Cane River (Oprah's Book Club)
Amazon.com Review: Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries: great-grandmother Elisabeth notices an [... more]
$13.95
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Safe Harbour
If I could have given 0 stars...: I would have. I have never read Danielle Steel, and once I went to pick up a book of hers and saw that it was priced above the normal amount for a paperback. I put it down, assuming she must be really good, but as I hadn' [... more]
$26.95
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Sunroom, The
HORRIBLE! Shame on Beverly Lewis!: This was the most awful and depressing book I have ever read. I don't understand how Beverly Lewis ever got it published! Who would like it? People who constantly want to feel sorry for themselves, that's who! It was [... more]
$12.99
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy [... more]
$24.00
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Watermelon
Loved it.: This book is such great entertainment! The sisters, the crazy mammy, it's funny and great. Just O.K.: Having never read anything by this author before, I decided to purchase this book after reading some of the positive reviews. In general, I [... more]
$13.95
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Crocodile Soup: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Gert Hardcastle and her twin, Frank, can read each other's minds. She knows when he is plotting fiery ordeals for her dolls, and he knows when she is being attacked by river swans. When Frank returns from his sadistic boys school and [... more]
$25.00
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Five Quarters of the Orange
Amazon.com Review: In Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris returns to the small-town, postwar France of Chocolat. This time she follows the fortunes of Framboise Dartigan, named for a raspberry but with the disposition of, well, a lemon. The [... more]
$25.00
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The Not-So-Perfect Man
Better than The Accidental Virgin: I decided to give Valerie Frankel another chance after I had read and disliked "The Accidental Virgin" and this was a much better read. The book focuses on three sisters-Illene, Frieda, and Betty. I disliked [... more]
$13.95
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The Grave of God's Daughter: A Novel
Old secrets: This is such a beautifully written story, filled with wistful poignancy and underlying sadness. Two small children grow up in a small mill town near the Allegheny mountains, peopled with Polish immigrants and with cold, unloving parents who [... more]
$23.95
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Circle of Three: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Patricia Gaffney's remarkable talent for describing the bittersweet connections between mothers and daughters makes the novel Circle of Three a mesmerizing study of three generations of women challenged by their shifting relationships [... more]
$7.50
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Circle of Three: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Patricia Gaffney's remarkable talent for describing the bittersweet connections between mothers and daughters makes the novel Circle of Three a mesmerizing study of three generations of women challenged by their shifting relationships [... more]
$24.00
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The Patron Saint of Liars: A Novel
A treat...: This book is beautifully written and incredibly thoughtful. I think it's interesting how I was able to go from feeling close to the narrator, Rose, to feeling disdain for her once Cecelia took over the narration. I love most of Ann Patchett's [... more]
$13.95
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