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4 | Spoiler Free review | 33 year old Oxford educated dropout and unaccomplished Richard “Richie” Cathar, is about to get himself in his own adventure in wonderland.<br /><br />His father, Alaric, has recently died. They weren't close. Alaric had an unsatisfied historical academic obsession with Richard the Lionhearted and Robin Hood. Alaric al... | [] | 1620401835 | 1620401835 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,963,371,000 | 0 | false |
5 | a Labor of Love | The author clearly loves and adores the current Brooklyn avant garde bohemian cultural scene. The profusion of pictures are simply amazing in their intensity and capture the subject thoroughly.<br /><br />My Favorite of the profiles is for "the Yankee" a 100 year old 3 tier Ferry Board in Red Hook that is now converted... | [] | 1580934285 | 1580934285 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,947,045,000 | 1 | false |
3 | I just never believed it - any of it | Bailey Carpenter and her stoner brother, Heath, inherited their father's fortune. They are sued by their father's children from other mothers for their share of dad's wealth. Bailey, living in a Miami high-rise and driving a Porsche, is having an affair with her married boss (a lawyer). Bailey is a sort of Kinsey Milho... | [] | 0553390635 | 0553390635 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,716,250,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Thriller set in Exeter, England | I could have done without the Killer's cruelty to the cat, the explicit killings, the at times implausible plot threads, otherwise I enjoyed it especially that it kept me guessing who done it til the end.<br /><br />Kara Small, Livy Jackson's younger sister, was murdered 18 years ago when she was a college student. Liv... | [] | 1250033993 | 1250033993 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,557,065,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A anthology of eyewitness accounts by those who forged the American frontier. | From 1526 to 1898: Explorers, priests, pioneers, fur trappers, cavalry, cowmen first-hand accounts of the bloody conflicts between the whites and the Indians that marked the westward passage of the American frontier. | [] | B00127C8X2 | B00127C8X2 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,555,579,000 | 1 | false |
4 | 1562 - I loved all the politics and current events of the time. | Robert Mack is the third Laird of Berwickshire. The left side of his face is hideously scarred and he has always masked it. Robert arrives in France hoping that the great healer, Nostradamus, can help him. There he comes upon, Violette Cherier, a blind girl, beautiful with a personality almost painful to read about, ... | [] | 1477808000 | 1477808000 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,417,476,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Southern Police procedural #3 in a series | A book that you keep changing your mind about who done it all the way through. I loved the Alabama locale, Detective Leah Teal, her relationship with Det. Dan Truitt and her relationship with her teenage children. Now I need to go back and read the first titles in the series.<br /><br />BOOK #1 DREAM WITH LITTLE ANGELS... | [] | 1617737372 | 1617737372 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,416,309,000 | 0 | false |
3 | sequel to 2011’s Kill Switch, with Dr. Claire Waters a New York City forensic psychologist | Claire, the suspense, and the reveal were all winners and highlights of the book for me. I was totally looking forward to this novel. I am a devoted watcher of the TV show Law & Order SVU . I am not sure where the disconnect is, what hampered my enjoyment were:<br /><br />Rosa Sanchez's story. The woman could rival Mel... | [] | 0758266871 | 0758266871 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,414,306,000 | 0 | false |
5 | a story stretching over 20 years 1995 to 2015 | The story, set in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, played out longer then I would have liked - mostly because I was on pins and needles wanting to know the ending, but also because I didn't put it down until the last page it was that compelling. This was a terrific thriller, mystery character study that kept me in suspense th... | [] | 0804177996 | 0804177996 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,385,878,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Historical Fiction, 1881 to 1905, the twilight decades of the Qing dynasty | And the epic horror that was the Boxer Rebellion. Debut novel for the Canadian-born author of Austrian and British descent, she has lived in Asia, Europe and is a graduate of Wellesley College.<br /><br />Sai Jinhua is a 7 year old orphan, her father executed for a political crime. She is sold to a whore house, a brot... | [] | 0525955135 | 0525955135 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,362,892,000 | 2 | false |
4 | I enjoyed it very much, indeed | debut novel set in 1983 told by recent widow Amaterasu Takahashi reading a journal from her daughter, Yuko, who has not been heard from since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that ended World War 2 and led to Ama's living in Philadelphia. The journal is delivered by a badly scarred man, her grandson. The story has sever... | [] | 0143128256 | 0143128256 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,350,715,000 | 3 | false |
4 | debut novel, a town on the banks of Lake Superior | Bayfield, Wisconsin and the Apostle Islands. Shelby Meyers has always lived with her grandparents after her mother, Jackie, pursued a career and fame that never happened. Following the death of her lover when they were in college, Shelby runs the family apple orchard currently struggling though. Wealthy city boy, Ryan... | [] | 1617735248 | 1617735248 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,349,590,000 | 1 | false |
