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5 | Classic Memories and Timeless Fun | Imagine that you are flying to Los Angeles to New York, and for weather reasons, your flight is delayed several hours. To your surprise, at the airport you find yourself sitting next to Carol Burnett. You introduce yourself politely and tell her how much you loved her classic variety show. To your utter delight, Carol ... | [] | 1101904658 | 1101904658 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,474,896,598,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Charming and Emotional Sequel to THE SECRET GARDEN | Emmeline Hatton has known nothing but an orphanage all her life. The matrons are kind, but they can’t make up for having a place to really belong, and Emmie seems to be always in trouble. Her secret place, an old fire escape, is her only refuge, and it is there she befriends a small stray cat she names Lucy, something ... | [] | 1407163493 | 1407163493 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,473,777,496,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Another Scholarly Work on LITTLE WOMEN | Yes, I have yet another annotated version of this classic. I read so much about this volume on a blog that I wanted it, and my husband obliged for Christmas. Matteson, an Alcott scholar, received permission to use photos of items from Alcott's "Orchard House, including personal items like Anna Alcott Pratt's (the o... | [] | 0393072193 | 0393072193 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,375,717,000 | 7 | false |
4 | Based on a True Story | This is labeled "special edition" and I don't know why unless it is the first "Dear America" book I've read that is based on an actual family. The young lady who is the protagonist was the great-grandaunt of the author and she derived the story in this novel from the memories of older relatives who reme... | [] | 0439220270 | 0439220270 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,375,602,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Who Has it In for the Ashtons? | In England after escorting a group of wounded soldiers from the front, Great War battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is looking forward to a few days' leave with her family. Unfortunately she cannot get a train and there are no places to stay, until she meets an old patient of hers, Major Mark Ashton, who is home on leave ... | [] | 0062386255 | 0062386255 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,375,377,000 | 5 | true |
4 | Pol's Progress | This is the story of Jan Pol, the Michigan veterinarian whose cases are shown on the National Geographic Wild channel's THE INCREDIBLE DR. POL. Pol was born in the Netherlands and was helping with animals at an early age. His family endured Nazi rule during World War II and later he studies in Michigan where he meets h... | [] | 1592409121 | 1592409121 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,375,226,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Lenox Back in Form | Charles Lenox and his four colleagues, including his protege Jack Dallington, have now formed their investigative agency and are hoping for consultation work from the police. Except, to Lenox's astonishment, his good friend at Scotland Yard, Inspector Thomas Jenkins, badmouths him and his agency to the press. Yet when ... | [] | 1250067448 | 1250067448 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,375,145,000 | 4 | true |
4 | History by the Item | In an American response to the seminal BBC production THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS, this is a lush volume that covers the pre-Columbian (Burgess shale points) all the way to the present (the man-made Giant Magellan Telescope) and just a bit of everything in between: Pocahontas' authentic portrait (all of the... | [] | 1594205299 | 1594205299 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,375,048,000 | 1 | false |
4 | California Girl | This is the first volume in Branch's two-volume autobiography, crammed with vintage family photographs, diary excerpts, journal scribblings, quotations, maps, Susan's hand-lettered text, and of course her exquisite watercolors. It's simply a gorgeous volume just to look at. The book opens with her best friend putting h... | [] | 0996044019 | 0996044019 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,374,870,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Nice Collection of Valdemar Tales | This is a pretty enjoyable collection of short stories in Lackey's Valdemar universe. I found fewer of what I think of as "unfinished stories," ones that are more vignettes than actual short stories. Right off I was charmed by the story of the partnership between one of the little lizard hertasi of the Vales an... | [] | 0756409020 | 0756409020 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,374,489,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Plunged into a Mystery | In this twelfth of the Molly Murphy mysteries, she and her husband Daniel Sullivan, a New York City police officer, are expecting their first child in less than three months. Independent Molly, who once ran her own detective agency, is bored silly making little clothes for the expected child and wilting during a hot NY... | [] | 1250042240 | 1250042240 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,374,185,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Tough Western Mystery Series Begins | A friend of mine is enamored with the Longmire mystery series now running on Netflix, and I tried it out not long ago and enjoyed it. Of course then it started me wondering what the books were like.<br /><br />Walt Longmire is the longtime sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, with a territory that extends to the Buckho... | [] | 0143123173 | 0143123173 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,374,106,000 | 1 | false |
