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 Sonderbooks 97

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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
In this site, you can find good books for yourself or for friends.
You can hear about books to read, talk about books you've read, and order your own copies.
Subscribe, and I'll notify you when I've posted the next issue, approximately every three weeks.
Click on the title of the book to read the complete review.

Happy reading!

July 13, 2005

Nonfiction

****The Power of a Praying Wife, by Stormie Omartian
****You Just Don't Understand, by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
***Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
***Nothing Left Over, by Toinette Lippe

Fiction

****A Good Yarn, by Debbie Macomber
***Cross Bones, by Kathy Reichs

Young Adult Fiction

*****Best Foot Forward, by Joan Bauer

Children's Nonfiction

***Walking the Bible, by Bruce Feiler

Children's Fiction

***The Magician's Boy, by Susan Cooper

Old Favorite

(Young Adult Fiction): *****Calling on Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede

Picture Book Pick

*****Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude, by Kevin O'Malley

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“Librarians understand about power—they know how to find anything.”

—Joan Bauer in Best Foot Forward

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