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All White Girls
All White Girls
Author: Michael Bracken
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 1
Review Date: 11/29/2005


It seems lately that too many mystery writers are asking me to like characters who are stuck on themselves and their own wealth, totally obnoxious and ugly to even their friends-- or all of the above! Not so "All White Girls."
Big Dick Rickenbacher's looking all over for Hubert Cove's daughter, who bought a bus ticket to Chicago and then disappeared. "All White Girls" revolves around two young women who ran away from home: one found dead but unidentified, and the one Rickenbacher can't find. Enlisting Jesse, a past love, in the search for Katherine Cove, Rickenbacker re-ignites a fire neither one is sure shouldn't have stayed put out! Even in a city the size of Chicago, runaway kids have some things in common, but the connection between these two young women, and a third-- long dead-- sure took me by surprise!!!!


The Ape Who Guards the Balance  (Amelia Peabody, Bk 10)
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody, Bk 10)
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 145
Review Date: 1/22/2006


#10 in the terrific series about Amelia Peabody and her archeological family as they uncover the secrets of ancient Egypt at the turn of the 20th century.


The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
Review Date: 6/16/2011


Looking for a different way to manage your worklife? This book is loaded with fresh and exciting ideas, but also serves as an excellent introduction to the work of Chris Guillebeau, who has many other valuable resources available online. For example, although not everyone wishes they had a graduate degree, his guidelines for an alternative education are ones that would benefit almost everyone.


Between Two Gardens: Reflections on Sexuality and Religious Experience
Review Date: 11/27/2005


Discussion of relationship between sexuality and spirituality


Blood Lure (Anna Pigeon, Bk 9)
Blood Lure (Anna Pigeon, Bk 9)
Author: Nevada Barr
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 46
Review Date: 4/16/2006


Anna Pigeon, National Park Ranger, is back in the mountains, at Glacier National Peace Park on the Montana/Cananadian border.


Blood Memory (Mississippi, Bk 5)
Blood Memory (Mississippi, Bk 5)
Author: Greg Iles
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 380
Review Date: 10/13/2006
Helpful Score: 1


Couldn't stop reading this book! Forensic expert gets caught up in a cold case that involes her own memory and her own Mississippi family, while a serial killer stalks New Orleans.


Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9)
Blow Out (FBI Thriller, Bk 9)
Author: Catherine Coulter
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 494
Review Date: 11/29/2005
Helpful Score: 1


This was my first Catherine Coulter and I loved it! FBI Agents Savich and Sherlock investigate the death of a Supreme Court justice.


The Breaker
The Breaker
Author: Minette Walters
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 78
Review Date: 11/29/2005


I thought this was Minette Walters' best book! A woman is discovered drifting in and out of consciousness in the sea...


Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
Review Date: 11/27/2005


New look at how women develop moral reasoning


A Cat on Stage Left (Alice Nestleton, Bk 16)
A Cat on Stage Left (Alice Nestleton, Bk 16)
Author: Lydia Adamson
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 7
Review Date: 3/11/2006


Charming mystery filled with out-of-work actors, spoiled citty-cats, and New York City.


The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (The Cat Who...Bk  1)
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (The Cat Who...Bk 1)
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 229
Review Date: 5/26/2011
Helpful Score: 1


What a charming story! Great introduction to a series with cat lovers in mind. Although the later books aren't as well-written, these early ones are terrific. A Down-On-His-Luck reporter befriends an outwardly finicky Siamese cat with a regal name (Kao K'o-Kung) and unleashes a mischievous mystery-solving sleuthcat named KoKo.


Coach McCray
Coach McCray
Author: Amos Jones
Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 9/3/2006


Inspiring story of the first woman to coach a public school football team.


A Cold Day In Paradise (Alex McKnight, Bk 1)
A Cold Day In Paradise (Alex McKnight, Bk 1)
Author: Steve Hamilton
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 189
Review Date: 11/29/2005


First in a great series that takes place in the C-O-L-D of Michigan's Upper Penninsula. Alex McKnight is a former Detroit police office, recouperating in the North Woods from injuries acquired in a shoot-out that left his partner dead.


Copy Kat (Kat Colorado, Bk 4)
Copy Kat (Kat Colorado, Bk 4)
Author: Karen Kijewski
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 9
Review Date: 3/12/2006


Private Investigator Kat goes undercover as a bartender to find out who killed the bar owner's wife. A lot of people in the town think the bar owner killed her himself. Is Kat safe? Will she uncover the truth?


Cover Your Assets
Cover Your Assets
Author: Patricia Smiley
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 2/12/2006
Helpful Score: 3


Terrific second episode of Tucker Sinclair series. Tucker is a financial management consultant in L.A. and this book finds her drawn back into the lives of her former best friend and former lover, who ran off together years ago. Brice is found stabbed to death, and the police come to notify HER! Did her best friend kill him after years of marriage? Was he really into drugs and porn? Tucker has to know.


Crawfish Mountain: A Novel
Crawfish Mountain: A Novel
Author: Ken Wells
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 4
Review Date: 7/21/2009
Helpful Score: 1


Ken Wells never disappoints, with wonderful characters, prose, and plotting that capture the heart of Louisiana, good and bad.


Dark Fields
Dark Fields
Author: T.J. Macgregor
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 13
Review Date: 12/21/2005


First in a great mystery series about Quinn St. James and Mike McCleary. Set in Miami.


The Dark Room
The Dark Room
Author: Minette Walters
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 70
Review Date: 11/29/2005


This is a terrific suspenseful story!


Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, Bk 2)
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, Bk 2)
Author: Kathy Reichs
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 129
Review Date: 3/12/2006


Series mystery about Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse, but finds something else instead. Where is Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century and now a candidate for sainthood?


Feel Good Naked
Feel Good Naked
Author: Laure Redmond
Book Type: Hardcover
  • Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
 4
Review Date: 3/4/2006


10 steps to a more positive self-image, with case histories and practical advice.


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