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 Sonderbooks 85

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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
In this site, you can find good books for yourself or for friends.
You can hear about books to read, talk about books you've read, and order your own copies.
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September 12, 2004

Nonfiction

****Letters to a Young Therapist, by Mary Pipher
****Running on Empty, by Peter G. Peterson
****Shoot Like a Pro!  Digital Photography Techniques, by Julie Adair King
***Homegrown Democrat, by Garrison Keillor

Fiction

***The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
**Dearly Beloved, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Young Adult Fiction

****The Beast, by Walter Dean Myers
***How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller, by Julia DeVillers

Children's Nonfiction

***The Kids' Book of Clouds and Sky, by Frank Staub

Children's Fiction

****Wren's War, by Sherwood Smith
***The Unseen, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
***Have a Hot Time, Hades! by Kate McMullan

Old Favorite

(Nonfiction):  ****Winged Life, by Hannah Hurnaud

Picture Book Pick

****Mister Seahorse, by Eric Carle
 

Quotation of the Week

“Celebrate moments.
In every moment of life the banal and the profound are as intermingled as salt and pepper.”

—Mary Pipher in Letters to a Young Therapist

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