How to Carve a Train Whistle
Children and adults are fascinated by trains. The sounds, sights and structure of train sets are as captivating now as they were years ago. Being able to produce the train whistle sound is a great addition to a child's enjoyment of his train set. ... [... more]
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Clubland America; New School Dancescapes
 For the last three years the sale of Technics 1200 turntables (used by DJs in-clubs) have outstripped those of electric guitars. American raves have gone from parties involving a few hundred people to commercially sponsored festivals drawing tens of [... more]
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From the Hidewood: Memories of a Dakota Neighborhood
In twenty-one interwoven stories, author Robert Amerson re-creates life on his family's 160-acre farm in the remote Hidewood Hills of eastern South Dakota from 1934 to 1942. Each story, told from the perspective of a family member or farmer neighbor, [... more]
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Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament
Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament asserts that while Scotland's new Parliament (1999) is a creation of laws, politics, and economics, some of the forces underpinning it are cultural, therefore constantly alive and insistently creative. [... more]
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Straight forward harrowing account of war against Japan: Sledge's book is a must-read for anyone interested in WWII battles against the Japanese. No words are wasted trying to impress the reader. Instead, this is a first-hand account of an enlisted [... more]
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PALACE WALK (Cairo Trilogy, Vol 1)
Mahfouz Rewards Patience: Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arabic language writer ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, begins Palace Walk with Amina, the devout and devoted Muslim wife of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad patiently waiting for her husband to [... more]
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The Answer Is Always Yes
Lyrical, funny, and incisive: I read this book from cover to cover and then bought three more copies to give to friends. As a transplanted New Yorker, I loved Ferrell's gorgeous, lyrical descriptions of the city, the "opera of the cosmopolis," [... more]
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Beachglass: A Novel
Spellbound: I could not put this book down. Delia tells her story in the present and in flashbacks. In the current time, Delia is holding the hand of her best friend while he dies. Kleenex alert!! Delia and Timothy walk this path together in an agony of [... more]
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Chicago's Maxwell Street (IL) (Images of America)
A Must; and Not Just for Chicago History Buffs: "Chicago's Maxwell Street" is a crucial document offering a window into the vibrant and colorful world of Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street Market. For more than a century Maxwell Street [... more]
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The Train
Intense ... in a cathartic way!: Since my earliest recollection, I've been moved by the sound of a train whistle crying out to me in the middle of the night. I don't know why, but it's a nostalgic feeling that fills me with an unnamed longing ... a [... more]
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The Answer Is Always Yes
Lyrical, funny, and incisive: I read this book from cover to cover and then bought three more copies to give to friends. As a transplanted New Yorker, I loved Ferrell's gorgeous, lyrical descriptions of the city, the "opera of the cosmopolis," [... more]
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Straight forward harrowing account of war against Japan: Sledge's book is a must-read for anyone interested in WWII battles against the Japanese. No words are wasted trying to impress the reader. Instead, this is a first-hand account of an enlisted [... more]
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