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My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging 64 reviews
Rachel Naomi Remen
Riverhead Hardcover, 2000
Used Book
+ The best spiritual food
+ Blessings Indeed
+ Many Blessings
+ Blessings to all who read this book
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Clara: The Story of the Pug Who Ruled my Life 88 reviews
Margo Kaufman
Plume, 1999
Erica Asahan Book List
+ Excellent service
+ Hilarious! Have read it twice!
+ Lovable Pug
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The Fireman's Fair 6 reviews
Josephine Humphreys
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992
beautiful
+ Fireman's Fair -- subtle, strong writing
+ Look what a hurricane can do
+ A little beach music...
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Notes from a Small Island291 reviews
Bill Bryson
Harper Perennial, 1997
Required Reading
+ Wonderfully fun
+ Land of Milk and Bryson
+ True Brit
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Yonder Stands Your Orphan 19 reviews
Barry Hannah
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001
Greatest living American stylist
Generally, the reviews knocking this book are obviously written by people who simply don't know what they're talking about.
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X-Men [VHS]789 reviews
Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackson
20th Century Fox, 2003
Great
+ What an X-Men movie should be...
+ A Treat For The Eyes & Ears
DVD shipped when you said and received in good shape. Watched it the same day. Love the X Men movies and plan to get them all (again). This was a replacement of stolen DVD. Thanks good price and fast service.
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The Pull of the Moon110 reviews
Elizabeth Berg
Jove, 1997
You will enjoy it.
+ Enjoyable!
+ I am ordering copies for all of my girlfriends-
+ LOVED IT!
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Travels with Alice 8 reviews
Calvin Trillin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
Efficient delivery
+ A funny travelogue
Travels with Alice arrived within two weeks after it was ordered. It was in perfect condition as described, though it was a used copy. I find that the choices of books I have made with Amazon are always aptly described. Amazon is where I order all of my books and CDs.
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The HarperCollins Study Bible : New Revised Standard Version With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books58 reviews
Wayne A. Meeks
HarperSanFrancisco, 1997
Study Bible
+ New Testament
I was very pleased with the HarperCollins Study Bible. It has very nice maps and a lot of information. I bought it used and it was in excellent condition which I was very pleased with. I use the American Standard or the New King James but I purchased this one for the Maps and some of the ...
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Sights Unseen30 reviews
Kaye Gibbons
Avon, 1996
Impersonal Narrator
+ Maggie and Hattie
I am Bipolar. I bought this book for my son, who is now 34. His comments, as far as the impersonal narration were these. His way of dealing with growing up with my crazy roller coaster ride, in a situation where I was emotionally unavailable to him, although I was right there, was to detach. And ...
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John Adams862 reviews
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2001
Solid Biography With Some Intrigue
+ very satisfied in every way.
+ John Adams: Revolutionary
+ must read!!
+ john adams..got here fast!!!
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Double Whammy77 reviews
Carl Hiaasen
Grand Central Publishing, 1989
Basstastic!
+ One of Hiaasen's Best
+ Solid and Consistent with Other Hiaasen Books
+ A great Hiassen book - great characters as always
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The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart44 reviews
Peter J. Gomes
Harper Perennial, 1999
Great insight!
+ Another Good Book
+ Yeah... I'll have to get back to you....
+ A Good Book about a Good Book
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Gladiator [VHS]1770 reviews
Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
Dreamworks Video, 2001
Extended version tells so much more of the story...
+ Not sure what the sapphire series is all about, but...
+ Can a movie get any better?
+ Must own for Blu Fans!
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An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence (Jules Clement Mysteries)5 reviews
Jamie Harrison
St. Martin's Dead Letter, 1999
A Fantastically Entertaining Read
+ excellent
+ The Best Book of the Year? I think so.
+ Well-drawn characters, literate and sympathetic
+ the character grows and the plot depens thirst for more
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Cecilia Bartoli - Mozart Arias10 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, György Fischer, ...
Decca, 1992
Rich full bodied delivery of superb selections of Mozart's art
+ The beauty of Bartoli's gift
+ "intensely beautiful"
+ "Soave sia il vento" alone is worth the purchase price.
+ Great Mozart, uniformly good Bartoli
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Strait Out of the Box73 reviews
George Strait
Mca Nashville, 1995
OMG!!!
+ GREAT PRODUCT!!!
+ Great as always
+ Good collection
+ George Strait CD's
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Personal History141 reviews
Katharine Graham
Vintage, 1998
Simply outstanding
+ More than just a spoiled rich girl...
+ Politics, family, women's issues, labor issues, business all wrapped in one amazing book
Katharine Graham's Personal History is by far one of the best autobiographies I've ever read. Her candor about her triumphs and hardships is powerful and at times inspiring. Kay's ability to tell her often dark tale without that 'woe is me' vibe is refreshing. Her writing is quality. There is ...
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Grosse Pointe Blank [VHS]174 reviews
John Cusack, Minnie Driver
Walt Disney Video, 1998
If you love the dark humor of John Cusack .....
+ NO IMPROVEMENTS ON A GREAT DARK COMEDY
+ Hilarious!
then you must buy this movie!! Cusack's dry, dark humor will having you falling off your couch! The fact that Minnie Driver is his costar doesn't hurt any, either. Whatever Cusack dishes out, Driver throws right back. As with many of his (or her) movies, Cusack's sister, Joan Cusack, is also cast ...
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Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith22 reviews
Richard J. Foster
HarperOne, 1998
A true classic...
+ Celebrating "Streams"
+ A Little Too Much of the Good Stuff
+ Streams of Living Water
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