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Okay, perhaps pushing the limits of 'a bargain' but still within the previously defined range of $0.01 to $4.99 for the purposes of these "bargain" threads ...  Thank You for All ThingsAuthor: Sandra Kring Price: $4.79~4.5 (out of 5) stars Editorial Reviews From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In her new novel, Kring (The Book of Bright Ideas) crafts a beautiful, witty story that rings with heartbreak, hope and laughter. Lucy McGowan is a 12-year-old genius with a photographic memory, an even more brilliant brother, Milo (IQ: 180), and a single mother, Tess, living in Chicago. What Lucy has that her brother doesn't is curiosity and people smarts, a quality that propels her to unearth the hidden relationships and buried secrets of her family. An imaginative and headstrong girl, Lucy finds herself on a grim family visit to her sickly, estranged grandfather in Timber Falls, Wis. Witnessing her mom's unshakable hatred for her dying father, Lucy begins to investigate her family's past; her love for the sick old patriarch she knows is challenged repeatedly by what she finds out about the angry, abusive man he used to be. Kring's brilliance lies in her powerful reversals and revelations, taking readers and characters on a dramatic, emotional roller coaster. (Sept. 30) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2009, 11:25:45 PM » |
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This appears (I have not read nor sampled it) to be a YA short story (189 kb) ??  Looking for AlaskaAuthor: John Green Price: $1.84~ 4.5 (out of 5) stars Editorial Reviews From School Library JournalGrade 9 Up - Sixteen-year-old Miles Halter's adolescence has been one long nonevent - no challenge, no girls, no mischief, and no real friends. Seeking what Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps," he leaves Florida for a boarding school in Birmingham, AL. His roommate, Chip, is a dirt-poor genius scholarship student with a Napoleon complex who lives to one-up the school's rich preppies. Chip's best friend is Alaska Young, with whom Miles and every other male in her orbit falls instantly in love. She is literate, articulate, and beautiful, and she exhibits a reckless combination of adventurous and self-destructive behavior. She and Chip teach Miles to drink, smoke, and plot elaborate pranks. Alaska's story unfolds in all-night bull sessions, and the depth of her unhappiness becomes obvious. Green's dialogue is crisp, especially between Miles and Chip. His descriptions and Miles's inner monologues can be philosophically dense, but are well within the comprehension of sensitive teen readers. The chapters of the novel are headed by a number of days "before" and "after" what readers surmise is Alaska's suicide. These placeholders sustain the mood of possibility and foreboding, and the story moves methodically to its ambiguous climax. The language and sexual situations are aptly and realistically drawn, but sophisticated in nature. Miles's narration is alive with sweet, self-deprecating humor, and his obvious struggle to tell the story truthfully adds to his believability. Like Phineas in John Knowles's A Separate Peace(S & S, 1960), Green draws Alaska so lovingly, in self-loathing darkness as well as energetic light, that readers mourn her loss along with her friends. - Johanna Lewis, New York Public Library
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« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2009, 01:54:57 AM » |
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Looking for Alaska says it would be 256 pages in a DTB, so longer than a short story.
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« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2009, 04:55:29 AM » |
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This appears (I have not read nor sampled it) to be a YA short story (189 kb) ??
Looking for Alaska
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« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2009, 05:21:51 AM » |
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Maybe it's just the review but it appears this book is a dark tome that teaches kids to smoke, drink, curse and commit suicide. From that review it doesn't sound worth the paper it's not printed on. It is, however, a bargain according to the definition. |
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« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2009, 05:52:45 AM » |
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I would have loved this book in high school. I bought it.
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« Reply #32 on: February 03, 2009, 10:33:55 AM » |
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Maybe it's just the review but it appears this book is a dark tome that teaches kids to smoke, drink, curse and commit suicide. From that review it doesn't sound worth the paper it's not printed on. It is, however, a bargain according to the definition.
I read Looking for Alaska a few years ago, and did not find it to be the depraved tale you assume it to be. |
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« Reply #33 on: February 03, 2009, 10:56:47 AM » |
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That's why I said maybe it's just the given synopsis but based on that I wouldn't have wanted my daughters reading it.
