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Fodor's Escape to the Wine Country will inspire and guide you as you plan your tour of Northern California's wine country. Visit a 19th-century mission town, balloon over vineyards, or stroll through exotic gardens. Each of the 18 experiences and sights it highlights are illustrated in 130 luscious full-color photographs. The planning section tells you all about costs, lodging options, how to get there, and more, and a detailed map shows you what's where. Escape to the Wine Country is lovely enough to treasure as a dream book, yet durable enough to withstand the rigors of travel, so keep this book by your bedside to sweeten your dreams, or pop it into your tote bag when you hit the road. And get ready for the trip of a lifetime.

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The story of the girl who tried to hide from the Nazis.

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Beautiful.......2006-10-01

I loved it. The story is told in clear, simple language that makes it easy for children to understand (Crucial in a book geared for a younger crowd) and the illustrations are breathtaking and accurate.

A wonderful introduction to Anne Frank.

Simple and touching.......2005-07-12

This book is Simple and touching. Its very simple to read but goes into the depths of her short and in the end devastating life. She had a simple life and she loved it but the last and dark days that she spent in the secret annexe.
further- (beyond this story)
iT turns out that Otto Frank was the only one to survive out of all the secret annex (peter wasn't heard from) everyone else died. If only she had survived the last couple of weeks then she would be free once more.

I really enjoyed the book Anne Frank........1998-02-24

As a sixth grader I really enjoyed the book Anne Frank. The story was about Anne Frank,A brave young Jewish girl about 12 years old and her fourting year old sister. She found out at age 14 years old that she had to put a lot of cloths on. She had to hide in the attic for three years so the Nazis would not find them. It took place in Germany where her family lived. She once lived in a house,If she went to school she would be shot. The Nazis burnt all the Jewish books and pictures. A lot of children hid so they would not be shot because the people that hid them or they would be shot with no questions asked. The only person who survived was her dad, and the reason her mom died first, and Anne and her sister died after. I think the person who reads the book would cry or be really interesting in it. The book is based on her family life as a Jew in Germany.

This is the best book I ever read.......1998-02-10

I'm a 6th grader. This book is about Anne Frank when she was a young girl. Anne was born on June 12,1929. She had an older sister named Margot. Her parents names were Edith and Otto Frank. Her family lived in Frankfurt for hundreds of years. She had a peaceful life until the Nazis came. Anne Frank died when she was fifteen years old. Then someone found Anne's Frank diary, which got published in 1947. This is the best book I ever read because I like how it is written, telling the story clearly. I like how she did not die until she was fifteen years old. If I was Anne I don't think I would I have lasted that long because I don't think I could take care of myself that long.

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A Picture Book of Anne Frank.

Manufacturer: SCHOLASTIC INC.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0439072271

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Compelling narrative and illustrations
Anne's Life
Let us not forget those times

Anne Frank
Josephine Poole
Manufacturer: Red Fox
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0099409763

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Compelling narrative and illustrations.......2007-01-04

There are two editorial reviews here that summarize the book quite well. I would like to concurr with another Amazon reviewer that states this would be a good book to read to students prior to any discussion in detail of " The Diary of Anne Frank." The art work is like the story itself; a stark portrait of one of the darkest time periods in man's history. It is a somber subject and should be treated as such I suppose; there is only one smiling group family portrait in the book. I would read this book to fifth graders and above only because of the subject matter and the questions and answers that will arise might be difficult for some youngsters to understand. This is a good picture-book biography for a parent or teacher to use if they feel the audience is mature enough to handle hard questions and answers. This book would make a worthy addition to the school library or community synagogue so that young people may better understand the injustices of the past and how they relate to contemporary times.

Anne's Life .......2006-02-02

I think its a great book that we should read I found it both sad and happy. Anastasia

Let us not forget those times.......2005-11-07

The retelling is stark, compassionate, unsentimental. The art is reminiscent of ROSE BLANCHE, in grays and browns. This would be a good readaloud intro in any classroom before launching into reading the diary, no matter the students' age. An end page lists the chronology of events, has contact info for Ann Frank House in Amsterdam. This is really for all ages.

