General Fiction

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

April 14, 2011
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Title: The Lovely Bones Author: Alice Sebold Publisher: Little, Brown and Company File Size: 433 KB Print Length: 352 pages Availability: Kindle | Print Genre: Literary Fiction Blurb: 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 [...]

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Blankets by Craig Thompson

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: This sensitive memoir recreates the confusion, emotional pain and isolation of the author’s rigidly fundamentalist Christian upbringing, along with the trepidation of growing into maturity. Skinny, naive and spiritually vulnerable, Thompson and his younger brother manage to survive their parents’ overbearing discipline (the brothers are sometimes forced to sleep in the cubby-hole, [...]

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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

April 18, 2007

Rating: Book Description: Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have been forever changed [...]

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