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Publishers Weekly reviews
The story fascinates even as it repels.
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Heat (UK) reviews
And now for something completely different…If you're tired of fluffy chick lit and fancy a trip to the dark side, the debut novel from poet Martha O'Connor is a...
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The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reviews
O'Connor nails the intense, us-against-the-world, overcooked emotion that defines the friendship of teen girls and the druggy delirium of first, sexual love. She...
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Cosmopolitan reviews
A sizzling page-turner.
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The Newark Star Ledger reviews
You have now entered a Chick-Lit-Free Zone,' warns this debut novel on Page 1. And it's true: There's nothing pink and frilly about this tale of three high-school...
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Tatler (UK) reviews
Don't disbelieve the hype. [The Bitch Posse] is good a debut as it's cracked up to be... It's edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines... What could have been just...
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The Chicago Tribune reviews
The Bitch Posse is a riveting and emotionally charged read. No fluff here.
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Marie Claire (UK) reviews
An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage.
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Washington Post Book World reviews
The Bitch Posse is compulsively readable because things just keep getting worse for these girls... O'Connor scatters delicious and slightly macabre details of the...
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New Slain Knight
Green Man Review reviews
New Slain Knight is set in Cornwall, same setting as Charles de Lint's The Little Country, a place haunted by a long and misty past of history and myth where time...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
Forman’s enormously affecting memoir—winner of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize—about the drastic disabilities of her extremely premature child...
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The Commercial Appeal reviews
"...a sheen of elegance and terror; one is reminded, in Barnes' language and locution, of Don DeLillo's scalpel-sharp delineation of American corporate culture and...
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New York Times reviews
The individuals in Laura Glen Louis's ''Talking in the Dark'' may be Chinese-Americans new to the West Coast, but more than anything else they are characters for...
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Winter of Secrets
Publishers Weekly reviews
Starred Review. The discovery early one Christmas morning of the bodies of best friends Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and Ewan Williams, two privileged young men from...
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Booklist Review reviews
High-school senior Vera never expects her ex-best friend, Charlie, to haunt her after he dies, begging her to clear his name of a horrible accusation surrounding...
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Do They Know I'm Running?
Booklist reviews
Starred Review: "[I]n this powerful, evocative, character-driven novel, [Corbett] has written what should be a breakout success. . . Readers who devour and then...
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Breaking Out of Bedlam
Boston Globe reviews
“Leslie Larson gives an 82-year-old assisted living resident an unforgettable voice: caustic, profane, searingly honest….Cora Sledge is an unlikely heroine. She’s...
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O, The Oprah Magazine reviews
For his acclaimed debut, Finn, Jon Clinch borrowed from Mark Twain, telling the story of Huckleberry Finn's malicious father. In his masterful and compassionate...
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The Flag Keeper
Good Family Reads reviews
A very easy to read format, a few long words that are very well explained will not only entertain but teach kids of all ages. I was very happy that the Flag Facts...
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Crime Time (England) reviews
Many books have attempted to pull off the remarkable trick that Umberto Eco achieved so memorably in The Name of the Rose: embedding a highly compulsive historical...
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