rating float64 0 5 | title stringlengths 1 1.29k | text stringlengths 0 31.5k | images listlengths 0 36 | asin stringlengths 10 10 | parent_asin stringlengths 10 10 | user_id stringlengths 28 28 | timestamp int64 851B 1,680B | helpful_vote int64 -5 5.92k | verified_purchase bool 2
classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4 | Cat dives into culture and romance in "Heart and Salsa" | Cat Wilcox ditches frozen Boston for tropical Oaxaca, Mexico in order to escape her new stepdad and her happier memories of her life in Arizona as a regional diving champ. There, she hopes to spend all summer bonding with her best friend Sabrina, but when she arrives at the airport, Sabrina has more than her luggage in... | [] | 0142406473 | 0142406473 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,243,711,930,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Another solid entry in the S.A.S.S. series | The S.A.S.S. (Students Across the Seven Seas) series focuses on the lives of several female high school students that are studying abroad for a semester. In "When Irish Guys Are Smiling," Delk Sinclair escapes Nashville for Connemara after struggling with the recent death of her mother and her father's remarriage to a ... | [] | 0142410160 | 0142410160 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,243,681,870,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Fast-paced, bone-chilling sequel to "Evernight" | In [[ASIN:0061284440 Evernight]], Claudia Gray introduced Bianca, an almost-vampire who attends the spooky Evernight Academy, home to preppy vampires trying to fit in with 21st-century life. There, she met and fell in love with Lucas, a teenage vampire hunter and member of the feared Black Cross, as well as the handsom... | [] | 0061284408 | 0061284408 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,243,032,613,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A hip, touching update on a classic love story | In Alex Flinn's "Beastly," we're treated to a modern-day update of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. Here, the spoiled prince is Kyle Kinsgbury, son of a famous newscaster in New York. Kyle is rich, handsome, and cruel, and delights in mocking less popular students, but one day he picks the wrong target: a witc... | [] | 006087418X | 006087418X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,242,260,000,000 | 0 | false |
4 | An entertaining twist on fitting in with the "in crowd" | In "Evernight," Bianca desperately wants to escape Evernight Academy, the Gothic prep school populated by rich, snobby high schoolers who are used to jetsetting around the globe. Bianca saw no reason why she had to give up her old high school and friends in order to move to the secluded academy, which doesn't have cell... | [] | 0061284440 | 0061284440 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,242,085,216,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A beautiful mixture of cultures and memories | Tessa Kiros, daughter of a Finnish mother and a Greek Cypriot father, recounts the various flavors of her childhood and adult life (Finland, Greece, South Africa, Italy and beyond). Stories are interwoven into the simple yet delicious recipes and sprinkled with vintage family photographs and luminous photos that highli... | [] | 0740781529 | 0740781529 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,241,690,438,000 | 0 | false |
3 | A high seas adventure that lacks wind in its sails | Flint and Silver is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's [[ASIN:1416500294 Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series)]] that focuses on the early careers of Captain Flint and Long John Silver. John Drake used several unanswered questions from Treasure Island as his starting points: who was the terrifying Captain Flint... | [] | 141659275X | 141659275X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,240,886,708,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A haunting postwar coming-of-age tale | Set shortly after WWII, "What I Saw and How I Lied" is the dramatic coming-of-age of fifteen-year-old Evie Spooner. She and her friend Margie "smoke" candy cigarettes and long to be treated as young women rather than girls; Evie's mother dresses her in childish pinafores and forbids her to wear makeup. Her stepfather J... | [] | 0439903467 | 0439903467 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,240,669,572,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A fabulous treat for those in love with breakfast pastries | I admit it; I could happily live on breakfast alone. More specifically, luscious quick breads, muffins, and pastries. I have over two dozen baking books, but I still enjoy seeking out new recipes for pound cakes, quick breads, and international pastries such as danishes, croissants, and strudels. I bought Carole Walter... | [] | 0307237559 | 0307237559 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,238,892,566,000 | 5 | false |
4 | A timeless warning about the disappearance of natural resources | My Sister Sif by Ruth Park ([[ASIN:1903015111 Playing Beatie Bow]]) tells the tale of Rikoriko and her sister Sif. Orphaned after their father died, the girls are sent to live with their aunt in Australia. After growing up on the tropical paradise of Rongo, their new home Sydney, with its mad rush and choking pollution... | [] | 0140378154 | 0140378154 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,237,604,424,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A sweet story about believing in yourself | Rosie is learning to play The Dance of the Dinosaurs for her upcoming piano recital, but she's stumped by a tricky passage towards the end, made even more difficult by the fact that she was born with only nine fingers. She and her mother are holding down the fort since her father took a job in Milwaukee; their small mi... | [] | B001VL445Y | 0823407829 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,237,285,401,000 | 3 | false |
3 | A lovely keepsake of Stafford's Bay View Inn, but the recipes are dated | My family has been vacationing in the Little Traverse Bay area (Harbor Springs, Petoskey and Charlevoix) for over two decades, and one of our traditions is Sunday brunch at Stafford's Bay View Inn in Bay View. Stafford's started life as one of many turn-of-the-20th-century summer hotels in the region and has managed to... | [] | 1891143484 | 1891143484 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,236,812,927,000 | 5 | false |
