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  <title><![CDATA[Making Waves]]></title>
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  <default_description>n a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not only with his disability but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette's new shop, Making Waves, that causes ripples throughout the small southern community. In a sequence of events-sometimes funny, sometimes tragic-the lives of Donnette, Tim, and others in their small circle of family and friends are unavoidably affected. Once the waves of change surge through Zion County, the lives of its people are forever altered.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Cassandra King]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 10 14:02:18 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminded me in the beginning, when Donnette was speaking, of a Clyde Edgerton novel, but Ms King soon developes a voice and style of her own. Told from several different points of view, the story and back story unfold, until the reader has a clear picture of the strength and grit of Donnette (for th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42598515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[AKA: Sandra Ray King (wife of Pat Conroy)<br/> First published as &quot;Making Waves in Zion&quot;]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dumbest ending ever!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the book was well written and that I knew a couple of the characters very well. I was extremely disappointed by the ending, and sad that the characters that I came to like the most didn't get the ending I wanted for them. I was geared up for a great ending that never happened.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the story-telling of this book. The story takes place in a small town, and chapters are told by different people. I love the characters- flawed and real, but the ending was disappointing. I will read another book by King to see if it does any better for me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[very good. Cassandra King is a talented author.  Every novel she's written gives me an attachment to her characters.  I feel like I've made friends after finishing her stories!<br/><br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a page turner!  Excellent characterization and unraveling plot.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll let you know how it goes!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[good book :)]]></body>
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