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Betty Aberlin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, Dick Cheney

Heart: An American Medical Odyssey

Dick Cheney
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I aways wondered if Dick Cheney got a primo young Iraqi heart.

Paperback, 2016

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman
Betty AberlinBetty Aberlin

@ThatKevinSmith listening to the audiobook of Alan Rickman's diaries - 'Madly Deeply' - on the filming of DOGMA. I sometimes think you're the Rodney Dangerfield of filmmakers. what a wonderful film!

Paperback, 2024

$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: I and Thou, Martin Buber

I and Thou

Martin Buber
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I heard there was a bearded Jew Who said you live in relation to Your spouse, your boss, The guy who drives your Uber. So if you make a solemn vow To treat each other as I and Thou, You learned a thing or 2 from Martin Buber Martin Buber, Martin Buber Martin Buber, Martin Buber-

Paperback, 2021

$6.95Member price:$6.26 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}, Alexandre Dumas

Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}

Alexandre Dumas
Betty AberlinBetty Aberlin

58 hours of unabridged Alexandre Dumas sure beat the classics comic of Count of Monte Cristo!!!

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Book Cover for: The Witchcraft of Salem Village, Shirley Jackson

The Witchcraft of Salem Village

Shirley Jackson
Betty AberlinBetty Aberlin

When children who had read Shirley Jackson's "The Witchcraft of Salem Village,” which was published during the McCarthy era, and then wrote her letters about its meaning, she would write “We have exactly the same thing to be afraid of, —

Paperback, 1987

$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Slough House, Mick Herron

Slough House

Mick Herron
Betty AberlinBetty Aberlin

heavenly audiobook binge - the Mick Herron Slough House series, read by Gerard Doyle. downright wonderful. I can go on now.

Paperback, 2021

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Oleanna: A Play, David Mamet

Oleanna: A Play

David Mamet
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@johncusack mentioned BP, got: "Byrne Piven! My late mother was directed by him in the 1970's (in a play written by his buddy Dick Cusack, with a cast that also included improv legend Del Close and young unknown David Mamet) and played his wife in the 1990's!" - Jonathan Billig

Paperback, 1993

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Robert Falconer, George MacDonald

Robert Falconer

George MacDonald
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as we call them, may be surrounded by the birth-watchers of the other world, waiting like anxious servants to open the door to which this world is but the wind-blown porch.” – George MacDonald, Robert Falconer

Paperback, 2023

$31.03Member price:$15.52 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons, George MacDonald

Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

George MacDonald
Betty AberlinBetty Aberlin

"& why should the good of anyone depend on the prayer of another? I can only answer with the return question, 'Why should my prayer be powerless to help another?'" - George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, "Man's Difficulty Concerning Prayer"

Paperback, 2004

$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke
Betty AberlinBetty Aberlin

I once "went crazy" because I didn't have anywhere else to go. do you think people are under so many dire threats (personal/local/global/nuclear) that we're escaping/transforming into new or other forms in order to be ready for what Arthur Clarke predicted in CHILDHOOD'S END?

Paperback, Mass Market, 1987

$9.00Member price:$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book