tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935347617380411072024-03-19T13:52:56.248-04:00No Sushi Tuesdays Book ReviewsCindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693534761738041107.post-19465359032463330722020-05-07T16:09:00.000-04:002020-05-07T16:12:55.008-04:00Your Place In The Universe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-offset-key="837qn-0-0"><span data-text="true">1. The universe is <i>not</i> "infinitely" large, but it's so dang big it just might as well be! And it's approximately 13.8 billion years old, although it's hard to know if time worked the same way back when or will work the same way as it does now in the future.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-offset-key="3pjh5-0-0"><span data-text="true">3. About 70% of what we can't directly experience is called "dark energy" and it's what is speeding up the galaxies as they speed away from each other. Yes, there's no speed limit in the universe because of dark energy. Light has a speed limit and it's possibly our speed limit when it comes to interstellar travel, but the universe itself is just getting faster the older it gets.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-offset-key="9q4aq-0-0"><span data-text="true">4. This means that, although we like to think of gravity as being strong enough to pull things like galaxies back into another "Big Bang," the odds of this happening are extremely low to non-existent. But this is still a theory, and who knows? There still isn't a "Grand Unifying Theory" or "GUT" that ties gravity to the electromagnetic, and the weak and strong nuclear forces. And how do we account and explain for dark energy in a GUT? (We don't--or at least we haven't yet.)</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-offset-key="dtn91-0-0"><span data-text="true">5. And for all we can observe of the "observable universe" we can only conjecture that the "universe is flat." Sutter doesn't go into the "holographic universe" idea, but he does explain why we can only say that the observable universe if "flat"--it's just too dang big to see enough of it to determine whether or not it does have a shape of any kind with our limited three (or four, counting time) dimensions. </span></span></span></b></div>
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Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693534761738041107.post-53844131237855335802020-04-07T06:00:00.000-04:002020-04-07T10:52:42.995-04:00Acts of Forgiveness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A special book review for the </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Acts of Forgiveness: </i>Faith Journeys of a Gay Priest<i><br /></i>Ted Karpf<br />Foreword by Ray L. Hart<br />Toplight Books<br />ASIN: B081Y8LHZN, ISBN-10: 1476679592, ISBN-13: 9781476679594 <i><br /></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I have learned
that while we can’t always see the real outcomes of the victories
of our battles for justice, inclusion, acceptance, and respect, each
of us in our own way has won those liberties, not with the ease of
largesse and privilege, but with an understanding that no matter the
cost, what we did/do and why we did/do it was critical for the larger
humanity.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Retired Episcopalian
priest Ted Karpf’s engaging memoir, <i>Acts of Forgiveness</i>, can
be read on several levels. First, it’s the life story of a gay man
overcoming an abusive childhood and coming out to a hostile society,
receiving some modicum of success while working during different
seasons of his life for the church, the federal government, and the
World Health Organization. Second, it can be understood as the
experiences of a social justice warrior who jumped into the early
fight to bring health and dignity to the thousands dying of HIV/AIDS
in the Dallas gay community and later to the millions infected in
South Africa and surrounding countries. Third, and perhaps most of
all, it is the journey of an individual seeing God at work in the
world and its people while accepting the fact that to have faith
doesn’t mean one will be protected from heartache, harsh
criticisms, or even tougher judgments, but knowing that one will find
love, peace, and joy along the way.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“How many times do
we forgive?”Jesus of Nazareth’s disciples asked him. He replied,
“Seventy times seven” or an infinite number of times. “Father
Friendly,” as Karpf was nicknamed, would agree, but would also
agree that forgiveness doesn’t always come quickly or easily. From
an early age, Ted knew he was different. His parents sensed his
homosexual orientation and attempted to keep him from becoming a
“sissy” through verbal, emotional, and sometimes physical abuse.
After he left home, he found hard-won self-acceptance with the
support of his mentors during his academic years at Boston University
School of Theology. He learned to follow his heart when supporting
others and to love them unconditionally even when it hurt, a lesson
that would be tested again and again in his relationships with his
lovers, colleagues, and particularly later in life with his adult son
and daughter.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Ted’s
marriage dissolved after he fell in love with a fellow activist and
was outed as a gay man in the paranoid climate of the late 1980s, Ted
lost his church in Dallas, St. Thomas the Apostle, a congregation
that had become particularly noteworthy for its open acceptance and
support of those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. He was fortunate that his
soon-to-be-ex-wife Kaye wanted Ted to co-parent their young children
as much as possible, but life outside of the church brought a new
chapter in his service to others and new challenges both
professionally and emotionally.
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ted’s work within
the Dallas area HIV/AIDS community had gained him the attention
of—and then a position with—the US Public Health Service as a
regional liaison specialist to call attention to the magnitude and
impact of the AIDS epidemic in five states. After three years at the
USPHS, Ted returned to AIDS advocacy within the Episcopal Church in
the Washington DC diocese. From there he was called to serve the
Anglican Community in South Africa in the 1990s where the spread of
HIV/AIDS had become a tragedy of almost unimaginable proportions. His
service there was praiseworthy and necessary, but then it was
terminated abruptly and he was falsely accused of a crime that he
could have never committed. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ted was eventually
exonerated—through the testimony of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among
others—but once again he found himself seeking a way to forgive and
move on and to serve humanity, which eventually he did through the
auspices of the Diplomatic Corp of the United Nation’s World Health
Organization. He advocated strongly for the “3 by 5” program, a
program to reach 3 million needing treatment out of the estimated 6
million infected with HIV/AIDS globally by 2005. The goal was
obtained by 2006 and saved literally millions in developing world.
