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4 | Explains How Existing Wearable Devices Work, Principles of Interface Design for Wearables | For an O'Reilly book, DESIGNING FOR WEARABLES: EFFECTIVE UX FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE DEVICES seems a little short on technical content. About half of it is a fairly comprehensive, descriptive catalog of existing wearable devices (e.g., FitBit, Jawbone, Pebble smartwatch, Google Glass, Lumo Lift, GoPro, Pokemon Go, Thync... | [] | 1491944153 | 1491944153 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,488,297,877,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Run-of-the-Mill Thriller With Exotic Settings, Fantasy Elements (Man-Made Weather, Quest for Ark of the Covenant) | THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE is my first Catherine Coulter thriller, and it doesn't inspire me to read more of her novels. Fourth in the "Brit in the FBI" series (the first is [[ASIN:B00C5R7H70 The Final Cut]]), it works fine as a standalone. However, it's a plodding, run-of-the-mill thriller in which a team of nearl... | [] | 1501150324 | 1501150324 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,486,999,199,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Northern Ireland Detective Duffy Is Targeted by Post-Troubles Death Squads | Because I loved [[ASIN:B013NI8W4G Rain Dogs]] (the previous series novel), I had high expectations for POLICE AT THE STATION AND THEY DON'T LOOK FRIENDLY. But this novel begins with a prologue--Duffy is about to meet his maker--and the prologue's action isn't picked up again until page 212 (of 321) in my reviewer's co... | [] | 1633882594 | 1633882594 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,486,318,228,000 | 4 | false |
2 | Opinionated Academic Analysis of Writings of Wide Assortment of Murderers | MURDER IN PLAIN ENGLISH: FROM MANIFESTOS TO MEMES is a serious academic work, co-authored by a literary criminology professor and an anthropology professor. The book is an examination of "murder" and murderers, using a "literary criminology" approach. This approach is defined as "the study of cri... | [] | 1633882535 | 1633882535 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,485,883,404,000 | 5 | false |
3 | Extremely Poor Mystery, But With Darned Good Recipes | BANANA CREAM PIE MURDER (A HANNAH SWENSON MYSTERY) doesn't work very well as a standalone, unless you're mainly interested in the many scrumptious dessert, cookie, quick-dinner, and snack recipes. It's puzzling that newlywed Hannah doesn't know much about her husband Ross' likes or dislikes; and that she's apparently ... | [] | 1617732206 | 1617732206 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,485,827,993,000 | 14 | false |
4 | Emphasis Is on Photos of Western Gardens, But Includes Good Plant Reference Guide, Lots of Growing Information | SUCCULENTS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHOOSING, DESIGNING, AND GROWING 200 EASY CARE PLANTS is a typical Sunset book, with the first 125 pages (of 288) devoted to "Inspirations"--photographs of mature succulent gardens located in the U.S. West. The next 56 pages show "Easy Projects"--photographs and direct... | [
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3 | Most Designs Use Garter Stitch in Traditional Ways | Where is the garter stitch "revival"? Alas, most of the patterns in GARTER STITCH REVIVAL: 20 CREATIVE KNITTING PATTERNS FEATURING THE SIMPLEST STITCH are for cowls, ponchos, shawls, wraps, shrugs, and scarves--all fairly-easy-to-knit wearables that traditionally incorporate garter stitch, because they're good... | [
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3 | Collection of Garment Designs Using Simple Textured Stitch Patterns | TEXTURE: EXPLORING STITCH PATTERNS IN KNITWEAR is basically a collection of garment patterns (mostly cardigans), rather than the technical knitting book that I expected. The textured stitches featured in the patterns are pretty basic (e.g., broken rib, moss stitch, horseshoe cable, honeycomb), and the garment designs ... | [
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3 | Well-Written But Formulaic Assassin Thriller | GUNMETAL GRAY is a well-written but formulaic thriller--professional assassin (Courtland Gentry, aka "the Gray Man") accepts a "mission impossible", but carries it off, because he's the best gol-darned assassin ever hired by the CIA or by any other world-class spy organization. It's a long book (over 4... | [] | 0425282856 | 0425282856 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,484,264,227,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Unforgettable Title Character Uses Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to Lethal Effect; Eye-Opening Account of Human Trafficking | LIVIA LONE is an unusual thriller, built around Brazilian jiu-jitsu holds and the title character's insatiable drive (blood lust) for revenge. Livia Lone is one of the most unforgettable characters you'll ever encounter in popular fiction--she is ruthless and brutal, yet sympathetic (if not really justified in her act... | [] | 1503939650 | 1503939650 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,484,155,072,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Contrived Plot Turns on Extraordinary Coincidences | A DIVIDED SPY (Thomas Kell series) is a workmanlike, plodding thriller that simply failed to grab my attention. At the beginning, it commits the sin of kicking off the plot though an extraordinary, unbelievable coincidence--a former colleague (Mowbray) of a disgruntled MI6 operative (Kell) happens to spot a married R... | [] | 1250021049 | 1250021049 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,901,116,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent Police Procedural Introduces SFPD Detective Gavin Cain | THE DARK ROOM is an excellent police procedural--for me, a rarity among mystery/thrillers, because it held my interest as I read it straight through without ever considering a peek at the ending to see if the rest was worth my time. Set convincingly in the San Francisco Bay Area, the novel introduces a new character, S... | [] | 0544784677 | 0544784677 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,747,895,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Amazing, Totally Fresh Fictional Approach to Time Travel | ALL OUR WRONG TODAYS: A NOVEL is built around a totally fresh fictional approach to time travel: the notion that it's impossible to jump back in time by simply dialing a year, because the jump requires calculating the earth's exact physical position in space and time at the targeted jump point. Accept this premise, a... | [] | 1101985135 | 1101985135 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,743,000,000 | 6 | false |
