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  <default_description>The once-fertile Earth of Dora Henry's childhood has been undervalued and overdeveloped. Now nature, apparently, has decided to fight back.
Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight, a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place.

And, strangest of all, Dora can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora.

A potential civilization-ending catastrophe is in the making. The nearer Dora gets to a muderer - and to the truth - the more seemingly disparate events begin to entwine. And the answers she seeks today to the salvation of humankind may lie in a far distant future...one which is suddenly much closer than anyone imagines.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[SHERI S. TEPPER-- Author of many books including these I have read and recommend: After Long Silence, The Awakeners, Beauty, Companions, The Family Tree, The Fresco, The Gate to Women's Country, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Grass, Plague of Angels, Raising the Stones, Shadow's End, Sideshow, Singer Fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13534071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book as part of the ABC Author challenge, as this was my first read of Tepper, and I must say, I was pleasantly swept up in the fantasy-world she created, and her interesting and comical allegories. While her political view sometimes comes out a bit strong, she has a wonderful delivery o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38462527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Personally, I think this is Tepper's best. The wide, mythic sweep of alien culture, existential drama, world-changing decisions, are all here. Her use of klunky exotic character names is kept in check, for once. The characters are more convincing than usual -- in fact, quite believable and enjoyable...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56487660">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sheri Tepper has a knack for keeping you completely mystified throughout much of her books, with multiple sets of characters, place, and times that seem to have little to do with each other. In this book, two story lines in the first half of the book, from different world and even peoples, seemingly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26805391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;One of Tepper's greats.  Less anger towards mysogeny here and more focus on humankind's general respect for the world around us.  I can't be too specific without spoiling certain plot devices, but this is a good read, occasionally heart-wrenching and touching, but never as heavy-handed as some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73992885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great story about a group of time travelers from a dystopian future attempting to recover a messiah figure from the distant past, from the time just before the start of the current plight.  An excellent Tepper book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was freaking awesome. At first I was puzzled by the storylines--they seemed like they had NOTHING in common, but then they collided in a magnificent way. The characters were rather endearing, and the story? I found it to be rather hopeful in the end.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My good friend Janet Crowe lent me this book from her BookCrossing network. All I can say is I enjoyed it very much and there were definitely surprises and plot twists that I hadn't expected.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that made me love this one and only science fiction author. It is like a beautiful set of nesting boxes. Each new treasure opened makes you gasp at what is revealed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My other favorite Tepper book. Dora Henry is a likable character and the surprise in the middle of the book is very creative.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember loving this book, but it's been a while so I barely remember what it's about!  Time to re-read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely book, great storytelling, nicely written, too. <br/><br/>Will be kept to be reread.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  But it's hard to write a review that doesn't spoil it. In the beginning the author moves between two worlds. The modern earth timeline I found the most interesting and the storylines moved along quicky. In contrast the other timeline had a lot of new characters (and coun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31367093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the first part of the book very much.  In fact, I thought it was going to be a keeper.  The first major plot twist didn't sit very well with me, and I'm not sure why.  (I'd tell you what that twist was but don't want to spoil it for you.)  The plot proceeded to get curiosier and curiosier, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53346206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a little trouble with the  non explained alternating stories that seemed to have nothing to do with one another at the start of the book. It was really interesting watching how those seperate stories slowly evolved and merged together to form the end of the book.<br/><br/>I've heard good thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17523669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61373464">
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301082.Dead_Until_Dark_Sookie_Stackhouse_1_" title="Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1) by Charlaine Harris">Fresco</a>, now wanting more of Tepper.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[sheri is one of my most favorite authors ever ever. i'd been waitting to read this book for years, it had been languishing on my list and was never available. the book didn't dissapoint. another fantasy book with a moral about our life, done in a nonpreachy way. her later books have people from now ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34342504">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is only an example of my favorite sci-fantasy author; she is imaginative and clever and doesn't think her audience is stupid--and she has delightfully surprised me more than a few times; she has been compared to Ursula LeGuin; she explores so many different issues in her stories: social mores, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17760950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is some kind of book where trees attack people or something? I always start reading a new author with a lot of hope in my heart because if the author is good I can devour every other book she/he has written in hope that it will be as good as the first one. I might have read other books ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10462932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as enjoyable as <em>Grass</em>, but still very absorbing.  She does manage to bring very disparate plot elements together, and I was surprised at how willing I accepted some of the more extravagant plot elements.  This one has an environmental message.  (Tepper's books <em>do</em> tend to have some sort of messag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3992776">more...</a>]]></body>
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