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The Kindness of Strangers
Katrina Kittle
Harper Perennial, 2007
Amazing
+ moving, unforgettable story
+ loved this book
+ Kindness and streetcars
+ Can't Put This One Down
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction)
Gregory Maguire
Harper, 2007
Something Wicked this way comes!
+ Wicked
+ Great *adult* read (too sexy by half)
Are we born evil or does our environment/situations create evil? Gregory Maguire's revision of the world of Oz takes a look at the evolution of Elphaba, best known to readers and lovers of the popular film as The Wicked Witch of the West. But was she really wicked or just completely ...
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An Egg on Three Sticks
Jackie Fischer
Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin, 2004
One of my Favorites!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Yet another disturbed mother...
+ an egg on 3 sticks
+ Open Your Mind
+ confused by title
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Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Jonathan Cape, 2001
Well...THAT was graphic.
+ Great Ideas
+ Gutsy readers only--this is not for the faint-hearted
Graphic and entertaining. In a good way, of course.
I found the main character absolutely intriguing, and was delighted to read small excerpts from his past every once in a while. The rest of the characters all had a certain charm to them. The first-person narrative was great, and never ...
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This is My Daughter: A Novel
Roxana Robinson
Touchstone, 1999
Outstanding characterization
+ - I would definitely take a chance on this book..
It's really necessary to read this book more than once. The author has created great depth of character, and every personality is well-developed. It's true that the characters are not "nice" or particularly likable, but they are endlessly interesting and realistic. I can't believe this whole story ...
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Happiness Sold Separately
Lolly Winston
Grand Central Publishing, 2007
Loved this book
+ A refreshingly funny and messy love story. Great second book!
I really liked Good Grief, but I like this better. It's a complicated pull on your emotions in many ways, because though you think you know where you stand on affairs, and people who have them, you'll find yourself liking all the main characters. This author has a gift for expressing her thoughts ...
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Make Believe : A Novel
Joanna Scott
Amazon Remainders Account, 2001
Life as it is, not only as it seems
+ The sad tale of little boy Bo
+ Mesmerizing Story
I really liked reading Make Believe by Joanna Scott because it was a book that made you think of what was really going on. Joanna Scott used a lot of sensory and describing words, she didn't just tell you exactly what was happening, she made you figure it out for yourself what was actually ...
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Tunnel of Love
Hilma Wolitzer
Perennial, 1995
Continuing the emotional journey of the two enormously appealing characters from the bestselling Hearts, this book is "one of Wolitzer's best novels, filled with multiple levels of meaning and nonstop story line" (Booklist). "A rare joy."--New York Times.
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No Good-byes
Elaine Kagan
HarperTorch, 2001
Please write faster, Ms. Kagan!
+ A Delicious Read
+ Great read, interesting insight into Hollywood
+ Kagan Has Done It Again!
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Q Road : A Novel
Bonnie Jo Campbell, 2002
Not for the faint of heart.
+ Land and Love
+ Master of a Difficult Environment
+ The strange faces of love...
+ Quirky, quaint and quite wonderful
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All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, 2001
Very liberating!
+ A Treatise on Love
+ Brave
+ A thoughtful, intriguing, and truly enjoyable book
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Very impressive and inspiring
+ Everyone Should Read This Book
+ A Long Way Gone
+ AMAIZINGLY INTERESTING
+ Wow! Powerful....
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The Girls A Novel
Elaine Kagan
Alfred Knopf, 1994
As intensely American as a senior prom--a big crowded compelling novel about six women best friends since high school now in their forties and still "the girls"
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Edition 001)
Alison Bechdel
Mariner Books, 2008
Rich and impressive - doesn't feel skimpy like other graphic novels
+ Great Book, Worth Reading
+ The complexities of identity
+ Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Blood Orange
Drusilla Campbell
Kensington, 2005
Pulpy Orange
Dana Cabot is transformed from a happy wife and mother of a cognitively delayed child to a bitter woman the day her daughter Bailey, 7 is kidnapped. Prior to the girl's kidnapping, their weirdly named dog Moby Doby is hit by a van and threatening letters start arriving. The first question is who ...
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