 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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by Vintage
Paperback
(13 February, 2001)
(741 reviews) 
Customer Review: Maybe I'm too old for this book: Eggers is clearly a fine writer with a lot of talent but this book was tedious too many times for my taste. |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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by Vintage
Paperback
(13 February, 2001)
(741 reviews)
Customer Review: Maybe I'm too old for this book: Eggers is clearly a fine writer with a lot of talent but this book was tedious too many times for my taste. |
 | A Million Little Pieces
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by Anchor
Paperback
(11 May, 2004)
(219 reviews) 
Customer Review: Gritty story rings true: 'A Million Little Pieces', James Frey's stylishly different memoir, recounts his arrival and subsequent rehabilitation at a clinic. |
 | A Paper Life
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by HarperEntertainment
Hardcover
(12 October, 2004)
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 | All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-up
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by Midpoint Trade Books, Inc.
Hardcover
(01 September, 2004)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: Waste of trees: I pre-ordered this book. Read it. What can I say about it, it lacks the basics of law. Mr. Chandler seems not to understand if child pornography is found in someone's house, |
 | America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
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by Perennial
Paperback
(14 September, 2004)
(19 reviews) 
Customer Review: Molls and Dolls: I started skimming through this book to see if I wanted to read it, and I was hooked. This is a history that skips all the boring parts. |
 | American Heroines : The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
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by William Morrow
Hardcover
(26 October, 2004)
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 | American Soldier
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by ReganBooks
Hardcover
(03 August, 2004)
Editorial Review: As Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, Tommy Franks led the American and Coalition forces to victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Unsurprisingly, the portions of American Soldier covering these wars are the most interesting because they combine military maneuvers, |
 | Before and After: Living and Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery
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by Morrow Cookbooks
Hardcover
(04 May, 2004)
(30 reviews)
Customer Review: I love this book!: In the journal type section, I felt as if Susan was speaking directly to me. Black and white explanations as to why our post op nutrition is so important plus recipes to keep us on track. |
 | Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(01 July, 2003)
(98 reviews)
Editorial Review: Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, |
 | Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
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by Simon & Schuster
Paperback
(April, 2004)
(98 reviews)
Customer Review: This the best bio of BF out there: I'm giving Walter Isaacson's biography five stars for its fairness, its comprehensiveness, accuracy, |
 | Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life
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by Miramax Books
Hardcover
(10 May, 2004)
(53 reviews)
Editorial Review: Veteran newsman and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert is known for his direct and unpretentious style and in this charming memoir he explains why. Russert's father is profiled as a plainspoken World War II veteran who worked two blue-collar jobs while raising four kids in South Buffalo but the elder Russert's lessons on how to live an honest, |
 | Blue Blood
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by Riverhead Books
Hardcover
(12 April, 2004)
(54 reviews)
Editorial Review: As a Harvard graduate and regular writer for the New Yorker, Edward Conlon is a little different from most of his fellow New York City cops. And the stories he tells in his compelling memoir Blue Blood are miles away from the commonly told Hollywood-style police tales that are always action packed but rarely tethered to reality. |
 | Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for
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by Free Press
Paperback
(09 September, 2003)
(226 reviews)
Customer Review: for real?: Others have written about the holes in the descriptions of the blackjack strategy and games, and how there are very few accounts of their failures -- surprising since their strategy would only give them a 1-2 percent edge on the house, |
 | Brothers In Arms : The Epic Story of the 761St Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroe
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by Broadway
Hardcover
(04 May, 2004)
(6 reviews)
Customer Review: Not quite there on either goal!: After finishing this book I found myself a bit disappointed. It seemed that the authors were trying to accomplish two goals; |
 | Burro Genius : A Memoir
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Hardcover
(29 June, 2004)
(3 reviews) 
Customer Review: This is about ALL OF US!: I was born in America, like Victor. I am not Hispanic. I relate to this book because my ancestors were from Italy. |
 | Caddy For Life : The Bruce Edwards Story
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by Little, Brown
Hardcover
(06 April, 2004)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: "A Life Well Lived": I read John Feinstein's account of Bruce Edwards life with a sense of both sadness and joy.Sadness in knowing that a great man has left his family, |
 | Carolyn 101 : Business Lessons from The Apprentice's Straight Shooter
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by Fireside
Hardcover
(05 October, 2004)
