The Mitford Years, Books 1-3: At Home in Mitford / A ...
 The Mitford Years, Books 1-3: If you enjoy heart-warming stories, you will love all the books by Jan Karon. I have read her 9 Mitford books. They will give you hope that there is good in the world and that you can be a part of it. If you are a baby [... more]
$41.85
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When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: This is a handbook for families, friends, and caregivers of those with mental illness. It provides clear-cut guidelines, with chapter summaries laid out in useful, easy-to-read charts that include specific [... more]
$15.95
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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics)
Amazon.com Review: In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan [... more]
$15.00
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Life and Death in Shanghai
One tough cookie!: Nein Cheng lived a comfortable middle class existance...in Shanghai during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Big mistake. Her comfortable lifestyle and connections to the West (via Shell Oil, her former employer) make her a target [... more]
$16.00
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933
How did this ever become a national bestseller?: This nonsensical bio is written entirely from a blind feminist perspective. The research is suspect. The prose amateurish. The details gossipy and contrived. If Eleanor Roosevelt was truly a woman of [... more]
$18.00
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The Titanic: End of A Dream
Amazon.com Review: The most scrupulous of the recent spate of books on the Titanic disaster, Wyn Craig Wade's book relies on survivors' accounts to establish some startling facts, including that almost two-thirds of the first-class passengers survived [... more]
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The Early Church (The Penguin History of the Church) (v. 1)
Concise, readable overview.: In very few pages, the author manages to give an excellent recap of the key events and forces which shaped church history in the first 6 centuries. He goes into enough detail, howwever, that I'll bet even avid readers of [... more]
$16.00
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Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
Amazon.com Review: Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has [... more]
$22.00
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Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)
no title: This series so far - - "The Alexandria Quartet" - - has been one of the most interesting and wonderful things I have ever read. Memorable in every way. To be savored and remembered. Just simply a dazzling accomplishment by Durrell. & [... more]
$15.00
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Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet)
no title: Like "Justine", written in a hauntingly sensual style, but far more readable. Took me a much shorter time to read it. There are so many memorable passages of beauty and wisdom in both, one could fill a small notebook - on love and the [... more]
$15.00
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Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7)
Cornwell is a master: This is Cornwell at his finest. Sharpe, wrongfully acused of murder, sets off in search La Puta Durada in order to clear his name of her husband's murder secretly engineered by Major Ducos. Sharpe, the continual underdog, manages to [... more]
$14.00
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The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (The Penguin Poets) ...
Excellent Representative Sampling of the Best Hebrew Verse: This volume was my introduction to the melodious magic of Hebrew-language poetry over 20 years ago, and it remains one of my favorite collections. There is something in here for everyone who can [... more]
$20.00
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