Peter and the Shadow Thieves (Starcatchers)
 mom's review: I adored this trilogy. As a Harry Potter FANATIC, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. I have not found much that I liked as much as those, but this came close. Clean, action-packed, and gripping...this was the spookiest of the [... more]
$29.95
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Naked Came the Phoenix: A Serial Novel
Naked go the mystery writers: First of all, to enjoy this sort of novel, you have to be able to appreciate what's going on behind the scenes: backstabbing; plot-twisting; character reinventions. And I'm not talking about the story itself. I'm talking [... more]
$27.95
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Saving Fish from Drowning
Amazon.com Review: Amy Tan, who has an unerring eye for relationships between mothers and daughters, especially Chinese-American, has departed from her well-known genre in Saving Fish From Drowning. She would be well advised to revisit that theme which [... more]
$39.95
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The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, No. 10
The Lee Childs Travel Guide to New York City: Well, Jack's still cool, but the Reacher plots continue to sink deeper down the septic tank. What is there to take away from this plot? Thing 1: Lee Childs loves being a "New Yorker" (expat fake [... more]
$32.95
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Key of Valor (Key Trilogy)
Key of Valor: The third installment in the key series is focused on Zoe McCourt and Bradley Vane's story. Zoe is a single mother, and she has had to struggle to raise her son. She was an unwed teenage mother who was abandoned by her first love James [... more]
$32.95
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Creation in Death (In Death #25)
No creation, only death: After reading one of Nora Roberts paranormal romances (Face the Fire) and being distinctly underwhelmed, I felt it was only fair to give her a chance to redeem herself with a crime story, which is more to my taste as reading [... more]
$34.95
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Julie and Romeo Get Lucky
Another winner from a fantastic author: Julie and Romeo Get Lucky by Jeanne Ray is the sequel to Julie and Romeo. Jeanne Ray's writing is so spot-on accurate, sometimes I swear she must be recording people in their home and then simply transcribing it! [... more]
$29.95
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Turning Angel (Iles, Greg)
don't believe the negative reviews: This is the second Greg Iles book I am reading. I am so impressed with the story that I took a few minutes to read the negative reviews. The negative reviews are just wrong. They mention things that are not even in the [... more]
$36.95
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Amazing Grace
A Pleasent Read: On a night that should be perfect and Earthquake shakes the city of San Francisco and the lives of three women who are successful but somewhat unfulfilled. Sarah Sloan, Melanie Free and Maggie Kent are sent on a new journey after the [... more]
$34.95
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Dance of the Gods (The Circle Trilogy, Book 2)
great heroine, immature hero: This is the 2nd book in the Circle trilogy, and I liked it both more and less than the first, Morrigan's Cross. The focus this time is on Blair and Larkin. The Six are stepping up the pace, and preparing to go to Geall, and [... more]
$32.95
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Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (Starcatchers)
You Need to Read the Other Books First to Get into This One: The efforts of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson together with Greg Call who provides the odd illustration every now and again has resulted in another extremely high quality read that can be [... more]
$29.95
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The Prince of Beverly Hills
I loved this book: I loved this book. I hope Stuart Woods writes more books with these characters! Fun and nostalgic: Set in the 1940s, "The Prince of Beverly Hills" follows a semi-disgraced policeman by the name of Rick Barron who, while [... more]
$29.95
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