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Waking Lazarus
Publisher's Weekly reviews
Hines handles the numerous flashbacks and switches in point of view well, and has a deft touch in knowing just how much information to give and how much to...
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The Dead Whisper On
Publisher's Weekly reviews
A miner-turned-garbage collector is the refreshingly different protagonist of this sophomore horror outing by Hines (Waking Lazarus)...Hines writes with wry humor...
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The Dead Whisper On
Library Journal reviews
Hines excels at writing gripping supernatural thrillers with plenty of twists and turns; he'll pull you in from page one.
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Waking Lazarus
Library Journal reviews
Hines's intricate thriller about a man declared dead several times offers plenty of twists and turns without sacrificing character development. Supernatural...
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Mediterranean Summer hardcover
San Francisco Examiner reviews
I couldn't put down David Shalleck's account of working as the sole cook on a 125-foot schooner owned by an extravagantly wealthy Italian couple as it sailed along...
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The Post-War Dream [2008]
Los Angeles Times reviews
Hollis' scouring memories of war are dramatic and evocative, to be sure, but it's the little things, like Hollis' unearthing green plastic toy soldiers in his...
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Friends of Radio 3 reviews
"The contrasts between black and white are understated: an old world and a new; the enterprising Rejoice has more to him than the prosaic Warren; the...
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Beer, Blood & Cornmeal
The Metro (Silicon Valley) reviews
"(Beer, Blood and Cornmeal) just makes you want to don a leopard skin and get paid 20 bucks to go in the ring and beat up a dude...
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Library Journal reviews
Two weeks after Queller's maternal grandmother died from kidney failure, her mother was diagnosed with metastasized ovarian cancer. Eleven months after she, too,...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
Television writer Queller recalls testing positive at age 34 for the BRCA-1 gene mutation and her subsequent decision to undergo a double mastectomy. In 2002, the...
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Kirkus Review reviews
Ten-year-old Lulu and eight-year-old Merry are caught up in adult turmoil when their father murders their mother in July 1971. Over the subsequent three decades,...
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Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
San Diego Jewish World reviews
“The life of Muriel Gardiner … is truly heartwarming – the number of lives she saved, or at least had a hand in saving, was incredibly great. And the saga of her...
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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books reviews
“[a] solid depiction of the setting: the markets, the homes, and the streets are brought vividly to life, providing a visual backdrop for this seldom-told chapter...
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FOOL FOR LOVE
Pridesource reviews
But it's the newcomers that give this fine book its the-future-of-queer-lit-is-good edge. Among them: Josh Helmin on high school attraction, 'Nathan Burgoine on...
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Simply Stacy reviews
I highly recommend that you pick it up. Henry Mosquera writes with a driving intensity and continues an exciting pace until a surprisingly poignant ending. Two...
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Hystera
The Providence Journal reviews
“Leora Skolkin-Smith’s new novel, “Hystera,” provides a very vivid sense of being in the head of someone having a psychotic breakdown, and is a powerfully useful...
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The National Post reviews
As head of the Vatican, the Pope is a busy, busy man. Many pressing issues vie for His Grace's attention, among them the manner in which his congregation pulls...
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lovereading.co.uk reviews
Terrific, you’ve got to read this one. It’s a race-against-time thriller with a husband/father forced to commit crimes (including murder) to protect his kidnapped...
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Deathryde
The Washington Times reviews
If you have a taste for slambang satire that plays games with the names of dead celebrities from James Dean to Barbara Stanwyck and a hearse driver with the...
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Comic Book Resources reviews
"(Egg Story) touches you -- on the funny bone -- and makes you revel in the glory of the art form."
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