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BOOK NUMBER: 95
SUBJECT MATTER: Higher Education, Colleges
TITLE: Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids-And What We Can Do About It
AUTHORS: Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company
COPYRIGHT: 2010, 271 pages
An incisive, wonderfully written indictment of higher education/college in the U.S. Discussion ranges from poor teaching, to exploding costs, to college coursework titles, etc. Think you would be better off going to an "Ivy League" school? Think again. According to these authors, you are more likely to get poor instruction at those so-called elite schools. A terrific read filled with humor, anecdotes, and solutions. Takes on the issue of: what is higher education really for?

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BOOK NUMBER: 94
SUBJECT MATTER: Fiction, Mystery
TITLE: A Carribean Mystery
AUTHOR: Agatha Christie
PUBLISHER: Dodd, Mead & Company
COPYRIGHT: 1964, 245 pages
An enthralling murder mystery with plenty of twists that will keep you reading till the end. This mystery features the wonderful Miss Marple. Enjoy!

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BOOK NUMBER: 93

SUBJECT MATTER: Youth Picture Book, ABC's

TITLE: Superhero ABC

AUTHOR: Bob McLeod

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins Publishers

COPYRIGHT: 2006, 32 pages

Learn the alphabet and words for each letter with superhero characters like: "G-goo girl-who shoots great gobs of goo at gangsters", "M-Multiplying Mike-who becomes many more men in a moment", and "A-Astro man-who is always alert for an alien attack. A vivid, colorful, and dramatic book!

(The inside front and back covers are covered with the alphabet superheroes.)

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BOOK NUMBER: 92

SUBJECT MATTER: Youth fiction

TITLE: Elvis & Olive Super Detectives

AUTHOR: Stephanie Watson

PUBLISHER: Scholastic Press

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 277 pages

Nice story about two friends (9 and 10 years of age) and the various subplots surrounding their lives. Including: the girls detective-mystery solving agency, a school election, neighborhood friends, food preferences, etc. Lovely front and back cover art!

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BOOK NUMBER: 91

SUBJECT MATTER: Online social networking

TITLE: Find a Job Through Social Networking. Use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and More to Advance Your Career

AUTHORS: Diane Crompton, Ellen Sautter

PUBLISHER: Jist Works

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 258 pages

This book guides you through everything you need to know to use online social networking to do your job search. Also a good book for beginners to any of the sites mentioned in the title. Quite a useful libro!

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BOOK NUMBER: 90

SUBJECT MATTER: Prostate cancer, Personal narrative

TITLE: Invasion of the Prostrate Snatchers. No More Unnecessary Biopsies, Radical Treatment or Loss of Sexual Potency

AUTHORS: Ralph H. Blum, Mark Schloz, MD

PUBLISHER: Other Press

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 293 pages

Everything you could possibly want to know about prostates, prostate cancer, prostate treatments, results of prostrate treatments, etc. Compelling book written by a gentleman who has had a 20-year relationship with prostate cancer and his Dr. Full of stories, humor, and the choices-decisions made by Mr. Blum. If you like to read, pick up this book-even if you don't have a prostate!

Includes: appendix and index

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BOOK NUMBER: 89

SUBJECT MATTER: Hairdressing, Beauty

TITLE: Curly Like Me. How to Grow Your Hair Healthy, Long, and Strong

AUTHOR: Teri LaFlesh

PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 276 pages

Wonderful book about how to properly care for curly, super curly hair. Loaded with photos, tips, and recommendations to heal, maintain, and grow curly hair. Particular applications to mixed-race hair people. A fun read!

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BOOK NUMBER: 88

SUBJECT MATTER: Young adult fiction

TITLE: Sexy

AUTHOR: Joyce Carol Oates

PUBLISHER: Harper Tempest

COPYRIGHT: 2005, 263 pages

Quick, easy read. Tale about teenaged men and women and their high school and a scenario involving a nasty plot gone horribly wrong. Many sympathetic characters.

