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	Contemporary American Trauma Narratives 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry Roth's Semi- Autobiographical Tetralogy Mercy of a Rude Stream, 1994 - 1998: The Second Career of an American Novelist by Alan Gibbs (Goodreads Author), Judie Newman (Foreword by) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Alan Gibbs - Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (2014-08-14) [Paperback] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	British Music: v. 31: Some Views of the Hipkins Memorial; William Hurlstone; E-J. Moeran; Herbert Sumsion 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spell out the News. Carol for unison voices with divisions, and organ or piano (or brass). Words and music by A. Gibbs 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mother sings. Carol for treble voices and descant recorders with piano or organ. Words and music by A. Gibbs. [Staff and tonic sol-fa notation. Score.] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Ways of getting there. 6 moderately easy pieces for piano 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Song of Mercy. Anthem for treble voices ... Words from Psalm 103, and Kyrie eleison 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mass in English. For choir and congregation. < Accompaniment. - Voice card. > 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Margaret's Communion. Series 3. For congregation and choir in unison (optional S. A. T. B.) with organ or piano 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alan Gibbs and 18 other people liked Eugene's review of Slumberland: "a sly and outrageous book that i don’t know why isn’t getting more attention or wasn’t on anyone’s best of 08 lists. it may be provincial to say but i’ll read a hundred beatty’s before i read a book about friggin cricket. a strange curse to be the sma" Read more of this review »
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Alan Gibbs and 21 other people liked Emmeline's review of Mostly Hero: "I am partial to a good run-on sentence, and Anna Burns knows the kind I like, the kind that feels uncontrolled and yet is anything but, that heaps clause upon clause and absurdity upon improbability, and inverts words for an effect that is more comic" Read more of this review »
May 02, 2026 02:25PM · see review
Alan Gibbs rated a book really liked it Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy, #3) by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Alan Gibbs and 59 other people liked Craig's review of John Henry Days: "I am befuddled by these reviews. I have tried to read The Intuitionist 4 times; APEX is a riff on all the good in John Henry Days; Sag Harbor worked better as a short story. But John Henry Days? This is about my 11th time reading it, this time in pre" Read more of this review »
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Alan Gibbs rated a book really liked it John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Alan Gibbs rated a book really liked it Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Alan Gibbs rated a book liked it A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) by Chester Himes	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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