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More than a century later, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 is still the largest natural disaster in American history. Pounding most of the historic island city to rubble, and claiming perhaps as many as eight thousand lives, the storm stranded Galveston's stunned survivors without a bridge to the mainland. When the bridge was rebuilt, amazingly in eleven days, only the most stalwart--like fictive young diarist J. T. King--would choose to stay.
Before the storm, J. T. is a normal, active teenager, swimming, riding his bike, and getting into scrapes with his best friend, Ippy. Though J. T. sleeps on a rickety cot in the pantry of his grandmother's boardinghouse, life at the corner of Q1/2 and 25th Streets is as secure as the sturdy old house itself. But when the hurricane hits, brave and compassionate J. T. is poised to weather and record for all time the greatest storm any American has ever survived.
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I LOVED this book!5 stars!!!
I LOVE this book!The story was well written and it had suspense and thrill; I felt like I was there alongside J.T., fighting out the Great Storm that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900.I couldn't stop reading!This fantasic story kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire book.Written in first person, the descriptions are wonderful, and the deatails are simply breathtaking.The author did a terrific job of describing the events that actually happened on that terrible day in 1900.The diary by J.T. is told with feeling and emotion, and J.T. is a wonderful character to include in the story.This book is one of my favorites, and I can't wait to read more books by Lisa Waller Rogers.I recommend this book to EVERYONE!!! ... Read more

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Fictional diary of a fourteen-year-old girl accompanying a cattle drive along the Chisolm Trail in 1878. ... Read more

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Exciting cowboy tale for girls
This book is wonderfully written and well researched (many of the locales are familiar to me as an Austin resident). It has all the elements of a great story -- adventure, danger, intrigue, romance -- while remaining realistic and wholesome. My 9-year-old daughter has already read it twice!

A girl's diary of her adventures on the Chisholm Trail.
Fourteen-year-old Hallie Lou Wells is the daughter of a wealthy rancher in South Texas in 1878. At their mother's insistence, Hallie and her little sister are learning to be proper young ladies. But they are also learning how to run the ranch someday. When her father decides not to go on the annual cattle drive so that he can stay home with his pregnant wife, Hallie persuades him to let her go in his place, along with her servant and best friend, Dovey Mae. Along the trail, the two girls face the dangers of rattlesnakes, storms, river crossing, hostile Indians, outlaws, and illness. But Hallie becomes a braver, stronger person, and even experiences the joy of love. Told through the form of a diary kept by Hallie, this book was very similar to the Dear America series, and I would reccomend it to all fans of that series. ... Read more

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What a surprise!
As a 4th grade Lang. Arts/Social Studies teacher in Texas, I'm always on the lookout for picture books I can use across the curriculum and that are thought-provoking. Little did I realize that this book would be so enjoyable. The children loved it, as did I. The vocabulary suits the 4th-5th grade, inferencing abounds, and there is plenty of information so students can really take the text and relate it to themselves, another book, or the world around them! The reader response project the students did afterward yielded some of the most creative work ever! This would suit any number of topics -- Women's Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Texas Independence, Compare/Contrast (w/ Legend of Bluebonnet), freedom fighters, immigration and the settling of the old West, and many others. There are even some parallels to stories from the Bible that my students recognized. Great way to broach the subject and sensitively handle a discussion of current events relating to legal and illegal immigration.

