Posted on June 5, 2008 by happyanddandy
Blurb from inside the flap;
Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move their four-year-old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai. It is a place of opportunity and temptation, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill’s law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2008 by bookroomreviews
I picked up The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff based on the fact that Stephen King recommended it. The Memory of Running is one of my all time favorite books that Stephen King also raved about a few years ago, so anytime I see a recommendation of his, I run right out and buy [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Michelle
Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl’s journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian storytelling tradition, we are never to know) lives with her mother and rug-maker father. [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Michelle
Jack risks his life by opening a portal to the underworld to rescue Connie. While in the land of the dead, he witnesses an awesome ceremony as a band of honest-to-God angels swear Connie in as the vampire slayer! Using the power of his love, Jack manages to bring Connie back to the land of [...]
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