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5 | 1950's NYC, Truman Capote at his most widely popular & Barbara "Babe" Paley married to the founder of CBS | While I didn't really care for the author's earlier novel, The Aviator's Wife, I loved The Swans of Fifth Avenue. The prose and dialogue brought the era to life in such a way that history was compellingly real and immediate. This is a not to be missed title that was so compulsively readable I blissfully put my honey-do... | [] | 0345528697 | 0345528697 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,935,595,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Highly respected novel | I read a terrific review at Publisher's Weekly so I was eager to start this novel. I have to wonder if I was reading the same book. I thought the dialogue and the prose were both clunky. The beginning was, to me, overly implausible with laborious plotting. I can see where the author tried to bring the characters to li... | [] | 1633880761 | 1633880761 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,934,330,000 | 7 | false |
3 | 120 pages - a nice starter kit to plan your trip via car to Nîmes, Nice, Provence, French Riviera | Plus a Paris city-guide and a Nice city-guide. Don't buy it for the pictures (too small and washed out) or the map (again, too small to be of any use).<br /><br />4 days a round trip from Arles to the coast.<br />5 days through the Luberon and Vaucluse<br />7 days from Monaco to St. Remy de Provence.<br />7 days from ... | [] | 1743607083 | 1743607083 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,908,492,000 | 0 | false |
5 | What really surprised me was his documented cruelty to his troops - | He truly deserved what he got, sadly he took 267 men with him, including his younger brothers, Thomas and Boston Custer. From the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Biography author (for the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt). Nothing revisionist or redeeming here just the fully fleshed out expose of the man, the times that created hi... | [] | 0307592642 | 0307592642 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,679,514,000 | 5 | false |
4 | #4 in the Sam Levitt/Elena Morales cozy mystery series set in the south of France | From the author of the bestseller A YEAR IN PROVENCE, and author of the novel A GOOD YEAR which was turned into the Russell Crowe movie of the same name. This is the first Pete Mayle novel I have read, I never got around to reading his breakout hit 2 decades ago. It was a fun frothy confection more lighthearted than th... | [] | 0385353901 | 0385353901 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,668,803,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Fascinating | A very approachable, easily read, biography of Alex Haley the author who brought the emotionally gripping and vividly written novel of an African family stretching from 1750 Gambia to 1767 Colonial America, with the next 4 generations spending life in slavery. Not only was he the author of Roots (1972) but he was the a... | [] | 1137279605 | 1137279605 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,589,399,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Debut British author not exactly a thriller, nor a mystery more a "what makes our Em run?" | Attorney, wife and mother, Emily Coleman, flees the suburbs of Manchester, England, her loving parents and her loved but unlikable twin sister, Caroline, for London and becomes Cat Brown. 'Cat' and her new roommate, Angel, party like Eddie & Patsy from the TV Absolutely Fabulous quite unlike Emily.<br /><br />What drov... | [] | 0062340077 | 0062340077 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,550,316,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 128 pages - a nice starter kit to plan your trip via car | When your starting point is Paris. 4 road trips that give you an idea that when you retire and want to spend a month in France this is what would be the most fun in the Loire Valley:<br /><br />2 days / 40 miles / a tour of the great wines of Burgundy<br />3 days / 100 miles - wine and food of the western Loire valley ... | [] | 1743607091 | 1743607091 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,545,546,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Hard to rate this one. | Well written, compulsively readable, and believable, but a downer, downer, downer. The vivid violence was, for me, just too much to call the read enjoyment. So, for me it was a 2 star read, but for those who enjoy the violence, the portrayal of ruined lives and fractured families this is a 5 star book | [] | 0062429051 | 0062429051 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,544,397,000 | 0 | false |
4 | new to me author - the cover captured my interest | Dr. Philip Mercer is the Indiana Jones of mining engineers and geologists. Stretching from Minnesota’s Leister Deep mine to a flooding Mississippi River, to Afghanistan and a Russian research vessel, and another take on Amelia Earhart. Readers whoare agitated about climate change theorems should give this a wide berth.... | [] | 0385527756 | 0385527756 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,543,956,000 | 0 | false |
5 | ages 14 to 19 | my 14 year old young man loved it, even though the magical realism wasn't a major element. However, I was rolling my eyes much of the time. It was like James Michener's Centennial, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, a Louis L'Amore western, a Cormac McCarthy western, a Zane Grey western, plus John Wayne's 'movie The Searc... | [] | 0062242911 | 0062242911 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,541,892,000 | 1 | false |
