Lee's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:34:25 -0700 60 Lee's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Pallbearers Club 59314692 The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.

What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend?

Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.

Okay, that part was a little weird.

So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things—terrifying things—that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?

Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she's making cuts.

Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.]]>
278 Paul Tremblay 0063069911 Lee 0 to-read 3.08 2022 The Pallbearers Club
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The Hunger 30285766
Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow a disastrous experimental route West, or just plain bad luck--the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest and most disastrous western adventures in American history.

While the ill-fated group struggles to survive in the treacherous mountain conditions--searing heat that turns the sand into bubbling stew; snows that freeze the oxen where they stand--evil begins to grow around them, and within them. As members of the party begin to disappear, they must ask themselves "What if there is something waiting in the mountains? Something disturbing and diseased...and very hungry?"]]>
376 Alma Katsu 0735212511 Lee 0 to-read 3.57 2018 The Hunger
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The Things They Carried 133518
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.]]>
246 Tim O'Brien 0767902890 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.14 1990 The Things They Carried
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A Week in Winter 15990489
Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve’s trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling.

This is the last book that Maeve Binchy wrote before her sudden death. As are all her stories, it is her trademark warmth, humor and the kind of characters that will make her books live on. It is a privilege to be able to share this book with readers.]]>
464 Maeve Binchy 140911399X Lee 0 currently-reading 3.76 2012 A Week in Winter
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The Invention of Sound 50358503 A father's decades-long search for his missing daughter.
A young woman about to engineer the perfect scream.
The most dangerous secret Hollywood has ever kept.

Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth.

Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she's become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real.

Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous façade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, THE INVENTION OF SOUND is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers—his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet.]]>
240 Chuck Palahniuk 1538718006 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.46 2020 The Invention of Sound
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July, July 205803 320 Tim O'Brien 0142003387 Lee 5 It is the story of a bunch of friends in the class of 69 at their 30th (plus a year) reunion. I couldn't spoil this book if I tried.
The reader is introduced to the characters at the Reunion in 2000, then taken back to 1969 and on, character by character, always coming back to the present.
It is so funny, so moving, and relatable that I found myself stalling n the last couple chapters.
I'll probably read it against n, or listen to it.
If you're a person of any certain age, I'm pretty sure you would Dignthis book.❤️]]>
3.48 2002 July, July
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This is the first book that I've read by Tim O'Brien and it will not be my last.
It is the story of a bunch of friends in the class of 69 at their 30th (plus a year) reunion. I couldn't spoil this book if I tried.
The reader is introduced to the characters at the Reunion in 2000, then taken back to 1969 and on, character by character, always coming back to the present.
It is so funny, so moving, and relatable that I found myself stalling n the last couple chapters.
I'll probably read it against n, or listen to it.
If you're a person of any certain age, I'm pretty sure you would Dignthis book.❤️
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Calico Joe 13154952 A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball.

Whatever happened to Calico Joe?

When he arrived in Philadelphia, a cab delivered him to Veterans Stadium, where he was quickly fixed for a uniform, given Number 42, and hustled onto the field. The Cubs were already taking batting practice. Understandably, he was nervous, thrilled, almost bewildered, and when the manager, Whitey Lockman, said, "Get loose. You're starting at first and hitting seventh," Joe Castle had trouble gripping his brand-new bat. In his first round of major-league batting practice, he swung at the first two pitches and missed.

He would not miss again for a long time.


In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records.

Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his dad. Then Warren threw a fastball that would change their lives forever.

In John Grisham’s new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it’s what happens off the field that makes Calico Joe a classic.]]>
198 John Grisham 0385536070 Lee 5 3.81 2012 Calico Joe
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Why I Write 9644
Contents:
"Why I Write", first published 1946
"The Lion and the Unicorn", first published 1940
"A Hanging", first published 1931
"Politics and the English Language", first published 1946]]>
120 George Orwell 0143036351 Lee 0 to-read 4.04 1946 Why I Write
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The Dead Fathers Club 132556
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. The club, whose members were all murdered, gathers outside the Castle and Falcon, the local pub that Philip’s family owns and lives above. Philip’s father tells him that Uncle Alan killed him and he must avenge his death. When Philip realizes that Uncle Alan has designs on his mom and the family pub, Philip decides that something must be done. But it’s a much bigger job than he anticipated, especially when he is caught up by the usual distractions of childhood—a pretty girl, wayward friends, school bullies, and his own self-doubt. The Dead Fathers Club is a riveting, imaginative, and quirky update of Shakespeare’s great tragedy that will establish Matt Haig as a young writer of great talent and imagination.]]>
336 Matt Haig 0670038334 Lee 5 3.20 2006 The Dead Fathers Club
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<![CDATA[The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family]]> 57094309 Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the �60s and �70s. Join award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling child actors.

“What was it like to grow up on TV?� Ron Howard has been asked this question throughout his adult life. In The Boys, he and his younger brother, Clint, examine their childhoods in detail for the first time. For Ron, playing Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days offered fame, joy, and opportunity—but also invited stress and bullying. For Clint, a fast start on such programs as Gentle Ben and Star Trek petered out in adolescence, with some tough consequences and lessons.

With the perspective of time and success—Ron as a filmmaker, producer, and Hollywood A-lister, Clint as a busy character actor—the Howard brothers delve deep into an upbringing that seemed normal to them yet was anything but. Their Midwestern parents, Rance and Jean, moved to California to pursue their own showbiz dreams. But it was their young sons who found steady employment as actors. Rance put aside his ego and ambition to become Ron and Clint’s teacher, sage, and moral compass. Jean became their loving protector—sometimes over-protector—from the snares and traps of Hollywood.

By turns confessional, nostalgic, heartwarming, and harrowing, The Boys is a dual narrative that lifts the lid on the Howard brothers� closely held lives. It’s the journey of a tight four-person family unit that held fast in an unforgiving business and of two brothers who survived “child-actor syndrome� to become fulfilled adults.]]>
393 Ron Howard 006306524X Lee 0 to-read 4.20 2021 The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
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<![CDATA[Merge / Disciple (Crosstown to Oblivion)]]> 13539178 288 Walter Mosley 0765330091 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.46 2012 Merge / Disciple (Crosstown to Oblivion)
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My Detective (Sam Carver, #1) 44416741 Los Angeles is booming. Money is pouring in. Buildings are going up. But someone is killing architects.

Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, Dylan Cross. She has hacked his computer and knows his diaries and secrets. She sees in him a kindred and damaged spirit, a man who can understand her crimes, heal her scars, and love her. Dylan is reclaiming herself from a past of brutal injustices inflicted by a world of misogyny and power. Detective Carver is dealing with his own troubled history-an elusive and violent father.

My Detective is a story of obsession set against vengeance and prayers of forgiveness in a city that is as cruel as it is fantastical. It captures modern Los Angeles in real time, an eerie glide through the imagination, where winds gust high above the San Gabriel Mountains and neighborhoods stretch toward the ocean like the flash and tremor of a dream. The novel speaks to our sense of beauty in a new century and the demons we rouse when we dare to create a new metropolis.

