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The Lover

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The Lover By Marguerite Duras Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780375700521
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Published: Pantheon - September 8th, 1998

The Lover is stunningly beautiful in its simplicity. Set in pre-war Indochina, Duras tells the seemingly banal story of a young French girl and her Chinese lover. However, impregnated with the larger themes of colonialism, race, and poverty, The Lover is a sensuous treatise on what it means to love beyond reason. This is a novel I return to again and again with the same rapture and anticipation that I felt when reading it for the first time. ~ Reviewed by Cheryl Cornwell


Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - Book Review

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Black Swan Green: A Novel By David Mitchell Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812974010
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 27th, 2007

A beautifully rendered coming of age novel filled with Mitchell's brilliant wit. One of the most endearingly rendered novels I have read recently. Highly recommended. ~ Reviewed by Cheryl Cornwell


The Know-It-All

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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World By A. J. Jacobs Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780743250627
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 10th, 2005

33,000 pages, 44 million words, one man just crazy and driven enough to read them all. From "a-ak" defined as, "see gagaku" to "zywiec", A.J.Jacobs chronicles his quest to read every volume in the encycolpedia Britannica. Driven by a need to be accepted by Mensa and a desire to become the smartest man in the world, Jacobs relentlessly chronicles his journey through the lives, loves, and secrets of people throughout the history of time. All matter of obstacles befall our hero as he battles the perils invlolved in reading the encyclopedia (size and weight for starters). At one point he is prevented from competing on Jeopardy by a mere technicality--an amusing little anecdote really. This book is all around a fun read. Jacobs proves that reading the encycolpedia can be fun and entertaining even to the greatest skeptic ~ Reviewed by Cheryl Cornwell


Garlic and Sapphires

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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise By Ruth Reichl Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780143036616
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Published: Penguin Books - March 28th, 2006

Garlic and Sapphires is as funny and endearing as it is delicious. Reichl uses a perfect blend of wit, anecdote, and recipes to make this a highly entertaining read. Food lovers and food critics alike will enjoy Reichl's rich use of language and brutal honesty when it comes to culinary endeavors. ~ Reviewed by Cheryl Cornwell


Truth & Beauty

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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship By Ann Patchett Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780060572150
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Published: Harper Perennial - May 9th, 2023

Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett is a touching memoir that explores the depths of friendship, human suffering, and a love between friends that can eclipse all else. Patchett plumbs the depths of her innermost emotions and struggles to come to terms with the fact that you can't always save the ones you love from circumstances or themselves. ~ Reviewed by Cheryl Cornwell


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