Month: March 2011
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Like True Crime Books? Try These Vintage Picks
The media only reports what it wants you to hear. That’s why true crime books are so fun, assuming that’s why you’re reading this blog right now. There may have been gruesome and heinous crimes that took place in your own backyard. How would you know if you didn’t read…
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Steamed by Jessica Conant-Park, Susan Conant
Steamed is the 1st book in the Gourmet Girl series by mom and daughter team Susan Conant and Jessica Conant-Park. Susan Conant writes the Dog Lover’s mystery series. Chloe Carter is studying to become a social worker, but her real passion lies in the culinary arts. She also wants a…
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Questions to Ask Before Marrying by Melissa Senate
Melissa Senate has written MANY books, she’s so prolific. She writes the Dawson Family Ranch series for Harlequin. I bet those books are super cute. In Questions to Ask Before Marrying, fraternal twins Ruby and Stella Miller have a LOT of questions they need answered before turning 30. Such as,…
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Ghost Music by Graham Masterton
Ghost Music is one of dozens of horror novels by Graham Masterton. He is my favorite horror novelist of all time. In Ghost Music, Masterton veers away from his usual style of graphic, stomach-wrenching terror to deliver a haunting, yet faintly charming ghost story. Gideon Lake writes jingles for a…
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My So-Called Freelance Life by Michelle Goodman
What did the freelance work landscape look like in 2008?
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Vampire Diaries Return: Shadow Souls by L.J. Smith
Shadow Souls is the 2nd book in the Vampire Diaries Return series inspired by L.J. Smith. It was NOT written by Smith, but by one or more ghostwriters. This one picks up right after the ending of Vampire Diaries Return: Nightfall. Elena Gilbert and gang travel to another dimension—the Dark…
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Black Friday by Alex Kava
Black Friday is the 7th book in the Maggie O’Dell series by Alex Kava. Everyone knows Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. On Black Friday, at the Minnesota Mall of America, three young men make plans to crash the mall’s computer systems just to make trouble.…
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Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro
Picturing the Wreck is the 3rd book by Dani Shapiro. This one is about a Holocaust survivor searching for his long-lost son. Solomon Grossman, a Holocaust survivor, is a psychoanalyst who lives in New York. He’s been searching for his estranged son, Daniel, for decades. One day, Solomon sees Daniel…
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Creepers by David Morrell
Creepers is the 1st book in the Frank Balenger series by David Morrell, who also wrote the First Blood/Rambo series. I remember seeking this book out specifically because it was about urban exploration, which I think is super interesting. I used to live in a military reservation in Hawaii that…