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A Bird in the House: Stories (Phoenix Fiction Series)by...Margaret Laurence rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...1930s canada childs_pov connected stories entry...'A series of related stories that combined together = anovel. They are told from the viewpoint of 6 year old Vanessa who describes herself as a "professional listener". ...' view |
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A Southern Familyby...Gail Godwin rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...family life modernus_south relationships entry...'A novel on the grand scale. unforgettable scenes & characters. It brought tears & laughter & my daughters read & enjoyed it. ...' view |
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A Thousand Acres: A Novelby...Jane Smiley rating...5 shelf...have readtags...family_life farm_ life_iowa_fiction relationships sisters viewable entries...none |
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After This: A Novelby...Alice McDermott rating...5 shelf...have readtags...family_life fiction us_post ww2 entry...'A typical family story of a woman who meets a man recently returned from WW2. They marry & have 4 children. What happens during their lives together is ...' view |
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Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)by...Wallace Stegner rating...5 shelf...have readtags...engineers history montana pioneers relationships westernus entry...'The angle of repose is a term used in geology to determine the place where an object stops moving & becomes stationary. In his novel, Wallace Stegner uses the ...' view |
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Animal Dreamsby...Barbara Kingsolver rating...5 shelf...have readtags...arizona central_america family_relationships fiction grief love entry...'This novel is told with alternating points of view between a father & daughter. The daughter becomes with a young man from the Hopi Pueblo. Another daughter volunteers ...' view |
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Beauty: A Friendshipby...Ann Patchett rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...friendships illness memoir women writers entry...'Although we know at the beginning how this book is going to end, Ann Patchett has drawn us so deeply into the story of her friendship with poet & writer ...' view |
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Charming Billyby...Alice Mcdermott rating...5 shelf...have readtags...family irish_in_usa life novel entry...'Charming Billy is a novel about family life in the Irish-American neighborhood in Long Island NY. The title character is, indeed, charming but to say more would give away ...' view |
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Cold Mountain: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)by...Charles Frazier rating...5 shelf...favouritetags...none entry...'A war novel told without any battle scenes. Instead the author shows the human side of war -- the hourly struggle for existance, the loss of trust, the greed ...' view |
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Gardenby...Diane Ackerman rating...5 shelf...have readtags...gardening nature northeastus seasons entry...'Along with delight, Diane Ackerman cultivates annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, a Zen gaden, a poolside garden, gardens in full sun, gardens in shade. She takes us through the seasons, ...' view |
