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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 169 reviews
Judith Viorst
Aladdin, 1987
Got a Grumpy Kindergartner?
Kids have good days and bad days. If you're kindergartner isn't adjusting well, this may be the ticket. It tells the story of Alex who is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bady day.
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The Secret 2148 reviews
Rhonda Byrne
Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006
The Secrete
A compelling read, as soon as I finished it I started again at the begining. I am ordering additional copies for close friends and family. The person that suggested I read this is a very close friend who is reading it again for the third time. This little book, which is a very easy read, has the power to change your life...and change it for the much better! I highly recomend this book to ...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't678 reviews
Jim Collins
Collins, 2001
GREAT!!!
Good to Great is about a research to discover how an ordinary company can make the transition from being good, to achieving breakthrough and becoming great. He begins the book by describing the transition from good to great as a flywheel that consists of 3 stages of discipline with each stage containing 2 key concepts. What's important to understand is that becoming a great company takes time; ...
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Certain Girls: A Novel 100 reviews
Jennifer Weiner
Atria, 2008
Beautiful
This book was excellent and if you fell in love with Cannnie in Good in Bed than you will forever hold her in your heart in Certain Girls. She is by the far the funniest and strongest and smartest female character that I have seen in a very long time. The book makes you laugh, and cry, and get angry and just feel. I think that the series needs to continue with Joy in her twenties so that fans ...
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Remember Me? 143 reviews
Sophie Kinsella
The Dial Press, 2008
So good
I've just ended to read the book and I've to say that I loved Remember Me. Lexi is even better than our shophaolic... =)
The book is just so fun... that's incredible!
YOU HAVE TO read it!!
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The Kite Runner2387 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2004
Well written book much like three stones
This is well written book in which the author attempts to be honest about his life to this point. Granted that it is sometimes heavy reading, the book tells a perfectly logical and realistic tale about life in Afganistan during the time whent the Taliban ruled the country. The characters rue the fact that the "old monarchy" was no more. Of course they were also the leading people in ...
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Catch-22818 reviews
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1996
One of, if not the, funniest book(s) ever written!
Other people have written much better, and more detailed, reviews of this book, but its true hilarity and power (which I have heard is quite different than the movie, which I've never seen so can't comment on) simply need to be experienced. Some of the imagery is almost divine; much of it is deliciously ironic; and a little brings us back to the horror that was the reailty of World War II.
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning290 reviews
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
Finally, someone stated the obvious
At last we have a book which states the obvious, yet by leftists hysterically guarded fact that fascism had always been a form of leftist politics.
The contemporary (left) mass media always refer to Nazis ar right-wing, when the total opposite is truth. Nazism is an abbreviation for Nazional Sozialismus, National Socialism. Utterly leftists ideology, which was replaced later by ...
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The Secret Life of Bees1365 reviews
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Wonderful Book
This Book has me interested in getting more books by this author this is my favorite book of hers. My sister Terra says that people love this book
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Goodnight Moon560 reviews
Margaret Wise Brown
HarperFestival, 1991
Good might moon
I first purchased this book 36 years ago for my son; recently bought this new copy for my future grandson--I'm hoping it will be his favorite as it was his father's. It is such a delightful story and a great nightime
read before bed.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter819 reviews
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Great Book!
I LOVED this book - I thought it was a very interesting storyline. I recommend this to all readers - it was hard to put it down. I like the way Edwards writes - very clear - makes you feel like you are part of the character. A must-read!
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Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America 5 reviews
Charles Leerhsen
Simon & Schuster, 2008
The Standardbred Legend Comes To Life
Talk about a superstar, fans used to say that the legendary natural pacer, Dan Patch, would stop on the track before a race and look to the stands to count the house.
And from where this forgotten legend had come from, that gaze was worth its weight in gold.
Author Charles Leerhsen brings to life the amazing career of this Standardbred racer who set his mark on the track and in sponsorship ...
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead341 reviews
Max Brooks
Three Rivers Press, 2003
This book is hilarious
The book is presented in a serious fashion; sort of like mocking the other "survival" guides out there (namely the "Worst Case" books). The fact that it is "serious" in nature makes it a hilarious book.
The book is divided into three sections:
1) The first section explains how to survive a zombie attack. It covers everything from securing your home, to working in a good, to clean up ...
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The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show109 reviews
Devin Alexander, Karen Kaplan, ...
Rodale Books, 2006
Best Cookbook Ever!
Not only am I a Biggest Loser fan, but I am now a fan of the Biggest Loser Cookbook. I was a little hesitant about buying the book. I have a ton of cookbooks at home and only get one or two recipes out of them. So far I have enjoyed many of the recipes out of this book. The pictures are wonderful, and the recipes are easy to follow. I like the fact that my 9 year old daughter enjoys the food ...
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The Good Guy152 reviews
Dean Koontz
Bantam, 2008
Great book
The Good Guy
This book was so good. It was a fast read. I really enjoyed it. And the best part was I bought the book in LARGE print.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies1048 reviews
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton, 2005
If he could only teach just one history course in each college....
..it wouldn't be "one damn fact after the other," a comment on the study of history that Diamond references. His historical book is the antithesis of the "big man" version of history, so-and-so meets X, and says this and that, and decides Y. His is a study of history in its broadest swaths, examining the proximate reasons for a given outcome, but always striving to ground his work in the ...
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Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food584 reviews
Jessica Seinfeld
Collins, 2007
Jessica is on to something
I am a nanny and this book has helped me get more veggies into the kids I care for. Thank you
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated203 reviews
David D. Burns
Harper, 1999
Great -- IF you use it
Amazing book. Tons of insight and many many tools to use to get at the roots of mal-thinking. Trouble is, one must still make oneself do the exercises to get the results. :) Seriously, though, I found the exercise of asking yourself over and over "Why does this upset you?" when dealing with an upsetting event or idea really gets you to the core of the issue. Every time I remember to use this ...
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The Chronicles of Narnia972 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperCollins, 2001
Entire set of books is excellent!
I loved them as a child, and I still believe they are excellent! My nephews and niece especially enjoyed the series.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently254 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 ...
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