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Summary: Wonderfuly creepy
Review: After I read Ammie, Come Home I had to sleep with the light on for three days. When my family heard I was reading it they tried their best to freak me out and they got me to drop the book and run out of the room quite a number of times. But this book was wonderfuly spookey and it really pulls you into the story. WONDERFUL
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Summary: the most terrifying ghost story I have ever read
Review: Ammie Come Home is fantastic---a book you won't be able to put down and one which will ensure that you sleep with the lights on for at least a week! Ruth is a widow living in Georgetown when her college-age niece Sara comes to stay. Ruth reluctantly agrees to host a dinner party/seance which will feature a famous medium. Ruth and her guests who include Sara's anthropology professor, Pat, do not believe in ghosts but the seance stirs up old memories in the house. Sara becomes possessed by the spirit of Ammie---a young girl who lived in the house during the Revolutionary War. Michael's depiction of Sara---and her possession by Ammie---are done amazingly well. Ammie is as real a character as Sara and yet the changes which occur in Sara are subtle. Ammie has taken over Sara for a reason---and Sara, Ruth, Pat and Sara's boyfriend, Bruce, all must work to discover who Ammie is, what she wants and whether they can help her. As always, Michaels does a great job. The characters are real and the absurd situation in which they find themselves also seems surprisingly real. This is probably what makes the story so chilling---seeing ordinary lives disrupted by the extraordinary. Buy this! You will not regret it!
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Summary: the most terrifying ghost story I have ever read
Review: Ammie Come Home is fantastic---a book you won't be able to put down and one which will ensure that you sleep with the lights on for at least a week! Ruth is a widow living in Georgetown when her college-age niece Sara comes to stay. Ruth reluctantly agrees to host a dinner party/seance which will feature a famous medium. Ruth and her guests who include Sara's anthropology professor, Pat, do not believe in ghosts but the seance stirs up old memories in the house. Sara becomes possessed by the spirit of Ammie---a young girl who lived in the house during the Revolutionary War. Michael's depiction of Sara---and her possession by Ammie---are done amazingly well. Ammie is as real a character as Sara and yet the changes which occur in Sara are subtle. Ammie has taken over Sara for a reason---and Sara, Ruth, Pat and Sara's boyfriend, Bruce, all must work to discover who Ammie is, what she wants and whether they can help her. As always, Michaels does a great job. The characters are real and the absurd situation in which they find themselves also seems surprisingly real. This is probably what makes the story so chilling---seeing ordinary lives disrupted by the extraordinary. Buy this! You will not regret it!
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Summary: SUPER!
Review: Any Barbara Michaels fan who has read Shattered Silk knows and loves the formidable Pat MacDougal, his shy but sweet wife Ruth, and his overly eccentric mother- Mrs. Jackson MacDougal. And if you arent already farmiliar with them you can grow to love them now, for they are some of the main characters in Barbara Michaels supreme novel- Ammie, Come Home. This is most definitely a must read. Plenty of mystery, a touch of romance. Just right to warm your heart and soul. :)
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Summary: SUPER!
Review: Any Barbara Michaels fan who has read Shattered Silk knows and loves the formidable Pat MacDougal, his shy but sweet wife Ruth, and his overly eccentric mother- Mrs. Jackson MacDougal. And if you arent already farmiliar with them you can grow to love them now, for they are some of the main characters in Barbara Michaels supreme novel- Ammie, Come Home. This is most definitely a must read. Plenty of mystery, a touch of romance. Just right to warm your heart and soul. :)
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Summary: Classic supernatural mystery
Review: Barbara Michaels is a master, and this book is one of her finest. Ruth Bennett invites her niece Sara to stay at her historic Georgetown house. Starting with a seance, the past apears to manifest through Sara. Is she going mad, or is it something else? Sara's boyfriend Bruce leads an investigation into the house's history - and finds the key to understanding what is happening to, and through, Sara. This is a classic ghost story, that I have read and reread over the years. Very enjoyable book.
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Summary: Classic supernatural mystery
Review: Barbara Michaels is a master, and this book is one of her finest. Ruth Bennett invites her niece Sara to stay at her historic Georgetown house. Starting with a seance, the past apears to manifest through Sara. Is she going mad, or is it something else? Sara's boyfriend Bruce leads an investigation into the house's history - and finds the key to understanding what is happening to, and through, Sara. This is a classic ghost story, that I have read and reread over the years. Very enjoyable book.
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Summary: Ammie Come Home
Review: Barbara Michaels weaves a web of supernatural "reality" around a 1960s era Washington, DC suburban neighborhood. The web is so well woven, so gripping, that you don't want to escape. Fiction becomes reality as the presence of a malevolent evil focuses in on an innocent teenager and her aunt. Read this one with the lights on and don't be surprised if the chill creeping up your spine doesn't come from the temperature in the room. I was 14 years old the first time I "met" Barbara Michaels in a Readers Digest Condensed Book and "Ammie Come Home" was our introduction. Since that time, I haved read every book she has written, including those written under other names and have kept every one of them. I finally managed to find my own paperback copy of "Ammie Come Home" - in fact I have two- one is so dog-eared from my years of reading it sits on the book shelf like an antique porcelain doll. That one is just to look at. The other I share with my 20 year-old daughter, as I share all my books. When it comes to creating a haunting presence, there's no one like Barbara Michaels.
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Summary: No one tops Michaels
Review: Having read every Barbara Michaels book (and believe me she's a prolific writer!), I can easily say this is her best. The "atmosphere" is chilling and riviting. For anyone who loves a good scare, I recommend reading this book alone late at night in an old house!
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Summary: I Just Keep Coming Back!
Review: I first read "Ammie, Come Home" as a Reader's Digest Condensed Book in 1969. Since acquiring the full text version (hopeless trying to borrow it at the library because it was always out!) I just keep going back and back to read it again. Ruth and Pat, Sara and Bruce, are old friends now and the atmosphere grips me and holds me till I've finished every time.
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