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5 | Great pain index | I was watching a show where they mentioned this book and I knew I had to have it. I love the great pain index for each insect. What a treat to read! I laughed so hard that I cried! | [] | 1421419289 | 1421419289 | AHSV67ZNUCEJTCZDEZ3MKKKEB5IQ | 1,635,779,981,122 | 0 | true |
5 | A beautiful book to have! | First, I almost never give five stars, but this book was so much better than anticipated. It is a beautifully detailed book with tons of colorful photos and explanations. It’s larger than I thought it would be. This was bought for my hubby but my 15 year old son confiscated it for a few days. When he brought it back, h... | [] | 1426219083 | 1426219083 | AHSV67ZNUCEJTCZDEZ3MKKKEB5IQ | 1,589,399,396,270 | 6 | true |
4 | A great book for a ‘bored’, quarantined teenager! | I got this and two other joke books for my poor, “bored” and quarantined 15 year old. I hear giggling when he’s reading it so it must be good. I asked him “whatcha laughing about?” The reply is “just reading a book, mom.”<br /> When you can keep a book in the hands of a 15 year old boy, whose sole purpose in life is t... | [] | 1973749122 | 1973749122 | AHSV67ZNUCEJTCZDEZ3MKKKEB5IQ | 1,589,020,826,000 | 0 | true |
4 | A great book for a ‘bored’, quarantined teenager! | I got this and two other joke books for my poor, “bored” and quarantined 15 year old. I hear giggling when he’s reading it so it must be good. I asked him “whatcha laughing about?” The reply is “just reading a book, mom.”<br /> When you can keep a book in the hands of a 15 year old boy, whose sole purpose in life is t... | [] | 1097180158 | 1097180158 | AHSV67ZNUCEJTCZDEZ3MKKKEB5IQ | 1,589,020,763,866 | 0 | true |
4 | The ultimate walking marathon! | I love the story line but hate how tightly packed the paper is on this book. There is nearly no “give” and it’s hard to read and hold. Stephen King delivers on the horror though and just by doing the most mundane thing, like walking.<br /> When you add 100 teenagers, a walking marathon followed by an armed guard, you’... | [] | 060638930X | 060638930X | AHSV67ZNUCEJTCZDEZ3MKKKEB5IQ | 1,589,020,041,521 | 0 | true |
5 | A must have for the hubby or Skyrim fan | My husband loved it.<br />Great recipes in it & photos are awesome | [] | 1683833988 | 1683833988 | AGI3VWFRRXY5MAZALSP2KBQYZMXQ | 1,616,722,124,193 | 0 | true |
5 | Love this cookbook | Already made 3 recipes & all were delicious & easy to make.<br />Gave it as a gift & got one myself<br />Best cookbook I have ever bought | [
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5 | Excellent Reference Book with Lots of both Color and B&W Photos | I was a little unsure of what to expect due to a couple of slightly negative reviews so was very happily surprised that this book is exactly what I was looking and hoping for!<br /><br />Lots of variety with regards to both style and price point. Tons of clear b&w and color photographs, including a number of vintage ad... | [] | 0915410699 | 0915410699 | AHEYMNN5MR4HMXCEIGLEPLNJLNPA | 1,597,435,967,174 | 0 | true |
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5 | Beautifully written story of a missing girl and family love | At thirteen, Ruthy Ramirez disappeared sometime after track practice. We never meet her father. He died a few years after Ruthy disappeared. Dolores, her mother, went a bit mad. It is 2008. Nina just graduated from her premed program at an elite school. She avoided going home for college breaks and has not seen her ol... | [] | 1538725967 | 1538725967 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,678,374,328,029 | 2 | false |
4 | Well Constructed Victorian Mystery with Ghosts (or are there?) | The London Seance Society ends up being a very enjoyable book. I may have had other expectations about the focus. Vaudeline, a world famous medium from France, takes on students. Her practice focuses on solving murders. Presently, Lenna, a young woman from London, is studying with Vaudeline. Lenna's younger sister... | [] | 0778387119 | 0778387119 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,678,293,219,483 | 3 | false |
5 | WWII Thriller - British Sniper Kate Rees Returns | One Extra Corpse is the second entry in Hambly's Silver Screen mystery series. Emma's husband died in WWI and, after losing her parents and brother as well, she eventually ends up in Los Angeles with her sister in law Kitty, a gorgeous and untalented star of silent film. This is a light and a well-researched, well-writ... | [] | B0BPB74JS1 | B0BPB74JS1 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,678,236,358,406 | 0 | false |
4 | Fun Mystery in the Silent Film Era | One Extra Corpse is the second entry in Hambly's Silver Screen mystery series. Emma's husband died in WWI and, after losing her parents and brother as well, she eventually ends up in Los Angeles with her sister in law Kitty, a gorgeous and untalented star of silent film. This is a light and a well-researched, well-writ... | [] | 0727850792 | 0727850792 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,678,236,245,689 | 1 | false |
5 | 70 year old novel with contemporary relevance. Race in the USA | As a former English major and avid reader of many authors of her period, I am shocked I never heard the name Ann Petry before I read The Narrows. What a gifted writer. Before I go further, I want to mention the forward, intended to introduce Petry to readers like me and comment on this novel. IT HAS SPOILERS. I became ... | [] | 0063259990 | 0063259990 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,677,101,942,585 | 0 | false |
