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4 | Entertaining Belgian Police Procedural Is Slightly Dated | THE FOURTH FIGURE is an entertaining police procedural, the fourth in a series featuring Belgian police commissioner Pieter Van In. It works fine as a standalone, and I liked it quite a bit better than the previous book, FROM BRUGES WITH LOVE. The translation from the original Flemish is excellent, though the novel i... | [] | 1504032306 | 1504032306 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,465,882,194,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Entertaining Thriller With Conventional Plot Features Military War Dog | WAR HAWK is an entertaining thriller with a rather conventional plot--conventional in the sense that the good guys (Wayne Tucker and friends) repeatedly enter into impossible search-and-rescue or search-and-destroy missions, but repeatedly triumph against all odds. They lose some people along the way, but the core gro... | [] | 0062135279 | 0062135279 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,465,445,071,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Beautifully Written Western Crime Novel Set in Texas Border Country | Old bones, old murders, new murders--all of them challenge the new deputy of Murfree, Texas (Chris Cherry), who wants to solve local crimes, and isn't content to leave well enough alone. The facts Chris needs to unravel the puzzles he faces are mostly there to find and piece together, but to do that he must defy his b... | [] | 0399176349 | 0399176349 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,465,055,887,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Sleek, Sentient Locomotives and Celestial Railroad Network Are Delight for Train Lovers | RAILHEAD is a delight for train lovers. In the far future, sleek and sentient locomotives pull carriages full of humans almost instantaneously between star systems that are thousands of light years apart. Each loco has a distinct, highly independent personality. The locos choose their own names, taking them from obs... | [] | 1630790486 | 1630790486 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,464,917,420,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Interesting Account of Murder-Solving by Maryland’s Prince George County Homicide Detectives | Inspired by David Simon’s classic [[ASIN:0805080759 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets]] (which in turn inspired the hit TV series), A GOOD MONTH FOR MURDER is a pretty good account of the murder-solving activities of Maryland’s Prince George County homicide detectives during the month of February 2013. There was... | [] | 080509881X | 080509881X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,464,710,918,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Brilliant Novel With Unusual Concept--Beautiful Viewpoint Character Has Gift of Being Totally Forgettable | THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF HOPE is an excellent mystery/thriller with a highly unusual concept. Viewpoint character Hope Arden has a gift (and a curse)--she is totally forgettable. Not forgettable because of her drab personality or unremarkable physical features (in fact she is strikingly beautiful), but forgettable be... | [] | 0316335991 | 0316335991 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,464,395,088,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Entertaining While Teaching Important Lessons About "Platform" Business Model | Unlike most "grow your business" books, MODERN MONOPOLIES: WHAT IT TAKES TO DOMINATE THE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY is entertaining and easy to read, even as it teaches important lessons about how the technological revolution has destroyed the traditional business model for sustaining highly successful companies (e.... | [] | 1250091896 | 1250091896 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,464,031,826,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Pleasant "Coming Home" Novel About Unsolved Disappearance of 2-Year-Old Twins | ARROWOOD is a pleasant mystery/suspense novel that's hard to characterize. The story revolves around a 17-year-old cold case, the disappearance of the 2-year-old twin sisters of the main character (Arden Arrowood). It stars an old house (Arrowood, Arden's family home in Keokuk, Iowa), which the family abandoned, alon... | [] | 0812996399 | 0812996399 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,463,238,714,000 | 7 | false |
1 | Formal Writing Style Keeps Story From Flowing | The author of MURDER.COM is a retired New York City lawyer. The series title character (Reuben Frost) is a retired New York City lawyer. Perhaps this explains what is wrong with this novel: the author is a lawyer first, a storyteller second.<br /><br />The novel is literate, but the story doesn't flow because the la... | [] | 1504030362 | 1504030362 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,463,180,867,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Biography Focuses on Exterminator's Trainer, Owner, Stablemate | As a child, I read and loved [[ASIN:B005CM1M1W Old Bones the Wonder Horse Kentucky Derby Champion]], which is all about the horse Exterminator (and even written from the horse's viewpoint!). This is why I wanted to read a biography of the famous Kentucky Derby winner that was written for adults. However, I was disapp... | [] | 1250065690 | 1250065690 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,462,320,353,000 | 8 | false |
3 | Good "Magical" Cocktail Recipes, Interesting Single Concept, Thin Plot | LAST CALL AT THE NIGHTSHADE LOUNGE is a pleasant urban fantasy novel. It's based on the concept that bartenders (in Chicago) not only protect their customers from themselves (by limiting their drinks) but also from fearsome, night-prowling beasts (the Tremens) that just love to eat humans. It's a fun concept, but no... | [] | 1594747598 | 1594747598 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,462,313,664,000 | 3 | true |
3 | Readable But Extremely Lengthy Biography of Famous Soldier | DOUGLAS MACARTHUR: AMERICAN WARRIOR isn't a good choice for someone like me, who merely wants a readable, fairly complete biography of the famous soldier. The book is 834 pages long, without counting the footnotes, bibliography, index, or other extraneous material!<br /><br />The text IS readable, but it's simply too ... | [] | 0812994884 | 0812994884 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,462,146,816,000 | 18 | false |
