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Eckhardt: There Once Was a Congressman from Texas (Focus on American History Series, Center for American ...
Gary A. Keith
University of Texas Press, 2007
The view from close up
I was the third Mrs. Bob Eckhardt, and it was the Texas Observer review of Gary Keith's biography of Bob that first set off alarm bells for me. Quoting Keith, Brant Bingamon writes that in the early 1960s, when I saw Bob eating at Scholz's, "cutting his bread with his pocketknife and plunging the ...
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Passed Down Through 4 Generations: Victoria Taylor Murray's Favorite Family Recipes: How it all Began
Victoria Taylor Murray, Joseph E. Taylor
PublishAmerica, 2006
This book shines! Wonderful for any cook!
+ Great history, great recipes
+ Even The Drink Recipes Are Great!
+ No matter how hungry you are,
+ "Farout"
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Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside
Ted Van Dyk
University of Washington Press, 2007
Wise words from a keen political observer
+ Van Dyk Gives An Inside View
+ One of the Best
+ Van Dyk's Colorful Political History is a Great Read
+ A Terrific Memoir of Political History
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Tropic of Night
Michael Gruber
William Morrow, 2003
INTRODUCTION TO AFROCUBAN DEITIES
+ m'doli, the unseen world
THIS IS A WONDERFUL NOVEL FROM SEVERAL STANDPOINTS. IT IS PAINSTAKINGLY RESEARCHED, LITERATE WITHOUT BEING PRETENTIOUS, INTERWEAVES SEVERAL SUBPLOTS SEAMLESSLY INTO THE TEXT AND FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE INTERESTED, OPENS A HITHERTO CLOSED WINDOW ON A BELIEF SYSTEM THAT AT LEAST 5 MILLIONS AMERICANS ...
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Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Jorge G. Castaneda
New Press, 2008
Mexican Perspective on US Immigration Policy
+ ANALYSIS GOOD, WRITING AWKWARD
Jorge Castenada is the former foreign minister of Mexico and provides a clear view of the Mexican position on US-Mexican relations at the start of the Bush presidency, as well as a long-range perspective on the relationship of the two countries. This is a sensitive and well-written review of ...
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Angels & Demons
Dan Brown
Pocket Star, 2001
Angels and Demons Book Review
+ I confess that I got hooked...
Angels and Demons is Dan Brown's prequel to The DaVinci Code, taking place approximately one year before the events in his best selling novel. The incidents in this book are hinted at in The DaVinci Code and only help to whet the appetite, and this book does not disappoint.
Robert Langdon, a ...
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Murder in Hell's Kitchen (Manhattan Mysteries)
Lee Harris
Fawcett, 2003
New Lee Harris character solves cold crime from past
+ Romantic story
+ A new series by a great mystery author
+ Excellent New Series!
+ Susan Mystery Fan
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Sensei: A Thriller
John Donohue
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003
"Sensei" packs a punch!
+ A startingly good first effort!
+ Good Humored Plus the Real Thing
+ a.weiss , author of the BackSmart Fitness Plan
+ Engaging
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The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
Seth Shulman
W. W. Norton, 2008
Shulman Nails It
+ Hold the Phone!
+ The Great Temptation
This is an excellent book. I bought it hoping it would give me (a retired electrical engineer with more than a dozen patents) some understanding of the telephone's genesis, which I knew to be a complicated tale with claims that Bell didn't deserve the credit. Frankly I was hoping for a good story ...
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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
Tom Brokaw
Random House, 2007
Surprised
+ Very Informative Book
+ Boom
First, let me just say that I am surprised. I figured a left wing media guy with a left wing reputation would have written a left wing book, but this wasn't the case. Having been in college in the late Sixties myself, I lived through much of what this book talks about. I wondered what happened to ...
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Forbidden (The Lambert Series, Book 2)
Victoria Taylor Murray
PublishAmerica, 2002
Nouri makes a fabulous Thief of Hearts!
+ Awesome Soap Opera,
+ Second And I Am Loving This Story!
+ My second visit to Lambert and I loved it!!
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World Atlas of Wine
Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson
Hamlyn, 2008
almost an encyclopedia
+ A Master's Secret...
+ World Atlas of Wine
+ excellent
+ Atlas
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Friendly Enemies
Victoria Taylor Murray
PublishAmerica, 2003
Hello Gabe (XOXOXO)
I absolutely love this story! Gabe Baldwin is my favorite male character in this MUST READ series. His character is alpha-male, hot, sexy, and mysterious. I like that in the characters I read about. Of course, Charles Mason and Clint Chamberlain aren't bad either. I wouldn't kick either one of ...
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Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion
New Press, 2008
Perfect present for a treacherous, unamerican, naive friend
Have you an American friend who hates their country, is extremely naive about politics and likes nothing more then expressing ill-informed, ludicrous views. Someone who is willing to betray their country at the drop of a hat, perhaps someone born to a privileged background who likes to play the ...
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Le Fin (Lambert)
Victoria Taylor Murray
PublishAmerica, 2002
A story you will forever remember,
+ I'm such a LAMBERT fan!!!
+ Unexpected But Delicious Ending For Popular Soap Opera!
+ TERRIFIC ENDING TO POPULAR SOAP OPERA!!!!!
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