5 | Remarkable Story of a Young Russian Woman Serving a 10 day sentence | I've been letting this story marinate in my mind for two weeks, because it's that good, that original, that aware. Anya is a woman who identifies as lesbian, but she is not out in every setting, including the one where her body and mind are in this novel. She is a young Russian woman beginning a sentence for ten days' ... | [] | 0802160735 | 0802160735 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,677,008,081,262 | 4 | false |
5 | Moving, Funny, Difficult Coming of Age Story (Audio Version) | I listened to the audio version of Roses in the Mouth of a Lion, the story of Razia, growing up in Corona, Queens, part of a large Muslim immigrant neighborhood. I want to say this immediately: this is definitively one of those times when hearing the author read her novel was a phenomenal plus! In fact, I kept re-list... | [] | B09Q7CX224 | B09Q7CX224 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,675,547,654,831 | 1 | false |
3 | Hollywood murder and mayhem | This is the third entry in the Maggie Nolan series. I could barely read past the oddly flowery first chapter, but was glad I kept on as The Devil You Know is a passably entertaining, solid three stars mystery. Evan Hobbes, a famous actor with a previously impeccable reputation, has been accused in a viral video of e... | [] | B09Y46NXKL | B09Y46NXKL | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,674,846,434,544 | 0 | false |
4 | Excellent fictional telling of the Nazi members of Mitford family | NOTE: I assume in writing this that many readers are generally familiar with the lives of the Milford family l and of the period covered by this novel in particular. For those who have not heard much about them, this review has some spoilers.<br /><br />The Milfords of the 20th century, an aristocratic British family ... | [] | B09XGGTB2J | B09XGGTB2J | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,674,845,331,120 | 1 | false |
5 | Remarkable Novel on Race, Love and Points of View | t is 1957. Alice grew up in rural Alabama, working the land with her family. Her mother died when she was young. Her sister Rosie took off for Chicago. Alice hasn't heard from Rosie for years. And now, with her father's death, she has to leave. The landlord got the worst of his effort to assault Alice. After she burie... | [] | 1643752464 | 1643752464 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,674,838,004,854 | 1 | false |
5 | WWII murder in a stately home PLUS the Mitfords: Great series/entry | The Mitford Secret, features former Mitford nursery maid Louisa Sullivan who, with her husband Guy, runs a private detective agency. It is 1941. Louisa and her daughter, six year old Maisie, are heading to Chatsworth-- stately home of the Duke of Devonshire -- in use as a school since the beginning of WWII. Debo Mitfor... | [] | B09Y4744HL | B09Y4744HL | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,673,994,343,666 | 1 | false |
3 | Good writing. Interesting Premise. Meh characters and plot | The premise of this book and the solution to the puzzle has a ton of promise. The writing is not bad. It was fairly entertaining. But I really disliked Maya whose behavior makes no sense when she's in a committed relationship with a great guy and they have just moved in together. She tells him nothing fundamental a... | [] | 0593186710 | 0593186710 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,673,913,875,159 | 1 | false |
5 | Serious topic/beautifully done | Parent's of younger children should review this gorgeously illustrated and engrossing story as by its nature, it's very sad and includes experiences that could be too much for some children. It is incredible and my granddaughter's parents approved her request and her access. She's on the young side for this but very ... | [] | 0228102774 | 0228102774 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,672,697,636,767 | 0 | true |
4 | Dreamy, engaging missing child in a small town novel | This story takes place in a small, rural Australian town called Durton. Durton Creek is called "Dirt Creek" because it is shallow and muddy. We know early on that twelve year old Esther Bianchi is dead because the narrator(s) of the first chapter open with this. They are "We," a group narrator, not quite omnicient, ... | [] | B09CNDX9WK | B09CNDX9WK | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,672,430,993,213 | 1 | false |
4 | Slightly gothic, coming of age, family dynamics. | It is 2019. Kat is the successful daughter. Flora is the one that married and has a four year old son who's a bit of a terror. And Laurie is the damaged one whose mother, Dixie, recently died. Charles Finch, their father, was a renowned artist and renowned philanderer. The women each have a different mother. Flora'... | [] | 0525542418 | 0525542418 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,672,010,259,752 | 0 | false |
4 | Interesting Story. Read if like WWII era traveling circus in Europe | The Circus Train overall is a good story and the writing is engaging, but it feels like there was an effort to fit too much into the novel, making it disjointed and uneven. The novel opens in Europe just around the start of WWII. I cannot share too much about what I'm talking about because of spoilers. Lena, a nin... | [] | 0593539982 | 0593539982 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,671,150,703,420 | 1 | false |
4 | Traditional but Fresh locked room mystery | This is a fun throwback locked room mystery set in 1936 London. Renowned psychiatrist Anselm Rees is found dead in his study. The cast of characters includes his adult daughter who he trained in the field, her fiancé, the housekeeper, Detective Flint, Spector the conjurer, a variety of interesting walk-ons and Patien... | [] | 1613163185 | 1613163185 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,670,003,298,657 | 0 | false |
