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5 | The New Yorker's First Editor | When first the television series MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT and slightly later the film THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN were released, James Thurber's books enjoyed a resurgence, and THE THURBER CARNIVAL, THE THURBER ALBUM, MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT, THURBER'S DOGS, and this book were all republished. I devoured them al... | [] | 0060959711 | 0060959711 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,078,762,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Lassie's Christmas Adventure | It's almost Christmas, not to mention Jimmy's long-awaited thirteenth birthday, when he and his friend Blake, son of the town vet, come up with a scheme to get all the animals in the overcrowded no-kill shelter adopted by Christmas. Jimmy's idea has been inspired by an elderly toymaker, Gabriel Nicholson, who's helping... | [] | 0781402646 | 0781402646 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,078,598,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Danger in the Forest | Jimmy is looking forward to a camping trip he'll be taking after school closes with his Dad and Uncle Cully, but when a man in his Dad's congregation is badly injured, Uncle Cully takes Jimmy and Lassie camping on his own. They are faring well, even after having their canoe set adrift by another visitor to the Lake Sup... | [] | 0781402638 | 0781402638 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,078,459,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Wholesome Story and Not Bad Narrative | I've heard of this series of books for a few years now, but had never seen a copy until I walked into a used bookstore and found the first three books of this five-book series written in the 1990s for a Christian publisher. In this incarnation, Lassie belongs to the Harmon family and specifically to 12-year-old Jimmy, ... | [] | 078140262X | 078140262X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,078,341,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Still a Winner! | Stories about children who overcame physical handicaps were very popular when I was growing up, and this book is a classic: the story of a Catholic family faced with an almost insurmountable problem who rose to the challenge.<br /><br />Karen was born three months premature and didn't go home until she was nine months ... | [] | 0440943760 | 0440943760 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,077,741,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Cliff Flies Again! | Okay, this book is just fun: ten stories based on Dave Stevens' classic comic book "The Rocketeer," later made into a little more family-friendly film by Disney that was still one heck of an adventure.<br /><br />All the pulpy tropes are here: square-jawed hero Cliff Secord who has a secret identity as a crime-... | [] | 1613779070 | 1613779070 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,077,629,000 | 6 | false |
4 | Well-Described But Slow Psychological Mystery | To be honest, when I saw the synopsis of this novel, I was on the fence about buying it. I loved the first book in the Josephine Tey series because it so closely reproduced a 1930s novel. The second and third books were good, but had their problems, especially aspects of the second. However, I took a chance on this one... | [] | 0062195433 | 0062195433 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,709,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Another Look at the Doctor | This book, originally published in 2006 and recently updated for the 50th anniversary, puts yet another spin on a DOCTOR WHO history. Most usually follow season by season, perhaps just an episode guide, others with more elaborate guides, down to one that tracked inconsistencies in the stories, and then there are Mad No... | [] | 1780761406 | 1780761406 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,649,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Fakes and Friends | Grace Wheaton, after having been threatened and emotionally used by a thief in the previous book, has accompanied her boss, millionaire philanthropist Bennett Marshfield, to Europe, where she meets his oldest friend, an Italian art collector. But later Bennett reveals to Grace that a valuable Picasso in his friend's co... | [] | 0425259668 | 0425259668 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,560,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Daisy and the Bootleggers | The Fletchers are moving! Once overcrowded in a small house, Det. Inspector Alec Fletcher, his wife, the former Daisy Dalrymple, Fletcher's daugher from his first marriage, and the couple's infant twins, plus the babies' nanny and several servants, are now in roomier digs in a home Alec inherited from his uncle. It nee... | [] | 0312598653 | 0312598653 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,514,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Sullivans in Newport | Molly Murphy is no more! She's now Molly Sullivan, married to Captain Daniel Sullivan of the New York police. After the Sullivans' original honeymoon was ruined, Alderman Brian Hannan invites them to spend it in a small cottage on the estate of his "summer cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island. When the Sullivans a... | [] | 1250023025 | 1250023025 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,458,000 | 0 | false |
4 | More Doings at Paumanok | After returning home from her hometown of Paumanok Harbor, hoping to get some work done on her latest graphic novel, Willow Tate is still restless. She's left behind a guy she likes, one who helped her save an otherworldly sea god, no questions asked, and now she's getting reports of a strange bird in her old neighborh... | [] | 0756407257 | 0756407257 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,413,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Who is Catherine? | Sarah Brandt, the daughter of one of New York's finest families, but independently working as a midwife after being widowed years earlier, has fallen in love with the small, abandoned girl, Catherine, that she has fostered since the child was dropped off at a nearby mission, so Sarah is devastated when she is told some... | [] | 0425260453 | 0425260453 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,421,076,280,000 | 1 | false |
