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5	A Secret Project and Violent Deaths	In this second book in the "Dr. Watson Thriller" series, John H. Watson has returned to England after his ordeal at the front, not only having endured the terrible environment of the trenches, but having been stalked by a German sniper and having to deal with a killer in the British ranks. Now he has been assig...	[]	1471101193	1471101193	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,509,998,515,917	1	true
4	Not As Many Secrets	I've long been a fan of this film and did not know there had been a tie-in novel for it until recently, and was happy to find one on Amazon. I enjoyed that it revealed the background on some of the characters, especially Liz (it even gives her a last name: Barker), a few hints about what Bishop had done in the interven...	[]	0451174704	0451174704	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,507,722,754,066	0	true
2	Disappointed Once Again	I should have been suspicious when I noted on the title page that it was an expansion of the ANNE OF GREEN GABLES COOKBOOK from 1985, which came out after the Kevin Sullivan version of the story. I remember seeing that one and remembering how few recipes it had in it. This is just that version "prettied up" wit...	[]	163106374X	163106374X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,507,055,015,333	5	false
5	Shedding Light on the History of Lighthouses	I've been waiting for this one to come out in paperback since I first saw the hardback; believe me, it was difficult to resist that long, as I grew up near the sea. Dolen opens with a general history of lighthouses, then concentrates on the first lighthouses built on American shores and the primitive reflective whale o...	[]	1631492500	1631492500	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,962,061,007	0	false
4	Caroline's House on the Prairie	It's been a bumper month for Wilder books: this is the third I've read in September 2017.<br /><br />Laura Ingalls Wilder's LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE chronicles the brief period that the Ingalls family—Charles, Caroline, Mary, Laura, and Baby Carrie—lived on the Kansas prairie attempting to "prove up" on a ho...	[]	0062685341	0062685341	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,961,934,727	10	false
4	Nice Summary of the Victorian Era	It's difficult doing a book about Victorian Britain, simply because Queen Victoria reigned for such a long period. The first part of her reign, which overlaps the Dickens period and is not long removed from the Regency period, is much different from the mid-Victorian period and the late Victorian period. So Paterson mu...	[]	0762435186	0762435186	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,961,379,293	0	false
3	Disappointing	This looked like a promising coffee-table like book with a combination of photographs and poetry/prose, with several selections from Sara Orne Jewett's COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS. Some of the photographs are indeed lovely, and some of the selections, including the Jewett, were novel. But there were a lot of photos tha...	[]	0920256554	0920256554	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,961,297,745	0	false
4	Life Before the War	CODE NAME VERITY introduced us to Julia Beaufort-Stuart, the staunch Scots lass eager to help the war effort. But we only know Julie in her war context; what was her life like before?<br /><br /> It is 1938, and Julie is coming home from her Swiss boarding school early to surprise her family, even though it is a sober ...	[]	1484717163	1484717163	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,961,187,914	1	false
5	Views on Wilder's Memoir	These are essays based upon the recently released PIONEER GIRL manuscript, Laura Ingalls Wilder's original memoir and the source from which all of the "Little House" books eventually came. Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, initially envisioned it as an adult memoir, but were unable to sell it, so Laura...	[]	1941813089	1941813089	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,961,056,433	5	false
4	Setup	Chadwick Kauffman has made Vera Van Alst, former shoe factory heiress and collector of mystery first editions, an offer she can't refuse: fine first editions of all of Ngaio Marsh's mystery books. Jordan Bingham has always wanted to visit Summerlea, the Kauffman estate, and is ecstatic when she is permitted to accompan...	[]	0425280349	0425280349	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,960,724,880	0	false
4	Philip Ashton Returns from the Grave	Lady Emily Hargreaves has never forgotten that she married her first husband without loving him, until she read his diaries after he died. Now married to Philip Ashton's best friend, Colin Hargreaves, the pair and Emily's old friend Jeremy Bainbridge, who was betrayed by his fiance, are headed for the island of Santori...	[]	1250130182	1250130182	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,960,041,804	3	true
4	What Fanfic Is...and What it Isn't	I first heard about fanfiction from "TV Guide" and a book called STAR TREK LIVES. At that point I was writing my own, but didn't know that was what you called it. In 1980 I discovered fanzines, printed delight continuing the adventures of favorite television and movie characters. A little while later, I joined ...	[]	0472053485	0472053485	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,506,960,005,212	1	true
