An Anthology of Pre-Raphaelite Writings

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Great Reference.......2000-06-14

We used this book as a resource for one of my English classes in college. I liked it because it contained a wide selection of Pre-Raphaelite poems and other selections, as well as included a few plates of their distinctive artwork as well. This is a great resource if you are interested primarily in the writing style of this movement, but perhaps consider another selection if you are interested more in the paintings.

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Pre-Raphaelite writing;: An anthology,
Derek Stanford
Manufacturer: Rowman and Littlefield
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Pre-Raphaelite | Schools, Periods & Styles | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the best cookbook for general/traditional Ashkenazi cooking

Truly the most amazing cookbook you will ever use

Second Helpings Please!
Norene Gilletz , and Harriet Nussbaum
Manufacturer: Gourmania Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

Kosher | Special Diet | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0969391013

Book Description

Nearly 150,000 copies have been sold of this Jewish family heirloom since it was first published in 1968. It is given as a rite of passage to new brides. Young people starting out on their own won't leave home without it! Family favorites include Beef & Green Peppers, Chinese Stew, Lemon Barbecued Chicken, Passover Meatballs, Gefilte Fish, Kreplach, Potato Kugel, Challah, Hamentashen, Norene's Famous Cheesecake. Revised edition includes a chapter of microwave recipes and tips for today's busy cook.

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DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-04-24

Norene Gilletz's cookbooks are probably the only ones I have for which the recipes NEVER have to be tweaked, and can be tested for important company. That's because she thoroughly perfects and tests each recipe before publication to ensure that it is as fail-safe and delicious as possible. I have made many of the recipes from this book, and each has been wonderful.

Although her books are always described as kosher (with an obvious appeal to anyone who keeps kosher), be assured that EVERYONE will love these delectable recipes.

(No, I have nothing to do with either Ms. Gilletz or her publisher ... and am not even Jewish or Canadian. I'm just a thoroughly delighted customer who feels completely confident in recommending this awesome cookbook.)

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This is the best cookbook for general/traditional Ashkenazi cooking.......2006-09-19

I grew up in Toronto and my grandmother used this book as well as my mother, if you had a real bubby who spoke yiddish and made her own wine and you know what grebanas and kishka is than this is a good book for you. This book is not gourmet by any means. Some recipes call for ginger ale, onion soup mix, and lots of ketchup.... my kind of cook book.

Truly the most amazing cookbook you will ever use.......1999-06-25

This cookbook is a real treat to use. The recipes do not call for expensive and difficult to find items. Best of all the recipes are all wonderful and sure to become your staple foods. A kosher kitchen is not complete without this book.

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What a Value
...Or, "What to Read Next".
A book- lover's enthusiasm
Dirda v. Hitchens
ENGAGING ENTHUSIAMS

Bound to Please
Michael Dirda
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0393057577

Book Description

A showcase of one hundred of the world's most astonishing books, Bound to Please is an extraordinary one-volume literary education.

Among the most enjoyable of literary critics, Michael Dirda combines erudition with enthusiasm, a taste for the outré and the forgotten, and a playful, understated wit. Like George Orwell or Gore Vidal, Dirda delights in popular genres, such as the detective novel and the ghost story, without neglecting the deeper satisfactions of sometimes-overlooked classics. This new work features scores of Dirda's most engaging essays, never previously collected in book form, all intended to introduce readers to wonderful writers, from the anecdotal Herodotus and James Boswell to the sensuous Colette and Steven Millhauser to such European masters as Joseph Roth, Flann O'Brien, and Penelope Fitzgerald. With his trademark enthusiasm, Dirda also explores The Arabian Nights, the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, the crime novels of Chester Himes and K. C. Constantine, and the worlds of Tarzan, Cormac McCarthy, and Proust. Bound to Please is a glorious celebration of just how much fun reading can be.

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What a Value.......2007-07-08

Mr. Dirda adopts a wonderful tone as he shares with his readers his fine appreciations of the books included in this compilation. He is never pedantic or narrow or arrogant, but he is fully aware of the nuances of the many works he discusses. Each essay is short and crisp. What a pleasure it has been to read this book. This is a fine book for booklovers.