Ted worked tirelessly from Geneva until his retirement from WHO
in 2010.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A man covered with
lesions from Kaposi’s sarcoma and suffering from tuberculosis and
the severe wasting associated with AIDS walked into Ted’s church
office in 1985 making that simple request. “Everything in my life
before that moment paled,” Ted states, “The desperate sincerity
of the question combined with his grim motivation resonated deeply
within me.” The acceptance of death in the midst of day-to-day
existence is a recurring theme throughout Ted’s life, be it the
death of friendships, of work relationships, or most poignantly, of
an ailing stranger or a dear loved one.
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the earliest
days of the AIDS epidemic, Ted has sat by more bedsides and performed
more funerals of individuals, some cruelly rejected by their own kin,
than perhaps any other priest. He also sat by the side of his
mother </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as she lay dying</span></b>, forgiving and loving her in spite of his unhappy childhood
experiences. Ted has been there for many others in
their time of personal tragedy, a source of comfort and advice, but
he is quick to note that he isn’t always as accepting of loss as he
could be.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After his abrupt
dismissal from his position in South Africa, Ted felt directionless
and decided to accept an offer to walk the <i>Camino de Santiago</i>
in Spain. He didn’t want to go at first, but a series of
coincidences finally convinced him that going on a pilgrimage was
exactly what he needed. Hiking the 800 km trail, Ted experienced
blisters and then found God along the way in the way the Creator worked
in the lives of his fellow sojourners. An impromptu baptism of a pilgrim
in the fountain at
Santiago at the end of the journey brought his life into sharp focus.
Ted reconfirmed his service to humanity by demonstrating
God’s love through his calling as a priest and advocate for
all who are in need.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps the greatest
act of forgiveness is the one we grant ourselves when we discover
and re-affirm our own purpose in the eternal dance of life and death. Ted's story bears witness to this truth.</span></b><br />
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Karpf is a priest, public servant, international diplomat,
journalist, university administrator and educator. He was educated in
New York, Texas and Massachusetts. A gay man, Ted is a father and
grandfather. He has been and remains a man who reflects the times in
which he has lived while offering a hopeful vision for the future.
Ted watches clouds and tests the winds and prays while residing in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.</span></b></span></div>
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Mysteries, Book 1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Harriet
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Northminster,
1840: Dr. Felix Carswell, young and fresh from Edinburgh University,
is keen to make his reputation and to get away from his father Lord
Rothborough’s influence. Accepting the post as medical officer to
the City of Northminster Constabulary Felix comes under the command
of the Chief Constable, Major Giles Vernon—and is immediately
plunged into a murder investigation. Workmen have discovered a
mutilated corpse in a ditch beyond the old city walls. The body
appears to be that of a man of means, but who is he?</span></div>
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theories on modern policing become practice as he and Carswell
attempt to identify the victim and catch his murderer. Their quest
takes them into the seedy world of card sharps, clerical politics,
and broken promises in a once beautiful cathedral city turned
industrial powerhouse. When Carswell is called to leave the case
momentarily to treat a girl in a model asylum for reformed
prostitutes, he senses all isn’t as it seems. There may be a
connection with the dead man. His discovery puts him at loggerheads
with Vernon who finds his authority and personal integrity threatened
by a potentially scandalous relationship. Can they put aside their
differences and bring justice to the Butchered Man?</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-style: normal;">Smart ha</span>s created an
elegant murder mystery set in the vibrant time when the Regency was
giving way to the Victorian era. Vernon and Carswell have their
virtues, failures and foibles, and fully inhabit their world in an
intricate case sure to please the mystery lover. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Kristin
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Graydon
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mel
Strickland works the help desk in Hatch, a NYC tech incubator
company. It’s a soul-destroying job in an atmosphere of toxic
masculinity. Nobody appreciates Mel’s coding skills and her love
life’s a mess. Luckily she has her great friends Lia, Dani, and
Whitney to back her up. When yet another loser sends her a dick pic
on the dating app Fluttr, Mel decides enough is enough. Figuring out
she can’t be the only woman who’s sick of the whole internet
dating scene, Mel sets up her own site—JerkAlert—where women can
share information and warnings about ghosters, smash-and-dashers, and
dick pic senders. </span>
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instincts prove right. JerkAlert becomes the new internet sensation
and her little project soon attracts interest from the management of
Fluttr itself. But nothing in Mel’s life is ever straightforward.
She falls hard for Alex, one of the incubator crowd, apparently a
true gentleman—but is he leading a double life? Fluttr’s once in
a lifetime offer for JerkAlert has dollar signs dancing in front of
Mel’s eyes, but the offer’s full of hidden snags. And maybe her
ownership of JerkAlert isn’t as solid as she thinks. Mel’s
personal and professional life seem headed for disaster when
inspiration strikes, and she goes out on a limb with a new project,
one that’ll alter the internet dating scene forever. Will it be
enough to get her career and love life back on track?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">By
turns smart, funny, and always engaging, <i>How to Hack a
Heartbreak’</i><i>s</i> tale of a modern Big Apple woman taking on
the world will have you rooting for Mel all the way. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Christopher
Huang</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Inkshares</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">November
1924. Great War veteran Lieutenant Eric Peterkin comes from an old
British army family, which helped him gain membership of the
prestigious Britannia Club for ex-military men. There have always
been Peterkins in the Britannia Club. As the last of his line
following the Great War’s slaughter, Eric was made welcome—after
a fashion. There are some who count Eric’s half-Chinese blood
against him, and he’s subjected to numerous casual swipes on the
matter of his heritage.</span></div>
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Eric counts as an officer and a gentleman, and he’s called upon to
referee a bet between two club members, one of them newcomer Albert
Benson. When Benson is found murdered in the club’s vault the
following day, Eric’s instincts for justice are aroused—especially
when it seems the police detective investigating has concealed
evidence. Benson announced he would ‘soon right a great wrong.’
