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Oona: Living in the Shadows, by Jane Scovell
Oona O’Neill Chaplin (1925-1991) was the reluctant lightning rod placed between two influential, innovative, and troubled twentieth century artists.  Besides coming from n...
 
- reviewed by pcontino
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Featured on April 19th, 2008
 
 
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
At age fourteen, Susie Salmon is brutally raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbor. Although this may sound like the beginning of a horror story or a thriller, The Lovely Bones, by Alice Se...
 
- reviewed by todda768
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Featured on April 18th, 2008
 
 
Symphony, by Jude Morgan
Romantic fiction is different from romance fiction, of course. If you want to see how different, may I recommend “Symphon...
 
- reviewed by mikecuth
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Featured on April 15th, 2008
 
 
I just finished Wide Sargasso Sea for the second time; this book stands up to countless readings.  I don't know if Jean Rhys was the first novelist to tell "the other side of the stor...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca
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Featured on April 14th, 2008
 
 
My Booty novel, by Bill Campbell
A witty narrative about [some of] life's anxieties as they are experienced and [very amusingly] chronicled by a smart, thirt...
 
- reviewed by blankah
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Featured on April 12th, 2008
 
 
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This is my first novel, and a well leafed copy will remain on my shelf for impromptu readings.
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A powerful memoir The horrors of desperate poverty, told with humor, love, and pain
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Excellent book, especially if you need to buy a suit for a man in your life. It cuts to the chase.
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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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