...Or, "What to Read Next"........2006-04-30

As a reader of Dirda's previous books, I came to this one as a fan. I was not disappointed. Dirda is a literary enthusiast and it is this quality that he so infectiously imparts to the reader. This collection can most usefully serve as an introduction to writers and books that remained "off your radar" until reading Dirda's loving appreciation. Though no great stylist himself, it is the quality he most admires in other writers and his journalistic essays show you why. He is also no literary snob and proudly announces his love for genre writing like science-fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror alongside the "greats" (and not so great).

Finally, he is not a great critic like James Wood and his insights are rarely profound, but this collection isn't analytic criticism but rather descriptive. A huge compendium, you'll find yourself nonetheless reading it cover-to-cover. A literary delight.

A book- lover's enthusiasm .......2006-02-07

The love of books, the search to know the world through books, the real hunger for books, the appreciation of books, the understanding that books can be the means by which we enhance our own life and experience- all of these are apparent in the work of Michael Dirda. His reviews by and large augment the interest we have in the work. They make us want to know the books better and read them more. His taste is wideranging, but it includes first and above all the truly greatest literature of mankind.
It is possible not only to derive great enjoyment from these reviews but also to learn a great deal about the world's literature from them.

Dirda v. Hitchens.......2005-02-03

I can't be as enthusiastic as some others have been here because one thing I see in most of these collected newspaper reviews is the lost potential: they should be longer and more developed.

But I can agree that Dirda has a gift for staying positive without going completely the way of Thumper's mother, and he is definitely widely read (though who can claim to have read everything--I think we'll all die having read very very far from everything we might have profited from).

I am fond of Dirda for a number of reasons. First, he is a middlebrow in an age which largely disdains efforts at public education. Second, he is from a working-class background and is neither afraid to talk about it or using it as a touchstone in everything he writes. Third, he has championed genre writing-the science fiction of Philip Dick, for instance-as serious reading (rather than as fun slumming or mere cultural artifact).

I suppose I can see a lot of myself in Dirda, and I see a lot of what I aspire to in what he has already accomplished. He's a Northern, working-class kid, a scholarship boy in the Hoggartian sense, and a man who has developed a level of comfort with both the old traditions of "high culture" and a way of communicating that comfort to a relatively broad audience through the newspaper and the Internet. And also through books.

Dirda's second collection of essays and reviews has recently come out. For fans of his first collection, Readings, this second collection may come as a bit of a disappointment. Readings was a slim volume of pieces cherry-picked from Dirda's journalism to best reflect that which was most characteristically Dirdian. there was very little of the sort of workaday reviewing that necessarily makes up most of his work for the Post. Bound to Please is a different matter. It is a much bigger book than Readings, and it can print only that which came after or was passed over for the earlier book.

So, the reader oughtn't come to Bound to Please with the expectation of the intimate experience we got in Readings. But, as a collection of reiews, this isn't bad. Dirda always writes clearly, and there's usually some insight or aside that makes each short review more than worthwhile.

This is an excellent book for idle perusing. But one really longs for Dirda to be given a better platform than the Post's Bookworld pages. Many of these essays seem like they were quite a bit longer in an earlier draft. and most of those can use the extra legth.

I'd be interested to see Dirda taking up a post like Christopher Hitchens's gig at the Atlantic. In fact, as Hitchens has become more and more self-indulgent and positive pontifical in his Atlantic criticism, it owuld seem to me to be trading up at this point to replace Hitchens with Dirda. Dirda's erudition is rather more pedestrian that Hitchens's maybe, but Hitchens's bailiwick is seeming very narrow lately-how much more are we expected to read about the death throws of the British Empire and the literature that coincided with it? At this point in history, not only is the British Empire dead, but the death of the British empire is dead.

And I think we ought not be shy of declaring the death of a certain strain the post-imperialist British writing, either. Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens-the spawn of Nabokov and Naipul-are over. (They all might want to deny the Naipaul legacy, but it's become pretty apparent of late.)

Martin Amis once wrote that "The novelist has a very firm conception of the Ideal Reader. It is himself . . ." I'm not sure he's right about "the" novelist, but it certainly seems to me that he's right about himself and his close friends Hitchens and Rushdie. They write for well-hheled, Oxbridge educated males. And those who desperately want to attain to that consdition.

