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4 | Loved the ending! | The book was worth it for the terrific ending alone.<br /><br />Queenie and her family are certainly characters, almost cartoonish. What saves the book is that it has alot of heart and in some vague way the feeling I was left with was akin to the warmth after seeing the movie 'Steel Magnolias' the first of 20+ viewings... | [] | 0062007475 | 0062007475 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,717,419,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Public Scandal & Confession, Forgiveness & Failure | It opens with Ben and Helen in a marriage therapy session where they come to the conclusion that, no, this marriage cannot be saved. Why do I feel like laughing at that? I guess because I have nothing invested with them as people yet.<br /><br />Ben, a lawyer, goes to prison for a short time (I found that completely be... | [] | 0812993217 | 0812993217 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,717,035,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Extraordinary prose | *update December 11th, 2013* this is a NY Times Book of the Year<br /><br />1975-1977 and Reno is an artist in NYC looking to merge her love of speed and motorcycles into art. The SoHo lofts are just being converted to apartments; the East Village is in an uproar of radicalism. A very exciting and heady time, I vividly... | [] | 1439142009 | 1439142009 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,414,905,000 | 0 | false |
5 | #5 in a seres - 43 Old Cemetery Road | Very Original - the book is told using letters, drawings, newspaper articles, and TV scripts.<br />11 year old Seymour Hope, Ignatius B. Grumply (old grump writer) and Olive C. Spence (a writer & a ghost) leave Spence Mansion in the town of Ghastly, Illinois (LOL!) for Hollywood. Their mystery series is going to be a ... | [] | 0547852835 | 0547852835 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,411,836,000 | 0 | false |
4 | wow | The Shelter Cycle is a fictional work based on a series of interviews with former members of the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) a New Age organization founded in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet (she had grown up under influences including New Thought and Christian Science). CUT is an outgrowth of "The Summit Lig... | [] | 0547859082 | 0547859082 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,396,866,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Boys and girls Ages 12 to 15 | 14 year old Mehrigul is tied to the family farm in the East Turkestan area of rural China since her brother left (we are led t believe that he was driven out by the crushing dictatorship of the ethnic Chinese government) , despite longing for an education and the probability that she will one day be tied to a going now... | [] | 0547848013 | 0547848013 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,382,350,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Maybe I am not avant garde enough for this novel | I didn't laugh at the satire and I felt the story lacked life and momentum *sigh*--<br /><br />Maybe I am not high brow enough or cutting edge enough, because I just didn't care. I was really looking forward to reading it after all the rave reviews. I really didn't care what happened to any of them - I thought they all... | [] | 1555976387 | 1555976387 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,374,009,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Ages 13 to 15 | Need to think that plot through. 14 year-old Lenny Cyrus had privately crushed on Zooey Andrews since they were 8 years old.<br /><br />So what does a teenage genius do? Well, Zooey drinks a lot of Diet Coke, why not have their BFF Harlan slip a capsule in the coke with Lenny inside?<br /><br />What?<br /><br />Do we r... | [] | 0547893159 | 0547893159 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,308,353,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Earthy - More Earthy than I ever hope to read again | Too earthy<br /><br />Bjarni, is an aging Icelandic hay farmer (in his 90's) in an isolated (Iceland is so small I wouldn't think isolation would be possible) village. His wife, Unnur, who "lay on her deathbed for five years." (my God! The poor woman!) has blessedly died and taken away her pain and her misery.<br /><br... | [] | 161218717X | 161218717X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,247,703,000 | 4 | false |
4 | First in a 4 book series | Boys and girls ages 5 to 9 will enjoy<br /><br />Sarah and her family, Father (who works overseas and mails her letters), Mom (who is an illustrator and works from home) and 4 year old little brother live in an apartment in Chicago.<br /><br />When her favorite Chinese restaurant, "Wong's", could close she is determine... | [] | 076145540X | 076145540X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,230,046,000 | 0 | false |
3 | New parents Gone Wild - LOL! | John and Veronica are like every reality TV show cliché. They make the Kardashians look like Ozzie & Harriet Nelson.<br /><br />He disappears with the baby and doesn't contact his wife for 3 days? She, not only doesn't have a melt down she goes out partying and sleeping around!<br /><br />This couple is so awful I coul... | [] | 0805096620 | 0805096620 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,226,749,000 | 0 | false |
5 | loving and leaving | If you ever want to feel good about your family or your life this is the book for you. Told with brutal honesty and black humor - a powerful and poignant story. Domenica (Ruta to her family) Ruta is born to teenagers, grew up in the 80s with a mother (Kathi) that loved her but was unable to fulfill the nurture in mothe... | [] | 0812993241 | 0812993241 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,213,191,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Caution - cliff hanger ending to be resolved in book 2 | Xanadu, Wyoming, 12 year old Logan is new in town (from Chicago) and has no friends yet (it can't be easy being African American in rural Wyoming). His father has quit his career and moved them to the tiny town after Logan's mother left them, sending notification via a postcard with a Wyoming postmark.<br /><br />What?... | [] | 0060780649 | 0060780649 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,199,790,000 | 1 | false |
