Category: review
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Review: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Title: Ordinary Grace Author: William Kent Krueger (author website) Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (March 4, 2014) Pages: 336 Source: purchased for book group About the Book: (from goodreads.com) From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and…
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Review: The Other Story by Tatiana de Rosnay
Title: The Other Story Author: Tatiana de Rosnay Genre: Adult Fiction Narrator: Simon Vance Unabridged Length: 10 h, 3 m Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2014 Source: Audiobook Jukebox‘s reviewer program About the Book: (from good reads.com) Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been…
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Review: The Hidden Child by Camilla Lackberg
Title: The Hidden Child Author: Camilla Läckberg Narrator: Simon Vance Publisher/Date: HighBridge Audio, 05/06/14 Format: Audio About the Book: (from publisher) Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among boxes in her late mother’s attic. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig into her family’s past to finally…
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Book Review: Prime of Life by P. D. Bekendam
Title: Prime of Life Author: P. D. Bekendam(Author Website) Publisher: Worthy Publishing (February 4, 2014) Pages: 272 pages Format: Advance Copy provided as part of First Look Program from Worthy Publishing About the Book: (from publisher) Ben used to be a cardiothoracic surgeon before he suddenly abandoned his career and became a janitor at a…
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Book Review: The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Title: The Aviator’s Wife (author Website) Author: Melanie Benjamin Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 15, 2013) Pages: 416 Format: Advance Copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley.com About the Book: (from publisher) For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around…
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Book Review: Fever by Mary Beth Keane
Title: Fever Author: Mary Beth Keane Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pages: 320 Format: Advance Copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley.com Release Date: March 12, 2013 About the Book: (from publisher) Mary Mallon was a courageous, headstrong Irish immigrant woman who bravely came to America alone, fought hard to climb up from the lowest…
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Book Review: Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Title: Wringer Author: Jerry Spinelli (Author Website) Publisher: HarperTeen (September 7, 2004) ISBN 10: 0060592826 Pages: 256 pages Age Level: 8 and up About the Book: Not all birthdays are welcome. In Palmer’s home town of Waymer, a boy’s tenth birthday is more than just another birthday — it is considered to be the biggest…
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Book Review: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Title: The Secret Keeper Author: Kate Morton (author website) Publisher: Atria Books (October 16, 2012) ISBN 10: 1439152802 Pages: 496 pages Format: Advance Copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley.com About the Book: (from publisher) The new novel from the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours is a spellbinding mix…
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Book Review: Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society by Amy Hill Hearth
Title: Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society Author: Amy Hill Hearth (author website) Publisher: Atria Books; Original edition (October 2, 2012) ISBN 10: 1451675232 Pages: 272 pages Format Read: NetGalley provided by the publisher About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a…
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Book Review: Rules of Civility–Amor Towles
Title: Rules of Civility Author: Amor Towles (author website) Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (June 26, 2012) ISBN 10: 0143121162 Pages: 352 pages Format: Audio Book – Borrowed from Library Reading Guide About the Book: (from Good Reads.com) On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar…