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  The Language of Flowers

  by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  • Rated 5 stars

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  I loved this book, such an amazing story told so well, I didn't want to put it down. Suspense, sadness & happiness all rolled into a fabulous book.
  
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  Across the Universe Trilogy: Book 1

  Across the Universe

  by Beth Revis

  • Rated 4 stars

  Karin wrote:
  Amy Martin's parents are cryogenically frozen for a 300 year voyage to a planet at Centauri. She thought she had to go for sure, but at the last minute, her father has her mother frozen first, then tells her he'll go second so that she can choose what she wants to do without pressure. Amy is torn between her boyfriend and life on earth and going with her parents to wake up on an unknown planet. As the title suggests, she goes....
  
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  The Forgotten 500

  by Gregory A. Freeman

  • Rated 4 stars

  Regina L wrote:
  One of the major strategic campaigns during WWII for American bombers was to destroy oil fields in Romania. These oilfields were vital to supporting the Axis and, thus, fiercely protected by the Germans. Routinely American airmen were shot down during these strikes. For those fortunate to go down over Yugoslavia they were greeted by villagers showering them with kisses, sacrificing the comfort of their beds, and eating only after the American’s had eaten even though there was barely enough...
  
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  The Yellow Birds

  by Kevin Powers

  • Rated 3 stars

  Amanda B wrote:
  I've put off writing this review for a few days now while I mulled the book over because something in it just didn't work for me. And this, indeed, is a conundrum, because this novel should have been tailor-made for me. Generally speaking, I'm a fan of contemporary war novels. I don't enjoy them as escapist entertainment; I take them seriously and I respect them because I want to learn, I want to listen, I want to know what it's like to go to war without actually having to go to war. In some...
  
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  Mrs. Bridge

  by Evan S. Connell

  • Rated 5 stars

  Darra W wrote:
  Through a series of brief but telling vignettes, Connell builds a masterful character study of a middle-aged woman bound by the conventions and mores of her predictable, upper-middle-class life in 1930s Kansas City. Brilliant!
  
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