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Review Date: 5/7/2006
Classic Walters thriller, enjoyed it very much.
Review Date: 8/17/2006
For years, designers, educators, and community administrators have clamored for a book that will highlight the problems with contemporary playgrounds, tender sorely neded strategies with which to redress them, and stimulate national debate about today's crisis of undervalued public space. Susan Solomon's groundbreaking and marvelously illustrated AMERICAN PLAYGROUNDS is that book. since the 1970s, Solomon maintains, American playgrounds have degenerated into irrelevance as cultural artifacts and educational tools. Imbedded in Solomon's text is a frank indictment of American attitudes that are stunted by a heavy-handed emphasis on safety that limits the nature of play and the vitality of places for public assembly. A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.
Review Date: 6/19/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Published as a book in 1873... generally considered to be Thaxter's masterpiece. New edition
Review Date: 7/31/2006
This book was published without a dust jacket.
Review Date: 3/22/2006
A complex and rewarding literary thriller. Michelsen is an author on the cusp of breaking out into the mainstream.
Review Date: 3/17/2006
Book 2 of the Frost saga
Review Date: 1/31/2007
Miss Patrick O'Brien?
Mariner, merchant, and reluctant warrior, Geoffrey Frost has entered the American Revolution on behalf of the colony of New Hampshire, commanding a captured British sloop o' war and sailing out of Portsmouth to harass the British fleet. As *Audacity* opens, he is returning from Canada following a daring rescue of American prisoners held at Louisbourg when he sails into a fog bank--and straight into a British convoy shepherded by a thirty-two-gun frigate.
In serving the American cause, Frost will impersonate a British merchant, capture several supply ships, order the execution of some of his own countrymen who have turned irate and renegade, and perform an extraordinary feat of navigation in order to restore two men to the ship of the great explorer Capt. James Cook. He will also meet the beguiling and exasperating Lady Cygnet, an opera singer, who promises to enliven and complicate Frost's life.
Mariner, merchant, and reluctant warrior, Geoffrey Frost has entered the American Revolution on behalf of the colony of New Hampshire, commanding a captured British sloop o' war and sailing out of Portsmouth to harass the British fleet. As *Audacity* opens, he is returning from Canada following a daring rescue of American prisoners held at Louisbourg when he sails into a fog bank--and straight into a British convoy shepherded by a thirty-two-gun frigate.
In serving the American cause, Frost will impersonate a British merchant, capture several supply ships, order the execution of some of his own countrymen who have turned irate and renegade, and perform an extraordinary feat of navigation in order to restore two men to the ship of the great explorer Capt. James Cook. He will also meet the beguiling and exasperating Lady Cygnet, an opera singer, who promises to enliven and complicate Frost's life.
Review Date: 1/31/2007
A richly illustrated history of Cape Cod tourism from its bucolic origins to the presnet crisis of overdevelopment.
Review Date: 6/22/2010
great Gordimer!
Review Date: 4/6/2006
the latest Thaxter bio
Review Date: 4/30/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Classic Highsmith.... a murderer and an innocent man caught in a psychological death spiral. Highly recommended!
Review Date: 6/2/2006
Volume 7, 2004
Born In The U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen And The American Tradition (Music/Culture)
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Review Date: 6/12/2006
"Moving beyond the biographical and journalistic approaches of most writing on Bruce Springsteen, *Born in the U.S.A.* was the first major work of cultural criticism to situate Springsteen in the broader sweep of American history--the heir of Walt Whitman and Woody Guthrie, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King."
Review Date: 4/24/2006
I was fascinated by this Haitian fiction, the first I've read. A quick read, opened my eyes to a new world.
Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works By Jawole Willa Jo Zollar And Chandralekha
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Review Date: 8/9/2006
published without a dust jacket
By the Time You Read This (aka The Fields of Grief) (John Cardinal, Bk 4)
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Review Date: 6/22/2010
*** great thriller
Review Date: 6/19/2006
The only comprehensive, Cape-specific wildflower book, back in print, with a new preface.
Review Date: 8/17/2006
What Dick Francis does for horse racing, John R. Corrigan does for professional golf in his crime novels featuring Jack Austin, a native of Maine and a player on the PGA tour.
The second Jack Austin novel
The second Jack Austin novel
Review Date: 5/22/2006
(back jacket notes) On May 24, 2005, Eugene O'Kelly stepped into his doctor's office with a full calendar and a lifetime of plans on his mind. Six days later he would resign as CEO of KPMG. His lifetime of plans dwindled to 100 days, leaving him just enough time to say goodbye.
Chasing Daylight is O'Kelly's honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir completed in the 3 1/2 months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting moments of our lives--the time we have with our family, our friends, and even ourselves.
It is an eloquent confirmation that our lives and the people in them are temporary joys, but the time we spend enjoying them is never lost. And if we conquer our fears--even the fear of facing the end of our lives and leaving behind those we love--we can conquer anything.
Chasing Daylight is O'Kelly's honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir completed in the 3 1/2 months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting moments of our lives--the time we have with our family, our friends, and even ourselves.
It is an eloquent confirmation that our lives and the people in them are temporary joys, but the time we spend enjoying them is never lost. And if we conquer our fears--even the fear of facing the end of our lives and leaving behind those we love--we can conquer anything.
Review Date: 3/22/2006
A glorious guide to children's literature. Check out Perrin's Reader's Delight for adults too!
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