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Review Date: 2/27/2011
Callie is a delightful heroine and watching her interact with stoic Ian is a treat. Real character development and a zany assortment of secondary characters rounded out this fun read.
Review Date: 11/4/2013
I enjoy Christian fiction but this book for me had too much religion in it I found it interfered with the plots. All four stories were interesting and I like the characters I just wished that I didn't feel as if the authors thought that we had to be constantly reminded that this was a Christian fiction book.
Review Date: 3/6/2009
The blonde was in black stockings, bra and neck ribbon. And she was on fire, as the house around her exploded before Cliff Hardy's eyes. For Hardy it started at a college lecture he gave. One student had begun to haunt him, and another hired him to hound her husband. By the time Harady climbed up out of the gleaming seaside city of Sydney into the Blue Mountains, the two cases were on their way to becoming one: fused by deception and a fireball that killed two lovers and left Cliff Hardy fighting for his life. Now the Aussie private eye has to find an addled woman's connection to the bombing and uravel a family's darkest secrets. When he does, he'll enter a hell guarded by a snarling dog - a hell of lies, murder, and smoldering family ties.
Review Date: 3/8/2009
There's a Red Dragon loose at Mardi Gras. From the seamy byways of the French Quarter to the palatial landscapes of the Garden District, New Orleans has become the playground for a fiercely calculating serial murderer. The first victim, blue-tongued and pop-eyed from three days in the river, looked like any other mob hit except that this corpse was the son-in-law of a Cosa Nostra boss. To hit someone that high up usually signaled a vendetta and the beginning of a war. But when a common prostitute and an unremarkable exchange student are also murdered execution style, it's clear that this isn't a case of a mob housecleaning. An insane killer is feeding off New Orleans. As the bodies begin to pile up, they turn to the man known as the Grim Reaper, Police Detective Dino LaStanza. He nailed The Slasher last year; he's the only one who can stem the tide of death sweeping through the city. Haunted by the murder of his brother, LaStanza's manhunt leads him from the leather lined offices of the Mafia to the desperate slums of The Quarter. Every clue brings LaStanza one step closer to the killer, and the killer that much closer to LaStanza and those he loves the most.
Review Date: 3/17/2009
The sons of the Alamo fight with the spirit of America in their blood and the pride of Texas in their hearts. Easy Company: the 141st Regiment of the Texas National Guard's 36th Infantry Division. From Naples to Rome, these rock tough diehards battle impossible odds to turn the tide of war that Germany considers already won.
Mobilized for the final push to seize the Eternal City, Easy Company comes face to face with a crack unit of Waffen SS troops occupying the Italian capital. But in the heart-stopping, desperate drive to penetrate the Roman perimeter, the Americans forge their own legacy of blood and glory.
An action packed, authentic account of America's National Guard in wartime.
Mobilized for the final push to seize the Eternal City, Easy Company comes face to face with a crack unit of Waffen SS troops occupying the Italian capital. But in the heart-stopping, desperate drive to penetrate the Roman perimeter, the Americans forge their own legacy of blood and glory.
An action packed, authentic account of America's National Guard in wartime.
Review Date: 3/24/2009
From a young woman's murder in Virginia, solved a decade later by exhuming a skeletal hand, to the brutal death of a Paleolithic trader, the world famous forensic sleuth Dr. Douglas Ubelaker invites us to join him in a thrilling adventure. Taking us into the Smithsonian's collections, he explains the state of the art techniques that enable skilled practitioners to read the details of a life from a single thigh bone.
A tantalizing collection of cases carries us from courtrooms, where a forensic expert's testimony can mean the difference between a conviction and an acquittal, to the most fascinating archeological digs in the world. We see firsthand how ancient discoveries continue to help solve twentieth century crimes and how forensic science has made the bones of the dead speak.
A tantalizing collection of cases carries us from courtrooms, where a forensic expert's testimony can mean the difference between a conviction and an acquittal, to the most fascinating archeological digs in the world. We see firsthand how ancient discoveries continue to help solve twentieth century crimes and how forensic science has made the bones of the dead speak.
Calico Bride (Buttons & Bobbins, Bk 3) (Love Inspired Historical, No 95)
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Review Date: 11/4/2013
This is book three in the Buttons and Bobbins series by Jillian Hart. I loved this book. Ms. Hart added some humor to this book that really hit the spot with me. Lila and Burke have a wonderful topsy turvy courtship that brings a smile to your face over and over again. This book continues the sewing circle of friends and lets us see again their maturing and making their own ways in the world while still remaining life long friends. Can't wait to start book four in the series.
