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The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe
Vintage, 1991
Images cascaded in my mind
The Kobo Abe novel "Woman in the Dunes is a Japanese novel written in the 1960s and made in the same person. It traces, in a small book of less then 300 pages, the implications of being alienated and the contradictions of conformity freedom if that conformity has a ...
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Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals
Therese Laskey
Chronicle Books, 2007
CAN"T WAIT
I don't actually own this book as of yet, but I can not wait!! Right now I am hooked on "Aranzi Aronzo Cute Dolls (Let's Make Cute Stuff)" by Aranzi Aronzo and Rui Munakata. I am sure that my niece and new nephew appricate getting a custom doll every time I visit!! ...
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Piggie Pie!
Margie Palatini
Clarion Books, 1997
Piggie Pie! A read great for all ages!
This fractured folktale is about a witch that is craving some `Piggie Pie.' She goes through her pantry and finds she has everything she needs except for that all important ingredient--PIGGIES! At first she is outraged but eventually composes herself and devises a ...
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our ...
Jr., Robert F. Kennedy
Harper Perennial, 2005
Which pill would you like to take the blue pill or the red pill(CAN)
One of the things I find most disturbing in this, book is that Mr. Kennedy describes a strange and creepy right wing character that at one time had been following him around the country while he lectured. This freaky individuals behavior amounted to stalking and ...
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Lamb Special Gift Ed: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore
William Morrow, 2007
Hysterical, a must read for all recovering Catholics and Anglicans
I absolutely laughed till I cried. It all makes sense now... This is a must read for anyone who has ever taken religion tooooooo seriously.
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Playful Pals: Level 1
Nora Gaydos
Innovative Kids, 2003
Very motivating for the child who just wont!!!!!
my son now six has known his letter sounds since he was four and just would not be willing to sit down and read even the simpliest of books to me, and I have a lot of emergent readers and leveled readers. This was the set That did it for us. He begs to read these ...
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I Want a Pony (Pony Pals No. 1)
Jeanne Betancourt
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1994
a wonderful, powerful, realistic series
I love this whole series. I'm a mom, and my daughter got them as hand-me-downs. I run around now recommending them to parents of [..] girls. (I think boys might find them annoying bcs there are no boys except rowdy ones, really.)
Each book has a conflict--a ...
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Softies Kit: Instructions and Tools for Creating 15 Plush Pals
Therese Laskey
Chronicle Books, 2008
Very nice
I liked the kit very much! It's great because have nice explanations, the patterns ate cute and it's fantastic to get started at softies. As a suggestion, I would like to have more pictures/designs for some tecnichal sewing points for people like me that doesn't have ...
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
Irreverent, bold, and hytsterical- You know, it's like bacon
I love this novel, and so do the four hundred or so friends to whom I have given or leant it. Hands down, this is Moore's best book thus far, and I adore all of his books, with Fluke coming in second. There are certainly people who may be offended by the irreverence, ...
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Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory Complete (Books 1-3)
Andrew Surmani, Karen Farnum Surmani, ...
Alfred Publishing Company, 1999
A great overview
This book is well laid out and explains clearly all the musical notations I've missed by being largely self taught on the piano. It covers everything from terminology to how to write out notes to scales and arpeggios. You can also purchase a CD that helps with ear ...
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
Geraldine Brooks
Anchor, 1999
A quest to discover the world as well as discover herself
Australian born Geraldine Brooks spent many years as a foreign correspondent covering the Middle East. I loved her book, "Nine Parts of Desire" which was about Muslim women, and I have followed her life somewhat as she is often mentioned by her husband, Tony Horwitz, ...
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A Pony In Trouble (Pony Pals #3)
Jeanne Betancourt
Scholastic Paperbacks, 1995
Will lightning survive
I really liked this book. In it Pam is going to enter a horse show with lightining then lightining gets very ill.The pony pals do not know what is wrong with her.So they decide to have a barn sleep over and you won't believe what is making lightining sick.Read it and ...
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Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET (Build Your Own)
Zak Ruvalcaba
SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2004
I found the right book to learn asp.net
I am an asp programmer. And I would like to transform myself into asp.net. after trying one title after another by reading the PDF files that I found on the net, I thought I found the right book ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed from Stephen Walther. I bought the book and learned ...
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Eight Theories of Religion
Daniel L. Pals
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
An excellent introduction to the study of religion
I had to read this book for my introduction to the study of religion-class, but it turned out to be a very interesting book. Pals has a good ability to explain complex terms and theories in relatively easy language, even when dealing with quite obscure ideas and ...
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The New Oxford Picture Dictionary: Monolingual English Edition
E. C. Parnwell
Oxford University Press, USA, 1988
Excellent resource
I use this book a lot even for adult ESL students. I find this a great resource for one of the basic ESL techniques--describe the picture. I've also used the verb pages to practice tenses. Pages on prepositions are also very good. The pictures are clear and easy to ...
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