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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell I would whole-heartedly recommend this book to fantasy readers. Yeah, the book is historical fiction, not fantasy, but it hits all the same spots (at least for me). If you are a fan of Ruckley, Joe Abercrombie, George R.R. Martin, or Paul Kearney (The
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The Human Disguise by James O’Neal The jacket discription of O’Neal’s debut novel The Human Disguise reads like it is supposed to be a post-apocalyptic noir story.  It had me really excited.  Needless to say I was a bit disappointed when the novel turned out be more of an action-thriller and I had radically adjust
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#1: Dune (Frank Herbert) Science Fiction doesn’t get much better then this. Dune is every Science Fiction aficionado’s wet dream. Many people claim Dune is Science Fiction’s answer to “Lord of the Rings” and I have to agree: it sure is. For more details www.be-a-stargazer.com There are many good science fiction books, but Dune is
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Hardcover A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald C. White, Jr. Agincourt: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Adam Gopnik The Associate by John Grisham Basketball Jones by E. Lynn Harris Beat the Reaper: A Novel by Josh Bazell A Beautiful Place to Die:
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Friends don’t let friends struggle through the winter without a good mystery. Looking back on this year’s books, I see that thrillers about frothing-at-the-mouth serial killers appear to be in decline, but there are choice offerings in just about every other category of crime novel. While it’s tempting to slap a bow on whatever’s at
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The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P.D. James The Private Patient takes a while to get going, as P.D.James takes her time setting her stage — here essentially Cheverell Manor (“regarded as one of the loveliest Tudor manor houses in England”), a property where plastic surgeon Chandler-Powell treats some of his patients. There is
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Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past. No one else could hope to take Shakespeare’s Henry V, strip it of its rhetoric and tell the unvarnished truth about the
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Mystery – Wild Inferno (A WILD Mystery) by Sandi Ault (Berkley Prime Crime) – Lie Down with the Devil (Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries) by Linda Barnes (St. Martin’s Minotaur) – Ghost at Work (Bailey Ruth Mysteries, No. 1) by Carolyn Hart (Morrow) – The Private Patient by P.D. James (Knopf) – The Messengers of Death: A
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Devil Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) by Kathy Reich Charlotte, NC is exposed in Kathy Reich’s eleventh novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. Temperance is freed from a deathly dull academic meeting only to encounter a gruesome ritualistic display of cauldrons, animal sacrifice, and a human skull in an underground chamber of a
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski (Ecco) 3. A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre (Scribner) 4. The Pirate King (Forgotten Realms: Transitions, Book 2) by R.A. Salvatore, (Wizards Of The Coast) 5. Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers)