This is a book, but it's also an app that mixes in user-generated feedback and location-based participation.

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This is a book about some of those people on Pennsylvania Avenue, people who are rarely seen, often unknown.

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This is a book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology.

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This is a book about what practices you need to have in a company to create a more effective organization.

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Powerful and thought-provoking, this is a book that stays with the reader.

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This is a book that deserves to be widely read, because anyone who does read it cannot help feeling both uncomfortable and angry.

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Overall, however, this is a book of bold ambitions ably fulfilled.

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This is a book that is necessary rather than readable.

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This is a book about taxes, after all.

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This is a book to surrender yourself to.

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This is a book about beginnings.

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This is a book about love.

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Now, however, it's available here, and after a second reading for the purposes of writing this month's recommendations, I can assure any reader on the hunt for a powerful and complex crime novel with a social conscience that this is a book that shouldn't be missed.

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This is a useful book for people looking to start a professional speaking career.

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Still, this is not a book for readers with a low tolerance for long digressions.

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This is a terrific book for anyone interested in physics, from casual readers to Nobel Laureates.

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This is a terrific book that I strongly recommend for any manager or salesperson.

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The phrase may never appear in the text, but this is really a book about Asian values.

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This is a memorable book about a time that should not be forgotten.

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This is not a book for the impatient, or even the terribly pragmatic.

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This is really a book about greed and spiritual awakening, co-told by an adulterous big-shot art dealer and a homeless man.

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This is a business book you will zip through like a novel.

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Yvonne, this is quite a book you have here.

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This is a timely book for several reasons.

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But this is also a book for grown-ups.

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Nevertheless, this is a pleasant book.

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So this is not a book review, just an observation, based on the wall-to-wall reporting on the contents of What Happened and the post-publication public statements of its author: With all due respect, I think Peggy Noonan is wrong.

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This is clearly not a book that is meant to be read not, at least, by the traditional method of starting at the beginning and proceeding to the end.

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This is a wonderfully constructed book but as a story it is an anti-climax.

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This is not just a book, as the title would suggest, about terrorism, at least as the word is generally defined.

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