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288 Jeffrey Fleishman 1982517298 Lee 4 3.68 2019 My Detective (Sam Carver, #1)
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average rating: 3.68
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Fairy Tale 60177377 A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors� Choice!

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.

Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

Magnificent, terrifying, and “spellbinding…packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhood, Fairy Tale is vintage King at his finest� (Esquire).

“Good, evil, a kingdom to save, monsters to slay—these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.� —Laura Miller, Slate]]>
537 Stephen King 1668002183 Lee 0 to-read 4.03 2022 Fairy Tale
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<![CDATA[Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists]]> 19483
The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy , The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including The Invention of Solitud e his "breathtaking memoir." ( Financial Times Magazine London )

Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Collected Prose records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).]]>
528 Paul Auster 031242468X Lee 0 to-read 4.04 2003 Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists
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The Story of My Typewriter 50616 72 Paul Auster 1891024329 Lee 0 to-read 3.67 2002 The Story of My Typewriter
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<![CDATA[Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1)]]> 45170691 2020 Midwest Book Awards Mystery/Thriller Winner
Every night John Cabrelli relives the tragic events that ended his career. While struggling to find himself again, John inherits his uncle's cabin and returns to the lake where he spent much of his youth. Little does John know that danger waits for him when he uncovers suspicious circumstances of his uncle's death. Few people will talk about it as John unravels a mystery that could forever change the landscape.

Award-winning author, conservationist, and retired decorated law enforcement officer Jeff Nania weaves a thrilling tale of murder and deceit, family and traditions, redemption and second chances. John Cabrelli’s story continues in book two, Spider Lake: A Northern Lakes Mystery .

C. J. Box, William Kent Krueger, Dana Stabenow, Louise Penny, and Victoria Houston fans love this new mystery series set in Wisconsin’s Northwoods.

"Jeff Nania’s Figure Eight features a spellbinding storyline with more twists and turns than the number in its title. Nania writes with power and precision, humor and grace about land, legacy, loss, love, and the mysteries of (human) nature." � Joel Pace, Ph.D. Professor of English, University of Wisconsin

"Nania presents us with well-developed and at times quirky characters, a fast-paced plot line, and some of the best twists in anything I've read this year." � Valerie Biel, Author]]>
272 Jeff Nania 1942586558 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.90 Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery (John Cabrelli Northern Lakes Mysteries Book 1)
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Godspeed 55595407 'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.'

Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their own small-town construction company, they yearn to build a legacy, something to leave behind to their families. So when Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire lawyer from California, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable project in the mountains above their town, the three friends convince themselves it's the job which will secure their future.

But what is Gretchen hiding from them? And why does the build have to be complete by Christmas, a near-impossible deadline? With the lines between ambition and greed more slippery and dangerous than the three friends ever imagined, how far will they push themselves and what will be the cost of their dream?]]>
352 Nickolas Butler 0571362966 Lee 4 It does get more than a little gnarley, not for the squeamish but I loved the writing. ✍️]]> 3.74 2021 Godspeed
author: Nickolas Butler
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average rating: 3.74
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I bought this book after listening to Nickolas Butler read from it and talk about it. I read it very slowly, wondering when it was going to become “a page turner� and maybe two thirds of the way through, then with one Wild violent scene, it did.
It does get more than a little gnarley, not for the squeamish but I loved the writing. ✍️
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Raft of Stars 54236133 When two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late?

It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer “Fish� Branson and Dale “Bread� Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don’t talk about.

One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.

Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fish’s mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, who’s having doubts about a life in law enforcement.

The adults track the boys toward the novel’s heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.]]>
304 Andrew J. Graff 0063031906 Lee 0 3.69 2021 Raft of Stars
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I loved this book, a Wisconsin story of two ten year olds, on the run through Northern Wisconsin Woods. Shades of Tom and Huck but updated and packed with Action. No need to spoil the story for you, but you may want to have tissues handy, especially during the last couple chapters; although it has a positive ending.
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Avenue of Mysteries 25111109 As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.

As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. “An aura of fate had marked him,� John Irving writes, of Juan Diego. “The chain of events, the links in our lives—what leads us where we’re going, the courses we follow to our ends, what we don’t see coming, and what we do—all this can be mysterious, or simply unseen, or even obvious.�

Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.]]>
460 John Irving 1451664168 Lee 4 3.22 2015 Avenue of Mysteries
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Don't Believe It 36296238 The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history—a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a last, desperate attempt to prove her innocence.

As Sidney begins researching, she uncovers startling evidence overlooked during the original investigation. Before the series even finishes filming, public outcry leads officials to reopen the case. 

Delving into Grace’s past, Sidney peels away layer after layer of deception. But as she edges closer to the real heart of the story, Sidney must decide if finding the truth is worth risking her newfound fame, her career … even her life.]]>
342 Charlie Donlea 149671380X Lee 5 I am now done reading this book and can safely say that the less you know about it, the better. I will say that Dnlea's style is cunning and crafty, suspense abounds throughou, all the way to the satisfying conclusion,
Of course you may be wise not to believe it, read it for yourself.]]>
3.94 2018 Don't Believe It
author: Charlie Donlea
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average rating: 3.94
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This is my first book by Charlie Donlea, and by the end of the first (very short) chapter, I was hooked, I had many questions I needed answers to. I am still only a few chapters in but I am really digging it.
I am now done reading this book and can safely say that the less you know about it, the better. I will say that Dnlea's style is cunning and crafty, suspense abounds throughou, all the way to the satisfying conclusion,
Of course you may be wise not to believe it, read it for yourself.
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The World According to Garp 7069 610 John Irving 0345915593 Lee 0 4.11 1978 The World According to Garp
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Until I Find You 9355 Until I Find You has been marked for life � not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's son, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice � a Toronto tattoo artist � has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.]]> 820 John Irving 0345479726 Lee 3 currently-reading 3.66 2005 Until I Find You
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Last Night in Twisted River 6323821
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River–John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.� From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.

What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”]]>
554 John Irving 1400063841 Lee 0 3.77 2009 Last Night in Twisted River
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<![CDATA[Walter Tevis Sci-Fi Novels: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mockingbird, The Steps of the Sun]]> 39990148 Tevis’s The Man Who Fell to Earth is included in this bundle with
two of the authors other science fiction novels, Mockingbird and The Steps of the Sun . Futuristic settings make the stark, grim
realities of his character’s lives all the more startling.


The Man Who Fell to
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth on
a mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet,
Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and starts
patenting Anthean technology, amassing the fortune he needs to build a
spaceship that will bring the last 300 Anthean survivors to Earth. But
instead of the help he seeks, he finds only self-destruction, sinking into
alcoholism, abandoning his spaceship, and can save neither his people nor
himself.



In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a
handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic,
dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by
electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is
forbidden. And a strange love Spofforth, who runs the world, the
most perfect machine ever created, whose only wish is to die; and Paul and
Mary Lou, a man and a woman whose passion for each other is the only hope
for the future of human beings on earth.


