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		<title>Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro Reviewed by Paula Shackleton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Munro’s 14th book, Too Much Happiness (published by McClelland &#038; Stewart 2009) is a collection of ten short stories. The first story is about a girl who is befriended by a male orderly during visits with her mother in the hospital. The mother has surgery and dies. The couple’s relationship turns romantic and soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Islands: One Mister Pip</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The immortal character &#8220;Pip&#8221; from Charles Dickens&#8217; most autobiographical work, Great Expectations is the clay from which New Zealand author, Lloyd Jones has molded his own stunning monument Mister Pip &#8211; a book that has captivated the heart of people everywhere and won him the Commonwealth Writers&#8217; Prize (2008) and finalist for the Man Booker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill</title>
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		<title>“A Concise Chinese – English Dictionary for Lovers” by Xiaolu Guo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poet from the age of fifteen, Xiaolu Guo first came to London in 2002 as an experienced novelist and filmmaker. Her observations led to her third book, the first in English, an amazing mix of eastern and western ideals with a clever, funny, and engaging writing style. Guo’s novel explores a subject that many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Something Borrowed&#8221; by Emily Giffin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst helping her perfect friend pick out the perfect dress with the perfect matching lip stick and nail polish for her upcoming wedding should the maid of honor really be fantasizing about the groom? In &#8220;Something Borrowed&#8221;, Emily Giffin’s debut novel brings us unashamed chick-lit with an edge. The reader is caught up in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before I Wake, by Robert J. Wiersema</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 15:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a single moment of distraction&#8230; ‘Sometimes we can only watch, mute witnesses as our lives change in a moment, in a heartbeat, in the time it takes a three-year-old girl to take a single step from our side.’ Robert J. Wiersema sets the scene of his debut novel and within the first chapter I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Boyd&#8217;s, &#8220;Any Human Heart&#8221; will capture yours.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To my intense and gratifying embarrassment Mr. Holden-Dawes commended my essay on Dryden to the English upper sixth as a model of the form. &#8216;I&#8217;m sure that if any of you seek enlightenment Mountstuart will allow a private reading for a modest fee,&#8217; he said. (Unkindly, I though: H-D has a malicious streak. But perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can We Stop World Poverty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read one book this spring, read Jeffery Sachs' "End of Poverty" ]]></description>
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		<title>The Iron Whim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fragmented History of Typewriting]]></description>
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		<title>Facing the Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Modern Day Adventurer]]></description>
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		<title>Lori Lansens&#8217; &#8220;The Girls&#8221; (Random House Canada)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each of us has some small or large flaw that defines us, perhaps challenges us and with love can become our most endearing feature. Lori explores the concept in the extreme with the freakish lives of Ruby and Rose, conjoined twins at the skull, who lead us to a simple truth; our differences define us, but the gift of humanity binds us in the same fundamental hopes, dreams and disappointments. ]]></description>
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		<title>BookBuffet Podcast Interviews gets Rave Review from Blogcritics.org</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["The Podcasts I've picked all have good audio quality, pro level or near-pro level, are well produced, have intelligent insightful content, and are way better than if the same material were to be available in printed or html/xml form.]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Hornby Goes A Long Way To Speak of Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down ]]></description>
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		<title>All The Names by Jose Saramago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saramago won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. He is 93. His books are translated from Portuguese.]]></description>
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		<title>The Kite Runner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A powerful first novel by author Khaled Hosseini set in Afghanistan tells a gripping story of a young boy's struggle for identity and manhood. and redemption from a childhood secret. ]]></description>
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		<title>Was The Piano Tuner Accomplice to a Spy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Mason's brilliant and seductive first novel, "The Piano Tuner" has our book group divided. ]]></description>
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		<title>BB interviews Tracy Quan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2005 21:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bookbuffet took some time last week to talk with &#8220;Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl&#8221; author Tracy Quan. Tracy talks candidly about writing, literature, the sex trade and other insights from her unique point of view. The interview will be serialized and posted on this blog in installments in both .mp3 and RealAudio formats. Additionally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second WR Book Title: Small Island by Andrea Levy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2005 23:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small Island, By Andrea Levy (Picador 2005) Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and Whitbred Book of the Year Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book Which small island is Andrea Levy referring to in her fourth and multi-prize winning novel, which has swept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First WR Discussion a Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2005 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussion of <strong>Rockbound</strong>, by Parker Day Lewis]]></description>
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		<title>Syndication Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 14:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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