August 6th, 2008
The Pearlby John Steinbeck
This is a really short book compared to others. It is also a parable meant to help the reader understand how things could affect their own life if they came into it.
The story follows a fisherman and the changes that come into his simple life as he finds a pearl that [...]
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February 22nd, 2008
The Alliance
Gerald N. Lund
This science fiction novel begins in a community located in Wyoming, eighteen years after most of civilization is destroyed. The people in this community are captured and integrated into a “perfect” society. After the people in this community are captured and
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February 18th, 2008
Piano Classics 2
This is the HUGE book of Classics you may have seen in the music store. The main contributors to this book are J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Schubert. Some of the more popular composers in this book are Handel, Joplin, Saint-Saens, and Tchaikovsky.
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February 17th, 2008
Paint the Sky With Stars
The Best of Enya
This book by Enya, contains an excellent collection of classic song transcribed to piano sheet music, including The Memory of Trees, and Paint the Sky with Stars. These songs are incredible to listen to, and make excellent performance pieces on the piano.
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February 17th, 2008
Jon Schmidt
New Age Classical Piano Solos, Including Waterfall and Tribute
Well, our website states that we are dedicated to reviewing books: of all kinds. So here is the first of my favorite Piano books.
Jon Schmidt is today’s classical composer. I generally refer to his genre as modern classical. This book is a combination of probably his [...]
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January 27th, 2008
Father Knows Less Or: “Can I Cook My Sister?”: One Dad’s Quest to Answer His Son’s Most Baffling Questions
By Wendell Jamieson
This book is from a dad who decided to find the answers to the questions his inquisitive son had. You get the good, bad and ugly in this book to answer almost all [...]
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January 25th, 2008
Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By Jared Diamond
Collapse is a book for everyone to read. It isn’t a soft fluffy fairy tail but a serious look at the journey of mankind. It considers where we have been, mistakes we have made along with successes and suggest directions we may be [...]
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