The Heat Islands: A Doc Ford Novel (Doc Ford Novels)

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Marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones, when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island-Marvin Rios.And when the Island's simplest and sweetest resident is arrested for the murder Doc heads straight into the heart of the sunshine state's dark side-to save his friend from being framed, and to save Sanibel Island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money and violence.

Customer Reviews:

The Heat Islands: A Doc Ford Novel.......2006-11-04

I love the character who is much more than he appears to be. Very smooth reading, captures your attention with twists and turns, and for me a very exciting end.

North of Havana.......2005-09-08

Love the "Doc Ford" adventures, especially all the references to Florida. Author makes each page an easy read and very hard to put down in the middle of the adventures. Just discovered Randy Wayne White and want more, more, more!!!

The Heat Islands.......2005-09-07

A sound follow up to White's "Sanibel Flats". Interestingly, White chooses to change his style and still makes it work. He adds an environmental flavor and again comes up with a thoroughly interesting story and a great read.

Top Writer, Top Researcher Excellent Doc Ford Series #2.......2005-08-14

I have read all of Randy Wayne Wright's Doc Ford books and am anxiously awaiting his next. This particular book is the one that really got me hooked into the characters and Doc Ford. Mr. Wright is an unusual writer in that his books are based in Florida and are quite accurate and informative about the state, as well as entertaining about the characters and intriguing about the mysteries he incorporates. I have encouraged several fellow Floridians to read him and they all feel the same way. This man is OUR FLORIDA AUTHOR and in my opinion has John MacDonald beat by a mile.
Keep on writing Randy.

a worthy series.......2004-04-04

HEAT ISLANDS is the second book in the Doc Ford mystery series, after SANIBEL FLATS. Ford, a marine biologist and ex-secret agent, is pulled into trouble when a friend is accused of murder. The case is tied to some shady dealings involving land and the Floridian environment-destroying building boom.
Ford mourns for a lost Florida, everywhere he goes the state has been overrun by tourits and developers. He's trying to hide at a quiet marina, but (like his forefather Travis Mcgee) can't resist a friend in need. White's description of Florida's nature is wonderful. The villain is sort of a stereotypical nut job, but Ford's quiet heroism makes up for it. Recommended.

Randy Wayne White's Gulf Coast Cookbook: With Memories and Photos of Sanibel Island

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A COMPENDIUM OF ''AUTOBIOGRAPHY'' AND GREAT RECIPIES FROM THE SOUTH AND FLORIDA GULF COAST. GREAT READING AS WELL !
South Florida culinary
Savory eating adventures
Where is the colour?
fun cookbook

Randy Wayne White's Gulf Coast Cookbook: With Memories and Photos of Sanibel Island
Randy Wayne White , and Carlene Fredericka Brennen
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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ASIN: 159228096X

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A memoir-cookbook from one of the nation's top adventure writers.

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A COMPENDIUM OF ''AUTOBIOGRAPHY'' AND GREAT RECIPIES FROM THE SOUTH AND FLORIDA GULF COAST. GREAT READING AS WELL ! .......2007-10-17

IF YOU THINK GREAT AUTHORS ARE 'JUST LUCKY', A READ OF THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COOKBOOK WILL TELL YOU THE REAL FACTS OF WHAT IT TAKES, BESIDES TALENT, TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR. POIGNANT,INSPIRING, FUNNY, AND VERY ENTERTAINING........WITH GREAT , AUTHENTIC 'CONCH' RECIPIES THROWN IN!

South Florida culinary.......2007-10-01

Great cook book if you love south florida seafood, especialy the rescipes from sanibel popular restaurants.By the way,pass on his overhyped hot sauces.Even Frank's is better.

Savory eating adventures .......2007-06-01

Fans of the Doc will appeciate this look at what fuel keeps the guy going even as he constantly points out how old and out of shape he is getting. All I can say is - I'll have what he's having! Don't let the regional title scare you off; this cookbook takes you around the globe...some of the cocktail recipes might even take you out of this world.

