Ghost Ship (Paula Wiseman Books)

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"I am so pleased to have written my first children's book and to have my dear friend Wendell Minor illustrate it. I thought it would be a daunting project, but with six grandchildren and eleven stepgrandchildren, I've been telling stories to children for a long time."

-- Mary Higgins Clark

Thomas loved his summer visits to his grandmother's on Cape Cod. He spent hours wondering about the sailing ships of the past and imagining their stories. He dreamed of being on a sailing ship himself. One afternoon after a night of terrible thunderstorms, Thomas finds, deep in the sand, a weathered, old-fashioned belt buckle. When he picks it up, a boy his own age, Silas Rich, who was a cabin boy on a ship called the Monomoy that sailed almost 250 years ago, appears. Suddenly the world of sailing ships is very near as Silas tells his tale.

Beloved and bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark tells a story of mystery and adventure that will transport readers to a time and place beyond their imaginings in her first book for children. Wendell Minor's inspired paintings make a time long ago very real.

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Ghost Ship by Mary Higgins Clark.......2007-07-05

My children enjoyed me reading this story to them. The illustrations are beautiful. I had to explain some of the terms in a little more detail, but the story held their attention. It is nice when you find books that also actually introduce a "real" history of what it was like many years ago.

Another hit for Mary Higgins Clark!.......2007-05-22

Mary Higgins Clark is a wonderful storyteller and it is very evident with this children's book. Being an avid fan, I purchased the book to pass on to my granddaughter when she gets a little older. The illustrations are beautiful too. It will be a pleasure to introduce my granddaughter to Mary Higgins Clark, through her children's books!!

First rate for MHC's First Children's Book.......2007-05-14

I have been a fan of MHC for years. I was delighted with her first children's book especially since it took place where I spent many of my summers over the years. Am passing this book on to younger readers.

Awesome Children's book.......2007-05-12

I have be a fan of this author for years. This book surpassed all my expectations. What superb fiction for young readers! As always she uses her talent to spark the imagination without all the violence and gunplay of the modern world. I look forward to sharing the next with my children, too!

No younger than 4 year olds for this one.......2007-05-12

I read this book to my 4 year old granddaughter, who loves books and is beginning to read now. The book held her interest well, and I loved the illustrations! It was great to be reading her a book that had an actually story, instead of the standard children's books. She loved the story, and in fact, after we read it, she wanted to start playing out her own version of the story...."Grandma! Pretend that you find a belt buckle in the sand, and I appear as the ghost of the boy who was given it to." She really got into being on a ship back in the days of big sailing ships, and had so much fun with it!
I love Mary Higgins Clark's books for myself, and loved being able to read my granddaughter one of her books that was written for children. I hope she'll write more.

The Doomsday Ship (Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear, Book 10)

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Who!
HELP!
GREAT BOOK
It was like Alien Resurrection and Deep Rising combined!

The Doomsday Ship (Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear, Book 10)
John Whitman
Manufacturer: Skylark
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ASIN: 0553486403
Release Date: 1998-05-11

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Bug swarms, space slugs, brains on legs, mad Imperial scientists--Zak has had enough! He's glad to be on board the luxury space yacht, Star of Empire, where at last, there's peace and quiet.

Until--"Abandon ship! Critical meltdown!" As a blaring siren sounds, panic-stricken passengers rush to get off the ship. Everyone evacuates...except Zak and Tash. But to their relief, nothing happens. There's no meltdown, no explosion. Everything is fine. Except that the ship's exits are sealed and all communications have been shut down. Zak and Tash are trapped. And they are not alone.

Customer Reviews:

Who!.......2002-09-02

In this book Zak and Tash are on a space cruiser. But Zak won't come out of his Room. He say's "something will happen to me if I come out. But Tash aranges for him to go to the main control room. That gets him excited! But he just happend to get there during this crazy tecky's work shift. The guy doesn't want Zak around so he tells him to press some buttons and when Zak does the ships power goes out! This little cruise has turned into a great big mess. This book will scare as well as surprise you. More surprising than scaring though. Hope you enjoyed reading this review and hope it helped you out to.

HELP!.......2000-09-05

Tash and zac go to a cruise ship only to find out the ship is to be taken over by a weird bug. tash befriends a stranger that zac doesnot like . Hang on to your seatbelt as you go along on a fast breathtaking adventure with tash and zac rent this book today.

GREAT BOOK.......1998-11-04

This book is very different from the others in the series. Instead of one big problem the book is a lot of problems, also it is the only book in the series where so many people die and you feel sorry for them. You would never imagine that such harmless technology can be so deadly, and you would never guess who the killer is.

