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It is in this spirit that Crown Journeys was born. With a title like that, do you really need to know more? Well, maybe a little. Dan is a nice guy, a bright guy who likes to travel and write. So when Larry proposed that Dan help him travel to China, where Dan had been twenty-something years earlier, and help him, Dan said yes and off they went. Dan left behind a wife and kids, and Larry left behind, well, nothing. But what Larry forgot to mention was that he was not only going to China in search of a kidney, which, by the way, is illegal in China for foreigners, he also was meeting his mail-order wife.

So how to find an illegal kidney in China? One idea Dan had was to attend synagogue yes, they have some Jews in China. He went, then waited until the service was over, stood up and announced his cousin needed a kidney, which worked better than I certainly would have expected. Despite all the insanity, or probably because of it, this crazy story makes for a funny, interesting read. When Dylan was a kid, his father, Flip, took off, which happens to lots of kids. Except he left his kids with a mother who was mentally ill.

Needless to say, the children suffered through their childhood, but Dylan grew up to be a very successful attorney and writer, despite his earlier hardships — or perhaps because of them. While he was writing his first novel, Misdemeanor Man, Flip called and asked him to take a baking class in New York with him. Flip was dying of cancer. Flip wanted to learn to bake bialys, and signed them up for a class in artisanal baking at a New York City culinary school.

He arranged for lodging at a dump in the Bowery, and Dylan figured that Flip would be dead before the class even started. But then there would have been no book to write. Instead, he survived, and they spent a week together in NYC, exploring the city, learning to bake and learning to forgive, or at least deal with all that anger and pain.

Alternately moving, heartfelt and funny, this is a memoir to be savored; there is no happily-ever-after here, but rather a slice of life, raw as the dough they pummel together. I loved this book, it is just fascinating reading. This would make a great gift for the mystery reader in your life.

I loved this memoir about the big city girl moving to the country. Bounds is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who lived in an apartment across the street from the World Trade Center. The opening chapter about her experience on September 11 is mesmerizing but not maudlin. After Bounds loses her home, she has a hard time finding a new one and ends up visiting friends in a small town called Garrison in upstate New York. Bounds falls in love with the place and finds a house to rent nearby.

Bounds introduces us to the residents and it becomes easy to see why she ended up buying a home there. An utterly charming book for any bibliophile. He also legitimizes audio books, a refreshing change from the usual purist literati disdain. A wonderful gift book for yourself or the reader in your life. In , Conor Grennan quit his job and set off to travel the world. Here he would spend three months volunteering at the Little Princes orphanage, a haven for children left on their own thanks to civil war.

Nine months later, Grennan returned again to Nepal and Little Princes. Grennan vowed to reunite these children with their families, eventually founding Next Generation Nepal. The story of the crash of The Gremlin Special made headlines in but when journalist Mitchell Zuckoff came across mention of it, it had all but been forgotten. Twenty-four servicemen and women stationed in Hollandia in New Guinea during WWII had planned an afternoon site-seeing tour of the island. When the plane crashed, only three survived.

But the treacherous terrain and dangers of the area made rescue almost impossible. After rejecting plan after plan, the military hatched one that would prove to be an adventure in and of itself. Zuckoff has a style that is engaging and readable and this story is one that honestly seems straight out of fiction already.

On the surface, this looks like an exciting behind-the scenes look at the creation of James Bond and his effect on popular culture, and it is, but it is actually more an exciting behind-the-scenes look at British history in the 20th century. I always kind of had the idea that the UK was a huge world power who easily dominated in WWI and II, and just stepped back to let the US take over because they really wanted more time for gardening and watching the World Cup and stuff.

Of course I realize now that I got this idea from reading a lot of trashy novels whose main aim was not exactly historical accuracy, but still I was a bit shocked to discover how really grim the situation was. They had just barely got through WWI and could hardly afford another war 20 years later, so WWI basically plunged the nation into total economic dysfunction. Winder tells this story with lots of personal anecdotes and juicy tidbits about the main players at the time, and makes a history book actually interesting.

The cover of this book tells part of the story; a young boy dressed in a miniature Nazi SS uniform posing with Nazi soldiers. The rest of the story is not so easily understood. As he ages, he is troubled more and more by bits of memories coming back, and a desire to find out who he really is. How that came to be, and how a five year old child survived the wholesale slaughter of all the Jews in his tiny Latvian town, is the most remarkable story.

This oral history is a painful, systematic telling of the events that led to what has to be one of the worst civil crimes ever committed in a democratic country. After months of conflict between university students and the authorities, the Mexican police and army fired on a peaceful demonstration of hundreds of students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in Tlatelolco, Mexico, just prior to the Olympics. Because the Olympics were scheduled to begin the following week, the eyes of the world were focused on Mexico, but the government denied any involvement.

The way the material is presented makes it all the more distressing as it is so matter-of-fact, one story after another, one vignette more heart wrenching than the next, so that cumulative effect is devastating. There are pictures as well, but the text is much more horrifying. With a title like this, the book better be good, and it is. Ellis Parker conducted an independent three-year investigation onto the crime of the century — the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby — and concluded that the wrong man, Bruno Hauptmann, had been arrested, tried and convicted for the crime.

Even though Parker had a confession from the man he claimed was the real killer, Hauptmann was executed as scheduled. Did an innocent man die? You will have to decide for yourself. This one reads like fiction, well written fiction. The bar mitzvah is a momentous event in the life of a Jew, it is when they are considered an adult and agree to live under Jewish law. There is a religious ceremony, which is often skipped by the guests as they make a beeline for the party. Tanner has given us a wonderfully personal account of what the Iraq War was like from the viewpoint of a Marine who was there.

