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Review Date: 11/24/2018
This book could be used as a textbook for journalism courses. The history of early TV news is covered very well and might serve as a blueprint for future news productions. Jessica herself was a sad character. Like today's TV news people, she just read news from teleprompters or papers that other people wrote. She was just what she wanted to be--a famous pretty face. No wonder her life was not as fulfilling as she wanted it to be--as we all wish our lives were. I watched her myself and I was a fan--but of what? The book is a warning to pretty girls who think they can run with the big dogs to develop inner resources. I have known a lot of reporters, men and women, people who wrote for print publications--even covered Congress and the White House. Poor, sad Jessica may have been famous, but you need talent more than looks in this vocation.
Review Date: 1/10/2015
Beautiful art knitting. 19 leading Australian designers creations interpret paintings in knits.
Bottom edge of book is shelf-worn, rest of book is in excellent shape.
Bottom edge of book is shelf-worn, rest of book is in excellent shape.
Review Date: 6/21/2010
Betsy Zane was a real pioneer girl, and this story for younger readers is based on her most famous accomplishment, performed during the Revolutionary War in the "West." I have read the fictional and factual stories, including a transcript of inquiry, and the story in any form never ceases to make me proud to be an American, respectful and proud of those who went into the unknown wilderness and made our country.
Today, young people are considered "children"--basically of no use unless and until they are graduated from high school or college; but Betty Zane was about 14 and proved her mettle during a wartime siege at what is now Wheeling, W.Va., during the American Revolution. She was a true heroine and today her statue graces her place of rest.
There were two buildings at Ft. Henry in which the settlers were taking refuge. Wave after wave of indians came at them, and the pioneers fired away until there was no gunpowder left in one building. How could they get more? Nobody wanted to lose his/her scalp for lack of powder, and of course, the enemy was waiting for a chance to kill anybody who came out the door.
Finally Betty said she was the fastest runner in the settlement and she would go for more powder from the other building. The danger was that if the indians realized she had a pocket full of gunpowder and shot her, she would blow up!
The indians watched warily as she ran swiftly to the building. She did not appear to be armed, nor was she a "warrior," but a young girl. She filled her apron with powder and sped back to her own building with no injury, saving those settlers' lives.
Project Gutenberg has the Zane Grey story about his relative, Elizabeth Zane, for free. I read it when I was about 10.
Wikipedia also has the story at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Zane
Ancestry.com has a page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~abrown/bzane.html
Today, young people are considered "children"--basically of no use unless and until they are graduated from high school or college; but Betty Zane was about 14 and proved her mettle during a wartime siege at what is now Wheeling, W.Va., during the American Revolution. She was a true heroine and today her statue graces her place of rest.
There were two buildings at Ft. Henry in which the settlers were taking refuge. Wave after wave of indians came at them, and the pioneers fired away until there was no gunpowder left in one building. How could they get more? Nobody wanted to lose his/her scalp for lack of powder, and of course, the enemy was waiting for a chance to kill anybody who came out the door.
Finally Betty said she was the fastest runner in the settlement and she would go for more powder from the other building. The danger was that if the indians realized she had a pocket full of gunpowder and shot her, she would blow up!
The indians watched warily as she ran swiftly to the building. She did not appear to be armed, nor was she a "warrior," but a young girl. She filled her apron with powder and sped back to her own building with no injury, saving those settlers' lives.
Project Gutenberg has the Zane Grey story about his relative, Elizabeth Zane, for free. I read it when I was about 10.
Wikipedia also has the story at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Zane
Ancestry.com has a page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~abrown/bzane.html
Review Date: 6/22/2020
First bio about Philippe, a flamboyant homosexual who married twice and whose descendants are prominent in Europe, from Otto von Habsburg from Anne of Austria to many religious and political figures, including Otto von Habsburg. He was loyal to his brother the king, never any ambition but to serve. He won a battle over William of Orange, so the time is just before Gen Churchill entered the fray--he never lost a battle vs the French. Philippe was a smart financier, laying the foundation for the fortune of the House of Orleans. Well written AND interesting!
Review Date: 8/25/2010
This is a first edition of Barbara Walker's third knitting book from 1972. This is the unfortunate beginning of knitting charts, which are difficult for me to read. Walker created many of the patterns and apparently had fun experimenting with cables. She offers a few garment patterns at the end. I found the doll skirt interesting for the way she began with one size of the pattern, then narrowed it as it neared the waistline. This is typical of today's crocheted skirts. The shawl, made in the cape style popular in the 1970s, did not impress me, compared to the lace shawls available for today's knitters. But the book, after all, was written nearly 40 years ago! You will not be disappointed.
