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by a retired librarian Frank Bascomb is the most humane character I have encountered in a long time. The Lay of the Land is a fabulous book - funny, human, real. The characters are multi-faceted and knowable. Frank's humanity is so appealing, his daily dealing with his cancer so recognizable and heart-breaking, his relationships with his children (including his dead child who is still alive to him) so familiar, exasperating and touching. The greatest compliment I can pay this man is that my most immediate response is that I want to go and live with someone so wise, so compassionate and so immensely likable.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Two Lives is a memoir written by international best-selling author, Vikram Seth. In this interesting and engaging book, Seth writes about his great...
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Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Judge rules unused Borders gift cards to be worthless(May 23 2013) Borders owes nothing to holders of roughly $210.5 million of gift cards that had not been used by the time the bookstore chain shut down, a Manhattan federal...
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