3 | ...You Can't Take the Book Out of the Woman | Eat, sleep, breathe...books. This is for everyone who has felt kinship with the literary characters they grew up with, and how they have shaped, whether or not we realize it, who we are and how we think. Ellis grew up reading the classics and loving their authors and characters, from LITTLE WOMEN to Sylvia Plath, from ... | [] | 1101872098 | 1101872098 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,418,874,458,000 | 6 | false |
4 | The Smallest Thing | Winspear takes a departure from her Maisie Dobbs' mysteries to write this stand-alone novel about the effects of the Great War on a trio of friends. Kezia Marchant has been friends with Thea Brissenden and her brother Tom since she was in school with Thea. The girls have divergent personalities: Kezia is quiet and unas... | [] | 0062220500 | 0062220500 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,415,763,347,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Atmospheric, But Lacking, and Violence Toward Women Troubling | Having sampled Shepherd's THE SOLITARY HOUSE and found it a fairly interesting mystery despite not having read the Dickens' novel that was its inspiration (BLEAK HOUSE), I thought I would give this newest effort a try. I'm sorry to say I found it a less-than-stellar knockoff of DRACULA. Victorian investigator Charles M... | [] | 0345545435 | 0345545435 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,415,761,959,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Pawprints on Broadway | Bill Berloni wasn't a professional animal handler; in fact he knew nothing about training dogs. But when the musical ANNIE came to the stage it was Berloni who was tasked with finding a dog to play Annie's mutt Sandy, as well as to train him. And so he did. This is Berloni's tale of finding the original dog, plus a sub... | [] | 0762783087 | 0762783087 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,281,064,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Essays in a Master Hand | While I love CHARLOTTE'S WEB, I had never read any other White, but remained constantly reminded of him reading anything by James Thurber, whose pieces about the "New Yorker" always included an admiring note of how effortlessly his co-worker, known to his friends as "Andy' because he had gone to Cornell Uni... | [] | 0060932236 | 0060932236 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,280,964,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Emily, Please Go Home... | Lady Emily and her husband, agent for the crown Colin Hargreaves, are in Venice at the desperate request of Emily's old schoolmate, a woman she admits to never having liked much, to find the woman's missing Italian husband, after finding his father dead in the family villa. Emma Callum's disposition hasn't improved muc... | [] | 1250029767 | 1250029767 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,280,849,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Year by Year With the Doctor | The folks at Mad Norwegian have done it again in this sequel to CHICKS DIG TIME LORDS. In this entry, thirty five women each tackle a season of Doctor Who, writing about diverse topics such as objection to the character of Peri, David Tennant's charisma, defense of Colin Baker's Doctor, appreciations of Patrick Trought... | [] | 1935234129 | 1935234129 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,280,692,000 | 0 | true |
4 | A New Enemy and an Old Quest | The saga of Diana Bishop, once reluctant witch, and Matthew Clermont, a vampire whose "life" spans centuries, begun in A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT comes to a conclusion as Diana, Matthew, their family and their friends face a new enemy just as they are growing closer to securing the enchanted boo... | [] | 0670025593 | 0670025593 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,280,432,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Mystery at a Social Club | Police detective Frank Malloy knows he'll never live up to Sarah Brandt's social inheritance, even though she abandoned her place in society to marry a doctor and now, after his death, works as a midwife in the poorer sections of town. So when Sarah's father, millionaire Felix Decker, asks to see Frank privately, the d... | [] | 0425255379 | 0425255379 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,279,950,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Dense History With Flashes of Interest | It's taken me two years to read this book; I started it, then went on to other things after getting one-third of the way through and didn't get back to it until this spring, when I had to quickly re-read the first third to re-acquaint myself with what had gone before. Is this procrastination due to this being a bad boo... | [] | 0393325431 | 0393325431 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,278,172,000 | 2 | false |
4 | City Girl Goes Country | Liv Montgomery, fresh from a nightmarish career as an event arranger in New York City, has moved to the smaller upstate New York town of Celebration Bay to continue her career in a calmer venue. At least she thought it would be calmer, until during last-minute preparation for the town's annual fall festival, a man is f... | [] | 0425251551 | 0425251551 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,277,925,000 | 0 | false |
