Category Archives: Putnam

Frightful Friday: Conversion by Katherine Howe

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured title is Conversion by Katerine Howe: Age Range: 12 and up Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Putnam … Continue reading

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Review: The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 27, 2014) ISBN-10: 0399162178 Source: Publisher Vivian Schuyler is a young, vivacious and determined young woman living in 1960s Manhattan. She’s gone against what is expected of her as a budding socialite and has not only graduated … Continue reading

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Review: A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 039916216X Source: Publisher It’s Memorial Day weekend in 1938. Following family tradition, Lily Dane has left her life in New York and returned with her family to the oceanfront community of … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: Helsinki Blood by James Thompson

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured title is Helsinki Blood by James Thompson: Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (March 21, 2013) … Continue reading

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Review: Suspect by Robert Crais

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (January 22, 2013) ISBN-10: 039916148 Source: Publisher Eight months ago, LAPD police officer Scott James lost his partner, Stephanie, in a brutal nighttime assault. Nearly killed himself, Scott is still recovering from the bullet … Continue reading

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Review: Black Fridays by Michael Sears

Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (September 18, 2012) ISBN-10: 0399158669 Source: Publisher Jason Stafford has just been released from federal prison after serving a two-year sentence for financial fraud. Admittedly, he was a greedy man, trying to provide a … Continue reading

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Review: City of Women by David R. Gillham

Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (August 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 039915776X Source: Publisher Set in 1943 Berlin, the midst of World War II, the majority of the men have been sent to the battlefront. Berlin has essentially become a … Continue reading

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Review: Overseas by Beatriz Williams

Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 0399157646 Source: Publisher (via Netgalley) Kate Wilson is a twenty-something Wall Street analyst, trying to make a name for herself. At an important client meeting, she’s banished to her cubicle, expected to sit … Continue reading

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Review: Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth

Reading level: Ages 18 and up Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 26, 2012) Source: Publisher In the third Nathanial Cade, President’s Vampire book (after The President’s Vampire and Blood Oath), the country is in the midst of a … Continue reading

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Review: The Song Remains the Same by Allison Winn Scotch

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 12, 2012) ISBN-10: 0399157581 Source: Publisher Nell Slattery is only one of two survivors of a horrible plane crash. When she awakens in the hospital she is confused, devoid of all her memories. … Continue reading

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