I tried it out in the store and got a decent straight stitch, and found the book today in a cubby in the carrier. I am missing some accessories, I think, but it appears to have an alphabet, odd decorative stitches like elephants, fruit, chickens, and a batch of Chinese words, 99 in all, with 17 being in Asian writing.
The screen has Asian writing that I cannot decipher, but I think if I plug in the numbers, I should get the pattern shown in the manual, Just having an alphabet is worth the five bucks it cost me.