5 | He's Alivvvvvve... | He's dead. No, he's alive, because Queen Mab isn't going to let her Winter Knight get away. So Harry Dresden has accepted a devil's bargain, because he knows he has to protect his Chicago home town from the evil that is emerging.<br /><br />Butcher starts out with a bang. Harry awakes, alive, only to have Mab try more ... | [] | 045141912X | 045141912X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,277,735,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Winter Odyssey Through Nature | This is the fourth and final book in Teale's seasonal odyssey across the United States with his wife Nellie; the four books were written between 1947 and 1966, and this final book won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Teale, a naturalist, originally wrote for Popular Science, but then became a free-lancer, and authored ... | [] | 0312044585 | 0312044585 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,277,631,000 | 2 | false |
4 | The Real World of The Revolutionary War | A book about colonial Boston and its role in the Revolutionary War. How could I resist? The narrative opens in 1760, with an account of the Great Fire, and ends with the reading of the Declaration of Independence. In between there are Stamp Acts, acts of rebellion, and "the shot heard 'round the world."<br /><b... | [] | 1594161755 | 1594161755 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,277,329,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Goldberg Finishes Up on a Win | In this last of the Monk television adaptations by Goldberg, Adrian Monk's life seems to be going fine. While his former assistant Natalie Teeger is still in New Jersey, trying to decide if life as a police officer in the little town of Summit is for her, her daughter Julie is helping Monk with his cases, and Monk's ag... | [] | 0451416031 | 0451416031 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,276,932,000 | 1 | false |
4 | On the First Day of Christmas... | Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line to the British throne but nevertheless pretty much impoverished, faces a bleak Christmas at the family castle with her affable brother "Binky," her martinet sister-in-law "Fig," and Fig's equally martinet mother, who just wish Georgie to be married off and out of the... | [] | 0425252345 | 0425252345 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,276,713,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Miss Sally's Peculiar Beau | Miss Gwen's (see PASSION OF THE PURPLE PLUMARIA) bestselling new book, a Gothic thriller called THE CONVENT OF ORSINO, has Society all a-twitter about vampire stories. Sally Fitzhugh, younger sister of "Turnip," is intrigued when she hears the rumor that the Duke of Belliston is a vampire and takes a dare to ch... | [] | 045141473X | 045141473X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,276,540,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Heroine Out of Time | As a native Rhode Islander, a mystery set in 19th century Newport, Rhode Island, was irresistible to me. Our heroine Emma Cross is a second cousin to the Vanderbilts, alas, with none of the money. She makes ends meet by writing dull society columns for the local newspaper; the only type of reporting her editor thinks i... | [] | 0758290829 | 0758290829 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,276,338,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Math for Fun | Yep, it's a book about math. Yep, *me* reading a book about math. Bizarre, because I despise mathematics. Not only did I read it, I enjoyed most of it, although my old bete noire algebra struck again—even with Bellos' amusing and simple explanations, I still didn't understand the algebra, and the statistics chapter was... | [] | 1416588280 | 1416588280 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,276,180,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Doctor Goes to the Fair | The Doctor negates Clara's wish to see King Arthur and instead takes them to 19th century London where a unique power spike impossible in Victorian times has just occurred. Despite the Doctor not wanting to bother the Paternoster Gang, they meet Jenny Flint almost immediately; she is searching for a man who was about t... | [] | 080414088X | 080414088X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,276,044,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Happy Christmas From Celebration Bay | In this second of the Celebration Bay cozy mysteries, town events' manager Liv Montgomery is overseeing what plans to be the most beautiful Christmas the town has known. The square will be nostalgically dressed for the holiday season and all sorts of events are planned, but there's one fly in the ointment: the tacky ne... | [] | 0425252388 | 0425252388 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,275,946,000 | 0 | false |
5 | His Concluding Volume | Sadly, Patterson passed away just weeks before this second part of his biography of Heinlein was published.<br /><br />Like the first volume, Patterson has filled the book with so many miniscule details of Robert Heinlein's later life (after his marriage to Virginia Gerstenfeld) that you wonder if he was a fly in the c... | [] | 0765319616 | 0765319616 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,275,726,000 | 1 | true |
5 | A Walk Through Nature | This is one of four books in which naturalist Teale and his wife Nellie travel across the United States during one of the seasons and observe wildlife and ecosystems. While most fall volumes concentrate on leaf coloration and homely pursuits that include pumpkins, winter vegetables, and animals preparing for hibernatio... | [] | B003X576O2 | B003X576O2 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,275,569,000 | 3 | true |