It was like Alien Resurrection and Deep Rising combined!.......1998-07-20

The book offered adventure and horror and gives you great description so you can easily visualise it. It also gave me a little nightmares.

Scooby-doo Mysteries #04: Scooby Doo And The Sunken Ship (Scooby-Doo, Mysteries)

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In Limbo with a Ghost Pirate.
The book is great !!!!

Scooby-doo Mysteries #04: Scooby Doo And The Sunken Ship (Scooby-Doo, Mysteries)
James Gelsey
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0590819178

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In Limbo with a Ghost Pirate........2004-02-21

In this Scooby-Doo Adventure, Scoob and the gang find themselves at Sandy Cove, an ocean resort where Daphne's Aunt Maggie and Uncle Murray live. The gang has come to help Daphne's family with Frye Fest, a local celebration in honor of the pirate Captain Horace P. Frye, to help raise money for the town. A big city developer is in the area and is buying up all sorts of land. Then the Ghost of Captain Frye raises from the sea and threatens to wreck Frye Fest. Something smells fishy, but if Scoob and the gang want to save Sandy Cove, they have to work fast and unmask the ghost. Good story.

The book is great !!!!.......1999-06-28

The book is a great book to read. It is about a moster that wants the hotel and tries to scare the people off the island...

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Swash-buckling adventure in Lovecraft's Dreamlands
#2 in the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft series.

Ship of Dreams
Brian Lumley
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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ASIN: 0812524209

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Once David Hero was an ordinary man living in the real world. Now he is trapped in the Dreamlands, cut off from the waking world. David Hero's dreams and nightmares have become his only reality.Led by wickedly beautiful Queen Zura, the zombie armies of the dead are on the march. They will destroy the beautiful Dreamlands, making them a permanent, deadly nightmare.Unaware of the marauding zombies, David Hero and his friend Eldin voyage through the clouds in a wondrous skyship. Their journey is interrupted by a pack of faceless nightgaunts, terrifying creatures, half-man and half-bat--and all evil!David Hero is one of Zura's first targets. As a man of the waking world, he can withstand her terrible seductive power and shatter her shambling armies. David Hero must be the first Dreamlands hero to die.

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Swash-buckling adventure in Lovecraft's Dreamlands.......2001-03-17

Continuing with the characters and swords-and-sorcery style of the first Dreamlands book, this book moves the action into the seas and skies. Plenty of swashbuckling adventure aboard ships, with cannons roaring, fierce battles by boarding parties, and prisoners forced to walk the plank. However, since these ships spend most of their time flying through the air, this isn't your normal naval adventure! If you like a rip-snorting adventure tale, there's plenty of action here, which I think you'll enjoy whether or not you're interested in the Lovecraftian setting.

The hard-core Lovecraft fan might react a bit differently. Although the story is set in H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, Lumley puts his own twist on things. In the original dreamlands stories, magic and mystery surrounded most of the amazing aspects of the setting. Lumley puts a more pragmatic, scientific explanation behind things. For example, he provides a scientific, practical explanation for how the floating city of Serranian stays airborne, and how the sky ships fly. Another twist on the original HPL stories is the role of the Nightgaunts. In Lovecraft's stories, they are loathesome, inscrutable, and usually operating on behalf of greater powers. Lumley has a human character who can control a grim of Nightgaunts to do his bidding, whether his goal be evil or good.

Lovecraft fans who like pulp adventure and are not bothered by Lumley's shift of style, emphasis and detail from the original will have a great time sailing the skies of the Dreamlands and wandering the streets of Serranian. Purists will take offense.

#2 in the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft series........2001-02-18

The proper background for this book would be to read THE DREAM CYCLE OF HP LOVECRAFT, then the first book of this series, HERO OF DREAMS, but if you insist, you can get by without it.

Take timeless Celephais, and the sky-city of Serannian, for instance - created by the dreams of a young English boy at the seaside, a beautiful place where nothing ages, changes, or passes away. The boy, upon his death as a grown man, re-entered Celephais to rule it as King Kuranes. (All this is recounted in Lovecraft's "Celephais".)

Celephais, ideal city of dreams - no crime, no wars, no problems, no slums - just timeless perfection, marble temples, and a gentle king.

Yeah, right. :)

Enter David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer, once of the waking world but cast in a different mold - two professional questers. Knights-errant, mirrors of chivalry? Not even in your dreams (although you'll note that no language worse than "Damn me!" is ever needed). Having lost the love of his life when she woke up at the end of HERO OF DREAMS, Eldin has been working on staying drunk, and Hero has stayed with him. Not being blessed with much business sense, they've been staying in the same low dives they've always frequented, even though they have (or rather, had) money.

