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The Brothers K [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

121 reviews
David James Duncan

Playaway, 2009

The "Prince Of Tides" of the Pacific Northwest
Just a great read. Baseball. The Vietnam War. Dysfunctional families. I ran across this at a bookstore in Hood River, Or. in the summer of '92. I had no idea this book dealt with the Pacific Northwest, just that I'd enjoyed Duncan's previous book The River Why. I started reading this book about 100 yards from the Wind River, and was astonished when the Wind was mentioned in the first ...

Emperor Mage [With Earbuds] (Playaway Young Adult)

120 reviews
Tamora Pierce

Playaway, 2009

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
EMPEROR MAGE follows the story of Daine, now fifteen years old, a girl with the rare power of "wild magic" that gives her an extraordinary affinity with animals. With her wild magic, Daine can communicate with animals, see the world through their senses, and even transform herself into one, all skills that the first two books of THE IMMORTALS series have shown her develop. In this third book, ...

Halo: First Strike [With Headphones] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

101 reviews
Eric Nylund

Playaway, 2009

Awesome internode for the series
Fills in a bit of the gap between Halo 1 and 2. The story is very bold and certainly takes your imagination on a thrill ride with vivid imagery. For true Halo fans.

Tomorrow, When the War Began [With Earphones] (Playaway Young Adult)

158 reviews
John Marsden

Playaway, 2009

so exciting!!
John Marsden has done an excellent job creating a great and exciting story about friendship, war, and love. I have read all the books in this series and I was so mad when it ended. You feel so close to the charactors that when it's over, its heartbreaking. I wish I could meet every one of the charactors on the book. This series truly has changed my life. I've learned so much and it has changed ...

So B. It [With Earbuds] (Playaway Children)

118 reviews
Sarah Weeks

Playaway, 2009

Gotta Read This One! C.O. from Annapolis
Are you looking for a book about curious girls and a mentally disturbed mother? Well probably not, but I know of a book that is about all of those things but is also very interesting. It is called So B. It by Sarah Weeks. The main characters are Heidi, Bernadette (or Dette), and Mama. My favorite character is Heidi because she is really curious and adventurous. I have a Text-to-Self ...

Mrs. Mike (Playaway Adult Fiction)

157 reviews
Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

Playaway, 2009

a really good book
This is such a good book. The story is engaging and fascinating. The characters were real people- complex and evolving. The book provided a glimpse of a world I will never experience except through reading. Reading it was a great pleasure.

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)

186 reviews
David Bellavia, John Bruning

Playaway, 2009

Best Iraq War book I've ever read
This is hands down the best book I've read about the ground war in Iraq. The author pulls no punches and delivers an excellent first hand account of the horrors, struggles, and at times the humor that face the combat infantyman. I passed this book on to a friend when I finished and he too was floored by the stories it contained. I don't normally write book reviews (this is in fact my one and ...

Into the Land of the Unicorns [With Earbuds] (Playaway Children)

168 reviews
Bruce Coville

Playaway, 2009

A Superb Adventure!
I don't read much, but I read this book a few months ago and I loved it. You get pulled right into the story then are carried away by the swift adventure. It's short, but don't worry because two more books follow this one! I haven't read the other two yet, but I will. I'm 18 and I really enjoyed this book. I'm sure young adult readers would love it.

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

106 reviews
Robert E. Howard

Playaway, 2009

OB - Original Barbarian
I don't know why it never occurred to me to read the Conan books. I'm glad I finally did. Robert E. Howard does some great writing. Although the movies cherry picked a few of his concepts, you don't really know Conan if you haven't read these stories. I picked up the three books in this 'series' and loved em all. I say 'series' because it's really just a collection of disjointed short ...

Magic Strikes

101 reviews
Ilona Andrews

Playaway, 2009

Terrific Storytelling and Fascinating Research
The urban paranormal books keep escalating both in number of authors and the amazing, consistent high quality of the writing. This, third in the series, is best to be read in that place and not as a stand alone novel. Too many complex characters, rich relationships would be missed if you stepped out and read this novel first. Keep it in the background until you have caught up and know there is ...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)

72 reviews
Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

Playaway, 2009

One of the Best Books I Have Read in a While
This book was, quite simply, incredible. One of the aspects of the book I most appreciated was the depth of the research and the multitude of viewpoints that the authors presented. Instead of taking an ideological stance on an issue, they explored all possible sides - weighing as many pros and cons as possible. For example, they talked about Bush and the Christian Right harming women by banning ...

