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Image of Taft 2012: A Novel
Author(s):
Jason Heller
Genre(s):
Genre Fiction, Other, Satire, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternative Realities, Speculative, Genre Fiction, Other, Satire, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternative Realities, Speculative, Speculative, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Satire, Other, Genre Fiction, Alternative Realities

Taft 2012: A Novel

January 15, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Michael Pucci

“As a fairy tale, Taft 2012: A Novel is a welcome tonic to the bottomless cynicism that can consume our politics.

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Image of The Best of Archy and Mehitabel: Introduction by E. B. White (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Author(s):
Don Marquis
Genre(s):
Other, Other, Humor, Humor

The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

November 1, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Vinton Rafe McCabe

“To read these comic poems in blank verse again is to live childhood again, when the surly, often irate insect was first discovered.

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Image of Scenes from Village Life
Author(s):
Nicholas de Lange, Amos Oz
Genre(s):
Single Authors, Other, Literary Short Stories, International Settings, International Locales, General, Contemporary

Scenes from Village Life

October 15, 2011
Reviewed by: 
David Cooper

Something is not right in Tel Ilan, the fictional Israeli village set in the Manasseh Hills (probably in the general vicinity of Rishon L’Tzion) in which the first seven of the eight stories in

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Image of Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside
Author(s):
Frank Lesser
Illustrator(s):
Willie Real
Genre(s):
Paranormal, Other, Humor

Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside

September 24, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Carma Spence

“Sad Monsters crackles with wit, irony, and sarcasm.

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Image of O Pioneers!: Introduction by Elaine Showalter (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Author(s):
Willa Cather
Genre(s):
Other, General

O Pioneers!

September 7, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Robert Lamb

“Whatever Willa Cather was, ‘brilliant writer’ would head the list for most admirers of the literary novel. . . .

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Image of Low Town: A novel
Author(s):
Daniel Polansky
Genre(s):
Thriller, Suspense, Relationships, Other, Noir, General, Fantasy Mystery & Thriller, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Debut Fiction, Contemporary

Low Town

September 5, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Michael Lipkin

“. . . don’t be put off by the magic and sorcery. If you like noir and hard-boiled mysteries, you might want to give Low Town a chance.

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Image of Seeing Stars: Poems
Author(s):
Simon Armitage
Genre(s):
Other, Literary Short Stories, European

Seeing Stars: Poems

August 1, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Tony Bailie

“Each poem reaches a moment when the mood changes, a moment of epiphany that jolts the reader out of his comfort zone and the everyday shimmers slightly as perspectives shift.”

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