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Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2004
Brilliant
Fortunately, I missed reading this in high school- after finally reading it in my twenties, I honestly couldn't imagine having gotten nearly this much out of it. It's a brilliant character study of a sublime anti-hero. If this was "put on you" in high school and you ...
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New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
Todd G. Buchholz
Plume, 2007
I Can spot a great BOok when i read oNe
Economics is a very interesting subject. For many it is very confusing. Economics itself is confusing because its not very concrete. Its hard to predict things in real life using economics because there are MANNYYY variables in real life that cannot all be taken ...
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Odyssey #2: The Land of the Dead: Tales from the Odyssey: The Land of the Dead - Book #2 (Tales from the ...
Mary Pope Osborne
Hyperion Book CH, 2003
tbreading@warsaw.k12.in.us
I use this book for an ESL English class. It's much more comprehensible than reading the poetic version. The kids seem to enjoy it, where I think they would be lost with the poetic translation in our textbook. All of the students in this class are low level English ...
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks
Three Rivers Press, 2003
"Exellent read"
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks is amazing. It has humor, but is totally serious the entire length of the book. I feel that if a Zombie Outbreak happens anytime soon I will be better prepared having read mentioned book. A must for Zombie, Horror, and Survival ...
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Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Truth from a Life Spent with Death
June Nadle
New World Library, 2006
A Fascinating, Compassionate Look at Death from an 80-year-old Industry Insider
You might not expect a memoir by an eighty-year-old woman to deal with topics such as gang warfare, AIDS, racism, unplanned pregnancies, and feminism, but this one does. You also might not expect a book called Mortician Diaries to be anything but morbid, but Nadle ...
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Harper, 2008
Enjoy the classics and the literary talents of the moment in this beautiful volume
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides (MIDDLESEX) edited a Valentine's Day 2008 collection of love stories entitled MY MISTRESS'S SPARROW IS DEAD (the title is derived from the work of Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus). The book's cover features an ...
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A Rose from the Dead (Flower Shop Mysteries, No. 6)
Kate Collins
Signet, 2007
Murder at the funeral direcotrs convention
Abby Knight, owner of Bloomers flower shop, has agreed to attend the Midwestern Funeral Directors Convention to try to drum up more business. She shares a booth with her friends Delilah and Max Dove. Considering there is a casket race and a coffin decoration contest, ...
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The Zombie Survival Guide Deck: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks
Potter Style, 2008
The Zombie Survival Guide Deck
I purchased this as a birthday gift. How fun was it as we each read card! I know my friend got a real kick out of it!
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Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
Matt Taibbi
Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007
The doctor is in.
As a longtime fan of Hunter S. Thompson's political reporting and social commentary I was first exposed to Matt Taibbi when i learned that he had inherited the very same job that the good Dr. HST held at the Foriegn Affairs Desk at Rolling Stone magazine. Pretty bold ...
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From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8)
Charlaine Harris
Ace Hardcover, 2008
Can't Get Enough of This Series
I can't get enough of this series. It's one of the best I have read so far. I don't want to give away too much, but I will summarize. Bottom line, you won't be disappointed.
The vampires are dealing with the aftermatch of the Vampire Summit and reorganizing ...
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Grateful Dead Gear: The Band's Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions, From 1965 to 1995
Blair Jackson, Grateful Dead
Backbeat Books, 2006
Must have book for the Gearhead Deadheads
A must have book for the gearhead deadheads! Jackson details the instruments and sound and recording systems for every era of the Grateful Dead. He also includes some background info on equipment and their manufacturers. His information comes from many interviews ...
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Lessons from a Dead Girl
Jo Knowles
Candlewick, 2007
Literary Page-turner
Having read the first chapter of LESSONS FROM A DEAD GIRL before it was published as one of the panel of judges of the PEN New England Discovery Contest (which the book won!), I knew it was well-written. What I didn't expect when I sat down to read the entire novel in ...
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Top Dead Center: The Best of Kevin Cameron from Cycle World Magazine
Kevin Cameron
Motorbooks, 2007
Best of the past
If you were an avid motorcyclist in the 1960s to 1980's and followed the races you will enjoy the time capsule perspective of Kevin Cameron. It will bring back happy memories.
If you're from the recent era it provides a great perspective on how different things were ...
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Whispers from the Dead
Joan Lowery Nixon
Laurel Leaf, 1991
visions of murder
This book is about a girl named Sarah. Her family decides to move to this huge house that was on a beautiful neighbor hood. What Sarah's family didn't know was that someone was murdered in the house before they moved. Sarah found this out first hand when she starts ...
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Beck Weathers
Dell, 2001
RE: Mt Everest
As one of the other reviewers had written, I too have becme nearly obsessed with the events surrounding the tragic events of May 1996. I have read every book I can find on the subject.
Dr. Weathers book is very well written. It gives perspective from his wife and ...
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