I found The Summer City by the Sea to be a truly fascinating account of Cape May. Mr. Salvini has truly mastered the craft of writing a historical book that holds your attention. After reading this book I bought a house in Cape May, so hats off to you Emil Salvini, best investment I ever made!

The Summer City by the Sea is a truly outstanding book. Salvini takes us on a journey that is both interesting and entertaining. Whether a resident or vacationer this book is sure to pull you into the incredible history of this elegant city. The illustrations, photographs, and text come together in a charming fashion. A perfect book to read on a cool summer day.

An illustrated celebration of the birth, demise, and resurrection of the nations's oldest seaside resort. Emil Salvini leads the reader through the Cape's two hundred tumultous years, which have forever earned it the moniker "Queen of the Seaside Resorts."

A delightful tale of two brothers who initially dread spending the summer with their grandparents. The story reminds the reader of simpler, less hectic times and will reinforce core values that all children should understand. The author has an insightful knowledge to Michigan's upper peninsula and weaves the treasures of an unspoiled state into a well told story about two boys summer vacation. An excellent addition to your childs library. Recommended age from 6-13 years of age.

A good first effort from a new writer. This is a excellent book for adolescent boys to read but also a refreshing book for adults who will be reminded of some lost values.

This story, the first published for Deana Marie, is one that the whole family can enjoy. The story is about three brothers going to the Upper Penisula in Michigan to visit their grandparents for the summer. What they discover is an appreciation for nature, a respect for the older generation, and the importance of faith and family. It is a great book to remind anyone of what is really important in life, eachother. It also includes a wonderful description of one of the most beautiful places in the nation.

Maybe the best writer that I've ever read and not just about baseball...I must concur with the other reviewers that it's scandelous that this and other Roger Angell books are out of print, especially with all the sub-par writing that is on the market today. Mr. Angell's ability to craft details into a much larger story and tell it with humour and keen insight are amazing to me. Chapter after chapter of this book are combined into one long pleasing account from a fan's perspective that leaves you wishing that it would never end. More than just a season-by-season run-down, Angell provides his views with a unique perspective for each season that goes beyond mere sports reporting and seems to provide a theme that is clever, humerous and poignant. This should be read by every baseball fan to see what real sports-writing is like and I think that you'll agree that all other sports commentary pales by comparison. Highest recommendation.

The subtitle of this book tells it all: "Roger Angell on baseball." The articles collected in "The Summer Game" first appeared in "The New Yorker" from 1962-72. Angell is not only a first-rate writer but a true fan of the game. He writes about the rise of California baseball, the wonderful world of expansion including the comical and agonizing sufferings of the Amazin' Mets, the fall of the mighty New York Yankees, baseball in French (Montreal's Expos), baseball indoors (the Houston Astrodome), baseball in the spring, baseball during the winter hot-stove league, and the Miracle Mets of 1969. Many of the articles focus on the World Series, so fans of the Dodgers, Cardinals and Orioles will enjoy their double triumphs within this period, while the Tigers and Pirates will remember their classic seven-game Series, and the Red Sox fans will have to endure with having come ever so close. There is humor in these writings, but there is also affection, so when Angell expresses his bitterness over the arrogance and greed that threatened to overwhelm the game he loves he speaks for all of us. Yes, it is insane that the writing of Roger Angell or Red Smith or any of the other great sportswriters of the last century are out of print. They do not need to be preserved on the internet, they need to be in print on paper.

The fact that this book (and Mr. Angell's other remarkable books about baseball) is out of print disturbs me on two levels. As a baseball fan, I have found these books to be an invaluable source of comfort during the long winter months when our game goes into hybernation. As a reader, I have found in these volumes beautiful writing and keen insight, something that is so often lacking in what passes for journalism today. Mr. Angell (longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker) writes about baseball as a fan, and he does so for fans. Real fans - those of us who recognize that a double and a single are preferable to a home run, those that marvel at a right fielder's gorgeous one-hop throw to third to nip the sliding runner, those that hurt just a little bit during rain delays. If, by some wild stretch of the imagination the publisher of the Summer Game (I don't remember who it was right off) reads this, I think a single collection of the best of Angell's baseball writings is in order - if not a re-pressing of all.

