This was a pretty great book! Although the title didn't really fit the contents of this book. I liked the friendship between Bruno and Bailey. It seems like something that is meant to be. I really felt like this book should have went on and that it was unfinished. I would enjoy a sequal to this wonderful book!

A brand new 2002, 416 page beautiful plastic laminated hardbound library book advertising memorabilia lovers will appreciate. There are more than 1,200 large, full color sharp photos included. Current values are shown. Listings are in alphabetical order throughout the book, making item location easy. Useful for beginners and advanced collectors, and everyone interested in ad memorabilia. Add it to your library. It's a beautiful book.

This book is the end of the series and its sad because they were all GREAT books and this is one is no exception!! Jamie finds his match and looses his heart to Tess!! Just like Cole and Malachi Jamie has the temper and stength to be a great and romatic hero and just like Kristin and Shannon Tess has the temper and independence and stength to match Jamie. Story was so good had to make myself go slow so I didn't finish it so fast that it would be all over so quickly!! This book was hard to find also but finally found it through Harqeulin at the same time I found Rides A Hero. This Book was just like the others worth every bit of effort it took to find and diffently worth the wait. I wonder if Jon has his on story and I wonder if Matthew, Shannon and Kristin brother had a story and did I miss it, I know he found a wife but I would love to read the book if there is one?

Appalachian Summer is the third of Marcia Bonta's season chronicles of the natural life that populates the mountain in central Pennsylvania that she and her family call home. As with all her books, Appalachian Summer is a bounty of historical and scientific facts about nature. The first in her seasonal series, Appalachian Spring, duly reports the natural life unfolding from winter. In the second, Appalachian Fall, her daily journal also picks up a sinister subplot as an unethical lumberer threatens the mountain and local wildlife. In this new volume, the Bontas have taken back the land ravaged from timbering and the natural observations haromonize with more personal notes about family events. An appreciation of the fragility of life shadows the family's happiness though when the search for a missing child and her abductor moves onto their land. Bonta never forgets, however, that her mission in sharing her journal is to bring the reader up close to the wonders of nature and this she does in clear prose that tinkles with the exotic names of the plant and animal life that share our planet but are infrequently observed or respected. I regret there is only one season left for her to profile. When I read Bonta's books, I not only learn more about nature, I learn more about humankind.

The unorthodox narrative, the unfinished novel buried within books must be deciphered as a palimpsest by an archeologist-reader. Not only does it explore the classical themes of Forsteriana, but it goes beyond the boundaries of traditional patterns of writing and reading, fanning out a new range of perspectives and interpretations. Arctic Summer is a World of Art everlastingly shaping and altering what exists.

"This convoy must not get through-U-boats pursue, attack and sink."

This was the signal that Admiral Dönitz sent to the commanders of the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on September 9, 1941 just before the US entered the war. Sixty-three merchant ships; a number old and dilapidated and all slow and heavy-laden with vital supplies from the United States for the United Kingdom, were strung out in 12 columns abreast, covering 25 miles of inhospitable ocean. They set sail from Nova Scotia at a time when the German U-boats were sinking more than one hundred ships a month and the US Navy could do nothing but stand-by and watch (at least officially). The convoy's escort of one destroyer and three corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy, all untried in combat, was hopelessly outclassed when the battle for SC42 commenced. The battle lasted for seven days and covered 1,200 miles of ocean.

First hand accounts by participants on both sides add interest and drama.

Marty was about to emigrate to NZ and it was in NZ House in London that she made a thoughtless little joke about going to look for a bachelor with a twenty-thousand-a-year woolclip. Philip Griffiths overheard and took her remark seriously! He told her off. She was dismayed to find him on the ship to NZ and even more so to find that she had been assigned to work for his neighbours near Timaru.
Don't miss this book if you can get one! Entertaining and amusing but most of all fascinating history about emigration written in the days when it was happening...

This was the first book I read by Clayton and I have been addicted ever since. An in depth look at addiction with lots of twists and turns. It really keeps your interest and is an excellent read if you can find this work. One of my favorites.

Example of Scarry illustration before he honed his style into that which he would become popular. Great drawings of fifties era cars, particulary commercial vehicles: Ice Cream truck, Flower Delivery, etc.

The page depicting a family on vacation is hilariously un-PC: The father is relaxing and smoking his pipe while the wife scrubs a pot at the sink in the camper. Outside, the toddler looks longingly from the confines of his crib as the boy shoots off his toy gun.

Baseball Summer is, of course, about baseball and about summer. It depicts varying grades of Orioles, Angels, Whitesox, and Cats. It follows the game and the season from Baltimore to Minnesota to Greece. It recounts anecdotes relating to the likes of Brooks Robinson and Mickey Mantle. It even details in varying degrees of minutia the career of Nolan Ryan (the author's second cousin - though the author insists third - but what's a base or two between cousins): the reader will marvel perhaps at knowing which day in the month of September in 20+ years in the majors that Nolan Ryan never pitched a strikeout. But Baseball Summer is also about November and softball and Burbank and all the aspirations for winning; it's about losing, too. Sometimes the action in the narrative reads as though the author is broadcasting play-by-play on radio, replete with suspense and thrill. Sometimes there's T.V., too. His style makes for a very easy and enjoyable read. It wends a story that is both personal and universal, humorous and touching, friendly and strangely pedagogical, in the literal sense. Throughout, however, there's the game and what it means to want to be in the game at any time of year in any place in the world in any walk of life. There's the child and there's the adult, the pro and the amateur - each one wanting perhaps the same thing - to play.