Once, perhaps, I may have been someone who wanted to gain access to this metropolitan elite, but anymore I find them to be privileged dinosaurs, living out an anachronistic afterlife courtesy of Anglophone sentimentality. These are all talented men, no doubt, but to me it seems they are attempting to pass elaborate erudition and natural superiority when these things have simply lost their currency. They may soldier on in the same manner in a sort of Sinatra-esque endless farewell tour (Hitchens definitely looks to be the Dean Martin type), or they may well transform themselves into something more meaningful. But time has come that we put these folks aside as our literary ideals.

Appropriately enough, Dirda would not represent an absolute break from the Nabakov line. He, too, is a great admirer of the Swiss master, and he has been generally respectful to the post-imperialists, as well. But his predilections are for the middle brow and his admiration of the really quite different Pynchon-esque American stream modern fiction.

ENGAGING ENTHUSIAMS.......2004-12-07

Here is a book, at long last, that does not derive its energy from sniping at authors. Rather, Dirda has read everything (EVERYTHING) and will tell you which humor, sci fi, mystery, romance, intellectual history, european bildugsroman, thrillers, well, I could go on for a while -- which ones are worth reading. His descriptions are exact, his enthusiasm enlivening, and as a reader of his for several years, I can attest that his recommendations are spot on. Here is a book to live with -- it is that good. My only criticism is that it will leave you with an ever lengthening shelf of books you are eager to read!

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Please! Teach ALL of Me
Jackie Crawford , Joni Hanson , Marcia Gums , Joanie Hanson , Paula Neys , and Jami Leutheuser
Manufacturer: Sopris West
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

Preschool & Kindergarten | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1570350019

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Bound to Please
Frollo
Manufacturer: Heavy Metal Magazine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Adult Fiction | Erotica | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Erotica | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1882931998

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If you liked EA, you'll love this one

Bound to Please
Giselle Lorimer
Manufacturer: Silver Moon Books Ltd, Gainsborough
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 1903687551

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If you liked EA, you'll love this one.......2005-12-05

Like all the best erotica, Giselle Lorimer's stories are suffused with sex, but are not really about sex at all. As with her best-selling 'Enslaving Anna', her new book is a completely involving vehicle for her multifaceted exploration of the nature of interpersonal connectivity. The sexual content unremittingly draws the reader into a subtly psychological metaphor for her drive for meaningful human contact. The need is compelling, the sex satisfyingly bizarre, the human connectivity fleshed out and consummated page after page. Lorimer can write, of course - brilliantly - that goes without saying. But it is the imaginative inventiveness, and understanding of why sex is so important to humans, that makes her books so indispensable.

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Bound to Please
Leigh Summers
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 185973510X

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Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired more passionate debate than any other article of clothing. As a means of body modification, perhaps only foot binding and female genital mutilation have aroused more controversy. Summers' provocative book dismantles many of the commonly held misconceptions about the corset. In examining the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women, it focuses on how corsetry punished, regulated and sculpted the female form from childhood and adolescence through to pregnancy and even old age. The author reveals how the 'steels and bones', which damaged bodies and undermined mental health, were a crucial element in constructing middle-class women as psychologically submissive subjects. Underlying this compelling discussion are issues surrounding the development and expression of juvenile and adult sexuality. While maintaining that the corset was the perfect vehicle through which to police femininity, the author unpacks the myriad ways in which women consciously resisted its restrictions and reveals the hidden, macabre romance of this potent Victorian symbol.

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Liz made her decision
An enjoyable book to read.
Almost excellent
This is a good book

Please Forgive Me (Sweet Valley High)
Francine Pascal
Manufacturer: Sweet Valley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553492306
Release Date: 1998-04-06

Book Description

Will Elizabeth surrender to love?

Elizabeth Wakefield's heart is being ripped to shreds. The rivalry between her longtime boyfriend, Todd Wilkins, and the mysterious Devon Whitelaw has erupted into violence. Forget choosing between them. A disgusted Elizabeth ditches them both. Unless they can both grow up, she'll never speak to either one of them again!

Horrified and feeling guilty that he flew off the handle, Todd understands why Elizabeth will have nothing to do with him. But he's not about to give up without a fight. When a dance that Elizabeth is organizing doesn't go as planned, Todd seizes the opportunity to prove how far he'll go to win her forgiveness. But will his desperate effort push him over the edge?

