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58 reviews
John Twelve Hawks

Vintage, 2008

More!
I wish this book had more to it. I know there is a third book coming out for this series but I thought this one was rather thin compared to th first book. It is setting the third book up for major disappointment. I really hope the third book is excellent, but I have the feeling that it will not satisfy...

Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht

8 reviews
Robert F. Dorr, Thomas D. Jones

Zenith Press, 2008

Giving the 9th AF their due
A very enjoyable book concerning the 365th Fighter Group, IX Tac, 9th AF. The author does an excellent job of covering the unit's campaign throughout the ETO, blending both the "big picture" and personal experiences nicely. My only complaints are that the time line seemed to jump around quite a bit in places and a tendency to throw quite a few names at you in short order, so I found myself ...

Memed, My Hawk

28 reviews

NYRB Classics, 2005

Breathtaking
This book is certainly an exhilarating page-turner! But not merely this: Lush descriptions of the Turkish countryside as it existed at the time, a cast of characters Tolstoyan in their sweep, and, above all, an epic story of a downtrodden hero---In short, the book is a Romance. It is not, though, the simple-minded, pat story that one sometimes associates with this term. It is a Romance in the ...

Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight

8 reviews
Jerry Liguori

Princeton University Press, 2005

Hawks from Every Angle
A super-useful reference guide that goes well with HAWKS IN FLIGHT -- and actually I would probably look at this one first. Photographs and text both contain a lot of helpful information to assist in raptor identification -- though the "pitfalls" shots make it clear that not every bird will be identifiable. Mileage obviously varies, but as a Californian I don't feel shortchanged by this book ...

Give Your Heart to the Hawks

14 reviews
Winfred Blevins

Futura Publications, 1976

History with a heart beat.
This book is much more than just a history of the fur trade and mountain men. In fact, if you read the Preface, Win states that he wishes to portray the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the mountain men from a subjective point of view. He accomplishes the task. It's a wonderful read about the mountain men (not ALL of the mountain men but a select, representative few) and their lives. You ...

The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy

13 reviews
Penelope Wilcock

Crossway Books, 2000

Beloved, essential
This book is beautiful in every respect. The stories are truly new -- by that I mean that there is absolutely nothing that is cliched or commonplace. The writing is crystalline and beautiful but also simple. But these are lesser things compared to the wonderful themes in this story. There is the theme of humility, portrayed in such a way that we understand that forgiveness, and reconciliation ...

Incident at Hawk's Hill

55 reviews
Allan W Eckert

Little, Brown Young Readers, 1995

Encore
This little boy was stranded all alone out on the prairie, and the only other helpful being there was a badger. Ben, a 6 year old boy can act like animals as if he was their brother. He picks an animal, then can follow it for hours acting like it, and making noises like it. But one day, when he was mocking a chicken he wandered too far. When he noticed it was about lunch time he turned back to go ...

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day

3 reviews
Scott O'Dell

BJU Press, 1986

Action, mystery, and suspense!
The Hawk that Dare Not Hunt By Day is an excellent book which I would love to read again. It is full of suspense and mystery. It is even based around somebody's actual life, the life of William Tyndale, the person who first translated The New Testament into English. The book is by Scott O'Dell, the writer of The Island of the Blue Dolphins and many other children's novels. Tom Barton and ...

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

670 reviews
Mark Bowden

Signet, 2001

Bowden Demonstrates Masterful Writing
Bowden has written a masterful account of the Black Hawk Down tragedy which became a famous Tony Scott movie. The scene is grim: Mogadishu under the warlords with an inept, incompetent United Nations force presuming that it will separate the warring factions and restore peace. The United States commits its troops to snatch a warlord and his cronies to cripple the terrorists gripping this ...

Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors

15 reviews
Clay Sutton, Peter Dunne

Houghton Mifflin, 1989

First class
Of the dozen or so raptor identification books I own, I have learned the most from this book. The standard Peterson's guides work pretty well if you can get within 50 feet of a sitting bird, or if you use a gun as an accessory. However for most of us, you need to be able to work from a lot further away than that. Dunne takes you beyond plumage clues to descriptions of flight cadence, behaviour, ...

