Wilson Books

The Comstock mines financed the American Civil War, a subject that has been written on ad nauseum. But finding information about the vast timber operations that fed & shored up those mines is far more difficult.

This book offers good background information & photographs of both the pre- & post-rail eras in & around Lake Tahoe in the Truckee River basin.

If you still can't get a new copy here on Amazon, go to the Truckee-Donner Historical Society website.

This an excellent book on logging and lumber operations in the Truckee River basin. It also includes some coverage of the flume operations in the Carson Range. Also, I highly recommend E.B. Scott's Saga of Lake Tahoe Series 1 and 2 books. The combination of these three books should be on every logging fan's bookshelf. Great material for the Comstock Lode history buff too.

This is a handy little book with all the seafood recipes you'll need!
It is "tastefully"
written & researched & the illustrations are so wonderfully rendered that you want to make each dish!
Joan Aikens

As a former student at the California Culinary Academy, I had the privlidge of having Rosina Wilson as an instructor in wine appreciation. Learning much, and discovering that Ms. Wilson has an incredible palate and love for great food, much of which is shown in this little cookbook with GREAT BIG FLAVORS. The recipes are not intimidating and extremely easy to prepare. With great rewards when finished.

Not only is this book a great treasury of Wilson's sketches, it is a piece of American history. Wilson sets out to draw portraits of remaining pureblood Indians--ones who have only the blood of one tribe coursing through their veins. Sadly, the number of purebloods diminshes rapidly every day, a fact which Wilson laments in his wonderful narrative that accompanies the drawings. This is a great book for lovers of Native Americans, American history, art, and almost anyone else! Highly recommended!

Search For The Native American Purebloods appears in its third edition, blending the author's pencil portraits of pureblood American Indians drawn from life with his narratives of his visits with each subject. Search For The Native American Purebloods is highly recommended for any collection strong in Native American studies will want to include this very fine presentation.

This is a good book to have in your theater library (especially for black actors/thespians). There are some great contemporary pieces and monologues (especially for Black men). I have always been supportive of The Theodore Award winning plays. The characters are real and the language is rich. The writing is great. Most of the plays are short, so these plays would be good for a burgeoning African American theater company or ensemble to produce.

Since the early part of the 20th century, Chicago has been a national leader in the production of black theater. There are currently six black companies, and black productions are regularly featured at the three Tony Award-winning regional theater companies.

Theodore Ward (1902 - 1983) mentored and encouraged many aspiring dramatists in Chicago from 1968 until his death. To honor Ward, and to aid black playwrights in the development and production of scripts, Columbia College Chicago established the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting in 1985. Only full-length plays addressing the African American are considered, and the playwright must be of African American descent. Since one of the goals is to uncover and identify new works, scripts which have received professional production are not eligible.

This anthology of prize-winning plays is the first in a series to be published every three years. Compiled and edited by Chuck Smith (currently Resident Director at Chicago's Goodman Theater, and affiliated with the prize for fifteen years) it presents seven plays spanning nearly two decades, with diverse subject matter and treatments. Christopher Moore's "The Last Season" (First Prize 1987-88) immerses us in the final days of the Negro Leagues. The most recent offering, Shepsu Aakhu's "Kiwi Black" ( First Prize 2001-02) tells the story of adolescent son coming of age under the watchful eye of a tough-love father.

But my synopses can't possibly do these scripts justice. Highly recommended for any theater library!

I highly recommend this book for women wanting to build a closer relationship with God and themselves. This book offered eye opening points that are happening in my life at this particular time. The information Mrs. Wilson offers can be used by any women in any stage of your life I have passed it on to someone else so that they to can be blessed and helped. Also, this book is a keeper and can be reflected back upon at any given time when the secrets needs to be refreshed.

This book was awesome. It really made me look at myself as a woman and a wife and realize that I needed to make some changes. It is a good book for Christian women that want to truly live life as it should be.

It's a essential book guide to start the study and discussion on sexual selection and sex evolution. I highly recommend, specially for animal and human behavior college students.

Very useful textbook!

I read this book in a college class. Mind you, I didn't read most of my college books, but I couldn't put this one down. It gives a clear, intelligent, remarkably well-documented, fascinating description of how sex evolved and how that evolution effects the behavior of everything from bacteria to modern social humans.

This book is very accessible to any reasonably educated reader, regardless of your knowledge of evolutionary biology. And each idea is punctuated with a fascinating example taken from nature.

Why do lightning bugs flash, and what controls the pattern to their flashing? Why are there two sexes? Why is a red sports car sexy? You'll learn the (evolutionary biology) answers to these and countless other intriguing questions. This book is a great lesson in evolution and a revealing investigation of why aniamls do the things they do, from an African hamster to... you.

Book arrived as quickly as advertised, which was great because I needed it to write my New York Times antiques column (published today). THanks!
Wendy Moonan

Although not as thorough on the music of the great composer itself, this book is a must read for anyone interested in Shostakovich, or music and Soviet history in general.

Wilson lucidly supports her interviews and articles from colleagues, friends, and family of the composer with a curious detachment that serves to clarify rather than alienate the subject matter. The articles and interviews themselves are priceless artifacts, and presented here in an intelligent fashion.

Shostakovich's life is portrayed here with startling intimacy. The reader will find him or herself able to visualize the genius composer and his quirks, and those who listen to the relevant works of music will find their messages so much more meaningful.

Fascinating book about the mysterious shroud. The history and background research done by the author is mind-boggling.

A lot of research has gone into this book. The author also gives graphic, medical details about the passion of the person depicted. It leaves on e in no doubt about the authenticity of this cloth. I have read many books on this subject, mostly biased, one way or the other. This is a classic and will stand the test of time. I cannot recommend this book too highly, or rather highly enough.

