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| | 1. | [no image] | Hiroshima
from Alfred A Knopf, NY
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This is a book I would recommend for anyone to read. By reading the book you get a personal perspective on the ones affected by the bombing. This edition has an additional chapter, written years later, where the author gives an update on the people in the book. Very good read!
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| | 2. |  | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
from Mariner Books
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James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful, tortured writing that speaks to both the deplorable conditions of the Depression-era souther sharecropper and the humanity of trying to present them in a favorable light.
Agee's writing style is at... more info
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| | 4. |  | White Lotus
from Alfred A. Knopf
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To explain the story of "White Lotus," I offer this quote from "A Time To Kill," the movie based on a John Grisham novel (maybe word-for-word in his novel, I don't recall). These are the last lines in the defense summation: "...Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine,... more info
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| | 5. |  | A Single Pebble
from Vintage
Price: $10.36
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I became an engineer, also.
The ASE and IEEE magazines printed lists of books favored by other engineers--some of my heroes, in fact. The book is written simply, probably appropriate for a junior high school literature class. An adult should devour the book over a short business flight.more info
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| | 6. |  | The Wall
from Vintage
Price: $13.46
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Leon Uris based "Mila 18" on Hersey's "The Wall." Hersey, a non-Jew born of missionary parents in China, I feel, channeled Noach Levinson, a scholar of the Talmud, in this, the best novel of ghetto life during World War II. Memorable characters, an exciting plot that keeps you riveted to the story,... more info
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| | 7. |  | Blues
from Vintage
Price: $11.05
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A fisherman takes a stranger out bluefishing along the shore of Massachusetts. On his boat Spray, the fisherman explains to his guest the habits of bluefish, fishing tips, species of native flora and fuana, problems with invasion of non-native species of sea-plants, and chemical pollution. After... more info
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| | 9. | [no image] | White Lotus
from Buccaneer Books
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I bought this book in 1967 for 25 cents in a second hand store. I was 15 years old. I had no idea what it was about. The book transfixed me. I held on to it almost 30 years before giving it away to someone who wanted to read it. I regret doing so now because I reflect on it from time and time and... more info
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| | 10. |  | Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal
from Bison Books
Price: $11.65
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I loved this book because, along with Guadalcanal Diary, it is one of the only contemporaneous narratives of life on Guadalcanal. I only wish it were 1000 pages. Most war memoirs are seemingly written 30 years on whereas this book has a great sense of immediacy...read it if you love WW2!
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