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Ah, Treachery!
Ah, Treachery!
Author: Ross Thomas
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 2
Review Date: 2/27/2007


Id you're an Elmore or Westlake fan, you'll like Thomas, an Edgar award winner. Fun books with quirky charachters.


All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1)
All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1)
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 379
Review Date: 11/14/2006


The story of two young men trying to find their way in the West. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a national bestseller.


The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain, Bk 2)
The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain, Bk 2)
Author: Lloyd Alexander
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 6
Review Date: 2/26/2007


Great kids series and Newbery Honor and ALA Notable Children's Book


Broken Trail
Broken Trail
Author: Alan Geoffrion
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 11
Review Date: 10/28/2006
Helpful Score: 1


Good tale of the Old West. Historical fiction which focuses on Chinese women sold in to prostitution and how they survived, escaped, in a coda, prospered.


The Bug Wars
The Bug Wars
Author: Robert Asprin
Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 10/28/2006


Different type of science fiction than I am used to. Totally from the bugs point of view. Very interesting.


The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain, Bk 3)
The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain, Bk 3)
Author: Lloyd Alexander
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 60
Review Date: 2/26/2007


Great kids series


The Children of Henry VIII
The Children of Henry VIII
Author: Alison Weir
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 75
Review Date: 2/1/2007
Helpful Score: 5


Great book about Henry VIII's 3 children. I thought I knew quite a bit, but there was much more. The book is actaully written in such a way that it is a page turner. Very enjoyable.


Chinaman's Chance
Chinaman's Chance
Author: Ross Thomas
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 8
Review Date: 10/28/2006


If you like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake, you'll like Ross Thomas. If you haven't read his books, you're in for a treat. Quite entertaining and amusing crime caper with many twists.


Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Bk 1)
Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Bk 1)
Author: Juliet Marillier
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 225
Review Date: 3/8/2013


If you love Diana Gabaldon and Terry Goodkind books, you will love this.


The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics)
The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 2/4/2007


Re-issued as an Oxford World Classic, this is a diary of an ordinary, somewhat obtuse man at the end of the 19th century. His life is very ordinary, but he decides his diary should be published just like any person of import. Written by a former Gilbert and Sullivan troupe member and illustrated by his brother, it's an amusing book.


Dream West (American Story, Bk 1)
Dream West (American Story, Bk 1)
Author: David Nevin
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 4
Review Date: 5/31/2011


Very interesting book about the mapping and populating of California - an interesting time in history.


Embers
Embers
Author: Sandor Marai, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 65
Review Date: 3/5/2013


I would call this a novelette - very fast read. It is a character study that I really enjoyed. I thought that the author's prose was very good.


Review Date: 4/26/2007
Helpful Score: 1


Very interesting and engaging young adult, older kids fantasy with crazy family members thrown in to the mix.


The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Author: Gordon Dahlquist
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 3/18/2007


Very interesting Victorian era fantasy


The Good German
The Good German
Author: Joseph Kanon
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 23
Review Date: 2/1/2007


After a somewhat slow first chapter, the book picks up and becomes very interesting thriller. A good read.


The High King (Chronicles of Prydain, Bk 5)
The High King (Chronicles of Prydain, Bk 5)
Author: Lloyd Alexander
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 90
Review Date: 2/26/2007


Newbery Award Medal winner in this great kids series


Honeymoon: A Romantic Rampage
Honeymoon: A Romantic Rampage
Author: Amy Jenkins, Amy Jenkins
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 4
Review Date: 2/27/2007


Whaat happens when you see your former love on your honeymoon night???


I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 55
Review Date: 10/28/2006
Helpful Score: 1


Good book on the Holocaust experience. Very short chapters, a fast read and appropriate for older children interested in this subject. I wanted to know more about what happened to them after the war so an epilogue would have been great.


Imperial Spain 1469-1716
Imperial Spain 1469-1716
Author: J. H. Elliott
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 1
Review Date: 2/26/2007


Traveling to Spain? Read the history of it's most prosperous era!


The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1)
The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1)
Author: Raymond Khoury
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 446
Review Date: 12/26/2006


Theme somewhat simliar to the DaVinci code, but I liked this better. The writing is better and the story more believable.


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