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Jane Austen: A Life 21 reviews
Claire Tomalin
Vintage, 1999
Not a Boring Bio
+ A good read
+ Definite Choice
+ A Dramatic Life of Jane Austen...
+ Sweet Jane
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A Suitable Vengeance (Inspector Lynley) 38 reviews
Elizabeth George
Bantam, 2007
A Real Page Turner
+ Back Story
After reading WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS, I had to go back and re-read A SUITABLE VENGEANCE by Elizabeth George so I could refresh my memory of the intertwining relationships between Inspector Lynley, Lady Helen, St. James and Deborah. This is a beautifully rendered novel as Ms. George explores the ...
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The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings14 reviews
John A. Keel
Tor Books, 2002
a cash on in the richard gere movie???
+ The Book!
i don't think that's possible. unless john keel went back in time to write this book, oh, about 40 years before the movie came out.
john keel's book does take a bit of a scientific look at monsters, but it's a good and sometimes scary read [bedroom invaders? ouch].
all in all a fine book i ...
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The Time Traveler's Wife 1672 reviews
Audrey Niffenegger
Harvest Books, 2004
Smooth
+ There's a Reason It's So Popular ... One of the Best Time Travel Novels I've Ever Read (And I've Read Lots)
This is a book of parts. Tasty parts that spread nougat goodness across my tongue and tender parts that swell in my chest.
This isn't a book about love, though it couldn't have been written without it. It's a book about abiding and about seeing the truth of things when even the best truth is ...
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age198 reviews
William Manchester
Back Bay Books, 1993
The flavor of the middle ages
+ Highly Entertaining
+ When The Capitalist World Was Young
+ Read and test everything
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The Red Tent: A Novel1430 reviews
Anita Diamant
Picador, 2007
Amazing
+ Dinah's Life and Times
+ Best book I've read in years
+ great condition. quick delivery.
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The Deposition of Father McGreevy18 reviews
Brian O'Doherty
Arcadia Books, 2001
An Irish mix of Christianity and Paganism
+ Nearly flawless storytelling
+ History of the Decline and Fall of the Irish Village
Set amidst a backdrop of turmoil in Europe, Father McGreevy toils with the unrest prevailing in his mountain top village. All aspects of Irish life are revealed as the women mysteriously perish during the harsh winter of 1939. Tuberculosis was plentiful in Ireland and although it is not ...
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Land Girls: A Spirited Novel of Love and Friendship19 reviews
Angela Huth
St. Martin's Griffin, 1998
Liked It
+ Land Girls
I liked this book. It was very well written, thoughtful, had strong character development.
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Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead (Plus)4 reviews
Christine Wicker
HarperOne, 2006
Brilliant & Sensitive Exploration of One Town's Beliefs
+ Beyond the fringe
+ Lily Dale as it is and as it was
Lily Dale fascinates because it is an unusual account of a skeptic approaching believers with sensitivity and openness. It is beautifully written, and a compelling story of the ins and outs of fragile faith. Christine Wicker goes to Lily Dale, a Spiritualist community in upstate New York, with many ...
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The Uninvited1 review
Dorothy Macardle
Bantam Books, 1969
One of the Best Ghost Stories Ever Written
It is a great pity that modern audiences are so unfamiliar with Dorothy Macardle's first-class 1942 ghost novel, "The Uninvited." The 1944 film based on the novel, with Ray Milland and Gail Russell, is probably more well-known, which is too bad, because, although the film adaptation was good, ...
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The Red Dancer: The Life and Times of Mata Hari 11 reviews
Richard Skinner, 2003
A woman victim of weak personalities....
+ entertaining read, good historical novel
+ History in narrartive
Strange how Paris was associated with such type of exotic oriental style dancers who, by the end of the day, became involved in espionage activities.
This brunette mundane woman was alleged to have had experience shared by high-ranking military officers of Russian, German, and French ...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring, Deluxe Edition14 reviews
Tracy Chevalier
Plume, 2005
I adored this book!
+ Girl with a pearl earring
+ Cute Heartbreaking Story of Hard Life for Young Woman
+ Loved this book.
+ good book, but the film is better
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature67 reviews
Matt Ridley
Harper Perennial, 2003
Superb Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ The Red Queen
+ Picking up where The Selfish Gene left off....
+ The content is good but the quality of the book not
+ A fascinating analysis!
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)88 reviews
Alison Weir
Ballantine Books, 2001
Facts versus Fluff
+ Immerses you in the life of Queen Eleanor
+ A highly readbale account of a Beautiful, wilful, strong, intelligent and passionate woman
+ A Dozen Ways Home Schoolers Can Use This Biography
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Embers98 reviews
Sandor Marai
Vintage, 2002
The candle burns to its stub!
+ Great novel
+ A still life of passion
+ Closest to perfection this side of heaven
+ Passion v. reason
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Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics)37 reviews
Elizabeth Gaskell
Penguin Classics, 1997
wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskell
+ Gaskell's Wives and Daughters
+ Nothing every-day about this Victorian chronicle
I love this story. For anyone that likes Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. This is in a similar vein but less intense. Very good read and video.
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Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others
Dover Publications, 1998
From the masters of the genre, 14 spellbinding tales written between 1880 and 1940, including "The Sin Eater," by Fiona McLeod, a wild Celtic fantasy, "The Eye Above the Mantel," by Frank Belknap Long, as well as works by Ambrose Bierce, R. H. Barlow, Arthur Machen, W. C. Morrow and others.
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages: The Sangreal, Pope Joan, The Wandering Jew, and Others (Dover Books on ...2 reviews
Sabine Baring-Gould
Dover Publications, 2005
A Compendium of Fascinating Stories
I was interested in this book because it covered stories with which I was already familiar--the Wandering Jew, Pope Joan, the Grail--and for which I am always interested in finding new resources. The bonus was that I discovered deeper roots for stories I only knew superficially--the Pied Piper, ...
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The Salaryman's Wife60 reviews
Sujata Massey
HarperTorch, 2000
Forsaking luxury is what I'm most proud of
+ Lively modern Japanese mystery series
Rei: I love luxury, forsaking it is what I'm most proud of.
The Salaryman's Wife is about 21st Century Japanese Samurai: the Japanese mafia called Yakusa and the Ya-San's junior motorcycle gang Bosuzoku, their Geisha Samurai consort bar girls and Rei Shimura a formidable Samurai woman ...
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Year of Wonders312 reviews
Geraldine Brooks
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Unexpectedly, A Great Read
+ I'm Loving This Author
+ Beautifully Written, But Strange Ending
+ Amazing ending
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