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The only trail guide covering popular Redwood National Park, many fine state and county parks and the remote, famous King Range/Lost Coast. Fully updated descriptions of more than 600 miles of trails. Includes 1999 updates.
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Great book and great hikes!.......2003-10-15
Took this book on vacation to Klamath, CA and points south in Humboldt County and found it indispensable. It is incredibly easy to use which is most evident when you are actually out on the trail. And its size makes it truly pocket-worthy for every hiker at every level.
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Lost Lake CD
Phillip Margolin
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Vanessa Kohler wakes from a sound sleep in a California lakeside mansion to find her host, a young Congressman, near death--he's been tortured, his safe is wide open--and the man who seems to have attacked him, is about to flee the house, is Carl Price, someone she once loved. Missing are the documents that prove Vanessa's father, the General, runs a covert military unit of assassins who answer only to him. Once the General arrives on the scene and hustles her off to a mental hospital where she's held for more than a year, her charges are dismissed as the rantings of a crazy woman. A decade later Carl Price reappears, caught in an incident at a Little League game in Oregon that briefly makes the national news and thus brings him to Vanessa's notice again. But by now she's a tabloid reporter, so even those who don't know about her stint in the asylum won't take her charges against the General seriously. And Carl Price may have killed the Congressman, but he's the only person who can prove that the Unit exists; if Vanessa doesn't get him before the General has him killed, he'll never be able to corroborrate her story, and the General may well be elected President.
Vanessa's a more interesting, if less likeable and engaging heroine than Ami, the woman lawyer who tries to help the man she knows as Dan Morelli, a.k.a. Carl Price, who makes beautiful furniture, lives comfortably in the apartment over her garage, and is a surrogate father to her young son. But the official records of Carl Price reveal a whole other side of her friend and client, and when the psychiatrist to whom Dan has also revealed his alter identity and the General's secret is tortured and killed in the same way the Congressman was, she's not certain whom to believe. The complicated plot is a little over the top, but Margolin drives his thriller to its bloody denouement with the same fast pace and velocity that will probably drive it to the bestseller list, just like his previous books. --Jane Adams
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It's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon. Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's little league game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. When the assistant coach calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out.But then one player roughly blocks another and a fight erupts. Before the game ends, Ami witnesses violence that shocks and horrifies her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli.
On the other side of the continent, ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler, a reporter for Exposed, a tabloid that specializes in alien abduction stories, watches a piece on television about the little league massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI. For years she's been telling anyone who will listen about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit headed by General Morris Wingate, a presidential candidate, and for years everyone has dismissed her stories. But when Vanessa sees Dan Morelli fighting, she believes she's found the key to proving that her theories are true.
Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, who is charged with attempted murder, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient, and Morelli, a confessed mass murder, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and politicians? Or are their charges the products of two sick minds? Ami has to decide who and what to believe in
Phillip Margolin's most exciting and surprising thriller since his breakout bestseller
Gone, But Not Forgotten.
Performed by Kristine Sutherland
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New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin returns with an explosive thriller about how a young tabloid reporter's "paranoid" theories just might be true. Vanessa Kohler is a tabloid reporter living and working in Washington DC. She writes fantastic stories about a vast government conspiracy to cover up a secret military unit headed by General Wingate, a popular presidential candidate. Most dismiss her as a paranoid crackpot using sensationalism to sell papers. But a few powerful men know better, and they've gone to great lengths to discredit her. But by chance Vanessa discovers that a key player in this story - long assumed dead - may be living under a new identity. Vietnam vet Carl Rice, who was involved in a secret military operation that resulted in the murder of a congressman. Vanessa knows Rice holds the key to proving her theories - and demonstrating General Wingate may not be the man he appears to be.
It's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon.Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's Little League game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. When the assistant coach calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out. But then one player roughly blocks another, and a fight erupts. Before the game ends, Ami witnesses violence that shocks and horrifies her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli.
On the other side of the continent, in a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler, a reporter for
Exposed, a tabloid that specializes in alien-abduction stories, watches a piece on television about the Little League massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI. For years she's been telling anyone who will listen about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit headed by Gen. Morris Wingate, a presidential candidate, and for years every-one has dismissed her stories. But when Vanessa sees Dan Morelli fighting, she believes she's found the key to proving that her theories are true.
Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, who is charged with attempted murder, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient, and Morelli, a confessed mass murderer, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and politicians? Or are their charges a product of two sick minds? Ami has to decide who -- and what -- to believe, in Phillip Margolin's most exciting and surprising thriller since his breakout bestseller,
Gone, But Not Forgotten.
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Very good!!.......2007-07-13
I've read better, but this was a nice change of pace from what I was reading at the time. It was different and entertaining, and well written. Good character development.
