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Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction) 5 stars for the Vonnegut book. 1 star for the Kindle edition.
This Kindle book is absolutely... | American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood Best Price: $3.75 As a native Spanish speaker and ESL/bilingual education
teacher I was surprised to find so... | Moon Women Best Price: $0.55 I lucked upon this book within a year of my grandmother's passing. Having closed things off,... | Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present Best Price: $5.49 I was very happy to receive this book. I wanted to give it for a Mother's Day gift. It was... | The Summer Guest Best Price: $3.62 It is so rare to read a book that has not one boring page in it. This is an elegantly written... |
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Plum Wine Best Price: $1.75 "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," wrote the famed poet,... | Mini Shopaholic: A Novel (Shopaholic Series) Best Price: $6.65 Becky Brandon thinks that having a daughter is a dream come true: a shopping friend for life!... | Shopaholic Gift Set (Shopaholic Ties the Knot / Shopaholic Takes Manhattan / Confessions of a Shopaholic) (Shopaholic Series) Best Price: $26.95 The First time I've heard about Confessions of a Shopaholic was when E! News featured the... | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel Slaughterhouse-Five , an American classic, is one of the world?s great antiwar books. Centering... | Total Immersion Best Price: $6.19 In "The Succession," the members of a prosperous Hawaii synagogue agree on almost... |
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage Best Price: $7.49 Palm Sunday reads like Vonnegut's impassioned plea for forgiveness, or perhaps sainthood.... | On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Best Price: $6.75 This short story collection piqued my interest immediately - it's not every day you hear of... | The Brothers K Best Price: $8.61 I would recommend The Brothers K to anyone, but most specifically to those who are interested in... | The Lords of Discipline: A Novel Best Price: $8.63 Just a few days after I was admitted to attend The Citadel, over a decade ago, my mother picked... | Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women... |
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Total Immersion Best Price: $3.23 This is the second book I have read by Allegra Goodman. Last year I read her beautiful novel... | Sweet and Vicious Best Price: $5.39 David Schickler's follow-up to his well-received KISSING IN MANHATTAN (which I haven't... | The Cookbook Collector: A Novel Best Price: $8.47 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old... | The Opposite of Love: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) Best Price: $1.92 New York-based lawyer Emily lives in a cocoon of her own creation, timidly sidestepping her own... | Can You Keep a Secret? Best Price: $1.00 How shall I round off my 2.5 star rating? I'll round it down, since so many seem to have... |
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The Giant's House: A Romance Best Price: $4.94 The Giant's House is subtitled A Romance, and it really is an unusual love story. Peggy... | Felice: A Novel Best Price: $1.94 In a remote convent school in Nova Scotia, an aging nun has a miraculous vision; a mute, injured... | Veronica Best Price: $7.58 I first found this book in a bargain bin about 10 years ago, and my memory of it was that it was... | The Water Is Wide: A Memoir Best Price: $8.19 While reading The Water is Wide, I experienced exactly the kind of heart-warming, comical,... | The Big Beautiful (Moon Women) The critically acclaimed author returns to the North Carolina landscape she knows so well with... |
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The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner This was an okay read. It did start off pretty slow but picked up. The plot of the novel was a... | Kissing In Manhattan Best Price: $11.00 | Total Immersion In "The Succession," the members of a prosperous Hawaii synagogue agree on almost... | A Bigamist's Daughter Best Price: $0.01 In a novel that dissects, deconstructs and recreates the fabric of life, love and literature,... | Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction) 5 stars for the Vonnegut book. 1 star for the Kindle edition.
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood Best Price: $3.75 As a native Spanish speaker and ESL/bilingual education
teacher I was surprised to find so... | Moon Women Best Price: $0.55 I lucked upon this book within a year of my grandmother's passing. Having closed things off,... | Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present Best Price: $5.49 I was very happy to receive this book. I wanted to give it for a Mother's Day gift. It was... | The Summer Guest Best Price: $3.62 It is so rare to read a book that has not one boring page in it. This is an elegantly written... | Plum Wine Best Price: $1.75 "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," wrote the famed poet,... |
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Mini Shopaholic: A Novel (Shopaholic Series) Best Price: $6.65 Becky Brandon thinks that having a daughter is a dream come true: a shopping friend for life!... | Shopaholic Gift Set (Shopaholic Ties the Knot / Shopaholic Takes Manhattan / Confessions of a Shopaholic) (Shopaholic Series) Best Price: $26.95 The First time I've heard about Confessions of a Shopaholic was when E! News featured the... | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel Slaughterhouse-Five , an American classic, is one of the world?s great antiwar books. Centering... | Total Immersion Best Price: $6.19 In "The Succession," the members of a prosperous Hawaii synagogue agree on almost... | The Orchard: A Memoir Best Price: $5.99 In this extraordinary memoir from 1932-1934, Kitty Crockett Robertson describes her life on the... |
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Paradise Park Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion... | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs Best Price: $6.86 This book is for anyone who wants to consider reasons why they love what they love.
The... | Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories Best Price: $4.35 "Mary and O'Neil" was the debut book for Justin Cronin in 2001. It subsequently... | Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction) Best Price: $7.00 Having a biology background and an innate admiration for the blue-footed booby, Galapagos seemed... |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain Best Price: $5.79 This was my second reading of James Baldwin's initial novel, first read 40 some years ago,... | The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner Best Price: $6.17 I picked this book up from our local library on a whim. It was set out with a variety of books... | Niagara Falls All Over Again Best Price: $2.18 I have to say, Elizabeth McCracken would be one of my favorite authors if she had more than two... | Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7) Best Price: $3.00 Crow Lake was yet another one of those books that I had bought years ago, only to have it sit on... | Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction) To call Vonnegut's books a fast read is almost redundant. All of his books are very quick... |
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Kaaterskill Falls In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in... | Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories Best Price: $7.47 All told, I had fun reading the collection and will recommend it to others, though that... | Paradise Park Best Price: $5.40 The main character of Paradise Park was Sharon, a folk dancing hippy who follows her boyfriend... | The Manny Best Price: $0.01 It was only a matter of time. Once The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin came out, and Bridget... | After You: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) Best Price: $6.43 Julie Buxbaum's sophomore novel After You proved to be another enjoyable read for me. This... |
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The Imperfectionists: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) Best Price: $6.31 The cover of the paperback actually makes you think of the frenzy of the newsroom with the... | Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) Best Price: $7.94 11th grade English Essay
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The play is... | Deadeye Dick: A Novel Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut?s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence.... | Into the Forest This book is interesting. I particularly like the process the sisters went through of gradual... | Little Big Man The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack... |
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The Water Is Wide (text only) by P. Conroy Best Price: $32.92 | Cold Sassy Tree Best Price: $1.99 The recount of a child's maturation and development begins with a young Will Tweedy, the... | Tulip Fever Best Price: $4.95 Tulip Fever is a kind of soap opera like historical novel, set in Amsterdam, when the city was... | Easter Island Best Price: $2.98 I was a fan of Vanderbes's short story "The Hatbox" and was looking forward very... | The Big Beautiful Best Price: $6.75 Pamela Duncan has magnificently written a compelling tale of life, love and relationships. A... |
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Remember Me? Best Price: $0.99 I enjoy a fun piece of chick lit from time to time and liked many of the previous... | Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages Best Price: $7.20 It's a tried and true narrative technique - start the book at the pivotal moment then work... | Beach Music: A Novel Best Price: $7.55 Beach Music is a complex, multi-faceted narrative layered with poetic prose and the rich style... | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel Best Price: $5.46 Following "Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut swore off novels. In the introduction... | Jailbird: A Novel Best Price: $7.91 Walter F. Starbuck, the lovably pathetic hero of Kurt Vonnegut's "Jailbird," makes... |
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Voodoo Heart Best Price: $10.87 A promising debut collection from Mr. Snyder. Not all the short pieces work (he seems to have a... | Confessions of a Shopaholic (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) Best Price: $0.01 Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better.... Becky Bloomwood... | Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction Best Price: $6.94 I admit I've never read Vonnegut's famous novels... But these short stories served as a... | The Great Santini: A Novel Best Price: $7.93 It's not all that common for this reader to get fully absorbed into a world populated by... | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Eliot Rosewater?drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater... |
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Mother Night: A Novel It's hard to overdo the superlatives when reviewing Kurt Vonnegut, so when describing the... | Charming Billy Best Price: $4.85 | Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs I was lukewarm at first, thinking that I could have written this book about my beloved dog.... | Beach Music: A Novel Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the... | Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic, No 3) Best Price: $0.71 Hopefully you've acquainted yourself with the spending habits (it's a sickness really)... |
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Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey Best Price: $6.00 Temple Stream by Bill Roorbach fills just about every requirement I have for an absolutely... | The Bestiary Best Price: $5.95 The Bestiary is Nicholas Christopher's fifth novel, and like its predecessors, it's full... | The Good Thief: A Novel Best Price: $4.78 I can not believe that this book was even published let alone that it won an award that gained... | The Red Carpet Best Price: $4.98 really good book; "Bangalore Stories" is a touching quasi-ethnographic portrait of... | The Archivist's Story Best Price: $7.31 If you're intrigued by the history of totalitarianism, particularly as played out during the... |
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In the Country of Men Best Price: $8.44 In the Country of Men, set in Libya in 1979, is the story of a family torn apart by the... | Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance Best Price: $1.45 Lloyd Jones' HERE AT THE END OF THE WORLD WE LEARN TO DANCE follows a love affair that spans... | The Prince of Tides: A Novel Best Price: $5.74 First, brief summary, no spoilers in this review.
This is the story of the three Wingo... | The Pat Conroy Trade Paperback Boxed Set Best Price: $26.90 Any book by Pat Conroy is going to earn a place of merit in my library. I hold them dear to me,... | Drinking: A Love Story This book was all over the map None of her stories made any type of timeline. She jumped back... |
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Cat's Cradle: A Novel Cat?s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut?s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An... | Breakfast of Champions: A Novel read this one before cats cradle. i enjoyed this book very much but cats cradle blows it out of... | Player Piano: A Novel Best Price: $7.44 Man versus machine is this book's timely theme. "No more spput, puttt or... | Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: (Opinions) Best Price: $6.48 Again, Kurt Vonnegut produces an excellent work of art through literature. This book, Wampeters,... | Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series) Best Price: $0.97 I remember the first time I read a Shopaholic novel. It was the first book in the series,... |
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The Other Side of the Bridge Best Price: $4.17 We are far away in Northern Canada, in the small town of Struan. The life is rough, tough and... | The Bonfire of the Vanities Best Price: $59.06 In all 31 flavors of "Law and Order on TV, the NYPD and DA's office disposes of a case... | South of Broad: A Novel After fourteen long years, a new book by Pat Conroy is much like a visit from an old, dear... | | |