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As the Crow Flies by jeffery archer 1 review
jeffery archer
Harper Collins Publishers, 1991
Rags to riches
The story of Charlie Trumper in a fruit stand owner to millionaire story. Good character development and fast moving story. Good read.
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A Changed Man1 review
Francine Prose
Harper Collins Publishers, 2005
"A change of heart"
Kudos to Francine Prose for being able to climb inside the minds of a racist skin-head and a Holocaust survivor and produce an entertaining read. Vincent Nolan, a neo-Nazi skinhead, shows up at the World Brotherhood Watch, and offers to work for Meyer Maslow, a Holocaust survivor and director of the foundation. Brotherhood Watch will attract wealthy donors only as long as it is newsworthy. ...
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Peanuts a Golden Celebration the Art and S2 reviews
Charles Schulz
Harper Collins Publishers
You're a Good Man, Charles Schulz!
In 1950, Charlie Brown debut in 7 newspapers. In 2000, Charles Schulz (Sparky) released "Peanuts a Golden Celebration" to honor the comic strip's 50 years. This compilation is one of the best ever created. First and foremost is the selection of comic strips from the past 5 decades that are included. It is amazing to read through these strips to see not only how much Charlie Brown and the gang ...
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Weary Generations2 reviews
Abdullah Hussein
Harper Collins Publishers India, 1999
A major work by the foremost Urdu and Pakistani writer.
The Weary Generations, originally published as 'Udas Naslein', in Urdu brought Abdullah Hussein's name to the forefront of Urdu and Indo-Pakistan literature. This novel won the prestigious Adamjee award, and later Abdulla Hussein also recieved the Khwaja Ashkar Hussain award for life long achievemnt and excellence in Urdu laguage and literature. His novel was selected as the heritage ...
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Pears: A Country Garden Cookbook3 reviews
Janet Hazen
Harper Collins Publishers, 1994
One of those delightful specific food masterpieces
For those of us in love with pears, this is it! Beautifully photographed and essayed work on the variety and use of this fruit. For the different, try the Asian Pear rounds with Smoked SalmonCream Cheese or the Wine-Poached Salmon with Pears and Shallots. If you're a pear afficanado as I am, try and find yourself this little gem!
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Blood Rules2 reviews
John Trenhaile
Harper Collins Publishers Stock Account 1991, 1991
gripping
I found blood rules absolutely gripping. The description of events on the hijacked plane give you a fair idea, what it would be like to be one of the passangers on board
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Emotional Blackmail67 reviews
Susan Forward
Harper Collins Publishers
For those in need, I highly recommend this book!
I myself am currently in the FOG that she describes in this and it has hit home very well and helping me redeem myself. She's VERY good at explaining and assisting. Sometimes I feel she's right there. Very informative about the different types of emotional blackmailers. I'm not done reading, but have gotten 3/4 of the way and I am so happy I bought this book. It caught my eye one day browsing ...
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Under My Skin Volume of My Autobiography9 reviews
Doris May Lessing
Harper Collins Publishers, 1995
masterful autobiography
Under My Skin Doris Lessing's autobiography traces her political and emotional development from her earliest childhood memories to her growing, overwhelming, disenchantment with provincial (as she saw it) small town life. "Small town" life for her was pre-WWII Salisbury in the (then) British colony of Southern Rhodesia. Salisbury was a complacent capital city of 10,000 white settlers in a country ...
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New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought3 reviews
Harper Collins Publishers, 1999
Very Valuable
I have many dictionaries on my shelves -- among them dictionaries of theology, philosophy, and sociology. I bought this dictionary at an airport, not really being sure how useful it would be. In fact it is a relatively new concept, having originated in the 1970s with Alan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass. They felt that an ordinary dictionary contains "thousands of words familiar to us all", ...
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Life Goes On - A Harmony Novel1 review
Philip Gulley
Harper-collins Publishers, 2004
Tales from the continuation of life with heart in the ficitional town of "Harmony"
Phillip Gulley's serial novels from "Harmony" give any reader insight in lives of others clarifying their values and incorporating loving and living in the moment while combining memories of the past and traveling into the future with clearer eyes from each character. A must for those who realize that fiction is just another way of entering into the real life of today!