4 | It was a fascinating read and the author is an excellent storyteller. | what a relief to read the review in The Guardian. I thought it was just me but the reviewer also said what I also felt after turning the last page, the author comes off as "snobbish and lacking in self-awareness". Perhaps it is her heritage, her father a politician of Anglo–Irish ancestry, became upon the dea... | [] | 0385540108 | 0385540108 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,417,705,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Magical realism and tragedy for your 11 year old reader | 4 sister ages 11 to 17 have been uprooted and move to to New Hampshire with their alcoholic 'Mommy Dearest' mother. Things are pretty grim for the youngest until she discovers the closets of the home their mom grew up in take them to a different world. I think I'll wait a year before I hand this off to our ten year old... | [] | 0062352717 | 0062352717 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,415,671,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Debut police thriller | Set in Newberg, Wisconsin a killer is out of prison with revenge his only career choice, the DA, Sheriff and family of the long retired chief of police are on his hit list. That's enough for one book, but the book includes a stereotypical evil chief of police, his nasty henchmen who is also head of the narcotics unit w... | [] | 0765338505 | 0765338505 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,414,920,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Legal thriller 3rd title featuring star LA attorney Parker Stern | Parker gets involved in a case going back to 1975 and a murderous bombing of Veterans Administration building. The suspect is being brought to justice after 40 years on the run. Parker's estranged mother knew the accused way back when. Witnesses for the defense turn up dead and the mystery kept me guessing until the e... | [] | 1633880443 | 1633880443 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,414,133,000 | 0 | false |
5 | #9 in the series of escapist adventure spy thrillers featuring the character Lord Alexander Hawke | The memory of the CIA director’s pet dog being run down I could have done without. Hawke is an MI6 agent as well as being the 6th richest man in the United Kingdom. After an assignment in Cuba goes bad, he escapes with a former Navy Seal back to his home in Bermuda. Retired US Army colonel, Brett “Beau” Beauregard, goe... | [] | 0062279416 | 0062279416 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,072,383,000 | 4 | false |
4 | 128 pages of where to stay, where to eat, what to see | You can plan 4 road trips with lengths of two to 5 days or one 12 day trip :<br />1. San Francisco, Marin, & Napa Loop over 4-5 days<br />2. Napa Valley 2-3 days<br />3. Sonoma Valley 2 days<br />4. Russian River / The Bohemian Highway 2 days<br /><br />The graphics are way too busy - I have been to the area to the ar... | [] | 1743607059 | 1743607059 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,035,359,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Suspenseful, amusing and wonderfully detailed | Literally ripped from the headlines, the novel's title taken from The Philadelphia Sun newspaper of 1914. Based ona true story with fictional characters added with dramatic license. The story of three sisters, 35 year old Constance (6 foot tall and a robust sized woman), younger sister Norma, and youngest sister 16 yea... | [] | 0544409914 | 0544409914 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,443,034,689,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A truly compelling read. I know I will want to read it again one day. | The book summary was a total turn off, it sounded like I was going to read revisionist history, instead I was fascinated and ended up being late for work. Wow just wow, the author is a real story teller. Lots of twists, turns and surprises. It left me really wanting to know what was real, what really happened. | [] | 1476758964 | 1476758964 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,442,377,256,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Book 3 and best to read the first two novels before reading this one. | After the disastrous end to their last case, the Intercrime team – a specialist unit created to investigate violent, international crime – has been disbanded, their leader forced into early retirement. The six officers have been scattered throughout the country. Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm are investigating ... | [] | 1101911409 | 1101911409 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,442,235,659,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Still and all it was fun to read because I don't think these stories are included in “The Complete Stories of Truman Capote” | I wish I could tell you more about this edition however the preview copy provided was incomplete, lacking the 12 page forward by Hilton Als. Also, there is no perspective into any of the 10 short stories, such as when they were written or any context in regards to the writing of the stories which would have great impro... | [] | 0812998227 | 0812998227 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,442,234,669,000 | 0 | false |
5 | # 5 in a fabulous investigative action thriller series | New to me author - and what a corker of a heroine (martial arts expert who you don't want to get angry) with this title set in Japan, with her love, Miles, being framed for murder. Perfect for those who like a police procedural that turns into an adventure thriller.<br /><br />BOOK #1 - THE INFORMATIONIST Vanessa “Mic... | [] | 0385348967 | 0385348967 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,441,157,343,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Very Complex Plot | Main character (Maxine Revere) does a lot of figuring herself out, identifies her weakness, gets uncharacteristically vulnerable, yet never comes alive. She's very involved with men - two in this book. A lot of repetition in the the novel, maybe for the reader because of the complexity? It got annoying to me. A good re... | [] | 1250035023 | 1250035023 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,441,155,772,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 14 and up | 16 year old Korean-American Jae Hwa Lee (see description for GILDED below) fights immortal demons (try putting that in your college applications). The novel takes her to Seoul, Korea with her BFFs Marc (Jae's boyfriend and a Guardian of Shinshi) and Michelle, Attack follws attack in their journey to defeat the evil K... | [] | 1477820345 | 1477820345 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,801,665,000 | 0 | false |
