Columbus Day Books

This is a comprehensive book detailing the most exciting games in Ohio State history! The pictures are amazing and listening to the CD makes you feel like you were there! This is a must have for any Buckeye fan.

"The Grand Design offers the reader the wonderful story of the Lord's involvement in the discovery of America and the creation of our constitutional republic as a prelude to the restoration of the gospel. This book is exciting, inspiring, and reassuring and is must reading for those who want "the rest of the story" of our American history." - Ronald M. Mann, deputy executive director of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution

--- from book's back cover

I've used this book in my courses and it's a natural for new PC users. The areas on the Internet are very good, as is the coverage on printing and managing applications.

The part that I like the best is when they wreck the ships. That was funny! But the funniest part is when everybody looks awful and throws up. It is good and I like it the best. I wish I could read it again.

Mr. Scary's first grade class is about to put on a play about Christpher Columbus, and Junie B. Jones wants to be the big star. With all her usual misunderstandings of life and language, Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked will take young readers on a voyage filled with laughs and learning.

Barbara Park has some amazing insight into the thinking of a child, and her target audience loves her for it!

Well done.

I teach first grade so Junie B. is a fan of all of us. I just finished reading Shipwrecked, the newest Junie B. book in the series. This series continues to be entertaining for both my students and myself. The author does an outstanding job of placing everyday children's issues in an exciting way. These books have made my students realize the importance of helping each other and thinking of others needs before their own. In Shipwrecked it covers the topics of germs, sharing, and teamwork in a way that everyone can enjoy and learn from. I will continue to read Junie B for years to come and enjoy reading the new books as they are published.

This book is about Junie B. Jones and a play. Junie is a ship in the play. The play was about Christopher Columbus and Junie says he didn't discover America. Read the rest of the book to find out what happens!

I think that junie B. Jones realy made it sound like she was going to be the star of the play! But then everything turned around,when her part was picked she thought she got a dumb old boat. And then William sneezed in the middle of the show. It was confusing because too many things were going on!

It's interesting to me that two pro-killer reviews have popped up on the page . . . Leslie MSU is confused. He was indeed convicted of first degree murder. Not once, but twice convicted. Two trials.

If I were to update the book, many would be surprised at what I have learned since it was published. Former jurors, and friends close to the murder victim disclosed facts unknown previously. Was he guilty? Was he stalking her? Yes.

Ann Williams

I read this book as a sophomore in high school for a school project, and even then found it to be elementary in writing and in editing. I've lived most of my life about 30 minutes away from where this took place (although I was born way after the murder itself took place) and the only reason I found the book to be of any interest was because it talked about places and people that I could relate to...it wasn't in some town in New Mexico or Vermont that I had no idea about.
It's an interesting book if you are a crime buff who wants to hear about the mystery, but the person she basically plays juror and exocutioner for was never convicted - although thats not saying that he didn't do it. As a lawyer you would think she would not be quite so biased against him.
Read it if you'd like, but as I said, even as a fifteen year old I found it to be written on an elementary level.

This is such a well written, first rate tale of a crime committed in sleepy Mississippi in 1960 that, for me, it evoked Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird. Thus having the tone set early on, it held my attention throughout--including reading all of the trial proceedings, which I usually do not do because they are so tiring and tedious. As an aside, this is one of the most entrancing jacket covers I have ever seen! The picture is of the victim, a young housewife, mother of four, trying her best in the 50's to be a good mother and wife, completely innocent of any wrong doing; hence the crime committed against her is as horrible as any crime can be! It is too bad this is published by a small publisher and not more widely available! I am hoping Ann Williams has written more non-fiction books.

I loved "In the Cold Light of Day"! Although the author told us who the likely killer was in the first few pages, the suspense of the story kept me glued throughout the book. You worried about the accused getting away with it and the brave witness getting done in along with any number of possible twists and turns due to the uncertainty of the justice system at that time and in that location. It is chilling that this is a true story. This book haunted me for days....a mark of a really good story.

Most of the initial good reviews of this book were probably done by people who knew the author either in California or in Mississippi because the writing is substandard, especially for this genre. It is one of the worst books I've read. The incorrect French of the publisher leads me to think it was self-published.

Christopher Columbus is revered more in the United States than probably any other place in the Western Hemisphere. This is because he is perceived as the embodiment of American values, rugged individualism, courage, initiative persistance and ingenuity. Yet, in reality, he was a much more complex figure and his legacy is checkered, although his courage, intelligence and seamanship are in no doubt, even by those who do not view the consequences of his discovery of American in a positive light.
Columbus did not set out to discover "the New World", but was seeking an alternate route to the Far East. His stumbling upon the new lands of the Western Hemisphere was an completely unintended result of his "Enterprise of the Indies" and was never comprehended by him. A greater irony is that the Catholic Columbus sailing for Catholic Spain is most revered in the mostly English-speaking Protestant United States, a country that he never set foot in, didn't believe existed and was named for somebody else (Amerigo Vespucci).
In spite of all this, I believe that young Americans should be aware of the origins of their country and culture and studying Columbus, the man who made possibly the biggest revolution in human history, is the best place to start.