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New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean, and Maintain Anything and Everything In and Around Your Home

31 reviews

Reader's Digest, 1996

New Fix-It-Yourself Manual
This was purchased as a gift for my son-in-law. As I told him, it is by far the best do-it-yourself home repair manual I have ever seen or used. It is clearly and logically laid out. Illustrations are in full color and large enough to easily identify the part(s) to be worked on. Diagnostics are systematic without being wordy, and very accurate. It also tells you when you have exhausted all ...

The Most Scenic Drives in America: 120 Spectacular Road Trips

40 reviews
Robert J. Dolezal, Jerry Bates, ...

Reader's Digest, 2005

Beautiful photography
This would be a beautiful coffee table book. It is even more helpful in planning plces to visit and reliving favorite memories from past trips.

The good earth (The World's best reading)

459 reviews
Pearl S Buck

Reader's Digest Association, 1992

Mentally Challenged Character
Really liked this book, but hated how Wang Lung and his family treated his oldest daughter. She is never given a name. She's only referred to as "The Fool". The family leaves her to play alone, outside, with her piece of cloth. Rarely do they check up on her. And, if nobody thinks about it she is sometimes left outdoors. She's treated this way just because she is mentally challenged. It's ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Reader's Digest World's Best Reading)

506 reviews
Mark Twain

Reader's Digest Association, 1986

Ole Huck
You'll notice pretty quickly when you pick this up that Huck doesn't spell too good and his grammar isn't so hot either. But if you look a little more closely, you find that he sure knows how to use the semi-colon, and his sentence structure is picture perfect. Mr. Twain may have decided that he was going to have some fun with his charming narrator, but he sure wasn't going to sacrifice good ...

The Grapes of Wrath (World's Best Reading)

586 reviews
John Steinbeck

Reader's Digest Association, 1991

The best american novel ever written?
As a former resident of California, I was often shocked on how the locals treated the Mexicans. After working all day, some were paid virtually nothing, and some were actually paid nothing. And because they couldn't complain to the government they were just "out of luck." This book addresses that very issue, if only dealing with the white "oakies." The point of this novel makes about migrant ...

To Kill a Mockingbird (World's Best Reading)

1753 reviews
Harper Lee

Reader's Digest Association, 1993

Everyone's Favorite . . .
I honestly have no idea how many times I have read this book. I read it first as an assignment in the eighth grade; most recently, at the age of 41, I read it aloud to three of my children. As with the more recent readings that I recall, I choked up a bit at the end as Scout is experiencing the tragedy and love that surrounds her in the form of her conservatively eccentric father, her ...

Pride and Prejudice (The World's Best Reading)

880 reviews
Jane Austen

Reader's Digest Association, 1984

Pride and Prejudice
I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a great classic with witty characters and an excellent love story.

The Scarlet Letter (The World's Best Reading)

405 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reader's Digest Association, 1984

A wonderful piece of literature, however
I completely agree with most HS students that this book should be optional reading for them because HS teachers should very well know that there are many different minds that need very different kinds of reading material and exposure to variety is not always a good thing that's why you end up having reviews of books like this by some HS students who puke on it rather then have savored it like I ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

546 reviews
Betty Smith

Reader's Digest Association, 1989

A Wowing Historical Fiction Classic
I am in total awe after reading this book. In the beginning I thought it was going to be a boring and long novel. But throughout my reading I became to grow more attached to the story. The main character Francie was an intriguing and delightful creation that anyone would want as their best friend, should she not be a fictional person. I enjoyed reading how the poor family made ends meet and ...

Fisher Price Cars, Trucks, Planes, and Trains Lift the Flap (Fisher-Price Little People)

16 reviews
Nancy Rindone

Reader's Digest, 2004

Fun book, holds their attention well.
My 19 month old twins love this book. They don't quite understand the activities in it yet, such as finding all the monkeys and identifying the shapes, but they love to open and close the flaps on all the pages. It is densely animated, but it makes it more fun and challenging to find things in the pictures. We recently flew across country and this book helped tremendously in keeping them ...

