Monstrous Regiment: A Novel of Discworld
 Amazon.com Review: What do you get when you cross a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits, and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army? The answer's simple. You have Monstrous Regiment, the characteristically [... more]
$24.95
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Before We Were Free (Readers Circle)
Amazon.com Review: What would life be like for a teen living under a dictatorship? Afraid to go to school or to talk freely? Knowing that, at the least suspicion, the secret police could invade your house, even search and destroy your private treasures? [... more]
$6.99
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Mercy of a Rude Stream : A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park
Looking back on the rude stream of life: In 1934, the 28-year old Henry Roth published "Call It Sleep" which became a classic novel reflecting the lives of Jewish immigrants on the lower east side in the early part of the twentieth century. [... more]
$14.00
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The Famished Road
Amazon.com Review: You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro [... more]
$15.95
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Amazon.com Review: She was wearing a black satin mask when they first met in 1923, and in a sense she wore a mask--that of the dutiful wife and helpmeet--throughout their 52-year marriage. Especially after the American publication of Lolita made her [... more]
$23.00
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Jack Maggs: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: As a novelist, Peter Carey is hardly a stranger to the 19th century: his Oscar and Lucinda was a veritable treasure-trove of Victoriana. In this novel, however, Carey has set himself an even more complicated task--reimagining not only [... more]
$14.95
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Year of the Griffin
Amazon.com Review: In the very strange Pilgrim Parties of Diana Wynne Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, tourists from the next universe would come to wizards' lands expecting to have exciting battles with dwarfs, dragons, and the powers of darkness. Sadly, [... more]
$7.99
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Pilgrim: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Timothy Findley's Pilgrim is the story of a man who can't die even though he tries over and over to kill himself. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, in 1912 he's placed in a Zurich clinic where Carl Gustav Jung is hard as work trying to [... more]
$15.95
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Ordinary Life: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Amazon.com Review: The characters in Ordinary Life, Elizabeth Berg's collection of limpid, gemlike stories, are poised at the edge of knowing, and it takes only quiet events--a kiss, the return of a freed bird--to nudge them toward whatever they need to [... more]
$14.00
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Far from the Tree
Great Sophmore Effort: I also enjoyed this book. Celeste and Ronnie Fraiser, two sisters different as night and day, their beloved father has died and neither one can understand their mother, Della. Good storyline, and great characters make this story [... more]
$13.95
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Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel
Loved it!: What a wonderful, all-consuming novel! I could barely put it down. I cried when I finished it! The characters, the setting the time, the Yiddish-isms, all resonated deeply within me. I highly recommend this moving and tremendously enjoyable [... more]
$14.00
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Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena
Not so funny...: Well, having recently finished Celia Rivenbark's 'We're Just Like You Only Prettier', which was very amusing, I figured this book would be similar to that one. The reviews said it was very humorous, and entertaining. I'm sorry, but I do [... more]
$12.95
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