5 | The devastation of missed opportunities | The Beatles song "Nowhere Man" ran through my mind about half way through the collection.<br /><br />The men remind me of the Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn movie Swingers.<br /><br />Set in Southern California, where none of the men (age 18 to 58) are living their dreams.<br /><br />The author's humor and writing and compas... | [] | 1451649312 | 1451649312 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,120,621,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Unforgettable | Astoundingly well written. Each of these writers offer remarkable and powerful stories each in their own unique voice. I literally could not stop reading until the last page.<br /><br />I hope the publisher does another.<br /><br />This is a Keeper!<br /><br />I offer a list of the authors as tribute and an enticement ... | [] | 0306821761 | 0306821761 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,116,935,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Riveting non-ficition | Compulsively readable - so much so that I googled the people involved when I finished reading because I couldn't quite let go.<br /><br />The book will not be for everyone and what happens to Cara should never happen to anyone. This was not an easy read as many tragic events occur and it is sort of like watching a trai... | [] | 0805096531 | 0805096531 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,111,342,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Keeper! | A rare jewel - The writer has been a published author since 1990. And all her novels are set on the same Island in the Bay of Bengal. The author was born in India and raised in the United States. She graduated from Vassar College and currently Teaches at Emerson College (also has a blog at her website).<br /><br />The ... | [] | 0307960447 | 0307960447 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,368,027,335,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ideal for 12 to 16 year olds | 14 year old Florida based high schooler Jess and BFF's Meriwether and Sam are missing their parents deployed in Afghanistan for what seems like 11 years - oh that's right is has been 11 years. Thinking helping the local Afghani citizens is a terrific idea (I do too) they send care packages for a local Orphanage to thei... | [] | 0547244371 | 0547244371 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,940,816,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Beautiful writing | San Francisco 1999, Leo is fresh out of Law School and has just passed is bar exam. Having lunch with his big brother Teddy, the famous and loathed criminal defense attorney, when from something out of the Godfather Teddy is shot in the head.<br /><br />Teddy survives but is in a coma. To Young Leo a dump truck of prof... | [] | 0802120792 | 0802120792 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,937,677,000 | 0 | false |
4 | How this book didn't totally do it for me | And luckily, I gather, that the author won't be bothered by this.<br /><br />A mish mash of literary criticism, essay and memoir. The author, in his mid-50s, author of 13 books (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead) gives us an introspection full quotes and anecdotes, essays on Love and Death, depression... | [] | 0307961524 | 0307961524 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,858,456,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Perfect for ages 10 to 13. | In six months, 13 year old Jack is going to die. Jack finds himself in a hospital with armed guards after collapsing on a busy street. No parents or phones, other kids, bizarre creatures, and no escape.<br /><br />Professor Bhegad at the island academy knows what's killing him, a genetic trait inherited from the prince... | [] | 0062070401 | 0062070401 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,798,939,000 | 0 | false |
5 | For Girls and Boys ages 6 to 10 | Wendell O. Scott, born in Virginia in 1921, he competed in 500 NASCAR races & made history as the first black driver to win a race in a NASCAR Grand National (now Spring Cup) division.. In 1999 he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, Alabama. The 1977 movie "Greased Lightning," wi... | [] | 0761454659 | 0761454659 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,793,595,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Terrific Literature and an Original Voice | Through e-mails that are angry, bitter, hilarious and heartbreaking to the college buddy who took his life and published it Gordon Rankin Jr., aka "Rank," vents his rage. Now almost 40 years old, we learn over the course of the novel what large tragedies shaped his life, and what small events blossomed into those tra... | [] | 0307961354 | 0307961354 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,791,761,000 | 0 | false |
3 | for ages 6 to 9. My 6 year old & 7 year old LOVED it - | I even got my 10 year old to read it to them. I didn't like the way the author dealt with bullying -: "If someone made fun of you, you got even, that is all. There were all sorts of ways to do that. And if someone punched you, you punched them back. Big deal." What a message for young minds! Bullying is funny. ... | [] | 0761453539 | 0761453539 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,779,178,000 | 0 | false |
5 | (Book 1) in a, so far, 7 book series | My 6 year old nephew and 7 year old niece LOVED it - I even got my 10 year old nephew to read it to them.<br /><br />First published in 2006; 8 year old Emma is the second oldest of five children, (her brother is a year older, a three year old sister and 2 year old twins), a pilot father, and a mother that works from h... | [] | 0761452869 | 0761452869 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,778,274,000 | 0 | false |
