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A Virtuous Woman 108 reviews
Kaye Gibbons
Algonquin Books, 1997
Wonderful
+ Worth reading - a treatise on love
This was a quick and fabulous read! I felt as if I knew each of the characters.
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Down Town 12 reviews
Ferrol Sams
Mercer University Press, 2007
WONDERFUL BOOK AND AUTHOR
+ Vintage Sams....
+ An Easy Going History Of "Our Town"
+ Downtown
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Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Harvest American Writing Series) 7 reviews
Randall Kenan
Harvest Books, 1993
A Classic, plain and simple
+ Surprising
+ reality fiction at its best
+ Let The Dead Bury Their Dead
+ A wonderful book
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The Secret Life of Bees1433 reviews
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Nostalgically Current
+ the secret life of bees
+ SECRET LIFE OF BEES
+ A Beautiful Story
+ The Secret Life of Bees
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The Known World295 reviews
Edward P. Jones
Amistad, 2006
Gorgeous
+ Riveting! You'll never forget it.
+ Gripping
+ Difficult to read but well worth it
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The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)16 reviews
William Faulkner
W. W. Norton, 1993
Great But Difficult Novel
+ Dive in Headfirst
+ An acquired taste?
+ Rediscovered and now my favorite book
+ A beautiful and complex work.
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Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia2 reviews
University Press of Kentucky, 2004
Salley a writer in Hartwell
+ True Appalachia
I discovered "Listen Here" while browsing with girlfriends in a bookstore in Spruce Pine, N.C. this past weekend. I was completely charmed by the book's contents. So much so, that while I and my four friends ran errands around town,I read selections from the book from the backseat of the car. We ...
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel1173 reviews
Rebecca Wells
Harper Paperbacks, 2004
Great Seller!
+ The secrets of the popular girls
The seller made a mistake by putting "hard cover" for the book I purchased when it was a soft cover book. When I received the book and contacted the seller instead of making me pay for shipping or wait for them to send me an envelope to send it back, they told me to just keep the book and fully ...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir 1136 reviews
Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 2006
Best Book all year
+ Cant put it down!!!!
+ Read it against my better judgement ... and LOVED it!
+ Fantastic Story Teller! Page Turner!
+ One heckuva great book
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Cold Sassy Tree219 reviews
Olive Ann Burns
Mariner Books, 2007
good service, good condition
+ A Great Place to Re-Visit
+ Great book
+ Wonderful depiction of a small southern town in the early 1900's
+ Perspectives on death
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Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil: A Savannah Story1 review
John Berendt
Vintage Books, 1994
If you are going to Savannah....
...then you have to read this book first. The movie is great, but the book is much better. All of the tours mention "The Book," and all of your favorite places are easily found once you travel to Savannah.
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Beloved87 reviews
Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2004
Raw & Powerful
+ Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me?
Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...
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On Agate Hill: A Novel36 reviews
Lee Smith
A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2007
What a world she has created !
+ Lee Smith Does it Again
+ Superb reading but why Tuscany Miller?
+ Very enjoyable read
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Their Eyes Were Watching God406 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
Southern Florida in the early 20th century and one black woman's story
+ A Beautiful Piece of Literature
+ Among the Most Influential African-American Novels of the 20th Century
+ Dreamy little novel
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Oil! (There Will Be Blood)38 reviews
Upton Sinclair
Penguin Modern Classics, 2008
Dad Liked It
+ From Oil in the 1920s to Washington and Wall Street Today
+ Very different from the loosely adapted film
+ I enjoyed this book. But....
+ Highly Entertaining!
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Ellen Foster306 reviews
Kaye Gibbons
Algonquin Books, 1987
A study of a resilient child
+ Sad but humorous at the same time
+ Shockingly honest voice . . .
+ A wonderful narrator
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The Water is Wide55 reviews
Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002
Great story! My first Pat Conroy book, but not my last.
+ A beautiful story from a master storyteller....
+ Gullah Opinion
+ Great for both teenagers and adults
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In Cold Blood7 reviews
Truman Capote
Random House Audio, 2006
CAPOTE'S MASTERPIECE
+ Great Book - Long Listen
+ Excellence!
+ Worth the read, or in my case, worth the listen
+ SOME OF THE BEST WRITING YOU WILL EVER HEAR
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The Moviegoer107 reviews
Walker Percy
Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2004
Slicing into the core of mundacity
+ Graceful, easy writing
The Moviegoer is a worthwhile read for anyone who questions the tediousness and resultant boredom of life. It is certainly not outdated for being published in 1960; if anything, it is more relevant today than then. Life as we know it now is even more formulaic than then. It is now even more ...
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Jayber Crow34 reviews
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, 2001
None better.
+ Stunning Novel
+ Great Story!
+ Deserves to be a classic
+ A Fine Novel
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