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4 | Boyish Adventure in Elizabethan England | Cushman's newest book comes with a twist: while her previous protagonists have all been girls, the hero of this Elizabethan tale about a traveling circus is a young boy whose abusive father sold him to a tavern keeper in exchange for beer. When Will finds he will again be sold, perhaps for the terrifying job of being a... | [] | 0547739621 | 0547739621 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,353,096,938,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Hilarious "Monster" Send-Up of a Classic | If I'd known this book was this funny, I would have read it long ago.<br /><br />Part of the movement that paired classic books with monsters, starting way back with PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, this is the supposed "true" telling of Alcott's classic work. The March family, vampires all, are humanitarians who esche... | [] | 0061976253 | 0061976253 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,353,096,751,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Murder At Sea | Daisy Dalrymple and her beau DI Alec Fletcher have finally been married (to the dismay of her mother and of his). With Alec's schoolgirl daughter in the care of her grandmother, the happy couple are about to go a-honeymooning when they find they have been booked on the ocean liner Talavera at the instigation of their A... | [] | 0758201699 | 0758201699 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,353,095,860,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Needs More Marlo, Fewer Acquaintances | This is Thomas' take on her childhood "growing up laughing" with Dad Danny Thomas, her first career steps, marriage to Phil Donohue, and involvement with her father's charity, St. Jude's Hospital. As interstices to the chapters, she interviews other comedians about their childhood and comic heritage. Most of these are ... | [] | B005IUHHJO | B005IUHHJO | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,353,095,598,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Derring-Do in World War II | "Hope is back!" Margaret "Maggie" Hope, that is, American-raised-but-British-by-heritage young woman who previously held a typist's job under Winston Churchill and succeeded in foiling enemy plots while discovering new--and sometimes unpleasant--facts about her own parents. As this sequel begins, she has graduated from... | [] | 0553593625 | 0553593625 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,351,625,001,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Exciting Historical Story | This is Milford's exciting prequel to THE BONESHAKER, taking place chiefly on Coney Island during the era in which the Brooklyn Bridge is being completed. When two evil entities, Walker and Bones, arrive in New York City, it is the crossroads of power situated there that they are setting greedy eyes upon. If they can o... | [] | 0547739664 | 0547739664 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,347,976,387,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Intrigue Ala Dickens | Publisher's clerk Daniel Sand dies while on an errand for his employer, James Osgood; his death is dismissed as a return to the debilitating drug use Sand indulged in some years earlier. But Osgood as well as Sand's sister Rebecca believe Daniel would not have betrayed them in that manner. Was Daniel actually murdered ... | [] | 0812978021 | 0812978021 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,347,975,940,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Four Go on an Adventure | If you run your eyes over children's book covers these days, filled with supernatural characters or sad-sacks quailing against peer pressure, and wonder "Whatever happened to the old-fashioned kids' adventure book?," ponder no more. This is the closest you'll get to the old "kids on their own" tale, akin to the "Swallo... | [] | 0375867422 | 0375867422 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,347,974,733,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Jane of the Jungle | Jane Porter, uncensored! When a struggling pulp-novel writer meets an outspoken woman at an archaelogical presentation, he doesn't realize this will lead him to a tale so fantastic he can't even tell it in its original form. But even his own version is so mesmerizing it becomes immortal.<br /><br />This is the story of... | [] | 0765333597 | 0765333597 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,347,974,297,000 | 5 | false |
3 | Take Some Facts With a Grain of Salt | This is a collection of essays about the myths that still surround events in American history despite efforts to quell them, the most obvious being "facts" like the people of Columbus' time not knowing that the world was round, that Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly the Atlantic, that the Declaration of Ind... | [] | 158979107X | 158979107X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,347,973,395,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Charles Lennox Back in Action | After what I thought was a disappointing effort in A STRANGER IN MAYFAIR, Charles Lenox returns a little bit more to form. It is three years since his marriage to Lady Jane and he is now a fixture in Parliament, but secretly longing for his old life as a detective. When his brother sends him to the Suez Canal on a clan... | [] | 0312625081 | 0312625081 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,342,385,321,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Marvelous from Beginning to End | This is just a delightful book!<br /><br />Johnson, the Mayor of London, known for his bicycle commutes and untidy hair, has written an affectionate and informative book that is an unabashed paean to his home, chronicling the personalities he believes stand out in the history of the city, from the warrior queen Boudica... | [] | 1594487472 | 1594487472 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,340,143,012,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A Parent's Worst Nightmare | I didn't realize when I was offered this book that it was a sequel to THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT, but luckily I had that book in my to-be-read pile and was able to preface my reading of EASTON with the introduction of the character of Laurence Bartram in EMMETT.