What did he mean? As Eric follows the trail from rural West Sussex to
London’s Chinatown, danger takes shape on all sides. It soon looks
like the murderer is uncomfortably close to home, and Eric must risk
all he holds dear to bring the killer to justice. </span>
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Huang brings the world of the 1920’s to life, and Eric Peterkin is
a great character with foibles, failings and bags of pluck who
inhabits that world to the fullest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eric
Idle</span></div>
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Archetype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Comedian,
actor, author, singer, playwright, director and songwriter. Eric Idle
has turned his hand to all these with enormous success. The name
Monty Python is known all over the world, and millions have taken the
absurdist and so-typically British silliness to their hearts. Much
has been written about the Python phenomena over the years, but
there’s always something to add. Most of the Python crew have
written memoirs, and Eric Idle adds to the knowledge by producing his
own sortabiography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Idle
was born on March 29, 1943 in South Shields, County Durham, England.
His early life was touched by tragedy when his RAF veteran father
died in a road accident on Christmas Eve 1945 while hitchhiking home
on leave to his family. Idle was sent on a charitable basis to the
Royal Wolverhampton School, a tough boarding school where bullying
was rife. As he writes of the establishment, “It was a physically
abusive, bullying, harsh environment for a kid to grow up in. I got
used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life under
unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at
the expense of authority. Perfect training for Python.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Idle
went on to Cambridge University under a scholarship, where he met
John Cleese and formed a lifelong friendship that expanded over the
swinging Sixties to include all the future Pythons. Idle’s
induction to the famous Footlights saw him blossom as a
sketch-writer, which segued into a varied career which has seen him
travel the world almost as much as fellow Python, Michael Palin. Idle
got to know and love such great stars as Beatle George Harrison,
comic geniuses Robin Williams and Billy Connolly, as well as
countless other stars of stage, screen and TV. His tributes to
Harrison and Williams are especially moving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Named
after his greatest hit, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/595279/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life-by-eric-idle/9781984822581/" target="_blank"><i>Always Look on the Bright Side of Life</i></a>,
which became the top request at British funerals, this sortabiography
is a laugh aloud insider account into the Python crew at their best
and worst, and one man’s incredible journey into the world
consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">by
Amanda Robson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Avon
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Miranda
and Zara Cunningham are twins, different in both looks and
personality. Zara is a flighty, outgoing and artistic soul with a
history of self-harm. Miranda, more stable and grounded, worries for
her sister. She offers Zara support and a home to get over her last
bout of cutting, but her plans for a secure life come off the rails
when Zara meets Sebastian Templeton. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">From
the get-go Zara seems obsessed by Sebastian. When Miranda meets him
for the first time she feels she can’t trust the guy. Sebastian has
swarthy good looks, but something behind his cavalier over-friendly
attitude toward her strikes Miranda as all wrong. Matters don’t
improve when he gets a position in the tax department at the firm
where Miranda works as an accountant and begins to affect her good
standing with her employer. As the relationship between Zara and
Sebastian deepens the warning bells in Miranda’s mind sound all the
louder. What is it in Sebastian’s past that drives his present
behavior? Why is he doing all he can to drive a wedge between the
twins? An act of sexual assault and a terrible betrayal leaves one
twin dead and the other fighting for her freedom. The survivor has to
put her life on the line before she can win justice for them both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Robson
put a lot of heart, soul and hard-won experience into </span><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780008212247/guilt-the-sunday-times-best-selling-psychological-thriller-that-you-need-to-read-in-2018/" target="_blank"><i>Guilt</i></a>
to create a harrowing page-turning read from start to finish.
Miranda, Zara and Sebastian pop off the page as real characters with
believable drives and reasons all their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">by
Lee Goldberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thomas
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Waikiki
Beach, Hawaii is the scene of an horrific airplane crash that kills
hundreds aboard the flight and the hotels off the beach. In Seattle,
best-selling thriller writer Ian Ludlow is aghast when he sees the TV
news feeds – because he knows <i>he</i> was the inspiration behind
the crash. Three years before, Ludlow and a number of other writers
were recruited by the CIA. Their brief was to create scenarios for
terrorist atrocities to help the government prepare for the worst.
Now it looks like someone in the CIA enacted Ludlow’s scenario. He
discovers that someone has already killed the other writers – now
they want him dead too. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Ludlow
goes on the run with the reluctant help of his author’s escort,
Margo French. They soon realize the scope of government surveillance
in everyday life as attempt after attempt is made to kill them.
Escaping by the skin of their teeth, Ludlow and Margo know they have
to identify their pursuer and stop him before their luck runs out.
Only one man can help – former TV star turned survivalist recluse
Ronnie Mancuso. When the three team up they have a chance to turn the
tables on their pursuer – but it’ll mean going into the lion’s
den. Can Ian Ludlow channel his fictional hero and save the day in a
plot worthy of one of his books?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Humorous,
thrilling and scary, </span><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/true-fiction-lee-goldberg/1126932998" target="_blank"><i>True Fiction</i></a> is a great caper
story of the little guys taking on the all-encompassing secret state
in a knock-down drag-out fight to the finish. </span>
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<a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501150340" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">TheDevil’s Triangle</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">by
Catherine Coulter and J T Ellison</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Simon
& Schuster Pocket Books Fiction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Covert
Eyes</i> is a crack FBI team headed by Special Agent Nicholas
Drummond, with a flexible brief to act against crime anywhere in the
world. Drummond gets a phone call from notorious art thief Kitsune,
known as The Fox. He and Kitsune have a history and mutual respect,
so when she tells him she’s in deep trouble, Drummond listens. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Kitsune
took a commission to steal the Staff of Moses from the Topkapi museum
in Istanbul. Her theft leads <i>Covert Eyes</i> to Venice, Italy and
a firefight in the Piazza San Marco. It seems Kitsune’s mysterious
employers want to ensure she never gets to expose them. Drummond and
his team find a trail that leads to the Genesis institute headed by
twins Ajax and Cassandra Kohath – megawealthy, sociopathic and
lethal. The twins are themselves on the trail of the Ark of the
Covenant, an immensely powerful artifact which they claim as their
family’s birthright. Drummond discovers the Kohaths already have an
uncanny century-long ability to control weather to their own
advantage. Beijing was hit by a vicious sandstorm which killed
thousands. Now a colossal hurricane is heading right for Washington
DC. Can Drummond track the Kohaths to their secret lair and avert a
major disaster?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501150340" target="_blank"><i>TheDevil’s Triangle</i></a> is a blend of Dan Brown and Tom Clancy with a
fast plot, great characters, hissable villains and a gripping climax.
