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And Then There Were None 1 review Agatha Christie
Pocket, 1980
Brilliant...Don't Miss It!
And Then There Were None, the brilliant masterwork by the much imitated Agatha Christie is a complicated yet accessible murder mystery. Ten guests arrive at an island, each with a different secret, and each uniquely mysterious. When all the guests have gathered, a mysterious voice, U.N. Owen??? ...
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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) 1 review E.M. Forster
Penguin Classics, 2005
A Must Read, But It's No Ulysses
Forster's novel is a classic. it appears on all "Top 100" lists, for list maniacs, but it is not really all that great. I can certainly think of a good many novels I'd rather read or reread. In the film version, the novel's exotic setting springs to life, of course, and that is 99% of the novel's ...
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Case of the Secret Scribbler (Mcgurk Mystery #6) E. W. Hildick
Simon Pulse, 1983
On the basis of a clue found in a library book, the McGurk detectives search for the perpetrator and the victim of a crime they think will be committed in three days.
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The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics) 25 reviews John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics, 2006
Really great book!
+ Ride with Steinbeck + Steinbeck's Style Is Effective
I really enjoyed this book!
Among other things I like about Steinbeck, that all persons have faults as well, even the ones you like. And they are very interesting characters. And its very easy to read.
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Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) 595 reviews Charlotte Brontė
Signet Classics, 1997
Best Book in the World!
+ This Particular Version + Touching + Please Skip Erica Jong's Intro! + None Like It
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On the Banks of Plum Creek (0644000503) Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harper Trophy Books, 1971
This is "On the Banks of Plum Creek" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published 1971 by Harper Trophy Books, ISBN 0644000503, 340 Pages, Yellow Hardcover, with a picture of Laura running in a field printed in color on the cover as shown, and with Green Lettering printed on the spine (title & author), as well as a Green Field printed on the back cover.
This is ONLY this exact title, author, publisher, ...
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Private eye, John Dennis Fitzgerald
T. Nelson, 1974
Ten-year-old Wally Stone turns his natural ability to find things and solve problems into a lucrative private detective business.
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Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Pocket Books, 1943
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As I Lay Dying 190 reviews William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Homegoing
+ A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale + Now I can get them teeth... + As I Lay Dying
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Thale's Folly 19 reviews Dorothy Gilman
Ballantine Books, 2000
Just a nice book
+ the very best kind of folly . . . + "Thale's Folly" Review
The previous readers have done a good job of reviewing, so I won't repeat. I just want to say that my wife and I thought this is one of the best books written. This along with Nun in the Closet, of course.
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Mrs. Dalloway 154 reviews Virginia Woolf
Harcourt, 2002
Perfect in every way
+ Clarissa's Day + Woolf' Best + Better the second time around
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The Warriors (The Kent Family Chronicles) 6 reviews
Signet, 2005
The Best Yet !!!
+ The Warriors (The Kent Family Chronicles) + awesome, read all 8, the story gets better and better.... + Great As Usual
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Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics) 19 reviews Vladimir Nabokov
Everyman's Library, 1992
Still stirs the imagination after all these years.
+ Sublimely beautiful + "Lolita" + Controversial, haunting and somehow strangely compelling
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Candide 135 reviews
Bantam Classics, 2003
All is for the best in this world
+ magnum opus + Classic of world literature + More than just satire. A statement about the Human Condition + The beginnings of nihilism
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The Tower, the Mask, and the Grave Betty Smartt Carter
Shaw Books, 2000
On a chilly Illinois night, the secretary of a famous theologian hosts a Christmas party...and never shows up. When Virginia Falls and her friend Stephen pursue six suspects, they uncover not only a crime, but a heart as dark as the grave.
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The Wild Palms 12 reviews William Faulkner
Vintage, 2000
Buy it, read it
+ If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner + Modernist Faulkner + "The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton
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Salem's Lot 8 reviews Stephen King
Signet, 1976
Revival of the Vampire
+ Loved it - true classic vampire book. But... + Importing Vampires in Maine: A Dreadful Business! + My first Stephen King book - but not the last! + Stephen King's best
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Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery 4 reviews John Gregory Brown
Quill, 1995
One of the best books I've read
+ GREAT book! + Wonderful read
I completely disagree with the Kirkus review.It would be nice if all books that were coming out today were as beautifully written, as innovative and as heartwarming--eventually--as this one. Oftentimes, you get a book that's been given outstanding reviews and it isn't worth a damn. This is quiet ...
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Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Signet Classics, 1965
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Henry Reed, Inc. (Puffin Books) 15 reviews Keith Robertson
Puffin, 1989
great summer reading
+ my son loved henry reed books when he was 5-8 + Great for kids who are too old for kids books + An Adventure Book
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