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BOOK NUMBER: 87

SUBJECT MATTER: Juvenile fiction, cats

TITLE: When Cats Go Wrong

AUTHOR: Norm Hacking

PUBLISHER: Raincoast Books

COPYRIGHT: 2004, 30 pages

Ingenious story in song-song story in book form with CD and performance of song/story about naughty kitties. Bold, dramatic illustrations.

Includes a final page that discusses the style of the music used in the song: tango-and a discussion of the tango culture. ¡Maravilloso!

Song performed by: Norm Hacking

Illustrado por: Cynthia Nugent

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BOOK NUMBER: 86

SUBJECT MATTER: Playboy, US Social Conditions

TITLE: Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America

AUTHOR: Elizabeth Fraterrigo

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press

COPYRIGHT: 2009, 295 pages

Read about the beginnings of the Playboy empire (magazine and more) as created by Hugh Hefner, and it's role in the social changes throughout the years in the USA.

Quote from book: "...Playboy nonetheless played a catalytic role in the refashioning of gender roles and sexuality mores since the 1950's, and its underlying messages about pleasure, consumption, and the freedom to find fulfillment in a lifestyle of ones own choosing are now cornerstones of American culture."-from page 210

Wonderful color cover!

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BOOK NUMBER: 85

SUBJECT MATTER: Young Adult Fiction, Supernatural

TITLE: The Picture of Dorian Gray

AUTHOR: Oscar Wilde

PUBLISHER: Viking/Penguin Group

COPYRIGHT: 2000, 269 pages

From "The Whole Story" series, which uses a documentary approach to tell great tales with: complete unabridged text as originally published, annotated with extended captions, explanations of history, popular culture, y social customs of the time.

The story of Dorian Gray: his painting reflects the unsavory ugliness he practices while his own visage remains unblemished and beautiful to see.

By the way, the film with George Sanders and Angela Lansbury is quite good and true to this story in mi opinion.

Illustrado por Tom Ross

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BOOK NUMBER: 84

SUBJECT MATTER: DC Comics, Superheroes

TITLE: Wednesday Comics-The World's Greatest Heroes!The World's Greatest Comics!

AUTHOR: Varied-Introduction by Mark Chiarello

PUBLISHER: DC Comics

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 200 pages

Superpowered oversized (14x20) newsprint comic book featuring awesome art and stories with the following superheroes: Batman, Superman, Deadman, Kamandi-The Last Boy on Earth, The Element Man, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Sgt. Rock and Easy Co., The Demon and Catwoman, Hawkman, The Creeper, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, and Strange Adventures.

A Superfabulous, Beautiful book! You will LOVE it!

INCLUDES: Stunningly wonderful inside front and inside back covers, creator bios of all authors.

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BOOK NUMBER: 83

SUBJECT MATTER: Non-fiction

TITLE: Free For All-Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

AUTHOR: Don Borchert

PUBLISHER: Virgin Books

COPYRIGHT: 2007, 223 pages

Laugh out loud funny tome by a gentleman who works in a library and tells some of his experiences and the behind the scenes workings of the library. You will enjoy this book!

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BOOK NUMBER: 82

SUBJECT MATTER: Youth Picture Book, Alphabet

TITLE: Eating the Alphabet-Fruits and Vegetables From A to Z

AUTHOR: Lois Ehlert

PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Inc.

COPYRIGHT: 1989, 32 pages

Yummy book telling the alphabet using your favorite fruits and vegetables. Por ejemplo: P is for: peach, pineapple, pera, plum, papaya, pomegranate, persimmon for fruit AND parsnip, potato, pea, pepper, and pumpkin for vegetables. Muy Rico!

INCLUDED: Glossary of fruits and vegetables!

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BOOK NUMBER: 81

SUBJECT MATTER: Youth Biography, Race Relations

TITLE: Leon's Story

AUTHOR: Leon Walter Tillage

PUBLISHER: Farrar Strauss Giroux

COPYRIGHT: 1997, 107 pages

A 107 page book that is a testament to the resilience of man AND man's inhumanity to man. Imagine watching a loved on run over and killed and the only thing you get is an apology from the parent of the driver and $100.00. No investigation, no placing of blame, nada. What about getting your head cracked open because you drank some agua from the "wrong" water fountain. Mr. Tillage tells these and other harrowing stories as he experienced them growing up in North Carolina in this heartfelt, straightforward book.

