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February 15, 2008

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published February 15, 2008. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in February 2008.

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The Life I Was Born to Live

In October 2006 Norwegian author Bj&248;rn Dimmen began writing about his life. He wanted his three children Alexander Andrea and Vanessa to know “who their father really is” and his friends and family to “understand why [he]... Read More

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Playing With Fire

"Playing With Fire" is an informal comedic look at the very serious condition of sex addiction definitely too explicit for the youngsters. This chronicle of successive passions owes a debt to the venerable Penthouse letters—those... Read More

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Fraudulent Fertilisation

"Fraudulent Fertilisation" is a strikingly realistic paternity struggle set in Mar del Plata Argentina during the 1980s. It comments critically on laws which cause innocent women to lack choices and on the broad vulnerability to... Read More

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In the Fringe

"In the Fringe" by Eleanor Summers purports to be a novel. But with its mix of fictionalization exposition and reliance on the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous for its structural backbone the book resonates more as a work of... Read More

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Life and Times

“To be constructive and happy I think we must accent the positive and eliminate the negative” the author once wrote in a letter to her son. “Dwelling on the negative can tear out your guts.” The fifth of seven children Dorothy... Read More

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Inertia IS Gravity

“A pilot-training centrifuge gone wild can kill people while they are sitting down. From where does this killing force come?…inertial force is considered to be an artificial or pseudo force, which would shock many people who are dead... Read More

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Becoming Truth

Introducing herself as a “way-pointer on the pilgrim’s trail a blaze on the tree” Jean Christian offers spiritual advice to seekers of larger truths. Using passages and quotations from numerous classic spiritual works of various... Read More

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Stoneview

Roy writes that this book is “totally devoted to the construction of a specific building, with all the various techniques described thoroughly enough so that the reader can replicate the project.” The author previously constructed... Read More

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