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An Author's Lifelong Love Affair With Sherlock Holmes
THE GREAT DETECTIVE is a readable, freewheeling account of author Zach Dundas' lifelong love affair with Sherlock Holmes. To write the book, Dundas set out on a personal expedition to discover all there is to know about the great fictional detective. Now he takes his readers along with him on that entertaining journe...
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Dated Fictionalized Account of Leopold & Loeb's "Thrill Killing"
Meyer Levin's COMPULSION, written in 1956, is a nonfiction novel based on the famous 1924 "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold and Robert Loeb. So much has been written about this particular crime, it's hard for a "true crime" aficionado like myself to accept Levin's portrayal of Leopold and Loeb as fictional ...
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Knitted Garment Designs for Warmer Climates
Most of the patterns in WARM DAYS, COOL KNITS call for merino wool or wool/silk yarns, rather than cotton or linen yarns. This, I think, is a good thing. In my experience, cotton yarns either stretch or shrink when washed (even when hand-washed), and can never be re-blocked to their original shape. Linen yarns tend ...
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Hard to Get Into Unless You've Read NATCHEZ BURNING
THE BONE TREE is a well-written thriller, but it's a sequel to [[ASIN:B00FJ3AC10 Natchez Burning]], which I haven't read. Evidently [[ASIN:B00FJ3AC10 Natchez Burning]] ended with a major cliffhanger, so this book starts out by dealing with the prior book's unresolved issues.<br /><br />After reading 50 pages, I still ...
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Fine Art Swindles That Can Ensnare Even Experienced Art Collectors
Art collectors, regardless of their wealth or experience, would be well advised to read THE ART OF THE CON, which clearly explains the many types of fraudulent schemes that con artists may use to peddle fake art. Each type of scheme is illustrated with true stories that include details about the phony artwork, the dup...
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All About Bernie Gunther's Efforts to Stay Alive During WWII
THE LADY FROM ZAGREB was my first "Bernie Gunther" novel, but it's actually the 10th series novel (for the first three novels, see [[ASIN:B006LFO1DA Berlin Noir]]). As a standalone, it didn't work well for me. I was expecting a mystery/thriller involving an ordinary detective/policeman working at solving crimes in Na...
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Literary Fiction With Murder--Story of People Behind 14-Billion-Dollar IPO of Silicon Valley Dating App
THE UNDERWRITING is light literary fiction with one murder (not the mystery/thriller I was expecting), but it's a darn good read, a real page-turner at times. Set in New York (mostly) and San Francisco's Silicon Valley (occasionally), it tells the story of the people behind a 14-billion-dollar initial public offering ...
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Believable Female Detective Solves Complex Drug-Related Crimes Set in Shale Oil Fields of North Dakota
Cassie Dewell, the competent female investigator in BADLANDS, reminds me a lot of the superb female sheriff in the movie "Fargo". Cassie is the widowed mother of a young son, and shows compassion for the people she encounters in her job. She's not your stereotypical hard-bitten female detective--she works her cases m...
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Drops Reader Into Middle of 16th-Century French Court Politics
What really sets THE RIVAL QUEENS apart, is the readability. Far too many historical biographers write plodding, strictly chronological narratives that leave out nary a discovered fact. Not so with biographer Nancy Goldstone! Her introduction drops the reader immediately into the middle of 16th-Century French politi...
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Rock-Thriller Fiction for Rolling Stones' Fans?
Author Greg Kihn--whose band has toured with and opened shows for Journey, the Grateful Dead, and the Rolling Stones--puts his insider's knowledge of the 1960s rock-music scene to use in his &#34;Dust Bin Bob&#34; rock-thriller series (which begins with [[ASIN:1497660998 Rubber Soul]], a novel featuring the Beatles). ...
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Thin Story--Padded With Repetitive Architectural Description--About Gigantic Mansion's Forgotten, Doorless Room
THE FORGOTTEN ROOM is mostly boring--the first 90 pages consist largely of landscape and architectural description, and the remaining 200 pages are liberally salted with more of the same. Yes, the novel is about a sealed-up, doorless, "forgotten" room, but it would be nice to have more action involving people. There ...
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Insider's Account of E-Commerce Giant's Formative Years
ALIBABA'S WORLD is a highly readable account of Porter Erisman's eight years (2000-2008) spent working with Alibaba founder Jack Ma, transforming a tiny Internet startup (a Chinese business-to-business web site) into the Alibaba of today (an e-commerce giant with a customer base three times the size of Amazon's). Eris...
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Slender Plot Featuring One-Dimensional Serial Killer Who Carves Up Victims' Faces
THE HARVEST MAN is the fourth book in the "Scotland Yard's Murder Squad" series, which begins with [[ASIN:0425261271 The Yard]]. It seems to be a close continuation of the previous series book, which featured Jack the Ripper ([[ASIN:0399166432 The Devil's Workshop]]). This fourth book doesn't work well as a standalon...
