Posts Tagged: history

Book Review: All The Devils are Here by Louise Penny

A deliberate hit-and-run, sends Armand, Reine-Marie, and Jean-Buy Beauvoir on a hunt with a strange key that takes them to the top of the Tour d’Eiffel to the bowels of the Paris Archives to luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art.

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Book Review: Fantastic Hope by Laurell K Hamilton and William McCaskey

An anthology of sixteen brand-new sci-fi and fantasy stories that speak to the darkness and despair that life brings while reminding us that good deeds, humor, love, sacrifice, dedication, and following our joy can ignite a light that burns so bright the darkness cannot last.

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Book Review: Cast in Wisdom by Michelle Sagara

Sentient Towers guard the world against Shadow lest all of Elantra be devoured. But a gray zone exists where the rules are different, and Kaylin must face all new dangers from a far distant past.

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Book Review: The Elusive Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

From one adventure to the next, from a night-blooming cereus to a mission to deliver eight forged passports, this unlikely spy is off with a new hat.

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Book Review: Portents by Kelley Armstrong

Seven stories of the town’s past, of the people and the fae a young woman fleeing her past will run to, only to discover that her past extends further than she ever imagined.

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Book Review: “The Recitation of the Most Holy and Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork” by Seanan McGuire

Those Aeslin mice, Mindy and Mork, are on their own as they flee the carnival and traverse the airport, desperate for home.

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Book Review: Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

Faced with the destruction of London, Detective Constable (and apprentice wizard) Peter Grant must come to terms with his traitorous ex-best friend Leslie May and the malevolent killer Mr Punch.

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