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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America 770 reviews
Erik Larson
Vintage, 2004
Time machine
+ Highly Rated for History Fans
+ A bit tedious at times, but worth a read - esp if you like architectural history
This book makes me wish I had a time machine to go back and see the White City in person. I work in downtown Chicago and I walk by many of the buildings described in the book every day. I find it fascinating to think of what Chicago must have been like in 1893. Of course the story of HH Holmes is ...
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter 873 reviews
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Freeze Frame
+ What a memory!!!
On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his twins and makes a split-second decision that forever alters theh lives of everyone involved. When it is apparent to him that his daughter has Down's Syndrome, he asks the nurse to take her to an institution, without telling ...
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The Lemonade Club 9 reviews
Philomel, 2007
Poignant and a happy ending too!
+ Another Beautiful Book by Polacco
+ amazing book
+ The Lemonade Club
+ The Lemonade Club
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How to Handle Difficult Parents: A Teacher's Survival Guide21 reviews
Suzanne Capek Tingley
Cottonwood Press, Inc., 2006
Wish I had this book when I first started teaching!
+ My Only Regret!
+ Excellent!
+ Good Book for Professional Educators
+ Hilarious!
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel 217 reviews
Joshua Ferris
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
I Laughed, I Cried - Three Thoughts
+ Adperson's anomie
+ Funny, fantastic, tragic book (and gorgeous dust jacket design!)
+ Funny, and a little bit of drama
+ One of the best you'll ever read!
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana200 reviews
Haven Kimmel
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2001
Deserted-Island Read
+ Most Cleverly Written
+ Sweet, funny, uplifting
+ Really well written
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The Wretched Stone14 reviews
Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 1991
Blinded and De-minded by the glowing light
+ A Teacher's Perspective
+ The Wretched Stone Book Review
+ The Cursed Stone
+ A Mind-Numbing Glowing Orb... Hhmmm
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Strangers and Sojourners (Children of the Last Days) 21 reviews
Michael D. O'Brien
Ignatius Press, 2002
A Good Book, Really Is Literature
+ Simply beautiful
+ Strangers and Sojourners
While some of the other reviewers found this book slow and disappointing, I strongly disagree.
Anne Delaney is a woman who, while prophetic and speaking for truth, struggles for most of her life with issues of belief and unbelief, trust and fear. She does find a resolution to her "shadows" in ...
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The Phantom Tollbooth552 reviews
Norton Juster
Random House, 1989
The point is to learn how to think
+ A funny book
+ THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster
+ My favorite book of all time.
+ An Overlooked Classic
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Rabbit Hole9 reviews
David Lindsay-Abaire
Theatre Communications Group, 2006
"You should try to relax a little."
+ This Pulitzer Prize Winning Play is Brilliant!
+ Reaches your inner soul and finds your heart... worth reading and seeing
+ A Moving Experience through The Rabbit Hole
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The Spear: A Novel of the Crucifixion6 reviews
Louis De Wohl
Ignatius Press, 1998
De Wohl's masterpiece
+ The Spear; an aid to enlightenment
+ A Finely Woven Tapestry
+ Good, but....
+ Powerful, realistic portrayal of a man's journey to faith...
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Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust24 reviews
Michael Korenblit, Kathleen Janger
Miracle Press, 2001
Love carried them home
+ This book is very very good!
+ !*!*!Amazing!*!*!
+ Essential to understanding our history and how love prevails
+ EVERY person on earth should read this book!
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The Family Under the Bridge33 reviews
Natalie Savage Carlson
HarperTrophy, 1989
Great little novel
+ Lovely Book I Read As a Child and Now Is A Keeper Book
+ Doesn't everybody want to be a hobo
+ A Light, Cheery Read
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The Road1608 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, 2006
A Road To Treasure
+ Carrying the Fire Through The Darkness
You know who they are. Those people that get upset when stories are told that aren't a sugar coated version of the world, stories that seem like they were written by authors who truly believe that ignoring cold, hard reality is the best medicine.
Cormac McCarthy is not one of those authors. At ...
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Hiroshima198 reviews
John Hersey
Vintage, 1989
A very good book
+ Satisfaction Guaranteed
+ Great book
+ Testament to both man's violence and unselfish nurturing
+ It might be different if it was written today....
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First the Egg (Caldecott Honor Book and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards))7 reviews
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Roaring Brook Press, 2007
A concept journey: egg or chicken? chicken or egg?
+ Fun, Fun, Fun
+ great book
+ Really, 5 Stars?
+ Which comes first?
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Heroic Catholics of the Twentieth Century
Sr. Elizabeth Ann Barkett
New Hope Publications, 2004
Detailed Description:
From the Author: Every age has its saints - and the 20th century is no exception. From far-away mission lands to our own United States, Catholics continue to be faithful witnesses to their brothers and sisters. Each of their lives is unique and each became a saint using the talents and graces God gave him or her, just as each of us is called to use the talents and graces ...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)95 reviews
Willa Cather
Vintage, 1990
The sacred landscape
+ One of the best all time books
+ Here's the Pages I Dog-Eared
+ Stunning
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret197 reviews
Brian Selznick
Scholastic Press, 2007
Wonderfully suspenseful for the whole family
+ Hugo Cabret
Picked this up recently by chance. What a fantastic find! The pencil drawings are warm and provide a lovely touch to an otherwise entirely self-supporting story. Whenever we had to put it down, I don't know who was more disappointed (and excited to get back to it) - my daughters, ages 6 and 8, or ...
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Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World14 reviews
Noah benShea
Ballantine Books, 1990
A True Treasure!
+ Modern Jewish Wisdom Book
+ Modern Jewish Wisdom Book
+ Simple yet profound
+ Never gets old!
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