books about: star     books:       Star Island Carl Hiaasen Knopf, 2010 Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen?and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her ?undercover stunt double,? Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too ?indisposed??meaning wasted?to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo ...             Innocent152 reviews Scott Turow Grand Central Publishing, 2010 Excellent read for all This book rocked my world through my vacation and took me back home again. Turow can write. Not perfect in all the details, but if you are a fan of great procedural plots and you love a book with believable interesting characters, run don't walk to your library, bookstore or Kindle. I guarantee you will not be sorry. Wonderful.             LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary70 reviews Simon Beecroft DK Publishing, 2009 6 year old who loves the book! I am 6 years old and I love to read books about Star Wars. This book is the best! It's great and I like it. The Luke mini figure is a good part of the book. I like it. The pictures are good too. There wasn't anything I didn't like about this book. I would recommend this book for kids who like Star Wars and Legos.             Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon8 reviews LucasBooks, 2010 Excellence Great read, better then the first two. In most of the Star Wars books the sith are just glanced over (if talked about at all), I like getting to know them better. Kind of like getting to know the stormtroopers better in the Star Wars Republic Commando books.             Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice25 reviews LucasBooks, 2009 hipp! hipp! hooray! does john jackson miller have a limo or something? he may not make lots or any money off of this book,but he deserves five stars a two thumbs up AND a LIMOUSINE             Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn10 reviews Del Rey, 2009 Don't Waste your time Like others have said this is not really a novel, it is part of a short story. It could have been a great story, but there is not enough there to tell. No character development, interesting action, or anything of worth. It may be free but don't get it anyway.             Term Limits279 reviews Vince Flynn Pocket Star, 2009 Actions to be diverted Term Limits was a very interesting read! A "wish" story that cannot be realized. It would be our duty to make sure that such events as described in the novel NEVER happen. In fact, the actions that lead up to the events need to be blocked. Very gripping. A real page turner.             Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Savior4 reviews LucasBooks, 2010 Good but not like others It is as well written as the other Tribe of the Sith books, but it was way to short. I know the other three are not long ebooks but this one seemed hurried a bit. This book focuses on a Sith power play, and the natives trying to get there land/lives back form the Sith. The story abruptly ends as soon as the power plays finish, I would have liked to read more about the after math a bit. Also ...             The Street of Seven Stars Public Domain Books, 2009 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test 10th Edition (Practicing to Take the Gre General Test)115 reviews Educational Testing Service Ets/Educational Testing Service, 2002 Great reference for GRE I took the GRE twice within two months. November 2009 and again in Dec 2009. Princeton Review was right on my score difference. My 2nd test scores wasn't as good. This book is an easy read with some humor in it. The writers do a good job building your confidence. The best advice that I found in the book is the importance of scoring really well in the first 1/3 of the test! That is crucial as ...             First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently280 reviews Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman Simon & Schuster, 1999 Excellent book Very worthwhile, practical book that speaks to what leaders need to do to be successful.             How to Talk to Anyone106 reviews McGraw Hill Text, 2003 Used properly you will become a special person: used badly, your facade will be obvious Here is a great book which enables you to 'show others what they want to see'. I love the way the book is set out, and each idea is illustrated to perfection. I feel that, having these skills, the only important missing ingredient is personal congruence. There are two ways to use this book: first, you can use the techniques to generate a manipulative facade, a lot of the ideas here could ...             The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance Public Domain Books, 2009 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels135 reviews Michael Watkins Harvard Business Press, 2003 A guide for managers and leaders in new positions. Management books are usually not a major topic of interest for me. Michael Watkins presents a methods for success for new leaders in positions with various issues. The methods involve: promote yourself, accelerate your learning, match strategy to the situation, secure early wins, negotiate success, achieve alignment, build your team, create coalitions, keep your balance, expedite ...             Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance Sean Williams LucasBooks, 2010 BioWare and LucasArts?creators of the hugely popular Star Wars:® Knights of the Old Republic® video game?have combined their storytelling talents and cutting-edge technology for an innovative new massively multiplayer online role-playing game that allows players to create their own personal Star Wars adventure 3,500 years before the rise of Darth Vader. Now #1 New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams brings the world of the game to life ...             Number the Stars770 reviews Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1989 A very good book I am 10 years old, and I read this book because my sister read it and loved it. I didn't think I would like it, but I read it anyway. After I read the first chapter I couldn't put it down! That's how good it is. Usally it takes me at least 2 weeks to read a book, but I read this in 6 days. It is one of my favorites. Good book! In fact extra good book!             The Walk43 reviews Five Star, 2009 I'd go see it as a movie too... Okay so it's got a lot of profanity and gore in it, these are things I would sorta expect to be involved after the big one hits Los Angeles. The story focuses on Marty, an egotistical, self absorbed movie exec (who it is very easy to not like when you first meet him) and his hike across LA to get home to his wife, surrounded by a broad cast of characters that he encounters along the way after the ...             Dark Star: A Novel57 reviews Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008 A sense of places and times long gone Alan Furst writes of prewar and WW II Europe as if he had been there. Both the places and the atmosphere of a world about to perish in flames pervades this book yet it is neither depressing nor fantastical. The plot roars along with pace.The characters live through the action without the aid of unbelievable coincidence or superhuman feats. This particular volume is an excellent story, wound ...             The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance Public Domain Books, 2009 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.             The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night832 reviews Elizabeth Pantley McGraw-Hill, 2002 Worked On My Stubborn Baby! I was kind of skeptical about this book, basically b/c the author didn't seem to be a "sleep expert" like Weissbluth or Ferber, but Elizabeth Pantley's techniques really worked to get my 7 mo old out of my bed, into his crib, and broke him of the habit of nursing back to sleep. She offers tons of suggestions for different problems and you simply devise a plan that works for you. You do need to ...              search for books alliance, chamber, critical, dictionary, differently, edition, general, gentle, greatest, historical, innocent, island, leaders, limits, managers, no-cry, paragon, practicing, precipice, republic, romance, savior, skyborn, solution, star-chamber, strategies, street, success, through, volume books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Six Duets for Two Flutes Op. 2 (Breitkopf #5582) home  impressum - about us