If you're thinking of finding popular songs from the 1990's in the book, you're very wrong! Yes, this book does contain sheet music of 89 songs from the Nineties, THE EIGHTEEN NINETIES! Yes, the 1890's. So if you're looking for songs from the 1990's, look somewhere else, because you won't find any here!

It wasn't exactly the 'Gay Nineties' because the country was in a depression and mortality rates were still rather high. Still, there were some songwriters that saw promise, and the idea of marketing sheet music in large quantities was just starting to take hold. That said, even younger generations are bound to know many of the tunes contained within. There are also some neat surprises, as many songs you may think you know had verses attached that often changed the meaning of or solidified the better-known choruses. You'd be amazed at the amount of innuendo contained within many of the verses AND choruses. The library of every serious pianist and/or skilled singer hould have a copy. You can also find many of the pieces already recorded on my web site. Compare the ratio of an average of $6.00 per song in original sheet music form to 89 songs contained within this book. That's not 'fuzzy math'. Get it now!

This is a unique collection if you're looking for piano music from a bygone age. I was so happy to discover scores for some of the music my grandmother listened to. It's nice to know that publishers find this kind of retrospective worthwhile in an age when many don't look back beyond the 1990s.

I really enjoy the Fremont Jones series, particularly the characters and the historical setting. But the plotline of this book was simply too thin. Dianne Day has fallen into the lazy mystery writer's trap - the solution to the case is "The murderer was a lunatic!" The reader plods through myriad clues and tangents only to have everything suddenly wrapped up in one swift, unconvincing chapter.

I also fear that the Fremont Jones character is losing some authenticity. She is an atypically progressive woman for the time period, yet everyone who meets her seems to love her. Everything she does/attempts works out just perfectly (i.e., her guise as a man - so successful that her own lover doesn't recognize her), and her every problem solves itself easily (i.e., her money situation). I much preferred the Fremont of the first two books - a woman who was struggling to make ends meet, to find her way in the big city. She seems to have lost some humanity.

I hope that the next installment in this series shows Dianne Day returning to form and giving us the Fremont Jones we want to read about.

I am not really a mystery fan but was attracted to this book by it's title. As an avid student of San Francisco history I expected I might enjoy it, if only to pick apart all the historical inaccuracies! Was I ever wrong! Dianne Day obviously has done her research as her version of pre-earthquake San Francisco is right on! Not only was it accurate but it actually makes the period come alive. She gets the big things right, and the little things as well. For those who love mysteries and San Francisco this book is a must read. I enjoyed seeing the world I had read about for so many years brought to life, and in such refreshing ways. I look forward to reading all of the Fremont Jones Mysteries!

Fremont and her partner in life and business, Michael Kossoff are now running an investigative business, J & K and sort of sharing a duplex with the office on the ground floor. Their former policeman friend Wish Stephenson is working for them. Fremont has made friend who doesn't care for her unusual lifestyle, Frances McFadden. Frances is an abused wife with an interest in Spiritualism. While at a seance with Fremont, she finds herself taken over by a spirit. The medium orders her out of the building, but later asks for a visit. Fremont and Frances arrive at her house to find her murdered and very recently. Fremont of course wants to investigate and to save her friend, but Michael counsels her to be cautious. In the midst of all this, Fremont's father is coming for a visit without his despised wife Augusta. Michael tactfully leaves town. Another medium is also murdered and Fremont wonders if it is a trend and if Frances' brutal husband is involve.

The two plotlines of this novel blend beautifully. The murder mystery was a little more difficult than most, maybe because I was distracted by Fremont's reunion with her father. This is the best of the series so far.

Not what I expected. This is more of a story book than what I would call colouring book. Disappointed, but it wasn't a great loss as I paid just a couple $'s for it including the shipping. Very small book about 4 inches high.

This is a really cute book, but it is very small. The only way to use this practically is to cut it apart and blow it up on a copy machine. That was my intention from the beginning so it is good for me. It is a good value for this book.

Great For Small Children Fun To color not to details making it as i said great for small kids!