Glory of Their Times

79 reviews
Lawrence S. Ritter

Collier Macmillan Ltd, 1971

Oh, How They Played the Game!
"The Glory of their Times" is a book of personality, a book of passion, in which 22 baseball players of the 1890s to the 1930s tell their stories. Originally taped by Lawrence Ritter in the 1960s, these oral remembrances are now very valuable. There are no longer any live witnesses of the earlier times. The later times are fast escaping conscious memory, setting aside the contribution of Paul ...

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World ...

62 reviews
Roger Crowley

Playaway, 2009

Magnificent
I'm just an average joe looking for a good read -- no historian here -- so look to other reviewers for that critique. Crowley has a wonderful story and tells it masterfully. I think he could turn a phone book into a great read. In fact, if he authors one, I'll buy it in hardback and sleep with it under my pillow. This one might be better than 1453. If you haven't read either, buy them ...

Kingdom Alliance [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

74 reviews
Robert Stanek

Playaway, 2009

A worth sequel to KMT
In the second volume of this fantastic series, Great Kingdom is failing and alliances are breaking, and threats come from every direction, the west, the south, the north and even the underworld. The only ones who can stop the darking are three unlikely heroes: a self-absorbed princess, a runaway boy and a warrior elf. The book is better than Keeper Martin's Tale. The characters and situations ...

The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family [With Earbuds]

77 reviews
Martha Raddatz

Playaway, 2009

Up close and personal
Martha Raddatz has written an intense, moving book about soldiers from the First Cavalry Division under attack in Iraq in 2004 and the repercussions at their home base in Fort Hood. The sacrifice made by this division and their families is even more poignant after the tragic events of last week. This memorable book honors these soldiers and their families.

The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon (Playaway))

73 reviews
D. J. MacHale

Playaway, 2009

This is the best Pendragon book yet!
I don't really understand the review from the School Library Review. I am an elementary school teacher and began reading this series because it was so popular with some of my students. I really liked, "The Lost City of Faar," and "The Never War." I was, however, disppointed with the next two installments including, "The Reality Bug" and "Black Water." Because of that I wasn't sure exactly what ...

The Last Days of the Incas [With Earphones] (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)

58 reviews
Kim MacQuarrie

Playaway, 2008

Excellent Book.
Perhaps one of the best books I've read. MacQuarrie really brings this amazing period in history back to life. It's a real page turner and like all good history books, makes you think about humanity as a whole and what we do to each other.

If I Never Get Back

58 reviews
Darryl Brock

Crown, 1989

The Boys Of Summer...Summer Of 1869 That Is....
"If I Never Get Back" by Darryl Brock has something enjoyable for everybody. It's a historical novel with adventure,danger,action,humor,fantasy and romance, but will be especially loved by those who love time travel and baseball(and train enthusiasts as well). You'll go back in time and escape to a time with no electricity,phones, credit cards, TV, radio or cars, but in the just post civil war ...

Conspiracy in Death [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

80 reviews
J. D. Robb

Playaway, 2009

conspiracy in death
I love all of jd robbs in death books...not big on cap's....hope you don't mind..I fell in love with these books about 5 to 6 years ago. I want to be eve when i grow up bigtime...and if i ever get the chance to meet anyone that looks like roarke or even just see someone that resembles him, i will be a happy soul!!!! The books are great i'm in the process of collecting the series in ...

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult ...

67 reviews
Elizabeth Norman

Playaway, 2009

Go Ahead And Buy It
You're reading this to figure out if you should get this book--go for it. I know the story of the Death March and have read other accounts of it, so I thought why bother with yet another one? But everyone elses' reviews made me take a chance. I've read many a book that was a great story, but it just wasn't told quite right, in the way that some people can't tell a joke or a story very well. ...