4 | Important Partners in the War Effort | Frankel offers an absorbing, if a bit scattershot, story of MWD, otherwise "military working dogs," and their relationship with their handlers, their heightened senses that pick up clues that would be otherwise missed, and their devotion to their duty. She tries to define what a war dog is: a tool? a weapon? a ... | [] | 1137279680 | 1137279680 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,274,403,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Runaway Bride and the Curate | So no sooner do I give a lukewarm review to a Raybourn romance than another one is offered to me. This book takes place concurrently to CITY OF JASMINE, and Gabriel Stark makes a short appearance in the story, but it begins in England where young Penelope "Poppy" Hammond is about to escape from her wedding. She was sup... | [] | 0778317757 | 0778317757 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,412,265,142,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Postwar Romance-Adventure | If someone asked me for a one-word review only: Fluff. It's not only chick-lit, it's a beach book. When I originally read the synopsis, I thought it would be a more serious book; it's not...it's a romance novel dressed up as a historical, with the headstrong gorgeous female lead and the impossibly handsome male lead. (... | [] | 0778316211 | 0778316211 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,410,876,290,000 | 0 | false |
3 | It Could Have Been So Much Better | Harry Brown spoiled me forever for novelizations. And I don't even know if Harry Brown was his real name (or even if Harry was actually a "he").<br /><br />Over the years I've read novelizations of many television show episodes/movies. They ranged from the totally workmanlike Target DOCTOR WHO novelizations--if you'd m... | [] | 1250055504 | 1250055504 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,410,788,808,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 1920s Egyptian Archeological Digs Brought to Life | Perhaps it's because I read so many mystery books or fantasy or nonfiction where events usually have a conclusion. In a mystery one finds out who committed the crime, in a fantasy the quest is resolved (whether for a ring or a magic land), and nonfiction usually comes to some conclusion, or at least summary, about a fa... | [] | 006230268X | 006230268X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,408,978,708,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Wolf Who Came to Play | Romeo is the story of an unusual Alaskan wolf who didn’t fit the longstanding but inaccurate “lone wolf” stereotype and came close to the outskirts of the city of Juneau, interacting with residents’ dogs, not slipping away when humans appeared. He became a minor celebrity for many years. Unfortunately Romeo’s unique fr... | [] | 0547858191 | 0547858191 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,406,572,043,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Funny Collection | I confess. I also collect books on typographical errors. I love bloopers. I can't even read the "Damn You, Autocorrect!" web page because by the time I've gotten through five of them I'm reduced to helpless laughter and can't breathe properly any longer.<br /><br />However, this is why this book doesn't really stand ou... | [] | 0385346603 | 0385346603 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,919,675,000 | 0 | false |
5 | You Are There on the Streets of London | Aside from the fact that the title is a bit of a misnomer, as the book does not cover the entire Victorian era, but just the Dickensian portion, ending with Dickens' death in 1870, this is a book you fall into and don't come up for air again until you've reached the index at the other end. Flanders' prose brings you ri... | [] | 1250040213 | 1250040213 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,919,600,000 | 1 | false |
4 | An Age of Change | This is a marvelous coffee-table type volume chronicling Thomas Edison and his inventions. While Edison's biography is briefly touched upon, and his first invention (a stock ticker) and lesser inventions are commented upon, the book mainly chronicles Edison's most famous innovations, the ones that changed peoples' live... | [] | 1402767366 | 1402767366 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,708,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Traveling Back in Time | It literally took me years to buy this book. I first saw it way back in the late 1980s in Atlanta's Oxford Too, the late Oxford Books' remaindered/used outlet, but always gave it a miss.<br /><br />These are stories about New England taken from old magazines like "Scribners" and "New England Magazine," ... | [] | 0890098735 | 0890098735 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,611,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Elemental, My Dear Reader | This is a second collection of stories based on Lackey's Elemental Masters novels, in which Air, Earth, Water, and Fire mages exist in an alternate Britain between 1890 and 1918. The short stories, however, have a broader range and take place from the Aztec era to Edwardian Britain, with the final tale, Lackey's own, i... | [] | 0756409594 | 0756409594 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,441,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Post War Sleuth | Kate Shackleton's husband disappeared in the carnage of the first World War and, in the four years since he was declared lost in action, Kate has developed a small talent for searching for missing persons. When a friend she nursed with in the Voluntary Aid Detachment asks her to take on a search for her father, the own... | [] | 1250013097 | 1250013097 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,348,000 | 0 | false |
