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The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon (Korean Folk Tales) 1 review
Janie Jaehyun Park
Groundwood Books, 2002
My child's favorite book!
This book has quickly become my child's favorite. The illustrations are exquisite and the story is wonderful. I highly recommend this beautiful book!
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Furry Tails: The Adventures of Cinnamon Persimmon2 reviews
Tristan Perry
PublishAmerica, 2006
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful story line and memorable characters. This book is an easy read and great for kids of all ages. I hope to see more children's books from Dr. Perry.
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Out of the Blue: One Woman's Story of Stroke, Love, and Survival4 reviews
Persimmon Blackbridge, Bonnie Sherr Klein
Wildcat Canyon Press, 2000
The Story of a Stroke Survivor: A Hero, Her Family & Friends
This book should be required reading for anyone in the field of rehabilitation. And it is a tremendously inspiring story for all of us who wonder how we could ever manage if we were struck with a disabling illness. If it were fiction it would be a great read. The fact that it's a true story gives one goosebumps as well. Bonnie Klein suffered a devastating stroke. This book is about her ...
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Crawdads, Persimmons, and Wildplums: Things I Want My Grandchildren to Know1 review
Juanita M. Dandridge
1st Books Library, 2003
Wonderful stories
Since this is written by my Aunt I think it's wonderful. Great little stories of growing up in Louisana. To bad more books are not written like this. Gives insight to what it was like growing up in harder times and not really knowing it. Things all family should remember.
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The Square Persimmon and Other Stories2 reviews
Takashi Atoda
Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1991
A touch of the Japanese feeling for life
The book contains 11 short stories. They are all very different, with ingenious plots, but all have the feeling of the Japanese "inner life" in them. My only regret is that this appears to be the only English translation of his many collections of short stories.
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Persimmon Days1 review
Betty Jean Mock
Xulon Press, 2008
Persimmon Days
This book is an amazing account of an adopted child growing into adulthood. It is touching and captivating. The story is uniquely written to speak to the hearts of those who have been through an adoptive experience; "The need to know the basic facts about one's personal history can be almost overpowering. These intimate, personal facts about themselves are what most people take for granted but ...
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Fifty Ways to Please Your Lover: A Woman's Guide to a Mutually Pleasurable Love Relationship1 review
Candy Rand-Riley
Persimmon Press, 1990
Hi Candy.. this is Suzie (Shea) Reed !
Whoever reads these entries, could you please let me know how I could get in touch with the author? We are old friends--going way back to Grammar school. If you could please forward this message to her, that would be great. S. Shea Reed
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Tom Mix, riding up to glory (A Persimmon Hill book)1 review
John H Nicholas
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center], 1980
"Riding Up To Glory ... Tom Mix ... Persimmon Hill Book (1980)"
Persimmon Hill Book presents "TOM MIX: RIDING UP TO GLORY" (Hardcover) (1980) --- Author John H. Nicholas with pen in hand has brought to the table with the documentary style about a B-Western hero --- Tom Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies --- He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but 9 of which were silent features --- He was Hollywood's ...
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The Persimmon Tree1 review
Bryce Courtenay
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007
As good as 'The Power of One'
Wonderful story. I had become somewhat disillusioned with Bryce Courtenay over the past few years. Brother Fish, Whitethorn and Sylvia were all average reads. For this reason, I hesitated in buying 'The Persimmon Tree'. I was seduced by the cover however, and luckily so. The Persimmon Tree is as fine a novel as 'The Power of One'. It combines history, evocative surroundings and an engaging ...
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Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey In Japan2 reviews
Dave Lowry
Koryu Books, 2005
Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey In Japan
I have been a fan of Dave Lowry's writing for some time, then I had decided to read this book. This is by far one of the best reads of my life. The suthor has a great ability to capture small nuances of the japanese experience and convey's beautifully to the reader. The details of the bathhouse experience, and well as the samll dojo where he and his sensei practiced iaido, was a great treasure to ...
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Under the Persimmon Tree 11 reviews
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Square Fish, 2008
Lots of cultural insights
The Afghan war of 2001 was a vivid reminder of the brutality, anger and hatred that the division of a country can produce. Under the Persimmon Tree brings this experience to life through the perspective of Najmah, an Afghan girl, and Elaine, an American woman living in Pakistan.
Najmah lives with her father, mother and older brother in a remote village. They have little in worldly possessions, ...