4 | A lovingly assembled collection of Mexican (NOT Tex-Mex!) vegetarian gems | Kippy Nigh, owner of the vegetarian restaurants Casa del Pan in San Cristobal de las Casas and Mexico City, is a longtime resident of Mexico, and her love of its culture and cuisine shows on every page. "A Taste of Mexico" is full of Kippy's observances of local culture, colorful tales, and interesting tidbits about in... | [] | 1570670285 | 1570670285 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,234,837,891,000 | 16 | false |
5 | The whole enchilada and then some! | Robb Walsh's "Tex-Mex Cookbook" is more than a mere collection of authentic (and excellent) Tex-Mex recipes: it's a loving tribute to the development of Tex-Mex cuisine, Tejano culture, and the pioneering restaurants (and their owners) that launched Tex-Mex into popular American culture and beyond.<br /><br />The book ... | [] | 0767914880 | 0767914880 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,234,476,967,000 | 14 | true |
5 | A mesmerizing tale of witchcraft, fate, and the dark night of the soul | As the cover illustration of a lumpy dressmaker's doll suggests, Truly Plaice was born larger than life; where her delicate younger sister Serena Jane has pixie-like proportions and is enchantingly feminine even as a toddler, Truly is more like a boulder: large, round, and most importantly, solid. After Truly's mother ... | [] | 0446194204 | 0446194204 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,234,178,877,000 | 2 | false |
5 | What the heck is "normal," anyway?!? | Over the years, I've had several friends with special needs children, including one with a severely autistic son, another with a wheelchair-bound daughter with lissencephaly who couldn't sit up, roll over, or talk and was debilitated by dozens of seizures a day, and another with genetic birth defects and mild retardat... | [] | 1401323294 | 1401323294 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,233,189,119,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A magical tale of discovery | May Bird has always been an outsider in the small West Virginia town of Briery Swamp. She's small and knobby-kneed and prefers to live in a world of her own making, along with her hairless Rex cat Somber Kitty. The two live out adventures where May is a Warrior Princess dressed in a black spangly swimsuit ready to batt... | [] | 141690607X | 141690607X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,232,322,614,000 | 1 | false |
5 | An enduring classic | James Howe, better known as the author of [[ASIN:1400094720 The Bunnicula Collection: Books 1-3: #1: Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery; #2: Howliday Inn; #3: The Celery Stalks at Midnight]], has created a moving tale of friendship and acceptance in "A Night Without Stars." Published in 1985, there are some segments t... | [] | 0689808321 | 0689808321 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,232,287,602,000 | 1 | true |
5 | An earthbound Madonna fuels a painter's divine aspirations | Based on history, The Miracles of Prato tells the tale of Lucrezia Buti, who is unexpectedly forced to join the Convent Santa Margherita in 1456 after her silkmaker father's sudden death and the loss of their family fortune. Both Lucrezia and her sister Spinetta are cloistered, but for Lucrezia it comes as a bit of a s... | [] | 0061558346 | 0061558346 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,231,076,457,000 | 22 | false |
5 | Make great yeast bread in a snap! | I've been baking just about every *other* kind of baked good for the last two years (quick bread, cake, pie, brownies, cookies), but avoided yeast breads like the plague since my several prior attempts turned out like bricks, particularly when using refrigerated dough. Enter "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day;" using... | [] | 0312362919 | 0312362919 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,230,771,371,000 | 8 | false |
5 | Sparse but haunting | "The Housekeeper and the Professor" by Yoko Ogawa is a tale of friendship between three unlikely people: the nameless Housekeeper (a young single mother), her ten-year-old son, and a brilliant mathematics professor with a head injury. The Housekeeper shows up for work on the first day just as she has for other employer... | [] | 0312427808 | 0312427808 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,230,769,182,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Haunting and evocative | Jenna Blum's "Those Who Save Us" chronicles the Holocaust-era journey of Anna Schlemmer, beginning in 1939, as she navigates the treacherous waters of everyday life in the Third Reich and makes difficult choices in order to survive, choices that will haunt her fifty years later even after she escapes Germany as a war b... | [] | 0156031663 | 0156031663 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,229,779,064,000 | 2 | false |
3 | A microcosm of American immigrant and rural Polish shtetl life | I was originally interested in reading "Remember This Dream" because my grandmother and great-grandparents immigrated from a small village near Lublin, Poland in 1913 around the same time as one of the novel's protagonists. Sadly, other than a few stories and a copy of their Russian-Polish passports and ship manifests,... | [] | 1439203032 | 1439203032 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,228,539,191,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A rousing blend of music and court intrigue | "The Musician's Daughter" is a magical blend of the grandeur of 18th-century Vienna and the Esterhazy court, Haydn's lush string quartets, and the plight of the Romany (Gypsies). Fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria adores her father, a court violinist, and treasures his music lessons teaching her to play the viola. But her ... | [] | 1599903326 | 1599903326 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,228,272,156,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Unique blend of two distinct cultures | Early in my undergraduate career, I became fascinated by tales of immigrants' children caught between two worlds: modern America and the