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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother... more

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  Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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  • Posted:Jan-28-2009

  • Stories of Old
  • This is an excellent thought provoking book. I cannot seem to stop thinking when reading this book about conversations in the past I have had with my family members and this can prove to be...
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  • Posted:Dec-12-2008

  • insight into Obama
  • perhaps only those who have experienced some degree of prejudice will truly appreciate this ? It is a revealing portion of the life of Obama. He is a good writer and from this you can learn he is...
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  • Obama is a Liar
  • This book is a "spin" piece released well in advance of Obama's political career to lay the groundwork: the BS myth was already well in place when he decided to run.
    
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  The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition

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  • Posted:Sep-05-2009

  • A Great Memoir, A Great Piece of Literature
  • I loved this book and I usually read fiction, not non-fiction. I read the book many years ago and have listed it as a favorite every chance I get, but it never occurred to me to write a review.
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  • Posted:Oct-12-2008

  • Double standards
  • Lets imagine that a Jewish author writes a book that features all the well known evil racist stereotypes of Afro-Americans. Everyone would be up in arms (justifiably) and condemn the book. Here we...
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  • Posted:Jan-05-2007

  • Race, race, race, and more race
  • I actually felt somewhat guilty for not enjoying this book more. But I appear to be the sole dissenter here.
    
    Positives first: Mr. McBride is a very graceful writer. His prose is fluid...
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"Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547,... more

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  The Children of Henry VIII

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  • Posted:Oct-17-2009

  • Excellent buy on hardback
  • Perfect copy as promised; excellent communication and fast shipment. I wouldn't hesitate to buy again; couldn't be happier.
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  • Posted:Jul-21-2009

  • Confusing
  • I found this book confusing and missing information. It would appear that a few known facts were embellished to produce a book. I found the bibliography disappointing considering the volume of...
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  • Posted:Jul-27-2008

  • Tedious history
  • The author demonstrates meticulous research in this book. This is the fourth of her books I have read and find her style clear,dull and somewhat easier to read than the Congrsssional Record.If you...
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A dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders.... more

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  The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Amazing Read!!!
  • This book will inspire and "wake up" any Christian who reads it. Brother Yun is a remarkable man, and his faith and love for Jesus Christ is a model for us all. You will not be disappointed with...
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  • Posted:May-14-2009

  • Challenging Complacency
  • Friends had heard Brother Yun speak in Minneapolis, so recommended the book to our book club. It is difficult to imagine the persecution described in the book happening in modern China, and easy...
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  • the violence never seems to cease........
  • This book isnt for you if violence makes you queasy. I thought it was unbelievable what Yun went through, and it was an interesting book. I learned much about the history of Christianity, which I...
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The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in... more

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  The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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  • Posted:Sep-30-2009

  • Absorbing is right...
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  • Posted:Sep-08-2009

  • Frustrated by Typos
  • This review pertains only to the KINDLE edition of this book. I have not read other editions. The Kindle edition has been frustrating to read because of typos and inconsistencies in the text that...
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  • Posted:Feb-26-2006

  • Superb Work
  • When I purchased this book, I was skeptical because I thought it might be another dull book about English history. I was absolutely wrong - this is a great book! Weir does a great job of telling...
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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the... more

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  The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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  • Posted:Dec-30-2008

  • Another Palestinian apologist
  • this author has to work for New York Times. Never in my life have I read such a one sided account of history. Every horrid atrocity committed by Arabs is given little attention while every attempt...
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  • Posted:Dec-29-2008

  • The Lemon Tree
  • THE LEMON TREE by Sandy Tolan been nominated for the 2009 Rodda Award sponsored by the Church and Synagogue Library Association (CSLA), an international organization serving congregational...
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  • Posted:Mar-13-2008

  • Great read - proof that history is never balanced
  • This well written book provides a wonderful insight into the Paletinian narrative. It takes a real human story to provide context to historical events and dates. Its fundamental weakness is its own...
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This is the mass market edition of the popular book by Dr. Ben Carson whose inspiring story tells of a frustrated... more

