God: A Biography
 Amazon.com Review: Is it possible to approach God not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book -- as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and ambiguities of a Hamlet? How does he depend [... more]
$15.95
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Amazon.com Review: Martin Dressler is a turn-of-the-century New York City entrepreneur who begins in his father's cigar store but dreams of a bigger empire. That dream shapes into a series of large hotels. At first, Dressler's seems the archetypal [... more]
$14.00
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry ...
Fascinating, but maddeningly uneven: Applegate's biography on Henry Ward Beecher is very readable, but too short. Some things are covered very well, and others almost ignored by comparison. You learn alot about his relationship with his father and [... more]
$16.95
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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
A Piece of Garbage: This book was assigned to me as college reading and all I can say is that I am offended with the language and feel verbally abused by the content. The author is abusing the audience. I have friends whom are gay and they never talk [... more]
$11.95
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Angela's Ashes
Amazon.com Review: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the [... more]
$26.00
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Amazon.com Review: "...the most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise." --Washington Post Book World "...an extraordinary confluence of observation, hard work, knowledge, and reflection; a better book by a journalist on the [... more]
$16.95
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Rabbit Hole
"You should try to relax a little.": Dealing with the most traumatic event any parent can endure--the death of a child--David Lindsay-Abaire manages to involve his audience in the grieving process and illustrate how we all grieve differently [... more]
$13.95
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Doubt
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$12.95
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The Shipping News
Amazon.com Review: In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not [... more]
$15.00
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Amazon.com Review: Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, [... more]
$14.95
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Amazon.com Review: This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when American involvement was [... more]
$18.95
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Gulag: A History
The more I know about Russia, the happier I am to be American (if only by heart): It's a work of labor as much as debt and seer investigative powers. It covers every aspect of the Gulag system from its pre-history to its closing-down. Russia's history is [... more]
$16.95
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