3 | The Closing of a Circle | This is the third and final book in Worth's trilogy based upon her career as a midwife in London's dockland slums. This time Jenny, Cynthia, Trixie, and Chummy as well as the Sisters of Nonnatus House must deal with an unmarried girl whose delivery will be as much a surprise as it is for the midwife, the amazing story ... | [] | 0062270060 | 0062270060 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,278,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Child Bride | Thirteen-year-old Anetka lives in a Poland that has been conquered by the Russians, so she is understandably annoyed when a young Russian soldier begins flirting with her. But her lot seems thrown in with him when he, she, and her little brother head for America with steamship tickets provided by a man who works in a P... | [] | 0439053862 | 0439053862 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,159,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A Well-Packaged Holmes | Two things are very obvious after reading this book: Dave Thompson loves the series SHERLCOK and doesn't like the series ELEMENTARY. And he manages to check off a selected list about Sherlock pastiches and books with Sherlockian protagonists, including Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce novels, and never once mentions Lauri... | [] | 148033149X | 148033149X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,142,088,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Something Missing | Fanfiction isn't anything new. It wasn't born with Trekkies writing Mary Sue fiction about Spock. Unauthorized sequels to Jane Austen novels popped up almost immediately, and sequels and alternate versions continue to appear (a novel about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (LONGBOURNE) from the viewpoint of the servants was just rec... | [] | 1939529190 | 1939529190 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,404,141,847,000 | 5 | false |
4 | The Owl and I | This is the charming memoir of a British man who kept a tawny owl as a pet for fifteen years. After his first owl escaped into the wild, he was given Mumble, as he called the bird, who soon became an indispensable part of his life. At first she lives in an aviary on the balcony of his apartment building, carefully hidd... | [] | 0374228469 | 0374228469 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,403,047,170,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Science Made Enjoyable | I loved this book.<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. :-) But earth science I loved, and I would... | [] | 0544236041 | 0544236041 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,399,170,856,000 | 64 | false |
4 | America's First Canine War Hero | This is the second time in four years I've discovered a new book based upon information I read first in a children's book published in the late 1950s, so it amused me a bit to see this book publicized as the "first time" Stubby's story is being told. Sergeant Stubby, a stray Boston terrier (or possibly Boston m... | [] | 1426213107 | 1426213107 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,399,170,792,000 | 6 | false |
3 | Hung Up in Court | At the turn of the century, not only the Wright brothers dreamt of the sky. From Otto Lillenthal and his wings to Octave Chanute, Augustus Herring, Samuel Langley, Louis Bleriot, and the man the Wrights considered their greatest rival, Glenn Curtiss, men on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean wrestled with the problem of ... | [] | 034553803X | 034553803X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,399,170,648,000 | 7 | false |
4 | Covering World Events in the 19th Century | When I ordered this book I thought it might be about the intrepid reporters I had read of previously, like Richard Harding Davis and Stephen Crane, but I was delighted to be introduced to an entire new cast of earlier characters (well, except for James Gordon Bennett Jr of the "New York Herald," who'd been encountered ... | [] | 0307377210 | 0307377210 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,397,606,295,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Discover 19th Century Cooking With Our 16th President | My cooking skills are minor, but my love of history is unbounded, so that books about food history are "devoured" (pun intended) as eagerly as a more general history text. This is an enjoyable survey of American food habits from frontier to "high society" as we follow Abraham Lincoln from his country ch... | [] | 158834455X | 158834455X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,395,320,608,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Vivid Retelling of the Subway Race Between New York City and Boston | I fell in love with the T in 1979, on my first trip to Boston, and it’s always irritated me that I’ve never been able to find a history of the Boston subway system, the first in the United States. So happy this was offered!<br /><br />The book’s promos seem a bit misleading: “Two Rival Cities, Two Brothers, Both With P... | [] | 0312591322 | 0312591322 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,389,751,807,000 | 12 | false |
4 | Flavia and Pheasant Sandwiches | I’ve read the Flavia de Luce books since the first and still love her youthful enthusiasm crossed with her precocious chemical interests and attraction to murder scenes. In this latest book, we delve into the mystery of Harriet de Luce, mother of Flavia and her tormenting older sisters, who died eleven years earlier an... | [] | 0385344058 | 0385344058 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,389,747,208,000 | 5 | false |
5 | The Truth Behind the Turmoil | The usual summary of the years before the first World War, that "War to end all wars," typically talks about a long golden summer of peace, punctuated by a few national rivalries, and exploded by an assassination in Sarajevo. But the peace was only on the surface; long-simmering discontentment from each nation involved... | [] | 140006855X | 140006855X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,201,391,000 | 1 | false |
5 | In Love With England | I have loved Susan Branch's lovely hand-colored and hand-written books ever since I can remember, and always have one of her small calendars for our bedroom. When I saw the preview of this book--a chronicle of Branch's visit to England with her husband--I ordered it so fast my credit card practically whipsnapped. And t... | [] | 0984913661 | 0984913661 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,137,614,000 | 1 | true |
4 | Miss Gwen Meets Her Match | Well, I wouldn't make much of an operative in the Pink Carnation universe. I figured once Ms. Willig got around to telling Miss Gwen's story, the series would be close to the end and the very last book, of course matching up the inimitable Jane Wooliston to the dashing man of her dreams (I still have a bet with myself ... | [] | 0451414721 | 0451414721 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,137,516,000 | 0 | true |
