Caroline Quinner and her family work hard on their fronteir farm, but they still find time for fun. From making grass dolls to palying tag, Caroline always has the best times with her brothers and sisters.

In the fascinating book Frontier Family Caroline Quiner and her hard working family are running their frontier farm with precision and inbetween the tough work they all still find time for fun.Their days are filled with playing tag to feeding the chickens to studying and sewing.Experience frontier life with this wonderful book called Frontier Family.

I started reading Ghost Trees for the first time several months ago. Each time I read it I appreciate it even more. In his minds eye, Mr. Watkin's takes you through a trip of past and present beauty. Take a walk through the woods with Ghost Trees and rediscover our shared past.

Klyd Watkins has accomplished a quiet miracle with Ghost Trees. Long poems are frequently difficult to follow, their lines leading into obtuse cul-de-sacs, and petering out in the midst of weeds and brambles, but the poetic path he has established here pulls the eyes and brain and heart of even the casual reader along with him as he traverses the earthily ethereal trails winding around the shores of his chosen subject, Radnor Lake. His lines crackle with energy; he has great fun with the language. At times, Watkins almost appears to be dancing widdershins just a few steps ahead of us, a pastoral Tennessee Gandalf exercising his laughing craft to free the everyday eternity locked in wood and water. Ghost Trees is a short but significant vision quest from which the reader will not return untouched or unchanged. --C Ra McGuirt, Editor, Penny Dreadful Review

As I watch my husband in the subtle and beginning stages of this agonizing disease and read June Shiplett's Glass Full Of Tears, I can only imagine my years of care-giving yet to come. Her log of her husband's vascular dementia is becoming my calendar as well. Most books are written about Alzheimer's and even though multi-infarct dementia is a kissing cousin of alzheimers, there is a behavioral difference. Shiplett is walking me through my days and I wish I could hug her for writing this book...... it seems it is written just for me.

It is hard to put in writing how the book effected me. It was very moving and helped to understand some of the emotions that we experience when care giving to a loved one. I appreciate Mrs. Shiplett sharing such a private and special part of her life. It is by far her richest Love Story she has written.

Although many books have been written about Great Lakes shipwrecks, Thompson's book offers a new perspective by analyzing the causes of wrecks on a large scale. One can see the various factors that made the Lakes particularly dangerous to navigators throughout their history. Thompson's research is equally impressive. Unlike many other books of the genre, Thompson has actually consulted, in most cases, primary archival sources, in developing his wreck accounts, rather than simply rehashing the work of other authors. Thompson's presentation avoids dry regurgitation of statistics and details through an accessible and entertaining writing style that makes the book a better read than similar books on the subject. Although the book is not comprehensive and contains a few forgiveable historical errors, it remains one of the best books on Great Lakes shipwrecks to come out in recent years.

If you are a maritime enthusiast, Great Lakes visitor, or a history buff then this book is a must own. The pictorials are excellent and each are followed by outstanding descriptions. This book outlines the Great Lakes shipwrecks and how unforgiving these lakes can be.

When my son and husband chose The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for our monthly book discussion, I was certain I'd be bored senseless but figured it was only fair that they choose some of the titles, too. Far from bored, however, I actually loved the droll accounts of Sherlock's sleuthing talents. In fact, as I read, I could "hear" a radio broadcast of the stories in my head. As it turns out, recordings of the mysteries are available, as are films of the adventures. It will be interesting to see how these compare to the version in my head.

If you are sharing these stories with young readers, you may want to read the first story aloud. This proved helpful to my son, who initially had a little trouble "getting into" the rhythm of the narrative. After "The Solitary Cyclist," however, he was happily on his own. He is now tackling a two-volume collection of Doyle's mysteries.

This book is great. Although there are two other books like this one, I prefer this one the best. My favorite mystery in it is "The Red Headed League." An honorable mention is "The Engineer's Thumb." You won't regret buying this book, so... go ahead!

Home and commercial growers in the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas) face major challenges in getting steady crops of quality fruit. Tree fruits, berries, and the like are better adapted to warmer areas. Most commercially available cultivars are not well adapted to the cold climate in and around Minnesota.

In this volume, Gordon combines the history of fruit growing in the area, basics of culture, and hardiness history of major varieties. This last piece of information is not available in any other source I have seen and by itself is worth more than the purchase price of the book to anyone contemplating a new planting of fruit trees, vines, or bushes.

Hardiness information is broken down by regions within each state, providing a more detailed look at the winter survival characteristics than can be gained by USDA hardiness zones alone.

In addition, Gordon provides some interesting historical ancedotes and cultural information. The cultural recommendations are the same as for other parts of the country, by and large, but the information is useful to the beginner.

Don covers all the basics of all fruit varieties you can grow in the upper midwest. A book of reference fro anyone interested in growing an orchard in their yard

The 200-mile trail along the Minnesota edge of Lake Superior may be the best hike in the United States. Almost anyone would agree it's among the top 10. And Guide to the Superior Hiking Trail is the best guide.

It has all of the details you need to know to hike the trailk in safety. Plus, it has information about geology, scenery, habitat, birds and animals.

This awesome trail is broken down step by step with great hints, tips and ideas as to what to see where and when to go. Definitely not your typical boring trail guide, and it has VERY readable maps. Over two hundred miles of the North Shore are clearly described...so get off the computer and head to Duluth!

This book should be in all school libraries. The excellent illustrations bring the accurate text to life in a compelling way. I give 2-3 hr presentations in French or English as a voyageur. This book certainly covers more than I can in such a way. I would recommend it whole-heartedly as background for anyone interested in the period and the characters.

Every spring in the late 1700's canoes would leave from Quebec and head for upper Lake Superior. At the same time trappers from deep in the central and Rocky Mountain regions of Canada would head for the same location with the fruits of their trapping labors over the winter. They would meet for a couple of weeks of trading and partying. Then they would laboriously paddle back to where they had come from.

Howard Silvertson captures this time with short clear descriptions and beautiful watercolors that really make the history come alive. It is a part of history that is often forgotten. It's fascinating to imagine what it was like to live in those times. This book captures the feeling. This book should be in every school library.

Finally, an author creates a bad guy that you can at the same time hate and feel very sorry for. It appears to be a very hard thing to but this author did it.
A moving read with an emotional ending. A great pre-historic tale.

A fast-moving adventure story.

This novel is an exquisite and poignant story about Palestinian society just before and during the displacements of 1948. Its literary strengths make the book worthwhile reading for anyone -- and not only for those who have a particular interest in the region, its people, and history.

This novel has a significant importance because of the period and the characters it take you to. For many westerns, the mystery of the Palestinian problem still unclear and unsolved . Sometimes one wonders whither the Palestinian- israeli problem is caused by human or by the devine power.. Take a look at this interesting novel. It will make you understand the 1948 condition of the war,the people, the revolution and the reaction of the new emerging palestinians.