Where is the colour?.......2007-04-12

Scouring Amazon for any thing I hadn't read by Mr White I ordered this and yes I will probably order his hot sauces too.
I would probably buy RWW's shopping list if it came out, unfortunately this feels a bit like what I have done.

The lack of colour and qualiity of printing feels cheap and fails to entice me to create the scent or atmosphere of Sannibel and Doc Ford by actually trying any recipes, so it sits unread.

Still I now have Hunters Moon to read!

fun cookbook.......2007-03-21

This cookbook is a combination of local history and recipies. Fun and informative

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Loved this one!
A Title as Good as the Book
One of White's Best Doc Ford Novels
best one yet
Excellent Florida mystery

Ten Thousand Islands
Randy Wayne White
Manufacturer: Berkley
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ASIN: 0425180433
Release Date: 2001-06-12

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Of all the Travis McGee wannabes who've appeared on the mystery scene since the death of John D. MacDonald, Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford, the marine biologist with an intentionally vague history of military espionage, comes closest to hitting the mark. In this seventh outing in a popular series that's never quite broken into bestsellerdom, Ford is finagled away from his beloved fish and his stilt house off Florida's Gulf Coast to investigate the grave robbing of a long-dead adolescent girl who had a remarkable gift for finding archaeological artifacts of a long-gone civilization of Calusa Indians. The centuries-old gold medallion that may have been buried with Dorothy Copeland has mysterious powers--at least, that's what a big Florida developer whose son is being groomed for high political office seems to believe. By the time Doc Ford starts investigating the incident, along with his oddly gifted friend Tomlinson (a druggie with a past as violent and mysterious as his own), more lives are at stake, including Doc's.

Ten Thousand Islands is based on a true story of multiple tragedies associated with the 1969 discovery of the medallion at the novel's center. But the complicated tale of mayhem and serial murder White weaves of it is all his own. Doc Ford is an increasingly interesting character whose love life takes up as many pages as the plot, but the community of Dinkin's Bay, with its fascinating and well-drawn minor characters, is as great a part of White's series as the denizens of Travis McGee's Fort Lauderdale marina were of MacDonald's. --Jane Adams

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Government agent-turned-marine-biologist Doc Ford returns in a steamy tale that begins with the suspicious suicide of a fifteen-year-old girl-and ends in a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption.

ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING THRILLERS IN RECENT MEMORY. (Chicago Tribune)

Taut and engrossing. (Boston Globe)

A wild, dangerous adventure.(Denver Post)

Thrilling and strangely moving. (Miami Herald)

White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer can hope to find. (Carl Hiaasen)

Customer Reviews:

Loved this one!.......2007-07-01

Doc Ford is great! This book is hard to put down. Definitely my favorite Randy Wayne White book! Just when you think it can't get better he twists the story to add another element. Great read! you won't be disappointed!

A Title as Good as the Book.......2007-06-15

I ask you, how can a person with a sense of adventure possibly resist a title like "Ten Thousand Islands"? It sounds great and it is.

Doc Ford is up to more adventures and a lifestyle that appeals to men. I mean, he's not married, he lives in the stilt house in Florida, has a lot of friends (some quirky like Tomlinson, a wonderful character), and he has a lot of lady friends. Doc Ford's background is mirky, a lot of it spent on secret missions for a CIA type of organization. The average man will get lost most of White's novels, sailing away with him on some grand adverture.

I've enjoyed all of Randy Wayne White's novels. If you're not in the mood to read, then get them on CD. Ron McLarty does a super job with Tomlinson's voice! He makes him sound like Jack Nicholson--very funny. Tomlinson is a strung-out hippy type, whose ramblings contain surprising bits of wisdom. A very compelling character and friend of Doc Ford.

