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1 | Great except for one thing | It would be an amazing book for keeping up with debts except for one thing. It has a typo or English error or whatever you want to call it on the first column of EVERY PAGE FOR TEN YEARS. I am super OCD but am going to try to just ignore it FOR TEN YEARS. See pic | [
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2 | Don’t waste your money | I ordered this book thinking that the answers had rationales for the right/wrong answers in the answer section. Basically, the “rationale” is a repeat of the answer and nothing else. For example, if the question is “A baby is born with trisomy 21. What is most likely associated with this syndrome?” A. Coarc<br />B... | [] | 1647131103 | 1647131103 | AFFNFIHCQEWYTKI27VGS6CNDMJ7Q | 1,624,737,223,014 | 0 | true |
5 | Excellent! Just like the Pew Hymnal. | Everything’s great about the Hymnal. Quality binding; love the blue cover (I’ve mostly seen it in either black or burgundy.). Very happy with my purchase. | [] | B00AG6EGS0 | B00AG6EGS0 | AEPOHO3LED3NMZFOQAIWVZHMQF6A | 1,632,774,765,182 | 2 | true |
5 | Great Tool For The Adult Job Seeker | I'm 45 and feel very young but I'm also realistic. I was pretty rusty at interviewing. I read this book, skimmed through some sections that were not applicable to my situation but delved deeply into those that were or close to it. Let me tell you, I developed answers to some questions and rehearsed in the mirror us... | [] | 0143128507 | 0143128507 | AEQX3ITA2K2YAEURDQAHRB6CGAMQ | 1,465,659,437,000 | 9 | true |
5 | Made me cry. made me laugh, made me sad! | This review is for Prince Harry: I loved your book, it made me cry, it made me laugh, but mostly made me very sad. You've been trying so hard for so long to find the TRUTH, but looking in all the wrong places. I can say this Harry because I'm a nobody, average American living in Florida, nearly twice your age and with ... | [] | 0593593804 | 0593593804 | AGYMTJGKU4IK53ZHTI3XOJ5LBVJQ | 1,675,567,386,910 | 7 | true |
5 | Beautiful book. Looks even better in-person. | Beautiful book. The cover is fascinating and intricate. The gold edges on the paper really step the quality up a notch. A review I read mentioned the cover isn't "shiny" like the promo pictures and that the paper is poor quality. Regarding the cover it is actually even more beautiful than the pictures show - th... | [
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5 | I ordered this book for my sister and she has changed for the better. | This book has made a difference and several of my family members lives . I ordered this book for my sister and she has changed for the better . | [] | 1582701709 | 1582701709 | AHUSHELZPEGJEGJJWJ4KSG5HBCOA | 1,471,951,273,000 | 0 | true |
1 | I have Amazon prime for a reason. I needed ... | I have Amazon prime for a reason. I needed this book by Monday 08/15 as promised and now it is saying its going to get here by the 25th. This book is needed for a child's grade. What is the point of paying $100 A year for Amazon prime? | [] | 0394805720 | 0394805720 | AHUSHELZPEGJEGJJWJ4KSG5HBCOA | 1,471,950,799,000 | 0 | true |
5 | We Say a Fond Farewell | Alas, this seems to be the last of Perry's "Witch City" mysteries, which means I won't be reading Perry any longer since her new series takes place in—yuck!—Florida. Anyway, Lee Barrett is finally marrying her long-time boyfriend Pete Mondello of the Salem (MA) Police Department, and they're looking for a place to live... | [] | 1496731433 | 1496731433 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,677,125,639,507 | 0 | true |
4 | Emmy is Back! | This is the sequel to Pearce's delightful DEAR MRS. BIRD, finding Emmy Lake now firmly established at the magazine "Woman's Friend" under the supervision of Mr. Collins, the brother of her beloved boyfriend Charles. Emmy is now the editor of the new column "Yours Cheerfully," and the women's magazines have been pushed ... | [] | 1501170090 | 1501170090 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,677,125,558,546 | 0 | true |
4 | Child Pornography Makes an Enemy of Catherine | This is the fourth in Collins' original novelizations from the television series; as in the other stories, two mysteries run concurrently: Catherine and Nick are called to an office where child pornography photos were found on one of the work printers, while Grissom, Warrick, and Sara are following clues after a witnes... | [] | 0743455827 | 0743455827 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,677,125,459,852 | 0 | true |
5 | Let's Do Something Special for Papa's 40th Birthday, They Thought... | I've read all the Vanderbeekers books, but this one by far is the best, although I was wondering at the beginning what was going to happen.<br /><br />It's Papa Vanderbeeker's 40th birthday and the kids (twins Isa and Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney) are ready to party. Before the party Papa and Oliver will be goin... | [] | 0358256208 | 0358256208 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,677,125,083,289 | 0 | true |
4 | The Sandtiger and Delilah are Back! | I was so happy to see another Tiger and Del book after ten years that I pre-ordered it the moment I saw it. I bought the first book, SWORD-DANCER, simply due to the arresting cover and immediately got sucked into the world of the Sandtiger, former slave and now expert sword-dancer, and his counterpart, Del (Delilah) fr... | [] | 0756408776 | 0756408776 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,677,124,897,182 | 1 | true |
