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1.Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations by: Alex Harris, Brett Harris April 15, 2008
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I am very pleased with my purchase. The book is excellent and was delivered in a timely manner and in superb condition.

2.Blackberry Wine by: Joanne Harris 2002-06
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I loved Chocolat and the Lollipop Shoes and had just finished the even better Five Quarters of the Orange when I picked up Blackberry Wine. Unlike the others, this was a real struggle to get through. The characters seemed shallow and one-dimensional, as though they needed more work. The plot didn't really develop until well into the novel (it didn't start to get in the least bit interesting until about two thirds of the way in) and even then, it was weak. I think that one of the biggest mistakes was to set it in the same village as Chocolat, making vague references to the events of that novel and giving some of the characters cameos in this one. While I am glad that I made it to the end, this is one book I won't be reading again.

3.Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America by: Marc Freedman January 01, 2000
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The aging of America is upon us. Boomers will start turning 60 on January 1, 2006. To read the papers, you would think that this event is going to be the start of a long gray sunset in which older adults suck the money out of the federal treasury and life out of our communities. Freedman's lively book suggests a different and much more optimistic view in which people who have finished their midlife careers can make great new contributions. We have plenty of problems that need solving in our communities and in our country. Freedman shows us how older adults might play a huge role in meeting those challenges, and at the same time have an enriching experience in doing so. A must read for anyone who is interested in what our society will look like over the next ... Read More

4.Breaking Point by: Alex Flinn May 14, 2002
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These are characters I'll remember for a long time--probably longer than I want to. Everything about this novel is "intense." The characters are intense, the situations are intense, and the final choices Paul makes are intense. I felt sorry for Paul as he tried to deal with his parents' divorce, the apparent rejection by his father, and the abusive treatment by his classmates at his new exclusive private school, but I had difficulty identifying with him. I think his subservience to the sociopathic Charlie which led to so many poor choices left me feeling more frustrated with Paul than sympathetic to his situation.

5.Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand from: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. September 02, 2003
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On the strength of seeing twenty-five of his airport photos in the excellent 'Winogrand: Figments from the real world' I bought a copy of 'Arrivals & Departures'. Certainly it contains some remarkable photos but I am not convinced that it is a great book of images, good yes. 'Figments from the real world' works for me because of the huge number of photos, just over two hundred. So many that I've found it best to look at three or four chapters at a time. 'Arrivals' has eighty-six photos selected and edited by Alex Harris and Lee Friedlander from hundreds of contact sheets and prints (mostly unpublished) in the Winogrand archive at the University of Arizona, Obviously the choice of what to include was personal to them but I thought there were too many bland photos mixed in with the greats. Read More

6.River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life (New York Times Notable Books) by: William deBuys, Alex Harris August 28, 2007
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RIVER OF TRAPS is a collaborative tribute by William deBuys (text) and Alex Harris (photographs) to a friend and neighbor and to a mountain valley and village where they lived for some years. "River of Traps" is a translation of the "Rio de las Trampas," a mountain stream which flows off Trampas Peak, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and by the village of El Valle on its descent to the Rio Grande. But much more than a book about the Rio de las Trampas, this is a book about village life of the Hispanic "Nortenos" in Northern New Mexico and one Norteno in particular, Jacobo Romero. Romero was 78 in 1975, when deBuys and Harris, not long out of college and refugees from the societal upheaval of the Vietnam and Nixon years, settled in remote El Valle and tried their hands at small-scale mountain farming while they also ... Read More

7.Gertrude Blom: Bearing Witness by: Alex Harris 1985-10
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RIVER OF TRAPS is a collaborative tribute by William deBuys (text) and Alex Harris (photographs) to a friend and neighbor and to a mountain valley and village where they lived for some years. "River of Traps" is a translation of the "Rio de las Trampas," a mountain stream which flows off Trampas Peak, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and by the village of El Valle on its descent to the Rio Grande. But much more than a book about the Rio de las Trampas, this is a book about village life of the Hispanic "Nortenos" in Northern New Mexico and one Norteno in particular, Jacobo Romero. Romero was 78 in 1975, when deBuys and Harris, not long out of college and refugees from the societal upheaval of the Vietnam and Nixon years, settled in remote El Valle and tried their hands at small-scale mountain farming while they also ... Read More

8.The Idea of Cuba by: Alex Harris July 16, 2007
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Having been away from Cuba for more than 40 years, this book bring a lot of memories of my life there

9.Biographical History of Lancaster County, PA by: Alex Harris 2005
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Having been away from Cuba for more than 40 years, this book bring a lot of memories of my life there

10.Gertrude Blom from: University of North Carolina Press 1984-06
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Having been away from Cuba for more than 40 years, this book bring a lot of memories of my life there

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