The Book Charmer
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May 20 2019
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9781982105549
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All You Can Ever Know
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Sep 23 2018
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9781936787975
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If Only
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Feb 14 2018
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9780062393630
The Dark Light
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Mar 9 2016
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9781447283034
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Autofocus
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Jan 17 2016
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9780062302236
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About a Girl
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May 11 2015
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9781250068620
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Taking Flight: from War Orphan to Star Ballerina
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Apr 24 2015
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9780385755139
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Somebody's Daughter
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Feb 14 2015
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9780807083895
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All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion, the
Fannie Flagg novels always go down easy and are southern charming as all get-out. All-Girl centers on a 60-year-old woman who finds out she's not southern, at least not in the southern way of knowing who your people are a few generations back. It's also about Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). Unless you're a real crankypants, you should be moved by protagonist Sookie Poole's evolution, the WASPs accomplishments, or both. I sniffled quite a bit reading about the titular event while riding a New Jersey transit train home from Jewish Christmas.
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Dec 25 2013
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978-0-8129-9463-6
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My Life as a Silent Movie
A three-years-orphaned college professor loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, finds out she was adopted and goes off to find her roots. I don't want to give anything away, but I should warn you, everything in this novel takes forever. And if you're sensitive to misspellings and typos, stop being petty, but in case you can't, brace yourself. (What's up with the lax proofreading Indiana University Press?)
reviewdate:
Nov 18 2013
isn:
978-0-253-01024-7