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Just After Sunset: Stories
by Stephen King
Amazon Price: $16.80
Customer Reviews:
» If you're looking for stories along the lines of his original shorts, such as Skeleton Crew and Night Shift, forget it. In this series of shorts, he seems to have a dream of being the "Classic Americ...

» I'm a fan of Stephen King's work, and I'm particularly pleased that he is so devoted to the short story form. Some of his anthologies -- NIGHT SHIFT, SKELETON CREW, and EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL -- are r...

» You have to know what you are getting... a short story. If you are familiar with the format, you know there's not much room for story development. Too many turns, and you feel like you went through ...

» I've read King through the years.. But this book was very disappointing. A little too far fetched for me. I wouldn't recommend this book.

» YOU FANS WILL NOT LIKE THIS, BUT I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE A TOTAL
WASTE OF MY TIME. THANK GOODNESS I DID NOT PAY RETAIL, BUT PURCHASED
IT PRE-PUBLICATION. USUALLY I EXCHANGE MY BOOKS WITH...

The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide (Twilight Saga)
by Stephenie Meyer
Amazon Price: $13.19
Customer Reviews:

The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries)
by P.D. James
Amazon Price: $15.57
Customer Reviews:
» The plot of this Dalgliesh mystery starts off pretty simple, a patient at a Dorset clinic murdered, with lots (and I mean lots) of characters wandering around as suspects. Dalgliesh, with Kate and B...

» [Dana sez: I wrote this review for the Poisoned Pen eNewsletter on December 3, 2008.]

What could be more English than a country house murder? In The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mys...

» All I have to say about this book is that I read every word. It's wonderfully written. The only author whose every word I read is James Lee Burke. Usually these British books aren't as good to me a...

» Don't get me wrong; P. D. James has written characters specific to some of her books that linger in my memory to this day, years after having read about them in one of her earlier stories. Even the m...

» London born actress Rosalyn Landor is the perfect choice to read a P. D. James mystery. The daughter of an actor/broadcaster Landor grew up with reading aloud, story telling, and that love for...

Divine Justice
by David Baldacci
Amazon Price: $16.79
Customer Reviews:
» In his fourth book featuring the characters introduced in the Camel Club, Baldacci presents an entertaining, if somewhat contrived, tale as Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) attempts to run for freedom fol...

» In another Camel Club adventure, we find Oliver Stone, aka John Carr, guilty of two murders and on the run. He disappears from D.C. and wants to protect his friends by completely disengaging from the...

» I'm a big fan and I loved this book.
Baldaccis' style is always easy to read and keeps you guessing.
You will recognize some familiar characters if you've read his
other books. Fun ...

» I have enjoyed the "Camel Club" stories and must admit that this one was the most enjoyable because the "perils" never ceased until the very end. I think that the main characters have been given more ...

» Best Camel Club Yet
David Baldacci writes a superb thriller with Divine Justice. He weaves together 2 very interesting plots into one action packed novel with many twists and turns. The centra...

The Gate House
by Nelson DeMille
Amazon Price: $16.79
Customer Reviews:
» I listen to all Demille books on Audio, and I am a big fan. If you enjoyed Gold Coast, you will enjoy this book. But: Scott Brick has become the voice of all Demille's best characters from Sutter to...

» I loved the Gold Coast, and couldn't wait for this book to come out. While I really enjoy the characters' wit, I felt that the story was weak. Also, there were a few inconsistencies. It could have ...

» I think Nelson Demille lives vicariously through John Sutter!!! Regrettably Sutter should have stayed in London and passed on this journey. It could have been edited down considerably and been tighter...

» I purchased this book because Nelson DeMille has always been a riveting author. I have read practically every one of his novels and must sadly report that this one is the worst book I have ever attem...

» I am a real fan of DeMille's but he 'blew-it' on this one! The book is tedious and boring to plow through with a predictable ending. If DeMille's purpose was to paint a picture of the foibles of the s...

Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
Amazon Price: $15.00
Customer Reviews:
» I have been a fan of Maya Angelou since in school when we read Why the Caged Bird Sings. When I saw this book on Oprah I had to read. i was not disappointed. As usual anything Maya Angelou puts to ...

