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Top 10 Cookbooks Bestsellers 2013

Any cook will tell you: you can never have too many cookbooks. This is one reason why cookbooks make such great gifts. Personally I’m a vegetarian but for this review I overlooked that and simply...

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Best Buddhism Coloring Books

Coloring books are great fun for children and adults. Religious coloring books also help adults meditate on the beauty of their faith and help children learn it. Buddhist coloring books also help...

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The Annotated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

We had a well supplied library of books growing up – both at home and at my grandparent’s: my grandmother collected children’s books. However, I did not start reading the collections of fairy tales we...

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Best human anatomy coloring books

Alright, this is definitely not a gift for anybody. For teens who like biology or want to go into a medical profession it’s a very good gift. It will also help college level students trying to cram...

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Best Books For Preschoolers 2013

Books always make a delightful gift for children and can be very helpful in teaching different concepts, development skills, and tactile learning that is needed with preschoolers. Of course, these...

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Best Airplane Books For Boys 2013

If you are looking for a great gift for boys who happen to love to read and also love airplanes then this list of suggestions for Airplane books for boys will definitely get you started in the right...

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Dark Eden – Biblical Fantasy and Scifi

Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden is a book that I read in two sittings only because I forced myself to go to bed at a reasonable time.  In Dark Eden he creates a world you won’t easily forget. In fact – 24...

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Top Dessert Cookbooks 2013

Giving a gift of a dessert cookbook is thoughtful idea. The gift can be for the Christmas Holiday or any holiday and also makes a treasured gift for a new bride. There are not many of us who do not...

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Best Pastry Cookbooks 2013

Pastry cookbooks make wonderful gifts for those on your list who love to cook and bake. Pastry sometimes scares even the seasoned cook but it does not have to. There are some wonderful baking...

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Best Religious Books For Children

Are you looking for some religious books for children that you can give as a gift? It may not be for Christmas as some of the worlds major religions do not even celebrate that holiday. Your gift may be...

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Haggadah Ideas For Children

Kids sometimes struggle with the reading of the Haggadah at the Passover Seder. As the scriptural commandant of “telling our sons” of the liberation from slavery and leaving Egypt is done, the story...

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Best Vegan Cookbooks, according to my readers

My readers on this blog and elsewhere online love to share their recommendations. Their suggested vegan cookbooks is worth sharing here as a separate list, I think.  So, if you’re into vegan cooking –...

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Best baking and dessert cookbooks: recommendations from readers

Doesn’t everybody love sweets? These baking, pastry and dessert cookbooks were recommended by readers of my various baking and dessert cookbook pages online. They have good amazon ratings as well, so...

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Books like Hunger Games for Teens 2013

We thought Harry Potter was setting kids to read? Well, yes, it did. The Hunger Games is doing the same for teens. It describes a world in which competition is cut-throat and all of life is literally...

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Sikh Books for Children

Children have a great ability to absorb new ideas and thoughts. Therefore, it makes sense to instill Sikh Values in kids from the very beginning. The noble principles of Sikhism – One God, Equality...

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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: The Funniest Fantasy Novels Ever

Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite fantasy authors of all time. I had vowed not to write about this though, as I have too much else to do. However, ths one - Wyrd Sisters - had me laughing in my...

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Amy My Daughter: an Amy Winehouse Biography by her father

Amy Winehouse  (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was one of the more notorious female singer songwriters of her generation. Her looks – 60′s inspired as her dad reminds us – her lyrics and her bouts...

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Dear Abigail – Founding mothers of a new Nation

I love reading biographies. I’ve been looking, recently, for biographies of strong women. After all, we do make half the world’s population and our story needs to be known. Dear Abigail: The Intimate...

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An Atomic Love Story: the Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life

I’ve been looking around for biographies of strong women and An Atomic Love Story caught my eye. However, it is really – and this is significant – a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, the famous (and...

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Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most...

It felt like something of a betrayal when the first Tolkien movies came out. The private world my dad had taken us (my two brothers and I) to on our Sunday walks was suddenly public property. Of course...

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