2 | Jumbled-Up "True Crime" Biography of Brilliant Female Lawyer/Investigator | MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE TRUE STORY OF NEW YORK CITY'S GREATEST FEMALE DETECTIVE AND THE 1917 CASE THAT CAPTIVATED A NATION is a weird biography of a crusading female defense lawyer and talented investigator, Mrs. Grace Humiston (1869-1948). It's much more a "true crime" book than a biography.<br /><br />The b... | [] | 1250072247 | 1250072247 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,497,780,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Neglected Story of How London Operated as Haven for Exiled Governments During WWII | LAST HOPE ISLAND: BRITAIN, OCCUPIED EUROPE, AND THE BROTHERHOOD THAT HELPED TURN THE TIDE OF WAR tells the neglected story of how London operated as a haven for the monarchs, governments, and armed forces of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg, after these countries were conquered and occu... | [] | 0812997352 | 0812997352 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,476,145,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Valuable Business Management Book With Lots of Food for Thought | EXPENSIVE SENTENCES: DEBUNKING THE COMMON MYTHS THAT DERAIL DECISIONS AND SABOTAGE SUCCESS is a rarity--a business management book with extremely valuable content. Anyone--not just business managers--can profit from reading this book, which explains why "expensive sentences" (generally accepted truisms) shoul... | [] | 1940858259 | 1940858259 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,460,881,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Slow-Moving Thriller About Quest for Antidote to Radiation Sickness | THE BOY WHO GLOWED IN THE DARK is the third book in the "Nadia Tesla" series (the first is ASIN:1612186084 The Boy From Reactor 4); and it doesn't really work as a standalone. Without knowing the backstories, I found it difficult to get involved with the characters and plot. The early chapters are slow-moving... | [] | 1477822844 | 1477822844 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,111,163,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Thin Prequel Describes Police Chief Craddock's First Case | AN UNSETTLING CRIME FOR SAMUEL CRADDOCK is blessedly short, and a fast read, but it's thinly written. It's set in a small, segregated town in Texas, sometime after JFK's assassination. I couldn't place the actual time period, and the town and its citizens' attitudes seemed impossibly quaint for a post-1960s setting. ... | [] | 1633882098 | 1633882098 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,483,031,207,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Everything You Need to Know to Design Your Own Drone | DRONES: TEACH AN ARDUINO TO FLY is one of the best "Make" books ever! It contains complete instructions for building three different drones--small, medium, and large (large enough to require FAA registration). The drones are built from parts kits available online, supplemented with flight controllers (Hubsan... | [] | 1680451715 | 1680451715 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,970,606,000 | 5 | false |
3 | Another FBI Profiler Novel Featuring the Wooden Karen Vail | As hard as I try, I simply cannot warm to the Karen Vail character. She's an FBI profiler, she investigates serial murders, she cares about the victims, she wants to stop the killer before he/she kills again, and she's very, very good at her job. She's a gorgeous redhead, and she's willing to risk her own safety to c... | [] | 1504041712 | 1504041712 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,944,546,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Narrative History of Athens That Mixes Up Fact and Fiction | THE RISE OF ATHENS: THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CIVILIZATION is "narrative history" that attempts to relate the story of Athens as it was experienced by the ancient Athenians who lived through the actual events described in the book. Because Athenians believed that the stories told about Theseus and abou... | [] | 0812994582 | 0812994582 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,886,370,000 | 2 | false |
4 | High-Octane Thriller Filled With Brutal Fight Scenes | THE NOWHERE MAN is the second "Orphan X" novel, and it's a high-octane, page-turning thriller. However, it's extremely brutal. The Nowhere Man (aka Orphan X, aka Evan Smoak) unselfishly helps ordinary people out of serious, life-threatening trouble, but in the end he's nothing more than a highly skilled, U.S.... | [] | 1250067855 | 1250067855 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,805,145,000 | 3 | false |
5 | For Ordinary Computer Users, Too--Explains Why Digital Computing Is NOT "Green" | You don't have to be a software engineer to understand and appreciate the lessons to be learned from DESIGNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY: A GUIDE TO BUILDING GREENER DIGITAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. Internet users like myself tend to think of digital computing as "green"--after all, doesn't paperless banking save tre... | [] | 1491935774 | 1491935774 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,782,776,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Events Are Skillfully Woven Into Novel-Like Narrative Fabric | As a casual WWII history buff, I can't judge the validity of historian Hornfischer's interpretation and presentation of the events in THE FLEET AT FLOOD TIDE as compared to those of other historians. However, the facts seem accurate to me, and Hornfischer marshals them expertly. Focusing on individuals and wartime st... | [] | 0345548701 | 0345548701 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,780,893,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Political Tract Warns Against Expecting Too Much From Neuroscience | CAN NEUROSCIENCE CHANGE OUR MINDS? is a political tract, co-authored by two neuroscientists. They are concerned--as science unravels more and more of the functions of the human brain--that governments are unrealistically expecting "brain science" to solve all future human social, developmental, and behavioral ... | [] | 0745689329 | 0745689329 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,719,308,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Beginners, Seasoned Do-It-Yourselfers Can Benefit From This Book | Beginners and