4 | ages 13 and up | 10 years after [[ASIN:0062198513 Not a Drop to Drink]] Lynn and Lucy set out on a journey west, crossing mountains and a high plains desert in search of a new home when disease destroys their community. This is more Little House on the Prairie compared to the gritty realism of the first book - I think if you haven't re... | [] | 006219853X | 006219853X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,784,679,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ages 14 and up | 13 year old Billy Dean has been a shut in his entire life, kept hidden, as we come to learn, the child of a priest, Wilfred, and Veronica, a hairdresser, in an English village destroyed by terrorists the day he was born culminating in World War III. The story is written by Billy and due to lack of education it is writt... | [] | 0763663093 | 0763663093 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,782,797,000 | 0 | false |
5 | People (mostly men) behaving horribly | with distance from the event the author brings humor and horror, and gives us a self-help manual for all the single people out there that things could be worse, oh so much worse.<br /><br />Emperor Nero - first place<br />Oscar Wilde - just sad<br />Lord Byron - odd<br />Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine (if... | [] | 1627792864 | 1627792864 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,663,558,000 | 3 | false |
4 | #7 in a series but can be a read stand alone swashbukler adventure | Have you ever watched the Xena or Hercules TV shows (1990 to 2001)? Ethan Gage is the character Autolycus (played to perfection by Bruce Campbell) come to life in the Napoleonic era. Ethan Gage is an American adventurer (a double agent for the British and the French) and scalawag married to an Egyptian. Gage finds him... | [] | 0062194100 | 0062194100 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,662,214,000 | 0 | false |
5 | compulsively readable, translated from it's original in Japanese | So glad it was only 256 pages because I just had to know. So many mysteries, twists, turns. Using a split narrative you have Ryo telling us the story and also reading 4 journals that he finds hidden in his parents home. The journals are written by a soulless murder and told from their unvarnished perspective from pre-s... | [] | 1939130921 | 1939130921 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,657,542,000 | 0 | false |
4 | This book opens with Natty & Jim shipwrecked off the coast of Texas circa 1802. | It' been exactly 3 years since I didn't like 'Silver' (see below). So why did I order the sequel aka the adventures of Jim Hawkins son Jim jr? I have a 14 year old in the family who might enjoy it having read the terrific reviews. In Silver Long John Silver’s daughter, Natty, convinced Jim to sail with her to Treasur... | [] | 0804138451 | 0804138451 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,630,711,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Terrific premise | A very ambitious novel that didn't work for me. Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda, were created by the literary great George Eliot, it was her final novel published in 1876. Diana Souhami gives that novel, titled 'Daniel Deronda', a twist by making her book be told by Gwendolyn. The thing is, I never read Daniel De... | [] | 1627793402 | 1627793402 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,570,813,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The cover captivated me and I wanted to read more | A new to me author. My only disappointment was the novel needed another 500 pages. The story is so epic, stretching from World War I to Vietnam, and the character's life is so rich that the book becomes episodic when what I was looking for was more in-depth.<br /><br />The purely fictional Amory Clay, born in Britain i... | [] | 1632863324 | 1632863324 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,569,554,000 | 3 | false |
5 | an ideal gift for an ideal price | Perfect gift for your child making their first communion or confirmation, a thoughtful Christmas gift for any loved one. It was perfect for me - a very nice coffee table book- a year in the life of the pope and a diverse selection of pictures and events. I was very impressed at the size and breadth of this book. This ... | [] | 1465439838 | 1465439838 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,567,696,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 1528 to 1532 based on historical records without the gruesome fate of Pizaro's actual interpretor | Waman, an Inca boy runs away from home after clashing with the father - the boat he boards is captured by Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Incan Empire. Waman contracts smallpox but survives and becomes Pizarro's interpreter.<br /><br />I got this for the 14 year old and he was riveted. | [] | 1594634629 | 1594634629 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,399,373,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Translated from Spanish to English by Adrian West | Epic novel covering almost 20 years. My take away: living in 1195 Spain, known at the time as Iberia, was horrific. If your reader can handle the gruesome truth this is a very worthy historical novel.<br /><br />Teenage Diego de Malagón, sees his father and one sister murdered during the conquest of territory where the... | [] | 1497697557 | 1497697557 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,377,047,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Read it for the humor | In Jong’s first novel in 12 years. Vanessa Wonderman is a star of Broadway, nighttime soap opera star, resulting in a marriage to a billionaire 20 years older. Years later her parents and husband are all ailing (her daughter is pregnant) and it's time for a mid life crisis. Vanessa places an ad on zipless-dot-com (ins... | [] | 1250065917 | 1250065917 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,312,173,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Memoir of a childhood in the Bronx 1950 to 1969. | 15 Emmy's for writing, I knew I was in for a good read. The author is known to delighted children (and secretly their older siblings) and their parents since 1969 as Maria on Sesame Street. This is the memoir of her youth, her parents were immigrants from Puerto Rico and life was not easy. Poverty, compounded by her... | [] | 0545621844 | 0545621844 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,309,279,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ages 10 to 14 | 13 year old seventh-grader Daniel and his 7 year old sister, Erica, are uprooted from suburban Connecticut to an abandoned farmhouse in rural West Virginia when their dad's company offshores his job to another country. In addition to being bullied as outsiders at the new school and hearing their parents fight or frost ... | [] | 0544551532 | 0544551532 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,297,163,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Ages 4 to 6 | Got this for our two little girls ages 4 and 5 (however the 7 year old also was lured to reading it by the cover). 