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The End Of Alice
The End Of Alice
Author: A. M. Homes
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 5/5/2007


The story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old surburban co-ed. As the two reveal-and revel in-their obsessive desires, the author creates a novel that is part romance, part horror story, and at once unnerving, repellent, and seductive.


The Girlfriends Club
The Girlfriends Club
Author: Judith Henry Wall
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 12/9/2006


On the eve of Mary Sue Prescott's 45 birthday, she is joined by her 3 closest friends, Gretchen, Pamela,and Dixie, at the lakeside cabin that has been their refuge for years. This meeting is not strictly a celebration, since Mary Sue is scheduled to undergo a mastectomy the following morning. At the same time they're dealing with Mary Sue's operation, another crisis arises. The 3 women must make a decision that results in a haunting and terrifying secret.


The Nile, The Life-Story of a River
The Nile, The Life-Story of a River
Author: Emil Ludwig
Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 12/17/2006


A biography of the Nile River and life around it.


PILLAR OF THE SKY
PILLAR OF THE SKY
Author: Cecelia Holland
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 5/10/2007


A story that goes back more than 3000 years into the life of a prehistoric clan and into the mysteries of Stonehenge.


Queen's Pawn
Queen's Pawn
Author: Victor Canning
Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 12/17/2006


Andrew Raikes, con-man son of a gentleman failure, leaves London with 300,000 pounds-a fortune accumulated during more than fifteen years of criminal adventure, a fortune big enough to allow him to retire comfortably on the Devonshire estate his father had lost. One small mistake-his only mistake in those fifteen years-opens him up to extortion at the hands of the grotesque, immensely rich John Eustace Sarling. In a desperate effort to escape, Raikes sets out to destroy his blackmailer. But this effort only draws him deeper into a sea of crime whose depths he has hitherto hardly begun to sound-and into the private world of an auburn-haired enigma, Belle, the antithesis of everything he has hitherto wanted in a woman. Raikes is caught. He finds himself in the thick of a scheme only a millionaire or a madman could conceive-an audacious act of piracy aboard the great new Cunarder, Queen Elizabeth 2, during her maiden voyage. And Andrew Raikes, a man who tries to play his own game, is pushed inexorably forward on the file, a pawn in his master's gambit.


Roadwalkers
Roadwalkers
Author: Shirley Ann Grau
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 2/2/2007


Six black children are abandoned by their parents during the Depression-Roadwalkers. One by one they are saved, lost, or simply disappear until only two are left to live off the land. Finally the youngest is captured by a white farm manager. He sends her to an orphanage in New Orleans. Later in the book this youngest child is grown and her life is explained through the eyes of her daughter. They live an eccentric middle-class life with the daughter being sent off to integrate a white Catholic girls' school in the East.


Sam Gunn, Unlimited
Sam Gunn, Unlimited
Author: Ben Bova
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/7/2007


Sam Gunn is the 21's century greatedt entrepreneur and its most-hated public figure. Visionary, scoundrel, lover, liar, he is small in stature but larger than life, and his story is that of space exploration itself. He will make and lose fortunes from Earth to the Asteroid Belt, one step ahead of his creditors, one step behind his grand dreams. Through all his varied careers, Sam's goal will always be the same, to go where no one had ever gone before and come back with a profit. Here is the rollicking tale of his amazing life, an adventrue told by the men and women who loved or hated him but could never forget him as he carved out man's destiny amongst the stars.


Thesaurus of HUMOR
Thesaurus of HUMOR
Author: Mildred Meiers & Jack Knapp
Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 7/14/2007


Contains 5640 Humorous Situations, 4000 Separate Subjects, 12,000 Different Uses. It also provides the materials and shows you how to write and tell jokes.


Welcome to Lumpy Gravy
Welcome to Lumpy Gravy
Author: John Long
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 12/16/2006


Lumpy Gravy is a syndicated cartoon ejoyed around the coutry by millions f readrs who revel in its fresh, edgy, twisted take on life.


The White Rose
The White Rose
Author: Jan Westcott
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 12/17/2006


Historical novel of the love story between Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. It spans 30 years of English history.


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