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46 reviews
Tyra Banks, Vanessa Thomas Bush

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1998

fun to read
I really enjoyed reading this book. It's more than just looking good. Yes, there is a ton of information on skin care, makeup, body care, etc, but Ms. Banks also includes self-esteem, sex, generosity, self-respect, smoking, alcohol, and more. I expected a more frivolous book from a supermodel, but this is real quality. Tyra seems like someone you would know. She has such a friendly, sweet ...

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

33 reviews
Hayden Herrera

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1991

Brilliant
I bought this book after re-watching the movie taken largely from this exhaustive biography. As someone who has read many bios, let me say that this is a refreshing and encouraging alternative to the fawning and excessive grocery store drivel and/or the dull and fact-filled dissertations that describe most biographies. Hayden Herrera manages to combine a staggeringly comprehensive detailing of ...

Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life

4 reviews
Roger Daniels

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1991

A Great Reference Piece.
Encyclopedic in scope, this work is a great primer for anyone interested in developing a clearer sense of what America's "immigrant beginnings" truly means. Although the book sometimes fluctuates awkwardly between tedious number crunching and smooth novelistic writing, they ultimately balance out to give the reader intriguing stories supported by pertinent statistics. This work is highly ...

Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives

3 reviews
Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, ...

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1997

Everyday wisdom.
'Out of the Blue' is uplifting and full of everyday wisdom, my favorite kind of book. It is a book that falls open at just the right passage to provide valuable insight on whatever is concerning you at the moment. It is also quite capable of jumping off the shelf into your hands if you are browsing while thinking about some problem.

Finding Fish

44 reviews
Antwone Quenton Fisher

Perennial (HarperCollins), 2004

Must Read
If you have any interest in human behavior, this is a must read. It is a true story of a man who has to overcome so much to succeed. The challenges he faces are so harsh, as he struggles through life as a foster child.

On the Technique of Acting

3 reviews
Michael Chekhov

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1991

Stresses the fantastic and imaginative!
Again my mantra about acting books remains . . . Reading an acting book must be taken inside the context of personal experience of either production or an acting class. I value Checkov for the simple reason that, although he often comes across as nebulous and abstract, he stresses the fantastic and imaginative elements of acting. Escewing working from the emotional inside out Checkov, a veteran ...

Sondheim and Co.

5 reviews

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1987

Are there six stars available?
This is by far the best book written about Stephen Sondheim. Unfortunately it only goes so far as Into The Woods from 1987. Zadan uses candid quotes and photos with an often surprising honesty. I know this book is often said to be unavailable, but I tell you it's still out there. And it's worth the look. Don't go anywhere near Meryle Secrest's new book on Sondheim.

Leftovers: 200 Recipes, 50 Simple Master Preparations and 150 Delicious Variations for the Second Time Around

2 reviews
Kathy Gunst

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1991

Say goodbye to boring leftovers
This book is fantastic. There are delicious main recipes and then several suggestions for gourmet-quality leftovers. Very creative take on leftovers and the book's layout makes it easy to cross reference recipes.

Grudge Match: Are You Ready to Rumble?

2 reviews
Brian Wright, Steve Levine

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1998

The Ultimate Web Comedy
I am a great fan of Web confrontations. To the Web-illiterate of you, that is pitting popular pop culture icons against one another in a battle decided by the votes of those who log on to the site. These pioneers vote for whom they see has the better chance of winning. But enough about what it is! This is a concentration of the best matches, commentary, and responses. This is one of the ...

Lucia in Wartime

4 reviews
Tom Holt

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1986

A Brave Sequel to the works of E.F. Benson
Tom Holt has moved Lucia to the days of Winston Churchill and WWII. He wrote this sequel to the Lucia novels after E.F. Benson passed on, and I must say, he did an admirable job of catching the dialog exactly. You'd swear that Benson wrote this book. The plot is predictably Lucia, who seeks to gain local social prominence, this time amongst the officers who are heading off to war. Their staff ...