48 pages is a good length for that age. Some of the concepts were not grasped easily, half time and Quarters were not part of their vocabulary yet. Over all a good intro and the colors kept their interest. | [] | 1618931512 | 1618931512 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,212,326,000 | 1 | false |
4 | for your video game loving 9 to 12 year old | This was too advanced in plot for our 7 year old to follow, too cartoony for our 13 year old, and too boyish for for our 9 year old (her words).<br /><br />Milo Speck (who anyone would want for their child's close friend) magically finds himself in Ogregon (land of giant, error prone, ogres who like to have little boys... | [] | 0544419510 | 0544419510 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,211,862,000 | 0 | false |
5 | ages 8 to 12 | If Nancy Drew were a British 12 year old living in London, and a cartoon, she would be the totally awesome Maisie Hitchins. If Agatha Christie's Miss Marple had a childhood, she would be Maisie Hitchins. The 10 year old ripped through the book and then I got to read it to the younger ones in the home. Now I need to tr... | [] | 0544582438 | 0544582438 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,211,033,000 | 0 | false |
5 | ages 10 to 13 | Suzy is 12 years old the summer her best friend, Franny, drowns at the beach. Suzy finds out 2 days later. Suzy and Franny first met at swim class 7 years ago, and it just devastates Suzy that she will never see Franny again. Especially because they had a falling out over a year ago and now she will never have a chance... | [] | 0316380865 | 0316380865 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,191,947,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Sherman's March to the Sea | Epic novel only lacking in giving the Confederate soldiers and the people of the South enough pages. My grandfather and his brother were Civil War buffs and they would have enjoyed this book, #4 and final in a series, very much.<br /><br />So, if you enjoyed this book might want to consider some of the authors other ti... | [] | 0345549198 | 0345549198 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,124,445,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Ages 9 to 11 (or younger if read to) | We finished this 4 weeks ago and no repeat readings by the 9 year old or the 7 year old. | [] | 0545830001 | 0545830001 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,440,052,898,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Kidnapping mad cap cross country (Canada) thriller adventure | Think Remington Steele where he has a cop as a girlfriend, and worth reading to see how it ends, however you really need to go into this knowing you will utter the phrase "Oh, like that would really happen?" several times. | [] | 1477815589 | 1477815589 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,994,795,000 | 0 | false |
5 | enjoyment level ages 5 to 10 - reading level ages 8 to 10 | The story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer where 10 year old Nory is a Human Rudolph. Nory's dad is in charge of the elite school of magic. Nory flunks her entrance exam where she is supposed to morph into a cute kitten but bungles it and brcomes a dragon-kitten aka dritton (cover). Laugh out loud funny for the 4 and ... | [] | 0545800455 | 0545800455 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,994,030,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Nice | My 3 eager readers/listeners, ages 4 to 8m thought it was nice but didn't request a repeat read - I asked why not and they said the illustrations were 'kinda creepy'. | [] | 0545797659 | 0545797659 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,881,236,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 4 to 6 | Our two girls pre-school and kindergarten loved loved loved this funny silly story book which is basically a graphic novel. I enjoyed it too and have not gotten tired of reading it to them, yet - lol. My only quibble was I thought Beatrix was a brat and didn't respect her bookish sister enough. One question - why was t... | [] | 0545814804 | 0545814804 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,873,939,000 | 0 | false |
5 | 320 pages of fun | I total hit in our house, not least because our 10 year old is named Violet and another member of our home is affectionately called "my little Dumplin" lol! The illustrations were a hit with the 5 year old to 10 year old set in our home and they enjoyed reading along a few chapters a night before lights out. | [] | 054556543X | 054556543X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,872,292,000 | 0 | false |
5 | We all the loved the classic illustrations | Delightful enough for the whole family. After the 13 year old devoured it, the 10 year old (girl) ripped through it over a weekend. It was then read to the little ones in the family. I found the movie from 2008 and the whole family watched it together. I got a kick out of telling the kids the book was older than me an... | [] | 0545819784 | 0545819784 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,870,713,000 | 1 | false |