Hope you enjoy this as much as we did! ... Read more

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English summary: Josephine Rogers Mariotti explores the personal and social relationships behind the world's most famous painting, examining the ties between Lisa Gherardini to the Medici household in their historical context. Italian text.Italian description:Quanto si leggera in questo libro - scrive Antonio Natali nella presentazione - e frutto di ricerche lunghe, intense e intelligenti, che Josephine Rogers Mariotti ha condotto per proiettare una luce verisimile su un quadro celebrato fino alla mistificazione, sulla donna in esso ritratta, sulle relazioni che corsero tra Francesco del Giocondo e la famiglia medicea, e finalmente tra Lisa medesima e Giuliano de' Medici. Una relazione, quest'ultima, che rende pienamente plausibile la congettura dell'identita (per lo piu rigettata) fra il ritratto di Lisa ricordato da Vasari e quello commissionato a Leonardo da Giuliano (conforme alla memoria serbata da Antonio de Beatis). La tesi della studiosa e frutto di un lavoro effettuato per anni nell'archivio del convento di Sant'Orsola (oggi conservato all'archivio di Stato di Firenze), dove la Gioconda passo molti anni. Rogers Mariotti fa luce sul contesto culturale entro cui s'inserisce il rapporto tra Lisa Gherardini e Giuliano de' Medici , circostanziandone perfino tempi e luoghi. Emerge cosi la storia di un profondo legame personale e di famiglia che avrebbe portato Giuliano a far suo il dipinto oggi piu celebre al mondo, ritratto di Lisa e allo stesso tempo, secondo la tradizione petrarchesca, rappresentazione della donna ideale. ... Read more

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An Excellent Read
I enjoyed this book a lot because it really showed what life was like during the Texas revolution.It was about a young girl named Belle Wood who must endure the hardships of the war against Mexico and the perilous Runaway Scrape.It sucks the reader in with its suspense and does a very good job of giving you all of the true facts of the Texas Revolution.I would definently reccomend this book to young and old readers alike. It was wonderful! ... Read more

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A Texas Sampler is a tribute to the remarkable people who settled Texas. Excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs written by real Texans reveal the history of this great state. See the past through the eyes of a German farmwife, a slave, a Comanche chief, a Spanish conquistador, a homeless girl, a blacksmith, and a seasick bride. Read the last letters of heroes William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett. Enjoy colorful western art by such masters as Frederic Remington, George Catlin, and William Tylee Ranney. Stories about cowboys and Indians, horny toads and panthers, ghosts and pirates ensure that A Texas Sampler will be loved by both young and old. ... Read more

