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Perfect Family: A Novel
Pam Lewis
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Couldn't put it down
+ compelling reading
+ Perfect Family is a Perfect Summer Book
+ Great Read!
+ Thoughtful, unhurried summer read
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Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)
Jan Karon
Viking Adult, 2007
She's Done it Again!!
+ A Warm-up for a New Series
+ Take another look
I just stayed up late and finished "Home to Holly Springs." I must confess that I checked it out from the library, for the first time NOT buying the latest Karon book as I've done in the past, because I just couldn't believe she could pull off another storyline as well as she's done in the past. ...
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The Double Bind (Vintage Contemporaries)
Chris Bohjalian
Vintage, 2008
Highly Recommended!
+ Gripping
I discovered this novel by browsing the shelves one afternoon---I was attracted to the old black & white photos and the author's idea to build a story around them. The layers of this novel will take hold of you and you will be drawn into this well crafted story. You should know the novel or the ...
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
Diane Setterfield
Washington Square Press, 2007
A wonderful read
+ Beautiful
+ A Well-Crafted Homage to a Genre
+ Gothic Excercise
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
Michael Chabon
HarperCollins, 2007
Listen to this
+ It's a Good Story
+ Chabon Shows His Pulitzer Colors
The audio version of this wonderful novel is so well-read by Peter Riegert that you must consider listening to this one, rather than reading it. As others have indicated in their reviews or as you might have heard on NPR this is a splendid vision of a world that never existed in reality but is ...
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So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
another hit
+ Mr. Enger does it again!
+ Great Reading!
Leif Enger is back. His "Peace Like a River" is such a phenomenal book, and while this one doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor, it presents us once again with some down-to-earth but often colorful and complex characters who get caught up in events that frequently escalate. I sometimes ...
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel
Elizabeth Noble
William Morrow, 2008
Tremedous!
+ A book about love: between mothers and daughters, sisters, and others
+ Touching book!
I loved every page. I have daughters of my own and found it very insightful. If only all fiction could be this griping. Recommend it for the summer and beyond.
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The Age of Shiva: A Novel
Manil Suri
W. W. Norton, 2008
a deeply enriching experience
Bottom line: what an awesome story teller; rich in personal experiences. rich in culture. If you are interesting in reading a novel to learn about other cultures and the impact it has on a woman in a secular society - this is a book worth reading. I could not put the book down.
shocker for me: ...
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Desperation Moon
Ken Douglas
Bootleg Press, 2003
Mucho Desperation in this Finely Tuned Thriller
+ Non-Stop Action
+ A New Fan
+ A Book I Could Not Put Down
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The God of War: A Novel
Marisa Silver
Simon & Schuster, 2008
The God Of War
+ Good story
+ Marisa Silver and THE GOD OF WAR...and a boy named ARES RAMIREZ
+ The God of War
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No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage, 2007
Call It
+ Definitely a Winner
Some seven years after he completed the final novel of his famed Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy released to the world his ninth novel No Country for Old Men. With its title borrowed from a poem titled "Sailing to Byzantium"-- That is no country for old men. The young, in one another's arms, birds ...
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The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig
Harvest Books, 2007
Great Reading Group Book!
+ Highly recommend this book
+ Read this Book!
+ A season of The Waltons?
+ Well worth reading
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Body Surfing: A Novel
Anita Shreve
Back Bay Books, 2008
A Sequel of Sorts
+ "The family never stays after Labor Day. Never."
Can a house be a main character? It is in this book, which features the same New Hampshire beach house that appeared in The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rock and Sea Glass. The house remains steadfast, but the lives of the people who occupy it are as stormy and unpredictable as the Atlantic Ocean it ...
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The Outlander
Gil Adamson
Ecco, 2008
`Abundance lay about her but she starved'
+ Read Out Loud
+ Great Read
In 1903, a newly widowed young woman of 19 is escaping the consequences of both the murder of her husband and the events surrounding it. Her brothers-in-law are intent on catching her to make her face justice. This sets the scene for a brutal journey through the cold western wilderness of the ...
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The Knitting Circle: A Novel
Ann Hood
W. W. Norton, 2008
Beautifully written
+ A heartwarming book
+ The Knitting Circle
+ A fantastic book about mothers, daughters, loss, and life
+ beautiful, flaws and all
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