4 | Great Entry in this Series - Can be read standalone. | I've always enjoyed Jeffrey Deaver. This is my first Colter Shaw novel. Shaw general makes his money by securing offered rewards to find missing people. In this case, he's asked to protect Allison, the brilliant ex-wife of a cop turned felon and her sixteen year old daughter, Hannah FROM her ex, Jon. Jon has just b... | [] | B09T5PLLSL | B09T5PLLSL | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,669,652,491,578 | 0 | false |
5 | Well researched historical fiction that brings life to a famous story! | As I began reading this and remembering my childhood fascination with the Lindbergh kidnapping, I was worried this fictionalized version of this period in the Lindbergh's lives, told through the eyes of their Scottish nanny, Betty Gow, would not keep my attention. Wowzers! I was wrong. In such an intimate way that a... | [] | B09NTKJMWX | B09NTKJMWX | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,669,649,293,432 | 0 | false |
3 | Fascinating story - Memoir lost connection to reader | There is much to enjoy in this memoir, but something about the approach to the narrative did not resonate with me. Wong is a wonderful writer and she tells a story of confused heritage that starts with her understanding from birth that she is half Chinese and half Dominican. She beautifully describes her cultural exp... | [] | 0593240251 | 0593240251 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,669,648,832,255 | 0 | false |
5 | Beautifully written and great characters | Any Other Family brings together a unique and diverse group of people, two married couples and a single women, who share something in common: They each have adopted one or two children born of Brianna and Justin. Justin seems to make babies and leave and Brianna is not ready to parent alone. So the eldest daughter a... | [] | 059332854X | 059332854X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,669,648,238,618 | 1 | false |
4 | Love Memory Man Series. 7th Does Not Disappoint!! | Wow. Seventh Amos Decker! I liked this one a lot, as Amos is paired with a new partner from Baltimore, an African American woman named Fredericka "Freddie" White. The FBI folks he trusts and knows are gone and Amos is shaken that Alex has left for a post in New York and he is blindsided with a new partner. They are... | [] | B0B29QPQJK | B0B29QPQJK | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,668,789,349,149 | 0 | false |
4 | An American Coup in Ghana - Mysticism - Mid-Sixties adventure | Bern and Melvin met in Philadelphia in the early 1960s and fell in love, but things go seriously awry and they must flee the United States, chased by an FBI agent as they head to Ghana where Mel's old college roommate is now President Nkrumah. Twisted into this adventure is the reality that Nkrumah's power is against ... | [] | 059349623X | 059349623X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,668,661,725,985 | 0 | false |
5 | Enjoyable historical fiction 1880s NYC early nursing and early thieving | The Nurse's Secret promised to be and mostly was a perfect book of its kind. The sort that, if it were a series, I'd busily look for the next installment. Una, a woman in her early twenties, is a pickpocket in Manhattan in 1883 New York. Her "Fagin" is Marm Blei, a woman who took Una into her fold when she found her... | [] | 1496726537 | 1496726537 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,668,436,978,799 | 0 | false |
4 | When things get personal - Good Suburban Mystery | Andrea Stern, presently a suburban New Jersey housewife who is generally seen carting at least her newest child JoJo around, knows that her friend Molly Goode killed her husband Derek. Despite her extraordinary skills as an investigator and profiler, developed in the first entry in this series, Andrea is stymied. She... | [] | 0593191293 | 0593191293 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,667,491,950,865 | 1 | false |
5 | Priceless Satire | n 2006, at 14, Harry travels with his parents, Wayne and Chevrolet, to Tanzania. Already acutely aware that his parents are neglectful and not much his cup of tea, Harry calls them by their first names. Wayne is selfish, racist, boorish, politically a member of a third party, the "Purists," who just won the presidentia... | [] | 0358617278 | 0358617278 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,666,920,146,714 | 0 | false |
5 | Fun, clever, GREAT characters and relationships | When the nosy neighbor is your Mom and you're a cop... I'd forgotten what fun the Rizzoli & Isles books are and "Listen to Me" was a great reminder! Angela is driving Jane nuts, first with he concern about 16 year old Tricia's disappearance (so what if she's run away before. This time it could be a crime) and her inc... | [] | B09HTFX44X | B09HTFX44X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,666,659,637,803 | 0 | false |
5 | Necessary to some | I’m no parliamentarian but I am a lawyer for public entities and Roberts still helps us get through fusses. In this case, I was writing as meetings manual and needed current citations. The old reliable! | [] | 1541736699 | 1541736699 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,665,923,266,369 | 0 | true |
