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April 15, 2000

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published April 15, 2000. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in April 2000.

Book Review

Vets Might Fly

by Melanie C. Duncan

The late James Herriot captured the world’s attention with his quick, self-deprecating wit in his books about life as a country vet in the Yorkshire dales of England. One of his stories in this collection starts with the voice of... Read More

Book Review

Offbeat Food

by Ron Kaplan

Long before SPAM became a synonym for questionable e-mail, it was a synonym for questionable foodstuffs. Maybe that’s the link, since the name describes something that’s filling and of unknown quality. Offbeat Food contains hundreds... Read More

Book Review

The Bully at Work

by Cindy Patuszynski

Unlike the noise of sexual harassment in the workplace, bullying at work is referred to here as a “silent epidemic.” It can affect a person’s dignity, self-esteem, job, social relations, or health. It can even drive a person to... Read More

Book Review

Little Gold Star

by Judi Oswald

With a gold star, a donkey’s ear and a cow’s horn, Hayes has written an English/Spanish version of a well-loved fairytale. Arcía convinces her widowed father to marry their next door neighbor, a widowed mother of two daughters. He... Read More

Book Review

Trout

by Nancy K. Allen

With its distinctive photography, entertaining fishing tales and bows to Julia Childs and M.F.K. Fisher, Trout invites readers to enjoy this book. Tennant, whose experience is as a game cook and author of several books in Willow Creek... Read More

Book Review

Alice Walker

by Linda Salisbury

Teens looking for a role model to lead them through adversity to success should consider Alice Walker. Walker, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitizer Prize for fiction for The Color Purple has triumphed over life’s... Read More

Book Review

Art and Intimacy

by Karen Wyckoff

Fanning the riverbed of human psyche with the tireless fin of academia, soft-rayed with the sweeping reach of interdisciplinary research, Art and Intimacy gradually unveils the shared origin of love and the humanities, which rock with... Read More

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