The Education of Arnold Hitler
 "No trouble about my name before coming to Cambridge.": Focusing on the coming of age of Arnold Hitler, Marc Estrin follows Arnold's life from elementary school in Mansfield, Texas, in the late 1950s (where John Howard Griffin, the author of [... more]
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Breath and Bones
A sexy, exuberant, beautifully written picaresque!: From its stunning prologue to the disturbing, shattering beauty of its finale, Breath and Bones gets under your skin. This sexy, exuberant picaresque takes you and its heroine on a fast-paced ride from [... more]
$23.95
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Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and ...
a master storyteller....: The press release accompanying this book of short stories states that Edward Falco has been quietly establishing himself as master storyteller for years. His stories have appeared in Atlantic Monthly and Playboy as well as [... more]
$13.95
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The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God
Eccentricly Wonderful!: Timothy Schaffert's style is takes-no-prisoners wonderful. The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God is filled with characters who have foibles and flaws but who take the reader along on a wonderful ride. As a librarian I can [... more]
$14.95
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The Green Age of Asher Witherow
Multi-layered treatise on life, death, the human condition: This book is definitely not for everyone, but the thoughtful reader will find much to savor. In chapters cycling from earth, blood, bone, ash, and back to earth Asher Witherow, winnowed out as [... more]
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Angel and Apostle
a memorable debut novel, beautifully written: At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne's timeless novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl has been born, raised, and lives in Europe. Angel and Apostle begins when Pearl is a child in [... more]
$24.95
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The Distance Between Us
Dark, Exlporation Journey But Not For Everyone: Catherine Blair, who goes by Caddie, is a dedicated journalist assigned to the war-torn middle east. She takes her job very seriously, maintaining a professional's detachment and objectiveness. She allows [... more]
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Insect Dreams: The Half Life Of Gregor Samsa
Totally Unbelievable but I Liked It: If you buy the premise you can buy the conclusion. Of course it's over the top. Just read Amazon's description above. That's all you should know before jumping in. Umpteen times longer than Metamorphosis but with a [... more]
$15.95
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Mohr: A Novel
"Smashing human connections is the easiest thing in the world to do.": Max Mohr was one of author Frederick Reuss's distant relatives, his grandfather's favorite uncle--a physician, friend of D. H. Lawrence, successful playwright, and novelist, [... more]
$25.95
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If You Could See Me Now
Memoir that reads like mystery: One afternoon in the mid-1990's author Michael Mewshaw got a call he'd been half expecting for some thirty years: a woman in America--Mewshaw was living in London--had reason to believe that he was her biological father. [... more]
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Romancing Spain
terrific lyrical biography: He looks back thirty years to when he first met the woman he married and thinks how romantic he was (and still is) as he informed her that she is his Sancho Panza. Aparo reminded Lamar that Panza was squat (she is not he [... more]
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A Season of Fire & Ice
superb historical: Gerhardt Praeger, an educated farmer, appreciates his pragmatic wife Ma as they raise seven sons on the often hostile Dakota plains. He begins to write his thoughts of events in a journal (diaries are for females) starting in 1882 with [... more]
$23.95
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