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Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite Holiday
Paula Deen
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Good and Down to Earth
+ Are all of you other reviewers huffing glue?!?!
+ Paula D. FAN CLUB
+ get it!!
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Funny, perceptive, perfect touch
+ VERY Funny
+ Great quick read
+ Enjoyable Easy Read
+ Brilliant, Touching, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny
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Chosen by a Horse
Susan Richards
Harvest Books, 2007
Touching Memoir
+ Heart-warming
This book is a gutsy look at a hard life, and at the same time a moving story of a horse/owner relationship most of us will only dream of. Definitely a book for adults (not for horse-loving teens), it describes coming to terms with a difficult life in middle years, and how the past can be ...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
This book needs to be read by everyone...
+ great read
+ Prob. the best book I ever read...
+ A must read for every teenager and parent
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Night (Oprah's Book Club)
Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang, 2006
A new day for Night
+ Haunting and Unforgettable
+ I RECOMMEND IT.
I was happy to see that this book was added to Oprah's book club, this ment that millions who never knew of this book would read it or at least hear it's story. I read this in college as part of the debates on wither the US should have entered WW2 before 1941. When I was done I felt that I had been ...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
Beautiful Boy
+ Didn't want to put it down!
+ Bare-bones honesty
+ Beautiful Boy
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin
Scribner, 2007
From a serious Steve Martin fan. I loved it. I really, really loved it.
+ A Funny Man Revealed
+ Simply the best
+ Laughed all over again
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer
HCI, 1995
excellent
+ Five Stars! An Inspirational Read.
+ The most disturbing book I've ever read... still!
This book was unbelievable...I read it in a single afternoon!! Couldn't put it down. In the face of unreal odds, a boy's will to survive in a home so filled with hate and abuse.
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
Very good book, don't listen to the hate
+ Inspirational Story
+ UNBELIEVABLE!!
+ how true it is
+ A literary mission undercut by tactical errors.
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 1997
Great Story and the movie was good too
+ A sad story
+ Chase von, guess they have this book two places on here....
+ A mystery and tragedy told well
+ A Character Study Disguised as a Bestseller
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Alan Alda
Random House, 2007
Smooth
Alda's down to earth brief sketch of his life and career was very enjoyable reading. After reading it I thought that Alda turned out to be a fascinating person in spite of being raised by a not with it mother and distant father. He gave some good ideas on how to live with his recalling of the ...
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper, Cecil Murphey
Revell, 2004
Heavenly place
+ 90 Minutes in Heaven
+ Amazing book
This book make me cry and laugh, easy to read,when you start this book you have to finish its a real story of a life time please don"t wait to accept Jesus in your heart he promess you, heaven for eternity!!! I love it!!! I pass this book to a lot of peoples.Don't wait a other minute to experience ...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2007
great book
+ Einstein as archetype of the 20th century freethinker
+ Einstein's Reluctance to Embrace Quantum Mechanics
+ HIS ENDLESS CURIOSITY
+ Wish I had purchased the unabridged version!
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The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition
James McBride
Riverhead Trade, 2006
inspirational
+ Amazing!!!
+ Amazing, Thought-Provoking & Instructive
+ Uplifting and Inspirational
+ A soaring celebration of familial love
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller
Thomas Nelson, 2003
Blue Like Jazz
+ Great Book
+ Compelling
This is a book well worth reading. It is appropriate for late teens and early twenties since it covers life in a university. It has a great spiritual depth and we have used is as the basis of study in a small group of men. I recommend it highly.
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