4 | "His girlfriend's father hates him, and his own parents' opinion | ... of him isn't much better." I read this premise and felt so sorry for this kid that I had to pick it up to find out the rest of the story!<br /><br />Sebastien has to move in with his mother and stepfather (who see him as a rent check). Down, and out for the count, Sebastien robs a local grocery store, to avoid cap... | [] | 161218586X | 161218586X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,718,108,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Like reading a novel based on TV show LAW & ORDER | Loved it. Tragic story. I think it would make an excellent novel for teenagers to read. I also recommend every parent of a preteen read this cautionary tale.<br /><br />My only quibble is a personal one. Kate never gave herself a chance at being a mom. When you are a single parent sacrifices are needed and one of them ... | [] | 006222543X | 006222543X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,717,829,000 | 0 | false |
4 | New to me author | Cracker Jack story telling! Wow what an ending!<br /><br />San Francisco based FBI agent Jess Harding is in remote Alaska desperately hunting a seriously sick killer with the help of Oscar Linstrom, her partner from 5 years earlier who wants to romance her.<br /><br />My only quibble was that Jess at the end was so det... | [] | 1611099722 | 1611099722 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,703,376,000 | 2 | false |
5 | The 8 pages of pictures are icing on the cake | You can see she was a beloved women by the way her two sons look at her. Lina had a charmed life until the year the Stalin regime seduced her and her husband to move to Russia. A move they had been told would give them artistic carte blanche with all the resulting accolades. This certainly is a well documented and fasc... | [] | 0547391315 | 0547391315 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,702,242,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Loved the premise! | Loved the premise!<br />A psychiatric institute has developed the technology to enter people's dream to allow therapists to view and enter their patients dreams to assist the patient therapy. Brilliant, beautiful Psychotherapist Chiba enters her patients dreamscape as `Paprika'.<br /><br />Next, prototype models are st... | [] | 0307389189 | 0307389189 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,689,898,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Dusseldorf dust-up doozy | Just not hilarious. The writing felt stilted to me. The hysterics, hijinks and who-done-it in this novel made me think the heroine was a ditz *sigh* The story line made me reminisce to the film 9 to 5 where the women rush to the hospital with the boss - that was hilarious.<br /><br />I snapped the book up on the premis... | [] | 161109044X | 161109044X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,687,684,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Original and compelling | A fictional autobiography, written in the form of a diary that tells Nieve `Snow' Guerra's life from age eight to twenty. Snow was born in 1970 into Castro's Cuba.<br /><br />She has been living with her unfit artist mother and hippie Swedish morsel of the moment boyfriend.<br /><br />Her alcoholic father, who blames ... | [] | 1612184332 | 1612184332 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,638,535,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Beautiful prose, eloquent, evocative and vivid | Reporting the compelling survivor stories compiled by the writer from her 9 months spent in Japan after the March 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami.<br /><br />The feeling I took away after the last page was the writer was attempting to be a voice for those who were impacted by the devastation, rather than presenti... | [] | 0307907317 | 0307907317 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,634,565,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Honest account of a year in the lives of 6 widows | Ranging from 1st year to several years of widowhood.<br /><br />I have never been widowed but I do know about loss. Finding 6 people to share their lives coping with a similar loss sounds like a great idea and worked out really well for them.<br /><br />I liked it that the women were so supportive of each other.<br /><... | [] | 0307590437 | 0307590437 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,617,883,000 | 1 | false |
5 | She got even and she got everything! | A terrific story of an A list TV star (think Mariska Haggerty of Law & Order SVU). Who believes she has a wonderful life, until it is ALL stolen from her (think Debbie Reynold's last husband). And not just from her, from her friends as well (think small scale Madoff).<br /><br />She is too shamed to turn to her closest... | [] | 1611098866 | 1611098866 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,616,570,000 | 0 | false |
5 | You will be glad this author started writing! | "Slam Bang Brilliant" Just like John Sanford says on the front cover (Yes! a blurb you can actually trust this time).<br /><br />The unraveling of a victim of the great recession of 2007 to 2014 and the unthinkable harm such a victim can do. Shades of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The author also sh... | [] | 0399157905 | 0399157905 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,614,895,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The World According to Trouble | Madame Butterfly and I go way back to my childhood where I saw the Cary Grant/Sylvia Sidney movie on TV 5 times (Monday to Friday) on the 4pm movie of the week. It was my first exposure to tragedy and I was enthralled.<br /><br />I thank the author to sticking so close to the original plot (which I append below for tho... | [] | 0805096701 | 0805096701 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,512,617,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Terrific! | Poor Nick! Traumatized as a preteen by a terrifically gory Zombie movie he now takes a case that sends him from St. Augustine to South Florida, right where the so called `Zombie' serial killer is wreaking terror.<br /><br />I really loved Nick and his family from the previous SNUFF TAG 9 book so eagerly snapped this bo... | [] | 1611098157 | 1611098157 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,509,251,000 | 5 | false |
