Campbell Books

This is yet another wonderful book in the "Images of America" series. My only regret is that this book (and others in the series) is not twice the size. I was looking for memories, nostalgia...and I got much more than that. Scenes forgotten, buildings and views I've been talking about for years and wanting to share with people who never saw them; page after page of mood and memory. Very special for me were childhood pictures of people I knew as adults, when I myself was a small child. And, best of all, I had always heard about the woman for whom my grandmother worked as a domestic when she came to Southington from Germany as a young girl. It's part of the family story that this woman helped my grandmother make her wedding dress. In the book, there is a lovely portrait of the woman herself; a piece of our family history which we had never before seen. This book, like others of the series which I've seen, is beautifully and thoughtfully done, though it did leave me feeling somewhat frustrated that there wasn't more.

This book is great. We live in Southington and we love seeing the old pictures of the streets and town as it was before all this development.

This story, about a girl who finds herself talking to dead people, started off with a concept that everyone seems to have jumped on. Sixth Sense Meets "insert any other concept here". Luckily for us, Antony didn't stick with the "Ghost Whisperer" angle. I highly recommend this overlooked indy gem.

I gave this dark, spooky thriller 5 stars because of the incredible illustrations by Ross Campbell. Emily is so expressive - you can feel her anguish. The story itself gets 4 stars because Johnston wraps up the ending too fast. I'm not really sure what road Emily is going to choose, but I sure do hope that he's writing a sequel so I can find out and that Campbell will be doing the illustrations!

The book could use a little updating, but I still found it very helpful. There's lots of good information and suggestions for the aspiring college athlete.

This book is easy to read (and this is a hard-to-understand subject. The author gets right to the point(s). We read through this book before one of our first 'contacts' and found it helpful in knowing what we were getting ourselves into. Highly recommended for the parents (us) and the student athlete.

I think Ive looked at all of them. This one's
a great guide to being recruited and getting a
sport scholarship. No filler, no dopey illustrations,
no boring athlete stories, nofluff, no practice
questions for exams.

The other books on the subject don't come close. This
one's packed with up to date information
and great strategies. I only wish it had been
available 2 years ago. We have catching up to do!

What an interesting concept! The section on the Harry Potter invisibility cloak was particularly interesting.

A very unique way of looking at things. Tying in scientific theories with Biblical prophesies was particularly interesting.

Excellent purchase. I bought one for myself and my father. Nice read if you do not want to read the old scriptures in latin in the Bible. I would reccomend this book to anyone wanting to know about the Old Testament. I would consider making other purchases along these lines. price was a winner too!

Theologian Jim Campbell presents The Stories of the Old Testament: A Catholic's Guide, a guide for Catholic readers to the central texts, stories, and figures of the Old Testament. One hundred carefully chosen readings from the Old Testament are discussed at length. "When Job's friends tell Job that he is refusing to admit his wickedness, Job replies that his complaint is bitter: he has not made the violence that stalks the earth. Job's friends ask how anyone can stand in a right relationship with God. Job replies that God's ways are a mystery no one can fathom. What is fascinating about the dialogue is that Job's friends seem so sure that they know the answers to Job's dilemma. They do not for an instant consider Job's side of the story or ask questions of either Job or God. Without questioning or listening hearts, they cannot begin their own journey into the heart of God." A candid and insightful discussion, highly recommended for self-study or as a supplementary resource for bible study groups.

I truly enjoyed reading this book. I found it to be very interesting but historically informative as well. It was difficult to put down. Mary Campbell's recollections of certain segments of her families history was both spellbounding and touching. She has a unique way of pulling you into the story so that you feel you are actually there. I Highly recommend this book.

This is a wonderfully interesting and compelling story with vivid imagery and multiple historical references.

As Mary Campbell relates the history of her family from the period of slavery forward we are transported through time to days that were not so simple or pleasant for African-Americans. Through the narration of the family's adversities and hardships our faith is strengthened and we are left renewed.

Those who have an interest in African-American history, studies in human nature, mysteries, and the paranormal will love this book.

