Home Across the Road

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Every family has secrets, but the Redds have more than most. Consider, for example, the fact that this North Carolina clan has two distinct branches, the white Redds and the black Redds, their former slaves. Through seven generations, their histories and their blood have mixed, culminating in the present-day occupants of Roseberry Plantation, solitary Coyle Redd and his black housekeeper (and distant cousin), China. When Coyle puts the dilapidated mansion up for auction, it would seem that the two families' shared past will finally come to an end; but in Nancy Peacock's remarkable saga, Home Across the Road, blood ties are not so easily severed. Skillfully jumping from present to past and back again, Peacock traces the Redd connection back to antebellum days when white plantation owner Jennis Redd fathered the child of his slave, Cally. When the boy, Cleavis, is 6 years old, Redd's jealous wife accuses him of stealing a pair of earrings that her own son really took, and has him sold away. In retaliation, Cally takes the earrings herself and buries them under the floor of her slave cabin. From this point on, the fortunes of the black Redds improve while those of the white Redds decline.

Peacock mixes a little magic into the parallel histories she tells, and conjures up an exquisite novel that is part ghost story, part meditation on the ineffable power of blood and history to bind people to a place, to each other, and to patterns of behavior that repeat themselves through the years. Home Across the Road is spare in its prose style but rich in the themes it mines. --Sheila Bright

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With the simple, evocative grace of her nationally acclaimed debut novel, Life Without Water, Nancy Peacock has created a poignant story of two families -- one black, one white -- and the North Carolina house that binds their lives together for more than a hundred years.

In 1861, Roseberry was the plantation home of the white Redds; the black Redds were one of the slave families who worked there. In 1971, Roseberry stands empty, a wisteria vine growing through the dining room window, and China Redd, who worked in the house for half a century, is ready to die.

But first she has a story to tell. Not the one recorded by Lydia Redd, the matron of the house, in her own book, beginning with the earrings, the selling if Cleavis, and the curse, and ending with the death of Coyle, the last of the white Redds. If she has nothing else from the forty-seven years of work in a house where nothing was her own, she has this story.

Moving effortlessly back and forth in time through the parallel legends of the Redd families, Home Across the Road is a beautiful, haunting, and timeless drama that touches your heart and soul.

Customer Reviews:

GREAT READ!.......2007-07-24

Readers loving tales of the deep South and relationships of its peoples will thoroughly revere the lovely writing skills within this short, yet deep novel. Would love to read MORE from this author!

Good novel, rather biased.......2004-04-23

The story of the black Redds and the white Redds gives a good picutre of life for blacks and whites in America, however, the story is rather biased. It is easy to see who you are to feel pity on and who you are not to like.

The blacks are shown as oppressed, loving, caring and family oriented. The white Redds are shown to be over-powering, greedy, and basically not nice people.

Each of the Redds dies a rather violent death or at least a death that is not peaceful. There always seems to be a reason that the world is a better place without them. The black Redds are shown to have very difficult lives, which they may have had, however, there is little joy shown in their lives. There is no reason for them to be happy.

The book was interesting, however, I was looking for more when it ended. The story just fizzled out. The white Redds all were dead and gone, we never do find if any of the black Redds have joy in their lives.

Maybe the story was not long enough, perhaps with a bit more depth the bias would not have been as pronounced.

Was not as impressive as her debut novel.......2002-07-14

HOME ACROSS THE ROAD spans 5 generations of Redd's, one side descended from slaves, while the other side descended from the people that owned them. Together, they live on a plantation called Roseberry. The story is told from the view points of several family members from both sides of the family, in particular China, who in the beginning of the book, we are told, is old and waiting to die. Her granddaughter Abolene is living with her across the road from Roseberry, along with Abolene's young baby daughter Cally.