3 | an ok read | A world where creationism, not science, is fact<br /><br />making the earth 5800 years old. The churches control the information, aided by billionaire Martial Johansson who has his own genetic ambitions.<br /><br />Paul Carlsson, an only child of European and Chinese descent, as a youth had a fondness for breeding mice... | [] | 0805096175 | 0805096175 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,343,765,000 | 0 | false |
4 | New Suspense Thriller | A riveting story of betrayal and vengeance, starting with a gruesome prologue. The killer is targeting an IRA (Irish Republican Army) social group.<br /><br />Set in South Buffalo, aka `The County' (as in; so many Irish live there it qualifies as a county of Ireland).<br /><br />Homicide Det. Absalom `Abbie' Kearney r... | [] | 0345538064 | 0345538064 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,340,741,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Like no other book I have read before | A pot-smoking poet detective for starters - lol!<br /><br />The book summary pretty much gives you an accurate picture of what you will be reading.<br /><br />Cartoon people dominate this bizarre Hollywood exposé crime novel. The expert writing kept me glued to the page. I think because I have been a lifelong fan of ... | [] | 1440561222 | 1440561222 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,336,444,000 | 0 | false |
4 | brooding, insecure Israeli police officer | literary and well paced. A unique mystery, the writing was compelling. Made the setting come to life for me.<br /><br />A mother reports a teenage boy did not come home from school from a Tel-Aviv suburb.<br /><br />What a unique character the 38 year old detective is - he seems to put everything at arm's length; pare... | [] | 0062195379 | 0062195379 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,243,904,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I liked that the book weaves real Hollywood people, places, things into the story | The 11 chapters are told in alternating first and third person.<br /><br />Renn, a big time actor/director (think Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford) and ego to match, married 3 times, his son is estranged.<br /><br />Anna and Will are almost like outsiders with their father, they... | [] | 1608199584 | 1608199584 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,236,867,000 | 1 | false |
4 | The Lake is the heart of this ethereal book | Stretching from 1910 to 1994 and centered in 1982, told in a series of voices and ping ponging from one time to another then back. Beautiful writing hampered because Alice, Sophie, Signe all spoke like eachother - they never felt distinct or separate to me.<br /><br />1958 in a small New Hampshire town a baby, Alice ... | [] | 0307961656 | 0307961656 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,202,381,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Original, Griping, Poignant | Wow this story will stay with me a long time.<br /><br />Written in the present tense, Mickey Brandis, is a brilliant twenty-eight-year-old doctoral candidate in medieval literature, living in her parents' garage.<br /><br />Worse than paying back student loans, she's a diagnosed sociopath who killed a man when she was... | [] | 1440561265 | 1440561265 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,198,359,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I love the premise! Finding your family of choice | Tattooed Boo Malone and his large BFF from St Gabrielle's Boys Home, Junior, are bouncers at a Boston bar THE CELLAR. A couple of wisecracking misfits looked after by the motherly bartender Audrey.<br /><br />Boo and Junior are hired to find Cassandra, the 14 year old daughter of the Boston District Attorney who is run... | [] | 1440557675 | 1440557675 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,176,501,000 | 0 | false |
3 | A bloody hand-print inside a mirror - inside the reflection - starts the book, and I am thinking - way cool! | However the rest of the book was a bit of a letdown. The paranormal part seemed over the top and the erotica didn't scream passion. Maybe my expectations were too high. New to me author featured in 145 romance/erotic novels/short story collections going back to 2004.<br /><br />Memphis Tennessee cop Caitlyn O'Connell d... | [] | 1611098815 | 1611098815 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,175,247,000 | 1 | false |
5 | My 10 year old nephew couldn't top reading JINX | I wish I had thought to do a video review of him while reading it. His mom had to take it out of his hands as the bus showed up to take him to school.<br /><br />Winner! | [] | 0062129902 | 0062129902 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,161,769,000 | 1 | false |
4 | What if? | What if, in the summer of 1957 brilliant literary figures Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell had met. Started writing to each other. Started a life together in New York, in the West Village, with deep conversations along the Hudson and parties with the literary and glamorous?<br /><br />Frances and Bernard are soulmat... | [] | 0547858248 | 0547858248 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,124,099,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Issues! | I loved the snarky humor but the characters and their needs seemed superficial so they never captured me as I had hoped *sigh*.<br />Still, the writing was good and the ending was fun so your mileage may vary.<br /><br />Annie & Nora, BFFs since kindergarten, they now live (Annie) and work (Nora) at a New England board... | [] | 0385342675 | 0385342675 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,121,696,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Violent, stark and brutal 100 years after Columbus discovered America | Europe is rife with religious dogma, superstition, and fear. They don't know about the immortal world of the Sithe (pronounced "Shee") cloaked by "THE VEIL".