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The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone
The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone, by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward, is a Kiwi-infused mystery set in Havelock North, a town in New Zealand’s Hawk’s Bay region. This story about two ex-Brit coppers turned bookstore owners is written by … wait for it … two ex-Brit coppers turned bookstore owners. More than a bit self-referential, in other words, but forgivably so in service to a good story.
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The Locksmith (Reforging, #1)
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Engine of Lies (Reforging Book 2)
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The Blacksmith (Reforging #3)
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2019
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The Wordsmith (Reforging #4)
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2021
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Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at Home and Abroad
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The Forge (Reforging #5)
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Alcohol Education
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Alcohol Education: A Handbook for Health and Welfare Professionals
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Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1):
"Actual Rating: 1.5
For about the first 3/4th of the story, I had accepted my fate that this book simply wasn't for me. However, as I could (at the time) see myself recommending this to others, I would settle with a 3-star rating. My reasons for not vi" Read more of this review » |
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1):
"When authors insert medical situations into their stories, do they ever run it by, oh, I don’t know, a medical professional to see if what they are describing could possibly be plausible?
The main character breaks his arm and degloves his hand, recei" Read more of this review » |
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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1):
"This book is written like this.
Short sentences just black symbols punched on the white paper. I can feel the grain of the paper between my fingers. It's rough. As my eyes move across the page I can't help but think of Mama. What would she say? She alway" Read more of this review » |
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1):
"Maybe I'll come off as bi-polar when I start this five star review (my first of 2011) with an extensive list of why the book I'm applauding is utter garbage. But what the hell, I'm game if you are. Let's do it.
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| This starts off as hard horror-tinged SF with the captain of a spaceship circling a black hole murdering his crew, but it then morphs into a satire on utopianism before morphing again into discussions on metaphysics and religion, before approaching t ...more | |
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| This novel is made up of the diary entries of a 15-year-old girl at a boarding school in the UK in 1979-1980 as she struggles to make new friends, deal with the loss of her dead twin sister, escape the grip of an evil mother, and come to terms with h ...more | |
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| This novella is loosely based on the real mathematician's life as a teen in Occupied France during WWII. The fictional Mandelbrot has a sort of mystical affinity for maths, particularly fractals, that he uses to build a safe haven for his parents. In ...more | |
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“The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.”
― Have His Carcase
― Have His Carcase
“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.”
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“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“In the four years of its existence the Army of the Potomac had to atone for the errors of its generals on many a bitter field. This happened so many times—it was so normal, so much the regular order of things for this unlucky army—that it is hardly possible to take the blunders which marred its various battles and rank them in the order of magnitude of their calamitous stupidity.”
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
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