The Hawk and the Jewel (Kensington Chronicles, Book 1)

49 reviews
Lori Wick

Harvest House Publishers, 2004

A great surprise!
I didn't expect to like this book...it looked like traditional Christian fiction, very romantic and sweet, but usually too saccrine for my tastes. But it was definitely worth the time. Although it is very "sweet," it has great characters! The only complaint I have is that you barely got any time with Sunny and Brandon actually together as a couple. But they are referred to in the next two ...

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South

3 reviews

Yale University Press, 2004

An Eye-Opening, Mind-Expanding Treasure
The sheer number of gorgeous images in this book is breathtaking. But for many readers I suspect the most astonishing image might be a fairly simple one on page 17: a rendering of a orderly semicircle of structures facing a river, it is a city in Louisiana----in 1500 B.C. This book reveals Native American civilizations rivaling what we know of the Maya and Inca, but in the heartland of North ...

Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder

16 reviews
Tony Hawk, Sean Mortimer

HarperEntertainment, 2002

"Tony Hawk : Professional Skateboarder" A Skater's Point of View
Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder was a great autobiography. Tony Hawk is the main person. He talks about his life from when he was a baby through his adult hood with ups and downs of his skateboarding career. Tony Hawk wouldn't be a successful pro skateboarder if it weren't for his brother. He introduced Tony to skating at age 9. Once Tony was really into skateboarding, he became pro. ...

The Hawk Bandits of Tarkoom (Secrets of Droon, Book 11)

3 reviews
Tony Abbott

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2001

Secrets of Droon review
This book was great . It would be scary for little kids though. There were lots of hawk bandits and an old city that was destroyed 400 years ago came back. I liked it because it kept me in suspense because you want to see if it is a happy ending. The main characters in this book are Julie a girl from the Upper World, Eric a boy from the Upper World, Neal another boy from the Upper World, and ...

Black Hawk: An Autobiography

4 reviews
Black Hawk

Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2006

The Autobiography of Black Hawk
The last "Indian War" in Illinois occurred in 1832 when a small band of Sauk refused under the leadership of the warrior Black Hawk to abandon their village (located under a subdivision of the present Rock Island, Illinois). They wandered up the Rock River, fighting contingents of regular army and state militia (a young Abraham Lincoln served several stints as a volunteer but saw no fighting; a ...

The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1)

269 reviews
John Twelve Hawks

Vintage, 2006

Great Book!
I loved this book. It was a real page turner. Just think, you could leave your body and travel through other realms. Live off the grid. What a peaceful life that would be. Great adventure!

Shadow Hawk (Living History Library)

4 reviews
Andre Norton

Bethlehem Books, 2001

Shadow Hawk
The book is about a young officer/archer in th Egyptian military. It takes place sometime in ancient times. He is the son of a noblemen. Many things happen to him and those he commands. I thought this book was very good. It was exciting and entertaining. From the very beginning it captures your attention. There really wasn't much bad with the book except some confusing names. I would like ...

Talon of the Silver Hawk (Conclave of Shadows, Book 1)

85 reviews
Raymond E. Feist

Eos, 2004

Great book in the Feist tradition
Great new series for Feist fans with great characters and secrets that are slowly told throughout the series.

Hawk, I'm Your Brother

5 reviews
Byrd Baylor

Aladdin, 1986

A Child Learns the Meaning of Being Free
HAWK I'M YOUR BROTHER is a touching story of how a child learns that there are some things in life which cannot be achieved by enslaving that which holds the knowledge you seek but rather to understand the secret of this special freedom is how you will treat and respect the needs of the wild creature who holds the answers to your quest.. that to be trapped and held against its will is not the ...

The Sea-Hawk

12 reviews
Rafael Sabatini

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

No Superficial Linguistic Dust Here
Having recently read several modern novels by contemporary authors, I was transported by THE SEA-HAWK back in time to an earlier style of writing and a distinctly different use of language. How many books, for instance, have you read lately that use the verb "trepan" very frequently? Didn't think so. Having found modern authors' use of language to be pretty bland and, in a few instances, ...

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