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nolahn's book review haiku of... A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (c. 1594) by William ShakespeareMix and match lovers,Fairies, dolts and a wedding:It's Shakespeare's Love Boat! &nbs
 
- reviewed by nolahn
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Featured on April 22nd, 2008
 
 
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America, by Chris Hedges, is a worthwhile read on a topic that seems beaten to death in popular punditry and conventional "blue-state&quo...
 
- reviewed by mbrumbaugh
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Featured on April 21st, 2008
 
 
No-no Boy, by John Okada
No-No Boy is about main character, Ichiro’s experience in a Japanese Internment camp during WWII, and his struggle to put his life back together following this nightmare. T...
 
- reviewed by BLNicholas
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Featured on April 21st, 2008
 
 
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 ne&rsqu...
 
- 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
 
 
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I challenge you to read this book without it changing your life
 
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8:56 - the key to it all.
 
- shelved by RyanGreen [reveal this book]
 
I shelve this only to denounce it Total misrepresentation. Bah, humbug.
 
- shelved by Ebenezer_Scrooge [reveal this book]
 
A powerful memoir The horrors of desperate poverty, told with humor, love, and pain
 
- shelved by pvitols [reveal this book]
 
Beautiful poems with a hard, funny edge. See my review on Literary Mama.com.
 
- shelved by Ginny_Kaczmarek [reveal this book]
 
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The Iraq War…The War on Terror…The Surge…for every name, year passing in labyrinthine complexity, convoluted explanations offered on the campaign trial justifying one vote for war...
 
- reviewed by pcontino [see full review]
 
 
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
At first scoop, Digging to America seems like an innocent straight forward novel about two couples who adopt baby girls from Korea. It is about how these couples' lives intersect: they both recieve t...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca [see full review]
 
 
William Shakespeare has been given more titles than can be counted: The best British Playwright, most influential English author, most accomplished author in history, best writer in the history of the...
 
- reviewed by gedaly [see full review]
 
 
In the second installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling manages to create her magic (pun intended) all over again. This book is a bit more complex than the Sorcerer's Stone was. The plot...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca [see full review]
 
 
No-no Boy, by John Okada
No-No Boy is about main character, Ichiro’s experience in a Japanese Internment camp during WWII, and his struggle to put his life back together following this nightmare. T...
 
- reviewed by BLNicholas [see full review]
 
 
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