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January 15, 2000

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published January 15, 2000. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in January 2000.

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Talking Radio

by Frank Sisson

While the birth of television didn’t bring about the death of radio as predicted by many, including the then president of NBC, it did cause it to fall on troubled and uncertain times. The stars of radio, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Groucho... Read More

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Scenes of Instruction

by Erik Bledsoe

The academic is surely one of the least likely suspects to participate in the recent vogue of memoir writing. One would think that the long hours spent in libraries required to earn a Ph.D. and become a professor would not provide enough... Read More

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Prayers to Sophia

by Sharon Flesher

This volume of fifty short prayers is not likely to cause more than a ripple in the ongoing dispute between conservative Christians and advocates of Sophia, who, as described by Rupp, is the feminine aspect of the divine found in the... Read More

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After Life

by Kristine Morris

“This book is not an attempt to convince anyone of the reality of life after death. It is simply an attempt to present the facts in an orderly manner. At the end, the reader should be in a position to make up his or her mind,” says... Read More

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Farewell, My Lovelies

by Anne-Marie Oomen

Braided narratives, subtle shifts from mythical to modern times, complex allusions to both film noir and pop culture and social consciousness characterize this collection of poems. Braiding narratives is a stylistic device brought to... Read More

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Real Birth

by Amy McQuaid

Collected in this volume are the first-person narratives of thirty-six women whose childbirth experiences represent a range of real-life experiences. The mothers who reveal these intimate details answered an ad in a national... Read More

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