We can also feel the hypervigilence of being on patrol and the tedium of doing nothing in between. More importantly, he describes the bonds of brotherhood that are forged under those circumstances and he does not gloss over the loss of those who will not return. This is a strictly personal account, with no political commentary. It worthy of its place. My Father Bleeds History was the first graphic novel that for me, defined the difference between a comic book and the power that a graphic novel could have and also won the Pulitzer Prize. Originally published 25 years ago, the books are considered classics and were required reading for both of my kids.

This new book is a look at everything that went into the first two, along with interviews, original sketches, and much, much more. It is a fascinating read that also comes with a DVD. Reading customer reviews on Amazon, apparently this is a common problem as almost all the reviews reference it. Like, the only President since World War II without military service — Bill Clinton, or how thousands became drug addicted during the civil war and were provided free morphine afterwards by the Federal government.

Like, did you know the Pentagon was designed to handle 50, workers and visitors each day? To handle the traffic, the cloverleaf traffic intersection was designed and proved to be so successful it became the standard for the Interstate highway system. Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes by Melanie Dunea: This is a coffee table book and a really good conversation starter. I think Bobby Flay put it best: I like cooking even more than I like eating. This is actually a sequel to the My Last Supper: Al Roker had much publicized bariatric surgery a little more than ten years ago and has successfully kept the weight off.

This is his very personal story about how he achieved permanent weight loss, the setbacks along the way, and why he is still fighting the battle of the bulge every day. He goes into his overweight childhood, his promise to his dying father that he would lose the excess weight, and glosses over his three marriages. Today Show fans will enjoy a bit of dish about Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira and other cast members, and a peek at the some of the production of the show.

The book reads like Al talks, and fans will gobble this up. Now that credit has been given where credit is due, let me say that this is one beautiful book. For those unfamiliar, a Haggadah is the story of Passover and the books used at the Passover Seder are generally read cover to cover.

Usually everyone has their own copy so they can follow along, which is fine for the free, classic Maxwell House Haggadah that many, many families have used for over fifty years, or the one my family has used for many years, A Family Haggadah by Shoshana Silberman, another paperback that I gradually collected until I had enough for everyone. But my children are grown now and there were all adults at my Seder table this year, so we decided to give this New American Haggadah a go.

I must confess, we did not read it cover to cover. Instead, we started at the beginning and passed the book around the table, and everyone skimmed through until they found something that appealed to them and then they read those pages. First of all, this is a beautiful book with gorgeous calligraphy and subtle contemporary artwork.

Second, there is no transliteration of the Hebrew. But this book is a thought provoking translation that, at least for my guests, inspired conversation and discussion of many things, from the actual Seder to contemporary politics. Hope it comes out in paperback next year, I could use a few more copies! Accompanied by photographs and organized alphabetically, Maher skewers everyone from politicians to celebrities to popular culture — mostly popular culture — cell phones, McDonalds, etc.

If you are a fan of the HBO series, Real Time with Bill Maher, and either miss the show now that it is on hiatus for the holidays or want to relive some of the most memorable moments of the past couple of seasons, then this is the book for you — and me. This is a light, fast read good for some laughs, especially for liberals. A delightful little book. Each chapter includes an entry from Ms. From Samuel Peppys in the 17th Century to blogging on the Internet, anyone who aspires to write, or just enjoys reading will find a few jewels in here.

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In jumping, broke my leg. I passed all his pickets, rode sixty miles that night with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I can never repent it, although we hated to kill. When I was first married in , my husband worked out at sea for two months at a time, working 12 hour shifts each day. When he came home, he tried to explain this game to me but it was difficult for me to comprehend without actually seeing it played, which I never did. Once he moved up to the engineering department and worked a regular day job at home, he stopped playing.

In an ironic twist, my daughter was invited to play at the local comic book store. This group meets each week and she loves it. Ewalt has been playing a long time, and manages to explain the game, and more importantly the passion of the players in a way that makes it all clear and understandable, without actually having to see it or play it. In its simplest form, it is a role playing game. It is still played face to face, mostly by men but certainly there are plenty of women playing as well.

But Ewalt goes further than just explaining the game, he also discusses the history — in its early years it was rumored to be Satanic and there were rumors of young men committing suicide because of the game. It has long been assumed that only geeks played, and frankly that has been my experience, but the game continues to flourish nonetheless. Here he vents and spews about all the fashion faux pas that women make that drive him up a wall, and there are a lot of them, from wearing flip flops guilty!

This is some nasty shit, but it is funny too, and had me laughing out loud more than once, despite my fashion shortcomings. This is the whole other bitchy side of the sweet, good-natured Clinton we see on TV. Would have made an entertaining magazine piece, but a book? Everyone knows the story of Jackie Robinson, the first man to break the color barrier in baseball.

Eig takes you through his first season, from the time he is called up to the majors, working things out with his teammates, the harassment of opposing team members and fans, all the way to the world series. The Yankees took the title that year, but it took them seven games to beat Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. A must read for baseball fans. Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by the Onion: Though on the surface Florida appears to be a tropical paradise, inside this state lurks a dark, gruesome secret: Each year, thousands of Jews are sent here to die.

This book literally fell into my hands one day at the library. Over the years people expanded them, renovated them and so forth until Levittown is no longer recognizable as a town with identical houses. My brother bought one of those houses many years ago and lived there for a while. So I was curious about this book. It is a compilation of stories, one from each decade starting in the s and ending in the s, written from the perspective of a child who lived there during that time. It was an interesting book, and I liked learning how the town changed over the years from that child-like perspective.

