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New to the epic 28 book series
Good news and better news for new readers to the Shannara world. Good News is 'The High Druid's Blade' is book one in the Defenders of Shannara series. Better news it is set 100 years after the events in most recent book and the new series will be loosely-connected, stand-alone novels. The best news is that if you like...
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For people yearning for a deeper, more authentic faith
> for an identity based on who Jesus is, not on who you are/were.<br />> wanting an identity as a missionary servant.<br />> looking for a new way of living.<br /><br />Favorite line ""If God has a refrigerator, your picture is on it!"<br /><br />Fabulous!<br /><br />Want a bit more from the author? Search "Caesar Kali...
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well written and violent
What a bizarre premise for a Star Wars Fan, a Star Wars adventure where they are all bad guys and you wouldn't think it a bad thing if they all were loaded on a death star that they then blew themselves up. I will have to read the summary closer next time - it never occurred to me that there only be bad guys in it. Doe...
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not the diet I thought it was
OK, I thought the diet was going to be about QUICK diets - had no idea what a Quick Diet would be but the idea sounded interesting. I am always trying to eat better and make healthy, and good tasting meals, faster in my all too hectic life. Well, not eating at all is a huge time saver - no meal prep at all - lol!<br />...
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Ages 9 to 11
inspired by the orphan trains from 1853 to 1929 (overseen by the Children's Aid Society and the Catholic New York Foundling Hospital, 250,000+ orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States were sent to foster homes in rural areas of the Midwest). Unlike the fantasy-like book cover thi...
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Total winner on story line,
Setting and pace however not so much. The story is told by FBI agent Gil Martins, a Catholic turned evangelical Christian, turned atheist, struggling with the loss of his faith. High-profile atheists are dying and Martins is told they were killed by prayer. The book was hard to finish for me because I found Martins so ...
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the Bakersville Burier, hunts women, rapes, tortures, murders then
displays them, half-buried, in remote areas. I am trying to remember why I ordered this book, it just sounds so gruesome. I think I liked the idea of reading a FBI procedural. Evelyn Baine (loved the name) is a profiling specialist in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Aquia, Virginia. She's also secretly crushing...
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Ages 12 to 14
14 year old Victoria Secord races dogs who pull sleds loaded or unloaded depending on the race (aka dogsledding). She is a champion musher and since her father died she has become self-reliant and an expert in surviving the wilds of Alaska. In a freak snow storm she gets lost, food runs short and the weather conspire...
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from the gritty side of Dallas to a blood soaked finish in Marfa, West Texas
Jon Cantrell is a really good guy who has had a streak of bad luck. He's a disgraced ex-cop working for military contractors as a Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Agent in Dallas, Texas. Cantrell and his partner, Piper, (they are also friends with benefits) are hired by Captain Sinclair, a retired Dallas police ...
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Ages 15 to 17
Sci-fi thriller, teenage mercenaries & a conspiracy that threatens the entire galaxy. Where it is best to remember from the TV show the X-Files 'TRUST NO ONE'. Lots of betrayal going on here. For sci-fi fans and non-sci-fi fans a little action, a mystery, and romance. I read it before giving it to my 13 year old but ...
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Ages 15 to 17
The writing was very worthy, Lilac and Tarver alternate first-person narration, the plot not so much for a sci fi loving young adult. For me the bickering got old but I am totally in the minority on that one. HUGELY popular romantic fantasy from Disney strong love story - sci fi not so strong. And the best news, for th...
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Solid Police Procedural set in England
In lieu of plot spoilers I would want to tell DCI Smith to kick to the curb DI Andy Hamilton. Detective Chief Inspector Louisa Smith is working 2 deaths in a small village. A suicide, Barbara Flecther-Norman, in a car at the bottom of a quarry and a gruesome murder scene involving a lovely, young Polly Leuchars. The p...
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police procedural
Michael Parkerson is a sociopath and has devised Killswitch, a website where you can order someone killed as easily as I order a book. The fulfillment staff are ex-military suffering from PTSD, #3 in the series where Carla Windermere, is a Minneapolis-based African American FBI Agent, and Kirk Stevens, an investigator...
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Takes place in the 3 years between the movie "A New Hope" and "Empire Strikes Back"
We've got Han Solo intereacting with new characters but not enough Luke and Leia. Still it was a fun diversion and led me to rewatch my dvds of &#34;A New Hope&#34; and &#34;Empire Strikes Back&#34;. Fun story but I never felt I was in a George Lucas film *sigh* I think it is the writing - I think it would have been li...
