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Murder, etc.

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GREENVILLE, SC: January 31, 1975: Lt. Frank Looper was about to break the biggest case of his life....

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The Night Life of the Gods

Thorne Smith

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Thorne Smith's rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in...

9th Judgement: (Women's Murder Club 9)

James Patterson

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The most personal A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning...

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Leh� Zigeunerliebe (with Elina Garanca / Alessandro Milani / Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai / Karel Mark Chichon, Alessandro Milani, Karel Mark Chichon, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai) by Elina Garanca

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Le traducteur de voyage

Travel and Reference

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Faites de votre iPhone ou iPod touch votre interprète personnel en 34 langues. Le traducteur de...

Drift Fanatics Car Drifting

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You can select from 13 cars, and you can fully build them to be the ultimate drifting machine. ...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2165 KP) rated Good Day to Buy in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Good Day to Buy

Sherry Harris | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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Sarah is helping the Spencers downsize their possession before a planned move, but things take a tragic turn when Sarah finds them lying on the garage floor in the middle of the sale. Then, that afternoon, Sarah’s estranged brother Luke shows up asking for help is hiding out for a couple of days. Luke disappears just as the police being looking for him on connection with what happened at the Spencer’s. Can Sarah figure out what Luke is doing and clear his name?

Luke adds an interesting element to this addition to the series. The plot is fast paced and kept me so engaged I had a hard time putting the book down. I did have a couple of niggle with the ending, but they are very minor. I love the characters in this series, and it was fantastic to see all of them again. While the love triangle may be over, we did see both of the men in Sarah’s life in this book. Fans will delight in this book and it will hook new readers on the series.

NOTE: I received an ARC of this book.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2017/04/book-review-good-day-to-buy-by-sherry.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated The Exact Location of Home in Books

Jun 18, 2018

The Exact Location of Home by Kate Messner is a story that will pull at the readers heart. In the story Zig and his friends spend a great deal of time together going to garage sales, skipping rocks, and just being together. When Zig gets a gps, they begin geocaching. But Zig hides a secret from his friends that has changed his entire world. As Zig grows, he finds support from an unexpected ally and gives support to a young boy, both facing similar circumstances as Zig.

Messner has given us a compassionate and necessary middle grade story about the reality of homelessness for many children today. This story has a unique premise with the geocaching theme and I love that while the main character is in 8th grade he will be relatable for students both much younger and much older than he is. I would love to get this book into the hands of all teachers and administrators who struggle to understand how difficult school can be for children without a stable home life, and who make well-intended but thoughtless comments about the homeless population.

I received this ARC from Bloomsbury USA Children's Books and Bloomsbury USA Childrens via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Breaker 19: The CB Trucker game in Tabletop Games

Apr 12, 2018

Breaker 19: The CB Trucker game

1976 | Dice Game, Kids Game, Racing

1.5

(2 Ratings)

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Completely based on luck

The game plays you.....

No Decisions to be made

This IS NOT smokey and the bandit the boardgame.

Do you love dice, and do you hate making decisions? The just maybe this game is for you... This is an activity with rules rather than a game in my eyes. Those kid are not having fun on the box cover, I don't care what you say. In 1976 they really could've done better. But this particular game didn't bother to try. I put this on par with Candyland, but Candyland is much prettier and designed for kids to learn colors and counting. This one has almost nothing to offer. Even if you can get it for 50 cents at a garage sale, throw the board away and keep the dice and money for another game as missing pieces. Or even better, come up with your own rules and redesign the game. that would be a more fun process than playing the game as is for sure. I'm sure it would be more fun to be a trucker for a few hours, even on the boring straightaways of nebraska. So if you can do that instead. Even Monopoly is better than this game.