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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20061107
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I reread Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, then Geraldine Brooks's 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel March. This excellent book is the story of the March girls' father set during the Civil War and is a thought-provoking read that covers that period and the moral dilemmas of every war.

- Marty Marsh, Fort Collins, Colo.

Recently, I read Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende. It was an easy-to-read story about how the author and his bride lived with "minimites" [a technology-shunning, Mennonite-like community] for 18 months, then used ...

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