4 | 1972, Peckinpaw, Kentucky, now unsegragated but still plenty bigoted | The novel opens on Hark Hill Plantation with the hanging of the slave Frannie Crow.<br /><br />Fash forward to 1972 and Mudas "Muddy" Summers' 17th birthday, she lives with her lawyer father because her mom remarried to a thug.<br /><br />Ella, her mother, is found dead, hanging from the rafters of their home. ... | [] | 161773733X | 161773733X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,348,804,000 | 0 | false |
4 | historic Memphis, Tennessee overlooking the Mississippi River | This story of renovations of a house and a family is told in 3 parts by each of the twenty-something cousins (and BFFs). Secrets, disappointments, heartbreaks, career fails, weddings, sisters, ego, friendship and ambition all collide.<br /><br />Lizzie: dreaming of a spot on the Olympic soccer team, is an only child wh... | [] | 0062130544 | 0062130544 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,346,873,000 | 0 | false |
4 | debut author, set in a small Southern town | First off this woman has one strike against her,since birth being named, Beulah Land, by her Baptist parents. Add to that getting pregnant at age 16 and being discarded by her "family" who gave her that insensitive name. Further tragedy in her life has pushed her away from her religious beliefs. BL is a plucky ... | [] | 161773568X | 161773568X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,337,682,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Downer | Lucy has been living her dream. All her plans have some to fruition. She is soon to be working in the White House for the President of the United States. I was a political science major in college and this sounds like my dream come true.<br /><br />The Downer is Lucy's mentally challenged sister Alice is now dead. Lucy... | [] | 1617736554 | 1617736554 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,335,467,000 | 3 | false |
3 | The Fitzgibbon Family of small town Oliver's Well Virginia | Paddy is the owner of the landscaping business.<br /><br />75 year old Mary Bernadette is his wife of 54 years. She has never unfrozen from the death of their child, 50 years ago.<br /><br />Their daughter, Grace, is a nun - and my favorite character<br /><br />Their son, Pat, a successful lawyer, and has been Mary Ber... | [] | 0758293496 | 0758293496 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,334,440,000 | 0 | false |
3 | set in the town of Serenity, South Carolina. | More a woman's story than a romance. Adelia Hernandez, was in a loveless marriage to a no good cad, Ernesto. She packs up their 4 children (Tomas, Selena, Natalia & Juanita), she finds a job in a high end boutique after raising children for 15 years, and they move to South Carolina into a swank home in the historic par... | [] | 0778316424 | 0778316424 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,299,558,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The cover heart captured my attention | Shy and overweight in high school until the bullies drove her out of school, 18 year old Lireinne Hooten, her mom is no longer in the picture, lives with her stepfather (an all around good guy who needs to hold down 2 jobs to keep them out of poverty, so he doesn't have much time at home) and 15 year old half-brother i... | [] | 0758295146 | 0758295146 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,209,653,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ages 10 to 13 | I thought it was adorable and compelling, our 10 year old loved it. Kit the Raccoon is an orphan, bloodhounds killed his mom and dad. Kit flees the forest for the city where like Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' he must make his way surrounded by evil-doers and new friends.<br /><br />There is also a mystery to be solved... | [] | 0399170995 | 0399170995 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,208,921,000 | 1 | false |
4 | ages 14 and up | I enjoyed it and our 14 year old loved it. Better to read the first novel before, I felt I could have enjoyed this novel a lot more - I think much of the story hinged on Book#1 [[ASIN:0385753896 Now That You're Here (Duplexity, Part I)]].<br /><br />In book one (see summary below) we have 15 year old Danny#1 enter the... | [] | 0385753926 | 0385753926 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,206,912,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Terrific cover | I enjoyed it, but I am a news junkie and historical fiction is right up my alley. I was captivated reading an article by the author, I read on-line in The Guardian this earlier this month, "my-hero-mazie-gordon-phillips". The author took the profile of Mazie, written in the magazine The New Yorker 75 years ago... | [] | 1455599891 | 1455599891 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,206,263,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Gay erotica romance time travel reincarnation historical fiction | Book 3 stands on it's own but you will get more out of it by reading the 2 earlier titles. Arthur is now a 43 year old ex-marine. Jeremy is now 24 and a white hot mess, college drop-out, boozer and drug abuser, throwing his money away on users posing as lovers. If you have not read the earlier titles the plot summaries... | [] | 1477817972 | 1477817972 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,040,903,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 15 and up | Book 3 in a trilogy. The debut author recreates the Arthurian legend from a Christian perspective where Merlin is not a druid but is a Christian.<br /><br />I was a huge fan of Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy when I was a teenager, if this title fails to appeal to your teen reader I would recommend<br /> [[ASIN:006054825... | [] | 0310735092 | 0310735092 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,037,728,000 | 0 | false |