Clark owns one of the most successful restaurants in Washington D. Divorce, single mothering, and getting fired from more jobs than I wanted to count were just some of the troubles faced and overcome in this ultimately interesting and uplifting memoir. Roach takes a complex subject and makes it easy, breezy reading, with a twist; you learn tons about the space program without even trying. Roach looks at the history of the space program, where it began, how those chimps were sent into space, and more, then answers questions that were always in the back of my mind but never even fully realized, like how smelly does it get in that space shuttle after a week?

Science writing has never been so fun. Check it out and learn enough incredibly interesting yet truly useless facts to impress your friends. Jacobs is an architect critic and editor of Dwell magazine, and she set off to find a good house for not a lot of money. Sorry if that ruins the ending, but please — a whole book that missed the point? And while the illustrations are nice, I would have preferred photographs. Not a perfect book by any means. Who would think a guide book to perfume would be a fun read? I found one I liked several years ago, and I stick with it. It is, however, informative.

Their explanations of the various types of perfumes — feminines, masculines, chypres, loud, quiet, etc. If you like perfume, and wonder why you like different ones on different days and for different occasions, this book will help explain that, and help you choose.

Hefner sent Silverstein around the world to do travel cartoons for the magazine, visiting such diverse locales as Moscow, Paris, Haight-Ashbury and the White Sox Training Camp. This book is a collection of those works and includes a rare look at the lesser-known at least to me side of Shel Silverstein, including his fascination with nudist camps and beautiful women. Interestingly enough, a biography, A Boy Named Shel: When journalist Jon Ronson is asked to investigate a strange manuscript being sent around to various academics throughout the world, he stumbles upon a new idea: Driven by a conviction that his own brain chemistry may be worthy of some sort of testing, Ronson begins to wonder about the higher ups in the psychology industry, whether their various and many diagnoses can be trusted, and as specifically pertains to psychopathy in particular, what qualifies a person as truly psychopathic.

Hilarious, insightful, and highly disturbing, The Psychopath Test will probably lead readers to wonder about some of the same issues driving Ronson in his search. A short book filled with personal success that is truly inspirational, especially to anyone who has had health problems or loves someone who does. This is a memoir by a young woman that pays homage to her father and the gift he gave her; he read aloud to her each night.

Most importantly, they never took a night off. Baum Oz books to Shakespeare. But this is less a book about books, and more a memoir of a young girl coming of age with a single dad. Alice has given us a gift for readers, librarians, and maybe most important of all, families. This is a memoir of a retired English teacher from Berkeley, California who decided to take control of her life. Divorced for many years, she was a single mom raising her son alone. He grew up, and she became lonely, so she placed this personal ad in the New York Review of Books: If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.

She seemed especially drawn to New York, to the men and the city itself. She met a handful of men, had some heartbreak and some good times, and drew on her experiences to write this book. With various references to classical music and fine literature, this book is alternately intelligent, sweet, and salacious, which works for me! Not long before the swift downturn of the economy in , Jennifer Wilson and her husband had decided to take their family on an extended trip to Europe to trace their family heritage.

Their experiences and friendships over the course of their temporary relocation are chronicled here in Running Away To Home. Their examination of their lives and their genealogy and the history of Croatia make for entertaining reading in the form of an armchair travel experience tied in with a modern day memoir. Been listening to the audio book all summer I have a real short commute! My 9 year old daughter loved it too! Battelle takes a look back at the company, at their early beginnings; a business biography of sorts. Battelle is the founder of The Industry Standard and original editor of Wired magazine, and frankly, a bit full of himself.

But to give the devil his due, he was around damn near at the beginning of this thing, and recognized what a beast the boys were unleashing: I have a friend who has made a habit of reading a Christmas themed book each year around the holidays, and this year I decided to adopt his habit. He was delighted, as she knew he would be, but also intrigued. For mixed in with the baby books and wedding paraphernalia was a large manila envelope, crammed full with letters addressed to a Mr.

The Price of Terror: How the Families of the Victims of Pan Am 103 Brought Libya to Justice;
The Politics of Aid Selectivity: Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, U.S. and Dutch Development .
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There was also a newspaper clipping from , with a personal ad. The ad asked people to send a letter to this Mr. Virdot, and tell him why they needed a little financial aid to make their Christmas merry this year, in the midst of the Depression. But investigative reporter Gup never heard of Mr. Virdot, and soon learned it was pseudonym used by his grandfather, Sam Stone. Gup started researching, and this book is the result of his findings — a family history that he never knew about, and a Christmas gift that changed lives.

You can read more about this amazing story online and watch a CBS Sunday Morning interview with the author. Subtitled A Step by Step Guide to a Professional Style Publicity Campaign, this short e-book pages contains a lot of good information, which can be helpful to those inexperienced with media and marketing.

If you can achieve name recognition, book sales will follow. This book was horrible! Rather, it was enlightening and funny. DeGeneres is one of the few people who can make you laugh through a blow-by-blow of her preparation for a colonoscopy. After the blow-by-blow she tells you the importance of regular colonoscopies.

Not only should you get one, but you should keep getting them. Or until you stop eating. Not to worry, she touches on subjects other than colonoscopies. It would be best not to read it in a place where laughter would confirm your lunacy. The Movie by Amy Sohn: If you loved the show, and have seen the movie at least once, then this is the book for you. Enjoy the backstage secrets like the belt that was worn so frequently with so many outfits that they named it, the behind-the-scenes tidbits from all the stars and the producer, the insiders tour of NYC, and of course, the fashion.

The Sexual Life of Catherine M. In a word, boring. It reads like a laundry list of sexual events, one more tedious than the next. In all fairness, I read the first pages or so and skimmed the rest. There are no characters other than a list of names along with various nameless bodies with nothing to connect them to, Catherine and her boyfriend, and we never get to know anything about either of them except that she likes group sex and gets tired of being the one to initiate it.

