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The Handmaid's Tale 543 reviews
Margaret Atwood
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1986
Ladies, Be En Guard!!!
I, like many other of the reviewers, had read this book for the first time back in high school and it blew my mind. In the good old 90's, it seemed like simply a very well written, if slightly over the top, cautionary tale. Now after see how many of our civil liberties have been taken away, how many insurance companies refuse to cover birth control even for married couples, pharmacies refusing to ...
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Shoeless Joe89 reviews
W. P. Kinsella
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1982
A Book to Read When You Feel Magic Seeping From Your Life
Imagine listening to Peggy Lee singing "Is That All There Is" and feeling like you need to sleep for a week to escape the inane, predictable world. And then imagine youself feeling inspired by a short but magical novel that seems to say that just about anything is possible. If you're in the doldrums and tempted to become a cynic, read W. P. Kinsella's SHOELESS JOE. Peggy won't sound so ...
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 60 reviews
David Simon
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1991
Well written and very accessible, highly recommended
I read this book after watching - several times over - David Simon's most recent work, The Wire. I have always been interested in detectives and was drawn by this book because it is non-fiction. As well as being a highly enjoyable read, I would say there were three main takeaways. First, the detailed first-hand account of actual cases and methods of investigation (including related disciplines ...
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Dark Star 48 reviews
Alan Furst
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1991
excellent writing
"Dark Star" is an account of a Russian journalist/intelligence agent. It takes place in Europe during the years 1937-1940; it could be placed in both the historical fiction and the espionage genres. It is a well written example of both genres, and often the writing is so good, it holds its own against any fine literary work. The difference between an N.K.V.D. agent in those years and a Le Carre ...
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Black Like Me152 reviews
John Howard Griffin
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1977
Black like me: One of the best books I have ever read
This book is the account of a white man, named John Howard Griffin, who turned himself black to study the real extent of racism. It starts out with his experiences in New Orleans as a black man. He knew about some of the things that are done to black people, but didn't know the full extent of how much white people try to degrade the sense of value or self-worth of all black people. He experiences ...
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The Member of the Wedding 73 reviews
Carson McCullers
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1946
Eloquent, lovely, and sad
This is my very favorite book and, in my opinion, far superior to "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
I was not an adolescent when I read it--I was 23--but I was astonished by how often McCullers was able to perfectly describe what I had believed to be indescribable experiences. In some ways I think that my attachment to the book grew from my ability to relate to Frankie's anxiety. The pace of ...
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Farewell to Manzanar; A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II ... 218 reviews
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1973
still holds up
i read this book when i was about 11 and purchased it for my 12 yr old son last month. he loved it as much as i did. loves to read, loves world war ii history and had no idea that the u s had holding camps for u s citizens of japanese descent. started a diolog with his g'pa, s f born and bred, about japanese americans he'd known as a child who were imprisoned. should be required reading for all
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Katherine243 reviews
Anya Seton
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1954
Totally fantastic!
This book is worth purchasing. Yet, somehow that's an understatement. I now have my own copy and am reluctant to lend it!
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Night Soldiers52 reviews
Alan Furst
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1988
Recommended For Those Who Know History
This was my "first" Furst novel. Given to me as a gift several years ago, it worked its way to the top of my read "stack." What a pleasant surprise! An excellent novel. A great spy story, with characters that are interesting and nicely developed. I would highly recommend it. But be forewarned that it helps, greatly, to have some knowledge of 1930's Europe and the war-before-the-war among ...
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings / By J.R.R. ...835 reviews
J. R. R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1967
classic
This is one book to enjoy. Tom Bambadil is the best! Tolkien creates interesting stories with classic creatures that most people have a slight background of information to, thus not wasting time on creating a new world of different names.
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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy22 reviews
Carl R. Rogers
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1961
A humble masterpiece
This book by Carl Rogers on client-centered therapy may lack the drama, the force or the cleverness associated with some books on other forms of psychotherapy. What it doesn't seem to lack is a quiet wisdom that flowed from Rogers' many years of experience and sensitivity to his patients.
Despite some redundancy, being a collection of papers and presentations from Rogers over many years, "On ...
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Green Darkness78 reviews
Anya Seton
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1973
Was expecting more...
Somehow, I was expecting more time given to Celia and Steven, together. I get the idea that deep down they both loved each other and for obvious reasons couldn't be together but....the time given to them "together" was too short. I thought the book dragged on-it took a lot of time for me to read. And I was not at all interested in Celia and...whoever her husband was in the first part of the ...
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo17 reviews
Eric Hansen
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1988
Easily one of the most absorbing and well-written travelogues ever
_Stranger in the Forest_ by Eric Hansen is easily one of the most absorbing and well-written travelogues I have ever read. This extraordinary book chronicles Hansen's remarkable journey across the island of Borneo in 1982. The author traveled some 2,400 miles on the island, largely on foot and through tropical rain forest on an island that straddles the equator; actually he made two trips, ...
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Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went6 reviews
John Kenneth Galbraith
Houghton Mifflin (T), 2001
Money, come back!
This is JKG holding forth on that most perennially fascinating of topics. The subtitle ("Whence it Came, Where it Went") may bear a relation to the question on everybody's mind during the early and mid-seventies: why is our money behaving so badly? "In the twenty years before the founding of the [Federal Reserve] System there were 1748 bank suspensions; in the twenty years after it ended the ...
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Dibs: In Search of Self : Personality Development in Play Therapy58 reviews
Virginia Mae Axline
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1965
Amazing description of psychotherapy
I have read this book several times because it always refreshes my enthusiam for the possiblities that psychotherapy can offer. The sesnsitivity of the therapist in her interventions illustrate beautifully how non-interference and genuine feeling can be such a helpful way to help a person become in touch with themselves.
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Dragonwyck23 reviews
Anya Seton
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1968
well,,
Well,, Since so many others have already said what the book is about I will tell you my thoughts on the book.
I was a litte weary of this book at first. I mean, I'm a bookworm,but I used to always read a book only when someone was like "Hey read this book! It is so good!" This was really the first book I have really took a leap of faith on ,and let me say it was Totally worth it!I will be ...
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Long Goodbye56 reviews
Raymond Chandler
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1953
Arguably Chandler's Best
You don't read Raymond Chandler for the plots--you read him for the magnificent "hard boiled" prose. The Long Goodbye is probably his most complex work, full of world-weary insights and a somewhat more "tender" Marlowe. The great pleasure of The Long Goodbye is seeing how the main character, Philip Marlowe, reconciles his cynical view of humanity with a genuine desire to help a few unfortunates ...
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Public Speaking3 reviews
Michael Osborn
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1993
Public Speaking
I used the text book for a "public speaking" course at California State University Hayward campus. The book does an excellent job of taking the reader through the steps in preparing public speeches. It contains numerous examples of speeches. The main thing I felt that the author did was to teach the reader a the step by step process of picking a topic, preparing an outline and delivering the ...
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A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Peterson Field Guides)10 reviews
Frederick H. Pough
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1976
My review
I'm really in to rocks now so I don't want a guide on how rocks are formed I want a guide of what the look like, how hard they are, and other stuff. peace out
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