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Measuring and Managing Operational Risks in Financial Institutions describes the first systematic approach to identifying, measuring, analyzing, and managing all the operational exposures within a business. Starting with business lines most critical processes and resources, the author explains how to use loss data to model the most significant discrete loss events and continuous risk factors that may affect them. It goes on to explain how risks can be aggregated over the entire business and therefore used to estimate the risk capital associated with different parts of the business. The author also develops a contingent approach to enterprise and operational risk management, going beyond the narrow functional approaches traditionally advocated by financial risk managers, insurance managers, quality engineers and the like.Measuring and Managing Operational Risks in Financial Institutions is essential reading for anyone involved in operational and enterprise-wide risk management. ... Read more

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Academic with no practical application
This book is written by someone who probably has struggled to make it in the 'real' world.

Too much for nothing
The book lists a series of financial theories without bringing any clear connection to operational risk. The tools and techniques presented can be seen in any other finance book. No examples are presented in general, making questionable the author's experience in the "measurement of operational risk" as stated in the title. This book will not raise your knowledge in the field.

Vincent , Internal Auditor
The author has board knowledge in different areas, However, the book is too theoretical and lack of examples to discuss the practical application. It may be a book which may give you good background in the operational risks but could not give you a practical examples to use in practice. ... Read more

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What a marvelous experience!
I missed the audio broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Christopher Lee makes twentieth-century British history easily accessible. The book is organized by year, so the reader doesn't have to start at the beginning. However, I read it from cover-to-cover in just a few days.

In the introduction Lee talks about his own fascination with the stories his grandfather and grand-uncles told him. As I read this book, I pictured my own grandfather as a boy in Victoria's army in India. He lived with us when I was a boy and was full of stories. I imagined the tribulations of my father in the great depression.But to see the geopolitical forces that shaped the British experience is nothing short of amazing.

This book sharpens previously fuzzy perspectives. This is not the only Christopher Lee book I shall read.
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Digger Pig finds the most beautiful turnip in the garden--a turnip perfect for making into a pie. But who will help Digger Pig make her turnip pie? And who will help her eat it?
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A classic story retold.
This is a delightful adaptation of "The Little Red Hen" retold with Digger Pig in the lead role. Digger requests help to make a turnip pie from three barn yard friends: Chirper Chick, Quacker Duck and Bow-Wow Dog. They each refuse to help every step of the way, except when it comes toeating the pie. Digger Pig then refuses them a piece of pie and she and herpiglets settle in to eat the pie. The message of sharing and assisting issubtle and not preachy. This is a good book for beginning readers becauseof the repetition. The colored pencil illustations work well with thestory. I'd recommend this book to children, however, don't miss a chance toread the original Little Red Hen classic. ... Read more

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1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, immediately rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI.The cataclysmic time of the Stuarts had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his throne as James I of England.

Diaries and notes written in 1603 describe how a resurgence of the plague killed nearly 40,000 people.Priests blamed the sins of the people for the pestilence, witches were strangled and burned and plotters strung up on gate tops.But not all was gloom and violence.From a ship's log we learn of the first precious cargoes of pepper arriving from the East Indies after the establishment of a new spice route;Sharkespeare was finishing Othello and Ben Jonson wrote furiously to please a nation thirsting for entertainment.

1603 was one of the most important and interesting years in British history. Christopher Lee, acclaimed author of This Sceptred Isle, unfolds its story from first-hand accounts and original documents to mirror the seminal year in which Britain moved from Tudor medievalism towards the wars, republicanism and regicide that lay ahead.
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Covers a fascinating and momentous year in British history


1603 covers a fascinating and momentous year in British history. It was the year that the great Queen Elizabeth I died, and James V of Scotland, travelled to London to claim the throne as King James I, effectively uniting England with Scotland by bringing them under the rule of a single monarch.

As King of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (at that time the kings of England still referred to themselves as kings of France).
He was the first monarch to describe himself as King of Great Britain.

In that year a terrible plague broke out in England, killing around 40 000 people. Treatises and pamphlets were drawn up on the plague, giving us an important insight into the practise and philosophy of medicine at this time.

