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Review Date: 4/20/2007
An Oprah's book Club selection and NY Times bestseller, Mother of Pearl is set in Mississippi in the 1950s. The novel revolves around 28 yr old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner (named after a sign), the 15 yr old daughter of the town whore. Both want to discover the human connection, enduring commitment and unconditional love they never experienced as children.
Review Date: 5/12/2007
Descriptions of slavery by the people who experienced it from slave narratives in the Library of Congress collected by the Federal Writers' Project during the 1930s. The joys and sorrows, hopes and dreams of enslaved people in the land of the free. Fascinating quick read.
Review Date: 3/16/2021
Very enjoyable.
Review Date: 1/9/2007
I loved this book. An older stroke-impaired woman asserts her independence from interfering adult children, reclaims an overgrown garden, and finds love.
Review Date: 3/26/2007
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book, my introduction to Travis McGee and his creator John McDonald. I was completely fooled by this detective novel, never guessing the culprits. I loved the opinionated but soft-hearted Travis and his romantic adventures. I was afraid the book would be dated (written 1966), but McDonald was progressive in most of his social views.
Review Date: 3/26/2007
Helpful Score: 1
Two best friends exchange lives and learn where they were meant to be and with whom. Not predictable, I didn't guess how they would end up. enjoyable, a fast read.
Review Date: 2/15/2007
Helpful Score: 1
A wondrfully romantic novel about time travel to eighteenth century Scotland. A combat nurse from 1945 is torn between love for her husband back in the present and Jamie Fraser, the Scottish Laird and warrior. A little long, but I loved the story and the characters Claire and Jamie.
Review Date: 2/15/2007
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Falsely convicted of being a thief, lovely high-born Shemaine O'Hearn arrives in colonial Virginia from London on a convict ship and is sold as an indentured servant to Gage Thornton, a local shipbuilder in need of a nanny for his young son. Shemaine is relieved to have such a handsome and generous master and eagerly undertakes unfamiliar domestic tasks in Gage's rustic cabin on the edge of the American wilderness. Even persistent rumors that Gage was responsible for his wife's violent and untimely death don't trouble her for long. But as Shemaine and Gage struggle to deal honorably with their growing desire in such close quarters, they're beset by enemies, both nearby and from afar, who are determined to rob them of their newfound happiness. Woodiwiss's lush, leisurely writing and heartwarming story will fully satisfy many of her loyal fans. --Ellen Edwards
Falsely convicted of being a thief, lovely high-born Shemaine O'Hearn arrives in colonial Virginia from London on a convict ship and is sold as an indentured servant to Gage Thornton, a local shipbuilder in need of a nanny for his young son. Shemaine is relieved to have such a handsome and generous master and eagerly undertakes unfamiliar domestic tasks in Gage's rustic cabin on the edge of the American wilderness. Even persistent rumors that Gage was responsible for his wife's violent and untimely death don't trouble her for long. But as Shemaine and Gage struggle to deal honorably with their growing desire in such close quarters, they're beset by enemies, both nearby and from afar, who are determined to rob them of their newfound happiness. Woodiwiss's lush, leisurely writing and heartwarming story will fully satisfy many of her loyal fans. --Ellen Edwards
Review Date: 1/25/2007
I haven't read thisw book.
Review Date: 4/27/2007
Helpful Score: 1
A totally engrossing book, one which covers the Plantagenet years under Eleanor of Acquitaine and her husband, King Louis of France.
Eleanor was a strong, forceful character, as different from her husband as oil and water. She created the courts of love, reviving the code of chivalry in the French nobility. Through her marriage to Louis, she virtually redrew the map of France. Eleanor was the epitome of the saying, "Behind every successful man is a strong woman." Here Jean Plaidy brings these characters and more to life with a sumptuous look at the way royalty lived in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Eleanor was a strong, forceful character, as different from her husband as oil and water. She created the courts of love, reviving the code of chivalry in the French nobility. Through her marriage to Louis, she virtually redrew the map of France. Eleanor was the epitome of the saying, "Behind every successful man is a strong woman." Here Jean Plaidy brings these characters and more to life with a sumptuous look at the way royalty lived in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Review Date: 1/25/2007
I have not read this book. The jacket describes it as a "much-loved black-humor comic novel of manners andescalating disaster."
Review Date: 2/18/2007
Helpful Score: 1
a beautifully written exploration of love, finding it, keeping it, regaining it and allowing yourself to yield to it. Around Tom and Fay, finely developed secondary characters go though their own love crises - the path of love is hardly ever smooth. It is a hopeful, heart-warming and satisfying novel. Plus you find out quite a lot about Winnepeg, mermaids and late-night radio. (Judith B South Australia
Review Date: 5/12/2007
Edge of the seat serial killer thriller set against a skillfully evoked backdrop of WWI-wounded England. Compelling stuff. (Robert Goddard)
Review Date: 2/4/2007
A romance about love between an Amish woman and an "English" doctor who are torn between their love and their separate backgrounds.
Review Date: 1/9/2007
I didn't read it; it was too complicated for me. It has great reviews and testimonials.
Review Date: 1/9/2007
A fun read, a combination romance and mystery.
She Flew the Coop : A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
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Review Date: 4/18/2007
Brilliantly interweaves dark calamity with comedy to depict everyday life in tiny Limoges, Louisiana, in 1952. Told through the voices of its richly eccentric characters, She Flew the Coop is an entrancing picture of small-town life, filled with wry humor and humanity. Washington Post Book World said "West has created a whole world, southern in its gossip and interconnections, and utterly individual in the characters, who are ... teeming with life."
Review Date: 1/25/2007
I haven't read this book, but it's had numerous positive reviews. The jacket describes the book as a coming-of-age odyssey of Dolores Price, a wise-mouthed thirteen year old.
Review Date: 5/5/2007
Helpful Score: 1
A very enjoyable historical romance. The Bedwyns are an interesting family and I plan to read all of their stories.
Review Date: 2/15/2007
Helpful Score: 1
I love Rosamunde Pilcher. This is not her best, but I'll read anything she has written. A young woman engaged to someone her strong-willed stepmother selected is stranded in a snowstorm and falls in love with the right man for her. "A world filled with enjoyable portraits of people's lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us." (Back cover)
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