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April 2000

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published 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

Writing to Deadline

by Rebecca Rego

Writing the lede (sic) to a review of this book is a daunting task when one considers the expertise of its author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, columnist for the Boston Globe, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of... 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

The Power of Un

by Linda Salisbury

Have you ever wished that you could turn back time to undo a chain of events? If you could reverse the clock, which actions in the past twenty-four hours would set a different course? Etchemendy, author of The Watchers of Space, Stranger... 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

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