2 | The best part about the book is the delicious looking cover | Sadly the characters and the story were tasteless. Truthfully bland, I guess I should have guessed that from the book summary, it wasn't long on plot. This is a new to me author, I was in the mood for a romance or a sexy read and this was not it - you can't call something a romance if one of the lovers doesn't show up ... | [] | 0778318044 | 0778318044 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,792,857,000 | 0 | false |
3 | I think my expectations were too high | I thought this was going to either be an epic historical fiction or a deeply insightful, intimate internal story. It wasn't. It was a good debut novel set in 1928 Oklahoma. It is the story of 18-year-old Maud Nail, her family, and the lovers who drift in and out of her life. The novel opens with the slaughter of the ... | [] | 0544470192 | 0544470192 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,792,386,000 | 1 | false |
3 | If there was ever a chick-lit novel this is the one | the only thing that struck me as odd is that while Anna Wyatt is just turned 40, she and her friends act like they are all on the first episode of the TV show "Friends', their behavior is too young for people with 20 years of adulthood under their belts. The novel had great bones and I loved the premise of Anna win... | [] | 0062297244 | 0062297244 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,787,538,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Debut novel - the saga of an Arkansas family relocating to the promise of Detroit over half a century ago | Francis and Viola raised 13 children on Detroit’s East Side, their home on Yarrow Street was their American Dream come true for the black working-class homeowners. However, by 2008 and decades of employment declines, Detroit is a ghost town, Viola is a widow in the worst depression to hit the U.S. in 80 years and is ab... | [] | 0544303164 | 0544303164 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,786,167,000 | 2 | false |
3 | World War Two - D-day espionage romance with a couple twists and surprises | Suspend your disbelief, don't be upset by the ending, and it will be a fun read. Madeleine Dirac (picture 25 year old Lesley Ann Down) is training as an agent for the British secret service organization in 1944 to be dropped behind enemy lines with transmitters and equipment for the French Underground with little chanc... | [] | 0385539797 | 0385539797 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,780,912,000 | 0 | false |
3 | England - absorbing novel of life on the home front in World War II | First published in the UK 2014. If you like novels that weave past and present story-lines then this will be right up your ally. Roberta and her job at Old and New Bookshop are perfect for each other. She loves nothing more than finding scraps of memorabilia in the used books acquired from customers. As a sideline s... | [] | 0399169504 | 0399169504 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,774,478,000 | 0 | false |
4 | An excellent Young Adult novel | Continuing the story from 2014's 'Invisible Ellen'. The unaptly named Temerity, a blind violinist , and her BFF, the introverted Ellen, share a home with Temerity’s twin brother, Justice. Ellen is growing more confident and is working with children in foster care. Ellen was in foster care since her mother dumped her ... | [] | 0399167625 | 0399167625 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,764,053,000 | 0 | false |
3 | psychological thriller and a nightmare | 3 years ago Hanna's husband, Joe, was beaten to death in their home in New York, leaving Hanna scarred physically,mentally and emotionally. Rud Petty, their daughter Dawn's boyfriend, was convicted but is getting a new trial on appeal. Dawn is living in New Mexico. Gail Nazarian, the prosecutor needs Hanna to testify ... | [] | 1455554073 | 1455554073 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,761,897,000 | 0 | false |
2 | totally bummed because I enjoyed the author's debut novel so much | Charlotte, living the iconic life of a 1960's wife - so banal that I wanted to shout "Grab your power, girlfriend".<br /><br />Allison, a widowed mother of a ten year old. Their link is that their husbands were BFFs. Allison and her life are so flawless as to be unbelievable.<br /><br />I just never cared abo... | [] | 0451419456 | 0451419456 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,760,230,000 | 1 | false |
5 | I loved it - I loved the story premise - the setting in Ireland and Boston - the mother daughter dynamic | It was all that and a bag of chips. I wasn't expecting the surprise midway through the novel but it was handled perfectly. I wasn't it expecting there to be so much angst, and again it was delivered flawlessly. | [] | 1250054214 | 1250054214 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,709,141,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Believe it, this is real and it stinks | Gut-wrenching. A beautifully told heart breaking story that had me in it's grip by the end of the first chapter. I have not had to deal with this horrific illness. After reading this novel I know that I am glad I live in Oregon because no one should have to live through this. I would take any steps available before I b... | [] | 0553394126 | 0553394126 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,708,657,000 | 1 | false |
5 | For once you can believe all the hype and 5 star reviews. | A terrific story and truly scary look at domestic terrorism. This is everything you could want in a Thriller. The intrigue is believable, the mystery really is a mystery, and the author delivers some real surprises. It's a substantial read, it grabbed me from the beginning and didn't let go until the last page. Lots o... | [] | 0786035404 | 0786035404 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,707,270,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Expertly, horrifyingly gruesome and compellingly readable | I hated the gruesome story but loved everything about the novel, the characters, the plot, the pace, the locations (New York is practically a main character). Alexandra Hemingway (a super strong role model woman), a homicide detective in the Upper East Side of New York City, her lover killed 3 years ago, she's pregnan... | [] | 1477818219 | 1477818219 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,448,664,000 | 1 | false |