Her language, which is translated of course, leaves me cold. To my knowledge, this book is the first book based on tweets — a Twitter micro-blog. But read the book first so you get the full flavor of the language; after all, a quote should be quoted. The thing is that often the profanities are shocking or jarring, but they make this book sing.

Some of my favorites:. Trust me, none of them would ever want to fuck you anyway. Halpern provides the backstory on many of the posts, and puts things into perspective. Follow Halpern on Twitter to keep laughing. Sixpence House by Paul Collins: Charming memoir about a year spent in Wales, in a small town called Hay-on-Wye. Hay is a rather unique place on this earth; the population is approximately , yet there are 40 bookstores. And even more remarkable, at least to me, only one of those bookshops carries new books, the rest are antiquarian, including one that is housed in a castle and boasts the largest collection of antiquarian American literature in the world.

They put bids in on a few homes, but the inspections were invariably disheartening — it seems that homes that are more than a century old tend to have the sort of imperfections that need buckets of money to fix. Passion and Property in Manhattan by Steven Gaines: Nose jobs required a hospital stay of a few days, general anesthesia was the rule, and the girls were sent home with a hard rubber protective device taped to their face over their bandage-packed noses.

His name was Dr. Diamond had his own unique ideas about rhinoplasty. He had the arrogance of a surgeon sure of his superiority; during the pre-surgical visit, he would examine the nose in question and dictate exactly what he was going to do. In my case, he informed me that he would remove the bump and that would make my nose appear shorter without requiring anything further of him. He had a beautiful office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, with a private hospital on the premises. And I was sent home with a small bandage, no packing, no hard rubber protection, just a few stitches.

Why am I spilling my guts about this in a book review? Howard Diamond, the grand master of rhinoplasty in New York in the s and s. Thousands of princesses from all five boroughs and New Jersey made the pilgrimage to Dr. I am a Diamond Princess. And being such, I knew this paragraph to be incorrect. This book is a work of nonfiction so therefore it must contain only fact. With that in the back of my mind, I continued reading and got to this section on page 48 regarding the popularity of co-ops in NY:.

There you have it; a nonfiction book of gossip and innuendo. Certainly lots of the information contained in this book is substantiated, there is a lengthy list of sources at the end. But not all of it, and that is unacceptable. In the interest of fairness, I must say that I read a review copy, not a finished book.

I wrote the publisher of my concerns and asked where Mr. Gaines got his information from. I never did receive an answer about his source, but was informed that the book had gone to print with the paragraph intact. There are a lot of travel books on Florida, and several just on snorkeling but I really like this one. Bertelli includes 40 of the best places to snorkel in this part of the state, but includes a lot more than that.

Each location has a story as well, making this book way more than just a travel book but rather an enjoyable read about pirates, sunken treasure, and marine life. Bertelli gives the history of each location, gives credit to the people who were instrumental in preserving these beautiful waters and discusses exactly what snorkelers should be looking for and how to stay safe at each spot.

There is a small section of color photographs included and they are beautiful, and it is expensive to include more, but it would have perfected this book. Anyone with a desire to snorkel the Florida Keys should find this book instrumental in planning a trip or great fodder for just dreaming about it. Whether you are a casual fan like my wife, or live for fall weekends as I do, you will enjoy this concise guide to American Football.

Focusing primarily on the pro game, the principles are applicable at all levels, with some relatively minor rules variations. You will pick it up. People come to yoga for different reasons. In an attempt to help, his wife dragged him to a local chain gym for beginner yoga classes. Soon, Pollack found himself wanting more. In an almost obsessive attempt to deepen his practice, Pollack immerses himself in yoga culture, researching and trying various styles at numerous studios throughout the country. And through it all, he maintains his hilarious sense of humor, relating to readers the ridiculous, the strange, and the fascinating aspects of yoga and the people he meets along the way.

From his early days of awkward bends and accidental farts through to his becoming a teacher himself, Pollack takes readers along on his laugh out loud journey through yoga. I like Denis Leary and I like his humor, so I hunkered down with his new book and had a good laugh. For about 6 minutes. Then I turned the last page and thought, is that all there is? Then I saw Leary on TV making the talk show rounds and finally got it. If you want to start your new year laughing, this is the book for you.

This book is no different. Either way, Orman is smart, and she forces the reader to take a long, hard look at what they are doing with their money and why. She addresses your credit rating, how to improve it and why you should, along with the mundane realities of life — retirement, paying for college my daughter is a junior in high school! He even turned her off completely. This little book was extremely helpful to both of us.

I learned how to make phone calls, have Siri read my messages, and add items to my lists. My husband is playing nicely with Siri these days too. This book is styled as a memoir, but it is really more of an expression of gratitude to all of the individuals and institutions that helped Mr. Moehringer grow from a small boy into a man who knows how to write about what he is seeing and what he is feeling. But in justifying the premise, Moehringer makes it clear to the reader, if not to himself, that he was both exposed to some very helpful people and bright enough be able to understand their gifts.

Attempting a book about drinking and a drinking establishment is frought with peril. Generally, such books err either on the side of over-romanticizing the gin mill or becoming preachy about the evils of alcohol. Books of the first sort tend to be favored by people who think themselves equally serious drinkers and readers. In addition to having read a lot of books over the years, I have been in a whole lot of barrooms. Books of the second sort tend to be produced by the newly sober, but badly spoiled personalities who are flush with their initial success. These books have no more to do with real sobriety than the romanticized bars had to do with the utopian Cheers.

Moehringer avoids both those traps and produces to my way of thinking, a unique and readable product. It is an interesting story. I would recommend this book as a nice change of pace for the reader and good food for thought about our own lives and those who have contributed to them. Their collection is available online at their website, Texts From Last Night.