5 | Guilty Pleasure Book and Homage to Women Writers Past | Oddly--because I'm a historical fiction/mystery fan and enjoy well researched and written mid 19th through mid-20th century settings -- I never heard of Lady Emily. This is a series I'll dip into more. Secrets of the Nile finds Lady Emily and husband Colin Hargreaves heading to Egypt with Colin's mother and his daugh... | [] | B09Q853J1P | B09Q853J1P | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,665,919,104,350 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent Debut. Small town thriller | Jesse is breaking into a ramshackle house through the basement, his penlight shining on an inexplicable pink room, odd furnishings, decrepit conditions. As he climbs the steps, Jenny joins him, trying to get him to drop the plan but "he" has threatened Jesse's sister. As they start up the steps, a fat naked man with ... | [] | 1728247896 | 1728247896 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,664,973,161,062 | 0 | false |
4 | Entertaining, Original Legal Thriller | In his novel, The Local Hearthstone sets the stage for why a small Texas town in on the national legal map by describing and demonstrating the legal and practical implications of a big money patent infringement lawsuits and also the special considerations of representing clients in a small town in Texas. Those of us w... | [] | 0385547811 | 0385547811 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,664,814,246,843 | 0 | false |
4 | Sad Novel about Trauma with interesting concept | Sad. NOT funny. But DESERVES four stars. I finished it BECAUSE it was well written, but I would not have read it had I known what was coming.<br />Some of the blurbs at the beginning of One's Company called it a Black Comedy. I did not laugh once. In fairness, the novel is well written, hangs together, has some grea... | [] | 0393866645 | 0393866645 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,663,870,140,230 | 6 | false |
5 | Laugh, Weep, Learn, LOVE BE AMAZED | How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water will make you want to look at life differently, to think,"What would Cara do?" The audio book version was like listening to a radio play to such an extent, I wondered if this short novel was written only for audio and double checked. It IS a book. But check out the audio. It is fabu... | [] | B09Q7SSCMG | B09Q7SSCMG | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,663,322,895,002 | 6 | false |
5 | Entertaining Biography of Novelist all Should Read! | I recognized the name of novelist Barbara Pym and believed I had read one of her books … but I realized a few chapters into this thoughtful and entertaining biography that I had the wrong "Barbara." I stopped reading the biography, went to an online lending library and read Pym's "Excellent Women" and "Crampton Hodnet,... | [] | 0008322201 | 0008322201 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,663,173,665,441 | 1 | false |
4 | Entertaining international post-WWII detective story | It is 1947. Billie Walker, private enquiry agent, working in Sydney Australia, has become rather notorious after a Nazi war criminal died in a fall from her office balcony at the end of her last major case. Now, Vera Montgomery, a wealthy client wants to find her husband Robert who disappeared, possibly in France, in ... | [] | 0593182685 | 0593182685 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,662,350,643,695 | 2 | false |
5 | Never Forget | Janusz Korczak was well known in Poland as a children's book author, a popular radio show host of programs advocating for children and a former pediatrician who literally gave his life as the director of a Warsaw Jewish Orphanage during WWII. The Teacher of Warsaw is a first person narrative novel, cast as Korczak's di... | [] | 0785252177 | 0785252177 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,661,894,537,242 | 1 | false |
4 | Who are you in Old Age? Fascinating Psychological Thriller | May, an elderly woman of indeterminate age, lived independently but she wakes up in a nursing home, unable to speak or to control her limbs. Her thoughts turn to a conspiracy. She's not really this old woman, but a younger person in the guise of an old woman. She's a good person, yet her irascible behavior with the aid... | [] | 000852386X | 000852386X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,661,694,333,521 | 1 | false |
5 | A Great novel about Nellie Bly - early investigative reporter | I am a fan of Nellie Bly, often described as the first woman investigative reporter. Treger primarily focused this fictional look at her life and work at her sensational offer to infiltrate the women's lunatic asylum at Blackwell<br />Island to get the real down-low on inmate treatment. This earned her a byline and a j... | [] | 1448218012 | 1448218012 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,661,531,844,914 | 0 | false |
4 | Entertaining Mystery with Romance and serious stuff too | Carolina Moonset is both a fun book to read and a meaningful book about family, aging and illness, Beaufort, Carolina roots, mystery and murder. Joey Green goes to Beaufort to spend time with his parents who moved to his paternal grandparent's house after years in Chicago. His father Marshall, who ran a medical clini... | [] | 1250810140 | 1250810140 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,661,005,692,626 | 0 | false |
5 | Talented new author with unique voice | WHOA! This novel is an amazing coming of age story about dreams, values, love, family, organized religion, crime and figuring things out for yourself against many differing backdrops and options. The Ends is a neighborhood in Bristol, UK. The first thing you see after the table of contents is the Hughes family tree: Sa... | [] | 031642014X | 031642014X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,660,787,278,312 | 1 | false |
