A well-marketed effort to get graying boomers to think about the personal goals and purposes in life in retirement planning.
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Book Review: States Of Grace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
It was almost like reading descriptions of a variety of still life paintings. Charming to look at but no real depth beyond the use of colour and texture.
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After reading Henry Petroski's words, I'm looking at the steel and wood with new eyes. This is not a 'natural' way of storing volumes.
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A suggestion for a Festivus Feat of Strength -- tearing this book into little pieces or impaling it on the Festivus pole.
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A cheerful adventure tale is leavened with solid research that will leave you able to distinguish between a retiarius and a murmillo.
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When he is good, Connelly is really good. But this book is inferior to his other works.
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A novel aimed at tweens and young teens allows anyone to fairly consider the issues involved in challenges to and rebellions against faith and religion.
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mental_floss magazine extends its quirky and entertaining approach to fascinating facts and information to book form and "forbidden knowledge."
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A harrowing memoir of racism, religion and dysfunction in a midwestern Christian family.
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"Well you get a pile of really nice wood and a sharp whittling knife...carve away everything that isn't a guitar"
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