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Doris Schechter - At Oma's Table: More Than 100 Recipes and Remembrances from a Jewish Family's Kitchen
A must-have for kosher kitchens and fans of Jewish desserts
by chiliqueen
Pros: Wonderful collection of kosher recipes, engaging memoirs and photos.
Cons: None.
Doris Schecter's At Oma's Table is part memoir, part cookbook. It begins with her early memories of life in Vienna, then as a refugee in Italy and later the United States. Filled with vintage photographs of the author and her family, the ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Elizabeth George - Well Schooled in Murder
Well-Schooled In Murder : I wouldn't want to attend this school!
by ladyconsumer
Pros: Very exciting, multi-layered story.
Cons: I hated all the lying, and the sercret-keeping.
Well-Schooled In Murder is the fourth book in Elizabeth George's series revolving around detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers. This novel takes place inside the walls of one of England's very upper crust boarding schools, where ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Jerry Yudelson - Choosing Green: The Homebuyer's Guide to Good Green Homes
Environmental Home
by pambo
Pros: Good, thorough advice

Cons: None

Rather than a rant, "Choosing Green: The Homebuyer's Guide to Good Green Homes" provides a sensible path for those who want to think about homes in a different way.The choice to "go green" is a matter of picking a better lifestyle, the author ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

David Baldacci - Stone Cold
The Camel Club, Part III
by gamblin_man
Pros: Baldacci at his best
Cons: Uncertain ending
The Camel Club is back in the novel Stone Cold by the great suspense author David Baldacci. This ragtag group of misfits that hover on the fringes of our nation's capitol was introduced in their title novel, The Camel Club, Annabelle was ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions: A Novel
Inventive and original...but a bit cold
by rmurray847
Pros: Very interesting story. Well-written.
Cons: The theme is tough to discern. This makes the book a bit cold.
This is proving to be a very difficult book to describe. The basic plot elements are relatively simple, but trying to convey the tone...the meaning...that's tough. The plot: our narrator, David Zimmer, is remembering a time some dozen or so years ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Hyouta Fujiyama - Ordinary Crush 1: Yaoi
An Ordinary Crush is Hard Enough, Thank You
by rmthunter
Pros: Well-done yaoi -- story lines, characters, graphics all work together.
Cons:

Could be addictive.


Hyouta Fujiyama, who created Spell and Lover's Flat, both of which I have discussed in "Reviews in Brief" at Hunter at Random, has also ceated a complex of stories that begins with Ordinary Crush. Most of them take place at Kinsei ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Yiddish Radio Project
A loving glance at a vanished world
by chiliqueen
Pros: Amazing treasures of early Yiddish broadcasting.
Cons: Sound quality.
Yiddish, the Germanic language of Eastern European Jews that was imported to the US during waves of Jewish immigration, was once a thriving language that fueled vaudeville, newspapers such as the Forverts, Yiddish comedians, radio dramas, and a ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Patty Pinner - Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, With Pies
A mouthwatering combination of memoirs and great Southern pies
by chiliqueen
Pros: Wonderful assortment of Southern-style pies, heartwarming memoirs and photos
Cons: None
Patty Pinner, author of the phenomenal Sweets: A Collection of Soul Food Desserts and Memories, grew up in a large African-American family that had relocated to Michigan from the South. In Sweety Pies, she collects 70 recipes for ...
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Sep 06 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Bill Tancer - Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters
How Many Clicks Do You Make in a Given Day?
by Bryan_Carey
Pros: Turns up some interesting facts
Cons: Not enough in-depth coverage or analysis; some typos
Surfing the internet is the new favorite pastime of the past ten or fifteen years. Some still watch television or a pay a visit to their favorite hangout, but spending time online has become the number one social outlet for many people. Everyone has ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Edmund Wilson - Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s
by arkhaine
Pros: Erudite and charming
Cons: Many of the books reviewed are forgotten today.
The Library of America edition of Edmund Wilson's work, Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s*, contains The Shores of Light, Axel's Castle, and 'Uncollected Reviews' of the period. The collection reviews and examines writers who have been ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

David Sedaris - When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Still elfin, still wry
by Stephen_Murray
Pros: the stories mentioned in my review
Cons: the three stories I didn't like, the book version of "The Smoking Section"
Sometimes I wonder about what many people find funny ("Napoleon Dynamite," for instance) -- and at what they don't find funny (the boldfaces lies of George W. Bush, for instance). It is reassuring that David Sedaris's unpretentious essays often make me ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Ellis Jones - Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
the better world Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
by artemis8
Pros: nice format, many different companies
Cons: can't cover every thing
I am pretty big into the environment. I try to keep up on news items, write to my reps about issues of concern to me, and I donate to several charities. I also try to buy environmentally friendly products when I can. When I heard about the better ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Allan Fowler - So That's How the Moon Changes Shape
Rookie Readers Learn About the Phases of the Moon
by befus
Pros: Simple, informative, age-appropriate text; good photographs; small book easy for children to hold

Cons: Some might find the book (and photos) too small

Any parent or teacher of an early reader knows its a challenge (but a good one) to come up with age-appropriate reading fare. You want to find books that are structured simply enough to build a child's reading confidence, but engaging enough to keep that ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Joe Garner - We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11
We Interrupt This Broadcast Is A Garner Best Seller
by keithpruitt
Pros: Gardner chronicles 42 of the most impactful events of modern history, Bill Curtis
Cons: Some might think some of the events were not necessarily worthy of inclusion
Do you remember where you were the day John Kennedy was assassinated? Or how about when you heard the news about the Challenger or September 11th? Throughout history, many events have caused a nation to pause. During the last century many of those ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Thomas M. Myers and Michael P. Ghiglieri - Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
by JediKermit
Pros:

Not written in a sensationalistic style, clear look at human error and hubris...


