The Weather in Berlin
 An Author at the Peak of His Powers: I was not familiar with Ward Just's work until I happened upon "A Dangerous Friend," a very interesting novel about America's early involvement in Vietnam. Like that book, The Weather in Berlin has both a [... more]
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How to Run for Local Office
Add it to *your* syllabus: I'm a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and have used several "how to" campaign books over the last 10 years. Most, like this one, are written by very local candidates and have a wonderfully [... more]
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Lamentations De La Renaissance
From Amazon.com: The Lamentations of Jeremiah appear in the old Catholic liturgy only once a year--during Holy Week--yet during the Renaissance and Baroque eras, Lamentations became a separate compositional genre comparable to Masses, Magnificats, and [... more]
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Regarding Billy
regardless of billy ...: Regarding Billy moved me into action ... I have never written a review on Amazon before but have often relied on the opinion of others. And it is in thanks to those who have warned me of other disasters that I place this warning [... more]
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Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
From Amazon.com: Having chronicled the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara casts his eye on the earlier proving ground of the Mexican War in his third novel, Gone for Soldiers. Although it secured the Southwest for a [... more]
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Bach: Cantatas BWV 4, 150, 196
From Amazon.com: Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan didn't begin their series of complete Bach cantatas with the proverbial bang. The three cantatas on this Volume 1 are rather subdued; two of them are downright solemn: No. 150, Nach dir, Herr, [... more]
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
The best folktales.: These animal stories were banned in the late sixties from many schools and libraries for being racist (the storyteller in the book, Uncle Remus, is a slave and uses the "n" word). But it seems that it's now ok to like these [... more]
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The little girl who was too fond of matches: A novel
Amazon.ca: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches is a grisly, seductive little terror of a novel, an entrancing blend of philosophical investigation, gallows humour, and enigma-driven suspense. Gaétan Soucy works in the tradition of Beckett, [... more]
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The Watercolor Book: Materials and Techniques for ...
the best watercolor guide available: This is a model of concise instruction, wise advice, deceptively simple exercises, and compact design. Like they say on TV: if you buy just one watercolor book, make it this one. Dewey gives equal emphasis to [... more]
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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Amazon.ca: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches is a grisly, seductive little terror of a novel, an entrancing blend of philosophical investigation, gallows humour, and enigma-driven suspense. Gaétan Soucy works in the tradition of Beckett, [... more]
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Stand into Danger
One of the better Royal Navy sea yarn series: My father introduced me to Horatio Hornblower when I was in junior high and I've been a fan of Napoleonic-era sea yarns ever since. C. S. Forester is still the standard against which I measure later creations, [... more]
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Farmer Duck
I Could Still Hear the Kids Whispering "How Goes the Work?": even two weeks after I read them the story in their second grade class. Kids love it. It has all the entry points for beginning readers, and adults love it too--for similar reasons. I' [... more]
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