5 comments about The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew, Book 11).

1. I am doing my book report on the book The Clue of the Broken Locket. This book is written by Carolyn Keene. This book is a fiction book which means it is not real.
   
   In this book the main character is Nancy Drew, a young detective who has solved many mysteries, and now is going a long way from home. She and her two best friends, Bess and George, are heading down to a lake house the mystery of why a man who has been taking care of a lake house has suddenly gone away and claims to have seen a ghost ship on the lake. In this book they overcome multiple dangers and each one takes them either closer or farther away from solving the mystery.
   I really enjoyed this book because it keeps you in suspense and makes you want to read on to the next chapter! I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone who loves a great mystery and especially people who love Nancy Drew books.



2. I would highly recommend this book for any Nancy Drew book collection.
   It all starts when Nancy sees a key near her place at breakfast. Mystery & Suspense build as she investigates the double of Cecily Curtis, a phantom launch that was drowned years ago, & the mysterious noise coming from the location of Pudding Stone Lodge. How Nancy Drew solves a family mystery involving a Iron Bird & kills a counterfeit operation will keep the reader in suspense from beginning to end!



3. Nancy Drew and her friends are involved in a line of odd events when they visit Misty Lake.the very same day they arrive, they meet a beautiful, red-haired Cecily Curtis. Who asks Nancy's help in solving two mysteries:one that deals with Cecily's fiance, Niko Van Dyke, a popular singer who belives that his record company is cheating him out of royalty payments;the other, involving a family treasure hiddenbefore the start of the Civil war-Cecily's only clue to being half of a gold locket. Nancy's investigation lead her to Pudding stone lodge where ,the Driscoll family lives.Elusive humming noises,a flashing light in the attic of the lodge, the periodic apparition of an excrsion launch which had sunk in Misty lake years ago ,and the fleeting appeances of a scared girl who looks a lot like Cecily gave Nancy plenty of chances to test her sleuthing skills.



4. Nancy Drew and her friends are involved in a line of odd events when they visit Misty Lake.the very same day they arrive, they meet a beautiful, red-haired Cecily Curtis. Who asks Nancy's help in solving two mysteries:one that deals with Cecily's fiance, Niko Van Dyke, a popular singer who belives that his record company is cheating him out of royalty payments;the other, involving a family treasure hiddenbefore the start of the Civil war-Cecily's only clue to being half of a gold locket. Nancy's investigation lead her to Pudding stone lodge where ,the Driscoll family lives.Elusive humming noises,a flashing light in the attic of the lodge, the periodic apparition of an excrsion launch which had sunk in Misty lake years ago ,and the fleeting appeances of a scared girl who looks a lot like Cecily gave Nancy plenty of chances to test her sleuthing skills.



5. Nancy Drew and her friends are involved in a line of odd events when they visit Misty Lake.the very same day they arrive, they meet a beautiful, red-haired Cecily Curtis. Who asks Nancy's help in solving two mysteries:one that deals with Cecily's fiance, Niko Van Dyke, a popular singer who belives that his record company is cheating him out of royalty payments;the other, involving a family treasure hiddenbefore the start of the Civil war-Cecily's only clue to being half of a gold locket. Nancy's investigation lead her to Pudding stone lodge where ,the Driscoll family lives.Elusive humming noises,a flashing light in the attic of the lodge, the periodic apparition of an excrsion launch which had sunk in Misty lake years ago ,and the fleeting appeances of a scared girl who looks a lot like Cecily gave Nancy plenty of chances to test her sleuthing skills.

5 comments about 2008 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.

1. Very fast shipping, product arrive in excellent shape, and complete. I will shop this vendor again.



2. It's difficult to locate cards in this guide and not as complete as I expected.



3. As I stated in my incipit this is a monster guide for me! it's a huge helping hand for me, as I am new in collecting trading cards on baseball! I began some months ago and till today I own 10,000 cards circa; and day by day I begin to understand what I have in my hands...a piece of American sport history and this thanks to Don Flukinger and his guide!
   I will for sure continue to follow from this side of world (I'm italian by the way) this great American sport!



