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Confusing, Boring Novel About Unlikeable Performance Artist
SPOILER ALERT: If I understand EXHIBIT ALEXANDRA: A NOVEL at all, it is a novel about a mentally ill performance artist (Alexandra/Amelia) who transforms her own life into the ultimate performance art installation, an installation that is intended to be exhibited in a New York art gallery. Why anyone would be interest...
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Excellent Historical Fiction; Not Really a Mystery/Thriller
THE PARAGON HOTEL is an excellent historical novel, but it’s misclassified as a mystery/thriller. Yes, there’s some mystery (e.g., how did the pretty blonde white woman acquire a gunshot wound, who is she running from, where is the missing mulatto child). But it’s really literary fiction, a serious novel that sheds l...
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0735210756
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DK Outdoes Itself With This Solo Movie Book
I’m kind of hooked on the DK popular culture books (Star Wars, LEGO, etc.), but I think that DK has really outdone itself with SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY. It has beautiful, large color photos of all the characters, so you can examine the finest details of their makeup, costumes, and gear.<br /><br />It also has factual e...
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1465466908
1465466908
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Treat for Sci-Fi Fans With Predilection for Aliens
STRANGE MUSIC: A PIP & FLINX ADVENTURE is my first “Pip & Flinx”, but it works fine as a standalone. It’s a treat for classic sci-fi fans who harbor a special liking for aliens. Alan Dean Foster creates alien environments, races, and cultures economically with words, packing enormous amounts of vivid detail into each ...
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1101967609
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Novel About Human Connections; Boring as Mystery/Thriller
PROVIDENCE: A NOVEL is professionally written, and it’s probably a decent novel, but it isn’t what I expect from a fantasy mystery/thriller. It’s written as a first-person narrative, in chapters that cycle through three different viewpoint characters (Jon, Chloe, Eggs). The chapters are further grouped into parts inv...
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0399591435
0399591435
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Schoolmate’s Death Haunts Single Mother Some 25 Years Later
FRIEND REQUEST is yet another novel about something terrible that happened when the main character was in high school; that comes to light again years later; that causes serious trauma or detriment to the adult character. In this example, the main character (Louise) did things that contributed to the death of a school...
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1478948515
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Moving Memoir by Combat Physician Who Served at Height of Iraq War
CROSSINGS: A DOCTOR-SOLDIER’S STORY is a moving memoir by a courageous Army physician who completed no fewer than three combat-duty tours in Iraq during the Iraq War. Returned to the U.S. for treatment of injuries suffered in Iraq, he suffered a stroke that ended his medical career forever. Yet his memoir is devoid o...
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1101904372
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Delightful, Humorous Blend of Private Investigator, Cozy Mystery Genres
BABY’S FIRST FELONY (A CECIL YOUNGER INVESTIGATION) is a delightful blend of the private investigator and cozy mystery genres. It’s really an extended shaggy dog story (along the lines of “How I Met Your Mother”), presented as an allocution by criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger to a 3-person panel of sentenci...
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1616958782
1616958782
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Teaser Gives Plot Away, But Story Is Worth Reading
The only thing wrong with AFTER I’VE GONE is the lack of suspense--the plot is given away by the publisher’s teaser description. To wit, a young woman (Jess) opens her Facebook timeline, only to read memorial tributes posted by her father and friends regarding her untimely death. Only she can see the posts--eventuall...
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1786483033
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Slow-Moving, Confusing, Post-Apocalypse Survival Novel
THE FEED: A NOVEL is a slow-moving, confusing, post-apocalypse survival novel. The apocalypse is the collapse of “the Feed”--a continuously streaming, Internet-like connection that communicates directly to people’s brains. It can be switched off, but almost no one does it, because it substitutes for speech in modern ...
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0062651854
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Pedestrian Cave-Exploration Thriller Gets Reality-TV Host’s Dialogue Exactly Right
THE ANOMALY is a rather pedestrian ancient-cave-exploration thriller about a fifth-rate-documentary-filming team’s discovery of actual buried secrets. The irony of it all is that afterwards the team can’t tell anyone about the discovery. Again and again, the author absolutely nails the phony on-screen dialogue spewed...
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1538761858
1538761858
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Weird, Philosophical Novel About Torture and Walking
THE MIRANDA is a weird, sort of philosophical novel about torture and walking. Although it’s a book that I wish I hadn’t read (at least I refrained from Googling “the Spanish boot”), it has a sort of horrid fascination, and probably has some literary merit. It’s written as a first-person narrative, almost but not qui...
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1944700366
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Military Investigators Track Siren From Korean Folklore
THE NINE-TAILED FOX (A SERGEANTS SUEÑO AND BASCOM NOVEL) is the 12th series novel (but my first), and it works fine as a standalone. It’s a plainly written military police procedural set in 1970s South Korea. Because the author was stationed in Korea for 10 years, the details of the setting ring absolutely true. The...
