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Divining Women, by Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons explores so many different ideas in Divining Women, that I had a hard time getting fully involved in all of them. The novel is centered around Mary: she is ...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca
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Featured on April 10th, 2008
 
 
George Orwel...
 
- reviewed by harneyj602
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Featured on April 9th, 2008
 
 
Canadian brothers Will and Ian Ferguson provide an entertaining and hilariously funny glimpse into what it means to be Canadian. The content is divided into 17 chapters covering subjects such as: Cana...
 
- reviewed by Charlene
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Featured on April 8th, 2008
 
 
How can a book about public schools and mandatary testing be interesting? A valid question, and one I would have asked myself if I wasn't entering the education field. Yet, Linda Perstein's Tested ...
 
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Featured on April 4th, 2008
 
 
Secret Life of Bees, The, by Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd exemplified a truly brilliant creative work when completing The Secret Life of Bees, that of which I would read over and over again. Everyday tasks were transformed into interesting even...
 
- reviewed by whalenc427
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Featured on April 3rd, 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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Reading this now. Our Latin American future canon. On the shelf with Garcia-Marquez. Anti-Magical Realism.
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Fantastic. The quintessential collection of Greek mythology stories. All very entertaining.
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Uncryptic and true, the only acceptable book for gaining even a glimpse into their minds.
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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...
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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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