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  <title><![CDATA[Homemade Love]]></title>
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  <default_description>In one of the best-loved volumes of her work, J. California Cooper tells exuberant tales full of wonder at the mystery of life and the hardness of fate. Awed, bedeviled, bemused, all of Cooper's characters are borne up by the sheer power of life itself.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was hilarious in the first couple of short stories. Then I was saddened because of the content of some of the stories. It actually made me print up that old &quot;slave masters&quot; document by Willie Lynch, how to make a slave. It harbored some of the those old feelings of ligh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47242880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All her books are excellent. I love the way she develops relationships in the books. The characters are full bodied and realistic. Not just cut and dried romance. You always learn something from Ms. Coopers stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy reading short stories. Although,the way it is written can be<br/>hard to follow but the stories shows different families,their struggles, triumphs, losses,and how they interact with eachother.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I loved the short stories in this book, I found myself comparing them to real life situations. The grammer I thought was poor, but that was the tone that the author was delivering for that<br/>time.                                                           ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love starts at home in your body, love yourself and everything else will fall into place.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started my love of all things J. California Cooper.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[anything written by J is good. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written.  Loved this book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book. Laughed out loud funny]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[J.California Cooper teaches you how to become a better person with her great gift for storytelling. Her writing is powerful enough to change humanity if we allowed her to open up our minds and let go of the negativity that binds us together...to hate. ]]></body>
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