Also, highly recommended for men is "Sands of the Kalahari," by William Mulvihill, and "Cry Wolf," by Wilbur Smith. Both are up-in-the-night African adventures. Check out my reviews. The Sands of Kalahari
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Your comments--good or bad--are appreciated. Thanks from one adverturer to another.

One of White's Best Doc Ford Novels.......2006-11-27

In TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS Doc Ford and Tomlinson investigate the bizarre case of a dead girl's grave being dug up and her mother's home being burglarized by thieves who are in search of a gold medallion found by the girl shortly before her death several years ago. The story takes place around Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, Marco Island and Key Largo. The reader learns a lot about the ancient Indian culture of the people who lived in the area before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores. Most of this information is given by Nora Chung, a young graduate student who becomes a useful ally of Doc and Tomlinson early in their investigation.

TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS is an entertaining book - especially because of its rich descriptions of lower Florida geography as well as its abundance of engaging characters. I consider this novel to be one of White's best efforts.

best one yet.......2005-09-03

This is the latest book in the Doc Ford series that I've read and it's the best so far. All the usual elements are in place: action, suspense, mystery, Florida, humor, science, sex, fishing, boating, and more. And as always we learn more interesting facts about the past of Doc and his buddy Tomlinson. Some of the revelations about these characters were fascinating and surprising. Now I'm ready to tear into Shark River.

Excellent Florida mystery.......2003-11-22

Ten Thousand Islands has it all - an excellent sense of place, a hint of the supernatural, an archaeological puzzle, a twisted villian, and a competent hero. I lived in Florida during my childhood, which makes good Florida mysteries particularly enjoyable for me - and this is a good one.

White weaves the history of the Calusa Indians with modern-day grave robbers. Doc Ford searches for someone who desecrated the grave of a teenage girl - Dorothy, a girl with a mystic link to the history of Marco Island - a girl who may have been murdered.

A political candidate, his powerful businessman father, and hired thugs all appear to be looking for what was buried with Dorothy. Plain old evil, madness, and a hint of the supernatural weave together into a fast-paced and exciting story.

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In a post-Jaws/Discovery Channel world, unearthing fresh data on great white sharks is a feat. So credit Susan Casey not just with finding and spotlighting two biologists who have done truly pioneering field research on the beasts but also with following them and their subjects into the heart of one of the most unnatural habitats on Earth: the Farallon Islands. Though just 30 miles due west of San Francisco, the Farallones--nicknamed the Devil's Teeth for their ragged appearance and raging inhospitality--are utterly alien, which may explain why each autumn, packs of great whites return to gorge on the seals and sea lions that gather there before returning to the Pacific and beyond. That Casey, via her biologist buddies Peter Pyle and Scot Anderson, can even report that sharks apparently follow migratory feeding patterns is a revelation. Throughout The Devil's Teeth, Casey makes clear that year upon year of observing the sharks have given Pyle and Anderson (and by extension, us) insights into shark behavior that are entirely new and too numerous to list. The otherworldly Farallon Islands, meanwhile, also dominate Casey's engaging tale as she charts their transformation from ultradangerous source of wild eggs in the 19th century to ultradangerous real-life shark lab and bird sanctuary today. Despite the plethora of factoids on offer, Casey's style is consistently digestible and very amusing. She also has a knack for putting things into perspective. Take this characteristic passage:

The Farallon great whites are largely unharassed. They might cross paths with the occasional boatload of day-trippers from San Francisco, but they're subjected to none of the behavior-altering coercion that nature's top predators regularly endure so that people can sit in the Winnebago... and get a look at them. This is important because despite their visibility at the Farallones, and despite the impressive truth that sharks are so old they predate trees, great whites have remained among the most mysterious of creatures."

