Ohio Books

I bought this for my son-in-law for Christmas and he loved it! Every time I go to their house, I see the book in a different place and it looks like he reads it alot. He really appreciated the guide that shows what kind of camping, if any, is available at each hike location.

I really enjoyed this book. I have taken many of these hikes and they fit the descriptions. I was hoping to find the best hikes for my area (northwest Ohio), but there were not many around here. Check the map before you buy to make sure there are hikes in the region you hope to frequent. I should have known there would be few hikes in this area, just given the area and that I could not find any good hikes on my own either. I would prefer to have all hikes listing if pets are permitted or not and this book only occasionally lists info on pets.

If you know Akron and you're a railfan, then the Images of Rail series' "Akron Railroads" needs to be in your railroad library. This book provides a highly detailed account of Northeast Ohio's rail history, and it is packed with great photos that are bound to bring back a pleasant memory or two...at least they did for me.

Excellent photos for rail fans and history buffs. I highly
recommend this book.

Alberta has finished school and lives at home in the north of Norway with her parents and younger brother. She's fond of her father, a magistrate who drinks too much, and mostly fears her mother who wants Alberta to be attractive and accomplished in domestic skills. Jacob is a failure at school and also causes their parents only anxiety over how he can maintain the family standing. The atmosphere at home is tense, stifling and depressed. Alberta is excruciatingly shy and doesn't know what to say to anyone. She spends most of her time reading and going for walks, taking routes that will avoid bumping in to other people. Only out in the countryside does Alberta become confident and alive. She yearns to get away, for her life to change, to meet different people. Throughout small dramas occur in the Selmer family and the town, usually about money, marriage or sex including one where Alberta becomes aware of her own sexual feelings.

Although she always feels inadequate, Alberta never compromises, refusing to marry to please her parents and keeping her inner life intact. The book's strength is its portrayal of Alberta, an unusual character in literature. The book has had many fine reviews.

This is actually the third volume of the Alberta trilogy. I think the review written by "a reader from London" refers to the first book, Alberta and Jacob. Alberta Alone is quite different. The novel borders on modernistic in its exploration of the process of becoming a writer. Alberta struggles with a failing relationship, motherhood, and questions of identity. The story, which takes place a few years after the First World War, is set in Bretagne, Paris, and Southern Norway. As usual, Sandel's writing is outstanding.

Third Edition, published June 1999. This price guide is the companion to McDonald's book "All About Weller: A History and Collectors Guide to Weller Pottery". The author gathered Weller Pottery sale prices from auction results, internet website sales, and Weller pottery retail displays in stores and exhibitions. We use our copy regularly when planning an addition to our Weller collection and it has proved very handy.

Ann received her doctorate from George Washington University, her Master's degree from Cornell University, and taught literature at Marymount College in Arlington, Virginia, and later at Georgetown University. She became an antiques dealer in 1972, specializing today in out of print books on glass and lighting, and Weller pottery.

This is a reprint of a book published in the 19th century. A source book for all other books on the Adena and the Hopewell. A Must have.

Ancient Monuments (more familiarly known as "Squire and Davis") is the undisputed primary reference source on Indian mounds in the eastern US till the mid-1800s. While there were a few others (such as Caleb Atwater's book), Squire and Davis offers the grandest illustrations of what remained of the unbelievable civilizations that inhabited this continent. Even as they published in 1848, hundreds of mounds were being plowed into oblivion; so few are still extant that theirs is the only guide to what was lost. The text is enjoyable on many levels, and can be forgiven for any lapses of scientific accuracy. They trekked over Ohio at a time when we weren't even sure who made the mounds, so everything they recorded is gold. The engineering prowess, the sheer magnificence and scale of some of the works, is astounding.

Vera Glenn has given a valuable introduction to an American Family and a sustaining faith. Authentic descriptions of the growth of a family through 300 years of seeking a Godly life, farming, educating and seeking education will resonate with many who have similar stories to tell. For others, it is a glimpse into the values, accomplishments, joys and sorrows of a large number of your fellow countrymen.

I loved this book.It was history with a personal feel to it.
Plus I live in the area and it was fun reading about places that you have seen.Also to read about the apple trees and how the seeds got around from other states and countries.

