![]() | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $0.47 I got into the Harry Potter series after the release of the seventh ans last book and the media event that surrounded it. Having seen the movies with my children I found this a bit darker and mature that the PG fodder on film. Not that the movies are bad, the books are just better.
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![]() | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $5.96 I don't know that the best place in this series is the book before last for this volume. It sets things up too perfectly for the next book. It's a great read though. Read it in about a sitting and a half.
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![]() | A Monk Swimming A Memoir by Malachy McCourt
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 Malachy McCourt is an imposing figure. Big, strong and very rough hewn. That he has become such a popular figure is a testament to charm and good with and good old perserverance. Funny, but not side-splitting. A good read.
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![]() | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $1.84 This one has everything in it! Pretty much everything you have built up anticipation to see and find out is and is mostly satisfying. A few sad turns of events, but everyone is the better because of it. i thought the showdown was a tad anticlimactic. The epilogue was a cute addition.
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![]() | Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $0.01 Straight to the point, taught, powerful writing. Don't come to Toole looking for pretty people doing pretty things. This book is as guilty a pleasure as cheering for in ring brutality. You go to a fight to see someone get beat up. For the promise of pending bloodshed. Read this book for the exact same reasons. Each of the stories inthis anthology could be made into a great movie.
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![]() | Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 I was hoping this would be more concrete and solid evidence to the author's claims. I think Goldberg relies too much on anecdotal "evidence"to expose the bias in the media. That he has so many successful years in the corporate newsroom though, makes him a subject matter expert above reproach. He drives the point home, but he introduces and dissects each missive the same way. Still a good read.
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![]() | Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S. by Beppe Severgnini
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01 Beppe gives some humorous insight into theh perspective of first time vistors to the USA. What we take for granted is examined in shrewd detail with tongue firmly planted in cheek. I recommended this to any foreigner traveling to the states to lessen the blow of the culture shock.
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![]() | Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Buy used from: $0.01 I found this book when I couldn't place the book I was currently reading. I loved the film and thought this would be as entertaining if not moreso since books usually are. Maybe my affection for Hanks as Gump makes me more biased toward the film, but I find the film much more entertaining. It was good for a quick read though.
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![]() | The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Notaro is a talent. Razor wit and quite funny. I think women would like it more than men would. I chuckled at some parts, and eye-rolled at others. Entertaining and a very quick read. Don't know if I'll look for her other offerings.
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![]() | The Kite Runner (Essential Edition) (Riverhead Essential Editions) by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.13 This is a fairly quick read. Simple straightforward prose. The protagonist FINALLY makes you proud towards the end. A spectacular tale of redemption.
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![]() | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon) by Dan Brown
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 This was a very entertaining read. I read it while in Italy and visited some of the places where scenes in the book took place. Twists, turns and adventure. I can't wait to read The Da Vinci Code.
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![]() | Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by G. B. Trudeau
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.50 This book is a great meter for the thoughts and feelings of deployed servicemembers, families and workers who come into contact with us. I could write as well as my brothers and sisters in arms herein.
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![]() | The Machiavelli Interface (The Matador Trilogy, No 3) by Steve Perry
Buy used from: $1.98 I read the second of the trilogy, Matadore during OIF I and happend across this one the other day. A quick read. Perry juggles all the playes pretty well, but it seemed unneccesarily twisty/ turny to me. Khadaji was made of the stuff of legend to have predicted this event and plan for it decades ini advance.
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![]() | The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail by Michael Baigent
Buy used from: $6.80 This is a very scholarly text and very bland reading, but also fascinating in its plausibility.
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![]() | Men from Boys by John Harvey
Buy used from: $2.99 Pretty good antholgy. And like all anthologies it's eiter hit or miss.
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![]() | Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Reading. It's really . . . Bot do I mean REALLY painful, but I'm subjecting myself to this torture willingly. Please pity me.
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![]() | Saint (Paradise Series, Book 2) (The Books of History Chronicles) by Ted Dekker
Buy new: $8.38 / Used from: $0.65 On the list.
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![]() | Sinner: A Novel by Sharon Carter Rogers
Buy new: $11.89 / Used from: $0.19 Another on the list.
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![]() | The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $9.47 / Used from: $3.29 On the list.
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![]() | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $8.24 / Used from: $3.92 Classic. On the list.
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![]() | Running with Scissors: a Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy used from: $3.29 On the list.
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