5 | A Sympathetic Hit Man? Nick Mason Is a Character to Remember | THE SECOND LIFE OF NICK MASON is an excellent, well-written suspense novel, with a truly memorable viewpoint character, the stone-cold killer Nick Mason. Who ever heard of a sympathetic hit man? But that's what Nick is. He's a samurai warrior for a Chicago crime boss--a guy with a job that he doesn't want--and he's ... | [] | 0399574328 | 0399574328 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,461,086,117,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Private Consultant With Weaponized Mental Gift Solves Special Problems for Super-Wealthy People | KILLFILE is an excellent, well-written thriller, with a fantasy element. The hero, John Smith (that's his real name--he was a foster child, and was christened by a social worker), is gifted/cursed with the ability to hear other people's thoughts. When he joined the army, his gift came to the CIA's attention, and the ... | [] | 0062416405 | 0062416405 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,460,768,646,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Novel Brings Exotic Ghana Background to Life, But Investigation Just Plods Along | GOLD OF OUR FATHERS is the fourth "Darko Dawson" mystery (the first one that I've read), and it works fine as a standalone. Set in Ghana, the novel really brings this exotic (to U.S. readers) background to life, with its widespread poverty, corrugated-tin-roofed buildings, and police stations so underfunded th... | [] | 1616956305 | 1616956305 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,460,732,163,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Unusual Police Procedural Introduces Strange Pair of Investigators | THAT DARKNESS is an unusual sort of police procedural that introduces one of the strangest investigator pairings yet: Jack Renner, a Dexter-style vigilante detective who takes care of murderers that the justice system can't convict; and Maggie Gardiner, a fingerprint/fiber analyst who doggedly carries out her job of i... | [] | 1496701887 | 1496701887 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,460,588,480,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Total Delight for Fans of Comic Mystery Genre | KING MAYBE, the fifth "Junior Bender" mystery, is a total delight for fans of the snarkily comic mystery genre. Timothy Hallinan is every bit as skilled at the genre as was the late Donald Westlake (author of [[ASIN:0446677035 The Hot Rock]] and [[ASIN:B005UK7U8A The Busy Body]]). I'm in awe of both writers, ... | [] | 1616954329 | 1616954329 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,460,579,234,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Scholarly History of Rise and Expansion of For-Profit Learning Institutions in U.S. | DIPLOMA MILL$: HOW FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES STIFFED STUDENTS, TAXPAYERS, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM is a scholarly, footnoted history (from colonial times to the present day) of the rise and expansion of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) in the United States. It focuses on "the long history of interplay between... | [] | 1421420074 | 1421420074 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,460,336,139,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Anecdotes That Purport to Illustrate Walt Disney's Guiding Business Principles | THE DISNEY WAY: HARNESSING THE MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF DISNEY IN YOUR COMPANY (Third Edition) is an "inspirational" business management book. It extracts a basic mantra (Dream Believe Dare Do) from a Walt Disney quote, then recounts Disney company anecdotes that supposedly illustrate how Walt himself used those ... | [] | 1259583872 | 1259583872 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,460,331,615,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Another Fine "Aunty Lee" Mystery, Packed With Mouth-Watering Singaporean Delicacies | AUNTY LEE'S CHILLED REVENGE, the third "Aunty Lee" cozy mystery, is NOT as delightfully funny and charming as the first one ([[ASIN:0062227157 Aunty Lee's Delights]]), but is much, much better than the second one ([[ASIN:0062338323 Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials]]). Once you've been properly introduced to Aunty L... | [] | 0062416499 | 0062416499 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,459,473,160,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Entertaining "Historical" Cozy Mystery With 1930s Paramount Pictures Setting | DESIGN FOR DYING is a thoroughly enjoyable "historical" cozy mystery. It doesn't really qualify as historical fiction, but it does incorporate real 1930s movie personages (e.g., Edith Head, Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Travis Banton, Bob Hope) as imagined characters, to very good effect. The novel int... | [] | 0765381842 | 0765381842 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,458,759,842,000 | 8 | false |
4 | Complicated British Historical Mystery With Two Surprise Endings | A British historical mystery, inspired by the Russian spying operations in Cambridge in the 1930s, DIANA'S ALTAR takes some time to read. It isn't exactly slow-moving, but there's a lot of detail for the reader to absorb about the anti-Bolshevist political climate in England between the wars; the Oxford colleges and ... | [] | 161695664X | 161695664X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,458,598,112,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Readable Collection of Short Stories, Selections From Classics, All Focusing on Food | As a reader, I've always loved the physical feel of the Everyman's Library books. The lightweight cloth binding--with a ribbon bookmark glued into the spine--makes the oh-so-portable "pocket book" feel like a luxury hardcover book. The books are sized to fit perfectly in your hand, and the text is always clea... | [] | 1101907592 | 1101907592 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,998,831,000 | 4 | false |
2 | All About Relationships, Toxic Family Secrets That Lead to Artist's Apparent Suicide Plunge | KEEP YOU CLOSE is a mediocre chick-lit mystery, all about relationships and toxic family secrets--secrets that, when exposed to light, set in motion events leading to murder, sudden death, suicide, and imprisonment. Only the final third of the novel deals with unraveling the mystery behind an artist's suspicious fatal... | [] | 1632863200 | 1632863200 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,794,160,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Creates Convincing "Inside Baseball" Atmosphere Without Sacrificing Mystery Plot | If you love baseball, and cozy mystery/thrillers, you are pretty much guaranteed to like DOUBLE SWITCH. This is the second novel featuring Johnny Adcock, the likeable, bored, left-handed relief pitcher for the San Jose Bay Dogs (a Major League team). Author T.T. Monday (a pseudonym for novelist Nick Taylor) really ... | [] | 0385539959 | 0385539959 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,577,178,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Delightful Book Catches Essence of People's Lives in Food Trade | This delightful book, FOOD AND THE CITY, reminds me of the excellent interview-based books by Studs Terkel (e.g.,[[ASIN:1565843428 WORKING]]; THE GOOD WAR). Author Ina Yalof has interviewed all manner of New York City's "food people" (chefs, cooks, bakers, restaurateurs, street vendors, food purveyors), and sh... | [] | 0399168923 | 0399168923 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,566,509,000 | 6 | false |
