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nolahn's book review haiku of... LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION (2006) by Sam HarrisDear Religious Right:You're ridiculous. Stop it.Peace out, Sam Harri...
 
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Featured on June 7th, 2008
 
 
No one today holds a position in a child’s world even remotely comparable to the one Charlie Chaplin held then...
 
- reviewed by pcontino
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Featured on June 5th, 2008
 
 
Probably unlike most readers of this novel, I was well past high school when I first met Phineas and Gene...
 
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Featured on June 2nd, 2008
 
 
High Spirits, by Dianne Salerni
High Spirits is the story of Maggie and Kate Fox from Hydesville, New York, early members of the Spiritualist movement. Their first foray into the realm of Spiritualism was accidenta...
 
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Featured on May 30th, 2008
 
 
Because of Winn-DIxie, by By Kate DiCamillo
The novel Because of Winn-Dixie By Kate DiCamillo is a realistic fiction novel that encompasses the life of Opal, a young girl who moves to Naomi, Florida with her father. The reader quickly learns t...
 
- reviewed by starz_2005
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Featured on May 30th, 2008
 
 
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The autism "logo" is a multicolored jigsaw puzzle with the pieces scrambled. Read this book to see why.
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Fantastic. The quintessential collection of Greek mythology stories. All very entertaining.
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I shelve this only to denounce it Total misrepresentation. Bah, humbug.
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The Irish queers have found their epic voice. O'Neil evokes laughter and tears.
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the best trilogy that i have ever read
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The China Lover, by Ian Burma
The one job qualification necessary for becoming celebrity is reinvention. Part this has to do with the reality and economics of the business: Marlon Brando had to audition for The Godfather because ...
reviewed by pcontino
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Many great minds throughout history have commented on the invisible war waged between the written word and technology. Kafka referred to the dawn of motion picture as the...
reviewed by BLNicholas
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American Wife , by Curtis Sittenfeld
It seemed like a good idea: a sexed-up, fictionalized autobiography of Laura Bush. For eight years the First Lady has been the "silent partner" in a White House that can boast that it changed the cou...
reviewed by pcontino
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The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
This is Dave King's debut fictional novel, and it is superb. It is centered around Howie, a Vietnam Vet. He became disabled in the war and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since. His disabi...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the novel that took this series to a whole new level. Not only is it more complicated, dramatic, and suspenseful than the first three, but it is also the found...
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