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Terrifying Supernatural Thriller About West Point of the Future
THE POINT is is a supernatural thriller about the West Point of the future--a West Point that includes a specially-recruited, secret group of “posthuman” cadets. The posthumans each have a special power (telekinesis, mind control, mind-healing, superhero strength/speed, etc.). They are being trained--just like the or...
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1101967560
1101967560
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Slow-Moving Novel About Relationships Among Uninteresting Characters
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS: A NOVEL is written in economical prose--not the kind that Hemingway produced, but the dull, uninteresting kind. Even worse, the plot is all about slow-developing, slow-moving relationships among characters that are neither memorable nor compelling. And of course, as a debut novel, it’s writ...
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A Real Slog--But With Important Romantic Developments for Ongoing Characters
Although I’m a fan of author Elly Griffiths and the “Magic Men” series, I found THE VANISHING BOX (MAGIC MEN MYSTERIES) to be a real slog (unlike the other series books). If I hadn’t already been committed to the characters, I probably would’ve abandoned it about a third of the way through. This is the 4th novel in t...
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“Domestic Diva” Sophie Winston Delights Cozy Mystery Fans
THE DIVA COOKS UP A STORM appears to be the 11th novel in Krista Davis’ “Domestic Diva Mystery” series; it works fine as a standalone. It was my first exposure to Sophie Winston and her domestic diva friends, and I thoroughly enjoyed her character and the entire well-plotted cozy mystery. The feminist in me disapprov...
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Fantasy/Romance Novel About Rebellious Young Concubines
GIRLS OF PAPER AND FIRE is a “JIMMY Patterson” book; it’s one of James Patterson’s line of books aimed at “young readers” (meaning, I guess, “young adults”). It’s a fantasy/romance novel, obviously intended as the first entry in some sweeping saga (see the cliffhanger in the Epilogue).<br /><br />The fantasy setting i...
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0316561363
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Superb Fictionalized Account of Norwegian Sabotage of WWII Germany’s Nuclear Program
THE SABOTEUR: A NOVEL is an extremely well done, fictionalized account of the 1943 sabotage of Germany’s heavy water supply (derived from the Norsk Hydro fertilizer factory at Vemork, Norway) during WWII. The sabotage ended Germany’s research program that was aimed at the development of an atomic bomb.<br /><br />The ...
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1250079519
1250079519
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Clumsy, Poorly Written Novel With Cardboard Caricatures of Pirates
THE DEVIL’S WIND: A SPIDER JOHN MYSTERY is a clumsily-written novel about a reluctant pirate (Spider John). Spider John is a ship’s carpenter who was forced into 8 years of piratehood after the ship he was on was captured by pirates.<br /><br />In the novel, Spider John has barely escaped hanging in Port Royal, Jamaic...
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1633884848
1633884848
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Easy-Reading, Entertaining Thriller If You Like Paranormal Stuff
SCHOOL FOR PSYCHICS: BOOK ONE is an easy-reading, entertaining thriller, if (like me) you have a taste for supernatural/paranormal stuff. I really want to believe in the existence of people with actual psychic powers, so I enjoyed reading about how the novel’s colorful characters employ their differing skills (startin...
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Bavarian “Auntie Mame” Settles in Sicily; Brilliant Translation
What a delight! AUNTIE POLDI AND THE SICILIAN LIONS (AN AUNTIE POLDI ADVENTURE) is the most charming, entertaining cozy mystery that I’ve come across in a long, long time. Once I started it, I read it straight through--and it left me not only smiling, but eager for Auntie Poldi’s promised next murder.<br /><br />Aunt...
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1328863573
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Psychic/Detective Team Investigates Bodies Dumped in Cemeteries
The Gus Parker/Alex Mills series, which begins with [[ASIN:B01N22TFJ1 Desert Remains]], features Phoenix homicide detective Alex Mills, who unabashedly employs the services of psychic Gus Parker to help him solve tough cases. Like the first series novel, this second one, DIG YOUR GRAVE, has an elaborately constructed ...
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1633884805
1633884805
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Built Around Accomplishments of Jerry West
GOLDEN DAYS: WEST’S LAKERS, STEPH’S WARRIORS, AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAMERS WHO REINVENTED BASKETBALL is built around the accomplishments of Jerry West, who was a Golden State Warriors consultant from 2011-2017, and who played a huge role in the Warriors’ signing of Kevin Durant. However, the well-written book is also l...
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0399179070
0399179070
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Too Many Confusing Words, Names to Interest Reader Unfamiliar With 16th Century Shingon Buddhism
TRIAL ON MOUNT KOYA: A HIRO HATTORI NOVEL (A SHINOBI MYSTERY) is the sixth “Hiro Hattori” mystery, and it definitely does NOT work as a standalone. As a first-time series reader, I initially thought that the novel was a bad translation from a Japanese original. (It isn’t--the author is a California attorney who has a ...