3 | Literary Mystery Set in 1942 NYC Weaves Actual Events Skillfully Into Intricate Plot | THE LETTER WRITER spends so much time re-creating the historical setting--New York City as it existed in 1942, right after the luxury liner Normandie caught fire and sank in the harbor--that it becomes a long, slow-moving, literary mystery. This is true even though the rather well-developed characters (detective Woodr... | [] | 1101875062 | 1101875062 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,316,063,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Odd Historical Survey of Female Detectives (Real and Fictional) and Female Detective-Story Writers | PISTOLS AND PETTICOATS is kind of an odd duck--an historical survey of female detectives both real (e.g., Kate Warne of Pinkerton fame) and fictional (e.g., Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane; Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone), and of female detective-story writers (e.g., Anna Katherine Green, the mother of detective fiction).... | [] | 0807039381 | 0807039381 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,309,488,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Knowledgable Account of Obstacles Faced by NBA Stars Who Were Drafted Straight Out of High School | BOYS AMONG MEN is a must-read for high school basketball players who are thinking of entering the NBA draft as soon as possible (one year removed from high school under the rule instituted in 2005). By telling the stories of the trailblazing NBA stars who successfully skipped college basketball (e.g., Kevin Garnett, K... | [] | 0804139253 | 0804139253 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,160,533,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Child Psychologist Delaware Investigates Actress' Mental Breakdown, Disappearance of Her Gifted Son | Because Jonathan Kellerman is such an accomplished storyteller, I always enjoy his books. However, child psychologist Alex Delaware isn't my favorite Kellerman character, because popular psychology doesn't interest me much. In BREAKDOWN, Delaware spends most of his time investigating the circumstances surrounding a go... | [] | 0345541405 | 0345541405 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,137,768,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Plodding Private-Detective Procedural With Lots of Information About Japan and Japanese Oribe Ceramics | As a work of fiction, PACIFIC BURN is, unfortunately, much more "tell" than "show". Much of the narrative consists of factual descriptions of geographical locations in Japan and (to a lesser extent) San Francisco, of forensic suspect-sketching techniques, of "nuclear mafia" groups and nations, ... | [] | 147679488X | 147679488X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,457,046,351,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Riff on "Adventure of Gloria Scott" Provides Fascinating Back Story for Holmes' Landlady Hudson, Lieutenant Billy | The latest "Mary Russell" novel, THE MURDER OF MARY RUSSELL, starts off slowly, but becomes interesting and exciting (as usual) once Sherlock Holmes makes his entrance and begins analyzing the crime (about halfway through the 355 pages). The first half of the novel is devoted to an extremely clever re-imaginin... | [] | 0804177902 | 0804177902 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,456,940,482,000 | 0 | false |
3 | More Travelogue Than Mystery Novel; Short on Oliver's Bone Analysis | SWITCHEROO, the 18th "skeleton detective" novel, is mostly a travelogue set in Jersey (in the Channel Islands). The mystery plot is thin, and the story is padded out with a lot of descriptions of archeological sites, present-day buildings, unusual geographical features (e.g., tar pits), and restaurant meals en... | [] | 1477827684 | 1477827684 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,456,599,546,000 | 11 | false |
5 | Brutal Tale of Professional Hitman's Life Gone Sideways | What a book! SHAKER tells a brutal story--generally without graphic torture scenes, but brutal nonetheless--about the making of a professional killer who is almost, but not quite, a stone killer. The prologue describing the Los Angeles earthquake damage was so over-the-top, I expected a snarkily humorous thriller. B... | [] | 0385350031 | 0385350031 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,979,717,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Joe, Nate Join Forces in Countering Terrorist Plot Against U.S. Surveillance Infrastructure | OFF THE GRID is a beautifully written and paced, super-exciting, page-turner of a thriller. As I neared the end, I couldn't put the book down--and I ended up losing most of a night's sleep. This was my first "Joe Pickett" novel, but it worked fine as a standalone.<br /><br />At first I was put off by the open... | [] | 0399176608 | 0399176608 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,969,949,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Humorous Showcasing of Foibles of Ordinary People | THE REVOLVING DOOR OF LIFE is my first "44 Scotland Street" novel, and the 10th novel in the series. It's enjoyable as a standalone, because of Alexander McCall Smith's amazing skill at showcasing the foibles of ordinary people in a lighthearted way.