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A Picture Book of Anne Frank
David A. Adler
Manufacturer: Live Oak Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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A PICTURE BOOK OF ANNE FRANK. Illustrated by Karen Ritz. Picture Book Biography Series

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A PICTURE BOOK OF ANNE FRANK. Illustrated by Karen Ritz. Picture Book Biography Series
David A. Adler
Manufacturer: Holiday House,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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great for newborn kitten.......2005-08-03

This is the best book i have ever found for new born kittens and the problems the mother can come into. i work in a bookstore and i have seen a lot of books about cats but their coverage on pregnancy and kitten care has always been a lot to be desired.

Cat Basics: The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Cat (Pyramid Paperback)

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Cat Basics: The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Cat (Pyramid Paperback)
Caroline Davis
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0600614700

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“A home without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat, may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?” questioned Mark Twain, and he had a point. This comprehensive guide provides all of the information you need to keep your feline friend purring through every stage of life from sprightly kitten to mature puss. With practical advice on choosing a kitty, introducing it into your home, and training, this is an ideal gift for the new cat lover. Detailed information on behavior and anatomy ensures that owners will understand what makes their pet tick. Expert advice on routine health care, including diet, first aid, and common ailments, will be turned to again and again.

Dog Basics: The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Dog (Pyramid Paperback)

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Dog Basics: The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Dog (Pyramid Paperback)
Caroline Davis
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0600614638

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Dogs are the ultimate companions: they don’t get angry with us, lie to us, or cheat on us. To maintain and build this special relationship, owners need to know how a dog thinks and feels. This thorough handbook provides all of the information needed to take the best care of your best friend, including how to read his behavior. From taking your new puppy home to tending to his needs day after day and training him properly: it’s all here. Also, routine health care issues—like diet, first aid, and common problems—are covered. With this guide in hand, you can mold your new canine into a well-mannered adult that you can be proud of and everyone will admire. Your dog deserves no less.

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Essential Guide to Caring for Your Cat
Amanda Edwards
Manufacturer: Bookmart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Where the garden light is low, that's where you can grow some of the most bewitching plants available. These flowers flourish in the shade, generating intricate, layered, and luxuriant tapestries of bloom for year-round beauty. From the most innovative gardeners working today come unique designing ideas, with tips on knockout combinations for places where the sun barely shines. Manipulate light levels to turn dense shade dappled for a more hospitable growing space. Experiment with new techniques for improving the poor soils often found in these spots. Dip into the richly illustrated encyclopedia of shade loving perennials for all conditions--dry, moist, and wet. Whether you choose exquisite deep purple Lenten Rose or pretty green-leaved Maryland Pinkroot, your garden will be made in the shade!

The Shady Border : Shade-Loving Perennials for Season-Long Color (Twenty-First C

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The Shady Border : Shade-Loving Perennials for Season-Long Color (Twenty-First C
Janet (Ser. Ed.) Marinelli
Manufacturer: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JOI81U

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Wood 2: Wood Fonts from the Morgan Press Collection

Manufacturer: Morgan & Morgan
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0871002043

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The surprise of the Southern Great Plains is color. From sheltered forest edges to open expanses of prairie, the floor of the Great Plains is dotted with wildflowers in a paintbox of brilliant hues.

Color is also the best starting point for identifying wildflowers, and this new field guide brims with color. It focuses on 239 species--those species common enough to be called "roadside" wildflowers--and includes 260 of the best color photographs available. To make identification easier for the nonbotanist, the guide is organized by color and then, within each color section, by blooming season.

Each of the 239 species is pictured in full color and accompanied by a wealth of information: common and scientific names, a habitat and distribution summary, notes on economic uses and related species, and a concise, nontechnical plant description. (Unavoidable technical terms are defined in a brief glossary.) Many species accounts also include line drawings of fruits or other distinguishing plant characters. Simple keys are provided to allow readers with more training or interest in botany to identify plants by their characteristics.

Although it's botanically accurate enough for the most seasoned botanist, Roadside Wildflowers of the Southern Great Plains is written and designed for nonprofessional--vacationers, wildflower enthusiasts, weekend botanists, and anyone else eager to discover the secrets of the Great Plains.