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Almost a Mystery, Almost a Romance, But Rises Above Genre Fiction to Level of Genuine Literature
A SMALL INDISCRETION is an astonishingly good first novel. It's almost a mystery, almost a romance, but rises above genre fiction to become a genuine work of literature. The conceit of a mother's confessing her youthful romantic liaisons to an absent college-age son wasn't a problem for me--it was clear from almost t...
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Crossover Thriller/SciFi Novel--Page-Turner With Futuristic High-Tech Twists
I'll read anything that Patrick Lee publishes, because his novels (e.g., [[ASIN:0061584452 The Breach]]) are all guaranteed page-turners, with intricate plots filled with fascinating future technology (imaginary, at least for now). Lee's latest mystery/thriller, SIGNAL, does not disappoint.<br /><br />Sam Dryden (intr...
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What It's Like to Be Assigned to Worst Imaginable Combat Outpost in Remote Mountains of Afghanistan
After reading THE VALLEY, I feel like I've been living in the mountains of Afghanistan for a week, stationed at the worst imaginable, impossible-to-defend, remote combat outpost ever (cop Vega). The descriptions of the terrain, the local village, the politics, and the firestorm attacks all ring very true to me. This...
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Perfect Reference Source for Serious-PC-User-Converted-to-Mac-User
The iPad2's ease of use caused this long-time PC user to purchase a MacBook Air (with Yosemite OS X installed) to use for real work, and to satisfy general curiosity about Macs. I quickly learned that a Mac is much more complicated to navigate than an iPad, and that I needed a good Mac manual. A couple that I've foun...
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Red/Black/Cream Scheme Is Boring; Displays of Typefaces Lack Visual Interest
No matter how hard I try, I cannot warm to this JUST TYPE 2015 WALL CALENDAR. Printed on cream stock in just two colors (red and black), it's boring--definitely not the sort of "eye candy" you expect in a monthly wall calendar. Hanging open on a wall, it displays each month's name in headline-sized type, and a series...
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Tough-as-Nails Female Investigator Becomes Serial Killer's Prey
COMPULSION is another of those improbably-plotted mystery/thrillers that feature a supposedly fearless, tough-as-nails female investigator, who has adopted a masculine nickname (here, Max for Maxine), who becomes the principal prey for the serial killer she is tracking. This novel also follows the usual formula that r...
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Good Choice for Gadget Junkie Who Enjoys Teardown Videos
This THINGS COME APART 2015 WALL CALENDAR is right up my alley, because I'm a confirmed gadget junkie who loves teardown videos and seeing how things are put together. The big monthly photos of artistically arranged mechanical parts are fun, because you can't always guess what the assembled object is from these photos...
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Interesting, Somewhat Literary Mystery/Thriller With Memorable Characters
THE WHITES is a new mystery/thriller by novelist Richard Price (writing under the pen name Harry Brandt). Not surprisingly, it's more literary than thriller--definitely not a page-turner--but it's always interesting, and comes across pretty well as a police procedural. The characters are extremely well-drawn, well-mo...
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Sometimes Puzzling, But Interesting for Exotic Setting, French Legal Procedures
In the French legal system, an investigating magistrate (a judge designated "juge d'instruction") performs the fact-gathering job carried out by a police detective in the United States or Great Britain. Thus THE HONEST FOLK OF GUADELOUPE is actually a police procedural novel, set on a Caribbean island that is geograph...
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Cotton Malone Averts Disclosure of Documents That Threaten to Invalidate U.S. Income Tax, Destroy Global Economy
THE PATRIOT THREAT is another &#34;Da Vinci Code&#34; formula novel--in which the lead character embarks on a sort of treasure hunt, following a bread-crumb trail of clues (found in widely scattered documents, maps, artifacts, building decorations, whatever) to discover or protect a shocking, closely-guarded secret tha...
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St. Denis Comes Alive Again, Through Chief Bruno's Investigation of Jihadists' Pursuit of Local Algerian Family
In THE CHILDREN RETURN, St. Denis police chief Bruno muses that "he would be a terrible policeman in any other setting." Familiar as he is with every family and house in his small community, he embodies "a unique store of local knowledge"--and suspects that this unique knowledge may be all that he has, "apart from bas...
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Excellent Reference Book on Two-Color Brioche Knitting--With Extensive Stitch Dictionary, 12 Shawl/Cowl Patterns
KNITTING FRESH BRIOCHE is another wonderful Nancy Marchant book that all serious knitters will want for their reference library shelf. I've never cared much for brioche stitch, because it creates a very stretchy fabric, requires extra time and effort (one completed row requires knitting across and purling back again),...
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Long-Time Baseball Fans May Identify With Serial Killer Enraged by Inflated Ticket Prices, Outrageous Player Salaries
Like the first book in this series ([[ASIN:0533164699 Splattered Blood]]), THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE DEAD departs from the usual mystery/thriller formula by featuring a crime-solving team instead of a single hero/heroine. In this outing, Randy Larkin, Roseanne Kelly, and Graham Dunne have joined forces with a semi-reti...
