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Graveyard»rank: 198par: Neil Gaiman
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Secret Life Of Bees A Novel»rank: 90par: Sue Kidd
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily 0wen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words 'Tiburon, South Carolina' scrawled ... |
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)»rank: 187par: Cormac McCarthy
Chroniques et points de vue: :Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as 'an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century,' Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including last year's bestselling No Country for 0ld Men, and this year's The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, ... |
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The Time Traveler's Wife»rank: 73par: Audrey Niffenegger
Chroniques et points de vue: :Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as 'an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century,' Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including last year's bestselling No Country for 0ld Men, and this year's The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, ... |
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Boys In The Trees: A Novel»rank: 442par: Mary Swan
Chroniques et points de vue: :Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as 'an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century,' Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including last year's bestselling No Country for 0ld Men, and this year's The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, ... |
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Arctic Drift»rank: 117par: Clive Cussler
Chroniques et points de vue: :Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as 'an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century,' Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including last year's bestselling No Country for 0ld Men, and this year's The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, ... |
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The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition»rank: 286par: Paulo Coelho
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's ... |
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War»rank: 308par: Max Brooks
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's ... |
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The Kite Runner»rank: 118par: Khaled Hosseini
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:The 'kite runner' of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with 'a face like a Chinese doll' was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. ... |
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter»rank: 150par: Jeff Lindsay
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:The 'kite runner' of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with 'a face like a Chinese doll' was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. ... |