<br /><br />This is a completely different book fro... | [] | 0547547528 | 0547547528 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,340,124,464,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Death in the Ranks | In this fourth mystery involving World War I nursing sister Bess Crawford, Bess is already exhausted from nursing victims of the Spanish influenza when an orderly shows her a mysterious extra body in a shed being used as a morgue. From her medical experience Bess can tell the man has not died from the influenza or of b... | [] | 0062015729 | 0062015729 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,340,123,912,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Disappointed | I enjoy books examining children's lit and from some excerpts I saw this one looked fascinating. And I am not saying that the author's conclusions and examinations of the different eras in children's book publishing (from treating them as inherently sinful to treating them as the paragon of innocence, for instance) are... | [] | 0805741070 | 0805741070 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,337,699,554,000 | 3 | true |
5 | Not What I Thought It Would Be--In a Good Way! | I debated over ordering this book because I have not really read or viewed a "Superman" product for some years: didn't watch SMALLVILLE or the new film. However, I was brought up on THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, saw the first two Christopher Reeve films, bought the comic during the WGBS years, and was a LOIS AND CLARK fa... | [] | 1400068665 | 1400068665 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,337,696,660,000 | 0 | false |
3 | I Wanted to Love This | I am at a loss at what to say about this book. At the conclusion, it will definitely make you tear up.On the other hand, it is deliberately manipulative. You may think that yes, many Christmas books (and movies for that matter) are, but this one seems excessively so.<br /><br />The story is a simple one: Molar Alan and... | [] | B00342VG54 | B00342VG54 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,335,320,125,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Enjoyable Collection of Girl Sleuth Essays | This is a dandy series of essays about...well, just as the title says. Intro and first five essays are about Nancy, the rest about Linda Carlton, a "girl aviator"; the odd "Melody Lane" books; Cherry Ames; family as portrayed in the Trixie Belden books; modern girl sleuths like Veronica Mars; Hermione Granger and how s... | [] | 0786439955 | 0786439955 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,334,605,092,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Pleasant If Not Outstanding Entry in the Anthology Series | Er...why does the Companion on the cover have brown eyes? Companions have blue eyes. (All right, now that I look at it again, it's more a brownish-purple. But it's definitely not blue.)<br /><br />More tales from Valdemar: my favorite story was "Fog of War," the war story taking place during the Tedrel War in the battl... | [] | 075640696X | 075640696X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,334,604,947,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Darker Side of 1940s Teens | Ah, the 1940s teenager: pretty, neatly-dressed bobbysoxers having their books carried home by handsome young men with neatly parted hair, and pitching in collecting scrap, knitting for the soldiers, and saving fat during wartime!<br /><br />This isn't that tale. Instead, it's the story of fifteen-year-old Iris Anderson... | [] | 1596436093 | 1596436093 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,334,604,773,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Daisy Dalrymple, Girl Sleuth | In this fifth in the Daisy Dalrymple series, Daisy's childhood friend Phillip Petrie has met his true love: the vivacious Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a wealthy American businessman. Vivacious Gloria is equally smitten, and her father even likes him. But when Phillip stops to help the Arbuckles after a motor breakdown,... | [] | 0758227302 | 0758227302 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,334,604,638,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Moody, Atmospheric Novel Based on Dickens | This is an intriguing mystery based in part on characters created by Charles Dickens in BLEAK HOUSE, with several characters from Willkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE also mentioned. Protagonist Charles Maddox is an ex-police officer now operating as a private detective, still taking advice from his aging, ex-thief-take... | [] | 0345532422 | 0345532422 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,334,259,472,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Down Memory Lane With Joyous Refrain | A sheer joy for baby boomers--or an explanation of sorts for anyone younger who wonders why their boomer parent/grandparent/relative/whatever gets so starry-eyed at Christmas! I read this book with a big grin on my face via every page, and even with all the Christmas books I own, there were facts I didn't know! Via rep... | [] | 0811705072 | 0811705072 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,332,467,021,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Hope Endures in Wartime London | Margaret "Maggie" Hope was born in England, but raised in the US by her aunt after the death of her parents. She is gifted in mathematics and planning to attend graduate school when her grandmother dies. Her aunt refuses to return to England, so Maggie is sent to London alone to supervise the disposition of her grandmo... | [] | 0553593617 | 0553593617 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,331,778,395,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Saint Nicholas' Travels in Becoming Santa Claus | My husband and I listened to an intriguing abridgement of this book on BBC Radio 4X last Christmas, intriguing enough for me to hunt down a copy. Seal investigates the reality and the myth of St. Nicholas, from his shadowed origins to the miraculous "blood" which comes fro his tomb and the theft of his body and its tra... | [] | B000VYJTPC | B000VYJTPC | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,330,363,988,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Deck the Halls With Boughs of ... Murder | It's finally happened: due to Colonel de Luce's lack of funds and the necessary repairs needed on the family estate "Buckshaw" has led him to rent the home out to a movie crew, one of which is famous actress Phyllis Wyvern. Even precocious Flavia, youngest daughter forever tormented by her sisters and a devotee of chem... | [] | 0385344015 | 0385344015 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,330,363,704,000 | 1 | false |