<br /><br />How can a reader NOT laugh at a serious first-gra... | [] | 1101971916 | 1101971916 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,954,669,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Sociopathic FBI Agent Solves Cell Phone Industry Murders | FBI Special Agent Audra Bailey, the main character in POINT OF CONTROL, is another damaged female investigator. She's a sociopath (defined by her inability to empathize with other people or to feel guilt about her own behavior). But she's a "good" sociopath, not a criminal, because on the continuum of sociopa... | [] | 1503951499 | 1503951499 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,519,746,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Everything You Need to Know About Harvesting, Purchasing, Preparing Seagreens | SUPERFOOD SEAGREENS is an interesting specialty cookbook that tells you everything you need to know about safely harvesting or purchasing and preparing seagreens (e.g., brown algae, kelp, wakame, Irish moss, sea lettuce). There is a lot of nutritional information about the vitamins and minerals found in seagreens, inc... | [] | 1454917393 | 1454917393 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,369,037,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent Choice for Brand-New iPad Users--Covers All Important Features (Through iOS 9) | Like all of the "Teach Yourself Visually" manuals, TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY IPAD (4th Edition) is an excellent choice for brand-new iPad users. Exact iPad screenshots explain every button and every procedure--showing exactly what a user should be seeing on the screen while following the manual's simple, detaile... | [] | 1119188636 | 1119188636 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,285,246,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Police Procedural Sets Out Excellent "Locked Castle" Puzzle | RAIN DOGS is an excellent locked-castle mystery--the solution is rational, and it's fair to the reader (even though I couldn't figure it out!). Set in the 1980's, in the midst of the Irish Troubles, it's a darkly humorous police procedural, written in the sparest prose. A bonus, for any lover of historical mysteries,... | [] | 163388130X | 163388130X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,454,189,878,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Infamous 1841 London "Rookeries" Are Brought to Life in Standalone Investigative Procedural | THE INFIDEL STAIN is the second "Blake and Avery" mystery, but it works fine as a standalone. It's an investigative procedural mystery, set in 1841 London. The leisurely pace is exactly what I like to see in an historical novel, especially one like this that is based on actual historical events and personages... | [] | 0399171681 | 0399171681 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,453,067,101,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Literary "Mystery/Thriller" With Thin Plot Premise, Difficult-to-Sort-Out Timelines for Multiple Characters | AFTER THE CRASH: A NOVEL is a literary mystery/thriller that focuses primarily on family relationships--there is precious little "mystery" or "thriller" in it. It's well-written, but it's long (376 pages) and slow-moving. For a mystery/thriller book lover, the basic mystery premise is too simple--whic... | [] | 0316309672 | 0316309672 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,452,986,559,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Thinly Fictionalized Account of Cambodian Kidnapping of Italian/American Spy | SUPERNOTES, co-authored by "Agent Kasper" and Luigi Carletti, is a "thriller based on the true story of Agent Kasper." It's well-written, but it reads more like a nonfiction memoir than a fictional thriller. Given that "Agent Kasper" is supposed to be an alias of "a top-level undercover sp... | [] | 0385540078 | 0385540078 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,452,540,559,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Likeable Criminal Really Knows His Art (Pots and Paintings) | Having majored in art history in college, I expected to hate THE POT THIEF WHO STUDIED GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. After all, the main character is a criminal who digs up Native American artifacts from public lands, and destroys irreplaceable archeological sites, in order to make money by selling the pots to unscrupulous collec... | [] | 1504020863 | 1504020863 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,452,364,002,000 | 12 | false |
4 | Includes Everything You Could Possibly Hope to Find in a Mystery/Thriller | THE BONE LABYRINTH really has everything you could possibly hope to find in a mystery/thriller. There is a highly intelligent, genetically modified primate (Baako) with advanced sign-language capabilities. There is an obscure, remote Marian chapel, and several caves filled with archaeological treasures (ancient wall ... | [] | 0062381644 | 0062381644 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,452,211,734,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Great Reference Manual That Makes All iPad Features (Thru iOS 9) Easily Accessible | Using an iPad or iPad Mini is mostly a matter of understanding the operating system (iOS), which Apple updates regularly for free. This MY iPAD manual is up to date with all the features of iOS 9, which applies to the iPad 2 and later iPads, including the Mini. If you have an earlier iPad, you will need an earlier ed... | [] | 078975536X | 078975536X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,451,854,406,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Exciting SciFi/Fantasy Thriller Based on Scientific Prediction | Based on a real scientific prediction, SUNFAIL imagines a world in which all major cities (e.g., New York, London) suddenly lose all electrical power. Only the Hidden, an evil conspiracy, has anticipated the event; it is now seeking to exploit the situation for massive future profits. As the Hidden moves to set its p... | [] | 1617754064 | 1617754064 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,451,842,527,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Manual Barely Scratches Surface of Complex Office 2016 Applications | Like all of the Teach Yourself Visually computer books, TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY OFFICE 2016 is aimed at novice users. It uses exact screenshots to explain even the simplest procedures (e.g., "Create a New File", found in the opening overview section titled "Office Features").<br /><br />The screenshots... | [] | 1119074770 | 1119074770 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,451,526,321,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Official Microsoft Guide to Learning, Configuring Win10 Operating System on PCs, Mobile Devices | WINDOWS 10 STEP BY STEP is the official Microsoft guide to learning the Windows 10 operating system. It is intended for "home and business users of desktop and portable computers and devices running Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro"--users who are Windows beginners and users who are already familiar with Wind... | [] | 0735697957 | 0735697957 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,450,993,668,000 | 14 | false |