I read Gary Soto's "A Summer Life" while I was writing my first book in order to educate myself in the creation of vibrant, evocative scenes that come out of ordinary, every day experiences. For example, in Soto's essay, "The Shirt," he shows how the tragic, post-Korean War existence of Uncle Shorty seemed magical and special to a young Soto who covets his uncle's shirt: "I used to slip it on when he was asleep, and at the age of five I knew the smell of a man who went and came back from war....It was the shape of muscle, the anger of a tattoo panther hiding behind cotton, the hair in the collar, the small hole where a bullet could have entered and exited without his dying." Or, with the simple first line of "The Weather," Soto can set the stage for the mysteries of climate: "January doesn't show its true face until you can scratch a cold window with a finger." This little book will make you smile (and sometimes wince) as it brings back your own personal memories of growing up. This is a wonderful collection that offers everyone, including new writers, a chance to enjoy and learn from beautifully crafted essays.

A Summer Life explores a young boys life as he grows up in Fresno, California. In a three partbook, broken into thirteen short chapters in each part, Gary Soto covers everything from "TheColors", to "The Chicks", to "The Computer Date". (names of chapters). Mischeivness wasdefinitely a part of this boys life, just as it is for most young boys. In just the first chapter, "TheBuddha", the boy killed ants with his Buddha toy, and ran underneath a moving semi-truck. The boy would do such silly things as taking old bicycle handle bars and imagining that they would slow him down and keep him from reaching a high, uncontrollable speed. He would also put bottle caps on the bottom of his shoes, then he would kick the cement to make an "engine of sparks" come from beneath his feet. Throughout the story the boy has a few problems with his siblings. When his sister chewed Bazooka bubble gum and saved the proof of purchases to send in and get a locket, he wanted her to get the binoculars instead. As the boy has these experiences with his family and his surrounding, he matures from age five to seventeen, and is confronted with events that teach him lessons about life. Gary Soto definitely shows his poet style of writing in A Summer Life. There is rarely a detail missed. This was truly a great book and I recommend it to readers who enjoy real life situations, a sly sense of humor, and a realist style of writing. I would give "A Summer Life" three thumbs up if I had another hand! -RmP

This book was first read to me when I was in fifth grade. Years later I can still remember being in California with the characters in the book - smelling, seeing, touching everything that they smelled, saw and touched. Wow.

Wonderful book focussing on responsibility and friendship. An important story for children of all ages. Well deserving of it's Christopher Medal.

I liked this book because I learned a lesson. The lesson I learned was that I should always think about the things that could happen if I did it. If the father didn't apoligze he could of never seen a garden. On the other hand he wouldn't of told his daughter the story so she didn't do it to if he didn't have a tomato fight.

A young boy recounts the story his father tells him every year about the time, when he was ten years old, the father succumbed to the irresistible temptation of ripe tomatoes growing in his neighbor's garden, and in the process of having a vegetable war with his friends,demolished the garden. The father goes on to relate how he finally made amends with the elderly neighbor, and forever after planted a garden each year. The illustrations combine with the text to provide a moving example of how children can learn from their errors, and see the value of control over their behavior, and respect for others as well as themselves. The story is well told without a hint of sermonizing.

What a great romanctic suspense, make room on your keeper shelf

I would love to read more of her work!!!!

Summer of Fire is an edge of your seat, romantic suspense novel. It's got it all! Sizzling sex, intriguing characters, a plot that won't quit and lots of action. This is a stunning debut from new author Jill Sheldon. Order now for a real reading treasure

I'm on spring break, watching the war on tv, and just finished reading this book. I loved it. I love how poignant it is. And how funny. I love the language and how the pieces are put together. I love how I can go back and read individual pieces, and each makes its own sense. I especially love the conclusions of each piece. Many friends will be getting this book as gifts, and I hope to use it in some of my classes, as I suspect my friends will do.

If you don't know the difference between fiction and poetry, this book won't teach you. Each chapter of this novel reads like poetry and speaks those inimitable truths about love, the lack there-of, fear, and the relief one feels when they've finally understood something or stopped trying. Excellent poetry provides this, and West's prose provides it for us as well. This is not the kind of book you should breeze through in an afternoon--you will want to languish over it, read it again, write down quotes you can repeat later. _The Summer of the Sub-Comandante_ is not simply a new novel; it's literature.

