So this past week I have been in Oklahoma with the kiddo visiting family. It has been a week of indulgence. Sleeping in, sunning lots, laughing more, forgetting calories, competitive bouts of dominoes, Uno and Rummy. Oh, and lots of books. In a word, it has been a little slice of perfection. I was able
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Hyperion | 2001 | 176 pages | List price: $16.95 | Get it for less at Amazon The week before you go on vacation always seems to be like regular life, just intensified. Less sleep, more work, less ease, more stress… all just to take a few days off. This week was no different. I
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Shaye Areheart Books | 2010 | 384 pages | List price: $25.00 | Get it for less at Amazon Just hours after Alice Hayward is baptized, she’s found strangled to death in her home. Sitting a few feet away from Alice’s body is her also-dead husband George, his brains blown out against the living room
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Anchor | 2003 | 432 pages | List price: $16.00 | Get it for less at Amazon On July 27, 1984 brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty brutally murdered their sister-in-law and 15-month old niece. They said it was a directive from God, a “removal revelation.” In fact, Dan Lafferty’s exact words were, “I was doing
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Hyperion | 2010 | 240 pages | List price: $13.99 | Get it for less at Amazon There was not a singular moment that signaled to Amy Dickinson her marriage was over. Not her husband showing up to counseling with a suitcase having just returned from a European vacation with a girlfriend. Not when he
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Times Books | 2006 | 384 pages | List price: $16.00 | Get it for less at Amazon It was a Tuesday like any other. I rose after my normal snooze delay, always thankful for a few more minutes of rest, and got ready for work. My daily routine was uneventful. This morning was different,
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Bantam (Reprint Edition) | 2010 | 416 pages | List price: $15.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I have always enjoyed a good mystery. It started with the classic ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN mysteries of my childhood and grew to enjoying the likes of Agatha Christie, Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben. Now, an expert on
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Ecco | 2010 | 208 pages | List price: $21.99 | Get it for less at Amazon Paul Guest was just twelve years old when a biking accident indelibly changes his life forever. Now twenty-seven, ONE MORE THEORY ABOUT HAPPINESS is Guest’s account of the events that resulted in his broken neck and adjustment to
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Vintage Contemporaries | 2000 | 176 pages | List price: $14.00 | Get it for less at Amazon I think I have an author crush. My first experience with Kent Haruf was a number of years ago when I picked up PLAINSONG, a simple and graceful story of discordant lives colliding and intersecting in the
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Back Bay Books | 2009 | 336 pages | List price: $15.99 | Get it for less at Amazon So y’all know that I am not big on picking up a book again once I have read it. I am, however, a fan of certain authors and if I love them, I want to read
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