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1633884155
1633884155
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Detailed Account of Reddit-Related Activities of Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman
WE ARE THE NERDS: THE BIRTH AND TUMULTUOUS LIFE OF REDDIT, THE INTERNET’S CULTURE LABORATORY is a very long and detailed account of the Reddit-related activities of Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, the original founders and current leaders of Reddit, the so-called “front page of the Internet”. It’s a book about peopl...
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0316435376
0316435376
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Oral History of Great TV Series
In an “Author’s Note” at the beginning of ALL THE PIECES MATTER: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE WIRE, Jonathan Abrams states: “This book is not an episode-by-episode companion of THE WIRE … but, rather, an oral history that hopefully provides an illuminating historical retrospective from the creators, actors, and others inv...
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0451498143
0451498143
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Biography of Winning Trainer of Famous Racehorse Stymie
OUT OF THE CLOUDS: THE UNLIKELY HORSEMAN AND THE UNWANTED COLT WHO CONQUERED THE SPORT OF KINGS is a biography of the trainer of the famous racehorse Stymie (Hirsch Jacobs) and of the trainer’s moneyman (Isidor Bieber). Other than in a short prologue, the colt Stymie makes his first appearance at the end of Chapter 9...
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0316432237
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Odd Erotic Romance Between Self-Involved Student, Merman
THE PISCES: A NOVEL is something of an oddity--an intellectual’s erotic fantasy romance. I enjoyed the ruminations of the selfish, self-involved viewpoint character (Lucy), as she tried to understand why she couldn’t let go of her long-time boyfriend (Jamie), and why she couldn’t make any progress on her dissertation ...
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1524761559
1524761559
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Mesmerizing Novel Set in Haunted Swamp
THE HUSH: A NOVEL is a mesmerizing ghost story, a story about the sins of fathers (and mothers) being visited on subsequent generations. It’s a novel about a haunted swamp (the Hush) that welcomes a chosen few, but kills most who dare to venture in after nightfall.<br /><br />In the novel, a handsome “wild child” (Joh...
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1250012309
1250012309
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Self-Teaching Guide for Beginning Electronics Hobbyists
BASIC ELECTRONICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE is an easy-to-understand, self-teaching guide for beginning electronics hobbyists who want to understand some of the scientific theory behind electricity and electrical circuits, in addition to learning how to build things using microcontrollers, sensors, wireless devices, etc.<br...
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Pages of Ideas for “Star Wars”-Themed Things to Make With LEGO
As the title promises, this LEGO STAR WARS IDEAS BOOK: MORE THAN 200 IDEAS, GAMES, ACTIVITIES, AND BUILDING IDEAS has pages and pages of ideas for “Star Wars” things you can make with LEGO components. It is NOT a book of step-by-step building instructions, but there are photographs of each project with accompanying t...
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Quasi-Historical Novel About New York Mob, Garment Industry
BUTTON MAN is NOT the mystery/thriller that I expected. Instead it’s a quasi-historical novel about a garment manufacturer (Morris Raab)--a self-made man of great integrity who stands up to the New York Mafia and homegrown gangs of the Prohibition Era (the 1930s). Among the real historical figures appearing in the no...
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125017998X
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Extraordinary Account of FBI Sting Operation That Netted Consummate Con Artist
CHASING PHIL: THE ADVENTURES OF TWO UNDERCOVER AGENTS WITH THE WORLD’S MOST CHARMING CON MAN is an extraordinary, highly readable account of a two-man FBI sting operation that lasted 8 months and ultimately snared financial con man Phillip Kitzer. Kitzer stole millions from unsuspecting individuals who paid him fees ...
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1101907428
1101907428
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Exhausted Vic Pursues Dual Investigations Into Affairs of Powerful People
SHELL GAME: A V.I. WARSHAWSKI NOVEL is the 19th V.I. Warshawski novel. I’m a fan of this generally excellent series, but SHELL GAME is very slow-moving, and has a downright silly ending. Private detective Warshawski (Vic) is always a reckless risk-taker, and we see plenty of risk-taking during this “adventure”. Howev...
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0062435868
0062435868
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Impressive Contemporary History of Dark Times in Colombia
THERE ARE NO DEAD HERE: A STORY OF MURDER AND DENIAL IN COLOMBIA is a readable, but highly detailed account of interconnections between murderous Colombian paramilitary units and the Colombian government and military forces in the period from 1996 to 2010. It’s an impressive contemporary history of an extremely dark t...
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1568585799
1568585799
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Catches Readers Up on State of Private Space Race
ROCKET BILLIONAIRES: ELON MUSK, JEFF BEZOS, AND THE NEW SPACE RACE catches readers up, through December 2017, on the competition between SpaceX (Musk) and Blue Origin (Bezos) to launch privately funded commercial spaceships. It describes the founding of each company, and traces the subsequent activities and accomplis...
