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The Florist's Daughter
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With great reviews and glowing praise from a piece on MPR our bookclub thought this would be an excellent read. I didn't love it. OK, not one of us even liked it. I felt that overall the book could not capture my attention. We have enjoyed everything from Don't Let's Eat With The Dogs Tonight, to The Life of PI, to The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Everyone... »
A Tale of Love and Darkness
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This is a beautiful and moving memoir from a sensitive and humanistic writer of great skill and style. The reader will feel that he or she is personally experiencing growing up with the author in the most modest and simple circumstances, in the young State of Israel, from before statehood and into its early years, getting to know as friends and neighbo... »
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
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The past few years there has been a bright spotlight shone upon the South Boston social and political climates that have forever given Southie the reputation of being a sort of rough and tumble sort of place. With movies such as The Departed glorifying and demonstrating to the rest of the world what exactly Southie was all about, the resurgence to try... »
Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rura
I am one year younger than Chuck Klosterman, and my family is from rural Minnesota (not too far from where he grew up). Perhaps that's enough to explain ... »
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Saraje
Sheesh...this is the product of a child, not the work of a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. It is an excellent diary, an excellent primary source and a... »
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Camb
Written in the present tense, First They Killed My Father will put you right in the midst of the action--action you'll wish had never happened. It'... »
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childho
Madhur Jaffrey is a personal favorite - I loved her reading of Rohinton Mistry's [[ASIN:140003065X A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)]] & it's a delight t... »
In the Blood
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the
"Chea, how come good doesn't win over evil?" young Chanrithy Him asks her sister, after the brutal Khmer Rouge have seized power in Cambodia, but before h... »
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Philadelphia Select
This is a beautiful book. I read it about 3 years ago when it first came out and it still haunts me. While it was written by one of the children evacuated... »
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