William Kelley's novel, The Sweet Summer is a memorable story of a young airman and ambitious priest Cully Madden. In the summer of 1947, Cully joins an all-black Air Force boxing team. Cully forms deep friendships with his teammates while they are in the South on tour. Cully and his team face many battles inside and outside of the ring. Cully learns many lessons that teach him to understand the origin of the cruelty that allows his friends to live in such a barbaric world he never imagined could have existed. This novel is an account of the friendship of a white man and his black peers in a time that friendships of this kind rarely existed. This book led me on an adventure from a place and time I have never visited. It portrays with harsh honesty how African Americans suffered in the post World War II era. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a novel full of courage, friendship, honor, compassion and heroism.

This book is a poignant and brutal story of a white man on an all black Air Force boxing team. The late 40s Deep South settings of flop houses, make-shift boxing rings, and swamp shanties make you almost feel the humidity in the air and know the desperation of men determined to win at all costs. I highly recommend this beautiful book by the writer who won an Academy Award for co-writing Witness.

MR. KELLEY CREATES A SPELLBINDING NOVEL ABOUT A WHITE MAN ON A BLACK MILITARY BOXING TEAM, TRAVELING THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH IN THE POST WORLD WAR II ERA/ THIS BOOK, WRITTEN FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE I AM SURE, KEPT ME ON THE EDGE OF MY CHAIR AND I WAS UNABLE TO PUT IT DOWN. I LAUGHED, CRIED AND CRINGED AS MR. KELLEY LED ME ON THE TRAIL OF AN ADVENTURE FROM A TIME AND PLACE I HAD NEVER VISITED. IT IS A NOVEL THAT MUST NOT BE MISSED. MR. KELLEYS KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOUTH REMINDS ME OF FAULKNER.I AM SURE THIS STORY WILL SOON APPEAR ON THE BIG SCREEN. THIS STORY IS IN THE SAME CLASS AS MR. KELLEYS ACADEMY AWARD WINNING SCREENPLAY "WITNESS". DONT MISS OUT, BUY IT TODAY!

I figure a book is successful if it makes me laugh or cry. Livesay's book did both. "Where the Asphalt Ends" is a gentle book that brings forward from more than 60 years ago the idyllic summers Livesay spent in Door County, Wisconsin. The viewpoint is a child's or a teenager's, with enough of the adult author's commentary to indicate the woman formed from those Door County experiences. Kids don't--and can't--grow up today with the innocence of time and place Livesay captures. It's a good read and the author's sketches add charm to the vignettes she captures from her past.

"Where Asphalt Ends" brings back the sights, smells and sounds of a bygone era. Anyone who has been in Door County can easily picture what life was like when things were simple. Children could grow up in a world where they could explore the wonders of nature and learn from people they met a bit of what life was all about. Sunday sing-alongs, cherry pies, fishing and picnics were part of the charm that summer residents experienced. Even now one can picture people and places that enriched the life of a child.

Where Asphalt Ends is a child's memories of a time when Door County was a place for summer residents. Everyone knew each other and children could roam freely and discover the wonders of nature and explore the idiosyncrasies of the folks they met. The author tells of summers with two Aunts who shared their love and knowledge of the outdoors with her. Sunday sing-a-longs, cherry pies and picnics were part of the summer fare residents enjoyed.
Reading this book allows one to share in a childhood past and to taste the atmosphere still prevalent in Door County.

This book was exciting. My favorite part was she recieved her pig My 6th grade class has not finished it,but love it so far.

My teacher read this book to us last year and I loved it! I deserves 5 stars because of all the adventure.

In Wild Horse Summer, ten-year-old Josephine Barkley puts into practice a set of values fundamentally necessary to success in life. Josephine lives on a small farm during the years of the Great Depression. She wants a pony to take to the fair. With the help of her friend Bobby, she tries several schemes to get a pony, including chasing a wild horse! When Grandpa offers Josephine a summer job to earn one of his ponies she thinks her problem is finally solved. But her mother comes down with pneumonia and Josephine must face a decision -- is family more important than her pony? Highly recommended for school and community libraries, Neva Andrews' Wild Horse Summer is a very nicely written and thoroughly engaging novel for young readers, with well-paced plotting and realistic, believable characters for whom we come to identify with and care about.

