Maybe I'll Call Anna
Interesting early work...: I really love W.B. Spencer's work -- I first found RESUME WITH MONSTERS, then ZOD WALLOP, then RETURN OF COUNT ELECTRIC, and IRRATIONAL FEARS is waiting to be read. MAYBE I'LL CALL ANNA is an interesting story from his early [... more]
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Chez Bernice: Easy but Fabulous Recipes
 Very Easy and Very Fabulous!: A friend recommended this book to me when I told her I was looking for recipes that were not only quick and easy, but also good enough to serve to company. She hit the nail on the head with this one! There are a surprisingly [... more]
$18.00
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The Great Far Away
The past without sentiment: Joan Frank gives those years in the Seventies when people tried to live in sweet harmony with each other and with nature their due. She achieves just the right distance - a backward glance without sentiment. Her characters are [... more]
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The Contractor
DISTURBING, PAINFUL, FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Disturbing, painful, The Contractor is a difficult book to read. It focuses on American secret prisons in the war on terrorism, which is not a pretty picture. Protagonist George Young is no more than an ordinary, [... more]
$26.00
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An Almost Life
"This woman really needs a lawyer.": Mike Samuels is in his forties and unhappily divorced from Andrea, his wife of sixteen years. She has since remarried; her new husband, Tom, is ambitious and prosperous, everything that Mike is not. Mike's [... more]
$28.00
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Whompyjawed
Nothing whompyjawed about this terrific h.s. football novel: Written with a unique voice and evocative sense of place, Mitch Cullin's debut novel, "Whompyjawed," is a complete triumph. The novel focuses on the inchoate and often inarticulatge [... more]
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Grandma Gets Laid
Midlife Crisis Gone Berserk: In spite of its brillant style and the abundance of creative metaphores and puns I thought I couldn't make it through this book. Its misanthropy and misogyny turned me off. But then, to my surprise, the grandma-protagonist [... more]
$16.00
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The Patron Saint of Red Chevys
The Patron Saint Of Red Chevys: The Patron Saint of Red Chevys was wonderful. I was really engrossed and I thought is was a great story about two teenagers, although I can't say I am that much like them, they are really believable characters. I would [... more]
$18.00
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Serpent in the Garden of Dreams
this is a great book..................: a compelling read.... her descriptions are incredible and the depth of her characters are wonderful..... Lyrical, evocative debut novel: I found the story of Tildy's relationship with her mother (as well as with [... more]
$16.00
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Planet of the Dates
Super fun!: I must admit upfront that I am a friend of the author, and that I have only read an earlier draft of this novel. But I must say it was really very engaging, even to someone like me who usually doesn't enjoy stories of teenage boys and their [... more]
$28.00
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A Richer Dust
Palaver Published by What is Effectively a Vanity Press: This is an extremely poorly executed work. It is badly written and the content is cloyingly cliche. I could not fathom how the book found a publisher--until I viewed the publisher's web page. It's [... more]
$26.00
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Baby Jesus Pawn Shop
An Audacious Story of Courage, Endurance, and Hope: "You see, this is what those in power would like to have, our memories. I am memory," explains a knife-sharpener to Doming in Baby Jesus Pawn Shop. Lucia Orth's debut novel is a stunning and [... more]
$29.00
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