4 | A book of farcical magical realism | A romantic comedy with child abuse, cancer, drunks and suicide is certainly original, but perhaps not everyone's beaker of tea. However the dialogue was LOL dementedly funny. Her first book 'Shine, Shine, Shine' sounded like a white hot mess: a pregnant woman suffering with alopecia, her astronaut husband in outer spa... | [] | 1250047021 | 1250047021 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,435,036,996,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Dark and twisted told with wit and insight | I have been a fan of the author since listening to him read from his short story "Jesus is my BFF" at the Sailnts and Sinner's event in New Orleans in 2010 you can find the story in this collection [[ASIN:1608640353 Saints + Sinners 2010: New Fiction from the Festival]].<br /><br />This is a terrific collection of 4 st... | [] | 1617734756 | 1617734756 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,956,190,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Young Adult thriller | Far fetched and I just didn't care about Jane, Harper or Isabel - they never seemed real to me. Jane is a recent college graduate. Frank is a police officer. Jane gets pregnant and Frank strong arms her to get an abortion. Jane escapes his ever increasing malevolence a flees to the Pacific North West. She gives birth t... | [] | 1617733253 | 1617733253 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,954,045,000 | 0 | false |
4 | First in a planned 7 book series, each focusing on a different sister. | Historical Romance - which is a favorite genre for me. I assume the last novel will wrap up each sister's story because, while this title did have an ending for one sister, it didn't feel like her journey was complete at the end. Also, I am guessing that as the series unfolds the sisters as a family unit will also unf... | [] | 1476759901 | 1476759901 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,878,252,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Vienna circa 1993 | Intelligent, well done writing. The setting of Eastern European atmosphere is picturesque. The slow pace hampered my enjoyment. The characters were rather wooden. Historians may enjoy the plot, others may tune out.<br /><br />The Cold War has ended a few years earlier, Sam Kramer, an American foreign correspondent in V... | [] | 1497690471 | 1497690471 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,789,244,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Told in the 1st person, you've got Russians, Mexicans and a retired agent - I think the market is over saturated at the moment. | Originally published under the name 'KROKODIL' in 2014. This version has been re-written and edited. "Five years ago, an unspeakable tragedy brought an early retirement to Jeremiah “Hawk” Tate’s career as a DEA agent. Without looking back he retreated from the desert sands of the southwest to the rugged wilderness ... | [] | 1477830065 | 1477830065 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,787,507,000 | 0 | false |
3 | #4 in the thriller/romance series set in Sacramento California | featuring feisty Private Investigator hero, 32 year old Lizzy Gardner, and her FBI lover, and soul mate, Jared. There is more evil and greed in this book then anyone should have to experience, violence from the inside emanating out. But oddly I didn't find it a compelling read. Not your average thriller. I included the... | [] | 1477824154 | 1477824154 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,786,258,000 | 1 | false |
3 | #5 finds ex Army Ranger, ex-elite CIA operative recovering at home on the coast of Maine | After reading all the fabulous reviews I have put this on the bookcase to try again in a couple years because I thought it was pretty silly, cliche and the characters kinda wooden. I guess I have read one too many novels with the Russian mafia, black markets, Mexican drug lords and terrorists (Chechen jihadists) with n... | [] | 1250043166 | 1250043166 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,779,629,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Read the other titles first | I was looking forward to another crazy, thrilling, funny, adventure and this was none of those *sigh*. Will hope for more in:<br /><br />RACKED (A Lt. Jack Daniels / Nicholas Colt mystery) by Jude Hardin and J.A. Konrath (Nov 1, 2013) -<br />RATTLED (A Nicholas Colt Story) by Jude Hardin (Dec 8, 2013) -<br />COLT (A N... | [] | 1477809708 | 1477809708 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,604,089,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Merlin, Magic, Mystery | But not much romance. Laura Matthews, wants to bear a child, she believes her hectic London lifestyle is the cause of her infertility. She and her husband, Dan the man, buy a cozy cottage far from the madding crowd, in Wales. Hubby heads to London for the week while she plans to pamper herself and paint. Rhys, the hunk... | [] | 1250069688 | 1250069688 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,601,161,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Book #2 - set 5 years after The High Druid's Blade | A terrific adventure, fast paced, highly entertaining. Paxon Leah is the Defender of the Druids using 'the Sword of Leah'. Arcannen Rai, is a sorcerer bent on evil. Young Reyn Frosch’s Wishsong is Arcannen's target. Avelene, a Druid, teams up with Paxon to foil Arcannen once again.<br /><br />BOOK #1 The High Druid's... | [] | 0345540794 | 0345540794 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,434,599,724,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Not as lol as I was thinking it would be | and a whole lot more angst. Cassandra and Sylvie have known each other since high school and in 2003 graduated from ultra expensive and small Bennington College (founded in 1932 for the daughters of the well to do). Sylvie heads to NYC with the ambition of starting a business. Cassandra stays in Boston looking to have ... | [] | 0385538960 | 0385538960 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,901,324,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Historical Fiction - Aviator Beryl Markham (1902-1986) | A 'what if' story about an actual person, the fascinating Beryl Markham, she who first flew solo across the ocean from Ireland to Canada in 1936. Lost to popular history, I first learned of Beryl Markham with the very fun made-for-TV movie starring Stahnie Powers (about 25 years ago)[[ASIN:6304113447 Shadow on the Sun ... | [] | 0345534182 | 0345534182 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,898,491,000 | 2 | false |
