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The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
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Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
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River Music
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The Violets of Usambara
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After Surfing Ocean Beach
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Green City: People, Nature, Urban Life
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Making Waves: The Continuing Portuguese Adventure
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Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens
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Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography
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The Words on the Wall
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Saturday Photo: The Morning Rush Hour in Outremont, Version One
The photo was taken about 8 a.m. last Thursday, when folks were cutting through Parc St-Viateur near our house on their way to where ever. No crowds, but they were hurrying through the snow-bedecked park anyway.When we went looking for a house, decades ago, I decided that we shouldn't buy anything that would require a commute for my old man by any other means than foot. Too stressful, not goo... Read more of this blog post »
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André Alexis' wonderful Fifteen Dogs was a tour de force: original, thought-provoking, and clearly a magical fiction from the beginning. This new novel, the fifth of his five related novels, not nearly as successful. It starts out with a young ...more |
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Hello, Mary! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a wonderful weekend. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Thanks for your friend request. I'm happy to accept. Your review of Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad was very informative. I recently read a long review of several such books and also ordered Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew and Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950�2000. At first I was going to stop there until I saw your review (and since Amazon Marketplace had them used!).
