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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England Best Price: $2.84 Sam Pulsifer is eighteen when he accidentally burns down the Emily Dickenson House in Amherst,...	Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at...	Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities I love this book. I had a "run-in" with a benign looking plant. This books makes you...	Take Her Deep: A submarine against Japan in WW II	Peep Show It's only a slight exaggeration to say Peep Show could be the latest (and best) incarnation...



Heidi W. Durrow'sThe Girl Who Fell from the Sky [Hardcover](2010) Best Price: $13.44 Wow! So much more than a coming of age book. This absorbing novel takes the reader into a world...	Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution Best Price: $5.00 What started as a game of Pong , with little blips dancing across a computer screen, has...	Ferris Beach Best Price: $1.49 Ferris Beach is a place where excitement and magic coexist. Or so Mary Katherine...	Cardboard Gods Best Price: $3.76 The 1970s was a decade marked by Vietnam, Watergate, counterculture, sexual liberation, and...	Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger Best Price: $4.49 Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader?s...



Water For Elephants Best Price: $7.95 Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen OK, Folks... I have to start by asking a question. You...	How Grand a Flame: A Chronicle of a Plantation Family, 1813-1947 Best Price: $29.80 I am a current resident of a new subdivision that has just been built on Lawton Plantation. ...	Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures Best Price: $7.49 Please refer to the other review below in quotes. It is accurate. When one buys the calendar,...	Mrs. Whaley Entertains: Advice, Opinions, and 100 Recipes from a Charleston Kitchen Best Price: $15.00 I care very little about cooking, but I care very much about this book after having re-read it...	Peep Show Best Price: $1.98 I thought Braff's first book was excellent, but figured he'd hit the...

The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue Best Price: $6.33 These ten superbly written stories are set within the homes of "Gold Street" and the...	Very Washington DC: A Celebration of the History and Culture of America's Capital City Best Price: $8.49 This was the first book about DC that I bought upon moving to the District, and the one that I...	The Puzzle King Best Price: $0.01 NOTE: I actually gave this book 4 1/2 stars. I ADORED this book. Those of you that read by...	Out On the Porch 2012 Calendar (Wall Calendar) Best Price: $24.95 A glass of iced tea, a good book, the incomparable feeling of having nothing planned but to...	A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance When Fernando spots her in a Venice café and knows immediately that she is the One, Marlena...

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an...	The Frozen Rabbi And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in...	Secret Son Best Price: $2.12 Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca...	Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed...	I Thought You Were Dead For Paul Gustavson, life is a succession of obstacles, a minefield of mistakes to stumble...

Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or...	A Cold Spring	Exley Best Price: $2.44 For nine-year-old Miller, who lives with his mother in Watertown, New York, life has become a...	New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1991 Best Price: $1.90 Sixteen stories by Rick Bass, Thomas Phillips Brewer, Larry Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Barbara...	A Reliable Wife Best Price: $7.01 Robert Goolick's debut novel, A Reliable Wife, ought to be topping the best seller charts...

A Perfect Arrangement Handsome and ambitious, Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman have it all-two precious children, dual...	Between Here and April When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago...	A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure American chef Marlena de Blasi and her Venetian husband, Fernando, married rather late in life....	What We Do for Love Looking for love isn't easy, and it's never what you expect. WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE is a...	The Puzzle King Best Price: $2.53 On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart,...

Wicked Bugs In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world,...	A Son of the Game Best Price: $3.87 James Dodson, author of the bestseller Final Rounds , returns to the world of golf and to the...	The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin Best Price: $4.05 Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place near what is now Exeter, New Hampshire during...	Telluride: A Novel Best Price: $0.01 If it's as good as "Refugio, they named you wrong", then it must be damn good.	The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes Best Price: $5.41 Randi Davenport?s story is a testament to human fortitude, to hope, and to a mother?s...

Party Receipts from the Charleston Junior League: Hors D'Oeuvres, Savories, Sweets Best Price: $3.95 The Party Recipes from the Charleston Junior League is my favorite cookbook. Of all the...	Rock On: An Office Power Ballad Best Price: $1.34 Since Dan Kennedy was sacked from his record label job, and he's finished his book about the...	Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America Best Price: $4.98 I'm sad to say that it was somewhat frustrating to read Mr. Matthews's account of the...	Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home Best Price: $1.50 This book can be summarized by this reviewer in one sentence: "I took a bunch of tango...	The Widows of Eden: A Novel Best Price: $0.01 To get a real feel for what I thought of this book, please read my reviews of the two books that...

