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- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (105)
- By Amy Chua
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- One Thousand White Women (22)
- The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
- By Jim Fergus
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- Love (53)
- A Novel (Vintage)
- By Toni Morrison
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- The Corrections (512)
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- By Jonathan Franzen
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- Freedom (565)
- By Jonathan Franzen
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- The Lover's Dictionary (27)
- A Novel
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- The Hunger Games (1388)
- By Suzanne Collins
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Collins offers readers a look at reality TV in the future. Hunger Games and its sequels are great story and discussion materials for young readers, their parents and teachers. Collins provides an engrossing tool for the introduction cultural criticism to middle school students.
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- Room (329)
- By Emma Donoghue
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- The Recessionistas (2)
- By Alexandra Lebenthal
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Lemon meringue when you thought it was banana cream. Reads like Shopaholic on steroids. Lebenthal endeavors to teach readers how and why the economy fell apart, and attempts to elicit empathy for the wealthy, the investors, the movers and shakers of the investment world who did not break laws and ... (continue)
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- Anansi Boys (562)
- A Novel
- By Neil Gaiman
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Is a pleasant and amusing read. I may have rated it higher if I hadn’t previously read Gaiman’s American Gods, in which I was delighted by Gaiman’s blend of myth, magic and reality. I was somehow hoping for more of the same, but Anansi Boys fell short of his earlier work.
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- Daemon (47)
- By Daniel Suarez
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Suarez will make you think twice about your google searching and online banking habits for awhile with his high tech thriller. Indeed, he will make one rethink the use of the term high tech in your vocabulary.
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- Now You See Him (3)
- A Novel
- By Eli Gottlieb
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When his best friend from childhood murders his girlfriend and then commits suicide, Nick Framingham reevaluates his own life through his memories of their friendship and realizes unsettling truths about himself and their suburban New York community. Read-a-likes: Tana French’s In the Woods, and Sc ... (continue)
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- Foreign Influence (7)
- A Thriller
- By Brad Thor
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Leans hard to the Right. Guess I'm getting jaded, felt too over the top to me, hard to believe that much autonomyfor Harvath. Enjoyed the Chicago setting.
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- Moloka'i (14)
- By Alan Brennert
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The Lover's Dictionary
Appeal factor is definitely language. Beautifully and concisely written, more like poetry than prose. The story, so to speak, unfurls in the confines of dictionary entries.
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