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Abraham Lincoln: Great American Leader (Young Reader's Christian Library)
Sam Wellman
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Abraham Lincoln led a divided nation back to wholeness--see how God prepared the one man the United States desperately needed in order to survive.
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Wonderful Book.......2007-07-24
this is a true story about a man in history who loved the Lord and was ask to do a task to save many lives. He did what the President of the United States ask for him to do. He should go down in history as a great man. I have this book and I enjoyed the history.
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years/Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl/Prophet in the Wilderness: The Story of Albert Schweitzer/The Great Pierpont Morgan (Reader's Digest Great Biographies)
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Frederick Lewis Allen
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ASIN: B000HCVLB8 |
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- A great book even if the characters last name is PIGBUSH!
- Through the Eyes of a Civil War Orphan..
- anouther review another dollar
- An awesome right out crunk mystery book
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An Acquaintance with Darkness
Ann Rinaldi
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Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South (Great Episodes)
ASIN: 0152021973 |
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Chaos reigns in Washington, D.C., after President Lincoln’s assassination. But for fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush, the Union’s turmoil is nothing compared to her own struggle. Sent to live with her uncle Valentine after her mother’s untimely death, Emily realizes that her best friend’s mother was one of John Wilkes Booth’s accomplices. And even worse, she suspects that her uncle is breaking the law.
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A great book even if the characters last name is PIGBUSH!.......2007-10-05
Okay, we can forgive Mrs.Rinaldi for giving Emily a funny last name because this was an excellant book!! Lincoln's assination, Grave Robbing, Lies and Deception and Hangings!!! And poor Emily in the midst of it all!! I highly recommend this book.
Through the Eyes of a Civil War Orphan.........2006-01-31
Emily Pigbush is an orphan. In the first few chapters of the book, she loses her mother, and her father is long gone from the war.She is left to live with her best friend Annie, the daughter of Mary Surratt.That night, there is a great outcry in the city of Washington, where Emily lives. Mr. Lincoln, the president, has been shot dead. Emily is even more stunned when she hears who had done it-- the man who had been staying with the Surratt's, John Wilkes Booth. The Surratts are thrust into investigation for connection to the murder. Emily is sent to stay with her rich uncle instead, Valentine. She gets along well there, until she uncovers a sinister secret from a woman staying in the house -- her uncle could be a bodysnatcher. She pursues the idea, quietly, until she is confronted at school by a reporter's daughter. Her fears are confirmed when she sees the proof with her own eyes. She loses herself in her own emotions; love for Robert, a man Valentine saved, hate for all of them.
A very good illustration of the Civil War and the unjustly accused.
anouther review another dollar.......2004-05-18
This book was good. I have been reading it for a few days and I have not been able to put it down. It is a bit long though. It is about a girl named Emily whose mother is very sick. Well she finally dies and so the girl goes to live with her uncle eventually where she learns a horrible secret about the man who has always been there for her and has given her a home. Finally, Emily must make a decision that will have a very big impact on her life
An awesome right out crunk mystery book.......2004-05-18
This book was an awesome book by Ann Rinaldi. This story takes place during the time right after Lincoln was assinated. A girl named Emily has a mother who is deadly ill. Her mother knew that she was about to die and she told Emily that she needed to live wih someone. Emily wants to live wiht her aunt in Philidelphia, but her om wants her to live with her good friend next door. Emily's uncle Valintine comes into town to see Emily's mother. Valintine tries to tell Emily that she needs to come live with him. emily's mother doesn't want Emily to go live with him. Emily decides to go visit her uncle. While she is there she meets an old crazy black lady that lives upstairs. She tells Emily that her uncle has a big secert and that Emily needs to help get the old lady out. Emily is told that the big seceret is in her uncle's shed where NO ONE is allowed. To find out the secert you have to read this awesome book!!!
One of Rinaldi's Best.......2004-01-07
I love all of Ann Rinaldi's books, but this is surely one of my favorite. It has a very interesting plot that moves along at a good pace, and many characters that bring a lot to the story. The main character, Emily, sees things in an interesting and informative perspective, as many of Rinaldi's narrators do. Due to her circumstances, she is living with her Uncle Valentine and learning for herself what all his medical practice consists of. She is witnessing what happened to Washington upon Lincoln's assasination, and she conveys this all to the reader very well. Rinaldi works in a love story, making Emily's interest one of the main characters, as she normally does, without taking away the true meaning and grit of the story, as many other authors do. The book also has a lot of action and a lot of facts. Though I don't normally read historical fiction, Ann Rinaldi writes so well that she has become my favorite author. I would recommend this along with all of her other books to anyone who asked.