5 | students of legal wrangling will love this | Written by the professor of constitutional law at New York University. I picked this title after watching "Speak Now: Conversation with Kenji Yoshino" on YouTube. The book was a dry read for me - not boring, just not as sensational as you would expect such a hot button issue to be. This was a case I followed closely at... | [] | 0385348800 | 0385348800 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,897,471,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Mystery thriller | New to me author. The premise sounds awesome, and I read a few of the postive reviews, but the story didn't live up to the expectations. Mostly I credit that to my dislike of the protagonist. As father's day comes around his utter disregard for his father over the last 18 years not to mention his deceit towards his sis... | [] | 0525954619 | 0525954619 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,895,017,000 | 2 | false |
2 | Bummed. | Like reading a collection of personal blogs, written without any soul or insight. What insight I did glean was that the author mixed in a social circle, and lived a lifestyle, that had little meaning or depth. I am sure that is not true. I chalk it up to this being a debut for the author and those memoir skills have no... | [] | 082530783X | 082530783X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,862,684,000 | 2 | false |
5 | #3 in the Ellie Stone series. Noir mystery. | Written in 1st person. New Year’s Eve, 1960 in a small mill town in northern New York.Luckily for the 24 year old reporter looking to make a name for herself in the in the male dominated field she has a terrific sense of humor, it gets her through some tough spots (and made for some laughs for me). Highly entertaining... | [] | 1633880486 | 1633880486 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,861,312,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Everything was kinda quaint and superficial. | I felt like I was reading a book designed for young adults - like Nancy Drew set in Brooklyn NY 120 years ago, though exposing Thomas Alva Edison and JP Morgan as nefarious evil doers was unexpected in a YA book.<br /><br />The author has 23 writer/producer credits on hit TV shows: Seinfeld, 7th Heaven, Roseanne, Fan... | [] | 0553418920 | 0553418920 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,742,098,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Terrific concept | The novel unfolds in four reveals. On the Upper West side of Manhattan, New York City, 11 year old daughter and 15 year old son of a philanderer open a package intended for their mother containing their father's steamy correspondence with his girlfriend - yeah a big ewwwwwww!<br /><br />Where it missed the mark for me ... | [] | 0812995228 | 0812995228 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,698,793,000 | 3 | false |
3 | #5 in the Hugo Marston series | The author's 2nd novel The Crypt Thief was a 5 star read, this one didn't do it for me - I think it would have made a good buddy movie with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau. Hugo is now working at the American embassy in Paris, he and his CIA partner in crime solving, Tom Green, head off to Barcelona looking for MIA 19 yea... | [] | 1633880028 | 1633880028 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,624,523,000 | 3 | false |
4 | her 70th stand alone title - a truly heartfelt story | 81 series titles and 44 novellas/short stories. So if you enjoyed this title you have a lot to look forward to. You can really tell the author put her heart and soul into this title.<br /><br />18 year old Cassie is the middle daughter in her family (living in Spokane, Washington) when she leaves them all behind to run... | [] | 0553391887 | 0553391887 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,574,980,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Romance for readers who enjoy christianity in their fiction | Taryn McKenna is woebegone and vows to stop living her life feeling like she has a kick me sign around her neck - she's a teacher of 11 to 14 year olds in rural North Carolina and is the first in her immediate family to persue a college degree. Her eloved grandmother, Jemma, has been given a terminal diagnosis. Taryn w... | [] | 1426773617 | 1426773617 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,517,243,000 | 1 | false |
5 | A Classic - set in the roaring 1920's of Chicago | Very gritty very lurid. Originally published in 1956 by the tremendous writer Meyer Levin. A fictionalization of the infamous Leopold & Loeb murder of 1924 that was made into a movie of the same name in 1959. Come to find out, the author worked the 1924 murder as a cub reporter barely out of high school. | [] | 1941493025 | 1941493025 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,486,185,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Awesome Premise | I couldn't wait to start this book. A novel exploring the rest of the story, after the happily ever after. It was amazing, intense, insightfully written, but I never felt I knew the whole story I never got resolution, I didn't expect the characters to find all the answers but as the reader it was why I was reading the ... | [] | 1400062128 | 1400062128 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,481,310,000 | 1 | false |
4 | a perfect vacation read | In this alternate universe, crime syndicates control everything (kind of like The Godfather on steroids), but behind the scenes, so the little people, like us readers, have no clue that they do. Because I was on vacation, and the writing is so compelling, I was really able to enjoy this adventure thriller.<br /><br />T... | [] | 0345483944 | 0345483944 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,392,189,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Orthodox American Pie | The 5 star reviews are what led me to order this debut memoir. If you remember your horny teenage years as something hilarious and can't let go of - this is the book for you.<br /><br />Tt got old - quick. Maybe that is the key, read a few pages until you get a laugh then put it on ice for a year and read a few pages ... | [] | 1250067227 | 1250067227 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,387,887,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Jory Quanbeck, not yet 14, but coming of age in 1970 (I remember it well). | Jory's parents have a lovely bomb shlter in the family garage - deep in the heart of Arco, Idaho - the red menace was still alive and well for the parents - I can only imagine what 9/11 will do for them. Dad is a Harvard-educated astronomer. Mom is pretty much a no show with migraines taking her out of the family mix.... | [] | 0525427422 | 0525427422 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,297,279,000 | 2 | false |