5 | France in Watercolors | I found another of the author's books at a book sale and fell in love with the look of her watercolors, which remind me somewhat of Susan Branch with a more urbane outlook. This book chronicles the honeymoon trip she and her husband took around France. Illustrated with dozens of watercolors about the French streets, fo... | [] | 1608195325 | 1608195325 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,677,123,557,622 | 0 | true |
4 | Friends in the Wilderness | I usually love nature books, and I love most of this one, but I had some problems with the chapters she wrote from Fox's point of view. For that reason, it took me ages to finish, the book spending most of its time waiting for me to pick it up again.<br /><br />Raven grew up with a neglectful parent who told her at age... | [] | 1954118007 | 1954118007 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,675,797,889,548 | 0 | false |
4 | Behind the Scenes | This is Douglas' original book about becoming an FBI profiler; he was the basis for Scott Glenn's character in The Silence of the Lambs and the inspiration for the name-changed main character in Netflix's Mindhunter series. Per Douglas' memoir, he was interested in the psychology of people from his teens, and was study... | [] | 0684803763 | 0684803763 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,662,423,201,362 | 14 | true |
4 | Mixes History and Geology! | When I saw this book's description, I was intrigued. Then when I finally received it, I rejoiced. Someone basically took my favorite episode of ALISTAIR COOKE'S AMERICA, "Gone West," in which he traced the path of westward travelers to the California gold fields, expanded it using pioneer journals, and then added geolo... | [] | 0226519600 | 0226519600 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,661,898,000,848 | 1 | true |
4 | Sweet and Funny Romance With a Big Dollop of Family Love | Florence Day grew up in the family funeral home in the small town of Mairmont, South Carolina, with her parents, her sister Alice, and her brother Carver, and like her loving father, she's always had a special talent: she can talk to ghosts and is not afraid of them. She now lives in New York City, ghostwriting (natura... | [] | 0593336488 | 0593336488 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,661,897,357,192 | 6 | true |
4 | Lee's a Producer Now...But Can She Quit Investigating? | This is "Witch City Mystery" #11, and possibly the penultimate book in the series as Perry seems to be starting up a new one set in Florida with a cute dog instead of a cat. I'm sorry if the series is ending, but in a way I'll be happy as there are some newer elements in the series that I'm not so happy about.<br /><br... | [] | 1496731417 | 1496731417 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,659,230,104,115 | 1 | true |
5 | A Crime Against Humanity | I've really liked Hirahara's Elly Rush "bicycle police" books—been looking for mystery books that feature less "whitebread" heroines, as they are becoming boringly similar—and the news that she had done a post-World War II mystery involving a formerly interred Japanese family filled me with anticipation. I wasn't disap... | [] | 1641292490 | 1641292490 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,658,172,760,630 | 0 | true |
5 | What's Behind the City Infrastructure | Subtitled "stoplight secrets, mischievous squirrels, manhole mysteries & other stuff you see every day (and know nothing about)," this is a fun nonfiction book about the systems you take for granted every day that make your life simpler: plumbing, electricity, telephone wires, sewers, trash collection, streets and thei... | [] | 006295475X | 006295475X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,658,172,694,704 | 1 | true |
5 | The Story of Janis Babson | When I was younger I collected "Reader's Digest." I would even pick up old volumes, from the 1950s and early 60s, at book sales and flea markets. One of the best features of the old "Digest" was the book section, condensed versions of popular novels. But in 1963, a different story was published.<br /><br />In 1959, eig... | [] | 0976301652 | 0976301652 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,658,172,635,110 | 0 | true |
5 | Olive Bright is Back! | This is the second book in the Olive Bright series, which I enjoyed much more than the Barnes & Noble-marketed "Poppy Redfern" series, which has a similar theme (young British woman during the second World War who wants to do her bit).<br /><br />In this entry, Olive must pick out three pigeons to accompany three Belgi... | [] | 1496731522 | 1496731522 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,658,172,520,635 | 0 | true |
5 | Another Great Maisie Dobbs Mystery | In the newest Maisie Dobbs mystery, Jo Hardy, an ATA (women's air transport) who found a black American flyer tied up in a barn and is afraid the man will be blamed for the death of his white companion who disappeared is advised to consult with Maisie for his sake.<br /><br />Happily married to American agent Mark Scot... | [] | 0063142260 | 0063142260 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,653,187,400,714 | 0 | true |
4 | Can Alberta Solve a Mystery for Her Estranged Daughter? | This is the sixth in Griffo's Ferrara Family Mystery stories, wherein Alberta Ferrara Scaglione, her sister Helen (a former nun), her ex-sister-in-law Joyce (who's African-American and divorced from Berta's brother Rocco), and her granddaughter Gina, known to everyone as "Jinx," a journalist for the local New Jersey pa... | [] | 1496730976 | 1496730976 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,648,150,460,522 | 0 | true |