seasoned do-it-yourselfers alike can benefit from this excellent book, MAKE: TOOLS: HOW THEY WORK AND HOW TO USE THEM. It not only explains how to use basic tools (e.g., different types of hammers, saws, and screwdrivers) correctly, it also includes myriad small woodworking projects that you can use to pr... | [] | 1680452533 | 1680452533 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,687,049,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Great Starting Point for Any Prospective Applicant for U.S. Citizenship | BECOMING A U.S. CITIZEN: A GUIDE TO THE LAW, EXAM & INTERVIEW is another excellent Nolo Press legal guide for nonlawyers. In easy-to-understand language, it explains the pros and cons of applying for U.S. citizenship, and advises the prospective applicant of situations where he or she really needs to consult a lawyer.... | [] | 1413323049 | 1413323049 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,628,397,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Cozy Mystery Centered Around "Furry Godmother" Shop That Sells High-Fashion Costumes for Pets | CAT GOT YOUR DIAMONDS is an entertaining cozy mystery, by an author who thoroughly understands the genre. It's the first novel in the "Kitty Couture" series--even though there are precious few cats. Mostly the "couture" involves costumes for dancing dogs, performing chickens, and charity-connected lla... | [] | 1629538426 | 1629538426 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,545,792,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Must-Have for LEGO Technic Aficionados | Fascinated by heavy-duty construction equipment, I really love the big LEGO Technic sets that create powered models of cranes, excavators, helicopters, and road graders. However, the step-by-step LEGO instructions make the builds possible, but they DO NOT teach you how to solidly assemble and insert motors and gear li... | [
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5 | Fun Projects for Girls and Boys That Teach Simple Principles of Electrical Circuitry | I love the "Make" do-it-yourself project books, because the projects are fun, even as they teach scientific principles. In MAKE IT GLOW: LED PROJECTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY, the focus is on connecting button-sized, 3-volt, lithium coin-cell batteries (CR2032 batteries) to LEDs with metal wires, threads, and tape... | [] | 1680451057 | 1680451057 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,518,398,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Murder Mystery Involving Long-Ago Jewel Heist, Love Affair With Gun Moll | Alex Delaware is NOT my favorite Jonathan Kellerman character, but Kellerman's mystery/thrillers never disappoint. HEARTBREAK HOTEL has a cast of memorable characters (e.g., Thalia Mars, the centenarian former gun moll; Kurt DeGraw, the hotel manager; Ricki Sylvester, Thalia's estate manager). The novel has an intric... | [] | 034554143X | 034554143X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,482,516,317,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Post-Apocalypse Novel So Rich in Detail, You Feel the World Actually Exists | Wow! It's hard to believe that NINTH CITY BURNING is a first novel--author J. Patrick Black has created a future-Earth, post-apocalypse novel so rich in detail, you feel the world actually exists. The well-rounded, memorable characters demonstrate formidable survival skills in Earth's countryside (now populated by ho... | [] | 1101991445 | 1101991445 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,481,907,902,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Gets You Started Quickly; Has Lots of Tips | In my opinion, Dan Gookin writes the very best "for Dummies" manuals. WORD 2016 FOR PROFESSIONALS FOR DUMMIES is no exception. If you're an ordinary end-user like myself, already using a previous version of Word, this reference manual will tell you everything you need to know to fully use the Word 2016 softwa... | [] | 1119286042 | 1119286042 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,481,812,167,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Provides Quick Start for DSLR Dummy | When I finally splurged on a DSLR camera--something I've wanted for years--I didn't even know how to change the camera lenses. Naturally I turned to a "Dummies" book, for basic instructions on using my new Canon EOS Rebel T6, and to learn quickly how to take advantage of all the features. This CANON EOS REBEL... | [] | 1119295645 | 1119295645 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,481,811,569,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Drab Investigator, Fascinating Villain | NO MAN'S LAND is the fourth "John Puller" book, and my first, but it works fine as a standalone. (The first book in the series is ZERO DAY). The main character, Army detective Puller, is a real bulldog of an investigator and a terrific fighter, but he's kind of straight-laced and sort of drab. In contrast, on... | [] | 145558651X | 145558651X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,479,691,305,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Grieving-Father Premise Detracts From Story, But Is Handled Pretty Well | I'm a big fan of mystery/thriller author Reed Farrel Coleman, but WHAT YOU BREAK (A GUS MURPHY NOVEL) was somewhat disappointing. I love the "Moe Prager" series, but I don't care for the premise of the "Gus Murphy" series, where the investigator, a retired Long Island cop, has had his comfortable life ... | [] | 0399173048 | 0399173048 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,479,672,120,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Chronicles 20-Year-Long Murder Investigation That Basically Ends Nowhere | UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN is an extremely long (554 pages), slow-moving, literary mystery novel. It's well-written, but it chronicles a 20-year-long murder investigation that basically ends nowhere.<br /><br />In the novel, a detective (Sasagaki) is called to a murder scene--a child has discovered the body of a pawnshop ... | [] | 125010579X | 125010579X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,479,154,366,000 | 9 | false |