Review Date: 3/6/2009
Here's the story: San Francisco bookie Billy Rossi is $300,000 short. Some Chinatown thugs beat it out of him and his girlfriend, Sherri the showgirl. That's why he called down-and-out ex-cop John "Tomb" Tomei.
Here's the deal: Tomb needs money. Billy needs help. All Tomb has to do is go after the thugs and get the money back. Easy, right?
Here's the problem: Sherri the showgirl has disappeared. And Tomb's crazy friend Red, retired king of the Chinatown beat, has his own psychotic idea about settling the score. Worse yet, a high-powered Tong leader wants Tomb and Red dead.
When you're in this deep, there's only one thing to do:
Cash Out
Here's the deal: Tomb needs money. Billy needs help. All Tomb has to do is go after the thugs and get the money back. Easy, right?
Here's the problem: Sherri the showgirl has disappeared. And Tomb's crazy friend Red, retired king of the Chinatown beat, has his own psychotic idea about settling the score. Worse yet, a high-powered Tong leader wants Tomb and Red dead.
When you're in this deep, there's only one thing to do:
Cash Out
Review Date: 3/24/2009
When the President of the United States wants a million dollars in gold given secret passage downriver, even a gambler has to fold his hand. At least until bullion hungry buccaneers call his bluff with an old bayou battleship. Then count on Chance to give it back in spades!
As the muddy maze of the Mississippi Delta becomes a backwater battleground, Chance finds his paddlewheeler isn't the only "Wild Card" in this deadly game: a tropical hurricane is headed straight for the bayou, ready to cash in everyone's chips!
He's cool headed, hot blooded, and always in the winner's circle. He's Chance, a legend in his own time on the big river paddlewheels. Whether it's cards or women, he plays hard and wins big.
As the muddy maze of the Mississippi Delta becomes a backwater battleground, Chance finds his paddlewheeler isn't the only "Wild Card" in this deadly game: a tropical hurricane is headed straight for the bayou, ready to cash in everyone's chips!
He's cool headed, hot blooded, and always in the winner's circle. He's Chance, a legend in his own time on the big river paddlewheels. Whether it's cards or women, he plays hard and wins big.
Review Date: 3/17/2009
Oklahoma's Finest - The meanest, toughest bunch of Rough Riders, hit the south of France.
Dog Company was the wiliest, fiercest unit of the Thunderbirds, the 179th Regiment of the Oklahoma National Guard, bound by blood and driven by the fighting spirit that had tamed a wild land.
While the Allies storm the beaches at Normandy, Dog Company moves with lightning speed to hunt down the retreating German forces.
But in a surprise attack, the enemy shoots the Dogs to tatters. The few survivors are trapped in hostile territory as the Germans plot an ingenious counterattack that threatens to shatter incoming Allied spearhead.
Only the unbreakable spirit of Oklahoma's brothers-in-arms can turn certain defeat into victory and fuel the pride and glory that built America.
Dog Company was the wiliest, fiercest unit of the Thunderbirds, the 179th Regiment of the Oklahoma National Guard, bound by blood and driven by the fighting spirit that had tamed a wild land.
While the Allies storm the beaches at Normandy, Dog Company moves with lightning speed to hunt down the retreating German forces.
But in a surprise attack, the enemy shoots the Dogs to tatters. The few survivors are trapped in hostile territory as the Germans plot an ingenious counterattack that threatens to shatter incoming Allied spearhead.
Only the unbreakable spirit of Oklahoma's brothers-in-arms can turn certain defeat into victory and fuel the pride and glory that built America.
Review Date: 3/6/2009
Like the old Irwin Allen Time Tunnel series these books tend to deal more with action and adventure than the actual science of time travel. If you are looking for entertainment and not hard scientific accuracy than you might just enjoy these books. The books take place in the near future and center themselves around Jim Tiber a college student who stumbles across a time travel experiment while researching a term paper on the Beatles. Jim exploits take him from Nazi Germany to King Arthurs kingdom, the jungles of Viet Nam and finally to Pearl Harbor in an effort to combat the forces of the Iron Men, a group of scientists from the future who are trying to alter key events in the past in order to change the present.
Although a little short on plausability, the books are entertaining in their characters attempts to acclimate themselves to the different cultures and time periods they find themselves deposited in. With Matthew Costello's fast-paced styling these books are a light and entertaining read.
Although a little short on plausability, the books are entertaining in their characters attempts to acclimate themselves to the different cultures and time periods they find themselves deposited in. With Matthew Costello's fast-paced styling these books are a light and entertaining read.