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Story of Early Land/Sea Expedition Across Siberia to America
ISLAND OF THE BLUE FOXES: DISASTER AND TRIUMPH ON THE WORLD’S GREATEST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION is “a Merloyd Lawrence Book”, presumably because it was edited or chosen for publication by Da Capo Press staff editor Merloyd Lawrence. Extremely readable, the book tells the story of one of the great 18th-century voyages of...
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0306825198
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Terrific Book for Anyone Who Wants to Use Electronics to Make Things
HACKING ELECTRONICS: LEARNING ELECTRONICS WITH ARDUINO AND RASPBERRY PI (Second Edition) is a terrific book for anyone who’s seriously interested in “hacking” electronics (for anyone who wants to use electronics to make things). It explains (with photos) how to use the basic tools to strip, twist, and solder wires. ...
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1260012204
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Massive Novel, Sorely in Need of Editing
THE ROBOTS OF GOTHAM has an interesting setting--a near future (2083) world populated by humans and sentient robots (some friendly to humans, most at war with humans). The writing is superficially okay, but it’s sorely in need of editing. The novel is 675 pages long!<br /><br />The wordiness makes the story confusing...
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1328711013
1328711013
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Rollicking Cozy Mystery Set in Oxford’s Christminster College
PARTY GIRLS DIE IN PEARLS: AN OXFORD GIRL MYSTERY is a rollicking cozy mystery that I enjoyed tremendously. I liked it for the setting alone--as a long-time Inspector Morse fan, I’m partial to the “city of dreaming spires”--but I also liked it for the frequent footnotes that define Oxfordisms such as “battels” (fees f...
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0062429027
0062429027
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Entertaining, Moderately Serious Look at What Motivates Obsessive Sports Fan Behavior
SUPERFANS: INTO THE HEART OF OBSESSIVE SPORTS FANDOM is a highly readable, often amusing book that takes a moderately serious look at obsessive sports fan behavior and what motivates that behavior. There are interviews with some famous fans (e.g., Nevets of the Timbers Army; Michael Hopson for the Colts; banana-shirte...
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Complex Mystery Is Skillfully Intertwined With Actual WWII Events
SOLEMN GRAVES (A BILLY BOYLE MYSTERY) is the 13th novel in the “Billy Boyle” series, but it works fine as a standalone. It was my first “Billy Boyle”, and I enjoyed it so much, I intend to read the entire series. Author James R. Benn does an amazing job of working actual WWII events during the Normandy invasion into ...
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1616958499
1616958499
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Chronicles Truman Administration’s Immediate Response to Mao’s 1949 Victory
A FORCE SO SWIFT: MAO, TRUMAN, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN CHINA,1949 is a highly readable, solid history of the Truman Administration’s response to Mao Zedong’s 1949 victory over Chiang Kai-shek. The book’s title comes from a speech by Mao: “In a very short time, several hundred million peasants in China’s central, sout...
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0307887235
0307887235
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Depressing Novel Set on Cruise Ship
Why the publisher describes SAIL AWAY: A NOVEL as “effervescent” is beyond me. There are two heroines (Amanda and Suzy), and the author treats both of them so badly, I should have stopped reading at the end of Part One (p.54). At that point I was already feeling depressed by all the bad things that had happened to th...
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1635571839
1635571839
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Everything You Need to Know for Now About Blockchain Technology
In the Introduction, the authors of BLOCKCHAIN: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEVELOPING BUSINESS, LAW, AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS explain that the robust blockchain technology “eliminates the risks that come with data being held centrally,” by storing identical blocks of information across an entire network. Also, blockchain u...
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Novelized Account of Two Ships Lost During Hurricane Joaquin
INTO THE STORM: TWO SHIPS, A DEADLY HURRICANE, AND AN EPIC BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL reads like a novel, even though it’s intended as a nonfiction account of the loss of two ships (El Faro and Minouche) during Hurricane Joaquin in September 2015. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the 12 men on Minouche (by helicopter); the 33 m...
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Good Guide to Using Features of Samsung Galaxy S9, S9+ Smartphones
SAMSUNG GALAXY S9 FOR DUMMIES actually covers both the Galaxy S9 (2 camera lenses) and the slightly larger S9+ (3 camera lenses) smartphones. If you’re completely new to Android smartphones, you’ll especially welcome the “Surviving Unboxing Day” guide to answering the questions you’re asked during the initial setup. ...
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111950290X
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Page-Turner Thriller About Genuine Survivor
THE ESCAPE ARTIST is a page-turner thriller, with fascinating characters, some good (like Zig), some evil villains (like Royalle, or The Curtain), some in between (like Master Guns), and some genuine survivors (like Nola). It’s mostly Nola’s story (the story of a little girl who was given by her parents to a brutal ma...
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Short, Complete, Readable History of Atomic Age
FALLOUT: DISASTERS, LIES, AND THE LEGACY OF THE NUCLEAR AGE is a highly readable account of the damage inflicted on humans by nuclear explosions and disasters, starting with the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and continuing through the year 2017. It offers a short but complete history of the Atomic Age.<br /><br /...
