Nora1Can rated Ducks, Newburyport: 5 stars
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Baking a multitude of tartes tatin for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. …
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Nora1Can rated A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto: 4 stars
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Miéville
In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels's apocalyptic vision of an …
Nora1Can rated The Convenient Marriage: 3 stars
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
When Lord Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, the most eligible match of Georgian England, offers for the hand of the …
Nora1Can rated A Bitter Truth: 3 stars
A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd (A Bess Crawford mystery)
A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday …
Nora1Can rated A fine romance: 3 stars
A fine romance by Candice Bergen
"Candice Bergen shares the big events in her life: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her …
Nora1Can rated Diary of a Mad Diva: 3 stars
Nora1Can rated Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5): 4 stars
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5) by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce)
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the …
Nora1Can rated The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches: 4 stars
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
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Nora1Can rated The children act: 3 stars
The children act by Ian McEwan
London High Court Judge Fiona Maye presides over a sensitive case involving a family of Jehovah's Witnesses who won't allow …
Nora1Can rated All the Light We Cannot See: 5 stars
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and …
Nora1Can rated Yes Please: 3 stars
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Yes Please is a 2014 book by American actress and television writer Amy Poehler. Poehler announced the book in January …
Nora1Can rated So, anyway .: 3 stars
So, anyway . by John Cleese
Honest, frank and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to …
Nora1Can rated The Dinner: 3 stars
The Dinner by Herman Koch
On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is …
Nora1Can rated Clockwork universe: 4 stars
What if? by Randall Munroe
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, …