3 | May, Not Amy | So many books have been devoted to Louisa May Alcott, both biographic in nature and even fiction written around the character, that little time has been spent on yet another Alcott who was famous in her own right: May, who became the inspiration for Amy in LITTLE WOMEN. While May Alcott was never renown for her illustr... | [] | 1631529870 | 1631529870 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,373,937,000 | 1 | true |
4 | Following the Crockett Legend | Stop. If you are looking for a biography of Davy Crockett, this isn't one, which several Amazon reviewers apparently didn't get. This book is about the real David Crockett (he hated being called "Davy"), the legends about him, and how his legends began (and no, it didn't start with Walt Disney; there were alrea... | [] | 030772090X | 030772090X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,373,774,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Accused of Murder | In this second of the Dr. Dody McClelland books, Dody is still working as a coroner—or rather as a glorified note-taker in the coroner's office, where the famous pathologist Dr. Bernard Spilsbury is "behind" her, but still caters to her male colleague Henry Everard, who hates Dody and wants her gone. In her sec... | [] | 0425253546 | 0425253546 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,373,702,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Fun Sequel | This second of the Jordan Bingham "book collector" mysteries opens a few weeks after THE CHRISTIE CURSE ends. Karen Smith, the bookseller badly injured in the previous mystery, is still recovering as Jordan tries to track down the first edition mysteries that disappeared from the library of her employer, Vera V... | [] | 0425255298 | 0425255298 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,373,597,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Zombies in London? | I first got involved in the quirky world of Fowler's aging police detective partners in 2010, reading the first book, FULL DARK HOUSE, while on vacation.<br /><br />And here I am, still hooked, in this eleventh outing, which may be the best yet.<br /><br />The Peculiar Crimes Unit has a new Public Liaison Officer, an u... | [] | 0345547659 | 0345547659 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,373,362,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Interesting But Flawed Opening Book in Alaska Series | (I can't give this a 3 1/2, which is what I would really rate it.)<br /><br />Charlotte Brody has left the stifling society of 1919 Yonkers behind her to join her brother Michael in Cordova, Alaska, America's "last frontier," where he is practicing medicine. A suffragette and journalist, Charlotte hopes to get ... | [] | 1496700546 | 1496700546 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,767,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Great History for the Young | This is an outstanding older-child's illustrated history of the Dust Bowl that starts with a history of the Great Plains and why the climate was not conducive for farming, yet it was settled and farmed anyway. Good rains in the early part of the 20th century lulled the settlers into thinking the rich soil would always ... | [] | 0142425796 | 0142425796 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,634,000 | 1 | false |
4 | The Trip Was Still On | From when their two children were small, John and September Higham promised that once the kids were old enough, the family would take a year off and bicycle around the world. When Katrina turned eleven and Jordan turned eight, the Highams kept that promise.<br /><br />Well, sort of. They did travel around the world, bu... | [] | 1935212869 | 1935212869 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,521,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Stress-Busting Gorgeous Book | Imagine a chill, rainy March day. Then open up this book, which is a color-photograph-and-Ernest-Shepard-drawing combination with delicious descriptions of A.A. Milne's (and Christopher Robin's) life and the landscapes they explored. The sun comes out, not outside, but in your heart.<br /><br />If you love nature, espe... | [] | 1604695994 | 1604695994 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,436,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Absolutely Truly Good | Truly Lovejoy's world has finally fallen into place. Her dad is leaving his Army career and the family has already moved to Austin, Texas, where he's accepted a job as a wrestling coach and now twelve-year-old Truly can pal around with her favorite cousin Mackenzie. Then disaster strikes: her father is caught in a bomb... | [] | 1442429739 | 1442429739 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,360,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Great Archaological Book! | Great Britain has been invaded so many times that layer upon layer of different cultures have been spread upon the British countryside. Here author Higgins takes us on a tour of one of the oldest ones: the Romans who came to "Britannia" in the early years of the Common Era. Traveling in a rattly old camper van,... | [] | 1468310895 | 1468310895 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,195,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A Good Step "Backward" in Time | Finally! A Thomas Pitt mystery that doesn't involve diplomatic misadventures.<br /><br />There are two breeds of mystery series. One sets up a popular partnership and all books are kept within that story setup, ad infinitum, and the characters never grow or change. The other, as in this series, allows the characters to... | [] | 1101886323 | 1101886323 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,372,077,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Fab Book About Homefront Britain in WWI | "The Tatler" and "The Sketch," and also "The Bystander" and "The Queen," were the "People" and "Us" of their day in Great Britain, but instead of concentrating on media celebrities, they focused on royalty and society. The wealthy read them to keep up with all the gossip ... | [] | 0752491881 | 0752491881 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,371,588,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Unique Bits, But Could Have Been Better | First, do not buy this as a complete TWILIGHT ZONE reference book. That honor is reserved for Marc Scott Zicree's classic TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION. Second, a warning: Dave Thompson hates modern television. Be prepared for many insults at reality television.