3 | magical realism historical fiction | The best thing about this book was it led me to google the main characters - fascinating people. This was a new genre for me magical realism historical fiction and I wave found that, for me, the magical realism element not not flow with the historical fiction genre.<br /><br />Set in 1632 London England it's the fictio... | [] | 0553419358 | 0553419358 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,447,714,000 | 0 | false |
5 | 1913 to 1918 Buenos Aires | 17 year old Leda Mazzoni leaves her home in Alazzano, Naples, Italy to join her new husband in Buenos Aires. She finds her husband DOA she gathers his meager possessions, she finds a room in a conventillo where other single women spend their lives cloistered. Yearning for more she dons her husband Dante’s clothes, and... | [] | 110187449X | 110187449X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,434,108,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Police Procedural # 3 of 36 titles in an on going series. | I loved it but two things took away the pleasure - it needed editing for American readers - too many main characters names beginning with the letter V, compounded with their being too many characters. The 2nd was the gratuitous graphic violence mostly toward women.<br /><br />What I did like was that it is a police pro... | [] | 1497678897 | 1497678897 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,416,653,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Excellent debut | I enjoyed it tremendously, I also came away knowing that Mariana's father was no father, that his ego was so huge and so fragile my heart broke for her. Her love for her father overshadowed so much of her life and he just did not care for her as a person or a daughter, she was a home grown protege and he a mentor - not... | [] | 1590517164 | 1590517164 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,267,359,000 | 0 | false |
4 | If you like Alfred Hitchcock suspense you may well love this killer on the loose novel. | the writing style is definitely an acquired taste - but I'm kinda quirky myself so I enjoyed the change - My strongest suggestion is to read the opening chapter and see if you find the writing format oddly enjoyable. The suspense was delicious. | [] | 0062294903 | 0062294903 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,266,633,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 7th in a series but not required to read the earlier books to enjoy | Diane Manchester, the wife of Max Freeman's closest friend (who is also his employer), is a Federal judging presiding the case against Colombian drug lord Juan Manuel Escalante. On a lunch break she is kidnapped in downtown West Palm Beach, she's also about to give brith. The story alternates between Max and the kidn... | [] | 1504001656 | 1504001656 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,214,683,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The gritty underbelly of New York horse racing. | We first hear from Douglas "Deesh" Sharp, how he ended up in jail in the Bronx, NY after being charged with multiple murders, one of them being jockey Tom Corcoran. Deesh landed in the pokey after he traveled upstate New York with his old basketball buddies, 'Bark' and James, to haul away what they come to f... | [] | 0399172122 | 0399172122 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,178,155,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A worthy read for anyone who wants love to conqueror hate | A well thought out book that probably will not convince any ardent believers that can't accept that Jesus was all about love, and that two people loving each other and treating each other lovingly can never be wrong in the eyes of God. The author throws facts and reasoned thinking but it will never convince anyone who... | [] | 1426798296 | 1426798296 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,166,873,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Identity (A Fina Ludlow Novel) sequel to 2013’s Loyalty; Book 3 'BRUTALITY' is already available | Renata Sanchez, a Boston housing advocate for the working poor in Boston, signed a confidentiality agreement 18 years ago but now she wants her daughter to know more about the anonymous donor (my first thought - sorry Charlie). Lawyer Carl Ludlow is an ambulance chaser who takes on the case (my second thought - people... | [] | 0399162135 | 0399162135 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,166,295,000 | 0 | false |
4 | For the Dexter fans out there | A lighweight story with the usual chases, confrontations, blood & gore, the hero comes out on top with battles getting tougher & tougher, kind of like playing a video game. A twist to this one, assassins hunting and killing each other. The hero has a moral mission. His somewhat as are other good guys.<br /><br />Presum... | [] | 0316259535 | 0316259535 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,164,955,000 | 1 | false |
4 | One big complex family and a love interest. | Crazy obstacles that get solved with a lot of infighting. The romance doesn't build so much as inflates and deflates relentlessly. I am a romantic suspense junkie so I loved it but if you are looking for anything along the lines of a police procedural than stay away or you will feel like a blithering idiot by the half... | [] | 0345543793 | 0345543793 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,160,134,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Debut British Thriller | That devolved, for me, to a sickeningly, unrelentingly violent with no apparent or worthwhile purpose, read - and made me want to re-read every Mrs. Pollifax I have (lol). But enough of the traditional British spy novel to be compelling. Reading to the end it felt cold, sadistic.<br /><br />The Program is walled of fro... | [] | 0385536992 | 0385536992 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,159,778,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Tragic thriller set during the North Dakota oil boom of the last 10 years | Paul Mitchell and Taylor Capparelli, young men who have disappeared from their oil rigs, police assumed they have left town because they can't take the rough conditions or the hard work or the lack social contact.