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REACHER: THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES – Lee Child
I love reading introductions. One of my favorite parts when reading a collection of short stories or an anthology, is reading the editor or author’s introduction to each story. Same goes for novels, biographies, histories, etc. I think it’s because this is the place where we really get the author’s voice. Not the author writing Continue reading
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YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE – Ian Fleming
Well this was a surprise. I am by no mean a big James Bond fan. I was, however, a teenage boy in the 1970’s so spies, action, and beautiful-falling-out-of-their-skimpy-costumes-women were the kinds of movies I went to see with my friends. And while the movie version of You Only Live Twice came out a little early for Continue reading
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THE DEFECTOR – Chris Hadfield
**WARNING – POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!! *** Astronaut and author Chris Hadfield is back with another thriller in his Apollo Murders series. But anyone expecting a thriller in space may be disappointed. This book is much more down-to-earth. It is 1973 and Russian test pilot Alexander Vasilyevich Abramovich (better known by his nickname ‘Grief’) lands his MiG-25 – Continue reading
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THE RECOVERY AGENT – Janet Evanovich
Gabriela Rose is a Recovery Agent. If you have something lost or missing, then Gabriela is your go-to person to recover it for you. In her first adventure, by popular author Janet Evanovich, Gabriela is working on behalf of her own family. She’s in need of money to prevent her family from having their home Continue reading
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GOING ROGUE – Janet Evanovich
We’re in the 29th book in the Stephanie Plum series and Ms. Plum is just as energized and confused (romantically) as ever. Monday’s aren’t the best of days on a good week, but when Stephanie shows up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds and Connie, the office manager isn’t there, the day gets worse. Connie’s Continue reading
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MISSION ATOMIC – Sarwat Chadda
* * * WARNING — POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!! * * * Things are heating up for the Cahills, thirteen year old Dan and his older sister Amy. One of their own ancestors, a Cahill now known as The Outcast, has recreated three of the world’s worst disasters and appears to save the worst for last Continue reading
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THE REAL GONE GIRLS – Ted Mark
O.R.G.Y. WEEK Book Three in The Man From O.R.G.Y. sleaze series! When we last saw ‘spy’ Steve Victor, he had gotten himself into a bit of a jam, but he gets out of it just in time to take on his next mission. A wealthy man has died and left his fortune to his favorite Continue reading
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THE 9-MONTH CAPER – Ted Mark
O.R.G.Y. WEEK Steve Victor, the man from O.R.G.Y., is in Latin America and feeling a little trapped. Trapped in a bathroom with a beautiful woman, Fidel Castro, and a time-bomb. Trapped in a room making love to a beautiful rebel when a revolution breaks out. Trapped in a brothel basement with four horny hookers and Continue reading
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THE BLOOD GUARD – Carter Roy
Ronan Truelove is just an ordinary thirteen year old, with very ordinary parents – or so he believes, until one day when his mother ‘abducts’ him from school and tears off on a high speed car chase. His father, she informs Ronan, has been kidnapped, and those kidnappers are now after Ronan as well. Kidnapped? Continue reading
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ANARCHY OF THE MICE – Jeff Bond
Molly McGill is a twice-divorced single mother with a struggling P.I. business. She’s struggling to hold her life (and her kids’ lives) together and seeing her teenage son wearing a t-shirt that supports the “Blind Mice” – a group of anarchists who have been disrupting government functions and have been in the news frequently – Continue reading
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DARK SKY – C.J. Box
Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming and when the governor of the state asks him specifically to act as a hunting guide for a VIP, Joe agrees. That VIP is Steve “Steve-2” (because Steve Jobs is Steve-1) Price, a CEO of a Silicon Valley social media creation, ConFab, that is a cross between Continue reading
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CURTSIES & CONSPIRACIES – Gail Carriger
Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality is not your ordinary Finishing School. It is also a secret training ground to turn qualified young ladies into spies. Second year student Sophronia uses the skills she learns to listen in on teachers and sneak into places where she doesn’t belong. But then what 15 Continue reading
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