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  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

    A book review of The Lovely Bones fromSimpson’s Paradox, just in time for the movie:
    The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, begins by introducing the protagonist, Susie Salmon (like the fish, she reminds us), who is dead, murdered by a neighbor who’s made smalltalk with her parents a few times. As her community searches for her [...]

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  • Medusa

    Medusa is one of Clive Cussler’s latest novels, featuring Kurt Austin of NUMA, upon which all of Cussler’s novels base itself.
    The story deals with a deadly virus originating in remote China, a virus so deadly that the entire future of mankind is at stake. A top secret US government sponsored undersea lab conducts biomedical [...]

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  • Curtain by Agatha Christie

    Curtain, written during World War II and published 30 years later, in 1975 during the fag end of Agatha Christie’s life is one of Agatha Christie’s detective novel, renowned for the fact that this novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings, two of Agatha Christie’s renowned detectives in their final appearances.
    Hercule Poirot is [...]

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  • The Apocalypse Watch

    The Apocalypse Watch is one of Robert Ludlum’s better books. The story is set in modern day Europe with the new-Nazi movement set to establish the Fourth Reich.
    The Neo Nazis have set up a mountain hideout in the remote Hausruck Mountains of Austria from where they have surely established a strong network across Europe. The [...]

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  • Flashback by Jenny Siler

    Flashback is a Jenny Siler novel set in North Africa.
    The plot starts with an unknown American found with a shot in her head near a convent in Burgundy and nursed back to health by the nuns. On being nursed back to health, the girl, christened Eve suffers from amnesia and now tries to find out [...]

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Donald Duck

Donald Duck is an extremely popular cartoon character from the Walt Disney company. Disney presents Donald as a white anthropomorphic duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet and wearing a sailor shirt, cap, and a red bow tie, but no trousers.
Disney first launched Donald Duck in 1934 in “Wise Little Hen,” and hthe extremely [...]

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Numbered Account by Christopher Reich

Numbered Account is Christopher Reich’s first novel. The novel belongs to the genre of financial thriller, where the plot is centered upon and the suspense has more to do with the banks and other aspects of the modern day banking system.
The plot centers around three characters. A Middle East man who uses drug money to [...]

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The Runner by Christopher Reich

The Runner is one of Christopher Reich’s most popular novels. Christopher Reich here departs from his usual financial thrillers to author a gripping historical thriller set in the backdrop of Post World War II Germany.
Devlin Judge, an ex-New York City detective turned lawyer is on the hunt of Erich Seyss, an ex nazi soldier who [...]

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Fatherland by Robert Harris

Fatherland, authored by Robert Harris is set in a fictional world where the Nazis have won the World War II and managed to capture Russia upto the Urals, and bring Western Europe under its hegemony. A Cold War exists between United States and Germany.
Xavier March, a member of the Kripo, the lowest ranking SS service [...]

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Archangel by Robert Harris

Archangel is one of Robert Harris’ thriller novel set in modern day post Communist Russia.
Professor “Fluke” Kelso, a British history professor specializes in Stalin. He comes to Russia for a conference, and meets Rapava, an old man and ex-soldier who claims that he was present with Stalin on the night he died, in 1953. He [...]

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Enigma

Enigma is one of the most successful novels of Robert Harris, the British novelist.
The novels is set in World War II England. Tom Jericho, the protagonist is a brilliant mathematician who works as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, the headquarters of British cryptography. He has succeeded in breaking the Nazi code once, but the Nazis [...]

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The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

I don’t really read an awful lot of books by female authors. In fact, the only one I can think of that I’ve read is Harry Potter! I guess they don’t generally appeal to me. This one did though. I guess being a medical-related horror/thriller I was drawn to it. I bought a whole load [...]

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The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett, by Colleen McCullough

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett is a new sequel to Pride And Prejudice, by Colleen McCullough. There have recently been a lot of sequels or retellings of the beloved Pride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or the Bollywood Bride and Prejudice, to a name a few), just proving how well-loved Jane and [...]

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The Business of Dying by Simon Kernick

The Business of Dying tells the story of a crooked cop who is, well, in the business of dying (ie a hitman). He justifies himself by saying he’s only done it a few times, but I get the feeling you’re not supposed to think a lot of the character. Or at least, I sure didn’t.
Anyway, [...]

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Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle

There’s two things I know for sure:
She was sent here from heaven and she’s daddy’s little girl.
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night
She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes and
I thank God for all of the joy in my life
Oh, but most of all…
For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer;
Sticking [...]

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