| 1. |  | Out Stealing Horses (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
from Wheeler Publishing
Price: $20.76
Customer Review:
I read this book because of the reviews it received here on amazon.com. I finished the book and have to say I enjoyed the writing, which is why I'm rating it three stars. But it left me scratching my head wondering why I finished. It was mostly boring. Perhaps I saw small glimpses where I thought I... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. | ![]() | To Siberia (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
from Wheeler Publishing
Price: $25.95
Customer Review:
This is one of those spare little novels that you read in a couple hours, and then it stays with you a while...like, forever. The setting is beautifully invoked- you can hear gulls cry and feel the cutting wind off the sea. The unnamed heroin is an unforgetable character- part plucky kid sister... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery
from New Press
Customer Review:
Faceless Killers is a mystery book about the investigation of a brutal double murder. Kurt Wallender, a Swedish police officer, is responsible for managing the search for the killer or killers. Recently divorced, with an estranged daughter and a borderline senile father, and a pretty severe drinking... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. | ![]() | A Doll's House
from Players Press
Price: $8.00
Customer Review:
John Lahr (yes, he of the Cowardly leonine father and author of Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles and Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr), long the brilliant, urbane and astute drama critic for the New Yorker magazine, finds citation in the back matter of this edition of Doll's... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
Hugnry for a good book or just plain hungry? I went about a month without food once as a sort of experiment. First week is hell then it gets better for a couple weeks then it gets a lot worse than before. Hamsun is the only cat who adequately describes hunger, the actual physical & psych... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $15.75
Customer Review:
THis is one of the best novels of all times. It addresses the human condition artfully and it is accessible. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
from Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Price: $10.92
Customer Review:
This classic, written by Norwegian immigrant and professor O.E. Rolvaag, concerns a group of Norwegians who decide to move west from Minnesota. The hardships which beset them are described in detail, from hunger, to grasshopper plagues, to, finally, madness. This book is well written, with language... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Redbreast: A Novel
from Harper Paperbacks
Price: $11.69
Customer Review:
Great book, just a slow start, but it needs to be to introduce all the players. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. | ![]() | Finn Family Moomintroll
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (J)
Customer Review:
I love these books. They are amazingly unique. I was given the first book years ago and it sat on my shelf for ages. Then, for some reason, I picked it up and read it! It was so much fun. I actually laughed to myself while reading it! Of course, I had to read more and more of the books. Thank... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Smilla's Sense of Snow
from Delta
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
I've counted six authors to whose prose Hoeg's has been compared, just in reading the first page of reviews here. They are all, to a one, terrible comparisons. The one I expected and, inexorably, found, was the comparison to Hemingway. This is because the prose is genuinely hard-hitting. But... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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