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Answered Prayers
Answered Prayers
Author: Danielle Steel
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


Faith has a secret, and when childhood friend Brad shows up at her stepfather's funeral, she finally has someone in whom she can confide.


The Complete Jack the Ripper
The Complete Jack the Ripper
Author: Donald Rumbelow
Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 5/7/2007


Excellent writing style and this is an easy to read and understand book. In particular, he does a great job of helping the reader understand the conditions in London's east end during this time of the old city's history. He also gives the reader a complete understanding of the limitations faced by police in the late 1800's.


Crime After Crime
Crime After Crime
Author: Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Ed Gorman (Editor)
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 5/7/2007


Some of the finest mystery short stories by Anne Perry, Ed McBain, Marcia Muller & more-great collection


Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas, Bk 2)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas, Bk 2)
Author: Rebecca Wells
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a 'tap-dancing child abuser,' the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together. In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they're 'bucking 70' and still making waves. With passion and a rare gift for language, Rebecca Wells moves from present to past, unraveling Vivi's life, her enduring friendships with the Ya-Yas, and the reverberations on Siddalee. The collective power of the Ya-Yas, each of them totally individual and authentic, permeates this story of a tribe of Louisiana wild women who are impossible to tame.


Game for Anything (Harlequin Blaze, No 71)
Game for Anything (Harlequin Blaze, No 71)
Author: Cara Summers
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


Tracker McBride brings out a profound response in Sophie Wainwright--something base and primitive. After a year of fantasy, maybe an affair will get him out of her system. Armed with a coin with two heads and other tricks to throw the game to her favor, Sophie lures the very willing Tracker into her bed. Sophie has nicknamed him "The Shadow" for his ability to slip away undetected.


A Love Beyond Words (A Woman's Way) (Silhouette  Special Edition, No 1382)
Review Date: 4/29/2007


Very highly recommended

With no time to run, hurricane Gwen with her 130 mile-an-hour winds brings Alli Matthews' house crashing down around her. She lies trapped in the debris praying for help. When the search and rescue unit arrives, a neighbor describes Alli as angelone of those genuinely good people. Rescuer Ricky Wilder's can't help wondering if today's rescue will bring him "face to face with an angel." When he sees her, Ricky can't resist her strength and resilience in the face of danger and pain.


The Other Twin
The Other Twin
Author: Katherine Stone
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


On a rainy day in Northern California over 30 years ago a tragic accident occurs. Young Claire Forrester goes into labor as she watches her husband succumb to his injuries. For the next five days, she divides her time between her husband's hospital room and the neonatal unit where her daughter clings to life. Now her daughter, Paige, is a caring doctor who is slowly succumbing to her own medical problems. Gwen St. James, a makeup artist, is called in by Paige to hide the ravages cancer has wrought on a terminally ill patient before she goes home. Gwen and Paige become fast friends. Each feels as if she has found a part of herself that was missing, which is understandable under the circumstances. Claire Forrester also feels something is missing. Although her memory can't quite grasp what she's trying to recall, it does hold the key to unlock the emptiness each woman is experiencing in this moving story of family love.


Texas! Chase (Texas! Trilogy, Bk 2)
Texas! Chase (Texas! Trilogy, Bk 2)
Author: Sandra Brown
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


This slick contemporary romance focuses on a second member of the Texas Tyler family, the clan first seen in Texas! Lucky . It is a switch on the hoary scenario of boy loves girl, loses girl, wins girl: in these feminist times it is the girl (here a woman with her own real estate agency) who does the loving, the losing and the winning. Marcie Johns has loved Chase Tyler since grade school, but, being the class brain, knew she didn't have a chance with the handsome boy who called her Goosey. Years later, she has been retained by Chase and his wife, Tanya, to find the couple a house. When Tanya is killed in the car Marcie is driving, the bereaved Chase goes on the skids and it is Marcie who sobers him up, gets him back into the failing family oil business, offers a loan, proposes marriage. Marcie's machinations are misunderstood by Chase, adding a modicum of interest to an overly formulaic plot. The novel climaxes with Marcie and Chase in bed, where "the pleasure was immense. Overwhelming. Ecstasy eddied around him in shimmering waves that matched the tempo of her gentle contractions." Apparently Brown intends to immortalize the Tylers in a trilogy, which should please those seeking hard-bound counterparts to the Ewings of Dallas.


Under Fire (Harlequin Temptation, No 950)
Under Fire (Harlequin Temptation, No 950)
Author: Jamie Denton
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


At the Ivory Tuttle, Jana Linney drinks wine with her two best friends when she confesses that though she has had sex she has never had one screaming orgasm. Her friends after their initial shock and pronouncement to the world or at least to the nearby pool tables challenge her to approach the nearby stud she has been admiring. More to shut them up and encouraged by her alcoholic buzz Jana picks up firefighter Ben Perry to share a one-night stand though she has never done anything remotely as brazen.


Zen and the Art of Murder (Zen Moses, Bk 1)
Zen and the Art of Murder (Zen Moses, Bk 1)
Author: Elizabeth M. Cosin
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 4/29/2007


Move over Sue Grafton and Marcia Muller--here comes Elizabeth Cosin with a heroine who's a worthy rival to Kinsey Millhone and Sharon McCone. Zen Moses is a hip, fresh, cigar-smoking PI who's so tough she's beat lung cancer, but she's still vulnerable enough to admit her attraction to Jonathan Brooks, a Santa Monica homicide cop she meets in this first of what will thankfully be a series of mysteries. When Zen (short for Zenaria) finds a dead man wrapped around a beer keg in the walk-in cooler at Father's Office, her favorite L.A. watering hole, she's only a little surprised. When she turns the body over for a closer look, however, she discovers that the victim is her cousin Danny--a man who supposedly died in a mass suicide with other cult victims 15 years earlier. It's enough to make a girl forget she's facing an IRS audit. Danny's father, an uncle from whom she's long been estranged, asks her to investigate, and she's quickly off and running.


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