Kind Of A Bore.......2007-03-23
I give this one 3 stars because I thought the overall story was a good idea. However, Mr. Margolin may want to leave the tales of espionage to Nelson Demille in the future.
It seemed like everytime you turned the page, one characther was telling another character about what was going on and re-telling the entire plot. When I finished it was like I had read it four or five times. If you want a real espionage novel, try Nelson Demille, he's the best that there is.
mmm I just could not put the book down.......2006-11-03
I am not a critical book reader, I read for entertainment, so I don't judge a book if it is realistic or not, it fast paced and exciting.
Disappointing .......2006-10-18
Phillip Margolin is one of my favorite authors, but when I read this book I was sad to think he has lost his desire to write a fantastic story. This one was so slow and predictable. It was an effort to finish it. Very disappointing.
borderline 4 stars.......2006-09-24
This review pertains to the audio book reading of Lost Lake which I enjoyed pretty well. I think the audio book reading can help make a borderline satisfying novel like this one a little better than if I had read it with my eyes. Still if a writer hasn't written a good story, no audio or video can make it better IMO.
For me, the strained but loyal relationship between the soldier Carl Rice and General Wingate's daughter Vanessa Kohler, kept the suspense humming along. Would they survive? Would they unravel the evil General Wingate who was running for President? Would anyone ever believe the general was a murderer like his daughter believed?
I felt this novel could've ended in a more interesting way, but I'll give it a 4 star recommendation for storytelling.
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Among the rolling hills and serene waters of Wisconsin lies a sunken mystery and proof of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization lost in time. Joseph explores the hidden mysteries of an advanced society that once thrived a thousand years before Columbus. Follow his fascinating endeavors to unearth the story of this once-great civilization and its ties to Atlantis.
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Inaccurate, unsophisticated, hyperbolic, and fun.......2006-05-15
This is the story of the discovery, loss, and subsequent rediscovery of a series of prehistoric underwater stone structures in a Wisconsin Lake. By his own admission the author took time from writing a book about Atlantis in order to write this one, and the tales he spins and conclusions he draws here are every bit as fanciful, although the writing is, on the surface, so dispassionate that you wouldn't suspect such. Still, the history of the pyramids is exciting and interesting, and his subsequent international sleuthing to find the ultimate source of this strange civilization is also great fun, although highly dubious both from the standpoint of archaeology and history. But who cares? We had fun reading Eric Van Daniken and did learn a lot from him, even if we don't want to admit it. The smooth writing pulls you along on this adventure, so enjoy the ride. Just approach it all - even the details - with skepticism.
A novel masquerading as an archaeological work.......1999-03-06
Joseph's book is interesting, but only as a piece of fantasy. His jumps in logic are enormous and difficult to believe as a serious work of science. Certainly, there are more intelligent and reasonable explanations for pyramids in Rock Lake, that could be answered by scientific investigation. Linking civilizations of the New World with the Canary Islands and Egypt are yet another attempt to trivialize the important and complex communities that have existed in North America for centuries. This book definately has entertainment value, but that is all it has to offer and should not be taken for more.
Inspires Curiosity in a City Ten Fathoms Deep.......1999-02-24
Ancient Civilizations are a mystery almost as deep as the mystery of what tomorrow will bring, and almost as deep as Rock Lake. In this narrative the Author takes you scuba diving in search of ruins in the heart of America. From pyramid builders to Ancient Mariners hoarding copper, this book answers many questions but leaves the reader dangling by the thin thread that ties us to an unknown past.
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- A boy and his father search together for the Lost Lake
- Found Treasure
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Luke and his father, who is disgusted by the tourists surrounding the once secluded lake of his childhood, hike deeper into the wilderness to find a "lost lake" of their own.
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A boy and his father search together for the Lost Lake.......2004-04-07
There is a lot happening in the periphery of "The Lost Lake," which is written and illustrated by Allen Say. A young boy comes to live with his dad in the city one summer. We assume that the boy's parents are divorced and that he is an only child, and we might even make assumptions as to what state or country is the setting for the story, but those are really mere guesses. What we do know is that the father in this story works in his room from morning to night and often on weekends. Not much of a talker in the first place, the boy's father does not talk at all when he gets busy. The boy says little either, spending all his time reading all of the books he brought and getting tired of watching television. Then one morning the boy starts cutting out pictures from old magazines, taking pictures of mountains and lakes, where people are fishing and canoeing, and pinning them up in his room. His father notices the display and when the young boy worries that he has marked up the wall, his father only comments that he was going to repaint the room anyway. But, again, there is more going on here than meets the eye.