4 | First published in the UK in 2013 | Hard to say you 'like' a book when it involves a 5 year old who has been abused his whole life, until he is taken from his adoring but horribly manipulated and misguided mother, then placed into a loving family. Powerful story. Thank goodness there are comic elements, many coming from the commentary of Nikki's sister C... | [] | 1590517091 | 1590517091 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,255,284,000 | 0 | false |
5 | a tragic thriller with elements of farce and comic cynicism | Opening during the fall of Saigon, the nameless protagonist-narrator we come to call 'the Captain' is the son of a Vietnamese mother and a French Catholic priest raised in the US. I don't think I am revealing too much to say that he is playing both sides in this war, a double agent publicly a South Vietnamese soldier ... | [] | 0802123457 | 0802123457 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,167,097,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Terrific premise and a nice debut | The combination of stories one set today and the other beginning in 1908 and flashing forward to the depression of the 1930's was more distracting then enhancing.<br /><br />Claire “Neely” O’Neil flees her crumbling marriage, leaves New York City and returns to her hometown of Millcreek Valley, Ohio. Neely tells her s... | [] | 0425277321 | 0425277321 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,135,843,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 4th edition Mar 2015; Next edition due: Mar 2017 | Having never been to France (my parents had gone a few times) and having enjoyed reading many titles fiction and non-fiction set in France this has been a wonderful edition to our home. It fills a niche that the internet can't. I have been flipping through a few pages a day for over a month now marking and highlighting... | [] | 1743214065 | 1743214065 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,134,604,000 | 0 | false |
5 | the mini edition is the way to go | I loved it on site. The size is ideal. I loved the quality of the paper and the art work, the variety of calming thoughts, words, actions. Ideal for gift giving. Keep one at work to start your day. Read a page over breakfast and before bed to put you in a good place to start your day and send you sleep. I wouldn't chan... | [] | 1743607598 | 1743607598 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,133,485,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Debut winner! | both readers in our family hope the author has more books in him. We enjoyed the novel tremendously. It was very enlightening and we both gobbled it up. Sometimes it wasn't easy to follow but that did not hinder our enjoyment. I don't feel like the ending answered all my questions but we eagerly await the next novel fr... | [] | 0525954864 | 0525954864 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,116,800,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Compellingly readable New England Gothic | The first half consumed me it was all so plausible and the characters so vividly alive. I too attended a private college and was exposed to the children of the well to do for the first time.<br /><br />The is Geneva "Ev", her authoritarian parents Birch and Tilde, her oldest brother, Athol and his perfect family, 2nd b... | [] | 0804138567 | 0804138567 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,089,174,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Debut | The 90 page first chapter was not to my liking, the large cast of characters tumbled one after another onto the page without much happening, however the book got better and better so stick with it.<br /><br />First published in Germany in 2012 (Jean-Luc Bannalec is a pen name for Jorg Bong, a publisher), then in Engli... | [] | 1250061741 | 1250061741 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,085,733,000 | 0 | false |
5 | A Vivid story stretching over the last 50 years | for those who love 1978's Big Wednesday or 1966's Endless Summer or 1991's Point Break, 2012's Chasing Mavericks this is the memoir for you. Incredibly well written by a life long surfer, war correspondent and writer for over 30 years at the literary magazine The New Yorker.<br /><br />Born in New York in 1952, raised ... | [] | 1594203474 | 1594203474 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,052,619,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Debut novlist - the story is set in the English countryside | Dorothy Eden, Phyllis Whitney, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Daphne DuMaurier readers should enjoy this psychological, thriller mystery. The resolution was a bit uneven however everything leading up to it keeps you guessing and turning the page for explanation. You realize my the last page that the clues where right in ... | [] | 1501112317 | 1501112317 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,021,179,000 | 8 | false |
5 | Ages 9 and up | If Steven King were writing children's books. The reader is riveted by the storytelling and the illustrations. The author does not talk down to the reader so any age can enjoy it. If your child has a good imagination and scares more easily then others you might want to hold off giving to them until they are in 6th grad... | [] | 148143232X | 148143232X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,433,011,432,000 | 1 | false |