4 | Vicous Gossip and Bigotry Ruins Lives | This eighth in the Josephine Tey mystery series was my first for Women's History month and tells a sad history indeed. Tey (whose real name was Elizabeth MacIntosh) is reimagined in Upson's mysteries as a playwright and later author who also solves mysteries. The book opens in 1948 basically with the conclusion of the ... | [] | 0571337376 | 0571337376 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,647,113,959,961 | 0 | true |
4 | Who Killed the Former Child Star? | The title makes this sound as if it's about a death at a school, but actually takes place at the theater at St. Winifred's, where the local repertory company is about to do a production of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. The theater company director, Nola Kirkpatrick, who the "Ferrara women" (65-year-old Alberta Scaglione, our p... | [] | 149673095X | 149673095X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,642,707,428,022 | 1 | true |
5 | Bridging the Gap | Imagine comics that make you think!<br /><br />These two stories set in THE ORVILLE universe are apparently a bridge between second season as aired on the Fox network and the upcoming third season which we'll see at the end of the year (we hope) on Hulu. Both are thought-provoking: the first "Launch Day" has some of th... | [] | 1506711359 | 1506711359 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,641,068,458,373 | 0 | true |
5 | The Christmas Diaries of Queen Victoria, and More | This is another in Alan Sutton Publishing's Christmas compilations highlighting poetry, essays, art, and photographs from the different shires of England. This Berkshire volume features excerpts from Jane Austen's Christmas diaries (not very Christmasy to us today; more a commentary on social mores), yet more of the gh... | [] | 0750905964 | 0750905964 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,641,067,707,854 | 0 | true |
5 | Growing Up With Science | I've heard of Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer, but had never read one of his books until the title of this one caught my eye. Sacks, born in northwest London, grew up as the precocious child of physicians and loving, not biology, but chemistry; the elements fascinated him. From a large family (his grandfather marr... | [] | 0375704043 | 0375704043 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,641,067,255,227 | 0 | true |
5 | "Ideals" Usual Beauty and Sentiment | "Ideals" was born during World War II, in 1944, and this annual combination of poems, short essays, retellings of the Nativity story, and illustrations and (later) photos at one time was published several times a year, with spring/Easter, summertime/patriotic, winter/Valentine's, and autumn/Thanksgiving also making app... | [] | 1546013954 | 1546013954 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,641,065,892,917 | 0 | true |
4 | A Young Woman and Her Birds and the War Effort | I read this book not long after reading POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS, and the two of them have similar plotlines: a young woman in her twenties living in a small English village as World War II rages—Poppy has trained as an air-raid warden, Olive is the 22-year-old daughter of a veterinarian and pigeon fancie... | [] | B086R7CZMJ | B086R7CZMJ | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,631,915,070,476 | 0 | false |
4 | A Groundbreaking Solicitor and a Tragic Murder | In 1921 Bombay, preparations are under way for the visit of the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII. Not everyone is happy about this: many Indians are already clamoring for freedom from British rule. One day Perveen Mistry, the only female solicitor operating in India (mainly because her brother is totally un... | [] | 1641291052 | 1641291052 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,628,105,688,729 | 0 | false |
5 | Magnificent Book! | This is one of the best books I have read so far this year, but I find it hard to describe. Basically, it's the story of seashells: conches, scallops, the chambered nautilus, clams, oysters, etc., and how their environment is endangered by rising temperatures and sea levels.<br /><br />Shells, Barnett tells us, have be... | [] | 0393651444 | 0393651444 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,627,858,843,038 | 2 | false |
4 | How Radio Caught the Killer | In 1910, the North London Cellar Murder was as much as a news event as the O.J. Simpson trial in the 1990s and the Kennedy assassination in 1963. The difference was that it happened on the cusp of another technological marvel, the birth of wireless communication—and it was wireless communication that finally trapped th... | [] | 1400080665 | 1400080665 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,627,487,178,963 | 7 | true |
4 | A River of History | This is an interesting little English history with history told through fragments of items found while "mudlarking" in the Thames River near its banks as it flows through London—searching the shore of the river during low tide. In Victorian times and earlier, trash of all sorts was thrown into the river, then buried in... | [] | 0711263620 | 0711263620 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,626,800,223,988 | 0 | false |
4 | Who Framed the College Professor? | It's number ten in Perry's "Witch City" series set in Salem, MA, and Lee Barrett (neè Maralee Kowalski, journalism graduate, young widow of a race car driver, and now back living upstairs at the home of the librarian aunt Isobel [Ibby], who raised her) receives a call from one of her former students at the local commun... | [] | 1496731395 | 1496731395 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,625,536,275,419 | 1 | true |