There was a massive outbreaking of witch-burning that year, in a superstitious age, and the author describes the beliefs and practises regarding witchcraft and the penalties it incurred.
The author documents the case of the trial of the trial of Elizabeth Jackson for allegedly bewitching a young girl by the name of Elizabeth Glover.

Lee covers the politics and economics of that year, detailing the philosophy of the divine right of kings which King James fervently believed in.
The theologian so the time who believed in this doctrine, it must be said strongly qualified it with the condition that the king must rule according to the laws of G-D and man. Thus even the rule of absolute monarchs at this time was far more limited than those of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries where everything go's to 'defend the revolution'.

Few aspects of life in Britain that year are left out of this volume, including farming and trade.
The author begins with a chapter on the history of England and Scotland and of the royal dynasties leading up to 1603. He concludes with chapters on piracy, the East India Company and a fascinating chapter on Japan, visited for several years from 1600 by English explorer William Adams.

The Subtitle Says It All
Why is 1603, a year otherwise oddly uncelebrated among historians (those brainy bespectacled folk generally so fond of giving certain years superstar status) more deserving of its own book than say 1826 or 3340 BC? Let's see, in Britain in the year 1603, the Elizabethan Era came to its titular end with the conclusion of the old Queen's long dying, and the ill-starred Stuart dynasty entered center stage in the form of the Tudor's distant kinfolk from the north. In this same year there was also a return of the bubonic plague, the fall of Sir Walter Raleigh, the end of a war of independence in Ireland, Shakespeare was in peak form, and English piracy, um, I mean privateering, against Spain was at its profitable height.

An interesting twelve months to say the least, right? In Christopher Lee's hands (no, not THAT Christopher Lee) the year is almost made to seem that way.

I found this book very interesting in the beginning and increasingly less so as it went on. Maybe Lee placed the good stuff first, maybe I acquired an acute case of 1603-fatigue, or perhaps the first half of the year was just more noteworthy than the second, but by the last chapter I was ready to put this book behind me. I do now feel more versed in 1603 as a topic, and can't wait to launch my newfound knowledge on my peers at our next social gathering. When I turn so many heads by dropping a fact like "Did you know that due to old style calendar dating many people in 1603 thought they were actually still living in the year 1602?" I'll have none other than Mr. Lee to thank for it.

Interesting but misguided
I found Christopher Lee's 1603 to be a somewhat of an interesting if not misguided effort to present what life and events were like back in 1603. There's a lot of information in this book which proves to be interesting but they are poorly organized and presented. The author appears to throw them in without much explanations as if he wishes to showed off his primary sources.

As the previous reviewer mentioned, there were also many childish errors in this book. Errors that a book published in 2003 should not be making because of new information that came out during the past 40 years. But what strike me the most was Chapter 17 when the author - who for some strange reason, switched over to Japanese history of 1603 and started to write about the struggles there. I don't see the relationship but what I read were host of errors and misunderstanding of Japanese history that was almost insulting to read. (For example: "Shogun Hideyoshi"?? What Japanese child of 10 would make such an error? That is like some one writing "President Elizabeth I"!!) Its pretty clear that neither the author or the editor of this book knows little about Japanese history. But that chapter alone proves to be the reflection of the book itself, sloppy, ill-written and poorly researched.

I would recommended the book After Elizabeth by Leanda de Lisle which covers the same period and does it with a more professional flair.

As irritating as it is fascinating
This is what the title says: A book about the year 1603. A reader who expects an in-depth explanation of the machinations surrounding the succession of Elizabeth I by James I will be disappointed. Any discussion of this interesting subject remains extremely superficial.

The strength of Lee's work is his attempt to convey to his public what it must have been to live in 1603. This is supported by long quotations from publications of the period, and these are both enlightening and amusing. His rather rambling style of writing is well suited to conveying a period atmosphere.

