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Greenberg's Guides Lionel Trains Pocket Price Guide 2009 (Greenberg's Pocket Price Guide Lionel Trains, 1901 ...

2 reviews
Kalmbach Publishing Co.

Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2008

Ultimate Price Guide for Lionel Trains
I use this book as a guide before purchasing any Lionel items. I have found it to save me quite a bit money over the last few years, as far as not over paying for something. I buy this new guide every year. Thank you, Kenneth

These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.)

215 reviews
Nancy Turner

Harper Perennial, 2008

Loved it!
This is absolutely one of my favorite books. I don't typically enjoy historical fiction that much, but I've read These Is My Words twice and loved it both times. I felt totally connected to Sarah, like I was going through all the good and bad times with her. I laughed, I cried, it was great. I couldn't put this book down, and felt so disappointed when it was over! In the following days, I ...

A Fatal Waltz

14 reviews
Tasha Alexander

William Morrow, 2008

Read on my Kindle
I so enjoyed Tasha Alexander's first book in this series, that I bought the next two and read them on my new Kindle during our recent trip to Central Europe. Vienna was particularly brought to life while we were there by Alexander's descriptions of places we were visiting, like Schoenbrunn Palace, etc. So enjoyed the "real people" she talks about - Sissi, Klimt, etc., whose stories were ...

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)

69 reviews
Neal Gabler

Vintage, 2007

Even-handed, thorough, and extremely readable
Neither a love letter nor a scathing attack, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is an even-handed and thorough examination of one of the undisputed icons of 20th century popular culture. And written in Neal Gabler's clear, crisp narrative style, it's dense but enjoyable reading. Gabler clearly has done his homework, and done it extensively (and, he notes in the afterword, he ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

405 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story
This 1937 novel has become a classic of its time. It is a mere 184 pages long, but the edition of the book I read is packed by commentary. I skipped this commentary because I wasn't particularly interested in literary or social analysis. I just wanted to experience the book for itself and the story it told. Reading it this way, I actually "felt" the book in the way the author intended. And, ...

A Christmas Grace: A Novel

3 reviews
Anne Perry

Ballantine Books, 2008

Another Christmas offering from Anne Perry
For a few years now, Anne Perry has been writing small books featuring the beloved characters from her Victorian series in a poignant adventure around the Christmas Season. When I first saw the title A Christmas Grace, I thought initially the story may feature little Grace, the maid and friend of Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, but this offering features Charlotte's sister Emily Radley. Perry ...

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory

30 reviews
William Manchester

Little, Brown and Company, 1983

Gripping account of a misunderstood man-- you should read this!
This is a truly *massive* work, equal parts scholarship and artistry. Though volume one runs close to a thousand pages (counting notes, sources, etc.), I finished reading it this afternoon after an off-and-on reading of about two weeks, and it just flew by. Manchester crafted this with such precision care that I fell into the narrative from page one. The greatest strength of the book itself-- ...

2009 Standard Catalog Of World Coins 1901-2000 (Standard Catalog of World Coins)

6 reviews
Colin R Bruce

Krause Publications, 2008

What a deal - 2 for the price of 1 - worth every penny!
If you collect world coins, you need to purchase the Standard Catalog series from Krause Publications. The 20th Century book that I purchased came with a DVD. I kinda look at this as a "2 for 1" deal as the DVD has the same contents as the book. I noticed that the prices on some coins went up while others went down. With the DVD, I can look up countries almost as fast as the book (there will ...

Trinity

108 reviews
Leon Uris

Avon, 2006

Understanding One's Irish Heritage
Yes, this story is a wee bit over-the-top, but what a yarn! For those Americans of Irsh descent, notice we do not say the hyphenated Irish-American, for part of being Irish is being an uber-patriot, and America is now our first love, with our homeland only a distant memory, which is what causes us to devour this book, to be inspired by it and more understanding of our heritage. This is the only ...

A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

108 reviews
Kaye Gibbons

Vintage, 1997

Wonderful
This was a quick and fabulous read! I felt as if I knew each of the characters.