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Ages 11 to 13
A race to find 12 relics to save the planet, an time-traveling astrolabe built in the 16th century by Copernicus. A thrilling adventure with puzzles and codes AND AN ANCIENT STAR MAP!.<br /><br />13 year old Wade Kaplan, stepbrother Darrell, cousin Lily, and Lily's friend Becca and Wade's father, Roald, fly from Austin...
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Ages 7-9; book #2
Molly is the 2014 version of Marilyn Munster lolol - ok - this was an easy to read for my 9 year and just right for my 7 year while the 3 & 4 years loved it read to them.<br /><br />We hadn't read the first book that sets up up the family so I added the info below from the publisher:<br /><br />#1 The Quirks: Welcome t...
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The most haunted house in England. Deadly powerful ghosts, felt only by children with psychic abilities, have terrorized a nation for 50 years. Lucy Carlyle (think Hermione) 15 year old narrator of the book, Anthony Lockwood (think Harry P) & George Cubbins (think Ron Weasley) are Lockwood & Co. They are tasked with cl...
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I have the 1945 edition,
Liberally quoted throughout from Virginia Woolf's novels from 1915 to 1941 and which the author Joan Bennett states &#34;owing to the kindness of Mr. Leonard Woolf&#34; that she is able to do so. I am hoping they will release a kindle edition. This is a very thoughtful and academic appreciation of Virginia Woolf that I...
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I have the 1945 edition
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I have the 1945 edition
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I have the 1945 edition
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Murder, powerful women, politics, nuclear weapons, british spies, and lots and lots of terrific food
Plus Balzac the puppy made it for me oh so enjoyable. Bruno Courrèges is the police chief of St Denis in Dordogne, France located in the region of Aquitaine between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees. the most interesting fact, and funny to me, is the area population peaked in 1851.There are over 1500 castles existing, ...
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4th in the Dr. Hoffmann series - Originally published in German in 2002
This plot is even more cerebral then the 3 prior novels due to it being confined to the hospital. Dr. Felix Hoffmann and those in the ICU are in a hostage situation with a blind maniac, his dog and a ton of explosives. With his wit and aplomb the doctor tries to walk the situation down, to little avail and the situatio...
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"Leaders cannot sweep employees' frustrations under the rug."
This book gives me hope that there still exists a desire by top executives for Quality - for the consumer and the employee. Because all the information outside this book points to greed of the kind that Moses encountered when he came up against against the Pharaoh (ie In Exodus 5 (Parshat Shemot in the Torah), where Ph...
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GIO VALIANTE coached seven tour players to eight wins in 2010.
If that doesn't sell you players we works with have 50+ professional wins in the past decade. He's a Ph.D sport psychologist and teaches at Rollins College. Golf Flow focuses on the mental side of golf. I know from 40 years experience that when I can stay focused and loose my talent comes through for me and if I am not...
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plenty of action,but you kind of know how the book will end by the 5th chapter
Patrick Bannister is an unemployed magazine writer. His only loving connection is with his dog. His mother was abusive and his uncle heartless. He's in therapy to get his life in order and move on when he sees a picture of a woman and her husband have gone missing. He thinks she is the woman who had his love back in c...
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Ages 15 to 17 - Fantasy set in England 1883
16-year-old Iolanthe Seabourne heads off to Eton College, disguised as a boy named Archer Fairfax. She is furious until romance enters the picture. A prophecy foretells Iolanthe will one day destroy the tyrannical and powerful "mage" who rules the "Realm". Turns out that our gal Iolanthe will be the greatest elemental...
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A collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell (
Should be part of all High School curriculums. Amy Lowell (February 9, 1874 Brookline, Massachusetts, Died May 12, 1925 age 51) , an American poet, critic, biographer and 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for her poetic collection What's O Clock, for which Time magazine put her on it's cover (March 2nd 1925). Lowell was an ea...
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Should be part of all High School curriculums
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Fascinating!
I never knew. And it's all documented and all true. Although I am sure this is the only time the story unfolds from Mary's point of view. It's hard for me to feel sorry for Mary Mallon. in 5 years, 7 of 8 families she worked for came down with Typhoid and 3 people died. When she is finally tracked down and tested her ...
