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The Little Book
Selden Edwards
Dutton Adult, 2008
The Little Book
Wonderful! Imaginative! Great read - historical but fictional. Recommend with no reservations. It took a long time to be published but so glad it happened.
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson
Harper Perennial, 1999
The Gospel of Bill...
Last fall, as a 21 year-old college student in his final year, I started pondering what to do with that ludicrous accumulation of wealth that all university students find upon graduation. Lies, actually: I scraped together the best I could and bought a ticket for ...
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A Death in Vienna
Daniel Silva
Putnam Adult, 2004
Gabriel Allon is the man!!
I have gained a an ever increasing respect for Holocaust survivors. I do not believe anyone can ever really begin to imagine the horrors of this period in history. Gabriel Allon learned of this first hand upon reading a manuscript, written by his mother, who was a ...
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Streetwise Venice Map - Laminated Center City Street Map of Venice, Italy - Folding pocket size travel map ...
Streetwise Maps
Streetwise Maps, 2008
INCREDIBLY HELPFUL
My husband and I found this map to be extremely helpful, in large part because of the clear identification of the monuments. It's worth the money to have it for the first day or two until you get your bearings.
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Rick Steves' Germany and Austria 2008 (Rick Steves)
Rick Steves
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2007
Great for planning a brief trip
Planning a brief trip to a country as varied and historic as Germany is demanding, but this book has been my best resource. As in all of his books, Steves states his approach to travel clearly: he doesn't cover everything, just the "best" places, the best according to ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
Mike Venezia
Childrens Press Chicago, 1995
Great book!
We used this book with elementary students in our after school program. Since this year Mozart celebrated a special birthday, we decided to call our class Mozart Mania. First, the students purchased a copy of this book and read it. During our first after school ...
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Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Pocket, 1997
How to find happiness in a dismal situation
I bought this book because I was searching for yet another book on workplace bullying and another book came up in my search based on Frankl's book. I read the customer reviews on that book and one reviewer said something to the effect of, "If you want to read a book ...
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Vienna (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2003
Great City, Great Guide
Vienna is a fascinating place to visit and this is a great book to use. For once I did not find the subdivisions as useful in this book. Vienna can be a very confusing city to get around until you get the hang of it and sometimes the street maps in the book cut off in ...
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Austria (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2003
Great Guide!
I love this brand of travel books. The images really help you to identify attractions, as well as the birds eye view maps. I also enjoy the "must see attractions" call outs within each section. This book helped make our trip through Austria more well informed and ...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
A path from apathy...
From the perspective of a member in a culture consumed in the "existential vacuum", Frankl's experiences and logotheraphy discussion offers a call to action for those prepared to live a meaningful life. This book will change you.
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 (The Royal Diaries)
Kathryn Lasky
Scholastic Inc., 2000
You are there!
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versaille, Austria-France, 1769 takes young readers and adults into the world of the Franch history through the eyes of a young Queen. All the cruelties and hypocricies are exposed in sharp contrast to the extreme devotion to fashion and ...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
Mike Venezia
Children's Press (CT), 1996
An entertaining juvenile biography of the great Ludwig Van
Mike Venezia's Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series tends to focus on biographies rather than music appreciation because unlike his companion series on the World's Greatest Artists you cannot include a sonata the way you can a reproduction of a ...
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Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (Who Was...?)
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Grosset & Dunlap, 2003
Great History Series For Kids!
The "Who Was..." series is a wonderful way to get kids to read about history. They'll learn different & interesting things in these books they won't get anywhere else. My children asked for them for Christmas! They can't put them down. I homeschool and these are a ...
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The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent
John Stoye
Pegasus Books, 2007
Poland to the rescue
Not many people today realize that militant Islam reached as far West as Vienna in its attempt to conquor Europe. After reading this meticulously researched and coherently presented book, the reader will come to realize what a close call Western civilization had before ...
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Rick Steves' Germany, Austria, and Switzerland Map: Including Berlin, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna City (Rick ...
Rick Steves
Avalon Travel Publishing, 2007
As Someone Who Lives in Germany
Before I moved to Germany from the States I received this book from a friend of my mother's who had spent a few years attending university in Spain and said that Rick Steve's books were what everyone at the university used. Since moving to Germany this book has been ...
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