As China tells us her story, the reader slowly learns about the family's early days at Roseberry, and how Jennis Redd, a white man, fathered a child with Cally, a slave owned by Jennis. The child was named Cleavis, and due to a "misunderstanding", Cleavis is sold for stealing a set of abalone pearls that belong to Jennis' wife, and thus Cleavis is taken away forever. In turn, Cally takes revenge on the white Redd's by stealing the pearls, which are then handed down from generation to generation, stories of superstition and luck surrounding the pearls.

As the story progresses, we learn of the different generation members that follow, until we end with Abolene's story. At the same time, we follow the history of the white Redd's that ends with Coyle Redd, the son of an abusive father and a mother who China works for.

HOME ACROSS THE ROAD by Nancy Peacock is told in the same easy-going simple prose that made her debut novel LIFE WITHOUT WATER so charming. Unfortunately, this same style does not work for her second novel. I found this second novel lacking, and although the book had so much potential, spanning 5 generations from the days of slavery to the early 1970's, it seemed to fizzle out before it ended. The story in itself was fascinating, but unfortunately the telling of the story was not. However, because I so enjoyed her debut novel, this book does not discourage me from reading future books written by Nancy Peacock.

Trite.......2002-03-22

I am two thirds through this book of sterotyped characters and have decided to not continue. It is poorly written. All the white characters are studpid or evil and the black ones loving but unable to live under the oppression of those whites to whome they belong.
It is not realistic or interesting.

A story that burgeoned with life!.......2001-09-19

Too often one finds individuals who are capable of telling a story but not capable of breathing life into one. Nancy Peacock is truly a life giver with her novel HOME ACROSS THE ROAD. Her opening line, "In 1973, China Redd was waiting to die" gives the reader a first glimpse into the complex world of the Redd family. The reader soon learns that China Redd can't die until she tells this incredible story. A story of the white Redds and the black Redds. A story of white America and black America. A story that not only needed to be told, but demanded it. As is the case with much of African American history, it exists, primarily in the minds and hearts of the walking oracles who lived it first hand. Nancy Peacock gives the fictional oracle, China Redd, an arena to tell a story that is grounded in truth. The story flows smoothly from the past to the present, and it gives the reader a glimpse into the world that many black people lived but did not live to tell about.

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Home Across the Road_prepack
Nancy Peacock
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0553671391

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Not-so-freakin'-sweet readin'.......2005-02-28

I caught this at the local Tower Records the other day, and gave it a run-through. It was reminiscent of those Fotonovels they used to put out back in the mid-seventies to early eighties. Fotonovels were something like comic-book adaptations of popular sci-fi TV shows and movies of the time using photographic stills and captions of dialogue taken right from that show/movie. Sadly, I never really got into Fotonovels for pretty much the same reason I wasn't keen on this particular offering. This is due to the fact that the print adaptation of the eppies this mini-tome adapts hasn't a fraction of the comedic impact on the printed page as it does on celluloid. Lost are the timing, pacing, voice inflections, etc. that give the broadcast versions of "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" and "Death is a B!+c#" that added bite, as well as added laughs. And if the not-as-funny-in-print deal wasn't a turnoff, the eight-smacker price tag DEFINITELY is! That musta been one expensive tree they cut down to print this...

Needless to say, I highly recommend you pass right by this glorified sequence of storyboards, and watch the two episodes this mini-tome depicts instead ("Death is a B!+C#" and "I Am Peter..." are available on the "Family Guy" Volume 1 DVD box set, which can be found at www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000083C6V/qid=1109527785/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl74/104-0488135-0118334?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 ). You'll get many more laughs that way, believe you me...

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An almost perfect book!.......2004-11-05

This is a great book for any die-hard Family Guy fan. It contains "comic book" versions of two of the episodes (Death is a Bitch and I Am Peter, Hear me Roar), with shots from the episodes, with word bubbles with the lines. They're a little less funny in this form (without the voices), but still worthwhile. My only major gripe with the book is that some lines aren't in the book. And sometimes they're funny lines. You probably wouldn't notice unless you were either watching the show while reading the book, or you're like me and have seen the entire series multiple times and have many lines memorized.

