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Featured Book Review For 11.16.09
This weeks featured review is by Saul P. on Criminal Karma by Steven M. Thomas. Click on the article title to read more, or on the book title to check out the book page with summary, synopsis, excerpts and reviews!! Rate the reviews and write your own!
Featured Forum Topic: Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying
Our featured forum post this week was posted by Pistache at readers.booksxyz.com on Oct 28, discussing Ernest J. Gaines novel A Lesson Before Dying. To join the conversation go here.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!
I Should've Read: Top 25 Books From Last Year 11/2008
1. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
2.The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
3. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
5. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
Top 25 From University Presses for 11.16.09
1.One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season by Adam Lucas, et al.
2. Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes With Bob Seger by Tom Weschler, et al.
3. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
4. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy man of the Oglala Sioux, Premier Edition by John G. Neihardt
5. Elephant Reflections by Karl Ammann
Top 25 Books from Public University Presses For 11.09.2009
1.Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger by Tom Weschler, et. al. 
2. One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season by Adam Lucas, et. al.
3. Elephant Reflections by Karl Ammann, and Dale Peterson
4. Pittsburgh: A New Portrait by Franklin Toker
5. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer and Martha Sen (FRW)