On the other hand, my seventeen year old daughter is an avid fan of the website, and so are some of my college age co-workers. Target audience, I suppose, are Millennials. Why the publisher felt the need to turn this into a book is beyond me. Maybe as a gag gift? This book made me feel like a cranky old fart. I enjoy all sorts of food books — memoirs, cookbooks, and so forth, and this is just a little different twist on the genre. The book is sectioned by country and type of food, turning it into a culinary journey of sorts.

My daughter will become a Bat Mitzvah in a few weeks so it seemed serendipitous that this book should come out now. What surprised me, however, was how judgmental the author was in his discussions — especially since he confesses to be a non-practicing Jew who never celebrated his own Bar Mitzvah. I would have liked to see a broader study and a less judgmental one, but it was interesting.

Johnson has written an homage to librarians everywhere. Johnson celebrates these librarians as heroes of the information age in an always interesting and often humorous way. I got to spend some time with Marilyn at the Florida Library Association annual conference. Read all about it on the BookBitchBlog. Beautiful, middle-age, love at first sight story set in beautiful, old, love at first sight Venice.

Ashley Rhodes survived 9 years and a total of 19 foster parents. Ashley and her brother, Luke, were forced to live in foster homes overrun with children and suffered unspeakable abuse. The odds were against her in a system that still has problems. Yet she not only survived, she flourished. Throughout her experience in the foster system she attempted to reach out to authorities about the atrocities that she and her foster siblings faced.

Each time she was ignored; she was simply an unruly child seeking attention. After she was adopted, Ashley went on to become an advocate for the foster care system and her voice was finally heard. One of the most powerful parts of the book is the three little words alluded to in the title. I suppose as a literary analysis rather than a story collection that is correct. Anyway, Morrell whose First Blood was the basis for the Rambo films, and Wagner who is a regular contributor to Mystery Scene magazine have selected examples of supposedly trendsetting thrillers, each introduced by a contemporary writer of the genre.

The entire work ebbs and flows and tends to wander around, but you will likely find a few new titles to add to your reading list. At least, I did. This is a compilation of thank you notes written from a thankful and hopeful heart. These are not ordinary thank you notes. A few are addressed to people but the majority of them are directed at emotions, experiences, locations and relationships.

Thx Thx Thx is easy to browse; sometimes thought-provoking and other times funny. Estabrook discovered that tomato workers are virtually slaves, in fact he emphatically states that slavery is alive and well in the state of Florida. He discusses the Florida Tomato Committee, the folks that ensure that all tomatoes that leave the state are hard, spherical, green without a hint of red, and can withstand 10 foot drops off the back of a truck onto the pavement without cracking or any other damage.

Then more chemicals are sprayed onto the green tomatoes when they reach their warehouse destinations, chemically turning them red and beautiful. But beauty is only skin deep; the vitamins and nutrients normally found in tomatoes are severely lacking in these, as well as the delicious tomato flavor. I have driven by that farm more times that I care to think about and never gave a thought to what may be going on there.

He needed dialysis to get his leg amputated, but then decided no more dialysis. He was in complete renal failure, checked himself into hospice and began the process of spending his last few weeks dying. At least not for several months. He plans his funeral, his eulogy, the food being served; discusses heaven, living wills, and all the other things no one discusses about death. This is pure Buchwald, dying on his own terms and determined to make us laugh as he does it — a truly fitting goodbye from an American icon.

Am unlikely topic but what an amazing book. As Vanderbilt points out, people spend more time in their car than ever, and he examines why we do what we do in our cars. He claims to have gotten his inspiration while driving on the Jersey Turnpike, but really applies everywhere. Do you merge way before you know the lane will end, when you first see the warning signs? Or do you wait until you have no choice and the lane ends? And if so, does that make you a selfish jerk who makes it harder for everyone else? Or are the people who merge early really the ones gumming up the works.

Anderson is the thriller reviewer for the Washington Post, and one of my favorite reviewers. I expected a lot from this book and he delivered. Anderson traces the evolution of the thriller from its earliest beginnings to what has become the modern day thriller. There are tons of recommendations, including the authors Anderson feels are the best out there today: Brilliance in Characters or Less by Nick Douglas: If you were wondering what Twitter was all about, curious about the hottest micro-blogging trend, or just wanted to know what everyone was Tweeting about, then this is the quick read for you.

Highlights of the earliest Twitter days are recorded here for posterity, including such gems as these: This is a book about food, yet it really is an exciting page turner. Put this on the list for any foodie in your life. As Cunningham walks through Provincetown I felt as if I was peering over his shoulder. He introduced me to people, places poetry, pilgrims and porches. I know he has some secrets left, but that makes me want to explore Provincetown on my own.

You share his respect for his neighbors, friends and the idiosyncrasies of this remote place. P-town is a place I visited as a child and then forgot. Now I plan to go back. But even if you never go, Provincetown is a wonderful spot to follow Cunningham to. This is a new series for Crown Publishers. From the opening letter in an early copy: In a world where things seem only to get faster, the idea of going somewhere you love and walking around and absorbing the surroundings seems almost decadent. It is in this spirit that Crown Journeys was born.

With a title like that, do you really need to know more? Well, maybe a little. Dan is a nice guy, a bright guy who likes to travel and write. So when Larry proposed that Dan help him travel to China, where Dan had been twenty-something years earlier, and help him, Dan said yes and off they went. Dan left behind a wife and kids, and Larry left behind, well, nothing. But what Larry forgot to mention was that he was not only going to China in search of a kidney, which, by the way, is illegal in China for foreigners, he also was meeting his mail-order wife. So how to find an illegal kidney in China?

