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The Name Quilt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Quilt book: An excellent read-aloud story for children. The text tells how quilts told stories and how the first quilts were made from materials at hand. This is an excellent book to read if you were planning on designing a quilt, real with cloth or with [... more]
$16.95
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Narcissus and Goldmund
Great adolescent book, weak adult book: I put this book in the same category as Kerouac's "On The Road" - a great, adolescent adventure story (and one that inspired me when I was an adolescent). Although this book will always hold a place in my [... more]
$14.00
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The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and ...
Enlightening and Informative, Practical Tools for Self-Improvement: This latest tome from one of my favorite writers gives some incredible insight on the topic of fear. Namely, how it is generated, transmitted, and how it can impact your behavior without [... more]
$24.00
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Travels with Alice
Amazon.com Review: Calvin Trillin goes through life one step behind his appetite. He says he's just a Big Hungry Boy from the Midwest, but he's also one of the funniest American writers around, writing a palate pilgrimage through Europe and the Caribbean, [... more]
$13.00
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The Great Escape from City Zoo
Amazon.com Review: Many years ago, in a daring escape still talked of in zoos worldwide, an elephant, an anteater, a turtle, and a flamingo went "over the wall" at the city zoo. This is their story, spun tersely but dramatically in simple [... more]
$16.00
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What Is Life?: Investigating the Nature of Life in the ...
Updated Answer to a Big Question: "What is the meaning of life?" is a question all must ponder at some point or other. But that's too fancy; try the even more basic, "What is life?" In 1944, Nobel prizewinner and quantum physicist [... more]
$22.00
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Heroes Like Us
Amazon.com Review: The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and according to Klaus Uhltzscht, hero of German author Thomas Brussig's novel, Heroes Like Us, he was responsible. Klaus feels responsible for a lot of things, not the least of which is his parents' [... more]
$23.00
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Table of Contents
The Naturalist's Dream: John McPhee's "Table of Contents" is a great introduction to an author that deserves to be much more widely read. Science has the potential to be highly readable and enjoyable and McPhee capitalizes on this greatly. In [... more]
$19.95
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Averno: Poems
When I Think of Louise Gluck's Averno...: I can barely breathe. It's not because I'm a female in some kind of a swoon. It's because she never fails to tell the truth no matter how hard it might be to swallow. Also, most of the Master poets (among which [... more]
$22.00
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
Amazon.com Review: Billed as "A Biography of Water," Life's Matrix would seem to have taken on a nearly insurmountable challenge. Yet author Philip Ball, science writer and consulting editor for Nature, covers the very interesting chemistry and [... more]
$25.00
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The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the ...
Lavish synopsis of the marriage between mercantilism and art: This book is indeed a masterpiece. The eighteenth century was unquestionably a period in which the arts thrived in Britain, but high culture was nothing new to Europe, particularly in the wake [... more]
$40.00
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I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Amazon.com Exclusive Content Product Description: Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to [... more]
$28.95
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