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Mary Russell Seen at Her Absolute Best, Recovering Priceless Book for Emperor of Japan
DREAMING SPIES displays Mary Russell at her absolute best, at the very top of her game. For most of the book, she and Holmes are traveling in disguise: first they pose as a wealthy (but otherwise ordinary) British couple traveling to Japan on a passenger ship; later they tour the Japanese countryside on foot in the g...
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Entertaining Stories With Multiple Endings Teach "Life Lessons" About Gratitude, Generosity, Hard Work
In FULL SPEED AHEAD, a magical box camera found in a box of vintage clothing transports a contemporary 9-year-old girl back in time from her "humungous super-sleek apartment" to a makeshift Cincinnati boardinghouse in September 1933. As an only child living in a single-parent household, the narrator longs for the comp...
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Promising Chapter Titles, But Text Doesn't Deliver
CYBER THREAT!: HOW TO MANAGE THE GROWING RISK OF CYBER ATTACKS is another of those business-school management books that is long on generalities (e.g., "More and more we see sensitive information sited in environments that may or may not be secure") and short on practical solutions (e.g., "Make sure that any ISP that i...
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A Truly Frightening Book--a Must-Read for Those Who Manage Computer Networks or Care About Cyberespionage/Cyberwarfare Ethics
For those (like me) who keep up with computer security issues only casually, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY is a truly frightening book. We all know that there's no such thing as privacy any more (after the Internet), but now that cyberespionage by nations is rampant, there's no such thing as a secure network any more (home, c...
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Full Story of Dishonest Impresario's Exploitation of Small Group of Igorrotes at Beginning of Twentieth Century
The U.S. Government's "Philippine Reservation" was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. It displayed some 1300 native Filipinos, taken from a dozen different tribes, with the intention of building popular support for the continuing U.S. occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish-Amer...
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I Only Wanted It for the Cartoons (and the Unpublished Roughs)
I ONLY READ IT FOR THE CARTOONS is a collection of highly readable, conventional biographies of twelve cartoonists who have regularly contributed cartoons to The New Yorker magazine. The cartoonists are Lee Lorenz, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, George Booth, Edward Koren, Charles Barsotti, Arnie Levin, Victoria Roberts, Gahan...
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One of the Funniest, Most Delightful of the "No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" Series
THE HANDSOME MAN'S DE LUXE CAF&Eacute; is Mma Makutsi's book, and it's one of the funniest and most delightful of the entire [[ASIN:B000FBJF6Y No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency]] series. There are passages that made me laugh out loud, because they so perfectly evoke Mma Makutsi's perfectionism, tactlessness, outspokenness...
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Excellent Brioche Knitting Reference Book With Uneven Collection of Garment Designs
BRIOCHE CHIC is an excellent reference book on brioche knitting that includes an uneven collection of 22 garment designs. There are two methods of brioche knitting: (1) the simple alternating "knit one in the row below" method that produces the well-known, stretchy "fisherman's rib"; and (2) the more complicated alte...
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Advanced Surveillance, Drone Technologies Are Hazardous to Everybody's Health
Although the storyline bogs down from time to time, BLUE WARRIOR is one heck of a scary spy thriller. Author Mike Maden (who holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Davis) has expert knowledge of what modern surveillance and drone technologies are capable of. He also knows how these tech...
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Start Your Ocean Explorations Here: Excellent Text, Beautiful Photos of Deep-Sea Creatures
CREATURES OF THE DEEP is a rarity among affordable coffee-table books--it has an excellent, readable text, in addition to beautiful photographs of creatures from all five layers of the sea.<br /><br />Part One of the text describes a hypothetical descent from the ocean's surface to its floor, noting what the deep sea ...
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Hopelessly Outdated, "The Saint" Belongs to Era of Pulp Fiction
Leslie Charteris was a talented writer, and his memorable character ("the Saint") certainly deserved its immense, long-running popularity. But "the Saint" belongs to the era of pulp fiction--when heroes in thrillers could be painted in very broad strokes, and plots could allow heroes to always wriggle out of ropes, es...
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Good Choice for New Smartphone Users, Not So Good as Quick Reference
TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 is a very thorough, complete guide for setting up and using the Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone. Exact screenshots from the Galaxy S5 explain every button and every procedure, showing exactly what a user should be seeing on the phone at every moment, while following the simple, d...
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Excellent Choice for Family's "Master Calendar"
The ANSEL ADAMS 2015 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 ...
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Amazing Collection of Crocheted "Aran Cable" Designs, With Advanced Stitches Explained in Step-by-Step Photos
CONTEMPORARY CELTIC CROCHET is an amazing collection of crochet designs, many of which replicate the look and feel of knitted Aran cables. There are 24 pretty patterns (ranging from cardigans to head coverings, wraps, baby blankets, and more), each marked with the necessary skill level (beginner, easy, intermediate, e...
