While researching a local shipwreck I found that Wes Oleszewski had already done all the work for me. This book is full of well-researched and well written stories about the men and the ships who were lost on the Great Lakes. Wes goes beyond the facts of the tragedy to get to the real stories -- the lives of the people who were lost. Wes' series is a must have for all serious Great Lakes shipwreck researchers.

I throughly enjoyed this book. I have read several of this authors books and found them very hard to put down. He is good at finding the research and information about each of the boats he is writing about. I am looking forward to reading more of the books he has written. Great Book for anyone interested in the ship wrecks of the Great Lakes.

It's a neat bit of history, told well for kids in a bite-size package. It takes one of those obscure facts that we all have rattling around in our heads from High school ("Yeah. Gulf stream.... warm water...") and fleshes it out into a nifty little story with excellent illustrations.

My second grader could read it (though I think she missed some of the historical context).

This is an important subject that is only mysterious because people think it's boring or too hard to understand. Deborah Heiligman changes that with a very interesting story that will have your second-grader knowing more than even a lot of scientists.

Funny, well written, and very complete

Nina's book goes far beyond the "where to eat, where to shop, where to stay" standard of so many guides. It talks about the shipwrecks of Lake Superior, the geological landscape, rivers and waterfalls, outdoor activities (including curling and watching the stars) and where to locate the nearest liquor store! It is obvious that she loves her neighborhood, and this book helps you to explore more than the surface. A must read for anyone headed up Highway 61 - and a great gift for those who live there.

Julie's books are always incredible and this one does not disappoint. It is a very sweet and well-told story. The main character, Fred, is a smart boy who is often underestimated because of his stutter. He's quite likeable, and the juxtaposition of his diary with what Julie Lawson "read between the lines" is often humourous. This could well be Fred's last year to spend the summer at the family cottage before he must "grow up," and this is a perfect look at a boy who wants to have the same fun as his younger relatives, but also to move forward and think about his future. "The Only Outcast" is much like the summer it is set in -- a sweet adventure that you would like to have forever, but then, far too soon, it is all over.

A finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Ruth Schwartz Children's Literature Award, The Only Outcast by playwright and novelist Julie Johnson is a compelling and entertaining novel for adolescent readers ages 11 through 18, and set at a lake front at the turn of the century. Fred is young man who is expected to "build his character" in a series of emotional adventures and personal trials in this most satisfying tale of growing up and coming of age. Highly recommended for school and community library historical fiction collections, Julie Johnston drew upon the actual diary of the real Fred Dickson to aptly recreate an memorable story of yesteryear in The Only Outcast.

Lets face it fame is fickle and fleeting. This book was once a best seller from famed anthropologist Richard Leaky. The lake is Turkana and the time is fifteen million years ago.
This book covers Leakey's finds and his interpretation of such finds. There is s small black and white glossy section that displays the lake and several ancestors (including Australopithecus.)
The table of contents is:

People of the Lake
A question of survival
In the Beginning
A New Perspective on Human origins

The Human Family Unearthed
Lessons from Bones and Stones
An Ancient way of life
The first Affluent society
The nature of Intelligence
The Origins of Language
Sex and the need for Women's Liberation
An End to the Hunting Hypothesis

As you can see this is not just a book about bones. He also quotes a lot of Freud. So I do not know why this book fell out of favor. However it makes for some good background reading.

ITs essential to read this book, in order to get a good handle on paleontology, anthropology ,and sociological phenomenon. Really explains alot about humankind.

This volume is bursting at the seams with Chandler's writings and it is an astonishing value even at the retail price. It even comes wrapped in plastic!!! Alas I do have one complaint, you can buy Double Indemnity on it's own in a seperate volume that is very much in print. The editors at LOA must be aware of this. If so, they must also be aware that "The Blue Dahlia" is no longer in print and has not been since 1976. Wouldn't it have made more since to eliminate "Double Indemnity" since it is readily available in another volume and replace it with "Blue Dahlia"? Couldn't an argument be made that in addition to it's scarcity "The Blue Dahlia" is also a better representation of Chandler's screenwriting talent because it his only produced solo effort and the fact that it garnered him an Oscar nomination?

