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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never 43 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial, 1996
Art to Move Mountains (or Hermit Crab Shells)
+ High tide everywhere
+ All time favourite
+ Best book ever
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Good in Bed769 reviews
Jennifer Weiner
Washington Square Press, 2002
Amazing
+ Laugh out Loud Funny!
+ Excellent and speedy read!
It has been a long time since i've connected with a character that i have so much and yet so little in common with. This is a book i can read over and over again
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The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel560 reviews
Margaret Atwood
Anchor, 1998
I wasn't expecting this!!!!
+ A 21st century 1984 by George Orwell
+ Great Review
This book was written very well. I had the creeps while I was reading it. It reminded me of the movie "Children of Men" and the book "The Giver". The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking of a certain female vice presidential candidate. I am afraid that she would love the form of ...
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Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) 903 reviews
Jane Austen
Bantam Classics, 1983
Boy oh boy was I ever wrong about Lady Jane!!!
+ Worth paying for on the Kindle
+ What a Year for the Bennets
+ as always, better than the movie
+ Pride and Prejudice
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The Color Purple446 reviews
Alice Walker
Harvest Books, 2003
Color Purple
+ surprise
+ best book ever!
I love this book and I would recommend anyone to read it and watch the movie.
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In the Time of the Butterflies159 reviews
Julia Alvarez
Plume, 1995
Courage versus Tyranny
+ A great read
+ a story every American needs to know
+ Excellent
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Sula (Oprah's Book Club)132 reviews
Toni Morrison
Plume, 2002
"As willing to feel pain as to give pain, to feel pleasure as to give pleasure, hers was an experimental life."
+ What can kill a friendship?
+ Powerful
+ Fine work from a Nobel laureate
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Woman Hollering Creek and The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Random House Audio, 1992
The colorful Hispanic Southwest comes alive in Woman Hollering Creek , while The House on Mango Street follows a young girl growing up in the dilapidated Hispanic section of Chicago. Read by Sandra Cisneros. Book available.
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Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 8 reviews
Stella Gibbons
Penguin Classics, 2006
Rural Gothic
+ Cold Comfort Farm warms you in all the right places
+ Wonderful.
+ cold comfort farm
+ Remember those books you hated reading in Eng. Lit?
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The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club) 1004 reviews
Anita Shreve, 1999
The Pilot's Wife Review
+ Quick enjoyable read
I first read Anita Shreve's Body Surfing, and then just had to order another one of her books. Seeing as how The Pilot's Wife was on Oprah's book club, I figured it would be a good read and was yet again surprised by the twists and turns Shreve builds around in her novels. She is an excellent ...
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Nora Jane: A Life in Stories6 reviews
Ellen Gilchrist
Back Bay Books, 2005
Lively story collection
+ Enjoyable
+ This book rocks!
Ellen Gilchrist's character, Nora Jane, lives a very vivacious life, narrated in stories neatly combined. My enthusiasm for this book stems from the first chapter which takes place in uptown New Orleans, in a neighborhood where my late wife was born and raised, and which I, after we met, visited a ...
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Animal Dreams155 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial, 1991
Poetic
+ Magical
+ Another Favorite~
+ Incredible-vivid
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The Memoirs of a Survivor6 reviews
Doris Lessing
Vintage, 1988
Not a Novel: More of a Novella
+ Memoirs is a lesson in incrementalism
+ Not a Novel: More of a Novella
+ A furturistic novel and spiritual teaching manual
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 361 reviews
Azar Nafisi
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
A tribute to the human spirit
+ Memorable
+ cinsandiego
+ Pleasantly surprised
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Their Eyes Were Watching God407 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998
Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story
+ World class fiction, quick
+ A Beautiful Piece of Literature
+ Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century
+ Dreamy little novel
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Jasmine45 reviews
Bharati Mukherjee
Grove Press, 1999
Powerful and honest
+ Well-Crafted, Powerful Novel
+ Great, great book!
+ Compulsively readable!
+ freedom vs. duty
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The Aguero Sisters (Ballantine Reader's Circle)16 reviews
Cristina Garcia
Ballantine Books, 1998
Magical
+ Worth a read
+ Dreaming in Cuban is better
+ A haunting, mythical tale...
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Interpreter of Maladies463 reviews
Jhumpa Lahiri
Houghton Mifflin, 2000
One of the best books I've ever read
+ Strange Maladies for Sure
+ It Gets Better As You Read It
+ Excellent collection of stories
+ Lovely stories
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A Northern Light142 reviews
Jennifer Donnelly
Harcourt Paperbacks, 2004
One of the best "true" fictions I've read...
+ Couldn't put it down !!!
+ The memories left behind...
+ A New Favorite
+ A Northern Light
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Cat's Eye113 reviews
Margaret Atwood
Anchor, 1998
Haunting
+ Depressing, Entertaining, Well-Written...
+ Kids can be so cruel...
+ atwood = one of the greatest writers of our time
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