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Bailey White's gently humorous
first novel, Quite a Year for
Plums,
introduces small-town eccentrics in episodic
vignettes: a bird artist who has nightmares about
chicken feet; a man who dreams of typefaces; and
Roger, a plant pathologist whose awkward choices in
the romance department provide the fine threads of
the plot.
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Gary Kinder's saga of a real-life
treasure hunt, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue
Sea,
spawned a first-time critic: "This is probably the
first and last book review I will ever write,
however, I want to urge anyone who may read this
review to heed my advice: READ THIS
BOOK!
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Here's a book we're excited about:
Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, in which new money, raging egos,
illegal immigrants, and a controversial rape set
the elaborate plot in motion.
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The Most Wanted, a
Texan love story about a teenage beauty who marries
a convicted felon who tries to kidnap their
baby--and it's a tale of mothers, daughters, and a
guardian-angel attorney (whew!). Mitchard stopped
by our offices and told us how her second book
predicted the future and dramatically changed her
life.
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"Sunday 1 January. 129 lbs. (but
post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively
covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year's
Day), cigarettes 22, calories 5424." So begins
Bridget Jones's
Diary.
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