3 | Terrific Forensics, Too Much Romance in This Complex Literary Mystery/Thriller | In the tradition of Henry James' THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Jonathan Moore's THE POISON ARTIST is a literary mystery that keeps the reader guessing as toxicologist Caleb Maddox assists the San Francisco medical examiner in solving a series of diabolical murders. The killer tortures his victims, but only after drugging the... | [] | 0544520564 | 0544520564 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,449,757,756,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Disappointing Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery, With Boring, Predictable Plot | HOUR OF THE WOLF, the latest Inspector Van Veeteren mystery, was a disappointment. It's boring, and the plot is totally predictable. I correctly guessed every single important development well in advance. The most satisfying aspect of this well-written novel is the way that Chief Inspector Reinhart and his team brai... | [] | 0307906876 | 0307906876 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,449,280,022,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Worthy Continuation of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Series | Without question, Robert Goldsborough has mastered the style and flavor of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series. It's been a long time since I read a Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout, but STOP THE PRESSES! fits right in with the Nero Wolfe series I watched fairly recently on A&E (starring Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutto... | [] | 1504023579 | 1504023579 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,448,840,617,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Readable History of U.S. Civil Rights Movement as Chronicled by Chicago's Black Newspaper | THE DEFENDER: HOW THE LEGENDARY BLACK NEWSPAPER CHANGED AMERICA is an extremely readable contemporary history of the U.S. civil rights movement as chronicled by Chicago's DEFENDER. Its central historical focus is always on the newspaper itself--on what the newspaper was reporting, on what its editors and publishers we... | [] | 0547560699 | 0547560699 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,448,822,884,000 | 4 | false |
2 | Scarpetta Meets Up With Grethen, Again | Patricia Cornwell is a terrific writer, a writer who really knows how to keep the reader turning the pages. She also knows her forensics, which is why I've always kind of liked Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta. However, the series has always been flawed by Scarpetta's being targeted for death by whatever serial killer ... | [] | 006232540X | 006232540X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,447,446,379,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Beginners' Step-by-Step "Course" in Designing Printable 3D Models With SketchUp | If you have a 3D printer, but still aren't printing your own designs--because you haven't tried SketchUp or have looked at it and found it confusing--then 3D PRINTING AND CNC FABRICATION WITH SKETCHUP may be exactly the right book for you. Aimed at SketchUp beginners (like myself), it presents an excellent step-by-ste... | [] | 0071842411 | 0071842411 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,446,865,079,000 | 6 | false |
4 | Anecdotal Account of San Francisco Cheese Expert's Exploration of "American Cheese" | Gordon Edgar, the author of CHEDDAR: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF AMERICA'S MOST ICONIC CHEESE is a cheesemonger (the highly knowledgeable retail cheese buyer for San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery Cooperative). He is also a frequent judge of annual commercial "best cheese" competitions (especially goat cheese conte... | [] | 1603585656 | 1603585656 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,446,752,534,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Tour de Force Novel Explores Literary Conundrum | WOMAN WITH A BLUE PENCIL is a tour de force, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It's a kind of exploration of a literary conundrum. To wit, what happens to a character that a novelist has brought to life, when the novelist decides to eliminate that character from the ongoing story? Does the character continue on as bef... | [] | 1633880885 | 1633880885 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,446,512,238,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent Guide for LEGO Set Collectors/Resellers; Entertaining for LEGO Fans, Too | If you're a collector or fan of LEGO sets, you'll probably like THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO COLLECTIBLE LEGO SETS; IDENTIFICATION AND PRICE GUIDE. Its only real drawback is that the prices are already out of date, as of the date of publication, and are kind of low (in varying degrees). The book generally limits itself to L... | [] | B01699PO42 | B01699PO42 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,446,149,160,000 | 8 | true |
3 | Romantic Historical Mystery With Amusing, Eventful Plot | Sometimes you order a book from the publisher's description, and it turns out to be a decent, well-written book that just isn't your cup of tea. For me, that's THE SECRET LIFE OF ANNA BLANC. It's amusing, has an eventful plot, and is a fast, easy read. But I simply cannot warm to Anna--a wealthy, spoiled, over-prote... | [] | 163388080X | 163388080X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,976,702,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Inspirational Collection of Photographs of Rescued American Treasures | RESCUING EDEN: PRESERVING AMERICA'S HISTORIC GARDENS is not only a gorgeous coffee-table book, but also an inspiration for all those who are presently working to protect and conserve heritage gardens. The gardens featured are all "rescue gardens"--gardens that were nearly lost, but saved by public and private ... | [] | 1580934080 | 1580934080 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,892,841,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Serial Arsonist/Murderer Stokes Flames of London Protests | In BRYANT & MAY AND THE BURNING MAN, Senior Detective Arthur Bryant is ailing--to an extent that the conclusion strongly suggests that this is the final book of the Peculiar Crimes Unit series. Thankfully, my advance review copy includes a page at the end that states "Bryant and May Will Return", and also note... | [] | 0345547683 | 0345547683 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,886,413,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Elizabeth I Depicted as Exceptional Ruler, Not as Exceptional Woman | ELIZABETH: RENAISSANCE PRINCE is a readable biography of Elizabeth I that strives to depict the queen as she saw herself. In the Introduction, the author informs us that "Elizabeth was not, primarily, an exceptional woman; she was an exceptional ruler . . . ." Thus, the thesis of this new biography is that E... | [] | 0544577841 | 0544577841 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,816,952,000 | 6 | false |
