books about: colonies     books:       The Lyon's Roar (The Lyon Saga)13 reviews M. L. Stainer Chicken Soup Press, 1997 Great story! More people need to learn about this book. It's a really great story, full of adventure, first love and coming of age. The time period is America's early colonial history, with few people realizing the Lost Colony was here long before the Pilgrims. Only they vanished without a trace. As a new teacher, I would recommend this book to all literature and history classes in the middle schools.             Journey Between Worlds11 reviews Sylvia Louise Engdahl Putnam, 2006 A journey into adulthood Reviewed by Kim Peterson for Reader Views (4/06) Melinda plans to marry Ross after graduation and someday live at Maple Beach in the house she will inherit from Gran. She fosters no aspirations to pioneer new places like her ancestor Melinda who traveled across the plains to Western Oregon in a covered wagon. She plans to teach and live a quiet life. But her father's graduation gift threatens ...             Constance27 reviews Patricia Clapp HarperTeen, 1991 My Favorite Book I got this book on a trip to the East Coast when I was ten years old and fell in love. It was my favorite book during all of my early teen years; and though I haven't read it in years, I think it will always hold the place in my heart as my favorite book.             American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem14 reviews Jane Fletcher Geniesse Nan A. Talese, 2008 American Priestess Adding to Furman Baldwin's commentary on "American Priestess" by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, I too am a 3rd generation descendant of the first wave of members who joined Anna Spaford's American Colony in Jerusalem. Our fathers, Furman and Norman,were sons of Reverend Edward F. Baldwin who with four of his children became early members. Also my mother was 9 years old when her parent and siblings from ...             A Family of Strangers (Five Star Expressions)13 reviews Sanchona Five Star, an imprint of Thomson Gale, 2006 Good read! I met Sanchona on MySpace and read a bit about "A Family of Strangers" there. After I checked out the reviews on Amazon and found that a number of people had enjoyed the book, I decided to purchase a copy. I wasn't disappointed. Kate's story is the story of Australia. It brought to life all the things I'd learned in history about how Australia was populated by convicts. Kate's story ...             Honorable Imposter (The House of Winslow #1)16 reviews Gilbert Morris Sagebrush, 2004 This is a great book... This is a remarkable story. It is full of history and I learned a lot about the ways of life of the puritans from reading it. You will meet the characters you find in your history books in a way you never knew them before! I read it very quickly because the characters were so well developed and the plot exciting. The romance was wonderful, but this isn't a romance novel so it wasn't overdone. ...             Squanto And The Miracle Of Thanksgiving10 reviews Eric Metaxas Thomas Nelson, 1999 Excellent Thanksgiving book! This is an excellent resource to teach children the true meaning of Thanksgiving and how much God loves each of his children and has a wonderful plan for all of them. I would definitely recommend this book!             Sarah Morton's Day11 reviews Kate Waters, Russ Kendall Scholastic, 1991 Valerie Wisniewski Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the life of a Pilgrim Girl and its partner books about Samuel Eaton a Pilgrim boy and Tapenum"s Day about a Wampanoag Indian boy are excellent. I used all three in teaching about Massachusetts history. The books are well researched. The setting is Plymouth Plantation where reenactors wear authentic clothing and use authentic reproductions of tools, furniture, etc. ...             Almost Home: A Story Based on the Life of the Mayflower's Mary Chilton (Daughters of the Faith Series)19 reviews Wendy Lawton Moody Publishers, 2003 Wonderful historical fiction. Thirteen-year-old Mary Chilton has lived in Leyden, Holland almost her entire life; she was not yet three years old when her family fled England in search of religious freedom. But neither England nor Holland feels like her real home to Mary. She has always longed for a place to truly belong. When her parents decide to join other English Separatists living in Holland who are planning to settle in ...             High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space16 reviews Gerard O'Neill Space Studies Institute Press, 1989 The Classic! This is the classic proposal for the human expansion into space by the originator of the idea himself, Gerard O'neill. In it, he shows how space settlement could be done using boring 1970's technology. A very good and thought provoking read, it is the ONLY space book that presented a plausible way for the rest of us (not just the "experts" and scientists) could go move into space in style AND ...             