<br /><br />Immortal teenager Seth MacGregor, discarded and ignored by his unwed parents, lives in the castle of his father. His older and beloved brother Conal is... | [] | 0765333228 | 0765333228 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,019,896,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Nick Sayler was junkie, a thief and prime suspect in the murder of his lover | A bronze star with a V for valor changed all that and he's got a good life living on the Hudson River, with wealthy clients who use his PI skills. Tommy Fallon with the NYPD has his back and Meriweather has all his answers.<br /><br />He's not able to appreciate it all because he can't forget Julia, who 10 years ago to... | [] | 1612184405 | 1612184405 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,018,479,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive | Sir Walter Scott might enjoy this Russian novel set in the last days (1999) of the rule of Boris Yeltsin when much of the national wealth was held by a ruthless few, resulting in widespread corruption, inflation and economic collapse.<br /><br />Mikhail, Pavel and Sergei are the narrators. Mikhail is a tough-guy who wo... | [] | 1611090717 | 1611090717 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,016,420,000 | 0 | false |
4 | It's like reading "Being There" from Chance the Gardener's point of view | Very true to life in many respects and a very enjoyable change from the norm.<br /><br />Oppen's father dies and he is relocated to "Panorama City" aka Los Angeles, and it's suburbs, to live with his Aunt in this strange new world.<br /><br />My only caveat, the length. I think it could have been a bit tighter.<br /><b... | [] | 0547875126 | 0547875126 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,367,013,355,000 | 2 | false |
5 | One vignette after another. | Snarky good fun! I have never worked retail but I have seen fellow shoppers being horribly to underpaid overworked customer service folks and totally got kick out of this book.<br /><br />Save for a day you are feeling particularly cynical and need some laughs at terrible humans expense. Working in the corporate world... | [] | 1440536775 | 1440536775 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,820,174,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Alaska in 80 years and the force is strong in this one | It's 2099 and young Jason is part native American on his father's side, his father is a lawyer and his paternal grandfather a shaman. The two men had a falling out over property rights for children, like Jason, who are not at least 25 percent Native American.<br /><br />Gunfire at the border erupts while driving one of... | [] | 0547196210 | 0547196210 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,694,400,000 | 0 | false |
3 | 50 Shades of Imperial China | or, A Connecticut Yankee in Pu-Yi's Court. Perhaps my expectations ruined this novel. I thought I would be reading a literary story about a New Englander in 1890 living at the Forbidden City with all the elements of drama, beauty, love and angst. Not so.<br /><br />We have a fantastical story of oversexed obsession pro... | [] | 0307381307 | 0307381307 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,648,392,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Police procedural set in Oregon | This was truly a well written installment in a series, I hadn't read any of the 6 previous books in the series and didn't feel I was lost once. I enjoyed this so much I have gone and purchased the others.<br /><br />Detective Wade Jackson's recovering alcoholic ex-wife, Renee--is missing, he suspects she may have begu... | [] | 1611098068 | 1611098068 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,484,909,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The author's prose is lovely, I would imagine she is also a poet. | The ending was spot on. I will look for more from this debut author.<br /><br />An extended family of Sri Lankan ancestry (some are immigrants while some are native born British) celebrate New Year's in South London. The 20 plus stories/chapters span generations, opening on New Years Eve in 1982, stretching back a deca... | [] | 0307958108 | 0307958108 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,472,835,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Almost a terrific thriller set over 5 days | About half way through it got a little bloated and unbelievable, like the movies Die Hard 3 and 4.<br /><br />The author is the creator of the West African Bruce Medway series and the Falcon novels set in Spain<br /><br /> 25 year old Alyshia D'Cruz, returns to London from a miserable internship with her father's inter... | [] | 0547935196 | 0547935196 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,336,629,000 | 0 | false |
5 | awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for biography | Keeper! I picked it up to skim a few pages and never put it down until I finished. I especially was touched how her family loved her. Fascinating Brilliant woman! Using Letters, Diaries and person papers in addition to scholarly works, the author paints a wonderfully rich picture of Ms. Fuller's life. I loved reading... | [] | 0547195605 | 0547195605 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,320,100,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Primal Fear | Daniel, in his mid-30s, is a solicitor in London specializing in defense of minors. Attractive in every aspect, why is it he hasn't a loved one in his life?<br /><br />Daniel has represented the most violent of underage criminals but his new case stands out. 11 year old Sebastian is accused of killing his neighbor, 8-y... | [] | 0062195514 | 0062195514 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,304,704,000 | 0 | false |
5 | If you enjoy reading Ruth Rendell I think you should give this a try | `Domestic Noir' is a perfect description for the novel, as this is not the creepy or menacing story I imagined from the back of the book blurb.<br /><br />Evie Ferrante is estranged from her alcoholic mother Sandra Ferrante. Her mother has been hospitalized, and Evie returns to find her mother's house looks like someth... | [] | 0062117602 | 0062117602 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,221,591,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Perfect - be prepared to not put it down once you start. | Compellingly written and even though it is 300 pages it reads quickly. Seriously I picked it up to take a look and didn't not stop until I finished.<br /><br />You learn about the author and her family. You learn about the child and her family. You even get a hard personal look at the birth mother.<br /><br />You end ... | [] | 0007486774 | 0007486774 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,219,406,000 | 1 | false |