5 | A Beautiful Coffee-Table Book That Any Adult LEGO Fan Should Love | [[VIDEOID:512ae0995c3d5f536cd724c6f4460732]] GREAT LEGO SETS: A VISUAL HISTORY is a beautifully designed and written coffee-table book that any adult LEGO fan should love. It doesn't include every LEGO set ever released--there are far too many sets--but it does include a great many of the most popular, most famous ret... | [] | 1465436669 | 1465436669 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,652,283,000 | 10 | true |
5 | Thriller That Reimagines Golem Folklore--Works as Standalone or Sequel | Wow, talk about a page-turner! When I picked up THE GOLEM OF PARIS, I didn't put it down again until I'd read 120 pages (about 1/4 of the book). Although this is a sequel to [[ASIN:0425276139 The Golem of Hollywood]], it works really well as a standalone. In fact, although it reveals the earlier novel's ending, it d... | [] | 0399171738 | 0399171738 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,390,132,000 | 9 | false |
3 | Tinker's Cove Inhabitants Plan Silly "Giant Pumpkin Fest" Events | Usually I love cozy mysteries, but CANDY CORN MURDER is mostly cozy, little mystery. The writing is excellent--how many authors can so vividly describe a vandalizing that transforms straw-stuffed, pumpkin-head figures into pornographic displays?--but the story is mostly about the rather mundane daily lives of the inha... | [] | 0758277075 | 0758277075 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,445,382,475,000 | 3 | false |
5 | LEGO Minifigures Always Make Me Smile | I love LEGO minifigures--they always make me smile--and I truly love this book about them. I LOVE MINIFIGURES is an official, LEGO-sanctioned book that contains a lot of solid, factual information about each of the pictured rare and popular minifigures (introductory date, time, place; numbers of sets that include the ... | [
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5 | Practical, Near-Coffee-Table-Quality Book for Food Dehydrating | Because of the many, many photographs, DEHYDRATING AT HOME: GETTING THE BEST FROM YOUR DEHYDRATOR, FROM FRUIT LEATHER TO MEAT JERKIES is a near-coffee-table-quality book for food dehydrating! With 100 recipes, it's not as comprehensive as my personal favorite, [[ASIN:0778802132 The Dehydrator Bible]] (over 400 recipes... | [] | 1770855866 | 1770855866 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,444,074,379,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Excellent Manual for Win10 Upgraders | Before upgrading Windows, I always want to have a good manual on hand, so I can locate the stuff that I use that has been moved, hidden, or (gaack!) eliminated entirely. MY WINDOWS 10 is a particularly good manual to have on hand if you're upgrading an ordinary desktop or laptop PC, rather than a touchscreen computer ... | [] | 0789754339 | 0789754339 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,443,137,670,000 | 7 | false |
4 | Literary Police Procedural That Portrays Plight of Undocumented Hispanic Workers | A BLOSSOM OF BRIGHT LIGHT is a readable police procedural, but more "literary" than "mystery". The focus is on romantic relationships (Jimmy and Adele), and on the plight of vulnerable, undocumented Hispanic workers who risk unjust, family-destroying deportation (Manuel and his children) or sexual abus... | [] | 161773635X | 161773635X | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,442,334,852,000 | 5 | false |
2 | Tedious Account of Boston Mob Boss' Trial | As author T.J. English observes in the Introduction, WHERE THE BODIES WERE BURIED is "an account of the trial of Whitey Bulger from a particular point of view." That point of view is, basically, outrage against the government law enforcement system that recruited a notorious Boston mob boss like Bulger as a "Top Echel... | [] | 0062290983 | 0062290983 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,441,587,795,000 | 7 | false |
5 | Excellent Choice for Family's "Master Calendar" | The ANSEL ADAMS 2016 WALL CALENDAR is the same as the one sold in retail bookstores at year's end, but I like to buy it from Amazon as soon as it is offered, so that I can write in the next year's appointments (beyond January) as soon as they are scheduled. (The calendar always includes a full page for January of the ... | [] | 0316380652 | 0316380652 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,441,584,970,000 | 63 | true |
5 | Useful Guide for Beginning Win10 Users or for Users Upgrading From Win8 to Win10 | TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY WINDOWS 10 is a thorough, complete guide for getting started with using Windows 10 on a PC (start with Ch. 1, "Explore the PC Screen") or on a touchscreen PC or tablet (start with Ch. 1, "Explore the Tablet Screen"). Because this guide uses exact screenshots to explain even the simplest procedu... | [] | 1119057027 | 1119057027 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,441,237,055,000 | 112 | false |
5 | First Volume of Series Edited by Executor of Simak's Literary Estate | I AM CRYING ALL INSIDE AND OTHER STORIES is the first volume in a series that will contain all of the published short fiction (written between 1931 and 1981) of grand master science fiction writer Clifford D. Simak.<br /><br />The stories in this volume were clearly written before the technological revolution burst upo... | [] | 1504012674 | 1504012674 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,441,065,686,000 | 11 | false |
5 | Authoritative, Educational, Inspiring, Highly Readable--A History of Heart Surgery, Heart Attack Treatments | THE HEART HEALERS recounts the entire history of heart surgery (never attempted before WWII) in such a readable fashion, I could hardly put the book down. Written by Cedars-Sinai Hospital's former Chief of Cardiology (Dr. James S. Forrester), it is highly authoritative, because the author thoroughly understands the nat... | [] | 1250058392 | 1250058392 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,440,444,948,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Stand-Alone Thriller Featuring Memorable, Self-Sufficient Superwoman Grace Blades | Although I haven't read everything that Jonathan Kellerman has written, I have never read a novel of his that I didn't like. THE MURDERER'S DAUGHTER is no exception--it's another excellent thriller that demonstrates Kellerman's mastery of the genre--and as an added bonus it features a truly strong female protagonist. ... | [] | 0345545311 | 0345545311 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,440,121,519,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Quirky, Snarky, Twisty, Satisfying Ending to Niceville Story | THE RECKONING, the third book of the Niceville Trilogy, is every bit as quirky, snarky, full of unexpected twists, and entertaining as the preceding two books in this fantasy series. Amazingly, THE RECKONING picks up all of the existing unresolved plot threads; adds new material that explains what really happened to ... | [] | 1101873027 | 1101873027 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,439,598,404,000 | 5 | true |
