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2/5
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3.0 / 5.0
While its setting is fascinating and characters likable, Jami Fairleigh's post-apocalyptic novel OIL AND DUST suffers from some storytelling and pacing problems.
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4.6 / 5.0
Readers of all ages will smile, cat-owners will surely laugh, and a handful of future veterinarians will likely find inspiration in the pages of HAZEL,...
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2.8 / 5.0
HITTING THE ROAD WITHOUT A MAP, the saga of author Fred Rutter's RV journey from Ohio to Oregon, has some nice photography and fun historical...
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
George Azar’s MY GAY CHURCH DAYS is a touching autobiography that will resonate among all those who denied themselves for a cause or a group...
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4.0 / 5.0
Palle E.K. Oswald's HALF A LION is a rollicking, violent, battle-filled sword-and-sorcery epic “jungle fantasy” featuring a murdered king, jealous heirs clashing over the throne,...
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3.4 / 5.0
Part mind-bending examination of love, part sight-seeing tour through time and space, T. Satterfield’s PROPHECY OF LOVE is an intriguing, genre-blending adventure that’s just a...
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3.0 / 5.0
While the world and characters of DL Farmer’s FRACTURED WEAPONS are deeply imagined and lovingly rendered, the narrative structure and prose style produce too much...
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3.3 / 5.0
A stylish and occasionally engaging coming-of-age love story, Daniel Roberts' BAR MAID is a period novel set in the 1980s that is unerringly accurate in...
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3.3 / 5.0
An attempt to deal with Covid conspiracies and the impact the virus has had on our politics and media in a factual way, Mak (Chanchal)...
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November 15, 2021
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR: Turning Tragedy into Triumph to Embrace my Destiny in Entrepreneurship
By Serena HolmesRating:
4.0 / 5.0
THE ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR: Turning Tragedy into Triumph to Embrace my Destiny in Entrepreneurship by Serena Holmes is an introspective, hopeful self-help tome offering detailed facts...
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3.7 / 5.0
HANDING DOWN HOPE may not be the first book that a person working with teenagers will turn to but as an inspirational, hands-on history from...
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4.5 / 5.0
An intriguing and engaging mystery mingling science, crime, and academic backstabbing, Geoffrey M Cooper's ILL INTENT has enough twists and turns to keep readers turning...