<br /><br />Is this book worth buying? Actually, I liked it if y... | [] | 1480396184 | 1480396184 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,371,523,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Disappointing Entry to Series | This is the fifth and final (so far that I know) book in the Cece Caruso mystery series. I didn't realize this book was out for a long time after it was published and it has since sat languishing in my to-be-read pile. Cece is an author of mystery writer/filmmaker biographies who also has a taste for vintage clothing. ... | [] | 0061826677 | 0061826677 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,371,415,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Laura's Letters | At last Anderson (and Harper & Row) have wrung their last out of LIW.<br /><br />Seriously. He admits it in the introduction<br /><br />I don't mean to be so flip. There is some meat to this newest collection of Wilder letters, including some of the letters she and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane shared about the editing... | [] | 0062419684 | 0062419684 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,371,211,000 | 15 | true |
5 | Maisie's Back in Town! | Maisie Dobbs, now widowed and fresh from a year helping the victims of the Spanish Civil War, is back in England, living with her friends the Partridges but knowing she will need to be taking some direction in her life now that she has returned. One day she is waylaid by her old compatriot from the secret service, Robe... | [] | 0062220608 | 0062220608 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,371,144,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Maryellen Larkin and the Lost Relic | Of the three new American girl mysteries, this is the best mystery: Maryellen and her buddy Davy are walking on the beach when they find a barnacle-encrusted ring buried in the sand. Maryellen thinks it might be treasure from a ship that sank on the Florida coast, her mind full of pirates after seeing Walt Disney's new... | [] | 1609587588 | 1609587588 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,370,913,000 | 7 | true |
5 | Speaking Rain Shows Her Mettle | This is the best book of the new crop of three American Girl mysteries—but not as a mystery.<br /><br />Kaya's blind sister Speaking Rain chafes at her disability. She is tired of having to be led around and treated as if she is going to break. Plus she's begun having dreams in which a beautiful silver horse comes to h... | [] | 160958757X | 160958757X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,370,830,000 | 1 | true |
2 | Missing Jewel, Halfhearted Story | It's Three Kings Day at the Montoya family rancho, and they've welcomed guests, included Don Javier, an old beau of Tia Dolores, who is now Josefina's stepmother. He has brought Tia Dolores a beautiful ruby ring which is an inheritance from her aunt. Also visiting is Senor Fernando, a man who is considering buying a ho... | [] | 1609587561 | 1609587561 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,370,789,000 | 3 | true |
3 | Return of the Herald Spy | This is the second book in Lackey's "Herald Spy" series, featuring Mags, the Chosen mine-slave now grown up and on the eve of his marriage to Amily, once the crippled daughter of the King's Own Herald and now King's Own herself. Mags continues to develop his spy network in this book and assist the street kids w... | [] | 0756409004 | 0756409004 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,462,370,704,000 | 2 | false |
2 | The Complaint Department | I was about to buy Bryson's newest, THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING, having enjoyed his earlier NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND, MOTHER TONGUE, MADE IN AMERICA, etc., but the reviews about bitter humor gave me pause. Did I actually want to spend the money to buy this in hardback? Why not instead read one of the three Bryson boo... | [] | 0060920084 | 0060920084 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,454,534,323,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Sarah Takes the Stage | This is the fourth and penultimate book in Bray's quintet of religious-based stories about Lassie and her family, the Harmons: Pastor Paul Harmon, his wife Ruth, 13-year-old Jimmy, and 10-year-old Sarah. Lassie is primarily Jimmy's dog, but in this book he is so preoccupied with a school project to raise money for a fo... | [] | 0781402654 | 0781402654 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,454,343,014,000 | 0 | true |
4 | Southwestern Adventure | This last of Bray's Lassie stories doesn't seem to be based on a television story either, as a note mentions at the beginning, unless it's one of the later ranger stories which feature Neeka that hasn't been rerun in a while. Jimmy and his younger sister are on a camping trip with their Uncle Cully and some of his grad... | [] | 0781402743 | 0781402743 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,454,342,943,000 | 0 | true |
4 | Perceptions Over the Ages | I collect Louisa May Alcott biographies and books about LITTLE WOMEN, so when this was mentioned in a blog I had to rustle up my own copy. It reminds me of another book I have, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EBENEZER SCROOGE, which chronicles how interpretations of A CHRISTMAS CAROL have changed over the years based on societal... | [] | 1421415585 | 1421415585 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,454,342,845,000 | 2 | true |
5 | Wish I Could Give It More Stars! | After reading the less-than-inspiring Maryellen books, I was worried about this newest series of American Girl novel, which features an African-American family in Detroit in 1963.<br /><br />This is more like it! Melody and her family seem very real; the family dynamics are wonderful (there's a warm atmosphere that I l... | [] | 1609587510 | 1609587510 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,454,342,231,000 | 15 | true |