When DeLanna and Andrew finally arrive in the Ohio Firelands, they must face cold and disapproving matrons and the everchallenging environment. Slowly, they find acceptance, friendship and their place in the community. As the story closes we look to the future of their young daughter Mattie, and uncertain changes to the town as the canal opens the land to an uneasy progress. This was a wonderful series of books and I look forward to BOOK FIVE! Does anyone know when that might be?

I loved this book in the Apple Valley series. DeLanna and her husband, Andrew, have finaly arrived in Ohio after a long voyage from Pennsylvania. Together with Andrew, DeLanna fights to build a place called home and to gain acceptance in the community.

White males are living a lie if they don't read Jane Marcus's heroic efforts to portray women's responses to literature as substantially different and independent of males' responses. The anger that women feel when they are continually told that women's literature is worthless, is stupid, and unimportant is displayed with devestating clarity in this work. It seems that women read more empathically, are better able to identify with characters' feelings, and are more able to experience rage at the injustices inherent in a fictional work; males, on the other hand, seem to desire books that contain violence, explicit sexism, and patriarchal systems of networks which exclude women from power structures. This book is a must read for women who wish to show that what they read is not "trivial" or "stupid" because a woman wrote it, it is trivial and stupid sexism that posits that what women have to say is not worth hearing.

I would suggest that this book be assigned to all entering college students. The white male patriarchal agenda of hatred has made it essential that the incredible variety of writings produced by women take center stage. Let's finally say goodbye to "Western Civ", which white males have perpetrated for far too long. Jane Marcus is brilliant and courageous, and I want to read more of her books.

How do you write a "children's" book that will hold readers' interest 50, 100 years from now? James Barrie, Francis Hodgson Burnett, and Terry Pratchett have. So has Nikos Kazantzakis.
This book is a gem, and deserves much wider recognition.
Mythology is usually presented, even in the much-lauded D'Aulaire series, as little more than a plot line. Here, the familiar story of Theseus and the Minotaur is enriched with well-developed characters. My favorite is Princess Ariadne: as imperious, sensitive, and curious as Elizabeth Tudor in her youth. Kazantzakis describes the splendors of the Minoan city-palace as lushly as one can infer from the historical artifacts that have been unearthed, then he enriches the picture with details of folkways that still exist today in Greece.
What raises this book from the merely entertaining to the classic is the author's dedication to his real mission: to impart the great truths of the world to his young readers. In the Palaces of Knossos, we learn a little about the nature of despotism, and how to test the long-term viability of a civilization beyond the veneer of its present power and wealth.
Teachers and parents, read this wonderful book, and be awed and entertained yourself before you read it to your kids. While you're at it, bring out a book like BBC's Civilizations by Jane McIntosh and Clint Twist so your charges can see the strange and beautiful paintings from the palace of Knossos of bull-leaping youths, the bronze dagger that Theseus himself might have carried, and one of the odd little iconic statues of the Great Goddess worshipped throughout ancient Crete.

This novel derives from a series of stories written byKazantzakis for a youth's magazine. The novel utilizes Kazantzakis'graceful style to add even more magic to this fantastic myth. In the beginning, a young traveler is found surveying the grounds of the Palace of Knossos, raising suspicions with security guards and catching the eye of the young princess Ariadne. The young traveller turns out to be Theseus, a prince who desires to free his people from the tyranical King. Included is the infamous minotaur and many greek gods. This novel remains interesting and exciting all throughout the story, and can be recommended to any age group. END

We bought a round flat crema cake / shaped like a moon /in Umbertide. /It looks like a phosphorescent frisbee. /We munch its wedges as the solstice turns.

-- from `Landscape with Bees'

David Young's poetic voice strikes its characteristic note here: wry modesty, mixed with love and longing for the world, and an invocation of the larger, mysterious cycles of natural change that surround and hold us. The poet writes of aging, acceptance, and, just to keep the reader on her toes, throws in the occasional surrealistic or metaphysical flight of fancy, as in `Landscape with Disappearing Poet,' dedicated to the Czech scientist and poet Miroslav Holub, who died suddenly in 1998:

Angels seem to fall / steadily /in a rain around barns and pastures,/ distressed by the way the cows / slump to their knees on the kill-floor,....