Il montrait sa soeur Sophie qui mourait jeune, entouree de toute la famille. Mais il montrait chacun a l'age qu'il avait a l'epoque de la peinture, et non pas a la mort de la jeune fille. Car la douleur durait a jamais et unifiait toute la famille pour toujours. Puis avec des tetes d'une femme et d'un homme, gravees et multicolorees, il cessait de suivre le style repandu des japonais de faire une seule couleur d'un seul troncon de bois. Son prefere de tout son oeuvre etait Sick Child II, en tant que sa premiere lithographie en couleur. Mais son Scream est le plus reconnu, en tant que l'image la plus frappante du 20eme siecle.

He was bound determined not to paint people reading and women knitting, but instead to show people who breathed emotions into his darkly suggestive prints. "Death in the sickroom" showed family members at the ages when they were painted, not when his sister Sophie died; it expressed unity in grief as one of death's longlasting effects by seemingly overlapping planes flowing together across bleakly empty areas, starkly B&W contrasts, and stiffly posed mourners frozen in misery. "The mirror" heads of a disembodied man and woman was his first woodcut to give up the Japanese method of printing each color with a separate woodblock; instead, he jigsawed blocks into pieces according to compositional design, linked each piece with a different color, and put everything back together into a multicolored print. He considered his "Sick child II" his most important print: his first color lithograph, it focused on the diseased upper chest and the head in profile facing right against a large pillow in order to gaze with tragically meditative resignation into the flatly patterned looming void on the far right. However, his "Scream" became the most compelling image for the late twentieth century: it expressed terror before the universe by powerfully decorative lines reverberating through the starkly opposed black lines and bleakly white voids of pulsing land and sky. Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor have applied reader-friendly illustrations and text to their catalog of the Vivian and David Campbell exhibition. Their SYMBOLIST PRINTS OF EDVARD MUNCH goes down good with PROGRESSIVE PRINTMAKERS by Warrington Colescott and Arthur Hove, PRINTS AND PRINTMAKING by Antony Griffiths, EDVARD MUNCH by Josef Paul Hodin, and THE PRINT IN THE WESTERN WORLD by Linda C Hults.

Stories that will warm your heart, make you laugh and sometimes bring a tear to your eyes. Similar to Fulghum's "Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten", you can pick the book up, start reading anywhere and enjoy it.

Thanks for the great book! Will be a wonderful Chritmas present for 2 dear friends with links to Tipton.

I grew up hearing these tales from my mother, a native of Barra, and so this book was like hearing her tell me the tales all over again...A must have for those interested in the cultural/sociological history of Barra.

I grew up hearing these tales from my mother, a native of Barra, and so this book was like hearing her tell me the tales all over again...A must have for those interested in the cultural/sociological history of Barra.

I'd heard about this book from a friend, and while it took some doing to locate a copy it was worth every bit of effort to do so. What an amazing telling - I literally could not put this book down once I began that first page... heck, I was hooked from the very first line. Written in first person, the words fly by - as if the speaker were sitting right in front of you, telling you all about those times and adventures and what it meant to live among the tar ponds and what it mean to be boys growing up near and around Sydney Harbor, Nova Scotia. The experiences described are rich in detail and color - the personalities as three dimensional and as real as if looking at your own hand in front of your face - and my own world, after having been expanded by the experience of reading this book, has been unquestionably enriched. It's not going to be everybody's cup of tea, of course, but if there's any bit of an adventurer in your soul, and especially if you're open to living (even vicariously) a slice of life in Sydney (a rather unique corner of Nova Scotia), then by all means indulge yourself in the experience of this novel. One of the best I've read in years. (Be clear: I genuinely loved the book and am thrilled to recommend it - nothing more.)

This engaging story of a young boy coming of age in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is simply a delightful gem of fine writing. Michael Chisholm simply glows with realistic pubescence with all the humor and aching that can bring. His brothers, sister, parents, along with all the other aptyly portrayed Cape Bretonners, remind this writer so much of his own late boyhood and of the time spent on Cape Breton near the titular tar ponds. Beyond the underlying theme of death and loss, the novel also speaks volumes regarding the ecological equipoise of the steel mills, the coal mines, and national pride. Campbell's descriptions of the cityscape of Sydney are also spot on and make this writer long to visit that city again. Gaspereau Press has packaged this delightful book attractively as well. Canadiana at its sparkling best.