By book's end, it's hard to know what's more captivating: The biologists' groundbreaking data, Casey's primer on the evolution of the Farallones, the islands' symbiotic relationships with the sharks, the gulls and sea lions they attract, or the outpost's resident ghosts. Frankly, it's a nice problem to have. --Kim Hughes

Getting to Know the Great White
It was a BBC documentary on great white sharks visiting California's Farallon Islands that turned Susan Casey from an editor of adventure and outdoors stories in such magazines as Outside to a journalist obsessed with an outdoors adventure of her own. In her Amazon.com interview, Casey recalls the fascinations and the follies of her time with the sharks in the Farallones and discusses everything from the ethics of adventure journalism to the stunning silence and size of nature's perfect predators. And in her answers to the Significant Seven (the seven questions we like to ask every author), she reveals her admiration for both Joseph Mitchell and Johnny Knoxville (once you've read her book, both choices seem appropriate).

The outer edge of the fearsome Maintop Bay, a spooky, boat-eating stretch of water that makes everyone uneasy. Not surprisingly, the sharks seem to love it. (Susan Casey)
An 18-foot shark investigates a 6-foot surfboard. (Peter Pyle)
A shark attack at the Farallones is not usually a subtle event. (Peter Pyle)

Scot Anderson (in orange) observes a feeding. Also in the boat are director Paul Atkins and cinematographer Peter Scoones of the BBC film crew that visited the Farallones in 1993 to film The Great White Shark. (Peter Pyle)
The Farallones researchers see some action from a shark named Bluntnose. (Peter Pyle)
An unquiet cove: Just Imagine (Casey's temporary home) at its moorage in Fisherman's Bay, 150 yards west of Tower Point and 200 yards east of Sugarloaf. (Susan Casey)

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Since Jaws scared a nation of moviegoers out of the water three decades ago, great white sharks have attained a mythical status as the most frightening and mysterious monsters to still live among us. Each fall, just twenty-seven miles off the San Francisco coast, in the waters surrounding a desolate rocky island chain, the worlds largest congregation of these fearsome predators gathers to feed. Journalist Susan Casey first saw the great whites of the Farallones in a television documentary. Within months, she was sitting with the programs two scientists in a small motorboat as the sharkssome as long as twenty feet, as wide as a semitrailercircled around them. From this first encounter, Casey became obsessed with these awe-inspiring creatures, and a plan was hatched for her to join the scientists and follow their research. The Devils Teeth is the riveting account of that one fateful shark season. An exhilarating adventure story, The Devils Teeth offers a glimpse into a violent, uncivilized world ruled by natures most powerful and mysterious predators, a world where man is neither wanted nor needed.

Customer Reviews:

Great topic but self absorbed writer.......2007-09-22

Positives: stories about history of the Farallones and too-brief summaries of scientific information about white sharks.

Negatives: way, way too much information about her own personal struggles. Also, she seems to semi-idolize the scientists in a way that struck me as groupie-like: "He was a striking person, in his early thirties and athletically built, with jet-black hair and dark eyes and a smile that could light up a small midwestern city."

The author picked a great subject, and was clearly willing to do whatever it took to get a story, but she would have been better served by focusing more of her attention on the sharks and the islands. Nothing that happened to her personally seemed all that interesting to me.

Disappointing.......2007-09-20

- Subject: fascinating
- Author's writing style: disjointed and self-focused anecdotes
- Tone of writing: whiny

- Wanted to put it down after 20 pages.
- Despite effort to get through it, did put it down about halfway through.

the book you buy for everybody you know.......2007-09-12

I'm stunned that anybody gave this book less than five stars. Seriously. It's not just a story about sharks hovering around an inhospitable island like savage school buses, tearing apart unhappy sea lions and bubbling up buckets of frothy blood for three months out of the year -- it's an adventure tale, it's a biological mystery, and ... i suspect it's a love story. sharks, yachts, desert islands, divers, journalists ... it's hard to come up with a more gripping page turner. It's one of those books that you give to everybody you know. "Oh, it's your birthday is it, Horace, well, I know what you're getting! Har har har!" And so far, nobody's come back with less than a face of pallid horror, clutching my shirt and saying "I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!!" -- really. it's that good.

