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Living History 710 reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton
Scribner, 2004
Very good book!
+ perfect + What would her life have been like if she hadn't met Bill Clinton? + Influential woman of US politics
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Diary Of A Lost Girl 15 reviews Kola Boof
Seaburn, 2007
A Great Woman and a Great Book!
+ diary of a lost girl kola boof + THE NEWEST LIE + Heartbreaking and Gut-wrenching
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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder 126 reviews Vincent Bugliosi
Island Books, 1997
This book is the ultimate OJ murder trial book
+ Guilty As Sin + High Dudgeon
Bugliosi leaves no doubt about the OJ murder trial and what went wrong from the beginning to the verdict. A must read for skeptics as he leaves no stone unturned.
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Confessions of a Video Vixen 462 reviews Karrine Steffans
Amistad, 2006
I actually liked it...
I lived the same life in my early twenties, but instead of rappers, my life revolved around rock stars & Dj's, so I definitely was able to relate. It's just sad that this book got so many negative reviews commenting on how she's just "exploiting the black community" and "making money off of ...
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Find Me 175 reviews Rosie O'Donnell
Grand Central Publishing, 2002
Touching Book to say the least!
I laughed, I cried, I felt like it was a story parrallel to my own. Came out of this book feeling like I knew Rosie and was so touched at how she was able to describe feelings that actually made you understand her joys and pains. This was one of the best reads in a long time for me. I am in the ...
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The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin 4 reviews Harriet Beecher Stowe
W. W. Norton, 2006
excellent background but read the novel first
+ What a Surprise!
John Updike reviews this new edition in the Nov 6 New Yorker, which is available online and well worth looking up. With 100 pages to go, Updike tired of the "irritable sniping from the sidelines" and switched to the standard Library of America edition.
A few months ago I reviewed the Penguin ...
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Love: A Novel 95 reviews Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2005
Spellbinding -- an Emotional Rollercoaster Ride
+ Love
"Love" is the first book I've read by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. I was totally captivated and mesmerized by the emotionally electrifying beauty of her prose and the manifest reality of her characters. The book was fascinating on first reading, but the style in which the story ...
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Culture Warrior 494 reviews Bill O'Reilly
Broadway, 2006
Rational Opinions Count
+ This is the best of the BEST + Horrific! + Eye opening read
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A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics 11 reviews William Stacy Johnson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006
Thoughtful, well-supported and challenging!
+ A Time To Embrace + Thoughtful, closely reasoned, Biblically supported exploration + THE best book yet on homosexuality
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 625 reviews Barack Obama
Crown, 2006
Obama
+ Good Read + Great Book! + President Barack Obama
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Doing Sixty and Seventy 1 review Gloria Steinem
Elders Academy Press, 2006
Provocative essays
I was excited to see that Gloria Steinem has written a new book about aging, and eagerly ordered it. When I saw the book -- just 68 pages long and printed in a font about three times normal size, I felt cheated. It's not a "book" -- it's a series of two essays published in hard cover. Once I got ...
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Infidel 272 reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free Press, 2007
Should be Made into a Movie!!
+ This woman is so brave + An important and interesting read + A Powerful Book That is Relevant To Our Troubled Times
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1996 19 reviews Gloria Naylor
Third World Press, 2005
Fascinating and Frightening
+ 1996 + "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," said Emily Dickinson.
I read this book because I love Gloria Naylor. I hadn't heard about any of her travesties from 1996 before reading this book. I found it frightening at times, but it was so compelling, I couldn't put it down. Of course, certain parts are fictionalized, but Ms. Naylor obviously did a lot of ...
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Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance 31 reviews Ian Buruma
Penguin Press HC, The, 2006
Important book
+ An Introduction to Modern Europe + Dutch tolerance? + Exceeds expectations
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness 7 reviews Alice Walker
New Press, 2006
Opening one's eyes and heart
+ Packed with inspiration + Inspirational and Uplifting + May not rock your world, but may light your path. + Awesome prose
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness 7 reviews Alice Walker
New Press, 2006
Opening one's eyes and heart
+ Packed with inspiration + Inspirational and Uplifting + May not rock your world, but may light your path. + Awesome prose
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Love: A Novel 95 reviews Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2005
Spellbinding -- an Emotional Rollercoaster Ride
+ Love
"Love" is the first book I've read by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. I was totally captivated and mesmerized by the emotionally electrifying beauty of her prose and the manifest reality of her characters. The book was fascinating on first reading, but the style in which the story ...
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Diary Of A Lost Girl 15 reviews Kola Boof
Seaburn, 2007
A Great Woman and a Great Book!
+ diary of a lost girl kola boof + THE NEWEST LIE + Heartbreaking and Gut-wrenching
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Living History 710 reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton
Scribner, 2004
Very good book!
+ perfect + What would her life have been like if she hadn't met Bill Clinton? + Influential woman of US politics
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Confessions of a Video Vixen 462 reviews Karrine Steffans
Amistad, 2006
I actually liked it...
I lived the same life in my early twenties, but instead of rappers, my life revolved around rock stars & Dj's, so I definitely was able to relate. It's just sad that this book got so many negative reviews commenting on how she's just "exploiting the black community" and "making money off of ...
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