After her parents died, seven-year-old Summer MacCleary left her home in London to become an indentured servant in the Virginia colony. Six years have gone by, and Summer is now thirteen. She counts the days until her twentieth birthday, when she will be free to leave. But although she longs for freedom, she has a fairly good position that she is grateful for - she cares for her master's infant son, and does some household chores. But her position is in jeopardy when her master's daughter, Letty, accuses Summer of stealing a valuable ring. If Summer is to avoid having her contract sold, she must discover what really happened to the ring. This was a highly enjoyable story about a resourceful young girl determined to clear her name, and in addition, it was filled with many details of colonial life.

Summer MacCleary is an indentured servant on a plantation in 1749. Then her masters daughter accuses her of stealing a ring. To find out what happens, read this book. It is very good.

Summer has arrived from Ireland as an indentured servant. She has conflicts with one of her new owner's children. Summer is afraid that her contract will be sold to a new owner. After she helps solve a mystery, she feels that her life will be better. This is a very good historical book and I highly recommend it to students 5th through the 8th grades, and for teachers, as well.

What a perfect book for teens to understand themselves. A main character that's worried about her weight, has to battle with a snobby best friend, flighty about boys, and doesn't know what's happening to her body. One for all females to read.

It's pitiful that some of the best adolescent books of the 820s are going out of print. Not only is this a timeless tale of growing up with growing pains, love and feelings that over rule teenagers are in tune here.

I'm surprised that I found this book to be good for an adolescent female. Though this book is rather trite and simple, females will be able to relate to the obnoxiously conceited best friend, lover boy, and family situations. Fantastic! The cover was a dark maroonish pink, which isn't the worst cover I've seen, but it isn't the nicest either.

RICHIE TANKERSLEY CUSICK ROCKS! SHE IS THE BEST AUTHOR! I'VE READ ALMOST ALL HER BOOKS AND CAN'T WAI TO READ HER NEXT ONE "THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR"

Gayle first finds an old skull. This is just one if the horrifying things that happen to her. She starts to wonder who she can really trust.....

I have read at least 8 books by R.T.C....although they are all my favorites, this is prob. one of the best out of them. It only took me a couple of hours to read. I couldin't put it down. She is so descriptive, and all her characters have alot of depth. This is a great plot, and has a suprising twist at the end. There was never a dull moment in this book. I especially liked the characters, Gayle and Travis. although, I didin't like, Mark. He was way too conceited, and full of him self. the only thing I didin't like about this book was, there wasin't much action. But, other than that, it was wonderfull. I recomend it to anyone who wants to read a book that doesin't have paper thin characters, and unbeleiveable plots.

Summer Rain is the obsessively detailed, fictional memoir of a type I bipolar living out a penniless summer in Bloomington, Indiana. The action takes place in the late pre-Internet era, probably a year away from the advent of Mosaic/Netscape Navigator, and much of the narrative sweep has to do with computers and early networking. John Conner, the narrator, lives mostly in his boiling imagination, creating a world of his own out of chaotic death metal, bottom-feeder jobs and meticulously described fast-food meals (you can feel the protagonist's hunger--will this be my last scrap of food until payday?). He yearns for the One True Love that he is certain exists somewhere. She does, but only in his fevered, pharmaceutically fueled dreams, tantalizingly out of reach. The most interesting parts of the novel are when Conner goes off the deep end of either depression or mania--shoved there by the girls who initially want him, then send him packing when they become overwhelmed by his intensity. This happens enough to keep the book percolating until it simmers to a close.

VAX, drugs, and rock n roll: John Conner's metaphorical rainy world of terror is rampant with uncooperative co-eds, cheap alcohol, bad food and death metal. Ever wondered what it's like to be stuck in a college town when there's barely a college in session? "Summer Rain" is a darkly humorous depiction of two long months in Bloomington, Indiana.

When I was in college, one of the big important books you were supposed to read was Coupland's _Generation X_. But the big secret was that I was never able to finish it; this was a source of guilt for years, until I came to terms with the fact that this book and this buzzword simply did not speak for me. Back then I'd found even the 80s minimalists more engaging. Well now this generation has come of age and grown and this book documents that sliver of time in the early 1990s when everything was so ripe and promising with the golden hue of youth. Who would be first to write about those early days of TCP/IP computer networks, university Internet access and Usenet that we all learned and lived through in college? Jon Konrath. He was there and that's what he wrote about in this first book of his, a big thick novel about heavy metal college radio and midwestern campus life at its Nineties slacker apex. It's honest, evocative, and funny as hell at times. You should buy it now in this first edition and greet him in the beginning of what is sure to be a long career.

