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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter and Stephen Hoye

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Following the principles in Rich Dad Poor Dad has changed my life in under one year. This advice really works! I wholheartily recommend Rich Dad Poor Dad evenif it is the only personal finance book you ever read. Rich Dad Poor Dad is not a great book, it is an outstandingly great book. It is the one book that you must have. Thanks again Robert T. and Happy Valentines Day!

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America

Leon Dash

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In recent years, welfare and the underclass have become a prominent part of the national conversation. But pundits’ portrayals of the urban poor are often distressingly simplistic, usually presenting the underclass as a mass of indistinguishable brown and black people inhabiting a murky, foreign land. In 1988, Washington Post reporter Leon Dash began a seven-year project that he hoped might dispel reductionist thinking, trying to make this unfamiliar world complex [...]

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Graham

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When I was very young (about six thousand years ago), our school master used to read to us from Wind in the Willows. The stories had a magical quality and a few weeks ago, as a somewhat older person, I got to wondering whether they would still have that sense of enchantment that held us so captivated all those years ago. I was NOT disappointed. Toad was just as cantankerous [...]

Lipman Pike: America’s First Home Run King

Richard Michelson and Zachary Pullen

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This review may seem a bit long to you. I wanted to consider the text and illustrations for a more complete sense of the book. (I left plenty out for you to discover when you buy your own copy.) Thanks for taking the time to read this! If you count yourself as being one who finds it impossible to think of spring without thinking of baseball, then you’ll enjoy reading [...]

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson) [AUDIOBOOK/AUDIO CD] [UNABRIDGED]

Rick Riordan

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Rick Riordan comes through again, and this follow up to The Lightning Thief is just as entertaining, informative and action-packed as the first book. This time Percy (son of Poseidon) is at school in New York when things start to go downhill fast, beginning with some bad dreams about his friend Grover the satyr, followed by an attack by cannibalistic dodge ball players. When Annabeth (daughter of Athena) arrives on [...]

One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life–A Story of Race and Family Secrets

Bliss Broyard

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When her mother exposed her father’s secret while he was dying in 1990, Bliss Broyard accepted it but was not ready to deal with the complexities of learning her father was of Black heritage. She was not ready when an essay, “The Passing of Anatole Broyard”, appeared in Henry Louis Gates’ collection, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man in 1997. When she was finally ready, Broyard wrote a [...]

Night Road

Kristin Hannah and Kathleen McInerney

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I thought the author’s writing style was very descriptive and vivid. Her tone was conversational and engaging. Night Road introduces us to a young woman named Alexa “Lexi” Baill, who was a product of a heroin addicted mother. She was in and out of various foster homes until a great-aunt named Eva Lange came to claim her. I knew this book would leave me in tears when Lexi met her [...]

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou

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Despite his considerable output of poetry, short stories and autobiographical work, this is Langston Hughes’ only novel. It is the tremendously crafted story of Sandy, a black child of the 1920s in rural Kansas. In poignant tightly written chapters, Hughes’ depicts various events in Sandy’s life often slipping into the perspective of those closest to him. Sandy lives most his life with his strong-willed and deeply religious grandmother Aunt Hager. [...]

The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles)

Rick Riordan and Kevin R. Free and Katherine Kellgren

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Going into this book I had very high expectations. After all, the Percy Jackson books are such a wonderful and unique offering in children’s literature. They are funny, witty, filled with action and adventure, they breathe life into some of my favorite myths… They are hard to top. Pretty much this book is what would happen if the 39 Clues series and Percy Jackson books had a baby. There is [...]

From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival (Jewish Lives)

Thomas Toivi Blatt and Christopher R. Browning

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Among the most common questions asked of Holocaust survivors are why the Jews didn’t fight back: Why, it is wondered, did they let their families go to their death so easily? The recollections of Blatt, a survivor of the extermination camp Sobibor, in Poland, where Jews staged a successful revolt, addresses these questions in a frank and gripping narrative. Blatt’s account demonstrates how the Germans kept Jews in Poland subjugated [...]