3 | Jitpleecheep Encounters Political Intrigue That Reads Like Science Fiction | Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the only policeman in Bangkok who isn't on the take, is one of my favorite detectives. Forced to work for the utterly corrupt Colonel Vikorn, he performs the tasks that are assigned to him with long-suffering good humor; and he solves crimes, because he is one of those rare policemen who thinks o... | [] | 0307272680 | 0307272680 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,439,172,373,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Plot Is Driven by Ever-Changing Memories of Character Suffering From Advanced Alzheimer's Disease | Jerry Grey, the viewpoint character in TRUST NO ONE, suffers from early onset Alzheimer's disease. He is a best-selling mystery/thriller writer, and his rapidly advancing Alzheimer's is causing his real-life memories to merge with his fictional plots that involved brutal murders. On his good days, Jerry "remember... | [] | 1476779171 | 1476779171 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,439,169,749,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Literary Fantasy Mystery With Echoes of "Warehouse 13" | THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT is a literary mystery, or more precisely, a literary fantasy mystery. The main characters have relocated from "the hinterland" to find jobs, which clues the reader to the fantasy. The novel touches on "big" universal topics (e.g., spousal love, survival, death, procreation, in... | [] | 1627793763 | 1627793763 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,438,876,683,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Designs for Beautiful Knitted Rugs, But Too Much Assembly Required | Always fascinated by my grandmother's braided rag rugs, I am equally fascinated by the beautiful knitted rag rugs showcased in KNITTING FABRIC RUGS. However, I won't be knitting any of these rugs for myself, because they require lots of joining (sewing together) of strips, blocks, other modular shapes, or spirals. (S... | [
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5 | Takes Slip-Stitch Knitting Well Beyond Simple Color Knitting | THE ART OF SLIP-STITCH KNITTING is another fine Interweave Press book that is worthy of a space on your technical knitting book reference shelf. I always think of slip-stitch knitting as an easy way to add color to knitted fabric (e.g., the patterned sweater in the cover photo). However, this book takes the technique... | [
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2 | Historical Novel Based on Insubstantial Real-Life Incident | I thoroughly enjoyed Amy Stewart's previous anecdotal nonfiction books, [[ASIN:1565126831 Wicked Plants]] and [[ASIN:1565129601 Wicked Bugs]]. However, GIRL WAITS WITH GUN--a fictionalized account of Constance Kopp's 1914-1915 ordeal involving death-threat letters and a plot to kidnap a female member of her family--ma... | [] | 0544409914 | 0544409914 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,438,214,472,000 | 15 | false |
5 | The Troy Pearce thrillers scare me to death, because ... | The Troy Pearce thrillers scare me to death, because of author Mike Maden's skillful deployment of advanced military technological weapons (often drones) that either currently exist or are in development. In DRONE COMMAND (third in the series), Maden demonstrates that he not only knows his drones, he has a clear under... | [] | 0399173986 | 0399173986 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,437,405,998,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Deadly Assassin Is Dispatched to Kill Inventor Who Is Providing Earth's Technology to "Backward" Earth-Like World | ZERO WORLD is a thoroughly enjoyable sci-fi thriller about a near-future parallel world. It's a page-turner with fascinating imagined technology, nearly continuous breakneck action, and memorable characters (Peter, Melni, Alia, the Guardian). What else can a sci-fi thriller reader ask for?<br /><br />Peter Caswell is... | [] | 0553391267 | 0553391267 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,436,746,043,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Charming, Fictional Story About Creation of James Hampton's Unique Folk Art "Throne" Sculpture | THE SEVENTH MOST IMPORTANT THING is a charming (but wholly fictional) story about the creation of a real folk art sculpture--James Hampton's masterwork, "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly". The sculpture, on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington... | [] | 0553497286 | 0553497286 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,436,743,489,000 | 0 | true |
3 | Thoughtful Sociology Text--or Protest Organizers' Handbook | If you're thinking of starting, or getting involved in, a contemporary protest movement, then you probably ought to read PROTEST: A CULTURAL INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. It presents a thoughtful, complete analysis of modern social movements, and is valuable for the "dilemma" sidebars that describe the ine... | [] | 0745655173 | 0745655173 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,436,736,916,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Woman Rescued From Grave Containing Four Victims of Black-Eyed Susan Killer Works Against Time to Identify Real Killer | BLACK-EYED SUSANS is a fast-reading suspense novel that relies heavily on flashbacks (my least favorite story-telling method). However, the chapters that alternate between "Tessa, present day" and "Tessie, 1995" make sense here. This novel is the story of the two identities of one Black-Eyed Susan--of... | [] | 0804177996 | 0804177996 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,435,272,026,000 | 43 | false |
