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4 | Multiple Views of WWII Britain | Alan Sutton Publishing has a series of these "Christmas anthologies," the first which I bought at a book sale several years ago, and I try to pick up inexpensive copies when I can find them. Most of them concentrate on a certain shire or area in England, but there are a handful, like A Dickens Christmas and A Bronte Ch... | [] | 0750911026 | 0750911026 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,578,801,527,602 | 0 | true |
4 | In a Land of Dikes and Windmills | Alan Sutton Publishing has a series of these "Christmas anthologies," the first which I bought at a book sale several years ago. Now I try to pick them up used when they're a dollar or under, with the postage as the bulk of the purchase. I had two others picked out originally, then decided to get this one and A Lakes C... | [] | 0862997496 | 0862997496 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,577,631,290,142 | 0 | true |
5 | From Out of the Past | The seventh graphic novel in the Peter Grant series. As the story opens, Thomas Nightingale is on his way to a funeral of an old friend made during World War II. He advises Peter that this led to a very interesting case in the 1950s and directs him to a dossier in his records. As Peter reads, we go back in time to both... | [] | 1785865463 | 1785865463 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,577,630,907,960 | 4 | true |
4 | Ah, Madon! This Was Fun! | An Italian grandmother as a sleuth? How could I resist, especially after I read the first few pages and our heroine responds to what she thinks is a scam phone call with "Ah, Madon!" and my childhood came spilling back, aunts, uncles, grandparents and great aunts, and godmothers all using that familiar exclamation. I e... | [] | 149671394X | 149671394X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,576,008,295,088 | 4 | true |
5 | Christmas in the Lake Country | Alan Sutton Publishing has a series of these "Christmas anthologies," excerpts from diaries and novels in the area of England noted in the title (a few are done for eras, like WARTIME CHRISTMAS and BRONTE CHRISTMAS), the first which I bought at a book sale several years ago. I had two others picked out originally, the... | [] | 0862999219 | 0862999219 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,576,008,106,600 | 0 | true |
5 | Peter Grant's Life Will Change Irrevocably... | In this seventh novel in the series, all the stops are out at the Metropolitan Police and its esoteric division The Folly (dedicated to magic and the supernatural) to catch the sinister Faceless Man (recently identified as Martin Chorley) and renegade police constable Lesley May, who was formerly Peter Grant's best fri... | [] | 0756411351 | 0756411351 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,573,789,285,112 | 3 | true |
5 | Can the Vanderbeeker Kids Make a Dream Come True? | It's spring and the Vanderbeeker kids are on the move as always: musical Isa is preparing for an audition as her twin Jessie, only brother Oliver, Hyacinth the yarn maestro, and little Laney are determined to make everything perfect when their mother, an extraordinary baker, is going to be interviewed by "Perch," a mag... | [] | 1328577570 | 1328577570 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,573,615,510,729 | 1 | false |
4 | A Race Across Europe to Stop a Lie | Possible spoilers ahoy!<br /><br />Back in the 1970s, Meyer penned THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION, about Sherlock Holmes' efforts, with the assistance of Dr. John Watson and the famous "alienist" Sigmund Freud, to wean himself from a cocaine addiction that is making him increasingly ill and paranoid. (The book was later m... | [] | 1250228956 | 1250228956 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,570,719,194,838 | 1 | false |
4 | In Depth With the Doctor | This covers the rest of David Tennant's tenure as Doctor #10 including the three "gap year" extended episodes, his appearance on the BBC "proms" concert, and even his guest appearance on The Sarah Jane Adventures, from "Partners in Crime" wherein the Doctor is reunited with runaway bride Donna Noble, to "The End of Tim... | [] | 193523420X | 193523420X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,570,493,431,265 | 0 | true |
4 | College Reunions are Murder | Fourth in the year-round Christmas mystery.<br /><br />It's almost Thanksgiving and Merry Wilkinson is looking forward to her favorite holiday, even though she lives in the year-round Christmas town of Rudolph, NY, which reinvented itself after industry moved out. Two of her three siblings will be home as well. Right n... | [] | 0440000300 | 0440000300 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,570,493,332,698 | 5 | true |
5 | The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue! | The Vanderbeeker kids (twins Jessie and Isa, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney) have always considered their upstairs neighbors Miss Josie and Mr. Jeet to be like grandparents, so they are devastated when Mr. Jeet has a second stroke. To take their minds off their worries, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney (Isa is at music... | [] | 0358117348 | 0358117348 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,570,493,187,896 | 3 | true |
5 | Back With Another Book That Will Touch Your Heart | In SCENT OF THE MISSING, Charleson told us of working with search and rescue dogs, including the training of her own dog Puzzle, a Golden retriever, and in THE POSSIBILITY DOGS, we learned about her mission to turn shelter rescues into therapy dogs for anxiety sufferers. In this newest book, urged on by her father, Cha... | [] | 1328995054 | 1328995054 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,568,147,854,112 | 0 | false |