3 | small town, fairy tale, happily ever after fiction | Broght to you by Abingdon Press, the book publishing arm of the United Methodist Publishing House which publishes sheet music, ministerial resources, Bible-study aids, and other items, often with a focus on Methodism and Methodists.<br /><br />This family isn't the smartest folks in Missouri. Mom and Dad raise 5 childr... | [] | 1426769695 | 1426769695 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,945,213,000 | 1 | false |
4 | ages 14 to 17 | 16 year olds Marla Klein & Ivy Wilde live in the near future, where 'Brave New World' meets 'Project Runway.' The world has become youth-obsessed to the point where teens decide fashion and entertainment (a horror story for adults, a cautionary tale for teenagers). Chewable strawberry "placid-ophilus pills" skim away... | [] | 054438850X | 054438850X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,899,918,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Everything you wanted to know about the drug cartel but were afraid to ask | Translated from Italian, profiles the drug trade, Columbia to Mexico to the user, that is fueled by psychopaths, sadists, and people with absolutely no understanding of humanity. The book presents a mountain of evidence of the bloodshed, torture, blood, gore and death. At times florid, at other times statistical.<br /... | [] | 1594205507 | 1594205507 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,898,676,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Ages 8 to 11 | The publisher's of [[ASIN:0765330342 A Dog's Purpose]] have taken that adult title, extracted a portion, and developed into a child's novel.<br /><br />Ellie is a search-and-rescue dog. Jakob and Myra are her trainers. Well written and no one dies. | [] | 0765374692 | 0765374692 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,879,436,000 | 0 | false |
3 | From the author of The Death of Bees | 11 year-old Michael Murray, living on a island off the mainland of Scotland in the 1980's, doesn't like the bruises on his mother's face, especially not knowing how they got there. Things are not easy at the moment, his father is out of work and living on social welfare, There is more than a little coarse language and ... | [] | 006227189X | 006227189X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,878,885,000 | 1 | false |
4 | I am a food addict | FAVORITES:<br />@ food designed to boost immunity, increase vitality, support recovery, and prevent relapse.<br />@ Daily practices in breathing, meditation, and yoga if you are in to that<br />@ the author tells of his own past struggles with addiction ( (alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, freebase, heroin)<br />@the author... | [] | 1401944485 | 1401944485 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,877,799,000 | 0 | false |
4 | History fans will enjoy this debut | Germany after the close of World War 2.<br /><br />Mason Collins, Chicago homicide police, fired for corruption, the US Army took him and he was captured at the Battle of Bulge, was sent to a concentration camp at Buchenwald on the way to a POW camp. Now he is working a gruesome murder investigation for the Army.<br /... | [] | 0425278956 | 0425278956 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,877,064,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Except in Ireland where it really is over | "age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life" and if people would just mind their own business (MYOB) would the world be a happier place?<br /><br />The author illustrates this point in stories - I think this is an ideal book for any opened minded civics lesson. | [] | 0544381009 | 0544381009 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,790,916,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Alternate universe where science has eroded into memory | This novel was all over the place. I'll try to give you the gist of the story spoiler free.<br /><br />Rowan Van Zandt tells the story of his family. They live in a land of noir. He and his twin brother have no future after getting in trouble. His father had a nowhere job until an altercation at work put an end to even... | [] | 1627791523 | 1627791523 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,627,092,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Sophie's choice | 36 year old Sophie and her husband married too young and are no longer the couple who fell in love as teenagers, so when he disrespects her, himself and their marriage by cheating on her then fessing up that his new younger girlfriend is who he wants to be with, and to heck with the marriage, Sophie does the only sensi... | [] | 0345545516 | 0345545516 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,625,857,000 | 0 | false |
5 | T-Minus Two opens like the start of a horse race - And They're Off! | Sadly I devoured this book in a day, I say sadly because I look forward to reading this author's titles before they are published, probably before they are written - lol. MacGregor is compulsively readable, some of her titles are classics that are never to be forgotten and have been read by me multiple times (The Hous... | [] | 1594934525 | 1594934525 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,623,182,000 | 5 | false |
5 | A good unforgettable story - a 600 page epic | A vivid depiction of the horror that Mexico has become in the grip of the psychopaths and sadomasochists who run the drug cartels in a country where the government can not protect their countrymen, women and children. The story of Pablo the newspaper man and the people who love their country will be embedded in my mind... | [] | 1101874996 | 1101874996 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,619,961,000 | 2 | false |
3 | 4 generations of tragedy | tragedy culminating in extreme violence - so maybe not for the under 18 crowd. There's a lot of drama, heartbreak, depression and out of place violence for one book, so make sure you are in the right mindset if you are going to enjoy the novel of magical realism.<br /><br />taking a family over 80 years from France to... | [] | 0763665665 | 0763665665 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,596,756,000 | 0 | false |
