Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
 Amazon.com Review: Piles of money, international power plays, cutthroat business tactics, unique personalities, and the politics of social class--that should be enough for a really juicy read, don't you think? But why stop there when you can also have [... more]
$27.95
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The Winds of War
Kindle edition sloppily formatted: I was thrilled to find The Winds of War on Kindle just days after I'd been thinking I'd love to reread it -- there's nothing better than reading a really long book on a Kindle, for weight reasons alone. But the [... more]
$35.00
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Woman's Best Friend: A Celebration of Dogs and Their Women
The first book was better: While this is a wonderful collection, I prefer the authors' first book, "Dogs and Their Women," which I found to be more moving. Both are great gifts for the dog lover in your life! Get this for the dog lover in your [... more]
$16.95
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The Art of Speedreading People: Harness the Power of ...
Amazon.com Review: Do you communicate ineffectively with some people and powerfully with others? The reason may be a difference in personalities and communication preferences. The Art of Speedreading People is a crash course in communication strategies, [... more]
$22.95
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The Archivist
Amazon.com Review: Matthias Lane is the proud gatekeeper to countless objects of desire, the greatest among them being T.S. Eliot's letters to Emily Hale. Now in his late 60s and archivist at an unnamed East Coast university, Matthias is--as one of his [... more]
$22.95
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Peking: A Novel of Chinas Revolution 1921-1978
Extremely interesting...: If you read this historic novel, you will come as close as possilbe to actually enduring the entire Long March and Cultural Revolution in tact. I personally find 20th-century Chinese history to be some of the most interesting ( [... more]
$19.95
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Common Cents: A Retiring Six-Term Congressman Reveals ...
Informative, easy read - needs to be read by every voter: Timothy Penny's book is now more than 10 years old but remains pertinent in today's political world. Penny was a 12 year liberal democrat and gave up trying to reform congress and returned to [... more]
$21.95
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The Vegetarian Compass: New Directions in Vegetarian Cooking
Amazon.com Review: Karen Hubert Allison's The Vegetarian Compass, published a year after her death in 1997, offers flavors and textures that are, quite simply, stunning. The level of creativity is not surprising from someone who, together with her [... more]
$29.95
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Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage Their Financial Security
Amazon.com Review: "If you had suggested to me ten years ago, even five, that I would methodically (if unconsciously) set about destroying my financial security, losing all the money I'd made on a bestselling book, losing, even, my furniture, I [... more]
$23.95
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The Biology of Success
Amazon.com Review: Success doesn't happen because of luck or genetics, but through "tremendous, persistent, positive mental energy," writes Bob Arnot, M.D. in The Biology of Success. Arnot, author of The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, aims to [... more]
$24.95
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Making Miracles Happen
Making my OWN miracle happen: Phenomenal and uplifting. That's how I would describe Smith's book. I purchased this book because I was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year, at age 22. A craniotomy and a long recovery behind me, I'm still left with part [... more]
$22.95
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The New Yankee Workshop
A good book, but with a few problems: I think others have gone over this before. A few of the projects have some errors in the lay out. Kind of bad IMO, but is made up for in the very pleasing aesthetic of these items. I have made a few of them and all I [... more]
$29.95
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