The First and the Last
 Unique, somewhat honest, but not entirely fair or comprehensive: Galland's book is a popular classic for good reason. This book is a fairly comprehensive overview of WWII air war from a unique perspective: that of a Lt. General who was in charge of the [... more]
$41.95
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20 Years at Hull House
Amazon.com Review: While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else. Their pale faces were dominated by that most [... more]
$11.95
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The Last Plantagenets
Good historian; good storyteller: Mr. Costain is a very good historian. His scholarship is thorough and his conclusions are always logically wrought and sometimes surprising. His sensibilities are surprisingly contemporary, although I would not term him [... more]
$45.95
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
pilgrim at tinker creek: I found this book boring...I KNOW it was a Pulitzer prize winner. But, to me, oh, so boring... Annie Dillard is an excellent writer of course, and I loved her little book, The Writing Life. Utterly pointless: I found this book [... more]
$41.95
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Sealed With a Kiss
A must-have book for any KISS fan: Lydia Criss has collaborated with a great team to create a quality book that has lots of great pictures, and tells the groups' story from an insider's perspective. The composition of the book is terrific. Fans of Peter [... more]
$75.00
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The Peter Principle
Right on the money: In the first chapter of the book, after a few examples of his principle in action, Laurence Peter proposes his Peter principle: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." He proceeds to take [... more]
$29.95
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Lord Tony's Wife
More High Adventure: Martin-Roger kidnaps Lord Tony's Wife--taking her to France along with her father. Chauvelin uses the situation to his advantage. For, he knows that the Scarlet Pimpernel cannot be far behind. And, from reading a bundle of papers [... more]
$32.95
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The Beverly Hills Diet
Try it! It could work miracles for you.: This book (and Judy's system) have gotten a lot of slams, for what I think is no good reason. Most people who slam it don't seem to really understand the theory she is proposing. It doesn't make you protein- [... more]
$29.95
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Hawaii
Hawaii: In the late sixties during the summer between 8th and 9th grades, I was gleaning through the relatively few paperback novels in my parent's library for anything interesting to read. It was my good fortune to stumble upon a copy of James Michener' [... more]
$39.95
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Paradise Lost
Review of the Buccaneer Books Library Binding edition: My review is of the library binding edition released by Buccaneer Books. It is a very plain and small volume which is wonderfully bound. It contains nothing but the poem itself (including the prose [... more]
$21.95
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Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution
Big Capitalism Loves Big Communism: Anthony Sutton's WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION is a series of case studies of powerful U.S. executives catering to the Bolsheviks or Communists beginning in the early 1920s. Sutton cites U.S. business [... more]
$37.95
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Silver Pennies
Beautiful Contents, Terrible Package!: When Silver Pennies by Blanche Jennings Thompson was first published by The MacMillan Company in 1926, this beautiful collection of poetry for children was bound in cloth imprinted with the silhouette of a small [... more]
$25.95
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