4 | Three Former West Point Cadets Fly "Spirt Mission" to Rescue Fourth | SPIRIT MISSION: A NOVEL is a thriller at times, but mostly it's a novel about how the rigors of West Point life forge unbreakable, lifelong bonds of loyalty among West Point cadets. At the academy, a "spirit mission" is a well-plotted clandestine operation that demonstrates company or regimental corps "spi... | [] | 1627799664 | 1627799664 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,479,148,878,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Humor Is Marred by Bitter Tone of Text | THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN is an occasionally amusing, but wholly inconsequential cartoon book for adult women. It's a riff on historical misconceptions about females, as propounded by famous men such as Darwin, Ruskin, Freud, Picasso, and Rousseau.<br /><br />The humor is marred by the hyperbole and generally bitter tone... | [] | 1449479766 | 1449479766 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,479,141,497,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Delightful Book for Adults as Well as Kids | ANIMAL CHAPTER BOOKS: SHARKS! is a delightful book, for adults as well as kids. It's very easy to read (recommended reading level is Grade 3), but it's NOT childish. It presents facts about sharks in a smooth narrative, without overloading the reader, so that the information is painlessly absorbed and remembered.<br... | [] | 1618934325 | 1618934325 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,478,274,770,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent "Good Guys on the Run" Thriller | BURNING BRIGHT (A PETER ASH NOVEL) is basically a "good guys on the run" thriller, but the exciting plot and the intriguing characters (Peter Ash, June Cassidy, and Shepard, the stone killer who's after them) really grab you. This novel is a page-turner of the best kind--you won't want to put it down.<br /><br... | [] | 0399174575 | 0399174575 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,478,057,009,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Scholarly, Revisionist Biography of Disgraced Bureaucrat Charles Forbes | A TIME OF SCANDAL: CHARLES R. FORBES, WARREN G. HARDING, AND THE MAKING OF THE VETERANS BUREAU is a scholarly (but reasonably readable) biography of Charles R. Forbes, the thoroughly disgraced bureaucrat who established the U.S. Veterans Bureau, but later served time in Leavenworth prison for rigging government hospit... | [] | 1421421305 | 1421421305 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,965,764,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Scary Nonfiction Account of How "Homegrown" Traitor Stole Thousands of Pages of U.S Secrets | THE SPY WHO COULDN'T SPELL: A DYSLEXIC TRAITOR, AN UNBREAKABLE CODE, AND THE FBI'S HUNT FOR AMERICA'S STOLEN SECRETS is thoroughly researched nonfiction (either biography or "true crime"), but it genuinely reads like a spy thriller. Even more amazing, this highly readable and entertaining book is author Yudhi... | [] | 1592409008 | 1592409008 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,946,974,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Entertaining Cozy Mystery/Romance With Many Flaws | SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE is a mildly entertaining, spiritualist-themed cozy mystery set in Lily Dale, NY (a real-life center of the Spiritualism movement). For a novel, it's oddly written--the actions of the viewpoint character (Bella) are described in present tense (e.g., "Wearing comfortable old jeans ..... | [] | 1629537721 | 1629537721 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,939,732,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Great Looseleaf Cookbook, With Big Countertop Footprint, Flimsy Divider Tabs | Everyone knows, you can't go wrong with this, or any other, BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK. The 12th edition subtitle is "Everything You Need to Know to Cook from Scratch", and that is NOT an exaggeration. There are timetables for cooking meats; food substitution charts (e.g., 1 c. buttermilk = 1 T. lemon juice or vin... | [] | 0544648927 | 0544648927 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,499,326,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Excellent Project Instructions, But Needs Better Descriptions of What Projects Actually Do | Written by two school librarians, THE BIG BOOK OF MAKERSPACE PROJECTS: INSPIRING MAKERS TO EXPERIMENT, CREATE, AND LEARN seems like an ideal book to add to any public "makerspace". (A "makerspace" is an area in a library or community center that is stocked with crafts supplies, computers, sewing machi... | [] | 1259644251 | 1259644251 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,445,438,000 | 9 | false |
3 | Well-Written Historical Action/Adventure Novel With Outlandish Plot | RT Book Reviews got it exactly right, in describing THE SMOKE HUNTER as "Indiana Jones Meets Lara Croft". It's an historical action/adventure novel, with lots of detailed description of the historical setting and times; and with a plot that is over-the-top outlandish. There's no history in it--it's just a mad... | [] | 1455569062 | 1455569062 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,358,804,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Characters in This Excellent Time-Travel Story All Agree--"Travel Is Confusing" | "Travel is confusing." Yes, it is--and readers who don't pay attention to the details of the characters' conversations won't be able to follow this time travel story. THE TOURIST is probably the best time travel novel that I've ever read. The story--told by two viewpoint characters (Spens and Prisoner/Adorna... | [] | 0316399426 | 0316399426 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,344,277,000 | 6 | false |
3 | Well-Done Flashback Novel; Superficial Cincinnati Setting | FRACTURED is a very good novel, but the plot is the type that I always lose patience with. At the beginning, a life-altering, tragic event is hinted at. Then the actual details are dribbled out in the remainder of the novel, through one or more viewpoint characters' flashbacks that recount the events that produced th... | [] | 1503937828 | 1503937828 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,328,977,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Another Ordinary Attorney-Turned-Novelist Effort | THE HEAVENS MAY FALL is a legal procedural novel that violates the basic "show don't tell" rule of fiction writing--there's far too much "tell". The novel opens on the 4th anniversary of the death (in an unsolved hit-run "accident") of Detective Max Rupert's wife (Jenni). Rupert is still "... | [] | 1633882055 | 1633882055 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,477,151,453,000 | 11 | false |
