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Category Archives: Reviews
October
12
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
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**** Gone Girl: A Novel Author: Gillian Flynn First Edition: Crown, 2012 Original language: English Summary: The story begins with the disappearance of Amy Dunne on her fifth wedding anniversary. The story is told from Amy’s journal and Nick’s perspective. Amy is the subject of the Amazing Amy book series, written by her parents. Amazing […]
October
12
Raven Black, Ann Cleeves
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Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Quartet Author: Ann Cleeves First Edition: 2007, Minotaur Books Original language: English Awards: Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. Summary: The story opens in the home of Magnus Tait, on New Year’s Day in the Scottish Shetland Islands. A short time […]
October
12
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
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***** White Oleander Author: Janet Fitch First Edition: 1999, Little, Brown and Co. Original language: English Summary: White Oleander is narrated by Astrid Magnussen, the daughter of little-known poet, Ingrid Magnussen. Ingrid is self-centered and isolates Astrid from others as she grows up having trouble at school, with an eccentric often out of work actor […]
September
27
In The Garden on Beasts, Erik Larson
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**1/2 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Author: Erik Larson First Edition: Crown, 2011 Original language: English Awards: Short list, 2011 Independent Literature Awards, Non- Fiction Summary: From Barnes & Noble: “Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new […]
September
26
Dreams of Joy, Lisa See
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**** Dreams of Joy Author: Lisa See First Edition: Random house, 2011 This edition: Kindle, 2012 Original language: English Summary: From Lisasee.com: “In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic […]
September
22
Broken Harbor, Tana French
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***** Broken Harbor Author: Tana French First Edition: Viking, 2012 This edition: Kindle Original language: English Summary: From Amazon: “Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what puts the biggest case of […]
September
22
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
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***** Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Author: Beth Hoffman First Edition: Viking, 2010 This edition: Kindle edition, Viking 2010 Original language: English Awards: Southern Independent Booksellers Award Okra Pick Summary: From Amazon.com: “Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a […]
September
22
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
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***** Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Author: Lisa See First Edition: Random House 2005 This edition: 2006 Kindle Ed. Original language: English Awards: WINNER 2006 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age Summary: From Random House: “In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender […]
September
22
The Coral Thief, Rebecca Stott
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** The Coral Thief Author: Rebecca Stott First Edition: Spiegel & Grau, 2009 This edition: Imprint, a division of Random House, 2010 Original language: English Summary: From Amazon: “Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, […]
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