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Average rating: 3.8 · 74 ratings · 16 reviews · 40 distinct works
LawDogs & BoozeHounds: A bl...

3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2015
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International Football Kits...

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Girl on the Gallows

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Friedhof der Lebenden Toten

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Das Tor zur Hölle

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The Voelspruit Chronicles

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The Prize by Daniel Yergin
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(3.5)So this is a long 763pgs…not bc the book isn’t written well or does a strong job of taking what could be a boring subject and giving it some engaging spin…but bc it’s just a long 763 pages

So as a fan of Rockefeller, read Chernow’s great book, I
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Magic Pill by Johann Hari
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Anyone interested in Ozempic should read…the author’s balanced, tempered…and pretty darn funny…

The risks…increase in thyroid cancer…is far overshadowed by dodging all the negative effects of obesity…

Author’s own personal journey is intertwined to mak
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All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
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Disappointing.

I had heard that this was an epic take on the rise of a nativist politician, a firebrand, a demagogue. Folks liken this tale to Huey Long or the latest fella who was good at giving a rip roaring stemwinder.

But that’s not the story.

The s
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Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
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It’s all here —the failures of socialism from the terrible design, the rank corruption, the cover ups, the apparatchiks, and the simple incompetence.

Editorial aside: Nuclear power is safe. Only an incredible concatenation of failures resulted in Cher
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Stormrage by Richard A. Knaak
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Oh so long and everything bad I feared Wow books would be: filled with silliness, verbosity, and a never ending grind from one situation to another without the merest characterizations or sense..
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Good Energy by Casey Means
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I almost never read self help books but this work had some interesting buzz…sure exercise, don’t eat sugar, processed food, or oil based frankenfood…get better sleep, stay away from lit devices at night…meditate…see the sun…enjoy the feel of bare fee ...more
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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