But for anyone who's got the DVDs, be warned that this is nothing new.

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Favorite Hoffman book

An exciting new discovery!

By the Pricking of My Thumbs...

It's another book by Nina Kiriki Hoffman!

This books was terrific

The Silent Strength of Stones (A Chapel Hollow Novel)
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering ...and some best left in shadow, unexplored. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is discovering many things he doesn't want to know: About a pretty girl with hypnotic eyes who talks to his soul... About a wild creature--a wolf--whose features shine with an intelligent, un-lupine knowing... About a strange, inhospitable family occupying a cabin that is meant to be empty. This summer, nature's magic is not the only sorcery traveling on the wind. And the real trick will be surviving until the autumn.

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Favorite Hoffman book.......2005-01-26

Although "The Thread That Binds the Bones" gets a little more attention, "The Silent Strength of Stones" is my favorite Hoffman book with "A Stir of Bones" running a close second.

The standout for me is Hoffman's Nick Verrou, the young hero. He is not perfect by any means but his motives, actions and reactions are very true. His voice is clear in the story even if he's not always sure of where he is going.

The other thing that I like is that Hoffman resists the urge to have a closed ended narrative. Not every story thread has an ending. Although the main story plot has closure, there are other significant moments that do not and within this story and the way that the characters interact, the open-ended storytelling makes sense. It may be understandably frustrating to some readers, but I felt it was appropriate because the main characters are young and nothing at that age has easy closure because they are really just at the beginning of their lives. Hoffman allows that sense of non-closure come through.

The last thing that I like is Hoffman's prose. There is something magical about the way she writes. Smooth, clear, and deceptively simple. She makes the story that unfolds seem effortless and natural. That's a rare talent.

Hoffman is not for everyone but for those of us who find her and admire her work, she's a treasure. And "The Silent Strength of Stones" is my favorite treasure of hers.

An exciting new discovery!.......2003-08-28

Nina Kiriki Hoffman is a new discovery for me, and one long overdue. The Silent Strength of Stones is an excellent introduction to her writing, which -- like contemporaries Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, Terri Windling, etc. -- crafts a highly developed fantasy world within the framework of a thoroughly modern, very real society. Her characters are finely drawn and wholly believable in this setting, and the story resolves neatly while still leaving ample room for a sequel.

Hoffman is an exciting writer -- I can't remember the last time I found one who intrigued me this much!

By the Pricking of My Thumbs..........2002-07-30

Exceptionally-intriguing fantasy novels by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, who's won all kinds of writing awards--Bram Stoker, World Fantasy. The Thread that Binds the Bones and The Silent Strength of Stones deal with an extended family of magic-users, and all the moral/social/familial dilemmas in which they find themselves, in relationships within the family and with outsiders. The magic is believable, all tied up with dead ancestors and unseeable spirits and ancient family history, and it varies from person to person, family to family, generation to generation, like any other inherited trait (instead of "Oh, she's got her grandmother's blue eyes!" it becomes "Oh, she's got her grandmother's second sight!"). Thread deals with the arrival of an outsider, unrelated to the Family in any way, whose inate powers are different from, and stronger in some ways, than those of the Family, and who falls in love all in an instant with a semi-despised daughter of the Family, and between the two of them, the slow steady decline into evil behavior begins to reverse. Stones deals with a long-lost unknown cousin of the Family, living on his own, unaware of his potential, who meets up with some of his relatives and comes of age.

They're good, really really good. Eerie, resonant, by-the-pricking-of-my-thumbs stuff...

It's another book by Nina Kiriki Hoffman!.......2001-10-16

What else can I say? This writer wraps you up in a world so believable, so tangible that you forget everything else. She makes you laugh and cry and sigh, sometimes all in a single sentence. I have never read anything by Nina that has failed to please and this is yet another winner. This is dark fantasy that chills. She and Joss Whedon should collaborate sometime!

