Alex Awards Awards

The Kite Runner (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan ...More…

The Time Traveler's Wife (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon UK — Author Audrey Niffenegger EAN 9781931561648 ISBN 1931561648 Number Of Pages 518 Publication Date 2003-09-01 SKU BKK-02273374-BMore…

The Eyre Affair (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book ...More…

Upstate : A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon.com — Author Kalisha Buckhanon Format Bargain Price Number Of Pages 256 Publication Date 2005-01-01 SKU EB-LB-0312332688More…

Jesus Land: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon.com — Underrated Julia Scheeres' memoir has easily become one of my absolute favorites. The reader should be warned: this book is incredibly painful to read and will leave the reader feeling rancorous for the entire Midwest, every religious fanatic, and ...More…

Gil's All Fright Diner (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon.com — You just can't beat zombie cows... I read this book because it sounded funny, and it was pretty funny. Anyone who likes corny zombie movies would like this book. Two unlikely characters serve as the heroes of this tale. Earl (as in earl of the ...More…

The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon.com — Features: Condition: New Amazon.com Review Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In ...More…

As Simple as Snow (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon.com — "Snow's not simple at all..." This novel is easily one of the best books I've ever read. After simply reading the very first sentence of Gregory Galloway's As Simple as Snow, I was completely emersed into the story and the mystery ...More…

Leave Myself Behind (Alex Awards (Awards))

Amazon.com — Pretty Impressive I don't know exactly what I was expecting from this novel, but it delivered a lot more than I was anticipating. From all the reviews comparing it to The Catcher In The Rye, I was expecting a classic, gay take on the bildungsroman. In ...More…