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mousethief
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Ben Hu
Life of the famous Chinese charioteer at the time of Confucius.
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Kafka -- The Tria
Intrigue and frustration abound as Congress debates reauthorization of the Terrorism Reduction Insurance At.
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mousethief
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The Bridges of Madison Count
Highway overpasses in this midwestern capital city come alive and learn mathematics.
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Sioni Sais
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The L-Shaped Roo
With their long feet I suppose they are a little L-shaped.
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Chorister
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Danielle Steel The Gif - set in 1950s America, where a girl is accidentally transported into the future in the form of a computer graphic.
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Sandemaniac
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The Fall of ROM by Michael Curtis Ford
As all computers crash...
AG
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churchgeek
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Thomas Merton's only foray into science fiction, The New Ma is a mystery story in which a child wakes up absolutely certain his mother has been replaced. Just the night before, she wasn't a brunette, or six feet tall, or a robot, like she is this morning. But how can little Johnny prove his case to all the disbelieving adults in his life?
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My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
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Firenze
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Tono Bunga The inside story of the Berlusconi years.
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Leorning Cniht
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Virgin Plane - a biography of Richard Branson, by Poul Anderson
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Leorning Cniht
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The Naked Su - Isaac Asimov's first foray into robot porn.
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mousethief
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Les Miserable
Lester was always very sad. The Revolution only made it worse.
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W Hyatt
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A Journey to the Center of the 'eart: An unpublished manuscript by Jules Verne about a Cockney woman reflecting on her close, but tumultuous relationship with her mother. The failed attempt by the author to break out from his established genre led to one of literature's least known cases of serendipity when the editor's rejection letter gave Verne the idea for his subsequent, successful work. Verne's inspiration came from a typographical error introduced when the typist overheard the editor asking rhetorically "What on earth was he thinking?" at the very moment of typing the failed manuscript's title.
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ChaliceGirl
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Stephen King's I
It's all about me!
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"Welcome home." ++Katharine Jefferts Schori to me on 29Mar2009.
My KJS fansite & chicksinpointyhats
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The5thMary
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quote:
Originally posted by W Hyatt:
Jaw: A great white shark loses its lower jaw to the propeller on a fishing boat and the local townspeople rally to save and adopt it, giving it a nickname for its one remaining jaw.
This is brilliant! And f*cking hilarious! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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The Green Mil -
a fascinating investigation into the effects of colour-coding when applied to metric measurements.
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Earwig
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Poe's tale of a terrifying nightclub: The Rave.
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Earwig
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Double post becasue I have a the sense of humour of a nine year old and can't resist...
The Drowning Poo
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Firenze
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As You Like i Rather adulatory biography of Steve Jobs.
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Jurassic Par The tale of a golf tournament on the most dangerous course in the world...
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MSHB
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The Book of Amo - in which a verb is fully conjugated
True Bloo - TV series based on books about vampires who live in the Australian outback, and a blonde waitress
Acts of the Apostle - well, we always knew it was mostly about St Paul....
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Tono Bunga The inside story of the Berlusconi years.
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Adam.
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E.B. White: Charlotte's we.
The story of a spider who discover first person plural forms.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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On Going to Be - the non-existent Anthony Burgess reflecting on his upcoming transition into existence.
A Clockwork Orang - Burgess again. An account of his amazing discovery of William Paley's monkey. (I know we've already had this one, but couldn't resist!)
The Mimic Me - V.S. Naipaul's account of his illustrious acting career.
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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The Moon is Dow - John Steinbeck's incisive analysis of Wall Street's aggressive expansion (having already taken over planet Earth).
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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After becoming the injustices of 19th century society, our hero becomes a vigilante against those she deems responsible Crime and Punishmen.
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mousethief
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Green Eggs and Ha
Laughing at spoiled food.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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When She Was Goo - Philip Roth's creation epic, charting the formation of the first woman from the primordial sludge.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool? - The Commonwealth of Virginia's clothing manufacturers hit back in the face of declining sales. A must read!
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mousethief
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Five Children and I
Autobiography of a sand-fairy.
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mousethief
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Where the Wild Things Ar
Sail away with weird critter pirates. Arrrrr.
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W Hyatt
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The Fir: A John Grisham novel about a college graduate who buys a house and finds himself in a battle of wits with the evil fir tree in his backyard. "The Fir" was followed by its sequel, The Broke, in which the protagonist tries to reconstruct his life after he is left broke and unemployed as a result of his obsession with the tree.
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Sioni Sais
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198 The story of BBC Radio 4's AM (long wave) service.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Our Tow -- A resident of the town of Grovers Corners receives insight into life, love and dreams from the tow truck driver summoned to the scene of an accident.
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Welease Woderwick
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Bing - Rita Mae Brown writes about an old crooner.
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Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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The Potting She - Graham Greene's fascinating biography of a female snooker sensation.
The Spy's Bedside Boo - Greene again, recounting the bizarre tale of a secret agent's rather eccentric alarm clock.
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A Dance to the Music of Tim - the story of a choreographer devising an intricate set of moves to an insistent and unvarying one-second rhythm. The book is endorsed by Accurist.
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Albertus
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Very good indeed.
And from that series: Books Do Furnish A Roo (or, the value of keeping a small library in your pet marsupial's pouch).
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A grisly tale of children discovering their father's mangled corpse, following an accident in a Welsh mining town.
The Remains of the Da
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W Hyatt
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The Long Lavender Loo: John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee, "salvage consultant," finds himself once again in danger as the target of a murderous psychopath when a client persuades him to look for a stolen outhouse.
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Tea - This is probably Steinbeck's most harrowing story. It was inspired by a visit to England, where he encountered, in a small quaint village in darkest Devon, a strange little tea shop offering customers a concoction that has been described as "a beverage with a vigorously expansive flavour: a drink which will - quite literally - enlarge your appreciation of life". Explosive stuff.
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The Riddle of the Sand - Hercule Poirot encounters his hardest puzzle yet when a vial of coloured sand is found lying beside the corpse of a beautiful young lady. His investigations take him to Scarborough, Woolacombe and Leighton Buzzard before he realises that the perpetrator must have come from Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight.
Miss Marple - being English - would have got there far more quickly.
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Portrait of a Lad Henry James's pioneering study of the world's first transexual.
Exit the Kin Ionescu's absurdist depiction of a family whose members vanish mysteriously, one by one, during the course of an end-of-summer reunion.
Gunga Di Plucky Princess Diana travels to India to bring comfort and publicity to oppressed water bearers.
Adam Bed First volume of George Eliot's beloved "Furniture Family" series for children.
Of Mice and Me Absorbing autobiography from one of the world's most eminent rodentologists.
The Sound and the Fur William Faulkner's memoir of a summer spent as an apprentice peltmonger in an especially noisy workshop.
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The Dain Curs. Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op deals with the descendants of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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The Child in Tim
Ian McEwan's harrowing account of the first male birth.
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"We must learn to see that our temperament is a gift of God, a talent with which we must trade until he comes" Thomas Merton
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Nancy Dre
Publishers of girl-detective series try to reach out to a hipper audience, by having the character marry famous rapper.
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Casino Royal
Prince Charles visits Vegas and ends up with his head in a vice.
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