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| 1st week of September.... | ||
| I am concentrating on working on my sister's benefit and will start posting reviews again on Sunday September 9th.... | ||
| AUG 26, 2007 | ||
Set during the final weeks of World War II, The Savior is the story of Gottfried Keller, a young German violinist. Exempted from military service, Keller is burdened with the demoralizing task of playing for wounded soldiers in hospitals and makeshift infirmaries. A magnetic debut novel from world-renowned violinist Eugene Drucker. (read review and excerpt) |
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| AUG 25, 2007 | ||
Our goal at MostlyFiction.com is to share books we like -- some are already well known, others less so. Every once in awhle a small press (i.e. basically self-published) author catches our attention. Over the years, there has been something about John Misak's book excerpts that has jumped out at me, making me think that he is one of those authors that is worthy of a larger audience -- so I asked Chuck to check out Death Knell and let us know what he thinks.... (read review) |
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| AUG 21, 2007 | ||
Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Serbian torturer and war criminal, whom they have recently profiled in their articles. As the tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. A bestseller throughout Europe, The Exception is a gripping dissection of the nature of evil and of the paranoia and obsessions that drive ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. (read review and excerpt) |
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| AUG 20, 2007 | ||
Daniel is the thirty-three-year-old heir to the dappled fortunes of the Sonninos, a wealthy Jewish-Italian family whose staggering rise and fall during the years spanning the end of World War II and the beginning of the twenty-first century provides the richly colored backdrop to this tragicomedy. ... (read review) |
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| AUG 18, 2007 | ||
| Added a new PayPal button to my sister Lori's website. We are selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a 7-Day Caribbean Cruise with Carnival Cruise. The cruise leaves Miami, Florida on November 4th for Nassau, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten. Money raised from this raffle is to help my sister who was involved in a horrific car accident earlier this summer and was left paralyzed or technically, a quadriplegic/tetraplegic. Her friends are putting on a benefit to raise as much money as possible. I like her friends! | ||
| AUG 17, 2007 | ||
Just who is Kiki Strike? International assassin, criminal mastermind, mysterious movie star, disgruntled Girl Scout, or something else altogether? Inquiring minds—particularly Ananka Fishbein—want to know and aim to find out... (read review) |
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| AUG 14, 2007 | ||
The 12th entry in publishers Akashic's city-specific noir series illustrates the diversity of the chosen locale with 18 previously unpublished short stories from authors both well known and emerging. (read review) |
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| AUG 13, 2007 | ||
A hybrid of cyberpunk and political thriller... set against the backdrop of a globalization crisis in near future Bolivia, with a corrupt government, a greedy multinational corporation, a secret code-breaking organization called the Black Chamber, and a group of young computer hackers who are staging a revolution, which, despite being electronic, is far from bloodless. Winner of Bolivia's National Book Award in 2002. (read review and excerpt) |
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| AUG 11, 2007 | ||
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? MacArthur "genius" David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. (read review)
"My take on Klosterman is this: if you absolutely must get a pop culture fix by reading about inane movie stars or overrated bands, you might as well read someone who is smart and funny about them, and that person is Klosterman..." (read review) |
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| AUG 9, 2007 | ||
It’s been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday’s got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinback Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what’s going on—there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. (read review) |
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| AUG 8, 2007 | ||
A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror. This unforgetable masterpieces was written soon after the author fled Vienna, but only recently published. (read review) |
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| AUG 7, 2007 | ||
No matter how hard we try, life doesn't always go as planned. Harry begins to pick up the pieces of his life and emotions must be dealt with as old wounds are exposed. Although he finally meets a woman who understands and truly loves him, the cosmos takes a different path. He discovers that what goes wrong in life sometimes matters as much as what goes right. A simple novel based on string theory. (read review) |
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THE SAVIOR 
from 7 reviews
DEATH KNELL 
from 2 reviews
THE EXCEPTION 
THE WORST INTENTIONS 
from 1 reviews
KIKI STRIKE: INSIDE THE SHADOW CITY 
NEW ORLEANS NOIR 
TURING'S DELIRIUM 
CONSIDER THE LOBSTER : AND OTHER ESSAYS 
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN IV: A DECADE OF CURIOUS PEOPLE AND DANGEROUS IDEAS 
THURSDAY NEXT: FIRST AMONG SEQUELS 
THE TORTOISES 
THE ROOM 
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