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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
Simon & Schuster, 1999
A TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT. DEEP, SAD, WELL DONE.
The author begins his memoir with the voice of a narrator: describing people, events, etc. But, from the first chapter he slowly transitions into a man remembering & than goes back to when he was a boy. The slideshow of imagery & the depth of details made this a great ...
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The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry (Cartoon Guide To...)
Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle
Collins, 2005
Fun way to learn
This book is required summer reading for AP Chemistry. Looks like a fun way to get an overview of the subject.
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Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
Adam Rex
Harcourt Children's Books, 2006
Clever and funny
Very clever book of poems. My two daughters (6 and 9) giggled at the funny vocabulary. The illustrations are are cool and inventive. Every movie monster must be in there somewhere. We liked the son of Dracula drawn as Charlie Brown. Adults will like this one too.
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
University of Georgia Press, 2002
A Beautiful Mind
If truth is beauty, and beauty truth, this is one good looking book. As an aspiring cynic, finding this book was akin to Ahab finding the whale. (I have no idea what that means). I don't think this book could be written today. Most of Bierce's definitions have become ...
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Cautionary Tales for Children
Edward Gorey, Hilaire Belloc
Harcourt, 2002
Completing the Edward Gorey library
JIM, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion.
It's small wonder that Edward Gorey chose to illustrate Belloc's verses, written nearly a century ago - in fact, they were such a clear and strong influence on his work, it's hard to believe he didn't write ...
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Patricia Nelson Limerick
W. W. Norton, 1987
Superb Social & Intellectual History
Limerick's text is quite simply the most important work in social and intellectual history of the American West of the past several decades. Scholarly yet readable, the appropriately documented text includes historic photographs as well. The final chapter, "The ...
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This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigade
Amy Allen
HarperEntertainment, 2006
This Little Piggy Went To Prada
First heard about this book when I got one as a gift when pregnant. Very clever adaptations (for the designer conscious) of well known nursery rhymes. Fantastically witty and great buy for a baby shower! I've given one to all my pregnant friends and they LOVED it too!
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A Light in the Attic
HarperCollins, 1981
As sweet as they used to be
Silverstein is our favorite author of children's books. He is just perfect! In fact his works are as good for the parents as for their children. Whichever Silverstein's book I bought for any of my five children (each one of them has his own Silverstein), we have ALL ...
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Belly Button Book (Boynton on Board)
Sandra Boynton
Workman Publishing Company, 2005
Super Duper
Checked ths out at the library and loved it so much we bought it!
Cute and witty. Parent's don't miss the t-shirt texts and details kids will miss...
We all call our belly buttons "Bee-Boo"s now!
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On Beyond Zebra! (Classic Seuss)
Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel
Random House Books for Young Readers, 1955
Left quite an impression...
Loved this book as a child. Fast-forward thirty-some years, I am a computational linguist with a fascination for exotic writing systems. Coincidence? In think not.
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'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics
Gavin Edwards
Fireside, 1995
Laugh Out Loud Funny
this book is such fun to read. i bought it when it came out (along with his other misheard lyric books) and recently read through them again. he tells you the misheard line/band or artist/song title/correct lyrics. the illustrations are wonderful and as absurd as some ...
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Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains
Ryan Mecum
How, 2008
Seriously funny, deadly serious.
"All of us searching, / all of us with fat stomachs, / still hungry for more." Ryan Mecum has managed to capture the essence of modern American consumer culture with this witty and hilarious allegory. This is great haiku--Like a feast of fresh brains, I didn't want it ...
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The Book of Poisonous Quotes
Colin Jarman
McGraw-Hill, 1993
Wonderful, I can use these quotes!
I bought this book to have something to read while waiting in line or sitting in the doctor's waiting room. The idea was that it was something I could just pick up and put down quickly. It may not have been such a good idea though because I end up laughing out loud. ...
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Creepy Susie: and 13 other tragic tales for troubled children.
Angus Oblong
Ballantine Books, 2004
awesome awesome awesome!
best book in the world, it's just as wierd and strange as the Oblong's show, haha. Buy it, read it, enjoy it!
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Winnie Ille Pu
A. A. Milne
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991
A Paragraph of Pooh
The top line is the original English.
The second line is the latin.
The third line is an attempted translation.
(Here I have added additional comments.)
...in which we are introduced to
Quo in capite nobis ostentantur
By which in our heads they are shown
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