One for thriller lovers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://www.readriordan.com/series/magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard/" target="_blank">MagnusChase and the Gods of Asgard</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">By
Rick Riordan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Disney
Hyperion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Magnus
Chase, son of Frey the god of Summer, fell off a bridge, died, and
became an <i>einherji</i> – one of the Norse champions of Asgard.
He lives on Floor 19 of the Hotel Valhalla together with his friends
Alex (who occasionally changes sex), inseparable friends Hearthstone
(an elf with father issues) and Blitzen (a dwarf with a literally
<i>killer</i> fashion sense), Thomas Jefferson Jr. (a crack-shot
Civil War veteran who can never resist a personal challenge), Samirah
(devout Muslim Valkyrie) Halfborn Gunderson (Viking berserker with a
straightforward approach to life), and Mallory Keen (an Irish
revolutionary with mother issues). And then there’s Magnus’ sword
Jack, sentient Sword of Summer with a penchant for singing hit songs
from the 70’s and 80’s. Life in the hotel is cozy – if you
don’t mind dying every day in the ultra-competitive rehearsals for
Ragnarok: Watercolor lessons to the death, anyone? The trouble is,
Ragnarok <i>might</i> come early. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Loki,
god of mischief, is on the loose once more. He’s building an army
of giants and undead warriors aboard the gigantic warship <i>Naglfar</i>.
Magnus and his friends must recapture Loki before he brings about the
end of the Nine Worlds. Bravely setting forth on a banana-yellow
magic longship, they encounter a mead-loving sea giant with
<i>particular</i> dietary requirements, a Yorkshire giant with a
talent for creating murderous pottery, Hearthstone’s father who
should <i>never</i> have taken a cursed ring, and a group of giant
thralls who really should have unionized. Immortal relatives and
Magnus’ feelings for Alex make life even more colorful for the
heroes before they have to face Loki for the ultimate trash-talk
smack-down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Riordan’s
offbeat and wry sense of humor infused with a deep knowledge of Norse
mythology makes <a href="https://www.readriordan.com/series/magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard/" target="_blank"><i>Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard</i> </a>an
entertaining read from start to finish.</span></div>
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Marcia Clark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Criminal
lawyer Samantha Brinkman is used to sparring with respected attorney
Graham Hutchins on a TV legal show, and he turns to her for help when
his daughter Alicia is murdered. After a high-pressure upbringing
Alicia Hutchins won a place and much-needed independence at USC, and
she seemed to have a glittering future. When Alicia was found with
her throat slashed, suspicion turned on her controlling ex-boyfriend
Roan Sutton – but then Sutton is found dead a few days later. Was
it suicide – or did Graham Hutchins avenge his daughter?</span></div>
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witness places Graham at the scene, but he denies any blame for
Sutton’s death. Samantha and her team, investigator Alex and
BFF/receptionist Michy set to work on the case, but uncover more
questions than answers. Alicia’s halo slips a little as Samantha
investigates the circumstances. Was Alicia a good girl having fun for
the first time in her life, or were there darker forces at work?
Matters are complicated for Samantha when a big time criminal shows
up to call in a favor. Javier Cabazon isn’t the kind of guy you can
say no to. He wants an important witness tracked down – or Samantha
and her father Dale will pay the consequences. With Cabazon’s
deadline, and the police closing in on Graham Hutchins, Samantha and
her friends need to pull out all the stops. She plays by her own
rules and is willing to bend or break any law to get results – but
can Samantha cut through the mass of motives and family secrets to
pull it off this time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/snap-judgment-marcia-clark/1125896290?ean=9781542045995" target="_blank"><i>SnapJudgment</i></a> sees the return of a terrific character in Samantha
Brinkman. Marcia Clark renders the world of high-stakes law and
flexible morals in perfect three dimensional clarity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Edmon Leontes’
birth was marked in spectacular fashion by a new Fracture opening in
the heavens above the tidally-locked world of Tao. His father Edric,
proud ruler of the House of Leontes proclaimed its appearance an omen that
his son would one day be mightier than he, that the new Fracture
would lead to wealth for Tao as it traded with new worlds. Thereafter
he seemed to forget about Edmon, allowing him to remain in the care
of his mother Cleopatra, matriarch of the Island of Bone in the
perpetual light of the Dayside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Edmon’s idyllic
upbringing crashes to a halt one day when a stranger arrives on the
island to claim the rights and privileges of fostering. Phaestion of
House Julii is impossibly beautiful and adept at the arts of combat
to an uncanny degree. He moves through life with all the assurance of
one born to rule – and he claims Edmon for one of his Companions,
his elite bodyguard. Edmon must move away from home to begin
initiation into the dark and savage martial culture of the more
technologically advanced Nightside, where the powerful Houses jockey
for position around the throne of the decrepit Wusong, ruler of Tao. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On the Nightside trial by combat is held as the ultimate expression
of humanity, yet Edmon discovers there are secrets the glittering
nobility prefer to remain hidden. When a shocking act of betrayal
casts him far from his privileged upbringing, Edmon must use all the
resources he has and can find and become a player, not a pawn – or
else the world he knows will end. </span></div>
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epic <i>Dune</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal;">novels.
