This time the tables are turned - Chief Collig needs the Hardy boys to help him evade the law!! Frank & Joe face issues of Loyalty vs Law....and do a good job of it. Lots of plot twists.

This is another great Hardy Boys Casefiles book where you find out a regular character might be a bad guy. This book is good for kids, with plenty of fast-paced action.

I'd more accurately give the book 3 1/2 stars. A magician's convention is being held in Bayport and Frank and Joe are asked to help ensure that everything runs smoothly. Also, the old opera house, which is under renovation, is plagued by a series of accidents which are apparently caused by a ghost. I thought that the book was better written than most of the paperbacks that I have read (the lower ones) and the plot more interesting and not as predictable as others I have read. It's not the best book ever, but certainly worth reading.

This book is one of the best in the whole series. Someone kidnapped the President of our country for one billion dallars. If you're a fan of the Hardy Boys you must read this book.

An encounter in a cafe brings a man and woman together who are both obsessed with a blue eyed, black haired man.
Each filling a need the other has without touching, yet, "Blue Eyes,Black Hair" is so erotic in it's content that it is indecent, tainted, disturbing.
At times it was difficult to absorb and I wanted to close the book, but the writing and style was so unusual that I was intrigued and outraged at the same time.
Duras gives the reader an atmosphere of darkness,weeping, lonliness, and death.
The woman wears black silk over her face... a metaphor for shame...feelings of loss, hiding what she truly is or is not.

- He walks around the white sheets and along the walls. He asks her not to sleep, to remain naked and without the black silk. He walks around her body- ...from Blue Eyes, Black Hair...

This image reminded me of a dog circling his prey, not knowing whether to kill it, play with it, or eat it. The man does all of this.

Obsession is a sickness. Duras sets the tone. A room where the man and woman meet to weep, sleep, wrapping themselves in black silk and white sheets. Two people who are lost...obsessed with one another's obsession. Until finally...the obsession becomes one and the man and woman become the same person.

Note...This is my second book by Duras. I must admit, I've never read an author like her before. The imagery is so strong that she can use less words. I feel as if I have been inside the room myself and I don't like it!

Blue Eyes, Black Hair might not be recommended for a first-time reader of Duras. The book is not flowing or visual or erotic in the manner of The Lover. It seems more a continuation of Duras' literary themes rather than a novel that stands by itself. It might be of more interest to devotees of Duras' greater body of work than to the casual reader. In it, a man sees another man, briefly, through a window, and feels an attraction as strong as love. Weeping in a cafe, later the same night, he meets a young woman with black hair and blue eyes who reminds him very much of the man he saw and desired but never met. The two acknowledge to one another that they are both lonely, and the man asks the woman to go with him to his room by the sea. He wants to watch her sleep. The novel is basically a story of the transferal of desire and the lack of communion between two individuals. The book explores the idea of objectifying a love, of two people wanting things so different that their desires somehow become similar, and of feelings involved in close emotional relationships between people of different sexual orientations. It addresses the themes of loneliness, the exploration of desire and despair, of distance and fear, and of the pain in never really knowing - emotionally or physically - the desired other.

Composed of passages from historical prose, short poems and songs and classic epics, the "Cambodian Literary Reader" is exactly what the title claims. The material presented therein holds little practical application for the vast majority of native American students of the language, but could be of great interest to ethnic Cambodian-Americans and professional linguists. Huffman's intermediate level reader is a far better choice for the typical student after material which can be put to use in the field in Cambodia. That said, those seeking to pursue the type of material presented in this collection have nowhere else to go, and will no doubt be pleased with the quality of Frank Huffman and Im Proum's work.

This book is a treasure. There is nothing else like it written in English. Anyone who wants to learn Khmer, truly learn Khmer, must own a copy of this book. Within its pages there are samples of all of the major literary genres which make written Khmer so rich. Once you own a copy you will treasure it.

It all starts when the hardy boys find out that they have won a Carribean Cruise. On this Carribean Cruise they have to work out cases on the ship these cases are fake and are part of the cruise. The whole point of the cruise is to find out who is the best Detictive. The other Detectives on this Cruise are a sassy girl with glasses and 2 other boys. The cruise goes fine untill mysterious things happen to the ship and crew one of these things is they have a cake and there are fake bats in it! but that does not stop the crew from stoping.Now the Hardy Boys have to solve the chalenges on the ship but also find out who is playing these tricks on the crew. Another one of the tricks is on the wall red cross bones are spray painted on. So one night the Hardy's set up a trap for the mysterious person and in the middle of the night they are awoken by a noise outside there door so Joe ran after him, the mysterious person ran down the spiral stairs on the ship and Joe ran after him but the mysterious person got away,becouse joe triped and fell down the stairs. After that inocent they really keeped an eye out for the mysterious person. and asked the detective girl if they could borrow her tape recorder (she had been taping the whole cruise)to see if any body new who the mysterious person ways or to find out if anybody was the mysterious person. (they had started thinking it was one of the other kids)at the end they finnaly find out who the mysterious person was.The mysterious person was wait and see for yourself!it might surprise you it surprised me!

