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Leaping Beauty: and other animal fairy tales
by Gregory Maguire
 (10/16/2004)
Natasha - aged 9
I think Leaping Beauty is a good book because it's fun and it makes silly jokes, and it has a lot of stories in it. I have not read anything else like it, but I think this is really good. My favorite story was Cinderelephant, it was the same thing asmore
Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin
 (5/28/2004)
Ruth Wein
I could not put this book down. It is simply enthralling. One was drawn into Li Cunxin's very being and the reader was and in my opinion part of the whole journey, the hunger, pain. joy and achievements of the author. \In addition we were so fortunate to have thismore
Uniform Justice: Guido Brunetti Mystery Series
by Donna Leon
 (4/16/2004)
This author is new to me. I just read about her in your latest newsletter & intend to try her series. I went on a search discover to the first book in the series and came across this website. It's not as personal as most authors' own websites, but it's better thanmore
The Tiger Rising
by Kate DiCamillo
 (1/15/2004)
BookBrowse.com - Davina
I can understand the viewpoint of the visiting reviewers who say this book 'sucks', because if your reading experience has been with action orientated books that build to a dynamic conclusion with all the plot threads neatly tied together, you'remore
The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
 (1/5/2004)
BookBrowse.com - Davina
This is a delightful, engrossing story that educates as it entertains. A must read for anyone who enjoys historical fiction at its finest.
The Gospel According To Larry
by Janet Tashjian
 (7/18/2003)
BookBrowse.com - Davina
The plot of The Gospel According To Larry may have a few holes, but the ideas and characterization more than make up for it.
This would make a great book for teen discussion - in school and outside. Indeed, if I was in charge of school curriculum Imore
A House Called Awful End: Eddie Dickens Trilogy, #1
by Philip Ardagh
 (7/5/2003)
Thomas
I liked the first Eddie Dickens book because it was full of imagination. It's full of laughs too. I think it is a good book to read from about 8 years old to about 60. That may not be the limit for some people but is my personal opinion. I recomend it to teachers tomore
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
by Georgia Byng
 (5/21/2003)
Davina - BookBrowse
Molly Moon by first time author Georgia Byng was published in the USA last week (May 2003), but the book has already taken the UK by storm, foreign rights have been sold to 24 countries and the movie rights have been bought by David Heyman (producer ofmore
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
 (3/29/2003)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has taken the bestseller lists by storm in the last couple of weeks due to one of the most intense publicity pushes I've seen from any publisher in the past few years - but it is an excellent book so, in my opinion, they're right to do so! Itmore

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 (3/22/2003)
Anne Marie - and other interested visitors - to answer your question, the next book in the series is titled Armageddon and will be released on April 8th, 2003.
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse LLC
Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Volume I
by Lian Hearn
 (1/21/2003)
Liam Hearn is a pseudonym for a relatively well known author of children's books. Click on the author link at the top of these reviews to learn more.

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The Yokota Officers Club
by Sarah Bird
 (1/7/2003)
BookBrowse.com - Davina
Well worth reading, and especially recommended as a book club choice, particularly for mother-daughter book clubs, or for groups with connections to the military.
Puppet Child
by Talia Carner
 (12/22/2002)
Davina - BookBrowse
This is a stunning book - both gripping and thought provoking. Carner writes with an ease and impact that belies the fact that this is her first published novel. She, and it, deserve a wide audience, no, not a wide audience, a huge audience. This bookmore
This Side Of The Sky
by Elyse Singleton
 (10/1/2002)
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The first few chapters of this book washed over me a little - it seemed to be following a similar course to a number of other books that I've read recently set in the deep south during pre-WWII years. However, as I got to know the characters and they, andmore
The Sands of Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
by Michael Hoeye
 (10/1/2002)
BookBrowse.com - Davina
Hermux, mouse watchmaker, unintentional detective and all round 'good sort',  is off and running on another adventure in Michael Hoeye's follow up to his much acclaimed 'Time Stops For No Mouse'.  Teens and adults - don't be put off by themore
Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
by Sue William Silverman
 (1/28/2002)
BookBrowse.com - Davina
Silverman's memoir explores with unflinching detail how, as an adult, she came to equate sex with love, in a desperate and unconscious attempt to rationalize the fact that the only 'love' that she had ever received from the most important man in hermore
The Good American: A Novel Based On True Events
by Ursula Maria Mandel
 (1/10/2002)
Gunta Krasts-Voutyras
Ursula Mandel's novel is a painting done with words. Since I was a child of ten in 1945 when WWII ended and played in the rubble of destroyed buildings, begged for food for my family and myself, was dressed in rags and never lost my will to live, thismore
Every Man A Tiger
by Tom Clancy, General Chuck Horner
 (12/6/2001)
From Norman I. Lee, III
An excellent book especially, for the student of Military History and Airpower. I have one comment; however, some of the charts from Jack Ryan Enterprises take away from the book's technical accuracy. For example, the chart on page 336 giving themore
The Book of Counted Sorrows
by Dean Koontz
 (11/19/2001)
Be warned - just because this is an eBook and you can read it on your Palm Pilot or computer, don't think that you can surreptitiously read a few pages while pretending to study your computer screen for the answer to some puzzling business question.

I took The Book ofmore
The Book of Counted Sorrows
by Dean Koontz
 (11/19/2001)
Curious Vinnie
You'll cry 'till you laugh!!! This is the book Shakespeare would have written if he wrote regular books instead of old plays and haikus. Koontz once again proves his mastery of the art that is uniquely his. Forget about buying any other book today; you onlymore

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