Tag: reviews
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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March 13, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
The Philadelphia Flower Show is the grand-daddy of all the flower shows. I believe it is also the first of the flower shows since it began in 1827 - making it over 175 years old! The show's ten acres . . .
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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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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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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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August 01, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
Have any of you seen this new series on Lifetime? I don't watch much TV, especially not during the summer months, and I rarely check out new shows for fear of getting hooked and spending too much . . .
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April 11, 2007 02:02 PM EDT --
Anyone who has watched Oprah has probably heard of Bob Greene, who helped her lose all of that weight and keep it off. I've read lots of diet books and "how to" articles but I was intrigued . . .
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July 10, 2007 08:02 PM EDT --
In 1956, five American missionaries were speared to death by an indigenous tribe they were trying to befriend along a remote river in Equador. After the murders, the wife and sister of two of the murdered . . .
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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 14, 2007 08:55 PM EDT --
Grounds For Sculpture is a hidden gem that is worth a visit to anyone who is in the central New Jersey area. Grounds For Sculpture is a 35-acre sculpture park located in Hamilton, New Jersey (which is . . .
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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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March 11, 2007 10:12 PM EDT --
I just got back from New York City, where I had the pleasure of seeing the new play Curtains at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Saturday. I hadn’t heard about this play, but knowing that . . .
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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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May 13, 2007 01:48 PM EDT --
The tag line for this book is “How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul”. We just read this book for our church book club and I really enjoyed it. While its target audience is the Christian . . .
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July 01, 2007 08:19 PM EDT --
Cranbrook was founded by Ellen and George Booth. Ellen was the eldest child of James Edmund Scripps, the founder of the Detroit News. Ground was broken for Cranbrook House in January 1907 and the Booths . . .
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January 04, 2007 11:46 AM EST --
The book jacket reads:
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part . . .
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