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Unnatural Exposure
by Patricia Cornwell
Seems like an older book of hers based on the story line. This one was about her investigating a couple of deaths that looks like smallpox. Turns out it was an adaption of a manipulated strain of an animal smallpox. She almost dies herself when she is exposed, Dr. Scarpeda that is. The autopsy is graphic with the disease.
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Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
He is so amazing, he is the greatest novelist of our times. That is our Pat Conroy. Eloquent and poetic, he weaves the words of his novel into a web of soul touching, visual works of art. My mind flowed with their scenes and I was lost in a paradise and the world of others. I wish I could write just one sentence as this man can. He can certainly create an entire book after book of pure magical harmony to be played in a mind.
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Moonwalking With Einstein
by Joshua Foer
Joshua won the championship for the so called smartest person in the US, in reality it was for the person with the best memory. Joshua takes us through a study of what memory is, what it is like when someone looses it either by injury or birth. He studies those who are considered Savants with low I.Q.'s but can remember everything. He studies himself with a couple of coaches with not tricks, but practices, methods, eating well and good rest. Most of all, there are lots of practices he endures. He wins, and then forgets his car at a restaurant, he even forgot he drove it there till he got all of the way home. - So much for a having very good memory.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
Amazing story of two loving cousins who start a comic book upon the arrival of one cousin from Prague. They have a wonderful relationship for decades even after one goes off to war and becomes a hero in real life. Their comic books are about super heroes.
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Room
by Emma Donoghue
Amazing story of a woman kidnapped by a pervert who keeps her in a 11' x 11' sound proofed room in a shed in his backyard. He keeps her for about 7 years. The main plot of the story of it is of her and her son she gives birth by herself in this room. Their whole life, then she gets out and has to relearn the world. Very intriguing to hear what they had gone through and what they are learning.
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Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
A middle aged man becomes crippled and divorced. He goes up to his grandparents old home in the county and starts writing about his grandparents life coming out west and their marriage. Much is discussed about their struggles and the analysis of it. The author reflects on today's times with his relationship to his friends and his own marriage. This book was a Pulitzer winner. Amazingly written, descriptive and wonderful words.
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A Healthy Heart
by Alexander Tsiaras
I took another look at this book about how Americans create and treat heart disease with amazing photos of the body and thorough explanations. Sad to know how many people just ignore their health.
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Second Spring
by Maoshing Ni
Wonderful and helpful recommendations for healthy living and eating with basic and regular foods along with herbs.
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
by John Irving
Poor Owen Meany, this little boy who grew into a man was a very little person in a small town. He was the toy of his class mates. He was best friends to another young man that totally loved him back. They both grew up and had many experiences together and separately, but Owen always knew when he was going to die. Owen was also quite psychic and sensitive. This was a wonderful story about an enduring male loving relationship. I loved it.
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
Well written of course, but this story of a man dying and his memory that goes forward and backwards, each chapter further backwards is loosing me. He is a tinker, his father was a minister that went crazy and his mother was cold. He become an epileptic and his children were embarrassed by him, or was that his father that was an epileptic. I was lost.
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The Silverado Squatters
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wonderful view and perception of the Napa Valley, most especially of Calistoga. It made me want to go back in time and live the way he did with his small family and animals.
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The Third Victim
by Lisa Gardner
A boy has confessed to the horrific murder but the evidence shows he may not be guilty.
Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It's hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy's life at stake, she won't let anything stop her from finding the real killer.
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The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Story of a man who writes and lives with his mother then ends up living with Kahlo, the artist as their servant. He befriends them and becomes a close correspondent with them. Moves to America. But while in Mexico, he observes all the political goings on of the husband on Kahlo, seems unbelievable. I am totally bored with it all.
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The Next Accident
by Lisa Gardner
An evil man is after an FBI agent's daughters and ex-wife for vengeance with murder. The agent hires a private investigator, who used to be a lover of his. Then a cat and mouse game pursues with some twists and turns.
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Escape
by
Barbara Delinsky
A female attorney working very hard in New York City, and trying to get pregnant suddenly escapes to a long time best friend that she has lost touch with in a small vacation town. She reconnects also with her best friend's brother for whom she had a relationship with. She is confused for awhile about her lost love and her husband, but she then embraces her husband. Her husband is dismayed and angry but comes to realize her quest to find peace and a different attitude with life and balance. Nice book but the story line is very ordinary and simply in the idea that this woman although working hard it seems the American selfish, self-indulgent way of this woman is just that.
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Started Early, Took My Dog
by Kate Atkinson
This old retired detective takes a case as a private investigator to find the real parents to an adoptive woman. The woman was raised in New Zealand after her adoptive parents took her from London. Then there is another female retired police detective that pays a prostitute for a kid and then takes off with it. While she is running around other detectives are looking for her to find out about the original adoptive child. Then there is another private detective along with police detectives.
Very well written and mixed together. I had trouble keeping the names straight with all the introductions of other people. It was all rounded up in the end.
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A Fair Maiden
by Joyce Carol Oates
A young nanny not especially confident in her life with an alcoholic father and distant mother works for a rather arrogant employer. She has a slow coming affair with a man her grandfather's age.
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Beatrice and Virgil
by Yann Martel
Well that was depressing and confusing. This was a story within a story of a so called alter ego. A man who seemed quite old from the energy of the book, but he wrote a book and had a wife who became pregnant and met an old man who was a taxidermist. This old man did not get along with anyone and ends up attacking the protagonist. A book with dead animals not alive like Martel's book on Pi.
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The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner
Amazingly interesting story again by this author. This one is of a woman who enter a marriage of convenience only to have a traumatic and illicit affair with another and then disappears. Then the detective starts the investigation. It also turns out that these two people have had the most traumatic childhood that hampers and scars them but they find their way through it all to each other. The illicit affair caused the wife to hide and the police think the husband killed her.
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The Perfect Husband
by Lisa Gardner
Another amazing story of a strong forceful woman. This one had been terrorized by her husband who she has turned in for being a serial killer. He escapes prison, killing two guards with his bare hands. She gets away and attempts to be trained to protect herself by being coached by an an ex-marine who is retired from some sort of special forces. I do not like this as well as Love You More by the same author. The characters in the story are too hyped up for reality and there is too much unnecessary sex. Tends to make no sense. The story seems more ordinary and expected.
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