books about: 2007     books:     2007      The Dangerous Book for Boys Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden Collins, 2007 Great for the 'boy's' in your home! I originally bought this book for my son, he's 11. He loves it. Unfortunately my husband and 6 brothers won't give it back to him, yet. They've enjoyed the 'projects' as much as my son has.             The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Riverhead Hardcover, 2007 Funny, Poignant, DELIGHTFUL, and Real Just read it -- that is all there is to say. This is the best of contemporary fiction, a justification for compulsive reading -- you keep exploring until you find something like this! The prose is honest, down-to-earth, and refreshing -- I can't remember the last ...             Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 Book Review by Victor Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about a boy named Greg who is wimpy and is addicted to video games. It is written like a diary instead of a story. I like this book because Greg loves video games, and I love video games. You will love this book because it's funny.             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 A disturbing, but fascinating, look into Africa A Long Way Gone chronicles the life of a young teen in Sierra Leone who is fleeing the Rebels who are wreaking havoc in villages throughout the region. He falls in with a group of boys trying to survive, but since everyone is suspicious of groups of boys, they live a ...             A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 Informative look at life for women in Afghanistan's current history All I can say is wow. What the two women went through in this book is incredible, and to remain so strong through it all. I knew that life was not pleasant for women in previous years in Afghanistan, but the cruelty of what they went through was just mind altering. ...             Sundays at Tiffany's James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet Little, Brown and Company, 2008 a bit on the light side I thought the imaginary friend concept was at least different. Other reviewers found it inplausible, maybe they have less imagination. It's a light summer read with some tear-jerking moments. Overall, I liked it because the premise was different.             Sail James Patterson, Howard Roughan Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Audio version not a great listen Sail is a good book for light reading. A small insignificant twist at the end. The who-done-it is told in the beginning. The audio read is strange. There are two readers, a man and a woman. Perfect!!! right? Not exactly. Who is reading the book depends on what ...             Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow, 2006 Number game Interestingly, the book starts off very nicely with catchy questions and a unique perspective in answering them. However, you quickly realize that the author is beating around the bush and comes back to the same question and answers. The authors are prejudiced to begin ...             Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) J. K. Rowling Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007 The terrifying, yet satisfying conclusion... "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" is the utterly terrifying, mystifying, captivating, and satisfying conclusion to JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. This story brings together all the threads, and brings them all to satisfying, and in some cases surprising, ...             The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008 The best book I ever read The Mysterious Benedict Society is THE best book I have ever read. It is about four gifted kids looking for special opportunities. The kids go through three different tests with about 70 other gifted children. Only four succeed: Reynie,Stickey,Kate and Constance. ...             Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song Les Beletsky Chronicle Books, 2006 Bird Songs Excellent book. We all love hearing the 250 bird songs incluced in the book. If you hold the search button down you can quickly go to any of the 250 songs. My grand kids spend hours with the book.             Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1) Nora Roberts Jove, 2007 Blood Brothers Wonderful !! I loved the whole series it was just so well written such a love story. Timeless !!             Then We Came to the End: A Novel Joshua Ferris Back Bay Books, 2008 Didn't want this novel to end! For those of you looking for a quick recommendation, I can say that this is the best book that I've read this year. It was funny but sad, outlandish but true, and I fell head over heels in love with it. Ferris's novel is set in the fairly mundane setting of an ...             The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick Scholastic Press, 2007 Bravo! There was a frequent segue phrase used on Monty Python's Flying Circus: "And now, for something completely different . . .," and I feel like that this book fits that perfectly. On one level, this is basically a mystery story about a twelve-year-old orphan boy, Hugo ...             Excel 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) Greg, PhD Harvey For Dummies, 2006 Excel 2007 for Dummies Started a new job and was not used to using the 2007 version of Excel. The book is very informative and helped me greatly. Would recommend this book to anyone needing help with Excel 2007          products you might be interested in search for books dangerous, economist, everything, freakonomics, invention, mysterious      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: The Everything Pirates Book: A Swashbuckling History of Adventure on the ...