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The Search0 comments Reading a book by Nora Roberts is like gaining a whole set of new friends. Fiona Bristow leads a quiet and fulfilled live on Orcas Island. She runs a dog school, leads a canine search and rescue group and adores living with her three dogs. When she meets Simon Doyle and his dog Jaws (you have to adore him!) she doesn’t want to be interested in the moody and blunt [...] |
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Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, No. 2)0 comments Stephanie’s new case was supposed to be simple. Kenny Mancuso had shot his friend, not fatally, and then skipped out on his bond. Should be real simple, right? Of course, first she has to find Kenny. Then his friend is murdered. Trying to track down any leads, she joins Grandma Mazur at a funeral home run by Spiro, another of Kenny’s childhood friends. But Spiro has a case of his [...] |
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A Turn in the Road (Blossom Street Series)Debbie Macomber and Joyce Bean 0 comments “A Turn in the Road” by Debbie Macomber is the latest installment in the Blossom Street series. Our main character is Bethanne Hamlin who we met earlier in the series after her husband, Grant, left her and her two children for a younger woman. Six years have passed and her ex-mother-in-law is planning to drive from Seattle to Florida to attend her 50th high school reunion. Grant has seen the [...] |
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Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum, No. 12)Janet Evanovich and Lorelei King 0 comments Is it funny? Yes. Does it have a lot of romantic tension? Yes. Does it have a good villain? Yes. Is the mystery interesting? Yes. Are the characters still fun? Yes. What more do you want out of a summer beach book? I’ve heard some reviewers bemoan Ms. Plum’s lack of dynamic character development throughout the series. They would like to see Stephanie grow, or change, or mature, or develop, [...] |
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The HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien and Ensemble cast 0 comments Tolkien’s Hobbit takes the imagination on a wonderful flightof fantasy. I read this book on a yearly basis and each year I am delighted and captivated by the world of Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is a reluctant member of an adventure that will forever change his life and the lives of those around him. He accompanies 13 dwarves on a mission to reclaim the gold and mountain kingdom of their ancestors [...] |
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The Beautiful and DamnedF. Scott Fitzgerald and Kirby Heyborne 0 comments “It is seven thirty on an August evening. The windows in the living room of the gray house are wide open patiently exchanging the tainted inner atmosphere of liquor and smoke for the fresh drowsiness of the late hot dusk. There are dying flower scents upon the air, so thin, so fragile, as to hint already of a summer laid away in time.” This is the story of a young [...] |
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Tales from the Arabian Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Other Stories (Junior Classics)0 comments I recently purchased this CD set for my daughters to listen to in the car and at bed time. I was impressed with how much they enjoyed it. Several times we have had to sit in the car for a few minute after getting home so that they could hear the end of a chapter. Now, as for the stories themselves, be warned. These are NOT polished up, dumbed-down, sanitized [...] |
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Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad and Richard Thomas 0 comments I would like to address myself specifically to the Norton Critical Edition of this book. The difficulty that many readers face when they pick up a classic, pre-twentieth century novel is that they are not conversant with the history of the times in which it was written. Heart of Darkness can be enjoyed purely as a well written novella, but then you miss so much of what Conrad is trying [...] |
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The Glass Castle, unabridged, 10 CD setJeannette Walls and Julia Gibson 0 comments I grew up in Welch, WV and was acquainted with Jeanette and Brian(Lori was older and Maureen was younger). I can attest that her harrowing account of growing up with an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother in the coalfields of WV was as she says. This was a compelling read, all the more so, because it was about people and places I knew so well. As I read, I [...] |
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Sense and Sensibility0 comments Although SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is not of one Jane Austen’s best novels, it is nonetheless a major novel, with the author’s then-young talent in full display. Its publication in 1811 marked Austen as a huge literary talent, and its significance reverberates even today as contemporary readers re-discover the works of this author so adept at uncovering the foibles of nineteenth century aristocracy. The title refers to the two eldest Dashwood [...] |
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