The big weakness is in the careless way in which the author swims through the surrounding history. At times he throws in references to people and events without bothering to explain who and what to the reader, as if he wants to show off his erudition by being impenetrable. At other times he demonstrates rather crass ignorance for a historian of the period, by messing up the titles of the Cecil family, uncritically repeating gratuitous slander about the Earl of Bothwell, or echoing tyhe schoolboy's book version of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In a book like this, such errors cannot be excused.

The result is the written equivalent of a custome drama with an unitelligible plot. It is a series of scenes, each conveying a certain atmosphere, but not integrated together in a story. The book fails to convince the reader that is a coherent unit, andin fact it also fails to convince the reader that the author has a good understanding of his own chosen subject.

Incoherent, garbled and convoluted
Lee scatters material across the pages with little regard for the book he's writing and its title, and no thought whatsoever for the supposed structure of the book. At any point, he is likely to digress into a confused and confusing family history of a minor player in the saga for no detectable reason. Not the slightest attempt has been made to edit his rambling style or apply rules of grammar, punctuation, or consistency. The result is a book that is actually unreadable, with its only saving grace being the generous quoting of contemporary sources.

At times, Lee patronizes his readers: carefully explaining to us that mobile telephones didn't exist in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for example, and repeatedly emphasising this sort of nonsense. At other times, he breezily assumes we possess arcane knowledge about the tangled family histories of English political dynasties that no lay reader of any nationality or background would be casually acquainted with.

Despite the powerful simplicity of its title and the seeming clarity of its purported subject, "1603" has no raison d'etre, no sense of itself or what Lee is trying to achieve. "This is not the place for a biography of James I", Lee tells us a quarter-way through, after discussing James's childhood, education and upbringing at some discursive length and before continuing through his young adulthood, marriage and accession to the English throne. What the book *is* the place for, Lee has no idea. ... Read more

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Jump start hope, kick your creativity into gear, and explode your definition of the possible

A self improvement book like nothing you've ever seen-or heard: a book and podcasting joint production brings to light an insight-boosting audio/visual method for changing the way you think and maximizing your creative potential.

Recommended by the American Psychological Association, the therapeutic method works on two different levels. Powerful four color images accompanied by penetrating questions ask us to think deeply and concentrate on our ideas and beliefs. Then the sound track uses bilateral sounds that resonate from one side of your headphones to the other, stimulating both sides of the brain. When asking the brain to communicate with itself differently, new neural networks and thought pathways form, and people begin to be able to see events and ideas through different lenses. The process heightens awareness and mindfulness and allows readers the rare opportunity to take control and live the lives they've always dreamed of and ignite the genius they've always had within.

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REQUIRED AUDO COSTS EXTRA
The whole concept of this book is excellent, and the visualizing techniques seem to work well. I was very disappointed, however, to find that the required audio available for download at their website costs an extra $3.99. There's a very short free sample, but the real deal costs more money, registration to an adjacent website, credit card and address information -- not what expected when I paid the purchase price for the book from Amazon.

Inspiration
This book is wonderful in that you can pick it up, put it down and continue at your leisure.It causes you to reflect and assess your life pattern.

A breakthrough book on unlocking your potential!
How could a book that appears so simple and engaging, provide such powerful, immediate access to one's full potential?It seemed to good to be true - but I thought why not give it a try. Within five to ten minutes, following very minimal instructions, I found myself lost in an exercise for almost an hour which freed me from a persistent blockage to personal growth that I had carried with me all my life.I had been in therapy for 25 years, and done all kinds of exercises to lose this albatross that was dragging me down.It was gone in an hour using the simple technique described in the book!I know the book uses a principle involved in EMDR, but the beauty is I don't have to understand why or how it works, I only had to invest a little over an hour to have a huge breakthrough! Months later, I can honestly say I have not been in such a great space since my childhood.I am clear, focused and happy!Thank you Dr. Ranck for synthesizing the science and metaphysics that are the key to this technique, and making it so accessible for the average person.You did an awesome job!

Truly an amazing tool to access your subconscious creativity
If you loved "The Secret" but feel like you still need a workbook to help you exercise your creative mind muscles and turn up the volume on your intuition so you can focus more clearly on creating what you desire, this brilliant little book is the workbook you've been seeking.