5 | My first thought was isn't the info already in the Bible? | As a child, a Catholic post Vatican 2, I could never understand why Passover was such an important part of our catechism, so integral to huge events in both the old and new testaments of the Bible, so key to the story of Jesus - yet we didn't observe it.<br /><br />This book is for those Christians who haven't reached ... | [] | 1426791569 | 1426791569 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,574,301,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 1943 | A beautifully written novel. Is there such a thing as a character drive action adventure historical fiction? Set 16 months after Pearl Harbor, the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska are invaded by the Japanese. The story opens as John, a journalist covering the war as a freelancer, is just coming to after jumpin... | [] | 0062279971 | 0062279971 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,556,739,000 | 1 | false |
5 | the feel of a gothic novel | Suspenseful modern gothic mystery that you won't want to put down as you race to the last page, and then you will read the last 3 chapters a second time just to wring every drop of truth that finally unfolds.<br /><br />S K Tremayne is the pseudonym of British writer and journalist and blogger Sean Thomas (he also uses... | [] | 1455586056 | 1455586056 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,554,753,000 | 1 | false |
3 | what an amazing premise - how could I not want to read it - I had to know how it ended. | Rose has dreamed of a magical island and a boy named Hugo since she was 6 years old, in her dreams they have grown up together and it has been wonderful.<br /><br />During the day Rose has it pretty good also, mother to 3 children, her husband, Josh, a surgeon the only huge issue is he is not a 9 to 5 guy. However, her... | [] | 1250055792 | 1250055792 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,530,867,000 | 1 | false |
4 | What an interesting person | I was not disappointed, the author is smart and certainly knows how to tell a story. I have watched Fox local news but none of their other news programming, so the author was familiar to me, but in name only. The picture on the cover was a little off-putting (reminded me of the demented Reese Witherspoon character in ... | [] | 0525427457 | 0525427457 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,529,618,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Ages 15 to 18 | Physically Identical twin sisters Ella & Maddy. Ella is smart and quiet, Maddy is a Paris Hilton/Lindsey Lohan bad girl.<br /><br />Picking Maddy up late on night, they argue, Ella loses control of the car and Maddy dies.<br /><br />Ella awakes concussed, people believe she is Maddy so she does too. She keeps Maddy's i... | [] | 0374300461 | 0374300461 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,527,253,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 1964 Milltown Massachusettes Noir | 24 year old Eileen is a secretary at a boys’ prison living with her drunk father in their dilapidated house (I can't think of it as a home). In the dark days of winter Eileen 's look at her life is Sylvia Plath bleak. Enter Rebecca Saint John, the new education director at the prison, and the catalyst that that takes t... | [] | 1594206627 | 1594206627 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,526,298,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Ages 11 to 18 | Our 13 year old was riveted and kept us all involved in the story at dinnertime. 11-year-old Ari is homeless, her parents are dead. She and her brother, Gage, have been living with Janna, a friend of their mom.<br /><br />19 year old Gage and Janna clash. Gage moves out and Ari follows him however they have no place ... | [] | 0763663239 | 0763663239 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,525,319,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Perfect for educational purposes | I would have not cracked this open on my own as a kid ages 7 to 12. You can see for yourself (a 20 page sample can be found here - deep blue kids bible web page; downloads; "DBKBsampler.pdf") the contents are more textbook like, and while excellent, nothing will ever replace the bible of my childhood [[ASIN:B00162FH7W ... | [] | 1609260813 | 1609260813 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,524,738,000 | 0 | false |
4 | a secluded cottage off the coast of Maine | A perfect lazy summer, light-hearted read, although it did cause some angst when I realized I won't be visiting the New England coast this year for the first time in 9 years.<br /><br />Lottie Wilkes, the mother of a pre-schooler living in what has become a hot address: Park Slope Brooklyn.<br /><br />Rose, her tiny to... | [] | 0525429050 | 0525429050 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,522,456,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I kept waiting for Paul Harvey tell me the other part of the story | More drama then you would find in most fiction. The author is an associate professor of artificial intelligence at DePaul University. He had a concussion in 1999. Post concussion he was barely functional. In 2001 he began treatment with Donalee Markus, a cognitive specialist, and Deborah Zelinsky, an optometrist using ... | [] | 0525426566 | 0525426566 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,521,341,000 | 1 | false |
4 | If REM and Nirvana had never found fame this would be their story | A memoir by an indie rock guitarist, "I liked playing music that came from the head, guts, and crotch. Anything else was pointless. If you weren't going for power—or just to be really weird, or to do something that hadn't already been done a thousand times, or something big—I didn't understand why [you would play],... | [] | 067002659X | 067002659X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,500,437,000 | 0 | false |