So we begin SHIP OF DREAMS with "Down and Out in Celephais", as the two of them are hauled before a judge for drunkenness, non-payment of debts, vagrancy, assault, seduction, and arson, not necessarily in that order. (Eldin has a touch of pyromania, which comes out when he gets annoyed.) Yes, they're guilty of everything - except that Hero protests the seduction charge, since *she* seduced *him* ("Why, man, I'll carry scars down my back for the rest of my dream-life. That girl has nails as long as --")

Ahem. This puts them right behind the 8-ball, where Kuranes wants them - they have the choice of either accepting his commission, to act as his questers, or to rot for 5 years in jail.

Introducing:

- Curator, the mysterious, silent robot guardian of the Museum, who only comes out when visitors start thinking of stealing the treasures therein. After their first meeting: "If he ever lays eyes on me again, he'll kill me. And I'm sorry but...I think the same goes for you two." "What did *we* do to annoy him?" "You were with me, " the Wanderer answered. "That's enough."

- Zura, the Princess of Zura - a beautiful, living woman, ruling over Zura the land, which carries the stench of death, and to which no living person willingly goes.

- Gytherik, master of night-gaunts - and nephew of Thinistor Udd, the ambitious sorcerer that Eldin, Hero and Aminza faced in the previous book.

- Ula and Una, the lovely twins who are *really* interested in learning about the world...

A lonely princess who wants nothing more than to seduce Hero. A sorcerer's apprentice, grimly seeking vengeance for his fallen master. Two lovely, lusty twins, highborn girls out for a bit of excitement.

And if you take any of this at face value, there's a bridge in Inquanok that we'd love to sell you. :)

Lumley is **NOT** trying to mimic the Dunsany-like style in which "Celephais" was written, nor is he making any extraordinary effort to, e.g., scare the reader into swearing off subways forever (see "Pickman's Model"). If you want Dunsany, check some of my other reviews for links to his books; if you want horror, seek out some non-Dreamlands Lovecraft.

All you need is to appreciate this book for what it is - fantasy with a bit of humor. The *settings* are the same as Lovecraft's - I don't think anybody's going to catch Lumley out in a discrepancy with Lovecraft's framework, mythology, or characters, e.g. Kuranes, Randolph Carter. The tone is generally lighter than Lovecraft.

Great Lakes Ghost Ship: Johnathan Rand's Michigan chillers (Michigan Chillers)

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Shiver Me Timbers . . .

Great Lakes Ghost Ship: Johnathan Rand's Michigan chillers (Michigan Chillers)
Johnathan Rand
Manufacturer: Audio Craft Pr Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893699846

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10 Copies of Michigan Chillers #11

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Shiver Me Timbers . . ........2007-02-18

Once again Johnanathan Rand has scored a hit with our young reader, age seven. He has enjoyed all the Chillers books he has read, both the American Chillers and the Michigan Chillers. Living in Michigan we were fortunate to have met Mr. Rand, who was absolutely terrific, taking his picture with our son and signing all our son's Chillers books. This particular story appealed to him because living on the Bay, as we do, we see the big ships as they travel through and so he could visualize the story as it unfolded. Now he can't wait to to read the next mystery and wonders, if the next time he goes go fishing, he can catch an alligator, too!

Mysteries of Ships and Planes (Strange Unsolved Mysteries)

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Mysteries of Ships and Planes (Strange Unsolved Mysteries)
Phyllis Raybin Emert
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Scooby-doo Pirates Ahoy (Scooby-doo 8x8 Video Tie-in)

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Scooby-doo Pirates Ahoy (Scooby-doo 8x8 Video Tie-in)

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ASIN: 0439839939

Ship of Ghouls (Give Yourself Goosebumps, No 36)

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Cool!
YOU CRUISE-YOU LOSE
Awsome
Great book
An Adventure Packed Ship Ride!!!

Ship of Ghouls (Give Yourself Goosebumps, No 36)
R. L. Stine
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ASIN: 0590517236

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Cool!.......2005-12-23

You and your friends are going on a two week vacation in Japan. But there is trouble. Will you turn into a giant ship or will you swim to escape but battling sharks? The choice is yours!

YOU CRUISE-YOU LOSE.......2003-05-05

u r on a 2 week vacation 2 japan with a friend and no parents.
this should be a total blast---if u can survive it. a man u meet aboard the ship claims this ship is a secret labratory
which turns passengers into sea crestures.the man warns u 2
jump overboard because he plans on blowing up the ship.should
u warn the captain? will u be turned into a giant shrimp if u
stay aboard or will u jump and risk fighting killer sharks in the icy waters?the choice is yoursin this scary goosebumps adventure packed book!

