Shows nature both from its natural side as also the vividness of imagination.

This book features some of the most prominent authors born and bred in NorthWestern Ontario. I myself found the book intriguing, being from NW Ontario myself, because it references landmarks, sights, and sounds, common in Thunder Bay and surrounding areas. Nancy Bjorgo's story is without a doubt the one that stands out most in my mind in this incredible collection. I had no idea such talent resided in NorthWestern Ontario, the stories are powerful! If short fiction is your passion, pick this book up!

This book is about Abbie, a lighthouse keeper. She was 14 when she set foot on the rock. The book describes what it was like living on the rock, and what it was like taking care of the lights. The book describes very well what it was like living back when there were no switch lights. They had to use a wood basin to clean themselves in, and in the winter she had to scrape the ice off the glass of the lighthouse windows. In one of the chapters there was a big storm. The sailers got together and got her a big silverbowl for maintaining her courage and being faithful to her duty. It was a very good book about lighthouse history. Cami and Kristina (age 8)

In this readable, concise book Dorothy Jones tells the story of relations between the Europeans and the Native Americans before and after the American Revolution.

The relations between Europeans and Indians were bound by treaties which were one sided. By treaty Indians gave land and Europeans gave goods and granted rights and privileges in return. But the goods did not last, the grants and privileges were ephemeral, and the land was permanently gone. Thus the tribes like the Iroquois and the Shawnee entered a vicious circle by which they voluntarily gave away their land.

This process became more one sided after the Seven Years War, when France and Spain no longer competed with the British. The Native Americans could no longer play one side against the other. The British and the Indians set up a series of treaties controlling the boundaries between their lands. But rivalries among the various tribes destroyed the system of boundaries between the British and Indians lands.

The problems for the Indians worsened after the American Revolution. When the influence of the British declined, and the Indians could only deal with the American government, to their dismay.

The overwhelming power of the American government made the treaties even more one sided. The treaties between the American government and the tribes like the Iroquois and the Shawnees delimited the borders of the Indian lands, but stopped the Indians from buying, selling or renting their remaining land the way they wanted.

This book contains a series of maps and charts to help clarify Jones argument.

This exuberant account of Mother Jones' renowned career as labor agitator and social reformer is a rather stylish repackaging of the author's 1995 Master's Thesis in Government from the California State University at Sacramento. It is clearly a labor of love with the basic argument is that this one woman did more than anyone else, especially men in leadership, to address the plight of the worker. Wake is especially critical of labor leaders, particularly UMWA President John Mitchell, who she argues forgot his roots and sold out his working constituents to join with the exploiting capitalist elite. She starkly contrasts this with Mother Jones who remained essentially poor and homeless, and thus remained a part of the working class, throughout her long peripatetic career. She also stresses Mother's vehement opposition to capitalism and dedicated committment to both syndicalism and socialism, and argues against confusing Mother's dissatisfaction with the Socialist Party in America with any disillusion with socialism in general. She also attempts to tie Mother's political views with various contemporary radical movements such as Feminism, opposition to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Ralph Nader's crusade against the establishment. Wake is to be commended for presenting hitherto unpublished (and perhaps unknown) correspondence from the Special Collections and Archives of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Archives between Mother Jones and UMWA District #2 President John Brophy regarding her 1921 Labor Day visit to Indiana, PA. On the other hand, her speculation about a possible love affair between Mother Jones and Terence V. Powderly, head of the Knights of Labor from 1879-1893 and later federal official, is fanciful at best and based upon purely circumstantial evidence. Overall, this book is a fast reading and touching leftist tribute to a woman who, regardless of ideology, was remarkable by any definition of the term.

This book could have been a contender. It could have been great, however, it was not. Poor editing, and proof reading mistakes plague the book. Exclamation points are over abundant. It seems that the characters are always screaming even when there is no reason to scream. Ever hear of the fifties singer Diana Washington? Never have I. All the other names of singers were correct but not Dinah Washington's. I was frustrated trying to read this book and I never could understand why the main character wanted to be a prostitute. It just didn't ring true.

She's been blessed is a novel based on Sabrina Brown's real life. Sabrina is a young lady who gives up college, and a good husband, because she see's two prositutes, and thinks they have the good life. So, through out the whole book, she a high class prostitute, who never feels shame about what she's doing, as long as she's making the money. All of a sudden in the last few chapters she decides to become a chrisitan. My problem with the book is that I don't think Sabrina ever throught she was in the wrong for being a prostitue, she seem to be having a good time the whole book. If you like to see how a high class prostitue live, you will probably like the book.