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		<title>Book Review &#8211;  On Hitler&#8217;s Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood by Irmgard A. Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Childhood is one of the most tragic casualties of war. Any story of a childhood spent in a war-torn country is going to tug on the heartstrings regardless of which side of which war it was, right? Irmgard A. Hunt puts that assumption to the test in her memoir On Hitler’s Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lenny9987.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13502178&amp;post=1450&amp;subd=lenny9987&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular culture has absorbed much of the mythology surrounding Dumas’ Three Musketeers as characters, most notably their signature idiom, “All for one and one for all.” It is funny to realize that that famous line is only used a handful of times in the hundreds of pages Dumas’ first novel in his D’Artagnan trilogy. More [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lenny9987.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13502178&amp;post=1442&amp;subd=lenny9987&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauryn E. Nosek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the first novel in the Lorien Legacies Series, I Am Number Four did well as a novel, the film did not fare so well. This second book in the series, The Power of Six, probably won’t follow its predecessor to the big screen for many reasons. Though it holds a lot of promise for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lenny9987.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13502178&amp;post=1437&amp;subd=lenny9987&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson makes reference to the support he and the Central Asia Institute received early on from Jon Krakauer. Only a few years later, Jon Krakauer has come out with a revealing explanation of why he has since withdrawn his support. Beyond a detailed breakdown of just how, when, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lenny9987.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13502178&amp;post=1425&amp;subd=lenny9987&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Refined Art of Skipping and Skimming: A Second Look at The Hunger Games Trilogy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauryn E. Nosek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.&#8221; – Arthur James Balfour On the heels of re-reading the entire Harry Potter series in anticipation of the eighth and final film of the franchise, I decided to re-read The Hunger Games Trilogy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lenny9987.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13502178&amp;post=1430&amp;subd=lenny9987&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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