3 | Good, But Rather Dull | Since I have read so many of Pyle's other books in this year of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, this should have been an easy read. Unfortunately I was rather bored by it unless the chapters were about the people of the space program who didn't get that much attention. I wish Mr. Pyle had devoted his book to ... | [] | 1633885240 | 1633885240 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,567,955,436,284 | 0 | false |
5 | Wealthy Girl Goes Slumming--and Pays the Ultimate Price | Frank Molloy's newest client in his still fairly-new role as private investigator is a well-groomed young man named Will Bert who's searching for his younger brother, Freddie. Will tells Frank that he and Freddie were sent West on an orphan train where Will found a sympathetic guardian and made good while Freddie ran a... | [] | 1101987138 | 1101987138 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,565,637,082,941 | 0 | true |
5 | Bad Luck Dogs a Theatre Troupe | Kate Shackleton is requested to escort a famous singer to the event of the century: a total eclipse of the sun. She's unsure why the woman is so afraid to go on her own, especially when a good friend of the singer's, a beloved comedian, is accompanying her to the event as well. The trip will be by air, but there seems... | [] | 1250154790 | 1250154790 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,565,636,872,016 | 1 | true |
4 | The Real Science Behind Apollo | If you are a space program fan and have enjoyed all the television specials and all the new books about NASA and the "Space Race," but are looking for "something different," you might want to try this oversized hardback that turns its back on the politics and the public, and actually does takes you behind the scenes. T... | [] | 162414490X | 162414490X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,565,636,001,824 | 2 | false |
5 | I Like Cats... | ...and I like snark...so what's not to like about this calendar? On each page a baleful kitty stares out at you, and you can just imagine what he's thinking. Particularly like "All I hear is treat treat blah blah treat," since this applies to our dog, too, who is one step away from being a cat. "Embrace the fur" for No... | [] | 1449499090 | 1449499090 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,564,685,961,363 | 0 | false |
1 | Like a Fire in a Bookstore | I'm a sucker for mystery books taking place in New England, not to mention mysteries taking place in bookstores. I need to get suckered in less easily. This book makes me want to throw things. I'm not sure if it's the book or up.<br /><br />Our protagonist Addison "Addie" Greyborne previously worked with rare books at ... | [] | 1496720199 | 1496720199 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,564,181,386,066 | 10 | false |
3 | Interesting, But Not Compelling | The description of this book sounded wonderful: 18-year-old girl enters a wild Mongolian horse race, despite the fact her father hates horses and at first forbids her to go; turns out her aunt is a famous British equestrian rider. She has always been a restless soul, flitting from one thing to another.<br /><br />The r... | [] | 1948226197 | 1948226197 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,563,386,794,063 | 4 | false |
5 | Can Lenox and Graham Outrace a Murderer? | This is the first of three prequels to the Charles Lenox mysteries (the first book which was A BEAUTIFUL BLUE DEATH) that takes us back to the days when a young Lenox first lived in London with his former college scout Graham and was a neophyte trying to become a private investigator. He has solved two minor mysteries,... | [] | 1250139465 | 1250139465 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,563,295,945,399 | 2 | true |
3 | Living Vicariously Through Travel Books | I confess, I ordered this for reasons you might think odd. We have no money to travel, let alone overseas, and husband has no vacation time after a company reorganization and several years of medical problems. But it has always been my dream to travel Great Britain, and I love listening to the Lonely Planet reporters c... | [] | 1786578131 | 1786578131 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,561,405,578,500 | 0 | false |
4 | Post World War I Mystery With a Unique Protagonist | It's 1924 in London, England, and Eric Peterkin, like his father and grandfather before him, belongs to the Brittania Club, an exclusive gentleman's club for ex-military members. He is used to the peculiarities of the members, and when one of the members bets another that he can break into a lock box in the the members... | [] | 1942645953 | 1942645953 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,561,404,438,922 | 3 | true |
3 | Modernisms Tossed Me Right Out of the Story | I started this book with such promise.<br /><br />Lane Sanders is challenged and left breathless by her job assisting New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a short, squat piston of perpetual motion who keeps her on her toes. She has lived with her Bohemian aunt since her parents died, looked after by Aunt Evelyn's en... | [] | 1496713419 | 1496713419 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,561,404,098,124 | 13 | true |
4 | Strangled With Her Own Leash | Family awards are in the air in this entry in the Melanie Travis "canine mysteries" series. Her 13-year-old son Davey's poodle Augie needs only a few more points to become a champion. And her Aunt Peg is handling a promising new young poodle named Coral. Wanting Coral to look her best, Aunt Peg has commissioned a hand-... | [] | 1496703480 | 1496703480 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,561,404,037,352 | 2 | true |
2 | He Really, Really Wanted to Like It | Fair notice: I ordered this for my husband, who was in Naval aviation (aerographer). He has more military aircraft reference books than you can possibly count, and he's been researching this stuff since he was a small boy (he's now 62). He's a big fan of all aviation movies, even if the best thing about a film is the s... | [] | 0760363544 | 0760363544 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,561,403,537,325 | 0 | false |
