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Since I like Civil War history, New Moon Rising was an "ok" book. But you would have to like Civil War history to even pick this book up. Because if your looking for a good romance novel this is not the book to read, because there's not much in the romance department in, New Moon Rising. But like I said, it was a fairly good book if you enjoy Civil War history.

Another great book for Ms. Price. Read the book in two days. Her story telling has a way of pulling the reader into the story. After reading the St. Simon Trilogy my future visits to her island will have a new meaning for me. I have gone to St Simon's for the last five summers and I always felt so at peace once I got there, I feel that is how she must have felt. It is the most calming and restful place I have ever visited. And after reading her books I can see how she felt. I can hardly want until next summer.

It was very intriguing, I felt that it gave a lot of information about the time of the Civil War. I liked the series, how it is about the family and continues their lives.

This books strengths are its wonderful lists of plants defined by climate, a must for Floridians, who have to know if that trumpet tree is really going to survive the winter in Orlando as compared to Key West. It's also useful if you need to know how to take care of specific items day to day. Roses require a lot of care and you can always check out the Rose calender in the book to see what you should be up to.

It is not a one-stop shop, however. The book doesn't give you an overall calender specifying what you should be doing each month, rather you need to go into each plant section to see what you should be up to in that specific area. In addition, though the lists are wonderful and amazingly long, you don't have pictures or detailed information on the plants, and so can't really make a good decision without going to the nursery and checking it out first-hand. Even then, you're not going to have a clear idea of what that plant is going to look like in three years, the winter, etc.

I would suggest the Florida Gardener's book of lists for those of you who are trying to find specific plants for your yard. The Southern Living series has the best pictures for the eager gardener. This book is good for Florida Gardener's who want to know how to care for specific plants year round, or how to maintain their lawn year round. For the rest of you, I'd suggest looking at some of Tom Macubbin's other books or the ones I mentioned above. Tom is a local Central Floridian, and really knows his stuff.

Recommended for advanced Florida gardeners who want to get down to the details of the daily care they need to put into specific areas of their garden.

This book has lots of things in it. I think it will help to know month by month what to do. I purchased this book because we will be moving to Florida and I want all the knowledge I can get.

While missing the colorful photos of many gardening books, this book is a valuable reference guide to use as a companion resource. The list of plants, attributes, dimensions, bloom season, planting time etc... in each section is a quick cheat-sheet when selecting plants. The authors also distinguish between the different conditions in North, Central and South Florida. The only drawback is the reference to plants only by common name without the latin name. Since a plant may be referred to by different common names, not knowing the latin name may leave you wondering, or unable to locate an interesting plant.

I found the book to be a very good depiction of the characters of the leaders and of the politics that affected their decisions. However, the major events did not stand out from the details, leaving me wondering about the outcome and significance of the individual encounters. The book constantly changes from north to south with very little indications that a change has taken place, making it very difficult to follow the action. The few maps were very helpful, but there were not nearly enough. this book would be enjoyed more by someone who was already familiar with the terrain and the battles.

A very good and easy read. This book is written for anyone intrested in the Civil War. A good over view of the thoughts, actions and concepts of each side in this conflict over Tennessee.

I stumbled upon this title by accident, when I was looking for Civil War books about Tennessee. I am very happy that I did. The book was an easy read, but not so easy that I flew through it without learning anything.
One of the best things about the book was Woodworth's writting style. He wrote it in such away that I felt I was there, living these events with the generals and the soldiers from both sides. Having hiked the regions that the events took place in helped too, but even if you have not the descriptions are very strong. He never writes over your head like he expects you to be a Civil War historian, nor does he dumb it down to a fifth grade level.
The transitions from the North's side to the South's side of the conflict was brilliantly done. Nothing was left out in going from one side to the other. If events were taking place at the same time Woodworth let you know. When he talked of the battles they were well layed out as to who was doing what,where and when.

The thing that I learned most from this book was the internal bickering in the South's upper chain of command. No one was doing what they were suppose to do when they were suppose to do it. It would seem to me,after reading this book, if the generals under Bragg's command would have done as they were told the outcome would have been totally different and maybe even the outcome of the Civil war itself.
If you are from Chattanooga or Knoxville, I highly recommend reading this book. If you just like reading Civil War histories this is a must.

This book is perhaps one of the most commonly available to Florida gardeners. For the novice, the book has an abundance of general information, but is too vague for anyone beyond an advanced amateur. Color photos of average quality are found throughout the book.

I've looked at, bought, perused many books on Florida gardening and this is one of the best. Technical enough yet informative for the layman. If you only have one book on Florida gardening, you can't beat this one for the price.