5	Laura's Natural World	The moment I saw the author of this book, I wanted to read it. I sat down one grey and gloomy day to read McDowell's GARDENING LIFE OF BEATRIX POTTER and was completely immersed in summer, flowers, and the heady scent of the English countryside and the sheep-dotted slopes of the Lake District. How could this not do the...	[]	160469727X	160469727X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,505,413,966,516	6	false
5	Island Paradise at Christmas	So you have to know that I have been wanting this beautiful book since it was published, but waited thirteen long years to find it at an affordable price. Not that the price wasn't justified! Two hundred photographs of Nantucket homes, scenes, and decorations are lavishly spread through this solid coffee-table book, an...	[]	0821228714	0821228714	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,505,346,883,377	1	true
4	Great New Entry in the American Girl Lineup	This is the first book of the newest American Girl, Alice Nanea Mitchell, who lives in Honolulu. Her red-headed father works as a civilian employee on Hickam Field while her native Hawaiian mom is the daughter of businesspeople who Nanea loves to help at their small store. She has an older brother David and an older si...	[]	1683370228	1683370228	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,505,346,374,461	14	true
4	Nanea and Mele Make a Difference	Nanea is looking forward to getting back to school (her school was damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack) and continuing to help her favorite teacher Miss Smith. But as soon as they set foot in the classroom Nanea is dismayed to see Miss Smith paying so much attention to a new student named Dixie Lopez, who seems unfriend...	[]	1683370236	1683370236	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,505,346,250,640	7	true
4	Authentic 19th Century Vernacular a Highlight of this Historical Mystery	A sequel to Putnam's first "Lincoln and Speed" mystery, storekeeper Joshua Speed is aboard a riverboat when he overhears an argument between a gambler on the ship and a cotton planter who has lost all his money in a game. After concluding his business aboard ship, Speed is reunited with his good friend Abraham ...	[]	1683311396	1683311396	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,504,102,696,436	0	false
3	America in the Machine Age	This was the final volume in the "Everyday Life in America" series by Harper-Collins, and wasn't written until 1992, so it has a different viewpoint of the two wartime eras separated by boom and bust economics rather than the one that would have prevailed had this book been written in, say, 1960. Between 1915 a...	[]	0060162961	0060162961	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,503,590,481,634	2	true
4	Transferring the Colors of Life to Canvas and Fresco	I'm not certain what I expected of this book. I was hoping for something like Victoria Finlay's COLOR, in which she travels the world looking for the sources of the colors used in art (ochre in Australia, etc.) This was a little different: Ball traces the use of colors used by artists and how artists of the past pretty...	[]	0226036286	0226036286	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,503,590,356,681	17	true
5	Greeks Bearing Secrets	I'll admit I was puzzled at the opening to this book: Liberty Lane has married her sweetheart Robert Carmichael and they are honeymooning in Cephalonia in Greece. They see an impossibly handsome young man diving into the ocean and later meet him, discovering the graceful youth, Georgios, is blind—and very possibly the ...	[]	0727886916	0727886916	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,728,178,507	0	false
4	The Girl With Get-Up-and-Go	This is the story of Cecelia "Cece" (rhymes with "peace") Maloney, a fourteen-year-old New Jerseyite whose dream is to become a radio star. When her father signs her working papers, but refuses to take her with him to the studios at "the Mutual" (he's a sound effects engineer at the Mutual Broad...	[]	0823431924	0823431924	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,526,858,587	0	false
4	Johnnie's Champion	In 1897, a young woman named Charlotte Bill arrives at the royal home of the Duke of York (later to be King George V) and his growing family, in order to take the position of assistant nursemaid. Almost immediately she discovers that the head nursemaid has suffered emotional distress and is taking it out on the two you...	[]	0062420631	0062420631	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,526,470,283	0	false
4	Fanciful Tales of Horses	Somewhere in me there is a little girl who always dreamed of horses, read BLACK BEAUTY and the Windy Foot books, even though I knew I wouldn't want to go through the work it took to keep a horse healthy and happy even if we had the room for one. Better to ride imaginary horses who could take you anywhere and didn't nee...	[]	099870220X	099870220X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,526,212,712	1	false
4	Kids' Adventures Like They Used to Be	First published in 1930 and the first in a long series of books featuring the characters, this novel introduces the Walker children, whose mother is renting a home in England's Lake District during the summer holidays (the father is a naval officer and at sea). John, Susan, Titty, and Roger are wild to camp out on thei...	[]	1567924204	1567924204	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,526,080,641	0	false
4	A French Conundrum	Feeling tired and restless after the conclusion of her previous case (The Path of the Wicked), Liberty Lane is ready for some tea and companionship at the home of her friend Marguerite Blessington. Instead, she is embroiled in the British aristocracy's interest in Prince Louis Napoleon and a valet who is hiding out at ...	[]	0727885057	0727885057	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,939,197	1	true