The Steps of the
In a world where America’s power is rapidly being overshadowed by China’s,
only one man has the wealth, resources, and courage to seek the mineral
resources his country needs to reclaim its greatness. Ben Belson, the
richest man in the world, lacks for nothing his wealth can buy—but he is
haunted by the memory of a barren and loveless childhood. When he travels
to the stars in search of the mineral wealth America needs, he finds more
than he bargains for—and gets more than he ever believed was possible.]]>
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<![CDATA[The Hustler (Eddie Felson, #1)]]> 323170 The Hustler was the first—and the best—novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an audience for the movie with the same name starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is about the victories and losses of one "Fast" Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town conning strangers into thinking they could beat him at the game when in fact, he is a skillful player who has never lost a game. Until he meets his match in Minnesota Fats, the true king of the poolroom, causing his life to change drastically. This is a classic tale of a man's struggle with his soul and his self-esteem.]]> 224 Walter Tevis 1560254734 Lee 5 4.07 1959 The Hustler (Eddie Felson, #1)
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average rating: 4.07
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The Man Who Fell to Earth 396329 209 Walter Tevis 0345431618 Lee 4 to-read 4.01 1963 The Man Who Fell to Earth
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average rating: 4.01
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rating: 4
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Mockingbird 323172 288 Walter Tevis 0345431626 Lee 5 4.11 1980 Mockingbird
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rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)]]> 2052
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231 Raymond Chandler 0394758285 Lee 0 to-read 3.96 1939 The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
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The Giant's House 136216 The Giant's House is the magical first novel from the author of the 1994 ALA Notable collection Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry.

The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt--the "over tall" eleven-year-old boy who's the talk of the town--walks into her library and changes her life forever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless they soon find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. In James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever really understood her, and as he grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight--so does her heart and their most singular romance.

The Giant's House is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about learning to welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of choosing to love in a world that gives no promises, and no guarantees.]]>
320 Elizabeth McCracken 0061120162 Lee 0 to-read 3.66 1996 The Giant's House
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Bowlaway 38251249
From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century—nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person—Bertha Truitt is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts. She has no past to speak of, or at least none she is willing to reveal, and her mysterious origin scandalizes and intrigues the townspeople, as does her choice to marry and start a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her. But Bertha is plucky, tenacious, and entrepreneurial, and the bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford’s most defining landmark—with Bertha its most notable resident.

When Bertha dies in a freak accident, her past resurfaces in the form of a heretofore-unheard-of son, who arrives in Salford claiming he is heir apparent to Truitt Alleys. Soon it becomes clear that, even in her death, Bertha’s defining spirit and the implications of her obfuscations live on, infecting and affecting future generations through inheritance battles, murky paternities, and hidden wills.

In a voice laced with insight and her signature sharp humor, Elizabeth McCracken has written an epic family saga set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America. Bowlaway is both a stunning feat of language and a brilliant unraveling of a family’s myths and secrets, its passions and betrayals, and the ties that bind and the rifts that divide. ]]>
384 Elizabeth McCracken 0062862871 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.07 2019 Bowlaway
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<![CDATA[Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2)]]> 53710467 Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump.Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproarious poems and illustrations encompass Trump's impeachment, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and much more. Lithgow targets Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, Bill Barr, Jared Kushner, Elaine Chao, and many others, but also includes a few heroes of the moment, including Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and even Barack Obama.The book arrives at a time when it's needed most. With all-new poems and never-before-seen line drawings, Lithgow will once again make readers laugh and pause to remember some of the most defining moments in recent history—skewering the reign of King Dumpty one stanza at a time.Digital audio edition read by the author.]]> 104 John Lithgow 1797209485 Lee 0 to-read 4.20 2020 Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2)
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average rating: 4.20
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Cry Baby (Tom Thorne, #17) 48637767 Sleepyhead--which the Times voted "one of the 100 books that had shaped the decade"--this compelling novel highlights the case that shaped the career of one of British crime fiction's most iconic characters.]]> 432 Mark Billingham 0802149464 Lee 0 to-read 4.02 2020 Cry Baby (Tom Thorne, #17)
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The Member of the Wedding 330244
The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small-format trade paperback for the first time.

"A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence" (Detroit Free Press), The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best.

An alternate-cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]>
163 Carson McCullers 0618492399 Lee 5 3.82 1946 The Member of the Wedding
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average rating: 3.82
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<![CDATA[The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)]]> 149997 The Member of the Wedding—which became an award-winning play and a major motion picture—showcases McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and best.]]> 144 Carson McCullers 0811216551 Lee 0 to-read 3.73 1951 The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)
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Gone for Good 43930
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother—and himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.]]>
432 Harlan Coben 0440236738 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.08 2002 Gone for Good
author: Harlan Coben
name: Lee
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2002
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I am just about halfway through this book and though I am enjoying the author's style very much, it has been slow-going because the main character is so surrounded by sadness and tragedy. I think he is about to turn the tables and fight back. This is my first book by Coben and will not be my last.
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<![CDATA[Saint Judas (Wesleyan Poetry Program)]]> 1222031 56 James Wright 0819511102 Lee 0 to-read 4.00 1959 Saint Judas (Wesleyan Poetry Program)
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average rating: 4.00
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Missing 3009800 226 Jonathan Valin 0385299664 Lee 0 to-read 3.75 1995 Missing
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<![CDATA[To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel]]> 38359009 â€Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit â€em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.â€�

A portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement.

Now, reborn as a graphic novel. Scout, Jem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in illustrations by artist Fred Fordham.]]>
279 Fred Fordham 0062798189 Lee 0 to-read 4.42 2018 To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel
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The Silent Patient 40097951
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]>
336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Lee 0 to-read 4.17 2019 The Silent Patient
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The Institute 43798285
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good versus evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.
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561 Stephen King Lee 0 to-read 4.17 2019 The Institute
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<![CDATA[The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)]]> 42975172 The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood

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422 Margaret Atwood Lee 0 to-read 4.16 2019 The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
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<![CDATA[I Was Carlos Castaneda: The Afterlife Dialogues]]> 70839 The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Carlos Castaneda comes back from the dead in a true-life spiritual adventure story set in the French Pyrenees, Machu Picchu, the Peruvian Amazon, and the American Southwest.

Four months after his death, the world-renowned writer, anthropologist, and mystic Carlos Castaneda turns up in the French Pyrenees. He meets with writer Martin Goodman. His purpose? To lead Martin beyond the fear of death and the confusions of mortality, and to offer a clearer understanding of the ultimate wisdom -- the wisdom to live the rest of our days in full and conscious harmony with the living earth.

Martin Goodman is a gifted storyteller who has infused I Was Carlos Castaneda with literary verve and humor. When, at their first encounter, an incredulous Goodman confronts Castaneda with reports of his recent death, Castaneda replies wryly, “Details. . . mere details.� And so the story begins.


