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A Song to My City: Washington, DC

Carol Lancaster and Douglas Farrar

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This deeply felt memoir is a love letter to Washington, DC. Carol Lancaster, a third-generation...

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders

Alicia Gaspar de Alba

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been...

Way of the Actor

Brian Bates

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For thousands of years, in traditional societies around the world, actors were seen as the guardians...

Quiver

Julia Watts

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Set in rural Tennessee, QUIVER by Julia Watts is a brilliant YA novel that focuses on the unlikely...

lbgtqia fiction ya young adult

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2672 KP) rated The Dark Wind in Books

Aug 14, 2025

The Dark Wind

Tony Hillerman | 1982 | Mystery

9.0

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Plane Crash Brings Mystery

Navajo police detective Jim Chee has recently transferred to a new area in the reservation, and his unfamiliarity with the area and people is making it hard to investigate cases. For example, there’s the John Doe body he can’t even identify. And he has no leads on the case of the windmill that is being sabotaged. While out staking it out overnight, Chee witnesses a plane crash. A plane that was flying low without lights. Chee figures those flying the plane were up to no good, and he is ordered to stay away from the Federal investigation. But it’s kind of hard when the Feds think he knows more about the crash. Can he figure out what happened without framing himself more?

While this is the fifth book in the series, and the second to feature Jim Chee, it reads like a standalone, with little from the previous book being brought up here. That isn’t to say that the characters are bad, it’s just a difference in storytelling from what we get today. I found the characters pulled me in. The mystery was strong with plenty to keep me guessing and a red herring that distracted me. Yet the ending was logical. As always, the landscape and culture came to life. I’m looking forward to more.

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Shadows Across the Moon: Outlaws, Freaks, Shamans and the Making of Ibiza Clubland

Helen Donlon and Richie Hawtin

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Once a fabled pirate garrison, the Balearic island of Ibiza has been colonised and continually...

Kaitlynn Pankonien (57 KP) rated The Princess and the Frog (2009) in Movies

Dec 26, 2019

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

2009 | Animation, Comedy, Family

7.9

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Its in New Orleans! (0 more)

Great movie

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I love this movie it ties in true cajun culture and it goes to show that hard work really pays off to get what you dream of. Tianna is a hard working waitress who dreams of getting the restaurant her father always dreamed of to get for her. Naveen is a prince who us carefree and spoiled. They find love in each other on their adventure to be turned back into humans after naveen was messing with voodoo. They meet a gator named Louis and a firefly named ray that help them on their journey.