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The story of Abraham Lincoln for young readers (The Werner biographical booklets)
James Baldwin
Manufacturer: Werner School Book Co
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ASIN: B00088BEO0 |
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Couldn't Put It Down!.......2006-03-14
This book was so riviting that I read it from cover to cover in four hours straight. I am a mother of a four year old high-functioning autistic boy. With the miriad of treatments now available I sometimes feel lost in my search to help my son. Reading Sound of a Miracle and other books told by mothers of autistic children and their struggles has helped educate me on what treatment options are available and where to focus my tedious research efforts. The author makes it clear that AIT does not produce miraculous results in every child, however, it did for her daughter and that's a story worth being told and read!
Miracles Resound!.......2003-06-25
Georgiana (Georgie) was born on May 24, 1965. She made all developmental milestones within normal limits as did her older sister, Dotsy. Speech was the only major milestone that Georgie did not make during her early years. She was nonverbal until she was 4.
Georgie's mother had many overwhelming issues - a divorce when the girls were quite small; Georgie's aversion for any sound, music included and Dotsy's being diagnosed with leukemia at age 4.
Annabelle naturally has Georgie tested and sent to early intervention programs. The only place where Georgie appeared to have thrived was at Bellevue Hospital because, as Georgie explained years later, "it was quiet there." Dotsy's health plummets and she dies at the age of 8 in 1971. Georgie, then 6, was sent to a residential facility identified as "Childville."
Childville sounds like a genuine Chamber of Horrors. Georgie complains about the noise and staff dismiss her complaints. She is overmedicated and complains about how the medicines make her feel. She becomes hostile and displays aggression because she cannot tolerate noise. A social worker who sounded cruel and incompetent from the telling, identified as "Judith" seems determined to block and undermine any and all progress on Georgie's part. When Georgie shows an unusual balancing ability and begs for a skateboard, Judith refuses, telling Georgie's mother that Georgie is "overcompensating a fear." Fortunately Georgie gets her skateboard and is quite proficient on it.
Georgie is fortunate enough to have summers free of that institutional wasteland. Luckily for all, Annabelle marries Peter, a gentle, loving man. That union produces a brother and later a sister for Georgie. Peter has grown daughters from a previous marriage and it is in this loving, blended, extended family that Georgie blossoms.
Annabelle decides that Childville is just not the answer and withdraws Georgie in 1976. Peter had accepted a job in Switzerland, and naturally Georgie wanted to join her family. Childville staff threaten to keep Georgie by refusing to release her (how could this legally be done). Judith invokes just about every Freudian cliche possible to block Georgie's withdrawal from Childville. Fortunately, Peter and Annabelle withdraw Georgie and move to Switzerland. The medications are discontinued and for the next several years Georgie flourishes in Switzerland. She learns to ski, is mainstreamed and explains that her aversion for sound is due to having a heightened auditory sense. Luckily, she has been treated by several very humane doctors specially trained in Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT) and this treatment is continued during her years abroad. One can't help but cheer when Georgie dances in the rain, explaining that the rain "doesn't sound like a machine gun anymore." Georgie said AIT literally saved her life.
After several years abroad, the family returns to the United States. Georgie's records "mysteriously vanish" because the cruise ship she was on met with a disaster and several cartons had to be discarded. The disaster turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Free of previous baggage, Georgie attends a public school in Connecticut. She graduates as class valedictorian in 1984 and is currently happily married. She is now fluent in 6 languages including Arabic; is a gifted artist and very spiritual. Georgie is also an author. She has chronicled her life story in "Overcoming Autism," in which she promises readers that upon reading her book they will have a very clear understanding of what it means to have autism. The book is currently available on her web site, but it is worth reading. It is a book you will cherish.