4 | Adventure on the Atlantic Coast | This is a neat little children's mystery about Marty (Martha Ann Atwater) a motherless girl who lives in a coastal town where her father is the town doctor. She and her terrier Skipper love to explore nearby Boulder Point, where old shipwrecks still dot the landscape and the legend of a Mooncusser (a thief who deliber... | [] | B000O8MU24 | B000O8MU24 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,703,208,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Upstairs Okay, Downstairs Trite | If having Lady Emily's mother as a guest wasn't bad enough, one evening their neighbor the Marquess of Montagu staggers through the French doors of Anglemore Park, home of Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves, and falls down dead. As Colin (and Emily) probe what might have caused this event, they uncover layers about... | [] | 1250049075 | 1250049075 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,703,105,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Happiness in the Hamptons--Finally? | Sadly, this seems to be the end of Willow Tate. Oh, she's not dying, but she's headed for happily ever after through a bumpy road—and frankly it's about time after the way she's been treated in her hometown of Paumonauk Harbor on Long Island. The book picks up where LIFE GUARDS IN THE HAMPTONS left off, with Willow exh... | [] | 0756407672 | 0756407672 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,703,007,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Century Changes | As Calpurnia Virginia Tate (Callie Vee to family and friends) continues to struggle against the inexorable customs of turn-of-the-previous century Texas, where girls are brought up to be good housewives and mothers, while her only interest is to grow up and study the sciences like her aristocratic Grandfather has done,... | [] | 0805097449 | 0805097449 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,702,805,000 | 6 | true |
4 | The Man from Down Under | Georgina Rannoch thought she would have a few months to relax and help her flashy mother, a former actress, work on her tell-all memoir, until her mother goes running off to be with her current lover during a time of crisis. Still without a penny to her name and disinclined to go back to live under the thumb of her ove... | [] | 0425260038 | 0425260038 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,702,431,000 | 5 | true |
5 | What Would the Doctor Be Without His Companions? | From the folks at Mad Norwegian Press, who brought you CHICKS DIG TIME LORDS, CHICKS UNRAVEL TIME, etc., yet a new book of essays about DOCTOR WHO! MNP's books are like peanuts—I just devour them happily. Certainly there are some essays I like more than others, and this edition is no exception, however, all the essays ... | [] | 1935234196 | 1935234196 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,702,305,000 | 2 | true |
4 | New Terrors Stalk Sleepy Hollow | Ichabod Crane, convert to the American side in the Revolutionary War, was killed in battle by his former best friend, who became initiated into a fiendish cult, but not before he cut off the head of his now enemy. Over 200 years later, having been enscorcelled by his wife, who he was unaware was a witch, Ichabod comes ... | [] | 0553419005 | 0553419005 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,702,110,000 | 0 | false |
4 | New Horizons for Maryellen | Many things happening in the second volume of Maryellen's adventures: the family gets a camper, Maryellen and her friends enter a science contest only to be pushed around by the sixth graders in their group, they go on vacation and their dog Scooter gets lost, Maryellen writes a play about the Salk vaccine to urge pare... | [] | 1609589858 | 1609589858 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,701,937,000 | 6 | true |
3 | Over the Top With Maryellen | The newest American Girl, Maryellen, is growing up with five brothers and sisters, a stay-at-home mom, and working Dad. She lives in Florida, has two best friends named Karen, an aging dachshund named Scooter, and loves swimming, THE LONE RANGER, and her buddy Davy next door. She's looking forward to fourth grade, and ... | [] | 1609589610 | 1609589610 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,701,839,000 | 11 | true |
3 | Mouseketeer Time Now is Here | This is a nice hardbound history of THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB (the original, not the tiresome one with Britney Spears), and if you haven't read one before (there were several books about the Club released in the 1970s, when the series was re-syndicated to television, like Paul Petersen's WALT, MICKEY AND ME, and FOREVER HO... | [] | 0446545953 | 0446545953 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,701,708,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Home Again | It's been ten years since Roberson wrote what was supposed to be the final Tiger and Del novel, and I bought this book with both anticipation and fear, the former because I had loved the previous six books of the series and fear because in ten years I had changed: would I still like these characters?<br /><br />I needn... | [] | 0756408520 | 0756408520 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,701,478,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Write as You Like | Imagine English with no grammar regulations and spelling rules!