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Basic Guide to How to Read Music from Perigee Books Price: $9.95 Customer Review:  This book was adequate in the description and explanation of music theory, however it is not my favourite . . in several areas there are details that are not very clear - the instruction seems to start off very basic (which is exactly how it should begin) but then ramps almost too quickly into... |
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Pumpkin Soup from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $10.88 Customer Review:  There is something so warm, satisfying and homey about this book. The three animals live happily together in their warm and cozy house eating their regular supper of pumpkin soup. Each member of this little family has his own role in the soup making process; however, happiness cannot last forever... |
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The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed: Pictures and Story from Dial Books for Young Readers Customer Review: I purchased this book for my daughter when she was two. She is now almost three, and this is still one of our favorite bedtime books. My daughter enjoys (and relates to) the little boy's not wanting to go to bed, and the stalling that is involved. My daughter gets a kick out of the vrrooming car... |
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The Canterbury Tales (Oxford Guides to Chaucer) from Oxford University Press Price: $30.00 |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation (Oxford World's Classics) from Oxford University Press Price: $8.06 Customer Review:  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with its translation by Keith Harrison (Oxford University Press 1998), is an enjoyable, as well as intellectually stimulating, book. A substantial amount of additional material is included in the book, including a wonderful introduction and explanatory notes. The... |
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Winslow Homer Watercolors from Yale University Press Price: $22.05 Customer Review: I bought this book unseen from Amazon (based on the other reader reviews) and I love it! Before buying, I looked at these 2 other books in a bookstore and was not satisfied with their contents: 1) Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler focuses only on Homer's passion for fly fishing; 2)The Watercolors of... |
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Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics) from Oxford University Press Price: $11.53 Customer Review: The tales of King Arthur and of the knights of the Round Table are well-known and have been the subject of many books, poems (Tennyson), at least two musical works (Purcell's "King Arthur", and the famous Broadway musical, "Camelot"), and films ("Camelot", based on the musical, and "Excalibur"). The... |
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Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures from Yale University Press Price: $21.95 |
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Tatty Ratty from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $10.88 Customer Review: My 3-year-old calls this "a sparkly book". This is a wonderful tale of Molly who has lost her precious stuffed rabbit. Through night and day her and her parents imagine where he might be - and tell wonderful stories about him. The fun story telling reminds me of the times our family tell spontaneous... |
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100 Keys to Great Oil Painting from North Light Books Customer Review: I am a beginning oil painter and this book is great. It focuses on different aspects in great detail without confusing you. |
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The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare from Oxford University Press Price: $125.00 |
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The Living Forest (The Earth, Its Wonders, Its Secrets) from Readers Digest Assn |
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Villette from Penguin Books Price: $8.25 |
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The Bear Under the Stairs from Bantam Pr Ltd Price: $8.59 Customer Review: There is a horror lurking under the stairs in little William's house - a hungry grizzly bear with a taste for little boys and an unnatural interest in their toys. Although it is too dark down there for William to tell for certain, strange forms in the shadows and the whispered counsels of his... |
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Secret France from W.W. Norton & Company Price: $18.45 Customer Review: A great book for finding and seeing France from another vantage point. There is great detail and information about this country not found in travel guides. The information about French people and their unique life styles is invaluable to the traveler. This book is such a find, outlining marvelous... |
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Sandmare from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $10.20 |
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Stories for Christmas from Gallery Books |
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Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales from Oxford University Press |
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Little Monster Did It! from Corgi Childrens Price: $8.59 Customer Review: This is the perfect book for a young child on the arrival of a sibling. When mom and dad head off to the hospital to have the baby, they give the older sister a toy monster. Little do they guess the trouble Little Monster will cause! Wry illustrations designed as much for parents as for children,... |
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Unstable and Brittle Diabetes (Advances in Diabetes) from Taylor & Francis Group Price: $89.95 |
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Eva Hesse: A Retrospective : Exhibition and Catalogue from Yale Univ Pr Customer Review: I saw this exhibit at Yale University, and it blew my socks off! The work depicted in the catalogue is well documented, and allows you to see the progression Hesse's work underwent during her short life. This is a book that I have treasured for a long time, and that I am sure I will continue to... |
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The House Cat (Picture Books) from Scholastic Hippo Customer Review: One of the many children's books I've gotten out of the library that I have since bought. The titular Cat of this story lives in a two-family, but doesn't consider either family his ("Tom Cat") owner, but when one family decides to make their own decision about that, it's up to Tom Cat to set the... |
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Sopa De Calabaza from Editorial Juventud Price: $17.95 |
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Great Grandmother Goose from Greenwillow Books |
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Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation from Univ of North Carolina Pr |
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