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« Reply #34 on: February 03, 2009, 01:11:45 PM » |
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For those of you who are like me, ie lazy, and want to download the classics but don't feel like emailing your Kindle or fooling around with the various free web sites (I did say I was lazy) I highly recommend the MobileReference books. If you do a search by MobileReference you will find their collections of works that you can download for free, for under $5. I bought the works of Twaine, Dickens, Joyce, Stevenson, and London. The version has all of their novles and it looks like all of their short stories. I took a look at all of them on Tavar last night and they look great. The table of contents allows you to pick the book you want and then the book allows you to choose what chapter you want to go to. Paying $5 for properly formated works and not having to mess around with other web sites was perfect for me. Just a thought for folks.     |
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« Reply #35 on: February 03, 2009, 02:38:27 PM » |
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I have the Shakespeare, and have no interest in Mark Twain, but I may have to check out Dickens and Oz. . .
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« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2009, 02:48:47 PM » |
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There are many, many more. I put links to the few that I had purchased more to show people what the volumes included. If you search on mobilereference you will find a ton of hits.
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« Reply #37 on: February 03, 2009, 03:36:14 PM » |
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I did that with the Conan-Doyle writings. That covers every word he ever had published, not just Sherlock Holmes. It is well worth $4.87 to get them all in one rather than in who knows how many separate units to keep up with as well as the trouble of getting them all into my Kindle.
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« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2009, 03:58:17 PM » |
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I picked up the Shakespeare a couple of days ago and now I have the Dickens as well. Thanks for the links. From now on if someone asks me what Little Gertie is, I am going to say, "It's my library."  |
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« Reply #39 on: February 03, 2009, 05:10:27 PM » |
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I too love MobileReference, I have the complete Jane Austin library, Greek and Roman Mythology, Complete works of Alxendre Dumas, a great compilation of the Kings and Queens of England (from 871 to present) and The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. There are several other collections I have looked at like the Complete Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery and others.
I like the fact that most collections are under $5 and those collections can contain a couple of hundred novels/short stories all indexed in one "book". Not taking up rows and rows of titles to thumb through on my kindle. Their indexing system is wonderful along with their formatting. Again as suggested above, if you like classics check out their collections. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
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« Reply #40 on: February 03, 2009, 06:35:13 PM » |
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« Reply #41 on: February 03, 2009, 06:39:25 PM » |
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« Reply #42 on: February 03, 2009, 07:15:51 PM » |
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Thanks for posting! My thoughts... Hometown Legend: Haven't read the book, but I did see the movie, which was decent. I might have to sample this. Glorious Appearing: This is the final book in the 12-part "Left Behind" series, in case anyone is unaware. Religious books are not my thing, but I did read this series (got them as a gift years ago) because I like apocalyptic storylines. The series gets bogged down by way too many characters and it's held back by a brand of Christianity not everyone will agree with, but I liked it overall. Too bad Jenkins' baseball novel, "The Youngest Hero," isn't on Kindle yet. I liked that one a lot. |
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« Reply #43 on: February 04, 2009, 08:14:49 AM » |
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I just found this book by Mark Haddon for 2.99... he wrote the wonderful "The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time". I snapped up this, without bothering with the sample.  |
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I just found this book by Mark Haddon for 2.99... he wrote the wonderful "The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time". I snapped up this, without bothering with the sample. Where's the book?  |
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« Reply #45 on: February 04, 2009, 09:18:41 AM » |
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Where's the book? I bought it (without sampling  ) and the link worked just fine... |
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« Reply #46 on: February 04, 2009, 09:51:21 AM » |
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Guess I am losing my mind, I didn't see a link.  I bought "The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time", it sounds like a good book and I bought the bargain book. Thanks Octochick!  |
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« Reply #47 on: February 04, 2009, 01:20:32 PM » |
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Linda the picture of the book is the link.
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« Reply #48 on: February 04, 2009, 01:29:36 PM » |
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Linda the picture of the book is the link.
Oh man!! I'm so use to that it didn't even occur to me to mention that to her until you said it |
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« Reply #49 on: February 04, 2009, 01:48:17 PM » |
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Well now its up to $7.96!!
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