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Kiana Davenport
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About this author
Hello World. My mind was recently blown when I read about THE FAREWELL INTERCOURSE LAW, an antiquated law in Egypt, whereby a husband is legally allowed to have sex with his wife for up to six hours after her death. Necrophilia,anyone??? The law was established generations(centuries?)ago to support the Islamist belief that marriage extends beyond this life. Today it is highly controversial, and...
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Shark Dialogues
  4.14 avg rating — 648 ratings
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1994
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Song of the Exile
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House of Many Gods: A Novel
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2006
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House of Skin: Prize-Winning Stories
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2010
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CANNIBAL NIGHTS Pacific Stories, Volume II
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2011
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Gesang Der Verlorenen Frauen Roman
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2005
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Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
by Jessica Hagedorn , Marilyn Chin, Lawrence Chua 3.93 avg rating — 102 ratings
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1993
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Song of the Exile [Audiobook]
by Davenport Kiana, David Ambrose, Kiana Davenport (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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1999
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"I was a little later, but I think writing was classier in those days. Remember Doris Lessing's THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK...wow, and we thought that was racy...more
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"Robert, I loved this review! It's as classy as Bennett himself. I always thought he was my own little discovery but thats what comes from
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Smut: Stories Imagine, if you will, that the cast of Monte Python got together and wrote dirty little stories. Only they wrote them in a somewhat serious mode – of course, being Monte Python they would need to be full of tongue in cheek, satirical... " Read more of this review » |
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"Regina, try the Francois Sagan book on Amazon as BONJOUR, TRISTESSE, it was an international bestseller.
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"Yes! THE PAINTED VEIL is a must! Beautiful! Also I recommend a gorgeous novel from Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT which you may know. Not all i...more
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I almost wish I'd given "The Hunger Games" a four out of five star rating since I thought that "Catching Fire" was even better than the first book. I hadn't known it would be possible to enjoy a book more than "The Hunger Games", but I guess I was...
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"I think of Clancy as more of a 'man's author.' I mean, he doesn't write scenes of childbirth and single moms. But...he's an excellent writer.
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It took me awhile to get into this and, in the beginning, I thought it was ponderous and pretentious but then it began to click as I understood the characters better and I was utterly swept away.
The two primary characters, Renee and Paloma, live i... " Read more of this review » |
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“She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.”
― Kiana Davenport, Shark Dialogues
― Kiana Davenport, Shark Dialogues
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| The Feminist Read...: Game: The Last Letter | 74 | 15 | Nov 19, 2011 03:45am | |
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