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Sleight of Hand. Its what's between the lines that's most interesting........2005-10-02
Annabel Stehli is a good writer here but there is certainly an emotive urgency to this mother's search for a cure for her daughter's autism that does tend to get a bit close to melodrama at times. The story of Georgie is told in a way that is an easy read and a good read. The characters are likeable and Georgie has certainly gone on to achieve good things, there is no doubt. But this book is certainly fixated on the 'magic bullet' theme, as though autism is one thing with one answer. Fact is, its not. Whilst AIT went on to help some people (and Lucy Blackman's wonderful account in her own remarkable autobiography is a wonderful example of that), it dramatically failed to help others and there were also accounts of those who felt it made things worse. Unlike Lucy,who also went through AIT in her teenage years, Georgie went on to be able to function as a highly able person with Autism. Lucy, who there is no doubt is as intelligent as Georgie and has a university degree to prove it, remains functionally non-verbal and overtly autistic but copes better since AIT. It is a great comparison that puts the whole AIT treatment in perspective. In some ways Lucy could be argued to be more able than Georgie, having written her own autobiography in spite of being functionally non-verbal where, here in The Sound Of A Miracle, it is not Georgie's voice we hear but that of her mother. There are many people with autism who dramatically improve in late childhood or their teens and what is overlooked in The Sound Of A Miracle is that, like Donna Williams, Georgie had just coped with the death of a close relative, was under threat of institutionalisation and living in a situation where the household was in a great state of unpredictability. It is always possible that some of what spurred Georgie on to improve so dramatically in her teens was a combination of motivations and not just the miracle treatment of AIT we are invited, instead, to focus on. In this sense, the book is actually richer if we read between the lines. Certainly ridding a child of any sensory hypersensitivity will aid them in focusing and remaining focused on the outside world. Nevertheless, for many this is not enough and it takes other motivations to put the power behind those changes to produce results. We should sometimes ask ourselves whether part of what makes someone motivated and driven to be outwardly focused is the fear of being discarded and left behind. This is a tantalising question that this book really begs us to ask whilst trying to convince us of the conclusion it wants us to have.
Interesting book, until the end........2004-10-28
Fortunately I managed to get past the first chapter of "Sound of a Miracle", where author Annabel Stehli says "I became more and more determined to find a way to become 'just a housewife' and do it justice. I found myself envying uneducated, bovine women who took it all in stride and gloried in seeing their faces reflected in their clean, shining plates." Yuck. I can't believe Stehli wrote something so insulting and ignorant, but the book did get better.
The book's main focus is on Stehli's relationships with her two daughters, one of whom is autistic and one of whom has leukemia, and her attempts to get effective treatments for both of them. I found past attitudes toward autism to be both shocking and interesting. At one point, Stehli is grocery shopping, reaches into her somewhat messy tote bag for her wallet, and is told by someone she hardly knows, "How do you expect Georgie to be able to organize herself when you're in such a mess?" Sadly, such comments seemed to be typical.
The first half (or perhaps a bit more) of the book is undoubtedly the most interesting part, and I practically flew through the pages. Stehli's grief, depression, guilt, and society's (and the medical establishment's) attitudes made for a fascinating read.
Eventually Stehli's autistic daughter Georgie undergoes auditory therapy in Europe, and at this point, the book became a proud mother's love letter to her daughter. Apparently after Georgie's treatment, she never has another problem again, masters everything she attempts immediately, and is the smartest, most beautiful girl in the world. OK, I can understand Stehli's pride in her daughter's accomplishments, but I still kept wondering...surely Georgie's life couldn't have been that perfect.
The miracle never materialized.......2004-10-20
Having just finished reading From Tragedy to Triumph where Dr. Loovas persuaded the author to tell her story, I find similarities with The Sound of a Miracle with Dr. Bernard Rimland coaxing this author, Annabel Stehli to share her story. While reading these two books any parent with a child on the autism spectrum will be shocked to learn what the parents ahead of us endured via professionals and the media based on their incorrect perception of autism.
What I do not agree with is the promotional aspect of these books, suggesting autism can be cured and these kids have overcome the disability. The Sound of a Miracle is touted as a tribute to a mother's courage, yet after reading the same book, I feel that the mother failed the daughter and did not gain the proper insight into her autistic daughter Georgie.
There are two parts to The Sound of a Miracle, with auditory training not being discussed for the first half of the book. Not wanting to criticize the author too harshly I feel the book delved more into her older daughter Dotsie, who passed away from Leukemia, the Mother's two marriages and her own addictions and religious beliefs. This could have easily been written into two or three books covering each topic in depth.
