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The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Penguin Books, 1996
Powerful - Page Turner
Delaney Mossbacher is a wealthy yuppie-liberal who lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles. One day on his way to the recycling center, he hits a pedestrian with his car. The man hit is Candido Rincon, a poor, illegal immigrant from Mexico. Feeling guilty, Delaney gives ...
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Clique #8, The: Sealed with a Diss: A Clique Novel (Clique Series)
Lisi Harrison
Poppy, 2007
Funny, Light-hearted and Entertaining Series
I am an adult with a weakness for reading children's literature and I have to say that I really love this series. There are always references to designer clothes and rich lifestyles and it is a guilty pleasure to read about this. I do admit that it is rather shallow ...
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Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces
Carrie Stuart Parks
North Light Books, 2003
Highly Recommend
Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces is one of the best instructional books on drawing faces that I've read thus far. It has some extremely useful tips that have improved my drawing after just the first read.
Proper(realistic)shading and proportion were my weak areas; ...
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Follow the River
James Alexander Thom
Ballantine Books, 1986
Great, great book!
I'd read this book once before, a long time ago, and it blew me away then. I know that the author took some literary license, but to know that Mary Ingles went through nearly the same ordeal is incredible to imagine. It's amazing what mankind can endure and still ...
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Bridal Bargains, 8th Edition: Secrets to throwing a fantastic wedding on a realistic budget (Bridal Bargains)
Denise Fields
Windsor Peak Press, 2006
Big on BARGAINS!!!
Still sorting through.....as I said with both of my children getting married, we need all the bargains we can find.
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Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil
J. D. Hillberry
North Light Books, 1999
Exactly What it Says it is
I've seen realistic pencil drawings and wondered exactly how they were done (what materials, what techniques). This book explains.
If you can draw basic line drawings but want to know how to make your work more realistic this book will help.
If you don't know ...
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Lush Life: A Novel
Richard Price
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
The Price is Right
Richard Price is as good of a dialogue writer as exists today in my mind. "Lush Life" is his latest novel that brilliantly showcases his skills and keen knowledge and insights of city life, particularly NYC life.
Other reviewers have already covered the plot so I ...
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SM 101: A Realistic Introduction
Jay Wiseman
Greenery Press (CA), 1998
A great introduction to BDSM
I had felt a lot of confusion as to what exactly BDSM was and why where people so attracted to it. After reading this book I now see that the lifestyle can not only be safe but actually enjoyable for us 'vanilla' folks (as they refer to none BDSM people).
This ...
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Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures
Katherine Dewey
Watson-Guptill, 2008
Like a textbook!
I feel like I got a college textbook and not a craft book. I say that with absolutely positive feelings! I mean, if this were some college course, the book would have been $75.00 and I'd feel like I'd finally gotten a book I was going to keep.
I couldn't even ...
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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Nita Engle
Watson-Guptill, 2007
must have
This is the best book on water color technique around. Nita Engle is way ahead of the pack in her endless creativity and ways of applying watercolor to paper or illustration board. The results are always water media, not mixed media. Her palette is dated, but ...
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Paint Realistic Animals in Acrylic with Lee Hammond
Lee Hammond
North Light Books, 2007
Paint Realistic Animals
I shared it with my painting class and several painters wrote down the info so they could purchase it...Jean Hansen
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The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training: A Realistic Approach to Training Close-Working Gun Dogs for Tight ...
Jerome B. Robinson
The Lyons Press, 2003
The Ultimate Guide to Bird Dog Training
This book is GREAT! My husband got me interested in training bird dogs after going on a quail hunt recently. I reviewed the books on Amazon that were available on the subject and chose this one to get an idea of what bird dog training would entail. I was skeptical ...
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The Report Card
Andrew Clements
Aladdin, 2005
A Delightful Read!
Mr. Clements hones in on some important educational issues--particularly the emphasis on test scores as measures of potential college aptitude. I know a lot of teachers who have become disenchanted with the teaching profession because of all the emphasis on ...
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Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray
Roger Cusson; Jamie Cardoso
Focal Press, 2007
Wonderful book
The book arrived brand-new, carefully packed, absolutely satisfy my need. Simply love Amazon's way of business.
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The Price of Prosperity: A Realistic Appraisal of the Future of Our National Economy (Peter L. Bernstein's ...
Peter L. Bernstein
Wiley, 2008
One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity which have forewords by ...
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