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Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library 39 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 ...
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Black Like Me 155 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
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A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win 51 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
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Rundown 8 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)
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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America 33 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
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Project Girl 48 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
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter 873 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 ...
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Invisible Life: Special edition 129 reviews E. Lynn Harris
Doubleday, 1999
OOOH, My goodness
+ Wow + Simply Confused! + Wow!!!!!!!!
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Push: A Novel 215 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
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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
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Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon 25 reviews May Pang
St. Martin's Press, 2008
Lennon AAA+++
+ Instamatic Karma + A nice book + What might have been?
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The Romance Reader 51 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 ...
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Rosa Parks Complete Unabridged 5 Tape Set Douglas G. Brinkley, 2000
audio set
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Annie on My Mind 126 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
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Sister & Brother: Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together
Harpercollins, 1994
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Speak 1182 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.
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Hip-hop High School [Cd] [Audiobook] [Unabridged] Alan Lawrence Sitomer, 2006
Unabridged on 7 compact discs (8 hr., 15 min.)
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Buried Onions 38 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!!!
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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 ...
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Smashed : Story of a Drunken Girlhood 198 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 ...
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