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Whispering Statue, The

Art Dealers and Yacht Clubs Author: Carolyn Keene In her fourteenth adventure Nancy becomes a sales girl to uncover a ring of art thieves and counterfeiters while racing yachts and putting herself in danger. As usual, Carson Drew is out of town, but he trusts his daughter to track down a trove of valuable books for one of his clients. This client is sure that the man selling her books is cutting her out of most of the profit. When the Drews are confronted in their own home by masked and armed men immediately after taking the case, it becomes obvious [...]

2021-09-15T20:25:05-07:00September 15th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

2014’s Top Apocalypse Fiction

2014 has been a banner year for fictional apocalypses. Before you dismiss it as a herd of dystopian YA romances, take note: this year’s offerings include literary fiction, time-traveling fantasy, and blood-soaked horror. These authors use apocalyptic disasters as metaphors for everything from class war to what it means (biologically and spiritually) to be human. If you love a good end-of-the-world adventure, take a look at the biggest apocalypse titles of 2014. California You’ve probably heard of California because of the now-famous “Stephen Colbert bump.” Author Sherman Alexie named Edan Lepucki as an example of a writer who was being [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:32-07:00October 23rd, 2014|Tags: , , |

River of Death

Gold Fever and Machismo... Author:  Alistair MacLean El Dorado or The Lost City of Gold has been part of our mythology ever since Columbus and his gold hungry Spaniards first arrived in the New World.  In the modern era, rational folks have generally conceded that these stories are the result of too much wishful thinking and too much rum.  But such myths die hard and John Hamilton has spent most of his life searching for the inestimable wealth that he thinks is hidden in the remote tropical forests of southern Brazil.  One of the later works in novelist Alistair MacLean’s [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:24-07:00April 6th, 2013|Tags: , , , |
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