4 | Busman's Holiday | Private inquiry agent Kate Shackleton has seen off her partner and her landlady on August holidays and arrives in the seaside town of Whitby (known for the famous Whitby jet, a gem used in mourning jewelry) for her own time off; this is with a great deal of nostalgia, as she and her late husband were in Whitby when Ger... | [] | 0349406588 | 0349406588 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,554,939,119,608 | 2 | true |
4 | Red Hot Murder in a Cold Climate | Lady Emily and her dashing husband Colin Hargreaves are in St. Petersburg, Russia, for Colin's newest assignment, monitoring political situations between Great Britain and Russia. They are at the Mariinsky Theatre to watch a performance of Swan Lake, with the lead role taken by the prima ballerina Irina Semnova Nemetse... | [] | 1250058287 | 1250058287 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,554,939,047,983 | 3 | true |
4 | The Prince of Wales: Detective | These mysteries (BERTIE AND THE TIN MAN, BERTIE AND THE SEVEN BODIES, BERTIE AND THE CRIME OF PASSION) were first released in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and I can guess they are being re-released due to the continued interest in the British VICTORIA series currently being produced, featuring adorable Laurie Shepherd a... | [] | 1641290498 | 1641290498 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,554,937,433,921 | 2 | false |
5 | Who Will Stand for the Immigrant? | My favorite period of history is the U.S. and Great Britain 1880 through the beginning of the first World War, so this hit my radar immediately. I wondered if I would have a problem with it being the second book in a series, but discovered it didn't make too much of a difference to the mystery portion of the story.<br ... | [] | 1250152992 | 1250152992 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,554,932,430,171 | 0 | false |
2 | A Science Lesson Dressed Up as a Narrative | When I saw the comparison of this book to A WRINKLE IN TIME, I was very intrigued. I read WRINKLE in seventh grade and loved it. And I'm sorry, there is no comparison.<br /><br />Yes, I am a lot older than seventh grade now, and you may think that has colored my review of this book. But I remember what I was reading at... | [] | 052564640X | 052564640X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,552,955,760,010 | 1 | false |
4 | Who Murdered the American Correspondent | This newest of the Maisie Dobbs' mysteries begins a little slowly as Winspear immerses you in the sights, sounds, smells, and terrors of the Blitz. Maisie and her old friend Priscilla Partridge have volunteered for the ambulance corps and as the novel opens, they are being observed by young American reporter Catherine ... | [] | 006243666X | 006243666X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,551,324,413,457 | 6 | false |
4 | A Feisty Terrier in the Pacific Theater | Bill Wynne was attached to the 26th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in World War II when he met a dirty mite of a dog that had been found in the jungles of the New Guinea island where he was stationed. Wynne loved dogs and took the fearless little animal that he named Smoky to his heart. She remained with him all during ... | [] | 0306922541 | 0306922541 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,551,321,715,607 | 0 | false |
4 | What Do Jack the Ripper and Mary Queen of Scots Have in Common? | Jodi Taylor's "St. Mary's" books present a setup similar to Connie Willis' DOOMSDAY BOOK, BLACKOUT, ALL CLEAR, etc.: a university sponsoring trips into the past to learn more about real history via some kind of mechanical process that is not explained. However, while Willis' books are mostly serious studies of time tra... | [] | 1597808695 | 1597808695 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,551,312,825,189 | 5 | true |
4 | On the Homefront of the First World War | I've been looking for a book about the World War I homefront in the United States for a couple of years now and pretty much been unsuccessful until I found this book while looking for something else. It's not everything I wanted, but it gives a partial view of homefront America 1917-1918.<br /><br />Eighmey, who wrote ... | [] | 0873517180 | 0873517180 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,551,312,568,352 | 2 | true |
4 | The Woman Behind the Wizard | I enjoyed this fictionalized account of the life of Maud Gage Baum, wife of the author of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. The novel switches back and forth between 1938, in which an elderly Maud wangles her way onto the MGM lot to make certain the movie moguls don't ruin her husband's magical story and becomes interested i... | [] | 0525622101 | 0525622101 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,550,288,834,229 | 0 | false |
4 | A Good Beginner's Guide to Queen Victoria | Published in Britain as QUEEN VICTORIA: DAUGHTER, WIFE, MOTHER, WIDOW, this is, rather than an in-depth biography, a book that hits the highlights of the long-lived monarch's lifetime, from the wedding of her father (one of the sons of King George III) and mother in order to beget a blood heir to the throne of England,... | [] | 125020142X | 125020142X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,550,171,209,694 | 0 | false |
4 | As Good as STUFF MATTERS, With a Star Taken Off for the "Susan" Interaction | I want to go to whatever school it is where Mark Miodownik teaches.<br /><br />I'd never heard about "material science" when I went to school, but biology left me cold, chemistry was absorbing in the laboratory, but the mathematical portion of the course was over my head. Needless to say, after that, physics was out. :... | [] | 054485019X | 054485019X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,549,511,309,087 | 4 | false |