4	Many Things Are Broken	So much is going on in this fourth novel in the Peter Grant "Rivers of London" series that I'm hard pressed to sum it up. A man involved in a car accident has blood all over the rear of his car as if a body has been riding there; Peter, his partner Lesley, and his mentor Thomas Nightingale are still chasing dow...	[]	0756409608	0756409608	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,848,844	0	false
4	It Grows!	I've been reading the novels in this series for some time and usually don't read graphic novels. I know I'm hooked on these characters: I bought this as soon as it was released on July 25.<br /><br />DC Sahra Guleed is investigating the rental home of a friend whose daughter has refused to live in it any longer, citing...	[]	1785855107	1785855107	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,708,718	4	true
3	"Hypertext" Book Doesn't Work Well	This is a small novelty-like book about color and color interpretation which probably would have been more interesting had it not been set up like a web page with hyperlinks. While that works okay on a web page, it's annoying to be confronted on every page with underlined words in a rainbow of color referencing referra...	[]	1608196135	1608196135	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,520,207	0	false
4	Town Mystery, Country Mystery	Charles Lennox's detective business is finally starting to flourish and his family life with wife Lady Jane and young daughter Sophia grows sweeter every day. He's almost too busy, especially when it affects his usual lunches with his beloved brother Edmund, who is lately extremely depressed after the death of his wife...	[]	1250093643	1250093643	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,453,140	4	true
3	Standard Melanie Travis Murder	Melanie Travis is back home in Connecticut after her Kentucky adventure, helping out at an annual event called "Puppy Fest," run by a local dog rescue organization "Puppy Posse" funded by local millionaire Leo Brody, who opens his capacious home ad pockets for the event, which is covered by the press, a...	[]	1496703421	1496703421	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,342,603	1	false
4	Maggie Hope Stalks a Killer	After her Washington, DC, mission in the previous novel, codebreaker and spy Margaret "Maggie" Hope is back in London, working as a "code checker" for messages coming in from Allied spies in occupied France. She's worried about one of the spies, a young woman, but her superior brushes it off as a "t...	[]	0804178720	0804178720	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,157,562	2	true
4	Mycroft Holmes?	In 1870, the man whom Sherlock Holmes would describe as having his finger on the pulse of the nation is a mere secretary in the British government. He's engaged to be married to a beautiful and educated young woman whose parents have a plantation in Haiti, has just purchased a spirited mount named Abie, and has an unco...	[]	1783291540	1783291540	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,525,029,961	0	false
4	Women's History Told Through What They Wore	The subtitle to this book is "The story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore." Knight's grandmother Annie was a seamstress and like everyone other woman of that era, seamstress or not, she kept a "button box" in an old candy tin (some women used cookie tins) and used these le...	[]	0099593092	0099593092	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,524,888,594	2	true
4	An Insider Look Into the Legend of Lassie	I've been waiting for this book since I heard about it: it's Bob Weatherwax's story about his father, Rudd, and the canine star he created, Lassie. Because Bob worked with his father and grew up with Lassie, I was hoping there would be a lot more details about some of the movies and about the television series. Instead...	[]	1629330922	1629330922	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,501,524,803,062	3	false
4	Double Cross and Evil Times in the City of Light	When last we left Maggie Hope at the end of THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE, she had helped rid London of a murderer and was heading for Paris to find her half-sister, who had been helped to escape from a concentration camp but who fled her rescuers, and discover the fate of a young woman spy named Erica Calvert, who is gatheri...	[]	0399593802	0399593802	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,664,716,643	3	false
5	Watson Among the Soldiers	John Hamish Watson has gone to war, joining the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914. Assigned to a field hospital, he at once is thrown into the repair of brutally battered soldiers' bodies, while keeping out of the way of the officious head nurse and defending two VADs from her scorn. Watson has arrived with a very speci...	[]	1849839573	1849839573	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,411,382,372	0	false
4	Strange Family Doings	This looked so intriguing that I picked it up, and am not sure I'm happy I did. This was pretty depressing at several levels. The history turns out to be that Wonder Woman was created by an brilliant egotistical psychology professor (who invented the first "lie detector" based on a person's blood pressure) who ...	[]	0804173400	0804173400	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,411,299,869	0	false