Editorial Review: Smart, direct, precise. These are adjectives viewers of NBC's hit reality show, The Apprentice might use to describe Donald Trump's left-hand woman, Carolyn Kepcher. Kepcher is a tough judge who can make or break hopeful contestants vying to get hired by Trump. |
 | Cary Grant : A Biography
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by Harmony
Hardcover
(21 September, 2004)
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 | Cash : An American Man
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Hardcover
(11 May, 2004)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: AMAZING!!!!: Bill Miller, who put together this book about The Man In Black from his own personal collection of Johnny and June Carter Cash memorabilia, |
 | Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
(01 April, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: correction on price: I am not reviewing this book,but I believe you have an error in the price. Oxford's price is $49.95 not $59.9 |
 | Chronicles, Vol. 1
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(05 October, 2004)
Editorial Review: One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, |
 | Coast to Coast : A Family Romance
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by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(10 August, 2004)
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 | Complete Book of U.S. Presidents : From George Washington to George W. Bush
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by Gramercy
Hardcover
(06 April, 1997)
(23 reviews)
Editorial Review: This is the consummate guide to the political and personal lives of every U. S. president through Bill Clinton. Arranged chronologically, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents elaborates not only on the major accomplishments and events of their terms, |
 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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by Picador USA
Paperback
(01 April, 2003)
(61 reviews)
Customer Review: A "Must Read" Written By A Harvard Surgeon: If you have ever been a surgical patient, or expect you might become one in the future, |
 | Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback
(01 April, 1998)
(79 reviews)
Customer Review: Truly One of the Greatest Autobiographies Ever Written: This book holds a special place among the greatest books ever written. While it is autobiographical, |
 | Confessions of a Womanizer
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by Must Read Books
Paperback
(10 February, 2003)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: To commit or not: Dare I say it...at first glimpse of this novel; I geared myself for some raunchy tales of a man's pursuit of lust and how he emotionally brutalized women in his quest for self-satisfaction. |
 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Hardcover
(09 November, 2004)
Editorial Review: John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. |
 | Diane Arbus Revelations
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by Random House
Hardcover
(30 September, 2003)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: Muscle men, midgets, socialites, circus performers and asyluminmates: in the 1950s and '60s, photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) cast herstrong eye on them all, capturing them as no one else could. Herdocumentary-style photos of society's margin-walkers were objective andreverential, |
| Diane Arbus Revelations
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by Random House
Hardcover
(30 September, 2003)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: Muscle men, midgets, socialites, circus performers and asyluminmates: in the 1950s and '60s, photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) cast herstrong eye on them all, capturing them as no one else could. Herdocumentary-style photos of society's margin-walkers were objective andreverential, |
 | Diary of Frida Kahlo
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by Harry N Abrams
Hardcover
(01 March, 1998)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: Frida Kahlo's diary, like her art, is painted in breathtakingly vivid colors. It covers her tumultuous last decade and encompasses love letters, political musings on Communism, and resplendent paintings. |
 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood
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by Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback
(11 March, 2003)
(106 reviews)
Customer Review: A different perspective: It was interesting to read a book about life in Africa, from the perspective of a white woman brought up in a family who clung fiercely to the notion of white supremacy with every last bit of their strength. |
 | Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
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by Three Rivers Press
Paperback
(10 August, 2004)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Insightful Book from Political Leader: As a first-time writer, Obama does a wonderful job in relating the stories that affected his life. |
 | Dry: A Memoir
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by St. Martin's Press
Hardcover
(02 June, 2003)
(92 reviews)
Editorial Review: Fans of Augusten Burroughs's darkly funny memoir Running with Scissors were left wondering at the end of that book what would become of young Augusten after his squalid and fascinating childhood ended. In Dry, |
 | Every Second Counts
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by Broadway
Paperback
(01 June, 2004)
(66 reviews)
Customer Review: Second place book: First of all, I loved the first book "It's not about the bike." I received a copy of "Every Second Counts" for Christmas and finally got to reading it this week. |
 | Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
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by Random House
Hardcover
(18 May, 2004)
(77 reviews)
Editorial Review: How I met Father Joe. I was fourteen and having an affair with a married woman. These are the opening lines to the first chapter of this outstanding memoir by former National Lampoon Editor Tony Hendra. |
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