5 | Opportunity for Aficionados to Rummage Through Jackson's Jumbled Storeroom of Ideas, Events, Conversations | Probably the new stories in this collection, LET ME TELL YOU, were not published in Shirley Jackson's lifetime because she didn't consider them completely finished or good enough to send out for publication. Still, stories like "Paranoia" (which opens the collection) are worth the attention of any who appreciat... | [] | 0812997662 | 0812997662 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,434,402,755,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Booklet Comprised of 38 Reproductions of Artists' Depictions of Knitters Plying Their Needles | THE HISTORY OF KNITTING IN ART isn't really a "history of knitting". The subtitle states more clearly what it is: "a collection of paintings, drawings, and prints from Western art in the 19th century". It's a booklet, not a book. The collection consists of 34 full-color and 4 black-and-white reproductions of museum... | [] | 0989241157 | 0989241157 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,434,138,499,000 | 3 | true |
5 | Fictionalized Biography of Adele Gödel--Beautifully Written, Rings True as Historical Novel, Biography | THE GODDESS OF SMALL VICTORIES is a fictionalized biography of Adele Gödel, the strong-minded wife of the highly influential Austrian genius, Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was an early 20th century philosopher, logician, and mathematician; he is best known for his two "incompleteness theorems" published in 19... | [] | 1590516362 | 1590516362 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,433,466,748,000 | 0 | false |
5 | New, Expanded Edition of Scarce Hardcover--Superb Resource Book for Knitting History, Traditional Fishermen's Gansey Patterns | MICHAEL PEARSON'S TRADITIONAL KNITTING has long been one of my favorite "historical knitting" books, because of the many old photographs of Scottish, Cornish, and Welsh fishermen wearing their hand-knitted working gansey sweaters. The book is made even more wonderful by its charts of the stitch patterns seen in the ph... | [] | 0486460533 | 0486460533 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,433,455,105,000 | 54 | true |
5 | Complex Mystery/Thriller Plot, Executed to Perfection by Accomplished Writer Walter Mosley | It takes an accomplished writer to pull off a mystery/thriller plot as complicated as the one in AND SOMETIMES I WONDER ABOUT YOU, but Walter Mosley manages it to perfection! The many plot twists and turns keep the reader entertained, and--incredibly--all the loose ends are taken care of satisfactorily by the end of t... | [] | 0385539185 | 0385539185 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,433,292,484,000 | 0 | false |
1 | Awful, Unreadable Mess of a Police Procedural | It's a pity that the person who wrote the jacket blurb didn't write the entire book. CLANDESTINE is nothing more than an awful, unreadable mess of a police procedural novel. The concept of a pair of detectives (one French, one German) working together to solve ordinary, run-of-the-mill crimes that occur in occupied Fr... | [] | 1504009347 | 1504009347 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,433,099,866,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Perfect Knitting Reference Book on Techniques for Increasing, Decreasing | [[VIDEOID:a61b4b7382e94a85b3a11da33ebf4c55]] INCREASE DECREASE is the comprehensive knitting reference on this subject that I've been waiting for! Judith Durant gets everything right: spiral binding (so that the instructions stay open and lay flat); large, clear step-by-step photos; step-by-step written instructions ... | [] | 1612123317 | 1612123317 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,431,880,039,000 | 94 | true |
3 | Skeleton With Porcelain Teeth Proves Difficult to Identify, Pulls Highly-Placed Belgian Officials Into Van In's Inquiries | FROM BRUGES WITH LOVE is a Belgian police procedural. It has an interesting plot that sustains reader interest, but it's NOT a page-turner. The story constantly switches from the good guys' actions to the bad guys' actions (by following several parallel story lines within each chapter along a fairly straight time lin... | [] | 1497678897 | 1497678897 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,431,454,850,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Biographies of Players Who Developed, Popularized MP3 Standard | HOW MUSIC GOT FREE is basically a series of biographies of the players (audio software engineers, music company executives, music pirates) in the development and adoption of the mp3 audio standard that "obsolesced" the compact disc. It's well-written--entertaining and fast-reading, if you like biography--but constantl... | [] | 0525426612 | 0525426612 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,431,221,307,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Fast-Reading Police Procedural; Captures Beauty of Brittany | DEATH IN BRITTANY, the first novel in the Commissaire Georges Dupin series, is an entertaining, fast-reading police procedural. It's a wonderful advertisement for tourism in Brittany--the descriptions of the special qualities of the air and light found in Concarneau and Pont-Aven make me want to travel there! From th... | [] | 1250061741 | 1250061741 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,430,967,454,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Eighteen Special-Occasion Garment Designs; Knitter's Reference for Adding Embroidered Embellishments to Knits | What an amazing book! Well-known designer and teacher Anna Zilboorg, whose work is always an inspiration to knitters, has simply outdone herself with SPLENDID APPAREL: A HANDBOOK OF EMBROIDERED KNITS! The book is a pattern collection (18 drop-dead gorgeous cardigans, vests, and pullovers, to embroider or not embroider... | [] | 1933064307 | 1933064307 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,430,845,050,000 | 31 | true |
4 | Two Murders in 1952 Prague, Where (Almost) Everyone Is a Spy | Author Heda Margolius Kovaly, a survivor of both Auschwitz and her husband's 1952 execution via Stalinist "show trial", was indeed born "under a cruel star". Her lovely little mystery novel, INNOCENCE; OR, MURDER ON STEEP STREET, is probably best understood as a semi-autobiographical nonfiction novel, ... | [] | 1616954965 | 1616954965 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,430,700,401,000 | 1 | false |
1 | Mildly Interesting Mystery Plot Doesn't Salvage Overblown "Literary" Writing Style | When I ordered THE JEZEBEL REMEDY, I was suckered in by the Winston-Salem Journal's claim that Martin Clark had set "the new standard by which other works of legal fiction should be judged." Well, I certainly hope not!<br /><br />What I look for in a mystery/thriller, is--above all--a good story, preferably a reasonab... | [] | 0385353596 | 0385353596 | AEYGPUCRKH7G4VM22FM3VAKSQ23Q | 1,430,679,231,000 | 10 | false |
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