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A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker

A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker

by L Ruby Hannigan | Apr 26, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller

Bruno, Chief of Police of St. Denis, gets a call from his friend when one of guests at the cooking class she hosts, does not show. This story has Bruno recalling his past military experiences, some local IRA terrorists, and the realization that vengeance may be a...
Hippie by Paulo Coelho

Hippie by Paulo Coelho

by Don Messerschmidt | Apr 22, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, General Fiction

Paulo Coelho, the internationally popular Brazilian writer, has published 18 books to date ― fiction, non-fiction, and occasionally a mix of both. His most popular titles include The Alchemist, Pilgrimage, Adultery, and a novel entitled Spy. Paulo’s writings are...
Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman

Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman

by Seniye Groff | Apr 16, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, War & Military

Waiting for Eden is a powerful book and yet, a reader could be fooled by its simplicity. The reader meets Eden in a hospital room and he is not recognizable as his former self. His war injuries leave him unable to speak or even communicate in any way, but his mind...
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

by Seniye Groff | Dec 10, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

Anne Tyler creates characters easy to identify with, easy to love, and certainly easy to be engrossed by. In Clock Dance, the reader meets Willa Drake at four important points in her life: 1967, 1977, 1997, and 2017. In 1967 Willa watches her parents’ marriage...
The Only Story: A novel by Julian Barnes

The Only Story: A novel by Julian Barnes

by Philip Rafferty | Dec 7, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

Julian Barnes short new novel, The Only Story, is reminiscent of his previous Man Book Prize winning novel The Sense of Ending in that it is a novel in which an older man looks back on his life. In the case of this book the narrator, Paul, is recalling the story of a...
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