4. This is "almost excellent" Encyclopedia of Baseball cards and price guide. Its physical size and the enormous volume of information gathered and updated every year makes this book indispensable it's a must and certainly has its place in my/our/your library.
   The total number of pages 1848 and the number of entries is Ginormous. Due to the scope of researched necessary to put this fantastic guide book the "Standard Catalog Of Baseball Cards" year after year by professionals the best in the field is one the reasons amateurs and expert professionals in the field use this as their primary tool for research and investigation about anything concerning Baseball Cards throughout history.
   If you are a beginner buy it soon, before it is divided into separate volumes as KRAUSE has done with other guide books.
   The reason I gave [4] ]FOUR STARS instead of five is simple, although better than "The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards" it has similar shortcomings as their other Krause guides, complete sections of information are missing and generally not fixed by the following year guide, incorrect or missing a few details, some description, and does pesky prices.
   Regarding prices use this and any other price guide must be used with the understanding that prices in all collectible items, specially does that investors and speculators are involved fluctuate daily, if you have followed any kind of auction you probably have noticed when 2, 3, or more of the same items and condition sell for different prices sometimes with significant differences. Collecting Antiques, Sport Cards, or Coins among others is a fine hobie worthy of the best help when available. Good luck.
   
   See my other guides.
   
   The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2007, Edition #27 (Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards)
   The Official Beckett Price Guide to Football Cards 2008, 27th Edition (Official Price Guide to Football Cards)
   The Official 2008 Beckett Price Guide to Basketball Cards, 17th Edition (Official Price Guide to Basketball Cards)
   The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2008, Edition #28 (Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards)
   The Official Beckett Price Guide to Football Cards 2009, Edition #28 (Official Price Guide to Football Cards)
   Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (Contemporary Sports Issues) (Contemporary Sports Issues)



5. WORTH EVERY CENT, ...AFTER PURCHASING ALOT OF OTHER BOOKS WHICH GOT ME NO WHERE, I JUST PURCHASED THIS ONE, THIS LISTS ALL SUB CATERGORIES WHICH IS EXCELLENT..MOST BOOKS DON'T..........REAL GOOD INVESTMENT.....THIS IS LIKE THE BIBLE OF BASEBALL CARDS...BECKETT BOOK IS A WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!!! SHIPPING WAS FANTASTIC.!!!!!!

5 comments about A Cry In The Night.

1. Jenny is not the type of heroine one has come to associate with MHC books. She's actually all but the opposite. But she's a fresh change. A scared divorcee living on a remote farm with her new husband and two daughters from her last marriage, Jenny starts to fear for her sanity. Erich, her painter husband, is gone all the time to a bungalow in the woods. He says he's painting.
   
   Jenny is forbidden to use the car, and when ahe attempts to rearrange a few pieces of furniture,Erich puts them right back where they were.
   
   Things get worse after Jenny has their son. But i'll leave it at that. While there aren't very many twists to it, and the ending is somewhat predictable, it's still a great read to the finish!
   
   This is one of MHCs very first novels, and for a first novel, its very good! Read it!



2. A must read for everyone who likes a good mystery without all the gore and dirty words used to describe something. I always enjoy reading stories by Mary Higgins Clark. She is one of my favorite authors. This latest A Cry In The Night is one of her better ones. I will reread it later this year.



3. I'm not a huge Mary Higgins Clark fan, but I have enjoyed a few of her books. However, after reading people like Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, and Sandra Brown, this book seems quite "empty" to me. There's no real substance to it. Clark doesn't write characters that I want to read about, characters that I either love or hate. When I read, I like KNOWING the character, and seeing the story through their eyes. Here I don't know much about them at all. I know Clark writes mystery, not romance, but still, the whole relationship between the "main" character Jenny and the "off" Erich Kreuger is just strange, and hardly believable. It's hard to even pity Jenny for her situation. The idea of the story is a little spooky, I'll give her that, but it really didn't grab me. It's just another book that's easy enough to get through, but it's not so great.