The world of Tao and its cultures come to life with a clarity that is
sometimes brutal but never less than gripping. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/matchmaking-for-beginners-maddie-dawson/1127344014#/" target="_blank">Match Making for Beginners,</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">by Maddie Dawson</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lake Union</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Marnie McGraw, an
ordinary young woman from Florida, is all at sea when she encounters
her fiance Noah’s Old Money Virginian family for the first time. An
innocent faux-pas immediately sets her at odds with Noah’s mom –
but earns her a firm ally in the formidable shape of his great-aunt
Blix Holliday. Blix sees much of herself in the younger woman and is
elated by the discovery, because she’s dying and needs to find
someone to replace her as magical matchmaker extraordinaire.
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Marnie’s wedding
to rich, feckless fly-by-night Noah is a disaster. Divorced within
weeks, a shell-shocked Marnie is rescued by her family and renews her
teenage love affair with Jeremy, now a doctor of physical therapy.
Maybe this time she’ll settle with a nice, stable, boring guy and
live the suburban life she thinks she wants. But Fate has a surprise
in store when Blix passes away, leaving Marnie an eccentric
brownstone house in Brooklyn, two lodgers – and a whole host of
problems to solve. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There’s Jessica, still in love with her
ex-husband, although she won’t admit it. There’s Lola, Blix’s
old friend and neighbor, reluctant to show her attraction to her late
husband’s best friend. There’s Patrick, a physically scarred man
with a shining soul who’s reluctant to show his face outside the
brownstone’s basement apartment. And then there’s Noah, crashing
back into Marnie’s life with his own agenda. Torn between Florida
and Brooklyn and a growing attraction to Patrick, can Marnie
negotiate the perils, pitfalls and magical chaos of Blix’s world
and find the life and love she needs?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/matchmaking-for-beginners-maddie-dawson/1127344014#/" target="_blank"><i>Match Making forBeginners</i></a> is a lovely, lyrical, funny and moving story about lost
souls and those who find, love and guide them. Marnie and Blix are
great characters with true personalities you’ll love to read more
adventures of. </span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354275423481178656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693534761738041107.post-81131911043139445462018-08-21T10:39:00.000-04:002018-08-21T10:39:46.261-04:00Her Beautiful Monster - review
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Leopoldo &
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Ravi Chandra Singh,
investigator with Golden Sentinels of London, thinks he’s a holy
fool. To him the gods of Hindu mythology are far from mythical: he
sees them everywhere (except when he’s making love to gorgeous
girlfriend Julia – the gods do have <i>some</i> discretion). His
colleagues know about his oddity, yet they’re fine with it. His
Machiavellian boss Roger Golden even sees Ravi’s budding shamanism
as an asset to the firm. As for Golden Sentinels’ own implanted CIA
spook Marcie, who knows what she really thinks?</div>
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The case of a
Russian oligarch’s missing will leads Ravi and Co to a murderous
family of blue-bloods. The case is wrapped up with the firm’s usual
skill, but the result has disturbing geopolitical implications. To
give them a break, Roger sends Ravi and Julia on an easy fact-finding
assignment to observe the firm’s LA office at work. </div>
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La-La Land
lives up to expectations, with wannabe movie stars, beautiful people,
and celebrities causing scandals. No scandal has the potential to be
bigger than the case of Hollywood mogul Gossamer Rand Ross. Ross’
enthusiastic amateur efforts to assist the CIA in a little matter of
gun running comes off the rails when brush fires encircle the city.
Ravi and Julia are dragged into the middle of it all, and things turn
especially hairy when old faces from Ravi’s past show up –
including Ravi and Julia’s former lover Ariel, mercenary and
sociopath extraordinaire. When Ravi sees the goddess Kali licking her
lips, he knows the smelly stuff is going to hit the fan. Are the gods
here to help, or are Ravi and Julia heading for a fatal fall?</div>
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modern mores, where East meets West in a fusion of laughter and
wince-inducing pathos. </div>
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Babylon Berlin</div>
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by Volker Kutscher</div>
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<b>Germany, Spring,
1929</b>. Inspector Gereon Rath was a homicide detective in his home town
of Cologne, but a shooting in the line of duty led to a newspaper
scandal his career couldn’t survive. Thanks to his father’s heavy
political and police connections, Rath transferred to Berlin and took
up a position in E Section – the Vice squad in the city police HQ
on Alexanderplatz. Under the avuncular guidance of Chief Inspector
Wolter, Rath begins to find his feet in the vibrant and dangerous
city. He also falls in love with ambitious police stenographer
Charlotte Ritter.
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When a dead Russian
dissident somehow crashes a stolen car into the Landwehr Canal, the
troubled Rath spies a chance to resume a career in homicide as a
member of the crack A Section – but this is Berlin and nothing’s
as it appears. Somewhere there’s a hidden fortune in Russian gold. A
radical group of Russian exiles, a Berlin crime king, and corrupt
cops at the heart of Alexanderplatz all conspire to be the first to
find it. Rath must pursue a dangerous course through the illegal
nightclubs and Communist neighborhoods of the city if he’s to win
the case and get the girl – but a shocking encounter on the streets
of Berlin throws everything into doubt.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In
</span><i><a href="https://sandstonepress.com/books/babylon-berlin" target="_blank">Babylon Berlin</a>,</i> <i>Noir</i> detective fiction merges
seamlessly into the complex and hedonistic world of pre-Nazi Berlin.
Kutscher’s period research, descriptions and realistic, sympathetic
characters drive a narrative that’s hard to put down. </div>
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Incarnate</div>
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by Josh Stolberg</div>
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Emily Bestler
Books/Atria</div>
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Based in the small
Alaskan town of Jarvis, Dr. Kim Patterson is a brilliant psychiatrist
with a maverick approach to her profession, but her flouting of
hospital rules isn’t appreciated by her superiors. Kim is walking a
fine line between residency and dismissal when she encounters
nineteen-year-old Scarlett Hascall in the psychiatric ward.