Puerto Rico or Mexico of their parents' and grandparents' dreams. I read several books on the topic, including Cool Salsa and An Island Like You. Also, I've taught dozens of Puerto Ri... | [] | 1595141448 | 1595141448 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,228,086,210,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A bewitching world of love and magic | The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters by Lorraine Lopez follows the lives of four sisters named for classic movie beauties: Loretta Young, Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, Sophia Lauren, and their brother Cary Grant Gabaldon, and their mysterious connection to their Indian maid Fermina, whose hidden letters and notes contain shocking... | [] | 0446699217 | 0446699217 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,227,459,904,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A love affair to remember... | Coming on the heels of [[ASIN:1579125883 Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters: More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered from Family Cookbooks, Original Journals, Scraps of Paper, and Grandmothers Kitchen]], Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters widens its focus from soup to nuts, beginning with appetizers such as ... | [] | 1579127843 | 1579127843 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,227,356,696,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The haunted life of a muse... | Elizabeth Hickey's "The Wayward Muse" imagines the secret longings of Jane Burden, wife of British designer and socialist William Morris. As the novel begins, we're plunged into the squalid poverty of Jane's rough home life, where she's regularly starved for lack of food (it goes to her father and brother, who spend al... | [] | 0743273192 | 0743273192 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,227,314,029,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Lush, haunting portrait of the twin powers of love and music | Sisters Maddalena and Chiaretta were abandoned as young children at the Pieta foundling hospital in Venice in 1695, and Four Seasons follows their growth, both physically and musically, over the next several decades. The Pieta was a church-run orphanage that taught girls to be singers or musicians, and staged lavish co... | [] | 1401309267 | 1401309267 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,226,667,723,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A fun, sassy read | Francesca "Cesca" Marinelli is a tour guide with a ghost tour company in St. Augustine. In her spare time, she loves all-night shopping at Wal-Mart, learning how to salsa and surf, and studying design. So far, so good, right? Except for the fact that Cesca's a vampire who hates the smell of blood (it literally makes he... | [] | 042521995X | 042521995X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,226,626,926,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A place where death, love, and magic intertwine | In Ironside, the sequel to [[ASIN:0689867042 Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale]], world-weary Kaye, who's discovered that she's actually a pixie and not a human teen, pursues her love of Roibin, faerie king of the Unseelie court. Roibin, recently crowned king of the dark beings after seizing the throne by force, sends her on... | [] | 0689868219 | 0689868219 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,226,282,515,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Gritty blend of urban desolation and otherworldly faeries | Holly Black's "Tithe" is based on Celtic folklore of faeries and changelings; faeries who were switched in place of human babies. The protagonist Kaye is a world-weary sixteen, tired of fishing her mother's head out of toilets and hauling her home from seedy dives after she's too drunk to stand up. Kaye dropped out of ... | [] | 0689867042 | 0689867042 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,226,152,018,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A passionate whirlwind of rhythm | Flamenco, a dance originating in Andalusia (southern Spain), is a combination of Gypsy, Indian, Jewish, Arabic, Persian, and possibly New World influences, a deeply spiritual combination of music (guitar, handclaps, and cante jondo, or "deep song") and footwork. Flamenco is improvised, following the dozens of palos, or... | [] | 0345462386 | 0345462386 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,225,627,745,000 | 0 | false |
3 | The shallow pursuit of Ms. Liberty... | Garrison Keillor's Liberty follows Clint Bunsen's midlife crisis: at 60, he feels that his dull life in Lake Wobegon was a waste, has an affair with a woman half his age, and contemplates a) running away to California or b) running for Congress. As the chairman of the annual Fourth of July parade, he is obsessed with c... | [] | 0670019917 | 0670019917 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,225,538,277,000 | 2 | false |
5 | It's a beautiful thing indeed to be "Baked." | I first saw Baked: New Frontiers in Baking while on vacation. My willpower not to buy any more baking books lasted for exactly one week until I swooped into my local bookstore, drooled, purchased, raced home, and whipped up a killer batch of the Baked Brownie. The balance of chocolate (11 ounces), butter (two sticks), ... | [] | 1584797215 | 1584797215 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,224,903,595,000 | 121 | false |
5 | A pleasing sampler of Southern-style favorites | Nancie McDermott's Southern Cakes gathers some of the South's most well-known delights: pristine fluffy coconut cakes, deliciously oozy jelly cakes, red velvet cake, pineapple upside-down cake, Mississippi mud, all the way to that towering confection, Lady Baltimore cake, rich with raisins, figs, pecans and brandy. Alo... | [] | 0811853705 | 0811853705 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,222,020,458,000 | 31 | false |