4. I may have read one or two of her books in the past, but I won't be in a hurry to pick up another one. Besides the two instances where an animal was cruelly and unnecessarily killed, I could see the predictable, happily-ever-after ending coming a mile away.



5. I've read a few of Clark's other books, and liked them, but I spend most of my time and money on non fiction books. My mom had this and brought it over to me as soon as she finished saying how great it was. She was right, I finished it that night! I felt so bad for her, getting herself stuck into a situation that kept getting worse. I also realy identified with the loss of the baby, because I have lost one too. I will definitly be reading more of her books in the future!

No comments about Handbook of United States Coins 2009: The Official Blue Book (Handbook of United States Coins (Paper)) (Handbook of United States Coins (Paper)) (Handbook of United States Coins (Paper)).

5 comments about Sweet Valley High #1: Double Love (Sweet Valley High).

1. As a longtime fan of Sweet Valley High I both love and hate these new editions! Although they did a pretty good job of modernizing the series there are a lot of changes that the original fans will not appreciate! All the same- a Sweet Valley book is a Sweet Valley book and how can any fan resist?!



2. I am an old SVH addict. I admit it, even as my 34 year old self, cringes a little bit. I stopped reading the series when I was about 19, too old for the books even then, I guess. About three years ago, when I was home for weeks on medical leave I ordered some online (my originals being long gone) and voila, in a few weeks I was the proud owner of the entire original SVH series, AGAIN. I read them until my six weeks of leave ended but I still kept collecting. So its very odd to me, that just a couple years after I start thinking about them again, they pop back up with a modernized version. I was excited. I have a twelve year old daugter. I wanted nothing more than some cool remake to renew the names of Jessica & Elizabeth Wakefield in today's culture. I eagerly sank into these books when they arrived. I was disappointed beyond belief to see the Dairi Burger completely gone to make way for a funky named Mexican restaurant. What, there aren't any small independent burger restaurants in small sunny California towns anymore? The twins are a perfect size 4 now instead of a 6. There are no sororities and fraternities (which seems legit to me as even in the 80's I never knew a high school with them) Enid has straight hair instead of curly hair, which makes me wonder if they are modeling her after the actress that played her on the tv series. Most of these changes are ok with me, I guess. I don't like that Bruce seems to be missing his 1Bruce1 license plate. I don't like that Dana Larson has become a goth girl imitation of herself. I don't like that Winston seems to play a geekier role than before, if possible. I know I will still buy each of these books. I am dying to see young girls devouring these remakes like I did (hopefully), I am dying for the appearance of the much anticipated Sweet Valley Confidential set when the twins are 26 years old, and I am dying for this New Kids on The Block reunion. Hey, I said I was all about bringing the 80's back.



3. I went to my local bookstore and saw they were re-releasing Sweet Valley High and I was excited because now I could finish my collection, I had no idea they were rewritten and when I was reading one of the books in the store I was shocked to realize this. I almost flipped out.
   
   I can see the whole email thing and cell phones but changing story lines and characters and other stuff wasn't necessary they pretty much rewrote the second book. This is very upsetting.
   
   They didn't need to change their sizes from a 6 to a 4. Teenage girls already have issues about that and now they are trying to say a size 6 is too fat? Since when?



4. I was so thrilled when I found out they were rerelasing the SVH books.
   
   Then, I found out the shocker: As if a size 6 wasn't perfect and threatening enough, they've gone and made it a size 4!
   
   Come on, people! There's enough pressure out there today. Why not the perfect 10, 12 or 14..or why "perfect" at all?!?!
   
   I, for one, will spend my money on the rereleases of LJ Smith's novels, and the new Baby-Sitter's Club graphic novels. There, the only pressure we felt was to find a guy as hot as Adam/Stefan/Damon/Julian, and to find clothes like Claudia!



5. Identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield couldn't be more different.
   
   Jessica loves boys, flirting, and fun, while Liz takes a more serious approach to life. But these sisters stick together through everything.
   