There was a gap of many years from when Georgie graduated from college and the author wrote the book. Maybe by that time she could see more clearly how Georgie needed help right from the beginning. It was obvious that the author was not confident in her parenting skills and questioned herself throughout the process of raising children. The author had a hard time cuddling and receiving eye contact from the time Georgie was born in 1965, plus she knew there was something odd about her eyes, and she had a low apgar score. There always seemed to be turmoil at their apartment in New York. Her husband Bill was not very involved in the parenting aspects of the girls. Early in the story Annabel took the girls away for a few weeks one summer for a vacation. During this time Bill had an affair with her best friend and things went downhill drastically.
Bill was not mentioned too often after that, and only briefly when Dotsie died and then when Annabel wanted to take Georgie to France. The Sound of a Miracle was upsetting to me because after Dotsie passed away Georgie was institutionalized for many years. This started as a trial since there was no alternative for Georgie. Annabel was intimidated by the staff at the institution and believed them when they stated her lack in parenting was to blame. At one point she was drinking and taking many prescriptions, ended up being committed herself. I found that period of time to be confusing because her mother and siblings were only involved intermittently. For a moment there I did not want to finish perusing this because I was not sure which direction The Sound of a Miracle was headed and found the passing of Dotsie very sad.
How a parent at that time never heard of Dr. Bernard Rimland is beyond me. It certainly seemed to me that the author would not act on her own parental instincts and needed reassurance for every move and then it even took others to persuade her to remove Georgie from the institution and try the auditory training by Dr. Berard. While Georgie was at the institution her Mother met and married Peter and had two more children.
The author actually pondered several times leaving Georgie at the institution and starting her own life with her new husband and children. She was not as devoted to her daughter as she wanted to have a normal child in her new son and not risk her daughter coming home and possibly hurting her baby.
As the parent to two children with autism I did learn a great deal about the auditory aspects, but this was due to Georgie sharing her personal experience and not anything the author shared as the parent. All those years Georgie just assumed everyone saw and heard things the way she did, but she was crazy for not being able to handle these issues in the same manner.
On one hand I was truly disappointed in the first section of the book after reading the suffering Georgie had to endure due to no one researching further her issues. I was questioning the author remarrying and starting another family when I felt she had abandoned and failed her daughter. The most shocking part within the book was when the institution contacted her ex husband, Bill to try to persuade him to keep her from taking Georgie out of the country. Bill had some relative look into the Dr in Switzerland and agreed with Annabel that this was worth trying. Had it turned out otherwise I would have been very upset and feel the professionals should have been punished for their wrong doing and interference with her life.
I do prefer books that have a positive outlook on autism and not those that base the outcome on a miracle. Although this is one of those in some aspect, it was still a worthwhile read to know firsthand what the journey has been like for others. But my children are autistic and from what I gather always will be since I am not looking for a cure, but do hope to actually hear the sound of my child's voice one of these days.
As a reader I cared about Dotsie and Georgie and was heartbroken over the death of one and the lost childhood of the other. I came away learning more from the trials and tribulations of this family and know what to avoid when pursuing therapies and searching for schools for my children for future reference.
I felt connected with the author!.......2001-12-06
When you are the parent of a child with Autism, it's difficult to make people understand what is going on with that child. Friends and family, although well meaning, just can't possibly understand the big picture! Reading her book was like having my own private support group. As I read of her self-doubt as a parent and later realizing that her parenting had nothing to do with Georgie's issues, I cheered for her. I thought "Yes, I'm not the only one who has felt this way"!
The sections focusing on Georgie's successful treatment with AIT also gave me some hope for the future with my own child, as her symptoms are eerily similar to Georgie's.
A "must read" for parents and caregivers!
DIAGNOSIS--UNATTACHED MOTHER.......2000-10-28
I am a mother of a three year old boy with the spectrum disorder of autism. I could not wait to read this book because of the "miracle" title. Halfway through, I realized the mother was the one with major issues. Ms. Steils position was a difficult one having one daughter with leukemia and the other with autism. I was extremely dissapointed to see how long it took her to bond with Georgie. She was institutionalised and labled and slipped through the loops so to say as her mom fought for her sanity. In this broken and torn apart family it's a wonder to even say Georgie could have been saved sooner if more time and effort were given to her. Very sad and depressing tale of a mother who never had a clue as to what her daughter needed the most --her.
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Title: The best music is closer than it appears.(LL CULTURE: Books * CD's * Movies)(The Jazz Chamber Trio)(Live Is a Miracle in Buenos Aires)(Rising Force)(Sound Recording Review)
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