4 | State by State Via Coin | A neat book telling the stories behind each of the images on the reverse side of the state quarters (and also the US possessions) that were released for ten years starting in 1999. Some icons were obvious--the Massachusetts Minuteman, Hawaii's King Kamehameha, Abraham Lincoln gracing Illinois--but who is that horseman ... | [] | 0306817896 | 0306817896 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,330,363,486,000 | 0 | false |
5 | What Did a Little Girl See? | Daisy Dalrymple is heading northward on the Flying Scotsman to another historical home in order to write an article for "Town and Country" magazine when she discovers an old friend, 11-year-old runaway Belinda Fletcher, daughter of Scotland Yard inspector Alec Fletcher, who has investigated several murder cases Daisy h... | [] | 0758227310 | 0758227310 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,330,363,383,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Santa - Saint or ? | How did a dour, austere bishop from Turkey evolve into a jolly, fur-trimmed chubby fellow driving a team of reindeer? Most histories of Santa Claus cite a softening of notions of discipline, concepts of various artists over time, and other evolutionary changes. However, Siefker has written an intriguing study that offe... | [] | 0786429585 | 0786429585 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,330,362,993,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Man vs. Mammoth | History is about to repeat itself. The prehistoric giants, mammoths, dire wolves, aurochs, saber-tooth tigers, etc., all met their end the same way, at the hands of the two-legged predators known as man. And now man is once again encroaching on the last of the giants, like elephants and whales.<br /><br />I was raised ... | [] | 0195370120 | 0195370120 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,323,707,509,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Ship of Dreams | Cousins Penny Nichols and Jeremy Laidley, now owners of an English townhouse, a French country villa, a vintage car, and not a small amount of money from the inheritance left them by their Aunt Penelope, decide to form a business together as well as buy the townhome and repair the villa. Guided by their attorney, not t... | [] | 0451234618 | 0451234618 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,321,983,235,000 | 3 | true |
4 | A Road Trip With Murderous Interruptions | All's finally well for Adrian Monk--as well as it can be, anyway, when you are as obsessive-compulsive as the San Francisco police department consultant can be. Now that he's solved the mystery of his wife's death and his horizons have widened after finding her daughter, Monk wants to do something to help his agoraphob... | [] | B0053U7CQM | B0053U7CQM | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,321,983,034,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Wished For More | Disappointing. I was hoping for some literary criticism and also examination of each of the main characters along with commentary, but this book is pretty much an introduction which sums up the narratives which follow, which are basically well-known writers and other celebrities talking about how much TO KILL A MOCKING... | [] | B004NSVEG4 | B004NSVEG4 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,321,982,899,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Holmes Illustrated | This is a lovely glossy coffee-table-like book which contains synopses of all the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels (sans spoilers), but the big draw is the variety of illustrations: from the stories themselves (Sidney Paget and otherwise), covers of different Holmes editions (including an American paperback from the ... | [] | 1845134583 | 1845134583 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,321,982,479,000 | 11 | false |
5 | Boston's Golden Age | John Winthrop's "city on a hill" becomes a leader in things technological and sociological in this engrossing read by Puleo, bookended by two rail events: the railroad exposition of 1851 and the building of America's first subway in 1899. In the intervening years, Boston becomes a leader in antislavery movements, preci... | [] | 080700149X | 080700149X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,321,982,371,000 | 5 | true |
4 | The Aftermath of Titanic | One of the notable tales from the Titanic disaster is the story of the lifeboat built for fifty which only held twelve, caused, according to later investigation, by lifeboats being lowered prematurely in a panic by an untrained crew, an historical incident which becomes the crux of this fictional story.<br /><br />Hous... | [] | 0385535589 | 0385535589 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,321,547,594,000 | 0 | false |
4 | An Interrupted Life | When she was ten years old, Mary McDonough won the role of Erin Walton in the television movie THE HOMECOMING, which later was picked up as the television series THE WALTONS. McDonough played Erin for ten years (and then in six subsequent television movies) and had an almost universal positive relationship with her tel... | [] | 075826366X | 075826366X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,317,746,316,000 | 47 | false |
