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One-Handed Catch 4 reviews
M. J. Auch
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2006
Outstanding baseball story - and so much more.
When sixth-grader Norm loses his hand in an accident in his father's general store, his friends tell him there's no way he'll ever be able to play baseball. In fact, it seems like everything about his life will be different. His father can't hide the pity and guilt he feels over Norm's accident. His best friend, Leon, offers a clumsy kind of support that leaves Norm feeling like a cripple. ...
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake 279 reviews
Stan Redding, Frank W. Abagnale
Broadway, 2000
great pulp especially for a short plane trip!
"The parental drive Frank wants from Carl feels less evident, missing the sensitive looks and words as played in the movie by Hanks and DiCaprio."
don't you realize how silly it is to complain that stuff happens in the movie(fictional) and not in the book (factual).
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Catch My Mother's Killer1 review
Paula Mints
New Horizon, 2008
Outstanding!!
Paula Mints is a outstanding new Author. I found her book about her mother to be very captivating. I could not put this book down. I especially liked the way Paula described her early years with a family life that most people would never dream she could live through. Her perseverance and strength prove that anything is possible if you can get beyond the embarrassment and shame and see the love ...
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To Catch A Thief
Christina Skye
HQN Books, 2008
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Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs40 reviews
Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand, ...
Ballantine Books, 2008
Time Bandit: Two brothers on the Bering Sea
One of the best books I have read in a very long time. I couldn't put it down!! If you are a fan of the Hillstrands and of the series "The Deadliest Catch", you will absolutely love this candid look into the world of crab fishing on the Bering Sea--one of the world's deadliest occupations. Johnathan and Andy share an intimate account of their personal and professional lives in a way no one ...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down209 reviews
Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
Fascinating Culture, Fascinating Book
As the title implies, this book offers an alternative perspective of epilepsy, or seizures, as seen through the lens of the Hmong people. It also provides a fresh view of Western so-called civilization itself, and most particularly Western medicine.
I doubt there's any American today who doesn't harbor at least some ambivalence about how medicine's practiced in the United States, and I'm not ...
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Deadliest Catch: Desperate Hours8 reviews
Discovery Channel, 2008
Loved it!!!!!!!!!!
As I have been watching this tv show, since before it was called Deadliest Catch, and have all 3 seasons on DVD, I had to purchase this book. I also bought the Time Bandit Book and read them both in approx. 4 days. This is a very interesting book. It is really very good. It does let the Capts. speak on various subjects. For anyone who not just loves the excitement of the show, this book ...
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)824 reviews
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Great great book
This book is so good, my weak attempt at a review is not going to do it justice. But I'll try.
I knew before I was half-way through that this is going to be a favorite and I plan to re-read it immediately. The writing is so fresh, the character studies so sharp, and the satire so relevant in today's increasingly bureaucratic (corporate) society, no wonder it was so hard for me to find a used ...
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Night Catch19 reviews
Brenda Ehrmantraut
Bubble Gum Pr, 2005
A great deployment book for any service.
My husband will soon leave for Kuwait, leaving behind our 4 yo daughter and me. I've been researching various deployment books since we learned he was going.
Overall, this is one of the best books. It is service neutral (which is difficult to find). The story is about love and separation more than the actual reason they are gone. The illustrations are lovely and typical of quality children's ...
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To Catch A Pirate 30 reviews
Jade Parker
Point, 2007
Piratey Goodness
I picked this book up on a whim sometime in the past year, and it's sat on my bookshelf mostly because I hadn't had much time for reading. But as I was preparing to go to Europe for two weeks this summer, I packed it figuring I'd find a least a little bit of time to read it on the plane or something. Wrong. It didn't actually make it into my suitcase after I picked that book up. After starting ...
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South Beach Chicas Catch Their Man 2 reviews
Caridad Pineiro
Downtown Press, 2007
From the author!
I'm so glad I got to write the follow-up to SEX AND THE SOUTH BEACH CHICAS, but not to worry if you haven't read the first one since this book stands alone. Here's some of the reviews that have come in for this book which was featured in RT Book Club, Latina Magazine and premiered on Romance Novel television (www.romancenovel.tv)
Chicklit RomanceWriters: 9/10. "With a little bit of mystery, a ...
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When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse10 reviews
Ben Yagoda
Broadway, 2007
Parts of speech? Horrors! But clear and applicable in this book
I bought this book because I am ninety years old and had never been taught the parts of speech--and obviously did not have much time left if I were to learn them! This is far better written and presented than anything I have looked at before. I not only finished it it will stay with my dicionary at my side. Bill Weifenbach
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A Catch of Consequence (Makepeace Hedley)12 reviews
Diana Norman
Berkley Trade, 2003
A good catch indeed, a bit like an English, girls version of "The Count of Monte Cristo"
I first started this book with little knowledge of the plot. I knew the basics, a puritan fished a noble out of the water and then there's marriage and all that good stuff. That would be a good premise for a novel, right? Well. Unfortunately, that's the premise for the first third of this novel. Really this is a bit like an English, girls version of "The Count of Monte Cristo".
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Catch!: A Fishmonger's Guide to Greatness10 reviews
Cyndi Crother
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005
Most inspiriational book I have read lately!
If this book does not inspire you to come alive and get going with your life, nothing will. And it is not some philosoper's old boring stuff; it is real life from ordinary fish mongers. It is down-to-earth information that is easily read, easily undetstood, and easy to apply to your own life. I plan to reread this little book several times a year to remind me what any person can easily do to ...
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How to Catch a Star11 reviews
HarperCollins Children's Books, 2007
Great book for 2-3 year olds
Bought this for my 3 year old son a year ago. He just loves it! He asks for me to read it to him over and over again at bedtime. I bought it again a few weeks ago to give to another little boy along with another copy for a charity organization for the holidays. I think it's a wonderful book!
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Catch Of The Day25 reviews
Kristan Higgins
HQN Books, 2007
A PRICELESSLY Entertaining New Author!
I can now list Kristan Higgins as one of my favorite authors and I cannot WAIT to read more of her work. I have not had the pleasure of discovering an author who makes me laugh until tears of hysteria pour down my cheeks since Vickie Lewis Thompson. Higgins style of humor is so raw, so refreshing and so LOL dramatic that she is what literary entertainment is all about. Maggie was an absolute ...
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Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley56 reviews
Timothy White
Holt Paperbacks, 2006
The Dream Of Lasting Peace, World Citizenship
The book title is also the name of the 1973 debut album on Island records for Bob Marley and The Wailers that brought the lyrics and sounds of reggae to an international audience.
Originally published two years after Marley's death from cancer, the biography remains a great read due to the exhaustive research by author Timothy White.
White had interviewed Marley from 1975-1981 and projects ...
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Heller's Catch-22 (Cliffs Notes)4 reviews
C. A. Peek
Cliffs Notes, 1976
Catch-22
I am a high school senior and am currently doing an independent study on American satire. Catch-22, to say the least, is brilliant. It is long and complex, but is a fascinating study of World War II. It is the story of fighter pilots in World War II and the underlying theme is of the insanity of war. Heller captures the very essence of war through his chaotic plot and timeshifts. His ...
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