Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About ...
I wouldn't have missed a page of it.: I am on page 316 and don't want it to end. I have written reference notes to be able to get back to those pages I want to read over and over. Born in 1940 in midwest farm country, most of my teen age years was spent [... more]
$25.95
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Cuando Era Puertorriqueña (Spanish Edition)
THE AMERICAN DREAM...: This is the Spanish text edition of "When I was Puerto Rican", a rich and evocative memoir of the author's chaotic childhood. Growing up in rural Puerto Rico, while often living in primitive conditions, the author's lush [... more]
$14.95
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Amazon.com Review: Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969. What makes this memoir especially fascinating is that Armstrong already wrote about this [... more]
$14.95
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Starting Out In the Afternoon
a breath of fresh air: Reading Jill Frayne's book "Starting Out in the Afternoon" took me away on a vacation of the senses, her beautiful descriptions of the natural landscape of Canada inviting me to journey with her. she also got me thinking [... more]
$12.95
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The Renaissance: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Short and Delightful: This is the first book I read of Paul Johnson's that is not a kilopage tome. In less than 200 pages, Johnson gave the Renaissance a most delightful treatment. This book will disappoint those who try to look for exhaustive treatment [... more]
$12.95
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Black Boy: (American Hunger) (Perennial Classics)
Very good insight into that time period, early 1900's: Very good read, his experiences keep you reading and you want to find out what happens next in his life. Surprisingly good: Often when you see books written about the life of black people in any [... more]
$13.95
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, ...
Amazon.com Review: When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like [... more]
$13.95
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The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith ...
A trip back in time: I am 77 years old and I found this book transporting me back to youthful days. The ethos of the women of Troy Hill was the ethos of my youth. The simple virtues of faith and friendship as described in the book reminded me times gone [... more]
$19.00
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Bald in the Land of Big Hair : A True Story
Offended and Disappointed: Rodgers writes this book from a Christian perspective, but as a Christian I was offended by the language and explicit nature of this book. She explains love making early in her chemotherapy treatment, and discusses the smell [... more]
$24.00
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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning ...
The Mentor's Guide: This book provides mentors the tools they need in order to develop and maintain a mentoring relationship. In order to develop a successful mentoring relationship, it is important that the mentor have a good foundation in the purpose [... more]
$32.00
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Amazon.com Review: She was wearing a black satin mask when they first met in 1923, and in a sense she wore a mask--that of the dutiful wife and helpmeet--throughout their 52-year marriage. Especially after the American publication of Lolita made her [... more]
$23.00
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
A Captivating Landscape.: Isabel Allende's "My Invented Country" does not pick-up where her previous memoir "Paula" left off, instead it expands on some of the biographical details from the previous book and is more of a deep, dreamy [... more]
$13.95
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