3 | Quiet Days | Ms. Sarton's books, especially this one, were recommended on another book blog that I read, and this appeared to be one of her most noted ones, so I picked it up when I saw it. I can't say I was disappointed, but it was different from what I was expecting. Sarton, a poet and essayist, chronicled her thoughts about livi... | [] | 0393309282 | 0393309282 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,549,383,927,700 | 15 | true |
4 | A New Player in Town | It's always good to have a new "Rivers of London" story, even in graphic form. In this entry, a shadowy figure called the Hoodette has muscled her way into the territories of other drug smugglers in town, distributing marijuana. Peter becomes interested after Beverley's two sisters intercept a bag of the stuff as a jok... | [] | 1785865455 | 1785865455 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,549,382,945,025 | 2 | true |
5 | Kitty's Second Case | This is the second book in the Capability "Kitty" Weeks series, and it remains as intriguing as Vatsal's first entry. Kitty, reporter for the Ladies' Page on the New York Sentinel, is sent to visit a girls' school famous for the scholarship of its graduates in an era when girls were usually trained to be ornamental. Sh... | [] | 1492638927 | 1492638927 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,546,527,626,502 | 2 | true |
5 | Where Santa Claus Lives | These "World Book" Christmas volumes are lovely books of interest to both children and adults, with color photographs and text talking about how the people in that particular country (or, in the case of some of the books, region) celebrate the December and January holidays. To the folks in Finland, Lapland is where San... | [] | 0716608588 | 0716608588 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,546,527,477,635 | 0 | true |
5 | Watch Out for the 12 Christmas Demons! | These "World Book" Christmas volumes are lovely books of interest to both children and adults, with color photographs and text talking about how the people in that particular country (or, in the case of some of the books, region) celebrate the December and January holidays. The Greeks celebrate the Advent period (while... | [] | 0716608596 | 0716608596 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,546,527,397,258 | 0 | true |
5 | Bess Races Time to Keep a Man from Going Mad | In the latest Bess Crawford mystery, the Great War is almost finished. Bess, a nurse at the front lines, is having a brief respite of rest when she chats with a Captain Alan Travis. Back at the front, she meets Captain Travis again; a bullet has narrowly missed his head and he claims the shot was deliberate, by a man i... | [] | 0062678787 | 0062678787 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,546,527,189,344 | 1 | true |
4 | Ollie Gnome and Celia Pixie in the Adventure of a Lifetime | This is a fast, funny, and very imaginative children's book that has a bit of resemblance to CHRISTINE KRINGLE or the film ARTHUR CHRISTMAS in that Santa Claus is not an immortal, but instead "Santa Claus" is a job that's handed down from father to son (or perhaps to child). The current Santa Claus wishes to retire, an... | [] | 1338185500 | 1338185500 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,546,525,889,124 | 4 | false |
5 | Solid Entry in the Josephine Tey Mystery Series | This is a great installment of Upson's mystery series built around mystery writer Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacIntosh) that treats her as both a real person (using her actual books and plays) and as a fictional character (to her friends, of course, she was not "Josephine" as she is here). This time Inspector Archie Penr... | [] | 1683313216 | 1683313216 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,543,551,436,835 | 4 | true |
5 | For the Love of Books | One fall afternoon, while looking for a book she wanted to read in her extensive collection, Susan Hill discovers other books she purchased but hadn't read, or books she'd even forgotten she'd purchased, along with books she realized she wanted to read again. Hill resolves to buy no new books (except for volumes she ne... | [] | 1846682665 | 1846682665 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,543,551,347,938 | 6 | true |
5 | A Missing Portrait and an Incomplete Story | I began reading the Charles Lenox series with the first book, A Beautiful Blue Death, and have pretty much enjoyed the series even when a few things niggled at me (with all the money Charles had, couldn't he get a decent set of boots?). As the series has proceeded, I've enjoyed the development of Lenox's detective agen... | [] | 1250311365 | 1250311365 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,543,376,121,146 | 9 | false |
3 | What If the Real "Sherlock Holmes" Tracked Down the Ripper? | The first few "Jack the Ripper" murders (at that time referred to being performed by a man known as "Leather Apron") electrified London. In Portsmouth, England, struggling physician Arthur Conan Doyle, having written the first Sherlock Holmes story some time earlier, is asked to come to England's capitol by Prime Minis... | [] | 1633884864 | 1633884864 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,542,414,743,261 | 5 | false |
5 | Beautiful Edition of Stevenson's Poems | This is the hardback edition illustrated by Tasha Tudor. I understand Amazon has mashed all the reviews for every edition of this book together, so if the Tasha Tudor edition is the one you want, be careful to order a new copy, or make sure you ask the Marketplace seller (if you are buying used) to guarantee you get th... | [] | 0689823827 | 0689823827 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,541,551,915,631 | 34 | true |
5 | A No Frills But Fun History of TREK Fanfiction and Zines | I thought I had or had read every book out there about fanfiction until I attended a panel at DragonCon 2018 about female STAR TREK fans and this book was mentioned. I ordered it practically when the panel was over.<br /><br />Don't expect academic erudition (like Henry Jenkins and Camille Bacon-Smith, who wrote the se... | [] | 1502817411 | 1502817411 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,539,373,706,375 | 6 | true |