<br /><br />Their mothers hit town and the story takes off. Taylor's mom, Shay, is a single mother who has ... | [] | 1476757828 | 1476757828 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,158,901,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Dry, but easy to read verse | Jack Dana, Yale, Oxford and Harvard educated joined the Marines just after 9/11/2001, sees action in Afghanistan, ends up recovering at Walter Reed Medical Center. His only relative is a successful NY lawyer forced to retirement when he looks closer at the legality of the firm's top client. It get worse for his uncle H... | [] | 0385539142 | 0385539142 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,156,966,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The structure was confusing at first but a natural for the plot. | The stalking story is so well told it became unpleasant but I was compelled to go back and finish reading it after I'd put it down for a couple days. I particularly enjoyed the portrayal of OCD therapy and the PTSD diagnosis applied to an abused woman. the portrait of a hedonist British heterosexual clubbing scene was... | [] | B007HC3LHS | B007HC3LHS | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,150,670,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Mainly enjoyable for me were the stories of her work with different ethnicities and cultures. | I think the authors heart is in her work I just don't think that the intended audience will ever pick the book up. I am trying to remember why I ordered this title, I think it was because it is so outside my usual reading material. And the cover is gorgeous. The author is a Ph.D., teacher, public speaker, counselor, ra... | [] | 1583949437 | 1583949437 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,075,750,000 | 1 | false |
4 | A dramatization of our political world set in 1986 | Whose to say what is truth and what is fiction? A "what if" book based on what is known as truth or is believed as truth. Very Well Written - I just wish my dad were still alive, I think he would have loved it. I was a political science major in college then living in Washington DC from 1983 to 1992 and all of... | [] | 0307907929 | 0307907929 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,074,012,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 9 to 13 | 1964 Jackson Mississippi when segregation was inbred to the way of life going back 400 years. 12 year old Trip Westbrook's family has money, his father is a doctor, and the family can afford a maid. When Trip ask's her son Dee, who is Trip's age to play football in their yard racism raises it's ugly head. As adults tod... | [] | 0553507532 | 0553507532 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,069,538,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 8 to 13 | Set in 1963, the story of 13 year old Arthur whose father was a beloved deadbeat alcoholic who died 3 months ago. He totally loses it one day when he comes home to find his despairing and angry mother has removed all evidence of his father from the home. He runs outside and finds the junk man of the neighborhood lookin... | [] | 0553497286 | 0553497286 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,068,768,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 8 to 12 | Our 8th grader found it mostly unbelievable, our 5th grader and 3rd grader loved it. For those kids who end up loving it, there are 6 titles in the series written by 6 different authors - it appears all have been written and will be published every 2 months.<br /><br />Four girls and four boys, all 12 years old, comin... | [] | 0385386583 | 0385386583 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,066,022,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Montgomery and Taggerts = yum! | Sometimes all I need is a Jude Deveraux novel to make a day brighter. Iv'e been a fan for over 25 yearsI like the author's characters, the romance and the sense of humor.<br /><br />Hallie Hartley is a physical therapist, she inherits a house on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts (The author lives p... | [] | 0345541855 | 0345541855 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,041,007,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The consequences of being human, dealing with life changing mistakes and death | Still mulling this one over, I have kept the book to read again one day. The writing is a joy, the author has the voice of a poet. I didn't read the book as much as I consumed it. My only regret is the characters themselves didn't move me - they had a remote feel to me. The novel got some outstanding reviews so maybe ... | [] | 0385529074 | 0385529074 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,022,650,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Very popular and an excellent story destroyed (for me) by graphic sick sick violence | The author has the talent of John le Carré and the only mystery writer I have read in years that I keep a dictionary handy. The writing is dense, perfect, layered, engaging and just plain brilliant - sometimes poetic. Successfully used all the standard spy novel elements to create a non-standard novel. Suspense, romanc... | [] | 1476793743 | 1476793743 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,020,138,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I was impressed | The story is told to us by New Yorker Jamie Cabot, a young journalist who would rather lose his wife then move. He is working on a expose of the Wylie family. The head of the family has come up dead in a forest, leaving the family run business conglomerate up for grabs (think Rupert Murdoch). Cabot breaks into the Wy... | [] | 1476730814 | 1476730814 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,018,983,000 | 0 | false |