In his ninth book of poetry, At the White Window, Young's work continues, affectionately and patiently, to explore and chart the various landscapes in which the poet finds or places himself: the small midwestern college town where Young has lived for forty years, Oberlin, Ohio; travels to Europe; the internal landscapes of memory and grief; the quirky repainting of Oberlin as though it were a series of panels on a Chinese scroll, with human figures and their concerns placed in proper proportion to towering cliffs, lofty mountains, and vast mist rises. Because Oberlin sits on a flat, glacier-razed piece of Ohio countryside, Young tweaks the Asian tradition by seeing the cliffs and mountains in the clouds that fill the skyscape, along with its `denizens [who] are crows and hawks, herons and gulls.' Irony and whimsy keep sentimentality at bay in Young's poetry, while the passionate lyricism that perhaps led him to translate Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus some years ago manifests, sometimes ecstatically, sometimes more somberly, in this new volume:

Or has she journeyed to a prairie / where all our codes and grids have been abandoned, / no houses, no towns, no roads -- clear sky, / a few birds riding aimlessly across it, / and a bird or two, meadowlarks probably, / tossing around in its depths? -- from `My Mother at Eighty-Eight'

David Young is a poet of wide interests, encompassing but extending far beyond the literary, and a generous heart. The finely crafted poems in At the White Window reflect in myriad ways the poet's lifelong appreciation of T'ang dynasty poetry, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, music, science, landscape painting, and nature. They are poems that resist the tyranny of despair and meaninglessness, instead advocating for a vision of the world that includes beauty and suffering in equal measures. This vision urges our responsibility as well: we create from what we see, but the seeing is also of our creation, a function of what, in the book's title poem, the poet terms `our unabashed humanity, both frame and view.'

We bought a round flat crema cake /shaped like a moon /in Umbertide./ It looks like a phosphorescent frisbee./ We munch its wedges as the solstice turns.

-- from "Landscape with Bees"

David Young's poetic voice strikes its characteristic note here: wry modesty, mixed with love and longing for the world, and an invocation of the larger, mysterious cycles of natural change that surround and hold us. The poet writes of aging, acceptance, and, just to keep the reader on her toes, throws in the occasional surrealistic or metaphysical flight of fancy, as in "Landscape with Disappearing Poet," dedicated to the Czech scientist and poet Miroslav Holub, who died suddenly in 1998:

Angels seem to fall/ steadily/ in a rain around barns and pastures,/ distressed by the way the cows/ slump to their knees on the kill-floor,....

In his ninth book of poetry, At the White Window, Young's work continues, affectionately and patiently, to explore and chart the various landscapes in which the poet finds or places himself: the small midwestern college town where Young has lived for forty years, Oberlin, Ohio; travels to Europe; the internal landscapes of memory and grief; the quirky repainting of Oberlin as though it were a series of panels on a Chinese scroll, with human figures and their concerns placed in proper proportion to towering cliffs, lofty mountains, and vast mist rises. Because Oberlin sits on a flat, glacier-razed piece of Ohio countryside, Young tweaks the Asian tradition by seeing the cliffs and mountains in the clouds that fill the skyscape, along with its "denizens [who] are crows and hawks, herons and gulls." Irony and whimsy keep sentimentality at bay in Young's poetry, while the passionate lyricism that perhaps led him to translate Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus some years ago manifests, sometimes ecstatically, sometimes more somberly, in this new volume:

Or has she journeyed to a prairie/ where all our codes and grids have been abandoned,/ no houses, no towns, no roads; clear sky,/ a few birds riding aimlessly across it,/ and a bird or two, meadowlarks probably,/ tossing around in its depths? -- from "My Mother at Eighty-Eight"

David Young is a poet of wide interests, encompassing but extending far beyond the literary, and a generous heart. The finely crafted poems in At the White Window reflect in myriad ways the poet's lifelong appreciation of T'ang dynasty poetry, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, music, science, landscape painting, and nature. They are poems that resist the tyranny of despair and meaninglessness, instead advocating for a vision of the world that includes beauty and suffering in equal measures. This vision urges our responsibility as well: we create from what we see, but the seeing is also of our creation, a function of what, in the book's title poem, the poet terms "our unabashed humanity, both frame and view."