books about: mid     books:       To Love Mercy26 reviews Frank S. Joseph Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing, 2006 Strongly Recommended I've never read a story quite like To Love Mercy, but I wish there were others like it. The unique way the book was written and laid-out really kept me reading and eager to find out what was going to happen next. I am no author, but I know that writing from the perspective of someone else takes a lot of talent. Frank Joseph did this fluently and creatively, which provided me with complete ...             The Shiloh Shepherd Story: Against the Wind - A Breed Is Born58 reviews Tina M. Barber with Cinnamon Kennedy Mid-Atlantic Highlands, 2006 Tina? or Shilohs? Certainly Tina has had a very interesting life. But I was looking for a book that was more about Shiloh Shepherds. Not the life of Tina and her ups and downs. I feel that Tina has shared too much personal about her life in this book distracting the reader. We need a book about Shiloh Shepherds that is less political and states the facts. Let the reader decide for themselves. Tina has enough web ...             The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited: History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood (updated ...19 reviews Joyce Mendelsohn Columbia University Press, 2009 An informative, beautifully written book! A informative, beautifully written, wonderfully succinct, pocket-sized overview of one of the most dynamic and storied neighborhoods in American history. Very absorbing and user-friendly, it's packed with fascinating facts, helpful maps, and great pictures. With the wrecking ball hovering over the Bowery, her timely new chapter on that colorful thoroughfare is especially welcome. So much ...             My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson20 reviews Jessica DuLong Free Press, 2009 Colorful and passionate - with a serious message Definitely the best book I've read all year. Dulong chronicles multiple, intersecting journeys - her journey from the dot com virtual world to a world of real things and craft, the life of a Hudson River fire boat from its birth as a essential part of the harbor infrastructure to an educational / historic vehicle - and the history of the Hudson River and related canals and tributaries as the ...             THE COMPLETE GETTYSBURG GUIDE: Walking and Driving Tours of the Battlefield, Town, Cemeteries, Field Hospital ...28 reviews J. David Petruzzi Savas Beatie, 2009 Unbelievable!! My wife is a nurse and works every other weekend so I needed to find something to do with my time on those weekends alone. My brother and sisters and I have always loved to discuss the Civil War so I thought I would visit Gettysburg every other weekend and become an "unlicensed" battlefield guide when they visited. I live in Manchester Maryland (literally my house is on the Pipe Creek line) so ...             Manhattan Block By Block: A Street Atlas30 reviews John Tauranac, Tauranac Maps Mapquest.com, 2000 Don't go without. This pocket with all the streetmaps of Manhattan is really very useful and also very easy to use. It is not one huge foldout map, but bookpages. Combined with the free Subway map MTA offers you at any subway station, you need nothing else. At least not if you want to explore Manhattan. Great buy!             Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive31 reviews Joel Meyerowitz Phaidon Press, 2006 Photography at its best. As with many of us, 9/11 changed my life, as I watched in my office as the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed before my eyes on a little TV we had scrounged up from somewhere. Many younger technicians at work stopped, got in their cars and drove down the street to enlist. It was like Pearl Harbor. Since I worked at a major Airport, the silence outside after a while was very very strange as ...             Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: New York (Eyewitness Travel Top 10)32 reviews Eleanor Berman DK Travel, 2002 Small, but full of useful information :) I visited NYC for the first time a few weeks ago. I took only three books about this city with me: this guide, the "Lonely planet NYC Guide", and "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide". Truth to be told, this guide is probably the only one I couldn't have done without. "Top 10 New York" is an extremely useful small guide that doesn't have as much information as the "Lonely planet NYC Guide", ...             Father's Trouble$18 reviews Carter Taylor Seaton Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing, 2004 A great read Fathers Troubles is a wonderful read and Carter Taylor Seaton knows how to tell a story. Her main character, Lawrence Burgher, manages in his short life to acquire and lose a fortune in the boom and bust years of the 1920's and 30's. Much of the story takes place in the coalfields of southern West Virginia that she describes well and in fine detail. But Lawrence Burgher's troubles affect his ...             PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country37 reviews William Least Heat-Moon Mariner Books, 1999 We are not in the Kansas of Popular Culture Anymore! In reading several books by John Janovy Jr. about Keith County, Nebraska, I soon discovered that Nebraska was certainly not a boring state, especially to a biologist. That this should be evident to anyone in the field almost goes without saying, but the dull image of the Midwest grasslands still lives on. Here there are no tall forests, no majestic mountains or spectacular sea beaches and cliffs. ...             Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City's Best Unusual Attractions17 reviews SUZANNE REISMAN Turner Pub Co, 2008 New York I could love Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (2/09) People who know me are often surprised when I tell them that New York is NOT one of my favorite cities. Granted, the first time I was there, it was miserably cold, and that could make most anybody dislike a place. But the second time was in the spring; I got great Broadway tickets and saw some amazing exhibitions, yet I still ...             It Sure Beats Working: 29 Quirky Stories and Practical Business Lessons for The First-Time, Mid-Life, Solo ...16 reviews Michael J. Katz BookSurge Publishing, 2007 If you are doing or thinking of doing any kind of e-newsletter I work with people to train them how to do effective e-newsletters. This is the one book I tell them that they have to read. The book is short but full of effective concepts. Yes this is a five star book.             Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane13 reviews Ernest Zebrowski, Judith A. Howard University of Michigan Press, 2005 Let Us Never Again Forget the Lessons of Camille The authors of this book were putting the finishing touches on it when Katrina made landfall in generally the same area as Camille. They went back and added a chapter but for the most part the book was left to stand on its own in light of the more recent disaster and it stood up quite well. All through the book there are obvious parallels between the two storms and especially the response that ...             Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project13 reviews W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 W.E. Smith's Magnificent Failure It's amazing what nearly half a century of prospective and hindsight makes on the opinion of a great photographer's work. This reviewer first saw 88 pages of this work in the "1959 Popular Photography Annual" essay called "Labyrinthian Walk." In that publication, W. Eugene Smith had total editorial control of the text, photos, layout and editing of his masterpiece. As a young teenager new to ...             Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State (Haunted Series)14 reviews Troy Taylor Stackpole Books, 2008 Wonderful Book! I've read a lot of these true haunted and ghost story books, and this is one of the very best. It's not only a collection of documented ghost sightings and legends, but it also acts as a social history of Illinois. In fact, you can learn much about Illinois' history from reading this book. The author is a great researcher and a good writer. I can't imagine someone not liking this book. The only ...             The Gift to Be Simple: Life in the Amish Country12 reviews Bill Coleman Chronicle Books, 2001 Used Sellers of this book are ripping you off! Just wanted to mention to people looking to buy this book that people selling this book used on Amazon.com are ripping you off! Some want $62 and $99!!! This book is still available at Borders for $25!             Pennsylvania Breweries14 reviews Lew Bryson Stackpole Books, 1998 Pennsylvania Breweries Pennsylvania Breweries by Lew Bryson I bought this book last year for my wife's birthday after seeing the author interviewed on PA Books. The author was passionate about beer and infectious in his laugh. The book is written very much as he is. It is well written and often hilarious. The book covers all the big breweries, small breweries and brew-pubs in PA. The breweries are grouped by ...             Rocky Comfort13 reviews Wayne Holmes Leonard Press, 2009 Rocky Comfort, an amazing journey into a young man's world in the depression era Ozarks. A boyhood friend recently sent me Wayne Holmes great book "Rocky Comfort". I was born and spent my first 17 years about 90 miles east of Rocky Comfort in the McClurg community, which has since disappeared. I'm only slightly younger (4 years) than Holmes so my memories are much like his. I was intrigued throughout his book with his ability to describe the frustration, despair and the ...             Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom15 reviews Stephen Wilkes W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 Beautiful Book, Great Photographs I Love this book, the pictures are beautiful, the design and layout make the pictures and quotes very moving. As a photographer I admire the quality of the work, and the bright vivid prints. I love that most of the images are full pages, sometimes spread across two pages, with small text labeling the room, or part of the property. There are no frames, page designs, or paragraphs to take away from ...             Birds of Pennsylvania Field Guide, Second Edition14 reviews Stan Tekiela Adventure Publications, 2004 Excellent Choice My family loves this book. We keep it by the window overlooking our bird feeders. We have identified quite a few bird visitors.              search for books aftermath, attractions, battlefield, breweries, category, cemeteries, chronicles, eyewitness, first-time, gettysburg, historical, hospital, hurricane, illinois, legendary, manhattan, mid-life, neighborhood, pennsylvania, phenomena, pittsburgh, practical, prairyerth, professional, rediscovering, remembered, revisited, shepherd, tallgrass, unlearned books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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