5 | A Beautiful Book About Gardens, History, and Self | This is the last of the nature books (WIND IN THE ASH TREE, A SMALL COUNTRY LIVING GOES ON, WILD HARES AND HUMMINGBIRDS, and THE MAGIC APPLE TREE) I bought for summer reading. I enjoyed the latter two, I loved both the Jeanine McMullen memoirs, but I left this for last, and it truly was the icing on the cake. Let me re... | [] | 0747598231 | 0747598231 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,538,620,137,159 | 4 | true |
4 | A Country Idyll | This is Moss' leisurely examination of a year in the life of the animals, birds, insects, and plants in his small village of Mark in southwestern England. Through his eyes we see the changing seasons, the migration of the birds, the hedge and pasture life of badgers and foxes and rabbits, and the effect of a changing c... | [] | 0099552469 | 0099552469 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,538,620,004,361 | 1 | true |
5 | The Last of "A Small Country Living" | It wasn't so long ago that I picked up My Small Country Living on the way out of the book sale, started to read, and fell in love. This summer I ordered The Wind in the Ash Tree, and now with this third book I have finished McMullen's appealing trilogy about living on a Welsh smallholding and producing a radio show abo... | [] | 0393335143 | 0393335143 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,538,619,943,672 | 1 | true |
3 | Misses the Magic of the Original | When Pattou's EAST, based on the fairy tale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," was released in 2005, I was immediately drawn to the cover of the young woman in the company of a polar bear. I was fascinated with the society Pattou portrayed, one in which the compass direction a child is born into is said to... | [] | 1328773930 | 1328773930 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,538,619,832,837 | 2 | false |
4 | Noodles and Nefariousness | This is the second of Chien's "Noodle House" restaurant featuring young Lana Lee, whose Taiwanese mother and American father run Ho-Lee's House of Noodles in Cleveland's Asia Village shopping center. When her parents go to Taiwan to help out her grandmother, Lana, not her older sister Anna May, who is studying for the ... | [] | 1250129176 | 1250129176 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,535,770,163,281 | 0 | false |
5 | The Farrier is a Sleuth | I have been looking for a mystery series that was likeable without getting into thrillers or police procedurals, and didn't feature a whitebread attractive woman operating in a small town with quaint shops. This one may fill the bill. Rainy Dale is a professional farrier (horseshoer) whose early life was a mess, with a... | [] | 1510732721 | 1510732721 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,535,769,068,932 | 13 | false |
4 | A Meeting of Artists | Having just finished a nonfiction book about the Gilded Age, this was a natural follow-on. This is the fourth in Maxwell's "Gilded Newport" series starring Emma Cross, newspaper reporter and one of the Vanderbilt "poor relations." Emma has been asked to cover a house party of artists and writers at ... | [] | 149670326X | 149670326X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,534,259,581,062 | 0 | true |
4 | They Take to the Air But Not With the Greatest of Ease | Once the Wright Brothers and their other American, French, and British compatriots proved that aviation was the new frontier, other men longed to fly—and so did women. As with other pursuits at the turn of the twentieth century, like driving an automobile or voting or doing anything else men thought was solely their pu... | [] | 1328876640 | 1328876640 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,534,258,213,536 | 3 | false |
4 | Who Murdered the Kidnap Victim? | In this newest William Monk mystery, head of the river police Monk is asked by frantic land developer Harry Exeter to help him deliver a ransom for his kidnapped wife Kate. Exeter has managed to scrape together the money but is unfamiliar with the locale for the trade-off, a fetid neighborhood called Jacob's Island. Si... | [] | 0399179917 | 0399179917 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,533,570,882,692 | 4 | false |
4 | A New History of Jamestown | This is a new history of the Jamestown colony making the case that it was the early Jamestown settlers, especially those who went to live with or those who learned to get along with the native occupants of the region, who were the original independent Americans who would later set in motion a bid for freedom, not the P... | [] | 163286777X | 163286777X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,533,570,628,034 | 8 | false |
5 | The Breadth of Tudor's Art | Like many people, I fell in love with Tasha Tudor's beautiful work via THE SECRET GARDEN. Her lovely sketches of birds, flowers, and the children even led me to trade my paperback version in for the hardcover, which contained color plates. Her exquisite work gave me joy. Then I discovered her Christmas art. Even better... | [] | 0316174939 | 0316174939 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,530,281,276,401 | 2 | false |
4 | Abigail Plays a Most Dangerous Game | The fifth in Aaronovitch's Peter Grant graphic novel series has Peter's magic-talented niece Abigail taking center stage. While Peter, Nightingale, and Varvara go to a pub frequented by the demimonde to threaten them, Abigail, who's awaiting her weekly lesson, is left cooling her heels. On the way home she encounters a... | [] | 1785861727 | 1785861727 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,530,281,063,082 | 7 | false |