4 | Molly and Magic | Still torn between her love for police officer Daniel Sullivan and her own need for independence, private investigator Molly Murphy and Sullivan attend a vaudeville performance where the famous Harry Houdini will perform one of the acts. But during the act before Houdini's, the magician's assistant is mortally wounded.... | [] | 031253535X | 031253535X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,317,746,076,000 | 2 | false |
4 | World War II Secrets | Felicity Bathburn arrives in Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her father's family when her parents Danny and Winifred are called away. She has lived all her life in London (her mother's home) and doesn't know what to make of the wild seaside town, the old Victorian house, and her relatives: her grandmother, known as The ... | [] | 0545215110 | 0545215110 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,317,745,935,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Heinlein Step-by-Step | Everything you wanted to know about Robert Heinlein, and were never able to ask. :-)<br /><br />This is a very dense biography of Heinlein, beginning with his family (including a portrait of his grandfather, who inspired Ira Johnson, grandfather of "Lazarus Long"). Mr. Patterson seems to know every little detail about ... | [] | 0765319624 | 0765319624 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,317,745,780,000 | 7 | false |
4 | Miracle Pair | One of the most miraculous stories to come out of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, was the story of Michael Hingson, a blind man who was unerringly led out of the World Trade Center tower by his guide dog Roselle. In addition, the presence of a blind man and his dog in the staircase of Tower 1 helped keep o... | [] | 140020304X | 140020304X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,317,745,571,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Prose and Poetry in Nature | Some people like beaches and sprawling in the sun, basking in warmth. As for me, I am drawn to cold places, brisk breezes, frost-tipped air which awakens the brain and the soul. This explains my delight with this small volume about the author's trips to various Arctic locations, from Bylot Island during the summer sols... | [] | 0618822216 | 0618822216 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,317,745,438,000 | 2 | false |
4 | An Amazing Volume of Holiday TV | This is a first, an exhaustive effort to chronicle every television special, movie, animated feature, and series episode from the advent of television to the present that has to do with December holidays (Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc.) and Christmastide. If you are a lover of these specials and series episodes, this is the v... | [] | 0984269983 | 0984269983 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,316,540,145,000 | 3 | true |
4 | Emily Eclipsed in a Gothic Setting | Lady Emily, recovering from injuries suffered while trying to help an English girl in Constantinople, is not herself. Knowing her previous actions may have caused her miscarriage, she is moody and depressed, presenting an unfavorable impression to her imperious new mother-in-law, a staunch supporter of women's suffrage... | [] | 0312383797 | 0312383797 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,316,539,258,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Hedge-Witch and the Warlock | It begins when Emily Edwards, an accomplished hedge-witch, makes a love spell: her foster father isn't getting any younger, and their business of selling magical herbs and charms is slow due to a new mail order product, so Emily thinks marriage to a successful timberman who's always been a little sweet on her would be ... | [] | 0553592653 | 0553592653 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,316,538,592,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Back in Time to Victorian Oxford | I have to admit I was not completely thrilled with the first book in this series. Characters acted like no Victorian characters would act and the hero was continually complaining about his boots when he clearly has enough money to buy new ones. But I quite enjoyed this outing, in which Charles Lenox investigates the di... | [] | 0312564945 | 0312564945 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,316,538,307,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Destined for Death, But Saved for Posterity | As a kid I delighted in Whitman Books, frugal "hardcover" (cardboard covered with cellophane-covered color art) volumes with non-acid free paper that is now yellowing, sold in the five-and-ten for 29 cents. They published classics like LITTLE WOMEN and CALL OF THE WILD, TV-tie ins based on everything from LASSIE to WAG... | [] | 0345521080 | 0345521080 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,316,537,351,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A Hero for the Ages | We children of the 1950s and the early 1960s remember him well: the courageous German Shepherd dog who protected the boy Rusty in the days of the Old West. But "Rinty" had an earlier life, as a German Shepherd puppy rescued from the carnage of "the Great War" by Leland "Lee" Duncan, a dog whose hit adventure films save... | [] | 1439190135 | 1439190135 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,316,537,066,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Disappointing Foray into This Subject | McFarland is known for publishing narrow-interest, but excellent nonfiction, so I was a bit dismayed as I read further into this volume. There IS much good information about the predecessors of books for children (hornbooks, broadsides, chapbooks, religious tracts) and how dime novels/series books/pulp magazines were t... | [] | 0786418435 | 0786418435 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,732,999,000 | 4 | false |
4 | A Father, A Daughter, a Promise--and Books | Alice's librarian father loved to read to his children's classes, and to his daughters. When Alice was ten, she and her father made a promise that he would read to her every night for one hundred days, no matter what. The one hundred days became a thousand, through colds and adolescence and arguments, then continued in... | [] | 0446583774 | 0446583774 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,732,586,000 | 2 | false |
