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Carolyn J. Rose

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Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. She lives in Vancouver, Washington, and her interests are reading, gardening, swimming, and NOT cooking. ...more

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Spiritual Guidance Satellite Systems

 

On the way to the gym the other morning we spotted a sign outside a church that read: BEGIN YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY HERE !!!

Wow, I thought. A spiritual journey. I’ve never been on one. But, before I would attempt one, I had a lot of questions. 













For example, if I went into the church, would they really send me on a certifiable spiritual journey? Or was i

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Loaded with moral, ethical, and legal questions.
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Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman
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Solid procedural that kept me guessing about motives and suspects. Plenty of Milo and not much of Robin and that's how I like it. ...more
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Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
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Fascinating characters and sense of time and place.
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Mrs. Moreau's Warbler by Stephen  Moss
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Often fascinating but sometimes tedious for those of us who aren't "experts." ...more
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The Great Siege by Ernle Bradford
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I wasn't familiar with this bit of history and found this gripping. Very well described. ...more
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Driving with the Devil by Neal Thompson
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Confession: I don't watch auto racing and probably never will, but I enjoyed this book, largely because of the people profiled and their often painful life stories, successes, and failures. Additional confession: I skipped over sections about organiz ...more
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Cliff Walk by Bruce DeSilva
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Not for cozy fans or those who don't like their mysteries on the dark and violent side. But good plotting, characters, and description. ...more
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The Maltese Salmon by Gary Blaine Randolph
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Another fun space romp requiring a minimum of deep thinking. Just what I needed. Did the final bits on earth go on a little to long? I vote yes, but you might not agree.
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Another fun space romp requiring a minimum of deep thinking. Just what I needed. Did the final bits on earth go on a little to long? I vote yes, but you might not agree.
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“History was littered with examples of those who demanded or sanctioned slaughter in the name of what they thought was right.”
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“You know math isn’t my thing.”
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“If she thought I’d be much help with math problems, then we already had trouble. Most of what I’d learned in high school and college had long ago departed from my brain.”
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message 3: by John

John Bohnert Carolyn,
Your book THE DEVIL'S TOMBSTONE is on my DorothyL list of "Best Books Read in 2015" list.

Your fan,

John Bohnert,74
U.S. Navy veteran
Grass Valley, CA


Carolyn Rose No. I haven't figured out how to do that. Care to drop clues?


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Beth Hi Carolyn,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads! Have you signed up for the author program here yet?
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