This books was terrific.......2001-08-31

This was a really great book. It sucks you in and is very hard to put down. Its just enough fantasy and magic for me. An ordinary guy in an ordinary life, and he turns out to be not so ordinary after all. I don't like the whole unicorn and dragon adventure quest type fantasy that is everywhere, and have a hard time finding ones I think I'll like. This was one of them..very different type of fantasy. I wish I knew a category to call it. I don't know what it is about her books, but I just can't get enough, I wish 'Thread that Binds..' wasn't so hard to find. I read the Red Heart of Memories, and then I was immediately hooked on her writing.

Stepping-Stones for Stepmoms: Everyday Strength for a Blended-Family Mom

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What a wonderful book!!!
Beware . . . .

Stepping-Stones for Stepmoms: Everyday Strength for a Blended-Family Mom
Karon Phillips Goodman
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What a wonderful book!!!.......2007-06-06

I thought that this book was fantastic. I could not put it down once I began to read it. I did not feel at all that this book was "in your face religious." If you are a Christian who trusts in the Lord, then this book is a reminder that God never gives you more than you can handle. This book covers all aspects of being a stepmom from beginning all the way through the rest of your life. I now use it as a reference for when I have rough days, and need a little bit of encouragement. This should be the very first book that every step mother ever reads!!!

Beware . . . ........2007-05-14

While a very nice book, way too in-your-face religious for me. It seems as if every other word is God. I do consider myself a christian, but even this was over the top for me. If you are looking for a spiritual read, this is the one. If you are looking for a stepparenting guide, this is not for you.

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Train like the Mighty Heroes

Of Stones and Strength
Steve Jeck
Manufacturer: Ironmind Enterprises
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Train like the Mighty Heroes.......2004-12-08

In ancient times, the passage of a boy to manhood in his tribe or community was often determined by his ability to lift a large stone, proving he had the strength to bear arms. In this manner the Greek hero Theseus became a man when he could lift a boulder under which his father had placed armor and weapons for him to claim when he reached adulthood. The authors of this book, Steve Jeck and Peter Martin, who are well-known to readers of "MILO - A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes", write of their fascination with the ancient Cluid Clach Fir (Gaelic for 'manhood stones'), especially those found in Scotland where they are known as "the testing stones of the Fianna". They describe the great boulders, weighing several hundred pounds, that can still be found today and the stories behind them - and then go on and lift them! They discuss the modern cultures that still practice stone lifting and Highland Games competitor Steve Jeck includes a weight training program should the reader be inspired to try lifting these famous stones themselves. This excellent book is of interest to students of myth and folklore (particularly Celtic, Scandinavian, Greek and Roman), those of Scottish ancestry and folks interested in strength-training and the exploits of strongmen modern and ancient. For those intrested to learn more, a companion video is available from Iron Mind.

Strength and Weakness: The Authoritarian Personality Today

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Strength and Weakness: The Authoritarian Personality Today

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ASIN: 0387976981

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The purpose of Strength and Weakness is to assess the current status of authoritarianism and authoritarian personality research. Throughout decades of formidable social and political transformation, the study of authoritarianism and the measurement issues associated with those studies have witnessed a prodigious refining process of social-science research methods. This book attests to the fascinating and fertile interaction both in the USA and in Europe between theoreticians and experimentalists in personality research. It shows that the validity of the methods and language of research is continuously reasserted; similarly, the concepts which are the objects of study, such as the concept of authoritarianism, are reinforced. In the field of authoritarianism research, theory building and empirical verification are engaged in a very dynamic relationship. This book is essential reading for social and personality psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians.

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Cities Give Us The Boot
Worth reading but flawed
A discussion of sin against a backdrop of sentient cities
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Strength of Stones
Greg Bear
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But things are beginning to change. People are no longer willing to allow the cities to keep them out, choosing instead to force an entry and plunder at will. The cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens.

One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position at the heart of one of the greatest cities ever, she must decide the fate of the relationship between human society and the ancient strongholds of knowledge, while making one last desperate attempt to save the living cities.