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240 Martin Goodman 0609807633 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.16 1999 I Was Carlos Castaneda: The Afterlife Dialogues
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<![CDATA[The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)]]> 28568
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation and to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed "the conjurer." As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.]]>
560 Jeffery Deaver 0743437810 Lee 4 currently-reading 4.09 2003 The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)
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average rating: 4.09
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rating: 4
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Rock Springs 26936 Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
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245 Richard Ford 0099448971 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.09 1987 Rock Springs
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<![CDATA[Past Tense (Jack Reacher, #23)]]> 34019122
At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a strange place ... but it's all there is.

The next morning in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place?

So begins another nail-biting, adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That's for damn sure.]]>
382 Lee Child 0399593519 Lee 4 3.95 2018 Past Tense (Jack Reacher, #23)
author: Lee Child
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average rating: 3.95
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I liked Child's last book, The Midnight Line so much that I wanted to see what his follow up was like . It is very different but begins in a familiar way, Reacher is hitchhiking. He decides to go through the town his long dead, father was born in, at the same time another story begins, many miles away. It is how these two stories converge that is a lot of fun here. The previous book had very heavy themes this one is more finding out about Reacher's past family history as he does and good old fashioned suspense, murder and mayhem.
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XO (Kathryn Dance, #3) 12988640 An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781439156377 can be found here

From the international #1 bestselling author--a sensational thriller in which a beautiful young star is stalked by an obsessive fan who thinks her big hit song was written just for him.Kayleigh Towne's music career is just reaching new heights with her huge hit single "Your Shadow"--but increased fame is also bringing unwanted attention. An innocent exchange with one of her fans, signed with an "XO," leads Kayleigh into the dangerous and terrifying realm of obsession.

Edwin Sharp thinks Kayleigh's songs contain messages that speak directly to him. Despite her clear rejection and threats from lawyers and law enforcers, he remains convinced that "Your Shadow" was written just for him, and he announces he's coming for Kayleigh. Then a potentially fatal accident occurs at the concert hall where Kayleigh is rehearsing for a triumphant hometown performance, and she is convinced that someone--maybe Edwin--was there watching her from the darkness.

Speeding along over just three short days, this nail-biting thriller is filled with terrifying twists that will hold readers in rapt suspense until the final shocking revelation.]]>
385 Jeffery Deaver Lee 5 3.75 2012 XO (Kathryn Dance, #3)
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<![CDATA[The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1)]]> 1050383
But the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the crime's mastermind. Indeed, Pell has long been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola superprison to an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent murder -- and to learn more about the depraved mind of this career criminal who considers himself a master of control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they otherwise would never conceive of doing. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell.

But when Dance's plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of dead and injured, she finds herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from simply fleeing, Pell turns on his pursuers --and other innocents -- for reasons Dance and her colleagues can't discern. As the idyllic Monterey Peninsula is paralyzed by the elusive killer, Dance turns to the past to find the truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the now teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again?]]>
448 Jeffery Deaver 034083384X Lee 0 to-read 3.94 2007 The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)]]> 33378951 So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness.

The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.

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368 Lee Child 0399593489 Lee 4 3.95 2017 The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
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Shotgun Lovesongs 17934521
Now all four are home, in hopes of finding what could be real purchase in the world. The result is a shared memory only half-recreated, riddled with culture clashes between people who desperately wish to see themselves as the unified tribe they remember, but are confronted with how things have, in fact, changed.

There is conflict here between longtime buddies, between husbands and wives � told with writing that is, frankly, gut-wrenching, and even heartbreaking. But there is also hope, healing, and at times, even heroism. It is strong, American stuff, not at all afraid of showing that we can be good, too � not just fallible and compromising. Shotgun Lovesongs is a remarkable and uncompromising saga that explores the age-old question of whether or not you can ever truly come home again � and the kind of steely faith and love returning requires.]]>
307 Nickolas Butler 1250039819 Lee 4 3.77 2014 Shotgun Lovesongs
author: Nickolas Butler
name: Lee
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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I purchased a copy of Little Faith at the Untiled Town Book Festival in Green Bay and read it quickly, loved it so much I went right to the Library and checked out Butler's debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs. I loved the fact that Lee was a main character, I also loved that he was based on Bon Iver who's music became the soundtrack for reading the book. I see no need to get into describing the plot since many other reader's here have done that. I liked the writing very much, the choice to have each chapter narrated by a different character. Having been born and raised in Wisconsin then living in California twenty four years and returning. I felt a kinship with Lee as a character, and the setting seemed spot on. It is a story about friendship tested by life's twists and turns, moving and full of hope!
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The Outsider 36124936
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]>
561 Stephen King 1501180983 Lee 0 to-read 3.98 2018 The Outsider
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<![CDATA[Gone... But Not Missed (Nathan Miccoli, #1)]]> 20320958 308 A.R. Kennedy Lee 4 4.10 2013 Gone... But Not Missed (Nathan Miccoli, #1)
author: A.R. Kennedy
name: Lee
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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This was a really fun read! It is the first in a series so I am excited to go on to the next one. The story is told in very clever ways which allows the suspense to build to page-turner strength. No spoilers here, I have to go read the next me.
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Norse Mythology 39673345 Introducing an instant classic—master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.

Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly reincarnating Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, the son of giants, a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. From Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerges the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to dupe others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HQA6EOC here.]]>
232 Neil Gaiman 0393609103 Lee 0 to-read 4.19 2017 Norse Mythology
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Infinite Jest 7495987 Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.]]>
1079 David Foster Wallace Lee 0 to-read 3.98 1996 Infinite Jest
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Little Faith 38899726 In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church 

Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come home. But while Lyle is thrilled to have his whole family reunited, he’s also uneasy: in Shiloh’s absence, she has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is convinced Isaac has the spiritual ability to heal the sick.

While reckoning with his own faith—or lack thereof—Lyle soon finds himself torn between his unease about the church and his desire to keep his daughter and grandson in his life. But when the church’s radical belief system threatens Isaac’s safety, Lyle is forced to make a decision from which the family may not recover.  

Set over the course of one year and beautifully evoking the change of seasons, Little Faith is a powerful and deeply affecting intergenerational novel about family and community, the ways in which belief is both formed and shaken, and the lengths we go to protect our own.]]>
336 Nickolas Butler 0062469738 Lee 5 3.82 2019 Little Faith
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average rating: 3.82
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I just finished this book which I purchased at Untitled Town, the Writers/Readers Festival in Green Bay. Nickolas Butler read the first chapter to us and I knew I would love it. He captures life in rural Wisconsin and the way our lives change with the seasons. No plot spoilers here; just go read it!
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Tony and the Beetles 17206349 It looked like a nice day. The landscape outside was motionless, undisturbed by winds or dust-shift. The boy's heart pounded excitedly. He pulled his trousers on, zipped up the reinforced mesh, struggled into his heavy canvas shirt, and then sat down on the edge of the cot to tug on his boots. He closed the seams around their tops and then did the same with his gloves. Next he adjusted the pressure on his pump unit and strapped it between his shoulder blades. He grabbed his helmet from the dresser, and he was ready for the day.
In the dining-compartment his mother and father had finished breakfast. Their voices drifted to him as he clattered down the ramp. A disturbed murmur; he paused to listen. What were they talking about? Had he done something wrong, again?]]>
25 Philip K. Dick Lee 0 to-read 3.46 1953 Tony and the Beetles
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he 35524168 An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved, and was loved in turn; who betrayed, and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others, yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake . . .

And whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership with the man he knew as Babe.

he is Stan Laurel.
But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction.

With he, John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity, the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists, and one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel &Hardy.

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453 John Connolly 1473663628 Lee 4 I will let you know more after I finish.]]> 3.95 2017 he
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I am only in the first third of this book, taking my time because I love it so much (plus, I am a slow reader). But I do love it. It tells the story of Stan Laural and Oliver Hardy (Babe) beginning after Babe' death. It also tells of the history of Vaudeville, Burlesque and movies.
I will let you know more after I finish.
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<![CDATA[As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride]]> 22892103 The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.

The Princess Bride has been a family favorite for close to three decades. Ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the top 100 Greatest Love Stories and by the Writers Guild of America as one of the top 100 screenplays of all time, The Princess Bride will continue to resonate with audiences for years to come.

Cary Elwes was inspired to share his memories and give fans an unprecedented look into the creation of the film while participating in the twenty-fifth anniversary cast reunion. In As You Wish he has created an enchanting experience; in addition to interviews with his fellow cast mates, there are plenty of set secrets and backstage stories.

With a foreword by Rob Reiner, As You Wish is a must-have for all fans of this beloved film.]]>
7 Cary Elwes 1442383453 Lee 5 I enjoyed it so much. I listened to it twice in a row. It was like hanging out with the cast and crew. I want to check out the book as well but this one of the most fun audio-books I have listened to.]]> 4.30 2014 As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
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If you are a big fan of Princess Bride, the Movie and the Novel, you may love this book, or the recorded book which is what I pursued first. The author is a major narrator but you here stories from most of the actors, including Andre The Giant, voiced by someone who sounds like him since he passed away a while ago., and Rob Reiner plus William Goldman, the author of the book.
I enjoyed it so much. I listened to it twice in a row. It was like hanging out with the cast and crew. I want to check out the book as well but this one of the most fun audio-books I have listened to.
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4�3�2� 31206832 Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster’s greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking novel--a sweeping and surprising story of inheritance, family, love and life itself.

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From one aunts- and unclesfilled beginning, Ferguson will take four paths, find his way from four outlooks, live four entirely different lives. And listeners will take in his pleasures and ache from the losses in each life as each precious, mortal plot rushes on.

As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism —and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to life itself—that listeners have never seen from Auster before. 4321 is gorgeous, epic, affecting and resplendent, an epic.]]>
880 Paul Auster 1627794476 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.94 2017 4 3 2 1
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The New York Trilogy 6553369 The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels � from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel

The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster's work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.� Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.

This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]>
390 Paul Auster 1101199318 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.85 1987 The New York Trilogy
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<![CDATA[Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years]]> 33640253 Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years � and charts a path forward in the age of Trump

More than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young people � twenty-somethings who didn’t have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter), yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those twenty-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011, he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Until leaving the White House in 2016, he wrote on topics from healthcare to climate change to criminal justice reform. As President Obama’s go-to comedy writer, he also took the lead on the White House Correspondents� Dinner, the so-called “State of the Union of jokes.�

Now, in this refreshingly honest memoir, Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. With a humorists� eye for detail, he describes what it’s like to accidentally trigger an international incident or nearly set a president’s hair aflame. He answers questions you never knew you had: Which White House men’s room is the classiest? What do you do when the commander in chief gets your name wrong? Where should you never, under any circumstances, change clothes on Air Force One? With nearly a decade of stories to tell, Litt makes clear that politics is completely, hopelessly absurd.   

But it’s also important. For all the moments of chaos, frustration, and yes, disillusionment, Litt remains a believer in the words that first drew him to the Obama campaign: “People who love this country can change it.� In telling his own story, Litt sheds fresh light on his former boss’s legacy. And he argues that, despite the current political climate, the politics championed by Barack Obama will outlive the presidency of Donald Trump.

Full of hilarious stories and told in a truly original voice, Thanks, Obama is an exciting debut about what it means � personally, professionally, and politically � to grow up.]]>
320 David Litt 0062568469 Lee 0 to-read 4.05 2017 Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
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Fair Game 17831304 13 Philip K. Dick Lee 0 to-read 3.43 1959 Fair Game
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret 9673436 534 Brian Selznick Lee 0 currently-reading 4.22 2007 The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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<![CDATA[Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions]]> 35167728

His 1969 story "The Babysitter" has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of his best stories, spanning more than half a century, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe.


While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, long dead, disrupting them from within, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works. He uses metafiction as a means of “interrogating the fiction making process,� at least insofar as that process, when unexamined, has a way of entrapping us in false and destructive stories, myths, and belief systems. These stories are riven with paradox, ambivalence, strangeness, unrealized ambitions and desires, uncertainty, complexity, always seeking the potential for insight, for comedy.


Through their celebration of the improbable and unexpected, and their distinctive but complementary grammars of text and film, Coover’s selected short fictions entertain by engaging with the tribal myths that surround us—religious, patriotic, literary, erotic, popular—often satirizing the mindsets that, out of some obscure primitive need, perpetuate them. The thirty stories in Going for a Beer confirm Coover’s reputation as "one of America’s greatest literary geniuses" (Alan Moore).]]>
432 Robert Coover 0393608468 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.00 2018 Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions
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Huck Out West 35167717 Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer “light out for the Territory� to avoid “sivilization.� In Robert Coover’s vision of their Western adventures, Huck and Tom start by joining the famous but short-lived Pony Express. Tom becomes something of a hero and decides he’d rather own civilization than escape it, returning east to get a wife and a law degree. But Huck stays alone in the Territory; he guides wagon trains, scouts for both sides in the war, wrangles horses on a Chisholm Trail cattle drive, joins a bandit gang, finds an ill-fated pal in an army fort and another in a Lakota Sioux tribe, and eventually finds himself in the Black Hills just ahead of the 1876 Gold Rush. In the course of his adventures, Huck reunites with Tom, Jim, and Becky Thatcher and faces some hard truths and harder choices.]]> 320 Robert Coover 0393355497 Lee 0 to-read 3.71 2017 Huck Out West
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<![CDATA[The Prison Diaries (A Scottish Thriller)]]> 23803202
Once Wayne begins his job as a prison officer at the only private jail in Scotland, he realises during the training process that it's not the correct career path for him. And starting on the infamous H Wing, which consists of protected prisoners and days of witnessing constant violence, begins to discourage him.

His lack of appetite for the job increases as his relationship with the Gang of Three on the wing becomes hostile, and the arrival of psychopath Alan 'Cutter' Drake only adds to his consternation.