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The Mann Fantasy Baseball Guide, 19961 review
Steve Mann
Harper Collins Publishers, 1996
It is THE reference for both league commissioners and owners
Not only does it help me as an owner decide who to pick and in what round but it helps me as a commissioner. It explains the scoring method "Front Office Baseball" that my league (http://members.aol.com/dang25/baseball) uses. This is a must buy for any commissioner or owner
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Monster (Coretta Scott King Honor Book) 676 reviews
Walter Dean Myers
Harper Collins Publishers, 1999
From a Teacher/ School Librarian's perspective...
"Monster" was an outstanding book and should be read by any child that is heading in the wrong direction. Over the years, there were so many students I could have recommended this book to. This story is about a black teen and the inner city, but please do not feel this book could not help a child in the suburbs or Asian/Hispanic/White teens. The main focus of this book is to talk about the ...
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NAME OF THE BEAST.1 review
Daniel. Easterman
Harper Collins Publishers, 1992
Chilled me to the the very marrow!!
A chilling portrayal of religious fanaticism run amuck. It seemed all too real, at times generating a palpable sense of discomfort and fear. Taking into account the times we live in and the fact that this book was written 11 years ago, the plausibility of the story seems less and less extreme. A genuine page-turner with finely etched characters and a dramatic sense of place and atmosphere. ...
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Getting used to dying : a novel1 review
Hsien-liang Chang
Harper Collins Publishers, 1991
Wonderful true stories
I read this in Chinese ten years ago when I was in College. I loved it. This is one of a few books I have read more than once. My personally opinion is that the first Chinese author who is awarded the Nobel prize should have been the one who writes the stories about the Culture Revolution. And Zhang Xianliang is the one. Before and during the Cultural Revolution Zhang was convicted as an ...
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From Dawn to Decadence; 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present1 review
Harper Collins Publishers, 2000
Entertaining While Instructive
I do not know how Jacques Barzun did it. He takes us through five hundred years of Western cultural history, lards the book with the most esoteric and complex information, and yet somehow manages to make this book a breathless "page-turner." His sure-footed erudition grounds him so securely that he can make forays into the outré, the weird, the seemingly trivial, and then come back to relate it ...
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Take me to your leaders1 review
Gaelyn Gordon
Harper Collins Publishers New Zealand, 1993
Gaelyn is an underrated writer who will be sadly missed
Gaelyn Gordon's quirky humour and wonderful story-telling skills are nowhere near as widely appreciated as they should be. Children all over the world should enjoy this book. Although it makes gentle fun of New Zealand's politicians and New Zealand's big weekly lottery, Lotto, I suspect things are much the same in their own countries.
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Cracked - Putting Broken Lives Together Again - A Doctor's Story1 review
Dr. Drew; Gold, Todd Pinsky
Harper-collins Publishers, 2003
This book is real and good
Dr. Drew Pinsky provides an honest, vulnerable look. The honesty itself was the best part. I really got to experience the circumstances he wrote about. I found myself crying along with the Author and walking through some of the same feelings he described he had. I was left in a very good place after finishing this book. I have never been so moved as to write a reveiw for anyother book. If ...
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The Art of Racing in the Rain233 reviews
Garth Stein
Harper Collins Publishers, 2008
Do not miss out on this story!
I read a review for this book in our local newspaper, written by a high school journalist. Like her, I do not find "animal" stories on the top of my list, so a dog on the cover would never have intrigued me. Like her, also, I found this story to be a human story, seen through the eyes of an animal. I absolutely loved it. My daughter loved it,too, and recommended it to my college age son. I'm ...
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Monstrous Regiment (Advance Reader's Edition)1 review
Harper Collins Publishers, 2003
cross-dressing and the Queen's shilling
Polly Perks disguises herself as a boy and enlists in the Army of the Duchess Annagovia in order to find her beloved brother, Paul. Not only does she have to cut off her long, blonde hair (which is an abomination unto the local god, Nuggan), she also has to learn how to pick her nose, scratch her crotch, and fart loudly in public.
So far the Borogravian army very much resembles a major league ...
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