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| "The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself. " - John Mortimer | ||
| Jan 15, 2009 | ||
A dazzling tale featuring a colorful cast of heroes, villains, and damsels in distress — both real and make-believe — Dream City poses the most dangerous of questions: What happens when we finally discover what we’ve spent our entire lives searching for? (read review) |
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| Jan 14, 2009 | ||
Amélie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of her one and only student—the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri—the lovers-to-be find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender. The author brings humor, intelligence, and a refreshing honesty to this highly autobiographical work. (read review) |
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| Jan 13, 2009 | ||
Two years ago, in idyllic Carystown, Kentucky, nine-year-old Isabella Moon disappeared on her way home from school. Is it just coincidence that Kate Russell, a young woman with no discernible past, arrived in town just months before Isabella’s disappearance? When Kate walks into Sheriff Bill Delaney’s office to tell him that Isabella’s ghost has led her to the child’s hidden grave, he immediately views her as a suspect. (read review) |
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| Jan 12, 2009 | ||
Until the dot-com bubble burst, George Bailey never gave much thought to why his grandfather seemed so happy, but then George's wealth vanished, rocking his self-confidence, threatening his family's security and making his adolescent son's difficult life even more painful. Returning to the little Central Illinois farm town of Abbeville, where his grandfather had prospered and then fallen into ruin, flattened during the Depression, Feorge seeks out the details of this remarkable man's rise, fall and spiritual rebirth, hoping he might find a way to recover himself. (read review) |
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| Jan 11, 2009 | ||
Bernard Cockburn is a beat reporter for the Omaha Weekly News-Telegraph. His boss has him chasing dead-end stories when he'd rather be working on that handful of neglected exposés in his bottom desk drawer -- or self-medicating in the apartment he shares with an on-again, off-again girlfriend. Then Cockburn finds himself at a bloody crime scene in downtown Omaha and uncovers a lead in what soon becomes the only story worth pursuing. And like the detectives of all great noir, Cockburn's got a past that threatens to invade his present at any moment. A relentless and tightly packed story; darkly funny at times, and even wryly emotional. (read review and INTERVIEW with the author) |
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| Jan 9, 2009 | ||
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. The author is a tenth generation descendent of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution. (read review) |
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| Jan 8, 2009 | ||
Thomas Perry's most popular character returns from retirement. After a nine-year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native American guide Jane Whitefield is back. When a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters. (read review) |
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| Jan 6, 2009 | ||
Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn't get his money in time, the cashier is executed, and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in Nordic crime fiction. (read review) |
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| Jan 4, 2009 | ||
Set in 1914, Land of Marvels brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. (read review) |
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| Jan 3, 2009 | ||
Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. (read review) Note: Donald E. Westlake died December 31, 2008 of a heart attack while vacationing in Mexico. He was 75 years old. Writing under his own name and pseudonyms (i.e. Richard Stark) he published over 100 very readable & entertaining novels.
Life isn't always cheap south of the border—some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he’d saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. (read review) |
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| Jan 2, 2009 | ||
Set adrift by the recent death of his wife, Theo Samarajeeva abandons his comfortable writer’s life in London and returns to Sri Lanka, his war- torn homeland. There he meets Nulani, a talented and enigmatic young artist. An unorthodox and tenuous love blossoms between this unlikely pair. Nulani finally feels love, and Theo sees hope in his future. But when the insurgency explodes, their precarious world is torn apart. (read review) |
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| Jan 1, 2009 - Happy New Year | ||
Catherine MacDonald is astonished to receive from her twin brother—who had apparently drowned a year earlier in the monsoon floods of 1821—a kashmiri shawl, a caddy of unusual tea, and a sheaf of traditional bagpipe music in his handwriting. When had he sent it? And why had he retitled a certain tune "Not Yet Drown'd"? Irresistibly, she is drawn to India to search for answers. (read review)
Set in 1987, when the price of beef plummets due to health concerns, a simple family of cattlemen from a small town in Texas decide to drive their herd to New York City rather than face bankruptcy under the belief that the Big Apple is nothing but a big meat market. The book has it all - Action, Adventure, Humor, Livestock! (read review) NOTE: It's a new year, with new resolutions; I thought it would be great to start off by featuring two debut novelists. To see a list of all books reviewed in 2008, click here. |
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DREAM CITY
from 5 reviews
TOKYO FIANCÉE
from 1 reviews
ISABELLA MOON
from 16 reviews
ABBEVILLE
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER
from 53 reviews
RUNNER
NEMESIS
LAND OF MARVELS
SOMEBODY OWES ME MONEY
GUN WORK
MOSQUITO
NOT YET DROWN'D
GO EAST, YOUNG MAN
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