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"It's Not the Same With a Sniper Out There"
In PERSONAL, Jack Reacher must take out a world-class sniper who's not only shooting at prominent world leaders, but also using Jack's photo for long-distance target practice. The sniper, a guy that Jack sent to prison for 15 years--some 16 years ago--spent all his prison time practicing yoga and focusing his hatred f...
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Rowan Head Designer's Attractive Collection of Knitted Fair Isle & Aran Cable Garments
WINDSWEPT is a collection of attractive Fair Isle and cable knitting patterns by Rowan Head Designer Marie Wallin. Knitters familiar with the beautiful Rowan knitting magazines will recognize the pattern layouts and styling--there are full-color photos, schematic drawings with garment measurements, and charts for the ...
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Delightful Aunty Lee's Second Investigation Is Entertaining, But Not a Standalone
AUNTY LEE'S DEADLY SPECIALS is entertaining and fun if you've already read the first "Aunty Lee" ([[ASIN:0062227157 Aunty Lee's Delights]]), but it's not really a standalone. And it's not nearly as well-written as the first book. It seems hastily thrown together, as if to meet a publisher's deadline. This second boo...
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Bones Never Lie, But This Novel Is Short on Bones
It may be true that BONES NEVER LIE, but there aren't many bones to be analyzed in this latest Temperance Brennan mystery. Of course, the story is all about Tempe--she's pulled into the investigation of a series of Charlotte, NC child abduction/murders because the murders are chillingly similar to three Canadian child...
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Fast-Reading, Mesmerizing, But Pricey Novella
I loved this fast-reading, mesmerizing novella, THE MURDER FARM, but don't think it's worth $18 (current Amazon price for hardcover and Kindle versions). It's a mystery/thriller set in large type, and it still runs to only 168 pages!<br /><br />The story: A young woman revisits a German village she'd considered to be...
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Wonderful Historical Photographs of Fishermen's Ganseys; Excellent Source Book for Traditional Gansey Stitch Patterns
As a knitting history buff, I love DUTCH TRADITIONAL GANSEYS for its many, many early-20th-century photographs of Dutch fishermen wearing their traditional working garments (blue or grey gansey sweaters with textured patterns, tightly knit from fine yarn). I recognized some of the photographs from other books on knitt...
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Recycled Knitting History; Poorly Printed; Ho-Hum Project Designs
"Recycled" is the best way to describe HEIRLOOM KNITTING SKILLS. The knitting history is superficial, and most, if not all, of the photos have been published elsewhere. The stitch treasuries are poorly printed (the textured and lace stitches in dark blue and dark purple lose all their detail), and the stitch patterns...
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Winning Collection of Loose, Lacy Tunics for Casual Wear
KNITS THAT BREATHE is a collection of loose, lacy tunics and toppers that look great for casual wear with pants or jeans. Most of the designs are sleeveless or short-sleeved. (The two cardigans have elbow-length sleeves, and the shrug has wrist-length sleeves to be gathered at the cuff or left loose, kimono-style.)<b...
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Fast-Moving, Graphic Thriller With Comic "Keystone Kops" Moments
THE CONTRACTORS is a highly entertaining, fast-paced, at-times-gruesome thriller that makes some intriguing, possibly true-to-life, rather disturbing points about the wisdom of any U.S. government decision to employ private DEA contractors to save money.<br /><br />As Jon Cantrell, a contract DEA operative, learns in t...
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Author Demonstrates Complete Mastery of "Da Vinci Code" Formula for Exciting Page-Turner
THE LINCOLN MYTH demonstrates author Steve Berry's complete mastery of the [[ASIN:0307474275 Da Vinci Code]] formula. To wit: An investigator (Cotton Malone) learns that a widely accepted idea (that under the Constitution, states cannot secede from the United States without permission) is false, and that the long-sup...
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Female P.I.'s Sugar Addiction Detracts From Reasonably Interesting Story
IDENTITY is a good female P.I. novel, but not a great one. For some 450 pages, private investigator Fina Ludlow interviews (and re-interviews) one person after another, until she collects enough information (sometimes from accidental or coincidental disclosures) to be able to solve the crime. This may accurately refl...
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Sister Is Willing to Do "Whatever It Takes" to Prove Brother Innocent of Murdering Girl Friend
WHAT STRANGE CREATURES was my first Emily Arsenault mystery. I enjoyed it, but was not particularly inspired to order the earlier ones (standalone literary mysteries, e.g., [[ASIN:0062103105 Miss Me When I'm Gone]]). Oddly, I did end up ordering [[ASIN:B002RI97XO The Book of Margery Kempe ]], because Arsenault's perp...
