Animal Crackers12 reviews Hannah Tinti Delta, 2005 a pitch-perfect debut + Vivacious, humanistic account + excellent, disturbing stories + Entertainingly Macabre             Property38 reviews Valerie Martin Vintage, 2004 The Best Book From a 5 Star Author + It Ain't Gone with the Wind + "A compelling story based on a false premise" + What is freedom? + An elegant, chilly, fast-paced novel ...             The Memory of Running: A Novel158 reviews Ron McLarty Viking, 2004 A great trip! + An Excellent Summer Read + Funny and Entertaining + Exceeded my expectations             The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories18 reviews Etgar Keret Toby Press, 2004 Brilliant + Entertaining Short Stories + really good. + Great Buy + Funny little stories             Man and Wife: A Novel4 reviews Tony Parsons Touchstone, 2004 I LOVED this book! + I loved this one, too + Say it as we feel it. + Very special             Angels & Demons2181 reviews Dan Brown Pocket, 2006 Excellent, Plot-twisting Thriller + I confess that I got hooked... + A good read + It's fiction - to be read as such             Brother and Sister: A Novel1 review Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury USA, 2005 "The abandoned baby lives inside each adoptee." 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To clarify what I mean ...             The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time26 reviews Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 Extremely Raw - and a Super read + A fantastic book + Insight Into Aspergers Syndrome + An absolute gem + Good overall, but I expected more             Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 3)91 reviews Alexander McCall Smith Anchor, 2002 Another Hit For Alexander McCall Smith + Warm, witty, and wise + not disappointed + Excellent Author + Warm, loving and human             Blackbird House: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)40 reviews Alice Hoffman Ballantine Books, 2005 extremely well done! + whimsical + I read it every summer + Wonderful + Awesome!             Naming the New World: A Novel Calvin Baker St. Martin's Press, 1997 Reading Calvin Baker's debut novel, Naming the New World, is like glancing through a family photo album. Each short chapter is like a snapshot capturing a moment in time. Beginning in the past with Ampofo, fresh from the hold of a cargo ship, and ending in the present with Brenndan awaiting his execution on death row, Baker weaves a short history of African Americans in the New World. Baker's ...             Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2)106 reviews Alexander McCall Smith Anchor, 2002 Warm, gentle, wonderful + Love Precious Ramotswe! + Warm, witty, and wise + What's not to love???             Naming the New World: A Novel Calvin Baker St. Martin's Press, 1997 Reading Calvin Baker's debut novel, Naming the New World, is like glancing through a family photo album. Each short chapter is like a snapshot capturing a moment in time. Beginning in the past with Ampofo, fresh from the hold of a cargo ship, and ending in the present with Brenndan awaiting his execution on death row, Baker weaves a short history of African Americans in the New World. Baker's ...             R Is For Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)42 reviews Sue Grafton Berkley, 2005 Not quite on par with the others in the series I've been reading Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone mysteries for years and have loved the series as a whole. Kinsey is a character who seems so real it's as if she'll jump right off the page. She's also a woman with whom I can relate, the kind of woman I'd enjoy having as a friend because she is who ...             Animal Crackers12 reviews Hannah Tinti Delta, 2005 a pitch-perfect debut + Vivacious, humanistic account + excellent, disturbing stories + Entertainingly Macabre             The Black Violin: A Novel3 reviews Maxence Fermine Atria, 2003 A Black Parable + Haunting in Its Beauty + insight into the European Classical period of music Johannes Karelsky was a violinist, so the book begins, and he was also a genius. After an all too brief period of notoriety as a child prodigy, Johannes ends up in the napoleonic wars, almost loses his life, and then meets Erasmus. Erasmus is a violin maker of the school of Stradivari, the last of ...