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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd 251 reviews
Jim Fergus
St. Martin's Griffin, 1999
A Thousand White Women
+ Couldn't put it down!
+ 1000 White Women
+ Great Book
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears29 reviews
Dinaw Mengestu
Riverhead Hardcover, 2007
Mirrors my Immigrant experience
+ The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
+ Solid fiction...
I am glad to have found an Ethiopian-American " Jhumpa Lahiri". Who can convey and bring to light our African immigrant experience through his words. I hope Dinaw will continue to write, help us explore and make sense of our two world existence.
As an Ethiopian immigrant, my incredible ...
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox41 reviews
Maggie O'Farrell
Harcourt, 2007
truth is stranger than fiction
+ Could not put down!!
+ I'm in awe
+ Highly recommended
+ Brilliant
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas81 reviews
John Boyne
David Fickling Books, 2007
Well Done!
+ One to remember...
+ An Ending You'll Be Talking About
+ Startling, even when you know your history
+ A Must Read
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Unaccustomed Earth 74 reviews
Jhumpa Lahiri
Knopf, 2008
Another Great Collection of Stories from Lahiri
+ Perfection
+ As good as The Interpreter of Maladies
+ a gem
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The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.)86 reviews
Thrity Umrigar
Harper Perennial, 2007
Mumbai
+ A story of universal themes
+ Wonderful Storytelling......
+ Authentic... takes you there
+ Positively Wonderful
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time 1049 reviews
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Inspiring!!!
+ Inspiring Story
+ A Must Read
+ Tiffani's Review
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Loving Frank: A Novel105 reviews
Nancy Horan
Ballantine Books, 2008
Rich with description!
+ Superb read
+ Sensitive Portrayal of a Scarlet Woman
+ Best book of 2008
+ Love doesn't always conquer all
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The Gathering: A Novel 100 reviews
Anne Enright
Grove Press, 2007
Every bit deserving of the Booker Award.
+ Dissapointed
+ An Engaging Narrator Takes You to Liam's Wake While Shrouding the Past in Mystery
+ The Gathering Review
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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute95 reviews
Michael Ruhlman
Holt Paperbacks, 1999
Just Starting
+ Deft, knowledgeable, and well written
+ An interesting personal account on how one becomes a professional cook
+ Effectively Translating the Language of Professional Cooks
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An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country Books)15 reviews
Patrick Taylor
Forge Books, 2008
An Irish Country Doctor
+ Gentle Irish Story
+ An Irish Country Doctor
+ A gentle tale
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel 85 reviews
Michael Gruber
Harper Paperbacks, 2008
Delighted at this different side of Gruber
+ Hang on to the End for a Wild Ride with Michael Gruber
A fantastic read - nicely plotted, literary-minded. Lawyer and former Olympic weightlifter Jake Mishkin is hired by a nervous professor to safeguard some mysterious papers - papers which might point to a very valuable 17th century manuscript, a manuscript that would set the literary world on its ...
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Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)11 reviews
Jane Austen
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
An investment in pleasure.
+ Read Twice, or Not At All.
+ great story but it took a little while to get into the rhythm of the language
+ Thanks!
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Runaway23 reviews
Alice Munro
Vintage, 2005
How to deal with melancholy
+ Gorgeous
+ Truth from an Outsider
+ Perfect in Every Way...
+ Wonderful book
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao143 reviews
Junot Díaz
Riverhead Hardcover, 2007
A transcendent novel about the power of love.
+ deserves a place next to the most prestigious and intelligent literary works of recent memory
+ Engaging, yet disengaging...
+ Very Engaging
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Birds in Fall: A Novel22 reviews
Brad Kessler
Scribner, 2006
A Truly Satisfying Read
+ Sad but amazingly beautiful
+ Bird in Fall
+ Powerful Storytelling
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Run179 reviews
Ann Patchett
Harper, 2007
typical Ann Patchett
+ A Paean to Obama
The former mayor and father of three (1 natural and 2 adoptive) Bernard Doyle is the protagonist is Ann Patchett's bargain priced novel Run. I won't say I'm the biggest Ann Patchett fan and during the course of reading Run I felt like the tome would last an eon or so, but I did finish it and can't ...
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Body and Soul50 reviews
Frank Conroy
Delta, 1998
May Become a Classic
+ Excellent.....but...
+ Hands down best book I have ever read in my life.
+ a great read but...
+ Great story
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The Maytrees: A Novel46 reviews
Annie Dillard
Harper Perennial, 2008
A book to read more than once
+ fine family redemption drama
The words in this book hold on to one another like the schoolboys in Homer's "Crack the Whip." Between sentences is where things happen the reader must attend. Take this sentence, which comes near the end of the book, "Philosophy, Lou thought and so did Cornelius, had trivialized itself right ...
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas81 reviews
John Boyne
David Fickling Books, 2007
Well Done!
+ One to remember...
+ An Ending You'll Be Talking About
+ Startling, even when you know your history
+ A Must Read
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