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avg rating 4.22
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date pub 1955
date pub edition Jan 16, 2006
Laurel's rating my rating review I'm doing a booktalk for the Friends of the Library on Saturday. Thought I'd build the talk around Tolstoy's War and Peace (which I still intend to fi...more I'm doing a booktalk for the Friends of the Library on Saturday. Thought I'd build the talk around Tolstoy's War and Peace (which I still intend to finish reading some day!) and then expand on all the World War II books that have come out lately like Suite Francaise, The Guernsey Literary...Society, Sarah's Key, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Book Thief, etc. This one is a staple of high school required reading lists, and it is short but eloquent. I listened to the book on CD which included the new preface and Wiesel's acceptance speech on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I was especially struck by this comment in the preface: "I am not so naive as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. " Is that true? - Surely books still have the power to change and/or to inspire individuals. That book for me growing up was Vinzi by Johanna Spyri about a boy overcoming his father's disapproval and prejudice to follow his dream of becoming a musician, and of the power of music to heal lives. But I digress...
Do you agree? Have books lost their power in today's world?
Description: Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man.
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.(less)
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avg rating 2.84
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date pub Jun 21, 2011
date pub edition Jun 22, 2011
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avg rating 3.69
num ratings 372
date pub Aug 01, 2006
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avg rating 3.83
num ratings 334
date pub 2009
date pub edition Sep 08, 2009
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avg rating 3.44
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date pub Mar 17, 2011
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avg rating 3.65
num ratings 3,546
date pub Aug 28, 2010
date pub edition Aug 31, 2010
Laurel's rating my rating review This was a delightful book. The characters are funny and engaging. 7-year-old Alice will steal your heart. The ghosts are believable, and the author b...more This was a delightful book. The characters are funny and engaging. 7-year-old Alice will steal your heart. The ghosts are believable, and the author builds in a nice tension between Dennis the doubting parapsychologist, and Isolde, the no-nonsense down-to-earth medium. Andie is a terrific, strong heroine. The romance, though, was definitely a side-story, and North was never really developed very well as the romantic hero, so that was the least compelling part of the book. Not a lot of substance here, which is why I didn't give it 5 stars. But if you're looking for a light, funny read with some very original characters, give this a try. Supposedly, it is a retelling of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. I might just have to read it and see. Description: Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already—and things are getting worse. He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can handle anything. When Andie meets the two children, she soon realizes it’s much worse than she feared. Carter and Alice aren’t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. Complicating matters is Andie’s fiancé’s suspicion that this is all a plan by North to get Andie back. He may be right because Andie’s dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that’s not the only haunting. Then her ex-brother-in-law arrives with a duplicitous journalist and a self-doubting parapsychologist, closely followed by an annoyed medium, Andie’s tarot card–reading mother, her avenging ex-mother-in-law, and her jealous fiancé. Just when Andie’s sure things couldn’t get more complicated, North arrives to make her wonder if maybe this time things could just turn out differently. Filled with her trademark wit, unforgettable characters, and laugh-out-loud scenarios, Maybe This Time shows why Jennifer Crusie is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time.(less)
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avg rating 3.88
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avg rating 4.03
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date pub Jan 01, 2011
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avg rating 3.81
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avg rating 3.79
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avg rating 3.67
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date pub 1870
date pub edition Jan 01, 2002
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avg rating 3.44
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avg rating 3.98
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date pub 1844
date pub edition Feb 13, 2001
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avg rating 4.03
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date pub edition Jan 14, 2003
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avg rating 3.78
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date pub 1876
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avg rating 3.65
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avg rating 3.27
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avg rating 3.88
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avg rating 2.54
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date pub Jan 18, 2012
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avg rating 4.09
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avg rating 3.76
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avg rating 3.71
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avg rating 3.53
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date pub Dec 02, 2008
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