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Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Multnomah Books, 2008
dizzydax
I loved this book! These two incredible teen authors break the mold of the "typical teenager" and share their wonderful advice to other teens on how to prove the "lazy teenager" stereotype wrong.
A MUST READ FOR ALL TEENS (AND SOME ADULTS TOO!)
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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher)
Lee Child
Jove, 2006
Jack Reacher Is A Believable Super Hero
This is my second Jack Reacher read. I think the author does a great job creating page turning excitement. Even though many of Reacher's exploits may seem over the top. They are achieved in a plausible way. Reacher's brother was a top level treasury department boss ...
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Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster, 2008
BEST YET........ A NEW HIGH FOR BURKE AND FOR PATTON
Let the others try to condense this story into 4 paragraphs, here are my thoughts. Many writers improve with age while others hit a pinnacle and begin a slide back down. This Robicheaux novel is as good as it gets and crosses a fine line from storytelling to real and ...
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The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
Vintage, 1988
Great Read
This book is amazing. It kept me turning the pages. Great summer read with lots of twists and surprizes. Enjoy!
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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)
John Sandford
Putnam Adult, 2008
Another hit for Sandford
Same old, same old: Great descriptive writing, great characterizations, great story and plot development, great dialogue. I try to read slowly because I don't want to reach the end and have to put the book down, but (once again) was unable to do so. I thought the ...
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Rough Weather
Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult, 2008
A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible? the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past . Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected ?and she needs Spenser?s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold digger recently separated from her latest ...
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Plum Boxed Set 3 (7, 8, 9): Contains Seven Up, Hard Eight and To The Nines (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2007
Plum Box 7-8-9
Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books #7, 8 & 9 are every bit as good as 1 thru 6 Amazing how she can come up with so many funny and exciting situations! Hope she keeps writing these!!!!!
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Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole)
Robert Crais
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Elvis Has Come Back in the Building
Robert Crais has returned to Elvis Cole in this novel set in the Los Angeles area. Elvis is a private investigator who is draw into working on a suicide in the famous Laurel Canyon area of L.A. CHASING DARKNESS starts in like a Harry Bosch police procedural thriller. ...
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Steve Solomon
New Society Publishers, 2006
Detailed, Valuable Advice
Gardening When It Counts is truly a book for our times. There's already a well-deserved buzz about this book among home gardeners I know. For one thing, it firmly refutes the supposed advantages of mulch gardening. In the burgeoning nationwide return to growing our own ...
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Mariner Books, 2006
The American dust bowl and the grit and gumption of those who will never forget
Subtitled "The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl", this 2006 non-fiction account of this American tragedy is historical writing at its best. The author is a Pulitizer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times. I loved his simple but ...
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Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time
Valerie Bertinelli
Free Press, 2008
OMG VAL!
The sex. The drugs. The rock n roll. And that was even before she met Eddie Van Halen.
The shock value not the writing--which has a breezy, high school girl's diary quality--is the reason to read this book.
She claims to be an emotional eater -- by the end you ...
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The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It: Make a Fortune by Investing in Gold and Other Hard ...
James Turk, John Rubino
Doubleday Business, 2008
This book has been a big help to me
I bought the book when it first came out. More importantly, I ACTED on the book's advice. I bought gold, silver, Goldcorp(GG) and a lot more. Goldcorp was selling for about $12 per share at the time. Gold hadn't gone beyond about $430 per ounce. The dollar was trading ...
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Rode Hard, Put Up Wet (Rough Riders)
Lorelei James
Samhain Publishing, 2008
5 blue ribbons from Romance Junkies
Gemma Jansen's struggling to take care of her ranch on her own while continuing to supply animals for the rodeos. Only none of the promoters seem to want to use any of her animals and none of them can give her a reason why. She's in need of a ranch foreman and ...
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Harry Potter Hardcover Box Set (Books 1-6)
J. K. Rowling
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2005
Harry Porter
Was very pleased with the way this package of books arrived. All sealed in plastic and protected by a thick carboard slipcover.
Seller said these books were new and that is what I received.
Would buy from them again.
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Slash
Slash, Anthony Bozza
HarperEntertainment, 2007
Great
All I have to say is this was a great book. I am a huge fan of Guns N Roses and Slash. I recamend this book too fans of 80s rock and rool music!
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