4 | The Body on the Train | This is the third and last of Finch's Charles Lenox prequels that take place before the official first book of the series (A Beautiful Blue Death). It is here we first meet Kitty Ashcroft, who returns to help Lenox in the next book of the series set in Lenox's "present day, and also of his friendship with Lady Jane's h... | [] | 1250312205 | 1250312205 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,625,536,186,064 | 1 | true |
4 | Love Song to Country Living | In her later books, Gladys Taber begins to mention her friends Hal and Barbara Borland, stating that Hal's book THIS HILL, THIS VALLEY should be on all nightstands to read at bedtime. As a rabid Stillmeadow book fan, who am I to argue?<br /><br />Borland, a New York "Times" nature writer, and his wife lived in the city... | [] | 0801840201 | 0801840201 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,623,518,722,141 | 2 | true |
4 | Not a Picture Perfect Murder | This is the tenth Kate Shackleton mystery, in a case Kate becomes involved with personally.<br /><br />In her spare time, Kate devotes herself to photography and the local photography club, along with a friend Carine Murchison, who learned photography from her mother, a professional in the field. Carine was once in lov... | [] | 0349414327 | 0349414327 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,623,518,590,557 | 0 | true |
4 | Great Story; BRING BACK THE FOOTNOTES! | Okay, let me get this out first: I loved the first book in this series, and I loved the text of the second, but I'm annoyed as all get-out about two things.<br /><br />First, apparently there was a second edition of the first book in which McNiven removed the final two chapters and incorporated it into this second book... | [] | 1627875190 | 1627875190 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,623,452,667,288 | 0 | false |
5 | Lady Frances and Mallow Sleuth Once More | Had to get the other two books after reading the first. Lady Frances Ffolkes is a forward-thinking woman of the Edwardian era who attended university in the United States and has come home a suffragette and determined to be independent, even though she is in love with her good friend Henry Wheaton, a solicitor and amat... | [] | 1629538167 | 1629538167 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,622,650,611,152 | 0 | true |
4 | Two Artistic Girls Must Find Their Own Futures | I've always dabbled a little in art, so the story of two girls whose friendship was based on art seemed like a natural. Megan and Cass(andra) first met when their parents took them to the same lake resort. One time they both drew on one of the cabin walls, and the landlady, instead of demanding damages, encouraged the ... | [] | 0759555451 | 0759555451 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,622,175,964,123 | 0 | false |
5 | One of My Favorite Lenski Historicals | Lois Lenski is most well-known for her regional novels like STRAWBERRY GIRL, PRAIRIE SCHOOL, JUDY'S JOURNEY, etc. and the similar "Roundabout America" books for younger children, but she also did a half-dozen or so historical books, the best known which is INDIAN CAPTIVE.<br /><br />Everyone seems to know the story of ... | [] | B00085RRO4 | B00085RRO4 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,621,722,690,181 | 3 | false |
4 | Nobody Liked Her... | Lana Lee has no interest in getting involved in another murder investigation, but this one throws itself at her feet. Lana, now the manager of her parents' restaurant the Ho-Lee Noodle House, has been asked by her mother to modernize the interior of the place, and also recruited by Ian Sung, manager of the Asia Village... | [] | 1250228301 | 1250228301 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,620,751,052,720 | 0 | true |
5 | Poetic Book About Historic Places in the British Isles | The book opens long before kings and queens and the myths of Arthur or even the Druids, on a site in Norfolk where human footsteps almost a million years old were found embedded in mud in 2013. Men, women, and children searched for food on British shores so many years ago. It ends in Kent, on a beach slowly eroding, wh... | [] | 1784165352 | 1784165352 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,620,750,260,903 | 5 | true |
5 | Death at the Beauty Pageant | Jane Prescott is supposed to be on vacation, but when she's asked to help out with a pageant celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation being put on by the wife of wealthy department store owner George Rutherford, she finds herself drawn in to helping with the costumes. She still hopes to enj... | [] | 1250210887 | 1250210887 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,617,983,500,173 | 0 | true |
4 | Out in the World on Her Own | This was the very last of the Kate Seredy books I had never read (thankfully I found GYPSY and THE TENEMENT TREE online), and it was reprinted a few years ago in this trade paperback format with cover art by another artist. Philomena lives in a small Bohemian town with her grandmother, Baboushka, who brought her up aft... | [] | 1932350195 | 1932350195 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,617,982,577,477 | 1 | true |
4 | A Peculiar Family | Except for the mention of a famed British book called LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE, I'd never heard of the Mitford family until I read the first book in Jessica Fellowes "Mitford Murders" mystery series. Author Lovell, who wrote the book in 2000, says most people under the age of 50 (which I was in 2000) wouldn't recognize t... | [] | 0393010430 | 0393010430 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,617,981,900,281 | 0 | true |