Awsome.......2001-08-19

I'v read better gossebumps books but i have to give this book 5 stares it real

Great book.......2001-06-10

My mom got this for my birthday. Me and her read it in one day. I didn't think i could sit there that long. But the story in the was so cool that the time went really fast. My mom says i shouldn't tell about the story, it gives it away, but to say how great the book was. And it was great. Your son's my age would love it too. I am 9. and my little brother is 5. he sat there with us. it was a cool book. i can't wait to read the others with my mom.

An Adventure Packed Ship Ride!!!.......1999-08-31

This is a Ship Ride you wont forget!! You go to a vacation to Japan...ON YOUR OWN! This is 1 deadly cruise. Will you be turned into weird creature?Or will you drown in the ocean? Th real Question is will YOU SURVIVE?!It's up to you!READ IT!!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!READ ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Read!!!!!!!!
Ghost Ship
masterful story telling

Ghost Ship (Apple Signature)
Dietlof Reiche
Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0439597056

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Vicki plans to spend her summer vacation waitressing in her father's famous seaside restaurant. But when the bay goes dry and a 1772 sailing ship appears, Vicki's course is reset. Where the greedy mayor sees dollar signs, and a nosy reporter sees something fishy, Vicki sees ghosts. Determined to discover the truth and to uncover old family secrets, Vicki and her new best friend Peter venture into the deep to face the unimaginable.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!READ ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-09-13

THIS BOOK WAS REALLY GOOD. IT IS ABOUT A GIRL NAMED VICKI AND A BOY NAMED PETER. THEY ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN A SHIP CALLED THE STORM GODDESS. THIS IS A REALLY GOOD FICTION BOOK. I THINK IT WAS REALLY GOOD AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO KIDS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10-13.

Great Read!!!!!!!!.......2006-04-18

This book has mystery and a curse kind of. Kind of similar to the "Pirates of the Caribbean"

Ghost Ship.......2005-04-24

This is a wonderful read aloud for a class. I read it to my fifth and sixth graders, and they loved it. We found ourselves stopping and discussing what might be happening next in the story many times. We were all surprized at the story's conclusion. They all hope that Mr. Reiche writes more stories like this one!!!

masterful story telling .......2005-02-27

A blend of mystery, ghost story and pirate tale, Dietlof Reiche's Ghost Ship is a brilliant novel that will keep readers intrigued until the end. Set in a small New England community in present day, Reiche supplements his story with flashbacks to the 18th century that add to the ghostliness of the tale.

Vicki is a twelve year old girl who works as a waitress in her dad's restaurant, Ye Olde Seashell Room. A community that thrives with tourism, their spectacular bay is the main reason people go there to escape. Except one day, the bay disappears. Nothing is left except a muddy area where the bay used to be, until the Storm Goddess shows up. A two hundred and thirty year old sailing vessel, the Storm Goddess appears in the middle of the empty bay looking brand new. Vicki and her new friend Peter appear to be the only one troubled by the bay's disappearance and the ship's reappearance. Could this have anything to do with Vicki's ancestor's journal? He was a quartermaster on the ship and Vicki's reading of the journal coincided with the bay's disappearance. Suddenly Vicki is being haunted by ghosts and she knows the only way to return everything to normal is to get aboard the ghost ship and unlock an ancient curse. All that stands in her way is a greedy mayor, a story hungry reporter, a security detail and her curfew.

Reiche story unfolds in such a way that a reader is never bored, yet kept in suspense until the end of the tale. His characters are fun and adventurous, everyday people who find themselves thrown into a mystery. The book, though it could be classified as horror, is perfect for ages 7-12 because of its lack of gory details and Reiche's masterful story telling skills.

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From a new fan of Martin

Fevre Dream

Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 073944946X

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From a new fan of Martin.......2006-07-09

I would never have gone out of my way to buy this 80's book from Martin if I hadn't recently read his Song of Ice and Fire.

In Fevre Dream, Martin drops you in the middle of steamboating culture in a pre-civil war USA.. You can tell just from the style of writing, the tendency to write from a character's perspective but from the third person, a few Martin-esque liners ("To be sure" is there maybe once or twice), the way Martin loves his characters in his writing, the way he kills them off without mercy... that this is Martin writing... more than twenty years ago before Ice and Fire.

It's fun to imagine how his writing has progressed since. On the other hand, don't read Fevre Dream thinking it's going to hook you like Song of Ice and Fire. I don't even think Martin likes vampires, and this is a vampire book (haha) ...

Martin tries to alter (like so many others) the vampire myths to freshen up the overused cliche, but in the end it's impossible to escape from those attributes. For a 1 dollar bin book, this is a 2 stars purchase. With a +1 if you are a Martin fan.

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