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Liz made her decision.......1998-10-12

I thought that it was really sad that Liz didn't take Todd back and I'm glad that Devon,finally, saw how much Liz loves Todd but why did Liz choose to be alone than to keep Todd I mean Todd is so sweet ok so I admit it that sending flowers,candy and cards is like buying back the relationship but it is also thoughtful and nice so why did Liz choose what she did I mean everyone knows that Liz can't live without Todd and be alone so in SVU she is but they are still friends in it and it was Todd who said that he didn't think that he could be anyone's boyfriend in SVU but this is different Todd can't do what he wants right like play basketball but hey no one said love and relationship is easy.not to mention life it self.

An enjoyable book to read........1998-10-01

I enjoed reading this book because it shows how a girl caught between two guys she cares about feels. It also makes you realize how the guys feel in this situation. although some of the things that happen to the characters is pretty incredible, it just adds to the excitement.

Almost excellent.......1998-04-20

This book was great, but I was kind of disapointed with Liz's decision about Todd and Devon. Jessica ruined her relationship with Devon, and I don't think Elizabeth should end everything because of her cheating twin.

This is a good book.......1998-04-15

This book tells what finally happens between Elizabeth, Devon, and Todd, and who she picks, if she picks anyone.

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Bound to Please
Inc Staff Junior League Of Boise
Manufacturer: Junior League of Boise
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0961374306

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Bound to Please
Inc. Staff Junior League of Boise
Manufacturer: Bound to Please
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KE6G0E

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BORING
HEAVY ! s/m

Bound to Please
Charles Sackville
Manufacturer: Blue Moon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Headmasters Mr. Howard and Gladys discover among the young women of their school a poisoner whose crime has escaped detection. This proves serendipitous for these two sadists, who contrive to inflict the most outrageous punishments upon the villainess that are sure to make her learn her lesson.

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BORING.......2000-11-01

how boring!! The story has no emotion. It's text book boring. Yes he's cruel but who cares when it's described this way. I wanted to hear from the victims. This is all about the abuser. I am not impressed by this story. Don't waste your money like I did!!

HEAVY ! s/m.......2000-02-06

if you're into heavy s/m and punishment of unwilling (though occasionally responsive) victims, then this is the book for you. not for the squeemish as the descriptions of the punishments are extensive and graphic. graphic s/m - but with poor character development and motivation.

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Captain America: Secret Empire

The Essential Cap

Captain America & The Falcon: Secret Empire TPB
Steve Englehart , Mike Friedrich , and Sal Buscema
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000LSBTG0

Book Description

The Secret Empire was rarely more secretive or empirical than in this classic arc that sets Cap against a conspiracy out to frame and replace him in the American mind! And pay close attention to the man behind the curtain (or mask, as the case may be)! Corruption and cover-ups conclude with Cap quitting the Avengers, paving the way for his days as Nomad! With Nick Fury, the Black Panther, and Banshee! Guest-starring the X-Men (back before it was cool)! Featuring an early re-telling of Cap's origin! Collects Captain America and The Falcon #169-176.

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Captain America: Secret Empire.......2007-01-25

This graphic novel collects some old issues of the Captain America comic from the Seventies--#'s 169-176--and features the adventures Cap has before giving up his role as the Star-Spangled Avenger. This means that Secret Empire is a story of a hero's growing disillusionment with his own country. I'm disappointed with how little we get to see inside Steve Roger's (aka Captain America's) psyche as the Watergate scandal breaks while Cap is simultaneously framed for murder and rejected by the citizens he has always protected thanks to a widespread conspiracy unfolding against him, but other than that, this is an entertaining story, which guest-stars CA's regular partner of the time, The Falcon, at his best.

The Secret Empire is a bunch of guys in hooded cloaks, but they have awesome weapons, a flying saucer powered by the mutant minds of various captured X-Men (and some of their foes), and agents placed in all the strata of American society, ready to assist, when called on, in the secret domination of their country. Quentin Harderman is one of those agents, and as the head of the Committee To Regain America's Principles--really just a propaganda tool of the Empire--his mission is to discredit Captain America by launching an insidious smear campaign with TV ads, and seal the deal by framing Cappy for murder with some help from a super-powered villain named Moonstone whom the public will be manipulated into seeing as great hero and replacement for Cap. Though the obligatory fight scenes pull focus away from the subtler aspects of what's truly cool here--do Cap and The Falcon really need to fight the Banshee in Nashville while pursuing a lead?--the intervention of realworld politics, like Moonstone on a talk-show glibly lumping the "Captain America scandal" in with Watergate, gives the Secret Empire saga clout.

