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- 5 visitors recommend:
Time and Again
Source: Amazon
Author: Jack Finney
City: New York, State: NY
- Part science fiction, part romance, part mystery, and part historical fiction. Finney is the author who inspired the movie "Somewhere in Time." This novel is his most popular, set in 19th century New York City. (1995)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
Source: Amazon
Author: Benson Bobrick
- A fictionalized historical narrative of the American Revolution, especially in regards to George Washington and Benedict Arnold. (1998)
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- 1 visitors recommend:
The Red Heifer: A Novel
Source: Amazon
Author: Leo Haber
City: New York, State: NY
- "An allegorical account, sometimes poignant, sometimes comic, sometimes almost mystical, of a Jewish boy's childhood and adolescence in New York's Lower East Side of the 1930s and 40s." (2001)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Tales from the Edge of the Woods
Source: Amazon.com
Author: Willem Lange
State: VT
- From an Amazon reader: "This thin book delivers powerful images of how New England was and strives to remain. Short essays cover typical events and personalities, most often humorous, always interesting. A great way to discover why we think there's no other place to live." (1998)
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- 3 visitors recommend:
Daughter of the Loom
Source: Bethany House Publishers
Author: Tracie Peterson, Judith Miller
City: Lowell, State: MA
- Set in the textile factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, this novel offers a slice of American history and romance.
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- 3 visitors recommend:
The Old Man and the Sea
Source: Amazon
Author: Ernest Hemingway
- One of Hemingway's greatest novels. It's the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. (1954)
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Moby Dick
Source: Amazon
Author: Herman Melville
- It may be the single greatest work of American fiction.
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- 5 visitors recommend:
From Here to Eternity
Source: Amazon
Author: James Jones
- One of the best pictures of life in the prewar army. (1985)
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- 5 visitors recommend:
The Hunt for Red October
Source: Amazon
Author: Tom Clancy
- "Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on ...." A Clancy classic! (1997)
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- 13 visitors recommend:
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
Source: University of Michigan Press
Author: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
City: PHILIPPINES, Country: Philippines
E-mail: palh@aol.com
- An acclaimed novel set in the Philippines during World War II. "Simple yet deeply moving prose... The strengthening of the national spirit; the loss of innocence in two generations -- these themes are explored with persuasive conviction and stark realism." (1999)
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