   When a date goes wrong for Jessica, she finds herself in major hot water. Only, the people rescuing her think that she's Liz. Suddenly the whole school is buzzing about the wrong twin and Liz's life is falling apart. Her best friend defends her, but for how long? Todd, her crush, now seems to be attracted to her sister. Will Liz forgive Jessica this time?
   
   DOUBLE LOVE is the first book of the old SWEET VALLEY HIGH series that has been updated to include cell phones and the Internet, but still contains the same plot. It's a great book for the beach.
   
   Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel

5 comments about Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide 2008 (Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide).

1. This was received in a very timely fashion and when it was suppose to arrive. Amazon is a great company. This is not the first item ordered from Amazon and it will NOT be the last.



2. This book essentially is a Beckett PLUS (which comes out every 2 months) with more details (such as every card in each set is listed). There aren't really any oddball sets priced, which I guess is what the Beckett Baseball Almanac is for. Overall the book is very useful since it gives complete checklists and some extra details about each set. I just wish more oddball sets were listed so I wouldn't have to buy the Almanac book as well.



3. I have bought Becket Guides before and this has information that you get for free. There is no pricing for Classic, Collectors or another words 1/2 the companies out there. Then in the companies that they show 1/2 the subset are missing A GREAT BIG RIP OFF!!!!!!!!!!!



4. This is a good product for the collector or dealer that that is interested in mainstream issues and the more widely known limited distribution sets.However if your interests are more ecclectic and you like the more obscure and less traded or sold products....forget it. For those people I suggest Sports Collectors Digest Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.This is equally true of Becketts Price Guides for Football and Basketball.In short if you stick with Topps and the other nationally distributed sets Beckett is OK.If you are looking for regional or otherwise limited production products your wasting your time; SCD is MY choice.



5. I collected baseball cards in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a kid, mostly Topps. I re-opened my card collection in March 2008 after 35 years in the attic. The book doesn't doesn't have any logic or organization to it, and makes no sense. For example, if you're looking to price your Topps cards (as I suspect most people are), 1973, for example, you have to look under "1951 Topps Blue Backs" in the table of contents - bizarre. And good luck finding the table of contents sandwiched between more than 10 pages of advertisements. in the "How to Use this Book" section it starts "isn't this great" then continues, "every year this book gets better." Almost nothing on how to use the book.

5 comments about The Jungle Book: A Pop-Up Adventure (Classic Collectible Pop-Ups).

1. The intricacy and engineering of this book is amazing. Each page is a masterpiece.



2. this masterpiece is simply testing the limits of paper engineering. you'll be astonished and surprised every time you open the book. over and over again. even for the 20th time.



3. Incredible pop up art. My 3 yr old son loves it but need supervision to avoid tears. IT is very special - a great unique gift for 3-7 yrs.



4. Full of imagination and creactivity that book is realy great and full of many impressive pop-ups. As I said one of the best I've seen. Highly recommended



5. This was ordered as a Christmas gift for my grandchildren. It looked great when it arrived. I'm sure they will love it.

5 comments about The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding.

1. To the reviewer below.....this book is about the founding of Australia. It has nothing to with America. You should focus on reviewing the book rather than using this as a platform to express your political views. Anyway, this book shed much light on Australia's origins. This is history not too well-known. I didn't realize there was this much detailed fact in the convict beginnings of Australia. It's a fascinating read and colorful characters come to life on the page. A highly recommended book.



2. Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore is an assiduously and tirelessly researched work on the Western "founding" of Australia through essentially an experiment with a penal colony. Hughes obviously has written, to date, the finest and most exhaustive piece on the wonderfully interesting, albeit terrifying, beginnings of the country Down Under. All of this said, while the research is almost beyond the scope of critical analysis, the writing surely is not.
   
   This book, not unlike Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is dense, and not simply in an academic sense. Hughes drones on and on with anecdotal writings of many of the criminal on "transportation", their keepers and eventually, the settlers. While much of this is interesting the author greatly fails the reader with redundancy - his take seems to be where two would be good, ten would be better. As such, the book drags. It seems almost sacrilege to say anything derogatory about this work (or Solzhenitsyn's as well) as the topics are covered incredibly well. But it seems the reader is not considered, only the research.
   
