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Rick’s 2025 Year in Books
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Rick Shefchik
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Amen Corner: A Sam Skarda Mystery
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2007
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9 editions
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Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota
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2015
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3 editions
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Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece
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Green Monster
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2008
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11 editions
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Frozen Tundra
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2010
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2 editions
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Rather See You Dead
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2011
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From Fields to Fairways: Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota
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2012
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Green Monster: A Sam Skarda Mystery: A Sam Skarda Mystery
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Green Monster
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Minneapolis Golf Club - Celebrating 100 Years of Golf Tradition and History
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| I liked this better than "The Underground Railroad" - Whitehead is better when he doesn't try to embellish reality - but it didn't rise above the familiar "sympathetic characters in prison" story. It had an interesting twist at the end, and the descr ...more | |
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| Maybe I should have read the first book in this series first. The conceit of an author tagging along with a gruff, unlikeable cop as he writes about the murder case already seems played out by the second go-round. The murder yarn itself isn't all tha ...more | |
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| Kaplan gets deep into Sinatra's early years to explain all the ambition, boastfulness, blow-ups, insecurities, heartaches and desperation that the public came to expect from this supremely gifted singer. The three most important people in his life we ...more | |
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| The stories and anecdotes in the second half of Kaplan's biography are better-known than those of the first half - and one suspects there were dozens of others that had to be left out for length - but this is the Sinatra that we all remember, and lov ...more | |
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| This was my first Clive Cussler. His hero, Dirk Pitt - name, size, background, bearing, abilities - initially came off as too comically fantastic to digest: a combination of James Bond, Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Then Cussler injects a cameo for a c ...more | |
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| Preposterous, clunky, padded and two-dimensional, yet entertaining enough to finish. I think I learned something about the Vatican, the Illuminati, the Catholic church and the statues of Rome, but according to the reviews I sampled, I might have been ...more | |
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| Follett creates scenarios and characters so easily that his books almost seem to write themselves - fine in most historical fiction settings, but kind of jarring in the buildup to nuclear war. He has to balance the necessity of creating believable ch ...more | |
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| Fun read, as this tale of a '60s British rock band includes walk-ons by many of the real rock stars of the era - Joplin, Lennon, Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jagger, Cohen, Moon, Crosby, Nash, Mama Cass, Joni Mitchell, Jerry Garcia, Marty Balin, etc. - in w ...more | |
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| Maybe I should have read the first book in this series first. The conceit of an author tagging along with a gruff, unlikeable cop as he writes about the murder case already seems played out by the second go-round. The murder yarn itself isn't all tha ...more | |
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| Kind of a James Bond-as-local-cop fantasy, though the police procedural parts are pretty good. | |
