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Vanessa rated The Awakening: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Sandman: Endless Nights: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The sound and the fury: 4 stars
William Faulkner: The sound and the fury (1987, Garland, Garland Publishing, Incorporated)
The sound and the fury by William Faulkner (William Faulkner manuscripts ;)
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates …
Vanessa rated Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Death: The High Cost of Living: 4 stars
Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman
From the pages of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN comes the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every …
Vanessa rated My life in France: 3 stars
My life in France by Julia Child
Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and …
Vanessa rated The Yellow Wallpaper: 3 stars
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1997)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Specially printed limited edition release for the Miskatonic Literary Society.
Vanessa rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Όμηρος
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
Vanessa rated Great Expectations: 4 stars
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the …
Vanessa rated Secret Garden (Children's Classics): 3 stars
Secret Garden (Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin …
Vanessa rated An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet, #5): 4 stars
Vanessa rated Culinary intelligence: 2 stars
Culinary intelligence by Peter Kaminsky
"A formerly over-weight food writer tells us how t maximize flavor per calorie so we can keep our waistlines slim …
Vanessa rated Speaker for the dead: 4 stars
Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender (2))
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …
Vanessa rated Ender's Game: 5 stars
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #1)
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and …