What a great cast of characters:
Ethan Snow - who helped out John Edmonds [in the previous book]is still tracking The Covenant and getting nowhere. Now he tracks down the psychic, Raine McAllister.

Raine McAllister - she is a sculpter now and has helped the police locate abducted children. She is bothered by the vision that invaded her when she touched her work "the running man". Then Snow shows up.

Griff Cabot - is back on the scene with Snow who found the descrepancy in how the charity funding was distributed. Raising the question of terrorists operating in this country. He is the undisputed head of Phoenix.

Montgomery Gardner - as the former DCI he oversaw the Agency's experiments in the paranormal. Does he know about the "Project Cassandra" and what went wrong? He is also Griff's wife's grandfather and supporter of Raine.

Carl Steiner - the assistant deputy director of the CIA is always causing trouble for the Phoenix. What does he know about "Cassandra" and what is he hiding? He is not liked by many of the Phoenix agents.

Sabina Marguery - What does she know about "Cassandra" and Raine McAllister? she sounds like the wicked witch of the west.

Charles Ellington - He wrote the book on the CIA's involvement in parapsychology. Why was "Cassandra" his only omission. Does he answer all of Griff's questions?

It is a great blending of all of these characters that fill out and deepen the plot, plus some harrowing escapes that keep you on the edge.

To get the whole effect of Griff Cabot and his men, you need to follow them through the series. 12 books and I am still not ready for the stories to end, love these men and their goofy women. Independent women who step in and mess up the men's contration causing no end of trouble. [not just here in this set of books].

Definitely Recommended - m -- if you like mystery with your romance these are it.

Sight Unseen is a very impressive read. In the Phoenix Brother series, the men are operatives working as a secret branch off the CIA, trying to fight terrorism inside the US. Agent Ethan Snow has been trying to break a group called The Covenant, an elusive, tight-knit groups of terrorist planning a big attack. For six months, Snow as tried to get close to them, but nothing. Trying to catch them is as easy as catching smoke. He is at a dead end and willing to try anything.

When the former head of the CIA branch in anti-terrorism suggests snow contact Raine McAllister, he is surprised to find he was sent to a psychic. And he is not sure he likes this. But there is no other option.

Raine was a former profiler, a manhunter for the CIA. She has a special gift that permits her to know things no one else could. Coming from a rough life of Carney sideshows, where she read tarot cards to survived, she was put into the CIA's program of testing children with "special gifts". When Snow learns of this, he is angry at a child being used in such a manner. A tougher Raine tells him playing games with the CIA behavior scientists was a damn site better than the life she lead before.

She is not happy to find Snow on her doorstep. Not happy to be sucked into the life. Worse, there is a deep attraction between them. One Snow tries to ignore; one Raine can already see the future of. As they track The Covenant, Raine discovers she has repressed childhood memories of a brutal murder, somehow connected to Snow's case. As the still waters of the past are disturbed, they must also uncovered the secret within Raine's brain, as the hunters are now the hunted. The killer is waiting to silence Raine for the key her mind holds.

Wilson has an easy voice that allows to reader to slid right into the story. Her understated, no-nonsense style gives strong credence to this paranormal story. A nifty tale, just right for summer reading.

Well I am French and love good food and wine. These Sirens are the equivalent of a five star meal in Paris: balanced yet surprising, beautiful,well paired, stylish... What else doesone want? Ah ok... good food is like good erotica it teases you to no-end... Well guess what: eroticism and fear are two main ingredients of their dishes... So for the fraction of a price of that good meal in Paris you can own this great anthology (plus you do not have to put up with arrogant Parisians like me!). Run do not walk... these kind of deals do not last....

Anybody who is expecting a collection of tales here of cuddly vampires seducing shy Goth chicks by candlelight is in for a seismic eye opening. SINS OF THE SIRENS offers up (mostly) erotic horror stories by four of the best femme writers in the genre, and these little gems are anything but cuddly.

Loren Rhoads kicks it into high gear with a quartet of stories which reach delirious heights with "Still Life With Broken Glass", an incredibly tense and disturbing story about a female photographer whose death obsession takes some unwholesome turns. Loren's "Sound of Impact" is a quiet piece with a sock-to-the-gut ending, and would be right at home in any Joyce Carol Oates collection.

Next up is Maria Alexander's trio, the centerpiece of which is the novella-length "Pinned", a trip through L.A.'s BDSM scene which feels so real it's almost too real - Alexander's writing makes you equally experience every prick of a needle or shiver of pleasure. "The Dark River in His Flesh" is a tasty reprint oozing fog and absinthe, as the author paints an evocative portrait of Victorian London.

Mehitobel Wilson offers up four of the volumes most downright squirmy works, especially "Close", in which the twist endings reverse themselves at least once after examining the psychology of a hotel employee who hides under a bed to become part of the sex happening above him. "The Wild" and "Parting Jane" both effectively examine the American club scene with a twist of Southern Gothic.

Rounding out the volume are three tales from Christa Faust, including "Love, La Llorona", which mixes a south-of-the-border setting with Japanese-style video obsessions to create one of the creepiest stories in the book. The big surprise here is Faust's "Firebird" a long tale which is more science fiction than horror, as a young woman in a bleak future sets forth on a urban quest to find the source of a new lethal drug. The story, which is both superbly imagined and emotionally detailed, should be a welcome addition to any book, regardless of genre.

The sheer craftsmanship in SINS is uniformly good, and occasionally dazzling, with all four Sirens demonstrating style to burn and chills aplenty.

The book is attractively designed, and kudos are also due to editor John Everson for an insightful introduction.