<br /><br />Once upon a time, that's the way English was. Each region in England had its own spellings for words. Even kings and scribes frequently spelled the same word different ways. Shakespeare, in fact, couldn't seem to decide on how his own name was s... | [] | 0802777694 | 0802777694 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,701,371,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Killed to Preserve Beliefs? | I have a confession to make: I do not review the e-books that I read. So if you are surprised to see me review a Mary Russell book here when I've never mentioned reading any before, it's not because I began in the midst of the series, but because I've already read the first two books that came before. I actually read T... | [] | 0312427387 | 0312427387 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,701,265,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Life on the Road | I saw this book at Barnes & Noble the week it was released and was immediately intrigued by the concept: a man who has a genuine pioneer wagon built and then buys three mules and drives them along as much of the old Oregon Trail as is possible with his brother along as a partner. I dived in immediately, happily enjoyin... | [] | 1451659164 | 1451659164 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,700,631,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Full Circle | [SPOILER!] Wayyyyyyy back when twelve books in the Pink Carnation saga apparently were only a dream in Ms. Willig's head, Penelope Devereaux, after a bad marriage to a lout, found true love with an adventurer named Alex Reid. At the end of their story Alex's brother Jack, a brash soldier of fortune, made a brief appear... | [] | 0451473027 | 0451473027 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,700,463,000 | 2 | true |
3 | Adventure in Bolivia | This is the first in a series of Christian-based novels for kids about thirteen-year-old Justin and Jenny Parker, fraternal twins, children of a Boeing analyst and a stay-at-home Mom. As the story opens, their oil-executive uncle Pete arrives in their hometown in Washington State with an intriguing proposition for the ... | [] | B00TA0721Q | B00TA0721Q | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,700,042,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Postwar Repercussions | In this second of the Kate Shackleton mysteries, our widowed detective for hire has been asked to find missing goods from a pawnshop at the same time she is attending a friend's play. As she and Meriel leave the theatre after a successful performance, they stumble upon the body of a local automobile dealer who has been... | [] | 1250042712 | 1250042712 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,699,896,000 | 2 | false |
4 | At Your Mercy, M'Lord | If you're a fan of DOWNTON ABBEY or English manor house mysteries or even go back to UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS (which, this book reveals, was supposed to be chiefly about the latter), you will probably enjoy Lethbridge's examination of the British system of servants which came into its peak in the late 1800s and then coaste... | [] | 0393349802 | 0393349802 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,699,789,000 | 7 | true |
4 | Harry Goes to the Devil (Literally) | Now that Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard, has been raised from the dead (a death he arranged himself) and made the Winter Knight, where else can he go? This chronicle of the next of Harry Dresden's adventures is driven by the machinations of Queen Mab, who enlists Harry to accompany treacherous Nicodemu... | [] | 0451470044 | 0451470044 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,699,674,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Chatty, Fun Book About DW Episodes | Okay, I admit I'm a little prejudiced about this book since I know the author. On the other hand, I love books of lists, and since this is a book of lists about DOCTOR WHO episodes, it's now a triple threat of goodness.<br /><br />The one novelty about this book is that the author includes episodes of the series that a... | [] | 0692504257 | 0692504257 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,699,462,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Study in Terror | In January 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle and his wife Louisa (and Louisa's maid Ethel) arrive in New York City on the first stop of Doyle's lecture tour, staying at the new and supposedly fireproof New Britannic, a small exclusive hotel. They are scheduled to stay only a few days, but Louisa badly sprains her ankle and cann... | [] | 1402280823 | 1402280823 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,699,338,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Bewitching Time in Celebration Bay | It's Hallowe'en time at Celebration Bay, a small community that has rebuilt its moribund economy by becoming a town of seasonal festivals. A haunted house contest is in progress, and part of the proceeds will fund a badly-needed community center. Town festival runner Liv Montgomery is also hoping that she can get a gra... | [] | 0425281477 | 0425281477 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,698,435,000 | 1 | true |
4 | In Trouble Again | In the sequel to Holm's Newbery Honor Book OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA, the feisty sole girl in the Jackson family faces new challenges. It's 1900, and the family is still struggling to support themselves farming on the Nasel River in Washington State. May Amelia is somehow always in trouble, whether she burns the breakfast or... | [] | 1416913742 | 1416913742 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,698,225,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Two Boys and A Cub | Having read Buck's OREGON TRAIL, I had to go back and find this highly-acclaimed earlier book in which he describes the adventure he had with his oldest brother, Kernahan. In 1966, he and Kern bought a Piper Cub, restored it during the winter, and then, with their father's permission, the two flew the plane alone from ... | [] | 0786883154 | 0786883154 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,698,078,000 | 0 | false |
3 | A Man in a Dark Place | While Darkwalker's society resembles early 19th century England, the story is set in a completely different universe where our protagonist, Nicolas Lenoir, once a noted police investigator, has taken refuge in the small metropolitan area of Kennian, giving the minimum effort he can at his investigative job and ignoring... | [] | 0451419987 | 0451419987 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,697,921,000 | 1 | false |
