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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: What's Going On at UAardvark? by Lawrence S. WittnerThis novel provides an over-the-top satire about the commercialization of modern university life. Filled with colorful, offbeat characters, "What's Going On at UAardvark?" is also a tale of love and rebellion, and says much about broader currents in American society. At the heart of the novel is a plot by leaders of the military-industrial complex to cover up news of a nuclear weapons [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Shadowed by Ken HughesHe can hear a whisper a block away, and can't remember why. Shadowed is about a hero hanging on by his fingernails. Paul Schuman's preternatural senses have driven him away from his family and his old life, and forced him to live in hiding using what few tricks he can learn on the street. He searches for answers, or just a way to find a meaning in what he's become, in any way that won't let [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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Book: Fire Within (Guardian Witch) by Ally Shields Fire Within is a continuation of the story line featuring witch cop Ari Calin that began in Awakening the Fire, book one of this urban fantasy series. Eight months have passed, and Ari has returned to her responsibilities as the Guardian for Riverdale's Olde Town district. She continues to avoid Andreas De Luca, the charming, aristocratic vampire who turned her world topsy turvy in book one. [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Rich in Small Things by Helen J. BealRich in Small Things is a work of contemporary literary fiction inspired by the Silk Roads and my own experiences driving a twenty-year old Land Rover ambulance to Mongolia. The protagonist, Melissa Lavender, is a hedge-fund trader who loses her job and seeks comfort in the arms of her best friend, poker. Her obsession with the game leads her into the East End of London to a game run by the [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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Book: Riding a Tiger by Helen J. Beal Riding a Tiger tells the story of Talisman, a fifty meter super yacht hijacked by Somali pirates. I was very interested in the phenomenon of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and did a lot of research before starting to write the book - you can find lists of the novels and non-fiction I read before I embarked on my own on my blog. One thing I really wanted to do when writing Riding a Tiger, was shine [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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Book: Half a Dozen Star Jumps by Helen J. Beal Half a Dozen Star Jumps is a short collection of six short stories I wrote over about eighteen months. Their themes vary but they are mostly about love at the core, and they share similarities particularly around the use of unusual narrators (a favorite of mine) - one is told by a woodpecker - another by a sculpture (a famous one - you'll have to guess who but the clues are there!). I titled the [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Calling Dr. Einstein (The Adventures of Mr. Tompkins) by Igor GamowDuring the forty odd years that I was a professor at the University of Colorado, dozens of visiting scientists would pass my door, see my name, and ask me, "Are you the son of George Gamow?" In almost every case these visitors informed me that had gone into science because they were inspired by my father's books. Besides being a world renowned cosmologist, who developed the Big Bang Theory of [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Love Is Never Past Tense... by Janna YeshanovaThere was no place better than a Black Sea beach for them to meet and fall in love. A speedy courtship led to a quick marriage, then the world showed up. A divorce inspired by outside forces sent them on separate destinies, always wondering "what if..." There could hardly have been a worse time for them to be in the Soviet Union. With the country on the verge of collapse, their secure lives [...] |
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| 21. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Dreamer by Phil L. DavidsonDreamer, written by awarded veteran Phil Davidson is military fiction at is best. Captain David Elliot finds himself living under the pain of post traumatic stress disorder years after being released from the military. One tragic event during his war days shapes his life forever and trying to make peace with his past brings in a story line that is riveting, filled with espionage, and tests the [...] |
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| 20. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Old Desires by Liz FieldingThis is a book about identity. Suppose you discovered that everything you believed about your birth was a lie? This book is an emotional discovery of a secret, of lies that stir up guilty memories. When Joshua Kent arrives on her doorstep with the news of the death of a distant cousin, Holly doesn't understand why he's so insistent that she goes to the funeral. And when she does, she's certain [...] |
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| 20. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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Book: Eloping With Emmy by Liz Fielding Eloping With Emmy is a road trip book, with the heiress heroine, Emmy Carlisle, desperately trying to reach the penniless artist she's sworn to marry. Tom Brodie, meanwhile, a lawyer who's fought his way up from his working class routes to the top of his profession, is - in the absence of his partner - put in the awkward position of having to buy off the groom. The chase begins with Emmy [...] |
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| 20. May 2013 ★★★★★ |
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 Book: Far Across The Sea - A family saga by Carmel McMurdo AudsleyFAR ACROSS THE SEA is a family saga that begins in Scotland in 1913, progresses through two world wars and leads to a life in Ipswich, Australia for a young man who takes up the offer of assisted passage to Australia as part of the Australian government's 'Populate or Perish' campaign after the second world war. Life in the mining villages of Scotland was rather bleak. One of the characters in [...] |
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