5 | Warm memories and sweet soul food | Patty Pinner, author of the recent Sweety [[ASIN:1561588482 Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie]], revisits the sweet desserts of her childhood in her first book Sweets, along with memories of growing up in Saginaw and of her family from Mississippi. The book is graced with vintage bl... | [] | 1580087981 | 1580087981 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,222,020,347,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Sweet soul food to warm the heart | In Brown Sugar: Soul Food Desserts from Family and Friends, Joyce White, author of [[ASIN:0060187166 Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections from African-American Churches]], turns her attention to sweet endings. Brown Sugar gathers traditional Southern comfort desserts such as lacy wafer cookies, pecan sand tarts, gingersn... | [] | 0066209730 | 0066209730 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,221,394,890,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Short "teen" monologues ring as adult | I chose this book for several reasons: I speak Spanish, I studied several other Hispanic young adult novels such as [[ASIN:014038068X An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio]], [[ASIN:044970436X Cool Salsa]], [[ASIN:0142302090 Journey of the Sparrows]], [[ASIN:0380732475 Lupita Manana (Harper Trophy Books)]], and [[A... | [] | 1416906355 | 1416906355 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,221,038,883,000 | 3 | false |
5 | A must-have for kosher kitchens and fans of Jewish desserts | Doris Schecter's At Oma's Table is part memoir, part cookbook. It begins with her early memories of life in Vienna, then as a refugee in Italy and later the United States. Filled with vintage photographs of the author and her family, the introduction would have made a fascinating full-length biography.<br /><br />Doris... | [] | B0013W4QMC | B0013W4QMC | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,220,801,999,000 | 10 | true |
5 | A mouthwatering combination of memoirs and great Southern pies | Patty Pinner, author of the phenomenal [[ASIN:1580087981 Sweets: Soul Food Desserts & Memories]], grew up in a large African-American family that had relocated to Michigan from the South. In Sweety Pies, she collects 70 recipes for various kinds of pies, including fruit, nut, cereal, cream and custard, sweet vegetable,... | [] | 1561588482 | 1561588482 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,220,790,482,000 | 2 | false |
4 | A solid introduction to vegetarian cuisine | Taken from the time-honored [[ASIN:0743246268 Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006]], All About Vegetarian Cooking is a lovely introduction to eating vegetarian and includes an informative intro about various kinds of vegetarians (lacto, ovo, macrobiotic, vegan), the advantages of eating organic veggies, nut... | [] | 0743202090 | 0743202090 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,220,310,061,000 | 12 | false |
3 | No new revelations, but still enjoyable | I've eagerly followed all of Kathy Reichs's Tempe Brennan novels beginning with [[ASIN:1416570985 Deja Dead: 10th Anniversary Edition (Temperance Brennan Novels)]], and Devil Bones, the eleventh in the series, fails to break any new ground, although it's another enjoyable outing with Tempe and her work.<br /><br />This... | [] | 0743294386 | 0743294386 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,220,146,020,000 | 0 | false |
3 | A decent starter book for your first ice cream machine... | The self-proclaimed "Ultimate Ice Cream Book" is stated to contain over 500 recipes for ice cream, sherbert, sorbet, granita, drinks and more, but this number is extremely misleading; there are really several basic bases (chocolate, vanilla, various fruits) with extensive lists of flavor variations.<br /><br />As other... | [] | 0688161499 | 0688161499 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,219,101,657,000 | 6 | false |
3 | You can't please everyone... | (Note: this review is as spoiler-free as possible, hence the lack of spoilerish details)<br /><br />In Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, Isabella (Bella) Swan is caught in a supernatural love triangle between the dazzling vampire Edward Cullen and Quileute werewolf Jacob Black. In [[ASIN:0316160172 Twilight (Twilight, B... | [] | 031606792X | 031606792X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,218,156,935,000 | 1 | false |
5 | This dame's got moxie | In Linda L. Richards' Death Was the Other Woman, Kitty Pangborn had no intention of becoming a shamus (private eye), but when she landed a job as secretary to hard-drinking, haunted Great War vet Dexter J. Theroux, she's on the case. Kitty and Dex traipse across Prohibition- and Depression-era Los Angeles on the trail ... | [] | 0312377703 | 0312377703 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,217,631,667,000 | 2 | false |
5 | A fun slice of 1940s noir | In This Dame for Hire, Faye Quick becomes an ersatz private eye when all able-bodied men have been drafted by Uncle Sam. 1943 New York can be a rough place: Claudette West, a student at NYU, is brutally murdered on a cold, snowy night, and Faye is the one who literally stumbles across her body.<br /><br />Filling in fo... | [] | 0345478118 | 0345478118 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,217,631,573,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A sweeping tale of diverging fates | In Frances de Pontes Peebles The Seamstress, two sisters from rural Brazil hold the key to important events that are shaping the country in the late 1920s-mid 1930s. Raised by their widowed Aunt Sofia after their mother died in childbirth and their drunken father abandoned them, the girls have completely opposite view... | [] | 0060738871 | 0060738871 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,216,981,388,000 | 8 | false |
5 | Make yourself at home in Chez Moi | Agnes Desarthe's Chez Moi is a classic novel in the style of [[ASIN:038542017X Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies]] and [[ASIN:014100018X Chocolat]] that revels in the sensual and emotional power of truly great food. Its narrator, Myriam, is a talented co... | [] | 0143113232 | 0143113232 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,214,918,441,000 | 5 | false |
5 | A dog's life | Enzo, a philosopher-dog with terrier/lab origins, has one wish: to be reincarnated as a human. Enzo's owner, Denny, is a semi-professional race car driver who talks to him like he's his equal, so Enzo is well-versed in the art of racing, particularly in the rain. Enzo and Denny watch in-car race videos of Denny's races... | [] | 0061537934 | 0061537934 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,214,913,831,000 | 16 | false |
