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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Julie Andrews
Hyperion, 2008
"Somewhere in her youth, she must have done something good"
+ A Beautifully Written Memoir
+ Why We Love Julie
+ Reading "Home" was like listening to Julie Andrews tell me about her life
+ Bittersweet memoir filled with grace
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Dark at the Roots: A Memoir
Sarah Thyre
Counterpoint, 2007
terrific
+ Awsome! Totally enjoyed this book.
+ She's a BAD girl and a GREAT storyteller
I loved this book. Sarah is absolutely hysterical. I found myself laughing out loud in bed reading it at night. My only problem is that she hasn't written anything else. Please, Please, write something else, and hurry.
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The Late Bloomer's Revolution
Hyperion, 2007
Fabulous, Funny and Heart-wrenching
+ More than just chick-lit
+ Page Turner Tear Jerker
+ LAUGHED TIL SELTZER SHOT OUT MY NOSE
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Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real World
Maria Shriver
Grand Central Publishing, 2000
Important Information That Teens Ought to Know
+ Insightful
+ Mrs. Ahnold is a smart cookie!
+ A Good Start
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The Master Bedroom: A Novel
Tessa Hadley
Picador, 2008
4.5 out of 5: An Intimate Masterpiece
+ The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
The Master Bedroom is an intimate drama centered on a middle-aged woman who becomes romantically entangled with a married man and his son during the year she returns to her childhood home to care for her elderly mother. Hadley excels at describing the small details of human interactions (the ...
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
+ Very inspiring
+ A Lasting Lecture
+ Item "The Last Lecture"
+ good book
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The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say No
William Ury
Bantam, 2007
Finally the wisdom every sales person needs!
+ Power of a Positive No...a fourmula for success with the word "no"
+ Great comunication through better "NOs"
Having been on the operations side of professional services firms for years, I have had my fair share of working with sales people who had a speech impediment - they could never say NO. Once I became a sales person myself, I understood the pressures of sales pros to meet quotas and ensure they can ...
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Drop Dead Beautiful
Jackie Collins
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Jackie C. has still got it!!
+ Another Charmer
+ The Return of Lucky
I haven't read any Jackie Collins books in years and I must say she still has it. This book had me hooked!!!! It was very captivating from the first CD (audiobook) I loved it & am so glad I picked it up.
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
my view of a good book
+ A Fascinating Book
+ Excellent!
+ Almost makes me want to visit
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Late Bloomer's Revolution, The
Amy Cohen
Hyperion, 2008
Fabulous, Funny and Heart-wrenching
+ More than just chick-lit
+ Page Turner Tear Jerker
+ LAUGHED TIL SELTZER SHOT OUT MY NOSE
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The Ten-Year Nap
Meg Wolitzer
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
Profound look at the state of affairs for women and men today
+ Thank-you.
I'm sorry to see this gem of a book is not getting better reviews. As a women in her 50s, I was interested in it only because I heard that the protagonists' mothers, who were the original 2nd wave feminists of the 60s and 70s (my generation), would also be represented. However, in reading about ...
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Just Who Will You Be?: Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within. (ROUGHCUT)
Maria Shriver
Hyperion, 2008
Touching, Heartfelt & Inspirational!
+ Little Book + Big Question= An Inspiring Read!
+ Very Satisfactory
+ Amazing Read
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Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down
Kaylene Johnson
Epicenter Press, 2008
hopefully our country's next veep
+ Sarah Palin
+ SARAH
+ Sarah Palin, Hockey Mom turned Alaska politics upside down
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Losing You
Nicci French
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008
Great thriller with a lot of realism
+ Gone missing
+ Daughter abducted! Mother has to find her!
I've read many books by Nicci French and they (because it's actually two authors) never let me down with their plotting and suspense. What I most enjoyed about this book is how realistic the mother's actions were once she learned her daughter was missing. As I read it, I kept thinking, Yes! ...
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The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel
Ballantine Books, 2007
Not a Disaster at All, Loved it!
+ A nice read
+ Loved It
+ The bright side of mom-lit
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