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Texas Sampler
As a native Texan, I had ordered this book for my two grandchildren but since neither of them could read, I flipped thru it and found myself reading it. The service that I got from the seller was impeccable and I received the book even before I began to expect it. It is great condition and I would highly recommend this seller to anyone who is buying books. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alexa Chung, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Michelle Mcmanus, Louise Ekland, Lisa Rogers, Cathy Rogers, Davina Mccall, Charlotte Hudson, Lorraine Kelly. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Alexa Chung (née le 5 novembre 1983) est une animatrice de télévision et ex-mannequin anglaise. Elle nait dans une famille de 4 enfants d'un père chinois et d'une mère anglaise ce qui lui vaut ses yeux en amande et son teint de porcelaine. Elle grandit dans le Hampshire et ressent dès son plus jeune âge l'envie de plier bagage pour Londres. Elle se rêve alors photographe ou journaliste de mode. D'abord repérée à 14 ans à un match par un "scooter" pour l'agence Elite alors qu'elle porte un simple baggy et cultive son style d'adolescente garçon manqué, elle devient mannequin notamment pour Urban Outfitters et fait quelques pubs pour Vania... En dépit de sa notoriété elle suit ses études au King's College de Londres et au Chelsea College of Art and Design et obtient de très bonnes notes notamment en anglais et en histoire. Malgré l'expérience enrichissante que lui ont apporté ses années de mannequinat, elle en tire aussi une leçon sur l'univers impitoyable de la mode. En 2006, elle fait ses débuts à la télévision en co-présentant le show Popworld, une émission matinale où elle interview avec piquant et intelligence les stars de la pop culture, de Paul McCartney à Gwen Stefani en passant par Christian Lacroix. En 2007, l'émission n'est pas reconduite, mais la jeune femme rebondit sur la BBC3 en animant un programme mixant cinéma et musique, puis elle commence à percer dans le milieu de la "Fashion TV" en interviewant des mannequins de façon insolite et décalée. Tout cela, Alexa le fait avec talent, assurance et une bonne do...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Ben Price, Hannah Waterman, Yasmin Bannerman, Lisa Rogers, Scott Wright, Phillip Rhys, Jason Hughes, Craig Kelly, Mathew Bose, Beth Cordingly, Ben Richards, Rupert Hill, Kayvan Novak, James Lance, Elizabeth Bower, Vanessa Branch, Chucky Venice, Rob James-Collier, Emma Barton, Amanda Abbington, Polly Maberly, Andrew Lancel, Gaynor Faye, Catherine Shepherd, Emma Atkins, Christine Tremarco, Oliver Chris, Lucy Scott, Ray Panthaki, Kerry Norton, Will Keen, Tom Ellis, Claire Cooper, Oliver Milburn, Callum Blue, Liz White, Sandra Huggett, Sunetra Sarker, Emily Corrie, Bindya Solanki, Richard Cant, Jonathan Kerrigan, Melanie Gutteridge, Sarah Smart, Alison Pargeter, James Thornton, James Mackenzie, Tamzin Malleson, Heather Peace, Justin Edwards, Julia Haworth, Clare Wilkie, Lucy Pargeter, Marcus Patric, Laura Howard, Maria Pride, Angela Saunders, Charlotte Bellamy, Darren Morfitt, Hywel Simons, Daniel Casey, Rae Hendrie, Nicholas Bailey, Chris Simmons, Adrian Lewis Morgan, Gian Sammarco, Samantha Lewis, Paul Parris, Ben Jones, Delanie Forbes, Daniel Hope, Simon Fenton, Nathan Constance, Paul Henshall, Sarah Tansey, Bruce Mackinnon, Johnny Harris, Matt Savage, George Christopher, Tabitha Wady, Tonicha Jeronimo, Victoria Bush, Rupert Russell, Seema Bowri, Colin Ridgewell, Edward Fidoe, Kerry Stacey, Craig Mckay, Deborah Mccallum, Glenda Mckay, Michelle Hardwick, Lisa Victoria, Richard Holian, Georgina Mellor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 233. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ben Price (born 1st January 1972) is a British actor, best known for playing Conrad Gates in the British television series' Footballers' Wives and Nathan Spencer in Casualty. His new role is playing the 3rd incarnation of Nick Tilsley in Coronation Street as of December 2009. Price grew up in Newcastle upo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2550671 ... Read more

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Experience the little-known treasures of the Green Mountain State, from the sugar-on-snow festival and Cow Appreciation Day to historic covered bridges.
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Off The Beaten Path But Not All There
I have used several of "The Off The Beaten Path" books over the years and have found them for the most part to be accurate. However, I was greatly dissapointed in the Vermont one.I tried for hours to find severallocations only to be told by the "locals" that there was no suchplace or that the structure had been moved several years ago.Somelocations were found right off but I found that I have been spoiled but theauthors of the New Hampshire book and their accuracy.I have noted thatthe Rogers are doing the updates. GREAT, now I'll find the places I want tosee.

misses the complexity
I bought this book hoping it would tell me things I didn't know or at least things I knew presented in a new light. At the time I was doing a lot of Vermont travel. I found this book quite useless, and was put off by itsdismissive tone. Vermont is a complex place, but you would not know that byreading this.

Sounds like she dumped him
Only someone with a personal vendetta against th eauthor would go to such lengths to trash someone's work. If you don't like it, just say so and move on. And by the way, bitter folks like you should be vacationing in Detroit,not Vermont!

This is drive-by, useless travel writing at its worst.
Author Lisa Shaw lives in New Hampshire.And she owns a company that publishes marketing materials.That should have been my tipoff to avoid "Vermont:Off the Beaten Path".

Shaw's guide reads like a promotional tract from someone who took a few days to spin through the state, eat at roadside diners and jot down cute facts from historical markers.

My wife and I learned nothing about where we were going from her sketchy, vapid musings about the towns she only saw long enough to eat lunches in.