5 | A sinfully sweet southern confection | Much like her charming debut novel [[ASIN:0553590324 Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery)]], Sarah Addison Allen's Sugar Queen is a blend of food and magic. Josey Cirrini is fast approaching thirty. She's a plump, painfully shy recluse who hides in her closet stuffing herself with junk food and reading romance novels to fi... | [] | 0553805495 | 0553805495 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,214,474,798,000 | 143 | false |
5 | A beautiful period piece that brings the Renaissance to sparkling life | Christopher Grey's Leonardo's Shadow is the story of Giacomo, the servant of genius Leonardo da Vinci. However, this life is not as glamorous as it might seem; Leonardo is desperately poor, being two years behind on his largest commission, the Sistine Chapel, and the Duke of Milan refuses to pay until the work is compl... | [] | 1416905448 | 1416905448 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,214,303,784,000 | 0 | false |
4 | An enjoyable romp through the canals of Venice | The Thief Lord is an enjoyable tale of a group of runaway children in Venice. Brothers Prosper and Boniface (Bo) have run away from their strict aunt in Hamburg and came to Venice, the magical city that their recently deceased mother had told them about numerous times. Broke and hungry, older brother Prosper nearly giv... | [] | 043942089X | 043942089X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,214,047,859,000 | 0 | false |
5 | An incredibly rich universe that holds terrifying secrets | I first became interested in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy after seeing the film based on it ([[ASIN:B00005JPNY The Golden Compass (New Line Platinum Series Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)]]). I found the screenplay to be disjointed and lacking, so I decided to read the original novel in order to have a bett... | [] | 0375838309 | 0375838309 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,214,046,953,000 | 0 | false |
4 | An enchanting blend of food and magic | Sarah Addison Allen's Garden Spells is an enchanting blend of food and sensuality that brought to mind Joanne Harris's [[ASIN:B0017OCII0 Chocolat]] and Laura Esquivel's [[ASIN:0385420161 Like Water for Chocolate]]. Set in Bascom, North Carolina, the novel revolves around the lives of Waverley sisters Sydney and Claire,... | [] | 0553590324 | 0553590324 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,213,439,328,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Heartbreaking tale of neglect | From the famed author of [[ASIN:0060734019 Bridge to Terabithia]] comes this heartbreakingly realistic tale of two siblings trapped in a nightmare of neglect. Angel and her little brother Bernie live with their mom, a high school dropout, in a ratty apartment. Their dad is in jail, and the two have been visiting him we... | [] | 0618247440 | 0618247440 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,213,050,731,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A wake-up call on eating and living green for kids and their parents | Lunch Lessons is an in-depth expose of how our unhealthy American diet is literally killing us, particularly its impact on our kids who participate in the USDA school lunch program. Nearly 80% of American schools don't meet the USDA's nutritional requirements. This doesn't come as a surprise seeing as schools are expec... | [] | 0060783702 | 0060783702 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,212,714,919,000 | 2 | false |
5 | A touching first-hand account of the great suffering that polio inflicted | In our modern age of vaccinations, it seems inconceivable that in 1949, 42,033 cases of polio were diagnosed. It was a disease without a vaccine or antidote that meant excruciating pain, followed by extensive physical therapy assuming that the patient didn't die from complications. There are three main variants: spinal... | [] | 0807574589 | 0807574589 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,212,713,656,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A haunting blend of romance, fate, and time travel | Marisa Montes's A Circle of Time is a magical tale that blends time travel, fate, and romance. Fourteen-year-old Allison Blair lives in the 1990s, but after a horrific bike accident that results in her being thrown down the side of a ledge (minus helmet), she ends up hovering between life and death in a coma. A mysteri... | [] | 0152026266 | 0152026266 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,212,575,461,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Faithful adaptation from stage to home | I'm obsessive-compulsive, and one of my most consuming love affairs was with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. I first saw Phantom on my first trip to Toronto in 1992, and proceeded to see it three more times at the Pantages Theatre in the coming years. I would listen to the CDs endlessly, memorized the libre... | [] | 0881886157 | 0881886157 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,212,261,964,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Gorgeous turn-of the-century designs | Ever since living in Spain in 2005 and having the opportunity to visit the fabulous Art Nouveau museum Casa Lis in Salamanca and visiting Barcelona's Palau de la Musica Catalana, I've been in love with Art Nouveau, and I was looking for a way to translate that love into my favorite medium, counted cross stitch.<br /><b... | [] | 0715313002 | 0715313002 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,212,261,785,000 | 4 | true |
5 | Haunting Depression-era tale of West Virginia | Gretchen Moran Laskas's The Miner's Daughter is a haunting story of poverty set in a Depression-era mining town in West Virginia. Willa Lowell and her large, loving family are trapped in a mining ghost town with no chance for work, meaning no food other than meager rations of soup beans and thin cornbread. Willa's moth... | [] | 1416912622 | 1416912622 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,212,261,720,000 | 6 | false |
