Author: Hallie Ephron Publisher: William Morrow, February 28, 2012 Summary: Diana has become a recluse ever since her boyfriend died a little over a year ago. She is vey tech-savvy and spends all of her time in cyberspace. She’s a former hacker, but now she is a partner in an online security business. All of [...]
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Author: Rashad Harrison Publisher: Atria Books, 2011 Genre: Historical Fiction My Rating: B Summary (from the publisher): A stunning debut historical noir novel about a worker in the civil rights movement who became an informant for the FBI during the months leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feeling unappreciated and [...] Author: Richard Paul Evans Publisher: Genre: Christmas Tale Format: Audiobook, Narrated by John Dossett Source: Public Library My Rating: B I’m sure you are familiar with Scrooge, the star of Dicken’s A hristmas Carol. He was a ruthless, hateful man until he met the Ghosts of Christmas’ Past, Present, and Future. His meeting with the ghosts [...] Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Harper Collins Original Copyright Date: 1937 Genre: Mystery My Rating: B Dumb Witness starts out like many other classic novels. It’s set in a small village, in one of the old family houses. The story is concerned with the last remaining family member, Emily Arundell, a wealthy woman in her seventies, [...] Author: Cathi Stoler Publisher: Camel Press, 2011 Genre: Thrillers My Rating: B A Summary of the book (from the publisher): When a chance encounter in Florence’s Uffizi Museum plunges Women Now editor Laurel Imperiole and private investigator Helen McCorkendale into an investigation of missing persons and stolen Nazi art, the women find themselves ensnared in a [...] Author: Banana Yoshimoto Translated by: Michael Emmerich Publisher: Melville House, 2011 (Originally published in Japanese by Foil Company, 2005 Genre: Japanese Literature Format: E-Reader Source: The publisher My Rating: B Summary of the story: When I joined the Japanese Reading Challenge I wanted to read something by Banana Yoshimoto. Numerous reviewers praised the brillance of [...] Author: Elizabeth Eaves Publisher: Seal Press, June 2011 Genre: Travel Memoir Source: The publisher for the TLC Book Tour My Rating: B Why do we love to travel? What is it that causes our feet to itch for new landscapes? I’ve always thought it was something I inherited from my parents and grandparents (all immigrants). [...] One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Thing Author: Lee Kravitz Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2010 Genre: Inspirational Memoir Source: Author/Publisher for TLC Book Tour My Rating: B Summary: Lee Kravitz was many things: 54-years-old, an editor-in-chief at Parade Magazine, a work-aholic, a husband and father, and then one day he was suddenly [...] Author: Mariah Stewart Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2011 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: The publisher for a TLC Book Tour My Rating: B This is Book 3 is Mariah Stewart’s Chesapeake Diary Series. I read and reviewed the second book (Home Again) last September so I was looking forward to this one. The main [...] |
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