On Saturday morning the dad wakes up the boy early in the morning and announces that they are going camping. With new hiking boots, a big backpack, and a knapsack, they head off on a long drive. The father announces that they are going to the Lost Lake, a special place that he went with his own father many years ago. For a whole week they are going to sleep outside and catch their own fish to eat. However, when they get to the lake they discover it is now the "Found" Lake because there are dozens of people camping, fishing, swimming, and doing other fun things. The little boy does not mind camping there with all those people around them, but the father does and they continue their quest for a new Lost Lake.
Of course finding the Lost Lake is but a metaphor for a parent and child who are seeking a way to reconnect. It is hard not to see the allegorical dimensions of Say's tale, especially for those of us who could not survive a single night sleeping under the stars let alone an entire week. The chief charm for Say's story and his watercolor illustrations is that he shows us rather than tells us this tale, and the silence that comes the end makes us realize how much things have changed from the silence that opened the story. Ultimately, this is a story not so much for children in such situations, but rather for their parents.
Found Treasure.......2001-08-12
As a fan of Say's book "Grandfather's Journey", I am surprised that it took me so long to dip into Say's other wonderful books! "The Lost Lake" is a heartwarming tale of a father/son camping trip. Along the way the pair discover new things, both in nature and in one another. Say's well written story makes each of the son's emotions distinct and identifiable to readers of all ages: boredom, anticipation, excitement, disappointment, exhaustion and contentment. This book is an excellent read for children in the third grade and older. I plan to read it aloud to my fourth grade students to start an expedition-style math unit. I am certain it will become a popular book on our classroom book shelf!
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"Some say the soul tempered by fire--tortured true--is the better for the trial. Perhaps it is so. But I was born between the wars," writes the narrator of this collection's opening story, "The Shape of Water." "My adventures were of the survivable kind, my tragedies ambiguous and undramatic, observed as much as felt. What formed me were anecdotes--often inconclusive, generally unheroic--connected to a particular forty acres of water. An unexceptional place. I did not choose it. And yet, if I could ever open myself, I suspect I'd find its coves there, its sleeping silt, its placental water smooth with algae ... and the faces of those I'd known revealed as clearly as if mine had been that lake of legend said to reflect the human heart."
It's an extraordinary image, and one that aptly sums up the project of this dazzling debut collection. Throughout Lost Lake, Slouka invests everyday events with an almost numinous glow. Catching fish; cleaning them; practicing knots; telling stories: these actions are windows opening onto unimaginable darkness--soldiers hanged along an avenue of cherry trees, decapitated snapping turtles crawling past their own heads, a dead baby wrapped in "the warm cave" of a coat. Ostensibly, these stories take place among a small Czech community settled on the shores of New York's Lost Lake, but they ripple outward to encompass the world. No exalted feat of nature, Lost Lake is a landscape both humble and utterly human, as we discover in "Creation," in which a dreamy farmer looks out over a cow pasture and pictures the fishing hole he will make. Nonetheless, it's still privy to the most elemental of dramas, from death ("Equinox") to adulterous love ("The Exile"). The short story is a miniaturist's art, and its success depends on a writer's ability to compress everything most essential about life--memory, guilt, sorrow, love, fishing--to fit within its brief pages. Slouka is a master. Reading Lost Lake elicits the same wonder as holding water up to a microscope for the first time: there it is, life, teeming, abundant, and true. --Mary Park
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In twelve beautifully imagined stories linked by character and setting, Mark Slouka chronicles three generations of men and women under the spell of a landscape with a powerful history.
Set in a tiny Czech community on the shore’s of upstate New York’s Lost Lake, these elegiac stories explore both the quiet, complicated glory of the natural world and the mysterious motions of the human spirit. In “Genesis,” an inspired young war veteran envisions his legacy in a modest pasture. In “The Shape of Water,” a boy’s recollection of a momentous catch occasions a later reflection on the power of invented truths. In “The Exile,” a young woman struggles unsuccessfully against an adulterous passion. Through them all, Lost Lake emerges as a place of both epic significance and enduring simplicity, prompting memories both challenging and bittersweet.
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yes beautiful.......2007-03-07
Not much to add to the reviews below, aside from the fact that I agree with them completely.
Slouka's writing approaches poetry in its effect. Beautiful.
Perceptive & Poetic.......2005-01-22
Mr. Slouka is a fine writer. His words are beautifully strung together, his vision of the world elevates the mundane into poetry. For this reader, such writing is much like a fancy cake or bonbon ~ the gorgeous product of excellent talent and grand effort. Best read in small, savored bits. Recommended.
A superb collection of short stories........1999-03-07
This book brought me more reading enjoyment than any I have read in a number of years. Slouka has a talent which only some short story writers possess--the ability to pull you into the narrative with the first sentence or two. The character insights are first-rate and each story is a polished jewel.
A great read!
