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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 311 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
Local is better
+ I love this book!
+ Amazing and Inspiring
+ Inspirational, Entertaining and Informative
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The Other Boleyn Girl814 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone, 2003
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!!!
+ Historical Fiction, Entertaining
+ An enjoyable read
Okay, so while you may not use this novel as a reference while writing a paper on English history, if you need a book that will keep you enthralled you have most certainly found it.
The Boelyn family wants nothing more than to elevate themselves within the English social hierarchy. As players in ...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition241 reviews
Milan Kundera
HarperCollins, 2004
great
+ I lived in this book those days
+ Mystical Love
+ great but not the best
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections51 reviews
C.G. Jung
Vintage, 1989
Intensity-his mind was flooded with profound ideas
+ One of Jung's greatest achievements
+ Reflections of Jung
+ Valuable linsight into Jung's inner life
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A Thousand Splendid Suns1294 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead, 2007
Heart-wrenchingly beautiful
+ Amazingly told...a must read!
+ Great second novel
+ Spendid is spendid
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Outlander1354 reviews
Diana Gabaldon
Dell, 2005
A Keeper!
+ Outlander Book Review
+ Surprised to love it
+ Just the beginning of the adventure....
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Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution12 reviews
Steve McIntosh
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007
For those who can't finish a Ken Wilber book . . .
+ A wonderful refinement of the integralist theory
+ Informative
+ Wow! from a Christian pastor
+ Evolution is now
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel 30 reviews
Amy Hempel
Scribner, 2007
FALLING DOWN THE CLIFF
+ Thoughtful eloquence
+ HEARTBREAKING AND GUT-WRENCHING -- WHAT A COMBINATION
+ Prose Poems
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism75 reviews
Susan Jacoby
Holt Paperbacks, 2005
America's Greatest Gift to the World...
+ 100 % satisfied
+ Free Thinkers
+ Eye-opening
+ Highly recommended
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)1280 reviews
Eckhart Tolle
Penguin, 2008
A New Earth
+ A New Earth
+ All in One
+ a must read
+ Review on A new Earth, Awakening to your Life's Purpose
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir 818 reviews
Augusten Burroughs
Picador, 2006
What I learned from Running with Scissors
+ Liked the Movie Better
+ A quirky memoir to be read and re-read
+ So much better than the movie
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals451 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
One of the most interesting books you will ever read.
+ Excellent Book, Great reading
+ An important read concerning global resources
+ The dilemma - where do we shop, and what do we buy?
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Water for Elephants: A Novel1467 reviews
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
Loved it
+ Even if this isn't your typical read, you will enjoy.
+ Good book
+ GREAT GUTSY WRITING
+ GREAT READ
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts38 reviews
Clive James
W. W. Norton, 2007
An Obituary (Or Prophecy) Of Liberal Humanism
+ An Eschatological Laundry List by a Sophisticated Cosmopolitan Iconoclast
+ A Welcome Review
+ Best taken a little at a time
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting56 reviews
Milan Kundera
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Classic, devastating
+ Kundera's Lessons in Laughter and Forgetting.
+ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
+ "They never understood each other...yet they always agreed."
+ A good introduction to Kundera's work...
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The Age of American Unreason97 reviews
Susan Jacoby
Pantheon, 2008
Folks Are Not As Smart as They Used to Be
+ Read, Analyze. Discuss.
+ A Must Read
Jacoby explains our cultural decline as thinking citizens. She is a left winger and spends a lot of time critiquing right wingers, although she criticizes the politically correct national history standards of 1994 and our unwillingness to have national teaching standards that all schools would have ...
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The Antelope Wife: A Novel15 reviews
Louise Erdrich
Harper Perennial, 1999
The power of love
+ wonderful craftsmanship
Lousie Erdrich's writing wraps the reader in intricate strands of symbolism, characters and shifting time and place. Stories are woven, questions are raised and as time passes answered. The strands begin to straighten out and make sense. Re-reading the book to get it all straight is a treat and ...
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage31 reviews
Alice Munro, 2001
Yes, All of Those Things
+ Deja Lu?
+ Another Great Collection from Munro
+ Obligatory - but Good - Book Club Read
+ More Than Short
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time 1334 reviews
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Three Cups of Tea
+ Excellent humanitarian efforts
+ three cups of tea
+ Excellent Read
+ you need to read this
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights25 reviews
Kenji Yoshino
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
"Covering," a term used for the coerced hiding of crucial aspects of one's self--in his case his homosexuality
+ interesting read, somewhat inconclusive
+ This Poet Has Done It Well
+ Polemical, thought-provoking, personal
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