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141 reviews
Melba Colgrove

Bantam, 1984

First Aid!!
If you experience an end to a relationship....the loss --- it leaves one vulnerable, raw....and this book, written by 3 authors: doctor, poet, counseler....will give instant First Aid!! Amazing! Such a Blessing!! And it is such a small paperback! You just may find yourself carrying it around with you! Jotting down sentences on post-it notes and leaving them around the house to uplift you... ...

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

196 reviews
Ina May Gaskin

Bantam, 2003

The best book to read while you are pregnant!
This was the most inspirational book I have ever read on childbirth. I highly recommend that any expecting parent should read this book. It brings a new meaning to childbirth. It's meant to inspire a woman not make her fear the happiest day of her life!

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying

153 reviews
Patricia Kelley, Maggie Callanan

Bantam, 1993

A Real Gift
For anyone who works with Hospice,or the elderly, or who have family members on hospice care, it is an invaluable book. To learn about the communications of a dying person, and their needs to die in peace, it can radically transform the dying experience for the person and their loved ones from one of sadness to one of sacred beauty. Not to read it, could mean missing out on the important signs ...

Point of Impact

180 reviews

Bantam, 2007

In the top 10 best action books ever written.
All the reviews below say it well. Bob Lee Swagger, and his ruthless, brutally agressive, (yet somehow calm and collected) search for justice is incredibly entertaining. To those who have only seen the movie "Shooter", the book is light-years away in quality, action and drama.

Brothers K, The

116 reviews
David James Duncan

Bantam, 1993

Sick Money!
This book is the bomb-diggity! I'd gladly trade Dickens, Tolstoy, and maybe Milton for Duncan!

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

120 reviews
James D. Hornfischer

Bantam, 2005

Truly common boys, truly uncommon heroes
What an amazing, moving and inspiring book. It reads almost as a work of fiction, it moves so fluidly and thoroughly from character to character, ship to ship, and side to side. But every bit of it is true. It is hard to imagine that the white haired, slow-moving gentlemen we see at the malls or at church are some of the same who lived through the flames, the shrapnel, the bullets, the fear, ...

A Grief Observed

131 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Bantam, 1983

A Grief Analyzed
Originally published under a pseudonym, this short book is a thoroughly reasoned but heart-felt analyzation of grief from the private writing journal of intellectual author and academia giant, C.S. Lewis. The object of his grief is the love of his life, his rare intellectual equal and friend whom he met later in life and fell deeply in love with, making her his wife. Born Atheist, C.S. Lewis ...

No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

112 reviews
Bing West

Bantam, 2005

Powerful Story...very well researched giving voice to our troops
Bing West did an excellent job! I chose this book because I wanted to better understand both the Battle for Fallujah and the larger War in Iraq from the soldier's point of view. West describes the negotiations and he makes that an essential interplay with the conduct of the War. The US is lucky to have the committment of troops who fought this battle under the political circumstances they faced ...

Alicia

120 reviews
Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Bantam, 1989

An irrepressible spirit of survival
Raised from the age of five in Buczacz, which was roughly a third Jewish at that time, Alicia was sheltered relatively well from the anti-Semitism that plagued her town, as well as the rest of Europe. She had many friends, both Jewish and Christian. After the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, whereby the two genocidal dictators divided Poland between them, Buczacz fell into the Soviet zone. The ...