Good read.......2007-07-23

I just picked up this book in a discount bookstore in Orlando while on vacation for 4$ not expecting it to be such a great book. While learning about both the animal and natural world, I got to revel in Susan's destruction (of both herself as well as about anything she touched). She is the classic white hunter of years past. In short, it was extreme and I loved it. I recommend folks read it - but only with the attitude of looking for entertainment value.

Not a good ending.......2007-06-11

And not because of anything the sharks do.

Read between the lines and the obsession is not what the author claims. Not a bad first half, but, as other reviewers point out, the latter part of the book is an example of journalist endeavors gone wrong.

Did not leave me happy I had read it. There are too many great books to waste time on anything less.

A to Z Mysteries: The White Wolf (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

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This is a great series!
A Good Mystery
Great Book

A to Z Mysteries: The White Wolf (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Ron Roy
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ASIN: 0375824804
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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W is for Wolf. . . .
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visit Wallis Wallace at her new cabin in the Maine wilderness. On their very first day, they glimpse a white wolf and her babies on a cliff. But soon after the kids spy the wolf family, the pups are wolf-napped! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose sniff out the culprits before the white wolf starts suspecting them?
“An appealing combination of intrigue, ingenuity, and good fun. A great recreational choice for newly independent readers.”—School Library Journal
When he’s not writing a thrilling new A to Z Mystery or Capital Mystery,
Ron Roy spends his time traveling all over the country and restoring his Connecticut farmhouse. The author lives in Manchester, CT.

Customer Reviews:

This is a great series!.......2006-04-09

I like this book because it is an adventurous book and it is also a mystery. Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose help their friends by saving baby wolves from wolf-nappers. If you want to find out how they rescued the wolves and who took them, just read the book! The White Wolf is not the only good book in the series - all the A-Z Mysteries are good. There is one book for each letter in the alphabet. The first one is The Absent Author. Once you read that, you will want to read all the way to The Zombie Zone!

A Good Mystery.......2005-10-21

(8 year old reviewer) I really liked this book. It kept me interested until the end. THe best part was when the pups returned to the mother, but I won't tell you how that happens. You will just have to read it!

Great Book.......2004-12-22

(8-year-old reader) Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose just got to Wallace's cabin. They have seen lots of wolves. Soon pups are taken! Read this book to find out who took the pups!

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Become White. The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

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Uncovering history
The explanatory power of this book is phenomenal!
Outstanding History
Joseph R. Goldman, University of Minnesota
Roediger focuses on Southern & Eastern European immigrants

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Become White. The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
David R. Roediger
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ASIN: 0465070736
Release Date: 2005-05-31

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By an award-winning historian of race and labor, a definitive account of how Ellis Island immigrants became accepted as cultural insiders in America

At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century, recounting how American ethnic groups that are considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.

While some historians have claimed that these immigrants were "white on arrival," Roediger paints a very different picture, showing that it wasn't until the 1920s (ironically, just when immigration laws became much more restrictive), that these ethnic groups definitively became part of white America, primarily thanks to the nascent labor movement and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants -the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods- Working Toward Whiteness explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. In this masterful history, which is sure to be a key text in its field, David Roediger charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the"white ethnics" of America today.

Customer Reviews:

Uncovering history.......2007-04-05

Roediger's book, Working Towards Whiteness helps to illuminate a gap in most American's historical knowledge, the shifting line of racial classification. While we often accept that current definition of race, including whiteness are givens, Roediger does a great job of laying out the process of how many European immigrants, while "white" wouldn't have been the beneficiaries of the privileges of "whiteness" they share in today.
While we've got a long way to go towards being a fully inclusive country, we could make a great deal more headway towards that goal if people took the time to read this work.

The explanatory power of this book is phenomenal!.......2006-12-27

As a teenager, one of the most common questions I heard on a regular basis was people of all racial/ethnic backgrounds asking "Are Italians white?" If only I could have given them a copy of David Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness for the full story on this matter...