3 | Designs Don't Cry Out, "Build Me!" | I love LEGO books, but GEEKY LEGO CRAFTS: 21 FUN AND QUIRKY PROJECTS is kind of hard to love. The building instructions are clear enough, but the projects don't cry out, "Build me!"<br /><br />The basic designs resemble low-resolution screen displays reduced to individual pixels. You have to sort of squint t... | [] | 1593277679 | 1593277679 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,476,980,843,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Instructions for Huge Assortment of Projects, Games--Plus Tons of Builders' Tips | 365 THINGS TO DO WITH LEGO BRICKS is my absolute favorite DK LEGO-building book to date, because it includes generalized instructions for a huge variety of projects, puzzles, and games, as well as tons of master builders' tips. One of the authors is Alice Finch, who is famous for her enormous LEGO model of the Hogwart... | [
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4 | Gimmicky But Entertaining Novel With Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Setting | CITY ON EDGE is a gimmicky sort of mystery/thriller. The investigative team consists of a bunch of misfits--convicted criminals given "get out of jail free" cards so that their special skills can be applied to law enforcement, or socially challenged, psychologically damaged folks such as a former soldier with ... | [] | 042528445X | 042528445X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,476,051,416,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Good Job, But Gear S2 Owners Don't Really Need This Manual | SAMSUNG GEAR S2 FOR DUMMIES does an excellent job of explaining how to set up and use the Gear S2 smartwatch. The book describes in detail every preinstalled app and setting. It gets you quickly up to speed on handling telephone calls, text messages, and emails. It has good chapters on troubleshooting, and on finding... | [] | 1119279984 | 1119279984 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,475,448,635,000 | 3 | false |
4 | DI Edgar Stephens Uses Fairy Tales to Unravel Mystery of Children's Disappearance | SMOKE AND MIRRORS (MAGIC MEN MYSTERIES) is a pretty decent British historical cozy mystery. It's the second novel in the series (the first is THE ZIG ZAG GIRL), and it works fine as a standalone. It's basically a slog-along police procedural, with lots of interviews and repeated interviews with different suspects, vi... | [] | 054452795X | 054452795X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,475,185,421,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Literary Work About Wife's Obsession With Horse That Promises to Fulfill Her Lifelong Dream | When I ordered MERCURY: A NOVEL, I was under two misconceptions. First, that it was a mystery; and second, that it was a novel about a horse. It is neither. What it is, is a very good literary novel about a wife's obsession with a horse that doesn't belong to her (a horse that she believes can fulfill her lifelong d... | [] | 006243750X | 006243750X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,475,100,105,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Junior Investigates Mall Shoplifting Problem, Deals With Personal Ghosts of Christmases Past | Junior Bender has serious issues with Christmas--he has too many memories of bad Christmas Eves spent with his drunken father--so FIELDS WHERE THEY LAY (A JUNIOR BENDER MYSTERY) isn't delightfully humorous like the previous series novel (KING MAYBE). However, it's a darn good mystery, has a heart-warming WWII "Chr... | [] | 1616957468 | 1616957468 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,474,587,073,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Excellent Contemporary History of Berlin Tunneling Escapes From Communist East Germany | As I was growing up, the Berlin Wall was a fact of life. It was there, and you knew that some people were arrested or killed in their attempts at breaching or tunneling under it; even as other people were able to escape successfully from East Germany via that formidable, well-guarded Berlin border crossing line. In TH... | [] | 1101903856 | 1101903856 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,474,582,152,000 | 14 | false |
2 | Academic Description of Vertical "Strata" of Cities | In the Introduction to VERTICAL: THE CITY FROM SATELLITES TO BUNKERS, author Stephen Graham observes that shortage of land results in increasingly dense and stacked human societies. Thus, he says, any understanding of contemporary cities requires looking at their "vertical geographies" (from skyscrapers' sub... | [] | 1781687935 | 1781687935 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,474,544,961,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Explains With Utmost Clarity How Faulty "WMD" Algorithms Are Hurting Real People | Author Cathy O'Neil is a professional mathematician who also possesses considerable language skills. In WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION: HOW BIG DATA INCREASES INEQUALITY AND THREATENS DEMOCRACY, she explains with the utmost clarity how the many "WMD" algorithms currently being used in U.S. schools, colleges, wor... | [] | 0553418815 | 0553418815 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,473,886,388,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Fast-Reading, Engossing Police Procedural With Some Literary Chops | SO SAY THE FALLEN is a police procedural, but it's a rare beast--a police procedural with some literary chops. Through two main characters (Detective Chief Inspector Flanagan and Reverend Mr. McKay), it examines the question: What's left, if you lose your faith, your job, your family? The novel makes a case for "... | [] | 1616957395 | 1616957395 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,473,704,229,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Hannah's "Slaydar" Locates Body; Killer Identified With Ghostly Assist | I really enjoy the "Murder, She Baked" TV series on the Hallmark cable channel, and reading this novel was like being treated to a brand-new episode. But be warned: you need to read CHRISTMAS CARAMEL MURDER (A Hannah Swensen Mystery) very, very fast, because it will make you hungry and give you the munchies! ... | [] | 1617732281 | 1617732281 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,473,611,250,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Maggie Works With MI-5 to Capture "Blackout Beast" | THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE is the sixth "Maggie Hope" mystery (the first is MR. CHURCHILL'S SECRETARY). It sort of works as a standalone, but Maggie has a lot of baggage that isn't explained, and as a total newcomer to the series, I didn't find Maggie interesting enough to warrant reading another book in the seri... | [] | 0804178720 | 0804178720 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,473,265,917,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Readable Account of Discovery, Interpretation of Fossils of South America's Gigantic Prehistoric Beasts | In a fantasy novel (THE LOST WORLD), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagined an isolated plateau in South America that was populated by still-living prehistoric beasts. In this nonfiction book, GIANTS OF THE LOST WORLD, author Donald R. Prothero describes the very real prehistoric beasts that once flourished in South America ... | [] | 1588345734 | 1588345734 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,473,114,531,000 | 3 | false |