One idea Dan had was to attend synagogue yes, they have some Jews in China. He went, then waited until the service was over, stood up and announced his cousin needed a kidney, which worked better than I certainly would have expected. Despite all the insanity, or probably because of it, this crazy story makes for a funny, interesting read. When Dylan was a kid, his father, Flip, took off, which happens to lots of kids. Except he left his kids with a mother who was mentally ill.

But then there would have been no book to write. Instead, he survived, and they spent a week together in NYC, exploring the city, learning to bake and learning to forgive, or at least deal with all that anger and pain. Alternately moving, heartfelt and funny, this is a memoir to be savored; there is no happily-ever-after here, but rather a slice of life, raw as the dough they pummel together.

I loved this book, it is just fascinating reading. This would make a great gift for the mystery reader in your life. I loved this memoir about the big city girl moving to the country. Bounds is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who lived in an apartment across the street from the World Trade Center. The opening chapter about her experience on September 11 is mesmerizing but not maudlin. After Bounds loses her home, she has a hard time finding a new one and ends up visiting friends in a small town called Garrison in upstate New York.

Bounds falls in love with the place and finds a house to rent nearby. Bounds introduces us to the residents and it becomes easy to see why she ended up buying a home there. An utterly charming book for any bibliophile. He also legitimizes audio books, a refreshing change from the usual purist literati disdain.

A wonderful gift book for yourself or the reader in your life. In , Conor Grennan quit his job and set off to travel the world. Here he would spend three months volunteering at the Little Princes orphanage, a haven for children left on their own thanks to civil war. Nine months later, Grennan returned again to Nepal and Little Princes. Grennan vowed to reunite these children with their families, eventually founding Next Generation Nepal.

The story of the crash of The Gremlin Special made headlines in but when journalist Mitchell Zuckoff came across mention of it, it had all but been forgotten. Twenty-four servicemen and women stationed in Hollandia in New Guinea during WWII had planned an afternoon site-seeing tour of the island. When the plane crashed, only three survived. But the treacherous terrain and dangers of the area made rescue almost impossible. After rejecting plan after plan, the military hatched one that would prove to be an adventure in and of itself. Zuckoff has a style that is engaging and readable and this story is one that honestly seems straight out of fiction already.

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Because the Olympics were scheduled to begin the following week, the eyes of the world were focused on Mexico, but the government denied any involvement. The way the material is presented makes it all the more distressing as it is so matter-of-fact, one story after another, one vignette more heart wrenching than the next, so that cumulative effect is devastating. There are pictures as well, but the text is much more horrifying.

With a title like this, the book better be good, and it is. Ellis Parker conducted an independent three-year investigation onto the crime of the century — the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby — and concluded that the wrong man, Bruno Hauptmann, had been arrested, tried and convicted for the crime. Even though Parker had a confession from the man he claimed was the real killer, Hauptmann was executed as scheduled. Did an innocent man die? You will have to decide for yourself.

This one reads like fiction, well written fiction. The bar mitzvah is a momentous event in the life of a Jew, it is when they are considered an adult and agree to live under Jewish law. There is a religious ceremony, which is often skipped by the guests as they make a beeline for the party.

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Tanner has given us a wonderfully personal account of what the Iraq War was like from the viewpoint of a Marine who was there. We can also feel the hypervigilence of being on patrol and the tedium of doing nothing in between. More importantly, he describes the bonds of brotherhood that are forged under those circumstances and he does not gloss over the loss of those who will not return.

This is a strictly personal account, with no political commentary. It worthy of its place. My Father Bleeds History was the first graphic novel that for me, defined the difference between a comic book and the power that a graphic novel could have and also won the Pulitzer Prize. Originally published 25 years ago, the books are considered classics and were required reading for both of my kids.

Like, the only President since World War II without military service — Bill Clinton, or how thousands became drug addicted during the civil war and were provided free morphine afterwards by the Federal government. Like, did you know the Pentagon was designed to handle 50, workers and visitors each day?

To handle the traffic, the cloverleaf traffic intersection was designed and proved to be so successful it became the standard for the Interstate highway system. Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes by Melanie Dunea: This is a coffee table book and a really good conversation starter. I think Bobby Flay put it best: I like cooking even more than I like eating.

This is actually a sequel to the My Last Supper: Al Roker had much publicized bariatric surgery a little more than ten years ago and has successfully kept the weight off. This is his very personal story about how he achieved permanent weight loss, the setbacks along the way, and why he is still fighting the battle of the bulge every day. He goes into his overweight childhood, his promise to his dying father that he would lose the excess weight, and glosses over his three marriages.

Today Show fans will enjoy a bit of dish about Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira and other cast members, and a peek at the some of the production of the show. The book reads like Al talks, and fans will gobble this up. Now that credit has been given where credit is due, let me say that this is one beautiful book.

For those unfamiliar, a Haggadah is the story of Passover and the books used at the Passover Seder are generally read cover to cover. Usually everyone has their own copy so they can follow along, which is fine for the free, classic Maxwell House Haggadah that many, many families have used for over fifty years, or the one my family has used for many years, A Family Haggadah by Shoshana Silberman, another paperback that I gradually collected until I had enough for everyone.

But my children are grown now and there were all adults at my Seder table this year, so we decided to give this New American Haggadah a go. I must confess, we did not read it cover to cover. Instead, we started at the beginning and passed the book around the table, and everyone skimmed through until they found something that appealed to them and then they read those pages. First of all, this is a beautiful book with gorgeous calligraphy and subtle contemporary artwork. Second, there is no transliteration of the Hebrew.

But this book is a thought provoking translation that, at least for my guests, inspired conversation and discussion of many things, from the actual Seder to contemporary politics. Hope it comes out in paperback next year, I could use a few more copies! Accompanied by photographs and organized alphabetically, Maher skewers everyone from politicians to celebrities to popular culture — mostly popular culture — cell phones, McDonalds, etc. If you are a fan of the HBO series, Real Time with Bill Maher, and either miss the show now that it is on hiatus for the holidays or want to relive some of the most memorable moments of the past couple of seasons, then this is the book for you — and me.

