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Otherwise: New & Selected Poems 7 reviews
Jane Kenyon
Graywolf Press, 1997
Poetry for the human experience
+ OMG--It gets better!
+ Great product & service
+ Bright Stars on a Winter Night
+ Captivating and Honest
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Sanctuary (Pine Street Books) 4 reviews
Edith Wharton
Pine Street Books, 2001
So smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared
+ Are Flaws in Morality Passed From Father to Son By Nature?
Edith Wharton was born in 1986 to an upper class family in New York City. She could trace her ancestry back three centuries, and was expected to live an aristocratic life. She was educated at home, and married Teddy Wharton in 1885, settling into her role as society marm. Her marriage ended with ...
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Mother to Mother (Bluestreak) 6 reviews
Sindiwe Magona
Beacon Press, 2000
As a South African I could not have done better!
+ Great Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ An Ansewer to the Question Why. This is Mother to Mother
+ Mother to Mother
+ An exceptional book about humanity written by a true Mother.
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Family Happiness: A Novel (Perennial Fiction Library)7 reviews
Laurie Colwin
Harper Perennial, 1989
A wonder of a book
+ A well written novel with an infuriatingly sleasy protagonist
+ You will laugh and cry
+ small correction
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Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems2 reviews
Yusef Komunyakaa
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000
I should have bought this book...
I picked it up at the book store and was flipping through it. Wow! Seemed to be a little more accessible than some of Komunyakaa's other work, but just as powerful if not more so.
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl 3 reviews
Willa Cather
Vintage, 1975
Generates Thoughtful Contemplation
+ Cather's last novel is solid return to virginia
As I was reading this book (which is thought provoking) I also was thinking thoughts similar to the previous reviewer, i.e., would the black people in the book really think this way in real life; (Example, some of the slaves would talk about the other slaves calling them "no count niggers". One of ...
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Otherwise: New & Selected Poems7 reviews
Jane Kenyon
Graywolf Press, 1997
Poetry for the human experience
+ OMG--It gets better!
+ Great product & service
+ Bright Stars on a Winter Night
+ Captivating and Honest
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Sanctuary (Pine Street Books)4 reviews
Edith Wharton
Pine Street Books, 2001
So smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared
+ Are Flaws in Morality Passed From Father to Son By Nature?
Edith Wharton was born in 1986 to an upper class family in New York City. She could trace her ancestry back three centuries, and was expected to live an aristocratic life. She was educated at home, and married Teddy Wharton in 1885, settling into her role as society marm. Her marriage ended with ...
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Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems2 reviews
Yusef Komunyakaa
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000
I should have bought this book...
I picked it up at the book store and was flipping through it. Wow! Seemed to be a little more accessible than some of Komunyakaa's other work, but just as powerful if not more so.
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Family Happiness: A Novel (Perennial Fiction Library)7 reviews
Laurie Colwin
Harper Perennial, 1989
A wonder of a book
+ A well written novel with an infuriatingly sleasy protagonist
+ You will laugh and cry
+ small correction
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Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)6 reviews
Sindiwe Magona
Beacon Press, 2000
As a South African I could not have done better!
+ Great Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ An Ansewer to the Question Why. This is Mother to Mother
+ Mother to Mother
+ An exceptional book about humanity written by a true Mother.
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl3 reviews
Willa Cather
Vintage, 1975
Generates Thoughtful Contemplation
+ Cather's last novel is solid return to virginia
As I was reading this book (which is thought provoking) I also was thinking thoughts similar to the previous reviewer, i.e., would the black people in the book really think this way in real life; (Example, some of the slaves would talk about the other slaves calling them "no count niggers". One of ...
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