   The writing aside, readers will come away with a unique and strong base of information on the founding of Australia and the timing of it. Hughes also does a terrific job of showing how the American Revolution influenced London decision makers to embark on such a large task and traces the increase in crime in the late 18th century and early 19th century throughout England, but in London specifically. This is a book that, while good, is quite dense. It is a task to read and is not up to all the accolades critics seem to shower upon it.



3. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
   
   
   By Robert Hughes
   
   Australia is one of those faraway places you read about in National Geographic or watch on Discovery. Remote, exotic, modern yet solidly based in its history, it's a chamber of commerce promotion writer's dream. T he only country to occupy an entire continent... spanning from the Pacific to the Indian Oceans; sophisticated and modern along the coast with Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane; forbidding and undeveloped in The Outback; boasting symphonies, opera, and architecture; an outdoorsman's paradise.
   Robert Hughes, the Art Critic for TIME magazine, has done an outstanding service in chronicling the rich history of his homeland.
   The Australian writer has delved deeply into primary sources including diaries of those unfortunates who fell victim to the System of Transportation: the official euphemism for the forced removal of mostly minor criminals from England and (particularly) Ireland to the distant and fatal shores of the new continent.
   In researching "diasporas," I've discovered artificial "homelands" for Esquimos in Canada, "Little Cubas' in Miami; the relocated Acadian ("Cajun") culture of the Mississippi delta, and new asian cultures in the American Midwest.
   
   But Australia really qualifies: the indigenous population, the Aboriginals, like our Native Americans were run off their land, deprived of their rights, and forced to give up their culture. The rest came in rusty "Hellships" -overcrowded, prone to disease, starvation, physical and sexual abuse, it's amazing so many arrived alive.
   And when they did get there they found the horrendous penal colonies of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land, where they worked as indentured servants until winning freedom.
   For years, Hughes tells us, Australia underwent a collective cultural amnesia about its past, sweeping the darker side of The System under the rug. But gradually they came to terms with "The convict Stain," accepting their beginnings, and in the process developing a great nation. Those who have seen the Mel Gibson movie "Gallipoli" will understand how Australia's sense of identity was forged on the hellish trenches and beaches of the First World War. As I write, Australia is celebrating "Australia Day"...not colonial day, or Queensland Day, or something else from Europe.
   The Fatal Shore is first-rate history and first-rate writing. (We're lucky to have Hughes still among us: he was seriously injured and almost died after a car accident in Australia)
   
   *****



4. In short this book has taught me a great deal about the history of Australia and I totally disagree with other reviews that make out it is biased in some way.
   
   Found the book to be frank, open, honest and to the point.
   
   BTW even though the book is very thick it was not a chore to read and finish.



5. There's no doubt that the lash and hangman's rope played an important role in early New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). About 1830, the death rate by execution was about 1 per 1000 of the European population of NSW (30 per year out of 30,000). The first criminal trial in Australia led to a sentence of 150 lashes for being drunk and abusive. Thus began the operation of law in Australia, only a fortnight after the colony commenced. But a few months later, in Cable v Sinclair, two young convicts successfully sued the master of a first fleet ship because their luggage had gone missing on the voyage. English law would not have allowed attainted convicts to sue, let alone hold property. One of those convicts, Henry Kable, went on to a career as constable, jailer and merchant, even if his finances did crash spectacularly. This was a new land with a new approach to law and egalitarianism.
   Hughes emphasises blood and the lash, glorying in it. He tells a great story, like an airport novel. But he doesn't tell us anything about the ordinary social and commercial life which began so quickly after the first colony began in 1788. He tells only half the story, and as a result, academic historians ignore his work. There are many much better histories of convict Australia than this. Try Grace Karskens, The Rocks, for a start.
   Some of the men and women of early NSW were dishonest, gaining what they could when they could. That applied to officers as well as convicts. But they had relationships (often without marriage) and children, developed trade, lived their lives as well as they could. The surprise is that the place was so successful, not that it was so bloody. And of course the most significant blood lost was that of the indigenous people, a story not unique to Australia.

