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3.2 / 5.0
Although the plot can feel disconnected at times, VS Nelson’s THE ARCHIVIST has all the necessary ingredients to satisfy readers hungry for supernatural mystery.
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3.7 / 5.0
While Aneace Haddad's THE EAGLE THAT DRANK HUMMINGBIRD NECTAR has some failings as a novel, as a business book it is full off innovative ideas...
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4.5 / 5.0
DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the third Jo Crowder novel and establishes Richard Zappa as a first class thriller writer and his homicide detective heroine as one...
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4.0 / 5.0
Featuring an ever-resourceful eighth grader, a temporal warrior who’s the last of his kind, and a healthy dose of time travel, Andrew M. Nehring’s DAVID...
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3.6 / 5.0
While NFL aficionados may struggle with the over-reliance on rudimentary explanations, Diana Weynand’s LIPSTICK FOOTBALL (8 Game-Changing Principles to Bust Through Limitations and Achieve the...
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4.2 / 5.0
Playful, humorous, heartbreaking, and fast-paced, Melanie Joy Mezzancello's LOVE SNAGGS blends adventure with heartfelt sentiment to illustrate the limits to which both a dog and...
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4.8 / 5.0
Lynne Handy's OLD SINS is a well-written mystery, unique in its content and intriguing in a plot progression that is laced with clues and twists.
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4.0 / 5.0
Part traditional crime story, part study in trauma recovery, STUMBLE AND FALL satisfies readers at both levels, offering a portrait of humanity at its best...
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5.0 / 5.0
Impressively solid in its historical information and skillfully written, Jennifer Dobbs' LOST IN CHINA: A Memoir of World War II, effectively describes the people and...
September 12, 2022
EMMA’S ARMY (How Millions of Angry, Marching Seniors Saved Their Vanishing America)
By Dan ChabotRating:
2.8 / 5.0
Too broadly absurd to offend progressives and too simplistic to provide a meaningful critique of the left, Dan Chabot's EMMA'S ARMY (How Millions of Angry,...
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4.8 / 5.0
With BE SOMEBODY (A Dante Jacoby Thriller), Matt Rogers pairs impeccable writing with a highly effective origin story template that makes for a must-read series...
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3.8 / 5.0
P.H. Mountain’s PEPPERONI, JALAPEÑOS & LSD isn’t for the easily offended, but, as a chronicle of an ill-spent youth well-spent in Boulder, Colorado, it testifies...