The truth is, Spider-Man spent much of his career wanted for murder while being targeted by a powerful media mogul (you know who) in a relentless smear campaign--so what's so special here? And Iron Man was very similarly framed for murder by a villain trying to destroy all his credibility. Batman (well, okay, Bruce Wayne) has been a fugitive due to a frame-up. And most major heroes in comics have, at one time or another, given up their crime-fighter identities, often when the public doesn't want them around anymore. So why is it a bigger deal when THIS hero quits? Well, simply put, because he wears the Stars and Stripes, and functions as a symbol of his country, and even of his government. When Captain America decides to stop being Captain America not long after chasing Agent Number One of the Secret Empire into The White House and unmasking unthinkable corruption while inside its walls, it is a comic book with something to say about how powerful corruptors can make dupes of all of us. Very cool metaphor for the shocking truths being revealed in American politics at the time...even if this fictional counterpart features a flying saucer full of X-Men on the White House lawn.

I was originally going to give Secret Empire only a 3-Star review because of some clunky plotting (what happened to Mastermind, Unus, the Blob, and Mesmero; did they just wander off somewhere, after we saw them?). And Nick Fury could have just been edited out, since it's a few of his other SHIELD agents who figure cleverly into the story. But--The Falcon comes into his own, gloriously; I guess a bell rings because he earns his wings! And Moonstone is a memorable cad, even when he too discovers he's just another expendable pawn in the plans of the Secret Empire. So it's a gutsy storyline from the House Of Ideas in the Seventies.

The Essential Cap.......2006-06-29

There's never been a more interesting or important Capt. America story arc than this 1970's classic by the great Steve Englehart. During the height of the national disillusionment that culminated with the Watergate scandal (current events actually shaped the development of the story as it unfolded), Steve Rogers questions what it means to be Captain America, and gives up the role for a number of issues (a daring move at the time). Often imitated, but never equalled. I still keep an eye out for anything that Englehart writes (most recently, the Dark Detective mini-series at DC).

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You probably know these people.....

How Real Men Do It
Tim Barela
Manufacturer: Palliard Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1884568068

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You probably know these people............2004-12-03

"How Real Men Do It," the fourth volume of "Leonard and Larry" comics from Tim Barela, continues in the same vein as his first three. As their lives continue, Larry Evans and Leonard Goldman face day to day situations like most middle aged marrieds. The kitchen needs remodeling. The grandkids need a bedtime story. The son needs a new apartment. The neighbors are getting nosy. The crucial difference is that Leonard and Larry are a happily committed gay couple in Los Angeles.

The typical nature of Barela's storylines is part of the brilliance of all his books. Borrowing liberally from 50's and 60's sitcom humor but remaining stunningly of the day, Leonard and Larry could be the American any-couple next door. They have friends that kvetch over the relatives, fight midlife flab and try to do right by their families. At the same time, they also have to deal with what many gay couples in America go through every day; homophobia, job discrimination and trying to protect their children (be they adopted or from previous marriages) from a world that eyes them with suspicion or hatred. Every so often, a panel with poignancy will leap from the page and strike you, as does the one single strip that mentions 9/11.

That is not to say that Barela's terrific sense of humor isn't splashed liberally throughout "How Real Men Do It." The travails of soap opera star Merle Oberon and his quest to save his failing TV show, and Larry's obsession with Bruce, the house repairman, are probably the funniest series in "How Real Men Do It." Leonard and Larry remaining a refreshing alternative to the twinky obsessed standard gay literary fare. "How Real Men Do it" shows you who the real men are -- real men have beards and may just be celebrating 50. It makes each of Tim Barela's four books national treasures.

Real Men Do Real Things: How Real Men Get Down

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The Manhood Bible

Real Men Do Real Things: How Real Men Get Down
Rich Gilmore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0974683418

Customer Reviews:

The Manhood Bible.......2006-06-30

I bought this book for every man I love. Hopefully some of the character Isiah can rub off on them, especially my man. I LOVE THIS BOOK!

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