4 | The Power of Memories | The latest Benni Harper Ortiz mystery opens with a bang--literally, as a sniper shoots a police officer in the leg. Although the town of San Celina reacts with shock, plans are not cancelled for the town's Memory Festival, which will celebrate memories via crafts, oral and written histories, and photographs, with proce... | [] | 0425247996 | 0425247996 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,137,310,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Where the Highways Came From | Really, how could I pass this up when I opened it up and saw the name of John Volpe of Massachusetts and a mention of Route 128, our way to visit relatives around the North Shore for so many years?<br /><br />The title may leave you to think that it's just the story of the "Interstates," the ubiquitous freeways that bo... | [] | 0801478227 | 0801478227 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,137,154,000 | 3 | false |
4 | What If What You Drew Came Alive? | Let's say I couldn't resist this after hearing the Barrowmans talking about it at Dragoncon.<br /><br />Matt and Emily are twins who live with their mother Sandie in London. From childhood they have amused themselves with their unique talent of being able to draw a picture and then go inside it. Unfortunately one after... | [] | 1442458534 | 1442458534 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,136,715,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Georgie in Luck for Once (Or is She?) | This is a corker of an adventure in this fifth book featuring Georgiana Rannoch, minor royalty and thirty-fourth in line for the throne of Great Britain. When "Georgie's" parsimonious sister-in-law Fig, in the throes of pregnancy, decides she and her husband, Georgie's brother Binky, are going off to Nice for the cold ... | [] | 0425251454 | 0425251454 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,136,336,000 | 0 | false |
5 | For Gilbreth Fans Everywhere | Woohoo! What a library booksale find! This book was relatively rare when it was published in 1970 and seems to have only shown up in libraries. This is a third book that Frank Gilbreth Jr (without sister Ernestine) wrote about his family, but, instead of concentrating on the children, this volume is about Frank and Lil... | [] | 069082517X | 069082517X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,136,088,000 | 15 | false |
3 | I Liked the Mystery, but Oh, That Noah | If you thought Dev Sinclair's life would slow down after she was acquitted of a murder charge (see LITTLE SHOP OF HOMICIDE), think again. She's still running the dime store/custom basket business, and resisting her grandmother's attempt to match her up with her old beau's grandnephew, Jake, although she really likes sa... | [] | 0451239423 | 0451239423 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,135,772,000 | 0 | false |
5 | About the Ninth and Tenth | One couldn't help wondering, of course, after completing the sixth volume of Mad Norwegian Press' exhaustive study of each story of Doctor Who, when they were going to tackle the new series (or, as they call it, "the Welsh series"). Well, here is the first volume beginning that new epic, covering the complete Eccleston... | [] | 1935234153 | 1935234153 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,135,477,000 | 3 | true |
5 | A History of the Whoniverse | To really understand this book you have to go back in time...far, far back...okay, not that far back...to 2010. BBC Radio 4, you understand, still presents original spoken word radio programs, and in that year presented a 100-part, 15-minute show per day called A History of the World in 100 Objects, presented by the di... | [] | 1849904812 | 1849904812 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,122,240,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Mr. Punch and Mr. Bryant | Why are Bryant and May holding a party for their suspects in an old chamber of horrors?<br /><br />That's just one of the unique developments in this ninth mystery involving the Peculiar Crimes Unit and its even more peculiar crew. The story begins with the PCU in new digs and a party going on among the owner of a thea... | [] | 0345528646 | 0345528646 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,122,087,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Modern Vocabulary Ruins Historical Children's Mystery | There's so much to like about this book: It's 1904 and Suzanna "Zanna" Snow lives in New Brunswick, Canada, with her parents, who run a high-class hotel called the Rosemount. She loves her parents, but idolizes her father's younger brother, who is a noted detective in Boston, Massachusetts. Zanna wants to be a detectiv... | [] | 0545208629 | 0545208629 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,122,022,000 | 3 | false |
5 | A Mystery in an Old Ghost Town | Whitney had two very different writing careers; in one she wrote historical romances, and in the other mysteries for children. This is of the latter sort, and if it's an example of her average teen mystery, I wouldn't mind reading more of them. They are literate and feature "real" kids who argue yet pull together when ... | [] | 0664320996 | 0664320996 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,121,903,000 | 9 | false |
