 | When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Buy new: $7.03 / Used from: $2.38 A story about the struggles of growing up with two different cultures and not feeling that you belong to either.
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 | Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery) by Sarah Addison Allen
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A light easy read about two sisters and the magic they weave with their talents.
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.15 Told from the viewpoint of death, this is the story of a young German girl set during WWII.
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 | Devil Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) by Kathy Reichs
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.01 Probably not her best, but this was OK.
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 | Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.) by Joanne Harris
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.83 Amazing story about three children growing up in German occupied France.
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 | Blackberry Wine: A Novel by Joanne Harris
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $0.01 Definitely don't recommend this one...
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 | Coastliners: A Novel by Joanne Harris
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $0.01 Different from her other novels, this was an interesting story.
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 | Rosewater and Soda Bread: A Novel by Marsha Mehran
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $2.04 The sequel to Pomegranate Soup, this continues the story of three Iranian sisters living in Ireland.
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 | A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, Book 3) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $3.59 The third book in the 'Wicked' series - tells the tale of the cowardly lion and his life both before and after Dorothy came along.
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 | The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $1.75 Two stories in one - I enjoyed the historical story of Ann Eliza more than the present-day story of BeckyLynn
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 | Pomegranate Soup: A Novel by Marsha Mehran
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.46 The story of three Iraninan siters who escaped the revolution and settled in Ireland
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 | The Lace Reader: A Novel by Brunonia Barry
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $0.67 Ths book had some potential, but didn't quite deliver.
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 | City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Average story. My bookstore had it in the literature section, rather than Young adult, where it belonged.
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 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $4.31 A heartwarming and witty story told through letters between an author, her best friend, her publisher and a strange group of characters who formed the society during WWII.
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 | Testimony: A Novel by Anita Shreve
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $0.24 This book was terrible! Itis told from multiple perspectives and had a lot of potential, but the chracters were under-developed and it just fell a bit flat.
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 | Sapogonia by Ana Castillo
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $0.59 This was certainly no 'So Far From God' - very different to what I was expecting. A bit of a chore to get through unfortunately.
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 | A Handbook to Luck (Vintage Contemporaries) by Cristina Garcia
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $2.95 |
 | The Forgotten Garden: A Novel by Kate Morton
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $11.67 This was a real page turner for me. It is the story of one woman's search for who she really is, told from different generational viewpoints.
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 | The House at Riverton: A Novel by Kate Morton
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $0.66 This book was really quite boring. It took a long time to read and was nowhere near as good as The Forgotten Garden
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 | Bitter Chocolate by Lesley Lokko
Buy used from: $2.96 This was a pretty trashy and predictable novel. The characters were two dimensional and most of it was just such a cliche!
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