I purchased this book hoping to entice my 6 year old reluctant reader/writer. It was one of the best book purchases I've ever made. The helpful prompts give the kids just enough information to truly spark their imagination, while the combination of both writing and drawing keep them interested and focused. I've taken this book on car trips, to the doctor's office, and to church. My once reluctant reader/writer begged me to buy her more of the books in the series and is reluctant no more!

Crossroads is a great book and I would recommend this book to others. The author of the book is Jenny Markas. In the book Lucy, Mimi, Kit, and Ben went on a road trip to Los Angeles for a dance competition. I will read this book one hundred more times. That is how much I liked the book. I liked it because it was full of adventure.
I think the book started in an excited way because the first sentence of the first chapter besides the prologue said "I love to sing." I thought it would be exciting because I love to sing too. I don't think it contains action or suspense besides the part when they argue. I think the main character shows strength because before she leaves she doesn't tell her dad where she was going or when she will be back. I do think the book ends in a surprising way because Lucy's dad lets her stay and do the dance competition.
I think the author is trying to say that you shouldn't take off without telling anyone. I knew that when Lucy's dad woke up in the morning and found out that she wasn't there and he got worried that something happened to her. So do you think you want to read it now?

This is a great aviation history book. Lots of unusual aircraft pictures. Wonderful art deco design. A heartbreaking story. They don't make em like this any more. BUT!! It is still in print.

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The author is an old friend of mine. Although I am not a cyclist and no longer live in New York I was curious enough to see what kind of book he had written. I found it to be filled with lots of interesting historical and geological information along with the guide of where and how to go. All intertwined to make it an entertaining and easy read for either history buffs or those intending to ride parts of the canal routes.

Kate Wallace is a poet, a visionary, and a uniquely talented writer! As a seeker of God and His crazy ways, Kate does a masterful job of sharing her journey from highly skilled professional to dazed mother of three. She shares intimately her struggles with her various roles and calls. The reader laughs and cries as Kate paints fabulous word pictures of the pulls inherent in the life of a multi-talented, multi-optioned woman. The ups and downs, the joys and frustrations are artfully and beautifully addressed. This book should be read by every woman and used in a variety of discussion settings. Get two copies - one for yourself and one for someone you love.

Miles Gibson is one of the undiscovered literary treasures of the world. He will certainly become a cult figure in due time as he is like no one that you have ever read before. Each book opens into a universe that is unknown and Dancing with Mermaids, like his others, takes you into a place with which you are certainly unfamiliar and cannot quite believe. I love this writer and his black satirical view always informed by laughter.

THIS INSTALLMENT HAS 3 STORIES. FIVE FATHOM RIP IS A FISHY TALE, MYSTERY OF THE MURDERED MISER IS A NEW TWIST ON AN OLD CLASSIC AND THE BUOY IS AN EXCELLENT GHOST STORY. I LOVE THIS WHOLE SERIES.

'...will do much to re-establish the reputation of this English painter-poet. Through the exploration of his visual work in relation to his life it exposes the lineaments and patterns of an intensely original mind ... It teases out the strands ... as differing influences weave and interweave' The Times

'a major scholarly work ... placing Jones in a modern and even a post-modern context ... a biography as well as an illuminating critical study ... beautifully designed ... it defines Jones's achievement in altogether contemporary terms, but with an entirely unmodish intellectual and argumentative rigour' New Welsh Review

'ambitious and substantial ... here at last is the full record of the visual work, generously illustrated and essential on chronology' Fiona MacCarthy in The Observer

'A finely detailed study or the drawings and paintings.' Andrew Motion in The Guardian

'A large and illuminating conspectus of Jones's career. The large format suggests an art book, the abundant text a scholarly monograph...mixing analysis with biography and source material' The Independent on Sunday

'This comprehensive.. and finely illustrated book' - The Oldie

'A compelling picture of the brilliant painter-poet' - Western Mail

'with intelligent, sensitive insight ... refreshing and incisive' - The Tablet

'Succeeds in being readily comprehensible while also being scholarly. Exceptionally well produced, beautifully illustrated' The Literary Review

'Major new study...authoratitve, massively researched...a sophisticated aquaintance with thecultural context and many vivid details of biography' The Times Literary Supplement

'this comprehensive study will surprise even those familiar with Jones's writing and art' U.S. Publishers Weekly

'readable, stimulating and highly informative book' Agenda

'admirably illuminating' The Chesterton Review

I wanted to know what it was really like during WW2, sure I've heard all the ridiculous stories of one man saving an entire company. This is a real book with solid content. The book reveals a believable account of what happened with the men and women of that era and the relationships that were developed, while protecting our freedom. Now I understand what my Grandfather and his friends went through and I can relate the stories of this book to his own stories. A big plus+ the glossary at the end of each chapter helps explain WW2 terminalogy without running to the back of the book or pulling out a magnifying glass to read the booknotes. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know what was really going on with our military.

Since Haiti gained its independence from the French in 1804, volatile governments stifled the country's growth. Although it was the Western Hemisphere's second democracy, the impoverished country remained islolated for many years. However, Marc Yves Regis I has written a personal and provacative story of Haiti's disenchanted poor. Regis, a Hartford Courant photographer, opens the door to Haiti's dark, brutal secrets with explicit photographs taken in his native country. During the last decade, Regis traveled back-and-forth to Haiti, an impoverished country pushed further into dispair in the early 1990s by an international embargo that was supposed to punish an illegal military government. Instead, peasant children starved because food prices rose during the U.S.-led embargo. In addition, armed paramilitary thugs controlled the poor with iron fists. Gunfire rang out each night and dead bodies lined the roads each morning. In the book, Regis uses his mother's voice to tell a poignant story of how the Haitian military and its hired thugs tortured and killed innocent people. The book outlines Haiti's democractic reforms, beginning with the 1990 appointment of the country's first woman president. A year later, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot handed power to Jean-Bertrand Aristide who captured the presidency with an overwhelming 67 percent of the vote in the country's first true, democratic election. The military, however, overthrew the fiery former priest in a bloody coup d'etat. Aristide lived in exile in a plush Washington, D.C. suburb for mare than three years until the United States, in a military show of force, restored him to power.