Immediately Kim sees Scarlett’s condition isn’t being correctly
diagnosed: She has multiple personalities fighting to control her,
and Kim can’t resist doing her best to help the girl.
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Across town
Detective Zack Trainor is dealing with a missing person case. Isabel
‘Izzi’ Wilcox went missing some days ago. Her lowlife boyfriend
looks a likely candidate for Izzi’s disappearance, but as Zack
investigates things don’t seem so clear cut. When Zack discovers a
link to Kim’s patient, he and she clash over the right way to
proceed with Scarlett’s case – but Scarlett is full of surprises.
Other dead and missing people from the town begin to emerge through
Scarlett’s person, and Kim and Zack realize something seriously
strange is going on. Is Scarlett the world’s most cunning
psychopath, or is she really channeling the dead? Kim and Zack find
they have to rely on each other as they pursue the case all the way
to its <span style="font-style: normal;">shocking conclusion. </span>
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<i>Incarnate</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">has a great character
partnership between</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> off-beat
but likable Kim Patterson </span><span style="font-style: normal;">and
the more straight-laced Zack Trainor. The small world of Jarvis comes
to life under Stolberg’s touch in a story that grips all the way to
the end.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tiffany-Blues/M-J-Rose/9781501173592" target="_blank">Tiffany Blues</a></div>
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by M J Rose</div>
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Atria Books</div>
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Jenny Bell is a
gifted young artist with a harrowing past making a new life for
herself in New York City. She thinks her history will stay buried
until her best friend, wealthy socialite Minx Deering, contrives to
gain their admittance to the prestigious Tiffany Foundation. An
annual eight-week summer event held at Laurelton Hall, the fabulous
estate of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the Foundation is a hothouse for
artistic talent. Whoever wins the jury's accolade at the end of the
term is set for a glittering artistic career.
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Even at Laurelton
Hall with all its wonders Jenny feels adrift until she meets Oliver
Tiffany, the great man's grandson, and falls in love for the first
time. Oliver draws Jenny out of herself and away from her serious
monochromatic style of art to embrace color as she embraces him.
Champagne flows like water and jazz fills the air, but a series of
unnerving incidents intimates that someone among the contestants
knows of Jenny's past and is using their knowledge to handicap her
chances to win the prize. Jenny doesn't know if she can trust Minx
any more. Is her best friend back to using opium, an addiction she
supposedly kicked? What kind of influence is Minx's boyfriend Edward
having on her, and why is he so hostile to Jenny? Events culminate
one night into a confrontation that threatens to ruin everything, and
only a desperate act of love can avert disaster.</div>
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<a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tiffany-Blues/M-J-Rose/9781501173592" target="_blank"><i>Tiffany Blues</i></a>
is a story as elegantly crafted and as colorful as Tiffany's own
artwork. M J Rose brings Jenny, Minx and Oliver to life along with
the heady, sometimes desperate lifestyle of the Lost Generation. </div>
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Bernie or Bust:
Pioneers of Electoral Revolt</div>
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by @BernieOrBust
with Patrick Walker.</div>
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Dorrance Publishing
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Of the events that
occurred during the contentious 2016 Presidential election, the
blatant rigging of the Democratic Party primaries against Senator
Bernie Sanders of Vermont is at the top of the list in importance.
The Bernie or Bust movement was one of the prime movers in public
debate on the issue of the Democratic nominee selection process and
its aftermath – the nomination of Hillary Clinton, a deeply flawed
candidate with a mass of political baggage, who represented the
status quo during a time when the American electorate desperately
wanted change.
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The author and his
associate Patrick Walker started the Bernie or Bust grassroots
movement in 2016 with a manifesto aimed at effecting real change for
the better in the American political system. The objective was –
and is – the use of leverage to force the Democratic Party to heed
the will of the American people, not that of Big Business. This book
recounts a warts and all picture of the movement from the inside. It
doesn’t flinch from admitting the mistakes and conflict involved in
seeking a way forward, nor does it flinch from scathing and justified
condemnation of the Democratic party machine that helped elect Donald
Trump.</div>
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Where the book
scores highly is in the wealth of advice included for activists,
voters, and future progressive movements. This is a valuable resource
which can be dipped into for guidance, inspiration and a wealth of
‘how to’ examples. It is also an important historical document in
its own right for all who wish to understand more about the 2016
election, those involved, and the consequences. Highly recommended. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by <a href="http://www.katewinklerdawson.com/" target="_blank">Kate Winkler Dawson</a></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hachette Books</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mentioned in
literature and commemorated in art, the infamous London <i>peasouper</i>
is a choking miasma composed of smoke and fog that has been a
striking feature of the city for centuries.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In December 1952, a
ridge of high pressure stalled over London. Cold fog blanketed the
city. The smoke from industry, millions of domestic fires and the
exhaust from vehicles merged with the fog until it became impossible
to see more than a few feet. Smog invaded homes and businesses,
theaters and cinemas. People began to die by the thousands. Those
with respiratory conditions found it hard – then impossible – to
breathe. Ambulances couldn’t find their way through the murk to
reach those in need. Public transport was curtailed. Drivers
abandoned their vehicles. Transport accidents increased and so did
crime, as criminals took advantage of the obscurity. Hospitals across
London became full to overflowing.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not all the deaths
were caused by the smog. John Reginald Christie, a mild-looking and
somewhat creepy middle-aged man haunted the then-squalid Notting Hill
area of London in search of women to kill. When the so-called Beast
of 10 Rillington Place was eventually arrested six women, including
his own wife, had fallen victim to Christie. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the fog lifted
after four days, the published death toll of four thousand shocked
the nation. The true total was known but hushed up for fifty years.