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0807092495
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Full-Length Prequel Establishes Lenox’s Relationship With Scotland Yard
Prequels are often disappointing--shorter than other novels in a series, and appearing to be hurriedly written as an afterthought (as if to meet a publisher’s deadline). This prequel, THE WOMAN IN THE WATER: A PREQUEL TO THE CHARLES LENOX SERIES, is a welcome exception. It’s a full-length, fully plotted and developed...
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1250139465
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Ruth Galloway Sorts Love Life While on Holiday in Italy
The “Ruth Galloway” series falls in between the “police procedural” and “cozy” mystery genres, if the two “Galloway” novels that I’ve read (books 9 and 10) are typical. They feature an overweight, frumpy, but highly intelligent archaeologist (Ruth), and a stalled-in-his-police-career detective (DCI Nelson); the plots ...
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0544750322
0544750322
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5
Massive Guide to AutoCAD Software Uses Tutorial Approach
MASTERING AUTOCAD 2019 AND AUTOCAD LT 2019 is a massive guide to using the powerful but highly complex AutoCAD design and drafting software. (The book weighs 3 lb. 3.5 oz., and measures 2.5” thick.) The approach is tutorial rather than encyclopedic--it teaches the use of commands as you work on an actual project.<br /...
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Introduces Daniel Pitt, Novice Barrister/Talented Sleuth
TWENTY-ONE DAYS: A DANIEL PITT NOVEL is the first in Anne Perry’s new series that focuses on the next generation of the Pitt family. Daniel Pitt, Sir Thomas Pitt’s son, is an extremely likeable, 25-year-old barrister. Because he’s a novice, he hasn’t completely shed the crusading spirit that caused him to read law i...
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Primarily Valuable for Politically-Charged Images
THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION: THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN’S LIBERATION is a contemporary history of feminism, commencing with the year 1966, the year that the National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded. To the extent that it’s a serious history, it merely describes what feminists and anti-feminists were doing and saying ...
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Book About Data Analytics Has Misleading Title
The title of this book is highly misleading. THE HIGH ROLLER EXPERIENCE: HOW CAESARS AND OTHER WORLD-CLASS COMPANIES ARE USING DATA TO CREATE AN UNFORGETTABLE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE contains almost nothing about the special perks (high-roller experience) provided to VIP customers at “world-class” companies.<br /><br />In...
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Mary Travels to Venice in Search of Missing Madwoman
The “Mary Russell” novels are the only modern Sherlock-Holmes-inspired novels that I enjoy. In contrast to the other modern “Holmes” novels, they do NOT attempt to write new adventures for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective. Instead, they chronicle the adventures of Holmes’ wife (Mary Russell), a character cre...
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0804177961
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Highly Readable Account of Framing of U.S. Constitution
THE FRAMERS’ COUP: THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION offers an impressive, detailed analysis of the Constitutional Convention, including the recounting of events preceding and following it that impacted the framing and ratification of the final U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It’s a highly readab...
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Entertaining Anecdotal History Is Hard for Sports Fan to Put Down
When my advance reader’s copy of KICKS: THE GREAT AMERICAN STORY OF SNEAKERS arrived without any photos (which doesn’t necessarily mean the retail book won’t have photos), I expected the book to be a real dud. But it turned out to be a highly entertaining anecdotal history of rubber-soled shoes. Once I started readin...
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5
Relieves Anxiety About Robots Taking Over
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DUMMIES, like all the “for Dummies” books, provides a helpful, entertaining introduction to the subject-matter field. It’s quirky and spotty in its presentation and coverage, of course. This is because the “for Dummies” publisher has a template that authors must conform to (always ending w...
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College Textbook Paints Bleak Picture of Southern Women’s Lives
SOUTHERN WOMEN: BLACK AND WHITE IN THE OLD SOUTH (The American History Series) is intended as a supplementary textbook for college or community-college-level survey history courses (U.S. history, women’s history, African-American history, or Southern history). What’s notable about it, to me, is that it devotes more o...
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1119147727
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5
Extraordinary Murder in Space-Station City Sets Plot in Motion
[[ASIN:0345333926 Ringworld]] will always be my favorite “space station” novel, but I still love to read the new books in this narrow science fiction subgenre. PLACES IN THE DARKNESS is a very good space-station novel, because it paints a complete, detailed picture of a self-contained, heavily populated, off-world “ci...
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0316435260
0316435260
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5
Worthwhile Reading for Anyone Thinking About Criminal Justice Career
CAREERS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE is worthwhile reading for anyone who’s thinking about a career as an attorney or judge, police officer, forensic investigator, prison guard, private investigator or security guard, or provider of victim services.<br /><br />The book does much more than merely say what the educational trainin...
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1506363954
1506363954
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5
Scary Book Explains Far-Reaching Potential Consequences of Genetic Engineering Projects
A CRACK IN CREATION: GENE EDITING AND THE UNTHINKABLE POWER TO CONTROL CREATION is a scary book, written by a biochemist whose life sciences research aided development of the new genetic-engineering tool, CRISPR. With CRISPR, scientists “can now manipulate and rationally modify the genetic code that defines every spec...
