Review:I like to read an author's books in the order that they wrote them. My local library did not have Absolute Power as the first of the David Baldacci series. I decided to buy the book and give it to the library. It was certainly not a disappointment! I can see why Baldacci has gone on to be a NYT best seller! Read more

Review:What to say...I have a new auto-buy author (and those are very few these days). Not often a fan historical fiction, this story grabbed my attention and didn't let go. I immediately snatched up the sequel and eagerly await the third installment this fall. Read more

Review:Westberg explains the ten processes of grief in detail, giving guidance in what to realistically expect and how to practically deal with it. His perspective allows the grieving person to find his or her "new normal" after the loss. A must read for those in grief. Read more

Review:It is difficult to read BREAD GIVERS by Anzia Yezierska and not feel the same barrage of competing emotions that afflict nearly everyone in the book. On a literal level, Yezierska writes of the struggle of Russian/Polish Jews to assimilate in the New York just before the First World War. The action is narrated over a period of some dozen years by Sara Smolinsky, who begins the novel as a ten year old girl, one of three other sisters. We see the action filtered through her eyes, so there is the n... Read more

Review:I read this book in '98 and I still remember it so well. I have recommended it to 5 or 6 people and they couldn't get through it. Too big and bulky or whatever. But I just fell into the writing and the way he wove a tale of different lives into the basket of the 20th century. He is truly a gifted writer and I'm gonna pick this book back up and fall in love all over again! Read more

Review:We are using this book for Art Appreciation. I just think "it's okay". The problem with this book is that with each chapter the same vocabulary words are repeated over and over, never teaching anything new or rarely teaching something new. The chapters are disappointing because instead of just "Chapter 1" it is broken into 1.0, 1.2, 1.3 and up to 10 which is confusing and unnecessary.
I would never pay full price for this book. I paid ten dollars with a ten dollar expedite ship. Read more

Review:This is a very thorough book when it comes to covering world art through the ages. Great for college students and a must have for anyone interested in art. Also great is the Annotated books, Mona Lisa and Arch - check them out! Read more

Review:While true that there are flaws, who could expect a complete history of the Great War in 600 pages, this is an essential work for anyone interested in the war that was a suicide of Europe. A war that has forever changed the West and turned the French into what they are today. Very well done. Yes, the proof reading in the hardcover volume is bad, that is not the author's fault. Shame on the publisher for that problem. Gilbert touches on real persons, the men in the trenches. His often poignant us... Read more

Review:'Embracing Defeat' is a Pulitzer prize winning portrait of Japanese society after the defeat in WW2. It is a wide ranging survey, which, despite some guiding themes, often feels more like a collection of essays than a unified work.

There are, I think, several questions of great interest to the contemporary reader about Japan. One would probably be most interested in learning about how Japan dealt with the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; how Japan turned from a racist, imperialist... Read more

Review:Keegan could have used some help from his editors. The maps are next to useless. For example, the map accompanying the text on why the German right was extended and had to retreat during the first stage of the war shows nothing even suggesting the military problem. Keegan states that many people have suggested ways that the always failing attacks against dug-in troops could have been improved. This is one of the great military questions of the war, since all sides continually attacked wi... Read more