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Published on September 28, 2011 12:24 • 137 views • Tags: a-thousand-lives, jim-jones, jonestown, scheeres
Average rating: 3.94 · 6,587 ratings · 1,129 reviews · 4 distinct works
Jesus Land
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 5,841 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
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A Thousand Lives: The Untol...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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Alicia Erian can knit humor out of the most dour of circumstances. Her writing is so lively it almost breathes. I can't wait to read her forthcoming memoir....
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Being Dead by Jim Crace
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The most intense opening to a book I've ever read.
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Blindness by José Saramago
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A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
" Hear these people's stories. You need to.

I wish I could give this book ten stars. No, fifteen. A THOUSAND STARS.

It’s a history of the Jonestown Massacre. If you were born after 1980 like me, you probably only know some cursory information about i... "
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Jesus Boy by Preston L. Allen
Jesus Boy
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May 6, 2010
The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy
By JULIA SCHEERES
JESUS BOY
By Preston L. Allen
368 pp. Akashic Books. Paper, $15.95
What is it about church that is so damn sexy? The question has bugged me for a long time. An erotic current runs just below the dis...more
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“It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.”
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Around the World ...: Guyana 2 18 Aug 24, 2011 05:01pm  
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