Persuasion
 Love's Barriers Delightfully Probed in Polite Conversation: Persuasion is Jane Austen's most sophisticated story and writing. She lovingly and incisively demonstrates the problems of being a well-bred sensitive person in a society that's more intrigued [... more]
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Persuasion (3 Cass.)
From Amazon.com: Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she [... more]
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Kiss & Tell: A Novel
From Amazon.com: Alain de Botton has crafted a delightfully ingenious novel in the form of a biography of an unknown woman. Told by a former flame that he lacks empathy, the engaging narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a book about the next [... more]
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Modern Classics Immoralist
From Amazon.com: With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today [... more]
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Seven Dreams 03 Argall
William is blind to his own failings.: Vollmann's books are a shotgun wedding of Kerouac keyboard improv and finicky, ultra-thorough research that would shame the most hardcore library mole. His unique voice is the result of the collision between his [... more]
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Pno Trios/Cello Sons/Vln Sons
From Amazon.com: In the main, the youthful Beethoven chamber music collaborations between Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zuckerman, and the late Jacqueline du Pré are characterized by broad, liberally fluctuating tempos, ripeness of tone, and a [... more]
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On The Bus With Rosa Parks Poems
From Amazon.com: If you find memoirs more immediate than contemporary poetry, novels more compelling, history more vivid, then you haven't read Rita Dove. A former poet laureate of the United States, Dove is at the height of her powers in On the Bus with [... more]
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Brand Leadership: Building Assets In an Information Economy
From Amazon.com: Build it ... and they'll come. Nope, not necessarily, not anymore. It's a crowded, crazy market out there, and no matter how fabulous your product or service, there's bound to be someone else delivering something pretty close. The [... more]
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
a surprising pleasure: The surprise pleasure of this book is not because it was a pleasure--the premise/title alone promised that. The surprise is how that pleasure is attained--in the hands of probably almost any other author, the story would have been [... more]
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Murano
This Book Should Be Better: I'm not sure what to make of this little book. It is certainly printed well, a requirement for an art book. The closeups of the Murano glass are beautiful. I wish the smaller photographs of the same glass objects in the back [... more]
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Warner Bros. Pictures Tough Guys Collection (Bullets or ...
From Amazon.com: Say "Warner Bros. in the '30s" and you're talking, first and foremost, about the tough, gritty, urban, street-smart movies that help define that American decade for us. Which means you're talking about James Cagney, Edward G. [... more]
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Artistic Scroll Saw Patterns & Projects
patterns only, not a how-to book: The patterns are definitely different & there are several that I want to tackle. Unfortunately, there are almost no instructions. Some of the color photos give a little info, such as wood type used & thickness. [... more]
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