5 | The Early Days of the Space Program From Both Sides | When I read IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (a book about the Gemini era of the American space program) three years ago, I didn't realize it was part of a series called "A People's History of Spaceflight" until I bought the volume about the Apollo missions. This is the book about the Mercury era--but what I found most fascin... | [] | 080322639X | 080322639X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,732,452,000 | 9 | true |
4 | Wonderful Photos, But "Artsy" Page Arrangement Annoying | As a former Rhode Islander, in general I am pleased with this book, but I wish they'd cut three-quarters of the "esthetic white space." The author advises you to use a magnifying glass to check out the details of the photos; I'd advise making them larger in the first place. This is a book, not a modern art gallery. The... | [] | 193321239X | 193321239X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,732,247,000 | 0 | true |
3 | A Father's Hideous Plan... | Elemental Earth Master Richard Whitestone goes mad with grief after the death of his wife Rebecca in childbirth and gives the raising of the child over to his faithful servants, until the day he sees eighteen-year-old Susanne from his window. She is the image of her late mother, and Whitestone's twisted mind conceives ... | [] | 0756405750 | 0756405750 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,731,801,000 | 3 | false |
4 | What the Governess Learned | In the present, perpetual grad student Eloise Kelly and her boyfriend Colin Selwick are in Paris, visiting Colin's mother and his odious stepfather, his cousin Jeremy. But in the world of Eloise's historical investigation of the British spy ring of the "Pink Carnation," Laura Gray, one of the newest graduates of the Se... | [] | 0525951997 | 0525951997 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,730,682,000 | 1 | true |
5 | An Eventful Trip for the Penderwicks and Friends | In this newest outing with the Penderwick girls, the four sisters are separated for the first time in their lives. While Mr. Penderwick and his new bride (and her baby) are in England for a belated honeymoon, eldest Rosalind will be spending time with her friend Anna in New Jersey while Skye, Jane, and little Batty acc... | [] | 0375858512 | 0375858512 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,730,571,000 | 5 | true |
4 | Fun Fantasy Romance | Willow Tate, graphic novelist, lives in her family's old New York apartment, envies her cousin Susan, and tries to cope with her odd family, who all have special gifts (grandma's a herbalist; Mom is kind of a "dog whisperer"). Belatedly, Willow discovers she has her own gift: working on a new idea, she draws a red trol... | [] | 0756406307 | 0756406307 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,312,730,198,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Can Her Marriage Survive Her Marriage? | Once upon a time Kate and Eric Crowe fought demons together, but they abandoned that life for a normal life raising a child. But there was a secret Eric never told Kate: a demon had been bound to him from childhood. And then Eric was killed when their daughter was nine years old.<br /><br />Now Kate is remarried and sh... | [] | B003TO6DJQ | B003TO6DJQ | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,311,818,373,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Refuge and Revelation in Books | Nina and her sister Anne-Marie were brought up with a love of books. From childhood they recommended volumes to each other, purchased books for each other, read together. Then Anne-Marie passed away at age 46. Floundering in grief and memories, Nina decides to take a hiatus in her life and read a book a day as a way of... | [] | 0061999849 | 0061999849 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,311,816,247,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Once Again Involved in Murder | This third in the Bess Crawford mysteries has returned to the complexity of the first volume, after what I thought was a disappointing second book. A nursing sister during the Great War, Bess has briefly returned to her London flat on Christmas leave, preparatory to joining her parents for Christmas. But as she arrives... | [] | 0062015702 | 0062015702 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,311,815,379,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Informative, Pleasing Overview | Since I occasionally suffer from various types of digestive problems, I was interested to see what this book had to say. It was a bit comforting to read the case histories in this book and to learn that "I am not alone," and that so many other women felt embarrassed or frustrated by their conditions.<br /><br />As this... | [] | 0373892233 | 0373892233 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,310,004,883,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Secrets in a Familiar Place | In this second of Upson's mysteries based on the real-life mystery writer Josephine Tey, the author is visiting friends in Cornwall for the summer while starting work on a new mystery. Nearby, her friend Inspector Archie Penrose has come back to home soil to attend the funeral of a friend, an accidental death which see... | [] | 0061451576 | 0061451576 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,308,767,908,000 | 6 | false |
4 | Who Wishes the Eradication of the Royal Family? | Lady Georgina has just committed a major social blunder: the penniless 34th-in-line-for-the-British-throne, young "Georgie," unable to find employment in any other field, decides she will hire herself out as a dinner companion to traveling businessmen. She soon discovers that "escort" means something a bit different th... | [] | 0425236390 | 0425236390 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,485,639,000 | 2 | false |