4 | "Ten" Pledges to Honor Commitments, Is Drawn Into Exploration of Kalachakra Tradition | Failed Tibetan lama Tenzing "Ten" Norbut is a great private investigator, but his mystery series is NOT for everyone. The novels are slow-paced, as Norbut constantly contemplates his inner equilibrium; and the novels always include some explanation of the teachings of Buddhism (smoothly incorporated into the... | [] | 1401948677 | 1401948677 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,921,406,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Excellent 1963 Chicago Ambience; Ho-Hum Plot | You should read MY KIND OF TOWN for the excellent 1963 South Side Chicago ambience and for the amusing portrayal of a self-centered but generous Frank Sinatra, but NOT for the ho-hum plot. The basic "locate Al Capone's lost treasure" concept has been done to death, and even the accomplished writing of this nov... | [] | 1504025709 | 1504025709 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,842,330,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Story of How SpaceShipOne Came to Win Ansari X Prize ($10 Million) | HOW TO MAKE A SPACESHIP: A BAND OF RENEGADES, AN EPIC RACE, AND THE BIRTH OF PRIVATE SPACEFLIGHT recounts how the experimental, rocket-powered, privately-funded aircraft SpaceShipOne was conceived and developed; and how SpaceShipOne ultimately came to win the Ansari X Prize ($10 million) for the first successful nongo... | [] | 1594206724 | 1594206724 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,070,201,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Well-Done Account of How Laura Ackerson's Bitter Custody Battle Turned Deadly | BITTER REMAINS is a standard, well-done, true crime book, with nothing particularly remarkable about it. It tells the story of pretty, naive Laura Jean Ackerson, a North Carolina putative wife and mother whose dismembered body (60% of it) was recovered in July 2011 from Oyster Creek in Texas.<br /><br />Laura's life w... | [] | 0425278484 | 0425278484 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,057,630,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Lincoln Is Mostly Absent; Historical Setting, Characters Don't Come to Life | THESE HONORED DEAD: A LINCOLN AND SPEED MYSTERY is loosely based on historical fact--accounts of Lincoln's early Illinois trials, and of his close friendship with a Springfield general store manager, Joshua Fry Speed. However, Fry is the viewpoint character, and the events are imaginary, so the "Lincoln" pa... | [] | 1629537772 | 1629537772 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,052,438,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Another Damaged Detective; Too Much Oakland Police Procedure | THRILL KILL: A MATT SINCLAIR MYSTERY is the second “Matt Sinclair” novel (the first is [[ASIN:1629533734 Red Line: A Matt Sinclair Mystery]]). It’s set in Oakland, CA, and certainly gets the geographical setting and the Oakland police procedure right—as it should, given that author Brian Thiem spent 25 years working h... | [] | 1629537667 | 1629537667 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,007,955,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Filled to Overflowing With Exciting Action Scenes | If you read thrillers for the thrills, then THE DAMASCUS THREAT: AN ICE THRILLER is the book for you. Author Matt Rees has totally mastered the art of writing action scenes, and this book is filled to overflowing with them. So much so, that the plot material connecting the exciting hand-to-hand fights, executions, ex... | [] | 1629537756 | 1629537756 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,472,006,108,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Focus Is on Fun “Plug-and-Play Electronics” | The ARDUINO PROJECT HANDBOOK: 25 PRACTICAL PROJECTS TO GET YOU STARTED is different from most other Arduino books in at least four ways:<br /><br />(1) The finished projects are useful (e.g., intruder sensor, plant monitor, weather station, fortune teller (!), wireless card entry system). The focus of the book is on ... | [] | 1593276907 | 1593276907 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,471,733,376,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Learn to Think Like a LEGO “Star Wars” Master Builder | [[VIDEOID:b90224b85b544e698099b92b99c52a88]] If either you or your child wants to learn how to think like a LEGO Master Builder, then STAR WARS: BUILD YOUR OWN ADVENTURE is a good place to start. The two-page spread on “Builder Talk”—which names the types of LEGO bricks and says what each type is used for—is almost by... | [] | 1465450459 | 1465450459 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,471,223,426,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Good Job of Writing in Hercule Poirot Tradition | In CLOSED CASKET: THE NEW HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY, author Sophie Hannah does Hercule Poirot very well--almost as well as Agatha Christie herself. But Christie died in 1976, so of course Christie did NOT share in the writing of this excellent (and apparently authorized) "new Hercule Poirot mystery".<br /><br />... | [] | 0062458825 | 0062458825 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,470,975,974,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Inspector Sejer Investigates Double Murder Perpetrated in Dilapidated Caravan | HELL FIRE: INSPECTOR SEJER MYSTERIES is my first "Inspector Sejer" novel, and it certainly works as a standalone. It's not much of a police procedural, though. The story is told mostly through flashback chapters describing events in the lives of two single mothers--strangers to each other--who both have extr... | [] | 0544633377 | 0544633377 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,470,940,994,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Story Grabs You, Holds You, Even as It Horrifies You | THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON: A NOVEL won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for good reason. The story grabs you, and holds you, even as you're horrified by the fact-based depiction of certain aspects of life in North Korea. Yes, there was a famine (the Arduous March (1994-1998)); yes, there were kidnappings of Japane... | [] | 0812982622 | 0812982622 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,470,932,914,000 | 8 | true |
