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Carol Fisher Saller
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My walk to work takes me down a charming 1890s street that is under constant renewal, and over the years I’ve enjoyed watching the restoration of several frame cottages and a couple of large Victorian beauties. Yesterday I stopped to watch some workers tear off a roof, and I wondered why it was being done several months into the rehab instead of at the beginning. Does that mean water was leakin...
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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
  4.03 avg rating — 192 ratings
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2009
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Eddie's War
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2011
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Moonlight Blogger
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2011
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No Name Baby is my favorite kind of book, in that it presents us with a realistic teenager, throws some pretty awful situations at her, shows us her worst, and makes us love her and ache for her in spite of her flaws. Nancy Bo Flood knows how to blen...more |
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[Disclosure: I had the good fortune to read this book before publication, since the author is a friend.] Monstrous Beauty has all the ingredients to become a classic: complex characters, meticulous plotting, intelligent prose, and page-turning situati...more |
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| An excellent read. Gritty, real. Samarov sketches his experiences driving a cab both in words and with his own drawings. I've lived in Chicago 25 years, and I've never seen this side of it close up, but the details ring true. | |
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| I loved this book. The situation is heart-wrenching, of a young boy who has had so little stability and love in his life that he’s never learned how to let down his guard and trust someone. Now his little sister’s life is in danger, and his lonelines...more | |
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| This is a delightful and heartwarming novel! It tells the story of Delia, whose world is literally struck by lightning in a summer storm. With Mama in a coma, the house condemned, and no family to draw on, Delia is taken in by kindly neighbors and le...more | |
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