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Fyi this is not the Milo Weaver series
He is a master of putting you in a place or moment and you feel like you are there or have been there, you can almost feel the heavy air, the sights, smells. Excellent - has become an author I will buy on name alone. Steinhauer is a dependable writer who gets better and better with every novel. If you like cerebral a...
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What's not to love?
* #1 Beverly Gray, Freshman - at Vernon College Beverly's Mom is famous but Beverly wants to make it on her own merits so she keeps the connection on the down low. Beverly and her BFF Anne are bummed to not share a dorm room. Anne is roomed with nice Lois Mason and Beverly with frosty Shirley Parker who has found out t...
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First in a 26 book series
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I think FDR could have used her help with the Depression!
What's not to love? Beverly and BFF's organize the Alpha Delta Sorority, of course Beverly is elected president. Beverly becomes a cub reporter on the college paper 'The Comet'. Over the course of the year Beverly investigates unexplainable going's on at a old mansion; meets a young man named Larry Owens; goes with Ann...
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What's not to love?
Beverly and BFF's organize the Alpha Delta Sorority, of course Beverly is elected president. Beverly becomes a cub reporter on the college paper 'The Comet'. Over the course of the year Beverly investigates unexplainable going's on at a old mansion; meets a young man named Larry Owens; goes with Anne to a football game...
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Practical, Priceless and Precious and told with alot of gentle humor
Practical, Priceless and Precious and told with alot of gentle humor, April 5, 2014<br />By E. B. MULLIGAN "Bronwyn" (Bloomingdale, New Jersey) - See all my reviews<br />(VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)<br />Edit Review<br />Delete Review<br />This review is from: A home book for mothers and daughters (Christian herald librar...
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the author of 70+ novels
Set in a mountain cabin named &#34;Goddess House&#34; between the towns of &#34;Luck&#34; and &#34;Trust&#34;. I was having a downer day and I was really uplifted by the telling and resolution to the story. This is #2 in the author's newest series 'Goddesses Anonymous', #1 is 'One Mountain Away', #3 A River Too Wide, w...
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Written in 1917 The Book of Wonder by Irish fantasy writer Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany. The Modern Library copy from 1918 that I have contains the following:<br />PREFACE<br />THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE<br />DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER<br />THE HOUSE OF THE SPHINX<br />PROBABLE ADVE...
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Surreal,magical fantasy
The author was a fascinating man, the living definition of a renaissance man. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer. His short stories were hugely successful. A Dreamer's Tales, first published in England in 1910 is pure fantasy that ...
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Surreal,magical fantasy
The author was a fascinating man, the living definition of a renaissance man. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer. His short stories were hugely successful. A Dreamer's Tales, first published in England in 1910 is pure fantasy that ...
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Surreal,magical fantasy
The author was a fascinating man, the living definition of a renaissance man. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer. His short stories were hugely successful. A Dreamer's Tales, first published in England in 1910 is pure fantasy that ...
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Surreal,magical fantasy
The author was a fascinating man, the living definition of a renaissance man. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer. His short stories were hugely successful. A Dreamer's Tales, first published in England in 1910 is pure fantasy that ...
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Surreal,magical fantasy
The author was a fascinating man, the living definition of a renaissance man. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer. His short stories were hugely successful. A Dreamer's Tales, first published in England in 1910 is pure fantasy that ...
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Surreal,magical fantasy
The author was a fascinating man, the living definition of a renaissance man. Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was a short story writer, playwright, poet, essayist and autobiographer. His short stories were hugely successful. A Dreamer's Tales, first published in England in 1910 is pure fantasy tha...
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wonderful short story collection considered a major influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin & H. P. Lovecraft
Written in 1917 The Book of Wonder by Irish fantasy writer Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany.<br /><br />The Modern Library copy from 1918 that I have contains the following:<br />PREFACE<br />THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE<br />DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER<br />THE HOUSE OF THE SPHINX<br />P...
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Fantasy set in Casanova's Venice, written in 1925
&#34;The Venetian Glass Nephew is an allegorical retelling of Frankenstein, written in a broken narrative structure and punctuated by obscure vernacular, full of symbolism and characterization. Like Frankenstein it is a tragedy, but the tragedy is reversed in this situation: while in Frankenstein the created being stru...
