Nora1Can rated Bring Up the Bodies: 4 stars
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End and on Broadway, Wolf Hall …
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Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
For nearly four decades, Christopher Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with …
Nora1Can rated The Gormenghast novels: 5 stars
The Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast …
Nora1Can rated The last child: 3 stars
The last child by John Hart
After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears …
Nora1Can rated A civil action: 4 stars
A civil action by Jonathan Harr
A Civil Action is a 1996 work of non-fiction by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, …
Nora1Can rated Milk and honey: 4 stars
Milk and honey by Faye Kellerman (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery)
In the silent pre-dawn city hours — alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand …
Nora1Can rated Team of Rivals: 4 stars
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
This brilliant, multi-million-selling biography is now the inspiration for a major Steven Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Team of …
Nora1Can rated Sacred and Profane (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels): 4 stars
Sacred and Profane (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) by Faye Kellerman (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (2))
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had …
Nora1Can rated The ritual bath: 4 stars
The ritual bath by Faye Kellerman
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a …
Nora1Can rated God's Secretaries: 3 stars
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the …
Nora1Can rated The Brain that changes itself: 2 stars
The Brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, …
The Brass Verdict (Mickey Haller, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #18) by Michael Connelly
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in …
Nora1Can rated A Feast for Crows: 3 stars
A Feast for Crows by Empty Author (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, …
Nora1Can rated A Storm of Swords: 3 stars
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are …
Nora1Can rated A Clash of Kings: 4 stars
A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings is the second novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by …