The Crimson Petal and the White

483 reviews
Michel Faber

Harvest Books, 2003

Memorable and lush...
It has been many years since I read this, and I still occasionally think on the characters as if they were people I once knew and wonder what's become of them. Often graphic, often disturbing, always consuming. Highly recommended. If you find endings which are even remotely ambiguous to be unbearable, then maybe it's not for you. The soft end to this is what has cemented it in my memory. I ...

Walt Disney: Young Movie Maker (Childhood of Famous Americans)

4 reviews
Marie Hammontree

Aladdin, 1997

I hope more people read this exciting book.
This book was enjoyable. Marie Hammontree described how a person can be a big success while being a little poor. It shows the ups and downs of Disney's life. She describes what it took to get to the top of his career. This book tells who he was inspired by and how they helped him. She told me his problems in his life and how they were solved. It gave me the puzzle pieces to his life so I ...

Ragtime: A Novel

120 reviews
E.L. Doctorow

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

History? Fiction? Fictory? Who cares, it's great!
Give this one a few chapters to hook you, as Doctorow's style here won't suit everyone's tastes. There is very little dialogue, and often he employs repetitive staccato sentences in brief summary descriptions, like: "He came in. He sat down. He counted his change. He put it in his pocket and left." Now, the way he does it actually fits each scene perfectly, but occasionally you'll notice ...

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

39 reviews
William Manchester

Delta, 1984

As Good as Biography Gets
This fully lives up to its reputation as perhaps the best biography ever written. Manchester does a peerless, masterful job filling in the background colors and giving a complete picture of Churchill from a young man into his early fifties. As Manchester emphasizes, this background was essentially the decline and fall of the British Empire and the aristocracy who ran it. Manchester's main point, ...

How to Read Lacan (How to Read)

3 reviews
Slavoj Zizek

W. W. Norton, 2007

Big Other is watching you.
Language is a pre-existing, social construct. For anyone who wants to truly say something new, there exists a conundrum: how strictly will I adhere to pre-existing forms, at the expense of breaking away from what has already been said? In other words, how much emphasis do I want to put on making myself comprehensible to others? For Lacan, it seems, the answer was essentially "screw it. I'm ...

Copenhagen

28 reviews
Michael Frayn

Anchor, 2000

The play and a fascinating postscript
This book contains the text of Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play (94 pages), a fascinating 38-page Postscript, and a two-page word sketch of the scientific and historical background to the play. The play itself is brilliant (see my review of the PBS production directed by Howard Davies, starring Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, and Francesca Annis available on DVD) and is the kind of play that ...

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940

34 reviews
William Manchester

Little, Brown and Company, 1988

Churchill
Finest biography on Churchill ever written. A pity Manchester died before completing the third book of the trilogy.

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

40 reviews
William Manchester

Delta, 1989

Churchill's true finest hour; this book will give you a better appreciation of Winston's greatness, courage, and foresight
For some inexplicable reason, the second (and unfortunately final) volume of William Manchester's biography sat on my shelf unread for some time. I think because the book spans the years 1932 to 1940 -- and does not cover most of World War II -- I skipped the book over, figuring that Winston's best and most important years were his war years. After reading "Alone", I realized immediately how ...

WALT DISNEY: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL

32 reviews
Bob Thomas

Disney Editions, 1994

Wonderful Insight to a GREAT MAN
If you are a Disney fan this is the one to read. Lots of info about his early days & how Disneyland came to be. He was sure he would die before he had finished what he set out to do. The Disney company was never the same after his death. But is John Lassiter the new Walt..... Let's hope so.

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 (The Royal Diaries)

100 reviews
Carolyn Meyer

Scholastic Inc., 2000

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The theme of this book, in my opinion, is to tell the story of Anastasia Romanov, who, as the title states, was, "The Last Grand Duchess," of Russia. This book tells about the life of this young grand duchess, from a fictional standpoint. It portrays her from the time she was thirteen, until the time of her death at seventeen. It shows how palace life could have been dull and dismal, but how ...

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