5 | A beautiful tale of family ties and summer traditions | Fourteen-year-old Belle longs for summer; it's when she's free to leave Detroit and return to her family's cottage on Lake Huron. Every summer, she and her siblings participate in the timeless rituals of childhood summers: swimming, fishing, reading, and playing cards in the comfortable cottage they share with their gr... | [] | 0060080728 | 0060080728 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,211,772,003,000 | 2 | false |
4 | A lovely, easy-to-play book full of classics | I fell madly in love with Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook albums, which led me to discover other classic standards by Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Berlin, and others, and I was looking for a relatively simple, yet soulful, piano adaptation for solo piano.<br /><br />The portfolio contains fifteen songs from the first ... | [] | 0634073273 | 0634073273 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,211,716,688,000 | 8 | false |
5 | A beautifully captured portrait of Up North and of a young Hemingway | Renowned Michigan author Gloria Whelan (Homeless Bird, Angel on the Square, Once on this Island) has imagined Ernest Hemingway's sixteenth summer in The Pathless Woods, a novel based on numerous biographical details of the real Ernest, including his family's summer cottage Windemere on Walloon Lake near Charlevoix.<br ... | [] | 1882376447 | 1882376447 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,211,629,597,000 | 4 | false |
4 | A great intro to the kitchen, whether you're young or old | I just bought Anyone Can Cook for a recently-retired family member who's as unfamiliar around the kitchen as I am in an auto shop. I wanted something with a solid foundation and ample descriptions of basics such as choosing, storing, and prepping fruits and veggies (a step which is often overlooked in "regular" cookboo... | [] | B0013L4D30 | B0013L4D30 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,210,203,729,000 | 34 | true |
3 | A WWII love story soaked in period ambiance | Elizabeth Berg's Dream When You're Feeling Blue (named after the WWII standard of the same name) follows the (mis)adventures of Kitty Heaney, one of three beautiful Irish-American girls growing up in the Heaney household during WWII-era Chicago. Kitty and her sisters Louise and Tish are all dating servicemen; Louise's ... | [] | 0345487540 | 0345487540 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,210,116,720,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Vianne and Anouk return from the ashes | Joanne Harris's Girl With No Shadow comes a decade after the original novel [[ASIN:014100018X Chocolat]], later made into a feature film ([[ASIN:B00005K3OT Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)]])starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Chocolat revolved around the culinary magic of Vianne Rocher, an unorthodox choco... | [] | 0061431621 | 0061431621 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,210,116,647,000 | 28 | false |
4 | The golden "Rules" | Twelve-year-old Catherine's autistic younger brother David is a constant source of embarrassment for her, from his hand flapping and public tantrums to socially inappropriate behaviors such as dropping his pants in public. Catherine is constantly updating her list of rules for David in order to spare him (and herself) ... | [] | 0439443822 | 0439443822 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,210,116,235,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Brings Amelie to life | Breton composer Yann Tiersen's haunting, poignant score to the French film "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" is full of childhood nostalgia such as toy piano and typewriter tempered with more melancholy piano musings worthy of Chopin or Satie. In "Six Pieces pour Piano," six of Amelie's most memorable themes are in... | [] | B000JK5WP4 | B000JK5WP4 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,209,422,685,000 | 12 | false |
4 | A haunting look at Poland's enormous losses during WWII | As an amateur scholar of Yiddishkeit, my readings have included several novels and biographies set in the Warsaw Ghetto, so I was familiar with the horrific overcrowding and dehumanizing conditions that Warsaw's Jews were subjected to before the Ghetto was razed in 1943 and the remaining survivors were sent to concentr... | [] | 0393061728 | 0393061728 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,209,421,722,000 | 9 | false |
5 | La dolce vita... | Gina DePalma's Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen collects a treasure trove of desserts and savories from Mario Batali's Babbo restaurant ([[ASIN:0609607758 The Babbo Cookbook]]) in NYC. There are several forewords, including one by Mario Batali himself and Colum Sheehan, wine director of Babbo. Gina's tho... | [] | 0393061000 | 0393061000 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,207,696,653,000 | 40 | true |
4 | A haunting tale of love, loss, and letting go | Luanne Rice's Follow the Stars Home is the story of Dianne Robbins, a single mother in New England trying to raise her special needs daughter Julia, who has spina bifida and Rett Syndrome (an autism-like disorder that results in gradual loss of speech, hand-wringing, loss of muscle tone, and seizures). Dianne's fisherm... | [] | 0553581023 | 0553581023 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,207,523,147,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Sherlock meets a worthy opponent in the Phantom of the Opera | In "The Angel of the Opera," Sherlock Holmes is on one of his most challenging cases yet; the managers of the Paris Opera have hired him to reveal the identity of the Phantom of the Opera. As the novel opens, Sherlock and his cousin Henry are in Wales wrapping up a case that began in India with hired thugs, but are soo... | [] | 1883402468 | 1883402468 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,207,399,493,000 | 3 | true |
5 | Stunning finales from a master | Sherry Yard, the executive pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, has created a mouthwatering, memorable dessert bible in Desserts by the Yard: From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills-Recipes from the Sweetest Life Ever. Beginning with some vintage photographs, there is a glowing foreword by Wolfgang Puck, an introduction by ... | [] | 0618515224 | 0618515224 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,927,907,000 | 5 | false |