4 | Sherlock's Niece in a Steampunk England | Evelina Cooper lives many lives. She belongs to the aristocratic Holmes family (Sherlock and Mycroft are her uncles) on her mother's side of the family, a family of circus performers with whom she lived on her father's side of the family (until Grandmother Holmes took her away). No one in her upper-class girls' school ... | [] | 0345537181 | 0345537181 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,384,121,752,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Lines of Communication | I couldn't resist this book when it was offered; a history book? About "America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks"? How could it miss?<br /><br />And indeed, at least for me, it hits more than it misses. Winchester tells lively stories about the Corps of Discovery, the geologists like John Wesley Powell... | [] | 0062079603 | 0062079603 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,381,848,313,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Multiple Mysteries Make Good | This may be my new favorite of the Charles Lenox mysteries; with, at last, enough mystery to go around--and, thankfully, the Lenoxes spend less time cooing over their little daughter as well.<br /><br />Lenox, still occupied with his seat in Parliament, agrees to meet with one of his old partner's potential clients aft... | [] | 1250011612 | 1250011612 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,379,258,115,000 | 4 | false |
5 | What a Trip in Time! | I started this book after reading EIFFEL'S TOWER, going from 1889 Paris to this overview of the United States in the summer of 1927, as brought to life by the inimitable Bill Bryson, and it was quite a ride. Chronicling the events beginning in May when several teams of aviators prepare to compete for a $25,000 prize of... | [] | 0767919408 | 0767919408 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,375,801,330,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Meet Me in the Pump Room | "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that...devoted admirers of novels of note will eventually seek and encounter one another."<br /><br />Actually, Yaffe had me at page three of her introduction, in which she described herself and commented, "As far back as I can remember, I earned good grades, hated gym class, an... | [] | 0547757735 | 0547757735 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,372,640,540,000 | 15 | false |
4 | A Good Bedtime Book | I am not familiar with Mr. Klinkenborg's column, but have enjoyed rural life observations from favorites such as Gladys Taber, Mary O'Hara, Haydn Pearson, and Rachel Peden. I was not disappointed with this thoughtful book of essays about life on a northern New York State farm, as well as other Western locations he has ... | [] | 1616891564 | 1616891564 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,371,749,580,000 | 5 | false |
5 | More About Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy | If you're an Alcott fan, as I am, this volume will be a delight. I've read LITTLE WOMEN since childhood (all the way back to when I complained to my mother when I found out I read an abridged edition--I wanted the whole story!) and, by dint of further reading, found out many of the historical background items for this ... | [] | 0674059719 | 0674059719 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,371,270,743,000 | 21 | true |
5 | Old-Fashioned and Delightful Kids' Adventure | Some of the best books are accidental. There's this one, for instance, which I picked up at Books-a-Million because I was intrigued by the cover and the description on the back cover. Janie Scott lives a fun life in 1952 Hollywood, where her parents are writers for television. But 1952 is also the uneasy reign of Senat... | [] | 0142422061 | 0142422061 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,371,270,590,000 | 0 | false |
4 | More of Thomas and Charlotte, Please... | How refreshing to see Pitt back where we enjoyed him best, investigating society crime. The rape and murder of Caroline Quixwood, followed by the accidental death of Angeles Castelbranco, daughter of the Portuguese ambassador, sets the stage in Perry's newest Pitt mystery; as the novel unfolds, it becomes apparent the ... | [] | 0345536665 | 0345536665 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,371,270,372,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Daisy and Co. at Christmas | Daisy's first Christmas with her new husband, DI Alec Fletcher, and her stepdaughter Belinda, is hijacked by her imperious mother, who declares the whole family will spend the holiday season at the Cornish estate Brockdene as guests of Lord Westmoor. Alas for the Dowager, who is imagining an elegant country-house Chris... | [] | 0758204892 | 0758204892 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,371,270,225,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Pleasant But Unimpressive | Subtitled "The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend," the adoption of Homan's Lab mix Stella sets the stage for his exploration of the dog's place in culture and in science. Homan investigates the intelligence of dogs, from the opinion that they are unique (did you know dogs are th... | [] | 1594205159 | 1594205159 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,370,393,635,000 | 2 | false |
4 | A Bit Too Whimsical for Me | MONK was always written with a dollop of humor, and in this book the dollop is very large indeed.<br /><br />In this outing, Monk and Natalie find themselves in Summit, New Jersey, trying to help out old colleague Randy Disher and Monk's old nurse, Sharona Fleming, now a couple. All the elected officials of tiny Summit... | [] | 0451236645 | 0451236645 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,369,771,418,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Cold Winter's Mystery in Old New York | Murder mystery blends with historical tale in this slim but detail-packed volume about the death of a young Quaker woman whose body is found in a 18th century New York City well. Just before disappearing, the girl confides to a boardinghouse companion that she is to be married to a talented young carpenter who also liv... | [] | 0307956458 | 0307956458 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,369,338,301,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Another Enjoyable Book from Charleson | I enjoyed the author's previous SCENT OF THE MISSING, and found this volume even more appealing. After a particularly arduous and unsettling search-and-rescue mission with her Golden retriever, Puzzle, Charleson found herself developing PTSD symptoms including repetition of tasks. Soon afterwards she began to foster an... | [] | 054773493X | 054773493X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,368,730,596,000 | 9 | false |