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0544716949
0544716949
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5
Good Choice for Family's "Master Calendar"
The ANSEL ADAMS 2019 WALL CALENDAR is the same as the Ansel Adams calendar sold in retail bookstores at year's end. I buy the annual calendar every year from Amazon as soon as it is offered (usually in July). That way, I can write in appointments from the upcoming year as soon as they are scheduled. (Each year’s cal...
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5
Wonderfully Wacky Police Procedural, Convincing Australian Setting
SIGNAL LOSS (A HAL CHALLIS INVESTIGATION) is a wonderfully wacky police procedural with four likeable detectives (Inspector Challis, Detective Murphy, Sergeant Destry, Senior Sergeant Coolidge) and a terrific setting (Australia). It’s the 7th novel in the series (the first is [[ASIN:1616954485 The Dragon Man]]), but it...
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1616958596
1616958596
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Unconvincing Charles Dickens Character Investigates Two Suspicious Deaths
“Peculiar” is the word that comes to mind when describing A TALE OF TWO MURDERS (A DICKENS OF A CRIME). The novel is another predictably bad example of the “avoid-having-to-imagine-your-own-character-by-choosing-a-historical-personage-for-your-protagonist” genre of mystery-thriller writing.<br /><br />In this novel, t...
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1496717155
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Essays From NYT Offer Fresh Takes on Civil War “Facts"
THE NEW YORK TIMES DISUNION: A HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR is a curated collection of a series of essays published in the New York Times between 2011 and 2015, in commemoration of various anniversaries of Civil War events. The essays make for fascinating reading, even if you’re NOT a serious Civil War buff and possess o...
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0190621834
0190621834
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Mildly Interesting Collection of Stories About Female Detectives in Civil War Times
THE PINKS: THE FIRST WOMEN DETECTIVES, OPERATIVES, AND SPIES WITH THE PINKERTON NATIONAL DETECTIVE AGENCY is a mildly interesting collection of stories recounting the exploits of the first female detectives employed by the world-famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. As biography or history, the book is limited in scope,...
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1493008331
1493008331
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Lots of Flashbacks; Teaser in Prologue Poorly Resolved
COLORADO BOULEVARD: A CRUSH MYSTERY is the third “Crush” novel, and it works fine as a standalone, except … as a reader, I just couldn’t accept the Crush (Caleb Rush) character as real. Crush is a he-man, physically huge and powerful, able to charge in and take control of any situation, and just a little too much of e...
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1945551151
1945551151
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“Historical” Mystery Lacks 1894 Atmosphere, Details of Everyday Life
LAST STOP IN BROOKLYN: A MARY HANDLEY MYSTERY is set in 1894, but lacks the atmosphere of the time, and the details of everyday life back then. Except for Mary’s traveling about in a rented horse and buggy, and the historical name-dropping (Teddy Roosevelt, Jacob Riis, Russell Sage, Oriental Hotel, etc.), the story co...
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0451498445
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Easy-to-Guess Perpetrator, Unbelievable Plot
In DARK TIDE RISING: A WILLIAM MONK NOVEL, Commander Monk returns to miserable Jacob’s Island, and it isn’t kind to him. I don’t like author Perry’s “Monk” series nearly as well as her “Pitts” series, and this “Monk” novel was extremely disappointing. I guessed the identity of the perpetrator within the first quarte...
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0399179917
0399179917
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5
Weak LEGO Tie-In, But Excellent Super Heroes Trivia Book
The LEGO tie-in is weak for this LEGO DC Comics SUPER HEROES ULTIMATE QUIZ BOOK. The illustrations, and a few questions, use the LEGO building sets and minifigs that are based on the DC Comics Super Heroes characters (Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, etc.). Mainly this is a trivia quiz book--and a very good ...
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1465467572
1465467572
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1,532,094,404,349
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Complete Guide to Understanding BBC Micro-Bit Hardware, Programming Languages
The BBC micro:bit is a printed circuit board developed by the British Broadcasting Company for children to use in learning to write computer software and to build things (e.g., robots). It’s about half the size of a credit card, and is designed to work with other systems (e.g., Raspberry Pi). This book, THE OFFICIAL ...
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111938673X
111938673X
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1,531,954,680,177
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5
Everything You Need to Know About Your 3D Printer!
3D PRINTING FAILURES: HOW TO DIAGNOSE AND REPAIR ALL 3D PRINTING ISSUES isn’t a book for absolute beginners, but it has all the answers, once you’ve acquired some hours of 3D printing experience and some familiarity with the vocabulary and with how the machine works. I have a new 3D printer that I’m going to have to ...
