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JB Emmons rated All Over but the Shoutin': 3 stars
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who …
JB Emmons rated The Humanitarian Conscience: 3 stars
JB Emmons rated The Catcher in the Rye: 3 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled …
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …
JB Emmons rated Sheltering Sky: 4 stars
Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are …
JB Emmons rated The Brothers Karamazov: 4 stars
The Brothers Karamazov by Thomas M. Cipolla (Barnes & Noble book notes, 860)
JB Emmons rated A Prayer for Owen Meany: 5 stars
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is.
This is …
JB Emmons rated The Cornish trilogy: 3 stars
JB Emmons rated A Wrinkle in Time: 4 stars
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the …
JB Emmons rated Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt …
JB Emmons rated Shawshank redemption.: 4 stars
Stephen King: Shawshank redemption. (2000, Warner)
Shawshank redemption. by Stephen King
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King from his 1982 collection Different Seasons, subtitled Hope Springs …
JB Emmons rated Death Blossoms: 3 stars
Imajica by Clive Barker
Imajica is a fantasy novel by British author Clive Barker. Barker, in 1997, named it as his favourite of all …
JB Emmons rated The Deptford trilogy: 4 stars
Robertson Davies: The Deptford trilogy (Penguin)
The Deptford trilogy by Robertson Davies
WHO KILLED BOY STAUNTON?
Around this central mystery is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the …