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Historical Fiction
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a story of two women and their lifes in Afghanistan over the past 40 years. Mariam was born an illegal child and was forced to marry Rasheed, an abusive husband at age 15. Rasheed is...
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Testimony Of An Irish Slave Girl
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Just when you thought you had a reasonably good grasp of history, someone takes on the voice of a past that has been silent for so long. McCafferty's well researched novel, teaches more than most novels do - facts, emotions, and wisdom. This is...
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The Kite Runner
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Kite Runner is the story of two boys who grow up together in the 1970’s in Afghanistan like brothers. Even though the two are very close, they are quite different. Amir is a lover of books, he is a well educated Pashtun, and is the...
Comedy
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Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg
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As a huge fan of the Brady Bunch I was more then thrilled when Barry Williams wrote about his days in the Brady house. This book is a literary montage of everything Brady. From his romantic encounters with Mo "Marcia" McCormick and his on s...
Books on Faith and Christianity
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The Purpose Driven Life
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The Purpose Driven Life is a 40 day journey spiritual journey that will help you to find the answer to life’s most important and difficult question: What am I here for? The goal of the book is to help you to understand a bit more about God’s purp...
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The Holy Bible
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Whether or not you believe the Holy Bible is the word of God, you can't deny that it has shaped our society. Over the last two thousand years, billions of people have found inspiration and solace within its pages. Others have selectively...
Books For Children
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
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This bright and colorful book uses rhythm and simple words in a way that will have your child excited by the book, participating in its reading, and perhaps even reciting its chant when the book is out of sight. This is a classic and a must-have for...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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This book has the ability to engage young children in reading, to get them excited, with beautiful albeit simple artwork. While teaching of sequencing, nutrition, and moderation, not to mention where butterflies come from, The Very Hungry Caterpillar...
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Where The Sidewalk Ends
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I love this book. It is the sort of book that an adult and a child can enjoy. The quirky word choice, and subject matter, is perfect. The illustrations are so simple, yet they hold so much personality, and often add to the poem's tone and content. Th...
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On The Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
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The most special day to every parent is that day when their own unique little child is born into this world. It is a day of wonder and amazement, a very unique day unlike any other in their life. On this special day, to them alone, has this little pr...
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Guess How Much I Love You
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In Guess How Much I Love You, Little Nutbrown Hare expresses his love for Big Nutbrown Hare, and is reassured that Big Nutbrown Hare loves him back. This classic children's book by Sam McBratney has absolutely beautiful illustrations by Anita Jeram,...
Fiction For Older Kids and Teens
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The Outsiders
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The Outsiders is a book written by a teenager about teenagers. The story is told through the eyes of a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy Curtis who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks with his two brothers Darrell and Sodapop. The story takes p...
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The Secret Order Of The Gumm Street Girls
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Welcome to Gumm Street in the town of Sherbet. A quiet street in a perfect little town where three little girls live. You'd expect they'd be best of friends, but ... no. These little girls greatly dislike each other and that doesn't seem likely to ch...
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The Edge Chronicles
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The Deepwoods, the Stone Gardens, the Edgewater River. Undertown and Sanctaphrax. Names on a map. Yet behind each name lie a thousand tales - tales that have been recorded in ancient scrolls, tales that have been passed down the generations by word...
More Great Books For Children
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Through Moon And Stars And Night Skies by Ann Turner
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Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies written by award winning author Ann Turner is a wonderful story about a little child in a far away land who has no home, no mama, no papa, and who is all alone in an orphanage. On one hope filled day, the little...
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The Key To Rondo
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Good news! The next book in the Rondo series has been released in Australia. It is called The Wizard of Rondo. The Key to Rondo Leo is a sensible boy who would never break the rules, which is why his boring great-aunt Bethany thought he was the per...
More Great Books For Kids
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Goodnight Moon :: A Bedtime Favorite
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This book is one that every child must have. It's simple and accessible story is great for any child. Here I am in this room, these are the things around me, I am comfortable and safe here, and it is time for bed. This is the type of story kids want...
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Judy Moody
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The first day of third grade puts Judy Moody in a mad-face mood. She just knows everyone will come back from summer vacation with word T-shirts, like "Disney World" or "Jamestown: Home of Pocahontas." All Judy has is a plain old no-words T-shirt. She...