4 | From Marks on Clay to the Internet | I have to admit, it took me a while to get through this book although I was fascinated by the idea of a history of writing. However, while this book briefly touches on Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Greek contributions to the alphabet, the bulk of the narrative is about the Latin alphabet and European writing. The auth... | [] | 1619022427 | 1619022427 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,697,747,000 | 7 | false |
4 | Heroines of the Air | This is a fascinating niche publication which talks about the early series novels for girls that involved them with aviation. As the series books of the early 20th century usually stuck girls in conventional roles, even when they ventured afield as in The Motor Girls, books like THE FLYING GIRL from the turn of the cen... | [] | 0875653979 | 0875653979 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,697,630,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Who Gave and Why? | This book sounds as if it should be a history of the Pledge of Allegiance, but it's actually a fairly engrossing history of the bond drives during World War II. To raise money for the war effort in the first World War, the fundraising efforts were called "Liberty Loans" and some exquisite artwork came out of th... | [] | 1560987073 | 1560987073 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,696,901,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Improved Sequel | Let me be up front about this: I hated WINTER OF THE RED SNOW, Abigail's first "diary." It was pretty dull.<br /><br />The sequel is much more interesting (with the biggest problem the awful "paintings" of the characters Scholastic is now putting on the covers; "Abigail" has perfectly plucked ey... | [] | 0545213193 | 0545213193 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,696,796,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A Scandal in Newport | In this first of Freydont's "Newport Gilded Age Mystery" stories, Deanna Randolph, her sister Adelaide, and her parents are in Newport for the summer social season of 1895. At the first party of the season, held at her father's partner in the sugar business, a housemaid is found outside, dead on the rocks below... | [] | 0425275841 | 0425275841 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,452,522,737,000 | 0 | false |
4 | More Than Fireworks on the Fourth | In the third of the Celebration Bay mysteries, Liv Montgomery is coordinating the annual Independence Day festival, which includes the re-enactment of a historically questionable event in the town's history. Each year the descendant of a war hero kicks off the festivities—except on this year, when a dead body is found ... | [] | 0425252566 | 0425252566 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,839,213,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Batty's Trial by Fire | I admit, I was a little taken aback by some of the reviews for this book. People were very upset that Birdsall had moved up the Penderwick family timeline, and then included a very strong, troubling plotline halfway through the story. But as I settled into the book, I found that the time progression had not spoilt the ... | [] | 0375870776 | 0375870776 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,839,144,000 | 4 | true |
4 | Good, Solid Story of the Loyalist Side in the Revolutionary War | It's 1774 and the Emerson family lives in Great Marsh, Massachusetts, where Prudence's mother is the town midwife, and they live a comfortable life. But the Revolutionary War is upon them, and one by one their neighbors turn against them, for they are loyal to King George III. Prudence's best friend Abigail slowly is t... | [] | 0439153085 | 0439153085 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,839,052,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Funny Collection of Sherlock-Themed Cartoons | If you are a Sherlock Holmes fan, you will probably love this collection of cartoons by Norman Schatell (author Glenn's father), who for many years drew cartoons and illustrations that appeared in "The Baker Street Journal," "The Sherlock Holmes Journal," and other publications devoted to the Great Dete... | [] | 1780924054 | 1780924054 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,883,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Seeing the Future in 1939 | This is sort of a book written by committee, and it shows.<br /><br />On the other hand, it's a nifty prequel to the Disney 2015 summer film TOMORROWLAND, which shows you what happened before the film begins. It opens initially in 1926 when 10-year-old Henry Stevens visits an exhibit about the future with his father, b... | [] | 1484704215 | 1484704215 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,794,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Super Illustrated Edition of Great Book | I originally read this book in 2010, and this was my commentary:<br /><br />Think of this of "a short history of nearly everything having to do with the home." Bryson takes us from attic to cellar in the old vicarage he calls home in England to tell the story of private life. After examining the pivotal year of... | [] | 0385679432 | 0385679432 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,656,000 | 5 | false |