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Intriguing Mystery Set in Strange Town Populated by Zany Characters
Charlaine Harris is a writer who writes books that I enjoy reading--that's it, plain and simple. I first discovered Harris when I stumbled onto the Lily Bard series ([[ASIN:0425206866 Shakespeare's Landlord]], etc.), which preceded her wildly popular Sookie Stackhouse series ([[ASIN:0441016995 Dead Until Dark]], etc....
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Boring Mystery/Thriller About Book Publishing, Unscrupulous Media Magnate
Book publishing isn't particularly exciting, not even when a terrific, controversial manuscript, with "best seller" written all over it, arrives on the desk of an agent, editor, publisher, or movie producer. And that's exactly what's wrong with THE ACCIDENT--a novel about an unpublished manuscript so explosive that e...
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0385348452
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Fun-to-Read Mini-Bios Are Perfect for Waiting-Room Reading
The book's title is priceless. The advice is a little disappointing--just your usual motivational platitudes, none of the quotes particularly memorable. But each quote is accompanied by a mini-bio of the person quoted that gives the context, and also exposes the person's shallow, narrow-minded, or downright duplicito...
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Left-Handed Reliever Devotes Free Time to Investigating Teammates' Personal Problems
Because I love baseball, I really enjoyed reading this unusual mystery/thriller, THE SETUP MAN. Amateur private investigator Johnny Adcock is a 35-year-old, left-handed relief pitcher in the big leagues. He took his father's advice to look into relief pitching as a way to make easy money, and now earns $1.5 million a...
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Terrific Choice for Cook Who Loves to Bake, Has New Stand Mixer
KITCHENAID 3 COOKBOOKS IN 1: PIES & TARTS; CAKES & CUPCAKES; BREADS is a terrific choice for the cook who loves to bake, who has acquired a new stand mixer. It's a big collection of classic recipes for pies, tarts, cakes, cupcakes, and breads that are "made from scratch" (made from flour, sugar, butter, eggs, etc., mi...
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Ultimate Quick-Reference Book for Dedicated Sock Knitter
THE SOCK KNITTER'S HANDBOOK is the "digest" version of Schurch & Parrott's wonderful sock-knitting reference books, [[ASIN:1564775704 Sensational Knitted Socks]] and [[ASIN:1564777170 More Sensational Knitted Socks]]. It's small enough (6" wide x 9" high) for the serious sock-knitter to carry along in a knitting bag.<...
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1604684259
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Pretty Lace Garment Designs Based on Triangles, Rectangles, Circles, Squares
LOVELY KNITTED LACE is a collection of pretty designs for knitted lace jackets, sweaters, scarves, stoles, and shawls. As designer Brooke Nico discovered, after knitting "shawl after shawl", there is "a limit to how many shawls one person can own." This book is the result of designer Nico's experimentation with turnin...
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Authentic Mercenary Spy Thriller!
Kicked out of Azerbaijan, former CIA station chief Mark Sava has landed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He's working off and on for Bruce Holtz, owner of a spies-for-hire outfit, Central Asian Information Networks, and lazing around playing a lot of narde (a backgammon-type game) with the locals.<br /><br />But then Holtz dum...
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Thirty Projects Designed to Keep Active Winter-Sport Athletes Warm
Admittedly, I'm a Laura Zander fan, because her Jimmy Beans web site is such a great source for how-to knitting videos (in addition to knitting yarn and supplies). This book, STITCH MOUNTAIN, totally lives up to my high expectations for a Zander book. It includes 30 attractive project patterns, ranging from simple to...
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1936096676
1936096676
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Booklet or Kindle Version: 7 Pretty Designs for Afghans Crocheted on Very Large Hook
QUICK & EASY Q-HOOK AFGHANS is one of the small (5-3/8" x 8-3/8") Leisure Arts booklets sold in crafts stores (e.g., Jo-Ann, Michael's). It includes 7 afghan patterns written for a very large crochet hook (see [[ASIN:B000AE65P0 Lion Brand 15mm Crochet Hook, Size Q-19]]). Four patterns are designed by Mary Ann Sipes: ...
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1574869922
1574869922
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Amazing, Completely New Architectural Approach to Sock Knitting (S,M,L Sizes)
SOLEFULL SOCKS is a must-have for the technical sock knitter's bookshelf. It describes a completely new architectural approach to sock knitting. Designer Betty Salpekar's imaginative sock structure makes it possible to reinforce the entire sole of a sock with carry-along yarn to solve the problem of wear (holes) on t...
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0989736504
0989736504
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Pleasant Collection of Sock Patterns From PlanetPurl
AMERICAN SOCK KNITTING is a pleasant collection of sock patterns "born from a contest" on Beth Moriarty's PlanetPurl website. The book includes 13 patterns inspired by the designers' favorite places, with an added bonus of 5 scrumptious-looking regional American recipes.<br /><br />The patterns are grouped by U.S. geo...
