books about: best     books:     Best      The Last Lecture Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow Hyperion, 2008 Touching, educational, inspiring Inspiring, educational in that it has great life lessons. A fast, easy and wonderful read.             When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris Little, Brown and Company, 2008 LOL I laughed. Out loud. On an airplane reading this book. BTW... Also check out the interview he did with Jon Stewart about it. Hysterical.             Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 Will Jacob's relationship eclipse Edward? If you liked Twilight and wasn't as excited about New Moon, you will love Eclipse. There's love (of course), vampires, werewolves, and a series of killings. What's nice about this one is that both Edward and Jacob are present. Although quite different, both add ...             The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick Scholastic Press, 2007 Beautiful Storytelling "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" takes place in Paris, in the early 20th century. It tells the tale of an orphan named Hugo who secretely lives in a train station and fixes the clocks, unbeknownst to the stationmaster. Hugo is not just an ordinary boy however. In ...             Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinny Yes, I know what you're thinking. A novel? In... Cartoons? Well, here's the thing. Diary of A Wimpy Kid is written as the journal of Greg Heffley. It is a real novel, with a few pictures here and there to reinforce what you have read and to add a bit of comedy to the ...             Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) J. K. Rowling Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007 HPDH cd review This item is wonderful to add to ones collection. My children enjoy listening to the Audio book as much as reading the book itself             A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 A sad burqa "romance" with a semi-happy ending I enjoyed the book. Despite having a mostly sad story line, the two female main characters demonstrated courage, love, and hope in an otherwise brutal and oppressive marriage. This book is not for children since it frequently describes sexual encounters in a somewhat ...             Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Dan Ariely HarperCollins, 2008 Reality is absolutely relative. At first glance, the title of Dan Ariely's book seems to be an oxymoron. (It certainly catches one's attention.) Can irrational thought and/or behavior be predicted? Perhaps if it is repetitive? (The judgment and behavior of at least some people can be repetitive and ...             The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, ... Collins, 2008 History is . . . (a) more or less bunk. (b) a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken. (c) as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis. Match your answers: (1) Stephen Daedalus of James Joyce's Ulysses (2) Henry Ford (3) Arthur Schopenhauer It turns out that answer need not be bunk, nightmarish, or diseased. In ...             The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeannette Walls Scribner, 2006 Adults as Children and Children as Adults This memoir got book deals for several dozen marginal writers with bad childhoods, but those books have been awful compared to this one. Jeannette Walls has enough experience as a writer to tell a story. We have the typical bad dad -- the Angela's Ashes model where he ...             Goodnight Bush: A Parody Gan Golan, Erich Origen Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Goodbye Bush A friend of ours bought us this book, and what a wonderful gift it is! I have it on the coffee table - for everyone to read and ponder. For those who don't know or have forgotten Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon, I recommend keeping a copy of her book close by. ...             The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle Jim Butcher, Ardian Syaf Del Rey/Dabel Brothers, 2008 When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can?t handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there?s just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book. A police consultant and private investigator, Dresden has to walk ...             The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008 Outstanding fiction for middle readers (and their parents) What tremendous fun this is! I read the first 100 pages aloud to my mother after she had surgery. Then the book got so compelling and engaging that I had to race through silently and leave poor Mom to fend for herself. (I gave her a copy of her own for Mother's ...             Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction David Sheff Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008 A beautiful boy The author is wonderfully expresses his pain about his loving son. I also have a daughter the same age whose drug of choice is heroin. The book opened my eyes to go to Hazeleden to joint the parents program and to go to Al-Anon. In short I thank the author so much ...             Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, ... Scribner, 2006 Cook up some classics! Originally a self-published book in 1931, and no less than nine revisions later, this thick volume of recipes (it's got to be at least 3 inches thick) is a great addition to anyone's cook book library. But wait! This book is not merely just a collection of recipes- ...          products you might be interested in search for books anniversary, civilization, irrational, irreverent, mysterious, predictably      toavi.com    web we recommend HPDH cd review randomly chosen DVD: Freshman Fall