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books about: nova

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No Place Like Home (Nova Audio Books)

18 reviews
Barbara Samuel

Nova Audio Books, 2002

You Can Go Home Again
Now that I've read and thoroughly enjoyed this beautiful book, I find myself missing these characters - that's how real they are. It's a familiar story told with truth, wisdom, humor and insight. As a mother, and author of a book for mothers, NEW PSALMS FOR NEW MOMS: A KEEPSAKE JOURNAL, I especially appreciated the touching moments between Jewel and her son, Shane. My sons are also boy-men, and I ...

Tryin' To Sleep In the Bed You Made

223 reviews
Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant

Paperback Nova Audio Books, 2001

Oh, my goodness!!! You will be addicted!!!
I don't know that mere words can adequately articulate the genius of this book. I don't think I have ever read a book that kept my attention and called for me the way this one did. I also don't recall ever reading ahead just so I could know the outcome in a story, but I did with this one (only on one chapter). I did go back and read all of the chapter. :) The book draws you in and doesn't let ...

The Kennedy Women

23 reviews
Laurence Leamer

Nova Audio Books, 1994

BRAV0! BRAVO! BRILLIANTLY DONE
"For the most part Rose grandchildren observed and respected and obeyed her, tiptoeing around her life as if she were an exquisite piece of porcelain. She had led such a decorous life, blocking out the untoward, the ugly, and the unacceptable, that her eyes no longer saw the darker colours of the spectrum. "Pat drank a bottle of wine in the morning," Rose was told. "That's impossible" Rose ...

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

22 reviews
Jonathan Kozol

Paperback Nova Audio Books, 2001

Touching Portraits of Resilience
In Ordinary Resurrections, Jonathan Kozol deviates from his usual "gloves off" attack of the issues facing minority children. Instead of building the case against the inequitable system with facts and figures, as he has in previous work, he has chosen the subtle but effective approach of a storyteller. He paints a very descriptive portrait of the victims of continued segregation and racism that ...

My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for Every Day

117 reviews
Oswald Chambers

Nova Publishing, 1989

Most Beautiful Edition of a Wonderful Devotional
I have been an Oswald Chambers follower for many years. I had been reading a tattered copy that belonged to my dad. For my birthday today I got this copy for my birthday and it is so very special. The leather cover is so soft and beautiful. Two shades of purple and liliac. Soft and comfortable to hold. The dovotions are still current today. They make you look deep within your heart to what God ...

Vengeance in Death (In Death)

44 reviews
J.D. Robb

Nova Audio Books, 2002

Vengeance
This book is well written. I do not enjoy reviews that give too much of the storyline away, suffice I should say this book does not let me down from the previous Lieutenant Eve Dallas series. However, it will stand-alone, you do not have to read any other book in this series to know what is going on with it. I would not spoil it for you if I were to tell you that the murders start off ...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

35 reviews
Ian Fleming

Paperback Nova Audio Books, 2000

Fleming reclaims Bond
One of the last of the original Bond Books, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is also one of the best. Picking up a year after the end of Thunderball, this book finds James Bond again battling the nefarious schemes of Ernest Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE and, most importantly, falling in love with the beautiful, resourceful, and ultimately tragic Tracy. Though the usual intrigue is well-presented by ...

Rabbits: Gentle Hearts Valiant Spirits: Inspirational Stories of Rescue, Triumph, and Joy

15 reviews
Marie Mead, Nancy Laroche

Nova Maris Press, 2007

What a wonderful inspirational book!
This book is very catching from the heart catching stories to the wonderful color pictures and cover! Each story reminds us that we are here to help protect those who aren't able to take care of themselves in this world. The way Ms. Mead brings each rabbit to life in her writings makes a person feel that they are a part of each of the stories. I also loved the way that practical information ...

In the Castle of the Flynns (Nova Audio Books)

16 reviews
Michael Raleigh

Nova Audio Books, 2002

Chicago natives, take note!
Look at this list and see if any items bring back memories: Wieboldt's, "suntan lotion," Shedd Aquarium, forest preserves, "da boda ya," Belmont Avenue, trolley buses, Waveland Avenue, Wrigley Field, Ernie Banks, calling your mother "Ma," calling soda "pop." Well? If those make your past come blowing into your present, then this book is for you. Anyone who grew up in an ethnic working-class ...

