Young James Herriot: The Making of the World's Most Famous Vet
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Set in Glasgow in the 1930s, Young James Herriot is the fascinating story of Herriot's formative...
Orpheus Rising
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Michael Ryan was the author of a runaway bestseller, Space Coast, but its publication coincided with...
Billy Summers
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From legendary storyteller and No. 1 bestseller Stephen King, whose 'restless imagination is a power...
ClareR (5561 KP) rated The Great Alone in Books
Feb 6, 2018
This is a story of survival: Leni and her mother survive the violence of Leni's Vietnam War vet father (who is suffering from PTSD after being held as a prisoner by the enemy). Cora, Leni's mother, will not leave him, saying that she loves him and needs him, and repeatedly pays the price. Leni loves Alaska and her boyfriend Matthew, but tragic circumstances take her away from both for a number of years. Many years later, under different circumstances, she is able to return.
I think I really like Kristin Hannah books. The way she describes the surroundings in Alaska: the wildness, the beauty, the unpredictability. I've read a couple of books recently set in the cold, snowy arctic circle, and this only made me want to actually see it myself even more!
I know I'm only two books in to my Kristin Hannah experience, but I can't say as there is anything about either of them that I didn't like. I'll be hunting down more!
Lenard (726 KP) rated Shaft (2019) in Movies
Jun 23, 2019
Skyjacked (1972)
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Hank O'Hara is as good a pilot as they come. He knows how to handle an airliner in turbulent skies....
Blood on the Tracks: Sydney Rose Parnell Series, Book 1
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A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim's fiancé, a hideously...
Crime fiction
Can't Let Go (The Original Heartbreakers, #5)
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New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter is back with a sizzling Original Heartbreakers tale...
L is for Lawless
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Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet" (San Francisco Examiner) from #1 New...
Even the Dogs
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WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a...