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 Under the SkinBest Price: $7.50 I read all of the preceding 12 reviews, and though some are diametrically opposed I can take... |  L'AmericaBest Price: $0.01 Spoilers Ahead! Martha McPhee's L'America is so much more than an epic and immortal... |  The Ticket OutBest Price: $4.71 In general, I thought this was a "good read" in that it hooked me more and... |  Broken WingsBest Price: $61.28 Broken Wings is a simple story which serves as a canvas for Kahlil Gibran's flights of... |  The Catcher in the RyeI absolutely loved "The Catcher in the Rye." Thought it was an excellent book with an... |
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 Cat Who Dropped A BombshellBest Price: $53.72 George Guidall is most definitely at the top of the narrators A-list. He has over 800... |  The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.51 Trying to full describe the writings of Jorge Luis Borges is like trying to explain exactly why... |  Predator (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)Best Price: $24.97 what WAS that? And why are we forced to give it ANY star at all? Why is zero not an option? I... |  A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.86 My older Avon edition, with the far more appropriate cover of the empty easy chair, had only one... |  The Bastard of IstanbulBest Price: $7.23 "The Bastard Of Istanbul" generated a controversy. Its Turkish author, Elif Shafak,... |
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