Karen Long
Contemplating divorce? (Gasp) Never! Murder? (Hmmmmm) Well, maybe...! If your marriage resembles a combat zone more than a covenant commitment, you're in good company. If You Don't Die to Self, I May Have to Kill You is packed with juicy foibles ... [... more]
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Jean Shepherd & Other Foibles
 Not Representative of Shep's Greatness: Maybe I'm in a minority, but this disc really left me flat. While it had its clever moments, I found the presentation to be rather stagey, almost hoakey, like Shep wrote out his bits verbatim and gave them to [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst ...
What do you expect from the Wall Street Journal?: As a fan of "Best of the Web," I couldn't wait to read this book and I was not disappointed. Some very good essays about the Presidents, and also the end sections on Presidential Leadership with [... more]
CDN$21.00
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One Man's Garden
From Amazon.com: Mitchell is a miracle in the world of garden writing, where so much careful prose instructs with patronizing intent. Henry Mitchell blazes, bullies, roars, then whispers, awed by the beauty he enables us to see through his eyes. This is [... more]
CDN$15.95
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes ...
From Amazon.com: Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the [... more]
CDN$15.58
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American Fictions
Wonderful and difficult...: This book contains 27 of Hardwick's literary critical essays--and they are gems. The essays are arranged in themes (e.g., "Old New York," "Victims and Victors") around particular authors (e.g., Edith [... more]
CDN$28.00
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Into the Night
NOT EVEN ONE STAR: Wow did I pick up the wrong book. The subplots were fairly decent. Mary Lou was the most compelling character in the book as she struggles to grow up, shed her excessive baggage, do the right thing and get her priorities straight. She [... more]
CDN$40.00
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The Lost Continent
From Amazon.com: A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a [... more]
CDN$30.05
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The Hell Screen
strong amateur sleuth eleventh century Japanese mystery: With his mother ill and perhaps dying, government clerk Akitada Sugawara returns home from the provincial north to Edo. Some things never change in Akitada' mind as his rancorous mother rips his [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Complete Series
Wonderful and Witty: An absolutely wonderful series that died a premature death, probably because the average schmo viewer couldn't grasp the superlative writing. All the characters were engaging, with foibles that made the viewer more and more [... more]
CDN$74.98
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The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832
The "Corrupt Bargain" and its Aftermath: In this, the second (and shortest) installation of three volumes on the life of Andrew Jackson, Robert Remini covers the decade between Jacksonï¿1/2s ostensible retirement from public life [... more]
CDN$25.08
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Monsieur Lecoq
Sherlock Holmes read it: Monsieur Lecoq stumbles upon the case that will make his career, if he is able to expose the identity of a murderer whose intelligence and savoir faire exceeds that of his pursuers. A fledgling police officer with high [... more]
CDN$29.95
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