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№51
Title: Bonk [$]
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 2008
Pages: 288
I picked up Bonk entirely on a whim: it was sitting precociously on the shelf of new books at the library. It wasn’t until later, when I was reading that, [...]
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№50
Title: Me Of Little Faith [$]
Author: Lewis Black
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2008
Pages: 256
I like Lewis Black’s standup, and I like him on The Daily Show; I was less than impressed, however, by his sort-of-biography, Nothing’s Sacred. Lewis qua storyteller with occasional [...]
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№49
Title: The Gun Seller [$]
Author: Hugh Laurie
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Year: 1998
Pages: 368
For many people, House might be their first exposure to British actor Hugh Laurie; others, especially if you live on the Isles or have a particular affection for British [...]
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№48
Title: The Ten-Cent Plague [$]
Author: David Hadju
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2008
Pages: 448
I was always around comics growing up; with the exception of the 6-part Double Dragon series, however, I was never really a collector myself. I spent a lot [...]
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№47
Title: Musicophilia: Stories of Music and the Brain [$]
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2007
Pages: 400
I have read Oliver Sacks before. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was a fascinating book, but it could get a bit dry at [...]
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№46
Title: Napoleon’s Buttons [$]
Author: Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
Year: 2004
Pages: 384
I happened upon Napoleon’s Button entirely by accident when I was looking for cover art for His Excellency: George Washington; was so intrigued by the premise [...]
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№45
Title: Night of the Avenging Blowfish [$]
Author: John Welter
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Year: 1994
Pages: 304
I’ve read this one before, and yet a couple of weeks ago I got an inexplicable urge to read it again.
I’m not aware of Welter writing anything after the [...]
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№44
Title: His Excellency: George Washington [$]
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2005
Pages: 352
Hot on the heels of John Adams comes this new book about George Washington; I’ve mentioned before that I don’t usually read a lot of pure history books or [...]
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№43
Title: Martin the Warrior [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1994
Pages: 384
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior marks something of a turning point for the Redwall series: Jacques, for the first time, seems [...]
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