This is a light, fast read good for some laughs, especially for liberals. A delightful little book. Each chapter includes an entry from Ms. From Samuel Peppys in the 17th Century to blogging on the Internet, anyone who aspires to write, or just enjoys reading will find a few jewels in here. In jumping, broke my leg. I passed all his pickets, rode sixty miles that night with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I can never repent it, although we hated to kill. When I was first married in , my husband worked out at sea for two months at a time, working 12 hour shifts each day.

When he came home, he tried to explain this game to me but it was difficult for me to comprehend without actually seeing it played, which I never did. Once he moved up to the engineering department and worked a regular day job at home, he stopped playing. In an ironic twist, my daughter was invited to play at the local comic book store. This group meets each week and she loves it. Ewalt has been playing a long time, and manages to explain the game, and more importantly the passion of the players in a way that makes it all clear and understandable, without actually having to see it or play it.

In its simplest form, it is a role playing game. It is still played face to face, mostly by men but certainly there are plenty of women playing as well. But Ewalt goes further than just explaining the game, he also discusses the history — in its early years it was rumored to be Satanic and there were rumors of young men committing suicide because of the game. It has long been assumed that only geeks played, and frankly that has been my experience, but the game continues to flourish nonetheless.

Here he vents and spews about all the fashion faux pas that women make that drive him up a wall, and there are a lot of them, from wearing flip flops guilty! This is some nasty shit, but it is funny too, and had me laughing out loud more than once, despite my fashion shortcomings. This is the whole other bitchy side of the sweet, good-natured Clinton we see on TV. Would have made an entertaining magazine piece, but a book? Everyone knows the story of Jackie Robinson, the first man to break the color barrier in baseball.

Who would think a guide book to perfume would be a fun read? I found one I liked several years ago, and I stick with it. It is, however, informative. Their explanations of the various types of perfumes — feminines, masculines, chypres, loud, quiet, etc. If you like perfume, and wonder why you like different ones on different days and for different occasions, this book will help explain that, and help you choose.

Interestingly enough, a biography, A Boy Named Shel: When journalist Jon Ronson is asked to investigate a strange manuscript being sent around to various academics throughout the world, he stumbles upon a new idea: Driven by a conviction that his own brain chemistry may be worthy of some sort of testing, Ronson begins to wonder about the higher ups in the psychology industry, whether their various and many diagnoses can be trusted, and as specifically pertains to psychopathy in particular, what qualifies a person as truly psychopathic.

Alice has given us a gift for readers, librarians, and maybe most important of all, families. This is a memoir of a retired English teacher from Berkeley, California who decided to take control of her life. Divorced for many years, she was a single mom raising her son alone. He grew up, and she became lonely, so she placed this personal ad in the New York Review of Books: If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.

Battelle takes a look back at the company, at their early beginnings; a business biography of sorts. Battelle is the founder of The Industry Standard and original editor of Wired magazine, and frankly, a bit full of himself. But to give the devil his due, he was around damn near at the beginning of this thing, and recognized what a beast the boys were unleashing: I have a friend who has made a habit of reading a Christmas themed book each year around the holidays, and this year I decided to adopt his habit.

He was delighted, as she knew he would be, but also intrigued. For mixed in with the baby books and wedding paraphernalia was a large manila envelope, crammed full with letters addressed to a Mr. There was also a newspaper clipping from , with a personal ad. The ad asked people to send a letter to this Mr. Virdot, and tell him why they needed a little financial aid to make their Christmas merry this year, in the midst of the Depression.

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But investigative reporter Gup never heard of Mr. Virdot, and soon learned it was pseudonym used by his grandfather, Sam Stone. Gup started researching, and this book is the result of his findings — a family history that he never knew about, and a Christmas gift that changed lives. You can read more about this amazing story online and watch a CBS Sunday Morning interview with the author.

Subtitled A Step by Step Guide to a Professional Style Publicity Campaign, this short e-book pages contains a lot of good information, which can be helpful to those inexperienced with media and marketing. If you can achieve name recognition, book sales will follow. This book was horrible! Rather, it was enlightening and funny. DeGeneres is one of the few people who can make you laugh through a blow-by-blow of her preparation for a colonoscopy. After the blow-by-blow she tells you the importance of regular colonoscopies.

To my knowledge, this book is the first book based on tweets — a Twitter micro-blog. But read the book first so you get the full flavor of the language; after all, a quote should be quoted. The thing is that often the profanities are shocking or jarring, but they make this book sing. Some of my favorites:. Trust me, none of them would ever want to fuck you anyway. Halpern provides the backstory on many of the posts, and puts things into perspective. Follow Halpern on Twitter to keep laughing. Sixpence House by Paul Collins: Charming memoir about a year spent in Wales, in a small town called Hay-on-Wye.

Hay is a rather unique place on this earth; the population is approximately , yet there are 40 bookstores. And even more remarkable, at least to me, only one of those bookshops carries new books, the rest are antiquarian, including one that is housed in a castle and boasts the largest collection of antiquarian American literature in the world. They put bids in on a few homes, but the inspections were invariably disheartening — it seems that homes that are more than a century old tend to have the sort of imperfections that need buckets of money to fix.

Passion and Property in Manhattan by Steven Gaines: Nose jobs required a hospital stay of a few days, general anesthesia was the rule, and the girls were sent home with a hard rubber protective device taped to their face over their bandage-packed noses. His name was Dr. Diamond had his own unique ideas about rhinoplasty. He had the arrogance of a surgeon sure of his superiority; during the pre-surgical visit, he would examine the nose in question and dictate exactly what he was going to do. In my case, he informed me that he would remove the bump and that would make my nose appear shorter without requiring anything further of him.

