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April 15, 1999

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published April 15, 1999. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in April 1999.

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Pushkin

by Julia Bushkova

He was descended from the blackamoor of Peter the Great, loved the bar and bordello, fought duels and debts, had “a proper monkey’s face” and was five feet tall. Yet this same imp married a girl of renowned beauty and wrote... Read More

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Eating by the Book

by Craig J. O'Connor

Did you know you came with an Owner’s Manual? Question is, are you willing to use it? In this thoughtful discussion of healthy living for body and soul, author and nutritionist David Meinz introduces the reader to what God has to say... Read More

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The Wildlife Sanctuary Garden

by David Zimmerman

Gardening is blooming in the United States. More people list gardening as their favorite leisure activity over any other outdoor recreation. To some, gardening is the growing of vegetables. To others, it is the maintaining of an... Read More

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The Book of Kings

by David Reid

This third novel by Thackara has generated quite a bit of clatter in the book business prior to its publication. Not for just its physical size of 1,092 manuscript pages written over twenty-five years, but for its grand scale of setting... Read More

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Feeling as a Foreign Language

by Jennifer Sperry

In this meaty, laudable collection of essays, Alice Fulton constructs a rich and multi-faceted investigation into some of the most fundamental and thus far neglected topics in post modern/twenty-first-century reading, writing and... Read More

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Walking Back Up Depot Street

by Anne-Marie Oomen

Enthusiasm for this collection stems as much from the manner in which these poems are structured as from their subject matter. In Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Walking Back Up Depot Street we meet one of the most perceptive characters to... Read More

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