4 | A Girl's Courage During World War II | Meg Kenyon was born in France, daughter of an English father and French mother. All her life, she and her father have played with secret codes which he taught her about from the time she could read. Two years ago, when war was declared, Meg's dad marched off to fight, and she hasn't seen him since. She only has a jar o... | [] | 1338620991 | 1338620991 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,617,981,749,339 | 0 | false |
5 | The Real Landscapes of Anne's Life | If you loved Marta McDowell's GARDENING LIFE OF BEATRIX POTTER or THE WORLD OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER, you will love Catherine Reid's new book featuring beautiful glossy color photographs of the settings of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES as well as pictures of the historic sites relating to L.M. Montgomery and photographs taken by... | [] | 160469789X | 160469789X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,614,833,552,230 | 0 | true |
5 | Everyone Likes to Relax | There are adult coloring books of cute dogs, cute cats, flowers, patterns, natural items, media figures like Harry Potter and the Doctor--but it's hard to find much else. This is a nicely detailed book of aircraft displayed at the Smithsonian for guys--and gals, too!--who love flying and airplanes. From the boxy Wright... | [] | 1684058201 | 1684058201 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,614,832,047,571 | 0 | false |
3 | A Bored Polish Matron Finds a Vocation | This book has taken me nearly forever to read; I've had it about a year and finally left it in the bathroom so that during bouts of "unavoidable delay," as Frank Gilbreth would have called it, I would continue reading it. In 1893, in Cracow, Poland, Zofia Turbotynska leads a good—but in truth a little dull—life as the ... | [] | 0358161460 | 0358161460 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,614,101,063,525 | 0 | false |
5 | Enjoyable Juvenile Mystery Featuring Cree Cousins | Did you ever wish someone would bring back those good old fashioned kids' mysteries, like the Happy Hollisters, but with more diverse protagonists? Well, you've found your series. The Mighty Muskrats are four cousins who live on the Windy Lake Reserve in Canada: Chickadee, the only girl; Otter, an orphan raised by Chic... | [] | 1772600857 | 1772600857 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,613,258,787,889 | 0 | true |
5 | What a Great Book to Start 2021 With! | This was the first nonfiction book I read this year--and what a wonderful start for 2021!<br /><br />Tougias is a birdwatcher, but he doesn't juggle and rate binoculars, fly to foreign climes to check birds off a list, and compete with other birders to have the longest list of observed birds—he just watches and enjoys ... | [] | 1623545412 | 1623545412 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,613,258,621,504 | 0 | false |
4 | They Flew Despite Restraints | Once the United States was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, the entire country was thrown into war not only with Japan, but in the European theatre against the Nazis. Experienced male pilots were immediately accepted into the Army Air Forces and more were trained, but all male pilots were needed for the war effor... | [] | 1524762814 | 1524762814 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,611,243,023,491 | 1 | false |
5 | Comforting Nostalgia from Ideals for a Difficult Year | This year's issue had a lot more essays in it than usual, as always of the inspirational/nostalgic sort. Anne Kennedy Brady, daughter of Pamela Kennedy who has an annual essay, has one of her own this year about the family's plane trip to visit Grandma, where, Pamela reveals, they ended up crowded in one cabin instead ... | [] | 1546034307 | 1546034307 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,610,319,519,942 | 3 | true |
1 | Too Much Motivational Rubbish Inside | The previous journals have been full of blank space with a few pages of prompts at the beginning and then again at the end, and then blank sections to keep a journal/planner in 4-week sections. This is full of motivational articles and lots of images, with much less room to write things down. If I want to read "Breathe... | [] | 1547853271 | 1547853271 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,610,319,281,526 | 13 | false |
4 | Behind Maisie Dobbs | In the wake of sixteen novels, Winspear takes this opportunity to write about her unusual childhood. Her parents were an unconventional couple, living in homes that had no modern conveniences well into the 1960s, and at times they lived with the Romany people, following Rom customs, making their living among them. Jack... | [] | 1641292695 | 1641292695 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,609,209,492,307 | 1 | false |
4 | Ice and Intrigue at a Ski Resort | Sixty-five year old Alberta Scaglione is finally getting used to the fact that she inherited her late great-aunt's lovely cottage on Tranquility Lake when her granddaughter, a neophyte reporter on a local New Jersey newspaper, lands a plum assignment at Icicle Lodge, a skiing and skating resort in the mountains: interv... | [] | 1496713982 | 1496713982 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,507,000,110 | 0 | true |
5 | Honey-Colored Holidays | I found the first one of these Sutton Christmas anthologies (A WORCESTERSHIRE CHRISTMAS, if you care) at a library book sale several years back. These contain short excerpts of Christmas/Christmastide passages from various British novels, memoirs, and poetry books, with the action taking place in the shire or historica... | [] | 0862995620 | 0862995620 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,506,822,922 | 0 | true |
