Month: November 2021
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WISH YOU WERE HERE by Jodi Picoult
Diana is making a name for herself in the art world. She has her life planned and is on track to be married by thirty, have kids, move to the burbs and she isn’t even engaged! Her boyfriend, Finn, is busy being a surgical resident in New York City. Days before her birthday they will […]
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THE SISTERS SWEET by ELIZABETH WEISS
The Sisters Sweet is a vaudeville act. Cooked up by twins Harriet and Josie’s parents. The father is really worthless and the mother is cold and distant. No one can keep a job so the father thinks up an act for the girls. Dancing and singing siamese twins. Only they are not siamese twins. So […]
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MARRIAGE CAN BE MISCHIEF by AMANDA FLOWER
An Amish Matchmaker Mystery This is the third Amish Matchmaker Mystery. Millie Fisher is a widow. Her husband died long ago and she still mourns for him. But she is also a nosy little thing. Which makes her the go-to person when a body is found. People tell her everything and her friend Lois goes […]
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NO SHADOW WITHOUT LIGHT by LUKE GRACIAS
The long-awaited sequel to The Devil’s Prayer. On 06/06/06, the world’s population crossed 6.66 billion. Any further increase could only occur at the cost of other species and future generations. The rise of the population has reached critical mass. This in turn has triggered the Devil’s Game. A hunt around the world for twelve missing […]
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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? This is a rather dark story. Julius and Jeanie are twins. 51 years old and still living with Mom, Dot, in an isolated cottage with very little to call their own. They […]
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City of Time and Magic by PAULA BRACKSTON
Book Four in the Found Things Series finds our Xanthe still upset about Liam who was snatched in time by Mistress Flyte. She is determined to find a way to get him back in his own time and by her side. I was thrilled that Xanthe gets to meet Elizabeth from Brackston’s The Witch’s Daughter! […]
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AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY by CASEY MICHEL
How the U.S. Created the WORLD’S GREATEST MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME in HISTORY Casey Michel shows us the world of illicit offshore money schemes. American Kleptocracy looks at how the United States morphed into the center of global money offshoring. Our country has been at the center of this illicit game for far too long. While […]
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The First Christmas by Stephen Mitchell
In The First Christmas, Stephen Mitchell brings the Nativity story to vivid life as never before. A narrative that is only sketched out in two Gospels becomes fully realized here with nuanced characters and a setting that reflects the culture of the time. Mitchell has suffused the birth of Jesus with a sense of beauty that […]
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THE DARK HOURS by MICHAEL CONNELLY
Ballard and Bosch Novel It’s New Year’s Eve and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard is sitting under an overpass waiting for the traditional rain of bullets at the stroke of midnight. Paired with another female officer on loan from the Hollywood sex crimes unit. They are trying to catch a duo of rapists before they strike […]
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UNDER JERUSALEM by ANDREW LAWLER
Under Jerusalem is a 150-year history of the ground just beneath one of the world’s holiest cities. This is the well-researched, and well-written history of Jerusalem. From the time it was not much of anything to a major religious center, fought over by three or more religions. We begin in 1863, when a Frenchman with […]
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