4 | A Threat in the Hills | In this first book of the "Family Spies" series, we join former mine slave Mags and his wife Amily fifteen years after the end of CLOSER TO THE CHEST. They now have three children, Peregrine (known as Perry), Abi, and Tory. Because of Mags' employment as a royal spy and Amily's rank as King's Own, the children ... | [] | 0756413176 | 0756413176 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,530,280,903,244 | 0 | false |
5 | Good Mystery, but the Settings Are the Real Star | I loved the first "Josephine Tey" mystery by Upson because she had the vocabulary of 1930s crime fiction down pat; while I had a problem with the second one I have mostly enjoyed this series featuring a fictionalized Tey (real name Elizabeth MacIntosh), her Scotland Yard inspector best friend Archie Penrose, an... | [] | 0062418157 | 0062418157 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,530,280,789,434 | 2 | true |
5 | A Small Country Living Carries On | I realized after reading McMullen's A SMALL COUNTRY LIVING last year and loving it that I just had to get the two sequels.<br /><br />This first sequel takes up where the first book left off, with native Australian McMullen struggling to make ends meet on the small Welsh farm she bought with her former boyfriend. "... | [] | 0393026175 | 0393026175 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,530,280,457,145 | 0 | true |
3 | Who Killed the Drunken Director? | I haven't seen a new one of the Charlotte Brody books come out this year, so I'm not sure if Pegau is taking a break or if she has stopped writing this series. The story: a film crew has come to Cordova to make a movie set against the Alaskan wilderness. The film is already in trouble because a native rights group has ... | [] | 1496700589 | 1496700589 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,529,332,582,570 | 1 | true |
5 | The Penderwicks Throw a Wedding | In this last [::sob::] of the Penderwicks books, the original four Penderwick sisters are all grown: Rosalind is preparing to marry her childhood sweetheart Tommy, Jane is waiting tables while she finishes her first novel, Skye is in California studying astrophysics, and Batty, now nineteen, is studying music in Boston... | [] | 038575566X | 038575566X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,529,332,468,726 | 6 | true |
5 | Your Guide to the "All Souls" World | This is a gorgeous companion book to Deborah Harkness' "All Souls" trilogy, A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, SHADOW OF NIGHT, and THE BOOK OF LIFE. As such, it is tremendous. If you have no interest in the books, you probably won't be a fan of this volume either. For trilogy fans, you have a treat awaiting!<br /><br />A... | [] | 0735220743 | 0735220743 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,529,332,216,051 | 179 | true |
4 | Life in a Lovely English Village | I hate to garden, hate being out in the sun, and worms make me ill to look at. As I point out to people, "the Italian gene for gardening passed me right by." However, I love reading books (and magazines; half the fun of "Country Living UK" are the stories about people making a living on their smallholdi... | [] | 0140064206 | 0140064206 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,529,332,120,139 | 5 | true |
3 | Enjoyable Papercrafting Volume | There are some particularly cute ideas in this book, especially the silhouettes, the DIY boxes and envelopes, the quilling instructions and two projects, the pop-up card, the papercutting; the owl mobile is especially darling! I like the fact that it tells you what supplies to buy for general papercrafting, and then wh... | [] | 1465439439 | 1465439439 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,529,331,866,371 | 0 | false |
5 | One Woman's Williamsburg | This short but delightful book is Bailey's love letter to Colonial Williamsburg. A self-professed history geek and science fan, Bailey has been going to "CW," as she calls it throughout the book, since she was a small child, vividly recalling in the first chapter the day in 1965 she, aged ten, and her older sis... | [] | 0999572202 | 0999572202 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,528,329,514,028 | 4 | false |
5 | Not Only a Mystery, But a Comeuppance! | In what looks like it might be the last of the Manor House mysteries, Grace Wheaton's life has begun to change after she is declared Bennett Marshfield's heir, and she has a chance to be the silent partner when her roommates, wine-shop owners Bruce and Scott, move into a new location, a classic old building. But when G... | [] | 0425281639 | 0425281639 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,526,840,783,856 | 0 | true |
5 | Great Entry in This Series | This entry in the World Book Encyclopedia "Christmas in..." volumes will put you in a holiday mood immediately, with its cover of the glowing Citadel overlooking the old city of Quebec, and following with an introductory chapter on "Christmas Lights Across Canada," the first Thursday of December when ea... | [] | 0716608944 | 0716608944 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,526,840,701,345 | 0 | true |
5 | Super History Overview With Multiple Illustrations | This is a super almost coffee-table sized book chronicling the history of the United States' reaction to and then our entrance into what became the first World War. Starting with a prologue that covers the sinking of the Titanic (I didn't realize that although Titanic was under British registry she was financed by J.P.... | [] | 1620409828 | 1620409828 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,526,839,463,014 | 3 | true |
5 | Will Maggie and Her Fellow Captives Survive? | Maggie Hope "meets" Agatha Christie in a reworking of Christie's classic AND THEN THERE WERE NONE in this newest Hope mystery.<br /><br />Because Margaret Hope, born in the United States but now working in Great Britain during World War II (first as secretary for Winston Churchill and later as a spy for Britain... | [] | 0399593829 | 0399593829 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,526,839,376,294 | 5 | false |
