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 Green Grows the CityBest Price: $16.04 Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the... |  The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter EditionTextbook as described, good shape, no marks or highlights. Quick delivery and good price,... |  You Can Preach to the Kids Too!Best Price: $14.00 If you preach, then you need to read this one! Great lesson on learning to make the sermon more... |  Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia InquirerBest Price: $1.00 My husband gave me the audio book for Christmas and we just took it on vacation to listen to in... |  In Light of IndiaBest Price: $4.93 Octavio Paz is clearly a deep thinker. His essays tend to be very philosophical, although for... |
 The Partly Cloudy PatriotBest Price: $3.99 That's the book I'm describing in my review title above, though it could apply to Sarah Vowell... |  Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom ReaderBest Price: $12.21 |  Slightly Offshore: More Reflections on Contemporary Life from a Small Maine Island--By Down East Magazine's Award-Winning Essayist |  Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (O'Rourke, P. J.)Best Price: $3.28 I first got into PJ O'Rourke when I started reading his book "Republican Party... |  How I Got This WayBest Price: $2.90 'How I Got This Way' is a great book. My friend got me hooked on Pat McManus when she had me... |
 Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews (Applied Social Research Methods)Best Price: $44.95 Good text. I'm using it for a class where I'm doing an integrated literature review in prep for... |  Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories, New EditionBest Price: $8.81 This is a wonderful book about education and children's stories. But it loses two stars because... |  Home and ExileBest Price: $6.03 Since the book is already well-summarized above, I'll just give my own reaction. I've read a... |  The Wilderness ReaderBest Price: $20.72 Many of the selections within this book contain little more than increasingly tedious... |  George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George Orwell) (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George Orwell)Best Price: $10.15 Sorry for the prank in the headline, it is not a comment on Orwell but a quote from the book,... |
 Less Than One: Selected EssaysBest Price: $8.00 This collection of essays is by one of the great Russian poets of this century. In it he writes... |  Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other ReflectionsBest Price: $2.70 A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles... |  Horse Crazy: Women And the Horses They LoveBest Price: $2.98 The stories by and about these women and their horse experiences are somewhat amateurish. While... |  Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be AmericanBest Price: $3.50 IDENTITY LESSONS was a great learning experience for me. Not only did I learn about my own... |  Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and PlacesBest Price: $10.66 This is my favorite of Naomi Nye's books. She has such a gift for describing human experiences... |
 My Unwritten BooksBest Price: $14.29 George Steiner's "My unwritten books" in the swan song of a master writer and thinker,... |  Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky (Russian Literature and Thought Series)Best Price: $22.95 What a stupendous work it is! The writings of one titan about another, and there's no... |  The Golden AssBest Price: $5.00 I too had to read this as a course requirement in college. Surprisingly, it was not as dry as I... |  Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $7.88 Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish... |  Plant Dreaming DeepBest Price: $8.09 This was the first May Sarton book I read. I admit I had never heard of her and am not sure... |
 Second Drafts of History: EssaysBest Price: $0.01 The absolute best in contemporary essay writing. It will make you a fan of essays and improve... |  A Life in Medicine: A Literary AnthologyBest Price: $3.00 -Just wanted to add another five-star vote for this excellent anthology. -The NEJM review... |  A Knack for Knowing Things: Stories from St. Paul Neighborhoods and BeyondBest Price: $18.89 |  The Portable Henry RollinsBest Price: $6.99 Great intro to Rollins and what makes him tick. There is much more depth to be plumbed if you... |  The Red Notebook: True StoriesBest Price: $6.35 The book is an easy read but the connnections that the author makes are very tennuous. He talks... |
 Hopes and Impediments: Selected EssaysBest Price: $7.28 I read this as part of my required summer reading for my AP English class, and I have only... |  One Minute Stewardship SermonsBest Price: $8.17 This book has many useful "sermonettes" that are tied to scripture and to the church... |  The Princessa : Machiavelli for WomenBest Price: $3.88 Too many words, not enough examples. As a young female engineer, I was hoping to hear detailed... |  El Oro Del ReyBest Price: $5.33 Leer al Capit?n Alatriste en todas sus aventuras es volver a ser adolescente con un intelecto de... |  Shiksa Goddess: (Or, How I Spent My Forties) EssaysBest Price: $4.79 Wonderful story. Makes me sad I did not get to know Wendy while she was alive. |
 A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in AmericaBest Price: $1.18 In this book Shelby Steele eloquently argues his position in opposition to modern day liberalism... |  Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Glass Mountain Pamphlet)Best Price: $6.28 I'm fairly stunned at the two two-star reviews here. This book was co-authored by Barbara... |  The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth YearBest Price: $4.99 I have loved each if Louise Erdrich's books that I have read. Her warmth and heart come through... |  Magic, Science and Religion and Other EssaysBest Price: $13.48 An easy way to discover one of the most important ethnologists, and what ethnology is about:... |  Just Before DarkBest Price: $8.66 These reviews must be to hard for the authors to read. The only easy ones would the indifferent... |
 Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And LiteratureBest Price: $3.89 Noted as "extraordinary" by the author Tee A. Corinne in her book `Courting Pleasure'... |  Who Owns the West?Best Price: $7.99 My hand landed on "Who Owns the West" seemingly by accident. Buddhists say that... |  Parables for Preachers: The Gospel of Matthew-Year ABest Price: $10.17 Barbara Reid's books on `Parables for Preachers' follow the Revised Common Lectionary. Because... |  McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About HopeBest Price: $4.96 If you have read Consider the Lobster, you have already read this book! I feel very deceived to... |  Place Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine ExperienceBest Price: $16.50 What is it like to live and write in Maine? Wesley McNair, Maine's premier anthologist, asked... |
 Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American LiteratureBest Price: $5.50 This is a marvelous reference to so many masterpieces that every book shelf should have it. The... |  Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily LivingBest Price: $5.25 So dude, I was totally blown away by this book. Emerson was like some sort of genious, I mean,... |  Fat Girls and Lawn ChairsBest Price: $2.99 Oh my. If the cover doesn't clue you in to what kind of book this is ~ check out the cat in the... |  The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and ReportageBest Price: $6.92 The blurb on the back of the book calls THE GEORGE ORWELL READER "a feast of reading for... |  The Things I Wish I'd SaidBest Price: $12.44 I enjoyed Michele's direct perspective in her original articles and seeing how years later, she... |
 Thinking Politically: Essays in Political TheoryBest Price: $18.23 Having just bought Thinking Politically, I can't say yet whether it lives up to my high... |  W. E. B. Du Bois: A ReaderBest Price: $4.98 Most Black History fans think they have DuBois figured out. You either hate him for his... |  Back on the Fire: EssaysBest Price: $7.99 These essays, including those written as talks or prefaces to other people's books, are in no... |  Planning Blended Worship: The Creative Mixture of Old and NewBest Price: $8.94 Ihave read a number of Robert Webber's books and have attended a seminar. I find his material... |  Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and EffronteryBest Price: $7.04 To quote Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so... |
 Vindication of the Rights of Woman and The Wrongs of Woman, A, or Maria, A Longman Cultural Edition (Longman Cultural Editions)Best Price: $7.73 From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wollstonecraft , edited by Anne K. Mellor and Noelle... |  The Penguin Book of Historic SpeechesBest Price: $6.36 Great speeches - and great books - can move mountains. This book has mountains of speeches and... | |||
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