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Book Review: “Retreat” by Krysten Ritter
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Book Review: “The Vendetta Defense” by Lisa Scottoline
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Book Review: “Long Shadows” by David Baldacci
Genre: Thriller This is book #7 in the Memory Man (Amos Decker) series. FBI Consultant Amos Decker is not having a good day. A letter from the memory institute let Amos know that his memory might be changing in the near future (something about lesions), his first partner as a cop, Mary Lancaster, has died,…
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Book Review: “The Reckoning” by Kelli Stanley
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Book Review: “Guilty Minds” by Joseph Finder
Genre: Thriller This is book #3 in the Nick Heller series. Nick Heller is a private investigator based in Boston. He just had a meeting with the ultimate Washington, D.C insider, and high-powered lawyer, Gideon Parnell about a scandal about to erupt (to be posted in 48 hours on the web site of the influential…
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17 Banned Books in Texas
MaiStoryBook writes: “Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal challenging Llano County, Texas’s removal of 17 books from its public libraries. Amongst these books were topics that addressed race, gender identity, and puberty. By refusing to take up the case, the Court allowed a Fifth Circuit ruling to stand, effectively granting…
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Book Review: “The Running Grave” by Robert Galbraith
Genre: Thriller / Mystery I asked Google Gemini AI for a short summary of this 945 page book. In The Running Grave, private detectives Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are hired by a distraught father to rescue his son, Will, from the Universal Humanitarian Church (UHC). While Strike investigates the organization’s criminal history and suspicious…
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“Crash and Burn” A Sigma Force Short Story Summary
Genre: Thriller Sigma Force members, Seichan and Kowalski, are sharing a flight to Morocco. From there Kowlaski will vacation with his GF in Germany. Kowalski is carrying a prototype of a shotgun that when shot will disable (but not kill) people using electrically charged pellets. Think a taser but without wires. Suddenly, over the Azores,…
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“The Code” An Orphan X Short Story Summary
Genre: Thriller Easter holiday Jack sends 17 year old Evan Smoak (long before he was Orphan X and The Nowhere Man) on a cross-country trek….speaking only Portuguese. At his destination Evan is subjected to a “boot camp” that would bring back memories for any Navy SEAL. Unfortunately, those memories are probably nightmares! But young Evan…
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Book Review: “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown
Genre: Thriller “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown is a complex book packed with complicated and detailed scientific information, as well as being extremely interesting and, of course, well written. The ending is both explosive and mind-boggling. To help me more accurately convey the gist of the book in a book review, I enlisted…
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