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The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes(Expanded and ...
Todd Downs
Rodale Books, 2005
Excellent bike service book
I got this book about two years ago when I bought my first serious road bike. Whether you are serious biker or just have a few kids bikes in the garage, this is a truly excellent piece of work. Starting with the basics of bicycle maintenance, it proceeds to review ...
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The Art of the Short Game: Tour-Tested Secrets for Getting Up and Down
Stan Utley, Matthew Rudy
Gotham, 2007
Great treatise on the chipping, pitching and sand shots
After reading Stan Utley's "The Art of Putting," I spent four months retooling my putting approach to great effect. I was really anxious to read his ideas about short game shot-making in this book.
After four weeks of absorbing and practicing his ideas in this great ...
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Truman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1993
wonderful sense of American history
I have read most of McCullough's books, and so I knew that after reading this I would understand Harry S. Truman more deeply than I ever had. What I didn't know what was that I would learn so much about 20th century American history. McCullough is a great story-teller. ...
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Watership Down: A Novel
Richard Adams
Scribner, 2005
You won't believe this
I love this book. It's been one of my favorites since I was a little girl and my Dad read it to me now I'm 33 and I'm on my 3rd copy. I read the first one until it fell apart, the second (this is the part you won't beileve)my pet rabbits ate. My new copy will be safe ...
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My Trip Down the Pink Carpet
Leslie Jordan
Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008
Leslie Jordan...always such a delight!
I met Mr. Jordan several years ago when he was in town performing his one man show, Like a Dog on Linoleum. I was coming down the street and noticed his small frame immediately as 'Beverly Leslie' from Will & Grace, among other appearances. I walked up to him, ...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
Fascinating Culture, Fascinating Book
As the title implies, this book offers an alternative perspective of epilepsy, or seizures, as seen through the lens of the Hmong people. It also provides a fresh view of Western so-called civilization itself, and most particularly Western medicine.
I doubt there's ...
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Down River
John Hart
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007
Amazing New Author
I'm not going to go into detail of the story line as several reviews have already done that but just to say that I not sure if enjoyed is the right word (it's not a light enjoyable type of book)but the storyline kept my interest because it is so different than most ...
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition
Burton G. Malkiel
W. W. Norton, 2007
Should Have Listened
Fantastic Book - full of common sense and ultmate truths. Read it in October 2007 when it was screaming at me "the market is in a bubble, get out!!" - unfortunately I listened but didnt act. Great book
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
I loved it!
I loved this book. I did not want to put it down nor did I want it to end.
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Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult
Washington Square Press, 2007
It had me seek out other Amish books!
I was so involved in the lives of these characters I had to go do research on Amish people and read more books about them. This is truely a great book even if you know NOTHING of Amish life!
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Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Harry Beckwith
Business Plus, 1997
Still amazingly current, though written in 1997
Heard a taped copy of SELLING THE INVISILBE: A FIELD
GUIDE TO MODERN MARKETING by Harry Beckwith and
was pleasantly surprised that I liked it as much as I did, in that
the title did not "grab me" . . . nor did the fact that it was
written in 1997.
However, that ...
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The Duke Next Door (Heiress Brides)
Celeste Bradley
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008
enjoyable
I was not disappointed with this second in a series. Not sure why some of the reviews are so brutal, bad day perhaps? I found it to be a light, fast read.
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What's Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask
Karen Gravelle, Nick Castro, ...
Walker Books for Young Readers, 1998
puberty education
Great book for my nephew - he enjoyed reading it and asking me questions a bout it.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Harvest Books, 1972
A tramp is nothing but an Englishman out of work: a metropolitan anthropology of the lower classes
Orwell's first published book established a literary name for him and brought him some moderate success, which must have helped to escape the conditions that the book describes. It is a 'non-fiction' book with a lot of fictional spicing.
Roughly, the book has two ...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fearful Symmetry (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Olivia Woods
Star Trek, 2008
Plenty to offer
In my opinion, the negative reviews this book is getting are based solely on the fact that it didn't give people what they wanted. They expected Fearful Symmetry to continue the action of Warpath, to provide confrontation and lots of plot twists. I can see why ...
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