Even if you think "The Secret" was a bunch of new age jabber but you'd love to tap into the creative energy you know is inside of you but only shows itself once in a blue moon, this little book can help you bring it out on a more regular basis.

It's not the typical self-help book that you read from front to back expecting to see the answers to all your questions laid out in front of you.Because the answers you seek are within and they will come to you in a form that only you can understand - unique to your own personal experience.The biolateral soundtrack relaxes you and minimizes the endless chatter in your mind so you are more open to hearing (or seeing) the messages your creative genius is sending from your subconscious mind.The operative word here is relax.

I have found that if I just relax, breathe, and trust myself, my intuition leads me to exactly the page I need.I have also found that if I try too hard to control the experience it doesn't happen for me.

This book affirms for me that I am indeed a genius with the potential to create the life I desire if only I can be open and focused enough to allow it to happen.Sometimes what happens is fun and sometimes it's painful, but it's always illuminating!

Brilliant, unique book
I have never seen a book of this kind.It goes directly to the reader's experience and allows for the unfolding of new potentials and awareness in a way that is unique, immediate and like having a personal session.Because this book is experiential, each person will come away with their own individual experience that furthers their personal growth and development.A much needed addition to the body of "self help" literature, this book taps into the brilliance of our unconscious to make profound changes at a deep level.I have used the book myself and found that I was able to shift from an agitated state to a feeling of calm and control within a few minutes.This shift lasted for several days, and I still go back to that image and feeling when I am starting to become overwhelmed again.The Biolateral Sound Recordings used with the images in the book are a brilliant way to focus the reader in on their own wisdom and authenticity.Utilizing Ignite the Genius Within, we put on the headphones, gaze at the image and allow our own inner process to facilitate us in an organic process, which I personally find more helpful than a guided imagery that leads me.This book gives an internal orienting point, and then allows the reader to access and follow their own inner guidance.I will be using Ignite the Genius Within with clients in my private practice of therapy in individual and group settings and will recommend this book not only to clients, but also to friends and family.I have a feeling that this will be my "gift of choice" this holiday season! ... Read more

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The Mekhet Clan Book for Vampire: The Requiem
Unnoticed and silent, they watch. Their eyes have seen a thousand secrets, and yours are no exception. They are the Shadows that dwell among the Kindred, and everyone knows that the darkness has eyes in the Danse Macabre. Seek their wisdom under cover of night, and discover what awaits the wise and the patient.A Clan book for Vampire: The Requiem
Discover the origins of the Mekhet, in the deep nights of ancient Egypt, where they fled the sun into the necropolis and learned the secrets of the dead.
Explore the Shadow Cults of the Mekhet, secret societies and mystery traditions where the Mekhet are masters over mortals and other vampires alike.
Read the tales of the Shadows, as written by those within the clan and by those outside it. The shadows of the World of Darkness have never run this deep.
New Merits, bloodlines, Discipline powers and clan se-crets that every Vampire: the Requiem player will want to have. ... Read more

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Favorite clan, favorite clan supplement
The Mekhet clan book seems particularly well-suited to the new full-color, notebook style format. Interspersed amongst the interesting stories of individual Mekhet and their encounters are occult "clippings" that may prove helpful to players with only a cursory understanding of practical magic and occult correspondences. If that's already part of the attraction of this clan for you, you'll surely find much to like in this book.

The appendix is pretty chunky as well. It offers two bloodlines, a ghoul family, and systems/mechanics for creating a Shadow Cult that I'm very excited to use in-game as a long-term story arc. Three new Disciplines are offered, in addition to unique Cruac rituals and a cluster of Devotions. There are also systems and considerations for The Hollow, Mekhet who don't cast reflections because part of their soul is out there in the world messing with them through Numina. There are also two cool new Derangements tied to the clan's magical bent, and a handful of neat Merits (including Dream Visions and Hypnosis) that are common among Mekhet but available to other clans.