Review Date: 3/17/2009
Andro was the most perfect man anyone had ever seen. Yet there was something about him that wasn't quite human; he seemed a stranger to his own body. When she first came across him in her uncle's oceanside laboratory, Mary Ellen's mind filled with questions about the mysterious stranger. Why did her uncle keep him locked away in a prison like cell with only a mattress on the floor? Why was she so attracted to him, yet repulsed by him at the same time? And how was she to know if she was falling in love with a man or some kind of beast? Andro was a riddle she longed to solve, but she wasn't sure she wanted to discover the real truth behind the Enigma.
Review Date: 3/23/2009
Scientist, gourmet, poet, and sleuth, the brilliant Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles is brought to life in a series of mysterious adventures set in the 18th Century where sea demons haunt the wild Scottish coasts and the Little People dance on the hills by moonlight.
Review Date: 3/16/2009
Gideon's Risk was as perilous as a tightrope walk over a pit of hungry lions: one false step and Scotland Yard's Commander George Gideon would be torn to pieces by the ravening beasts of London's urban jungle. The various Carter brothers, car thieves, kidnappers, cop killers, were on the prowl, and even more dangerous was super rich, ultra powerful industrial tycoon John Borgman. Gideon's gut told him the murdering magnate had already killed wife number one, and was now dallying both with his luscious blonde secretary and the notion of doing in wife number two, too. But if Gideon was to beard this lecherous lion, he'd need solid evidence and getting it could land him solidly on the killer's hit list!
Gingham Bride (Buttons & Bobbins, Bk 1) (Love Inspired Historical, No 43)
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Review Date: 10/26/2013
This is the first book in the Buttons and Bobbins series by Jillian Hart. Over all I enjoyed the story, but I had real problems with the heroine Fiona. I just never warmed up to her. The other characters: her friends and Ian, I really enjoyed and look forward to reading the rest of the series to hear their stories. I also question the author's having let Fiona attend school when her parents were so abusive. Wouldn't they have kept her at home so she could do even more work for them? This was set in 1883 and they mention the one room school having a 12th grade I found that a little odd too. If this had been a stand alone book I'm not sure I would read anymore books by this author but I do have all 4 books in the series and will read them as I like all of the other characters and want to read their stories. Fiona would get 2.5, but her friends get a 4 from me.
Review Date: 3/6/2009
Spoils of War. A gang of Eastern dudes were out to make a gigantic land grab, but they should have grabbed iron instead of dirt because they came face to face with Lee Morgan. With the help of famed shootist Tom Horn, Morgan took on a passel of hired guns in a fight that was never fair. Even at a hundred to one, Morgan and Horn, like cougars in a hen house, had the advantage of pure, savage force. They also took a bit of time out from the range war to take advantage of any female they could find - and women, like death, were in no short supply that year.
Review Date: 3/17/2009
John Breck is a widower, who has left his ranch and two daughters to go to the aid of his dead wife's sister and family. Elizabeth, the sister, has also lost her husband, and is having difficulty with a daughter and son, who are starting to get wild. The other daughter is her mother's joy. John is using a derivation of his real name, and is now an upstanding citizen in his community after an earlier life as a gunfighter who was widely feared by lawless men. His nephew wants to emulate the uncle of his youth, but John has been changed by his marriage and fatherhood into a decent, upstanding man and no one in his county knows his true name. In his sister-in-law's town, the banker has the community under his thumb, and John is going to not only get Elizabeth's husband's gold claim properly restored to her, but try to help with the two wayward youth. This is a really good story, and I recommend it highly.
Review Date: 3/8/2009
The Brazos Devil is a smelly, seven foot tall mankiller, half-man, half-bear, and all hair. It tore four men limb from limb. It kidnapped the wife of the richest man in Cottonwood Springs. And it gave Longarm's prisoner a powerful scare. But is it real? Longarm's going on a twenty thousand dollar Devil hunt to find out. Along for a wild ride and cold cash is the fetching, ferocious Lucy Vermilion, a buckskinned beauty who can pop a fly's eye at a hundred yards with a rifle. Together, she and Longarm plan to bring the Brazos Devil it's due.
Review Date: 6/24/2014
Charming wonderful book! I couldn't put it down read it in one sitting. Another great read from Deanna Gist. Georgie and Luke/Lucious are both great characters and have you hooked from the first pages. The townspeople are well written and you get to know them also.
Review Date: 3/16/2009
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I actually purchased my copy as a college freshman in 1989 when I was feeling homesick before the holidays. It was very comforting and comfortable - really reminded me of what Christmas felt like at home with Mom baking cookies and Christmas caroles on the record player. I re-read most of the stories every few years, and get something else out of them each time. This year as a mother I saw a few of them with new eyes (sometimes teary). I am now purchasing a few copies to use as gifts - this is a book that every Christian woman can enjoy. There is fine literature here, but also warm stories and heartfelt themes.
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