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  Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

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  • Posted:Dec-21-2008

  • Good, motivational story
  • As a pre-medical student, I found that I could really identify with Dr. Carson in this autobiographical sketch. His personality really shines in his writing and his enthusiasm for learning,...
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  • Posted:Oct-28-2007

  • Irritating
  • What an egotistical blowhard. His one theme is himself and his achievements. He pontificates about everything. He is a moralistic and judgemental jerk. You don't have to listen to a guy like...
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  • Posted:Nov-19-2002

  • Amazing accomplishment, even more amazing gift of Bragging
  • This guy can tell you every little compliment he ever received as far back as his childhood, yet he seems to be just way too braggadocios in the way he tells it. (Especially when he tells how he...
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?Daddy and Roger and ?em shot ?em a nigger.? Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate,... more

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  Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

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  • Posted:Sep-04-2009

  • Awareness first, then correction
  • Wasn't there, and where I was, I was too young and cloistered to understand the idealism and the activism in this time period, what I know for certain is that these were socially active times,...
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  • Posted:Jun-19-2008

  • A beautiful piece of FICTION
  • I read this book for a college course and found it shocking and heartbreaking. I grew up very close to where the event of the story take place. After I had finished the book I had the pleasure of...
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  • Posted:Jul-18-2007

  • A mixture of polemic, interesting recollections, and accounts of questionable credibility
  • I was born and grew up in Oxford, North Carolina as a white boy, and graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina in 1949. I have lived in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland for many years.
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This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically... more

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  The Bookseller of Kabul

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Small Minded and Evil Men
  • At first the somewhat arcane figures of speech and the obviously translated from another language way the book reads, put me off. Don't let it. The story is a good one albeit infuriating and...
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  • Posted:Sep-09-2009

  • Worth the read.
  • I'm not unhappy to have read this book; it gave me some insight into a part of the world that I would otherwise know little about. But it is depressing in the extreme, and I suspect that it is one...
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  • Posted:Jun-09-2008

  • not very exciting
  • The bookseller of Kabul from Asne Seierstad.
    Even before I could finish the lecture of the book - I stay around the midle -I can say that the book is readable but not exciting, outstanding...
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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a... more

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  Enrique's Journey

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  • Posted:Sep-15-2009

  • decent story, could use some editing of the unpleasant parts
  • About the first third of the book is endless stats about kids getting beaten, mutilated, raped, killed, etc. on their journeys north. But once you get past a lot of that, it was a pretty moving...
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  • Justice and scholarship in Enrique's Journey
  • Enrique's Journey is a quick read because it is a fascinating story. I got through it over the last three evenings. Besides telling the story of Enrique's journey, the author addresses two...
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  • Posted:Oct-04-2008

  • A story that needed to be told...but not like this!
  • I picked this up, only to put it down after a few pages. The author's rather melodramatic approach made the story seem more like a cheap, badly-written novel than a nonfiction account. I just...
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George Jenkins, Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt were three African American kids living in the inner city of Newark,... more

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  The Pact

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  • Posted:Oct-08-2009

  • Couldn't put it down!!!!!!
  • This book shows when life causes you to make mistakes, your can change it for the better. The determination and honesty of these three men shows it doesn't matter where you live, or your family...
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  • Posted:Jul-30-2009

  • Good life story...not so great book about said story.
  • This is my required reading from Newark Public Schools for summer vacation. Even though I understand that this book was given to us in hopes of inspiring us and giving us something to relate to, I...
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  • Posted:Apr-09-2006

  • Doctors, not Writers
  • Great story, boring book:
    
    Me and my two friends grew up in a ghetto. We did some bad things, thought about becoming rap singers, then went back to our plan to be doctors. Shout out to...
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Presents an account of Melba Beals's junior year at Central High in 1957, during which her family suffered threats,... more