Mekhet - More Substance, Less Shadow
This is supposed to add new rules and variants to the Mekhet, regretfully the majority of the book concerns itself with short stories.Unless you're into vampire fiction, I do not recommend this.

Good service
Very fast delivery by Twice Told Tales. The book itself gave me some cool ideas for storylines. ... Read more

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This is a true accounting of the day-to-day and night-to-night operations, the patrolling, the major battles, the insects and the total exhaustion of a hand full of combat troopers. ... Read more

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You can smell the gun smoke
This book takes you there, Vietnam, that is.Christopher talks about what it is like to be on the sharp tip of the spear day after day after day, with little rest.Leadership in such circumstances takes its toll.He survived somehow despite all of his close calls.A Ranger and Cavalryman both, he was a great soldier and a good man in a bad place, but he kept his man alive.

If you are or were a soldier, especially cavalryman, read this book! ... Read more

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Running into the past after my soul was my only thought.I never expected to meet the men I met along the way.Some of them seemed to have had a worse-dealt hand than I had.Still, my life was mine to live and there wasn’t anything I could do about helping them change their lives.That is what I thought.I didn’t know how I would affect them.Maybe not me personally, but if I hadn’t taken the course I chose, they would still be locked in time.For many of these men, from a guard at Bataan, to a British MI-6 agent on patrol with an American unit in North Korea during the Korean War, their lives would change forever.The past seemed a long journey but I was settled to take the trip.What I wasn’t aware of was who was coming after me.Forming the old unit again became a very interesting adventure for some.In doing so they became men of honor and nothing would stop them from accomplishing their mission.Even Nebraska came out of his shell.The one thing I learned during my journey changed my entire plan and set the stage for Bumblebee Mountain. ... Read more

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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Designed for use by physicians in primary care. Emphasizes preventive cardiology and includes new chapters on screening for coronary artery disease, dietary fats and lipids, exercise, and smoking cessation. Also covers echocardiography, asymptomatic electrocardiographic abnormalities, and HRT. Prev ed: c1998. DNLM: Cardiovascular Diseases. ... Read more

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Very useful book in my primary care office
I feel indebted to the authors for producing this very useful book.Chapter 12 alone is worth the purchase price.It lists many of the abnormalities seen on an EKG and clearly spells out what needs or does not need to be done in terms of a workup.It has saved me many calls to a cardiologist for a curbside consult.It has many very practical recommendations such as a table of "Indications for hospital admission in patients with heart failure".Each chapter ends with an evidence-based summary for that chapter's topic.Best of all, it seems to only recommend referring the patient when the patient need to be referred unlike other books which end each paragraph with the recommendation that the patient be sent to the specialist.This book was truly written for the family physician or internist sitting by himself or herself in an office in the middle of nowhere.

Primary Cardiology
The best thing I liked this book is the clear, actual and concise presentation of the subject.It is an excellent book for primary care physicians and internists. Primary Cardiology is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers fundamental principles thar underlie evidence-based medicine and translation of advances in science to the practice of medicine. Part 2 rational approaches to common clinical practice. Part 3 focouses on the evaluation of cardiovascular disorder. I higlhy recommend this book. ... Read more

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Welcome to my Amazon storefront. All comics & magazines are bagged & boarded, and in near mint condition (unless otherwise noted). Standard shipping for one single magazine is $3.99, and only .25 more for each additional single magazine when you order at one time (the excess shipping is refunded after magazines are shipped). This listing is for Midnight Marquee #40 (vf/nm) ... Read more

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A concise, portable, and comprehensive survey of pathology for both course and USMLE Step 1 review.Covers all major organ-based diseases and features coverage of each disease on one card with a presentation of the etiology, pathophysiology and/or pathology, clinical findings, and treatment on one side and a clinical case presentation on the other. ... Read more

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Not the right way to learn Path
These were disappointing. Very cheaply made paper cards, without pictures. Pathology is best taught with color photos. These cards were not detailed, didn't give pneumonics, or anything that makes them special. I take Rubin, or Goljan over these cards any day. These cards are not worth a penny.

Ok
Information useful.Would have liked it if each system had tabs to access information quicker. Otherwise i was pleased.