Considering that the film EVOLUTION has the smell of a blockbuster about it (I write this prior to its release), it seems odd that the novel tie-in rights would be exclusively the province of a Young Adult imprint (Puffin Books). That said, Eleanor Fremont has done an average, perfunctory YA tie-in job, no particular style or grace ... but nothing much to carp at either. She pretty much stays out of the script's way, not doing much more than rendering it in past-tense prose ... but it seems a pretty good and lively script. As the book is a fairly artless adaptation, I'm not sure it's worth the "spoilers" of reading it in advance. But some may find it a nice after-the-fact souvenir of the film...

I was pleasantly surprised by this volume in Osprey's Essential Histories series. In a scant one hundred pages the author does an excellent job of capturing the essential facts relating to these conflicts sprinkled with useful maps and chronologies as well as some superb representational pieces of period art. I enjoyed the two interesting sidebars, one on a British naval officer and another on Nelson's ladylove, Emma Hamilton. The short bibliography lists two of my favorites, Paddy Griffith's ART of WAR of REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE and T.C.W.Blanning's THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS. Fremont-Barnes has done a very good job on supplying the interested reader an introduction to an extremely colorful and fascinating period.

Melby was a worker in the American Embassy in China during the three year Chinese Civil War. He gives his perspective along with interesting stories about who lost China. Who lost China?
Well, the Generalissimo and the Kuomintang lost China. Marshall and the U.S. Ambassador Dr. Stuart tried to get the Nationalists and Communists to form a coalition government, but instead both sides were hell bent on trying to beat the other by military means. One senses a disgust by Melby for the corrupt Nationalist
government and a certain trust in the Communists. However history will prove him wrong because of the subsequent millions of deaths caused by Mao and his henchmen. The Kuomintang were certainly corrupt and stupid, but history will record them as less brutal than the Communists.
This is a hard book to read. The reader has to have a certain knowledge of Chinese events and persons in order to understand this narrative. However one will understand why no Americans lost China, it was the Nationalists who defeated themselves. Chiang Kai Shek does not come off as a trustworthy person, and he ultimately deserves the responsibility for losing his country to the Communists.

"Death Train to Boston" jumped off the shelf and into my arms. I was so pleased with the previous Fremont Jones stories that when I saw this book was finally out I nabbed it instantly, but I was very disappointed. Where was the mystery, the intricate characters, or even an adventure. I couldn't believe the train ride was over within the first 10 pages and when we did board the train again with Michael and Li I couldn't understand what Ms. Day was attempting to acheive in adding the mysterious stranger from Michael's past to the mix. I was even more disappointed to see Fremont in such a demour, passive light that I will probably get the next book out at the library, if I read it at all. I cannot convey my disappointment in such colorful characters being strung along in such a pointless story.

Fremont and Michael are working on a case for a railroad, the train is blown up and the badly injured Fremont is kidnapped by a fanatical Mormon looking for a sixth wife. It really doesn't get any better from here. Meiling Li is back and assisting Michael, but her wardrobe rather than her character and talent is more discussed. Basically, Fremont and Michael are much better together than apart and should stay that way. Skip this one and read the rest of the series, an author can't be perfect every time.

One of the things that makes the Fremont Jones mysteries so interesting is that the characters are constantly evolving. Another is that the locations often change as well; thus, we're spared the routine similarities between novels in other series. In this, the fifth installment, Fremont and her partner/lover Michael are seperated by an explosion on board a train, while on a case. Fremont is kidnapped by a menacing Mormon intent on making her the sixth of his wives. With both legs broken by the explosion, she must resort to her wiles and powers of persuasion to escape from his clutches. We are back in Study In Scarlet country here. Meanwhile, Michael Kassoff searches desperately for Fremont, while simultaneously eluding an old enemy, and trying to determine who is so deter- mined to kill them that he'd blow up an entire train. Also, he must put up with the wiles of Fremont's friend, Meiling, who has her undergone a few changes of her own. Great fun, as are all the Fremont Jones myste- ries. This is a worthy continuation in an inter- esting series.

I was very disappointed in this book due to the fact that the first 155 pages are devoted to a negative discourse on why amature, as well as professional rock art enthusiasts, are foolish and wrong in their attempts to make sense of, and understand what these ancients were trying to tell.

The second half of the book contains a very nice, brief description of the most well known rock art sites throughout the greater four corners area. The short descriptions are accompanied by well presented black and white photos representing type examples of petroglyphs in each area.

The book contains some useful information if one can glean it from the negative dialogue.