How to Write a Great Book Review
If reading is your passion and you have a knack for insight and analysis, writing books reviews may be a fun money-making option for you. Grasp some great review-writing concepts and you've won half the battle. Review books that really move you ... [... more]
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The Slaves of Solitude (New York Review Books Classics)
 Tempest in a Tearoom: The most atypical of Patrick Hamilton's novels (and perhaps the most beloved), THE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE takes place in a suburban boarding house in 1943 where the heroine Miss Roach--intelligent, lonely, and on the cusp of middle age-- [... more]
$14.95
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Child Psychology (Mcgraw-Hills College Review Books)
Child Psychology (Mcgraw-Hills College Review Books) [... more]
$0.75
A1 Books |
Beyond the Norm - Romance Novels
Hello, and welcome back! I just got an enormous box of review books last night, so I'm set for this extended deep freeze--so much for the extended forecast of several days ago. There's been soup simmering on the stove quite a lot lately, and ... [... more]
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
A Sensitively Valuable Elegy: With thanks to the New York Review Books, Peter Handke's A SORROW BEYOND DREAMS is once again available. This slim but pungent volume opens with an elegant introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides ( author of 'Middlesex' and 'The [... more]
$12.95
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The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (New York Review Books ...
Make Your Way to "The Pilgrim Hawk": A rediscovered classic currently being championed by Michael Cunningham (who wrote the introduction) and Susan Sontag (who wrote a lengthy New Yorker piece about it, as well as its forgotten author), this is [... more]
$12.95
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Alfred and Guinevere (New York Review Books Classics)
A funny, minor treasure: Schuyler is best remembered (with Kenneth Koch, John Ashberry, and Frank O'Hara) as one of the "New York" school of poets. This slim little novel, however, shows that his talents in prose have been underappreciated. [... more]
$12.95
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Virgin Soil (New York Review Books Classics)
Quintessential Turgenev: Encompassing social commentary, a (albeit fairly simplistic) love story, and a homage to Russia's beauty, this work does not fail the lover of Turgenev. Certainly this might not necessarily be the best work with which to begin [... more]
$16.95
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God and the Welfare State (Boston Review Books)
The Theology and Scandal of Faith-Based Welfare Initiatives: This little book of only 126 tiny pages starts and ends with very brief critiques of President Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI), but most of the short essay is a theological [... more]
$14.95
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The Day of the Owl (New York Review Books Classics)
Darkness at Noon: Leonard Sciascia's Sicily is a dark place, even while it basks under a hot noonday sun. In "The Day of the Owl", Sciascia's native Sicily (he was born in Racalmuto, Sicily in 1921) is a place where there is crime but no [... more]
$12.95
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Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics)
Set Your Dogs And Wolves On Me: Though neither a crime nor a detective novel, Georges Simenon's Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (1946) nonetheless takes place in the lonely, desperate, claustrophobic, and paranoid world of most of the author's other books-- [... more]
$12.95
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Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books)
Ian Myles Slater on: A Complete Reprint: "Fancies and Goodnights" is a superb selection of John Collier's short stories: the enthusiastic reviews on Amazon are a good measure of the response of many readers to his mixture of whimsy, satire, [... more]
$16.95
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