5 | World War I Repercussions | As Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher prepares to head to her stepdaughter Belinda's school with her good friends Sakari and Melanie to see the girls participate in sports day, her husband, Scotland Yard inspector Alec Fletcher, and his team are called to Epping Forest to investigate a case of three bodies found buries in a secl... | [] | 1250002575 | 1250002575 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,562,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Old-Time Radio's Last Gasp | In 1955, old-time radio, as it's now called, was dying. Television was making vast inroads into radio program ratings, and NBC's Sylvester "Pat" Weaver knew a different type of show was called for, one the audience would enjoy but would not demand their complete attention like television, made for car rides, da... | [] | 059528177X | 059528177X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,426,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Solving a Mystery with Mr. Thoreau | Dr. Adam Walker practices medicine in Plumford, a small Massachusetts town on the banks of the Assabat River. One day while walking along the river, another man flags him down: he has just found the body of a young black man at the foot of a cliff. The man happens to be from the neighboring town of Concord, a rather od... | [] | 0758290233 | 0758290233 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,285,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Hollywood Bred | If you have checked the credits of 1960s and 1970s drama series, I'm certain the name "John Meredyth Lucas" will be familiar to you. He worked as a director or writer on series like BEN CASEY, MANNIX, and STAR TREK, and also many of the episodes of the long-running spiritual series INSIGHT. But his television c... | [] | 0786418389 | 0786418389 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,210,000 | 5 | true |
4 | This is a terrific collection of English mystery stories | This is a terrific collection of English mystery stories, only two of which I had previously read (a Sherlock Holmes story and "Death on the Air"), presented chronologically from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1980s. (There is a Dorothy Sayers story, but it is a Montague Egg, and I have only read... | [] | 0192141872 | 0192141872 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,084,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ghosts in the Asylum | The Great War is over and young Kitty Weekes is on the run. On false pretenses, she takes a job as a nurse at a convalescent home for shell-shocked soldiers, as much to escape her past as to earn money to make a living. As the new girl, she is given all the dirty jobs, yet she perseveres, slowly gaining the trust of he... | [] | 0451419480 | 0451419480 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,838,025,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Sherlock Mania | This book sounded so intriguing that I ordered it despite the fact it was a hardback, and I was not disappointed. Dundas intertwines the adventures of Sherlock Holmes into the life story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and at the same time discovers the continuing fandom surrounding the character from its beginnings in jour... | [] | 0544214048 | 0544214048 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,837,947,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Suspenseful Historical Mystery | This is a suspenseful adventure set before the San Francisco earthquake and fire by the author of the "Al Capone" books. Like Jacqueline Kelly's Calpurnia Tate, protagonist Lizzie Kennedy is chafing against the social strictures for young women in 1905. She's stuck in a snooty girls' school and has no friends, ... | [] | 0385742533 | 0385742533 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,437,837,812,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Almost Too Much of a Good Thing | What, you say, could possibly be left to say about the film? Well, actually, this book touches on many of them, and most of them are good: chapters about the stars before they appeared in the film and then after their appearance (including Christopher Plummer's turnaround from snide comments to admirer), an interesting... | [] | 1480360430 | 1480360430 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,095,995,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Caroline Catches the Smugglers | Caroline is back at her cousin's farm in the country, homesick for Sacketts Harbor, to help out as her aunt and uncle get on their feet after having to flee their prosperous farm in Canada during the War of 1812. Traitors to the American cause are selling supplies to the British and Caroline soon fears that her uncle A... | [] | 1609589165 | 1609589165 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,095,801,000 | 8 | true |
3 | A Disappointing Kit Mystery | Well, I'm disappointed. Usually the Kit mystery is always the best of the three new mysteries that American Girl issues every year. This one was remarkably simplistic—while the Caroline and Samantha mysteries puzzled me for awhile, it was almost immediately obvious about the identity of one character and who the "b... | [] | 1609589122 | 1609589122 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,095,686,000 | 4 | true |
4 | Good Travelogue But So-So Story | This story barely makes "best" in this new American Girl mystery selection. Samantha and Nellie are taking a trip to Paris with the Admiral and his new bride, Samantha's grandmother, "Grandmary." It's a bit of a working vacation for the Admiral, since before he can partake of sightseeing with the rest o... | [] | 1609589106 | 1609589106 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,095,551,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Humor and Drama | After devouring THE DOOMSDAY BOOK, BLACKOUT, ALL CLEAR, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG, and a collection of her Christmas short stories (MIRACLE), I thought I would sample some further short stories by Willis. This collection features "Fire Watch," which is also part of her Oxford/time-travel universe, and which I h... | [] | 0345540662 | 0345540662 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,095,193,000 | 2 | false |