5 | very original plot and mystery. Loved characters | This is the second of two books in a series involving Laura Chambers, an investigative reporter who has returned to her small town in central North Carolina. While this certainly is a book you can read as a stand alone, I recommend you start with the first book of the series, "Last Girl Gone." I suggest this because H... | [] | B07HFKY8JN | B07HFKY8JN | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,659,110,234,156 | 0 | false |
5 | Wonderful View of Impact of Eugenics on Women in 20th Century | The Foundling a thoughtful and original piece of historical fiction, expands on a snippet of information from Ann Leary's family about a time in the late 1920s when my home state, Pennsylvania, supported Laurelton Village for Feeble Minded women of Childbearing Age." Her grandmother worked there for awhile, right wh... | [] | 198212038X | 198212038X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,659,106,290,625 | 1 | false |
4 | Lovely Historical Piece on WWII in Britain, Clothes Rationing and Resourcefulness | This was a charming book about three women, WWII in Britain and true love. Yes, it is a light read, but well told. Grace, daughter of the local vicar and childhood friend of Hugh heir to the manor house in their small village, is engaged to marry Lawrence, a vicar with the goal of advancing in the church. Violet, Hu... | [] | B09F5WTT8C | B09F5WTT8C | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,658,632,872,901 | 1 | false |
4 | Family loss - coming of age -love story | This is a lovely, depressing and highly readable book about the devastating loss experienced by a family when their older daughter Kathy dies just before she graduates from high school. Espach writes it from the point of view of Sally, Kathy's younger sister. Together, they shared confidences, particularly about Bill... | [] | 1250823145 | 1250823145 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,656,441,454,613 | 0 | false |
5 | Wry, Cynical, Observant Novel about Time and Memory | Meme after meme after meme- often referring back to my own baby boomer childhood - suggest that everything was perfect in the past, with well-behaved children who played outdoors and housewives and dinner together and church. You know what I mean. These memes don't mention Joseph McCarthy, the Korean or Vietnam wars,... | [] | 1324090952 | 1324090952 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,655,918,886,745 | 7 | false |
5 | 1840s: Engrossing Story of Early Woman in Medicine and History of Medicine | The Surgeon's Daughter is set in the mid-1840s in London, England and Bologna, Italy. Eleanore "Nora" Beady was a small child when renowned English surgeon Horace Croft attended her family for a serious illness. Her parents and siblings died and he took Nora to his home so she could recover. She never left. Dr. Cro... | [] | B09XZ6223T | B09XZ6223T | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,653,603,642,855 | 0 | false |
5 | Wonderful Easy Read on the History of Transplants! | Spare Parts is a very readable history of the evolution of transplants of human body parts, from skin grafts through heart/lung and covering many centuries. Craddock gives us the science involved in an accessible manner. The entire book is my favorite kind of history, full of social, political and cultural context. F... | [] | 125028032X | 125028032X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,653,224,823,997 | 2 | false |
3 | Had Promise | This novel seemed promising to me. I liked a lot of things about Judith Potts, who at 77 still earns money writing crossword puzzles and swims naked in the Thames in the dark of night. I liked that Judith meets and works with two other women from the community to help a female Detective Sergeant solve murders. I lik... | [] | B09CLMYJYB | B09CLMYJYB | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,652,751,632,289 | 3 | false |
5 | Austin Characters being Austin Characters: Enjoyable for all | Jane Austen enthusiasts will love this mystery and others will find it an entertaining late Regency period romp through a British house party gone terribly wrong (or right if you see it as many might). As the title and descriptions of this mystery suggest, all of the characters were first found in Jane Austin novels, ... | [] | 059331381X | 059331381X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,652,533,843,490 | 1 | false |
5 | Breathtakingly Beautiful Well Wrought 1918 Denver | What a lovely book. I was drawn to Little Souls because it falls at a time when the Spanish Influenza and WWI were simultaneously taking thousands of lives. I thought a story written about this era would be fascinating. But this book is about so much more, although both of those realities of the time were drawn so pers... | [] | B094DSJCJK | B094DSJCJK | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,652,486,753,320 | 0 | false |
4 | Entertaining Psychological Thriller | The Couple on Maple Drive is a well-written, quick-read psychological thriller about Isla and Zack. On the night of her promotion party, her boyfriend Zack -- son of the company's owner-- had to work late. His rotten relationship with his father means he can't turn him down if he orders him to work late. Isla decides... | [] | B094HKPFLH | B094HKPFLH | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,652,302,431,666 | 0 | false |
4 | Wonderful Entry into a Series I will pick up and read from book 1 -Branson Missouri | I thoroughly enjoyed this fifth entry in the Henry Worth series and plan to pick it up with book 1. Hank is the elected county sheriff in Branson County, Missouri. We quickly learn that three new recruits have been trained and are starting work in the wake of several employee terminations. The department is deeply d... | [] | 0727823019 | 0727823019 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,652,182,363,411 | 0 | false |
