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Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home 46 reviews
David Shipley, Will Schwalbe
Knopf, 2007
A Must-Own for both the Savvy and the Clueless
+ "Native speaker's" grammar book of e-mail
+ Don't give it away, you'll never get it back!
+ Short and sweet
+ Should be Required Reading!
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The Fight (Penguin Modern Classics)22 reviews
Norman Mailer
Penguin Classics, 2000
My first influence as a writer; I'm sad as I write this.
+ Ali vs. Mailer - A great read!
+ Mailer At His Self-Indulgent Best
+ Right Hand Jab...
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The Undefeated: The Oklahoma Sooners and the Greatest Winning Streak in College Football12 reviews
Jim Dent
St. Martin's Griffin, 2002
Not Likely to Happen Again...
+ Unforgettable, and not to be missed.
As a fan of the history of college football I found Dent's book to be a breath of fresh air in a genre that is often peppered with statistics, numbers and facts & figures. Dent goes beyond the numbers to present a living work about the Golden Program of the Golden Era of college football. Many ...
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The Entitled24 reviews
Frank Deford
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2007
If You Are a Baseball Fan....
+ Certainly More Than Just a Baseball Book. . .
+ We sometimes forget
If you are a baseball fan, you are likely to find this moving, action-packed book the best of its kind you've ever read. In addition to the main plot, the author skillfully carries along about three sub-plots, every one of which would grace a well-written story with any other background than ...
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Heat 68 reviews
Mike Lupica
Puffin, 2007
An Awesome Baseball Book!
+ A Dream Fulfilled!
+ MUST READ
+ G.Brickley's Book Review
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Just Checking: Scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive40 reviews
Emily Colas
Washington Square Press, 1999
Great Read
+ Just Checking
Emily Colas writes truthfully and with quite a bit of humor thrown in about her battle with OCD. This book is a must read for anyone dealing with OCD either mild or severe. She is very serious at times but makes light of her own situation throughout the book, making it a very good book to read.
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Deck the Halls (Holiday Classics) 51 reviews
Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Pocket, 2002
A fast, fun read!
+ A Charming Holiday Read
Believe it or not, I had never read a Mary Higgins Clark book before. It's only recently that I started branching out into this lite-mystery genre. The style of writing and cadence of the story was highly enjoyable, and the colorful characters where so likeable. As a New Yorker, I appreciated the ...
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Miracle on 49th Street27 reviews
Mike Lupica
Puffin, 2007
Riley from Lake Tapps says," This book is awesome.
+ Heartwarming and Humorous
+ The Most Heart-Warming Book Ever!
+ Lupica did it again!!
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The Columnist 20 reviews
Jeffrey Frank
Harvest Books, 2002
Great Tale of a Man's Faustian Bargain
+ Very Insider, Very Funny
The unreliable first-person narrator of this novel of blind ambition tries to ingratiate himself with the reader with the "gentle" means he used to become one of the top news columnists in the country. We travel with him during his ascent to political and social power as he tries to downplay all ...
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America 38 reviews
Joe Posnanski
William Morrow, 2007
A Philosophy To Live By
+ Good People Stories whether you Love Baseball or Not
+ Great Gift From Son To Father
+ Wonderful book about a great man!
+ A Worthy Life Written Well
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Physical: An American Checkup16 reviews
James McManus
Picador, 2006
Hard to categorize, but incredibly funny...
+ Great Writer - But Lacks Focus
This was an "I need something to read" library pickup, and I wasn't quite sure what to expect... Physical: An American Checkup by James McManus. It's a personal story of a typical middle-aged man facing his mortality and deciding to get "the full physical". Mixed in with his experience, he also ...
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time51 reviews
Rob Sheffield
Crown, 2007
A soundtrack to their lives
+ Music Tells a Story
+ Some love for "Love is a Mixtape"
Rob Sheffield's small but mighty book is about love and loss, but also weaves music in the story seamlessly. He writes for Rolling Stone now, but back when he met his future wife, he was just a self-proclaimed geek who loved music. Their relationship progressed to the tunes of Sonic Youth, REM, and ...
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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports110 reviews
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams
Gotham, 2006
The Changing Face (and Body) of Sports
+ Great, Great, Book. 'nuff said.
+ Well written
+ The Authority in the topic of steroids
+ BALCO + BARRY = Baseball's Beguiled Bondage
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Praying in the Presence of Our Lord: With Dorothy Day (Praying in the Presence of)
Dorothy Day, David E. Scott
Our Sunday Visitor, 2002
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Sink Reflections345 reviews
Marla Cilley
Bantam, 2002
Flylady Baby~
+ This system really works
+ sink reflections
+ This is THE BEST
+ Flylady's easy house & home organizing
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The Right Stuff85 reviews
Tom Wolfe
Bantam, 2001
excellent read
+ Zeitgeist of 50s and 60s in Full
+ One of the finest books in the English language
+ Living on the outside of the envelope
+ Dawn's Early Light
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Hundred-Dollar Baby (Spenser)75 reviews
Robert B. Parker
Berkley, 2007
Best Spenser in quite some time. Try it if you've been disappointed in recent years
+ Good read, baby!
I've been reading Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels since they were first published in 1975, and I've never missed one since. So I'm speaking as a longtime fan.
Yes, the series has had its ups and downs. Yes, lately the author is being self-referential, bringing back characters from previous ...
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He's a Rebel: Phil Spector: Rock 'n' Roll's Legendary Producer5 reviews
Mark Ribowsky
Da Capo Press, 2007
Crazy in Cookstown
+ Rebel he is !
+ Truth Stranger than Life
+ Rock's dreaded Spector
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TreadFit: 9 Weeks to Your Ultimate Body Using a Treadmill or Elliptical 5 reviews
Gerard Thorne
Robert Kennedy Publishing, 2007
Just what I needed
While pro-athletes may not benefit from this book, it is at exactly the right level for me. I bought a treadmill and an elliptical recently and wanted to get some ideas for how to use both to my best advantage. This books confirms some of my ideas (alternating high-impact with low-impact, having ...
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Too Soon to Say Goodbye32 reviews
Art Buchwald
Random House, 2006
An Optimistic View of Death
+ the man who cheated death with laughter for months
+ Too Soon to Say Goodbye
+ To Soon To Quit Reading
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