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West with the Night 121 reviews
Beryl Markham
North Point Press, 1982
Beautifully written account of life in East Africa
+ West With the Night
+ West with the Night
+ Reads like fiction
+ Far far better than I anticipated. Great writing.
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Round Ireland with a Fridge71 reviews
Tony Hawks
St. Martin's Griffin, 2001
Why you ask? Well why not?
+ Round Ireland w/ a Fridge
+ Nothing deep, but fun
+ What a HOOT!
+ Good, but "Playing the Moldovans" is Tony's masterpiece
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The Kite Runner2517 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2004
Ki
+ Wonderful
+ Fantastic
+ powerful and moving
+ Could Not Put it Down
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The Eight 365 reviews
Katherine Neville
Ballantine Books, 1997
Great ride!
+ Breathtaking in imagination and scope
+ Great Adventure and Action
Travelling back and forth through time, criss-crossing the globe in a frantic quest first to hide and then to retrieve pieces of a priceless and ominous chess set, laced with historical characters as diverse as Charlemagne, Casanova and Bach, sprinkled with arcane bits of chess lore, alchemy, music ...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914131 reviews
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2004
A man, a plan, a canal . . .
+ Audacious and improbable (4.25*s)
+ Lighting a path thru history
+ A great story
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The Shipping News 447 reviews
E. Annie Proulx
Scribner, 1994
Good News
+ Sequel please
+ Perfect
+ Wonderful Writing
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The Source: A Novel143 reviews
James A. Michener
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002
Another great
+ The Source
+ A Sweeping (Fictional) History of the Holy Land
+ James Michener's book "The Source"
+ Three religions, one source
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The Secret Life of Bees1437 reviews
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
great read, very moving and realistic for the time period
+ Good Read
+ Emotional read
+ Excellent Read
+ Nostalgically Current
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Outlander1365 reviews
Diana Gabaldon
Delta, 1998
Outstanding, excellent, outlandish
+ "All good things come to he who waits"
+ Absorbing and Heartwarming
Outlander is absolutely stunning. My great thanks go once again to the contributors on the PNR community boards where I heard first of this book and series.
I believe it is very well written. I love the genre crossings: romance, science-fiction, history. DG has an outstanding ability to delve ...
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The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5)401 reviews
John Grisham
Pearson ESL, 2000
The Firm: A Must Read
+ Beware of Offers You Cannot Refuse
+ Scott Brick does a good job reading this thriller
+ Good Read
+ awesome page turner
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A Moveable Feast145 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1996
An Opinion Humbly Submitted
+ Hemingway at his Best
+ The Writer's Life
+ Paris of the Lost Generation!
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The Horse Whisperer (Penguin Readers, Level 3)634 reviews
Evans
Pearson ESL, 2000
The Horse Whisperer paperback
+ The Horse Whisper
The item arrived quickly and was in great condition. I am well pleased with my first experience of purchasing through Amazon.
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Tai-Pan85 reviews
James Clavell
Dell, 1986
Fantastical good in spite of the fact I didn't really enjoy reading it
+ :)
+ Lots of pirate adventures set in Asia
+ pirates, gold, guns, Hong Kong, glory
+ Top 5 Book List
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan)305 reviews
Tom Clancy
Berkley, 1992
A Technothriller Classic
+ Clancy's first born novel
+ Easily one of the best
+ Truly a Great Wrok from a Great Writer
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Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series)12 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pocket, 2005
An adventure in learning!
+ 25 words or less
+ Treasure Island
+ Writen in XIX Century and good
+ Treasure Island
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Brotherhood of War: The Lieutenants, the Captains, the Major6 reviews
W.E.B. Griffin
Putnam Adult, 2001
The Lieutenants, the Captains, the Majors
+ Brotherhood of War, Lieutenants, Captains, Majors
+ The Lieutenants, Captians & Majors
+ Brotherhood of War
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The Alchemist1289 reviews
Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins, 2006
Inspiring
+ Actually life-changing
+ Overall, a good read
Anyone unsure of what they want to do after high school should read this book.
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The House of the Spirits272 reviews
Isabel Allende
Bantam, 1986
Better than 100 Years of Solitude
+ Wonderful historical fiction
+ review of house of the spirits
+ wow
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Congo246 reviews
Michael Crichton
Avon, 2003
Great story
+ Scared the heck out of me and made me think
As an Anthroplogy student I have a particular fondness to this book. I love the story and the action is intense. The book is lengthy but you will finish it in a few sittings, it's that good!
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Caravans60 reviews
James A. Michener
Fawcett, 1986
If only they had read this...
+ Caravans Review
+ Early Mich at the top of his game
+ very well written
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