Category Archives: Review

Review: Ghost Town by Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson & Tim Waggoner

Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Gallery Books (October 9, 2012) ISBN-10: 1451613822 Source:  Publisher Ghost trackers Amber, Drew, and Trevor travel to Exeter, the “most haunted town in America” to present at a convention as part of Exeter’s “Dead Days” celebration. Exeter is … Continue reading

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Mx3 Review: The House that Jack Built by Graham Masterton

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub (October 1996) ISBN-10: 0786703539 Source: Personal Copy Craig is a high-strung, international lawyer. Running late to an important meeting, he’s grabbed by a young woman claiming her friend was being attacked. Craig reluctantly goes to … Continue reading

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#Mx3 Review: Your House is On Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye

Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Penguin Books; 1 Original edition (September 25, 2012) ISBN-10: 0143121464 Source: Publisher Set in the village of Hemmersmoor in Germany, not long after the closing of the concentration camps and the raising of the Berlin Wall, … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: Bad Glass by Richard E. Gropp

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 book is Bad Glass by Richard E. Gropp: Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Del Rey (September 25, … Continue reading

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Audio Book Review: The Affair by Lee Child

Listening Length: 15 hours and 33 minutes Version: Unabridged Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: September 27, 2011 Source: Personal Copy The year is 1997. Jack Reacher is still in the military police, ordered to go undercover in a small town in … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovatin

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week, I’m featuring a book reviewed by my oldest son, John-John: Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovatin! … Continue reading

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Review: Those We Love the Most by Lee Woodruff

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Voice (September 11, 2012) ISBN-10: 1401341780 Source: Publisher A split-second distraction forever changed the Corrigan family.  Maura and her husband Pete live a happy life in a Chicago suburb with their three young children. That happiness … 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: The Meryl Streep Movie Club by Mia March

Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Gallery Books; Original edition (June 19, 2012) ISBN-10: 145165539 Source: Publisher (for She Reads) After their parents died in a car accident, June and Isabel moved into their Aunt Lolly’s inn on the Maine Coast, joining … Continue reading

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Review: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (September 11, 2012) ISBN-10: 0316219363 Source: Publisher In this wholly unique first-hand experience of the Iraq war, readers follow the path of private John Bartle on his first tour of duty. Told … Continue reading

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