Roediger effectively demonstrates that racial categories are social/cultural constructions, and not inherent biological realities. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise simply needs to read this book first. Roediger meticulously illustrates that "white" is not only NOT a biological category, but many of the people who Americans today regard as "white" (Jews, Italians, Slavs, Poles, Irishmen) were overwhelmongly regarded as members of "inferior races" who threated "white" (Anglo-Saxon Protestant) America in the not-so-distant past. From 1900-1960, the meaning and conceptualization of "whiteness" underwent a dramatic transformation that came to include peoples of Eastern and Southern European descent.

From the mines, sweatshops, and factories of America's cities at the beginning of the 20th century, Eastern European immigrants toiled and labored in a sort of racial/ethnic limbo in America where they occupied an intermediate status - clearly more socially desirable than blacks, Asians, or Mexicans, but clearly inferior to "Nordic" and "Anglo-Saxon" Americans of Northern European heritage and Protestant religious beliefs. Following World War II and the post-war economic boom of the 1950s, these peoples came to become "white ethnics" - fully accepted into the American mainstream. Roediger's book is a must-read to understand how this metamorphosis occurred.

A great feature of this book is that it is NOT written in heavy, technical, academic jargon! A layperson will have no idea grasping the concepts and arguments in Working Toward Whiteness. Roediger is a hawk for detail, and this book is loaded with an incredible amount of small, intricate historical events that serve as wonderful illustrations of his larger points. For example: were you aware that Italian-Americans during the 1930s resisted "whites only" housing projects in South Philadelphia because they feared it would result in an influx of Jews, Greeks, and Irishmen into their neighborhoods?

If you are a "white ethnic" yourself, interested in learing how racial categories came into being in American society, or just want to learn the true version of American history (that wasn't taught to you in school), then you owe it to yourself to read this outstanding and important work.

Outstanding History.......2006-08-29

Roediger does a great job refrenceing his case in other historians. This is VERY importnat when discussing challenging topics like this.

Joseph R. Goldman, University of Minnesota.......2005-09-09

This is one of the finest sociological treatises on American immigration of a former "underclass"- -working Whites from southern and eastern Europe who came to this country in droves between the 1880s and 1930s. Roediger presents a solid analytical framework for readers to use as a compass through the complex history and transformation of "foreigners" of the same color into "gradual natives" whose color is a badge of acceptable passage over time. Here we see Jews, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians and other "undesirables" sweat their way across factory floors, climb to academic heights, even get elected to high national offices beyond the dreams of their ancestors. The data are presented clearly; the interpretations are crisp and penetrating. Roediger does a great service to his subjects who happened to be "Americans in the making". A must study for any scholar of race and assimilation, and a good read for anyone interested in how some of us got to be "Americans" even with the wrong religions, national origins, or accents as impediments fueled by homegrown bigots of an earlier time!

Roediger focuses on Southern & Eastern European immigrants.......2005-08-31

David Roediger has been toiling for years in the historical trenches, documenting the social construction of race. This is another solid entry in that category. It's not exhaustive, but compiles material on how Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the U.S. "became white." The category of "white people" is treated as a given, and as a constant in the U.S. today, but Roediger and others reveal the shifting meaning of the category, and the fight that various groups have waged to gain entry into the "white club" with its privileges. Just one example: the club was established by the British, of course, and from their point of view the Irish were certainly not white. The ruling WASPs had the power to keep the Irish out, viewing them as practically subhuman, and it took the Irish many decades to fight their way in. So "white" is a marker of group boundary between the more and less powerful, pure and simple, a marker of division, not an inherent biological OR cultural category.