The Smartest Woman I Know Best Price: $2.44 this was a wonderful, sweet book that brought back beautiful and not so beautiful memories of...	Panther Baby Best Price: $8.47 In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground....	Sugar Pie and Jelly Roll: Sweets From A Southern Kitchen Best Price: $13.02 Raised on a farm in North Carolina, Robbin Gourley started baking as a child the day she got her...	Redeye - A Western Best Price: $18.00	A Virtuous Woman I had the good fortune to have listened to this book on tape (it is also available on CD disc )...

LYLAH - a Memoir [ North Florida Childhood ]	The Hero's Walk Best Price: $4.47 Sripathi Rao's life is as arid as the summers of Toturpuram, the dusty South Indian town...	BIG FISH	My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers	Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits marks the debut of an exciting new voice in fiction. Laila...

World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945 (Major Battles and Campaigns) Recounts events in the Mediterranean during World War II, including how the inexperienced...	Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club) One of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female...	The Crooked Pitch: The Curveball in American Baseball History -- w/ Dust Jacket	100 Birds and How They Got Their Names Best Price: $2.99 I bought this book after obtaining Diana Wells new book, "Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon...	Tomato Girl Best Price: $2.58 For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to...

Lucky Girl In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian...	Billy Ray's Farm In his first work of nonfiction since the acclaimed On Fire , Brown aims for nothing short of...	Every Last Cuckoo Best Price: $3.00 Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont...	The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: A Memoir "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating" is a brief and beautifully written book about how...	Shalom Y'All: Images of Jewish Life in the American South Best Price: $6.04 The kitchen of Henrietta Levine in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where chopped liver is sautéing....

In Code: A Mathematical Journey Best Price: $7.83 In January 1999, Sarah Flannery, a sports-loving teenager from Blarney in County Cork, Ireland,...	Randi Davenport'sThe Boy Who Loved Tornadoes [Hardcover](2010) Best Price: $5.08	What You See in the Dark Bakersfield, California, in the late 1950s is a dusty, quiet town too far from Los Angeles to...	A Reliable Wife Best Price: $7.01 Robert Goolick's debut novel, A Reliable Wife, ought to be topping the best seller charts...	A Perfect Arrangement Handsome and ambitious, Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman have it all-two precious children, dual...

Between Here and April When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago...	A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure American chef Marlena de Blasi and her Venetian husband, Fernando, married rather late in life....	What We Do for Love Looking for love isn't easy, and it's never what you expect. WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE is a...	The Puzzle King Best Price: $2.53 On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart,...	Wicked Bugs In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world,...

A Son of the Game Best Price: $3.87 James Dodson, author of the bestseller Final Rounds , returns to the world of golf and to the...	The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin Best Price: $4.05 Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place near what is now Exeter, New Hampshire during...	Telluride: A Novel Best Price: $0.01 If it's as good as "Refugio, they named you wrong", then it must be damn good.	Mrs. Whaley Entertains	Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv was the first to identify a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite...

Gossip of the Starlings When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the...	Facing the Music (Front Porch Paperbacks) Ten stories confront the dark side of human life as characters are challenged by crisis and...	Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It Good account of the situation but was slow at times. At about half way I got the point and it...	Cobb: A Biography this biography by stump is extremely easy to read and follow and the details are excellent and...	A Wonderful Life: 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit Best Price: $6.93 The lives of the world?s greatest contributors to arts, politics, sports, and letters are...

If You Want Me to Stay: A Novel Best Price: $8.11 In Michael Parker?s new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could...	A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal...	Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures Best Price: $11.33 Stendahl's photographic bio of Gertrude Stein includes a treasure trove of photos of...	Yak Butter & Black Tea: A Journey into Tibet Best Price: $4.95 This book was a great read, and a refreshing brake from the run of the mill books on travel. I...	A Blessing on the Moon Best Price: $2.95 Joseph Skibell?s magical tale about the Holocaust?a fable inspired by fact?received unanimous...

Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel Best Price: $79.99 Breakfast with Buddha has a simple plot and exposition: a middle-aged man, Otto Ringling, is...	North to Thule: An Imagined Narrative of the Famous "lost" Sea Voyage of Pytheas of Massalia	Water For Elephants - A Novel Best Price: $15.70	French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France Best Price: $7.20 Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near...	Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family...

New Stories From the South: the Year's Best, 1989	Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain Best Price: $2.55 In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic...

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