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| Late For Tea At The Deer Palace, The Lost Dreams Of My Iraqi Family by Tamara Chalabi |
| 2011-02-02 05:37:00 |
Late For Tea At The Deer Palace is one of the most captivating books I have ever read. Rather than telling you what kind of a book it is, I 'll let you read part of the prologue Tamara Chalabi herself has written.
"......It was 19 April 2003, ten days after the fall of Baghdad to the US led coalition forces, and the city, depleted and derelict, was grappling with a new reality. The heat of
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| The Last Lecture |
| 2011-01-22 14:30:00 |
I finally read this wonderful book. You can't imagine how delighted I was when I saw a Sinhalese translation of this masterpiece by Dr.Randy Pausch.
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This book is written around the lecture held by Dr. Pausch, a great scholar of computer based virtual realities and an academic of Carnegie Mellon University, after being diagnosed with a fatal cancer, his very last lecture so, as well as
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| Inventing George Washington Was A Painful Experience |
| 2011-01-09 05:14:00 |
N.B. I have based this review on an uncorrected proof copy of "Inventing George Washington" by Edward G Lengel, so the contents of the final print may be different in parts that are quoted here.
Inventing George Washington by Edward G Lengel was a bad reading experience, I'm afraid. I'll start what little I have to say about this book with this quotation from the preface of the book.
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| The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving |
| 2011-01-04 11:11:00 |
N.B. This review has been based of an uncorrected proof copy of the title the and content of the final publication may differ from the way mentioned in this article.
Being a person who love animals, and dogs above all, I found great pleasure in reading through Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason's The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving, a scholarly composition putting the man-dog relationship in a new light,
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| An Unbelievable Yet True Story |
| 2010-11-20 20:07:00 |
I read a good book after a long time . Once I got my hands on a Sinhalese translation of Alive by Piers Paul Read, I got through it without stopping.
Alive is a remarkable novel telling the true story of a group of people who got lost among the frozen Andes mountains after the plane carrying them from Uruguay to Chili crashed, and how some of them beat the odds of the harsh conditions of
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| Good To A Fault By Marina Endicott, How Do Selfishness And Sacrifice Relate To Each Other? |
| 2010-08-30 08:39:00 |
Good To A Fault, a novel written by Marina Endicott ,was a book I found very enjoyable and inspirational. Although it has a plot that evolves around a woman's decision that is hardly likely to take place in the real world, the author presents it with such a fine manner which makes it really convincing.
Here is a peek in to the plot. Clara Purdy is fourty- three, and works as an insurance
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| Lonely by Emily White, Nothing like I've Ever Read |
| 2010-08-22 11:29:00 |
Lonely is a book written by Emily White that leads to a possible recognition of chronic loneliness as an altogether different condition. Inspired mostly by the authors own experience of loneliness, this book is in part a biography, a research paper, and a case study. I'll remember this as one my best reading experiences ever.
In this remarkable book Emily tells us that she must have born
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| Island Beneanth The Sea By Isabel Allende |
| 2010-06-16 13:05:00 |
Ever since I read Eva Luna , I was eagerly looking forward to read the other books by Isabel Allende. When I got my hands on Island Beneath The Sea, I was very exited with anticipation, believing that a wonderful story was awaiting me, and I wasn't disappointed. The novel was yet another example of Allende's remarkable gift of storytelling.
The plot starts in 1770, in the French colony
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| The Barbary Pirates by William Dietrich, a fast- paced novel with adventure, humor, and history |
| 2010-05-03 12:00:00 |
The Barbary Pirates is novel that is one of a series written by William Dietrich around the fictitious character Ethan Gage. It is written with some relevance to certain true historical incidents and characters as well. to I was a little confused as I just started this book because I had not read any previous books of the series and the language was a bit modern for a book telling a story set
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| What's In A Word By Webb Garrison |
| 2010-04-14 08:45:00 |
This is a fascinating book that tells us how some of the most common English words and phrases were originated,the real story behind them. The book covers more than 350 everyday words and phrases, all presented in simple,easy- to- understand language. I'll quote some parts of the author's own introduction of the book below.
"Practically every word and phrase we use is an easy to swallow
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