books about: missouri     books:       The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)11 reviews Mark Twain Puffin, 2008 Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Many individuals totally ignorant of the nation's history are quick to censor or delete portions of any work that seems to be politically incorrect by contemporary standards. Since these individuals are rather intellectually shallow and victims of schools steeped in censorship of things seemingly unpalatable to certain minority segments of society; they should indeed NOT read the book and move ...             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics)16 reviews Mark Twain Signet Classics, 2002 This edition is not abridged! I just want to point out that this hardcover Everyman's Library edition is not abridged. Most of the reviews posted here apply to the Signet mass market edition, which apparently is abridged. The Everyman's edition contains both novels in full.             The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age16 reviews Gary M. Pomerantz Crown, 2009 Murder, High-Stakes Bridge, Infidelity - Kansas City History in an Interesting Read In 1929, an inebriated (beautiful) Myrtle Bennett chased down and shot her inebriated (dashing) husband after he ridiculed her over a bridge hand. The Bennetts were not Kansas City "high society" nor "monied", but her trial lawyer and others that touched her story were. Enter James A. Reed (yes, there is a Kansas City street named after him), Nell Donnelly (the doyenne of Kansas City fashion), ...             The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)27 reviews Meriwether Lewis, William Clark Mariner Books, 1997 An amazing historic journey related by the travelers themselves It's amazing they pulled it off and lost only one man (and got into a real fight with the natives only once) and despite all the incredible difficulties wrote it all down. There is no substitute for getting it directly from the horse's mouth. Bernard DeVoto does a great job keeping the story flowing with footnotes, editorial explanations and maps. This book will help you connect the dots at all ...             Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (Civil War America)7 reviews William L. Shea The University of North Carolina Press, 2009 Excellant work. This study is a very welcomed addition to the other works on the war in Arkansas and the Trans-Mississippi. Shea tells the story of the Prairie Grove campaign in a manner that is easy to follow and understand. The chapters are of reasonable lenght which makes for easier reading too. Having a chapter on the raid on Van Buren rounds out the story quite well. The maps are many and good but ...             News Reporting and Writing6 reviews Missouri Group, Brian S. Brooks, ... Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007 Can't Beat It While I can't actually comment on the current edition, I'd like to say that this is the same book I used 18 years ago in college and it was excellent. I still have my copy and refer to it occasionally when I'm covering an area that I don't handle often. The authors are from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, one of the top journalism schools in the country because most of the ...             Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale121 reviews Dan Dye, Mark Beckloff Workman Publishing Company, 2003 Dog love, nothing compares This is a great book, I cried and I laughed. I'd like to have met Gracie. Dan took a chance at a difficult life with a half blind deaf dog and it took him places and he loved again like he had with his beloved Blue. This story is more about Dan's life with Gracie and his determination to take care of her than about Dan starting his business. Like all good dog stories it starts off with an ...             The Moonflower Vine: A Novel (P.S.)35 reviews Jetta Carleton Harper Perennial, 2009 Don't Miss This Classic! Don't miss this excellent book. It is a beautiful honest story. It is ashamed that Jetta Carleton only wrote one book as I am sure that others would have been treasures as this one certainly is. The lives of each character are shown in relationship to each other, as well as individual stories. It is so natural that one believes these ficticious Missouri characters are real. That is the key ...             St. Louis Cardinals Past & Present4 reviews Doug Feldmann MVP Books, 2009 That's a Winner! I've been a Cardinals fan all my life, experiencing the joys of one of the game's greatest franchises for over 50 years. Doug Feldman's detailed study into this wonderful team captures the imagination, stirring up personal memories from the '50s all the way to the present; from Musial to Pujols, and I love it! Of course, this book covers the entire history of the Redbirds, giving any fan of ...             Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War58 reviews T.J. Stiles Vintage, 2003 Great Borderstate history This is as much a history of 1850-1882 Missouri, as it is a biography of Jesse James, as the two are so interconnected that no understanding of James can exist without an understanding of the times in which he lived. The book filled in wide gaps in my understanding of the Civil War, was a good read, and was well footnoted and researched.             Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease8 reviews John Heidenry St. Martin's Press, 2009 Good read. The Greenlease kidnapping was a fascinating yet tragic event that took place in Kansas City. The book is well written and details the whole story from start to finish. If you want to know everything that happened on that fateful day in 1953 read this book.             Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : An Authoritative Text Contexts and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical ...541 reviews Mark Twain W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 Should be on every school's reading list! This is an unbelievably amazing book, an absolute must-read for children and adults alike. Through the years, this book has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, even maligned - hence banned from schools - an absolute travesty! In my humble opinion, there probably has not been a book written in history which encomposses as much of the complicated human condition as this one. I started reading this ...             The Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction William Missouri Downs, Wright, ... Wadsworth Publishing, 2008 EXPERIENCING THE ART OF THEATRE explores issues of diversity and creativity, presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre, and offers briefer coverage of theatre history. The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today's screen entertainment.             Classic Starts: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classic Starts Series)4 reviews Mr. Mark J. Twain Sterling, 2005 Great Books for Kids! These are just fantastic books. Tom Saywer is the first of these classics that I read to my kids and they absolutely loved it. The book itself is beautifully bound and seems like almost a collectors item. I found that they really did manage to capture all the best parts of the original and kept the pace going so the kids couldn't get enough. Well done....will collect all the Classic Start ...             On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 189419 reviews Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins, 1976 I like Historical Diaries But This One Is Especially Meaningful It's often said in tones of this-is-true-but-it's-also-heresy that Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura and Almanzo Wilder, is the real unsung heroine in the Little House books, because while she let her mother have credit for the famous series, it was Rose, via her careful, invisible editing and re-writes, that turned cheery memoirs into beloved classics. I suspect that's true, but in the case of ...             A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath57 reviews Jeanine Cummins NAL Trade, 2004 Greased Lightning This story will literally suck you in like a tornado and doesn't let go of you until the dust and debris settles, leaving you frazzled and perplexed. The lesson to be learned from this book, is that the majority of us at one time or another have walked to the fringe and escaped unchanged and luckier then we can imagine . A horrific tale that hopefully will save others a simliar FATE, ...             Gunz and Roses83 reviews Keisha Ervin Urban Trade Paper, 2009 Keisha Did It Again I have to give it to her. This book was very good. I wished the end was better for Gray & Gunz baby wise but it still was an excellent read.             Little Farm in the Ozarks (Little House, The Rocky Ridge Years)8 reviews Roger Lea MacBride HarperCollins, 1994 A wonderful story! Five stars!! This is a great story telling of the early struggles that Rose had to face with her family to build up the farm.Anyone who says this story is poorly written,or things like that are freaks!It's just a childrens book!!These people need a life!             Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews Mark Twain Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 indeed, a classic--and never boring Maybe this book should not, as one reviewer noted, be assigned in high school. But then maybe no books should be assigned to people who are quicker to judge than to understand. Stupid, boring, difficult...hardly. Well--of course it's difficult (like everything that's good), for some good reasons. First of all, it's an illiterate white boy from the deep South--of course he speaks dialect (which is ...             Experiencing the Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction (Wadsworth Series in Theatre) William Missouri Downs, Wright, ... Wadsworth Publishing, 2006 This invigorating new introductory text makes timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of Hollywood television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to, predates, and influences the screen entertainment they are used to watching. From theatre's ritual origins to modern musicals, from the controversies surrounding the NEA to the applicability of acting lessons in everyday life, ...              search for books adventures, aftermath, amazing, america, american, authoritative, campaign, cardinals, classic, classics, concise, contexts, critical, criticism, edition, expedition, experiencing, greenlease, huckleberry, introduction, journals, mansfield, missouri, moonflower, playboy, prostitute, reporting, sources, wadsworth, writing books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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