Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library39 reviews
Don Borchert

Virgin Books, 2007

oh what a delight!

+ Rips the cover off the seamy library subculture!

I breezed through this book in a weekend. How much fun! It was whimsical, it was fun, it was a peek into the life of a working city drone employed in a branch library. It's not a novel really so much as a collection of stories about the oddities and customers one will be forced to encounter ...
  
  











  



  
Black Like Me155 reviews
John Howard Griffin

NAL Trade, 2003

oh wow this is unforgettable!

+ proof that something relatively minor can pack a punch
+ Constructing Race, the artifice of being Other
+ Black like me: One of the best books I have ever read
+ Black Like Me
  
  











  



  
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win51 reviews
Shelby Steele

Free Press, 2007

LOL

LOL How about waiting for events to transpire before you write a book? And then make it a historical account based on what took place? LOL
  
  











  



  
Rundown8 reviews
Michael Cadnum

Puffin, 2001

All-Around Good Book

I thought that this book was very entertaining. The book was very detailed and was very easy to follow. Though the book did have a mis-leading ending, I will give it 5 stars because I thought that it was ver well written. (results not typical)
  
  











  



  
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America33 reviews
Jonathan Gould

Harmony, 2007

Required Reading

+ CAN'T BUY ME LOVE by Jonathan Gould
+ The Best Book on the Beatles
+ Pretty Good
+ An Historical Musical Tour
  
  











  



  
Project Girl48 reviews
Janet McDonald

University of California Press, 2000

This is an inspiring story of courage, told with humor and without pity or blame

+ I Wish I Could Give Janet A Hug For This Book
+ An inspiring story, brillantly written
+ This Should be your Project to read
  
  











  



  
The Memory Keeper's Daughter873 reviews
Kim Edwards

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

Freeze Frame

+ What a memory!!!

On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his twins and makes a split-second decision that forever alters theh lives of everyone involved. When it is apparent to him that his daughter has Down's Syndrome, he asks the nurse to take her to an institution, without telling ...
  
  











  



  
Invisible Life: Special edition129 reviews
E. Lynn Harris

Doubleday, 1999

OOOH, My goodness

+ Wow
+ Simply Confused!
+ Wow!!!!!!!!
  
  











  



  
Push: A Novel215 reviews
Sapphire

Vintage, 1997

A disturbing novel about families & the society they inhabit

+ Great Book
+ This book is a must read
+ One of The Best Books That I Ever Read
+ Disturbing
  
  











  



  
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (Signet Books)31 reviews
Ann Head

Signet, 1968

Still rings true.

+ Poignant classic read
+ Read this for the first time..........
+ Liked it as much as I did thirty years ago LOL
+ Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
  
  











  



  
Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon25 reviews
May Pang

St. Martin's Press, 2008

Lennon AAA+++

+ Instamatic Karma
+ A nice book
+ What might have been?
  
  











  



  
The Romance Reader51 reviews
Pearl Abraham, 1996

This was so good!

I was immediately pulled into this story. I found this to be one of those books I couldn't put down. I finished it in three days. It shares such an intimate look into the life of strict Hasidic lifestyles, and at the same time shows a young woman who does not want to live by the rules imposed by ...
  
  











  



  
Rosa Parks Complete Unabridged 5 Tape Set
Douglas G. Brinkley, 2000

audio set
  
  











  



  
Annie on My Mind126 reviews
Nancy Garden

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2007

I agree with almost everyone else

+ a rare story which outlines the signs and progression of true love
+ Superb book
+ mew
  
  











  



  
Sister & Brother: Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together

Harpercollins, 1994
  
  











  



  
Speak1182 reviews
Laurie Halse Anderson

Peter Smith Pub Inc, 2006

Great Book

+ Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ one of the best books ever written
+ Speak
+ It speaks to me.
  
  











  



  
Hip-hop High School [Cd] [Audiobook] [Unabridged]
Alan Lawrence Sitomer, 2006

Unabridged on 7 compact discs (8 hr., 15 min.)
  
  











  



  
Buried Onions38 reviews
Gary Soto

Harcourt Paperbacks, 2006

Violence, Sex and Girls

+ Looking at things through other eyes
+ buried onions by rm
+ Dreaming big, overcoming big obstacles
+ The Greatest book I've RED!!!
  
  











  



  
The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)377 reviews
Robert Cormier

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2004

Fighting the good fight

+ Catcher in the Rye meets the Lords of Discipline - Great Audio Version
+ Chocolate War

Hyperboles, symbolism, style, point of view, etc. Many young people do not care...but after 8 years teaching 8th grade, as well as reading the book myself for the first time in 1989, the same age as my current students, the book changed me. Not back then, I merely worshipped the words, that ...
  
  











  



  
Smashed : Story of a Drunken Girlhood198 reviews
Koren Zailckas

Amazon Remainders Account, 2006

We've all been there...I hope.

+ Love this book!
+ shockingly hit home

I definitely had my party years and some of Koren's life experiences seem to match my own. She doesn't hold back anything and her honesty about the Greek system is accurate. I feel a little less guilty now that I know someone else had the same thoughts running through their head that I did during ...