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In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a necessary part of their architecture, casting them out to wander in the wilderness and eke out a meager subsistence. To the exiled humans, the cities represent a paradisiacal Eden, a reminder of all they cannot attain due to their sinful and unworthy natures. But things are beginning to change. People are no longer willing to allow the cities to keep them out, choosing instead to force an entry and plunder at will. The cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens. One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position at the heart of one of the greatest cities ever, she must decide the fate of the relationship between human society and the ancient strongholds of knowledge, while making one last desperate attempt to save the living cities.

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Cities Give Us The Boot.......2007-07-21

On the planet God-Does-Battle, colonists from Earth settled more than 1300 years ago. The colonists were all religious refugees, escaping from the chaotic and politically inhospitable Earth to their new-found home amongst the stars. To support these colonists, more than a hundred highly sophisticated cities were constructed under the auspices of architect Robert Kahn. These cities were designed with every possible comfort...and then some. From advanced medical and educational facilities to legions of robotic servants tending to every citizen's beck and call. The cities were even capable of breaking themselves down and moving to entirely new locations. But, a mere century after God-Does-Battle's colonization, the cities revolted, the artificial minds that oversaw the cities kicked its citizens out, forcing them to eke out a meager existence in makeshift villages called expolises.

The reasoning behind this banishment, and how to correct it, provides the central story arc in Bear's novel. Having read some of Bear's work in the past, the author's "fingerprint" is clear. A novel full of strong chracterizations that come in a very close second to the hard science background of the story. Combined, these two components compose a rather fine novel that is easy to read and keeps things moving...until a weaker than expected, and somewhat confusing, ending. However, the ending is still solid enough to make this story worth reading.

Worth reading but flawed.......2007-03-28

This book is definitely worth reading, as it has a great concept and Bear's prose is nice and uncluttered. Some salient points:

* The concept is very engaging and unique
* Very readable prose, especially for the SF/F genre
* Somewhat reminiscent of Asimov's Foundation, in that it covers a world across several characters and a span of years
* Spelling errors in this version get progressively worse toward the end of the book, suggesting poor copy editing
* The ending is a complete "Huh?", going in a totally different direction from the rest of the book, and suggesting a master plan that is completely unrelated to everything that has come before. It's as if it was pulled from a different book entirely.

Another reviewer suggests that Bear cannot seem to properly finish a book, and while this is my first book of his, I can definitely see that problem here. It's a shame because it's a nice, quick read that never bogs down, and has some great ideas. It would be four stars if it had a satisfying ending. I will try other Greg Bear books, and hope that some of them end more convincingly.

A discussion of sin against a backdrop of sentient cities .......2006-04-04

Greg Bear's "Strength of Stones" focuses on the development of planet God-Does-Battle, the self-elected exile of Christians, Muslims and Jews from a secularised earth. The planet's habitats are living, sentient, mobile cities designed as a paradise of coalition between the world religions, but they slowly grow disgusted by human sin and cast out all their inhabitants to fend for themselves on a more primitive level. The novel charts what follows as the plot develops, on both philosophical and individual levels, with the backdrop of the cities supporting a spare, but engaging set of characters. In some ways, this is just another planetary-development novel, but it is written and structured well and provides enough surprises to lift it clearly above the throng.
To me, Bear's "Blood Music" remains the most enjoyable, original and unusual of his novels, but "Strength of Stones" is well worth a read nonetheless.

Remarkable Vision.......2003-01-16

What a fascinating idea! Greg Bear has a remarkable vision for the future of both religion and architecture that will leave you in awe. These are not normal subjects for SciFi, and it's a really interesting trip.