4 | In the Shadow of the French Revolution | In this third book of the adventures of Miss Mary Finch, heiress, and Captain Robert Holland, Army engineer and occasional adventurer, intelligence agent Sir Cuthbert Shy recruits a restless Mary to perform her most dangerous mission yet: she is to pretend she is the wife of an ex-patriot American painter and travel to... | [] | 1416560904 | 1416560904 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,484,659,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Death and Racism in San Celina | It's nice to see Benni Harper and hubby Gabe Ortiz "back on the job," as it were, after a few years' absence. This time Benni is helping out at the annual Mid-State Fair and enjoying a week of "bad for you" foods. A feature at this year's fair is an exhibit of reproductions of African-American quilts. Then the most com... | [] | 0425241556 | 0425241556 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,483,664,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Reconciling the Past | Anyone who has ever loved a book series to the point where they wished they could have lived the adventures in it will feel kinship with Wendy McClure, who fell in love with the "Little House" books as a child. Years later, she finds one of the books among her childhood things after her mother dies, and re-reads and be... | [] | 1594487804 | 1594487804 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,482,925,000 | 6 | true |
4 | A Sinister Plot in Paris | The first in a series of "unpublished" adventures of Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, otherwise known as crusading Victorian reporter Nellie Bly. Nellie's career including her incarceration in a mental institution (in order to expose the horrible treatment of the inmates) and traveling around the world in 72 days to beat the ... | [] | 0765361752 | 0765361752 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,482,492,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Well-Drawn 1920s Atmosphere, Fairly Pleasing Characters | Dorothy Parker arrives early for her luncheon at the Algonquin Hotel with her fellow members of "the Round Table," a sharp-tongued company of writers and publishers, including the acid-tongued Alexander Woollcott and the whimsical Robert Benchley, and discovers, under that selfsame table, the murdered body of a newspap... | [] | 0451231996 | 0451231996 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,482,139,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Who Do You Trust? | While Thomas Pitt and his partner Gower head to France in pursuit of a murderer of an important informant, Pitt's superior in Special Branch, Victor Narraway, is dismissed in disgrace for embezzling money that should have bought an Irish informer's freedom and instead spelled his death. When Charlotte is told what has ... | [] | 0345510585 | 0345510585 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,307,481,634,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A Companion Book to the Television Series | If you followed the Animal Planet series MEERKAT MANOR, you will probably also enjoy this well-narrated, lavishly-illustrated book by Clutton-Brock, who headed the research project studying the meerkats. Indeed, the project had progressed over several years before someone had the idea to film the colony of meerkats, de... | [] | 0753823144 | 0753823144 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,351,145,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Is the Sisters' Friendship Finished? | Is this the end of the "Main Street" series? There certainly seemed to be signs of a conclusion, with characters taking stock at the end.<br /><br />Ruby's "project" to make up for the wrong thing she has done appears to be making her a better person, but her older sister Flora knows better. The girls are not speaking,... | [] | 0545068975 | 0545068975 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,350,589,000 | 1 | false |
4 | An American in Europe | Yes, okay, it's chick-lit. But it's light, charming, with a minimal mystery and a likeable heroine, Penny Nichols, a young American woman who makes her living doing research for historical films. When Penny is named an heir in her Aunt Penelope's will, she makes the re-acquaintance of her handsome cousin Jeremy, now an... | [] | B001GVJAYY | B001GVJAYY | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,350,412,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Winchester Takes Us Wandering on the Atlantic | Having grown up barely fifteen minutes' drive from an Atlantic inlet (Narragansett Bay) and spent so many summer (and winter) Sundays on the shore of this restless ocean, I was eager to read this new effort by Winchester.<br /><br />As a whole I enjoyed this "biography" of the Atlantic Ocean beginning with its formatio... | [] | 0061702587 | 0061702587 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,350,216,000 | 2 | false |
4 | The Missing Housemaid and the Nervous Son | The Hon. Daisy Dalrymple, her family fortune just a memory due to her brother's death in the Great War, must instead write articles and take photographs for "Town and Country" magazine to earn her living. When Bobbie, an old school chum, invites her to the family estate, Daisy is overjoyed to find a new article source.... | [] | 0758227337 | 0758227337 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,349,952,000 | 2 | false |
5 | In the Navy | This is the true story of Josette Dermody, "nice Catholic girl" from Detroit who joined the WAVES in 1944. She trains at Great Lakes and then is shipped to her duty station at Treasure Island near San Francisco to train naval Armed Guard antiaircraft gunners on the West Coast. Told in a delightfully brisk first person,... | [] | 1557509603 | 1557509603 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,349,487,000 | 3 | false |
4 | "Arcanum 101"--Finally!--Plus More | There was no way I was going to miss this volume, after having read all the Diana Tregarde novels and existing short stories--not buy the book with the "long lost 'Arcanum 101'" in it? Lackey has talked about this story for years!<br /><br />It's the first Tregarde story ever written, about Diana's first steps away fro... | [] | 0765328518 | 0765328518 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,304,349,358,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Ranch Life, Music, Horses...and a Whole Lot More | I found this wonderful book for the first time in my school library, and then some years later was delighted to be able to purchase my own copy. I do not even know how many times I have read it. This is a combination of several years of O'Hara's diaries, edited together to make a cohesive narrative that serves to portr... | [] | B0006AYFOG | B0006AYFOG | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,303,834,344,000 | 6 | false |
