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City of the Sun
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Maio, Juliana
sallyann
, May 11, 2014
City of the Sun By Juliana Maio When I started this book I was hooked. From a topic I knew little to nothing about, I was introduced to the story of a Jewish family fleeing from the Germans to Cairo, Egypt during WWII. As a Historical Novel you will meet Sadat, Churchill, Nasser, Hassan elBanna the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and the young King Farouk among others. The main characters are a Jewish family that fled to Cairo under an assumed last name and are living with an Egyptian family on their way to Israel. Erik, the brother, is a known scientist that both the Americans and German want for his bomb skills. Vati,, the father and Maya the sister are the family. The American Newspaper reporter and repurposed as a spy, falls in love with Maya not knowing who she really is, the sister of the man he is looking for. Everyone one will enjoy this book for the intrigue, love and history!
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn
sallyann
, January 01, 2013
This is the book for surprise endings! Who are we really?
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1Q84
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Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
sallyann
, October 19, 2011
I have never read a book by Haruki Murakami but from comments, I believe I have missed a good author!
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Agent X
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Noah Boyd
sallyann
, February 25, 2011
Noah Boyd’s life makes up for a remarkably authentic background for this book. His own life was a former FBI agent and his character of Steve Vail, aka Bricklayer was derived from his father’s occupation. As I did not read his first book, this is my thought of where Bricklayer came from. He was a disenchanted FBI agent and rules got in his way of doing his job effectively. Therefore, Steve Vail becomes a nomad with the skill of an officeR of the law but none of the stops. Despite this, it does stand on its own without having read the first book. Kate Banning starts the story as someone who knows something or has something someone wants. The first pages get you hooked. You do not have to wait until page 100 to get into this story. The story moved up, down, and sideways. When you think that is it, something else pops up to grab your attention. The book is very readable. , Even though Steve is a superman hero, his has Clark Kent’s romantic skills with Kate and as a result the romance falls flat in the story. The cover is quite eye catching and would make a great Mark Valley movie!
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Mountain Between Us
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Charles Martin
sallyann
, January 29, 2011
My first thought of this book was that I liked it. The tempo was just right, not to slow but not too fast. However, I think what I liked most was it has a Hero. The lead character is a Macgyver. Dr. Ben Payne (a touch of whimsy) is smart, good-looking, compassionate, with some impulsiveness thrown in, Sport Medical Doctor. His partner in this adventure is Ashley Knox, an attractive, successful journalist and on the way to her wedding rehearsal dinner. As a snowstorm cancels the flights out of Salt Lake City, these two travelers end up chartering a flight to Denver to get them out of the storm’s path. Grover, the pilot, and his dog load up to fly the travelers to Denver. Grover has a heart attack and they crash in the snow-covered mountains. Ben with broken ribs, Ashley’s leg fractured and with the dog, the adventure begins in the below freezing temperature for weeks. Ben journals to his wife every night with a recorder and we get a sense that is something not right but we do not know what it is. The ending is a surprise ending and we do not see it coming.
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Saving Ceecee Honeycutt
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Beth Hoffman
sallyann
, November 19, 2010
People is wise ‘cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience—from knowin’each day a is gift and accepting it with gladness. -----But ain’t no book in the world gonna make you wise. Beth Hoffman has written a feel good story that has a delightful cast of characters amid the loss of a mother in mind and then body. CeCe is a smart 12 year old and by today’s definition was abused as a child and her mother is nuts in a fuuny sad way. Her mother, Camille, is a Georgia belle rotting in the cold of Willoughby Ohio and keeps reliving her glory days as an Onion Queen. The father is unable to cope with his wife’s illness or CeCe so he becomes mostly.. absent. This all takes place in the 1960’s. As her mother’s illness results in her death, CeCe goes to Savannah, Ga to live with her wealthy great, great aunt Tootie Caldwell. and her household help Oletta Jones. This is where the fun and adventures begin. I am not sure why anyone lumps this book together with THE HELP except they are both in the South in 1960. It is more poor girl to rich girl with the good and evil witches along for the ride. Once you meet Violene and Thelma, that is all you need to fully enjoy this book complete with a cat fight at a posh garden party.
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Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Aimee Bender
sallyann
, July 19, 2010
I may have missed the author’s intent in this book. I never really connected to the characters but the energy of the TV show Pushing Daisies with splashes of Alice in Wonderland did keep me turning the pages looking for that elusive moment. At times I missed the quotation marks that were nonresistant. The story is divided into four parts. It is the story of a girl with a gift, from eight years old into her twenties. Rose lives with her father, a fact only lawyer, the fanciful mother, and the brother, Joseph, with his own weird gift. It is a story of a dysfunctional family with each person having a part that is just not typical. Rose’s gift is the’ gift of food tasting’ but not just the flavor of the food, but the growing, marketing and finally the cooking. All of the steps it takes from beginning to end. She can tell you the local it was grown, how it was marketed, and what the cook was feeling it was prepared. This is not all good. The phrasing was wonderful and I would stop and just re-read sentences. ‘A name so vague I never remember it.’ ‘Out the window, the breezeless stillness of a desert spring.’
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Lovers
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Vendela Vida
sallyann
, July 18, 2010
This book will take you on a journey through the mist of truth, whole truth, and the half-truth of Yvonne’s life. After her husband’s sudden death she will travel to Turkey, recreating the memory of the joyous times of their honeymoon. It is there she will meet her landlord as she has rented his mistress’s home, his wife who is just a little curious, and a young boy whom she befriends. I liked this book and the pace and rhythm of the writing did not lag. Anyone who has lost someone close to them will understand her meandering and confusion along with a quiet strength. The selfishness that prevails as you are afraid to lose YOU and because you do not quite know who you are. It seems the author has an acute knowledge of this purgatory.
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Island Of Lost Girls
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Jennifer McMahon
sallyann
, July 10, 2008
There are secrets galore in this book of "it is not what it seems" and a good page turner. The only con is that the characters are a little confusing in the beginning but then it rolls.
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