4 | The Most Difficult Race of His Life | Politics rears its ugly head in this 1838-set installment of the Lincoln and Speed mysteries.<br /><br />If you think politics is dirty now, it was all the more so in frontier America. Springfield is embroiled in a hot election race, the Whigs (they would not change their name to Republicans for some years yet) versus ... | [] | 1683315987 | 1683315987 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,526,839,275,134 | 0 | false |
3 | Animals With Opinions | This is a slim, pleasant volume about Young's experience at her farm, Kite's Nest, in England, with her livestock, mostly cows that are pasture-raised and then slaughtered humanely. People tend to think that cows and other herd animals are stupid creatures that sit around eating all day, and, indeed, in man-made feedlo... | [] | 0525557318 | 0525557318 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,526,839,107,313 | 3 | false |
4 | Fair Mystery About a Country Girl in the City | Louise Faulk has fled her dull life as her uncle's bookkeeper for his butcher shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania (and a secret that is slowly revealed as the book progresses) and is working for a small publisher in New York City thanks to her Auntie-Mame-like aunt whose nonconformist views hide the fact she writes bestselle... | [] | 1496714245 | 1496714245 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,525,226,781,589 | 4 | false |
5 | Huge Volume Recounting the History of WHO in the US | In 1963, DOCTOR WHO premiered on the BBC, and, unless you were visiting the British isles or one of the commonwealth countries, you'd probably never heard of it. When it was finally sold into syndication in the US, it was dismissed in a two-page "TV Guide" article and then slowly began to appear on American sta... | [] | 0988221012 | 0988221012 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,956,919 | 2 | false |
5 | Superior Sherlock Holmes Continuation | This is a dandy collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories that have a real flavor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Faye has captured the vocabulary he used and the personalities of Holmes and Watson admirably; the mysteries themselves are also reasonably complex, although I did guess the crime being done in "The Advent... | [] | 0802127606 | 0802127606 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,777,247 | 0 | false |
5 | WHO--and Kirkley--Return! | This is the second half of Kirkley's tongue-in-cheek commentary on the history of DOCTOR WHO, from "the wilderness years" and the Virgin books and later the Big Finish audios to the television film to the triumphant return starting with "Rose" and the tumult surrounding it, since Christopher Eccleston q... | [] | 1935234218 | 1935234218 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,670,388 | 0 | false |
5 | Georgie Goes to Ireland | As you remember, at the end of MALICE IN THE PALACE, devastatingly handsome Irish spy and impoverished former estate heir Darcy was zooming away with our heroine, Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the throne, equally blue-blooded and impoverished. It turns he is driving her to Gretna Green in Scotland, for them ... | [] | 0425283496 | 0425283496 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,499,883 | 0 | false |
5 | Cooke on the Average American | Before Alistair Cooke passed, during his elder journalist years between his series America and during MASTERPIECE THEATRE, he had several books published that examined mostly serious subjects (SIX MEN, THE AMERICANS, World War II-era America, etc.) that talked about significant events in the American scene. All of thes... | [] | B0007F1DM2 | B0007F1DM2 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,409,355 | 1 | false |
4 | Mano the Shark | Of the three 2018 American Girl "Beforever" mysteries, this is probably the least "mysterious" and is more about Nanea jumping to conclusions. Her brother David now in the service, Nanea is more determined than ever to do something for the war effort, even if it's just keeping an eye out for lawbreakers... | [] | 1683370597 | 1683370597 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,308,907 | 0 | false |
5 | Who is Sabotaging the National Park? | I can't decide whether this or the Rebecca mystery are the best of the 2018 American Girl mystery stories. They are both suspenseful and have good, almost creepy mysteries as part of the story. This Kit mystery makes up for the thoroughly disappointing THE JAZZMAN'S TRUMPET which was so predictable.<br /><br />In this ... | [] | 1683370600 | 1683370600 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,264,113 | 5 | false |
4 | What Happened to Sweet Abigail? | Frank Malloy and his new wife Sarah Brandt Malloy are home from their honeymoon, gamely coping with the new investigative agency Frank's young ex-policeman friend Gino and Sarah's nanny Maeve set up while they were away. Frank's already bored with investigating infidelity cases and Sarah's bored with being a housewife ... | [] | 110198709X | 110198709X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,721,184,501 | 0 | false |
5 | Danger Lurks in the Library | Kate Shackleton has a new case: Lady Coulton has asked her to find the daughter born out of wedlock that she had to give away while her husband was abroad. No sooner has Kate begun her hunt for Sophia than she is asked to participate in an odd ceremony at the historic Leeds library: it's reputed to be haunted and there... | [] | 1250067502 | 1250067502 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,720,072,014 | 2 | true |
5 | A Seasoned Sleuth and Her Young Partner | Lucian Simonson, the charming and intelligent physician Kate Shackleton befriended in MURDER ON A SUMMER'S DAY, has invited her to stay at his aunt's old place in the small town of Settle. Kate takes along her fourteen-year-old niece Harriet, who is recovering from a severe case of diphtheria, with her to get some coun... | [] | 1250098831 | 1250098831 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,720,022,508 | 1 | true |