Fisher Price My Little People Farm (Lift the Flap Playbooks)

29 reviews
Doris Tomaselli

Reader's Digest, 1997

GREAT lift-the-flap book for toddlers
As far as lift-the-flap type books go this is a fantastic one. There are a lot of flaps to lift and they all coincide with the theme of the particular page - counting, colors, opposites, etc. When you open the flap and place it back against the page it doesn't cover-up what is behind it, but matches it instead so that the picture is seemless - my favorite part about this line of lift-the-flap ...

Sesame Street Elmo's Favorite Places (Sesame Street)

3 reviews
Carol Monica, Joe Mathieu

Reader's Digest, 2007

Great vocabulary building tool
I love this book for the simple fact that it allowed me to teach my 18 month old all the common words in various settings (park, aquarium, farm, school and home). It also has flaps which intrigue her as she likes to see whats behind each one. I am amazed at all the words she has picked up from this book! Fantastic book for parents wanting to establish letter recognition (alphabet page) and build ...

Sesame Street Ready, Set, Brush: A Pop-Up Book (Sesame Street)

2 reviews
Che Rudko, Tom Brannon

Reader's Digest, 2008

Add a little fun to brush time
This book has so many fun features in it: put the right amount of tooth paste on the tooth brush, brush through teeth in different ways, rinse, and count teeth. It also provides movable and slidable tooth brush for kids to practice with. I think this one is even better than "Brush Your Teeth Please Pop-Up!" Over all, a great book(surprisingly)!

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Reader's Digest Great Biographies in Large Type)

126 reviews
Nelson Mandela

Reader's Digest Association, 1995

Must Read
This is a fantastic book that provides great insight into one of the most inspirational leaders in modern history. His story in particular and the anti-apartheid struggles in general are fascinating and provide extremely valuable lessons. With his humbleness and incredibly lucid and organized writing style (which admittedly did surprise me), this could be the best autobiography out there. One can ...

Fisher Price Let's Go to the Zoo Lift the Flap (A-Lift-the-Flap Play Book)

11 reviews
Reader's Digest, SI Artists

Reader's Digest, 2006

Love These Books!
All the Little People Lift-the-flap books are great, but this one is by far my and my 2 1/2 year old's favorite. We enjoy playing "peek a boo" with each animal under the flaps and talking about their colors, and what they're doing, and what noises they make. The farm one is my second favorite, followed by the transportation and school bus books.

Sesame Street Guess Who, Abby! (Sesame Street)

2 reviews
Constance Allen

Reader's Digest, 2007

Great Book!
I bought this for my two year olds birthday. She loves it. She loves Abby Cadabby and all of the Sesame Street friends, so it was a hit. This book is sturdy and withstands a two year old and her 4 year old brother.

Rebecca (World's Best Reading)

483 reviews
Daphne du Maurier

Reader's Digest Association, 1994

"Have you ever thought about the future?"
How about that for a chat-up line? When someone told me they called their daughter 'Rebecca' for the character in this novel, my curiosity was raised. It is beautiful. The story is of the mysterious and unsolved death of the first Mrs Maxim De Winter, Rebecca, and how her death is discovered, with far reaching consequeces for an entire community. Mrs De Winter (the second one) got slightly on my ...

Emma (World's best reading)

207 reviews
Jane Austen

Reader's Digest Association, 1994

A Good Start To My Austen Book Craze
I have always loved Emma the movie, the one with Gwyneth Paltrow in it. Her Emma is so clueless, so innocent, yet somehow loveable. I finally decided to pick up the classic novel to see if the movie missed anything and to get the full story straight from the author. The book delighted me just as much as the movie did, as I am pleased to say. Emma Woodhouse is a young, rich woman living with ...

Moby Dick (The World's best reading)

319 reviews
Herman Melville

Reader's Digest Association, 1989

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts"
Having reached the mid-life point, I didn't "get around to" reading MOBY-DICK until just recently. I'm certainly glad that I finally stopped putting it off. Herman Melville's work is truly one of the most amazing books I have read. As others have pointed out here, it's not always an easy read, but it is well worth devoting time to. Indeed, I approached it as if it were an artisan cheese or a ...

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