Lange FlashCards Pathology (LANGE BASIC SCIENCE)
VERY GOOD. Great supplement to First Aid for STEP 1 of medical boards. Every card has diease name, etiology, pathopysiology, clinical manefestation, treatment, a clinical vignette, and other notes. Highly recommended. And you can get through them pretty fast if you've already familiar with the concepts.

Path Cards
I like using these flashcards because they are small, easy to carry around and have great clinical histories that provide board-style review of the concepts which is the best way to learn things in my opinion.The negatives of these cards are that they are on thin paper, unlike the laminated Lippincott Microcards that everyone uses (which are amazing).There are also some mistakes on these cards or things written on them that are not true.However, I would probably still buy them again because when reviewing for a test, it saves a ton of time to just flip through them and get good clinical cases which will be exactly like your test questions.

BEST PATH FLASH CARDS!!!
Extremely helpful. Very concise. Includes morphology, buzzwords, treatment, and a little clinical vignette (plus much more) for practically every disease learned in Pathology. Great for class use and for a quick review before an exam. ... Read more

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Unfinished Business
Can the unfinished business a famous writer takes to his grave bring his fictional characters to life?This is the case in Steinbeck's Ghost, a mystery that unravels bit by bit as characters from John Steinbeck's stories leave a trail of clues for 13-year-old Travis Williams to solve.

In Steinbeck's Ghost, author Lewis Buzbee captures that feel of how an author can send you to another world.It doesn't take long for a reader to enter Travis's world -- a move to a new subdivision, upwardly mobile parents who are devoured by their new jobs, his own nostalgia for the old neighborhood -- and be drawn into the mystery that confronts him.Why does Travis see the ghost of young Steinbeck in an attic window?Who is the homeless man in the alley?Why do The Watchers keep appearing on the hills behind Travis's subdivision, and what do they want from him?

A subplot that involves budget cuts threatening to close the library reminds a reader all over again of the special door to other worlds only a library can offer.Eventually this book is a cluster of journeys: a journey through Steinbeck's California (Salinas, Monterrey, The Gabilan and Santa Lucia Mountains); a journey through books and the continuing enjoyment they provide; and Travis's journey as he resolves his own family concerns while resolving a troubled ghost's regrets.

great book
In this book, a teenager's world gets flipped upside down when suddenly the works of John Steinbeck come to life. Travis has moved to a new place. He doesn't really like all the new changes in his life, such as his parent's working later and his new house. Travis travels back to a place he loves, the library. He learns that the library will be closing soon if they don't collect enough money. He joins the library's committee to save Steinbeck's library. As he volunteers a mystery unfolds, which him and his friends, both new and old, try to solve it. This book makes references to many of Steinbeck's works and makes for a good read after reading his classic novels.

a great hook into literature
Steinbeck's Ghost is an amazing combinaion of beautiful writing that is fun to read.As an adult, it made me want to go back to Steinbeck, re-read old favorites and read the ones I've missed. It is a book for many ages, but I think it would be ideal for middle-schoolers/early teens who may have read their first Steinbeck and could relate well with the central character, a boy navigating the teen years, trying to figure out how to deal with his changing relationship with his parents, the role of mentors in his life, and just finding his own way in the world, all through solving a mystery and saving a library.Wow, truly a must read.

steinbeck's ghost
We read this as a family (ages 8, 10 and parents) and we all loved it.Great pace, humor, suspense, and sense of history left us all wanting the book not to end.We're all hopeful that there's another to follow - three cheers for Steinbeck's Ghost!

A Thrilling Mystery
I am a great Harry Potter fan and I am picky about my books and this one shot through the roof of my expectations. Travis is someone I can really relate to because he loves books and wants to save a Library (which is awesome). I wanted to go to Salinas right away after I read the book and see Steinbeck's house. I had read a Wrinkle in Time (a great book) and want to read some of the other books mentioned. One of my favorite characters was Oster because he was a writer also and he helped Travis along the way. I loved the book and hope it turns into a series. ... Read more