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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) 3221 reviews
J. K. Rowling
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007
Great book!
+ Welcom to the end of a great saga
+ Adding to the Collection
+ Best Book Ever
+ Great book!
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First, Do No Harm 15 reviews
Lisa Belkin
Fawcett, 1994
Inside Texas Medical Center...
+ The humanity of doctors in an often inhumane field
+ great book
+ Good read
+ Great Material
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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1)101 reviews
Bernard Cornwell
HarperCollins, 2006
The Last Kingdom
+ My favorite author!
+ GREAT SERIES FIND
+ Excellent Read
+ Another great book from Cornwall
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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine49 reviews
John Abramson
Harper Perennial, 2005
Sorting out medical knowledge from advertising
+ Overdo$ed Is Right
+ Simply a must read
+ From a pharmacist
+ Wake-up Call
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel598 reviews
Lisa See
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
Excellent and Interesting
+ One of the best
+ Memorable!
+ Capitavating historical fiction
+ A Cultural Gem!
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A Spot of Bother (Vintage) 98 reviews
Mark Haddon
Vintage, 2007
One very funny book
+ Stuck with me for a long time...
+ The MBC Abbreviated Review
This is one of the funniest books I have read in a long while. Mark Hadden has a great touch in pointing out the bizarre in every day life, in an appropriately understated way. Other reviewer have covered the stories and characters, so what I would add is that I found this book much funnier (laugh ...
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The Corrections: A Novel 1013 reviews
Jonathan Franzen
Picador, 2002
Well worth the investment in time
+ Good read
Don't believe the hype about the hype. Brilliantly imagined, extremely well written, and just a pleasure to read.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter861 reviews
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
A real page turner
I am so stunned by all of the negative reviews on this book! I think I tend to be very critical of books, and have a very short list of favorites. I absolutely loved this book. I thought the characters were very well-developed, and the author's writing positively flowed. The relationships ...
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America8 reviews
Laurie Kaye Abraham
University Of Chicago Press, 1994
Great book
+ If your poor and sick, you may as weel be deead
+ Great read for a future doc
+ Eye-opening read, but very left-wing
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The Kite Runner2470 reviews
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead Trade, 2004
Beautifully Moving
+ Great Story of Redemption
+ A must read
+ The best book I have read in some time--touched my heart
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The Lovely Bones: A Novel 28 reviews
Alice Sebold, 2002
A Great Surprise
+ Mixture of things both bitter and sweet
I picked up this book in the summer for about 5 bucks on the clearance shelf at Waldenbooks. I had heard of it before.
Any aspiring author should read this book. It is beautifully crafted. The plot is complex. It is a page-turner that you can easily stay up all night to read. The best part of ...
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The Shadow of the Wind512 reviews
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
simply the best
+ A Must Read
+ Truly great storytelling
+ Utterly Amazing Book!
+ Brilliant..addicting..superbly written
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The Left Hand of Darkness183 reviews
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ace, 1987
On my list of must-reads . . .
+ Le Guin's Masterpiece
+ Can't put it down
I probably first read this book long before many of the posters were born, but not in a vacuum-I also read all of the other Hainish novels I could find. For whatever reason, the Hainish novels have always held my attention in a way that the Earthsea books do not.
I was always struck, not by the ...
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The Children of Men102 reviews
P.D. James
Vintage, 2006
elegant retro entertainment
+ Perspective in Children of Men
+ different than movie in plot and themes
+ Better than you would think
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Learning to Play God11 reviews
Robert Marion
Fawcett Publishing Co, 2000
Greatest book for all pre-med
+ Learning to Play God
+ My favorite !!!
+ Why can't I write like this?
+ Great book!
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The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2)59 reviews
Bernard Cornwell
HarperCollins, 2007
Riveting Narration (Review of Audio)
+ The Pale Horseman
+ A Lusty Adventure Tale
I listened to the audio CD from the library. Tom Sellwood's narration is spellbinding. Each character's voice is so realistic the story comes to life. You can listen to a portion on the audible download link. I would recommend reading the series in order since character development begins with ...
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The Patron Saint of Liars: A Novel (P.S.)53 reviews
Ann Patchett
Harper Perennial, 2007
A gripping page-turner that stumbles in the end
+ A treat...
+ Fast Read
I really liked this book. Each time I had to put it down, I looked forward to getting back to the story. I love stories that progress thru generations, and that are "spoken" thru different characters - this book does both. I would have given 5 stars if not for the ending which felt a bit ...
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Water for Elephants: A Novel1465 reviews
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
....a truly, can't put it down book!!!
+ Loved it
+ GREAT GUTSY WRITING
+ GREAT READ
+ A truly gripping, terrific read.
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues8 reviews
Paul Farmer
University of California Press, 2001
Where are the Virchows of global public health?
+ Buy it. Read it.
+ Medical-anthropological approach to HIV & TB illuminates roles of inequality and poverty in spread of disease
The context of epidemics is important. What happens to the poor people who have drug resistant tuberculosis? Market mechanisms do not serve the interest of global health equity. The cost-efectiveness argument is weak. Poverty limits freedom of choice. AIDS education falls short. Arguments about ...
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Year of Wonders308 reviews
Geraldine Brooks
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
Beware the Black Death!
+ Amazing ending
+ A-
"Year of Wonders" is a fantastic book by Geraldine Brooks that chronicles a severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague in an isolated English village during the year 1666. The story revolves around Anna Frith, a housemaid who loses her two young children to the plague and emerges as a heroine during ...
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