Tag: book
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January 05, 2009 03:33 PM EST --
Roberts finishes her Sign of Seven Trilogy with the story of Gage and Cybil, the unwilling couple.
Gage has fled Hawkins Hollow after a miserable and abusive childhood. Cybil has a past tragedy as . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:58 PM EST --
This is my new favorite book. It's a wickedly funny, irreverent parody of the End of Days, the Apocalypse, and the key players therein.
First, we have Agnes Nutter. Agnes has been dead since . . .
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April 02, 2009 12:13 AM EDT --
This is the Newberry Award winner for 2008. It's a charming story about a baby boy who toddles out of his house while his parents and sister are being murdered, and wanders into the local graveyard. . . .
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June 20, 2009 06:40 PM EDT --
After hearing for years what a classic "The Great Gatsby" is, I was pretty disappointed in it. Gatsby is the next-door neighbor to Nick. Gatsby throws huge and lavish parties. Gatsby is mysterious.
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November 30, 2007 11:16 PM EST --
The climax of Roberts' vampire trilogy, and quite possibly the best of the bunch. As typical of her trilogies, Roberts offers three heroines - one per segment - one blonde, one brunette, one redhead. . . .
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November 10, 2007 09:39 PM EST --
J. D. Robb is the pen name of Nora Roberts, author of a series of books including the protagonist Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke. Eve is a Lieutenant in the NYPSD (New York Police and Security Department) . . .
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August 13, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
Ah, New Jersey. The pollution. The Mob. Stephanie Plum.
I've been hearing raves about Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, so I had to try at least one. I started at the beginning, with . . .
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May 31, 2008 05:10 PM EDT --
The second in Roberts' Sign of Seven trilogy, and a bit stronger than the first. The three emerging couples in the trilogy each embody an aspect of vision: past, present and future. The Hollow represents . . .
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November 07, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
A graphic novel about a light-skinned African-American in the 1930's who reports on Klan and other racist activity in the south by "passing" as a white man and then publishing his reports . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:08 PM EST --
I have to say, I'd never appreciated Stephen King's wit quite enough. I read a few of his books, most notably, 'Salem's Lot , and I've seen a few of his movies ( The Stand . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
I'd seen the old 1945 movie And Then There Were None years ago, and came across the book recently.
The story should be a quick read, but the archaic language of Christie's 1930's . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:03 AM EST --
Reece Gilmore has to be Roberts' quirkiest heroine yet, especially if you count only her big titles, and not the category romances.
On the run from her memories, in search of herself, she lands . . .
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December 17, 2007 12:27 PM EST --
clipped from www.time.com
Time posts a photoessay of underwater views across the U.S., from the book American Waters by photographer . . .
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January 02, 2008 03:04 PM EST --
I read The World Without Us based on an online recommendation. Time lists it in their top 10 nonfiction books of the year.
Several years ago, Weisman had written an article about how the wildlife . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:38 PM EST --
The latest of Nora Roberts' " in Death " books, written under the name J. D. Robb, and one of her better ones of late. Dallas and Roarke are again dealing with insecurities and persons from . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:43 AM EST --
Imagine if something as ubiquitous as cell phones suddenly turned on us. That's the premise of Stephen King's Cell: A Novel . One bright October morning, Clayton Riddle is visiting Boston. . . .
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November 05, 2008 05:26 PM EST --
Hooray for Gorey and his twisted, macabre brain. For those of us who delight in his ghastly wit, this is an alphabetical list of tragic ends.
"N is for Neville, who died of ennui."
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May 17, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
The Bell Jar is the story of Esther's descent into mental illness, her treatment, and her theoretical recovery.
I found the narrative to be detached, and perhaps that was deliberate. . . .
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November 30, 2007 10:44 PM EST --
Ms. Truman, daughter of Harry S, takes us on an historical tour of the Executive Mansion, from a variety of perspectives. It's a fascinating history, full of anecdotes, trivia, personal memories and . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:05 AM EST --
I was transfixed throughout this very, very long book, detailing the lives and histories of the men Lincoln selected to serve in his cabinet. Goodwin describes Lincoln's brilliance in choosing men . . .
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