4 | Love Me Another Truly Book...With Reservations This Time | This is the third book in the Pumpkin Falls Mystery series, featuring Truly Lovejoy and her family. Dad is a retired Army officer who lost his arm to an IED; they now live in Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, running the family bookstore. Truly, already six feet tall in eighth grade and a prodigious swimmer, has two older ... | [] | 1534414371 | 1534414371 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,506,360,563 | 1 | true |
5 | A Dickens of a Book | Last year I read Craig Wichman's book about radio drama adaptations of A CHRISTMAS CAROL and in my review mentioned "[a]t least one book devotes itself to following all the film versions of the reformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, that "tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scrapin... | [] | 0786428406 | 0786428406 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,506,150,478 | 0 | true |
5 | It Took Me Long Enough to Get | Due to Amazon's continually changing release dates, and then a mail delay where my shipment wandered around in four different post offices in Georgia for six days, I only got this a couple of days ago, and then devoured it.<br /><br />Let's see. Obligatory HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY joke? Check. Obligatory DOCTO... | [] | 1785865862 | 1785865862 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,505,440,903 | 0 | true |
5 | THE Edition of This Book to Buy | Many years ago I found this specific printing of A CHRISTMAS CAROL published by Candlewick Press, with absolutely exquisite illustrations by P.J. Lynch. I had no need to buy another copy of the CAROL, having already replaced my second edition annotated copy (by Michael Hearn) with the third edition of the annotated cop... | [] | 0763631205 | 0763631205 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,504,887,175 | 0 | true |
5 | A New Aspect to the "Rivers" Universe | This takes place in Ben Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London" universe, which I've been a fan of since the first book RIVERS OF LONDON (MIDNIGHT RIOT in the U.S.). However, rather than concentrating on Aaronovitch's usual protagonist, Peter Grant, we are shown another aspect of the magical universe portrayed in the "Rivers"... | [] | 1473224314 | 1473224314 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,608,504,509,459 | 0 | true |
5 | The Churchills Keep Calm and Carry On | I don't think I've read an Eric Larson book I didn't like, even if DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY was supremely creepy and I don't believe I'll be reading it again. This is one of those books I dived into and didn't come up until I was finished. It begins in May 1940, when King George VI requested Winston Churchill to start a... | [] | 0385348711 | 0385348711 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,605,298,417,098 | 1 | false |
5 | Love and Sorrow Go Hand in Hand | What a change from two years earlier, when the Vanderbeeker family's landlord was a cranky recluse living a solitary life in his top-floor apartment. Now the five Vanderbeeker children: teen twins Isa and Jessie, Oliver (the only boy), knitting-mad Hyacinth, and little Laney are helping Mr. Beiderman train for the New ... | [] | 0358256194 | 0358256194 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,605,298,282,723 | 1 | true |
5 | Keeping My Sanity Since 2018 | I started keeping one of these when I retired to record new things, but it turned out to be a godsend to pour out accomplishments and grief in during a year when my husband was in the hospital three times and I wrecked my beloved 14-year-old PT Cruiser. The publishers change the design every year and I really dislike t... | [] | B082LWWBTG | B082LWWBTG | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,605,298,163,066 | 2 | true |
5 | For Cooks and Food Writers Everywhere | I gave this to my husband on his birthday because one of our favorite things to do is go over to the Penzey spices store on Roswell Road in Atlanta and smell the spices. He handed it off to me, a small book, and said "It's an easy read." It is, but also a fun one. Penzey-Moog grew up helping in her grandparents' spice ... | [] | 1510735259 | 1510735259 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,602,805,344,144 | 10 | true |
5 | Cruel Death of a Cruel Teacher | It has been three years since Lucy Harrington and Major Sir Robert Kurland married, but as their third Christmas together approaches, Lucy is in a very somber mood. She and Sir Robert have not gotten on well since the summer, when she suffered a miscarriage. He seems to be avoiding her and she is slowly becoming convin... | [] | 1496702107 | 1496702107 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,602,433,742,959 | 1 | true |
4 | The Technological Feat of the Age | The story of the transatlantic cable from American history class (400 years in about 200 hours): Cyrus Field hired a ship, laid the first cable, it broke, they laid a second cable, it worked. Everyone was happy.<br /><br />Of course, like everything, there's lots more to the story. As with the moon landing, many people... | [] | 0060524464 | 0060524464 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,602,433,185,576 | 1 | true |
