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What do readers say about The Big Over Easy?
who killed humpty dumpty well written and amusing massively funy spoof hilarious and imaginativeEnter the world of the Nursery Crime Division in this novel from Jasper Fforde, the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit
Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every ... More details on The Big Over Easy
It was the week following Easter in Reading, and no one could remember the last sunny day. Gray clouds swept across the sky, borne on a chill wind that cut like a knife. It seemed that spring had fors...
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What do readers say about The Swimming-Pool Library?
meandering and aimless a tour de force very well written raw and cruel writingThe dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair.
An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for... More details on The Swimming-Pool Library
I came home on the last train. Opposite me sat a couple of London Transport maintenance men, one small, fifty, decrepit, the other a severely handsome black of about thirty-five. Heavy canvas bags wer...
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What do readers say about The Palace Job?
fantasy heist novels an ensemble heist book fun fantasy heist capers well written and amusingLoch is seeking revenge.
It would help if she wasn't in jail.
The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the most powerful man in the Republic. To do so Loch-former soldier, former pri... More details on The Palace Job
The rulers of the Republic lived atop the great flying city of Heaven's Spire, their magnificent palaces soaring above the world. From their great manses in the sky came the laws and decrees that kept...
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What do readers say about The Proposition?
cute beyond belief my fair lady flip pygmalion with roles reversed well-written and amusingNo man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mick Tremore into a gentleman in just six weeks. And ... More details on The Proposition
The most highborn lady Mick had ever been with—the wife of a sitting member of the House of Lords, as it turned out—told him that the French had a name for what she felt for him, a name that put words...
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What do readers say about Bernice Bobs her Hair?
third person omniscient narrative great short story funny, well-written and amusing really liked the endingBased on actual letters Fitzgerald sent to his sister to help her on how to be more attractive for men, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is the story of a socially hopeless girl being changed into a socially attractive girl to end up attracting the boy of her... More details on Bernice Bobs her Hair
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What do readers say about Why Buddhism is True?
humble and humorous interesting and worthwhile book well written and amusing abstract and philosophicalFrom one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
At the heart of Buddhism is a simple... More details on Why Buddhism is True
It’s about a guy named Neo (played by Keanu Reeves), who discovers that he’s been inhabiting a dream world. The life he thought he was living is actually an elaborate hallucination. He’s having that h...
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What do readers say about The Cat Who Came for Christmas?
an enjoyable read his cat polar bear a wordy text well written and amusingA cat charms its way into a curmudgeon's heart one hilarious holiday season in this "extraordinary" bestselling Christmas classic ( Parade ), the perfect gift for the animal lover in your life.
'Twas the night before Christmas when a bedraggled whit... More details on The Cat Who Came for Christmas
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What do readers say about Less?
insightful and funny part adventure, part reminiscence top level writing sweet and funnyA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Ti... More details on Less
Look at him: seated primly on the hotel lobby’s plush round sofa, blue suit and white shirt, legs knee-crossed so that one polished loafer hangs free of its heel. The pose of a young man. His slim sha...
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What do readers say about No Fond Return of Love?
thin, pointless and tiresome well-written and intermittently amusing a soap opera all the characteristic elementsThree lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times-bestselling author of Jane and Prudence.
After being jilted by her fianc , Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a d... More details on No Fond Return of Love
When Dulcie Mainwaring realized that her fiance did not want to marry her after all — or that he was not worthy of her love, as he put it — she endured several months of quiet misery before she felt a...
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What do readers say about Love and Let Spy?
it rated fairly high well written and highly amusing cheekiness fun"Galen provides plenty of explosiveness, both literal and erotic, in a Regency-era romantic thriller packed with intrigue and lust."-Publishers Weekly
Her Name is Bonde...Jane Bonde...
A beautiful and eligible member of the ton, Jane has more than... More details on Love and Let Spy
She crept down the corridor, back to the wall, straining to place the voices of the men. Somewhere a woman was crying, a dog barked, and a horse-drawn cart rattled by. The stench of urine and blood bu...
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