4 | The Brinkburn Family Secret | Once again Benjamin Disraeli summons Miss Liberty Lane to provide discreet information into a perplexing event: influential Lord Brinkburn is dying, and, inexplicably, his formerly retiring wife has circulated the shocking information that their eldest son Stephen is not legitimate; she claims she accidentally had sexu... | [] | 0061447498 | 0061447498 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,301,615,781,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Highwayman on the Loose | Once again, the Peculiar Crimes Unit, with its elderly senior officers, the eccentric and acerbic Arthur Bryant, and the still urbane John May, is threatened with extinction when their supervisor complains to his superiors about his difficulties reining in the offbeat group. In the meantime, an artist is murdered in he... | [] | 0553385569 | 0553385569 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,301,615,246,000 | 0 | false |
4 | He Really Didn't Change EVERYTHING, But... | ...still, this is a lively small book about some of the major influences Shakespeare's plays have had upon our society: innovations in language, unique characters, even "modern" concepts such as racial equality--the opening chapter, about Paul Robeson's portrayal of Othello, presents an aspect of the play I had not hea... | [] | 0061965537 | 0061965537 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,301,614,206,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Abigail Adams Plays Sleuth | Abigail Adams arrives at the home of Rebecca Malvern and knows immediately, frighteningly, that something is wrong. Rebecca, a woman who contributes to the causes of the Sons of Liberty, and who lives in poverty since being driven away from her wealthy husband by his jealous children, has vanished and another woman is ... | [] | B0035G02CW | B0035G02CW | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,298,867,103,000 | 2 | true |
3 | Slow Moving But At Least Closure | After many years Auel is releasing the sixth, and supposedly last, book in the Earth's Children series (although I read somewhere Auel has enough material for a seventh novel). Even if you have never read this series, you have probably heard of it via, if nothing else, the Daryl Hannah film of the first book, CLAN OF T... | [] | 0517580519 | 0517580519 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,298,866,322,000 | 14 | false |
5 | A Box of Delights | For someone like me, who loves language, geography, and history and who is, if not a born one, at least a long-time Anglophile, this book is the literary equivalent of an angel presenting me with a box of dark chocolates filled with all my favorite fillings--mint, orange, coffee, caramel, and that heavenly lime from Sa... | [] | 1590202635 | 1590202635 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,297,119,845,000 | 4 | false |
4 | A Cozy Village With Secrets | Dominic Corde, once the brother-in-law of Charlotte Ellison Pitt, has re-evaluated his life, taken religious vows, and is now a curate with a loving wife, Clarice, working in a dreary parish with an overbearing superior. When he is offered a temporary place as vicar at a church in a small village over the Christmas hol... | [] | 0786288264 | 0786288264 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,297,113,054,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Enjoyable 1940s Set Christmas Romance | Several years ago I was reading romance books rather regularly, then I got tired of the repetitive plots and bundled them all off to the library except for a half-dozen select few. This one is a keeper: the story of actress Clara McCollum, who's about to start filming the plum role of the sweetheart of Jed Landry, a re... | [] | 045122003X | 045122003X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,297,109,590,000 | 2 | false |
4 | It's a Cocoa Fate for Santa Unless... | This looked so intriguing that I purchased it, despite not liking Funke's much-ballyhooed INKSPELL. The description alone made it sound like fun: "The leader of the Great Christmas Council, one Gerold Geronimus Goblynch, has outlawed all of the old, magical ways. Snowmobiles have replaced reindeer, elves and angels are... | [] | 0545094437 | 0545094437 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,297,108,915,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Difficulties for Mags (And Some Familiar Scenes) | Mags, the wretched orphan rescued from mine work by being Chosen by the Companion Dallen in the previous volume (FOUNDATIONS), is progressing well at the new Collegium being built, but he still remains a solitary character with only a few strong friends: Bear, gifted with knowledge of herbs; Lena, a Bardic student desp... | [] | 0756406390 | 0756406390 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,768,021,000 | 2 | false |
3 | The Creation of A Christmas Classic | In 1843, Charles Dickens was in difficult financial straits. While his first few books had been hits, his latest was selling slowly and bills were due. As he worried over this truncated income, he was one of a group of men who appeared at one of the poorest of the free schools and was appalled by the hunger and poverty... | [] | 0307405788 | 0307405788 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,590,980,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Thanksgiving Through The Years | Your typical Thanksgiving book for adults is a cookbook, whether of traditional foods or new twists, like using other ethnic foods for "spice." The book may also have tips on decorating: "tablescaping" and other ideas of how to set a pretty table. Let's say I hate cookbooks, unless they have something h... | [] | 1584658010 | 1584658010 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,590,453,000 | 12 | true |