I had read Strength of Stones before, and returned to it after recently reading Greg Bear's "Vitals." Vitals has a complete shipwreck of an ending (literally and figuratively!), and I'm realizing that this is typical of Greg Bear. Even his best ("Eon") has a kind of fuzzy ending. "Strength of Stones" is great until the last few pages, when the action suddenly shifts to a different continent, with a completely different vision of the future of architecture and religion. Where did that come from!??! It seems that Mr. Bear just doesn't know how to end a book in a way that makes any sense. Despite this, Strength of Stones is a great journey, even if the ending is botched.

I docked a star from this particular printing. The paperback with a green cover is listed as an "iBook." I don't know what that means, but I think this is a different publisher than the copy I originally read. Several sections of this book read like a previous printing of it was sent through OCR, and then the editing was poor. For example, "walls" shows up as "wails" several times. Also, one character's name switches back and forth between "Lod" and "Led." (I seem to recall it was "Lod" in the original.) I'm not sure where this publishing run came from, but it's a bit frustrating to read. If there's an earlier run of this book available in your local used book shop, you might be better off with that version.

Make you think ..........2000-03-22

In my experience, Bear is a great writer if you want to be made to think. This is the only novel of his that I have read, and I find it quite up to his standard. More personal than his signature short story "Blood Music" (later expanded into a novel), _Strength of Stones_ examines several very human issues, primarily religion. If you're ready to be made to think, this is an excellent book.

Changing the face of construction: high strength composite technology protects masonry buildings.(Hamid Saadatmanesh of University of Arizona develops ... : An article from: Masonry Construction

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Health And Strength V4: Foundation Stones Of Success

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Great dehydrator book

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Far from being a fad, food dyhydrating is one of the most ancient, effective, and nutritous ways of preserving food. Now, at last, there is a book that teaches absolutely everything there is to know about using an electric food dyhydrator to dry foods at home -- and gives more than 100 foolproof recipes for scrumptious snacks and meals made from dried foods.

With this extraordinary book, you can learn how to cross junk food and expensive store-bought snacks off your family's shopping list -- and add to your cupboard homemade, preservative-free fruit leathers, candied apricots, beef (and fish) jerkies, "sun" dried tomotoes, corn chips, banana chips, and so much more!

Mary Bell gives specific techniques and instructions for preparing every kind of fruit (from apples to watermelon) and vegetable (from asparagus to zucchini). She also provides important shopping tips for buying an electric food dehydrator. The recipes for cooked meals (including mushroom soup, sloppy joes, pesto, and moist banana bread) will make this book a kitchen classic. And recipes for lightweight, filling trail snacks mean that the book will travel, too.

Additional chapters explain to how make herb seasonings, granolas, celery powder, cosmetics, dried fruit sugars, potpourri -- and even pet treats!

Food drying is an excellent way for gardeners to preserve their produce. It is a great way to make healthful snacks for the kids. It's perfect for the new wave of thrifty consumers who can't bear to spend dollars at health food stores for treats they cold make for pennies themselves. And food drying doesn't use chemicals or preservatives—so it's great for you and for the planet, too!

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Great dehydrator book.......2007-09-11

Just got a new dehydrator and this book has wonderful recipes! The best I have seen.

Inviting.......2007-06-20

Easy to understand. Great reading. I would like to have some pictures of the recipes and preparations, but the book is very good.

As a sailor, I find it very, very useful. Dehydrated food is a very handy way to store food if you go cruising for some days, or even for some weeks.

The Be-all/ End-all of Dehydrator Cookbooks!.......2007-06-06

I have been drying foods and making jerky for over 30 years; but now, after reading May Bell's cookbook, I consider myself a rank amateur around my food dryer. What a wonderful insight into the possibilities that I did not know existed.

I have several books on the subject, but this is truly the bible for those wishing to save energy, cost and space by replacing a lot of what they normally use their canners and freezers for with the versitile dryer.

Complete Dehydrator Cookbook.......2007-02-17

This book is wonderful, it shows you all the different ways on dehydrating fruit and vegetables, etc. Easy to read and follow the instructions, very good.

Wonderful Machine.......2007-01-08

I love this machine. It is so easy to use and the food tastes great.

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