5	Where It All Happened	When Richard Rubin wrote THE LAST OF THE DOUGHBOYS, he interviewed all his subjects in the United States and did all his research in American locations. Yet when he came to speak about the book, readers were always interested to know if he'd been "over there" and visited the sites he wrote about. In 2009, he fi...	[]	1250084326	1250084326	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,411,199,339	1	false
4	Making Do During the Depression	I had never heard of this children's book, first published in 1936, and now wonder why! It's the story of the Ellis family, who are renting a small country cottage during the Depression. Their father has finally gotten a position in his field (he's an archaeologist), and mother Penny and the four children, Kay, the art...	[]	0486492907	0486492907	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,411,105,865	1	false
4	Everything About Sherlock	Upon finishing this, all I can say is "wow."<br /><br />That being said, I did have a bit of a difficult time reading it, not because it was an ARC, but because it was so badly formatted as an Kindle e-book that the truncated paragraphs and wrap-around short texts ruined the rhythm of the author's words, and be...	[]	080212660X	080212660X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,978,002	8	false
2	Unsatisfying Postwar Mystery	It's Christmas at Foxwood Manor, the first after the Great War, and the Renshaw family is hosting guests to help them celebrate the holidays, including Lord Allerton, soon to be engaged to the eldest of the Renshaw daughters, Julia. But on Christmas night, Phoebe, the progressive and curious middle daughter, comes down...	[]	1617738328	1617738328	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,823,692	19	false
4	Bryson Wows Australia	Now this is what I expect from Bill Bryson, not the continuous whine, whine, whine of THE LOST CONTINENT (although in his epilog about the Sydney Olympics he managed to whine, whine, whine about the Atlanta Olympics). It's the story of Bill's explorations in Australia, done mostly by car on his own, but also riding the...	[]	0767903862	0767903862	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,625,046	0	false
5	Music and Magic	In the second Peter Grant mystery/fantasy, Peter and his mentor Inspector Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, are called to view the corpse of a part time jazz musician. Using his previously unknown esoteric talent, Peter can hear a jazz tune coming from the deceased, which tells him that the death was ...	[]	0345524594	0345524594	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,512,551	0	false
3	Veronica On Her Own	Veronica Speedwell is a definitely unconventional Victorian woman. Now that her last aunt has died, Veronica, a talented and adventurous lepidopterist, plans to sell her cottage and continue the foreign adventures she enjoyed before coming back to nurse her aunt (and the decidedly unconventional romances she enjoyed al...	[]	0451476026	0451476026	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,354,788	0	false
5	For Verbivores Like Me	What's so hard about editing a dictionary? You just write down what the word means, right?<br /><br />As Kory Stamper can tell you, it's nothing that simple. The smallest words can be the most difficult to define, word meanings change, and social definitions that were once simple now must encompass more sensitive and e...	[]	110187094X	110187094X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,234,104	0	false
5	Not Your Ordinary Rookie Cop	Peter Grant has finally made it into London's metropolitan police force with ambitions of going far. He and fellow neophyte Leslie May are called in to help when a headless body is found in front of St. Paul's, and Peter's just minding his own business while Leslie goes to get them something hot to drink when a ghost c...	[]	034552425X	034552425X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,410,166,966	0	false
5	Tha Wilt Loike It	This is another in Sutton's line of Christmas books, either from English shires (their equivalent of a county) or during a certain time or literary period. Having picked up one (Worcestershire Christmas) at a book sale, I've collected one or two at the time when I can find them inexpensively (not to mention Surrey Chri...	[]	0862996392	0862996392	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,409,706,537	1	true
3	Loved It When They Didn't Talk Politics	This history of the colonial and then pre-James Polk United States is billed as a history of "the brave, brilliant, and flawed people who made America great...native-born and immigrant: German, Latin, African, and British; farmers, engineers, planters and merchants; Protestants, Freemasons, Catholics, and Jews...an...	[]	0060957557	0060957557	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,409,087,825	5	true
5	Education of a Historical Interpreter	I've had this book for a couple of years now and have completely forgotten the circumstances under which I ordered it. I might have heard the author on "Travel With Rick Steves" or some other podcast. At this point I recalled it being humorous stories from the National Parks. It is not. Instead it's the story o...	[]	0803249721	0803249721	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,408,719,141	1	true
3	A Walking History of London	What's one of the most memorable things about the city of London? Its transport system, about which many things have been written. But what's above those underground lines?<br /><br />That's what Mark Mason sets out to discover as he walks each of the London Underground lines...overhead, from the shortest to the longes...	[]	0099557932	0099557932	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,408,578,079	0	true
