drama 

2012: #56 – The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)

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Title: Glass Menagerie Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback Pages:  128 Publisher: New Directions Source: library Read the back of the book No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams’s first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its

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nf - memoir non-fiction 

2012: #55 – Everybody into the Pool (Beth Lisick)

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Title: Everybody Into The Pool: True Tales Author: Beth Lisick Format: Paperback Pages:  240 Release Date: 2005 Publisher: Avon Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America’s deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents’ Leave It

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horror science fiction 

2012: #54 – The Passage (Justin Cronin)

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Title: The Passage: A Novel Author: Justin Cronin Series: Passage Trilogy #01 Format: Kindle/Audiobook Pages:  785 Release Date: June 8, 2010 Publisher: Ballantine Books Source: personal copy Read the back of the book “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a

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2012: #53 – Monkeewrench (P.J. Tracy)

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Title: Monkeewrench Author: P.J. Tracy Series: Monkeewrench #01 Format: Kindle Pages:  432 Release Date: April 5, 2004 Publisher: Signet Source: personal copy Read the back of the book People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first

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