Wild, Wonderful Aroids: Part 4 - Arisaema
A gardener's love affair with a plant, or genus of plants, is very like that between humans. A first glance can be love at first sight, or a mild interest grows into admiration then fascination; obsession, culminating in long-lasting true love. ... [... more]
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Starplex
 Starplex: Starplex is good as Hawking, Wheeler, and Thorne. Rob Sawyer's gedanken experiments on dark matter, wormholes, black holes, time travel, etc. are as good as those of any theoretical physicist alive today. And he writes the best science fiction [... more]
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High Fidelity
From Amazon.com: It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's [... more]
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Sporeville
Courtesy of Teens Read Too: Paul Marlowe's SPOREVILLE is a mysterious piece of historical fiction. It takes place in late 19th century Canada, but also has hints of fantasy and science fiction. The main character is a very logical and scientific fifteen- [... more]
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Only You Can Save Mankind CD
It's just a game--isn't it?: Only You Can Save Mankind is the first book in Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell trilogy. While this is considered juvenile or young adult fiction, it's a lot of fun for adults as well. It seems a little strange to journey [... more]
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Dune: 22 CDs
From Amazon.com: This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices.& [... more]
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31 Days of Prayer: Moving God's Mighty Hand
31 Days of Prayer: This book was given to me as a gift. At first glance I thought it to be just another devotional or book of prayers. I was wrong. The introduction is superb in its description of prayer, holding great definitions of our privileged job [... more]
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Artisan Baking Across America: The Breads, the Bakers, ...
From Amazon.com: "Cookbook" would be a grave understatement for Maggie Glezer's Artisan Baking Across America. With its sumptuous photographs and intimate profiles of the practitioners of this noble craft, it is a loving tribute to the art of [... more]
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Cat Who Blew The Whistle
It grows on you: Under normal circumstances I hate anything that can be described as "cute." That includes people, sculpture, movies, books, etc. "Cute" means stupid, shallow, superficial, and self-consciously pretty. At first glance, [... more]
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First Glance at Adrienne Von Speyr
Author: Hans Urs Von Balthasar Author: Hans Urs Von Balthasar Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 282.0924 EAN: 9780898700039 ISBN: 0898700035 Number Of Pages: 249 Publication Date: 1985-03 [... more]
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First Glance//Harder...Faster
Artist: April Wine Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5017261207623 Format: Import Format: Best of Format: Original recording remastered Original Release Date: 2007-07-03 Release Date: 2007-07-23 Tracks: Get Ready for Love Hot on the Wheels of Love Rock N' Roll Is [... more]
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First Glance
April Wine Rocks: FIRST GLANCE is the first of three consecutive masterpieces for April Wine. The first two tracks, "Get Ready For Love" and "Hot On The Wheels Of Love" are a one-two punch, and the rest is great, too, but the album's [... more]
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