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The Alaskan Laundry
The Alaskan Laundry
by Brendan Jones
Unbelievable (2/9/2016)
I requested this book because I like reading about life in Alaska and how a person perseveres and survives hard times. However, I had a hard time getting interested in The Alaskan Laundry. The main character was not very likable or believable to me and there was too much …more
Maud's Line
Maud's Line
by Margaret Verble
Maud's Line (7/7/2015)
I requested this book because I was born and raised in Oklahoma and like to read books that are set in that state. I was not disappointed with Maud's Line, the story of a young Cherokee woman's struggle to survive and make a life for herself on her family's small allotment …more
Make Your Home Among Strangers
Make Your Home Among Strangers
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Make Your Home Among Strangers (4/8/2015)
Lizet Ramirez is a first-generation Cuban American, the daughter of parents who fled the Communist Castro regime to a new life among strangers in the United States. She is the first in her family to go to college and the first from her Miami high school to be admitted to an …more
A Kim Jong-Il Production
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
by Paul Fischer
Stranger than Fiction (12/7/2014)
This is the incredible true story of the kidnapping of a South Korean film director and his leading actress by Kim Jong-Il in the 1970's. At that time he was the son of the North Korean dictator and determined to market that closed society to the world through tightly- …more
Doing Harm
Doing Harm
by Kelly Parsons
Medical Thriller (10/29/2013)
Life is great and the future is assured for senior surgical resident Steve Mitchell until inexplicable mistakes start happening causing serious complications for his patients. An investigation reveals foul play and, with his career on the line, Dr. Mitchell must figure out …more
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
by Sahar Delijani
Unintended Consequences (2/9/2013)
This is a novel about some of the children of imprisoned revolutionaries from the Iranian revolution when the Ayatollah Khomeini and his extreme Islamic followers seized power after the overthrow of the Shah. Apparently based on some of the experiences of the author's own …more
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