Tag: books
member name: Amy B.
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March 21, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
What would you have done if you were an ordinary German citizen during World War II? Would you have risked your life to hide some Jews? Or turned them in? Would you have joined the Resistance? . . .
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June 30, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
I got my first gift card yesterday and I promptly went to Borders and spent the entire thing today. I had saved my points until I had enough for a $50 gift card because I wanted to have a mini spree on . . .
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May 29, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
About six weeks ago I posted an article about Bob Greene’s “The Best Life Diet” book. Bob’s premise is that when people decide to lose weight they try to make too many drastic changes . . .
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June 03, 2007 03:01 PM EDT --
A few hours before her execution, Empress Alexandra wrote in her diary "Suddenly Leonka Sednyov was fetched to go and see his uncle and flew off - wonder whether it's true and we shall see the . . .
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August 12, 2008 07:32 PM EDT --
I have read a few books by Nicholas Sparks, and a few others such as "The Notebook" and "Message in a Bottle" have been made into movies. I've enjoyed every one . . .
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July 14, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Bill Bryson wrote this book almost a decade ago to document his walk along the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz in 1996. Before reading this book I knew the Appalachian Trail was long, but . . .
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June 13, 2008 09:39 AM EDT --
Like all readers, I have quite a pile of books that I want to read. Every time I go to the bookstore I browse and pick up even more books than I went to the store to buy. My book club is on hiatus . . .
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May 27, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
Borders on-line book store launched today at www.borders.com
Borders used to have a shared site with Amazon, but today they launched their own site which will be focused more towards their customers . . .
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July 29, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
This "behind the scenes" book about the cut flower trade was recommended to me by Scott Kunst, owner of Old House Gardens, to help get me through the long, cold, gray flower-less days of a typical . . .
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June 15, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
It's December 1999 and everyone has Millennial fever. Will the world end at midnight on New Year's Eve? Meanwhile, archaeologist Catherine Alexander discovers some very old papyrus scrolls in . . .
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July 12, 2008 07:47 AM EDT --
What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? Would the experience allow you to fix wrongs from the past? Would it change who you are going forward? This book is the story of . . .
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March 03, 2007 02:02 PM EST --
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold . . .
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June 07, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
This book was an enjoyable read and I learned a lot more about the history of California as I turned it's pages. The book opens just after an earthquake in southern California has caused a swimming . . .
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July 31, 2008 11:30 AM EDT --
This book is a worthwhile read for anyone who is in leadership at an older church or who is struggling with all the changes they see happening in their church. In the last thirty years or so we have . . .
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June 27, 2008 05:49 PM EDT --
I went to Borders today to cash in my latest Gather gift card and I enjoyed browsing all the displays, reading backs of books that looked interesting, and often just reaching out and running my fingers . . .
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March 30, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
Who was Grigori Rasputin? Was he a holy man? Or was he the devil? There have been many books and films about Grigori Rasputin and his close relationship with Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarita Alexandra during . . .
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August 05, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
Just after sunrise, during the morning milking, an Amish farmhand finds a deceased newborn, wrapped in a shirt and hidden in a pile of blankets in the barn. The English (non-Amish) authorities are called . . .
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March 16, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
This field guide has been a great resource for identifying the birds that visit my bird feeders. It is perhaps not the best for experienced birders, but for beginning bird watchers, children, or the . . .
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July 20, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
For the past several years increasing numbers of jobs have been outsourced overseas. First it was just blue-collar jobs, but now white-collar positions are being outsourced as well. A union job or a college . . .
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July 01, 2007 09:01 PM EDT --
The author’s youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it inside her desk drawer at work. She hoped that the note would never be needed, but she wanted to make sure that if she turned up missing . . .
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