Vanessa rated The Shelters of Stone: 3 stars
The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel (Earth's Children, No. 5)
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their …
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Vanessa rated Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Dance Dance Dance: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Story of a Marriage: 4 stars
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick
A Washington Post Book of the Year
"We think we know the ones we …
Vanessa rated Difficult Loves: 3 stars
Vanessa rated The Collector (Back Bay Books): 3 stars
The Collector (Back Bay Books) by John Fowles
Fowles’ stunning debut is a study of a lonely young sociopath who kidnaps the woman he has fixated on, keeping …
Vanessa rated Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Razor's Edge: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Sister Bernadette's barking dog: 3 stars
Sister Bernadette's barking dog by Kitty Burns Florey
Once wildly popular and used by teachers across America to teach grammar, sentence diagramming is now a lost art to …
Vanessa rated The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1): 4 stars
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Stephen Colbourn, Pearl S. Buck, Nick Bertozzi, and 3 others
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung …
Vanessa rated Wives and Daughters: 3 stars
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in …
Vanessa rated Treasure island: 3 stars
Treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson (A Scribner storybook classic)
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her …
Vanessa rated Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1): 5 stars
Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Classics Illustrated ) (2021, Independently Published)
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Classics Illustrated ) by Thomas Hardy
An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to …
