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The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Margaret Truman
Ballantine Books, 2005
President's daughter scores another hit
This book by the daughter of President Harry Truman offers a wonderfully insightful and fun-filled look at life inside the most famous home in the United States. Margaret Truman's membership in that exclusive club of former residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has ...
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Big Bucks The Benoit Way: Secrets From America's First Family of Whitetail Hunting
Bryce Towsley
Krause Publications, 2008
A Hunter's Dream Book!
My husband cannot get enough of this beautifully illustrated, greatly understandable instructions on how to 'get the big ones.' He is proud to have this book on our shelves.
Anna Marie Fritz, author of "Funny Feline Fotos" and other amazon books.
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And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity
Dannah Gresh
Moody Publishers, 2004
The bride's white gown was reserved only to the truly pure
Traditionally, the bride's white gown was reserved only to the truly pure - those who were not were supposed to wear a gown of another color. In a brand new "Celebration Edition", Dannah Gresh continues to touch the lives of hundred of thousand of young women in "And ...
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The Memory of Water
Karen White
NAL Trade, 2008
wonderful book
This is a wonderful book. The characters were believable and likeable. I would definitely read something else by this author.
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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their ...
Russ Baker
Bloomsbury Press, 2008
Right is still right, even when nobody's doing it. Wrong is still wrong, even when everybody's doing it.
"All great accomplishments are the products of discipline and the force of will. To write a lasting and important book, a journalist must be relentless in pursuing detail that others have misunderstood or even ignored. The commitment to discerning the facts can never ...
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Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
Greg Palast
Plume, 2007
behind the bull
If you don't already know some of this stuff, prepare yourself to be disillusioned. We live in a wonderful country, and we are not in charge. This book names those who are in charge and how they do what they do. It exposes graft, greed, corporate manipulation, and more ...
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Peter Godwin
Back Bay Books, 2008
Wonderful!
This is simply one of the best books I've "read" in many, many years. I first listened to it on tape while I was painting and then ordered this copy for a friend. I would love to pass it along to any thinking person who is curious about Africa -- and why we should ...
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Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales
Elin Kelsey
University of California Press, 2008
good book
What's so interesting to me about this book is that I thought I knew so much about whales. How could I not, I live by the pacific ocean and see them swim by. Now I know how little any of us know and what it is like to be a whale researcher. It has opened my eyes to ...
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The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Why George W. Bush Should Have Been Impeached and Removed From Office.
As a conservative Republican who voted for George W. Bush twice, I was a little leery of Bob Woodward's series on the Iraq War. But after reading State of Denial and The War Within I came to the conclusion that the 43d President of the United States should have been ...
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Secret Lives of the First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Women of the White House
Cormac O'Brien
Quirk Books, 2005
First ladies - First rate
Recently a foreign journalist interviewing George W. Bush asked the President of the United States to turn out his pockets. What an interesting, humanizing thing to ask of the most powerful man on Earth. And exactly the kind of thing that never occurs in the burlesque ...
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The Sexual Teachings of the White Tigress: Secrets of the
Hsi Lai
Destiny Books, 2001
Dare to Open Your Horizons
Life and sex are complicated. We tend to put labels on things and people so we don't have to think or question.
Understanding the many dimensions of the White Tigress is not for those who already have preconceived ideas about women and their sexuality. However, if ...
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The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service ...
Abraham Bolden
Harmony, 2008
Secrets of Secret Service
This work is intriguing as Abraham Bolden gives his side of how the Secret Service framed him rather than permit him to give testimony to the Warren Commission about the lax in the duties of Secret Service agents to protect President John F. Kennedy. The Warren ...
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Secret Thoughts
Sasha White
Samhain Publishing, 2008
Domination or submission? Menage a trois or man on man? What about voyeurism? A tease? A taste? Sink your teeth into this collection of erotica short stories from five top erotic storytellers. Everyone has them. Those Secret Thoughts that bring forth your hottest dreams and desires. The ones you dont share, the ones that make your heart pound and ...
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Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Valerie Plame Wilson
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Her story- U.S. Government versus Valerie
This isn't a spy-intrigue-action book, so please don't expect it to be. It's Valerie Plame Wilson's story about ow she happened to become a CIA agent, what it took to reach the levels in the institution that she did. How the scandal started who was and wasn't ...
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Split Second
David Baldacci
Warner Books, 2003
The streak of no 4 stars is finally broken....
I do not read reviews until I am finished reading any book. I was astonished to read the last several reviews. It is ENTERTAINMENT folks, not a book on how to stop global warming. Why are people so cynical. It almost sounds like they are wannabes. Was the ending ...
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