The Bonfire of the Vanities
 Amazon.com Review: After Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the '80s in The Right Stuff, nobody thought he could ever top himself again. [... more]
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Eva Luna
This is the ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION: Do not be fooled by the first sentence being shown in Spanish above (as I was). This is the English language version of Eva Luna, and Amazon mistakenly put the first sentence of the Spanish version by the title. I [... more]
$15.00
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Drinking: A Love Story
Amazon.com Review: The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her [... more]
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City of Light
Amazon.com Review: City of Light is quite simply electrifying. Not that there's anything simple about this rich novel, which is first and foremost an examination of illusion, invisibility, and power--physical and personal. Set in the spring of 1901, as [... more]
$12.95
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The Archivist's Story
Truly Excellent: I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this book, and immediately started reading it that day. Others have commented about the plot here. I will just say that the story totally drew me in. Like the best of books, it was as if I was [... more]
$13.00
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Fool for Love and Other Plays
These plays range from the surreal to the all too real...: With this collection, Shepard demonstrates his remarkable ability to portray America in the realistic ways most contemporary authors/playwrights/poets are afraid to do. The dialogue is [... more]
$15.00
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Can You Keep a Secret?
MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER!: I absolutely love this book. It was funny and relatable. I couldn't put this book down, the times I had to I couldn't stop thinking about when I could begin reading it again. You will not be dissapointed! Laugh Out Loud!: This [... more]
$14.00
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The Summer Guest
Amazon.com Review: Set primarily in a rustic fishing camp on the northern tip of Maine, the first 50 pages of Justin Cronin's The Summer Guest read like a lazy fishing expedition--most of the time is simply spent waiting for something to happen. [... more]
$13.00
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Sweet and Vicious
Amazon.com Review: In Sweet and Vicious, acclaimed author David Schickler treats readers to a magical, mystical tale of star-crossed lovers who develop an electrifying bond while trying to evade the nagging ghosts of their respective pasts. In what can [... more]
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Voodoo Heart
short stories from unexpected corners of modern life: Characters with unattractive professions from the corners of modern life -- girl who works as a wax museum doll during the day; boy who helps to save suicide jumpers on Niagara Falls; a ticket clerk [... more]
$13.00
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The House of the Spirits
A book you will read over and over again...: This was the first Isabel Allende book I ever read. I first read it as a young girl, and since that time I have read it over again countless times. What amazes me most is that it still has the ability to [... more]
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The Other Side of the Bridge
Sibling Rivalry?: Mary Lawson is a wonderfully evocative writer. You ache for her characters. You enter into the desolation and into the pull of the hard life in a very small northern Ontario community. I only want to add one thing to what else has been [... more]
$14.00
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