author: Scott Westerfeld rating: asin: 0689865406 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD

author: Scott Westerfeld rating: asin: 0689865392 binding: Paperback list price: $8.99 USD amazon price: $8.99 USD

Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition (3rd Edition) author: Paul Pitchford rating: asin: 1556434308 binding: Paperback list price: $35.00 USD amazon price: $23.10 USD

I've got problems with allergies, and he's really good at recommending lifestyle changes to help me with my breathing problems. I've looked at the limited pages offered by "search inside" on amazon.com and it seems interesting.

The Shadow of the Wind author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón rating: asin: 0143034901 binding: Paperback list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $10.20 USD

Maybe it's just me, but what is it with current fiction deciding to summarize all of the hard-to-finish twists and turns by devoting entire chapters to letters? I didn't like this practice in the Historian, either (which received high recommendations, but I found vaguely boring. Reading italicized text gets old after a page). Even though this book got rave reviews from all kinds of eminent sources, it seems to have lost something in translation. (As an aside, I had a chance to listen to a lecture by Umberto Eco's translator (William Weaver) at UT, and regret skipping it still.) The mystery and magic promised on the cover was missing.

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