One of the original works in this field was Ted Allen's THE INVENTION OF THE WHITE RACE. Noel Ignatiev, inspired by Allen, wrote HOW THE IRISH BECAME WHITE, and launched the journal RACE TRAITOR as well, with the slogan "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity." In the meantime, Roediger had emerged as a major voice in history, legitimating the line of research that led to Allen gaining a wider audience and Ignatiev writing his Ph.D. thesis. Another recent book that covers much of the same territory as WORKING TOWARD WHITENESS is WHITENESS OF A DIFFERENT COLOR by Matthew Frye Jacobson, which I highly recommend. Yet another valuable work in the field by a sociologist is THE ETHNIC MYTH: RACE, ETHNICITY AND CLASS IN AMERICA by Stephen Steinberg, which documents how ethnic/racial boundaries have been used to justify and enforce economic (class) subjugation in the U.S.

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The Sanibel Experience
The "James Bond" of SW Florida
I threw it into the garbage
Sanibel Flats
The birth of a laidback action hero

Sanibel Flats
Randy Wayne White
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Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him.After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down.Then Rafe Hollins appeared.How could he refuse his old friend's request-even if it would put him back on the firing line? Even if it would change forever the life he'd built here on Sanibel Island?

Customer Reviews:

The Sanibel Experience.......2007-08-09

As a lover of Sanibel Island, the author's portrayal of Sanibel whisks me back to paradise. As I read, I begin to experience the aroma of the salty sea air, the gentle lapping of the waves in the distance and the Sanibel breeze flowing through my hair. Randy Wayne White blends mystery, adventure, and espionage all set in the the beauty of Southwest Florida. Brilliantly written as well as a very entertaining mystery.

The "James Bond" of SW Florida.......2007-03-29

Having heard this character mentioned in a song by Troprocker Jim Morris I just had to check out these books. I started with this one, the first, as I felt I may want to read the series. I am not disappointed. Mr White's development of Doc Ford is full, and his narrative of southwest Florida sublime. I could feel the sun and gulf breezes and taste the slat air.
I felt like I was reading of a "larger-than-life" character reminiscent of Ian Fleming's daring and dashing spy, only in SW Florida.

I intend to continue with the series, and hope to enjoy my way though all.

I threw it into the garbage.......2006-09-02

read it up to page 294 (out of 307) then threw it in the garbage.

too many faults for me to list, and that would spoil the ending. I will just say that not one of the excessive number of sub-plots is resolved satisfactorily. most are a dead-end insult to the reader. many characters, central to the so-called plot, do not get even one line of dialogue. the author tries way too hard to be clever in his plot twists.

Sanibel Flats.......2005-09-07

A really solid beginning for White's Doc Ford series.
White is an excellent story teller with detailed background for the Florida West Coast and for Ford's marine biology. Toss in knowledge of Central America and you get a great story with a wealth of information.

The birth of a laidback action hero.......2005-06-13

This was not my first Doc Ford novel; in fact my first and only other Randy Wayne White book, was his latest, Dead of Night. I thought Dead of Night was very good, but Sanibel Flats-the first book in the Doc Ford series-was much better. If you are reading this review then perhaps you have never read anything else by White, and if so, then I would recommend you start at the beginning. Doc Ford and some of the characters that are central to the series are introduced and explained in this book. It just makes for better understanding of everything that takes place in the previous novels if you read at least this one first. I don't know if the rest of the books need to be read in order, but I plan to read them that way, so if you are interested in my impression of the others, as I read them, then just check back every so often by clicking on the "see all my reviews" link.

Having said all that, I have nothing but the highest praise for Sanibel Flats. The plotting and pace were in my opinion perfect. A page-turner for sure. There was good character development even though some if the characters were a bit too over-the-top to be believable. But isn't that why you read books like this? I mean, it's fiction after all and the point of the story is to entertain! Some of the book was predictable, but the conclusion certainly was not. Overall story-telling was superb and the dialogue is about as good as it gets, so too was the apparent research behind the facts in the book. You get the impression that White is at the very least an ichthyologist who also happens be a great story teller!