5 | Traditions Merge | I started collecting these with the resolve that I was going to only pick them up at book sales and was not going to get any of the volumes about Christmas in hot places, since I despise the heat. But then I couldn't leave Australia out and when you start a collection you want to finish it. So I am trying to assemble t... | [] | 0716608642 | 0716608642 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,719,948,135 | 0 | true |
5 | Who is After the Young Actress? | Rebecca Rubin's cousin Michael puts this first of three American Girl mysteries for 2018 into motion when he forgets his lunch. He's working at a famous Broadway theatre and of course stagestruck Rebecca and his sister Ana get to take his forgotten meal to him and go backstage in the bargain. The girls find out the the... | [] | 1683370740 | 1683370740 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,719,862,890 | 3 | true |
4 | Naive Hero But Interesting Plot | As Ohio Congressman John Bingham—the man who prosecuted Abraham Lincoln's assassin's compatriots—lays dying, he lays out a strange story to his doctor, James "Jamie" Fraser, who considers Bingham his mentor: before her execution, Mary Surratt told him a dark secret about who was really behind the assassination.... | [] | 0758290675 | 0758290675 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,719,752,480 | 4 | true |
5 | Educated Women Take Their Chance During Wartime | In the 1880s, reluctantly authorized by male authority, women began going to universities. Too many still disapproved, both men and women who felt a woman's only career should be as wife and mother. Doctors of the time even said that women's brains were not made for studying of difficult subjects like mathematics and s... | [] | 0198794983 | 0198794983 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,522,719,518,970 | 1 | false |
5 | A World War, Sons and Daughters at Risk, and Parential Fears | May 1940: Publican Phil Coombes is worried. His youngest boy Joe, apprenticed to a painter who's doing war work, is unhappy at his job, as he tells his parents each time he calls, and he's also suffering from terrible headaches which he suspects is due to the paint fumes. When Joe stops telephoning, Coombes asks Maisie... | [] | 0062436635 | 0062436635 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,519,684,953,722 | 25 | false |
4 | In the Family Way | In this third in the Kate Shackleton mystery series, the novel opens with two children taking food to their father, a stoneworker at a quarry. But their errand turns into horror when they discover their father dead and the sundial he was working on ruined. However, when they go to get help and return with an adult, the... | [] | 1250067510 | 1250067510 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,519,087,273,348 | 1 | true |
4 | The Truth Behind Truman | I bought this book because I had read both of the G. Neri "Tru and Nelle" books, and wanted to see just how much had been extracted from this memoir, which is based on the recollections of Jennings Faulk, Truman's cousin. It is indeed revealing, if sadly so. While it's fun reading about all the imaginative thin... | [] | 0817358056 | 0817358056 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,519,086,584,608 | 0 | true |
3 | Fact-Filled Narrative About Migratory Birds | I'm not a birder but I have feeders in the backyard and have participated in various backyard bird counts over the years. I picked this book because of the author's references to Edwin Way Teale's classic nature books. I guess I was hoping for both information on birds and migration (which I did get) along with more in... | [] | 1588346137 | 1588346137 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,516,717,039,224 | 2 | false |
4 | What We Love About A CHRISTMAS STORY | Wilson, the nostalgic writer behind the blog "Christmas TV History," and with two books about the subject under her belt, was curious if anyone has ever sat through the entire TBS/TNT 24-hour marathon of 1980's marvelous masterpiece A CHRISTMAS STORY, and what it would be like to do so. She found one blogger wh... | [] | 0984269959 | 0984269959 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,514,557,868,027 | 1 | true |
5 | Repercussions of an Old Case Jolt Bryant and May | Whew. In the past few novels we've been fearful of Arthur Bryant's health problems spelling the end of the teamwork of detectives Bryant and May and indeed the Peculiar Crimes Unit itself. But with Arthur on the mend, they're thrown into a new mystery: the seemingly inexplicable death of a woman walking her dog in the ... | [] | 1101887060 | 1101887060 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,514,557,639,700 | 0 | false |
3 | I loved the COUNTRY DIARY so I picked this up as ... | I loved the COUNTRY DIARY so I picked this up as well. The artwork was indeed beautiful, but I missed Edith's handwritten entries. I understand why they chose to do most of them in printed text--apparently Edith did not complete this diary as fully as her subsequent diary which was published as COUNTRY DIARY OF AN EDWA... | [] | 1559700440 | 1559700440 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,512,953,665,385 | 12 | true |
4 | Is This The End of a Beautiful Partnership? | Is this the end of Arthur Bryant and John May's partnership? Arthur's capacious memory seems to be fragmenting and he's starting to see visions of the past. The head of the Peculiar Crimes Unit wants Arthur to sit out the newest case: a drowned young woman found chained to a stone post in the Thames—a young woman found... | [] | 1101887036 | 1101887036 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,509,998,661,046 | 0 | true |
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