Really enjoyed this exciting new book. Don't have time to read much anymore, but by the 3rd Chapter I was hooked! (and they are short chapters...) It was sort of like reading 3 books in one - not only is it a great read within the Romance genre, but it's also a captivating historical drama, and a fascinating (and realistic) look at healers, folk medicines, etc in the 1700s, all in the context of a sexy swashbuckling pageturner. Sort of like if James Michener and Barbara Tuchman collaborated on a romancer. When's the movie coming out??

Lynne Hayworth's novel Summer's End is a compelling narrative of love and lust, deception, and the desire for revenge. In 1763, young Clemency Cameron arrives in the colonies from England with a passion for healing that is soon matched by her passion for James Ian Alasdair Maclean. Jamie is an exiled Scottish Highlander who has paid dearly for his support of Charles Stuart against the English. The tale is enriched with remarkable historical detail and vivid descriptions of the New England countryside and towns that Clemency finds herself in. Characters are finely drawn - from the scheming Lydia, who will stop at nothing to get what she wants - to lonely four year old Elizabeth, daughter of the widowed Jamie. Ms. Hayworth's versatile writing abilities are amply demonstrated as both the love scenes and Jamie's tormented memories of the battle of Culloden are equally well written. Exciting plot twists will keep you turning the pages - eager to discover the secrets these characters are hiding from each other Patricia Hull

I haven't read a lot of romance novels, but I know the formula: boy and girl meet, deal with conflicts in order to find true love, then get it on. Summer's End has all that, but it also has much more -- true character development and interesting subplots.

I was pleasantly surprised by the detail of the story. It is obvious that Ms. Hayworth researched the era and developed the characters with historical accuracy in mind. The heroine, Clemency, is not some headstrong current-day lass transplanted to a pre-Revolutionary New England colony; she is a believable English maiden who must overcome her past and find her place in a new and puritanical society. The hero and resident hunk, Jamie, is more than a man with a handsome face, teasing style, and stubborn nature; he is a real person with flaws and issues. I found myself looking forward to the story between the ubiquitous love scenes and really getting involved with the characters.

Summer's End is a great start to a trilogy (the next book, Autumn Flame, is supposed to be released in April). I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a good story. The fact that it is a "romance" adds to the story, instead of being the only thing about the book worth mentioning.

I would easily put this book among the best that I have ever read. The images that Roorbach uses keep coming back to me even though it has been well over a year since I read it. The honesty of his writing is amazing, and there were many, many times that I had to pause because the emotional descriptions were so true. Read this book-- by the end you will feel like an old friend at Roorbach's wedding, and you will be glad not to have missed it.

This memoir records the struggles of a young writer trying to find his literary voice by portraying his distraction, frustrations, and devotions to his art through his adventures with his future wife as they encounter a variety of people and animals--turkeys, turtles, hummingbirds, and bluefishes--in many beautiful natural environments. Their adventures are always fascinating andamusing, and, at times, exciting.

This book is a paper plane, it will take you away. From the first page, Bill Roorbach takes us on a wonderful journey during a time of his life, when he first meets his wife Juliet in Martha's Vineyard. It becomes a wonderful, weird, chaotic time for both. This book will make you honestly laugh out loud, and shake your head in disbelief, at the experiences and adventures that these two people take on. It is filled with nature in all it's glory, and sometimes not so glorious. This is a man that writes the way we think. The conversations that he has with himself are so lively, and funny that you will want to shake his hand heartily and say "Yes, Yes, I know just what you mean" Read it, it's worth every word.

what a stunner! I totally did not expect this to be as wonderful as it was. Snobbish aristrocat falls in love with cloddish farmer. . .sounds like a tried and true formula but in Saunders' hands it is magic. I loved the book and sat and read it in a day! I do hope that there will be sequels to this book i.e the stories of the other brothers. I agree with the other reviewer - daniel and Polly just dont go and Daniel deserved a book of his own. do read it if you like well written romance (along with some nice steamy scenes).

In an English country garden a snobbish French aristocrat and a handsome farmer plant the seeds of a desire that will iled a bountiful harvest of love..

Christianna has always fantasized about marrying a wealthy nobleman who can pay for her luxurious life in Marie Antoinette's court.But revolution dashed her hopes and sends her fleeing to an English farmhouse far from proper society. And the penniless girl's nightmare is made complete by the amorous advances of a farmer - a man who looks like a Roman god, but acts like a common peasant.