3 | Accessible, Anecdotal History of MacMillan's Abortive Expedition to Explore Commander Peary's "Crocker Land" | A WRETCHED AND PRECARIOUS SITUATION: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST ARCTIC FRONTIER is an anecdotal history of Donald MacMillan's abortive 1913 expedition to explore "Crocker Land" (the unknown arctic land mass reported on, and named by, Commander Robert E. Peary in 1906). Historian David Welky's narrative is well-wri... | [] | 0393254410 | 0393254410 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,470,005,156,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Highly Readable Cultural History of Seven "Celebrity Fossils" | SEVEN SKELETONS:THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS HUMAN FOSSILS is a highly readable cultural history of seven hominin fossils. It relates the facts surrounding each discovery, discusses the scientific significance of each fossil, and explains how each skull or skeleton eventually acquired a popular name and ac... | [] | 0525429859 | 0525429859 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,993,228,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Hugo Marston Investigates Deaths Connected With Paris' American Library | THE PARIS LIBRARIAN is the sixth "Hugo Marston" novel, but my first, and it definitely works as a standalone. (The first series book, which I plan to read soon, is THE BOOKSELLER.) This is a somewhat literary police procedural; but it's a fast, entertaining read, even though not actually a page-turner.<br /><... | [] | 1633881776 | 1633881776 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,934,938,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Readable Dual Biographies of Eight Major Modern Artists | THE ART OF RIVALRY consists of four short, essay-like, dual biographies of eight major modern artists. In life, the paired artists were friends and rivals--so the focus of each biography is the influence that the two artists had on each other's paintings. The artists are:<br /><br />+ Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon<b... | [] | 0812994809 | 0812994809 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,831,482,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Literary Science Fiction--All About Love and Relationships | VALLEY OF THE MOON: A NOVEL is a reasonably well-written literary effort, but I don't understand it at all. The plot is basically science fiction, but it's all about love and relationships.<br /><br />In the novel, a single mother (Lux) of a mixed-race son (Benno) goes on a solo camping trip in Sonoma County's Valley ... | [] | 0345539281 | 0345539281 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,823,860,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Discreet Female "Domestic Investigator" Teases Out Secrets Surrounding Influential Coal-Mine Owner's Family | THE SECRETS OF WISHTIDE has everything you want in an historical cozy mystery. There's an intelligent, likable female investigator (Mrs. Laetitia "Letty" Rodd); an interesting series of country murders to solve; a believable (but not overly detailed) period setting (Hampstead & Lincolnshire, England); re... | [] | 1632864517 | 1632864517 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,811,057,000 | 0 | false |
2 | A Daunting Tome, Unsuitable for Bedtime Reading | SURRENDER, NEW YORK is a 604-page tome, densely packed with long, long sentences and flowery language. The opening sentence is almost worthy of a Bulwer-Lytton award: "The case did not so much burst upon as creep over Burgoyne County, New York, just as the sickness that underlay it only took root in the region sl... | [] | 0679455698 | 0679455698 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,802,936,000 | 10 | false |
4 | Formulaic Thriller, But Perfect for Summer Reading | FRIENDLY FIRE (A JONATHAN GRAVE THRILLER) is a run-of-the-mill mass market thriller, but it’s perfect for summer reading. The plot moves along quickly, the subplots are easy to keep straight, and the main characters (lawbreakers who kill not solely for money, but for a good cause) are intelligent and reasonably well d... | [] | 0786035072 | 0786035072 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,585,311,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A 200-Pattern Basic Stitch Collection With Minimal Author Commentary | MELISSA LEAPMAN’S INDISPENSABLE STITCH COLLECTION FOR CROCHETERS is a basic crochet stitch dictionary containing about 200 patterns grouped into six sections: (1) Simple Solid Patterns, (2) Shell and Fan Stitch Patterns, (3) Openwork and Lace Patterns, (4) Textured Patterns, (5) Colorwork Patterns, and (6) Edgings. F... | [] | 1589239296 | 1589239296 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,564,377,000 | 39 | true |
3 | History of How Modern Forensics View of Crime Scene Came Into Being | MURDER AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISH CSI reads like someone’s Ph.D. thesis (and for all I know, that’s exactly what it is). It’s clearly an academic work, not something written to appeal to a mass audience made up of “CSI” television fans, true crime fans, or forensic documentaries fans.<br /><br />This slender volume (23... | [] | 1421420406 | 1421420406 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,412,296,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Redneck Detective Thriller Is Consistently Funny, Despite Brutal Scenes | “You never quit.” In RED DOG, redneck detective Slim hears that a lot, because he always has something snarkily funny to say, whether he’s tied to table being tortured, mulling over his next move, or just playing Scrabble with his 13-year-old daughter/sidekick Anci. (Anci says, “I’m the brains of this operation,” and... | [] | 0062449060 | 0062449060 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,390,198,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Extraordinary New “Detective” Sees Murderers’ Glowing Auras | COLLECTING THE DEAD: A NOVEL introduces a fascinating new “detective”—Magnus Craig, aka “Steps”, of the fictional FBI Special Tracking Unit. Steps is renowned as a “man-tracker”, and has been dubbed “the Human Bloodhound” by the national news media. He is so successful at tracking down missing persons and murderers,... | [] | 1250072875 | 1250072875 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,323,900,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Most Unbelievable Fictional Female Lawyer Ever | In DAMAGED (A ROSATO & DINUNZIO NOVEL), it’s obvious that author Lisa Scottoline has boned up on the law relating to child protective services, guardianship, and child custody. Unfortunately, there’s so much law in this book, it seriously interferes with the reader’s enjoyment of the book as legal thriller fiction. Y... | [] | 1250099625 | 1250099625 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,316,221,000 | 11 | false |