Chronological and Background Charts of the Old Testament (ZOND CHARTS)
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 6/15/2019
Basic information, some different views offered, for example, on OT laws fairly, date of Exodus, and various versions of Noah's Flood. Explains laws, prophecies. All in chart form, easy to understand and use as study guide.
Review Date: 4/19/2023
Book is based on a Nature television series. Like new condition. Beautiful photography. Follows a pale palomino colt from birth to acquiring his own small herd (a mare and 2 yearlings). Apparently the Dept of Interior freed him at their wild horse roundup in hope he would sire duplicates that might sell at higher prices. It's a nice story.
Review Date: 3/31/2009
USA Today said "Follett ratchets up the Richter scale of suspense." Well, a reviewer should say something good! I enjoyed listening to this story.
But I am always on tenterhooks with anything Follett writes--I've come to expect something good. Even with themes that by now are pretty tired, he is still able to keep your attention with good character definition and just a hint of secrecy about what is going to happen next. The suspense is not so much that you have to look in the back of the book to find out the ending, but it is a great listen while commuting.
The only thing I did not really care for is that the plot revolves around the launching of a rocket from Cape Canaveral in January 1958, and Follett keeps dropping in paragraphs about the rocket itself. I can't think if he explained "Code to Zero," but we assume it is the countdown to takeoff.
The ending is predictable. The good guy finds enough of his memory to make a new start, the bad guys (Communists, of course) are captured, the rocket launches, and we know what happens to the US space program from history. :) AND, you have had an enjoyable commute.
But I am always on tenterhooks with anything Follett writes--I've come to expect something good. Even with themes that by now are pretty tired, he is still able to keep your attention with good character definition and just a hint of secrecy about what is going to happen next. The suspense is not so much that you have to look in the back of the book to find out the ending, but it is a great listen while commuting.
The only thing I did not really care for is that the plot revolves around the launching of a rocket from Cape Canaveral in January 1958, and Follett keeps dropping in paragraphs about the rocket itself. I can't think if he explained "Code to Zero," but we assume it is the countdown to takeoff.
The ending is predictable. The good guy finds enough of his memory to make a new start, the bad guys (Communists, of course) are captured, the rocket launches, and we know what happens to the US space program from history. :) AND, you have had an enjoyable commute.
Review Date: 7/13/2014
Basic history, numerous stitches, well explained techniques, and some small projects to jump into. A good starting book or one that will help a knitter refine some skills. Today's knitting magazines assume everybody wants to knit the latest thing, so you only see basics in a book like this. It's worth the read.
Review Date: 5/21/2011
This is a HARDBOUND book, not paperback!
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 3/14/2020
Chronicle of a sea rescue of 47 fishermen after their vessel sank. Great tale and aftermath (government inquiry). Makes you realize it's a hazardous occupation if the company does not train employees in what to do in case of emergency and does not maintain the boats properly. Corporate neglect is at the bottom of this and 3 men died.
Review Date: 7/29/2015
Not a spectacular story--pretty much detectives slogging along, doing their jobs after a lowlifed scumbag murders his wife and hides the body. But cadaver dogs made the difference. Kind of a view of the seamy side of society.
Review Date: 12/10/2012
Surprisingly interesting. How I wish these writers would take classes in grammar and punctuation... Notorious rake is captivated by poor relation on his way to marry an heiress. All ends well, of course, but I'd say this story's plot is a cut above.
Review Date: 6/16/2009
A woman, wife and mother, goes to a hospital in pain, then goes into a coma. Finally she dies. Meantime, her relatives find out that her doctor has ties to the Colombian drug lords and may have had another doctor murdered to prevent the truth from coming out. Her sister-in-law discovers that the dead woman has been harvested of kidneys, heart, and corneas.
It is an easy to read book, and at first you think this is going to be a book about someone rising from a coma. Then the mystery sets in. I'm enjoying the unfolding story as it happens to "ordinary people."
It is an easy to read book, and at first you think this is going to be a book about someone rising from a coma. Then the mystery sets in. I'm enjoying the unfolding story as it happens to "ordinary people."
Dreams In The Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 (Dear America)
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Book Type: Paperback
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 3/23/2009
This is a pretty good book. It is by Scholastic, so it is fairly pure, and yet very descriptive of what it must have been like for a young girl to come to America, to learn a new language and forget her old one, to acclimatize to a new lifestyle. At the same time, there are friends who also came to America, undergoing the same growth pains. It is not shmaltzy, but plain, a sort of diary, altho I did not really feel it was a diary as the Anne Frank Diary makes you feel. Anne Frank was like -- the person left, and returned. Zipporah, a bright young lady, is living in these pages.
Review Date: 5/17/2023
Book has been well loved. It appears to have a bit of water spotting, but does not affect reading. It is a great book despite being carried around for months while I read it.