3 | Left me empty. | The Crepes of Wrath is yet another of Tamar Myers's Magdalena Yoder Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with recipes, and it left me cold. Yoder is an amateur Mennonite sleuth and owner of the PennDutch Inn in Hernia, PA. Magdalena's on the case when Lizzie Mast, possibly the world's worst Amish cook, is found murdered. Her inv... | [] | 0451203224 | 0451203224 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,623,269,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Trials and triumphs in the world's most famous cooking school | The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry is a riveting memoir of one woman's journey through the hallowed kitchens of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Fresh from a corporate layoff in her London office, Kathleen Flinn chases her childhood dream to attend Le Cordon Bleu, encouraged by then-boyfriend Mike. Kathleen's love for co... | [] | 0670018228 | 0670018228 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,463,957,000 | 21 | false |
3 | If Dali painted murder mysteries... | They'd probably turn out like this. "The Vampire of Venice Beach" was my first brush with the McAfee twins, private investigators who are drawn into some truly bizarre cases. Hired to work security for the opening of a goth / vampire art gallery where the main attraction is Ephemera, the former high school homecoming q... | [] | 0767920139 | 0767920139 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,463,849,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Just like what your (grand)mothers used to bake | Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters: More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered from Family Cookbooks, Original Journals, Scraps of Paper & Grandmother's Kitchen lovingly collects those intriguing bits of family history in the form of recipes scribbled on the backs of bridge tallies, grocery sacks, and yellowed bits ... | [] | 1579125883 | 1579125883 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,463,718,000 | 24 | false |
5 | A loving glance at a vanished world | Yiddish, the Germanic language of Eastern European Jews that was imported to the US during waves of Jewish immigration, was once a thriving language that fueled vaudeville, newspapers such as the Forverts, Yiddish comedians, radio dramas, and a rich literary tradition. Sadly, few speakers or vestiges of Yiddish's cultu... | [] | 1565117131 | 1565117131 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,463,150,000 | 3 | false |
5 | A surefire way to boost your spirits and count what's really important | I have several autoimmune disorders. Unfortunately, chronic depression both runs in my family and is a symptom of one of my disorders, so I've struggled with depression on and off throughout my life. I do not, however, receive medication for my depression; instead, I manage it through exercise, a support group of famil... | [] | 1573241490 | 1573241490 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,934,000 | 19 | false |
5 | This is a beautiful book full of unique treasures to discover and loads of rare photos and quotes | The Sinatra Treasures is yet another look at Frank Sinatra's life and career, this time with never-before-published quotes, more than 200 black-and-white and color images from several Sinatra archives and 30 removable facsimile reproductions of items (scripts, a Sinatra photo album). Also included is a CD with an hour'... | [] | 0821228374 | 0821228374 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,640,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Something for even die-hard fans | I consider myself a die-hard Celine Dion fan ever since hearing her French-language [[ASIN:B000007U0Q Incognito]] (1987) album. I own all of her French-language recordings (including out-of-print LPs and singles from 1981-1988), have watched her early French music videos and numerous French-language biographies and TV ... | [] | 0740755595 | 0740755595 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,555,000 | 2 | false |
4 | If you're looking for more challenging counted cross stitch... | You're sure to find it in Jan Eaton's Famous Paintings in Cross Stitch. I first discovered this delightful book in the British cross stitch magazine Cross Stitch Gold, which featured a full color pattern based on Rossetti's "La Ghirlandata," and spent the next two years trying to track down a copy of this excellent boo... | [] | 0600610365 | 0600610365 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,449,000 | 7 | true |
5 | Well worth it if breakfast's your favorite meal of the day... | All too often, I find myself throwing almond milk on my cereal or microwaving a bowl of oatmeal and running out the door, but on weekends, I enjoy baking quick breads, muffins, scones, and pancakes. I picked up Country Living: The Breakfast Cookbook as a bargain book, but it would have been worth the full price for its... | [] | 1588163636 | 1588163636 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,387,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Looking for a low-fat alternative? | Rose Reisman has authored several good books on low-fat cooking, including Enlightened Home Cooking. This particular volume's profits go to the National Breast Cancer Fund, and a foreward from the chairman of the National Breast Cancer Fund. It has been scientifically proven that a diet high in animal (saturated) fat a... | [] | 1896503160 | 1896503160 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,337,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Death by Ghirardelli Chocolate... | Ghirardelli chocolate was originally founded by an Italian immigrant, Domingo Ghirardelli, in San Francisco in 1849. Since then, it's been bought and sold several times, having survived the Gold Rush, Great Fire of 1851, and two world wars. The cookbook features an informative introduction into the company's early year... | [] | 1580088716 | 1580088716 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,251,000 | 26 | false |