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book 3 in a beloved series for ages 15 to 17
Reminds me of the 1955 James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo movie "Rebel Without a Cause" about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers.<br /><br />Isaiah who was in the previous books is now living with Noah (from book 2) in their own apartment, the place is a dive but they don't have enough cash so they ...
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Reimagining Jane Austin's Sense and Sensibility in 2010
Trollope takes the bare bones of Austen's story and creates her own characters, and story lines, and has a heck of a fun time doing it. My strongest recommendation to forget how you feel about Jane Austen and her characters and just enjoy Trollope's story because she tells a corker of a story.
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Book two in the paranormal series
I really enjoy paranormal and Sci-Fi stories. Not being someone who enjoys reading detailed torture with lots of gore and hopelessness, and feels kinda scared of someone who enjoys writing about it, this book was a turnoff. Those parts I had to skip over. Just as bad is that Magnolia comes off as a narcissistic teenage...
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Love Story
Sir Nicholas Kincaid is a soldier of fortune, a knight for hire whose own father brutalized him. Two years earlier he fell for Jane like Lancelot did Guinevere. Her brother didn't think him worthy and it ended badly. June 1679 The aftermath of the Battle Bothwell Bridge, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and Lady Jane's fath...
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16th novel featuring Scotland Yard’s Insp. Ian Rutledge (last was 2013’s Proof of Guilt)
September 1920 (the series began at the end of World War One). Ian Rutledge is a veteran of WWI, an Inspector for the venerable Scotland Yard, who is also struggling to make a life while still suffering the horrors that was trench warfare. The most vivid moment in battle remains with him still, a soldier who had bee...
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I loved the title so I ordered the book
This would be an EXCELLENT Book Club selection. You study a different Bad Dad each week and the following weeks you offer up your own Biblical Bad Dad. It would be even better if it was a Men's book club! The BBD's are:<br /><br />*David<br />*Laban<br />*Jacob<br />*Saul<br />*Abraham<br />*Eli<br />*Manoah<br />*Lot<...
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the first novel by Dostoyevski
and a HUGE success for this unknown working class author. This should be required reading in every High School. Told completely in a series of letters between two people and the style might not be for everyone.<br /><br />1844 St Petersburg Russia<br /><br />Makar Alekseyevich Devushkin 47 year old clerk living in abje...
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1844 St Petersburg Russia the first novel by Dostoyevski
and a HUGE success for this unknown working class author. This should be required reading in every High School. Told completely in a series of letters between two people and the style might not be for everyone.<br /><br />Makar Alekseyevich Devushkin 47 year old clerk living in abject poverty (he lives in a section of...
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Fascinating for anyone who has been impacted personally by Cancer
A story 4 decades in the making. Recounting the arduous and painstaking research and analysis of the abnormal chromosome in CML patients. Adding in the politics and economics of drug development and drug testing, you can see why products are so expensive when finally one is found that is successful. The author also doe...
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Classic.
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer. 50 poems previously published in 20 different periodicals (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry Northwest et al) from 1978 to 1983 available in one edition. So readily accessible for any reader of the english language. The only thing missing for me would be a forward and an afterward from t...
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Searing critique of American financial businessmen written 100 years ago.
Covers the world of finance from the Civil War of 1860 through the financial meltdown triggered by the 1871 Chicago fire. Volume one of the &#34;Trilogy of Desire&#34;, followed by The Titan (1914) & The Stoic (1947). This is Dreiser's epic of the robber baron era. If you want to see where today's Scrooges got their in...
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As heartwarming today as when I first read it 40 years ago
The book opens in 1912 and 11-year-old Francie Nolan, lives in a tenement in Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. 10-year-old Cornelius (&#34;Neeley&#34;) her brother and parents, Johnny and Katie. Katie cleans apartment buildings, the children sell junk and do odd jobs to put a roof over their heads and food on the tabl...
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“Men go and come, but earth abides.” ― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
From the cover I thought I would be reading a pulp novel but in fact it was a strongly written novel of a huge fictional hurricane hitting the coast of California in 1940. Each of the 12 chapters is a day in the storm drama, not until day 7 does the storm lash the coast. The two weather maps int the front were delightf...
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23 stories of New York City published in 1910
O. Henry New York City was &#34;Baghdad-on-the-Subway&#34; little did he know the events of 2001. Stories of the lives of blue collar workers (is that phrase still applicable?) and middle class with endings that can turn the whole story on it's ear.<br /><br />--Strictly business<br />--The gold that glittered.<br />--...
