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Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun (Lab Series)
Carla Sonheim
Quarry Books, 2010
Fun and Useful!
It's easy to do one lab a day, and see the improvement. It's fun, and it's thorough. Out of all the drawing books I'd recommend for mixed media artists, this one would come first.
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Life on the Mississippi
Public Domain Books, 2004
Thrown together but extremely readable
To me, this book seemed like several rather disjointed chunks of writing about Twain's Mississippi experience. I don't know what happened. Maybe he compiled all his scraps of material about this period and threw them together, not bothering with transitions or filling ...
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The Hunger Games
Scholastic Press, 2008
THE most exciting book I have read in a very, very long time...
This is one of those rare novels that will make you forget everything else that's going on around you. You do NOT want to start reading this until you have a long weekend with no plans and plenty of quiet time. This completely transported me from my couch to a place ...
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Demon from the Dark (Immortals After Dark Series, Book 8)
Pocket, 2010
Amazing
This was my absolute favorite of the series. The books get better and better. I don't know how she will top this, but I can't wait.
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Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips
Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter, 2010
Ina Garten, bestselling cookbook author and beloved star of Barefoot Contessa on Food Network, is back with her easiest recipes ever. In Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? Ina proves once again that it doesn?t take complicated techniques, special equipment, or stops at more than one grocery store to make wonderful dishes for your family ...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Free Press, 2004
MOTIVATIONAL!
I listened to the entire series of DVDs on a recent 4-hour road trip! I listened, learned, and even laughed aloud at some of Dr. Covey's stories! I feel as if I can now move forward in my career having this insight!
I highly recommend it!
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian ...
S. C. Gwynne
Scribner, 2010
The Exciting Story of the One and Only Chief of all the Comanches
Gywnne shows a lot of passion as well as writing chops in this great narrative. He describes some of the interesting characters from Texas History - Ross, Hays, Goodnight, Isa Tai, Cynthia Ann, Walker and especially Mackenzie and Quanah with entertaining strings of ...
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Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 10)
Charlaine Harris
Ace Books, 2010
Love Dead
If you are Team Erik you will Love this Book! and if you are Team Bill, you will still enjoy this book!
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
New Press, The, 2010
Opinion of Book.
Michelle Alexander pulls no punches and tells it like it is. Including why lawyers are helpless to deal with the mass incarseration of people of color. If you want to know about the prison-industrial complex close up, this is required reading.
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Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 20th Edition
F. A. Davis Company, 2009
Taber's Medical Dictionary
Wonderful update to an old friend. Loved the new illustrations and current information included.
Can never go wrong with the Taber's.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage)
Stieg Larsson
Vintage, 2010
Could not put it down
A great suspense story with characters who are so very interesting. How this author's mind must have worked to craft this story....It's a shame we'll only get the trilogy. I can't wait to read number three in the series.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin Books, 2007
Inspirational and eye-opening
Some poorly-written books are worth reading, and this is one. Mortenson's dedication to his school-building mission is inspirational. His depiction of the lifeway of villagers in the remote reaches of Pakistan and Afghanistan is eye-opening. But it's really tough for a ...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 2006
Wow- I'm speechless
This was such an incredible story. I can't believe this is a non-fiction book. It is unfathomable to me that others could live like this. What a tough live. I am so happy that Jeannette shared her story with the world. I am just keeping my fingers crossed that we ...
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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
Princeton University Press, 2009
Analyzing the Commonalities in Causes and Consequences of Centuries of Financial Crises.
"This Time Is Different" presents a quantitative history of financial crises -debt crises, bank crises, currency crises, inflation crises- with an eye to commonalities in the run-ups and aftermaths of these crises. Of course the authors' point is the reverse of the ...
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A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering
Free Press, 2010
"The grand and bold thing is what we want to do."
What is that grand and bold thing? " 'A Complete Survey of the Galaxies' " using a camera grid system with an unprecedented number of pixels for resolution to capture pictures in five different colors and determine redshift. Actually, the entire sky was not to be ...
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A Memory of Wind: A Tor.Com Original
Tor Books, 2010
Hauntingly Beautiful Tale of Betrayal & Loss
A new fantasy drawn from a liitle known Greek myth, this short story hauntingly recounts the life of a young woman before she is sacrificed to a god. It weaves human emotion & desire, a realistic portrayal of ancient Greek life, and a unique perspective and flow into a ...
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2010
Inglorious Basterds
There really is nothing exceptional about Pat Tillman. Like many other devoted and patriotic men and women who were outraged not just by the attack of 9/11, but also by the rise of a syndicate of criminals who would use any means necessary to kill innocents, to trade ...
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The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed
Andrew Doughty
Wizard Publications Inc., 2008
Excellent Book!
My Wife and I got this book for our recent trip to Kauai and it was an excellent resource to have. We left it in the rental car and brought it everywhere we went, it was especially helpful for finding good food wherever you were. They list the favorite restaurants ...
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