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    <body><![CDATA[There's a little bit of suspension of disbelief (LOTS of coincidences)to totally enjoy this book, but enjoy it you should. It reads fast, but unfolds slowly, and has a highly satisfactory ending that shouldn't come as a surprise, but did to me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary: 16-year-old Lucas finds an old lady in an urn, who just so happens to have some connection to his missing dad. If he can find out who the dead lady was, can he find his dad?<br/><br/>Review: From the brief description of this on Amazon, I wasn’t interested. It sounded like a ghost story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47687831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Me: Lucas Swain—I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. </p> <p> The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. </p> <p> The Dead: That's Violet . . . in the urn. Speaking of crazy—I know she's trying to tell me something, and I think it's about my father. . . . </p> <p> A dead lady may not be much to go on, but my dad's out there somewhere, and it's up to me to find out where. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Me, the Missing, and the Dead<br/>Jenny Valentine<br/><br/>&quot;It's the not knowing that's hard.&quot;<br/><br/>For Lucas, a sixteen year old Londoner, his father's sudden<br/>disappearance has been haunting at him -- and moreso now that he's found Violet.  Violet Park was last a little old lady. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44566700">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In a nutshell – London teenager Lucas Swain bonds emotionally with the cremated remains of an old famous pianist named Violet, causing him to come to a greater understanding not just of old people, but also of himself, his family, and his long-vanished dad.  Oh, and Lucas gets quite a great girlfr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41556490">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is on the narrow edge between realistic fiction and a ghost story. The result is a fascinating tale of a teenaged boy, his missing father, and what may or may not be the ghost of a woman whose ashes were left in the office of a taxi company. <br/>It reminds me of the Terry Pratchett &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19404447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a short, funny, quirky book that is simultaneously a powerful coming-of-age story.  Lucas walks into a cab office one morning and finds himself drawn to an urn on the shelf, which contains the ashes of a dead woman and was found abandoned in a cab a year ago... about the time Lucas's father ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40367727">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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