A Passage to India
 Amazon.com Review: What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian [... more]
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Mission of Gravity
The most unique race of beings to be found in "hard" SciFi: In spite of its publication date of 1954, 'Mission Of Gravity' contains one of the most unique races of aliens ever brought to the written world to date. The planet of Mesklin is [... more]
$3.99
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Shackles
An excellent read for mystery fans: I had read a bit of Bill Pronzini, but not one his "nameless detective" series until I picked up "Shackles." This is one great story, divided into two parts. Nameless is abducted by an old enemy, [... more]
$4.99
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Promised Land
Strong prose, well written: The prose is well-written, the characterizations are vivid and the whole story fits together like a hand in a glove. That said, much of the book is filled with rhetorical politicalization - which, admittedly, was much the [... more]
$6.99
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In the Heat of the Night
Character-driven examination of Social Issues Disguised as a Mystery: When Sam Wood, an officer with the Wells police department discovers the body of a famous Italian conductor lying in the road, it spells trouble for the small Carolina town. For the [... more]
$4.99
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Amsterdam
Amazon.com Review: When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, [... more]
$8.99
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The Lords of Discipline
Excellent Writing: I received this book as a gift and was reluctant to read it as the subject matter was not of interest. I started to read it just to see what it might be like and was captured by the outstanding writing. It was just a joy to read and [... more]
$8.99
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Shoeless Joe
Amazon.com Review: W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son [... more]
$5.99
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The Waves
A toughie.: Considered by many who should know (e.g., E. M. Forester)to be Woolf's most brilliant work of genius, The Waves is a challenging book to read for many reasons, not the least of which is the style she has adopted. More like an extended Greek [... more]
$6.99
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SWF Seeks Same
Author: John Lutz Binding: Kindle Edition Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2002-05-23 Release Date: 2002-05-23 [... more]
$4.99
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Mrs. Dalloway
A League of Her Own: This is a fine edition and value, including a helpful preface introducing the author and novel as well as an appendix (the "annotated" part) with explanations of terms, places, and designations for non-Londoners along with [... more]
$6.99
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God Save the Mark
Still As Good As It Was Forty Years Ago: I've owned two previous copies of this hilarious novel by the best comic mystery writer I've ever encountered, Donald Westlake. I bought it when it first came out in the late 1960s, later had it in paperback, and [... more]
$4.49
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