Bernard Schopen again does an outstanding job of taking the reader to the Reno, Nevada of PI Jack Ross. The storyline, the twists and turns, and the depiction of the natural beauty of northern Nevada combine to create for the reader an escape to this world. Let's have another one soon, Mr. Schopen!

Bernard Schopen has a superb prose style and a sure eye for the telling detail. His characters are well rounded and his protagonist--the lawyer-detective, Jack Ross--is hard boiled but sensitive, in the tradition of Spenser and Elvis Cole. This excellent novel in an excellent series deserves to be widely read.

This is a great little book. It provides the perfect balance of technical information without getting wordy, and a great selection of photographs. If you want a story go elsewhere. It includes the very rarely covered Super Corsair with some super pic's.

It may not be physically a big book but pound for pound its a champ.

Only negative: More More More!

Note: Other recommended reading;

Wet Wings and Drop Tanks by Birch Matthews, Schiffer Aviation

Supershow by Dennis Baldry, Osprey

As with all aircraft photobooks by Michael O'Leary the quality of the photographs range from good to breathtakingly good, but this time there is accompanying text as well, very informative, and an index to find you race favorite. Whatever you might think of what is being done to those last surviving WW2 warbirds at Reno, fact is that some of the most spectacular paint-shemes are flown there, the cover of this book only giving a glimpse of the beauty of what is inside. For the ones of us who like to see just how the world-record holders level flight for piston engines looked like there can be no better book in my opinion, and this book shows them all: Mustangs, Bearcats, Corsairs, Thunderbolts, a Lightning, Furies, a Warhawk, an Airacobra, Kingcobras, Spitfires and even a Yak-3.

This is a very well written peice of work and it is very historically accurate and well researched. The characters as well rounded and very complex and well developed. Reno developes the characters in this book so well, it is as though you alomst feel as though you know them personally. If you love the American Civil War and a good story with a little love story then you will like this gem of a book. I would recomend it highly to anyone who loves historical romance,but demands historical accuracy. I only with the book did not end so soon...

I have never read anything like this book before. I loved it! The whole story takes place during the Civil War up to Lincoln"s death. I have done some research and much of the historical things that take place in the book are accurate. The young girl in the book reminds me a lot of myself she is independt and outspokenn, which in her time was very unacceptable. When were to be seen and not heard for the most part, but she was very well heard. She is and insperation with the exception of the fact that she has an affair. I would recommend this book to anyony who enjoy love stories. I laughed and was left in suspense. I cried and felt ther passion. I have never enjoyed a book more!

The book is OK, but concentrates far too much effort on just a few pilots/teams. The author repeats his text several times throughout the book, and while trying to come across as way too cool, he just sounds like an obnoxious idiot. Reno deserves better.

Gandt does a respectable job describing the history and inner-circle of the Reno Air Races avent. The book is NOT a great work, and this is quite evident in Gandt's continual fawning of an Unlimited Class pilot named Tiger Destefani. Gandt tries to make this character into something larger-than-life, but instead what actually becomes quite clear is that Gandt himself places more value on the crude behavior and huge egos of air racers and fighter pilots. He would have done a much better job had he taken a more balanced approach, to include the contributions of brilliant designers and test pilots. Instead, he just showed the ridiculous side of egos and self-worth based upon how fast your airplane flies.

This is the best book i have ever read. It's like your are in the cockpit flying the race. If you are interested in air racing this is the book you should get.

Being an African-American woman, and craving well-written, educational stories with black characters, I was excited about this book.

Like a child on Christmas, I anxiously awaited its arrival. But boy, was I disappointed.

It was said that the author Dawn Reno had composed a heart rending narrative.

Talk about misleading the buyer. What a joke! I wasn't remotely touched by what I read.

The story was under-developed in some enormously significant places.

Edmonia was accused of murder, and a few sentences later, she was exonerated.

Reno neglected to show Edmonia agonizing over her fate. There was no trial. Nothing.

And worse than poor development, and a story that lacked depth, Reno's prose was as flat as three day old Pepsi. I realize that the story was written for young readers, but that is no excuse for drab writing.

The book was a waste of money. I'd been better off donating the cost of the novel to a worthwhile charity.

i bought this book for my grandkids. they were thrilled to have it in the CD format and liked the links to other sites about Edmonia and friends. what i liked most about the book was the way Harriet Hosmer told the story. I thought it was very intersting. stories about black women who have succeeded in today's world aren't offered often enough, so i think this is a valuble addition to any child's bookshelf.

Being an art major, I have always been amazed at how little is written about African American women in the arts. This book, though written for children, has more information about Edmonia Lewis, the sculptor, than any other sources I have come across. Though one of the reviewers seems to find fault with no details about Lewis's trial, I know for a fact that there aren't any details . . . and would have found it negative if Reno had supplied a fictional account of the matter. This is DEFINITELY a book I'd purchase for my child or any black child--and I recommend it highly!

This book was very weak in content. It provides few noteworthy pointers. It is basically a common sense walk-through, of how to view an auction business. If you aren't a complete idiot, you probably have no use for this book.

Like the other reviewer, I'm not a high-volume Ebay seller but I do run some auctions every month. This book covered a great deal of what I wanted to know about how to run my auctions and make them more profitable. It has a wealth of information on alternate auctions sites too.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get going on eBay.

When I finished reading this book, I felt like an "auction expert"... even though I've never bid or sold items on an online auction before. It seems to have many good tips only experience can teach you. I felt I learned all I needed in this book to get a good start. It appears there are no loose ends or anything left out. Very complete with urls to web resources such as appraisers, automation and tracking software to making selling at auctions a business.

This book should be called "77 jobs you can get with an old rag and a can of Comet cleanser." Clean bathrooms? Scrub graffiti off walls? Groom pets? The jobs in this book are only "careers" if you *truly* have no talent or experience. If that's your situation, then this book will give you ideas. And if you've got kids who want to earn extra money, this book might give them ideas. But if you really want tips on becoming an entrepreneur, this book will only be good for a laugh

The usual expectations we grow up with are: get a job and struggle most of our life while making someone else rich. If this makes you feel like a slave and you'd like a better life, one that YOU control, Kelly Reno's book shows you just how simple it is to make one for yourself

If you're a Phoenix area resident, you're familiar with the Four Peaks and the Mazatzal Mountains to the east. In the pioneer days of Arizona, Camp Reno was established in the Tonto Basin, as an outpost of Fort McDowell on the Verde River. This book is the story of that short-lived, lonely place, and the Yavapai and Tonto Apaches it was supposed to control.

Rat packers will want this book! A veritable stream of velveeta was squeezed through Reno during the 50's and '60's when Reno still was the biggestlittlecity and Don was out there snappin'.

Stay and Play in Reno at the Mapes Hotel is written all over this book.