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Can Western aid end extreme poverty in Africa?
The writing is brilliant - clear and lucid. I thoughtlessly ordered this tome before I thought &#34;The West can't end it's own poverty, how can it end the vast poverty an ocean away.&#34; Still it was a wonderful read and I am very glad I did. The author writes of the a remote (even by African standards) village bord...
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1940 The Battle of Dunkirk May 26th to June 4th
Antonia, an English nurse, is injured while trying to save British, French and Belgian soldiers fleeing the German invasion of World War 2. Bravely she sneaks into German occupied Brussels, she becomes a part of the underground and meets Sandrine. Together they work &#34;the Comet Line&#34; code name for ensuring down...
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This is Hilton's fifth Hunter adventure
In a long line of lone avengers (think John Rambo and Jack Reacher) comes Ex-Special Fores Joe Hunter:<br /><br />a challenge to bring a killer to justice<br />an entire family under siege<br />a trail of death<br />White supremacists<br />imminent mass destruction with Plutonium from the North Koreans<br />a dozen ass...
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Debut Suspense
Successful Welsh psychotherapist Jessica Mayhew, a long-time professional in her 40s, is attracted to her new patient, Gwydion Morgan, an extremely good-looking young actor with a fear of buttons. Giving the story a gothic feel, Jessica travels to the Morgan estate in a grand clifftop mansion overlooking the rocky Wels...
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Speculative ficition rooted in reality
The author has an amazing imagination and if you are into that you should love this collection. The author plays word games that I totally do myself (sex becomes "lust applications" - good one!).<br /><br />"Watching Mysteries with My Mother" and "The Loyalty Protocol" are overwhelmingly prevalent for me and the subjec...
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ages 14 to 16 if your child is a history geek (as I was at that age)
it's 1670 and the British will govern America for another 113 years. The first British settlers of what is now North and South Carolina begin to make deals, aka treatys, with the Native Americans (with the natives getting the short end of the stick due to the British overwhelming numbers and firepower).<br /><br />The ...
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Ages 12 to 14 appropriate
Funny, scary, adventure. 13 year old Ronan Truelove's Dad is kidnapped, and he & his Mom are now on the run (THINK . He then finds out his mom is member of an ancient sword-wielding society who protect 36 noble souls who themselves ensure the survival of Earth. With each chapter presenting a new challenge, a new dange...
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Ages 11 to 13
This is a feel good read for every child age 11 to 13. This is a tough period in child's life and this positive story about growing up is spot on perfect. Real people (children and adults). I can't imagine not liking it. First published in 2008 and in 2013 issued via kindle.
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psychological thriller
Dr. Taylor is a found dead in his hotel room. He specializes in wives, 3 of them (that we know of) at the same time in different cities. How does a renowned plastic surgeon in treating disfigured children and an active community spokesman manage that in the day of google and facebook? Well, his first wife didn't want ...
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Jason Stafford book 2
$3 Billion dollars missing. William Von Becker of Ponzi scheme fame is now a suicide in federal prison. New York City crime and Wall Street high finance mix in this thriller. A fun weekend read.<br /><br />For those who have not read the first Jason Stafford:<br />BLACK FRIDAYS (2012): Jason Stafford is a former Wall S...
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Perfect Book Club Choice
if you have ever savored a novel long after reading the last page you can appreciate this book. If you have a love of history or a love of biography or feel deeply about the books you read this is a great book to have. Part literary appreciation (of Middlemarch), Part memoir (of Rebecca Mead), part biography (of George...
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1980 Houston, Texas
Pediatric surgeon Nora de Jong comes home to find her mother's mutilated body, her 6 month old child missing and a dead stranger. She is made of sterner stuff, I think I would have had a meltdown. The local police don't find any leads, Nora finds clues on her own that lead her to travel to her parents homeland of Holl...
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Completely engaging
The only thing that kept me from loving this book is that the drama wasn't very strong, it felt like a segment of Ken Burns Civil War which I love and have on dvd and am very moved by, however it still doesn't move me like the novel can. The other thing missing for me was more Civil War history I think I might have go...
