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 Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to HollywoodBest Price: $13.24 I picked this up out of curiosity from the title, I knew nothing about the "hype" and... |  The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and StupefyBest Price: $4.79 ...it's a "bathroom" book, and it serves this purpose well. The short stories are... |  Truth & Beauty: A FriendshipBest Price: $1.84 wonderfully written. if you put a gun to my head and ask who was a better writer, patchett or... |  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerBest Price: $8.49 This is an excellent biography of Oppenheimer.While it seems likely the authors started out... |  The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional HealingBest Price: $7.99 Lori Arviso Alvord walks in two worlds. Raised on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico --... |
 Mother Teresa: In My Own WordsBest Price: $3.44 I received this book in EXCELLENT condition in a timely manner. Very happy with the service.... |  Murakami Diary 2009 (Diary)Cats slink across the pages; the seasons are marked by cherry blossom and Japanese maple;... |  The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai LamaBest Price: $13.00 Im reading the book as I write this review and I have been surprised by the way the author... |  Eight Lives Down: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Job in the World's Most Dangerous PlaceBest Price: $12.72 Wow, I simply could not put this book down. Chris pulls you in quickly and doesn't let you... |  Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders DifferentBest Price: $8.75 Here's what I think spawned this book: A brilliant historian with such a wealth of knowledge... |
 Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime UnitBest Price: $3.00 Mind Hunter, (Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit) is an insightful journey into the life... |  Woman WarriorBest Price: $13.27 I feel that Kingston's story was very imformative about the chinese culture and their way of... |  Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul FarmerBest Price: $11.19 One of the best works of nonfiction we have ever read and a truly inspiring story of what genius... |  Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Anchor Books)Best Price: $6.46 GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT is the autobiography of the 34 year old Robert Graves, who, at this book's... |  The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary InstituteBest Price: $4.00 I really enjoyed this book. What I expected was an inside-the-walls report about an... |
 Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.46 Plutarch is able to create a Roman collective past through her great heroes of the past. this... |  Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind ThemBest Price: $15.70 For anyone with an interest in astronomy, astrophysics, or just a passing interest in modern... |  The Three of Us: A Family StoryBest Price: $12.95 The Three of Us is a tawdry mess of sex and strange people written to no purpose. I think the... |  Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their LivesBest Price: $16.95 Regressive hypnosis can cure night terrors. I believe Dr. Weiss has performed a service of true... |  What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger SelfBest Price: $7.32 Excellent book to help guide women that it's okay to make mistakes in your younger years. |
 Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His LifeBest Price: $15.95 In this biography, Persico paints an intimate portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the... |  GraysonBest Price: $2.00 Reading "Grayson" is ....like Ms. Cox's 'Swimming to Antarctica" so wordy and... |  Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount EverestBest Price: $10.98 Lincoln Hall's climb on Everest was supposed to be in support of a young Australian's attempt to... |  Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the WorldBest Price: $18.87 Even though she has chosen to write about lofty and abstract human rights issues Samantha Power... |  Love Without End: Jesus Speaks...Best Price: $12.44 While this book has many innovative ideas in it, it makes perfect sense. It is easy to read,... |
 Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in AmericaBest Price: $7.00 I read this book while a passenger on a drive to Florida. It was so compelling that I found... |  To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A FatherBest Price: $3.54 As an educator with both parents still together after 50+ years, this book is a HUGE insight... |  One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength and Personal GrowthBest Price: $0.99 The concept of this book is fantastic and much of the book is very good. However, (in my... |  Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's PrisonBest Price: $8.84 Sorry, this is more of an emotional release than a fully fledged review. What a twisted... |  Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of UsBest Price: $8.00 You know this is not a subject that I know a whole lot about...though I do profess some interest... |
 Why Women Should Rule the WorldBest Price: $12.47 I find it interesting that those who have cried for 'equality' for so long and finally found... |  Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series (American Portraits)Best Price: $12.10 I have finally come to the end of this fine book and am delighted to share my views. Unlike the... |  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $10.00 The Olde English Writing Style made this book quite painful for me to read. Although the... |  Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and AbroadBest Price: $10.50 One needn't have read Mrs. Dumas' first book, Funny In Farsi, to enjoy this take on the ethnic... |  See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on TerrorismBest Price: $4.50 This is probably the best memoir I have come across by a former CIA case officer. Baer is spot... |
 Arnold: The Education of a BodybuilderBest Price: $8.39 Read the book in 2 days. The book flows well with personal life and bodybuilding. if you are a... |  The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early ChildhoodBest Price: $8.25 Read this book not from cover to cover but by chapter as the child reaches the age described in... | The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood Best Price: $8.25 Read this book not from cover to cover but by chapter as the child reaches the age described in... |  The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of WatergateBest Price: $12.00 James Rosen has tackled an interesting subject. John Mitchell's role in the Nixon... |  Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to SeeBest Price: $8.19 Crashing through is Kurson's second book. His first book, Shadow Divers, is a must read for all... |
 Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from My Favorite HolidayBest Price: $3.00 I ordered this book for a gift and was really disappointed in it. I wish I had read the other... |  The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George SorosBest Price: $8.59 This is the most pathetic book I have ever bought on investments. Please never buy this book. It... |  A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed ItBest Price: $14.54 President Paul Kagame is a man who inspires a wide range of emotions in those who meet him. Some... |  Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas ChambersBest Price: $7.43 This is a good book for any holocaust deniers to read. He is one of the only actual witnesses... |  A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $6.98 What a wonderful little novel! If you love Italy as I do, you will love this story as it leads... |
 The Rise of Barack ObamaBest Price: $13.49 I took time out after lunch today from my efforts to be "productive" to find something... |  Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)Best Price: $4.44 A truly terrifying and detailed eyewitness account of Magellan's voyage westward around the... |  Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday MagicBest Price: $4.99 This book was recommended by a writer-friend saying it was well written and an interesting read.... |  Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $8.01 First off, let me clarify that what follows is a review of a particular edition of Plutarch's... |  Before Night Falls: A MemoirBest Price: $7.94 My review will be quite simple, this book is... marvelous, magnificent, beautiful, brilliant,... |
 Born on the Fourth of JulyBest Price: $4.44 Ron Kovic was an icon of the Vietnam Veterans anti-war movement in the early 1970s, as well as a... |  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaBest Price: $7.99 The thing I liked most about Zero was the humor & sarcasm thrown in by the author. It... |  Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave RouteBest Price: $10.70 I had to read it for college, and honestly, it was quite redundant. I can summarize it in one... |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Modern Library MM)Best Price: $3.35 These two books are sometimes very hard going, but essential reading for Americans. We probably... |  Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life (Quick Reads)Best Price: $2.78 A little low on substance. I wouldn't exactly call it "lessons in life", but maybe... |
 My Husband's Affair Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened to MeBest Price: $16.95 This book was great. It not only helped me with my feelings but it also gave me great... | ||||
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