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Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies 1 review
Persimmon Blackbridge
Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers, 1996
Character Studies wih True Insight
This book is a study in character. It is about the struggle of people who have difficulty dealing with reality. This in its own way is true for every one of us. The book succeeds in showing the humanity in everyone even those who have been ostracized by society. The book flaws stem from the anger that the author genuinely feels with the people who are charged with providing care for the ...
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The Sugarloaf Site: Paleo-Americans on the Connecticut River (Persimmon Press Monographs in Archaeology) 1 review
Richard Michael Gramly
Persimmon Press, 1998
An irresponsible example archaeological "excavation".
The "excavation" that Gramly conducted at the Sugarloaf site was not only irresponsable in terms of excavating a non-threatned site, but also is an excellent example of very poor excavation field methods and artifact analysis. Gramly took only four days to "excavate" the volume of dirt that it would take a responsible archaeologist excavating a Paleoindian site several weeks or months. His ...
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Prozac Highway 6 reviews
Persimmon Blackbridge
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000
A Book That Captures The Reality of Mental Illness
This book captures what it is to be mentally ill. It is told from the first person viewpoint of a woman who is descending into irrationality. It is painfully accurate in the subtle ways that the irrationality of a mental illness can take over the psyche of an individual. It is more than a self-help or a true experience book though. It is true work of art that captures the reality of the ...
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Persimmon Jim the 'possum 1 review
Joseph Wharton Lippincott
The Penn Publishing Co., 1924
Animals the way they used to be
I purchased (and read) this book recently as a gift for a nine-year-old reader of my acquaintance, remembering it fondly from my early reading days in the 1950s. The story is a somewhat anthropomorphic look at the natural history of oppossums, in particular a fellow named Persimmon Jim. It is a kindly, if dated, telling, perhaps too much in an older style to amuse today's high-speed youngsters. ...
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Bitter Persimmons: An Unlikely Story 3 reviews
A. S. Friedell
Dime Box Press, 2004
Texas Escapes Turned Me on to Bitter Persimmons
John Trosser, Editor or Texas Escapes, turned me on to A.s. Friedell's excellent memoir about her dramtic, first 32 years of her most interesting life. Trosser wrote about Biiter Persimmons: In Bitter Persimmons, first time author A.S. Friedell writes a personal story set in recent Texas history that somehow seems so long ago. The story opens on a depot platform in a small central Texas town ...
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Green Persimmons1 review
Rick Bowers, Barbara Cortright
Xlibris Corporation, 2005
The people aren't real.
Sounds like somebody from Arizona trying to write with a Southern accent. They practically give you a map to people's houses but then starts the fiction. The characters have no talent, brains, music, soul. They are so flat. Except that a guy who couldn't even spell orchid is an orchid expert in this fiction. The sweetest lady (he tells us exactly where her restaurant is) is a scary monster-wife ...
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Persimmons (Kaki) From Seed To Supper (From seed to supper)
Jack W Hazelton
Jacks Bookshelf Inc, 2000
Part of a series From Seed To Supper for what to grow, how to grow it and what to do with it once it's grown, the subject is Persimmons. A versatile and delicious fruit with a split personality; firm-ripe persimmons can be eaten raw like an apple, while, soft-ripe persimmons must be soft like a thin skin full of thick jelly before eating. Both may be served by themselves, in salads, cooked, used in baked goods or frozen. With more than 85 ...
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Persimmon Wind Martial Artist's Journey8 reviews
Dave Lowry
Tuttle Publishing, 1998
Great Book!
Several years ago, in "Autumn Lightning," Dave Lowry wrote of his experiences growing up as a young American whom had been informally "adopted" into the family of a Japanese martial arts teacher. It was a fascinating, semi-biographical account that delved into the true nature of the Japanese martial arts experience. Now, a number of years later, he has returned with a sequel-"Persimmon Wind-A ...
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Persimmon Culture in New Zealand (DSIR information series)1 review
H. Kitagawa, P. G. Glucian
Agaccess, 1984
Good book in a subject with little coverage.
Persimmon Culture in New Zealand is pretty good coverage of the subject. Some of the stuff is New Zealand specific, and not applicable to the USA, but most is useful and accurate. At only about 70 pages, it's too short, but it's also about the only book out on the subject. Of course, it has nothing to do with Sociology, Amazon has it mis-filed.
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