4 | Good pre-WWII Berlin story of three young women | Fans of historical fiction, like me, have read lots of books about people in the resistance during WWII or about those who politically opposed Hitler or those who hid Jews. Any decent thinking person will ask from time to time, "why did so many people allow this to happen?" I've gotten cynical enough to say that the b... | [] | 0063094207 | 0063094207 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,652,016,039,891 | 1 | false |
4 | Jazz Age meets 1968 in this Story of a Family | "In the Face of the Sun" is a portrait of several generations of a Los Angeles family, initially living in a Sears Roebuck home, built from a kit, living a fairly middle class/working class life. In 1928, Daisy and Henrietta still live at home with their parents, but their mother is seriously ill. She suffered a hear... | [] | 1496730100 | 1496730100 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,651,966,189,857 | 0 | false |
4 | Only read this if you like well written violent books | Elena Maldonado has done something to get her savagely beaten, but the guy that ordered this didn't reckon with her father, Ray Cruz. Cruz is a retired jack of all trades fixer for bad guys, extremely dangerous to anyone who hurts his family. This is a violent, well plotted novel that would appeal to many people. Be... | [] | 1787586480 | 1787586480 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,651,803,733,916 | 0 | false |
5 | Wonderful Sequel - Original and Moving | There's background to this story that is relayed in The Book Woman's Daughter such that this can be read as a stand alone book or the two books can be read out of order. If you asked me which I'd prefer, I'm glad I read the earlier book first. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. This first book featured Cussy Mary C... | [] | 1728242592 | 1728242592 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,651,674,949,487 | 0 | false |
4 | Good Contemporary Thriller with Newly Minted Player | Letty Davenport is now a U.S. Senate Staffer connected to DHS in this thriller that starts as an investigation into stolen crude oil and where the proceeds are going. All evidence leads to Jael, a militia leader with a plan she calls her "Alamo." Jael and her followers want to stop illegal immigration and they are or... | [] | 059332868X | 059332868X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,651,441,544,271 | 0 | false |
4 | Good Dysfunctional Family Novel | Casey Larken's father is dead and his half brother Davey inherited dad Joseph's multimillion dollar fortune. Davey was the only "legitimate" child. Joseph was a pretty awful guy, as we learn when the book opens with his sparsely attended funeral. Casey- well, he got a house and $50,000 and the house turns out to be occ... | [] | 1799956768 | 1799956768 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,650,873,951,749 | 1 | false |
4 | Dysfunctional NY family, politics, revenge, humor | There is definitely an audience for this clever book about a NY Congresswoman, who took her seat when her husband the Congressman died. Nancy Harrison's son, Nick has recently stopped serving on his mother's staff, where the demands and lifestyle left him a wreck. He is now teaching writing at NYU and working on the bo... | [] | 1250243777 | 1250243777 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,650,317,956,170 | 1 | false |
5 | Beautiful - Devastating - Made me Understand an Era | This is a powerful, enlightening, thoughtful, beautifully written -- and devastating story. The audio version was worth the time, with an extraordinarily talented narrator, Katharine Chin. Audio is particularly valuable when as here, the writing is exquisite. But, since I have no writing to reference, I may get some de... | [] | B092NFT8K8 | B092NFT8K8 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,650,230,669,925 | 1 | false |
5 | The Choices we Make - Riveting Post-War Story of a Holocaust Survivor | Rachel Perlman is married to Aaron, a "Flatbush Jew." It is the early/mid- 1950s. She is a displaced person from Berlin, Germany, a Jew who survived the Holocaust and is left with the knowledge her mother perished in a gas chamber. Rachel has suffered deep trauma over part of what she did to survive. Rachel's uncle (... | [] | 1728250447 | 1728250447 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,650,203,350,305 | 2 | false |
5 | A Baltimore Family Story | I'm turning this book over and over in my mind. I will for awhile because it's such an insightful study of a family's humanity. It's no surprise that French Braid is beautifully written. It's by Anne Tyler, who I really should have returned to sooner. Years ago, I read The Accidental Tourist and I never forgot how love... | [] | 059332109X | 059332109X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,649,126,749,214 | 0 | false |
4 | Fabulously done Biography of Leigh/Olivier. Don't like them much though | Truly, Madly is a comprehensive, very readable, painful story of the love, marriage and the crumbling of the relationship between "the" celebrity couple of the forties and fifties, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. I like that Galloway successfully gives us the complexity of each of his subjects personalities. We al... | [] | 1538731975 | 1538731975 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,648,993,310,979 | 8 | false |
5 | Beautifully written tale of two families in Flint and about Flint | Let me start by saying this is an AMAZING book, successfully jumping timelines and generations in two families from Flint, Michigan and portraying the history of the city in an engaging, emotionally meaningful and factual way. I'm one of those people who paid attention to Flint, Michigan pretty much since I saw Roger ... | [] | 125080390X | 125080390X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,648,942,759,154 | 2 | false |
