This book should be mandatory reading in all North American public high schools! Mr. Balesi has written an easy to understand, interesting, captivating, and insightful story about the first half of our North American history. Many questions of our present day culture are answered in this short volume. Anyone interested in the Lewis and Clark expedition should read this book first.

This book covers the French in Illinois, as well as the their relationship with the Illini Indian Confederacy. French by birth, and a historian by training, Balesi uses French archives along with Canadian and American sources to bring alive the period from the 1670's to 1800. Never one to shy from taking a stand, Balesi boldly admires the French, and paints a fascinating portrait of the rise and fall of the Indians that formed the Illini. If you are loking for a "multicultural book" that is filled with evil Europeans and noble natives, you will be disappointed as Balesi is only interested in truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Placing all actions in the context of the times, he can wax eloquent about a Mass at Peoria, with the hymns in the Illini's dialect. Then he can just as well describe a Winnebago massacre of a contingent of Illini who came to HELP the Winnebago. Any who have an interest in the history of these times or Illinois, would be well rewarded by a reading of this fine book. Patrick R. Collins

Through Ms. Haines' descriptive powers, you can literally feel the heat of 1920's rural Mississippi in this exquisitely suspenseful tale. Racial tension and small-town suspicion simmer beneath supernatural overtones that hang over the tale like the humidity of the deep south.

This story is told from a feminie viewpoint, and I've walked the landscape of Carol Haines'"Jexville" through the memories of my own mother on many occassions. Born in southern Mississippi and raised in the deep south by a woman who lived that time and place, I found humour, insight, compassion, and courage in the characters, and a reality that is perhaps more palatable when wrapped in the threads of mystery and the supernatural.

I loved it!

Touched is one of the most amazing books I have ever read! From the first page of this book I was drawn into Haines' mysterious, twisted Southern town of Jexville. A constant sense of tension pervades as the story unfolds, petal by petal, and the pages literally begin to turn themselves. The characters are wonderful, endearing people, and the intense relationships they share with one another are multi-dimensional. The twists and turns of the plot would cause me to freak out, then cry, then laugh, all in one chapter. This story gets under your skin in a way that will have you thinking about the characters while you are away from your book. I enjoyed Haines' other book, Summer of the Redeemers, but I thought that Touched was even better. In one word, "intense" best describes Touched. It has been three days since I finished reading it, and the world of Jexville is still in the forefront of my thoughts.

This guidebook never leaves my car! It always tells me something new to discover about Tennessee!

Cathy and I looked through many guide books before attempting to write Traveling Tennessee. We found none covered the state in our easy helpful style (see Traveling the Trace and Traveling the Southern Highlands).

We followed the pioneers through the state from east to west giving you a brief history of the people and the area, and what you would find there today. Tennessee offers many pleasant surprises along its highways from scenic sites to activies you may participate in. For instance, you know of the Great Smoky Mountains but do you know the quite side of the Smokies? where Tennessee's first gold rush was? about a failed Utopia brought back to life? the courthouse stolen in the middle of the night? or where you can swim at the end of a scale model of the Misssissippi River?

We strove to give you information and details about interesting attractions all across Tennessee as well as B&Bs, dining, shopping, special events, camping, and where to get more information. More than 200 photos help tell the stories in this 316-page guide.

A great historical account of family life as the wilderness of the Mississippi Delta was slowly transformed into an agilcultural society and a place where many call home. This book takes you back to how hard life was for those who paved the way to where we are today.

As a native of Mississippi and a woman, I appreciate the historical value of this story. I loved the fact that the reader knows Mrs. Hamilton was not a professional writer (she says in the intro that she had only written letters before Helen Dick Davis asked her to write out her memoirs), but nonetheless, she eloquently and honestly told her story. Although this book is an autobiography, it reads much like fiction. It is an enthralling story and held my attention like few autobiographies or biographies do.

While I love all the Trixie Belden books, THE MYSTERY ON THE MISSISSIPPI is my favorite. In this book The BobWhites of the Glenn are taken on vacation by Mr. Wheeler to St. Louis, Missouri; In an unforgetable six days Trixie and the rest of the gang become entangled in a major conspiracy. This story is probably the best written of all the Trixie Belden books. It leads you through an exciting and dangerous mystery without seeming at all contrived. Trixie fans and anyone who loves to read a good story will love this book!

It gave me chill. I had to keep reading on it was so mysterious. It's clearly one of the best.

Written in the bricks is more that just a beautiful coffee-table book. The stories contained in the accompanying text really highlight the uniqueness of Mississippi and its people. Rather than simply describing the photographs, the text invites the reader to see beyond the walls to the people who inspired the architecture and worked on the buildings. I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the deep south, its architecture, and its heritage. I cannot recommend this book more highly.

The author and photographer have done a great job of making Mississippi's history come alive. The text tells a story rather than just repeating what is written in history books, and the photographs show both the beauty and sometimes starkness of the historical sites. A good choice for history buffs and for anyone who enjoys architectural history.

This book is very scary, especially when read in the dark!All of the ghost books in her series are very good ,and really go into detail about the hauntings.I would suggest this book very much!

Plain and simple, this is a book that you have to read again and again and again just for good measure. One cannot possibly appreciate modern American literature as it exists today without reading Huck Finn. Twain's style is one-of-a-kind, and his keen sense of politics and history is one that rarely exists in modern times. Get past the racial implications of this book and look at what Twain is -saying-. Huck Finn is a character who is a rogue, a modern scoundrel; however, we trust his moral judgement and are able to look inside another time and place through his journey with Jim up the Mississippi. So get out your maps and notebook and enjoy Twain at his finest.

tom sawyer lives with his aunt polly in St Petersburg,a town on the Mississippi.

Its about a boy named Tom Sawyer who is the town tricker he always has a trick up his sleeve but all the tricks stop when Tom and Huck see Injuin Joe murdering Doc. Robinson in the graveyard .It was all fun and jokes until that night, then things got serious.