3 | British crime thriller from debut novelist | Detective Inspector Helen Grace is on the hunt for a psychopath who has kidnapped a young couple, and tortures them ending in the death of one (revolting). It get much much worse when it happens again and again before the police can catch the sadistic killer. It gets super creepy when the detective finds the only clu... | [] | 0451475496 | 0451475496 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,017,729,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Drama and mystery stretching from 1989 to 2010, told in flashback. | Compulsively readable and creepy. I did deduce early on where the story was going, and it didn't spoil it for me. I think it would make a good book club slection as there are many moral issues to discuss. | [] | 0812995449 | 0812995449 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,439,016,930,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A fascinating historical novel | The epic life of Rachel (Manzana Pomié) Pissarro, born in 1795 in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (now the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands) and died May 30, 1889 in Paris, France. Her family, parents Moïse and Sara Pomié, were refugees who fled the Portuguese Inquisition (the period lasted 250 years, from 1540 to 179... | [] | 1451693591 | 1451693591 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,437,117,100,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Do yourself a favor and read The Widow File first | I am a Floridian of 21 years as well as a Political Science college graduate and Redemption Key had plenty to offer about both. In Book One (The Widow File) "Dani Danielle Britton and Sinclair “Choo-Choo” Charbaneaux are analysts at Rasmund, an elite security company. Dani has the unnerving ability to read people b... | [] | 1477819606 | 1477819606 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,437,022,183,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Even those I guessed the who-done it I enjoyed the story telling very much | Carddock is the acting chief of police because the small Texas town he lives in is broke and can't afford anyone else. The county prosecutor Jenny Sandstone is a recluse but after her mother dies and Jenny's life is endangered Craddock has to find a way to save her life. I liked Craddock so much as character that I w... | [] | 163388046X | 163388046X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,437,012,395,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Clash of the Kings of Chocolate | Two arch rival families duking it out for the chocolate dollar in the Napa valley of California to the hills of Italy. What happens when the woman from one family and the man from the other family are attracted to each other? Well let's just say it ends better than it did for Romeo and Juliet, but then those two were t... | [] | 0373778759 | 0373778759 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,436,731,440,000 | 0 | false |
3 | New to me author. | I loved the New England setting ( being a 10 generation New Englander myself). However the mom and daughter were not appealing or interesting. The plot never became believable for me and the pace was rarely compelling. I have read rave reviews of the author's other books [[ASIN:0061095052 A Woman's Place]]; [[ASIN:1416... | [] | 1250007046 | 1250007046 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,436,651,532,000 | 1 | false |
5 | the memoir of Lizzie Pepper, | I think anyone who enjoys Jackie Collins (although no sleezey sexy here) or Danielle Steel will enjoy this novel. Lizzie is an actress who was stereotyped in "the-girl-next-door" roles (think Alexis Bledel, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Anniston, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts) when she came to fame on the pop... | [] | 0670016411 | 0670016411 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,436,431,058,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Fictional Emily Dickinson | I was hoping for something fun to read and it started off great. We learn about her family and her home and her obsessions and fears. I visited the Dickinson home in October 2014 so this novel was a real treat.<br /><br />The family hires a new maid, an Irish immigrant, Ada. Emily soaks up all things Ada. The story tu... | [] | 014312675X | 014312675X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,436,338,991,000 | 2 | false |
3 | death of an Orthodox Jewish woman in Rockland County, New York | told in two voices - those of Aviva and Rebekah. I didn't love this one as much as the first novel (below). The story-line of Aviva's brother, Sam. seemed more far fetched then I could credibly believe. This is the author's 2nd novel which they say is the hardest so I still look forward to the 3rd in the series set in ... | [] | 1250043409 | 1250043409 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,436,071,405,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Humorous Crime Adventure series | For fans of author Alexander McCall SMith (I am one). Featuring 26 year old Emily Castles. Like most of us, Emily hasn't found a career she's loves, so she works for a temporary agency in an around London, England UK.<br /><br />The novel takes place in the seaside town of Torquay, the birthplace of Agatha Christie. Wh... | [] | 1477849726 | 1477849726 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,436,023,988,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Would have been perfect, except the heroine is so muddle headed | She makes one bad decision after another from the age of 19 to the last page of the book at age 32 - ARGH! There are so many twists in the book that telling you about the plot any further would spoil it. You have to read it to believe it.<br /><br />Excellent book club choice! | [] | 0312610769 | 0312610769 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,999,481,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Terrific Who Done it Police Procedural | This was one of the best mysteries this year. 1997, after working homicide for 20+ in NYC, Lynch is the new Chief of Police in small town Connecticut. The crime solving was perfectly executed. By the last page I was was hoping to have another Lynch novel waiting for me, he is a great character. The descriptions of all ... | [] | 1633880788 | 1633880788 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,990,634,000 | 1 | false |
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