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  <title><![CDATA[Wormwood (China Bayles Mysteries, #17)]]></title>
  <isbn><![CDATA[0425226093]]></isbn>
  <isbn13><![CDATA[9780425226094]]></isbn13>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;&#8220;In a class with&#8230;sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum,&#8221;(&lt;I&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/I&gt;) China Bayles stumbles over old secrets in a Shaker village.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; China&#8217;s friends and family are urging her to get some rest&#8212;and a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshops&#8212;while absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife&#8212; some of it the likely result of sabotage. China and her friend Martha are hoping to get to the bottom of it.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; However, much like Shaker history itself, the case appears simpler at first than it is. There is tension behind the serene exterior. And after a shocking death occurs during her stay, China will plunge into the archives of another time to connect the sins of the past with a modern-day murder.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">7</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Wormwood (China Bayles Mystery, Book 17)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Susan Wittig Albert]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 20 09:34:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall I liked this book. I enjoyed the dual story line and I liked the historical story better than the modern day story in the book. My problem was in the ending. I found the ending to be rather weak. I didn't like the way the Shaker story ended. Up until the end of the book we got a first person...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63301338">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 26 18:04:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 26 18:49:06 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Our author decided that China needed a break and that we should come along too.  No Pecan Springs or wacky Ruby. Not a traditional China, except for omnipresence of herbs.  Instead, it was a rather enjoyable tale with two parallel mysteries for China to solve.  One involved China's visit to a Shaker...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79075834">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 20 08:43:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 12 22:58:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the immortal words of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, &quot;If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.&quot;<br/>I'll be the dissenting reviewer here.<br/><br/>Every time I read another book in this series I swear it's going to be the last but I keep reading them out of a sense of trad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53337270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56684047">
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  <read_at>Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 19 18:44:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 19 18:52:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[#17 in the China Bayles mystery series which includes various information regarding herbs.  In this story, China leaves Texas and travels to Kentucky with a friend to help her unravel the cause behind a number of problems happening at the site of a former Shaker community which now operates as a liv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56684047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56867958">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 03 21:05:46 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 21 11:26:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 03 21:05:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This latest installment in the China Bayles saga finds China heading out to Kentucky with a good friend to conduct herb lectures at a former Shaker village - now a reconstruction a la Williamsburg.  China's personal life is in turmoil.  Her half-brother who she only recently found out about was kill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56867958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64836608">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 24 16:21:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 24 16:21:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Herbalist and lawyer, China Bayles takes a vacation from Pecan Springs to help a friend give a workshop at a Shaker Village museum in Kentucky. It is supposed to be a quiet and serene time, but this being a mystery, China is soon confronted with financial chicanery at the Village, and soon enough, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64836608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73918589">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 18:31:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 08 18:41:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this week while sick with the flu and can give it a thumbs up. There is both a contemporary mystery and a historical one, both set in a Shaker Village in Kentucky. Each was interesting - maybe the book was so fast and zippy because the two stories had to be kept tight to stay in at regulation n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73918589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59671363">
    <user id="1492430">
    <name><![CDATA[Julie H.]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 14 18:56:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 01 13:01:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine that this is book #17 in the China Bayles series.  On the one hand, we've become quite familiar with China, McQuade, and the assorted cast of characters who people her herb shop and the small Texas hilltown of Pecan Springs.  On the other hand, <em>Wormwood</em> is proof positive that yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59671363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69739305">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alice]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boerne, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 01 17:07:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 03 11:08:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read this book because the author is coming to our library at the end of the month and I found out she lives relatively close.  I guess most of her stories take place in the Texas Hill Country, so I look forward to reading another.  This one, however, took place in a Shaker village in K...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69739305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58073445">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 01 11:12:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 01 11:18:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[And she's back!  I take back what I said in my review of the last China Bayles book.   Some of my questions were answered and the writing seemed much smoother in this one.  Wormwood is one of the best in the series, IMHO.  Loved the Shaker lore and alternating storyline as much or more than the actu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58073445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54203300">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 21:07:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 30 16:03:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[With her own family murder mystery solved, China Bayles takes some much needed time off and leaves Pecan Springs to visit a restful herb festival in Mount Zion, Kentucky, formerly the living place of a group of Shakers in early 1900's. But mystery follows China even in such a peaceful place when the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54203300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54128255">
    <user id="204807">
    <name><![CDATA[Marian]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 27 09:49:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 01 16:32:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was warned by someone not to expect great things from Wormwood, and I'll admit that for a second there at the beginning I was worried they would be right.  But then the story managed to find the right balance [or maybe I got used to the quirks of this particular book:] and I pretty much raced thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54128255">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63639421">
    <user id="1096444">
    <name><![CDATA[Shelly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read and loved Janice Holt Giles' The Believers years ago. I picked this up on principal because I love the China Bayles' mysteries, but finding out it was about the Shakers was a bonus. <br/>I literally couldn't put it down. I think it took me all of about four hours to read it - almost in o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63639421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59935289">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Texas lawyer and herbalist China Bayles goes to a restored Shaker Village in Kentucky to help a friend teach some courses, but finds herself investigating a murder instead.  Interspersed in the story is a century-old crisis in the Shaker Village, which has some resonance for the present-day tale.  S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59935289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64681213">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 23 12:59:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my escape to silliness reads.  China Bayles travels to a Shaker village with a friend where the accountant is murdered because she has uncovered missing stock certificates. A fun easy read - pure escapism after reading a more serious book.  Previous books always had good characters, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64681213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65849524">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I normally love this series, I didn't really like this one very much.  I think the main problem for me was how it tried to weave two stories together, one from the past and one from the present.  I've never really liked that style.  Plus, I missed the regular characters.  China was just on her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65849524">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 11:36:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed most of Albert's China Bayles mysteries. I realized I was missing Ruby and her take on things when I was about half way through it. <br/><br/>The Shaker information was interesting but there was too much of it in the beginning and it slowed things down. I wasn't sure I wanted to conti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64388290">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 26 13:46:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the latest in the China Bayles series. These books are consistently very good, and this one kept up the standard. I liked how Susan Wittig Albert wove the Shaker story within the modern China Bayles story. She managed to have some great parallels without giving the story away on either side.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54036807">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book, I truly enjoy learning about all the herbs that this author introduces into this series.  This story was different due to the way she intertwined the Shaker history along with the present.<br/><br/>The recipes as well as Herbs for Shaker gardens (Medicinal,Tea,Culinary) is worth the re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69146173">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 16:15:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this series and I've read most of them.  This one has China visiting a Shaker village amd the author gives enough background to be interesting.  That's how I end up looking things up... never knew the Shakers didn't marry...Ithink I always got that group confused with Quakers. ]]></body>
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