After a hostage situation, and the arrival of drug baron, Tam Boyd, Wayne realises that the jail has finally become too ugly for him, and with his broken marriage, he begins to lose control. He realises that the violence from the prisoners and the officers in the prison is a world he's desperate to escape from.

But will the unpopular officer leave unmarked?


This book contains strong language, violence, and is not for persons under the age of 18.]]>
265 Shaun Whittington Lee 0 to-read 3.94 2014 The Prison Diaries (A Scottish Thriller)
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<![CDATA[The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]]> 17404078 The Room, “the Citizen Kane of bad movies� (Entertainment Weekly).

In 2003, an independent film called The Room—written, produced, directed, and starring a very rich social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,� the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Now in its tenth anniversary year, The Room is an international phenomenon to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons.

Readers need not have seen The Room to appreciate its costar Greg Sestero’s account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and interpersonal relationships to achieve the dream only he could love. While it does unravel mysteries for fans, The Disaster Artist is more than just an hilarious story about cinematic hubris: It is ultimately a surprisingly inspiring tour de force that reads like a page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of a supremely enigmatic man who will capture your heart.]]>
270 Greg Sestero 1451661193 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.26 2013 The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
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<![CDATA[Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread]]> 22822857
Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club.

Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk. They have all the impact of a sharp blow to the solar plexus, with considerable collateral damage to the funny bone.]]>
318 Chuck Palahniuk 0385538057 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.51 2015 Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
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<![CDATA[Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002]]> 32498038
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences.

Now, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is the story of how a drug-abusing dropout with a weakness for the International House of Pancakes and a chronic inability to hold down a real job became one of the funniest people on the planet.

Written with a sharp eye and ear for the bizarre, the beautiful, and the uncomfortable, and with a generosity of spirit that even a misanthropic sense of humor can't fully disguise, Theft By Finding proves that Sedaris is one of our great modern observers. It's a potent reminder that when you're as perceptive and curious as Sedaris, there's no such thing as a boring day.]]>
514 David Sedaris 0316154725 Lee 4 3.94 2017 Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
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Telegraph Avenue 10756240
When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complication to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own, Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.]]>
465 Michael Chabon 0061493341 Lee 0 to-read 3.38 2012 Telegraph Avenue
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<![CDATA[Might as Well Be Dead (Nero Wolfe, #27)]]> 2008927 154 Rex Stout 0553029525 Lee 0 to-read 4.09 1956 Might as Well Be Dead (Nero Wolfe, #27)
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Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure 20670606 30 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1481202480 Lee 0 to-read 3.35 1837 Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
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<![CDATA[The Sign of the Beast (Kindle Single)]]> 36642856
Eleven-year-old Howard was born with a birthmark on his cheek. His Sunday school teacher mockingly calls it the “sign of the beast.� Too hateful to be named, for Howard she is only Mrs. S—�. And she’s as careless in causing him misery as she is willful in arousing his shame. All Howard can do is look away—until he realizes he can turn the aggression on its head. When the hunted becomes the hunter, what will happen next?]]>
40 Joyce Carol Oates 1503956660 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.19 2018 The Sign of the Beast (Kindle Single)
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<![CDATA[Beer Lover's Wisconsin: Best Breweries, Brewpubs and Beer Bars (Beer Lovers Series)]]> 36520472 233 Kathy Flanigan 1493027948 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.00 Beer Lover's Wisconsin: Best Breweries, Brewpubs and Beer Bars (Beer Lovers Series)
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A Man Called Ove 20492604 here.

At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.

But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?

In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible . . .]]>
353 Fredrik Backman Lee 0 currently-reading 4.50 2012 A Man Called Ove
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<![CDATA[Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights]]> 24991544 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.


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275 Salman Rushdie 0812998928 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.64 2015 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol 34275234 A novel that reimagines the story behind Charles Dickens' Christmas classic Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them all from financial ruin, he refuses. And a serious bout of writer’s block sets in. Frazzled and filled with self-doubt, Dickens seeks solace in his great palace of thinking, the city of London itself. On one of his long night walks, in a once-beloved square, he meets the mysterious Eleanor Lovejoy, who might be just the muse he needs. As Dickens� deadlines close in, Eleanor propels him on a Scrooge-like journey that tests everything he believes about generosity, friendship, ambition, and love. The story he writes will change Christmas forever.]]> 271 Samantha Silva 1250154049 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.73 2017 Mr. Dickens and His Carol
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<![CDATA[Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)]]> 16363
With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: â€You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?â€� Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met.]]>
303 Agatha Christie 0007119356 Lee 0 3.87 1938 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
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This is one great mystery! I like the way it is told, very much. Two parts which are truly different tell the story. No spoilers here, it was so fun and had a surprising, ( to me ) ending.
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Rebecca 12873 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers...

Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.]]>
428 Daphne du Maurier 1844080382 Lee 0 to-read 4.19 1938 Rebecca
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<![CDATA[Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories]]> 11437
'Where I'm Calling From', his last collection, encompasses classic stories from 'Cathedral', 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previosly unpublished in book form.

Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.]]>
544 Raymond Carver 0679722319 Lee 4 currently-reading 4.43 1988 Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
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Personal (Jack Reacher, #19) 20263040 You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher—and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA.

Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott—an American marksman gone bad—is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.

If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they’re facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses—and no backup if they’re caught. All the while Reacher can’t stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won’t let that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice.

Reacher never gets too close. But now a killer is making it personal.

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353 Lee Child 0804178747 Lee 4 3.89 2014 Personal (Jack Reacher, #19)
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The Great Gatsby 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]>
180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 Lee 5 3.93 1925 The Great Gatsby
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<![CDATA[Through a Glass, Darkly (Dr. Basil Willing #8)]]> 10053363 208 Helen McCloy Lee 4 Somewhere near the end I thought, "this is going to be difficult to resolve satisfactorily, and indeed it was. I was a bit sissapointed by the ending but I found the overall tale and the way in which it was told to be immensly satisfying. This is the first Helen McCloy novel I have read and I am sure it will not be my last. ]]> 3.88 1950 Through a Glass, Darkly (Dr. Basil Willing #8)
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I have read a good amount of "Murder Mysteries" and this one is the most mysterious by far. The strory begins at an all girl's school where a young teacher, Faustina (whose very name conjurs up dealings with Satan himself,) is being let go for reasons not disclosed to her or to the reader. We do see that some of the girls look at her in "horror" when she passes them. Even before any real crime has happened I was in suspense, which lasted all the way to the end. The investigator does not even appear until over a third of the way through the novel. He is a psychiatrist named Basil Willing, a friend of another teacher at the school who ahe calls to look into things, before any real crime has been perpetrated. At the center of the story is the supernatural phenomenon of the doppelganger, aomething I have been fascinated with for a long time.
Somewhere near the end I thought, "this is going to be difficult to resolve satisfactorily, and indeed it was. I was a bit sissapointed by the ending but I found the overall tale and the way in which it was told to be immensly satisfying. This is the first Helen McCloy novel I have read and I am sure it will not be my last.
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The Quick and the Dead 1943562
Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents--from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum--accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old--the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny.

