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Review Date: 7/24/2009
one of my all-time favorites
The restraint, growing connection, both humor and sadness in this exchange of letters - a wonderful read!
The restraint, growing connection, both humor and sadness in this exchange of letters - a wonderful read!
Review Date: 7/30/2005
a small jewel of restraint, intelligence, humor, caring in a 20 year correspondence.
An Altogether New Book of Top Ten Lists from Late Night with David Letterman
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Review Date: 11/30/2005
1991 edition - so some seem dated, but most are timeless, rude, tasteless, clever, and laugh-out-loud funny!
Review Date: 7/2/2005
Helpful Score: 1
romantic, heartwarming, second chance for love
(and who can resist a cut-out cover!
(and who can resist a cut-out cover!
Review Date: 5/12/2007
A classic best-seller on positive attitudes increasing success and joy in life.
This follow-up to The Power of Positive Thinking focuses on people's stories and experiences.
This follow-up to The Power of Positive Thinking focuses on people's stories and experiences.
Review Date: 9/8/2005
Written almost 20 years ago, the experiences of Russians (and shared by most immigrants!) adapting to this complex country are timeless, and told with great humor!
An enjoyable quick read.
An enjoyable quick read.
Review Date: 6/26/2005
a comedy of love and friendship - Maggie's normal world crumbles when she finds her husband is having an affair - and she loses a great job! A trip to visit her best friend in Los Angeles brings laughs and hope.
Review Date: 7/29/2005
Helpful Score: 2
A good intro to Faulkner's writing. A disturbing, sometimes darkly humorous account of a family's struggle to properly bury thier mother.
Review Date: 7/17/2005
A story of both pain and resilience experienced by the author - dealing with the pain of feeling ugly, peer rejection, wanting to be accepted and perfect - as a result of a disfiguring cancer.
Review Date: 6/20/2005
Helpful Score: 2
Gritty, wonderful story set in South Carolina - told by Ruth Anne, a child.
Review Date: 12/16/2006
Pulitzer prize winning novel set in Italy during World War II
Review Date: 7/2/2005
Helpful Score: 1
Powerful, mesmerizing story of a proud, struggling, mystical wowman/family escaping from a heritage of slavery
Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Review Date: 8/31/2005
Story of a man uprooted from his home in India who comes to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great reiver in a newly independent African nation.
Conflict between the allure of the modern world and the hold of tradition.
A classic
Conflict between the allure of the modern world and the hold of tradition.
A classic
Review Date: 8/24/2006
heart-warming read
Review Date: 10/17/2005
Three generations of workers and coffee plantation owners - through the oftentimes discouraging politics, uprisings, poverty, family tragedies in El Salvador. Beautifully written.
Review Date: 6/20/2005
Advance copy/ uncorrected proof of this new mystery from an Agatha Award-winning author.
Paperback
Paperback
Review Date: 12/16/2005
Well-written, eye-opening account of the author's wonderful life as a child as an Islamic woman in Egypt, her pull to more freedom and education, her conflicted feelings coming to terms with women's issues in America.
Still thinking about this one!
Still thinking about this one!
Review Date: 9/9/2006
powerful novel set in Haiti, focused on the strong women, the wonder, terror and heartache of Haiti.
Review Date: 7/29/2005
I've heard all good things about this amazing story of 4 generations of women on a Creole plantation.
Review Date: 7/8/2005
* a bend in the front cover - but a nice large-size, trade paperback.
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