Ha'penny7 reviews Jo Walton Tor Books, 2007 Challenging and chilling alternate history. + Solid: 3.5 Stars + Thought-Provoking Alt-History! + Good, but with some weaknesses + A truly frightening thriller             Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West4 reviews Scott Martelle Rutgers University Press, 2007 A look into labor relations in the western mining towns. + Many Losers, Few Winners + Objective and Insightful + Strikers vs. owners = no winners             The Death Trust12 reviews David Rollins Bantam, 2007 An Aussie Lee Childs + Excellent - give us more... + Intense and gripping page turner + Funny and entertaining             Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession With the Untamed West Michael L. Johnson University Press of Kansas, 2007 Just what was so wild about the Wild West? Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Now one of the most knowing observers of the Western scene offers a monumental cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five ...             DARK HORSES: Poets on Overlooked Poems University of Illinois Press, 2006 Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer’s Dark Horses joyfully rediscovers dozens of these poems, recognizes their power, and illuminates their significance. Seventy-five established American poets including Billy Collins, John Ashbery, Linda Bierds, Carl ...             The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes!8 reviews Lynne Truss Putnam Juvenile, 2007 The Girl's Like Spaghetti is great! + Kids Love Apostrophes + An excellent grammar fun book + Fun,factual and funny + Eats, Roots and Leaves for Kids             Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)813 reviews Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 BEST BOOKS EVER + Loved It!!! + choices : a summary review on the best selling novel, eclipse + I Love it!!!             How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else100 reviews Michael Gates Gill Gotham, 2007 One of the Best Career Books Ever This is one of the best books ever written about mid-life career crisis. The story of the advertising executive who ended up cleaning toilets at Starbucks is filled with wonderful anecdotes that can be best appreciated by those who are middle aged and beyond. Young adult readers may not ...             A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier387 reviews Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 A disturbing, but fascinating, look into Africa + A Long Way Gone + Compelling + Intense, heartwrenching, difficult -- important.             The Guild of Xenolinguists3 reviews Sheila Finch Golden Gryphon Press, 2007 A blend of strong plot and technological insight. + the definitive stories + Language & communication In most science fiction novels the challenges and impossibilities of inter-species communication is overcome by the presence of a 'universal translator' - or just not mentioned. So, its intriguing to see a novel based around communication challenges - and presents a story surrounding the Guild of ...             Einstein: His Life and Universe201 reviews Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 2007 Sorting out the genius, the man, and the state of modern science + Excellent book about Einstein very enjoyable read. + best einstein book out there + It's a wonderful life             Chance In Hell1 review Gilbert Hernandez Fantagraphics Books, 2007 Huh? I've been trying to expand my exposure to graphic novels so I was excited to learn about Chance in Hell through an article about Latino writers. This adult oriented story follows the life of Empress, an orphan child living in a garbage dump community who is adopted and raised by a kind but self ...             The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche23 reviews Gary Krist Henry Holt and Co., 2007 MAN VS. NATURE... + History that reads like fiction + Excellent read + A Well-Written Story about a Long-Forgotten Disaster + Very well written             Writing in an Age of Silence11 reviews Sara Paretsky Verso, 2007 Outstanding! + A Must Read! + Mystery Writer Speaks Out + No Longer Silent             The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian80 reviews Sherman Alexie Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 Absolutely wonderful! + Fantastic + Another glance at the American coming-of-age story + A Good Read!             Coltrane: The Story of a Sound8 reviews Ben Ratliff Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 a musical gem + Brilliant, contentious and absorbing + The Searcher + Beginner's view of Coltrane             Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (American ... Peter La Chapelle University of California Press, 2007 Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s. The first work to fully illuminate the political and cultural aspects of this intriguing story, the book takes us from Woody Guthrie's radical hillbilly show on Depression-era radio to Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee" ...             Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq3 reviews Ian Klaus Knopf, 2007 Highly recommended + Elvis Is Titanic Is a Great Read This is an excellent book: intelligent, incisive and entertaining. I learnt a lot about Iraqi Kurdistan (a part of Iraq we usually don't hear so much about), but also about American culture and values. In fact, it is the interplay between American values and how they are received in Kurdistan that ...             The Strangler11 reviews William Landay Delacorte Press, 2007 Superb Quality Crime Fiction + Perfect enough + Compelling Period Drama + Move Over Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane             Con Ed24 reviews Matthew Klein Grand Central Publishing, 2007 A Con Within A Con Within..... + Good Reading, Clever Cons + Good but not great + THE BEST BOOK I"VE EVER READ!!! + Very clever, smart, and funny