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Carol Newman Cronin
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Greetings from sunny south Florida, where I've escaped for a week of warm weather and a spot of fun that might (or might not) be eventually justified as research. For the past twenty years, I've come to Miami for one or more of the many regattas that are hosted here during the winter months. This is the first time I had a completely free day without the distractions of meetings or sailing, and I t...
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Oliver's Surprise: A Boy, a Schooner, and the Great Hurricane of 1938 by Carol Newman Cronin (Goodreads Author), Laurie Cronin   4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Cape Cod Surprise: Oliver Matches Wits with Hurricane Carol by Carol Newman Cronin (Goodreads Author), Laurie Ann Cronin 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Game of Sails 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Three Days in the Light (Literature & Fiction)
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Short story about the end of life... and the beginning.
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Circle of Bones spins a tale that dives back into the past while living securely in the present, with the Caribbean as a lush tropical backdrop.
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| A light beach read, appropriate for its Nantucket summer setting. Though I had some issues with some of the logic, it didn't detract from the story. Recommended for an escape read. | |
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| While the writing is superb, I lost interest in this story about 1/3 of the way through. I'm probably just not cut out for dystopian worlds, even if we do have a last name in common. | |
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THIS Q&A HAS CONCLUDEDBest-selling author Alexander McCall Smith joined Goodreads fans for a Q&A and group chat May 10-17, 2010. The official Q&A is n...more