5 | Return to the Essex Countryside | I was very skeptical when I discovered there was a sequel to K.M. Peyton's "Flambards" books. I had watched the television series in 1980, fallen in love with it, bought the first three books and loved them just as much, and then was disappointed by the fourth book (although I must admit that the story is logical, I di... | [] | 1788450051 | 1788450051 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,602,433,126,606 | 3 | true |
4 | Her Children Were Unique | Malone would have had hard work to capture the life and emotions of Lois Lenski; an intensely private person, Lenski jotted down few private thoughts, even in her correspondence, mainly things concerning her work. So this book is more an examination of her work and her work habits, and little personal information is gl... | [] | 0806153865 | 0806153865 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,599,182,066,213 | 4 | true |
5 | Breaking All the Rules | Today, with hits like Hamilton breaking new ground on Broadway, most fans of musicals tend to think of Rodgers and Hammerstein as "old hat" or "treacly," and not at all groundbreaking. But back in their day, they were exactly that: creating the first musical theatre that wasn't simply a string of songs hung together on... | [] | 1250214866 | 1250214866 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,599,181,681,294 | 0 | true |
4 | "Over Paid, Over Sexed, and Over Here" | Britain has been at war for almost three years, and Poppy Redfern, an orphan who has been raised by her grandparents in the village of Little Buffenden in the Chilterns, has just finished her air-raid warden training in London after a succession of hair-raising raids has proven her capable. She takes up her warden duti... | [] | 1984805800 | 1984805800 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,599,181,534,724 | 0 | false |
5 | Hurricanes Make History | As a child I was enthralled by my mom's story about the Hurricane of 1938, so I have several books about that disaster, and also one on the 1935 Key West tragedy, so when I saw this, a book about the history of American hurricanes going all the way back to the first European explorers, I was intrigued. And then to find... | [] | 1631495275 | 1631495275 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,599,181,415,940 | 0 | false |
5 | Class Reunions Can Be Deadly | Lee Barrett, now settled into her job as field reporter for WICH-TV in Salem, Massachusetts, is happily helping her Aunt Isobel ("Ibby" to her friends) prepare for her 45th class reunion, and meets other members of the reunion committee at the house she and Ibby share, including Steve Overton, class Golden Boy, who's r... | [] | 1496714601 | 1496714601 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,598,281,055,531 | 0 | true |
5 | A Cab Driver, A Bat Watcher, and a Man Named Hugo | Every time I read a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery, I wonder to myself how Fowler is possibly going to top the last one. And, just as always, I finished this newest volume thinking "Wow!" Especially at the end of the penultimate chapter.<br /><br />Christmas celebrations have ended and once again the Peculiar Crimes Unit... | [] | 0525485821 | 0525485821 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,598,280,798,362 | 1 | true |
5 | Good Refresher, Too | I was an English major so long ago, and while I still have all those grammatical rules burned into my brain, I've forgotten the proper terminology for many of them (adverbial clauses, for example). I had the science and math books in this series as refreshers, and liked the way the material was presented, in big clear ... | [] | 1465408495 | 1465408495 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,598,280,202,095 | 3 | true |
4 | Lenski's First Historical | After two books based on her childhood experiences, Lenski wrote the first of her historical books in 1936. Phebe Fairchild, age 10, is sent to live with her family in the country when her father, a sea captain, takes her mother home to England for a visit and then goes on a voyage to the Mediterranean. Her grandmothe... | [] | 1948959194 | 1948959194 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,597,253,212,708 | 3 | true |
5 | So Glad This is Back in Print! | I read this book for the first time as a library book from school in the late 1960s. It is the fictionalized tale of Mary Wilson, who was born aboard ship as her parents voyaged to the "New World" in the early 18th century. As the tale goes, the ship was captured by pirates, the pirate captain was ready to scuttle the ... | [] | 1948959119 | 1948959119 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,596,256,028,209 | 4 | false |
2 | Everything But the Kitchen Sink | One of the differences between THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN the film and THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN the book was in the film they actually kill the virus at the end; in the book it mutates into a non-infectious form and they let it be. That decision comes back to bite them in the butt in this recent sequel to the classic novel: some... | [] | 0062473344 | 0062473344 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,594,249,406,052 | 5 | true |
3 | All The Boxes Checked in This New Series | I tend to pick up my cozies by location—I admit, I favor New England-set ones, and ones NOT in warm places—and when I saw this was set in Alaska, I thought I might get a softer, gentler Sue Henry-like mystery story. Alas, not to be. Our heroine is Charlie (short for Charlotte) Cooke, who switched from law school to cul... | [] | 0593100441 | 0593100441 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,594,249,242,877 | 7 | true |
