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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies By Jared Diamond | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating:  Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other ... (more)
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 | Language Learners in the English Classroom By Douglas Fisher, Carol Rothenberg, Nancy Frey | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating:  First shelved by EnglishIIIShelf on July 2nd, 2008
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 | Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression By Mildred Armstrong Kalish | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: Unrated I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the ... (more)
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 | The Plot Against America By Philip Roth | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: Unrated In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of ... (more)
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![]() | Dr. Franklin's Island By Ann Halam | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating:  Semi, Miranda, and Arnie are part of a group of 50 British Young Conservationists on their way to a wildlife conservation station deep in the rain forests of Ecuador. After a terrifying mid-air disaster and subsequent crash, these three are the sole survivors, stranded together on a deserted tropical island. Or so they think. Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stumble into the hands of Dr. Franklin, a mad scientist who’s been waiting for them, eager to use them as specimens for his ... (more)
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 | A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star) By Ernest J. Gaines | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: First shelved by EnglishIIIShelf on July 2nd, 2008
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 | Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction By Kurt Vonnegut | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: Never-before-collected, vintage Vonnegut."Vonnegut said that his last book, Timequake (1997), would be his last, but no one as imaginative and in love with language and story can resist the lure of the page, and it's obvious that he had a grand time working on this collection of his vintage stories. [Bagombo Snuff Box] resurrects Vonnegut's earliest efforts, stories written during the fifties and sixties for such popular venues as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. In his engagingly autobiographical introduction, Vonnegut ... (more)
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 | The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: "Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago?
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 | The Wedding By Nicholas Sparks | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Notebook), and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife ... (more)
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![]() | Bend in the Road By Nicholas Sparks | See this on Amazon Avg. Rating: Miles life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident. He still rises each morning to take care of his young son and carries out his duties as deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, but its all in a numb and hopeless haze. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, who is rebuilding her own life. Slowly, their newfound love starts to soothe the pain of the past. But when a devastating secret is revealed, they start ... (more)
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