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In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him nine months and cover 7000 miles. The result was "Democracy in America", a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville's study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system.

To this day, this amazing book is still up-to-date about America, its attitude to religion, foreign affairs, women, education, race relations, the presidency and government. A brilliant book!!

Updated Dec 12, 2006

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The Stranger Beside Me (Ann Rule)

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I read this book many years ago and can still recall many parts of it today. Ann Rule met Ted Bundy at a local crisis counseling center. Sharing long nights helping those who felt that suicide was the only option, they developed a friendship. She believed that she knew the handsome psychology major about to attend law school; however, she only knew a part of the man. Bundy was also a cold-blooded serial killer. This story follows Rule as she at first denies that the Bundy she knew could have committed these murders, and then the realization that he was ruthless, dangerous, and evil.

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Updated Dec 20, 2006

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Los Angeles Times

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I read the L.A. Times everyday online as the web site is neatly designed. Categories are easy to see and the layout is very clean.

Updated Dec 19, 2006

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe

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This is a series of field trips into the myriad of places across the globe where the increasing evidence of approaching disaster is being observed, discussed, and reacted to in ways that has to give the reader pause.

Eskimos are abandoning a small island in the Artic Ocean, even as the surrounding ice cap that once protected from wind and storm damage, melts into oblivion as a direct result of the Greenhouse Effect. In Alaska, as myopic politicans insist on drilling for more the last drop of oil, climate change is forcing people to leave their homes and, as Kolbert explains, their ways of life. An absolute must-read as readers are advised to put two and two together, and not wait for the commander-in-chief to see the light from a Texas ranch.

Updated Dec 19, 2006

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A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz

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I am a huge fan of Annie Leibovitz as she is one of the world's most talented photographers. This book that will touch even those who have a limited interest in photograpy. It is a marvel!

Updated Dec 15, 2006

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Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of

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This is one of the funniest book you'll ever read. Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary will teach you how to speak this unique Southern dialect fluently. Whether you’re blue-collar or hoity-toity, swimming in cash or betting your bottom dollar, a little bit country or a lot of city slicker, this practical reference to redneck words and turns of phrases will give you hours of hysterical laughs.

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The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

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This book will leave a special taste in your mouth. Richard Kuklinsky, the Iceman or contrack killer for the mafia, tells his story - from unbelievabe claims such as his participation in the unsolved murder of Jimmy Hoffa to his delight in the suffering and killing of his victims. We did see him interviewed on HBO and after reading this book, we certainly believe everything he said.

He emphasizes how he compartmentalized his life so that his family was shielded from the horror of his trade. This is a interesting book in tracing the decline of the traditional organized crime families and their once impenetrable structures.

Updated Dec 11, 2006

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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

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A collection of very short essays (many two pages long), gravelly voiced NPR commentator Codrescu sketches finely honed portraits of a fabled city and its equally fabled inhabitants. The author, who has called the Big Easy home for two decades, shows how, like some gigantic bohemian magnet, New Orleans attracts some of the world's most talented, self-indulgent freaks.

He writes about his years on carnival krews, about hours spent prowling the French Quarter, about Marie Laveau the voodoo queen and other New Orleans characters, about food and the cemeteries where people meet as if they were parks.

It is a place where many people call the phone numbers of the dead and fully expect the deceased to answer. Yes, living with alligators is, as he says, "an acquired taste," but on the other hand, St. Charles Avenue "has to be the most charming boulevard in the world."

With Andrei Codrescu's writing, New Orleans will never be forgotten. A fabulous book about New Orleans!.

Updated Dec 4, 2006

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Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s

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My husband is a huge fan of Philip K. Dick so this will be a must-buy. I've also liked him ever since I found out that 'Blade Runner' was based on 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. (via Melissa2U)

Updated Dec 4, 2006

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Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.

Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.

This book is the inspirational story of this remarkable young woman.

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