3 | Please Note I Did Not Finish Reading the Book | I do not feel able to give this an objective review, but I quit reading because the male lead seems like Fantasy Man and because of the level of violence directed at women in the book. I am aware the violence is historically correct, especially the force-feeding of the suffragettes who went on hunger strikes. It just m... | [] | 039958658X | 039958658X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,592,245,808,102 | 0 | true |
4 | Old-Fashioned Stories About Nature and Doing Your Best | I first came upon this, and its companion volume via a reference to "St. Nicholas" magazine, which I collect. And indeed, all but two of the stories in this volume are from that magazine. So, since I have all these magazines, why would I order the same stories in these volumes?<br /><br />Alas, because I am a "St. Nich... | [] | 096278415X | 096278415X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,592,245,447,701 | 1 | true |
3 | Good in General, But in Places Disappointing or Incorrect | The LASSIE series is pretty much my first television memory, watching the Timmy episodes first run and watching the Jeff episodes in reruns as far back as 1961. I waited for this book since I first heard about it: it's Bob Weatherwax's story about his father, Rudd, and the canine star he created, Lassie. Because Bob wo... | [] | 1629330930 | 1629330930 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,591,497,885,787 | 0 | false |
2 | Not Worth the Wait... | Penelope Thornton-McClure recommends a spicy new potboiler to a woman who walks into her aunt's small bookshop, only to have the women see a photo of the author and claim it's a photo of her! She then runs out of the shop, with the book unpaid for, furious. And when Pen ferrets out who she is and where she lives, and v... | [] | 0425237451 | 0425237451 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,590,944,527,366 | 4 | true |
4 | The Body and the Tree House | In the second of the Ferrara Family mysteries, granddaughter "Jinx" has talked Alberta Scaglione (who recently inherited a lake house from her deceased aunt) into jogging with her in the morning, through a park that has a hand-built treehouse in one of its numerous old oaks. Unfortunately for both, one morning they fin... | [] | 1496713966 | 1496713966 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,587,844,665,607 | 1 | true |
4 | Not Just Enemy Soldiers | As we zip through our American history classes, the "Boston Massacre" (the shooting of four Boston citizens by British soldiers in 1770) is barely a blip on the radar, except as one of the events that led to the Revolutionary War. And when we do learn it, it's as simple as several hundred British soldiers being quarter... | [] | 0544911156 | 0544911156 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,583,118,559,665 | 1 | false |
4 | Will Maggie's Grip on Sanity Slip? | This is the ninth book in the Maggie Hope series, and the second in which the author has addressed the subject of serial killers; I hope [no pun intended] she's got it out of her system because the idea makes me squeamish.<br /><br />Margaret "Maggie" Hope, raised in the United States but back in Great Britain after he... | [] | 0399593845 | 0399593845 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,581,644,765,617 | 2 | false |
4 | A Battle of Information for the Life of Great Britain | "Fake news," Hemming tells us, is nothing new, but it was especially important to one country in 1940. Things were going badly for Great Britain as Hitler's war machine marched westward. If not needing a fighting force from the United States, Britain badly needed what the US could provide in fighting materials: ships, ... | [] | 1541742141 | 1541742141 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,581,644,610,775 | 1 | false |
4 | A Body Encased | Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves (an intelligence gatherer for the British government) are vacationing in Pompeii with Emily's childhood friend Ivy when they turn up a dead body that has been encased in plaster like the Pompeiian bodies found on the site. The man's body is discovered to be that of an America... | [] | 1250164737 | 1250164737 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,581,017,019,704 | 0 | false |
4 | Rewarding but Exhausting | Naturalist and explorer Shoalts, the author of two other books about canoeing and hiking in Canada, wants to accomplish something that has been never done before: crossing Canada's territory at the Arctic Circle by canoe. He times it to the sesquicentennial of Canada becoming a separate country, and also must carefully... | [] | 0735236836 | 0735236836 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,580,845,106,284 | 1 | false |
4 | Holmes and Watson at Yuletide Once More | I enjoyed the first volume so much I decided to send for a used copy of the sequel, but was a little disappointed when it arrived. It's a much smaller volume than the first, with fewer stories. However, most of them were pretty enjoyable, and written by familiar names like Anne Perry, Peter Lovesey, Barbara Paul, and L... | [] | 0425170330 | 0425170330 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,578,801,641,884 | 0 | true |
5 | 100+ Plus Years of Tradition | Since 1918, King's College (commissioned by Henry VI and completed during the reign of Henry VIII) in Cambridge, England, has offered a program on Christmas Eve at 3 PM called "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols." I have a CD of the service, but for the first time this year had an opportunity to listen to it broadcast... | [] | 1785940945 | 1785940945 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,578,801,588,451 | 0 | true |
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