Im new to florida and got some advice from a friend about contacting my local Horticulture Extension Service, and when I told them I had dozens of questions about gardening and was looking for a self help guide to Florida Gardening, they had only name for me, "STAN DEFREITAS!" I thought one guy for entire state, come on? Well, after I bought the book I soon realized this guy put together a miniature enclyclopedia of do's and don'ts for The Entire State of Florida and it's easy to read. Before I plant it, I check with the book and I never have had problem! Enough said! A twenty dollar investment a the rest of my life a succesful gardener! Thanks Stan Way to Go!

I was hoping for a factual/investigative account of the tragedy of the Atlanta child murders. Instead, this book seemed to be an essay written on the problems of racial injustice and ignorance in Atlanta, America, and the world. Nothing wrong with that, but then I take into account that the essay was written in a most meandering and disjointed fashion, full of incomprehensible references, with an overwhelming tone of arrogance. Baldwin is right, everyone else is wrong and to blame. Not persuasive, just a waste of time.

Searing, insighful essays written by a genius mind with a
writing style so filled with grace that it evokes tears.
Recognition fills every page. These essays should be
required reading in every American school. Anyone
interested in what a writer is, should be, can be, should
experience this Baldwin.

This is a difficult read because Baldwin's thoughts come across like a man too perplexed to ask "Why?". And so there are many crosscurrent thoughts, parentheticals that are not in parenthesis, and sheer rage. The question: who could be murdering the children in Atlanta? And has the years of systematic oppression and racism made it possible for a black man to be become that cruel? Has the oppressed become the oppressor?

And I can understand Baldwin's great perplexity...he wants to point the finger at the American way of life. How years and years of being considered not human has affected the mindset of the average person of color. And of having to come through identity crises, legal crises, social crises to be confronted with who...? A person who is this insane enough to be killing innocent kids? Why have we struggled so much, Baldwin seems to be asking, to create this monster?

And so, it is another probing we received from the always philosophical, questioning, always provocative Baldwin.

Why read the book now? Well, although this murderer has been found and given punishment based on the fullest extent of the law, the questions remains.

How have we come to this?

Kingsbury may be able to spin a good yarn, but her knowledge of Atlanta is sketchy at best. I know this is a work of fiction, but little details about the city are inaccurate enough to destroy the sense of place that woud otherwise make it a great story. Generally, only tourists go to the Polaris Lounge, and I have a hard time beilieving two drug addled Buckhead teenagers would schedule a tryst there. Place and street names are changed just enough to make them unrecognizable, so why even bother setting this story in Atlanta? Why not a fictional town?

There are also a few characters whose names remind me too much of the former NBC sitcom "Cheers": Rebecca Howe? Frazier?

However, the story is a page turner and provides an indulgent look into the world of IV drug use. Fans of the genre should not be disappointed.

Addiction, Life on the street, Sociological contrast and comparisons... Sure, these topics have been touched before. Set the novel in the capital of the bible belt, centered around the rebirth of our title character's life in a single day, styled by the rich wordings of Kingsbury and you will discover an original work by a talented sophmore of the literary world.

Loads of details play into these characters. We see our mothers, fathers and sisters with each turn of the page. The most minor character becomes our closest friend.

Simply put, a must read.

In her second novel, Suzanne Kingsbury brings beauty and hope to this story of the drug world of Atlanta. And she manages to do it without an ounce of cheese, melodrama, or unreality. She shows us how this world affects not only the primary narrator - the poor, black, and sympathetic Gracey Fill - but also the rich kids of Atlanta's white elite. The landscape of this novel is gritty and frightening, but full of heart and humanity. Kingsbury has obviously done some hard research, and the fruit of her work is this dark and painful, but ultimately hopeful, story. Her characters breathe and love and suffer on every page. They, along with the elegant prose, carried me swiftly and effortlessly to the book's end. Kingsbury's passion and talent once again shine.

Wm. Harris picks up with characters from his last novel Delirium of The Brave. His writing isn't bad, but at times he over works his characters. In addition, Harris walks a thin line between reality, fact and fiction. Having grown up just outside of Savannah in the late 40s and practicing law there in the early 1970s, I've heard some of his story before. Aside from a few editing and plot problems, the book is ok. However, I'd rather spend my money and time elsewhere.

Reprising characters from his intriguing debut novel, "Delirium of the Brave," Georgia based writer William Harris adds another star to the pantheon of reader pleasing tales set in Savannah.