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0985937157
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Multiple Ongoing Investigations Are Hard to Follow; Too Much Detailed Description of Torture Scenes
Lizzy Gardner is another of the new crop of psychologically-damaged female investigators that are perhaps inspired by the success of the [[ASIN:B00452V49A Mallory]] and [[ASIN:0307949486 Lisbeth Salander]] mystery series. Lizzy's particular "issue" is that she's paranoid about personal safety--understandably enough, s...
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1611099854
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Saga of Blindfolded Woman's Struggle to Row Boat to Sanctuary
***SPOILER ALERT: There are many, many plot events that are NOT mentioned in this review; however it is necessary to discuss the book's structure, general plot, and some plot elements that are revealed early in the book to be able to write a meaningful review.***<br /><br />BIRD BOX essentially tells the story of a bl...
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Rutledge Investigates Sniper Murders in England's Fen Country
Like all the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, HUNTING SHADOWS is about a painstaking murder investigation carried along by the Inspector's increasing understanding of the killer's motives. It is a classic "British mystery", relatively slow paced but thoroughly enjoyable.<br /><br />This time, Scotland Yard assigns Ru...
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0062237187
0062237187
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Another Brilliantly Creative Page-Turner From Author of THE BREACH
THE RUNNER is yet another brilliantly creative page-turner from Patrick Lee. As with the amazing [[ASIN:0061584452 Breach]] trilogy, the action takes place in the near future, and the plot is driven in part by extraordinary technology.<br /><br />In this thriller, advanced U.S. governmental surveillance satellites mak...
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1250030730
1250030730
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Terrific Idea Book--Amazing Variety of Party-Worthy Cheese Balls
Cheese balls are for parties--and they really are great when they're decorated to entertain and delight your guests! This book, GREAT BALLS OF CHEESE, is filled with an amazing variety of creative ideas for sculpting the standard party fare into works of art.<br /><br />My favorite designs are the Wise and Cheesy Owl ...
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1118497201
1118497201
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Beautifully Crafted Mystery Immerses Reader in Victorian Times
What I like most about AN OLD BETRAYAL--and the entire Charles Lenox mystery series--is the seemingly effortless way it immerses the reader in the historical place and time (Victorian England). The story develops unhurriedly (but not too slowly!) at a pace consistent with a simpler, slower-moving society. Historical...
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1250011612
1250011612
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Gruesome, Unusual Murders, Intricate Plot--You Won't Want to Put It Down!
J. Carson Black's spare prose--along with the exciting, innovative, and intricate plot--makes THE SURVIVOR'S CLUB a fast, entertaining read. This is at least the second novel featuring Sheriff's Detective Tess McCrae (for the previous one, see [[ASIN:1612182704 Icon]]); in this one, Tess is adjusting to her new job in...
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1612182712
1612182712
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Jake Is Back--Arrested as a Cop Killer, and Still Wise-Cracking His Way Into Deeper Trouble
In GRAND DELUSION, Jacob Burns is back--still making the questionable daily-life decisions of the sort that landed him in so much trouble in his delightful debut mystery, [[ASIN:B00AFLQK1M Breakfast at Madeline's]]. When a crooked cop, Jake's hated nemesis and very-public-enemy, is shot at 1 a.m. outside his home, Jak...
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B00BCO9O6E
B00BCO9O6E
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Bread Is as Good as San Francisco Bakery Bread, But Requires Bakeware That Can Handle 450-Degree Oven
Even the basic, "lean" bread recipe (water, all-purpose flour, yeast, salt) from THE NEW ARTISAN BREAD IN FIVE MINUTES A DAY book makes an astonishingly good hard-crusted bread. This basic bread is also very easy to digest, because the recipe has no eggs, sweeteners, or fats.<br /><br />Five minutes a day? I'm not su...
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1250018285
1250018285
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Collection of Excellent Recipes for Standard American Cooking
365 COMFORT FOODS is an excellent collection of standard American cooking recipes. So far, I've prepared two recipes from the "Comfort Food Classics Made Healthy" chapter ("Our Best Meat Loaf" and "Baked Eggplant Parmesan"), and two from the "Main Dish Meats, Poultry, and Seafood" chapter ("Pork Pot Roast in Cider" an...
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1118629124
1118629124
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Collection of Pretty Designs for Casual, Rustic-Looking Garments
COZY COUNTRY KNITS is a pleasant collection of designs for casual, rustic-looking knits (4 jackets, 5 sweaters, 2 vests, 3 wraps, 5 socks, 4 hats, 2 scarves). Most of the garments are knit on large needles (US 7-17); the socks and a few sweaters use smaller needles (US 2-6). The garment patterns call for sock, sport,...
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157076624X
157076624X
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22 New Christmas Stocking Designs Built Around Traditional Scandinavian Motifs
SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS is a collection of patterns for 22 Christmas stockings, 1 cap, 1 pair of mittens, and 1 pair of leggings. To me, the designs all look fairly similar. "Christmas", the book cover design, is fairly typical of the look of most of the stockings.<br /><br />Although the designs are built ar...
