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Blaze, by Richard Bachman
Typically, reviews of Stephen King books start out with a reviewer going on a lengthy explanation of whether they feel it’s appropriate f
 
 
 
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel
    Some readers may know Alison Bechdel for her long-running comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, an alternative (duh) and award-winning syndicated str
 
 
 
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Wolves in the Walls, by Neil Gaiman
Lucy told her family that wolves were in the walls. Her family did not believe her, but her pig puppe
 
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Banker to the Poor charts the development of the Grameen Bank established by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh starting in 1976 and continuing through the present.  The bank developed the concept of M...
 
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This was the textbook for by Book Publicity course at Emerson, taught by Lissa Warren.
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Hitchens makes the case that religion spoils every part of our lives and society. Powerful stuff.
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Grislier than the movie. Not necessarily as compelling. But read it anyway.
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This was my favorite book ever.
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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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Recent Book Reviews
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...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
This is a quiet book, with a subtle, quiet impact. Thankfully, such low-decibel works are still receiving attention in the world of smash-'em-ups and steamy scandal, where much of our entertainment l...
reviewed by JonIrwin
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The Tortilla Curtain, by T.Coraghessan Boyle
The Tortilla Curtain has skyrocketed to the top of my all-time favorite books. The blurb on the front cover caused my hand to select...
reviewed by BLNicholas
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Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
I wanted to like this book; I really, really did. I thought something set in a post-9/11 world that still has elements of cyberpunk--I could TOTALLY get on board with that. And yet...This book disap...
reviewed by tinapickles
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