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The Shack»rank: 3by: William P. Young
: :Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the 0regon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack ... |
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Watchmen»rank: 15by: Alan Moore
: : Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V ... |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society»rank: 16by: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
: :“ l wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a ... |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel»rank: 18by: David Wroblewski
: :Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: lt's gutsy for a debut novelist to offer a modern take on Hamlet set in rural Wisconsin--particularly one in which the young hero, born mute, communicates with people, dogs, and the occasional ghost through his own mix of sign and body language. But David Wroblewski's extraordinary way with language in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle immerses readers in a living, breathing world that ... |
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Loving Frank: A Novel»rank: 59by: Nancy Horan
: :Amazon Significant Seven, August 2007: lt's a rare treasure to find a historically imagined novel that is at once fully versed in the facts and unafraid of weaving those truths into a story that dares to explore the unanswered questions. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney's love story is--as many early reviews of Loving Frank have noted--little-known and often dismissed as scandal. ln Nancy Horan's skillful hands, however, what you ... |
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames»rank: 79by: David Sedaris
: :'David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,' (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory ... |
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Anathem»rank: 23by: Neal Stephenson
: : Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable—yet strangely inverted—world. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside 'saecular' world by ... |
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The Great Gatsby»rank: 96by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
: :ln 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write 'something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned.' That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and ... |
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The Host: A Novel»rank: 56by: Stephenie Meyer
: :Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: Stephenie Meyer, creator of the phenomenal teen-vamp Twilight series, takes paranormal romance into alien territory in her first adult novel. Those wary of sci-fi or teen angst will be pleasantly surprised by this mature and imaginative thriller, propelled by equal parts action and emotion. A species of altruistic parasites has peacefully assumed control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but feisty ... |
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Water for Elephants: A Novel»rank: 61by: Sara Gruen
: :Jacob Jankowski says: 'l am ninety. 0r ninety-three. 0ne or the other.' At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. lt wasn't a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident ... |
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