4 | A 1998 Coming of Age Story about Argentina's Disappeareds | On a Night of a Thousand Stars takes place in 1976 and 1998. In 1976, Santiago Lerea is a law student from a prosperous family in Argentina. In 1998, he and his wife Lila live very well in the United States with a house in the Hamptons and an apartment in Manhattan. Thye have one daughter, Paloma, who lives in Brook... | [] | 1538720299 | 1538720299 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,648,557,451,844 | 0 | false |
1 | Not True to the Person - Awful Narration | I always look up more about people who are subjects of historical fiction to get the "real" info on someone. This time, I did it halfway through the book which I chose not to finish because it is way more fiction than historical when it comes to the person it is about. The setting and period information was well resea... | [] | B08M42PHJD | B08M42PHJD | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,991,156,166 | 5 | false |
4 | Heartwarming Story - Sad State of Affairs for Aboriginal People in 1960s Australia | Odette Brown is raising her granddaughter, Sissy in a small, rural Australian town that has lost many of its Aboriginal residents. It is sometime in the 1960s. Sissy turns 13 early in this story, receiving her first bike as a gift, cobbled together by Henry, the white guy at the junkyard who had some intellectual disab... | [] | B09794ZB58 | B09794ZB58 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,812,286,954 | 0 | false |
4 | Very Original Police Procedural - Debut Character-Paranormal | Sleep Tight introduces Rose Gifford, a DC who still has a learning curve. The only mother she ever knew was Adele, her grandmother. Adele was a medium and seems to be haunting Rose, although Rose does not believe that kind of malarky and seems to consider her "mother" a charlatan who ought to leave her alone to funct... | [] | 0008390800 | 0008390800 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,612,555,319 | 0 | false |
3 | Missing Persons series | Killer View features private eye Jessie Mercado, her friend, kind of with benefits, movie superstar Jake Brice, an array of characters that apparently feature in Iris Johansen's Kendra Michaels series and, for a cameo but crucial period, Kendra Michaelss using her super powers of observation. This whole book had a cart... | [] | 1538762811 | 1538762811 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,612,354,445 | 1 | false |
5 | Joe just can't stop solving murders - Nate is after the guy who stole his birds | Wow! I requested an advanced reader copy of this book from Netgalley because I previously read and enjoyed about four books from the Joe Pickett series, always swearing I would go back to read the series from book one. In my own experience of popping in and out, including this entry, Box writes all of his books to b... | [] | 0593331265 | 0593331265 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,612,093,560 | 0 | false |
4 | Nazi art theft- Young Investigative Reporter -Romance | Woman on Fire is a painting, "acquired" by Nazis during WWII from Charles De Laurent, an art dealer and globally recognized expert in modern art. It was the last work of Ernst Engel, who was killed by Nazis in 1938. As important works were destroyed by the Nazis, Barr imagines that De Laurent is responsible for saving... | [] | 0063040883 | 0063040883 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,611,605,544 | 0 | false |
5 | Must Read - Unforgettable Characters in an Unforgettable Brooklyn Neighborhood | Deacon King Kong is a funny, tragic, sweet, ugly, pulls no punches but finds good in the world around every corner book. It is McBride's meticulous attention to the humanity, humor, danger, ambivalence and values (good and bad) of every single character that fills Deacon King Kong with heart and humor. Because, while i... | [] | B07Y2B6VJD | B07Y2B6VJD | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,647,026,447,607 | 0 | false |
4 | Original Policing and Well Plotted Story | Another very enjoyable entry in the Ballard/Bosch Series. Michael Connelly has never written a book I found unoriginal or unenjoyable. Here, Renee is still doing late nights but she actually has an apartment to live in, complete with an annoying HOA. Set during the pandemic and the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter p... | [] | 0316485640 | 0316485640 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,646,584,476,175 | 0 | true |
3 | Enjoyable Novel - Interesting Style (see review) | 3.5 stars, rounded down for me. Love at Deep Dusk is a story of Leah and John, high school sweethearts from a small town in Central Pennsylvania. We meet them first just before they start dating, Leah from a home with a controlling but loving mother and a father who is more nurturing. John, the only child to two ice... | [] | 1620065762 | 1620065762 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,645,654,393,182 | 4 | false |
4 | Great Premise - Twisty TwisTED psychological Thriller | Lydia Coletti has come back and she wants her husband Luca to make things right for her. Ten years ago, shortly after they married, she was abducted as she hiked near their Oregon town. She was subjected to years of horrible abuse and now she has found her way back to her husband's lovely new home and his lovely very... | [] | B08X48H9JQ | B08X48H9JQ | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,645,116,440,581 | 0 | false |
