false <![CDATA[Tooth and Claw]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173915937m/344623.jpg 344623 4 A tale of love, money, and family conflict--among dragonsA family deals with the death of their father. A son goes to court for his inheritance. Another son agonises over his father's deathbed confession. One daughter becomes involved in the abolition movement, while another sacrifices herself for her husband.And everyone in the tale is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses....in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which the great and the good avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. 422657 book 2003 Tooth and Claw total:115|5:25|4:50|3:29|2:7|1:4| 115 430 211 35 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:35:54 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 13:37:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 08 19:49:23 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 17 09:26:58 -0800 2008 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 20:27:13 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 20:35:46 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Sep 28 11:49:02 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 12:41:28 -0700 2008 The fight that breaks out over how to divvy up the corpse spills over into the family dynamics, where the dragons will enter into things to...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 08:06:50 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 10:19:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 29 09:09:46 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 10:28:59 -0800 2008 1 You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister but they were interesting all the same.

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