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THE THREE SNOW BEARS by Jan Brett
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The Three Snow Bears, written by Jan BrettIs a refreshing remake of Goldilocks And The Three Bears. I don't know how anyone could possibly improve on this famous children's bed time story, but the truth is that Jan has done exactly that. This childre...
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night by Jane Yolen
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night Written by Jane Yolen and beautifully illustrated by Mark Teague, is but one of the many great children's literary works of Jane Yolen. I love using How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night as a read aloud in my classroom becau...
Critical Reviews Of Childrens Books
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Everyone Poops
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I do not think any child is unable to grasp the concept of poop, to the point of requiring a book specifically devoted to it. What will they learn from Uncle Bob and public school if they already know all there is to know about poop? Sure read it onc...
Motivational Books
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The Magic Of Thinking Big
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The Magic of Thinking Big was originally written back in 1959 and it’s principles are still relavant for today. The teachings in this book can help you to succeed in everything from just the simple things that you do every day. The Magic of Thi...
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The Good Luck Book
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Good Luck is an easy-to read beautiful fable, in the times of King Arthur and Merlin the Magician. A story of two knights seeking to find a magic four-leaf clover in an enchanted forest, and the obstacles or opportunities about making their own luck....
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How To Win Friends And Influence People
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The title How To Win Friends And Influence People may sound manipulative, but in reality it is an excellent book that helps you relate to others. Dale Carnegie’s bestselling book can help you to make more friends, persuade others to your way of thi...
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The Secret
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The Secret is a book that has become a bestselling phenomenon that really can change your life, but only if you are willing to make the change. What the Secret really is is the law of attraction. This secret has been passed down through the ages and...
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Your Best Life Now
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Your Best Life Now is written by Joel Osteen, pastor of Lakewood Church which is America’s largest church and averages 30,000 people in its congregation every Sunday. The book is designed to help you live up to whatever your God given dreams may be...
Strategy and Leadership
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The Art Of War
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient Chinese treatise on warfare and military strategy. It is now required reading for many businesses, law students, and of course militarys. This book gives excellent advice on how to win any conflict and can be a...
Internet Business
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The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand
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One of the best books of 2006, "the long tail" explain how and why the digital distribution of contents is changing the way the market works. ...and why and an endless offer is affecting the way we buy and choose things. Recommended reading!
Books On Building Wealth
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How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not
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Do you want to be mega-wealthy? I'm not talking comfortably situated. I'm talking filthy, dirty, disgusting, so-much-money-you-don't-know-what-to-spend-it-on, mega wealthy! Get your hands on a copy of How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? by Rober...
Photography Books
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Earth From Above
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A different perspective of the earth around us shows its true beauty where it may never had been seen. The area covered in obtaining these photos, taken all by one man, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, is amazing on its own. The variety and beauty o...
Biographies
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Scars Of Sweet Paradise: The Life And Times Of Janis Joplin
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To call Janis Joplin the Judy Garland of the Woodstock set is in some sense a fair characterization. The brassy, carnal, extravagant, and ultimately pitiable queen of psychedelic rock is indeed a cultural icon. And while Joplin reveled in her own bal...
Nonfiction
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Last Child In The Woods
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People need nature - really need nature, not merely enjoy nature or benefit from nature. Children need experiences with nature just as they need sleep or healthy food. Why? Richard Louv spends much of his book Last Child in the Woods explaining exact...
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A Lifetime Of Secrets: A PostSecret Book
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What is your biggest secret? The one thing you don't want anyone to know? Thousands have written their secrets on postcards and sent them to Frank Warren. Published into books, and put on exhibit, these secrets serve as powerful proof that we are all...
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Murdered By Mumia
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More than twenty cities around the world, including Paris, Montreal, and Palermo, have bestowed honorary citizen status upon him. In 2006, a newly-paved road in Saint Denis, France was named in his honor. The city of Oakland, California closed its sc...
Mysteries, Thrillers, Crime, Espionage
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Stone Cold
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Baldacci’s novel, Stone Cold, takes place in Washington D.C. and deals with the power players who are obsessed with terrorism and Homeland Security. A group of former CIA operatives and Special Forces soldiers make up a group called the Camel Club...
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Double Cross
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Alex Cross thought he had it easy, he is retired, has a great girl, and thought he had it made. Cross and his new love, Brianna Stone, Bree for short, were on a romantic camping trip that was cut short when Bree received a phone call requesting her t...
