George P. Pelecanos
The time is 1976. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track. The hot new superfly flick King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters. And Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of drugs and racial tension--an easy place to turn a wrong corner and land ... [... more]
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Brass Hits
 From Amazon.co.uk: After Jimmy Blanton the next most important style- setting bass player in jazz was Oscar Pettiford. His mid-40s work is displayed on 22 of the 23 tracks here (due to a mistake in the selection, the two-part "Frankie And Johnny& [... more]
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Thomas Paine
In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of ... [... more]
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Stargirl (Stargirl)
From Amazon.com: "She was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona's Mica Area [... more]
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Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins
Wittier than you think: As the Chicago Tribune once noted, "Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the pleasure is in watching a difficult art performed with matchless grace and ease." This [... more]
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Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting
great history to interesting present: Ray Strother's chronicle of the industry that brings us our leaders is fascinating. His story is also an "American Success Story". From the giants of the U.S. Senate includingRussell Long (recently passed) [... more]
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The Tyranny of Printers(p)
The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics: The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic written by Jeffrey L. Pasley is a book that gives an overall picture of the power of the press in our early American Republic from the [... more]
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the ...
utterly amazing: If this were fiction I would have to give it three stars or less for being unbelievably over-the-top. Would you beleive that an alcoholic sex-maniac liberal Democrat Congressman illegaly ran the biggest covert program in the history of [... more]
CDN$45.10
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Le père goriot
From Amazon.com: Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial [... more]
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Heavy Traffic
From Amazon.co.uk: Having enjoyed a surprise rehabilitation with the chart success of the single "Jam Side Down", Status Quo appear bullish and unrepentant on their 33rd album, Heavy Traffic. With clubs like School Disco hammering their tracks [... more]
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Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations
From Amazon.co.uk: The second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations was brought out in time for the UK's 2001 election. It's fortunate to have as its editor Antony Jay, most famous as joint author of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime [... more]
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The Heart of Sufism
Excellent Overview of Hazrat Inayat Khan's Teachings: This book provides an excellent overview of the voluminous works of Hazrat Inayat Khan, of which the 14 volume "Message Series" is the core. Dr. Witteveen has artfully selected major topics [... more]
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