5 | "What do you mean, you don't eat no meat? That's okay, I make lamb!" Opa! | For those not in the know, my title is from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," in which John Corbett plays Ian Miller, a vegetarian high school teacher. His fiancee Toula's Greek family doesn't understand the meat-free concept. Thankfully, Diane Kochilas, author of several definitive cookbooks on Greek cuisine, does.<br /><br... | [] | 0312200765 | 0312200765 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,462,069,000 | 81 | true |
5 | A treasured keepsake | I discovered An Ellis Island Christmas while trying to research my own family's journey from Poland in 1917. Growing up, I remember my babcia (grandmother) storing her sewing supplies in a small wicker hamper with a cloth lining. This was the same container that brought my grandmother and great-grandmother's possession... | [] | 014240506X | 014240506X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,461,745,000 | 1 | false |
5 | The ultimate baker's bible for home use | If you're a serious home baker, you need to have the King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion in your collection. Containing foolproof recipes, step-by-step guides, delicious variations, and numerous illustrations, it will walk you through simple baked goods such as pancakes to homemade pie crusts (not as scary or difficult... | [] | 0881505811 | 0881505811 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,461,588,000 | 7 | true |
5 | A gastronomic tour through the coffeehouses of Vienna, Prague, and Budapest | Rick Rodgers has written *the* definitive guide to the elegant desserts and coffee drinks found in historic Austro-Hungarian cafes. The beautifully illustrated book features interior photographs of several landmark cafes in their Art Deco glory, along with mouthwatering close-ups of featured recipes such as Linzertorte... | [] | 0609604538 | 0609604538 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,461,503,000 | 12 | true |
5 | A beautiful memento of vacations Up North | Ever since I was four years old, my family would spend a week nearly every summer vacationing on the Little Traverse Bay in northern Michigan. The towns of Petoskey, Harbor Springs, and Charlevoix are famed historical summer resorts where the rich of Chicago and St. Louis used to summer to escape the heat and dust of t... | [] | 0472115049 | 0472115049 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,458,929,000 | 9 | false |
5 | Although short, this is a haunting premise | Terry Trueman's Stuck In Neutral was inspired by his son Sheehan, who has cerebral palsy, is not able to communicate, and has been labeled profoundly developmentally disabled. Trueman recently penned [[ASIN:1425762549 Sheehan: Heartbreak and Redemption]], about his own personal struggle with his son's severe cerebral p... | [] | 0064472132 | 0064472132 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,458,350,000 | 3 | true |
5 | A beautifully crafted look at the horrors of WWI | Although there are numerous young adult novels that deal with WWII, I've run across few that deal with the horrors of WWI in such intimate detail. Thirteen-year-old Annie's father is a doctor, and she's waiting for him at the train station when she sees wounded soldiers being unloaded from the train: victims of mustard... | [] | 0064402487 | 0064402487 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,458,219,000 | 3 | true |
4 | Vicki Nelson, PI, teams up with a most unusual partner | In Blood Price, the first in Tanya Huff's Blood books, we meet tough-girl Vicki Nelson, who's left the Toronto police force due to failing eyesight, as she hunts a demonic killer terrorizing the streets of Toronto. Along the way, she runs into 450-year-old Henry Fitzroy, the bastard son of Henry VIII, who also happens ... | [] | 0756405017 | 0756405017 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,458,049,000 | 3 | false |
5 | A handy vegan cookbook that covers all the bases, including soy-free and gluten-free | Veganomicon, by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero ([[ASIN:1569242739 Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule]], [[ASIN:1569243581 Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock]]) may be the perfect all-purpose vegan cookbook: not onl... | [] | 156924264X | 156924264X | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,457,947,000 | 13 | false |
5 | True to Alexie's biting satire and look at modern reservation life | I first became acquainted with the works of Sherman Alexie through his [[ASIN:0802141676 The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven]] and its film adaptation [[ASIN:6305428417 Smoke Signals]]. I'm a longtime student of First Nations authors and musicians, and enjoyed his biting writing style and look at life on rese... | [] | 0316013684 | 0316013684 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,457,776,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Southern vampire goodness | Sookie Stackhouse isn't your ordinary Louisiana waitress ... she's telepathic, but to the small-minded townsfolk, that's a disability that makes her "crazy Sookie" to most of the locals. In Harris's alternate universe, vampires "came out of the coffin" four years ago and are a common fixture in New Orleans, although no... | [] | 0441008534 | 0441008534 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,457,548,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Sookie gets more Dallas "nightlife" than she bargains for | Sookie, telepathic Louisiana barmaid dating Vampire Bill and first seen in [[ASIN:0441015972 Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse)]], has a really bad day at work when she discovers a murdered coworker in Merlotte's parking lot. Then, an angry maenad turns her into a human messageboard for Eric, ancient Viking vampire, a... | [] | 0441009239 | 0441009239 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,457,056,000 | 1 | false |
3 | A decent sophomore effort | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's [[ASIN:0440228166 In the Forests of the Night]] was written when she was only 13 years old. In it, she chronicled the unlife of Risika and her tangles with Aubrey, a fellow vampire whom she believes killed her human brother. In Demon in My View, several characters from her debut novel are back, ... | [] | 0440228840 | 0440228840 | AFW2PDT3AMT4X3PYQG7FJZH5FXFA | 1,205,456,984,000 | 0 | false |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.