The Orchid Thief
 Amazon.com Review: Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against [... more]
$29.95
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The Black Tulip
The Song of the Flowers: While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I have read, it is every bit as enjoyable to read. Beginning with the arrest of two brothers, deemed traitors to the throne, Dumas [... more]
$29.95
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Oxford World's Classics)
Focus of the Story Changes: If you are reading this review, you have probably already read the Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. You are wondering if it is worth it to continue with the series. If you decide to go on, you have three more 600+ page [... more]
$16.95
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Louise de la Vallière (Oxford World's Classics)
The Musketeers Dissapear: I started the Three Musketeer cycle of five novels because I am an afficionado of the action/adventure story. The first two novels, The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After exceeded my expectations. They had all the sword [... more]
$16.95
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Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
Porthos Eats His Way Through Europe: It is truly amazing how many people don't have any idea that the Three Musketeers appear in more than the novel of the same name and "The Man in the Iron Mask." I must admit that for many years I was in that [... more]
$16.95
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Rising Phoenix
Enjoyed the Concept: I really enjoyed the concepts and ideas in this book. I'm not going to write a plot summary because Amazon and other reviewers have already did that. But the concept that someone could poison cocaine and heroin at the production [... more]
$7.99
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The Secret Life of Bees
Amazon.com Review: In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, [... more]
$15.00
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Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails
The Horse Packers Bible ........: This is probably the single best work I've ever seen on the "science" of packing. Joe Back lived and worked in N.W. Wyoming, and was a legend in the area. His humorous annecdotes, and extremely accurate hand [... more]
$10.95
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The Water's End
The Waters End: Hawkins presents decent characters that for transparent reasons have high potential relationships that are all cut short. The ackwardness of mis-timed love served as a great backdrop while the scenary and surfing took center stage. The [... more]
$15.95
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For Love of the Game
Amazon.com Review: Serious sports novels often fall through the literary cracks simply because of the arena they play in. Michael Shaara earned his battle stripes--and a Pulitzer Prize--for The Killer Angels, a fictional resurrection of the Battle of [... more]
$6.99
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The Red Zone
The story is true. The names have been changed to protect...: the guilty. Sounds like the rest of the reviewers come from a literary background, not from sports. Otherwise they would recognize this story as coming straight from the headlines of a [... more]
$7.50
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Life of Pi
Amazon.com Review: Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel [... more]
$15.00
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