4 | New to me author writing best sellers since 1995 | I enjoyed this enough that I am looking to read her best-sellers, 'Watermelon', 'Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married', and 'This Charming Man'.<br /><br />The novel opens with Stella Sweeney living in Dublin, Ireland getting her life back together. Two years earlier she was unhappily married, working with her sister in th... | [] | 0525429255 | 0525429255 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,471,671,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Plum Kettle writes a teenage advice column and dreams of being skinny, she's 300 pounds, | The author's dry humor had me at hello. Going through a post menopause fat phase myself, I found this novel uproariously funny. If you are in the mood for a LOL read I don't see how you can go wrong. Only thing, I could never agree that being overweight can be considered healthy (unless your target is to not age gracef... | [] | 054437343X | 054437343X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,446,970,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Memoir, more dark than comic | Well written memoir of growing up gay in Eastern Texas (Beaumont) in the 1970's & 80's with a mother who was part Auntie Mame, part Joan Crawford. His story of how he spiraled into booze, sex, drugs and HIV should be required reading for any person considering becoming a parent.<br /><br />On the rail about whether to ... | [] | 1250041155 | 1250041155 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,445,072,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Ages 17 and up | This book is the quirkiest I have read in a long long time. There is drugs, sex, booze, not exactly what I am looking for in the under 17 reading lineup.In the future you know the day you will die. So 17-year-old Denton has made the best of things knowing that tomorrow , the day of his senior prom, will be his last (im... | [] | 0553496964 | 0553496964 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,440,297,000 | 1 | false |
2 | 28 pages including Black & White art work | The subject matter was too adult and maybe too dry for the under 10 years of age set while the 28 page format was too short for the over 11 year old set. Extracted from the 70 page section of the author's epic and well received book The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy) P... | [] | 1627791132 | 1627791132 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,439,510,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 11 to 13 | Death, mother in prison for a felony, no count father, drunk uncle, set in post World War 2 circa 1947 - I just don't see this as something an 8 year is ready for. The cover art would indicate otherwise. And I got this for my 9 year old but after reading it myself I tried to turn it over to the 14 year old in the famil... | [] | 0805080228 | 0805080228 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,437,605,000 | 2 | false |
3 | I was delighted at the premise but the story didn't go where I had hoped. | The War Between the States or The War of Northern Aggression aka The Civil War, a war that has never become history to some Americans.<br /><br />1855 sisters Josephine & Libby, ages 14 & 13, BFFs until Libby is swept off her feet by her new beau Arden.<br /><br />1862 and twenty-one year old Arden is killed in action ... | [] | 0544400003 | 0544400003 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,436,965,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Pure Staten Island | Bobby Jr. is the son of a firefighter killed on 9/11, in 7 days his extended family will gather to celebrate his 10th birthday. There are conflicts galore, Grandma Gail resents her husband Michael and the career choices he has made, their oldest son Peter became a Wall Street power broker whose career and family are cr... | [] | 0525427295 | 0525427295 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,434,338,000 | 0 | false |
3 | 1943, World War 2 London is in ruins after 4 years of war | Unhappily married Stella has a passionate romance with US airman Dan Rosinski. 70 years later Dan is in his 90's, with only weeks to live, and is once again trying to find Stella and writes her a letter. The letter is delivered to a home occupied by Jess, a woman taking refuge from an abusive boyfriend. I think this n... | [] | 1250066778 | 1250066778 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,431,307,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Ages 12 to 13 | If you have not read book one you will be coming right in the middle to the story so it may help to read the summary of book 1 (below).<br />The story takes place in Aquavania. It reminded me of Alice's 'Noir' Adventures in Wonderland.<br /><br />This book has an open-ended conclusion so you might want to wait for book... | [] | 0374363110 | 0374363110 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,430,236,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 7 to 10 | Russell and his BFFs have won a spot on a reality TV show similar to The Amazing Race. Russell and his peeps will be traveling the world. The 7 year old loved it, the 9 year too. The 50 year thought that cheaters in the book got off easy. | [] | 0545773539 | 0545773539 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,102,436,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ages 9 to 11 | First off, I love the name Bowzer, Love, love , love it - I giggle anytime one of the kids says it out loud. Set in rural Louisiana the story centers around 11 year old Birdie and her grandmother (bait and swamp tour shop). Priceless. | [] | 0545643317 | 0545643317 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,101,230,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Tug Wyler #2 | Personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer, Tug is back. My favorite part? The author is able to tell a suspenseful mystery without blood & gore.<br /><br />Cookie is a stripper who returns to work in Halo Ring brace on her head and body following treatment from an on the job injury. It probably is not PC to find ... | [] | 1497662761 | 1497662761 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,432,014,907,000 | 0 | false |
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