3 | A Lonely Man, An Important Job, and a Frightening Place | Although we watched our news--and all the space mission coverage!--on NBC (Chet Huntley and David Brinkley), there's nothing I like better than watching retrospectives of the past and seeing Walter Cronkite, listening to his authoritative, comforting voice, whether it tells about the anguish over the assassination of a... | [] | 1426210191 | 1426210191 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,366,337,061,000 | 5 | false |
5 | The War Over World War II | My father fought in World War II, and my mother saw her brothers and nephews become soldiers. I grew up on my mother's stories and would beg her to "tell about what happened the day of Pearl Harbor" over and over again. World War II was as real to me as my childhood days in the 1960s. My parents, like most kids in the ... | [] | 1400069742 | 1400069742 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,365,276,628,000 | 2 | false |
2 | Conquered | My favorite science in school was "earth science" and I was excited upon seeing this book as it looked as if it were an interesting geological history of the planet. I never like to admit that I didn't finish a book, especially one that I had sent for that looked so promising, and don't like to submit a review of a boo... | [] | 080211976X | 080211976X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,365,270,243,000 | 4 | false |
4 | A Grimmer Hope | MacNeal gets to a little more "meat" in this third installment of the story of Margaret "Maggie" Hope, a British-born but American-raised young woman with a talent for mathematics who is back in wartime Britain and will be going on her first undercover mission for the Allies. She is given two relatively "easy" tasks (i... | [] | 0345536738 | 0345536738 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,365,268,741,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Roses With Thorns | Say "lady in waiting" or "queen's equerry," and what would you imagine? I'm sure more than a few folks would envision a glamorous position doing a few light chores while enjoying the pleasures of a magnificent palace, dressing up in lovely clothing, and meeting with all sorts of interesting political and national figu... | [] | 0062269917 | 0062269917 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,365,267,381,000 | 2 | false |
2 | Misleading Title | This volume had a misleading title. When I saw "two novellas" I thought someone might have rediscovered a couple of stories Hammett did for the pulp magazines (whether published or nonpublished) based on THE THIN MAN (perhaps even using the original elements of the book rather than the movie--in the book, for instance,... | [] | 0802120504 | 0802120504 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,363,709,078,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Captivating Story of a Family's Tour of Storybook Europe | One of the most delightful books about children's books ever. Hardyment and her four daughters, first accompanied by a friend and her baby, and then by her husband, set off from their home in England in an aging camper van nicknamed "Bertha" to discover the Europe of children's books: from Denmark and the sites of Hans... | [] | 0871131781 | 0871131781 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,360,201,968,000 | 3 | true |
2 | A Pale Version of the Original | I became friends with Rebecca Rowena Randall via a Whitman hardback, way back when I was eight years old, admiring her grit, her creativity, and her blossoming from feckless young girl to poised young woman, rejoicing in her successes and commiserating in her defeats. I was delighted later to find a second book of her ... | [] | 0934998531 | 0934998531 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,360,201,798,000 | 10 | false |
4 | Charles Dickens as Performer | A biography of Dickens with a different slant. Actor Callow, who has not only played Dickensian roles over the years, but who has played the writer himself in a stage show as well as in an episode of DOCTOR WHO, looks at Dickens from the POV of his great joy in performing, whether it be doing parlour magic tricks for h... | [] | 034580323X | 034580323X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,360,201,057,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Tunnels and Tombs, Oh My | It's the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Tancred, the patron saint of the church at the little community of Bishop's Lacey, and in honor of the occasion, archaeologists are opening the crypt where the saint is interred. Headed to the church organ loft to gather a specimen of bat's blood (don't ask!), budding and ... | [] | 0385344031 | 0385344031 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,360,200,712,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Intriguing Collection of Oz Short Stories | A caveat about this one: don't just recall the Technicolor confection of THE WIZARD OF OZ and the simple childlike innocence of the books. These are stories written for adults and several of them touch on adult themes. In general these are not short stories for children.<br /><br />Having disposed with the warning, I c... | [] | 1611099048 | 1611099048 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,360,198,300,000 | 18 | false |
4 | An Unconventional "Female" | The suffragette movement in Great Britain forms the backdrop to this story about a young woman who has just overcome great odds to graduate medical school and who arrives in London to serve as that city's first female coroner. Dody McCleland comes from an unusual family in which women are encouraged to defy conventions... | [] | 0425247295 | 0425247295 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,353,097,507,000 | 2 | false |
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