BrerChicken rated Doomsday Book: 4 stars

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …
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Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning …

In the second of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy, Ned's holiday in Victorian England becomes a mad struggle to put …

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Fifteen-year-old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for …

As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate …

Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves …

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck …

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …

The bestselling author of "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" and "Skinny Legs and All" makes his triumphant return. Robbins explores, …

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. …

Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a …

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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are …

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“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to …