Bottom line: LOA has redeemed itself for it's blatant lies on the Dust Jacket of "Stories and Early Novels" (see my review "Incomplete and Misleading")By the way, no one has ever explained why they neglected to include Chandler's last complete Marlowe story, "The Pencil".
I will be writing other reviews of Chandler collections undwe the clever title of "The Simple Art of Editing" and let me assure you that they do not hold up as well as this LOA masterpiece.

Contained in this volume are the last four (of seven) Marlowe novels, the Double Indemnity script co-written with Billy Wilder (including lines that were cut), his famous essay on "The Simple Art of Murder", one on "Writers in Hollywood", another titled "Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story", and finally "Notes (very brief, please) on English and American Style". Couple these with thoroughly entertaining and sometimes revealing letters to friends and fans, and you can't miss.

In one of these letters he even discusses fellow hardboiled writer Ross Macdonald's (here called John, as he hadn't changed his name yet) The Moving Target, which cribbed some ideas from The Big Sleep and Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man.

The novels themselves? Classic Chandler - enough said. If you'd like to know why you should expect the best in hardboiled detective fiction, well, read 'em all, or at least one. (If you're planning on that course of action, try the first in the series, The Big Sleep, included in a similar volume called Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories/The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/The High Window.)

Bottom line, this is required reading for anyone who won't read just anything but at the same time doesn't limit themself to Anna Karenina.

This book was a basic Wishbone Mysteries book. ALthough the plot was great, the characters were not very well described. The diary entries of Steve Talbot were very creative, and although it could be improved, it was a very nice piece of writing.

My six year old daughter loved this book. When we reached the end of one nights alotment of pages for a bedtime story, she took the book and read the next chapter to find out what would happen next.

I would recommend this book for anyone who is considering aquiring a salamander or newt as a pet. It provides good background information so that you will be able to pick a species that is right for you. It also contains the proper information on the general care of newts and salamanders. This book is perfect for one who is just getting started.

This is the perfect book for beginers. I found a spotted salamander on thanksgiving and i didn't know what to do. I took it inside and got out this book and it explaned it all. If i didn't have that book she might have died.

This coffee table book has some absolutely beautiful pictures of Salt Lake City, the Wasatch Mountains and surrounding areas. The photographers did a fantastic job capturing light, and the pictures are extremely well printed. This would be a great book to have on hand while watching the olympics.

It is also a good book for people who want to have a coffee table book about Utah.

The book itself starts with a brief overview of the Salt Lake Bid, and the resulting Olympic bidding scandal. It then takes us on a tour of the geology of Utah and the mountain west. The book includes pictures of both the mountains in Northern Utah, and the Colorado plateau in Southern Utah. It provides a summary of historical and cultural information about the Salt Lake Valley.

In the last quarter of the book, we get into sports photography, and we can see some high quality shoots of skiers and other athletes.

All in all, it is a well made and designed coffee table book. The main reason to buy it is the high quality photography. You will definitely enjoy having it on hand while you watch the Olympics. The book covers a great deal of information, mainly at a summary level; so it really would not serve as a reference book.

Finally, having been written before the Olympics, there are no actual pictures of 2002 Olympic events. My guess is the book was written before 9/11/2001, and there is no mention of the international tensions which will be in everyone's mind during the events.

This is a great overview of the Salt Lake Olympics and Salt Lake Valley. If you want one handy reference book with information all in one place, this is your move.

I found that this book was pretty interesting, but I think it could of been more realalistic to the point where the story was to made up.I dont think that in real life anybody would send two kids out on their own with a worker that broke his leg. But other than that a thought the book had alot of exictement and good explanation during the story. I also believe that your explanation of how the shantymen life was back in the day was very good.

I enjoyed reading about some of the history of Canada. I vacation at the Algonquin Provincial Park every year. This will be our fifth year. The children had alot of courage and the girl was a little spitfire. I would be interested in reading other historical fiction by this same author. The actual pictures in the book brought the story to life.