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22 reviews
Laura Bush, Jenna Bush

HarperCollins, 2008

Motivational Book
The students in my classes were motivated by Read All About It. I used it to encourage them to read and see what they could discover. Kathy Jones

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of ...

76 reviews
Beverly Daniel Tatum

Basic Books, 2003

Read it now. If you've read it, read it again.
I swear, this woman must have visited my High School cafeteria, because everything she writes hits home. I haven't read this in a few years, but it still rings home to me. Whenever I see it, I give the same reaction that I would get when other people who read it saw me with the book- "Oh, you're reading that!" It's not just about the black kids sitting into the cafeteria, it goes well beyond ...

It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

100 reviews
Peter Walsh

Free Press, 2007

A life-changing book
Fun to read, inspiring, practical--buy this book, read it, and live it. Walsh creates a vision of what your life could be like without all the clutter. After reading his book, I gave my house a long overdue decluttering. His book fired me up so quickly that I couldn't wait to get started. Highly recommended!

All the King's Men

174 reviews
Robert Penn Warren

Harvest Books, 1996

The Web Of Things
I put off reading this novel for almost twenty years from when it was first recommended to me for the simple reason that I dismissed as a "political" novel and, ergo, not of the first water. - How wrong can a prospective reader be?!? - To begin, this is not a "political" novel, per se, and the character of Willie Stark, as compared with the odyssey of Jack Burden, not very gripping. As another ...

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses (Bloom's Guides)

289 reviews

Chelsea House Publications, 2003

Life, death, love, horses and hand rolled cigarettes
I can't believe I've waited this long to get into Cormac McCarthy. We Texans have always known him to be one of the great Texas western writers, right up there with Larry McMurtry, earning a place in our hearts. But Cormac is bigger than that. Bigger than Texas, you say? His craft has been compared to Faulkner and Conrad. We're talking about literature here. After I saw the movie, "No ...

All Quiet on the Western Front (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

449 reviews

Chelsea House Publications, 2000

Like A Kick To The Groin
In my own way, I'm an academic. I don't write "reviews," really -- I write essays. It's my training. But I don't have much analysis for All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel is a swift kick to the genitalia -- it is hard, brutal and painful, and you'll feel it for a while. It is about the every-man soldier fighting through the trenches of WWI. It is also about his internal life, and ...

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

85 reviews
Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart

Zondervan, 2003

Too good not to have a copy
The title says it all. If you want to read the Bible for all its worth, you, not only read the book, but have to have your own copy. I borrowed the book from the library and started digging into it. There were many valuable Bible verses provided to illustrate and support the important points of the author's view. In order to gain the most from the book, I would need to go through all of these ...

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

254 reviews
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Who you work for is more important than which company you work for
I'd recommend First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently to all new managers - well, to all managers for that matter. The first point the book makes is that who you work for is more important than the company you work for, your job description or even your paycheck. I agree, 100%. "We have said that an employee may join a company because of its prestige and ...

All Over But the Shoutin

291 reviews
Rick Bragg

Random House Value Publishing, 1999

The best insight of the Upland South written to date
I have never read, heard, seen a better picture of the South than that in the first five pages of this book. Not the Scarlett O'Hara fictional Old South, but the real red clay and hard rocky ground of the Upland where the overwhelming majority of people live. This should be mandatory reading for anyone who trying to understand the current presidential election. You'll learn more about who these ...

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story

18 reviews
David Einhorn

Wiley, 2008

A "must read" for all individual investors
If you manage your own investments, and especially if you buy individual stocks, this book is a "must read" for you. It will open your eyes about the risks of owning individual company stocks. Few people have the ability to research a company the way the author's hedge fund can. Even with those resources Greenlight hasn't been able to force Allied Capital to come clean about their dishonest ...

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

133 reviews
Stephen Kinzer

Wiley, 2008

Iranian blowback
As an American who spent two years in Tehran during the 1950's, I was much aware of the impact of the coup and its immediate aftermath that is described Kinzer's book. It puts my memories of the time and the people into a excellent history and adds information about the coup that was not known to me. Working at the university I was aware of the bitterness of the people that I knew--students, ...

All Creatures Great and Small

106 reviews
James Herriot

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1998

Just as relavent now...
Wonderful and inspiring stories of a country vet are humorously written but also deliver a good amount of practical veterinary insight. It's nice to read from the point of view of a kind-hearted yet practical country animal lover.

A Man for All Seasons

49 reviews
Robert Bolt

Vintage, 1990

Thomas More - A Man for Our Season
This is an amazing play about an incredibly holy man, which employs its words in a profound manner. Thomas More, the beheaded lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII is the patron saint of attorneys, civil servants, politicians, and statesmen: * "When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties...they lead their country by a short route to chaos." * ...

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

193 reviews
Lee Iacocca

Scribner, 2008

Simply marvelous!
Lee Iacocca, corporate tycoon and man of the world, has written a book that should be required reading for every American voter. He doesn't mince words and he's direct, honest and wise as he sums up his assessment of the present Administration with four little words: "Throw the bums out!" "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" is both entertaining and informative, and we all should be thankful ...

All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

68 reviews
Kathy Hoopmann

Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2006

Amazing Book
Great book for everyone who knows someone in the Autism spectrum. Great Kitty pictures. Great Message. Love it

Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas

13 reviews
Christina Binkley

Hyperion, 2008

Big audacious buildings; bigger, more audacious personalities.
Las Vegas changed so much, so quickly over the past fifteen years, that it makes sense to take a step back and see how it all got started and played out so far. Binkley does just that in this well-researched and well-written chronicle of a frenzied period in Las Vegas' history filled with big buildings and even bigger personalities. You'll learn a lot reading this book, but it's also a truly ...

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

114 reviews
David Fromkin

Holt Paperbacks, 2001

... and the foundation for Endless War.
Fromkin's seminal work is now almost 20 years old, and it is still the essential history book on the bungled making of the modern Middle East. Like another reviewer, I would gladly have given this a 6-star rating if it were possible. So much today remains the very same, save for the change from one imperial power to another. Consider from the Introduction: "The European powers at that time ...

Cure for All Diseases

128 reviews
Hulda Regehr Clark

Motilal Banarsidass,, 2002

Clarke's Cure for All Diseases
A very helpful and informative book on many subjects which I am unfamiliar with - especially in the line of toxins, contaminants and poisons that are in the products and environment around us. I appreciate her attitude of helping us to help ourselves, rather than just selling products to make money. I have much to learn yet!

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

208 reviews
A. J. Jacobs

Simon & Schuster, 2005

Smart, smart, smart
I finished his Bible project book several weeks ago and needed to read something else of his. He's witty, humble, entertaining, and his self-deprecating humor is an attractive quality. I was disappointed to finish it, because I wanted it to continue, which is odd because there isn't a plot line. He gives interesting comments on new knowledge he's gained. It might seem a dull idea for a book, but ...

When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When DIsaster Strikes

22 reviews
Cody Lundin

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007

When All Hell Breaks Loose
When All Hell Breaks Loose "If you are going through Hell, keep going."--Winston Churchill Once upon a summer day, a Grasshopper hopped and danced and sung to his heart's content. An Ant passed, dragging a huge sack of powdered milk, beef jerky, and salt. "Why not come and sing karaoke and do a Jell-O(tm) shot with me," chirped the grasshopper, "Instead of breaking your back, working all ...

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