June 2024
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PAINTING AS A PASTIME – Winston S. Churchill

I fully admit that I don’t know nearly as much as I should about Winston Churchill. I’ve seen clips of him in video footage of the war, and I’ve seen him as a character in historical dramas, but I’m not big on history, so he’s generally passed me by. But then I saw that Churchill Continue reading
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THE SCORE – Richard Stark

Is it possible to rob an entire city? If that city is Copper Canyon, and the heist is planned by Parker, on of the best in the business, it just might be possible. The idea is brought to Parker who initially dismisses it, but after careful consideration, he begins to make a plan. The heist Continue reading
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BLUE RUIN – Hari Kunzru

At one time, Jay was a working artist in London. A graduate of a prominent London art school, he was heading toward greatness and everyone he knew seemed to have his path as a celebrated artist already paved for him. But now Jay is living out of a car in upstate New York, an undocumented Continue reading
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HOW TO WRITE A BOOK – Lauren Bingham

I’m not sure who this book is for. Beginning writers, sure, but how ‘beginning’? I don’t know if I just feel I’m a step or two beyond this book, or if I question just how much need there is for this much of a beginner book, but I really felt put-off by how simple author Lauren Bingham Continue reading
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THE EXPENDABLE MAN _ Dorothy B. Hughes

Hugh Denismore is a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix to attend a family wedding. He is well educated, polite, and civilized – he is privileged. Although he hesitates to pick up the young, female hitchhiker along his drive, he has a soft spot for the trouble she seems to Continue reading
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ROYAL SCANDAL – Aimee Carter

Evangeline “Evan” Bright is an American girl whose father happens to be the King of England. The king has publicly acknowledged the relationship and has brought Evan to England to live with the royal family. This has caused no small amount of scandal and jealousy. Although Evan and the crown princess, Maisie, have come to Continue reading
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DEAD CALM – Charles Williams

Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub… John and Rae Ingram are on their honeymoon, cruising casually on their yacht through the Indian Ocean when they encounter a young man, Hughie Warriner, along in a small boat. Hughie claims to have come from another boat where the other three passengers succumbed to food poisoning, and with Continue reading
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A DREAM SO DARK – L.L. McKinney

Alice is still in shock after the event of the previous book, but she’s also got the pressure of being a Dreamwalker – a protector of the world, but she can’t tell anyone and she still has to do all her typical teenage girl things, like going to school and listening to her over-protective mother. Continue reading
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THE NAME OF THE GAME IS DEATH – Dan J. Marlowe

‘Roy’ and ‘Bunny’ (these are the names they know each other by but not likely to be their actual names) are bank robbers. In their latest heist things don’t go as smoothly as they’d hoped in Phoenix and Roy, who killed three men, gets clipped, taking a bullet in the arm. The duo split up Continue reading
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THE MURDERERS – Fredric Brown

It is the late 1950’s/early 1960’s and Willy Griff is a down-on-his luck actor in Hollywood. He may not have a lot of luck getting acting jobs, but he has great luck when it comes to women. He is currently making time with a hot little number by the name of Doris. Their attraction for Continue reading
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FIRST FROST – Craig Johnson

It’s time for another Longmire book, but where do you go when Longmire has taken on (and taken down) every petty criminal, every crooked politician, and every drug lord in the state of Wyoming and even a few in Mexico? You look back at Walt’s early days – before he ever became a sheriff. Some Continue reading

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