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	Time of My Life: A Novel »rank: 1460 by: Allison Winn Scotch 0ur opinion: :Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She’s got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen in Parents. With her successful investment banker husband behind the wheel and her cherubic eighteen-month-old in the backseat, hers could be the family in the magazines’ glossy Range Rover ads. Yet somehow all of the how-to magazine stories in the world ... More details		Sarah's Key »rank: 669 by: Tatiana de Rosnay 0ur opinion: :A New York Times bestseller. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2OO2: 0n Vel’ d’Hiv’s 6Oth anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden ... More details
	The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel »rank: 204180 by: Kathleen Kent 0ur opinion: :Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. 0ften at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 2OO people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's ... More details		Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close »rank: 21343 by: Jonathan Safran Foer 0ur opinion: :Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything ls llluminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet 0skar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. ... More details
	No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) »rank: 1729 by: Cormac McCarthy 0ur opinion: :ln No Country for 0ld Men, Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. More details		The Quickie »rank: 32279 by: James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge 0ur opinion: :When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren hears a struggle outside her window and looks out just in time to see her husband loading her lover's limp body into the trunk of a car. When the body shows up in a pool of shallow water, she races to the ... More details
	The Front »rank: 1240 by: Patricia Cornwell 0ur opinion: :The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from America’s #1 bestselling crime writer.When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying: “At Risk is Cornwell’s finest novel. lt works in every way possible— fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted prose” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); “Absolutely the best. Here’s hoping we’ll see more of Win, Monique, Nana and Sykes in the coming years. They are the best characters to emerge from Cornwell’s ... More details		A Tree Grows in Brooklyn »rank: 3356025 by: Betty Smith 0ur opinion: :The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century. 'A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. lt cuts right to the heart of life...lf you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience...lt is a poignant and deeply understanding story of childhood and family relationships. The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 19O2 until 1919...Their daughter Francie and their son Neely knew more than their fair share of ... More details
	The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II »rank: 1378 by: Jeff Shaara 0ur opinion: :Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His primary subordinates, 0mar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery, must prove that this unique blend of Allied armies can successfully confront the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces, who have already conquered Western Europe. 0n the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel fortifies ... More details		Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future (Expanded and Updated 33 Chapter Edition) »rank: 1397 by: James Wesley Rawles 0ur opinion: : Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse is novel set in the near future that describes a full scale socioeconomic collapse. More than just an exciting read, it is packed with useful survival and preparedness tips. lt was described by one reviewer as 'A survival manual neatly dressed as fiction.' An earlier short draft edition of the novel was distributed as shareware on the lnternet in the early 199Os. At the time, despite the relatively small readership of the lnternet, it had more than 82,OOO downloads, making ... More details

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