Beautifully written.......1998-09-08
This collection of essays and short stories is poignant. My eyes frequently teared over. It is rare, I think, to find lovely, melancholy tales that question love and sense of place and are written in a male voice from a male perspective. "Lost Lake", due to the finely crafted writing and the emotional chords it struck, has now been placed in a section of a bookcase where I safely guard two dozen books that are very important to me. Highly recommended for all readers, but particularly for men who see the world with a sensitive perspective, and who search to provide themselves with an emotional sense of time and place.
Beautiful storytelling.......1998-05-01
I was disappointed at first to see that these stories are loosely bound to a 'theme': one locale ("forty acres of water") one family (started in Czechoslavakia, emigrated to NY), and some ... fishing. I needn't have worried, because there is a world of experience and observation in these, along with masterful, thrifty use of language, attention to detail - and much love, yearning, and compassion. The voice is constant and consistent; the stories are told meticulously and with great clarity. "The Woodcarver's Tale," centered on the narrator's father, is heartbreaking. In "Equinox" Slouka combines the mundane and the tragic - seamlessly. A very satisfying collection of stories.
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Long before the Vikings landed on the North American continent, there was an ancient civilization in Wisconsin. Joseph writes a compelling archaeological history about this lost Bronze Age culture found beneath the depths of Rock Lake a culture the evidence suggests had a lively copper trade with the lost continent of Atlantis! An exciting voyage into our pre-Columbian heritage.
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Enhanced with copious notes.......2002-12-06
Atlantis In Wisconsin by Frank Joseph is thoughtful and iconoclastic blend of metaphysics and archaeology, contemplating the possible former existence of the Atlantean civilization and a direct association with the area now known as the state of Wisconsin. From hints of Atlantean legend found in Native American folklore, to the mineralogical and archaeological mysteries hidden in Wisconsin's earth, Atlantis in Wisconsin offers an engaging and challenging hypothesis. Of particular note is a chronology described in a three page appendices called "A Rock Lake Time Line". Enhanced with copious notes, Atlantis In Wisconsin is provocative and thoroughly engaging reading. Also very highly recommended is Frank Joseph's earlier work iconoclastic work, Lost Pyramids Of Rock Lake: Wisconsin's Sunken Civilization.
Real Evidence.......2000-08-15
If you don't believe the real evidence presented in this book, then you don't have a logical and accepting mind.
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The Snow Dogs of Lost Lake
Dorothy Bodoin
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When an ice storm forces English teacher Jennet Greenway off her usual route home from school, she finds herself involved in murder and the mysteries that surround the strange, off-the-beaten-path antique shop, Past Perfect.
As she prepares for a holiday visit from her sister and the Southern relatives of her fiancé, Deputy Sheriff Crane Ferguson, the mysteries pile up with the snow. A haunted painting, a puzzling apparition, a creature that prowls through the woods of Foxglove Corners, and a second murder. Before long, Jennet finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which there is no apparent escape.
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Great Book.......2000-08-14
My six year old daughter loved this book. When we reached the end of one nights alotment of pages for a bedtime story, she took the book and read the next chapter to find out what would happen next.
Good.......2000-04-20
This book was a basic Wishbone Mysteries book. ALthough the plot was great, the characters were not very well described. The diary entries of Steve Talbot were very creative, and although it could be improved, it was a very nice piece of writing.
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Was there a Genesis "Code"? What Original Sin was so terrible requiring Jesus to die? Find out! The Genesis Pursuit - The Lost History of Jesus Christ by Stephen John Spencer.
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Controversial and Insightful.......2007-06-15
As the author, I should share what this book contains in a further review here. Written as one who left an organization called "The Way International", I have written a book, perhaps one of THE books debating much of their doctrine and recommend it to those who are considering joining or who have left. The book begins by trying to find the REAL reason behind the Fall of Man, take on the extreme-reaching theory of the "Seed of the Serpent" in which some believe the devil can also make people "born again" of himself, and discuss the Unforgivable Sin. It continues to debate why I believe born-again Christians cannot be possessed by the devil or demons, discusses the Foreknowledge of God, time travel, and debates the name of Lucifer being attached to the devil, and reasons why the Lucifer in the Bible is actually referring to something else. The book continues to explain what the "Lake of Fire" really is historically and debates why Hell is different from our own perceived ideas and theology. The Wise Men are discussed and explained how they came to know the "star" of Jesus Christ. The term "cherubim" is explained and ancient ways of looking at the heavens and how they pertained to scripture are revealed. So-called biblical "contradictions" are explained in the records of those crucified with Christ, where and when Peter did his denials and the time of those denials, and discusses the Woman Caught in Adultery and why it is out of context in John, yet really is a true story. Finally, the Da Vinci Code is debated and the term "Lamb of the First Year" is explained, which puts the Da Vinci Code to nothing other than fiction. With scriptural and subject indexes to aid in your search for subject and verse material, you may use the Reference Index for a quality search for excellent material.
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