3 | So glad I am not dating ! | Katelynn Crenshaw's fiance is the Valentine killer (who stabs victims through the heart and leaves them holding a red rose - creepy) and she is running for her life! So glad I am not dating !<br /><br />Three years go by and she is now using a new name, Katherine Cole. Still, he tracks her to New Orleans where she mak... | [] | 1611099145 | 1611099145 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,218,849,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Beautifully tragic love story stretching back 70 years | Much like `Brokeback Mountain' where forbidden love is killed by prejudice and bigotry, and lives go on to impact generations for the worse. Robert, an African American teen in 1939 Kentucky, and 17 year old Isabelle never had a chance.<br /><br />What lifts this novel from romantic tragedy to literary fiction is the a... | [] | 1250014522 | 1250014522 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,217,842,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I was expecting more from a retired judge | I excitedly snapped this book up. Justice O'Connor is a pioneer. I was expecting More insider information and perspective, More personal insight and reflection. In this regard I was disappointed. My Highest admiration but was needing more than 167 pages of history I could find on the internet *sigh*<br /><br />She was ... | [] | 0812993926 | 0812993926 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,129,817,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Not what I expected | I thought I was purchasing a scholarly history on Florida, where I lived from 1990 to 2013.<br />I looked on the internet for more on the book and found an author interview on National Public Radio where it turns out the facts and research were from the internet, books etc as the author "did no primary research for thi... | [] | 0802120768 | 0802120768 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,043,401,000 | 3 | false |
5 | Ages 4 to 8 | Got this to read to a friend's 4 year old, they are Christian and want to include many Jewish traditions into their home. The parents thought it was great and the tiny tot liked it so much he drew a picture for me.<br /><br />Winner!<br /><br />Franni, brother Ezra, and two cousins put on a Purim play, telling the Bibl... | [] | 076145800X | 076145800X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,366,040,761,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Not recommended for girls under 11 years unless showing onset of puberty | I mistakenly got this for my 7 going on 8 year old and she very excitedly started reading the book before I had a chance to read it myself. And it was about 3 years too early for her. She was fine with the content but most was over her head and more mature information than I would like for her to be learning at age 7 ... | [] | 1609580427 | 1609580427 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,365,971,157,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ripped from the headlines | The novel's climactic chapter is perfect, like the 1999 movie, The Sixth Sense "I see dead people", I could have seen where the story was headed but didn't - excellent!<br /><br />Gaige's prose is compelling. The Schroder/Rockefeller/Kennedy character is epically, pathologically, narcissistic.<br /><br />Schroder is co... | [] | 1455512133 | 1455512133 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,365,970,443,000 | 0 | false |
4 | One warning, the violence is graphic and not for the squeamish. | Wickedly funny, suspense thriller, with prose worthy of a poet. Local detectives and a volunteer police dog find two bodies on mild-mannered Jason's property, neither were killed by Jason, however over a year earlier he did bury there someone he killed!<br /><br />Add a woman with a MIA fiancé, a guy on the lam and you... | [] | 1451685033 | 1451685033 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,365,907,660,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ideal for boys or girls ages 9 or 10 | 10 year old Freedom Jane McKenzie is growing up in 1959 Idaho Falls, her mom is pregnant, her Dad should be in AA and her little brother gets her in trouble (as most siblings do).<br /><br />She wants to enter and win a marble competition at the Autumn Jubilee; her mom insists that shooting marbles is for boys (Betty ... | [] | 0761462279 | 0761462279 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,365,906,678,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Lovely for ages 3 to 7 | Until she was 7 years old Oprah Winfrey lived with her grandmother in Mississippi on a farm. She performed in public by reciting Bible verses in church.<br /><br />Showing the importance of her grandmother in Winfrey's childhood.<br /><br />The oil painted illustrations are lovely and evoke the 1950/60 American south.<... | [] | 0761456325 | 0761456325 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,522,437,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Epic non-fiction story spanning the first half of the 20th century | Told brilliantly, with compassion, insight and honesty by the protagonist's daughter.<br /><br />Stretching from the poverty in a European village where the uneducated heroine and her family are oppressed for their religious beliefs.<br /><br />The author's mother takes a huge risk and leaves all she knows to travel at... | [] | 0807050520 | 0807050520 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,485,586,000 | 1 | false |