5 comments about A Walk to Remember.

1. A WALK TO REMEMBER is a romantic novel set during the late 1950's in a small town in the south. Landon Carter is a popular, obnoxious high school senior who doesn't like to study hard. He decides to take drama instead of chemistry because thinks he will be able to sleep through most of the time. In the drama class he meets Jaime Sullivan, who was known as the bible-hugging minister's daughter. Landon desperately needs a date and invites Jamie to the homecoming dance because she was the only girl left. Although Landon and Jamie grew up together he never saw past that first impression, but he quickly learns to never judge a book by its cover. Their friendship grew and Landon finds himself struggling with his feelings until Christmas Eve at the orphanage when he finally realizes his love for her. However, he was unaware that Jamie had a frightening secret that could ruin their lives forever.
   
   One of my favorite passages of this novel is the time they spent together at the orphanage.... "As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the room, doing my best to keep my composure, then back to Jamie again. She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I'd ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan." (pg. 154)
   
   This book is moving and inspiring. If you like romantic novels and beautiful love stories you will enjoy this one! A WALK TO REMEMBER will appeal to mostly women, but I think it is best suited for young adults. Nicholas Sparks does a great job describing what love can overcome.



2. Fifty-seven year old Landon Carter remembers his high school senior year, when his life changed forever. Well, this intro may encourage to read on...
   
   Landon, a boy from a prominent family living in Beaufort, New Carolina, a son of a politician and grandson of a businessman who made the family fortune, not always acting in a most morally respectable way, needs to get to college. He is an average student, pretty sociable, a nice boy, fond of jokes, but without any special academic or athletic achievements. His parents suggest participating in the drama club, and there he prepares for the Christmas play. The play, traditionally shown every Christmas, has been written by the minister, Hegbert Sullivan, a very religious man, a widower with an only daughter, regarded by the kids as an oddity. His daughter, Jamie, is a quiet girl, wearing drab clothes, who carries her Bible everywhere and lives by its principles. She is always doing good, regularly visits the local orphanage, helps everyone... You get the picture. Sure enough, Landon starts seeing Jamie on a regular basis after joining the drama club and soon falls in love with her. Unfortunately, Jamie has a tragic secret... A lot of drama follows, but the plot is extremely predictable, the writing unremarkable, except for annoying attempts at colloquial speech, as it might have been among teenagers in the 1950s. The only thing I really liked is the description of life and inhabitants of a small, Southern town.
   
   I would say this is a novel directed only at the young adult, it is very naïve and in a very simple and unsubtle way trying to teach good moral values. Not a great literature, rather mediocre. May be enjoyed also by those who like romance. It reads quickly, so it is not a waste of time (can be recommended for airplane reading), but nothing of brilliance either. I guess that the author knows very well how write for the masses and this may be the key to his success.



3. It seemed to be a little imature of a book for an adult to read. However the story was nice.



4. I was very excited to read this book, I enjoyed it. Sometimes it was like Landon would trail off of the story at the very beginning but then as it goes on you see that he trails off to introduce the characters and make it more heart-warming and tear-jerking. I never really had any tears but it was tear-jerking. Good characters and a great ending (I wasn't expecting it!)



5. I saw the movie first and like the movie much better, the whole first date thing in the movie was my favorite part and there is none of that in this book.

2 comments about Rug Hooking In Maine: 1838-1940.

1. I just received this book and initially thumbed through it. I almost sent it back - based only on the pictures of old rugs. I am so used to books based on contemporary rugs that my first thought was that these old rugs were somehow dull, but when I slowed down to read the history I had second thoughts. I started from the beginning of the book and read through it then studied the pictures. It is a wealth of information and an asset to any serious traditional rug hooker's library.



2. This book is a serious study of Maine's Rug hooking tradition. It is well researched and the stories flow easily and informatively. Color photos and paper quality is excellent. Worthy addition to any American textile/rug library.