Archive for May, 2008

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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Wideacre by Philippa Gregory (Book 1 of the Wideacre Trilogy)

Synopsis
Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as she is beautiful, refuses to conform to the social customs of her time. Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate once she is wed, Beatrice will use any means necessary to protect her ancestral heritage. Seduction, betrayal, even murder — Beatrice’s passion is without apology or conscience. [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Birth of Venus by Sara Dunant

Synopsis
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Synopsis
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn’t happen.
In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Synopsis
First American Publication
This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi

Synopsis:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Synopsis
Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez’s extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature’s most remarkable stories of unrequited love. “This shining and heartbreaking novel,” Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is one of those few rare works “that can even return our worn souls [...]

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Catster and Dogster

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Well, I think this has been around of a while. But just in case you haven’t heard of it. I’m posting it for you now.
For pet owners there are sites called Catster and Dogster. If you own a cat or dog you can make personal webpages and friends for your cats and [...]

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