And to judge from the way Shaw raved about each place she snacked at, we figured owners gave her free meals and slipped a $50 under the table.

She spends four paragraphs telling us about the Snack Shack in Barre, but only three telling us about the state capitol in Montpelier.

In Windsor, Vermont, we learn only that there is a Thai restaurant.What distinguishes this place so much that one should travel perhaps thousands of miles to eat there?Well, Shaw notes, as if revealing a unique custom known only to native Vermonters, "Place your order at the window, sit down at one of the picnic tables inside, and the dishes will be brought to you, as they're cooked in the order they're received."

Shaw has a knack for saying nothing in many words.But I should have known; that's the mark of an advertising copywrighter.She exhaustively promotes places where one can get a "handmade burger", as if they're unknown in Des Moines.

As for sights, Shaw wastes pages telling us about such gems as the vintage Eureka Schoolhouse, which, she notes, has a telephone and space heater inside."The roof looks absolutely ancient," she breathlessly describes.After extolling the school's interior she ends by mentioning that it isn't open to the public, "but feel free to walk around and look."

In Chester she tells us to look at a building reading "PUBLIC TOMB 1850".That's it.And there's the abandoned copper mine she suggests we visit, because we can "...see what looks like a heap of copper-colored dirt...."

Shaw's ability to highlight the mundane is world class.Worth an award from the Clios, the advertising Oscars, I think.At one restaurant she writes, "Classical music played throughout our lunch."At another, "...water and coffee are available", and at a third, "Blanche personally takes your order and then goes back and cooks it."I guess I have a little Vermont near my home, too, if these things are the measure of the state.

Moreover, the book's layout is abysmal.It has no maps, just outlines of regions with numbers plastered around, which are supposed to correspond with the "unique" sights she highlights in each section, except those numbers are never used in the chapters themselves.

She appears to have attempted to structure the book's chapters as a series of tours, but achieves only a jumble of confusing point-to-point anecdotes, which we found impossible to untangle.

"Vermont, Off The Beaten Path" does have one redeeming quality about it.If you are a true adventurer you can read this travel guide and rest assured you will still be surprised at what you find wherever you go in Vermont, because Lisa Shaw won't have revealed any clues. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Nursing Scholarship, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 5883 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The influence of caregiver mastery on depressive symptoms.(Clinical Scholarship)(Report)
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This digital document is an article from Artforum International, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 548 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Les Rogers: Leo Koenig, Inc.(paintings exhibitions )
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Wonderful
This is the most informative book I have read in a while. Each chapter contains just enough information to help in releasing and conquering debt problems.

Lifting the Burdens of Debt
This book was right on time for me this year.I was in the mode of creating a debt-free life from this point on.I knew what I needed to do, but Lifting the Burdens of Debt gave me the know how and spiritual support to make sure that I do it the correct way.To date, I must say that I am no longer held hostage by debt.Thanks Mrs. Rogers-Cherry for your very timely and insightful view of debt. When will we get the follow-up sequel?

Debt-Free & Spiritually Sound,

Ruth Roman Lynch
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Communities with greater social engagement have less violent crime,higher educational performance, and better resident health. In thisbook, two psychologists and a marriage and family therapist with longrecords of community service offer effective methods for strengtheningcommunity bonds. The Community Building Companion begins with a sectionon personal growth that shows individuals who are feeling isolatedhow to build an interpersonal network. The second section explains howto recognize elements of a community in need of reform and how todraw on appropriate resources to implement change. The third sectioninvites readers to form groups based on shared interests. ... Read more

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Each book in the "Make the Most" series covers a family of related computer applications or technologies in a series of well-organized, visual, and quickly accomplishable tasks. Despite the book's size, the reader should be able to use the book's extensive index and visual reference points to efficiently zero in on the one particular task he wants to accomplish. Then he can quickly scan the one- or two-page sequence of step-by-step instructions and figures, determining what he needs to do to get the work done. ... Read more

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Great service.
I needed the book as a gift, and delivered on time. It is a great book for PC beginners. ... Read more