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Unveiling the Cryptic Codes
Reviewed by Kevin Yen
January 11, 2008
Mystery, suspense, and actions are the key elements that make this book such a pulse-quickening adventure. This New York Times bestseller will blow your minds away with its twisted puzzles and brain-teasing mysteries. As you dig deeper into the book, you will gain insight as to [...]
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Arthur Reimagined
Reviewed by Danny Zeff
January 11, 2008
This well-written book scraps the tale of the traditional story of King Arthur. Instead it reintroduces him as a young squire waiting to become a knight and is given a stone that shows visions. The story lets the reader feel like he is living on an English manor in [...]
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Holden Caulfield on Drugs
Reviewed by Divya Nag
December 27, 2007
“I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal” begins this exceedingly controversial and oxymoronic fictional memoir, which slowly yet surely captured the hearts and breaths of everyone reading this compelling novel. Meet the new and improved Holden Caulfield: the same [...]
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Post 9/11, a New York of Gatsby-Size Dreams and Loss
Reviewed by Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times
May 16, 2008
If some of these passages reverberate with echoes of The Great Gatsby and its vision of New York — “the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes,” the “fresh, green breast of the New World,” [...]
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Dey tol’ me dis book was gud. Dey lyin’
Reviewed by Andrew Curran
January 10, 2008
This dramatic tale about The Civil War is only for those truly interested in the subject matter. All others should stay far away from this novel.
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A Dorky, Disillusioned Da Vinci Code
Reviewed by Brian Quale
June 27th, 2007
Experience life through the eyes of Tom Henderson: surviving in a high school full of, in his words, “psychotic normal people,” while trying to get his band together, and attempting to decipher cryptic clues he discovers in his deceased father’s stack of old books. [...]
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Hit the Road
Reviewed by Emily Farrell
May 29, 2007
Some people just cannot stay still. Although not the norm in the 1950s, these two main characters just loved taking trips across the country. While traveling, these young men experienced and lived the life of the Beats.
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The Civil Rights Story Never Told
Reviewed by Majel Baker
January 8, 2007
An autobiography written like a first-class novel, this classic in American literature is the story of a black soul’s struggle through a world that is against him, with hate, insult, and the KKK. This book goes beyond the genre of slave narratives that it [...]
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Monty Python is Lost in Space
Reviewed by Rachel Powell
May 28, 2007
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a hilariously zany quest through the infinite reaches of space and time for the meaning of life, and a good cup of tea.
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Corridors of Paranoia
Reviewed by Tania Jensen
January 9, 2007
A psychological thriller that breaks the boundaries of a normal book and throws the reader full-force into the twisted corridors of its plot, Danielewsky’s House of Leaves is a frightening tour-de force. Best for seasoned readers, House of Leaves is not for the faint of heart.
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There’s More to War Than Fighting
Reviewed by Alex Kwong
January 9th, 2007
This memoir of a Red Army soldier on the Western Front portrays the famous battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. But more importantly, Mansur Abdulin gives us the day to day struggles of the common soldiers outside the fighting, and shows us the human beings that [...]
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To Hell and Back
Reviewed by Tania Jensen
June 1st, 2007
An ancient classic, which is highly under-read in modern society, despite the fact that it is perfectly understandable.
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