Horror
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I Am Legend
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I am Legend is the novel that has been made into three movies, Vincent Price’s The Last Man on Earth, the Charlton Heston film, Omega Man, and the Will Smith film, I am Legend. While each of these movies are excellent, the novel is different, a...
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Bag Of Bones
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Bag of Bones, by Stephen King, is a classic ghost story that is loved by both his old and new fans. The novel is narrated by a bestselling novelist who at the start of the story, had to identify his wife’s body after suffering a brain aneurysm....
Science Fiction
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Next
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Next is a sci-fi, technological mix of fact and fiction that examines the moral, legal, and ethical consequences of gene manipulation and explores what just may come next. The chapters are short and there are many characters with a lacking main char...
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Scattered Suns
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When Chairman Basil Wenceslas used a device to ignite a gas giant he unknowingly destroyed the beings known as the hydrogues in it. The hydrogues declared war on the Terran Hanseatic League and nothing in the league's arsenal seems able to stop them....
Soft Science Fiction
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Lowry creates a perfect society...or so it seemed. In this future society everyone is happy. It is a society which has chosen to be ignorant of its past, blissfully ignorant. A society which has systematically chosen to give up individuality and free...
Fantasy
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Inkheart
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In the story of Inkheart, there is a story within a story: Mo originally brought four of Inkheart's characters to life while reading aloud from a novel which is also called Inkheart - Basta, Capricorn, Dustfinger, and Dustfinger's pet marten, Gwin. D...
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Stardust - A Novel By Neil Gaiman
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Award winning British author, Neil Gaiman wrote the novel, "Stardust" and in it he weaves a sparking, magical tale that will enchant and enthrall anyone who loves a good tale, well told. If you love stories or films such as "The Princess Bride", "Le...
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APRICOT BRANDY
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This unusual blend of dark fantasy and supernatural horror left me on the edge of my seat, unable to put Apricot Brandy down once I started it. If you want to read an excerpt of this epic battle check out the book profile at Juno Books here.
Beast Quest Series
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Sepron The Sea Serpent
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Sepron The Sea Serpent is the second book in Adam Blade's Beast Quest series where we find Tom and Elenna assisted by the horse Storm and wolf Silver struggling to free the enchanted sea serpent Sepron. Sepron is wreaking havoc in their kingdom thank...
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Ferno The Fire Dragon
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Ferno The Fire Dragon is the first book in Adam Blade's Beast Quest series. While you can read the books out of order and easily follow the story it is best to start out with the quest to free Ferno The Fire Dragon as this story introduces us to the...
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Tagus The Night Horse
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This is the fourth book in the Beast Quest stories by Adam Blade. In this adventure tale Tom and Elenna must not only fight to free a beast, Tagus The Night Horse, but must also fight the frightened and angry plains people who believe Tom is to blame...
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Tartok The Ice Beast
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The Beast Quest stories by Adam Blade have all the standard fairy tale adventure story elements -- an evil wizard, a beleaguered kingdom in need of a champion, and a young hero plus magic, friendship, and bravery. It is an engaging story with charac...
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Epos The Winged Flame
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In this conclusion to the Beast Quest series by Adam Blade, Tom and Elenna must face one of their greatest challenges yet. Tom learns some important truths about his father as well -- perhaps some truth he would rather not learn. And they learn that...
Books on Spirituality
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the idiots guide to kabbalah
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Kabbalah gives a whole new perspective on life. On the surface it may seem a lot like any other Eastern method or some late-20th century philosophy, but when you get deeper into it you see how it's actually something completely different and even opp...
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Zen Flesh,Zen Bones
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is one of those books that might best be read for the first time as a child would listen to a parent reading her a fairy tale. Hearing each word as if for the first time and letting the words paint a narrative that is both amazin...
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Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Zen Lectures From Shunryu Suzuki
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Zen Mind Beginners Mind fell in to my lap one rainy afternoon. It was the late fall of 2005 and nothing has been the same and nothing has been different since I read and reread it. Make no mistake this is not some quick self help book, though it sure...
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The Three Pillars Of Zen
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In 1953 an American business man goes to Japan to find out what Zen is all about. if you think that premise sounds like it might have been ripped from a dime store detective novel your partly right. Philip Kapleau takes us on a journey into Zen usin...