3 | Meh. I get why some might like it. | This mystery was NOT my cup of tea and the solution was obvious. That said, Irvin tells a story well and writes okay. I did not realize it was a religious mystery, which would also not have been my choice. Also the story seemed to be more of a light, sophomoric romance novel than a mystery. | [] | 0785231935 | 0785231935 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,729,626,074 | 0 | false |
4 | Another Entertaining Alex and Milo Mystery | I've followed Alex Delaware (and Milo Sturgis) for thirty-five years, so I find the series reliably entertaining. City of the Dead does not disappoint! Cordi Gannett is found stabbed to death in a pleasant home in a pleasant neighborhood. Alex is aware she once was caught posing as a psychologist in one of his child ... | [] | B094GS94R4 | B094GS94R4 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,729,439,217 | 0 | false |
5 | Orphan X Continues to Please as a Series | Dark Horse does not disappoint. As a condition of his presidential pardon (read the other books!) Evan Smoak, the Nowhere Man, formerly Orphan X must not use his considerable skills anymore. Skills gained in an intensive program under a former administration to pluck foster children from care at age 12 or so and make t... | [] | B094DPKFHX | B094DPKFHX | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,729,312,998 | 0 | false |
4 | Interesting Fictionalized take on Olga Romanov | The Last Grand Duchess is Olga Romanov, eldest daughter of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra. Like others, I've read at least a few books about the Romanovs, including "Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses" by Helen Rappaport, that focuses on the daughters including Olga. Th... | [] | 0778311708 | 0778311708 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,728,985,012 | 1 | false |
4 | Jessica Mitford, Spanish Civil War, Entertaining Mystery | For all of you who already have read Jessica Fellowes' five Mitford family murder mysteries featuring former nurserymaid turned sleuth, Louisa Cannon, why didn't somebody tell me about them?! The Mitford Vanishing finds Louisa married to former D.I. Guy Sullivan and mother to their baby Maisie nearing a year old. Louis... | [] | B09NB163JY | B09NB163JY | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,293,582,802 | 0 | false |
4 | Quirky California Sixties Mystery | This is a slightly quirky, dysfunctional family, mystery set in 1968 Laguna Beach California. Matt Anthony is the strangely stable kid with a brother fighting in Vietnam, soon to come home, and an older sister Jazz who is still in high school. At sixteen, he can drive his Mom's van but usually travels by bike to go f... | [] | 125079353X | 125079353X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,292,985,290 | 3 | false |
4 | Stick to it. Good Book | NOTE: As I slogged through the first chapter of this novel, I was so bored and unimpressed by the writing I almost put it down. This is because Eldridge felt a need to spend a full chapter introducing us to the team of Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton, the Museum Detectives in a purely unnecessary and plodding way. ... | [] | 0749027339 | 0749027339 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,292,823,861 | 0 | false |
4 | Moving Historical Fiction - Coco Chanel's Assistant - WWII Paris | This is a lovely, romantic but also serious historical fiction story about Adele, an orphan who finishes her convent education and moves to Paris where she lands a job as Coco Chanel's assistant. Their gadabout traveling life has been disrupted by the Nazi occupation of Paris. Chanel closes her fashion house, selling ... | [] | B09P1QMT3D | B09P1QMT3D | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,644,292,332,275 | 4 | false |
5 | Wonderful Suspense Novel - a Special Read! | Greenwich Park is a story that, in a blurb could sound like a fairly common suspense story. It is anything but common. Faulkner is a gifted writer and a master plotter. It take place in upscale Greenwich England. Helen, pregnant for the fifth time after four miscarriages, is ending her job and starting prenatal class... | [] | 1982150319 | 1982150319 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,643,428,464,696 | 0 | false |
3 | Just did not connect - okay historical fiction mystery/romance | This historical fiction/romance/mystery alternates between Paris just before the Nazi occupation and a house on the French Riviera in the present. The WWII part centers on Eliane, a young woman who works at the Louvre, attends some of its art history classes and works in her parents' unsuccessful restaurant. Present da... | [] | B08PV5N7Z6 | B08PV5N7Z6 | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,643,137,135,558 | 0 | false |
4 | Another Baldacci win in the Atlee Pine Series | David Baldacci's Atlee Pine series was engrossing enough that I grabbed each of the books the minute they came out. I don't know if this is the last entry. Atlee Pine is an FBI agent who, throughout this series, is on leave from work to look for her twin sister Mercy. She is joined by her assistant, Carol Blum, an olde... | [] | 153871972X | 153871972X | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,643,136,734,728 | 0 | true |
5 | Great Protagonist! Entertaining. Cleverly plotted. | Molly is an endearing character, but definitely not perfect. She works as a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, trusted with restoring the fanciest suites to a "state of perfection." Molly is different: She takes people literally, misunderstands their meaning and has trouble with social cues. Her Gran used to help her wi... | [] | B091Y4KGFH | B091Y4KGFH | AEZ26WGWJ3EOQ4KWSHG77HJAG4EA | 1,642,302,621,110 | 0 | false |
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