While the plot itself is enough encouragement to read it over and over, the suprise ending really, well, suprised me! The end is much better than other Hardy Boys books, which by itself is a noteworthy achievement.

This book shows the development of his father's work. it is of interest to dance historians and to ballet teachers today.I enjoyed helping the translator on this project and use some of the exercises in my classes.

It's good to see these exercises newly re-minted, as it were. For too long the Cecchetti 'method' was in the hands of people who were preserving it like a piece of old wedding cake, and like a piece of old wedding cake it was stale and crumbling, and being taught by people who wouldn't know Cecchetti if he came up to them on 14th Street. I'm sure you've all met the type: "I teach the 'true' Cecchetti method!" said, breathlessly, as though it was a form a Holy Communion, which, at it's best, it should be.

Everyone involved is to be congratulated.

This is the story of the Columbia, Tennessee "race riot" of 1946, in which a racial incident in an appliance repair shop ended with mob violence in which scores of African American veterans of World War II defended their community with arms. A couple were killed in jail, but most escaped with their lives and their freedom. It is, as the author notes, an extremely telling moment in the history of American race relations. And it is an exciting story. Sadly, the author appears to have fallen in with sociologists and perhaps other bad company. The analytical apparatus at the front of the book will definitely prevent anyone except academics from getting to the riveting story inside, and the important historical truths it would have revealed. I am afraid that it is a good enough book to keep someone else from telling the story any time soon, but it could have been a great book, if O'Brien had just told the story and intepreted its meaning without resorting to jargon and obscure language. It is still a good book, but she needed better intellectual advice than she got--when she is writing in her own storytelling voice, it's really quite good. It could have been an enormous public service and helped generations of people understand an important turn in American racial politics. Instead, it is an academic exercise, alas.

This was a great book telling how the laws prejudeces i reccomend it to anybody interested in the truth.

I thought this was an ok Hardy Boy book. It seemed like the beginning took up over half of the book. I thought it had an interesting theme, but it should have been developed a little more. Overall I liked the book, but it really needed a little more effort in establishing the plot to make it a 4 or 5 star book. But I do believe it was worth reading.

Frank Hardy is at a dance with his girlfriend Callie Shaw, dancing to a band, and a practical joke is played. Sneezing powder is placed in the air vent. Frank and Callie end up crashing their car along with many of the other party goers because of a trap in the road. They would soon find out that their night of trouble is not just vandalism. The rest of the book is solving the mystery of who was trying to hide Murder!!!

would have been a better title for this book. Slow in some parts. I believe you really have to have an interest in Mrs. Roosevelt to get through it. She was truly FDR's most important advisor.Not becauses he wanted it that wasy but others in his administration would defer to her. The book talks about many of her back door power plays to the annoyance of the president. These are amusing stories but too infrequent.

I almost never read anything that can be even mildly construed as having to do with politics. I picked this up because I was going on a trip and it was long - 930 pages to be exact. I assumed it would be about Eleanor and her relationship with Franklin, not about him, and I was right. I really enjoyed reading about her childhood and young aduldhood. I never realized what an amazing person she was and how much she had to overcome.

Yes, there were chapters in this book that I read with a somewhat dazed attention as they included far too many details about far too many people whom I had never heard of. But even in those chapters, Eleanor's light kept me reading.

Highly recommended for its revelation of an extremely important American woman.

In the fall of 1918, forest and wild fires devastated significant areas of Minnesota, killing anywhere from 400 to 1000 people. This book tells the story of these fires and the subsequent recovery of the region. While a valuable work on the topic, the book is not that interesting. We learn many details about the event, but the fire comes across more as a distant historical event than as a great tragedy. And little is said about how the residents planned to handle future fires. The book seems to have been intended for a local audience. Outsiders may find it hard to identify with the communities described.

This book describes events concerning a large forest fire that destroyed the town of Cloquet, Minnesota on October 12, 1918. It is technically accurate and informative.