Autobiography of a Face

95 reviews
Lucy Grealy

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1995

A beautiful child
I liked this book very much, it was hard to read about Lucy. I knew her when she was a beautiful little girl. She would come into the Spring Valley Library with her twin sister. One day I told her she had ink marks on her face and she told me that was for the radiation. She went to school with my kids but they never said anything unkind about her, and years later I saw her on the street, ...

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

99 reviews
Eric Hoffer

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1989

The Medium is the Message--and the Medium is Rage
I cannot recommend this book often enough to family and friends who are perplexed by the current state of world affairs. Hoffer directs the attention of the reader away from the particular grievance that every demagogue and his followers have had since the dawn of history, and instead helps us to understand the dynamic at work. More learned scholars than I have written about this in other ...

The Lost Continent - Travels In Small-town America

1 review
Bill Bryson

Perennial / Harper-collins, 2001

The Lost Continent:Travels in Small-Town America
I just discovered Bill Bryson a few months ago, and I have loved every book that I've read, but this is by far the most hilarious one yet. I was reading it while traveling in a car with my husband, and, after laughing out loud, would have to reread passages to him. I haven't found it on audio book, but would love to hear it in Bill's voice, which adds to his sarcastic wit.

Cheaper by the Dozen

149 reviews
Frank B. Gilbreth

Perennial (HarperCollins), 2003

You only need one word to describe this book: fun!
It is very, very rare to come across a book that is purely and simply fun to read. The reason that this book is a classic is that it has managed to be just this. This is the story of Frank Gilbreth, his wife, and their twelve children around the turn of the 20th century. If you imagine that a family of fourteen would provide many, many occasions for humor, you would be very correct. This book ...

Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual

1 review
E. Fuller Torrey

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1988

"Surviving Schizophrenia" a Brilliant and Informative Book!
As a schizophrenia sufferer, I have been healthy from delusions for the past eleven years, but have been unable to hold down a "real job", as it were, for just as long, having only been able to cope with limited voluntary work and supported work instead, due to the illness. I'm well, but my problem is that I don't have much capacity, and the pressure and stress of a real job is too much for me ...

Steppin' Out With Attitude: Sister, Sell Your Dream!

1 review
Anita R. Bunkley

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1998

LOVE THIS BOOK!
The only thing I have a problem with is that "Steppin' Out With Attitude" wasn't available 10 years ago, before I wasted all that time on trial and error trying to figure out what to do with myself -- and my attitude! The author identifies some of our greatest oppressors and shows effective ways of combating them, shares testimonials by women who've overcome tremendous obstacles (I was ...

Sacred Clowns

1 review
Tony Hillerman

Perennial / Harper-collins, 2003

Navahos and more
This time we confront a different Pueblo People the Hopi. In the Hopi there are sect or Koshari societies; they do not practice curing; they are concerned with fertility and growth. Their religion is more personal than public and clans are most important. Along With a new people we are treated to a piece of history; The Spanish had a tradition of The Canes of Office here. Governors and ...

Understanding Reality Therapy: A Metamorphical Approach

1 review
Robert E. Wubbolding

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1991

Metaphors give insight to Reality Therapy concepts
Background (people who already know what RT is can skip to paragraph 2): I started learning about Reality Therapy just this year. I was attracted to this prespective because I believe that people choose their behavior, rather than behavior being the product of outside forces that MADE the person feel, think or behave this way. People can become more aware that they are actually making ...

Finding Our Way: The Teen Girls' Survival Guide

1 review
Allison Abner, Linda Villarosa

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1995

Very educated and good!
This book is very good. I would recomand it. Kriste

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

114 reviews
Jack D. Schwager

Perennial (HarperCollins), 1990

Inspiration for daytraders
I generally only read textbooks about trading. Statistics, technical analysis, calculus etc. However, this very entertaining collection of interviews may be my favorite and most informative read. The stories give re-assurance that an individual can succeed through their own studies, analysis and effort. If you read carefully between the lines, you can figure out how the best in the business ...

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