He had a beautiful office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, with a private hospital on the premises. And I was sent home with a small bandage, no packing, no hard rubber protection, just a few stitches. Why am I spilling my guts about this in a book review? Howard Diamond, the grand master of rhinoplasty in New York in the s and s.

Thousands of princesses from all five boroughs and New Jersey made the pilgrimage to Dr. I am a Diamond Princess. And being such, I knew this paragraph to be incorrect. This book is a work of nonfiction so therefore it must contain only fact. With that in the back of my mind, I continued reading and got to this section on page 48 regarding the popularity of co-ops in NY:. There you have it; a nonfiction book of gossip and innuendo. Certainly lots of the information contained in this book is substantiated, there is a lengthy list of sources at the end.

But not all of it, and that is unacceptable. In the interest of fairness, I must say that I read a review copy, not a finished book. I wrote the publisher of my concerns and asked where Mr. Gaines got his information from. I never did receive an answer about his source, but was informed that the book had gone to print with the paragraph intact. There are a lot of travel books on Florida, and several just on snorkeling but I really like this one. Bertelli includes 40 of the best places to snorkel in this part of the state, but includes a lot more than that.

And through it all, he maintains his hilarious sense of humor, relating to readers the ridiculous, the strange, and the fascinating aspects of yoga and the people he meets along the way. From his early days of awkward bends and accidental farts through to his becoming a teacher himself, Pollack takes readers along on his laugh out loud journey through yoga. I like Denis Leary and I like his humor, so I hunkered down with his new book and had a good laugh. For about 6 minutes. Then I turned the last page and thought, is that all there is? Then I saw Leary on TV making the talk show rounds and finally got it.

If you want to start your new year laughing, this is the book for you. This book is no different. Either way, Orman is smart, and she forces the reader to take a long, hard look at what they are doing with their money and why. She addresses your credit rating, how to improve it and why you should, along with the mundane realities of life — retirement, paying for college my daughter is a junior in high school!

He even turned her off completely. This little book was extremely helpful to both of us. I learned how to make phone calls, have Siri read my messages, and add items to my lists. My husband is playing nicely with Siri these days too. This book is styled as a memoir, but it is really more of an expression of gratitude to all of the individuals and institutions that helped Mr.

Moehringer grow from a small boy into a man who knows how to write about what he is seeing and what he is feeling. But in justifying the premise, Moehringer makes it clear to the reader, if not to himself, that he was both exposed to some very helpful people and bright enough be able to understand their gifts.

These books have no more to do with real sobriety than the romanticized bars had to do with the utopian Cheers. Moehringer avoids both those traps and produces to my way of thinking, a unique and readable product. It is an interesting story. I would recommend this book as a nice change of pace for the reader and good food for thought about our own lives and those who have contributed to them.

Their collection is available online at their website, Texts From Last Night. On the other hand, my seventeen year old daughter is an avid fan of the website, and so are some of my college age co-workers. Target audience, I suppose, are Millennials. Why the publisher felt the need to turn this into a book is beyond me. Maybe as a gag gift? This book made me feel like a cranky old fart. I enjoy all sorts of food books — memoirs, cookbooks, and so forth, and this is just a little different twist on the genre.

The book is sectioned by country and type of food, turning it into a culinary journey of sorts. My daughter will become a Bat Mitzvah in a few weeks so it seemed serendipitous that this book should come out now. What surprised me, however, was how judgmental the author was in his discussions — especially since he confesses to be a non-practicing Jew who never celebrated his own Bar Mitzvah.

I would have liked to see a broader study and a less judgmental one, but it was interesting. Johnson has written an homage to librarians everywhere. Johnson celebrates these librarians as heroes of the information age in an always interesting and often humorous way.

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I got to spend some time with Marilyn at the Florida Library Association annual conference. Read all about it on the BookBitchBlog. Beautiful, middle-age, love at first sight story set in beautiful, old, love at first sight Venice. Ashley Rhodes survived 9 years and a total of 19 foster parents. Ashley and her brother, Luke, were forced to live in foster homes overrun with children and suffered unspeakable abuse. The odds were against her in a system that still has problems.

Yet she not only survived, she flourished. Throughout her experience in the foster system she attempted to reach out to authorities about the atrocities that she and her foster siblings faced. Each time she was ignored; she was simply an unruly child seeking attention.

After she was adopted, Ashley went on to become an advocate for the foster care system and her voice was finally heard. One of the most powerful parts of the book is the three little words alluded to in the title. I suppose as a literary analysis rather than a story collection that is correct. Anyway, Morrell whose First Blood was the basis for the Rambo films, and Wagner who is a regular contributor to Mystery Scene magazine have selected examples of supposedly trendsetting thrillers, each introduced by a contemporary writer of the genre. The entire work ebbs and flows and tends to wander around, but you will likely find a few new titles to add to your reading list.

At least, I did. This is a compilation of thank you notes written from a thankful and hopeful heart. These are not ordinary thank you notes. A few are addressed to people but the majority of them are directed at emotions, experiences, locations and relationships. Thx Thx Thx is easy to browse; sometimes thought-provoking and other times funny.

Estabrook discovered that tomato workers are virtually slaves, in fact he emphatically states that slavery is alive and well in the state of Florida. He discusses the Florida Tomato Committee, the folks that ensure that all tomatoes that leave the state are hard, spherical, green without a hint of red, and can withstand 10 foot drops off the back of a truck onto the pavement without cracking or any other damage. Then more chemicals are sprayed onto the green tomatoes when they reach their warehouse destinations, chemically turning them red and beautiful.

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