4 | An Engaging Life | This is a great collection of memories from acclaimed children's writer Paterson, who in her stories about her parents (Presbyterian missionaries to China), her upbringing in China, and about her own missionary training and marriage to John Paterson, reveals the origin of many of her most famous characters and situatio... | [] | 0803740433 | 0803740433 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,095,033,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Spooky Urban Horror Tale Featuring Bryant and May | This apparently was Fowler's first urban horror tale that featured Arthur Bryant and John May, the heroes of his "Peculiar Crimes Unit" mysteries. They are called in when a string of gruesome deaths occur: an older man is squashed between a truck and a wall, a man steals a car and then commits suicide with it, ... | [] | 0345364732 | 0345364732 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,094,894,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Great Suspenseful Ending | There's a lot going on in Grace Wheaton's life. A fundraiser to restore Emberstowne's fabulous town clock is being held at Marshfield Manor, where Grace is a curator, and the tension is as high as an elephant's eye between the two major fundraisers, a top surgeon and his estranged wife, a noted attorney. Grace's old ho... | [] | 0425259676 | 0425259676 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,094,755,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Short But Very Sweet | It's been a bumper year for SOUND OF MUSIC books, since it's the 50th anniversary of the film. This is one of the smaller volumes, but it has a lot of good things about it.<br /><br />At least it doesn't have 64 pages telling me which movie theatres ran the roadshow edition of the film and for how long!<br /><br />Inst... | [] | 0762456140 | 0762456140 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,094,650,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Still Mystery with Poodles | Melanie Travis Driver is back! For the past eighteen months, she's been a stay-at-home mom to toddler Kevin and nine-year-old Davey, her poodles are "finished" in the dog show world, and life has been extremely pleasant, but dull. Her energetic Aunt Peg, who involved Melanie with her first show poodle (and her ... | [] | 0758284535 | 0758284535 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,094,294,000 | 5 | true |
4 | Betty Bent Saves the Day | I kept waiting for this to come out in paperback, which it never did, but had to order in hardback find out what became of Kiki Strike, who, at the end of the previous book, was revealed as the lost Princess Katarina of Pokrovia, and the rest of the "Irregulars," including our narrator Ananka. Kiki and her guar... | [] | 1599907364 | 1599907364 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,094,161,000 | 1 | true |
4 | Sherlock and Watson Go Underground | In Hell's Kitchen, an Irish immigrant is killed inexpertly with a high-powered firearm. When Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Joan Watson, investigate the man's apartment, they find tickets to an invitation-only art exhibition in the victim's possession and an old pumping station under his residence. While Sherlock and... | [] | 1781169845 | 1781169845 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,093,708,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Average Opener to New Mystery Series | Jordan Bingham is back in her hometown of Harrison Falls, New York, desperate to pay bills left on her by a prolifigate ex and grad school. She answers a classified ad for a research assistant to Vera Van Alst, the reclusive, wealthy heir to the Van Alst shoe fortune. She finds Vera a bitter recluse in a crumbling mans... | [] | 042525528X | 042525528X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,435,093,543,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A New Collection of Shirley Jackson Short Fiction and Nonfiction | Who can forget "The Lottery," which has been read by every junior high or high school student for years? It was my first introduction to Shirley Jackson, but I confess I haven't read much more of her other writings, not because of aversion but because there's just so many good things out there tempting me to re... | [] | 0812997662 | 0812997662 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,434,048,278,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Fannish Forever! | I picked this up because I've been a fangirl since age 10 when I was writing stories about Max and 99 of GET SMART...and then came STAR TREK and all sorts of other wonderful goodness. With the internet not around it was tough being a DOCTOR WHO fan in 1974, when most of the responses to your questions about it were lit... | [] | 159474789X | 159474789X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,425,662,839,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Opinionated Young Man Learns a Lesson About Appearances | This is the story of Jim Carpenter, a high-school student interested in the theatre (rather than useful stuff like computers, to the chagrin of his blue-collar father), who finally gets his dream girlfriend and also a job teaching acting to a fellow student the same year his high school is up for the top awards in a lo... | [] | 0449701271 | 0449701271 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,424,815,178,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A New Direction | I've been with Maisie Dobbs since her first case, and I have to admit, it was difficult for me to read this newest mystery. She is one of my favorite mystery protagonists and the turn her life had taken was painful.<br /><br />In the years since she left England to explore the world, Maisie has experienced her greatest... | [] | 0062220551 | 0062220551 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,424,402,377,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Coolidge Revealed | One doesn't learn much about Calvin Coolidge in history class. He succeeded Harding after he died, he was president during "the Roaring 20s," he believed "the business of American is business," he was a Republican who supported some progressive causes. He was from Vermont, served as Massachusetts govern... | [] | 0061967599 | 0061967599 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,078,919,000 | 2 | false |
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