5	Have Time Travelers Visited Rivermead Manor?	Of the three new "American Girl Mysteries," this one is my favorite, although there's a point where the Uncle Hendrick storyline becomes cliche (Kit's observation at the end also sounds a little too pat to come out of a girl her age). It has touches of Annie, and the novel doesn't shy away from using the correc...	[]	1609583647	1609583647	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,408,355,510	1	true
4	No One Believes Them	Rebecca's visiting her cousin Ana in Brooklyn, hoping her aunt will teach her the secret of her delicious knishes. But Ana is more interested in starting a garden, and, thanks to the vegetable patch she's trying to start, the girls befriend Ana's neighbor, Mr. Tanaka, who is helping to build the elaborate new Japanese ...	[]	1609583604	1609583604	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,408,287,209	0	true
4	Caroline Comes Through for America	There's one big problem with this story right off the bat if you're an adult. Yes, Caroline has proven she's very responsible. And yes, she'll be riding with her friend Rhonda on their long stagecoach ride. But I still can't see Caroline's father allowing a child, especially a female child, and in those dangerous days ...	[]	1609583671	1609583671	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,500,408,212,563	0	true
4	Rainbows in My Eyes	This is a colorful confection of a coffee table book with brilliant color photographs and diagrams talking about...surprise!...color, from the scientific explanations to the way colors make us feel and what they are symbolic of (red is for danger...and Coca-Cola, green is for ecology...and spoiled food, etc.). Interim ...	[]	1579129498	1579129498	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,003,669,897	1	false
4	All About THE THIN MAN	Okay, I admit it. I bought this book because someone I know online had an essay in it (it's the one about the THIN MAN television series, which I got to watch in the early 1980s and I wish had been written more about, since I barely now remember it, except for the stars Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk and the fact that ...	[]	1503361799	1503361799	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,003,388,670	3	true
5	Everyday Christmas	It's been over ten years since I found Toner's first book of Christmas stories, LIPSTICK LIKE LINDSAY'S, misfiled in a used book store, and promptly went out to find his other two books, HOLLY DAY'S CAFE and WHITTLESWORTH COMES TO CHRISTMAS. I hadn't seen anything else by him for years, and then by accident discovered ...	[]	1935497278	1935497278	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,003,229,624	0	true
4	It's All About the Spell	I have a bumper sticker on my car that states the following: "English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar." Wolman, who admits he's had spelling problems for years, evidently agrees with thi...	[]	006136925X	006136925X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,003,005,354	9	true
3	Overstuffed and Full of Lectures	Maggie Hope, former mathematician and very recently spy for the British government, accompanies her co-workers John Sterling and David Greene, traveling with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Washington, DC, after the horrifying bombing of the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor. They are looking forward to non-...	[]	0804178704	0804178704	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,002,135,762	0	true
4	Promising Cozy Series	In this first "postmistress" mystery, we meet Cassie Miller, who's moved back to her old home town of North Ashcot, in western Massachusetts near the New York State line, having worked for the Post Office in Boston for many years. Now she is taking over the job of postmaster from retiring Ben Gentry. At the sam...	[]	0425279103	0425279103	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,001,996,749	0	false
4	A Long History	English words have been traced back to early Indo-European tongues, but Stevens claims an even earlier pedigree: that some of our most basic words go back to the Stone Age utterances of our prehistoric ancestors. Stevens follows each individual word, basic vocabulary having to do with everyday life, from basic breathin...	[]	160598907X	160598907X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,001,881,576	0	false
5	Another Great Melody Story!	The second book in the Melody Ellison series does not disappoint. In this outing, Melody has been able to "see in" her first new year, that of 1964. When the pastor of her church challenges his congregation to "make a difference," Melody and her cousin and her friends get together to rehabilitate a dere...	[]	1609587707	1609587707	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,001,690,506	2	true
5	Why Won't He Clear Himself?	Incensed after Benjamin Disraeli tries to solicit her for spying purposes, Liberty Lane takes a case she was initially going to reject: going to a village near Cheltenham to help Stephen Godwit, a magistrate who is scheduled to rule against a man accused of murdering a governess. Jack Picton is a known political agitat...	[]	1780290411	1780290411	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,001,587,310	0	true
4	Georgie Plays Hostess	Lady Georgina Rannoch is thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, more good than that does her: she has no money of her own and her own brother and sister-in-law can't afford to take her in. As the book opens, Georgie is taking refuge at her friend Belinda's flat when Belinda returns home unexpectedly. Her only alt...	[]	0425260445	0425260445	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,001,477,047	5	true
