cluck. And I cover my ears. But one special night everyone listened when my father played his pipes. For the youngest member in of the family, the ceilidh is almost spoiled. She has been judged old enough to help, but too young to stay up like her brothers, or wear a kilt, or dance until dawn. But when the bagpipes sound from the far hills she is there - hiding in the hay- watching, listening. And on a night twinkling with fireflies, one small girl's brave Highland heart responds to her father and the ancient spell his music weaves.Customer Reviews:
Brave Highland Heart.......2000-02-16
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The man with the heart in the highlands & other early stories (A Revived modern classic)
William Saroyan Manufacturer: New Directions Pub. Corp ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0811211150 |
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Honest Wisdom and Wit of Saroyan Shines.......2004-04-30
Honest Wisdom and Wit of Saroyan Shines.......2004-04-30
a wonderful Saroyan day-trip.......2001-01-25
Saroyan goes back in time effortlessly, describing a game of leap-frog (remember that game, where a line of kids crouch on the ground and one kid hops over the whole line and crouches in the front, and then the last kid gets up and hops over the whole line, to infinity...) where a tough boy and a tough girl compete brutally, leaping and crouching, all the way out into the country and to the next town, ending in a bloody brawl. And in "The Messenger", a young boy gets hilariously distracted from his extremely important mission to send a message to the town doctor. Most of the stories are light, funny and non-ironic, but at times the customary Saroyan bile simmers to the top. Like in "The Living and the Dead", where a reluctant young Communist writer, is walking down the road to town, whistling happily, and suddenly "...the whole world, caught in time and space, seemed to me an absurdity, and insanity, and instead of being amused, which would have been philosophical, I was miserable and began to ridicule all the tragic straining of man, living and dead." Like I said, MOST of the stories are light and funny...
What I like most about these is the sense of respect and compassion Saroyan shows his characters, no matter how young, simple or strange they are. He describes their lives like he was there experiencing the same bittersweet mini-tragedies and absurdities simultaneously, right along with them. He uses the vernacular of the day to write the most endearing dialogue ever, bringing these superbly-drawn characters to luminous life. Saroyan's early stories here reflect the same kind of innocent humor and subtlety as the brief output of another American master, Nathaniel West. If you liked "The Day of the Locust" or "Balso Snell", then these little classics will bring you a similarly delightful reading experience. I strongly believe Raymond Carver to be a literary son, or at least nephew, to William Saroyan here in his best form, the short story.
a brief description.......1997-04-21
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3-in-1: Hearts in the Highlands, The Hired Wife, From Paris with Love (Signet Romance)
Lynna Cooper Manufacturer: Signet (New American LIbrary) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000SUHPOG |
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Three separate paperbacks.
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4 Titles By Hannah Howell : A Taste of Fire - Highland Hearts - Highland Barbarian - Highland Lover
Hannah Howell Manufacturer: Zebra Historical Romance ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000TBUYJM |
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multiple books ship as one item. save on shipping/handling charges.
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Beloved Angel: Heart of the Highlands
Victoria M. Noxon Manufacturer: PublishAmerica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1424107210 Release Date: 2006-05-22 |
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Bethany MacKay is plagued by visions and an unusual gift for healing. She searches for the strength and courage to save her beloved Highlands. Facing certain death should the secret of her gifts be revealed, she vows to keep her silenceeven from the handsome Highlander who unwittingly captures her heart. Duncan MacLean allows no woman power over him. Experience taught him they're faithless creatures whose false words weaken and destroy. And then he meets Bethany and is captivated by her beauty and spirit. Yet, beneath her brave façade, he senses a fear she tries desperately to conceal. Blinded by his need to protect her, Duncan is unaware that he's the pawn in a deadly plot of blood and revenge. By the time he fully understands Bethany's gifts of selflessness, will it be too late to claim the heart of his Beloved Angel?Books:
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