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August 15, 2006

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published August 15, 2006. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in August 2006.

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See Jane Write

by Christine Canfield

Lusting after Manolo Blahniks is no longer a prerequisite for chick lit. While the days of fashionista heroines with artsy jobs and jerky ex-boyfriends aren’t necessarily over, the genre has begun to overlap into others, resulting in... Read More

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47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers

Tara started to panic … she closed her eyes and squeezed the trigger … Tara glanced over to Wyatt, hoping to see an amazed and proud dad. Instead, he was clenching his teeth, grimacing. His right shoe had a blackened hole in it and... Read More

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A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity

“A study at Harvard Medical School evaluating the diets of 16,000 boys and girls aged 9 to 14 years found that those who frequently ate with their parents were 1.5 times more likely to eat the recommended number of servings of fruits... Read More

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Doctors on the Edge

“A dilemma often has more than one ethically defensible response and always leaves you wondering,” writes the author, a Denver obstetrician-gynecologist and nationally known medical ethicist. Abrams, who also served as chair of the... Read More

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An Unchaste Life

by Elizabeth Allen

Most people know of Henry VIII. The notorious King of England married annulled and/or had executed six wives. His obsessive search for the perfect woman (and the perfect heir) highlighted the Tudor era’s preoccupation with the control... Read More