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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Monday, Jul. 06, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Laurel Gray Hawthorne has what seems to be the perfect life with her dependable husband, David, and beloved daughter, Shelby, all tucked away in the safety of a gated suburban neighborhood.
But when Laurel wakes to find a young girl’s ghost in...
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by Wayne C. Rogers, author and guest reviewer
Friday, Jul. 03, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Over the last 40 years, I've read a lot of novels in which a writer (and his or her family) is the central character. Until two days ago, none had scared me as much as Stephen King's "Misery," which dealt with an author's No. 1 crazed fan...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. As always, you can find reviews of many of these books here at The Book Nook. Let us know what you think in the comments section.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" by...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Scott Lasser’s “The Year That Follows” is another tale of family secrets.
Cat, a single mother living in Detroit, lost her brother, Kyle, during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Her brother had an ex-girlfriend who’d had a baby,...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are naive girls living in Shanghai in 1937. They care about fashion and fun more than family and tradition, posing for artists who paint portraits for the beautiful girls calendars popular during the...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM
In Warren Fahy’s “Fragment,” the crew of the Trident receives a distress signal that leads them to Henders Island, a mysterious place untouched by people for eons.
This ship isn’t carrying regular passengers, it’s...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM
“The Apostle” by Brad Thor: This political thriller centers around counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath, who must infiltrate one of Afghanistan’s most notorious prisons in an effort to rescue a kidnapped American doctor.
Also...
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by Tom Dye, guest reviewer
Monday, Jun. 29, 2009 at 5:00 AM
One of the great rewards in being hooked on books is discovering a talented author who is new to you. This can happen while exploring library shelves or finding a book by chance.
Paul Levine’s thriller “Illegal” was a bookstore...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Friday, Jun. 26, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Sarah McConnell’s husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store. He was standing at the end of the seasonal aisle, contemplating a display of plastic pumpkins, when, for one brief moment, he lifted his head and...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. As always, you can find reviews of many of these books here at The Book Nook. Share what you think in the comments section.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "Knock Out: An FBI Thriller" by...
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by Wayne C. Rogers, author and guest reviewer
Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009 at 5:00 AM
I’ve been reading the “Jack Reacher” novels by Lee Child since the first one, "Killing Floor," came out in paperback during the mid-’90s. I’ve enjoyed most of them, some more than others, and I’ve always...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM
OK, I'm going out on a limb here, because it seems publishing dates can't be trusted anymore, but, according to Barnes & Noble and Amazon, Dean Koontz's "Dead and Alive," the third in his "Frankenstein" series, should hit...
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by Wayne C. Rogers, author and guest reviewer
Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Thank God Elmore Leonard is still kicking and writing. With each new book of his that gets published, I always think that it’s going to be his last. This author, however, keeps surprising me, and for that, I’m eternally grateful. You...
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by Heidi Knapp Rinella, Las Vegas Review-Journal writer
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM
You have to like courtroom procedural novels to get the most enjoyment from “The Brass Verdict” by Michael
Connelly. Really, really like them.
Really like them.
“Verdict” is part of a series of novels that features Connelly...
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by Lindsey Losnedahl, Las Vegas Review-Journal assistant features editor
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Modern biotechnology and an apocalyptic story come together in best-selling author James Rollins’ “The Doomsday Key,” where three murders on separate continents are all linked by a strange pagan cross burned into the victims’...
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