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This is a large format "coffee table" book filled with spectacular photos, some of which are nearly a meter in length due to ...
nataliya - "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry - a children's book really meant for adults
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As you may know, I have an up-and-down relationship with Connie Willis books. I think some of them are astoundingly good. I t...
In 2007 Sarah Monette released The Bone Key, a collection of previously-published stories featuring the same protagonist, th...
This book has captured the hearts and minds of readers and it has been acclaimed as the novel Charles Dickens should have wri...
But honestly...aren't there better ways for you to spend your eyeblinks than read this pedestrian tale of a wet man's walking...