Graced with a wonderful photo on the cover of Mr. Tillage as a boy and filled with the collage art of Susan L. Roth.

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BOOK NUMBER: 80

SUBJECT MATTER: Youth, Non fiction, Natural Disasters

TITLE: The Dust Bowl, Through the Lens-How Photography Revealed and helped Remedy a National Disaster

AUTHOR: Martin W. Sandler

PUBLISHER: Walker & Company

COPYRIGHT: 2009, 97 pages

Winning treatment of the Dust Bowl disaster in the United States. Compelling photos and commentary throughout the book detail this dreadful disaster that happened from 1930-1936.

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BOOK NUMBER: 79

SUBJECT MATTER: Superman, Youth Graphic Novel, Superhero

TITLE: Superman, The Story of the Man of Steel

AUTHOR: Ralph Cosentino

PUBLISHER: Penguin Group

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 33 pages

Simple, fun, sweet story about the life of the great Superman. Fans will love this book!Illustrado por: Ralph Cosentino, el autor

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BOOK NUMBER: 78

SUBJECT MATTER: Catwoman, Young Adult Fiction

TITLE: Catwoman:The Life and Times of a Feline Fatale

AUTHOR: Suzan Colón

PUBLISHER: DC Comics

COPYRIGHT: 2003, 144 pages

A power packed book about the femme fatale of Batman's world-Catwoman. Find out about this sultry girl: from her various names, various fashions, etc. Packed with great pictures (including those in the inside front and inside back covers.) A definite read if you are a fan!

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BOOK NUMBER: 77

SUBJECT MATTER: Mexican Immigration, Youth non-fiction

TITLE: Mexican Immigrants in America-An interactive History Adventure

AUTHOR: Rachel Hanel

PUBLISHER: Capstone Press

COPYRIGHT: 2009, 112 pages

Essentially a how-to-book for people who wish to ignore the rules to come into the USA. Utterly sympathetic to the immigrants from Mexico in this case, with no hint of empathy for American black, brown, red, yellow, white whose wages are depressed because of this segment of the population. No mention of the tensions created by this population as they choose to not particularly become a part of America such as it is. Astonishing that a book of this kind would be pitched to youth with no other side of the story.

While the book is very enjoyable in the set up-you get to choose what happens in the stories, and presentation, the tone of this book is unreal.

Read it and see what you think.

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BOOK NUMBER: 76

SUBJECT MATTER: African History, Youth

TITLE: Africa Focus-Ancient Africa

AUTHORS: Rob Bowden & Rosie Wilson

PUBLISHER: Heinemann Library

COPYRIGHT: 2010. 48 pages

A beautifully prepared book full of marvelous photos, interesting facts, lucid discussions and descriptions of empires in Africa.

INCLUDES: a glossary, a timeline, some Swahili vocabulary

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BOOK NUMBER: 75

SUBJECT MATTER: Youth picture book, fiction

TITLE: Sky-High Guy

AUTHOR: Nina Crews

PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company

COPYRIGHT: 2010, 29 pages

A super book with wonderful photographs that tells the story of 2 young boys and their toy playmate.

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BOOK NUMBER: 74

SUBJECT MATTER: Fiction

TITLE: Hotel

AUTHOR: Arthur Hailey

PUBLISHER: Doubleday & Company, INC.

COPYRIGHT: 1965, 376 pages

A good book to read on a rainy day! Enough plotlines followed through and intertwined to keep it interesting. Plus, it contains some realities about the hotel business I believe.

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BOOK NUMBER: 73

SUBJECT MATTER: Fairytales, Youth Fiction

TITLE: Yummy, Eight Favorite Fairy Tales

AUTHOR: Lucy Cousins

PUBLISHER: Candlewick Press

COPYRIGHT: 2009, 121 pages

Look again at 8 classic fairytales including: Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Little Red Hen, Henny Penny. Great fun with the vivid illustrations by the author. A large wonderful book!