The Chronic-WHAT?!-cles of Narnia continues with this lovely entry taking place... not in Narnia. Featuring such favored elements of children's literature as horse theft, kidnapping, running away, doing battle, and of course slavery.
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Jack & Jill (Alex Cross #3)
Another day, another Alex Cross adventure. This time, Alex Cross is back in Washington DC where a duo calling themselves Jack and Jill go up the Hill... to kill, to kill, to kill...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
This book always seems to be among the favorites of sci-fi and literature readers alike. So, naturally I have to read it. And man-oh-man is it packed with story elements from sad to darkly humorous and from historical to fantastical. It's a lot to unpack. So it goes.
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
What would you do if you lived the same lifetime over and over and remembered everything from your previous lives? Would you try to protect the world? Or destroy it?
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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross #2)
I'm the kind of person who is willing to read just about anything. As I continue my journey through the Alex Cross series, I've decided that erotic fiction is not my jam. Not that I was interested in erotic fiction in the first place. But getting slapped in the face…
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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross #1)
I'm not sure how many people in my generation (I prefer X-ennial over geriatric millennial) even know who Charles Lindbergh was, let alone what happened to his kid. But you can learn all about it in this thriller in which a character has somewhat of an obsession with the Lindbergh…
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Conagher
Hey, remember the Sam Elliott movie, Conagher? You should because it played on TNT about every other day in the early '90s! This is the book that inspired that film about a lone soul drifter looking for something. And that something happens to be a widow with a couple kids...
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Acts of Contrition (Star Trek: Voyager)
This book continues the adventures of the U.S.S. Voyager after it returns to the Delta Quadrant on a mission of exploration. And while Tom Paris returns to Earth with Seven of Nine, each to deal with personal matters, Admiral Janeway takes command of the Full Circle Fleet to open diplomatic…
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The Client
Not all books with a child as the main character are kids' books. Especially when the central kid witnesses a gruesome suicide right off the bat and then plays games with the FBI for fear that his own life is in danger from the Mafia. You know, John Grisham could…
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The Old Man and the Sea
I read this book in one day. I had no idea some of these classics were so short! Good thing too... I wouldn't have wanted much more of this one.