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No Child Left Behind Primer
author: Frederick M. Hess name: Ryan average rating: 2.71 book published: 2006 rating: 4 read at: 2008/12/16 date added: 2008/12/24 shelves: education review: Unlike most academic texts, this "primer"...
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
author: Seth Godin name: Ryan average rating: 3.80 book published: 2000 rating: 5 read at: 2008/12/14 date added: 2008/12/24 shelves: review: Business books are usually so vapid and market driven that...
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The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
author: John Buchan name: Ryan average rating: 3.34 book published: 1915 rating: 2 read at: 2008/12/21 date added: 2008/12/24 shelves: review: The basis for Hitchcock's famous film is a bore. Buchan's...
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The Return of the Dancing Master
author: Henning Mankell name: Ryan average rating: 3.86 book published: 2000 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2011/01/20 shelves: review: While it is a bit repetitive and the set up of the "killers" are...
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The Drought (Paladin Books)
author: J.G. Ballard name: Ryan average rating: 3.67 book published: 1964 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2011/04/14 shelves: review: Not everyday you get to read a dystopian novel that culminates with...
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
author: Richard Preston name: Ryan average rating: 4.00 book published: 1994 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2011/04/18 shelves: review: Read this one 17 years after it was hot - I bet it was amazing...
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The Imperfectionists
author: Tom Rachman name: Ryan average rating: 3.55 book published: 2010 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2011/05/14 shelves: review: I have never met such a rich kaleidoscope of perfectly flawed...
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The Ghost Map
author: Steven Johnson name: Ryan average rating: 3.89 book published: 2006 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2011/05/26 shelves: review: A reminder that there is much we have yet to discover and connect...
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And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft...
author: Mike Sacks name: Ryan average rating: 4.08 book published: 2009 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2011/05/26 shelves: review: Although the title says the book is about writing craft it reads like...
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White Teeth
author: Zadie Smith name: Ryan average rating: 3.65 book published: 2000 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2011/08/01 shelves: review: Huge, brilliant and ambitious that came up a bit short on emotional...
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Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box...
author: Thomas Lennon name: Ryan average rating: 3.90 book published: 2011 rating: 3 read at: date added: 2011/08/31 shelves: review: This was a breezy, funny, read if a bit sexist for my taste. These...
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Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
author: Frans Johansson name: Ryan average rating: 3.79 book published: 2004 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2011/09/26 shelves: review: Excellent distillation of a lot of heady creativity research. A...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
author: Haruki Murakami name: Ryan average rating: 3.67 book published: 2007 rating: 1 read at: date added: 2011/09/26 shelves: review: I really like Murakami but this memoir felt like some stories...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that...
author: Erik Larson name: Ryan average rating: 3.94 book published: 2002 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2011/10/31 shelves: review: A few years late on this bestseller, but it was worth it....
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
author: Elizabeth Kolbert name: Ryan average rating: 3.77 book published: 2006 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2011/11/07 shelves: review: "It may be impossible to imagine that a technologically...
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Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the...
author: Mark Bowen name: Ryan average rating: 3.68 book published: 2007 rating: 5 read at: 2011/11/06 date added: 2011/11/08 shelves: review: "Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow." The investigative reporting...
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Last Night at the Lobster
author: Stewart O'Nan name: Ryan average rating: 3.47 book published: 2009 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2011/11/22 shelves: review: What if a great painter crafted a detailed still lives of found...
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Stargazing Dog
author: 村上 たかし name: Ryan average rating: 3.95 book published: 2009 rating: 3 read at: 2011/11/24 date added: 2011/11/25 shelves: review: Like so many things Japanese this story required a lot of...
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The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms
author: The Paris Review name: Ryan average rating: 3.73 book published: rating: 0 read at: date added: 2012/02/14 shelves: review:
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