3 | 1962: Chinese Government Mission With Need to Know Access | And the 20 members of the mission deliberately not told that previous missions had been wiped out!<br /><br />A retired geological prospector recalls China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution in 1962, the People's Liberation Army part of a group of prospectors sent to the mountains of rural Inner Mongolia to mine rare ear... | [] | 1611097940 | 1611097940 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,464,071,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Road tested and found Perfect for ages 3 to 8 I brought this to read to my 3 year old niece and 7 year old nephew as a bed time | I brought this to read to my 3 year old niece and 7 year old nephew as a bed time story and they both loved it.<br /><br />They both totally got the humor and their parents were delighted to read it to them again and again.<br /><br />The illustrations were delightful, clever and kept the kids attention and interest.<b... | [] | 0761462155 | 0761462155 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,366,392,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ideal for 3 year olds to 7 year olds | I brought this to read to my 3 year old niece and 7 year old nephew as a bed time story and they both loved it. They both totally got the humor and their parents were delighted to read it to them again and again.<br /><br />The illustrations were delightful, clever and kept the kids attention and interest.<br /><br />... | [] | 0761462139 | 0761462139 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,364,251,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Beautifully written, a timeless tale of self absorbtion | This could easily be set in the Jazz age.<br /><br />Waifishly lovely Isabel and Ned her attractive husband of less than 4 years, met at Columbia University in graduate school, have travelled the world, and are now summering on the Maine estate of Dinah (a poet) & Clive (a renowned painter 50 years older than Isabel).<... | [] | 0802120385 | 0802120385 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,346,055,000 | 0 | false |
3 | A Goulash of information | Looking for a "writing technique similar to music sampling"? Than this is for you!<br /><br />The writer is also a music DJ (disc-jockey) and has written in a style more improv and antidotal than "a single compelling narrative".<br /><br />During a summer, Tillmann (a German), vacations on the coast of North Carolina w... | [] | B007NN56RY | B007NN56RY | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,337,788,000 | 1 | false |
5 | New to me author (1922-2010) awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature | I love epic stories that stretch for generations<br /><br />Four generations of a family of laborers in a rural village in southern Portugal, are kept in poverty by their own actions, by the land barons through threats of violence, and the government threat of imprisonment and torture.<br /><br />Add to that the local ... | [] | 015101325X | 015101325X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,273,191,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Series Fans warn you must read the previous installments, you must know what happened before enjoying this 3rd entry. | Entertaining, Christian centric, time travel adventure - well written. The main character, Kit, has traveled to the Stone Age; Mina is in Prague and connects with Lazarus, a monk in a Spanish monastery; Cass, a paleontologist in Arizona, time travels for a first time, encounters a society of time travelers, returns and... | [] | 1595548068 | 1595548068 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,364,192,458,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Bottom line: be thankful you do not live in the middle ages. | I don't know what I can add to a book with 752 Amazon reviews already.<br /><br />I had not read either of the author's 2 previous novels in this series but had read reviews that the first, THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER, was highly regarded.<br /><br />I will say that I am not one who enjoys reading about violence, the less d... | [] | 054799219X | 054799219X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,362,336,894,000 | 0 | false |
4 | 48 hours of smart, fast-paced thrills with terrific twists and turns | If you like Lee Child and Elmore Leonard but don't need the violence spelled out like Tom Clancy, or require the humor of Robert Crais than this is for you!<br /><br />Thirty-five-year old Jack flies in from the Pacific Northwest to New Jersey. He's a Ghostman, and the best in his field. When you need to cleanup a cri... | [] | 0307959961 | 0307959961 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,362,333,830,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Die Hard with a Messiah! | From Charleston, South Carolina, to the Congo, to the Pyrenees and the lost Temple of Solomon<br />Opening on the wedding day of ancient religions archeologist Rebecca Monroe and her groom, U.S. Army Special Ops Vincent Brandt. The wedding party, made up of his team (Davidson, Levont, Lopez & Talli), are delayed in th... | [] | 1611097177 | 1611097177 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,362,197,473,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Elle got gipped | Matt a neurosurgeon, and Elle an astronaut<br /><br />My first thought right there is when do they see each other? Of course they can't get pregnant, there is no opportunity. All kidding aside Elle is a retired astronaut and now a college professor living in Maine. They have had 4 unsuccessful pregnancies already.<br /... | [] | 0062194178 | 0062194178 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,362,104,291,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Bitter | Oh the promise of this novel for the first 100 pages.<br /><br />I started to lose hope for the story when Machu and Devi declare their love but Machu insists on keeping it a secret because simply to become betrothed will dilute a vow made 9 years earlier *sigh*. Up til then I had no trouble beleiving that Devi who wa... | [] | 0670066931 | 0670066931 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,945,224,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Ages 6 to 9 - perfect | Picked this to read with my 6 year old nephew (of one sibling) and 7 year old neice (of another sibling) - both loved it, laughed at the funny bits and also got into the mystery. It was a fun time for me too.