Lincoln Books

Gayle Martin has done it again. For the second time she has written a perfect mix of fact and fantasy in "Billy The Kid And The Lincoln County War: A Luke And Jenny Adventure". As with Gayle's first book; "Gunfight At The OK Corral", I believe she has written what will soon become another classic in childrens/young adult's literature.
Gayle's writing style is crisp and the story will hold everyones attention with its fast-paced chases and wild west gunfights. It also contains little known facts about all of the historical characters.

Congratulations to Gayle Martin on another fine work of literature. I eagerly await her next adventure.

About This Book

Ben Buck and his family spent four years clearing the wilderness to build a new home in Pennsylvania. They fought the Indians and the British, and made sacrifices most people wouldn't have been strong enough to make. All so they could be independent and free.

Now someone's trying to take everything away from them: their land, their home, even Ben's best friend, Joe.

But the Bucks won't give up without a fight, and Ben knows his family will have to win a war to stay free. But what he doesn't know is that wars sometimes last a very long time. And even if you win in the end, you can lose almost everything along the way.

I came across this book by accident, I think at a library sale. However this book is one of the best in my sea story collection. This book is about the rewards of simple life and simple pleasures. If your are looking for a complex plot and story line, this is not the book for you. If, however you are looking for a realistic story about honest and simple characters then this book would be a great addition to your library.

William Corlett is now perhaps best known for his children's fantasy quartet "The Magician's House", which starts with "The Steps Up the Chimney" -- a mixture of Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising", Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows", and John Masefield's "The Midnight Folk" -- a story where modern children who move to an ancient country house find themselves caught up with the animals of the surrounding countryside, and the living spirit of a Middle-Ages magician who is battling evil forces. Strong stuff.

If Corlett had written nothing else after his first three books he would have been a children's writer to reckon with -- a Young Adult writer of great power, working before the term "Young Adult" gad been invented. Perhaps the fact that this trilogy, or triptych, starting with "The Gate of Eden", concerns a teenager at the end of his Secondary schooling, and then the same person as a man in his twenties, and then as an old man in a futuristic England rife with social collapse, explains why the three books have been neglected.

Yet the middle book "The Land Beyond" is extremely powerful: a modern-day story with a time-slip or time-blend with Ancient Delphi and the famous Charioteer -- a story where the ancient god Apollo is recognised by a modern sceptic as a great force of life. And the first of the three is a powerful exploration of the relationship between the central young man, an old and rather dubious English Literature teacher, and the young man's girlfriend. Subtly told, and moving, with hints of poetry, much play with language, and post-modernist narrative devices, all used decades before post-modernism was thought of.

"Bloxworth Blue" is less experimental, perhaps reminiscent of William Mayne or Robert Cormier or Robert Westall when they write strong stories about families in crisis. As with other Corlett books, haunted by forces from the past, legendary imps (mini-demons) that were a curse on medieval Lincoln cathedral, and were turned into gargoyles, come to life in the Twentieth century. They are released, to wreak their own kind of havoc, when a family visits the cathedral, each member carrying a burden, a secret, an urgent need. An elderly uncle, the marriage difficulties of the mother, the first sexual encounter of the teenage daughter, the son's exploration of the cathedral and discovery of his uncle's bitter secret -- these narrative threads weave together, with glimpses of the larger outside world, including a rare blue butterfly, the Bloxworth Blue.

Corlett is always a strong writer, seeking new territory, striving for the precise image, the words that express extreme feeling, the tension that conceals ideas that can only be inferred. As with "The Secret Line", a story of teenage breakdown, and the healing bond s that develop between young person and old person, "Bloxworth Blue" repays careful reading.

Well worth finding -- like a rare butterfly, or a suddenly discovered stone face in an unexpected and startling place.

Mary Lincoln founded the Boston Cooking School. Her book contained the lessons and recipies. There are lessons on how to build a fire in a wood stove and explainations of proper diet for the "sick room" as well as a complete discussion on wheat, yeast and bread making. Learn "how a new housewife without near neighbors" can make her own yeast for her breadmaking. This was the first cookbook to use standardized measurements. In addition, the advertisments put an interesting historical perspective on many of our familiar brands. Mary Lincoln hired Fanny Farmer to be the school's principal. Fanny put out a second edition under her own name without any credit to Mary Lincoln....

Given Gordon's background, he is THE authority (and luckily THE brasilianist) to write such a piece.

I was a AMAZED by the ammount of good documentation and multiple sources quoted in the text from almost every possible source. Only improvement here is that it seems that the wave of info available on the Internet caught the author by surprise (it could have been much more up-to-date).

One can hardly expect a foreigner to have a deeper understanding of brazil's history than the person who was the US ambassador for several years, and a self-declared brasilianist. A grain of salt comes from the fact that pro-US, pro-trade behaviors and positions are an obvious consequence of Gordon's origin.

It's a shame that the version I read wasn't written after Lula's election and his first day as a president, but I learned more about Brazil in this book than in any other one. Very good job showing data and facts to support the positions and analyzing the underlying facts that took brazil to the position where it is now.

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My 2 year old loves this book, but it would be a good book for younger toddlers too. Very simple with pictures of all sorts of cars and trucks. The book follows a traffic jam from start to finish. Some of the pictures continue to the next page to show the traffic jam. A great and fun way for toddlers to learn the names of all kind of vehicles.

This book and Joseph Alleine's "An alarm to the unconverted" are must read books for all those who seek to be faithful witnesses for Christ in this day and age.
The puritan's preached a pure gospel-not the modern gospel. This book is top shelf!

Paul Greenwood
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Cap'n Warren's Wards is the first book by Joseph C. Lincoln that moves off the fictional towns of Cape Cod (in this case South Denboro) and into the big city hustle of Manhattan. Elijah Warren finds himself the guardian of his brother's children who are rapidly reaching adulthood but haven't had to face the harsh realities of self responsibility due to their father's wealth. Unfortunately now there are a few snags with A. Rodgers Warren's estate and Cap'n Warren decides its best to toughen his wards up and maybe teach them some humility in the process.