Savannah....just the name evokes mystery, intrigue, and long buried secrets. Readers will find all and more in "No Enemy But Time," a story spanning World War II years to the present. Imagine Savannah's coastal region: Driftwood Beach, Back River, Uncle Moses's Cabin, Sister Mystery's Cabin and what might have occurred if a spy had been stationed there during the war.

In this finely crafted narrative Francis Collins, a member of the IRA, agrees to spy for the Nazis. Following a rigorous training regime he is transported by submarine to the borders of Savannah with orders to contact a fellow German agent. Their goal? The destruction of a shipyard. When this plan is scuttled and arrests are made, Collins decides to immerse himself in his assumed American identity and disappear.

In later years he becomes a power in the local political and social scene, and a bulwark of support for a young politician.

As chance would have it one day the young politico is out driving when he discovers a downed submarine. The sub is not just a curiosity but the repository of dark puzzles from the past which, if brought to light, could destroy.

Harris is an author who knows his setting and his suspense. He weaves a satisfying Southern spell so surely that readers may wonder, "Is this fact or fiction?"

- Gail Cooke

Anyone who read Delirium of the Brave is no doubt delighted to find that this book is finally available--and every bit as intriguing and engrossing as Dr. Harris' first effort. The characters are intense, the story-telling first rate and the haunting romance of Savannah is brought to life in a way that only a true son of the south can do. Highly recommended.

A good, somewhat objective guide to the history of Atlanta over the last 50 years, the sort of book that describes every mayoral election in detail. More boosterish about Atlanta than I would have been, perhaps because of the timing (i.e. right before the Olympics). Not nearly as much analysis as reporting, and not as much discussion of Atlanta's failures (e.g. why do Atlantans drive 34 miles a day? Why is Atlanta's crime rate after 10 years of decline as high as New York's in the bad old days of the early 90s?). But there are plenty of books on Atlanta that supply a more critical perspective (e.g. Bullard's Sprawl City).

As a native Atlantan who is fully aware of the city's rich history, Frederick Allen's book opned my eyes to the breakneack, full throttle, tight-rope-walking nature of her growth. The book describes in entratining but expert fashion the chain of events that brought Atlanta into the international spotlight so quickly and so successfully. The relationships among Atlanta's decision makers and the backroom deals that shaped the city are fascinating and engaging as put forth by Allen.

This is a great book for anyone interested in Atlanta and how it became what it is at the end of the twentieth century.

Eugenia Price had let me down. I began reading this book, to complete the Savannah quartet, and i can't seem to want to fininsh it. All her other books made me want to never put them down,execpt this one. The politics are to much to bear. I read books of the civil war for the historical time period. Not the politics. Gone with the wind is the perfect example, just enough politics, and more living.

This is my all-time favorite novel by Eugenia Price. A STRANGER IN SAVANNAH should be considered her masterpiece. Although I find the dialogue long-winded, it is an excellent, in-depth account of how the war and its causes nearly drove loving friends and families apart. Especially tragic is Jonathan Browning's embrace of the Southern Cause and how it affected his marriage.

As an avid reader of books centered on the Civil War, I found this book to be an excellent portrayal of the trials and tribulations of a country divided. Eugenia Price not only tells a deep, involved story, but she also presents the facts behind the Civil War from the perspectives of rebels, unionists, and southern union sympathizers. Every perspective is explored in this book. Ms. Price also uses real people in her books which makes them that much more interesting. She writes her story from actual letters that were exchanged by some of the people in the book like General Lee, Mary Custis, W.H. Stiles, and Eliza McQueen Mackay. I would highly recommend this novel to anyone who loves stories of the Old South, The Civil War, or just a good old-fashioned love story. This book will not let you down!

I would give this book three stars because this book is a good book but some parts are too unreal. The ending was okay. I didn't really like the ending because some parts I didn't want to happen, they really surprised me. I didn't like the ending as much as the beginning. It was very confusing. There aren't even really sad parts at all and I like books that have feelings and emotions and are realistic.
The parts that I liked were when the characters meet and their adventures in the Okefenokee Swamp. This is a really cool book. They should make a sequel or a movie or something to see what happens. So good job Jean Craighead George, you have made a very interesting book.

I gave this book 3 stars because it is about how someone can survive on an island without tools. This book is about Jack, who sets out in his homemade canoe for the Okefenokee Swamp. When he lands on an island he finds... read the book to find out what happens.

My brother and I read this book a little while ago and loved it. Unlike My Side of the Mountain, Jack makes mistakes and does things that everybody can do and does. I liked his relationship with animals how he had great knowledge of the swamp.