Rude, snobbish and affected, Christianna is everything Gareth Larkin despises. And he would refuse to have anything to do with her -but she's the most breathtaking creature he's ever beheld. Determind to steal the beautiful aristocrat's heart, Gareth sets out to teach her that the length of a man's title and the size of his fortune are not necessarily his most important assets. (Text taken from book)

If you want a book that encompasses love, passion, humor with a very likable hero and heroine than this is the book for you. In the very first chapters of the book Christianna may appear to be shallow and not so likeable but soon our opinion about her change as more is revealed about her and we come to understand why she has turned so bitter and we come to emphatise with her and also feel sorry. Although she has suffered, Christianna is not a pathetic character who looks for pity.She is strong, stubborn and gives a hard time to Gareth who gets angry with her easily but it is obvious from the start that he is in love with her.

The other characters of this book are utterly charming, and funny. The author adds plenty of humor and deftly combines humor with a passionate romance and some touch of danger too. I loved this book and i'd recommend it to anyone.

Good follow-up book to Victoria and Phillipe's story. I thoroughly enjoyed both stories. Didn't care that Daniel married Polly though. I liked Polly as the town hussy, but not Daniel's wife. Hopefully Ms. Saunders will write another story using Jamie Larkin. That should end her series nicely.

(. . .) The book has been out of print (approximately) since 1995. The last printing was 1989 with 2500 copies being issued from Purple Mountain Press. Although slightly smaller in size this edition was not reprinted from the original plates, but is still a faithful reprint. If you are looking for the 1970 1st ed. or 1976 1st ed., 2nd printing be prepared to spend some money (. . .). If you are a serious collector of Sullivan County material the cost will not be an issue. One of the main reasons that this book is so important is that it contains many rare photos from private collections from long deceased families of Sullivan County. Many photos of early boarding houses, hotels, private family residences, landscapes, etc. abound.

This book is the definitive history of Sullivan County's famed "borscht belt" resorts, as well as its tuberculosis sanitariums and the vital New York, Ontario and Western Railway which brought clientele to the mountains. It is currently available from Purple Mountain Press in Fleischmanns, NY as a reprint. It was originally printed in 1970 by Wakefair Press. Used editions show up from time to time in the $80 to $100 range, especially those signed by the author.

This work picks up where James Eldridge Quinlan's 1873 'History of Sullivan County' leaves off. It is a "bible-type book; one which you keep going back to, over and over again. It takes you back to a simpler, bucholic, pioneering time. An excellent book....

A delightful Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn type novel. Easy reading, suitable for age 13 and up, but very enjoyable for all ages. The characters are very lovable, and it is easy to identify with Terry, the mischevious 6-year-old, if you've ever been a kid and had his spirit.

Its been 13 years since I read this book (when I was 10), but I can still remember the empathic experience afforded by Richards' skillful writing. I remember the thrills of sneaking into a tomato warehouse to sample the sweetiest juciest tomatoes ever pilfered, and the exhilaration of running away once I'd been discovered. I remember the bond with an old man who needed the benefit of youth like I needed the benefit of wisdom. We were a great pair, and he taught me how to catch catfish in a most interesting way. I remember terrifying my teacher and being the best little hellion I could be, and I remember the responsibility I shouldered when I had to, when I crossed a point, on a raft, with a friend in peril, and the everglades my only obstacle to saving him...when I took a step closer to becoming a man. I am writing about this book because it was one of the most memorable of my youth, and because it still sometimes paints on the canvas of my dreams.

An amazing look at childhood from the perspective of an adult woman. Wish I'd known McCree and Terry when I was six!

Although I bought this book just for a quick read of Suddenly Last Summer but found all of the other plays in this volume to be delights in their own respect. Each has their ups and downs, but all are undeniably in the style of Tennessee Williams. I think this book is a must read for any true Tennessee fan as it give any reader a fuller look into the style that is Tennessee.

Tennesse Williams has become of my favorite authors, partially due to this book. I have long been a fan of the movie adaptations of his work, but they come nowhere near to the superb quality of the written word. In all of his plays you can get a sense of what the characters are feeling. In most cases those feelings are angst and despair. "Suddenly Last Summer" is by far the best play in this book, but the others are not far behind. The characters in these plays are easy to "see", thanks to Williams' wonderful development. As with every Williams' play, these have surprising twists and revelations throughout. I highly recommend these, and all other Tennessee Williams plays.

Of the plays that I read, I found them all to have real life aplications. One of the suprising things was that his works were written several years ago but there are still points that he raises that are aplicable to today. Honestly I could not go to bed until I found out how he resolved his conflicts. I will have to read more of his work. He is not that bad for being an english paper topic.