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The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
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It unites science and religion in a unique synthesis. Changed my life and my world view completely. Contains many of the themes of the modern New Age movement like: karmic evolution, Atlantis, parapsychology, Unity of All Life/everything, unity of al...
More Books On Spirituality
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Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
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Great book if you want to go to India yourself - especially if you're interested in India as the home of spirituality. I read the book in one go: couldn't put it down. It's interesting as a story of personal and spiritual growth and as a catalog of...
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Tao Te Ching - Classic from China
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Very inspiring. About leadership, living life and letting things be (that you can't control anyhow). This lens has quotes from the Tao Te Ching and information about Taoism. Taoism is one of the oldest still living religions in the world. It combine...
Romantic Drama
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The Magic Of Ordinary Days
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I read this book after seeing the movie, something I have NEVER done in the past. Usually after seeing a movie, I think "Well I know what happens, so why bother". This story is completely different. It is not about where i...
Tools For Writers
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Flip Dictionary
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My Flip Dictionary is my most powerful writing resource. I use it constantly and consistently when writing prose, poetry, fiction, articles, letters, and sometimes even grocery lists! This book is helpful for when you just can't think of the right w...
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The Pocket Muse
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Writers block is a thing of the past when you own the Pocket Muse by Monica Wood. This book is wonderful for creative writers and writers of poetry. I've had my copy for years now and I can honestly say that it continues to be a God-send when I am at...
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Writing For Quick Cash
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I think Writing for Quick Cash by Loriann Hoff Oberlin is an excellent book for the new writer who is just getting their feet wet in the world of earning money through publishing. Writing for Quick Cash contains not only some great tips about gettin...
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Bird By Bird
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Imagine being able to really get inside of the head of a fantastic writer to see what makes them tick. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott actually lets you do just that. Whether you are new to writing or an old sage you will find this book an unforgettabl...
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On Writing
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Part autobiography, part instructional writing book, I found Stephen King's On Writing a fascinating read. Stephen King is one of today's top fiction writers and as an aspiring writer myself, to be given the chance to learn some of his writing tips...
Books On Poetry
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The Prose Edda
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Snorri Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda as a guide for Icelandic poets so they would not lose knowledge of the styles and stories told in traditional poetry. His book has become one of the greatest works (along with the Poetic Edda) letting us view the...
Books On Healthy Eating
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Eat This Not That
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You really can eat whatever you want, whenever you want, and still lose those extra pounds that you have been struggling with, without really dieting! Eat This Not That:Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!! by D...
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Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?
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In Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More the popular clutter expert, Peter Walsh examines why diets don't work. He claims that by un-cluttering your home and your life, you can indeed un-clutter your...
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In Defense Of Food
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In In Defense of Food the author, Michael Pollan, expands on something most of us already know but might have forgotten. We should be eating real food. His simple seven word diet is a mantra each and every one of us should be repeating many times dai...
Books On Aging Gracefully
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How Not to Look Old
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Mostly geared towards Boomer-aged women, How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better by Charla Krupp, is a great "cheat sheet" of fast beauty fixes. Charla Krupp is best known for her te...
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Dressing Nifty After Fifty
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Dressing Nifty After Fifty, the definitive guide to a simple, stylish wardrobe by Corinne Richardson. Women over 50 lead busy lives. They have neither the time nor the patience to fuss with their wardrobes. In addition to their everyday activities,...
Alternative Medicine
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The Healing Power of Herbs
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Read The Healing Powers of Herbs: The Enlightened Person's Guide to the Wonders of Medicinal Plants by Michael T. Murray to learn: How licorice can be used to heal canker sores How ginkgo biloba can be used to delay the effects of Alzheimer's disea...
Self Improvement
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Intelligence for Your Life
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When I heard that John Tesh's Intelligence for Your Life was coming out in book form, I had to get a copy of the book. I listen to his radio show on Intelligence for Your Life almost daily, quote things that I hear to my college students and share th...
Inspirational Books
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The Last Lecture
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My background includes caring for those those who are facing the end of life. I have been in awe of the human spirit shown by those facing their final life challenge. I was amazed when I read Randy Pausch's inspirational story. He has shown amazing c...
The Classics
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Edmond Dantes, a naive young man with a bright and happy future seemingly stretched out before him, is betrayed and imprisoned without trial on the day he was supposed to be married. Locked for years in solitary confinement, Dantes eventually makes c...
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