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 The Danish GirlThis is a stunning debut novel by someone who is no novice to the publishing industry, as he is... |  Sharp ObjectsI initially picked this book up because the cover looked intriguing and the dust flap synopsis... |  A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.76 Two well-meaning English women - Mrs. Moore and Adela Quested - go to India some time during the... |  Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $3.00 Though not Russian fiction's father in Nikolai Gogol's sense of adapting the language... |  The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.13 An editor writes a (supposedly factual) narrative of mysterious events about several deaths and... |
 Code to ZeroBest Price: $21.00 The story line is good, but the narrator is so overly melodramatic it is iritating. |  East of EdenBest Price: $11.41 After the slaying of his brother, the biblical Cain dwelt in the land "east of Eden,"... |  Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)Best Price: $6.81 Cannery Row is not Moby Dick or The Great Gatsby. That is, it's not a contender for `the... |  One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (theater tie-in)Best Price: $8.00 The book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, is a great classic and still highly... |  The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics)Best Price: $2.96 It's hard to imagine a better gothic romance than "Jane Eyre" -- gloomy vast... |
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| The Emperor's Children (Vintage) Best Price: $0.71 Messud's novel, "The Emperor's Children" (2006) is a challenging, if only... | Lucy Best Price: $1.09 This is just a terrible novel. The subject of Lucy - the line between primates and humans -... | Final Payments Best Price: $6.93 What will a self-sacrificing daughter do when her life of caring for her invalid father ends... | I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage) Best Price: $2.10 direct quote I hate being lost,he hates being lost, Our marriage hates being lost. okay I... | Bee Season Best Price: $0.76 This was an enjoyable story. All the characters were so vivid and distinct. I especially loved... |
| A Simple Plan Best Price: $3.90 In his The New Rhetoric, Chaim Perelman concludes, "The distinction of the different genres... | La Cena Secreta (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $51.07 January 1497, Fray Agustín Leyre is given an important message that needs to be... | |||
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