David McCullough has quickly become my favorite author. The very opening pages of this novel will captivate the reader and pull him into the world of our forfathers. A simply splendid book! Hats off to David McCullough, once again, he's proven himself to be the best! Erik Nelson enelson@nacg.net

Susan Kelly is like the British Iris Johansen--she writes fast paced, intense mysteries with complex, likeable characters and just enough twists to keep you guessing until the end. In this book, Gregory Summers, the detective from the also excellent The Lone Traveller, appears again, this time investigating a murder and an illegal immigrant smuggling ring. Summers is far from perfect, which make him all the more likeable. The novel begins with a late night phone call, and then goes back to several months earlier, allowing you to follow the case. You know someone is murdered . . .the question is who, and by whom. The plot twists and turns keep you guessing, and the events come together explosively at the end, making this a great read for anyone who likes Iris Johansen or Tami Hoag.

This book will reassure children about a potentially scary experience. The charming and witty illustrations guarantee repeat readings.

Ms Mallery does it again!! This novel is filled with action, suspense and......love. Her characters are so easy to relate to and the heroes are so dreamy. I just love reading her books.

Purr-Fect Places To Stay is a comprehensive directory of friendly country inns, intimate bed & breakfasts, and luxury hotels with resident cats and suited for the traveler who appreciate what cats have to offer. A unique and informative guide, author Susan Hall provides the traveling cat fancier with a one-of-a-kind, highly recommended guidebook that will be much appreciated by those with a penchant for feline company at the end of a weary day's journeying.

This is the sweetest and most loving story about friends wanting to make a friend's birthday special. The illustrations are clever and fun unto themselves. Mary Hal

I thoroughly enjoyed this delightful, funny story... Asher and Sarah Rose grew up together in Chicago. Sarah's best friend was Asher's sister Martha and Sarah was always trying to get Asher to pay attention to her, but he thought she was too young.....Sarah toured Europe after she graduated and wrote letters to Asher describing Paris and London to him.....When she returned to Chicago, Asher finally realized that he loved Sarah very much and they got married and had two children.....After the children were grown and gone, Sarah landed her dream job of designing wardrobe for a movie.....Asher sold his soup company for 20 million dollars and he dreams of travelling with Sarah......Sarah's mother Fannie is sick and Sarah feels that she cannot get away at this time...... Both Asher and Fannie put many demands on Sarah's time causing her to be very stressed even though she loves both of them very much...Asher's adult siblings also put a lot of demands on his time and he feels responsible for them because he helped raise them because his mother was sick for years...........The changes in their lives threathen to tear them apart.....They had to spend time apart in order to find each other again.......Very good book

Using Picture Storybooks To Teach Character Education isn't just another guide to picturebooks: it provides a key to identifying the character traits emphasized by the stories, from diligence and helpfulness to generosity. The idea is to provide parents and teachers with a set of picturebooks for read-aloud which focus on developing positive traits. Plot synopsis and reviews of the traits are excellent guides.

The book on my grandfather, named a ship after him...a southern gentlemen in the old style, of incredible modesty and reserve. Put patton in at all his landings and ran a beach at D-Day. Used to sit and listen to him talk about his experiences in the pacific and european theaters. Took the pistol of the french general in command of algeria rather than his sword as the article of surrender...Suzy, my relative, did her phD thesis on this and was a little less than objective, but still quite an interesting book about the man.

In Anne Frank's Diary " The Diary of A Young Girl", she not only gives an account of two Jewish families in hiding during one of history's most horrific events, the holocaust, but also takes us into her true feelings and critical outlook on others around her. The most remarkable part of her diary is that she is only thirteen years old, who quickly matures because of the circumstances. This book may be written by an adolescent person but Anne Frank is much more capable of understanding her faults and strong characteristic than many adults today. She is able to touch many different subjects; politics, war, sexuality, religion and in every one she captures you with her deep philosophical thoughts, which are well expressed for a small child. On top of that she writes in her diary several movements against the Jewish people by Hitler. She also gives us her hypothetical scenarios like how the authority given to German soldiers by Hitler would be abused. For instance when soldiers had the authority to shoot his officer if he knew that the officer had anything to do with the conspiracy on the attempted assassination of Hitler's life, she wrote that this authority would be abused at this point by an angered soldier. Through all her ordeals she is still able to maintain her good nature. She wrote in her diary that she would like to become a journalist, which she accomplished with this book. This book gives us just a small sample of what she would have been capable of offering journalism would she have survived such turmoil in history.

I recently read a book titled Anne Frank: Diary of a young Girl. When I first started reading it I couldn't put it down I read it night and day, day and night. It is a perceptive journal that was written by a young girl during the time of the Holocaust. She received this journal on her thirteenth birthday; it was a gift from her father. This was about two weeks before her family went into hiding. The people that she lived with were her mother and father, her sister, another family of three, and a young dentist.
I absolutely fell in love with this book. It showed haw hared it was for a thirteen-year-old girl and her family (along with some others) hid from the Nazi's during the Nazi Occupation of Holland. Her personality really surprised me, because she had such a positive attitude through everything that she went through. In her diary she expressed her thoughts and insights about her environment. She described her feelings and all the occurrences that took place everyday on fears that she lived through.
I enjoyed this book because it taught me a great deal about myself. It showed me that I didn't have as hard of a life as I had thought I had. Anne Frank never had the chance to lead a normal adolescents life... The book brought me to tears, and I have a lot of respect for Anne Frank. After reading the Diary of Anne Frank I appreciate my life and what I have a lot more!

Anne Frank's diary has moved millions around the world, past and present, with it's honesty, depth, and poignancy. (Personally, it was Anne's diary that motivated me to write my own journal as a young girl and I continue to write faithfully, ever since. It is one of the few books that I've read which has had the greatest influence on my life.) Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, along with her family, went into hiding along with her family during WWII, when Holland was annexed by the Nazis Regime. During the long years of secret captivity in the building's attic, Anne captured her hopes, loves, fears and thoughts on life in her diary, where she affectionately addressed her entries to an imaginary friend she named "Kitty".

Despite the horrible reality of war just outside her window, Anne was a person who could see beyond man's inhumanity to man, and perceive true beauty and the gift of life. Tragically, nearing the war's conclusion, the family's hiding place is mercilessly betrayed to the Nazis...which ultimately culminates in the final chapter of this lovely young girl's life, just prior to liberation. This is a true story...a diary of a young girl....and her voice from the past. It's a memoir of a brilliant and deep being who wasn't afraid to hope for something better, beyond the misery surrounding her. In my opinion, it is a book that every person should read.

It was an overcast day on Saturday, March 9, 2002. I stood just outside of Anne Frank's final dwelling place, the "Secret Annex," at Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam. I was overcome with great sadness as I gazed up at the small attic window where she must have looked out...a tree-lined canal just across the way. Perhaps she watched the ducks in the water, swallows overhead, the steady sloping of the rain, or the cloud formations....day in and day out. I imagined what it would be like to be a young girl in confinement, yearning to enjoy life amidst the free, only to be shut up, and kept quiet for fear that an audible breath would betray my family's whereabouts and terminate our lives. I wept at the great waste of life, the cruelty, the plundering of innocent lives, and how this amazing young woman maintained the inner strength to endure those years...and had the courage to capture it all with such delicacy, calm candor and beauty.