Author: Minnette Meador
Publisher: Resplendence Publishing
Genre: Historical fantasy/romance
Release Date: Out now
OK I admit, being a guy I’m not a big fan of romance novels. When I read the blurb for this book, however, I was very much intrigued and just had to review it. Now I’m glad I did.
It’s 6.0. AD …

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“The Gift of the Magi”
“The Cop and the Anthem”
“Springtime a la Carte”
“The Green Door”
“After Twenty Years”
“The Furnished Room”
“The Pimienta Pancakes”
“The Last Leaf”
“The Voice of the City”
“While the Auto Awaits”
“A Retrieved …

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The language used is very good and user friendly.Once you start a topic,you …

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Patricia Cornwell’s books are difficult to start I often have this problem with her books. I read the first two chapters of this book, and only returned to finish it half a year later. …

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I later found out that this was PD James’ first novel; fortunately I had read some of her other books before and liked them; else I would have just stopped at this one.
Sally Jupp, an …

In this new tale by the author Patrick Rothfuss, the sometimes ambiguous lines between poetry and prose begin to blur. Indeed, often, the reader wonders if The Name of the Wind is poetry or prose, because the language used by Rothfuss is singularly, and poetically elegant and beautiful.
He creates …

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The story is a team-up issue featuring Daredevil and Spiderman. The team-up is necessary because the adversary is …

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Since watching Ironman in 2006 and being awed by the participants, I decided to try and conquer this sport. I have been going to the gym regularly for the last decade or so and an avid biker. I got some books for triathlon, and beefed up my collection with …

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This is the first book by Sara Paretskey that I read; it is somehow different from the investigative/detective stories I’ve read before. Paretsky has developed a hard protagonist in VI Warshawski a …

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The …

What do you do with a great business idea? Don’t just sit on it. Do something about it. I like The Beermat Entrepreneur because it is so inspiring and there are many valuable lessons to learn from it.
It teaches you how to transform your business idea into …

Ann Coulter is certainly controversial and her new book, Godless, has spent quite a few weeks at number one on the New York Times best seller list. (It sold 45,000 copies in one week)
Coulter is popular. Right wing books are popular. (Leftist Al Franken’s recent book saw a first …

This is a book about none other than surviving a robot uprising, meant as a humorous look at how far robot technology has come to today. It covers everything from how to spot a hostile robot to fooling robots, to surviving hand to hand combat. Scattered throughout the book …

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This is a totally different story by a Japanese author and the illustration is kind of …

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This book is divided into 24 chapters, …

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D.G. Chinchester wrote the issue, and Lee …

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The story does a nice job …

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Like all other …

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