We found this book to be very adventurous. The author keeps you in suspense,and involves you in the lives of the children by using visual imagery. This book displays how families with different cultures and values live in the rural south. It also shows how some cultures and diverse people in past years were not excepted.
As a teacher, you could use this book in your classroom to teach students about diversity and differences among cultures. It teaches children to accept and respect cultures that are different from their own. We thank the author for giving us a glimpse of cultural diversity in the past and teaching us to accept everyone for their differences.

I originally began reading this book for my six year old daughter. When she was ready to stop, I couldn't. I read the book, almost completely, straight through. It will make you laugh; It will make your heart race with our young heros'; and most definitely, at risk of sounding cliche, it will make you cry; as I found myself doing when I reached the end. Wonderful for both its pains and its triumphs.

This textbook is a combination book, partly the biography of an exceptional individual and partly a history of scientific discovery. The author, William Summers, is eminently qualified to write such a text, being a physician, scientist, and historian at Yale University.

D'Herelle is a renowned Canadian Scientist about whom I was totally ignorant. Born in Montreal, he traveled and lived in numerous areas around the world, although France became his eventual home. He never gave up his Canadian citizenship, however. D'Herelle was born to a wealthy family in Montreal, and after high school he traveled extensively, thanks to a gift from his mother. He never found time to return to formal schooling, but he learned enormous amounts in his chosen field, microbiology. His seminal scientific discovery was the description of bacteriophages, and their possible application in human infectious diseases. For this he received numerous awards, and at one time was a research professor at Yale University despite his own lack of formal education. Dr. Summers clearly delineates the process of scientific discovery, and the subsequent controversies over the nature of this new discovery (was it really a living organism or an enzyme?), and the determination of scientific priority. There is a fair amount of technical description, but Dr. Summers is a clear and logical writer who is able to guide the reader through the scientific process.

This book is an incredible work of scholarship, with extensive use of primary source documents. However, because the main thrust of this book is one of scientific discovery, we get very little analysis of d'Herelle's personality. I would have been interested in some speculation on how his lack of formal education might have influenced his often-stormy relationships with other scientists. Also, why was such a distinguished scientist so poorly treated at the Pasteur Institute, his spiritual home? There would be much to learn from a biography of this highly complex individual. Meanwhile, this is an excellent book that helps us understand the nature of scientific enquiry while saluting an outstanding scientist, who just happens to be Canadian.

This book reviews the life of Felix d'Herelle, the man responsible for the co-discovery, naming, and popularization of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. From bacteriophages came molecular genetics, and from molecular genetics came biotechnology as well as much of modern biology. Bacteriophages, in the guise of the bacteriophage therapy of bacterial diseases, may even change your life, serving as the next generation of truly effective antibacterial antimicrobials. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and benefited greatly from the insight provided into d'Herelle's life and influence on bacteriophagy. Without question, any individual interested in bacteriophage therapy, or just plain bacteriophages as more than just tools at the heart of molecular biology, will want to read this book.

This book is a good book if you are interested in ghosts. It does a good job of describing where to find ghosts, what kind of ghosts there are, and what ghosts look like. This was the first book on ghosts that I have read and I really enjoyed it!

On a scale of one to ten...
5,000! This actually works! So far I've found a poltergeist and avenger. I Ghost Hunt with my friends now all the time! I'm collecting all of them in the series as well as this one. Great buy!

I loved this book! Rory's and Loreali's life is so interesting. You know that Jess causes a big factor when he comes into Stars Hallow. (You know this if you have been keeping up to the TV show on the WB) I recommend that you read the previous Gilmore Girls books first to fully understand this one. This was a great book and the only reason that I didn't give it five stars was becasue I am not sure of it's clarity to those who are not familiar with the Tv series.

The fourth novelized installment of the TV series told from Rory's point of view. Even though I've seen the episodes the novel covers (at least twice), the book is still fresh and entertaining.

The story is really well-told and telling of the importance between the grandparent/grandchild relationship. Developing this relationship is so important, and it reminds me of another similar book; "Something to Remember Me By" by Susan Bosak. Reader's will be captivated by how the grandparent/grandchild relationship develops in this very touching story. The illustrations are great. A perfect gift book for a grandmother.

This book is a very dear story of a boy and his interesting grandma, who share some simple but wonderful moments at the shore. The gorgeous illustrations make this book a real treasure, one that will entice parents and kids to read and reread it. Don't pass up one of the most beautifully crafted books about family ever!

It took me 8 years to procure a copy of "The Werewolf", by Montague Summers. Perhaps, my expectations were too high, but this was a big disappointment.

I've read many books on Werewolves, and shape-shifter lore, both fiction and non-fiction. While I must give Rev. Summers credit for the amount of research that went into the book, the exceptional bibliography and documentation, his writing style made the book all but unreadable. If you happen to read fluent English, French, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Spanish, or have a penchant for pretentious prose, then you're sure to get much more out of "The Werewolf" than a rube such as I. Summers will begin to make a point, and then summarize with a quote in Greek that he doesn't even bother to translate! This happens through out the entire book.

If "The Werewolf" is ever reprinted, it would certainly behoove the editor to translate the passages, and update the language by changing all those "U's" to "V's" in words such as "couen" and "Sauiour". In the mean time, so yourself a favor, and purchase "The Book of Werewolves" by Sabine Baring-Gould.

1O/11/97 E-mail (Eugene IV) I wish and hope to see more works by the author Montague Summers. His books are quite rare, and are great to read. I'm delighted to see this work being published again by the famed Montague Summers and his book "The Were Wolf". A thrilling and rather frighful account of a series of events that took place during the 15th and 18th centuries. Father Montague 188O/1948 an English Priest of the Catholic Church goes into depth about the heart chilling details of "The Were Wolf". How the Were Wolf is not just folk lore, but part of the belief of the Catholic Church, that condemned such monster's attributing there existence to the devil or satan "The Father of Lies" Gospel of (John:8 44). Filled with wisdom and historical accounts the priest gives his thoughts on the mind of the Catholic Church during that time, and her practice of burning such for there wickedness. A great book for them that doubt or deny the existence of "The Were Wolf".

It's a pleasure to see that this bizarre, charming (and blood-chilling) work is coming back into print after a long absence. Lovers of the arcane should snap The Werewolf up (before it snaps THEM up) at this bargain price; I had to find my own tattered copy for $25 in a musty cranny of a used bookstore in Chicago. As pleasurable as that kind of find is, it is rare, and there is no reason that everyone shouldn't be able to scare themselves silly with this erudite and entertaining survey of lycanthropy in Europe, written by the extremely learned, but extremely credulous, Roman Catholic priest Montague Summers. In life, Fr. Summers was in constant trouble for his unseemly interest in demonology and related subjects. Judging from the jacket photo on my 1966 edition of this 1933 work, he was a pasty, tubby and unpresuming little man, which makes his interest in the sanguine and diabolical all the more charming. Here he collects an incredible amount of folk anecdotes and reprints entire sheafs of amazing source materials (broadsheets, medieval werewolf trial transcripts, etc.) in what must be the crowning work on shape-shifting legends in Europe. (The reader may also want to check out a book called A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture... a later vintage, a much more scientific complement to Summers, less credulous, and a lot less fun.)

I recently moved to Colorado (and am living about an hour where this book took place) and was excited to start reading just based on the things we'd "have in common"! But sadly, I wasnt crazy about the author's writing style. He didnt really get you "close" to what they were feeling. He gave the charachters quite interesting personalities...but I think it takes more than that. I really wanted to get to know them. I kept reading along, hoping the storyline and plot would come to a climax or become somewhat exciting...but really when you read book jackete description, well, it doesnt get much more indepth that that. I grew up in the 80s so I didnt relate to this author's accounts of early-70s history. Besides he used them so sparingly that they never seemed to quite flow with the story as a whole, and almost felt like the author was "name-dropping," but with historical facts.

I gave the book three stars, because it wasnt horrible, I just think it takes the right reader to appreciate it. If you really like getting to know characters and solid story lines this isnt the book for you. The cover looked really cool (I'm an artist, okay) which is what first caught my eye. Hey, Kudos on the book cover.

Now that Michael Malone's books are finally becoming available again, you'll want to add this one to your collection. As usual, the characters are wonderfully off-beat and no one does characterization quite like Michael Malone. Not as great as "Handling Sin" but still not to be missed.

Mrs. Amanda Thurston stands out as one of my all time favorite characters. Her stoic love and strength allows the reader to enjoy the craziness of the other characters as they swirl around her.

This book is a kick to read with the quirkiness from the 1970's shining through, yet it is written against the background of the shootings of President and Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and the war in VietNam. The characters in the book are searching how to make a life in the face of such violence and national upheaval. The Chapter "The Beginning of a Longer Journey" could have been written in 2003 instead of 1976. Not much progress made at all since then.