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  <title><![CDATA[In the Heart of the Canyon]]></title>
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  <default_description>The temperature is over 100. The rapids are some of the largest in North America. Water levels are rising. And JT Maroney, veteran river guide, is leading his 125th trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. For the next two weeks, his 13 passengers - strangers, mostly - will paddle, row, swim, ride the rapids, eat gourmet meals, sleep under the stars, and learn a lot about geology. They'll learn a lot about each other, too - perhaps more than they want to know. Allegiances form, and likewise dissolve, in the course of an afternoon. JT's decision on the first day to adopt a stray dog further complicates the group dynamics, leading to a series of fateful mishaps, one of which will alter the course of many lives.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elisabeth Hyde]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in one day--almost in one sitting--so yeah, I'm giving it five stars.<br/><br/>Would I love it as much if I didn't grown up in Arizona and later take a week-long rafting trip down the Grand Canyon?  Maybe not. But anyone can appreciate this novel's mix of soapy page-turning and contempla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71568776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Linda says:<br/><br/>For those of us who can't afford a rafting trip down the Grand Canyon, or perhaps might have more qualms than a desire to do so, along comes &quot;In the Heart of the Canyon&quot; by Elisabeth Hyde. For 12 passengers and their 3 guides this rafting trip will become 13 days tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65835795">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn to this book because I am yearning for an outdoor adventure, but lack the travel budget. What could be better than an armchair adventure down the Colorado River? Elisabeth Hyde creates an assortment of characters, then has them run the river, with a few surprises along the way. The autho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71618667">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's nearly impossible for me to summarize this book. For a few days, this was my own personal Colorado River adventure. The characters felt like my friends, and as each day passed in the book and the strangers felt closer to eachother, I felt closer to them. These people from all different walks of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69044809">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like one of the twelve disparate people who signed up for this river trip through the canyon, I could tell before Hyde had even taken me over the first rapid that I was in the hands of a master storyteller. Heart of the Canyon is an apt title, resonating evocatively with the real aim of this novel, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64726585">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was very entertaining as it took you on a river rafting trip, and the characterizations were well written.  But toward the end, the plot veared off in a bizarre direction.  Amy maliciously intended to photo another rafter, photoshop the picture to ridicule him, and post it on the Internet. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66567514">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than average beach read due to the author's obvious passion for river riding.  Instead of presenting a mystery, Hyde chooses wisely to make the plot contingent upon her well defined characters and the effect the experience has on their lives.  The characters, including the trip leader, are al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70755790">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know if Elisabeth Hyde has a formula or not as this is the first of her novels that I've read.  I hope there's no formula because as fresh and new as this style was to me, it would sadden me if I picked up Hyde's next book and found it predictable right from the beginning....<br/><br/>In t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64490452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2 1/2 stars.  Nice summer read.  Some annoying foul language.  This idea had great potential for some fabulous character development as the company was going down the canyon rapids.  And I'm sure many many people experience life-changing shifts in attitudes, but the soul-catching change was not ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68029932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a group of strangers converging for a rafting trip down the Colorado River, whom all have various personal goals for taking the trip. I found the characters a bit to contrite, yet there are some well thought-out surprises in the book that kept it interesting enough to read. I was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71458554">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the perfect read for our late August staycation.  I had all the vicarious thrills of a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, without any of the drawbacks of packing and getting there!  It is chockful of interesting characters and situations and amazing scenery. The lead guide is a wise man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69878416">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw this book and thought it would be a fun summer read .... and it was. It's about a group of people doing a Grand Canyon river raft trip. The descriptions of the scenery and the raft trip made me feel like I was there! My only problem was that I thought it would some kind of a disaster story, so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67532849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because it's about a rafting trip down the Colorado River.  I love rafting and it brought me back to all the trips we took before we had kids.  Besides that, the characters were so interesting and relatable.  It was the perfect balance between adventure and the group psychology of b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70138463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved Hyde's ability to crack open her character's hearts while also dropping deeper into the heart of the Colorado River's beauty.  I couldn't put down this unpredictable book. I loved the journey and reflecting on my own inner trepidation witnessing Hyde's out-of-boat rapid experience that became ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67774843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It didn't have much plot (I seem to be reading a lot of enjoyable books like that lately).  It's about a group of people going on a raft trip down the Grand Canyon and what happens on the trip and the relationships that develop.  It was a little unbelievable that so many...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65451204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78901229">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author's descriptions of the canyon and day-to-day life on the river were nice. She's clearly done some boating in the Grand Canyon. Parts of the story were a bit of a stretch, though. It seemed like crazy incidents from many trips were combined into this one story. I guess that's what kept it e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78901229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truthfully, if the author would have stuck with themes related to rafting down the Grand Canyon it would have been a much better book, but the subtheme between Amy and her mother Sue ruined the book for me.  I'd really not recommend it.  Also, the language was not the best and thus, I don't enjoy th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76305568">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 22 21:33:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is like the Grand Canyon white water rafting trip you've always wanted to take.  Each time I picked it up I felt like I was on vacation.  It is told from the point of view of the guides and the passengers.  You keep turning the pages, wondering what impending doom will surface.  A fun read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68519001">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 06:48:37 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably would have given it 3 stars if I hadn't done the same 2 week trip down the Grand Canyon.  She really captures what it is like, not just the physical experience, but the emotional and spiritual experience and the relationships between the passengers and the guides.<br/><br/>If you've gone ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66796911">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 01 15:27:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elisabeth Hyde has crafted an entertaining and readable novel based on her memory of being tipped out of a boat on a trip through the rapids in the Grand Canyon. Here a disparate group of travellers and guides come together for a memorable trip. Family and personal crises come to the fore as the adv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68075364">more...</a>]]></body>
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