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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl 188 reviews
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin, 2005
A healthy reminder of how easy we have it.
+ The Worst Hard Time
+ Non-fiction that Reads Like a Novel
+ I had no clue
+ Dust to Bust
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel 278 reviews
Gregory Maguire
Harper Paperbacks, 2000
Maguire has done it again
+ It Fits
+ Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
His wonderful novels have yet to disappoint. He is so descriptive and clear, I find myself drawn into his worlds completely. I have read 4 or 5 of his novels now and every time I have thoroughly enjoyed his twisted take on a familiar back story. Keep 'em coming!
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The Keeper of the Bees (Library of Indiana Classics)25 reviews
Gene Stratton-Porter
Indiana University Press, 1991
Like a comforting blanket
+ This book is a gift to yourself - take time to read it
+ Wholesome Romance and Recovery Story
+ All Abuzz over this one
+ For those who love a story
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Redeeming Love 563 reviews
Francine Rivers
Multnomah Books, 1997
Finished reading within 48 hours
+ Revived, Renewed, Restored, Redeemed!
+ Excellent
+ A wonderful parallel
+ Fine reader
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 361 reviews
Azar Nafisi
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
A tribute to the human spirit
+ Memorable
+ cinsandiego
+ Pleasantly surprised
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The Hot Flash Club: A Novel39 reviews
Nancy Thayer
Ballantine Books, 2004
The Hot Flash Club
+ easy read
+ Laughing through midlife
+ good book
+ FIFTY IS HOT!
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When the Emperor Was Divine56 reviews
Julie Otsuka
Anchor, 2003
A Moving Novel That Manages To Provide Evocative Details Using Spare Prose
+ Intrusion of all class divisions : business, child and women, college students, and 1/16 Japanese
+ Prose Haiku
WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE is nothing short of remarkable. In one hundred and forty-four very readable pages Julie Otsuka brings to heartfelt life the painful realities faced by Japanese Americans at the hands of a paranoid U.S. government during the World War II era. Otsuka (through flashbacks) ...
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Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community82 reviews
Robert D. Putnam
Simon & Schuster, 2001
A Lonelier Crowd
Robert D. Putnam's BOWLING ALONE provides what is, arguably, the most robust scientific treatment in a single volume of the conversation about friendship and its benefits begun by Aristotle nearly twenty-four centuries ago, a conversation about what has now come to be called "social capital" :
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The Time Traveler's Wife1675 reviews
Audrey Niffenegger
Harvest Books, 2004
Best Book I've read in a LONG time
+ Loved it!
I absolutely loved this book. I abandoned all of my responsibilities for two days so that I could read The Time Traveler's wife without stopping. I have now recommended it to everyone I know. It's a little confusing in the beginning, but a good confusing, because the author makes you want to ...
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany65 reviews
Hans J. Massaquoi
Harper Perennial, 2001
phenomenal view of the Germans before and during Hitler
+ Inspiring and Humbling
+ Remarkably Destined
+ Thank You, Hans J. Massaquoi
+ Destine to Witness:Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 7)102 reviews
Alexander Mccall Smith
Pantheon, 2006
Why hasn't Alexander Mccall Smith won awards for these books?
+ "To feel happiness and then to remember it"
+ Warm, witty, and wise
+ No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog1358 reviews
John Grogan
William Morrow, 2005
One crazy canine
+ Laughed, cried, laughed and cried some more
+ Marley and Me
+ Marley and Me
+ IGNORE THE IGNORANCE OF OTHER REVIEWS
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel728 reviews
Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury USA, 2005
Instant Classic
+ Wonderfully Clever Book
+ The Line Between the Mystical and the Physical
This evocative tale of English magicians who become associates and eventual rivals/enemies is one of the most impressive literary debut-novels in any genre, ever. Every atmospheric detail is rich and crucial; there is nothing that is not essential to this mesmerizing, often frightening tale. ...
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Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community82 reviews
Robert D. Putnam
Simon & Schuster, 2001
A Lonelier Crowd
Robert D. Putnam's BOWLING ALONE provides what is, arguably, the most robust scientific treatment in a single volume of the conversation about friendship and its benefits begun by Aristotle nearly twenty-four centuries ago, a conversation about what has now come to be called "social capital" :
...
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Redeeming Love563 reviews
Francine Rivers
Multnomah Books, 1997
Finished reading within 48 hours
+ Revived, Renewed, Restored, Redeemed!
+ Excellent
+ A wonderful parallel
+ Fine reader
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel728 reviews
Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury USA, 2005
Instant Classic
+ Wonderfully Clever Book
+ The Line Between the Mystical and the Physical
This evocative tale of English magicians who become associates and eventual rivals/enemies is one of the most impressive literary debut-novels in any genre, ever. Every atmospheric detail is rich and crucial; there is nothing that is not essential to this mesmerizing, often frightening tale. ...
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The Keeper of the Bees (Library of Indiana Classics)25 reviews
Gene Stratton-Porter
Indiana University Press, 1991
Like a comforting blanket
+ This book is a gift to yourself - take time to read it
+ Wholesome Romance and Recovery Story
+ All Abuzz over this one
+ For those who love a story
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany65 reviews
Hans J. Massaquoi
Harper Perennial, 2001
phenomenal view of the Germans before and during Hitler
+ Inspiring and Humbling
+ Remarkably Destined
+ Thank You, Hans J. Massaquoi
+ Destine to Witness:Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel278 reviews
Gregory Maguire
Harper Paperbacks, 2000
Maguire has done it again
+ It Fits
+ Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
His wonderful novels have yet to disappoint. He is so descriptive and clear, I find myself drawn into his worlds completely. I have read 4 or 5 of his novels now and every time I have thoroughly enjoyed his twisted take on a familiar back story. Keep 'em coming!
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 7)102 reviews
Alexander Mccall Smith
Pantheon, 2006
Why hasn't Alexander Mccall Smith won awards for these books?
+ "To feel happiness and then to remember it"
+ Warm, witty, and wise
+ No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
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