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Caught between Kali's seductive wiles and the trusting adoration of Dr. O'Keefe's daughter, Poly, Adam finds himself enmeshed in a deadly power struggle between two groups of people, only one of which can have right on its side. As the danger escalates, Adam must make a decision that could affect the entire world&amp;mdash;which side is he on?</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book influenced me to become a scientist. It takes a heck of a lot more skill to write a really good &quot;kid's book&quot; than a best selling adult novel. Madeleine L'Engle once said that when she had something really important to say she put it in a children's book. <br/>Not only did this b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17047166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love Madeleine L'Engle books.  I love the families she gives most (main) characters-- strong, unique, loving, intellectual, spiritual families.  I've only read her YA and JF books, but the themes aren't childish-- they deal with death, hard choices, and good and evil-- but she doesn't leave y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22057001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[joey carr's mother was a librarian at one of the local high schools, and she found out i was a huge fan of l'engle. she recommended this to me, telling me that she had actually written books for adults and teenagers, outside of the <em>wrinkle</em> universe. (or as l'engle herself divides them, <em>chronos</em> (aust...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1784377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good young adult fiction here. Goes up on the list with Z for Zachariah, Ender's Game, and Feed as one of my favorite books written for young people.  A few things I really liked about it:<br/><br/>• There was genuine ambiguity in the characters. L'Engle wrong-foots you from the beginning...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8667147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intrigue! Espionage! Double agents! I was rather surprised by the rapid appearance of these elements. There are still enough of the usual L'Engle traits recognizable in the O'Keefe family and their actions and beliefs but this book introduces elements of science, politics, morality, and mortality in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29131693">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow I have managed to work around my busy movie-watching, clothes shopping, lunching schedule to reread some of the kids books in my basement. Frankly, I think this book is amazing, A lot of adult novels (and movies for that matter) tend to go so far out of their way to make a point that they lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7908082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few books have made the transition from my childhood to adult shelf, but this book is a really fun mystery.  I never read the rest of the series, actually, but if you are looking for something that is Madeleine L'Engle deep (which all fans of A Wrinkle In Time series know can be very deep indeed), o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30735568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Madeleine L'Engle creates a character they seldom appear in only one book, or even just one series for that matter. In The Arm of the Starfish a few of L'Engle's beloved characters from her Newberry Award winning book, A Wrinkle in Time, appear older, wiser and as parents.<br/><br/><br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45495827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sigh.  One begins to feel very possessive of Adam.  <br/><br/>Laurie can help me out here since I have not reread some of these for years but didn't M L'E mess up her generations here, making Adam a contemporary of Meg's daughter but also of Vicky Austin, when logically Vicky and Meg should be the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7285554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While not as fantastical as the Time Quartet, this book is much more action-packed and full of intrigue than the Austin family novels, which make up the bulk of my L'Engle reading.<br/>I liked it a lot, despite that.  It delves into the issues of trust and betrayal, and learning to still find goodn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69097039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy Shit.  The cover on this book looks cheesy; in 1989 it ruled.  And I think it still does.  I'll let y'all know.  It is all about a starfish's ability to regenerate, within a teenage romance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites -- combines international intrigue with the scientific and heartfelt plots that L'Engle usually writes. I've read it several times. The characters are memorable and interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First read in fifth grade instead of whatever I was supposed to be reading at the time.  Good choice, me!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cry every fucking time.  i thought i was fine for his death, then the funeral got me.  I read in one of ML'E's memoirs that one of her kids refused to listen to her read her stories anyomore after that.  i realized i should have read this one before the young unicorns, cause Cannon Tallis shows up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74087114">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book! For the first almost-quarter of the book, I thought the story was hackneyed and unimaginative, but as I discovered later, the way-too-coincidental &quot;accidents&quot; that occur early on weren't at all coincidental, and the seemingly-improbable were provided truly plausible and sat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73132264">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a re-read for me.  The way I remembered the book was as a story of the O'Keefe family who is living in Portugal so that their dad can study the special properties of starfish and the intern who comes to work with him.  I remembered it as an interesting book for those reasons.<br/><br/>The t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58481569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose I first read L'Engle in the mid-'60s--&quot;A Wrinkle in Time&quot;. I must have been in high school when I read &quot;The Young Unicorns&quot;, which is, like this one, a kind of thriller for teenagers. I don't remember when I first read &quot;Arm&quot;, but had been hankering to reread i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61381795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Last night as I was typing away at my book I paused and thought to myself &quot;why do I think I can be a writer?&quot; what an interesting question. I pondered this thought for a little while and realize that I can trace back my desire to write to one book that inspired me. For anyone that knows me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14152399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another good book my L'Engle.  I'm a bit confused about what she was getting at with it.  It's worth reading, but if I hadn't read more of her other books, I wouldn't be searching her out.  I didn't think that A Ring Of Endless Light really went that well together, and I felt that characters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68479091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book for free...the school library was giving it away.  A suspensful and fun read.  Although I realized halfway through that I had already read one of the later books in the series - which gave away the ending.  Oops!]]></body>
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