There are a few (very few) mature sequences in this book, so be advised. This book is a great read and in fact memorable. There are unique aspects of White's writing and the manner in which Doc Ford is portrayed, that will appeal, equally well, to both men and women. I am highly recommending it, and it has my highest, five star rating.

The Island Queen: Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer (Ohio History & Culture Series)

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The Island Queen: Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer (Ohio History & Culture Series)
John H. White , and Robert J. White
Manufacturer: University of Akron Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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John and Robert White tell the story of The Island Queen in evocative detail. More than sixty photographs and illustrations bring back the placid days when the Island Queen paced up and down the river at her ease, a symbol of summer pleasures still vivid in the memory of many Ohioans.

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
David R. Roediger
Manufacturer: Perseus Books Group
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Binding: Paperback

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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Revised and Expanded Edition (Haymarket)
How the Irish Became White
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

ASIN: 0465070744

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A preeminent scholar explores the history of the "new immigrants" who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century and describes how they became insiders by the end of World War II

At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. They eventually became part of white America thanks to the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants--the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods--Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. A masterful history by an award-winning writer, Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today.

"A cogent analysis of culture and race in early 20th-century America that ranks with such classics as Grace Hale's Making Whiteness and Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction." (Kirkus)

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Read it in one evening

Very enjoyable!

The Color of Light

Spooky kid solves a mystery

Another very good read

The Color of Light
Karen White
Manufacturer: NAL Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Losing the Moon

After The Rain

When Light Breaks

ASIN: 0451215117

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At thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found. At the time, Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend and Jillian's confidant, had been a suspect in Lauren's disappearance. Now he's back on Pawleys Island-renovating the old Mills house. And as ghosts of the past are resurrected, and Jillian's daughter begins having eerie conversations with an imaginary friend named Lauren, Jillian and Linc will uncover the truth about Lauren's disappearance and about the feelings they have buried for sixteen years.

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Read it in one evening.......2007-07-16

This book reels you in like a serpent. I found it jaw dropping and compelling and read it all in one evening! After I finished it I thought about it for hours and am still thinking about this amazing story!

Very enjoyable!.......2006-05-29

This is the first book I've read by this author and found it very engaging, hard to put down. I'll be getting more books by this author. Enjoy!

The Color of Light.......2006-03-24

I enjoyed the book very much. But! I thought it got alittle slow in some places,I new what was coming and I wish it would have just got there.

Spooky kid solves a mystery.......2006-01-05

Pregnant and freshly divorced, Jillian and daughter Gracie return to the summer home once owned by her grandmother for a new lease on life. It is on Pawley's Island that Jillian has both her most cherished and most painful memories, as her best friend Lauren disappeared without a trace 16 years earlier.

Gracie's apparent second sight divulges long buried secrets, forcing Jillian to face her greatest fears and befriend the guy who was accused of murdering Lauren and fled soon after. Now a successful architect, Linc has re-emerged, renamed himself, and returned to the island that he both loves and loathes. He is not prepared for the feelings that Jillian's presence invokes, and debates on leaving the past ... in the past.

Haunted by memories of childhood abuse and the loss of her beloved friends, Jillian at first discounts Gracie's ramblings about her imaginary friend (also named Lauren) until she realizes that there are far too many coincidences. New secrets and passions are revealed on the small island, as Jillian and Linc work together to discover what happened to Lauren all those years ago.

While the story is well written, with believable dialogue (thought Gracie could be grating after awhile), unfortunately, you don't need second sight to see where the story is going. You can pretty much predict the outcome, as it is really no mystery with all the foreshadowing the author provides. Despite its predictability, it is a solid and original story, with endearing characters. Don't miss "Falling Home" and "After the Rain," also by White. They are not to be missed.

Another very good read.......2005-11-16

I really enjoyed this book, and I don't want to say too much as I don't want to give anything away. Good plot, although I did figure out some of it earlier on. Still very enjoyable.

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