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1570766290
1570766290
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Concise, Beautifully Written Story of Four Memorable Women
TRAPS is a concise, beautifully written, literary story about four women who are trapped in prisons of their own making. There is Dana, the high-powered, maximum-security guard; Jessica, the Oscar-winning actress dogged by paparazzi and a father skilled at emotional blackmail; Vivian, the devoted mother of twins, a te...
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0307959732
0307959732
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Excellent Choice for Family's "Master Calendar"
The ANSEL ADAMS 2014 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 ...
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0316235172
0316235172
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Collection of Patterns Inspired by Great Architecture
KNITTING ARCHITECTURE is a collection of patterns inspired by architecture, not (as I'd hoped) a technical book about the "architecture" (construction) of knitted garments. However, the designs are pretty and wearable, and a couple of them are technically innovative.<br /><br />The Pompidou Wrap (by Grace Anna Farrow)...
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1596687800
1596687800
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Attractive, Wearable Patterns; Superb, Concise Material on Fair Isle Technique
FAIR ISLE STYLE is the latest addition to the superb Interweave Press "Style" series (for another new one, see [[ASIN:1596687819 Scarf Style 2]]), and it doesn't disappoint! All of the patterns are attractive and wearable, and the how-to material on the Fair Isle knitting technique is among the best I've seen anywhere...
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1596688998
1596688998
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Victorian Detective's Confusing Investigation Into Details of Poet Shelley's Household Life
In A FATAL LIKENESS, Victorian-era detective Charles Maddox is hired by Sir Percy Shelley (the son of romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley) to spy on his mother Mary's step-sister (Claire Clairmont), and to negotiate a deal for any papers Claire may possess that would tarnish the poet Shelley's character...
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0345532449
0345532449
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Cheese Lover's Breezily Written Travel Memoir, With Factoids
For some reason, I expected THE WHOLE FROMAGE to be a reference book about French cheese. Indeed, the book includes (1) a short appendix that lists six Parisian fromageries, (2) a short glossary of fromagespeak, (3) a brief bibliography of eight cheese reference books, and (4) a substantial number of footnotes. But i...
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0307452069
0307452069
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Wacky Detective Excludes Reader From Mystery-Solving
Claire DeWitt is a Silettian "detective"--a detective so completely dedicated to uncovering the truth (the always unpopular, always abhorrent truth) that she solves mysteries when all others have failed to solve them. Her method is taken from D&Eacute;TECTION, a book by the once-revered-and-respected-French-master-det...
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0547429339
0547429339
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Collection of Scandinavian Motifs Takes Up Where Collection of Fair Isle Motifs Left Off
Mary Jane Mucklestone's 150 SCANDINAVIAN MOTIFS:THE KNITTER'S DIRECTORY does for Scandinavian knitting what her earlier book, [[ASIN:1596684372 200 Fair Isle Motifs: A Knitter's Directory]], did for Fair Isle knitting. The written technical material at the front of the book ("Essential Skills") is much the same, altho...
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1596688556
1596688556
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Recipe Ingredients Combine Perfectly to Create Uniquely Flavored Dishes
What I truly love about 365 SLOW COOKER SUPPERS is that the recipe ingredients invariably combine perfectly to create unique flavors for each dish. This is definitely NOT an ordinary crock pot recipe book, with recipes for endless minor variations on main-dish soups or stews. So far, I have prepared "Lemon Pork Tende...
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1118230817
1118230817
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Exciting Investigation of Murders Linked to Satanic Cult
THE DIABOLIST isn't your ordinary thriller--it's a primer on types of occult and Satanic religions (anti-establishment? devil worshiping? practicing magic?), and is filled with philosophical discussions about the origin of evil (created by God? created by an evil entity equal to God?) placed in a general context of Zo...
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1611099846
1611099846
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WWI Nurse Bess Investigates Unsolved Crime That Tarnished Honor of Colonel Sahib's Regiment
The fifth Bess Crawford mystery, A QUESTION OF HONOR, is one of the best. When Bess was a child in India, an upstanding young British officer deserted from her father's regiment, rather than face trial on suspicion of having committed five murders. The young captain was thought to have perished in the Khyber Pass, bu...
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0062237152
0062237152
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Gets You Quickly Up to Speed on Using Standard and Specialty Presser Feet
The manual for my new [[ASIN:B0092RC3YI SINGER heavy-duty sewing machine]] shows a lot of optional accessories (mostly presser feet) that I didn't know how to use. (My old faithful Singer "Touch and Sew" machine does straight stitching and buttonholes, but little else.) This book, THE SEWING MACHINE ACCESSORY BIBLE, ...
