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November 06, 2009 11:41 PM EST
(shared with group: November 06, 2009)
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Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle originally published in 1963 This 2000 edition published by Gramercy Books
Recently I set myself down in front of my television and watched a marathon of all . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:44 PM EST
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The Time Traveler's Wife is a non-traditional love story. Henry DeTamble is a Chicago librarian at the Newberry with what the author refers to as Chrono Displacement Disorder. This means that Henry randomly . . .
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November 05, 2009 11:36 AM EST
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Jeffery Deaver- Death of a Blue Movie Star (Bantam Books 2000) 3.25 Stars
Rune almost gets blown up as a bomb destroys a porn theatre that she was walking by. Now she wants to make a film about . . .
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November 04, 2009 06:49 PM EST
(shared with group: November 04, 2009)
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Having studied an extensive variety of archived documents, including the Adams Family Correspondence housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Woody Holton delivers an elegant account of American . . .
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November 03, 2009 03:09 PM EST
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Patient Zero is a very original novel that involves a terrorist plot to unleash a virus that turns people into zombies. It's sort of like Tom Clancy meets George Romero, and it works on every . . .
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November 02, 2009 10:39 PM EST
(shared with group: November 02, 2009)
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"The Demon Spirit Part 3" The Demon Wars Saga by R.A. Salvatore Multi-cast production produced by Graphic Audio Approx. 6 hours
Part 3 of "The Demon Spirit" audio book brings to a close the second . . .
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November 02, 2009 03:48 PM EST
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The premise of the book is that Abraham Lincoln was a homosexual, or at least that he was a bisexual. The problem with this premise is that the author doesn’t support it at all.
C.A. Tripp . . .
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November 02, 2009 02:14 PM EST
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Robert James Glider- Golden Conspiracy (Book Surge 2009) 3.5 Stars
Jacsen Kidd is searching for the location of Spanish gold that has been missing for centuries. However, knowledge of his quest . . .
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November 02, 2009 11:31 AM EST
(shared with group: November 02, 2009)
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The organization I work with, COMAP (Centre for Community Mapping) has developed a new social enterprise (Mapadit) that will help provide long term support to all of our systems, including the Mennonite . . .
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November 02, 2009 07:49 AM EST
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author: sigrid nunez
Again, characters in a book who are about my age. I remember all the historical allusions and references. I remember going to college in the late 60's and the . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:13 AM EST
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Elizabeth George returns with a new collection of short stories focused on two of the seven deadly sins – lust and greed. Two of the Deadliest: new tales of lust, greed, and murder from . . .
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November 01, 2009 10:23 PM EST
(shared with group: November 01, 2009)
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When Gwen Cooper’s veterinarian called to tell her about a BLIND, abandoned three-week-old kitten, she knew she was going to say no. She already had two cats and she didn’t want to be that . . .
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November 01, 2009 10:15 PM EST
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Many mothers long for a vacation from their life, a few days where someone takes care of them for a change. For most, this remains a dream but Sally Thorning turns it into reality. When a longed-for work . . .
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November 01, 2009 11:11 AM EST
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James David Jordan- Double Cross (B&H Publishing 2009) 3.25 Stars
Taylor Pasbury is looking into the death of Elise, the assistant to the famous televangelist Simon Mason. The evidence . . .
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November 01, 2009 09:20 AM EST
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author Nadeem Aslam
This is another book about expats living in England. The characters are originally from Pakistan and are Moslem (some more religious, some less religious).
The book . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:05 PM EDT
(shared with group: October 31, 2009)
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Ambrose Bierce, Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris, JR.
Ambrose Bierce might best be described as the forgotten man these days, but in his time, he wielded an amazing amount of journalistic power. . . .
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October 31, 2009 12:59 AM EDT
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The Runaway Pumpkin By Kevin Lewis and S.D. Schindler
This adorable rhyming Halloween tale has been a runaway hit with my 18-month-old son at storytime.
When the Baxter children find an enormous . . .
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October 30, 2009 09:38 PM EDT
(shared with group: October 30, 2009)
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"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith read by Katherine Kellgren produced by Brilliance Audio Approx. 11 hours
Being a horror fan the title of this book just . . .
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October 30, 2009 08:53 PM EDT
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Here's the top selling hardcover nonfiction books this week according to the New York Times:
1. Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom 2. Arguing with Idiots by Glenn Beck 3. Highest Duty by Chesley B. . . .
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October 30, 2009 07:04 PM EDT
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Here's the top 10 bestselling hardcover fiction titles according to the New York Times:
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 2. Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn 3. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly 4. The . . .
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