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Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet

Dallas Campbell

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A rough-ish guide to space exploration from award-winning BBC journalist and space enthusiast,...

On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life

Lesley Blanch and Georgia de Chamberet

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Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a...

Famous Name Trains: Travelling in Style with the CPR

David L. Jones

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Have you ever wondered, while sitting in traffic or waiting to board a crowded airplane, what it was...

Aprender Inglês Áudio Curso Vocabulário Gramática

Education and Travel

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Free Language Learning Audio Phrasebook and Dictionary Offline App for Beginners. The most essential...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2607 KP) rated Dead with the Wind (Southern Ladies Mystery, #2) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Elderly sisters An’gel and Dickce Ducote travel to Louisiana for their cousin’s granddaughter’s wedding. But what promises to be a fun time catching up with family turns into tragedy when the tension between the various members of the cousin’s family builds to the breaking point. Then a storm comes in and leaves someone dead. But An’gel and Dickce don’t think the death was because of the storm. Can they figure out what is happening?

This book is a wonderful read. The tension is strong from start to finish, and I wasn’t sure what has really happening until the end. The characters are strong as well, and I love spending time with the series regulars. If Agatha Christie were writing books set in the modern day South, this is what she would write.

NOTE: I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2015/10/book-review-dead-with-wind-by-miranda.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Sean Farrell (9 KP) rated The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August in Books

Mar 15, 2018

What an amazing book! I was intrigued by the rather minimal plot synopsis on the jacket and so had to check this book out, and I am very glad I did. I found the principal character of Harry August to be engaging and interesting and quite enjoyed all the ancillary characters as well, but it was the plot that really hooked me on this one. Without giving anything away I'll just say that it involves reincarnation, time travel, quantum physics, espionage, world history, revenge, and in its own weird way, love. It is somewhat unfair to pigeonhole the book into the science fiction category, as it is really somewhat more of a cat-and-mouse suspense story, although seeing as the plot spans several decades, repeatedly, it does seem as though sci-fi could be the best fit. No matter where you would categorize though, this is easily my favorite read of the year so far, and quite possibly one of my favorite books of all time. Absolutely brilliant.