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September 2008

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published September 2008.

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Dr. Ruth's Guide to Teens and Sex Today

“Were you surprised that MySpace had to remove 29,000 sex offenders from its lists?” the authors ask? Dr. Ruth, who turns eighty this year, has kept abreast of the Internet age, its benefits and dangers. This book, her thirty-second,... Read More

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My Life as a Spy

by Karl Helicher

John A. Walker Jr., one of America’s most notorious spies, is incarcerated in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, where he is serving a life sentence. In 1985, Walker was arrested for selling highly classified information to... Read More

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The Cat Who Invented Bebop

by Elizabeth Breau

This whimsical story imagines the invention of bebop music as the production of jazz-playing cats who “were so cool they had their own language.” It chronicles the adventures of one Stringbean McCoy, a “cool kitten” born to a... Read More

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The Heart of an Engineer

by Camille-Yvette Welsch

Merritt spends this volume on a search for God love and a suitable dance partner. Filled with limericks ballads and metrical poetry the volume chronicles Merritt’s life as an aerospace engineer dancer man with Parkinson’s disease and... Read More

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Floodgates

by Kristine Morris

Hearkening back to the ancient practice of traditional African doctors who employed poetic incantations in their healing rites and rituals the poetry of Dr. Bertrand P. Fote an emergency room physician gives expression to the workings of... Read More

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Committee for Undiscovered Findings

by Lee Gooden

This spellbinding but flawed novel is the story of Dr. Frank Gibson’s adventure with a secret research group the Committee for Undiscovered Findings. Frank and his fellow scientists Dr. Kevin Dobson and Dr. Charles Furgisson are sent... Read More

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My Fall From Grace

by Carter Jefferson

Tell some people from Chicago that Mayor Richard M. Daley’s political machine takes ten percent off the top and their reply will probably be something along the lines of “So what? This is the best-run city in the country!” A... Read More

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