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    Author: Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs (Circa)
    ISBN: 978-1-84533-523-6
    Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

    If you are looking for a reference text that makes our complex world easy to comprehend and contributes enormously to answering many of our questions, pick up a copy of Snapshot: The Visual Almanac For Our World Today authored by Circa (Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs)



    Author: Kathleen Lane & Christine Hughes
    ISBN: 978-0982123003
    Publisher: nFormed

    Die $mart, tackles the question that all of us face at some point in time; how to leave the greatest amount of what you have worked for throughout your life to your loved ones when you leave this earth



    Author:  Colin Wilson
    Publisher:  Llewellyn Worldwide
    ISBN:  978-0-7387-1867-5

    While the book doesn't read like a novel, it is still an entertaining look into a history that is shared by cultures all over the world

    Author: Simon Cox
    Publisher: Touchstone
    ISBN: 978-0-7432-8727-2

    Reading Decoding the Lost Symbol – The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction- is like eating from the holiday candy box. So many delicious choices, you just want to curl up in a corner and slowly taste them all



    Authors: E-Merging Writers.com and Fn Productions (Eds: Frank Blocker, Dana Todd, and Sydney Stone)
    ISBN: 978-1442184183

    This book is very appropriate for anyone that understands and enjoys theater, but also for those that have lost that joy. This collection should be included in all community theater libraries. It also gives everyone another reason to watch a play and to do so soon







    Author: Garth Dahl
    Publisher: Modern World Publishing

    ISBN: 0-9782839-1-9

    Masks, it seems, present different cultures, different values and different symbolic meanings. Every single mask is special for its own reasons.
    Garth now has over one hundred masks covering the walls of a room in his house. This is certainly a man who is an avid mask collector!


    Author: Joseph Adegboyega-Edun
    Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
    ISBN: 978-1-4327-1229-7

    Using clear language that never talks down to the reader, Succeeding in High School does a great job of sorting out what needs to be done by the students and their parents in order for kids to successfully complete high school and then move on to college



    Title: Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to”Woodstock.”
    Editors: Weston Blelock and Julia Blelock
    ISBN: 978-0-9679268-5-8

    The Blelocks are to be congratulated in preserving the spirit and history of the Woodstock festival.

     






    Authors: Matthew Murrie and Steve Murrie
    Publisher: Scholastic
    ISBN-13: 978-0-545-10356-5:  ISBN-10: 0-545-10356-8

    A truly wonderful book which will inspire and help you learn more about our planet. The authors have also included a rather helpful back page which gives us some handy tips on how to save energy and look after Earth.




    Author: Mark Richards
    Photographer: Roger Clegg
    Publisher: Cicerone
    ISBN: 978-1-85284-558-2

    The photographs are timeless and remind us all of our roots to nature. Who wouldn’t love this book?! 



    Author: Peter James and Gian Temperilli
    Publisher: World Audience Publishers
    ISBN: 978-0-9820540-6-2

    Filmmaker Chuck Williams praises the book in the words, ‘I couldn’t put it down’ and this remains true for this reviewer



    Author: Paul Hutchins
    Publisher: Imagination Publishing
    ISBN: 978-0-9817123-3-8

     Have you ever considered our planet to be like a spec of dust? Apparently, this is what Earth looks like if you try and imagine space and the cosmos in clearer perspective. It is so small, Hutchins explains, that Earth looks so insignificant among the vast realms of space.






    Author: Christopher Burns
    Publisher: Prometheus Books
    ISBN: 976-1-59102-660-0

    The title of Christopher Burns Deadly Decisions: How False Knowledge Sank The Titanic, Blew Up The Shuttle, and Led America Into Warjust about sums up what this book is all about which in the words of the author is to clarify these failures in detail so that we may be able recognize the patterns of errors in order to avoid future catastrophes.



    Author: Carl “Tuchy” Palmieri
    Publisher: ISBN:  1-4392-2608-3: 13: 9781439226087

    As the old cliché goes, “action speaks louder than words” and someday you may want to examine Barack Obama’s presidential years and compare what he said during and before his presidential campaign and what he actually did and accomplish while in office.




    Author: Dr. Roy Chester
    Publisher: Amacom:
    ISBN: 10: 0814409202:  13: 978-0814409206

    Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction: A Journey to the Birthplace of earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis







    Authors: Aviva Yael and P.M. Chen

    Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

    ISBN-10: 0446582077: ISBN-13: 978-0446582070

    For anyone who has ever considered getting a tattoo or even for those of you who have them, this is the book for you.

    Chronicled inside are the most insane, ridiculous and shocking tattoos to have been inked onto the skin of the anonymous, the insane and the down-right stupid.




    Author: Joan Rattner Heilman

    ISBN: 978-0-07-159884-2: 0-07-159884-7

    Publisher: McGraw Hill 

    Although this book may be a mere two hundred and eight two pages it is huge in accomplishment.



    Author: Kenneth C. Davis

    Publisher: Harper Collins

    ISBN: 978-0-06-156232-7


    If you are a trivia junkie or have one in your life, is this a great book to add to that collection.


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