4 | Science Fiction and Fantasy for Christmas | This is the second (I think) in Hartwell's string of Christmas sci-fi/fantasy short story anthologies. As always in anthologies, there are some you like, some you don't--and with fantasy, sometimes a couple you don't understand.<br /><br />In general, I liked this book. The first story, about a youngster who wants to m... | [] | 0312855761 | 0312855761 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,590,211,000 | 3 | false |
4 | A British Christmas | A 1990 reproduction by Omni publishers of a 1947 British volume, this is a collection of half essays/half stories with liberal illustration and even some photographs in black-and-white of Christmas from a British perspective. There's an essay about that particularly British institution, the pantomime and also the kissi... | [] | 1558888543 | 1558888543 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,589,567,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Spend Christmas With the Lively, Wonderful Tuckers! | This has been a favorite since I was in grade school, part of the "Tuckers" series published by Whitman. "Jo Mendel" was a house name for several people; most notes on this series say that Gladys Baker Bond was the person behind "Jo" in this outing. This is different from the rest of the series as it has a serious side... | [] | B0007FZL20 | B0007FZL20 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,588,941,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Christmas Mystery in a Small Maine Town | This is the third in Dunnett's series of Scottish mysteries, set in the small town of Moosetookalook (don't you love that name?), Maine? Liss MacCrimmon, a former professional Scots dancer whose career was ended by a knee injury, now runs her aunt's Scottish Emporium. When a lack of snow before Christmas ruins the loca... | [] | 0758216483 | 0758216483 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,587,961,000 | 13 | false |
4 | George Washington Through Others' Eyes | Famous persons are almost always surrounded by legendary stories, and none so much as George Washington. Well into the 1920s and 1930s, children were still taught the "cherry tree' legend made popular by Parson Weems, and George Washington quotations and events attributed to him (such as the probably apocryphal situati... | [] | 0061662585 | 0061662585 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,568,426,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Science Goes Forth | We are surrounded by science. Every day some new technical or medical discovery is made. We live knowing the arrangement of the solar system, geometry, of gravity, orbits, and trajectory, and even if we don't understand the mathematics very well, by physics and calculus.<br /><br />Dolnick takes us back to the time of ... | [] | 006171951X | 006171951X | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,568,311,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Life in the 1940s: Self-Respect and Independence | While the remainder of Weber's celebrated "Beany Malone" series focuses pretty much on practical, stubborn and occasionally dreamy Catherine Cecilia Malone, the first book revolves around Beany's older sister Mary Fred. The book opens with Mary Fred bringing home Mr. Chips, an injured horse she bought with money she sa... | [] | 0963960733 | 0963960733 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,568,056,000 | 5 | false |
5 | The Brisbanes in Exotic (and Deadly) India | Sated (literally) after an eight-month honeymoon, Lady Julia and her brooding, brilliant "private inquiry agent" husband Nicholas Brisbane accompany Julia's older sister Portia and her restless brother Plum to India. Some time earlier Portia's former lover, Jane, yearning to have her own child, married Freddie Cavendis... | [] | 0778328201 | 0778328201 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,567,868,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Active Life of Theodore Roosevelt | The first book in Morris' trilogy about Roosevelt, followed by THEODORE REX (his presidency), and COLONEL ROOSEVELT (later life, including opposition of Woodrow Wilson), this is a rich biography of a complicated man. While it is evident that Morris is a Roosevelt fan, he also shows us Roosevelt "warts and all": his neg... | [] | 1400069653 | 1400069653 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,567,691,000 | 2 | false |
4 | The Animals Know Their Mind, the Humans Don't | There is a very slight mystery here--who set Farmer Harmsworth's haystack on fire, leading him to bar the footpath through his land, one which has been used for generations--but there is more interest in what the human denizens of the Lakes villages of Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey have been up to. Will Captain Woodcock e... | [] | 0425236439 | 0425236439 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,567,446,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Holmes | One hundred years have passed since Doyle wrote the stories and novels that comprise the canon of Sherlock Holmes. Today Holmes is still popular, with films, novels, and television series being written around the character and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson. So this is a primer to Doyle, Holmes and Watson, and the ca... | [] | 0470484446 | 0470484446 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,296,567,230,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Good Collection of Stories, But Not All What One Might Classify as "Mystery" | Otto Penzler points out in his forward that very few mystery stories are detecting stories anymore; more's the pity. There are about three straight "detecting" stories here--many of the rest are what I would call suspense stories, or even thrillers. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the majority of them, although the ones with ... | [] | 0547237464 | 0547237464 | AGNSUP65FG6GKSCQJKEH7A4YZLEQ | 1,295,556,686,000 | 1 | false |
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