» Best yet ever by Maya Angelou!
This book is for the daughters who have experienced weakness for a man that you know is not good for the soul; for the daughters who find that love for a child is ...

» I enjoyed this book for several reasons. It is a series of short life lessons based on real experiences so you can pick it up and read a few pages at a time. I don't think most of us would look at M...

» I read the reviews here as well as NPR radio and bought the book. It is completely disappointing. I did not find anything inspiring in stories such as the types of 'I drank cockroach with coffee so yo...

» Maya Angelou has written with warmth and wisdom in "Letter to my Daughter" Her works are always a welcome addition in our home.

Arctic Drift (A Dirk Pitt Novel, #20)
by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Amazon Price: $16.77
Customer Reviews:
» Arctic Drift has a lot to recommend it (if you don't get jammed up with Kindle pricing). The plot is an imaginative one about the potential risks to peace and economic stability with the world runnin...

» When I pick up a Clive Cussler novel, I have certain expectations, and this novel, though formulaic, meets and even exceeds each one. I read this over the Thanksgiving holiday and was thoroughly enter...

» Please stop putting bad reviews of Kindle on the Arctic Drift page! If you are dissatisfied with your Kindle deal, then give the Kindle a bad review. Your Kindle issues have nothing to do with the q...

» You realize that by complaining under 1 star you are hurting people that are somewhat interested in reading this book. I almost didnt look at it because i saw the average rating was one and a half. An...

» Amazon you breached the promise of no book more than 9.99 for no reason other than greed. just remember that you do not have a monopoly on the electronic file format used by the kindle and there are ...

World Without End
by Ken Follett
Amazon Price: $12.50
Customer Reviews:
» My wife and listened to Pillars of the Earth on a long road trip in March 2008. We were both completely enthralled, and we knew as soon as we finished it that we had to listen to the sequel.

» WORLD WITHOUT END: Another great read by Ken Follett! A little longer than PILLARS OF THE EARTH, but it, too, left me wanting more. Two hundred years after Prior Philip in Kingsbridge, the characte...

» As good as Pillers of the Earth was that's how bad the World Without End is.

It is a real soap opera. The characters are tortured without end in an unrealestic way. As a student of midevi...

» A good follow-up to "Pillars of the Earth".
Very suspenseful story, Really enjoyed this book.

» I didn't think Ken Follett could follow up The Pillars of the Earth very well, but he proved me wrong. Pillars is still one of the all time greats, but I loved World without End. It had tremendous c...

Your Heart Belongs to Me
by Dean Koontz
Amazon Price: $16.20
Customer Reviews:
» Thirty-four years old Ryan Perry created Be2Do, a social networking web site that makes him a billionaire. He quits as CEO so he can spend more time on development projects and with his girlfriend Sa...

» I did enjoy this book. When I finished there were three questions that had not been answered and I was somewhat upset. Someone as talented as Koontz is well aware of the fact that there are some iss...

» I possess a true hot-and-cold kind of relationship with Dean Koontz. Many of his books have stayed with me, often like the memory of a beautiful poem. Watchers, Odd Thomas, and Seize the Night were ...

» I'm a big fan of Dean Koontz's work, but I had mixed feelings about YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME. This is a well done suspense novel with an interesting premise, and it contains some genuinely suprisingl...

» I kept waiting for the story to build to a climax and be resolved. But it never did. No climax, no resolution. Yet when I finished, I felt satisfied. Think "Odd Thomas", not "Midnight."

Ender in Exile (Ender)
by Orson Scott Card
Amazon Price: $17.13
Customer Reviews:
» I have read all the Ender and Bean books, and was excited to read "Ender in Exile". While the book is slow and not particularly exciting, there are engaging moments and it was a marginally satisfying ...

» This book filled in all the cracks in the ender story, with all the good things that I have come to ezpect from Card.

» truly an amazing book. It changed my entire perspective on enders game. It also made speaker and xenocide a lot more fun to read. Five out of Five!

» Huge fan of OSC and the series (esp. the "Speaker" sequence) and was excited about this book. I enjoyed reading it, but it wasn't as filling as most of his other books. At times it felt like a "who'...

» In some of Card's books his characters go into pointless long meandering misdirectional thought processes that are annoying; but fortunately he left those out in this book.