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The Double Bind (Vintage Contemporaries)
Chris Bohjalian
Vintage, 2008
Literary Suspense Plays Games with Your Mind
+ Excellent
+ Gatsby on the Rocks with a Twist
+ Whose Reality is Real?
+ Fabulous Read!
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial, 2005
The true world of Fast Food opens before your eyes!
+ By the Author of Outstanding You
+ highest approval
+ One Fast Food National Under God ! ?
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Picador, 2002
FANTASTIC!!
+ You Are Such a Flirt
+ From a pediatric Urology Nurse's view point, well done
+ Must Read
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House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Andre Dubus III
Vintage, 2000
GREAT READ
+ Suspenseful, keeps you reading!
This is a great story of tragedy. I found it an easy read and couldn't put it down. I finished it very fast because the writer keeps the story moving. Very good writing as the characters are strong and easy to imagine. Highly recommended.
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The Photograph
Penelope Lively
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004
An Archaeology of Regret
+ Great read, annoying protagonist
+ What Is Time?
+ A Ghost Story - Perhaps!
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One True Thing: A Novel
Anna Quindlen
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
Tight, fluid, moving
+ Great story...
+ On True Thing
+ Out of all of the ways I have tried to deal with my father's death, reading this book was the most therapeutic
+ Very gripping, and layered book
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The Good Mother: A Novel
Sue Miller
Harper Perennial, 2002
Thought provoking, and explicit. The Selfish Mother?
+ Controversial Choice for an Open-minded Book Group
+ Truthful and hard-hitting
+ Fantastic story
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel
Jane Smiley
Anchor, 2003
Midwestern Drama and Dysfunction...
+ Engrossing and thought provoking read
+ After reading this, I feel better about my own family: )
+ inside the whitewashed farmhouse
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Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7)
Mary Lawson
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2003
Quiet But Brilliant Novel About Family
+ A Troubled Family
+ great book!
+ MOST TOUCHING
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The Dogs of Babel: A Novel
Carolyn Parkhurst
Back Bay Books, 2004
Great book
+ Heart-breaking love story
+ We all do it differently...
+ An incredible book.
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Bloomsbury, 2006
I loved this book
+ Absolute gem
+ I wouldn't have bought it for myself...but enjoyed it
+ I laughed and cried with Liz & you will too
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Penguin Books, 2002
East of Eden - A beautifully written classic
+ This IS the Great American Novel
+ Possibly the Best Fictional Book I've Ever Read...
+ Good job!
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The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Hardcover, 2007
All that an exceptional book should be.
+ heartbreaking tale of loyalty
+ A Masterpiece
+ Heartbreaking, yet very touching story
+ the destruction of Afghanistan as reflected in a family melodrama
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Freeze Frame
+ What a memory!!!
+ Haunting novel filled with so many "what if's".
+ Compassionate, Revealing
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The Boleyn Inheritance (Boleyn)
Philippa Gregory
Touchstone Books, 2007
To thine own self be true,
+ Wonderful
+ Phillippa Gregory
+ Life in the times of Henry VIII
+ Gregory tackles lesser known Tudor figures with winning results
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