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Our country's first ladies
Fate of the Romanovs
Benjamin Franklin
5. Award Winners- books or Author
Profiles in Courage- JFK Pulitzer
New Orleans Mourning -Julie Smith (Edgar)
Ironweed-William Kennedy Pulitzer
The Other Boleyn Girl-Romatic Novel of Year 2002 P Gre ... ... bookstore. I'm better now. And that reminds me! What in tarnation is this silliness about you reading a 1955 edition of Profiles in Courage in high school? Was it 40 years old when you read it?
And for a lovely fictional take on a town with the same issue your town has, try out The Books ... ... Jared: The Third Chimpanzee -- because I loved Guns, Germs, and Steel. (also 3 for 2)
Kennedy, John F.: Profiles in Courage 50th Anniversary Edition:--to replace my falling apart, yellowed 1955 Pocket paperback edition I got in high school. (this was the free one and the ... ... Bernhardt
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (got a 3-for on that!)
Local Hero by Nora Roberts
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy ... of these are in my library today. (As a teenager, I wasn't a very discriminating reader.) Have also read (and still own) Profiles in Courage. This Rough Magic is one of my favorite Mary Stewart books, and I love The Spy who came in from the cold. I had to read Profiles in Courage in 6th grade for a Great Books class -- I'm not sure it's really a great book, but I enjoyed it at the time. I've read the John Lennon book and probably ... ... sat around my folk's house for a long while, and then we had a copy also, unread at both locations.
I remember reading Profiles in Courage, but not sure that I owned it. ... and United Press International 73 copies
2. I Need All the Friends I Can Get, Charles M. Schulz 24 copies
3. Profiles in Courage: Memorial Edition, John F. Kennedy 634 copies
4. In His Own Write, John Lennon 210 copies
5. Christmas Is Together-Time, Charles M. ... I've finished Profiles in Courage for my Other Nonfiction list and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold for Award Winners. Profiles could also have gone under Award Winners, as it received the Pulitzer, and Spy could have gone under several other categories.
I enjoyed both books. I'm not one ... ... novel? He has quite a few on the 1001 Books list, so I will certainly be reading more of them.
My next book will be Profiles in Courage for the "Other Non-Fiction" list. It also won the Pulitzer, so it could go under award winners as well. Just Profiles in Courage for me. I read an excerpt from City of Night for a class. ... and a Blanket, Charles M. Schulz 31 copies
3. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Victor Lasky 12 copies
4. Profiles in Courage: Inaugural Edition, John F. Kennedy 616 copies
5. 0 Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Virginia Cary Hudson 102 copies
6. Better Homes and Gardens Brea ... ... in from the Cold
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Disgrace
The English Patient
Profiles in Courage
In Arabian Nights - hmmmm no touchstone for this? It's by Tahir Shah
The Chili Queen
The Undertaker's Wife
I think I am in for some ... ... The Sky's No Limit, Lori Van Pelt
Other Nonfiction:
1. September 11: An Oral History, Dean E. Murphy
2. Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
3. In Arabian Nights, Tahir Shah
4. Dream Lucky, Roxanne Orgill
5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
6. ... ... to mind that would appeal to that age group. Perhaps Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for the Depression. John Kennedy's Profiles in Courage takes stories from throughout American History. Some of the works of Studs Terkel may also work. Good luck. Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
William Wallace:Brave Heart by James Mackay
Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day; ten all-new mysteries by Donald J. Sobol
A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich by Alice Childress
Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
I thought of one other one: Profiles In Courage which I alway meant to read. I know other presidents have written; including Jimmy Carter and since I always love these men so much more AFTER they are out of office... it would be nice to know what they have had to say. Add An Inconvienent Trut ... ... Frank 50c
The Essential James Joyce 25c
Snow in August by Pete Hamill 75c
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle 25c
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy 25c
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust $1
The Wisdom and Ideas of Plato 50c
My Brother Bill by John Faulkner 25c
Ideas and Opinion ...
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