4	Molly Murphy's Christmas Case	Former "female detective" Molly Murphy—now Molly Murphy Sullivan with a toddler son—is doing some early Christmas shopping with her young ward Bridie when they come upon a tiny blonde girl singing Christmas carols with the voice of an angel. Bridie is intrigued by the girl, and in the process of being kind to t...	[]	1250052033	1250052033	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,001,105,744	6	true
4	Hope in the Form of a Small Red Spade	I became a fan of Kate Seredy in elementary school when I read THE GOOD MASTER and THE SINGING TREE in the library. Her wonderful stories combined with her evocative illustrations were as good as pied piper songs. In junior high I found a new favorite, THE CHESTRY OAK, and in college THE OPEN GATE. Ironically my least ...	[]	1930900805	1930900805	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,000,986,086	4	true
4	A Hidden Family Heirloom Sparks an Amazing Discovery	Truly Lovejoy and her family, now living in the tiny community of Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, are drawn into a new mystery as spring arrives and the town's annual Maple Festival begins. Two neighbors who have sugarbushes are accusing each other of sabotaging their maple production. Would Truly's friends actually sabo...	[]	1442471867	1442471867	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,000,806,731	3	true
4	Where is Scooter?	There's a series-mystery air to this second Maryellen Larkin mystery, and with good reason: with references to the Happy Hollisters and Nancy Drew in the text and some plot devices straight out of both series, this is fun and absorbing if not particularly "deep."<br /><br />Scooter, the Larkins' dachshund, vani...	[]	1609588584	1609588584	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,000,536,163	1	true
3	Disappointing Melody Mystery	Sadly, while Melody Ellison's introductory books were smart, thought-provoking, and strong, Melody's mystery debut is sadly underwhelming. The shortest of the three new American Girl mystery books, it also features a very simplistic mystery in which no real mystery exists about who or why.<br /><br />Melody's grandfath...	[]	1609588606	1609588606	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,000,470,698	1	true
5	Liberty Lane and the Missing Women	I bought the first three Liberty Lane mysteries (A FOREIGN AFFAIR, A DANGEROUS AFFAIR, A FAMILY AFFAIR) when they came out, and then they quite simply seemed to disappear, and gave up looking for them after about a year of searching Amazon.com, thinking the author went on to other things. Last month I was offered a ne...	[]	178029011X	178029011X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,000,352,938	1	true
5	Liberty's Brother Arrives With a Mystery	Mr. Benjamin Disraeli often asks Miss Liberty Lane, private inquiry agent, to help him expose miscreants in the government. She is about to expose a spy at a dinner party when a young man comes up to "rescue her." It turns out to be her brother Tom, back in England from his position working for the East India C...	[]	1780290209	1780290209	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,498,000,159,003	0	true
4	From "Hunds" to Horses	It was a conspiracy, that's what it was. When Melanie Travis accompanies her sister in law and imperious aunt to a dog show in Kentucky, she's led to believe that she'll be helping Bertie prepare her dogs for the ring. Instead it was a conspiracy between Aunt Peg and husband Sam to give her a little bit of a vacation. ...	[]	1496703405	1496703405	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,497,999,940,919	2	true
4	Artful Calligraphy	This is a great calligraphy book which not only walks you through the basics, but then later gives you ideas how to use your new skills to make personalized art and gifts. The Celtic knotwork ideas are beautiful. I'm glad I saw this and picked it up. I've been doing calligraphy since I learned it in art class in junior...	[]	1440304963	1440304963	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,497,998,390,610	0	true
4	Good But Not Spectacular Latest Book in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Series	Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is startled when summoned by Queen Victoria. He has met the monarch previously, but never been specifically called by her. He finds her worried about a man her son (the future king) is associating with on a matter of horses. One of her most trusted aides, Sir John Halberd, was inves...	[]	0425284980	0425284980	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,492,136,701,000	0	false
5	Well-Written History of the Apollo 8 Mission and Frank Borman	What Kluger did for the powerful story of Apollo 13, he does again for the groundbreaking flight of Apollo 8, the first manned flight to leave "the surly bonds of Earth" and travel to another celestial body.<br /><br />It is chiefly the story of Frank Borman, who originally partnered with James Lovell of Apollo...	[]	1627798323	1627798323	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,492,136,564,000	1	false
3	"Eh" Reworking of a Heinlein Classic	I think I would have liked this story more if I hadn't read something like it a long time ago--and a lot more exciting version, too: Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile adventure novel PODKAYNE OF MARS.<br /><br />It's a pretty similar setup at first: Polly Newton and her "twin" brother Charles have been born and rai...	[]	0765382202	0765382202	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,491,402,824,000	1	false