A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career.]]>
308 Joy Williams 067944646X Lee 5 currently-reading 3.70 2000 The Quick and the Dead
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Bark 18050057 These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom.

In “Debarking,� a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see—in all its irresistible wit and darkness—the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake . . .

In “Foes,� a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest themselves at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown . . . In “The Juniper Tree,� a teacher visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend is forced to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner� in a kind of nightmare reunion . . . And in “Wings,� we watch the inevitable unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, neither of whom held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths, as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead-ends-ville and the workings of regret . . .

Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection . . . stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation—to someone . . .

Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud—the hallmark of life in Lorrie-Moore-land.
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192 Lorrie Moore 0307594130 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.61 2014 Bark
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<![CDATA[Looking For The King: An Inklings Novel]]> 17300292
Tom discovers that Laura has been having mysterious dreams, which seem to be related to the subject of his research, and, though doubtful of her visions, he hires her as an assistant. Heeding the insights and advice of the Inklings, while becoming aware of being shadowed by powerful and secretive foes who would claim the spear as their own, Tom and Laura end up on a thrilling treasure hunt that crisscrosses the English countryside and leads beyond a search for the elusive relics of Camelot into the depths of the human heart and soul.

Weaving his fast-paced narrative with conversation based on the works of the Inklings, author David Downing offers a vivid portrait of Oxford and draws a welcome glimpse into the personalities and ideas of Lewis and Tolkien, while never losing sight of his action-packed adventure story and its two very appealing main characters.]]>
250 David C. Downing 1586174347 Lee 4 3.57 2010 Looking For The King: An Inklings Novel
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average rating: 3.57
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rating: 4
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Garden of Beasts 310745
The instant Paul sets foot in Berlin his mission becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, with danger and betrayal lurking at every turn. For the next forty-eight hours, as the city prepares for the coming summer Olympics, Schumann stalks Ernst, while a dogged criminal police officer and the entire Third Reich security apparatus search frantically for the American. Packed with fascinating period detail and featuring a cast of perfectly realized local characters, Olympic athletes, and senior Nazi officials—some real, some fictional—Garden of Beasts dishes up breathtaking action, a wrenching look at Nazi-era Berlin, and a series of stunning plot twists. It is classic Deaver. (And there is also a slight Lincoln Rhyme connection for the discerning reader to find.)]]>
515 Jeffery Deaver 0340734558 Lee 4 currently-reading 3.86 2004 Garden of Beasts
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average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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A Child Again 156193 276 Robert Coover 1932416226 Lee 4 currently-reading I loved the First story, about Puff The Magic Dragon, which used the wrds of a well known song to craft a world of wonder that I had spent much of my own imagination wondering about.
The same with The Invisible man; who hasn't imagined what it woulld really be like to be invisible.
I love Coover's style and imagination.
I keep ths book at hand to give my i agination an out when reality gets too real. Each story a different magic carpet for my mind.]]>
3.81 2005 A Child Again
author: Robert Coover
name: Lee
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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I just picked this little book up from the Attic, mostly because it looked so cool and deals with classic stories and characters of Cildren's Literature whch, as a storyteller I have an active interest in. It also came with 15 large cards, that tell the story of the Kng Of Hearts trying to find the culpret who stole his tarts. The cards represent thirteen members of the court and can be shuffled and read in any order as long as the top card is first and the last is the Joker. I am an avid card collecter, usually tarot cards but these are very cool. It is like getting an extra story or thirteen. McSweeny's Books is the publisher, the company started by Dave Eggers, that often puts out fun and unusual volumes. Now, to read!
I loved the First story, about Puff The Magic Dragon, which used the wrds of a well known song to craft a world of wonder that I had spent much of my own imagination wondering about.
The same with The Invisible man; who hasn't imagined what it woulld really be like to be invisible.
I love Coover's style and imagination.
I keep ths book at hand to give my i agination an out when reality gets too real. Each story a different magic carpet for my mind.
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<![CDATA[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]> 162898
Written in 1889, Mark 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' is one of literature's first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.

While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain's later works can be discerned in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ' the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.]]>
480 Mark Twain Lee 5 currently-reading 3.80 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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average rating: 3.80
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<![CDATA[The Adventures of Lucky Pierre]]> 774785
This vision of a sexualized universe is unique in that social power (and the power to direct, rather than merely appear in, these sex-films) belongs entirely to women. Each chapter (or “reel�) of the book is headed with the name of one of nine women (so, in reality, they are muses, but they are also the artists), and each bears her aesthetic stamp—whether the dominatrix mayor, the experimental avant-garde filmmaker, the ribald cartoonist who “reanimates� him with her pen when he has been left by the mayor in a snowbank to freeze, the wife who makes tender home sex movies, etc. Lucky Pierre himself seems to have no free will, indeed, no existence outside his films. He is commanded by these women, and by the overwhelming impulses of his prodigiously endowed organ.

The book is a collection of fantasies—a man entering his office instantly begins acrobatically copulating with the receptionist on her desk; a piano teacher administers discipline to his nubile young female students; a castaway discovered by the Nine Muses, who have never seen a man before and quickly begin to test his unfamiliar parts; an engagement party turns into a frenzied bacchanal; a wedding into a sadomasochistic ritual and then a chase scene. But satisfaction is complicated. Pierre is often made ridiculous, a clown as much as a leading man, and always, everything that happens to him is seen; there is no part of his life that is not, potentially, a film. Several times, he attempts to escape, but he is always recaptured and punished—or his “escape� is proven never to be real in the first place. For example, he joins up with the Extars, a guerrilla group of squatters who adopt him as “Crazy Leg,� their leader; with them, in particular Lottie, their young leading lady, he rediscovers the vivid joys of life as a sexual outlaw—including copulating with her on the trapeze of a circus. But he can never escape the tentacles of the mayor and the “legit� industry of Cinecity. Later he is offered the chance to rejoin the Extars, his internalization of his new status won’t allow it—if it was ever a real choice.

Are these Pierre’s fantasies? But in a world in which he does not own his own life or his body, where the past can be rewritten as easily as the dialogue can be faked in a redub of one of his scenes, his thoughts are not even his own. Even so, L.P. continues his perhaps futile attempts to define his own destiny. In the end, grown old and decrepit, he learns his next film is titled “The Final Fuck”—i.e., it’s the end of his career. Morose and attempting to avoid the inevitable, he flees to a showing of his own work, which ends up leading him, now resigned to his fate, back to the soundstage—where, in the end, he rediscovers ecstasy, and the closure of his destiny.]]>
416 Robert Coover 0802140416 Lee 0 to-read 3.80 2002 The Adventures of Lucky Pierre
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<![CDATA[Lysistrata (Original Translation/Adaptation)]]> 19285424 116 Aristophanes Lee 0 3.89 -423 Lysistrata (Original Translation/Adaptation)
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Lilith 268187 Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation.