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A Must for the Prairie Wildflower Enthusiast.......2002-01-25

My book is tattered because I've used it so much. I like it because it covers all the common species of the southern plains. In addition, it gives plant range and habitat information to aid in identification. Plus the pictures are top notch.

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A complete vacation guide to the mountains of Northeast Georgia, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and Southwestern Virginia. Includes the Great Smoky Mountains and the southern portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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a great book at a great price.......2001-04-08

This is a great short book on the drawings of Goya. I discovered Goya while in an art history class at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama. I recommend this book to an art student in any field. These are some of the best drawings that I have ever seen.

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Very good basic for the layperson.......2007-03-31

This book is well writen and edited. It is correct and informative. It has helped us very much with our new puppy. Recommend this book to anyone with a Canine best friend.

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Gene Logsdon's Wildlife in Your Garden: Or Dealing With Deer, Rabbits, Raccoons, Moles, Crows, Sparrows, and Other of Nature's Creatures : In Ways th
Gene Logsdon
Manufacturer: Rodale Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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You Can Go Home Again

ASIN: 0878574549

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INTERESTING SUBJECT, nicely covered

Above and Beyond.

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Fluid articulate prose probes the details of the Fox sisters

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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
Barbara Weisberg
Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Binding: Paperback

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The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition

Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that talks to the Dead

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Talking to the Other Side: A History of Modern Spiritualism and Mediumship: A Study of the Religion, Science, Philosophy and Mediums that Encompass this American-Made Religion

ASIN: 006075060X
Release Date: 2005-03-29

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Is it really possible to talk with the dead? As much as modern America is familiar with mediums--think bestselling authors John Edwards and Sylvia Browne--this question still generates passionate opinions from believers and skeptics alike. So one can only imagine the stir that the Fox sisters created in 1848 when they claimed to hear a ghost rapping on the wall of their Hydesville, New York rental house bedroom. The sisters soon discovered that the ghost would tap answers to specific questions. Within days neighbors and travelers were showing up at the house, wanting to converse with the dead rapper. The Fox sisters--Maggie and Kate--went onto become a national phenomenon, holding séances and making their livings as celebrity mediums. They were also the leaders of a new movement called the spiritualists. New York-based filmmaker Barbara Weisberg assembled this fascinating and expertly recounted biography. Beyond trying to prove whether the Fox girls were legitimate, Weisberg wrote a study of how two young girls could shape a new spiritual movement in mid-1800s America. "The more I thought about the Fox sisters, the more it seemed to me not only that Kate and Maggie sparked a movement, but that their lives epitomized the conflicts and urges that helped fuel its blaze. The question of the other world aside, the girls' appeal surely stemmed in part from the ways they embodied—and intuited—their culture's anxieties and ambitions." Ironically, in not trying to prove whether these two were frauds, Weisberg has created a more satisfying human story within a rich historical context, not unlike the tactics used for the bestseller Seabiscuit. And likewise, this could and should easily translate into a dynamite major motion picture. --Gail Hudson

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A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement – and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery.

In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox – sisters aged 11 and 14 – anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born.

Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to seances. An international movement followed. Yet thirty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying they had ever contacted spirits. Shortly after, the sisters once again changed their story and reaffirmed their belief in the spirit world. Weisberg traces not only the lives of the Fox sisters and their family (including their mysterious Svengali–like sister Leah) but also the social, religious, economic and political climates that provided the breeding ground for the movement. While this is a thorough, compelling overview of a potent time in US history, it is also an incredible ghost story.

An entertaining read – a story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts – Talking to the Dead is full of emotion and surprise. Yet it will also provoke questions that were being asked in the 19th century, and are still being asked today – how do we know what we know, and how secure are we in our knowledge?

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INTERESTING SUBJECT, nicely covered.......2006-05-11

I very much enjoyed reading this book about a subject and a history I knew nothing about. I was attracted to read, and keep reading this story mainly for the 'intimate' histories of the people involved. I love reading historical details, no matter how small. The details seem to bring the people and time period alive again, and there is plenty of wonderful detail in this novel about the Fox Sisters and spiritualism in the mid/late 19th century.