5	Maisie's Back in Town	Maisie Dobbs is back in London running her discreet inquiry service with the help of her old assistants Billy and Sandra when war is declared in September of 1939. Not soon after Neville Chamberlain's speech, Maisie's old compatriot Francesca Thomas, a former Belgian resistance fighter from the earlier world war, asks ...	[]	0062436600	0062436600	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,488,555,398,000	2	false
2	Good Grief...Where Do I Start?	(SPOILERS--but not to "whodunnit.")<br /><br />By the time I was about a third through with this book, I had to go back and check to see if the author was indeed a guy. Otherwise I would have wondered if our heroine's name was Mary SUE Handley.<br /><br />I picked this up as a Vine book because I read many Vict...	[]	0553418947	0553418947	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,477,600,882,000	0	false
4	Georgie in America	Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the English throne and perpetually underfunded, travels in a new direction in this newest entry in the "Royal Spyness" series. Her flamboyant actress mother, who was the late Duke of Rannoch's second wife, brings Georgie and her hopelessly gauche maid Queenie along with her a...	[]	042526064X	042526064X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,818,000	0	false
4	Old-Fashioned Mystery	This is an atmospheric and often creepy entry in Upson's mysteries featuring mystery writer Josephine Tey (real name Elizabeth Mackintosh). As the story begins, Tey finds out she has inherited a cottage from her godmother, a stage actress who was also her mother's childhood friend, and is surprised that the woman even ...	[]	006219545X	006219545X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,677,000	0	false
4	A Woman's Place at the BBC	Maisie Musgrave was raised chiefly in Canada by an American mother who barely wanted to admit she had a daughter, and a grandmother who hated the fact she had an out-of-wedlock granddaughter. Now back in the land of her father's birth, a down-on-her-luck Maisie is thrilled to find a position as an assistant typist to t...	[]	0451475569	0451475569	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,535,000	5	true
4	Abigail Adams, Detective	In what I believe is the third and final Abigail Adams mystery, Abigail travels to Harvard College at the bequest of her nephew Horace, who tells her a troubling story about an errand to provide an Arabic translation for a mysterious "Mrs. Lake" and being drugged for his pains. Abigail can't make sense of it, b...	[]	0425243206	0425243206	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,408,000	0	false
4	Revisiting Childhood Books	McCabe was a voracious reader from when she was a child, raised in a narrow, restrictive religious home, the appealing lives of book heroines an open door to her imagination. She "gave up childish things" for a while, then was drawn back to her childhood heroines. The book chronicles both her examination of her...	[]	0826220444	0826220444	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,261,000	1	true
4	A Ship, An Fading Era, and A Catastrophe	This was the second of two books that came out in 2015 about the Lusitania tragedy, the other being Erik Larson's DEAD WAKE. While Larson turned his story into a cat-and-mouse suspense tail with alternating chapters aboard the U-20 and the British liner, King and Wilson concentrate almost solely on the travellers and c...	[]	1250052548	1250052548	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,126,000	0	false
4	Where is Estella?	Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves are attending a costume ball at the home of the Duchess of Devonshire, along with her dear friends Cecile and Jeremy, when first Emily is puzzled when a strange man comes up to her and asks her a question, only to receive a rude response when she answers him. She is even more...	[]	125006743X	125006743X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,303,045,000	0	false
5	WHO's Progress	I think this one is strictly for DOCTOR WHO fans, but what a fan book: a wonderful, amusing hodgepodge of behind-the-scenes events and facts from each era of the classic series, starting from its inception in the mind of Sydney Newman, back when the leads included Lola, Cliff, and Biddie, and its development under Veri...	[]	193523417X	193523417X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,302,962,000	1	false
4	The Growth of a Journalist	Capability Weeks, better known as "Kitty," has had an eclectic, around-the-world education, but having a job is a new experience for her. In 1915, she is hired to be the assistant to Miss Busby, the Ladies' Page editor at the New York Sentinel. Kitty gets her first big assignment when she attends the garden par...	[]	149263266X	149263266X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,302,367,000	0	false
4	Middling Victorian Mystery	The second of the Emma Cross "Gilded Newport" mysteries opens where the first left off, with Emma having discovered that the "reporter" who helped her in the previous book is really Derrick Andrews, scion of a wealthy Providence, RI, family. Emma has no time for his romantic overtures although she is dr...	[]	0758290845	0758290845	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,302,123,000	0	false
3	The George Inn Carries On	At Christmas we still see them: the images of happy travelers on English stagecoaches, schoolboys and rosy-cheeked chubby businessmen heading home for the holidays. The stagecoach era was very short, and almost all of the "coaching inns" associated with it are gone, except for this one: the George Inn in Southw...	[]	1250049024	1250049024	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,301,940,000	0	false