In all, <i>twelve thousand</i> people died from the effects of the
smog, yet the public of the time seemed more fascinated by the
murders at 10 Rillington Place.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In <i>Death in the
Air</i>, Kate Winkler Dawson draws upon archives, eyewitness and
anecdotal accounts of the peasouper and serial killer that paralyzed
a great city, to create an engrossing narrative about a largely
forgotten episode in history which nevertheless led to two
significant measures: The Clean Air Act, the first legislation in the
world designed to deal with atmospheric pollution, and the trial of
John Reginald Christie led to the eventual abolition of the death
penalty in Britain.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rating: Four Sushi Rolls</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8034941.Jack_Schafer">Jack Schafer</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A great book for writers, actors and any others who want to observe and note human behavior in their creations, especially non-verbal behaviors. It's amazing how little most of us think about how we are being perceived by others, and by changing a few of our non-verbal behaviors here or there, we can make friends and influence our boss for the better.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Former FBI Agent Jack Schafer worked in behavioral analysis and honed his skills in reading both non-verbal and verbal behaviors in a wide variety of individuals. So, when he gives down-to-earth advice, you can feel confident that it’s been field-tested and found true. And the sheer simplicity of effective human communications is astounding. The secret of how to make friends isn’t particularly complicated. Schafer notes it’s a simple formula: Friendship = Proximity + Frequency + Duration + Intensity. Couple that equation with understanding the basics of non-verbal communication—make appropriate eye contact, tilt your head, keep an open posture, give a genuine smile—and you’ll be making and keeping friends before you know it. By employing “The Golden Rule of Friendship” and practicing empathetic statements and mirroring body language, you will seem like a mind-reader to your co-workers and family members, and they will open up and feel honored to return the favor.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With tips for effective electronic communications and how to maintain long-term relationships as well, <i>The Like Switch</i> is probably the only reference on the topic of human interactions you’ll ever need.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Apollo: The Race To The Moon</i><br />Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox<br />Simon and Schuster</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Race-Moon-Charles-Murray/dp/0671611011/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510421627&sr=1-1&keywords=apollo+the+race+to+the+moon&dpID=51V8XkkjTtL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch" target="_blank">Purchase Link</a><br /><br />You never know what rare gem you'll find on a old bookshelf. <i>Apollo: The Race To The Moon</i> is one such find. Published in 1989, it's still an excellent history of the Apollo program from its inception to its unfortunate early demise after the return of Apollo 17. For space history nuts like me, it's definitely a must-read. For anyone remotely interested in how the American "space race" began and the politics, organizational challenges and personalities involved, it is well worth it.<br /><br />The men (and they were mostly white males, alas) who were tasked with fulfilling Kennedy's vision of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely within the decade" were of a different breed. Driven, dedicated, single-minded, innovative, dynamic--you can't come up with enough positive adjectives to describe them. They started with little to nothing and had to invent an organization to build launch, mission and recovery systems to meet a seemingly unreachable goal in a very short period of time. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We get to know the personalities that have become synonymous with Apollo and the space program--Max Faget, Jim Webb, Joe Shea, Gene Kranz, Chris Kraft, Werner Von Braun, among others. We feel their stress, their fears, their challenges. It was a time period and a place where the objective was more important than any one flight controller, scientist, astronaut, engineer or technician.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />The Apollo program was truly a time of team spirit and self-sacrifice for the good of the whole. Americans will probably never experience such an intense time period to obtain such a lofty goal ever again.<br /><br />Filled with fantastic facts, intriguing insights and introspective interviews, <i>Apollo: The Race To The Moon</i> will make you ask the pertinent question Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell once asked: "When are we going back?"</span></b></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Concert Pianist</span></b></i><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Judy & Keith </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Devine Destinies Books</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thirteen year old Elizabeth Crenshaw has a very unusual gift--she can play the piano compositions of a murdered UCLA music student. In Judy and Keith's <i>The Concert Pianis</i>t, the mystery of who killed student Lola Schumann after she leaves the bar where she plays piano takes a very interesting twist. Elizabeth's mom always wanted a piano, so she buys one at an auction. Elizabeth sits down at the keyboard and begins playing like a professional almost immediately. <br /><br />Curious, Elizabeth looks inside the piano and finds a letter written by Lola. It says that she witnessed a drug-related killing and if anything happens to her, then she wanted to let someone know how her death came about. Elizabeth shares this information with Detective Gareth Lomas. He investigates and discovers a dirty cop is covering up for the drug dealer who had Lola run over. Gareth is set up and kicked off the force, but he persists in his investigation, even at the cost of his own reputation as one of LA's finest.<br /><br /><i>The Concert Pianist</i> is a short and intriguing murder-mystery with paranormal elements sure to entertain young adult readers.</span></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fairy on the Christmas Tree</span></b></i><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lark Westerly</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eXtasy Books</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frances finds herself in a most unfortunate situation on Christmas Eve in Lark Westerly's romantic romp <i>Fairy on the Christmas Tree</i>. Her lover keeps making excuses for not paying his half of their holiday cruise, and finally he tells her over the phone he has to go to his so-called ex-wife's business dinner with the boss. Her patience with him at an end, in a huff Fran accidentally drops her cell phone into a pot of boiling custard on the stove. So much for a long, drawn out, sad good-bye. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grandma's tree looks sad after she decorates it with the old and tired decorations. Fran sighs and wishes she could be in Brisbane with her folks. She opens the box, hoping the fairy topper will perk up her holiday, but it turns out to be just plain ugly. She wipes its freshly painted make-up off its face--odd that--and takes off its hideous pink gauze dress only to discover a real live--and extremely randy--male fairy underneath. Niall tells Fran that her magic has made him ready to fulfill her every Christmas wish and then some... Let the loving begin!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Fairy on the Christmas Tree</i> is a funny and fast read sure to please all who have ever wished not to be alone on a holiday, and to find that magical someone who can fulfill their ever secret pleasure. Fran is a heroine with pluck and determination, and she meets her match in the sexy and playful Niall Le Fay, a fairy with a saucy wit and a strong desire to please. Don't wait until December to enjoy this comedy-erotic-romance set Down Under.</span></b><br />