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1547202386
1547202386
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1,531,941,000,451
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3
Good Job of Presenting Arguments For and Against National Educational Standards
This readable book, COMMON CORE: NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS AND THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, does a good job of presenting the arguments for and against the project aimed at achieving standardized education in U.S. The big problem is that standardized “common core” education seems to go hand in hand with standardized te...
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1421424630
1421424630
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Activity Book for Very Young Readers
JUNIOR MAKER is an “ activity book” for very young children. The target age isn’t given, but the book seems to be intended for young readers (2d or 3d grade?). There are some projects that might be fun (e.g, making a Roman mosaic from colored paper squares, or building a pipe cleaner frame for blowing square bubbles,...
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1465468447
1465468447
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1,531,879,518,161
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Reacher Searches for His Roots
PAST TENSE: A JACK REACHER NOVEL solves a mystery surrounding Jack’s parentage--who, exactly, was Jack’s father, a guy who could never remember his birthday? Reacher fans will want to read this novel to find out. But otherwise, except for the dramatic ending scenes, the novel is just plain boring.<br /><br />In the n...
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0399593519
0399593519
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5
"Electrifying” Is NO Exaggeration!
SCORPION STRIKE (A JONATHAN GRAVE THRILLER) is the 10th “Jonathan Grave” novel, and “electrifying” is NOT an exaggeration. It’s formulaic in a way--it’s similar to the previous novel in that Jonathan must save himself and a group of ordinary people from an organized group of heavily armed, very evil men. However, the...
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0786039809
0786039809
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Purported “Cultural Study” Reads Like Author’s Memoir
GROWN-UP ANGER: THE CONNECTED MYSTERIES OF BOB DYLAN, WOODY GUTHRIE, AND THE CALUMET MASSACRE OF 1913 purports to be a “cultural study”, but it’s so personalized--starting with an opening (18-page) chapter about the author’s gut response (at age 13) to Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”--that it reads like a memoir. Star...
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0062451693
0062451693
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Scholarly Monograph About “Bioinformation”
BIOINFORMATION (RESOURCES SERIES) is a scholarly monograph about “bioinformation”--what it is, where it comes from, who owns it, and who consumes it. The monograph also discusses the Big Data revolution, and some of the concerns that arise from “the datafication of everything”. For example, Big Data analytics may be ...
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1509505466
1509505466
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1,531,502,916,094
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3
Q&A Format Detracts From Use as Legal Reference
THE LEGAL GUIDE FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS AND OTHER CREATIVE PEOPLE: PROTECT YOUR WORK AND UNDERSTAND THE LAW provides a pretty good “plain English” summary of current intellectual property law. However, the area of law is not only technical, but it’s largely determined by individual case rulings (which are based on specif...
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1624144497
1624144497
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Pleasant Memoir By Influential Book Review Editor
MY LIFE WITH BOB: FLAWED HEROINE KEEPS BOOK OF BOOKS, PLOT ENSUES is a pleasant, very personal memoir from Pamela Paul, the editor of the influential New York Times Book Review. It’s an enjoyable summer read for young bookworms and for all readers who read for the love of reading.
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1627796312
1627796312
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Discussion of Internet’s Success So Far in Fulfilling Founders’ Expectations
AFTER THE INTERNET isn’t really about what comes after a “broken” internet; rather, it’s a discussion of the internet so far, and how it has, or hasn’t, fulfilled its founders’ expectations. The expectations are encapsulated in a 1996 statement by John Perry Barlow that envisioned the internet “as autonomous from cont...
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1509506187
1509506187
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Correct-Answer Explanations Give Insight Into What AP Physics 1 Examiners Expect
5 STEPS TO A 5: AP PHYSICS 1: ALGEBRA-BASED 2018 contains a large amount of substantive review material (pages 83-210), but of course the book is intended for use alongside a high school class in Advanced Placement Physics 1. Covered review topics (with accompanying practice problems) are as follows: how things move;...
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1259863352
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Correct-Answer Explanations Give Insight Into What AP Physics 2 Examiners Expect
5 STEPS TO A 5: AP PHYSICS 2: ALGEBRA-BASED 2018 contains a daunting amount of substantive review material (pages 75-250), but of course the book is intended for use alongside a high school class in Advanced Placement Physics 2. Topics (with accompanying practice problems) that are covered are as follows: fluid mecha...
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1259863212
1259863212
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Correct-Answer Explanations Give Insight Into What AP Statistics Examiners Expect
5 STEPS TO A 5: AP STATISTICS 2018 contains a daunting amount of substantive review material (pages 51-300), but of course the book is intended for use alongside a high school class in Advanced Placement Statistics. Topics (with accompanying review problems) that are covered include everything from an overview of stat...
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125986376X
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Persuasive Essay About Futility of Scientific Studies of Racial Characteristics
IS SCIENCE RACIST (DEBATING RACE) is a thoughtful, persuasive essay about the futility of attempting to scientifically identify and classify racial characteristics or behaviors, when “race” is as much a cultural determination as it is a fact of nature. To start a scientific study by dividing the study subjects into gro...