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0312676581
0312676581
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Patterns for Twelve Knitted Garments "Inspired by Trees and Foliage"
BOTANICAL KNITS is a pattern collection with 12 knitted garment designs "inspired by trees and foliage." Because I love anything with knitted-in leaf motifs, I ordered this book immediately when I saw an ad from an online yarn shop. Leaf motifs aren't particularly difficult to knit, but they use cables, travelling st...
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098832492X
098832492X
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Satisfying Mystery Involving Quintuplets, Government Conspirators
A long-ago sibling rivalry has matured into a full-blown hatred. An old collaboration has grown into a massive conspiracy that threatens the populace of Montreal, the politics of Quebec, and the stability of Canada itself. In HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, Chief Inspector Armande Gamache patiently investigates the long-hidde...
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0312655479
0312655479
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Starts Where NICEVILLE Left Off; Explains Some Mysteries While Opening Up More Horrific Ones
The Niceville Trilogy (at the time of this review, the third book is still to come) tells a highly unusual mystery/thriller/supernatural fantasy story--and has a lot of humor thrown in. I am simply in awe of Carsten Stroud's writing and storytelling skills, that he's able to pull this complicated thing off.<br /><br /...
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0307700968
0307700968
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Delivers on Promise of New, Inventive Technique for Knitting Socks on Two Straight Needles
KNIT YOUR SOCKS ON STRAIGHT is one of those rare knitting books that actually delivers on its promise of "A New and Inventive Technique" for knitting socks on two straight needles. Dedicated sock knitters ought to have a lot of fun trying out designer Alice Curtis' creative and unusual approach to making "two-needle" ...
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1612120083
1612120083
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Collection of Attractive Patterns for Dolls' Everyday Wear
Although I'm a longtime fan of well-known knitting designer Nicky Epstein, I was a little disappointed by NICKY EPSTEIN KNITS FOR DOLLS. The outfits are cute, but are mostly for dolls' everyday wear (dresses, sweaters, shrugs, coats, bags, fanciful hats). I was expecting more themed-costume designs, for activities l...
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1936096544
1936096544
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Important New Technical Reference for Knitting With Hand-Dyed Yarns
ARTFUL COLOR, MINDFUL KNITS is not a book for beginning knitters, but it's a major new technical reference for knitting with hand-dyed, multicolored yarns. It needs to be studied to be understood--but it's the first book I've seen that (1) clearly defines the important terms (striping, stacking, blotching, pooling, fl...
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1933064269
1933064269
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Shetland Guild Knitters' Modern Designs for Authentic Shetland Lace Scarves, Shawls, and Cardigans
A LEGACY OF SHETLAND LACE is a collection of authentic Shetland lace patterns designed by present-day members of the Shetland Guild of Spinners, Knitters, Weavers and Dyers (the Guild was founded in 1988). The patterns use traditional methods for constructing the designs, and the designs are assembled from "a known wi...
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1904746764
1904746764
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Focus on Plath's Guest Editorship Experience Provides Insight Into What Went So Terribly Wrong
For me, reading Plath's semi-autobiographical book, [[ASIN:0061148512 The Bell Jar]], triggered a long-term, casual interest in Plath's life, stories, and novels (not her poetry). In particular, I have always wondered why Plath's brief sojourn at Mademoiselle magazine (as a college guest editor in 1953) contributed to...
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0062085492
0062085492
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First "Jungle Beat" Mystery Introduces Likeable, Low-Key Samoan Detective
PAGO PAGO TANGO introduces a likeable, low-key, Samoan detective--Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua, nicknamed "Pelu" (which means "sword" or "bush knife" in the native Samoan language). As a detective, Pelu is no risk-taking glory hound. He doesn't even pack heat, because no one on the local Pago Pago force is deemed ...
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1612185002
1612185002
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"Psychological Autopsy" of Sylvia Plath, Based on Plath's Journals, Correspondence
In AMERICAN ISIS, biographer Carl Rollyson presents a sort of "psychological autopsy" of poet/writer Sylvia Plath. He intentionally leaves out the "context" of Plath's life (the details about family members, childhood experiences, educational institutions, major life decisions), noting that such facts have already bee...
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0312640242
0312640242
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1,367,270,042,000
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4
Doggerel-Spouting Detective Brings Washed-Up Director to Justice
GREEN LIGHT FOR MURDER is a smart-aleck-y mystery/thriller, told mostly from the viewpoints of a damaged detective who spouts horrid doggerel (Tommy Veasy), and a crazy serial killer who is directing a movie about his murders with the help of an imaginary film crew (Jay Braffner). Once you get used to the oddball prese...
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1440561222
1440561222
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Mystery-To-Be-Solved Plot Is Very Slight
An Isabel Dalhousie novel is like a stroll in the park: the pace is leisurely, and if you're identifying with Isabel, you're constantly stopping to smell the roses. Isabel is a pragmatic philosopher, and she is always thinking about the meanings of things. Thus, even a thing so mundane as needing to apply baby oil ...
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0307907333
0307907333
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