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Nice non-erotic romance set in Colorado
5th in the 'Hope's Crossing' series (after Current Creek Valley). Nothing disturbing or ugly. An enjoyablysmall town romance. I would have enjoyed it more if they had more than one date before the end of the novel (I assume they will be living happily ever after). The main thing that kept me from loving the novel was t...
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Author of the 2012 Winner Lambda Literary Award for Romance
Dale Kinsel, is a 46 year old salt of the earth woman, widower and once avid softball player participating in a charity game to fight cancer. She's been a department head at Home Depot for nearly five years. She also bitterly hated Taren Doesey.<br /><br />Taren Dorsey, is on the other team and wouldn't know a softball...
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Epic world building
# 5 in the author's series that takes place today in and around New York State. Brilliant opening chapter gives you all the information you need to know (for those who have not read the series), while generating excitement and anticipation for those who have. I included a little information from the publisher (below) f...
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longtime couples, passionate, diverse & romantic, hot & heartwarming
I know you are supposed to read the collection in the order the editor chooses but I couldn't help myself and skipped around to my favorite authors.<br /><br />*Rebekah Witherspoon beautifully tells an epic tale of love over 40 years taking Eileen and June and from age 10 to age almost 60, from Mississippi 1956 to New...
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more than a romance - a story of the last 8 years
Set in Australia and New York City, politics and journalism. I picked this up to read after a rather lackluster book wondering if I was burnt out on reading, and then I didn't put it down or pause for 3 hours. By the end of the first chapter I was hooked. The only thing I would have liked would be for the main characte...
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Debut, 4 star writing
Jules Marvin, is a professional dog walker, she enjoys the freedom of the polyamory relationship she has with Claire and Toni, and has no plans to change, monogamy just holds no appeal for her.<br /><br />Sylvia Ramirez is a clinical social worker in San Francisco working with the mentally ill. Even though she is stil...
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160282892X
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Love isn't always smooth, first love can have many road blocks
When your father and mother are evangelical christians and dad is also the president of the United States of America you might as well kiss the idea that it would be ok for daddy's little girl to fall in love with another woman. And yet, it happened.<br /><br />Jordan is attending Florida State &#34;Go Gators, Get Up a...
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1602829497
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Phoenix Arizona - could this book be more timely?
Emery Barrett is a type A super achiever. Her specialty is process and product management. she has the knack of studying a company and coming up with a plan to make it better. A successful company? She has the ideas to make it more so. An under performing company? She can turn it into a money maker. A Company on the br...
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Debut Author angst mixed romantic comedy
40 year old Miriam has lived for 10 years in the small town of Cool Lake, Texas. She suffered a breakdown 12 years ago in Dallas, to recover she moved to Cool Lake for a brief respite. We don't find out any details until the book is 84% read.<br /><br />Maddy is the owner of the Starship Inn, her mothering heart went ...
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beautiful romance
Jan is a high school geometry teacher in Spokane, Washington, a homebody, the life of a rolling stone has no appeal, she thinks. Sadly her father has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she is going to try and care for him at home.<br /><br />Tina is a graphic artist and musician, she's footloose and fancy free - and s...
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1602828725
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family, loyalty and trust
Mae St. John is a 28 year old Georgia peach who learns in one day that the family fortune is gone, the house is foreclosed and Mae dead father lives in Louisiana. What!? Her grandmother, Big Mae, meets a most unfortunate end after one too many mint juleps at the country clubs, she drives her Mercedes into a water hazar...
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1602829446
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Romance in the Rockies
Superstar opera soprano Caroline Prince (think Kathleen Battle or Renee Fleming, she of the of the Star Spangled banner at this year's Super Bowl and David Letterman guest) is at the peak of her operatic career, and is recently appointed artistic director of the Denver opera company.<br /><br />Jill Allen is a 43 year ...
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1594933154
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Not as erotic as the cover might imply
Kendall and Melanie break up. Melanie calls it quits no big issues were the cause just hooking up too young, inexperience at keeping love alive and becoming different people over time - that and the bickering and arguments.<br /><br />Their BFF Evelyn, after thinking they were living their happily ever after, is at a l...
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1602827842
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small East Texas town - Excellent book club choice
Lonnie (blond, beautiful and willing) is KC Hall's lover. Her long term lover. Lonnie is also Married. With a daughter KC's age. And a lifelong friend of KC's mama. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Thankfully KC's BFF, Emma, confesses that she's loved KC since high school, of course KC would rather keep Emma as a frien...
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