Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash
 More clever than brilliant, but clever is good.: Ogden Nash should probably be considered more of a humorist than a poet. After all, he makes up words and sometimes totally disregards any sense of meter. Maybe "rhyming humorist" would be most [... more]
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Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection)
Christie is not at the top of her game, but still Marple is a marvel: I hate to say anything negative about this book because on many levels it's so enjoyable. The premise is tantalizing: Miss Marple is asked by a dead man to solve a mystery and then is [... more]
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Late Christie, Even-Paced Mystery: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) marks the penultimate appearance of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. It is one of the novels which I return to periodically because I find that the novel continues to provide a certain [... more]
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Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques
Not for beginners: This is not a book for beginners. This is a book for people who have some chops, but who want a reference manual. Ignore everybody who complains about the photos: they will never produce meal after meal. They are too busy complaining. [... more]
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Vintage Miss Marple: THE MIRROR CRACK'D finds the quaint village of St. Mary Mead undergoing changes. Besides the charming old village, there is now a supermarket and a modern neighborhood of tract homes. Despite the physical changes taking place in the [... more]
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The Clocks: Complete & Unabridged
WILL SOMEONE LET THE WOMAN SPEAK?: What "improvements" have been made for the Berkley edition? There are already major differences in punctuation, word choices, and scene breaks between the original Collins and Dodd Mead editions of this novel. [... more]
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Towards Zero (Mystery Masters)
Carefully plotted, suspenseful, and a personal favorite.: If Christie's Towards Zero (1944), published after The Moving Finger (1943) and before Death Comes As the End (1945), ranks as a personal favorite, it does so largely because it is one of Christie' [... more]
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Leonardo's Notebooks
Author: Leonardo da Vinci Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781579125219 Format: Unabridged ISBN: 1579125212 Publication Date: 2005 [... more]
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One Hundred and One African-American Read-Aloud Stories
Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781579125233 ISBN: 1579125239 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 1998-01-01 [... more]
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Country Wisdom & Know-How
Author: Editors of Storey Books Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781579124977 ISBN: 1579124976 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: 2004-01-01 [... more]
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1001 4-Ingredient Recipes
Delicious, easy recipes: Tandouri chicken, pork chops in cherry sauce... so many tasty and simple recipes that there will be something to delight everyone's palate. A friend bought this book and I just had to have one myself. One of the books I turn to [... more]
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Codes Ciphers (Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication)
Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780760754788 ISBN: 0760754780 Number Of Pages: 702 Publication Date: 1998 [... more]
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