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Beth Kendrick’s chick lit novels are always light, fun and easy to read (my reviews of The Pre-Nup and Nearlyweds), and Second Time Around was no exception. I love how Kendrick can develop solid and sympathetic characters in a short amount of time. It’s easy to fall in love with the four women in this
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The simplest answer is that it is a book which is intended to show the reader how to do something. But to really understand how to books, you need to understand some of the other terms that are used for similar books.
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Almost Home by Pam Jenoff I read Pam Jenoff’s debut novel The Kommandant’s Girl a long time ago and really enjoyed it, so I’ve kept an eye out for the novels she’s released since then, though I haven’t picked any up until now. I had heard good things about Almost Home, but was unsure about
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The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Derting’s debut novel is a gripping page turner full of romance, mystery, and suspense. Violet’s ability to sense the dead has plagued her since she was little. She had to constantly cope with being drawn to the echoes left behind by the dead. The torment that ensued after her
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Great titles really do sell more books. Missing the mark with your book, e-book or e-report title is a mistake made by 99% of book writers. Find out how to quickly and easily write magnetic book titles that will sell your book like wildfire.
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Memory by Donald E. Westlake Memory is a noir novel, centered very much on its now-loner protagonist. Paul thinks he has a mystery to investigate — to figure out who he is — and he goes through the detective-motions. But the pieces, even as they add up, don’t help him. What he really has to
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Blackout by Connie Willis So, what do we get in this tale? We get a rich look at 1940s England, in the city and the countryside. We get an up close and personal view of Dunkirk. We get a good review of medical facilities and practices in the 1940s, e.g., how does one break the
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A Dark Matter by Peter Straub Though billed as something of a supernatural horror novel, A Dark Matter is much more of a psychological book. It’s a subdued novel in the fashion of Rashomon or Lost, using different character perspectives to gradually build a complete picture of events. But it’s also more than just a
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The Spiral Labyrinth: A Tale Of Henghis Hapthorn by Matthew Hughes BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Henghis Hapthorn, the world's foremost discriminator, finds the world's transition towards magic even more pronounced when he somehow travels centuries into the future and in the middle of a power struggle between five wizards. MY REVIEW: PROS: Hughes writing style is atmospheric
Death’s Half Acre by Margaret Maron