Eleanor was a great queen and a model woman in many ways and this book goes to the depths of her being with her spirit, the events that shaped her life, and her deep love for husband and children.
Eleanor was a great queen and a model woman in many ways and this book goes to the depths of her being with her spirit, the events that shaped her life, and her deep love for husband and children.
Review Date: 2/9/2010
This is fun to listen to. Herriot must have worked in England as a veterinarian before World War II. Therefore, you get a real sense of what the world was like then--fairly calm, although he was rather poor. However, animals and their relationships with humans do not change. People do not change, only their environment. So today, we have to take our animals to the vet, rather than have the vet come to the animals. I suppose horse and cattle vets do go to the farms. I recall one coming to my uncle's farm to vaccinate the cows against brucellosis, a disease that can be passed to humans in the milk. Enjoy the listen.
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
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Review Date: 4/30/2015
The murder story is very common and unexciting (compared with, say, Ann Rule). What is interesting is the history. The characters are 2nd or 3d generation after the Revolutionary War and the settlement of Kentucky. In fact, the mother of the murderer, Ellen Hardin Walworth, was one of the three founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Despite her sordid troubles--in those days there was no divorce--Ellen did some very interesting things, including being elected to a school board--not sure that women could vote then... I have studied a lot of early American history, but this particular book fleshes out the facts with the deeds and problems and lifestyle of people who lived the history during the 19th century. The last Walworth died in the early 1950s. The later generation in the 20th century lived fairly uneventfully in Saratoga NY.
Review Date: 12/15/2012
Great art of ancient people, the first cowboys. The Scythians came from the East and were continually moving westward, as if searching for something... Anyway, this book is the guide to an exhibition of USSR treasures held in 1975.
Review Date: 6/25/2009
I read this book after the ones Allan Eckert wrote about New York and William Johnson (Wilderness Empire, Gateway to Empire, etc.). However, this one seems most interesting because it takes place on the Ohio-Kentucky-Pennsylvania frontier, where, over the course of the lifetime of Simon Kenton, Western Virginia--including parts of what is now Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee -- was settled by pioneers, people just like you and me. Despite the hard work and trials and attacks by indians, the settlers carved out places in the woods and built cities, towns, homes, farms, and raised families.
Not only that, but several in my own family moved from Grantsville, Md., to Akron, Ohio, and other towns in the early 1940s or late 1930s to work in the tire factories and other automotive plants, in the very places where hard-won battles were fought over the land by the early pioneers and the Shawnees. Grantsville is still a small town--the kind you can throw a rock through--on both sides of the National Road (Rt 40). It was settled by former soldiers given land there as payment for their service after the Revolutionary War, plots with names like "Bumblebee Road," "Cornucopia," and "Bill Beitzel Road." The land was good, but Kentucky and Ohio were better--unlike the mountains, there were no rocks and the land was flat. History resounded on Negro Mountain, where George Washington and his men hid a grievously wounded Negro soldier under a huge rock so the indians would not find him and torture him, then fled for their lives, never to return. I looked for that rock--I donno where it was, but I was on a farm on the side of the mountain. There were a lot of big rocks there.
Frontiersman will take you back to these lands before they began to make history, before there was a United States of America. And Simon Kenton, the hero, led the way. He brought settlers to the trans-Allegheny West, helped them find and mark out and build homes and farms. He hunted and fed them. He could RUN to visit Dan'l Boone in Kaintuck in a couple of days--it would take us a full day in a car! Those heros were spectacular, worth the tales still told about them.
Not only that, but several in my own family moved from Grantsville, Md., to Akron, Ohio, and other towns in the early 1940s or late 1930s to work in the tire factories and other automotive plants, in the very places where hard-won battles were fought over the land by the early pioneers and the Shawnees. Grantsville is still a small town--the kind you can throw a rock through--on both sides of the National Road (Rt 40). It was settled by former soldiers given land there as payment for their service after the Revolutionary War, plots with names like "Bumblebee Road," "Cornucopia," and "Bill Beitzel Road." The land was good, but Kentucky and Ohio were better--unlike the mountains, there were no rocks and the land was flat. History resounded on Negro Mountain, where George Washington and his men hid a grievously wounded Negro soldier under a huge rock so the indians would not find him and torture him, then fled for their lives, never to return. I looked for that rock--I donno where it was, but I was on a farm on the side of the mountain. There were a lot of big rocks there.
Frontiersman will take you back to these lands before they began to make history, before there was a United States of America. And Simon Kenton, the hero, led the way. He brought settlers to the trans-Allegheny West, helped them find and mark out and build homes and farms. He hunted and fed them. He could RUN to visit Dan'l Boone in Kaintuck in a couple of days--it would take us a full day in a car! Those heros were spectacular, worth the tales still told about them.
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