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0745689221
0745689221
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5
Readable Book Explains Science of Present-Day Global Warming, Climate Change
A FAREWELL TO ICE: A REPORT FROM THE ARCTIC is a readable book that explains, in somewhat technical scientific terms, what is happening to Arctic and Antarctic ice, and why the current melting should concern every human being on the planet. It makes a convincing case (supported by measurement charts, thermal maps, an...
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0190691158
0190691158
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Topic Outline, Practice Tests, Correct-Answer Explanations Prepare You for AP Microeconomics Exam
5 STEPS TO A 5: AP MICROECONOMICS 2018 includes a valuable outline (in chapter 1) that describes the topics you can expect to see covered in the AP Microeconomics exam--the outline also gives a percentage figure for the number of exam questions likely to address each topic. (For example, the topic “factor markets” wil...
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Contains Detailed Explanations of Multiple-Choice Answers, Valuable Grading Guides for Free-Response Questions
This 5 STEPS TO A 5: AP BIOLOGY 2018 exam prep guide is organized around the four “big ideas”, or concepts, of biology as identified by the College Board. These are evolution, cellular processes, genetics and informational transfer, and interactions. All of the questions on the AP Biology exam are linked to at least ...
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1260009947
1260009947
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Weird Typography Makes Book Hard to Read
Author Zing Tsjeng’s background is in broadcast and online journalism (see the “Broadly.” Channel on Vice), which probably explains the weird typography in FORGOTTEN WOMEN: THE LEADERS. Throughout the text, short factual passages (maybe you could call them “sound bites”) are printed in type that is far larger than the...
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1788400410
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Reads Like Book With Someone Else’s Highlighting
Author Zing Tsjeng’s background is in broadcast and online journalism (see the “Broadly.” Channel on Vice), which probably explains the weird typography in FORGOTTEN WOMEN: THE SCIENTISTS. Throughout the text, short factual passages (maybe you could call them “sound bites”) are printed in type that is far larger than ...
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1788400429
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Review Materials Provide Insight Into What AP U.S. History Examiners Want to See
The five steps in 5 STEPS TO A 5: AP U.S. HISTORY 2018 are (1) set up a study program, (2) take a diagnostic test to determine your test readiness, (3) develop successful strategies for answering multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions, (4) review the specific material you are expected to know for the United...
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1259862771
1259862771
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Correct-Answer Explanations Give Valuable Insight Into What AP World History Examiners Want to See
The five steps in 5 STEPS TO A 5: AP WORLD HISTORY 2018 are (1) set up a study program, (2) take a diagnostic test to determine your test readiness, (3) develop successful strategies for answering multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions, (4) review the specific material you are expected to know for the world...
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1259862720
1259862720
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1,530,811,825,426
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Jonathan Kellerman’s Name on Novel Is Big Mystery
The biggest mystery in A MEASURE OF DARKNESS: A NOVEL is what Jonathan Kellerman’s name is doing on the cover. This novel is clearly written by Jesse Kellerman, with little help from his famous father, because the writing and plotting aren’t very good. If Jonathan’s name weren’t there, the novel probably wouldn’t sel...
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0399594639
0399594639
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Revised, Updated 2018 Edition of Comprehensive Knitters’ Reference Adds Many New Pages
VOGUE KNITTING: THE ULTIMATE KNITTING BOOK (completely revised and updated, 2018 edition) is one of three truly excellent, comprehensive, how-to-knit references. The other two are [[ASIN:0762102489 Montse Stanley’s KNITTER’S HANDBOOK]] and [[ASIN:B006YDG100 June Hemmons Hiatt’s PRINCIPLES OF KNITTING]]. VOGUE KNITTI...
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1942021690
1942021690
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Well-Thought-Out Technical Knitting Book, But Silly
ARM KNITTING: 30 NO-NEEDLE PROJECTS FOR YOU AND YOUR HOME is a perfectly decent technical knitting book, but it’s just plain silly. Why would you want to knit with big loops of thick yarn on your arms rather than on big knitting needles? And what do you do if nature calls while you’re still all wrapped up—quite liter...
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1465454381
1465454381
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Enid Investigates Murder of Young Woman From Wild Interior
You should read [[ASIN:0544947304 Bannerless]] before attempting this second “Bannerless” novel, THE WILD DEAD, because you need the backstory to understand what the brown-uniformed investigators (Enid & Teeg) are tasked with. Both novels are set in a near-future coastal California, some 100 years after a worldwide pl...
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0544947312
0544947312
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Ninth Monkeewrench Novel Chronicles Investigations of Double Murder, Terrorist Threat Against Minneapolis City Hall
THE GUILTY DEAD (Monkeewrench #9) is a fast, enjoyable, relaxing read. I’d call it a “cozy police procedural”, because it chronicles a complex murder/anti-terrorist investigation by Minnesota police and the Monkeewrench software team, but focuses on the characters’ comfortable, familiar, joking personal relationships....
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1683318587
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