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associate of a world famous, almost god-like, historical personality. This is
the intriguing premise of Stephen Harrigan's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Friend
of Mr. Lincoln</i>.</span></span></b></span></div>
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"Cage" Weatherby, makes the acquaintance of a young and ambitious
Illinois assemblyman, Abraham Lincoln. Cage, Lincoln and a group of other
Springfield young men share a passion for poetry and discussing the important
topics of the day--the Alamo, then the Annexation of Texas; the need for
infrastructure improvement such as canals and railroads in the state and how to
pay for them, and sometimes even the evils of slavery. Cage, as a published
poet with abolitionist leanings, doesn't understand his friend's skirting the
issue. He sees Lincoln as two-faced, trying too hard to please everyone so he
doesn't risk losing his office or pulling the Whig party down. </span></span></b></span></div>
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Lincoln needs to take a stand on slavery, and he finds himself both surprised and
disappointed when Lincoln helps free a captured run-away slave woman in court,
yet he also goes on to represent a Kentuckian who insists his Black servants
remain slaves and return with him after he manages his land in the free state
of Illinois.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps what causes the most heated
conflict between the two men is their respective love lives. Lincoln's heart
seems inconsistent to Cage. After losing the love of his life early on, Ann
Rutherford, Lincoln doesn't seem able to settle with any of the ladies of
Springfield society who want to attach themselves to the up-and-coming
lawyer/politician. One in particular, Mary Todd, seems determined to win
Lincoln over. Cage and Lincoln's other friends see Mary as a danger to the
sanity of their manic-depressive comrade when Lincoln finds himself deeply
unhappy after becoming "engaged to be engaged" to the ambitious
woman. After rousing Lincoln from a near death depression over the
misunderstanding, Cage makes an enemy of Miss Todd and becomes off limits after Lincoln marries Mary. </span></span></b></span></div>
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mutual admiration for the talent and humanity in each other doesn't, even as
the years pass and the onset of Civil War brings both men to the same
conclusion: slavery must end.</span></span></b></span></div>
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Friend of Mr. Lincoln</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> evokes a strong sense of being a part
of history, of breathing the same air of great men during their formative
years. Harrigan does an excellent job of building believable and well-rounded
characters, both real and fictional. The settings and details bring the 1830s
through 1840s in Springfield, Illinois alive, giving modern readers insights
into the customs, culture and politics of the time and place. It is a novel sure
to please both history and Lincoln biography lovers alike.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</span></b></i><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by David Grann</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Random House </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.davidgrann.com/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon/" target="_blank">Author web site link</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Killers-Flower-Moon-Osage-Murders-ebook/dp/B01CWZFBZ4" target="_blank">Amazon link</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If this book wasn't based on a true life tragedy of epic proportions, you'd swear you were reading a best-selling mystery-thriller it's so engaging. David Grann presents the people and the "culture of killing" that existed in Osage County, Oklahoma during the 1920s. His clear and unblinking style reveals the dark, racist underside of the early petroleum industry, and how far these men were willing to go to make their millions.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We come to know Mollie Burkhardt and her sisters as they are killed off one by one, and we feel her terror and anguish at the knowledge that some person or persons she trusts are exterminating the Osage for their oil headrights.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At one time the richest people in America, the Osage sat on top of the world's then largest oil reserves. From poor ranchers to practically millionaires overnight, the Osage were the envy of the white society that surrounded them. The law took away their rights to handle their own wealth, however. "Guardians" were appointed by federal judges to handle the finances of most Osage, since only whites were seen as "competent." This racist system guaranteed abuses and frauds against the Osage, but the final draw many whites who benefited from the system felt came when the Osage sued successfully to keep their mineral rights, which by the turn of the 20th century meant petroleum deposits.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An Osage couldn't sell or give his or her oil headright to a non-Osage, but if an Osage married a white who became his or her guardian, then he/she could inherit--and sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars--the Osage spouse's headright. Mollie and her sisters were each married (or formerly married) to white husbands. Mollie's older sister Anna was discovered shot in the head from behind. Then Mollie's mother died under mysterious circumstances, suspected to be slow poisoning, and then her younger sister Rita and her husband and maid were blown up along with their newly purchased home. The newly created "Bureau of Investigation" (the precursor to the FBI) under a new young and brash director, J. Edgar Hoover, finally stood up and took notice of the numerous murders of Osage oil headright owners happening in Oklahoma. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1925, Hoover appointed Agent Tom White, a former Texas Ranger, to take charge of the case, which had been terribly mismanaged by earlier agents. White discovered there were many more than just Mollie's family members being murdered--possibly there were hundreds of Osage shot and poisoned in the time period 1915-1930, with many leads pointing to their trusted white guardians and spouses, upstanding members of the community. Sympathetic whites and the henchmen who pulled off the actual killings for their paymasters also met untimely deaths, proving that no one was able to escape the culture of killing once the Oklahoma oil rush began in earnest.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the wake of the recent actions taken against Native American protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota,<i> Killers of the Flower Moon</i> is a must-read book that demonstrates how the rich, predominately white male members of the petroleum industry are not above committing murder to obtain access to the petroleum resources they want. It is riveting true story about an ugly time period in American history that has been covered up for far too long.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rating: 4+ sushi rolls (a great read) </span></b><br />
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