4	They Learn to Fly	Americans Rhoda and Delia met during the Great War and immediately became soulmates. Both marry: Rhoda an Italian and Delia an Ethiopian, and both have children, a girl and a boy, respectively. Together they performed airplane acrobatics as Black Dove (Delia) and White Raven (Rhoda) and raised their children alone—unti...	[]	1423185234	1423185234	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,301,625,000	1	true
4	Death Is Sometimes Stranger Than Life	Carlson fell in love with presidential stories as a schoolboy, but it was only after he visited Abraham Lincoln's grave in Springfield, Illinois, that he became fascinated with the afterlives of the presidents, whether it be their graves (Lincoln, for instance, is encased in concrete to keep people from stealing his bo...	[]	0393243931	0393243931	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,301,512,000	0	false
3	Disappointing, But Not for the Reason You Think	The shock waves went deep on this one. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is such an iconic novel, and Atticus Finch such the ideal of the honest lawyer, defending his client against impossible odds, and the unique, loving father, that when it was revealed in the pages of this novel that, horror of horrors, Atticus Finch was a raci...	[]	0062409859	0062409859	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,301,406,000	0	false
4	Scrapbook-Like Look at Late 19th Century Paris	After reading both CITY OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT and ART IN THE BLOOD, both which have significant settings in Paris and "kisses with history" with artists and other 19th/early 20th century celebrities, I naturally gravitated to this one next.<br /><br />Dawn is a bit like an impressionist painting, with a chronol...	[]	1442209283	1442209283	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,301,173,000	0	false
3	Not As Good As I'd Hoped	I was really looking forward to this book after hearing MacBird read excerpts from it at 221B Con [a Sherlock Holmes convention]. Now that I've read it, I can say I enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I would, especially after I found out the custom illustrations we had seen at the convention were not in the hardb...	[]	000812969X	000812969X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,301,053,000	3	false
4	A Girl Rises Above Her Roots	Fourteen-year-old Joan Scraggs lives the life of a drudge on her father's farm cleaning up after her dad and four brothers, all of whom seem to hate her. She longs for education and to become a teacher, but her father seems set to work her to death the way he did her mother. She might even settle for some love. The las...	[]	076367818X	076367818X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,300,933,000	1	false
5	One of the Best	Molly Murphy Sullivan is delighted by her sturdy baby boy Liam, but worried about her police captain husband Daniel: he's working later nights on something dangerous to do with the Society of the Black Hand. All her fears come true when someone tosses a bomb through the window of Daniel and Molly's little house in Gree...	[]	1250051606	1250051606	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,300,842,000	0	false
5	The Science Behind Dressing Well	Considering that my favorite mode of dress in winter is a sweatshirt and sweatpants and that I don't even wear a dress to work, one might think this book would be the last thing I would buy, but I was fascinated by the topic.<br /><br />Home Economics came of age just before World War I, after years of restrictive fash...	[]	0465066860	0465066860	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,300,769,000	0	false
4	Quiet Book About a Girl Coping With Loss	Lowry, most well known for her award-winning book THE GIVER, takes a turn at a "Dear America" entry with the story of the Pierce children, Lydia, just turned eleven, and rebellious Daniel, fourteen, who live a quiet middle-class life in Portland, Maine in the closing months of World War I—until the Spanish infl...	[]	0545144698	0545144698	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,300,467,000	0	false
5	Holly's Back!	After ALL SHOTS was released in 2007, I didn't see one of Conant's "Dog Lover's Mysteries" again. I thought she had finally given them up to co-author a set of cooking mysteries with her daughter. Which is why I was flabbergasted when I was looking up one of Laurien Berenson's mystery books (also involving dogs...	[]	1448360137	1448360137	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,300,345,000	2	true
4	Number One Returns	In this first of three books (written by different authors), the story goes back to STAR TREK roots. While serving on the original crew of the Enterprise, Una (her real name is very long), otherwise known as "Number One" in the original pilot episode, is serving under Captain Robert April, the first captain o...	[]	150112529X	150112529X	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,300,125,000	0	false
5	One for The History Lovers	I am a history buff, but my favorite period of history has always been what is called the late Victorian/Edwardian era in Great Britain and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era here in the United States, so you bet I grabbed this book the moment I saw it. Much of the information in it I already know, having other history boo...	[]	0316353663	0316353663	AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ	1,476,201,454,000	2	false

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