<br /><br />Brother and Sister, Evan and Jessie, are both in the same fourth grade class. Valentine's Day is co... | [] | 0544022084 | 0544022084 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,408,449,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Title refers to those who left childhood between the years 2000 and 2010 | Drinking, vomit and bar fights - oh my! Young Mr. Eliot Lamb (picture him being portrayed by a very young Hugh Grant), is having his last night out on the town with his BFFs after which he must leave the comfort of college, in his case Oxford.<br /><br />It was interesting that Eliot and I had similar experiences in co... | [] | 0307955664 | 0307955664 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,333,268,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Brrrrrr! | Troy as a forty something freelance photographic journalist who lives with her dog Tiger and rents rooms in her house. She is estranged from her parents and most of her siblings. She lives in New York State's Adirondack Mountains.<br /><br />This is a sequel to her first award winning novel Learning to Swim. I enjoy... | [] | 0307718417 | 0307718417 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,319,136,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Oh my! Oh my oh my! | 30 year old Lee Ann is raising 13 year old twins on her own when the boy who broke her heart in high school comes back to town. Sounds promising! Turns out he is the twins father. Oh my! Turns out the twins are Lee Ann's sister's. Oh my! Lee Ann's sister who died of cancer shortly after birthing the twins. Oh My!<br /... | [] | 1612186971 | 1612186971 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,234,607,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Endless Love, Montana Style | Over 10 years ago Rylan's sister Ginny is murdered, Destry's brother Carson was a suspect and that tore the teenagers and their love apart. Destry is ready to ride again into Rylan's arms until her brother, and unanswered questions, open the old wounds.<br /><br />I was totally set for an angst ridden love conquers all... | [] | 037377673X | 037377673X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,233,445,000 | 0 | false |
4 | George Orwell meets Beverly Hills 90210 | What Happens when the US government decides to make a digital life the law. The sequel to AWAKEN seventeen-year-old Maddie lives in Los Angeles of the future where fear of anything outside the home rules. Things go horribly awry for Maddie early in the book when she comments about the confines of the digital school a... | [] | 0547863365 | 0547863365 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,226,680,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Good reasons for HOPE | The most interesting for me we the survivor stories.<br /><br />I had never heard the term `triple-negative breast cancer' (TNBC) until earlier this year a very dear friend of ours was diagnosed (50 year old white woman, fyi a high preponderance is diagnosed in young women and African-American women). I snapped this b... | [] | 0195387627 | 0195387627 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,221,498,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Ages 7 to 12 | However the 300 page length was intimidating. A combination Harry Potter and Superman/Spiderman. The kids in this book are ages 12-13 but the actions they take and experience are more typical of 10 or 11 year olds (except for the magic - lol!).<br /><br />Excellent story and a continuation of Daniel's story from Powerl... | [] | 0375868941 | 0375868941 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,220,360,000 | 0 | false |
5 | One Day, Many Hours | Perfect to read to a one year old and read along with through age 5 or 6.<br /><br />Simple words - lovely pictures - plenty for the child to point to.<br /><br />I got this to read to a nephew who just turned five and his family is incorporating Jewish traditions in their Christian family.<br /><br />This lovely book ... | [] | 0761459650 | 0761459650 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,361,218,814,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Just what the doctor ordered! | Published in Germany in 2001. Forty-something Felix Hoffman has been the attending ER physician for eight years at a Berlin teaching hospital. Six months earlier he successfully treated Misha Chenkov, a Russian émigré and a worker at the hospital. Fast forward and Hoffman is called in to cover for a colleague and finds... | [] | 1612184308 | 1612184308 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,360,980,024,000 | 0 | false |
5 | New author to me | A lot of romance, a little passion, a little suspense and a bit of magic.<br /><br />Magdalena "Lena" is a witch who in a previous life was one of 3 sisters in ancient Babylon. Ryan is a simply wonderful guy who is happily enjoying all that youth and wealth provides him. Lena is now 9 months pregnant and has not told t... | [] | 0778313808 | 0778313808 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,360,891,489,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Am I the only one freaked out by Ava & Isabel? | Did anyone else find the Bill story hard to swallow?<br /><br />Compulsively readable - suspend your disbelief and it can be a fun read.<br /><br />Being a scrapbooker for over 40 years and a romance reader for 35 years this book was a must try. Throw in a small town soap opera of illness, betrayal, children, love lost... | [] | 034552537X | 034552537X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,360,806,462,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Religious Historical Thriller! | DNA clone of Jesus!?!<br /><br />Is it the 2nd coming, the first or is he the anti-Christ? Or simply a terrorist?<br /><br />A fun read with a premise and opening chapters that hooked me. The heroine was someone I could root for too. She is a plucky, feisty, down on her luck, newly single New Yorker and a reporter who... | [] | 0765334275 | 0765334275 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,360,804,905,000 | 0 | false |
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