Katherine Willis Books

A must for researchers in quaternary geology, physical geography, and the like. Compiled by British geoscientists who like to throw an occasional a in front of the letter e (see title), but we can forgive them for this. Extensive bibliographies provided for most entries...for a change. If you're an earth scientist or student in need of the right words to describe 'the end of the world as we know it', then this one is your best bet.

I have never read anything about our troops in India in WW II. This is a fascinating book for anyone to read. Imagine a time without email (only V mail), cell phones and images of the war on the news every night. Imagine writing more than 522 letters to your soldier in response to his letters home! Imagine a whole country united against a common enemy and ready to do without so the war effort could be successful. What it must have been like to be stationed in India in 1944! A totally foreign world. I loved the book and can't wait to see the movie.

"Dreaming A Life" is insightful, intelligent, and very enjoyable reading! I highly recommend this book to everyone and especially those readers who are willing to take a chance on a new perspective on life.

There is way too little fictional writing about characters with disabilities. Particularly disabilities likely to scare the public the was cerebral palsy does.

Our image and perception of people with disabilities is tragically formed by spectacles such as Jerry Lewis' telethon, pity, charity, helplessness, calamity.

But Katherine Cargill-Willis has done the remarkable by spinning an engaging and believable tale of family, mystery and suspense and done it all with a hero who is a person with cerebral palsy.

In addition to a good story well told, this book makes a valuable contribution by exposing the reader to a multidimensional heroine with a disability. Could it be that people with disabilities are just like the rest of us? Talent, flaws, pettiness, heroism, jealousy, cravings and all the rest?

Read it and see. This is a great read for a trip or the beach and packs the added benefit of some truth telling about what it means to be a human being.

I bought this used, thinking it was first in a series by this author. Even though it wasn't part of a series, and since I haven't read anything by this author before, I loaned it to a friend. She said it was okay. I read it and enjoyed it, it was hard to put down. I have loaned it to another friend, to see if she likes it.

I thought this book was great. I found out about it from another author. She said it was good & it was.

Hard to put down. You want to keep going so that you can find out who the killer is.

very well written.

I really enjoyed Zero at the Bone. You never knew where the plot turns were going to take you. It is rare to find a mystery novel that leaves you guessing until the end. I found it a great read along with Mary Willis Walker's other books. I just wish she would write another one soon.

I admit, I might be getting too critical when it comes to mystery novels lately. But I have read so many that I start to know what a really good mystery novel is and which ones are not. "Zero At The Bone" was the first novel that I have read by Mrs. Walker. Don't get me wrong, the book wasn't bad at all, but the plot moved quite slowly and there was not much suspense. Most of the novel described in great detail the tasks and obligations that a zookeeper must go through. How to clean the cage, sweep the floor, feed the animals, take the snake out of his cage, and on and on. If you work at a zoo, you'll love this book I guarantee it! Although, the characters were well developed and likeable, I wouldn't put this book on my "must read list" at all. Not bad Mrs. Walker!

Brad Stonecipher

Walker does an excellent job with this book.

As you eneter Katherine's world it's crumbling away and then she gets notice that her father who she hasn't seen or heard from in year dies. She goes off to see him off and go through his extate. When she comes across something that doesn't seem right and this embarks her on a journey that will change her life.

Walker paints a powerful picture with her words. In one scene they come across a lion traped in a cage. You can actually see the lion and feel the cage and his imperfections with your hands. It will send chills up your spine.

This is her best book and the only one that stands on it's own. Her other books deal with continuing characters and are great, too.

Read. Enjoy. Then take a trip to a large zoo and enjoy the animals.

If you liked Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal with all there power you'll enjoy Mary Willis Walkers' work.