I am very grateful to the author for exhuming this piece of history and bringing it to our attention by giving it such study. I was alittle disappointed at the book's conclusion though, which seemed 'rushed.' A lot less detail and a sense of urgency at the close of the story and the Sisters' lives. As soon as we come to know and feel close to Maggie and Kate, they're suddenly dead, and quickly buried. And, of course, it would have been nice to have more photos in the book.

The best thing that this author does in this book is to present the Fox Sisters' story in a way that leaves the reader both better educated and more able to understand why these women did what they did, and what 'most likely' was the complicated psycological motivation behind their actions. That's a lot to accomplish in storytelling. Bravo.

For anyone interested in finding out more about the love affair and complications between Elisha Kent Kane and Margaret Fox, there is more information on the Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society website. Lots of extra reading and more depth on the letters and events that occurred.

RECOMMEND!

Above and Beyond........2005-09-14

Though the early accounts of the Fox sisters' encounters with spirits from beyond left me wanting more, as their renowned grew, so too did my interest. Weisberg does an amazing job of situating the rise of Spiritualism within the social climate of the time, touching upon evangelicalism, suffrage and abolition. I was not expecting to walk away from this book feeling that I'd gained a greater understanding of mid-century history, but I certaily did. As a New Yorker, Weisberg also made life in 1800s' New York come alive, for me, by her frequent inclusion of actual names and addresses.

Exceptional.......2005-01-29

Barbara Weisberg has created the first must-read nonfiction title of the year. This is an assured and satisfying work which vividly brings to life a remarkable episode in the cultural history of the United States. In March, 1848, mysterious knocks are suddenly heard in a small house located in rural, upstate New York. No one is certain who or what is creating the strange sounds, but they recur night after night. Are Kate and Maggie Fox, ages 11 and 14, playing an elaborate trick on their parents and the other members of their small community? Or are the girls really able to channel messages from the dead?
Talking to the Dead charts the saga of the Fox sisters, and the birth of modern Spiritualism. From a small house near the Canadian border Maggie and Kate are catapulted to nationwide fame. On a series of tours across the heartland, tens of thousands of Americans rush to experience a series of readings and seances.
Weisberg's straight-forward yet evocative prose fully engulfs the viewer in the period. Like Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, this is nonfiction so seamless and compelling that it reads like a novel, yet Weisberg's skills as a scrupulous and careful researcher are evident in the pages and pages of notes that conclude this riveting story. Or does it? For the story really has no definite conclusion, and the ramifications of the Fox sisters' experiences are still with us today. Perhaps they always will be. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Fluid articulate prose probes the details of the Fox sisters.......2004-08-28

Although at first this book appears to deal with a somewhat esoteric topic, it has much appeal for the general reader. The fluid articulate prose probes the details of the Fox sisters' lives and their impact on spiritualism without burdensome discussion of that movement's inner workings. The focus remains on the sisters and, most interestingly, regularly throughout the text placing their story in the wider context of other significant events and ideas of their day. That it's written without a "point-of-view" on the sisters' authenticity helps this obviously well-researched work better illuminate their unusual lives and the times in which they lived.

Comprehensive Research.......2004-07-15

This comprehensively researched biography of the Fox sisters, founders of modern spiritualism in America, not only provides details of their private lives but also explains the mores of the era in which they lived and how that affected them.
Conclusions about whether they were talented mediums, talented con artists or a little of both is left up to the reader. However, after reading the book, you will have the necessary facts to form your own opinion.
A fascinating and engrossing read.

Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism.(Book Review) : An article from: The Journal of Parapsychology

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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism.(Book Review) : An article from: The Journal of Parapsychology
Christopher M. Moreman
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000E1OGVO
Release Date: 2005-12-29

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of Parapsychology, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1117 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: Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism.(Book Review)
Author: Christopher M. Moreman
Publication: The Journal of Parapsychology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 68 Issue: 2 Page: 436(3)

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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
Barbara Weisberg
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF1AZK

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A masterly biography of Sir Roger Casement—British statesman, humanist, Irish nationalist, and one of the most controversial figures of the 19th century—hanged by the British in 1916 for treason.

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