After he followed the old man through the mirror, nothing in his life was ever right again. It was a special mirror and the man he followed was a special man - a man who led him to the things that underlie the fate of all creation. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all.]]>
226 George MacDonald 1587159260 Lee 0 currently-reading 3.91 1895 Lilith
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A Prayer for Owen Meany 2238280
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire; one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. The boy who hit the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen - after that 1953 foul ball - is extraordinary and terrifying.
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543 John Irving 0688077080 Lee 0 currently-reading 4.24 1989 A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Timbuktu 449
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181 Paul Auster 0312263996 Lee 0 I highly reccomend this book to anyone interested in dogs and their connection to humans!]]> 3.73 1999 Timbuktu
author: Paul Auster
name: Lee
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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I have been thinking about this book for a while after reading it. The temptation when telling someone about it is to say, "It is a great book about a dog", which it is but it is not another dog-book. Auster is one of my favorite authors, who at times, can be difficult to read but Timbuctu is fun and accessable. It is a fairly short read so I think it would take away your enjoyment to describe the plot of n any detail or even to explain the significance of the title. I will just say that Mr. Bones, the dog and his first owner Willy G. Christmas are two of the most interesting, and emathetic characters I have run across.
I highly reccomend this book to anyone interested in dogs and their connection to humans!
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 2301727 The Commitments, hailed by critics as the freshest and funniest first novel in years. Now, in his latest novel, a number-one best-seller in England and Ireland, Doyle takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of a young boy trying to make sense of his world.

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves George Best, Geronimo, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He hates zoos, kissing, and the boys from the Corporation houses. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. He wants to be a missionary like Father Damien, and he coerces the McCarthy twins and Willy Hancock into playing lepers. He never picks the scabs off his knees before they're ready.

Kevin is his best friend. Their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, knickknack, jumping to the bottom of the sea. They shoplift. Robbing Football Monthly means four million years in purgatory. But a good confession before you died and you'd go straight to heaven.

Paddy wants to know why no one jumped in for him when Charles Leavy had been going to kill him. He wants to stop his da arguing with his ma. He's confused: he sees everything, but he understands less and less.

Witty and poignant, earthy and exuberant, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the triumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of a young boy and his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, and slaps across the face.]]>
282 Roddy Doyle 0670853453 Lee 5 currently-reading 3.62 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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<![CDATA[The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6)]]> 106312
Assisted by Fred Dellray, Mel Cooper and Lon Sellitto (suffering from a severe case of shattered nerves due to a near miss by the killer), Rhyme and partner Amelia Sachs work frantically to learn who the hit man and his partner are and when they will strike next, all the while trying to crack a very “cold� case: Rhyme believes that Geneva may have been targeted because of a paper she’s writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave who was instrumental in the civil rights movement in the 1860s, but who was arrested for theft and disgraced.

In his correspondence Charles wrote about a “secret,� that could have tragic consequences if revealed. This secret, which Rhyme is convinced will provide the key to why Geneva is in danger, revolves around some mysterious doings in the area known as Gallows Heights, a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that in the 1860s was a tense mix of wealthy financiers, civil rights leaders, political crooks like Boss Tweed, and working-class laborers and thugs. What was the truth behind the crime Charles was accused of? And what was his secret? Does it have to do with stolen gold? Or does it have a far broader implications?]]>
816 Jeffery Deaver 0739455834 Lee 4 I will never tell!]]> 3.99 2005 The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6)
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average rating: 3.99
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This was another very good Lincoln Rhymes novel, centered around a young African American girl who some one attempts to kill in a library. Who is she? Why does someone want her dead? What is the meaning of the Hanged Man Tarot Card found at the scene?
I will never tell!
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<![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]> 2247142
It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.� Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.

“Sinister and strangely alluring,� (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.]]>
271 Patricia Highsmith Lee 4 3.96 1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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Magnificat - A Christmas Play 24865999
Welcome to “Magnificat�, a 1.5 to 2 hour Christmas Play designed for 9 actors, an open stage, an inconsistent budget and an audience willing to be surprised, laugh, think (a little) and be entertained at the best time of the church year.]]>
41 Neil Jeyasingam Lee 0 currently-reading 0.0 2013 Magnificat - A Christmas Play
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Lost Horizon 13637810
It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled.]]>
158 James Hilton Lee 5 4.21 1933 Lost Horizon
author: James Hilton
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 1933
rating: 5
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This is a fantastic adventure which explores the effects of War on young men, and what it means to be a hero. I read it and listened to it, both experiences were fun!
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<![CDATA[The Hustler (Eddie Felson, #1)]]> 23316508
Hustling suckers in small towns for good stake money was practice for his goal, and when he felt ready he went to Bennington’s pool hall in Chicago to find Minnesota Fats. Eddie and Fats pit nerve against skill in a fantastic match over an unbroken thirty-six hours. Eddie’s final painful loss teaches him that nerve alone isn’t enough—guts, stamina, and character make the difference between winners and losers.

It takes an interlude with Sarah, an alcoholic and a born loser, to bring the lesson home, and the shrewd advice and backing of Bert, a professional gambler, to put it into practice. Bert knows talent without character is nothing and stakes Eddie to a climactic all-or-nothing rematch. When it is over, Eddie knows a great deal more about big-time pool, about money, and about himself. In beating Fats he became the best in the country.

"A fine, swift, wanton, offbeat novel." —The New York Times

The basis for a major motion picture starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, this landmark novel packs plenty of action, romance, and suspense.]]>
204 Walter Tevis 0795342993 Lee 0 A Great Book Alone, Even Better with The Color of Money

I happened upon a copy of The Color Of Money, the follow up to The Hustler, at my local used-book store and when I had finished I had to read The Hustler. Tevis writes "lean and mean" like the character of Fast Eddie Felson. I loved the descriptions of the game of pool and of Eddy's thoughts. Minnesota Fats, especially in Money is also a classic character. I am now on to The Man Who Fell To Earth, another Tevis classic.]]>
4.15 1959 The Hustler (Eddie Felson, #1)
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A Great Book Alone, Even Better with The Color of Money

I happened upon a copy of The Color Of Money, the follow up to The Hustler, at my local used-book store and when I had finished I had to read The Hustler. Tevis writes "lean and mean" like the character of Fast Eddie Felson. I loved the descriptions of the game of pool and of Eddy's thoughts. Minnesota Fats, especially in Money is also a classic character. I am now on to The Man Who Fell To Earth, another Tevis classic.
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Lost Horizon: A Novel 1541570 191 James Hilton 0895773619 Lee 0 3.99 1933 Lost Horizon: A Novel
author: James Hilton
name: Lee
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1933
rating: 0
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I picked up this book because I was playing Uncle Willie, in The Philadelphia Story which is set in the same time period. I found this illustrated edition at the used book store downstairs. It was a Jolly good read. It is a great yarn but underneath it all is a meditation about war and what it does to it's "heroes.". I also listened to it which was fun as well.
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