Lay Your Own Extraordinary Hardwood Floor
It's hard to beat the natural beauty, warmth and durability of a hardwood floor. A well-laid floor will last for a century or more and can be rejuvenated by resanding and finishing to look brand new. A real wood floor isn't cheap, but neither is ... [... more]
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The Unhappy Lawyer: A Roadmap to Finding Meaningful Work ...
 Very helpful book: If you're considering changing careers but think you can figure it out on your own, read this book anyway. You may figure it out on your own, but The Unhappy Lawyer will help you figure it out faster than you would alone. I wish this [... more]
$14.95
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Great New Books of December 2008
On November the 21st, the day of her 47th birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, Rhoda Gradwyn went to Harley Street to keep a first appointment with her plastic surgeon, and there in a consulting room designed, so it ... [... more]
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Q & A; With John Updike
John Updike is the ultimate old-school writer. "I'm a dinosaur," he says. He has no cell phone, no iPod, and no Internet access from his computer, partly because he worries that hackers could destroy a year's worth of his writing. Plus, "I [... more]
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INTL AUTHORS WRITERS WW 14ED 95-96
INTL AUTHORS WRITERS WW 14ED 95-96 [... more]
$12.17
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Quick Study: A Look at the Lottery
From Reader's Digest America's fascination with the game of chance is as old as the nation itself. Lotteries were a common way to raise money for public works in Colonial America, but they fell out of favor in the 19th century, perceived as ... [... more]
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Great New Books of February 2009
From Reader's Digest Get more book recommendations in our Book Fare blog. The sky was inky. The air was fragrant with moisture and manure. Red-winged blackbirds were restless on the phone wires. She guessed she had five or ten minutes to reach ... [... more]
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LAST CONVERSATION WITH DAD
From Reader's Digest Plus: Read up on how to write your own memoirs I never really knew my father, or rather never took the time to ask him about the details of his life. His life had always been focused on mine. It was always about me. But isn't ... [... more]
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The Manager Who Couldn't Write
What launched Amy Tan's career was not a big break, but a kick in the butt. Before the million-copy sales of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan was a writer. A business writer. She and a partner ran a ... [... more]
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Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing
Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing: This book is a good small edition to the full-sized book. While it is off in page numbers, and thusly creates the need to admit to not having the full text, the book itself had everything I needed for my [... more]
$112.95
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and ...
Surprsingly Wonderful!: I picked this book up for a class, expecting to be perfectly bored. Instead, this book woke up my sleeping love of learning and literature. The book is easy to understand and contains MANY great stories and poems in it. It also [... more]
$95.00
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Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space
Anyone who aspires to become a pilot must read this book!: I am a student pilot working on my private pilot's license and have been wrestling with my own fears and anxiety while flying solo. A friend got me this book for Christmas, and the stories have [... more]
$17.95
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