3 | Cozy Mystery Is Spoiled by Forced “Alice in Wonderland” References | The “Alice in Wonderland” references in A MOST CURIOUS MURDER: A LITTLE LIBRARY MYSTERY are so forced, they eventually spoil what might otherwise be a reasonably good cozy mystery.<br /><br />A major character, Zoe Zola, is a highly intelligent “little person” who is writing a nonfiction book about Lewis Carroll’s famo... | [] | 1629536067 | 1629536067 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,311,260,000 | 7 | false |
4 | Ellison’s First “Taylor Jackson” Novel—Previously Unpublished, Lightly Revised | FIELD OF GRAVES is J.T. Ellison’s lightly-revised, previously-unpublished, first novel (and my very first J.T. Ellison novel). FIELD OF GRAVES also happens to be the first “Taylor Jackson” novel; although, strictly speaking, the first published novel, [[ASIN:B00UFIH4X8 All the Pretty Girls]], is the real beginning of ... | [] | 0778318923 | 0778318923 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,231,430,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Technical Handbook for Advanced Arduino Users | ARDUINO: A TECHNICAL REFERENCE is intended for advanced Arduino programmers and prototypers--for "people who need or want to know the technical details." Like so many of the excellent O'Reilly books, this book is a thoroughly indexed technical handbook and reference book.<br /><br />"Ideally," the autho... | [] | 1491921765 | 1491921765 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,218,405,000 | 0 | false |
1 | Ordinary Citizen Runs Afoul of Government Surveillance | I AM NO ONE: A NOVEL tells the story of an ordinary man (Jeremy) who runs afoul of the ubiquitous present-day U.S. government surveillance of Its own citizens.<br /><br />Returned to the U.S. after spending 10 years in England, Jeremy is teaching German history at New York University. However, something about his data ... | [] | 1101905859 | 1101905859 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,469,059,696,000 | 6 | false |
2 | Lots of Relationships; Not Much Mystery; Short Shrift to Acadia National Park | BOAR ISLAND: AN ANNA PIGEON NOVEL doesn't have a lot of Anna Pigeon in it. It's mostly about Anna's close friend, disabled former rock climber Heath; Anna's goddaughter, Elizabeth; and a disaffected park ranger, Denise. I've read quite a few Anna Pigeon novels (though none recently). Compared to those, BOAR ISLAND se... | [] | 1250064694 | 1250064694 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,468,453,527,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Chilling Cyberthriller Describes Near Future That You Hope Never Comes to Pass | BOUNTY is a superb cyberthriller, with a plot so plausible, I kept thinking the events had really happened, whenever I put down the book. It's extremely well-written, and author Michael Byrnes is clearly very knowledgable about the state of current government surveillance capabilities. This is a scary book, definitel... | [] | 0804178348 | 0804178348 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,468,119,516,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Narco-Detective Saves Boston's Lower South End | DARK HORSE is the second "Eddy Harkness" novel (the first is THIRD RAIL), but it works fine as a standalone. It's a police procedural, I guess, but it's mainly about Narco-Intel detective Eddy Harkness' adventures, in and around the city of Boston. If you like the rule-bending, cynical, city-hall-fighting det... | [] | 0544253248 | 0544253248 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,467,308,144,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Fascinating Dramatization of Westinghouse/Edison Legal Wars Over Monopoly of Electricity | THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT is a fascinating, superbly readable, fictionalized account of lawyer Paul Cravath's dealings with George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla, during the famous alternating current/direct current wars that preceded the electrification of America. As author Graham Moore explains in his c... | [] | 0812988906 | 0812988906 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,467,226,013,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Sensitive Portrayal of Damage Inflicted by Abuse of Underage Girls | WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER is the 23rd novel in the Inspector Banks series. (The first one, GALLOWS VIEW, was published in 1987). This latest offering delivers the usual excellent writing, well-developed and sympathetic characters, intricate plotting, and colorful geographical descriptions that one expects from Peter Robi... | [] | 0062394789 | 0062394789 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,467,167,467,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Great Summer Reading Choice for Would-BeTrial Lawyers | AN INVISIBLE CLIENT, written by a successful Utah trial attorney, portrays practical trial strategy, tactics, and legal procedure so accurately that the book is almost a must-read for anyone planning to enter law school (especially for prospective criminal lawyers). It tells the story of a case involving an "invisi... | [] | 1503952762 | 1503952762 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,467,162,153,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Novel Based on Quantum Superpositions--Great Concept, Poor Execution | DARK MATTER: A NOVEL has a great concept--what might happen if a scientist invented a "box" that allowed him to physically interact with and explore the quantum superpositions applicable to his own life? What would happen if the scientist were able to pick and choose among the alternative lives he would have ... | [] | 1101904224 | 1101904224 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,467,156,323,000 | 20 | false |
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