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  Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

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  • Warriors don't cry
  • The book was in excellent shape. I purchased it for my daughter for a reading assignment. The book arrived at the time it was due. I received a nice book for a good price.
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  • Hated to hate it.
  • Yes, I did not like this book. I feel like I should have, it's a great memoir of Melba's trials and tribulations while integrating with the rest of the black students into the school, but I...
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  • Good story.
  • This book is not a page turner, it tells the story of the "Little Rock Nine" and follows the story of one girl in particular. I though that it was a good book although it did get a bit slow at...
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  On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

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  • Renee
  • Great Book!! Learned more about Chinese history in the US than in a history book. Passed it on twice already, friends all say how much they enjoyed it.
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  • Interesting historical perspective, but writing style can be over-the-top
  • It is difficult for me to say whether or not I liked this book. While I am drawn to its narrative, which covers several generations of Asian Americans, I had a hard time stomaching the author's...
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  • Skip this one but enjoy her others...
  • I absolutely loved two of Lisa See's other novels: "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Dragon Bones" and recommend both of them highly - she is an incredibly talented writer.
    
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  Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II

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  • a book that will build your faith
  • This is a true story of a missionary just before WWII. Her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese will not depress you as much as uplift you and show you how God can work in us when we let Him....
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  Coming of Age in Mississippi

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  • Great Book. American History
  • Great Book. I had to read it for my History Class, my mom later read it and loved it.
    
    This is American History, everyone should read it.
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  • Slow read
  • This book was chosen by my book club. It was a very slow read, and didn't flow well.
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  • Many emotions
  • The beginning of the book was strange to me. Once I got into the flow of the writing I started to enjoy it. Once Essie/Anne hits the movements though, she comes off as a zealot and expects everyone...
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The author recounts the shock he experienced when he learned that his father's relatives in Muncie, Indiana, were... more

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  Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

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  • Throw the dice
  • When falling through the cracks of the system and emulating a tough environment rules our inner cities, this book is the story of a person who hung on to the ledge of that proverbial crack....
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  • Saved the best for last
  • I read "Living on the Color Line" for a school assignment, because the other book looked unappealing. As I started reading "Living on the Color Line" though, I feared I had made a mistake. While...
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  • The Artificial Line
  • Look, I have a great deal of sympathy and a great deal of admiration for any individual that overcomes adversity, but let's be real here. Mr Willliams is white. Race is a phenotypic state. Period....
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  Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

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  • A Family Saga
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  • Catfish and Mandala
  • This book is about a Vietnamese-American man looking for his identity in his homeland. Like many Vietnamese who were children when South Viet Nam fell to the communist in 1975, Mr. Pham's family...
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  • From another Vietnamese's perspective
  • Overall, this book is well written and has its good moments. As a Vietnamese who came to America at the same time frame and age as the writer, I can't help but to dislike the writer as I read the...
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First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. This... more

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  Way to Rainy Mountain

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  • Perfect
  • This book arrived quickly, well before the final possible arrival date. It is also in great condition. Looks brand new.
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These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. In January 1952, Che set... more

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  The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

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  • A product of his environment.
  • Ernesto Guevara & Alberto Granados set of on a road trip for the fun & adventure of it. What they got was was more of a learning experience. I bought this book after having read CHe's later...
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  • A couple of dull guys have very little fun and adventure on their road trip
  • I read the book pretty much ignoring the Che of later years and hoping to find the adventure of a young, passionate man free on the roads. I also hoped to get a glimpse at the human underneath the...
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  • Disappointing, but at least it's by "Che" ...
  • If this book were written by any other person, I'd give it 2 Stars. But because it's by Che, you at least get some insights into him, and that makes it a 3.
    
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Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly... more

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  • A guide to survival...
  • Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land" is an American story, a story of urban community, living in it and surviving it. It's street life pure and simple, how one grows and survives in it,...
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