A History of U. S.: Making Thirteen Colonies (History of U. S.)9 reviews Joy Hakim Oxford University Press, 1996 The English establish thirteen colonies in the New World "Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740" is the second volume in Joy Hakim's "A History of US." The first volume covered how the first Americans crossed over from Asia to become Indians and the first Europeans, mainly the Spanish but also the French and English, began settling the New World. This volume focuses on the narrow string of settlements established by the English that became the thirteen ...             Discourse on Colonialism9 reviews Aimé Césaire, Joan Pinkham, ... Monthly Review Press, 2001 good perception I read Cesaire's 'discours sur le colonialisme' in one afternoon at a coffe place and it was captivating in how intellectually he wrote, with tinges of attitude in the words. A lot of the things he wrote about I already knew from studying a lot about Africa before and what ethnocentricism vs. ethno relativism means when applying yourself and perceptions of other cultures. This book is as ...             Eating the Plates6 reviews Aladdin, 1997 Fascinating reading... I couldn't put this book down until I was done. Although it was a mere 107 pages long, it was full of fascinating tidbits. My 3 children (ages 3 to 9) begged me to read more from the book as a reward for getting ready for bed in record time! This will be a book that will be in our collection from now on! Never before have I had such a healthy respect for the brave Pilgrims of Plymouth. Eating the ...             Island of Exiles (Sugawara Akitada)6 reviews I. J. Parker Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 A Mystery involving Princes, Danger and Treason This is another in a series set in 11th C. Japan (Heian era), featuring Sugawara Akitada. Sugawara, descendant of a once illustrious family that suffered after the exile of an ancestor, is currently acting governor of a distant province, Echigo (for an official, tantamount to being exiled himself), struggling to do his duty with little funds and support and hoping to some day return to the ...             The Lyon's Crown (Lyon Saga, Book 5)9 reviews M. L. Stainer Chicken Soup Pr, 2004 A Wonderful Job Well Done! I have finished the last book! I want to compliment you on a wonderful job well done. Your book is very comparable to the work done by Englis Fletcher of Bandon Plantation over at Edenton. Her success was due to the taking of a framework of historical fact and interweaving human characters into a realistic story. Your work "has brought to life the human relationships of our first English people ...             Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Recipes and History, from Pilgrims to Pumpkin Pie8 reviews Kathleen Curtin, Sandra L. Oliver, ... Clarkson Potter, 2005 Giving Thanks for "Giving Thanks". This is a fun book. The book has great trivia and history, and a great variety of the old traditional recipes. But along with that, are the recipes created by the different cultures of our "Melting Pot", who adapted their own wonderful tastes and flavors to their Thanksgiving celebration. This year, my family is going use only recipes in this cookbook to make a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner.             The Art Fair8 reviews David Lipsky Doubleday, 1996 Lipsky's Book Pops with Insight! This novel is filled with acute observations about the strong bond that occurs between mothers and sons, and the ineffable vicissitudes of the New York art world. I read the last hundred pages of David Lipsky's THE ART ROOM in a rush and was so caught up in the story-it became a real page turner for me. There was such a sense of dread which Lipsky sets up while Richard, the young narrator, and ...             His Natural Life (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews Marcus Clarke Oxford University Press, USA, 1997 I have been looking for this book for 9 years! LEt me set the record straight first...I have never read this book. I had seen the mini-series almost 10 years ago on CBC Canada. The series was very gripping and always left me waiting for the next in the sequence. Following the end of the series I was determined that I had to read this book. My last attempt to find it was in 1991 when I was told it was out of print and could not be found ...             Dangerous Depths (Aloha Reef Series #3)7 reviews Colleen Coble Thomas Nelson, 2006 Great Book even if you haven't read the others in the series I actually read this book first. My Mom had it so I borrowed it and read it in 2 days. I then had to go out and by the rest of the books in the series.             Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-18307 reviews John H. Elliott Yale University Press, 2006 Engaging Comparative History This is comparative history at its very best. Elliott superbly describes and chronicles the history of the British and Spanish exploration and colonization of the Americas, as well as the process whereby both the British American and Spanish American colonial societies brought about their independence from the imperial governments. 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