Cons:

A bit long, repetitive.


Last month I was visiting Grand Canyon National Park for the first time since 1981. I was there with a bunch of adults, and without any children, which calmed some of my anxieties somewhat--until we came to Lipan Point. Lipan Point is one of the many ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Daniel Gilbert - Stumbling on Happiness Books
What makes me Happy? I Don't Know! (and I didn't know I didn't know!)
by shopaholic_man
Pros: fascinating insight into what makes humans happy
Cons: so.. how can we be HAPPY?
Happiness, its pretty important isn't it? The right to pursue it is even in the Constitution of the United States. Everyone wants us to be Happy, Bobby Ferin even has a song telling us to Be Happy. Why are so many of us... NOT?Author Daniel ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Diane Fanning - Gone Forever: A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal, And Murder
Gone Forever... the sad story of a grisly murder
by knotheadusc
Pros: Well-written, engaging, a juicy story.
Cons: Curious use of psuedonyms. Diane Fanning's afterword.
Note: Like everybody else, I had some major issues with the new text editor, hence the lack of bolding and italics in this review. Hopefully these snafus will be fixed soon and I can update the formatting here ASAP.Since I've been scouting the ...
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Sep 05 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Kevin Siembieda - Rifts World Book 12: Psyscape
The City Outside the World
by BlackBear
Pros: The must have for any psychic charater in the Rifts games
Cons: All source material
For many years the only source of psychic characters in the Rifts megaverse was to be gleaned from the core rules book, a text that has been long outdated and due for an overhaul. This was done in 2005. In 1997, Rifts World Book 12: Psyscape was ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Thomas G. Donlan - A World of Wealth: How Capitalism Turns Profits into Progress
A Capitalistic Approach to the World's Most Pressing Problems
by Bryan_Carey
Pros: The pro- free market approach and some of the surprising stands
Cons: Over- simplifies many problems
Capitalism is the fuel that powers the strongest economies in the world and it is responsible for creating the great wealth of the United States, Western Europe, and other nations. Many like to criticize capitalism for the inevitable inequalities it ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Love, Betrayal, Seduction: Enter the World of Jane Austen
by countess_eva
Pros: Everything: the characters, the plot, the emotional depth, the writing
Cons: It ended :-(
Love. Romance. Seduction. Betrayal. Prejudice. And, above it all, pride. In a world such as this, ruled by social stigma and oppression, where love and truth are subservient to wealth and strict etiquette, can anyone ever truly love?Meet the ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Rosemary Sutcliff and Homer Odyssey - The Wanderings Of Odysseus: The Story Of The Odyssey
The Wanderings of Odysseus:
by George_Chabot
Pros: Builds vocbulary, comprehension, and cultural awareness.

Cons: More people need to read this.

The Wanderings of Odysseus, by Rosemary Sutcliff (1995)The Odyssey is the second known work of Western literature, the first being its sister The Iliad, both works of course attributed to Homer, the blind bard of antiquity. ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Dawn Bentley - Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland
Good Night, Sweet Butterflies
by annalovesbooks
Pros: Teaches counting (backwards) and colors, the butterflies are attractive and unusual
Cons: the butterflies are a choking hazard, the rhymes are clunky
ISBN 0689856849 – Whether or not you enjoy this book will probably depend on what it is you expect from it. It is easy to become confused by the cover statement "From the creator of Ten Little Ladybugs" (ISBN 1581170912). The creator/author of ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0

Joe R. Lansdale - Leather Maiden
Sweet Caroline...
by scmrak
Pros: Lansdale's sense of place, characters, and nicely twisty plotting
Cons: Cason Statler could be a tad more realistic.
Life has not recently been kind to Cason Statler. Once a Pulitzer-nominated Houston reporter, Statler wasted a promising career on an overactive libido and too many Jim Beams with beer chasers. An Army hitch in Iraq didn't straighten him out; it just ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 3.0

Robert A. Lutz - Guts: 8 Laws of Business from One of the Most Innovative Business Leaders of Our Time Books
Maverick auto businessman spills his ''Guts''
by trailhound
Pros: Interesting ''out of the box'' ideas. Some auto industry history.
Cons: Somewhat outdated. Ideas don't work in all careers/industries.
Bob Lutz has been a well-known figure in the auto industry for several decades. While now at General Motors, he is probably best remembered for his tenure at Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s and 90s. Lutz has a reputation for thinking outside of the ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 2.0

Rachael Ray - Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8: Great Meals for Couples or Crowds
Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8. A Good Read,... But Cookbook? Not So Much.
by cmuir
Pros:

Fun and interesting read.


Cons: No recipe really interested me.
My children knowing how much I enjoy watching Rachael Ray on television bought me her 2,4,6,8 Great Meals For Couples or Crowds for Christmas several years ago. This is of course another of Rachael's 30-Minute Meal Cookbooks for which she has ...
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Sep 04 '08 Overall Rating:
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