Third and Indiana

24 reviews
Steve Lopez

Nova Audio Books, 1994

Third and Indiana
I recently attended a graduate class and heard this novel being discussed by high school teachers. Though the content and language are not appropriate for me (el ed), I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was a consistently engaging read. I also saw many levels in the characters, and loved the foreshadowing and imagery. We live about 45 minutes away from Philadelphia and I was curious to see how ...

Budapest: A Critical Guide

11 reviews
A. Torok

Officina Nova, 1989

A unique city experience
I came across this little gem in a small bookstore while strolling down Andrassy Ut. in Budapest. It's essentially a loving and learned essay on the city slyly disguised as a guidebook. Of course he's got the requisite walking maps, addresses and practical information, but what he really does is to capture the soul of the city and its denizens, past and present. It's clear that his evocative ...

Honor Bound (Honor Bound (Audio))

14 reviews
W.E.B. Griffin

Nova Audio Books, 1994

A Superb Story Well Told
Honor Bound captures your attention at the start and never lets go. While there is not really a lot of "action," the story, the settings and the character development all make for an excellent book. The story is the recruitment and development of an OSS team to carry out a secret mission to disrupt German submarine activity in neutral Argentina during WWII. The sub story is the reconnection ...

The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil

9 reviews
Christopher McGowan, Ricardo Pessanha

Temple University Press, 2008

Readable, enjoyable summary of Brazilian music
An excellent book for anyone who wants to explore Brazilian music beyond the well-known classics. Helps place current and past musicians in their historical contexts; helps you understand who influenced whom, etc. The book will pay for itself just by helping you guide your ever-growing collection of Brazilian CD's (hard to stop once you get started)!

Collecting Old Maps

9 reviews
Francis J. Manasek

Terra Nova Press, G.B. Manasek, Inc, 1998

A very useful, substantial book
A book of substance. "Collecting Old Maps" really deals with the subject and is not a watered-down survey of old maps someone thinks we should collect. This book breaks with the old way map books were written and is a refreshing "out of the box" way to look at old map collecting. There is no other book like it and I don't know where else one can get the information that is in here. Very well ...

Born in Twilight (Nova Audio Books)

14 reviews
Maggie Shayne

Silhouette Romance Audio, 2000

Emotionally charged, original vampire romance
I originally submitted this review in 1997 (before Amazon created the About You Page) and am resubmitting it under my public account as directed by Amazon's Customer Service. The original review will be deleted via Amazon. Maggie Shayne's newest addition to her fantastic vampire series is her most emotionally charged yet. A week before she is about to take her final vows and become a nun ...

Dr. No

12 reviews
Ian Fleming

Paperback Nova Audio Books, 2000

Esoteric
This is my favorite James Bond novel. Ian Fleming created a character with a gargantuan appetite for the more worldly pleasures. For a land that could supply our hero with such an appetite Fleming chose his own beloved Jamaica. The melding of the story with the setting is Fleming at his best. Jamaica was a land of beauty, mystery and intrigue. Fleming captured this so well and gave us a ...

The Brimstone Wedding

11 reviews
Barbara Vine

Paperback Nova Audio Books, 1997

Atmospheric mystery of infidelity
Driven by atmosphere and character, this novel by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine, centers around two stories of infidelity and deception. Genevieve, 32, a working-class caretaker at a private nursing home, confides her affair to her favorite patient, Stella, who is middle-class, educated, affluent and dying. Stella responds with the keys to a house none of her family knows she owns, a house ...

The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever

12 reviews
Alison Strang, Gail MacMillan

Alpine Publications, 1996

Simply the best
This fantastic book really gets into all corners and hide-outs of the Toller. Alison's and Gail's knowledge of this dog is simply amazing. We as breeders show the book to all our friends in the dog world, and many of them has already bought it. Simply fantastic. Thanks Gail and Alison

The Basset Hound (Terra Nova Series)

10 reviews
Bobbye Land

TFH Publications, 2006

Nilgun Ebcioglu
I found all the necessary information I was seeking in this book. I will raise my puppy excellent with the support of this book.

The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation

10 reviews
Godfrey Mwakikagile

Nova Science Publishers, 2001

The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation
Mwakikagile's work is a masterpiece of fact and analysis. In the one book he manages to extensively cover the 'rebirth' of Liberia, the 'powerless' state of Sierra Leone, 'ethnic cleansing' in Rwanda, 'stateless' Somalia, slavery in Mauritania and Sudan, and the fall of Mobutu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire). Any one of the topics is the subject of a book in itself. Mwakikagile ...