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The Summer of the Sub-Comandante by Kathleene West moves the reader physically and emotionally from Viet Nam to Latin America to Northern Europe with an uneasy home base in the United States. West's characters are peripatetic, crossing and retreating from geographical and political borders as well as the borders of the heart. They may seem elusive, but they are sharply-drawn, appearing to be more comfortable skidding through the jungles of Viet Nam on a motorcycle or advancing into a Chiapas rain forest to find a revolutionary comandante than with social encounters in living rooms, restaurants and fenced yards. Watch them advance into the no-fly zones of relationships where love and war are equally devastating.

Through her characters' observations and perceptions West establishes a wry, often-comic, ironic tone that sharply captures the fin de siècle dance of destruction and regeneration. As her characters fall-or jump-into situations ranging from the embarrassing to the perilous, West searches for truth in our confusing world. The Summer of the Sub-Comandante ultimately values truth more than comfort. Kathleene West's enactment of the most difficult, even dangerous, situations shimmer with her poetic language and inimitable humor.

Kathleene West slips handcuffs on our imagination and in exquisite language plants a smoky kiss on our chapped lips and leads us, sweaty and panting, through muddy Viet Cong tunnels into love that momentarily cools its sizzle when we emerge in Iceland. War dogs our tracks from Angkor Wat to Chicken Itzá while we seek the proper word for the spell that will stop it--the same spell that makes love stay. West is a daughter or war, wife of war, sister of war and, finally, witness to war and to love beyond borders that speaks the secret language of the spell that will bring all the world's beloved warriors home. Enter the geography of personal enlightenment--don't forget your sun block.

--Bill Ransom, author of Bum

This reference is surely one of the most user-friendly and parent-friendly guides I've come across. ...

Finally a very well-put-together reference for us research-weary parents from New York and its border states! I would encourage all parents who are beginning to think about the summer of '99 to get this book very soon: There are early applicaion deadlines and/or limited space in certain academic and arts programs. There are also lots of great programs described in this reference which I would never have heard about otherwise.

Someone finally put together a college campus reference for kids! This is really well- formatted and organized with decent-size print and heavy enough paper. Decriptions and program information seem very complete and with no advertising of any kind, I feel confident about its all-inclusiveness

This was a great book! The Saddle Club is at a riding camp Mosse Hill. First Stevie is trying to get Lisa to like Todd a boy who Stevie's boyfriend Phil has been hanging out with. But then when the girls go on a trail ride in the woods they see people working on the camp grounds and tell Barry the camp director right away but Barry already knows but was not knowing that they were going to be there so early. He tells the girls that the camp must be sold and if they what the camp to be saved they need to get a lot of money. The girls jump in to action. But they need some help from the riders at the camp. Stevie is doing her best to make every thing perfect and her friends think she is trying to make every thing perfect to much. She even doesn't what to hang out with Phil. And the big horse show is coming up then Stevie gets a great idea. Will they save the camp before it's to late?????????

This book is awesome! I love the saddle club series! Lisa has a could-be-life-threatening-problem,and lies to her best friends about it. And when Stevie finds out that camp is being sold,she starts fund-raisers to help.You gotta read this book!

This book is the second part of #67. Lisa has been placed in another cabin and the girl she had made friends with, Piper has disappeared! Carole is happy just to see Starlight and Stevie is mad because Phil is spending time with Todd, instead of with her. The Saddle Club learns bad news about Moose Hill...it might have to shut down. With the campers' help, they are determined to save Moose Hill....

The Summer Riders is one of my favorite books. People who like horses will love this book most! This book is about Jinny Manders, who is 12 years old. Jinny loves riding Shantih, her horse, and is pretty lonely because she is the only one who loves horses in her family, and wants a person to ride with. When summer comes, she sees that a girl named Sue Horton, (camping for the summer) comes with a horse named Pippen and also likes horses. Sue lends Jinny a saddle and they ride every morning until...
Jinny also finds out that two children, Bill and Marlene Thorpes, which her father had known them from long time ago in their previous place where they stayed, are coming. When they come, trouble also happens when Bill steals a watch from a store. The police comes and..... I can't tell you anymore so you should read this book to find out! Have fun and I say that this is a great book!
Read other books in the same series, Pony Stories, by Patricia Leitch!

This is the third book in a wonderful series. Jinny discovers some things about a girl she never would have believed!

If you've read For Love of A Horse, then you'll love The Summer Riders!! This is a great sequel. When Jinny's cousins come to visit, she is convinced that her summer will be ruined. She has no idea of what will happen next!!