 | The Return to Zion (Zion Chronicles) by Bodie Thoene
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $3.00 I recommend. Typical of Bodie Thoene's work.
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 | Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters
Buy new: $15.81 / Used from: $4.32 I recommend. Cadfael is a staple of mine.
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 | Amanda/Miranda by Richard Peck
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Deals with mature subjects in an appropriate manner. Note, I picked this one up expecting the usual Peck chuckles but this isn't a light story... The Titanic is involved...
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 | The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan Stroud
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Great fun.
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 | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Deals with mature subjects in an appropriate way but the mature subjects come up rarely. Mostly just a delightful read.
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 | Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not recommended. Way too much bad language, bad attitude, and sex. This makes me sad 'cause I like L. H. Anderson.
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 | Strays Like Us by Richard Peck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. This is the serious Richard Peck.
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 | Camilla (Laurel Leaf Books) by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 I recommend. Deals with adult topics in an appropriate manner.
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 | The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, Book 3) by Eoin Colfer
Buy used from: $2.96 I recommend. A fun ride, as usual.
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 | A Live Coal In The Sea by Madeleine L'engle
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $1.00 I recommend. Contains a smattering of bad language. Deals with adult topics in an appropriate manner. Beautiful story about mercy and forgiveness.
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 | Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: $1.00 I recommend. Deals with adult topics in an appropriate manner. The end is confusing...
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 | A Severed Wasp: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Treats adult situations in an appropriate way. L'Engle outdid herself on inventing difficult life situations in this one...I don't know if truth could be stranger than this fiction. Her common themes of mercy, love, and redemption are all there, though.
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 | The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Buy new: $15.81 / Used from: $2.50 I recommend. Trusty old Cadfael...
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 | Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.98 I recommend! Yay, Shannon!
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 | Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1) by Jan Karon
Buy new: $11.58 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend! Enjoyed it very much. Does treat adultry, but in an appropriate manner.
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 | The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.83 Waffling on this one. Sex out of wedlock is condoned by omission of any commentary on it (?). Otherwise, a good story.
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 | Dark Moon Defender (The Twelve Houses, Book 3) by Sharon Shinn
Buy used from: $4.54 Can't recommend. Warning: Sex out of wedlock is condoned and described, though not in gory detail.
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 | The Gift: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Sweet story. I was in a "Richard Paul Evans" mood.
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 | The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Much in common with Richard Paul Evans...
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 | Finding Noel: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $1.48 I recommend. Nice Christmas-time reading.
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 | The Last Promise by Richard Paul Evans
Buy used from: $0.99 I recommend, I think... I was surprised that Richard allowed so much dating and courtship to go on while one of the main characters was still married. Unhappily, yes. But still married.
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 | Letters by Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $2.00 I recommend. I liked the "Glimpses" book better, but this one is fine.
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 | The Truth-Teller's Tale by Sharon Shinn
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.23 I recommend. Good story.
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 | The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After by Patricia C. Wrede
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.94 I recommend! Very fun book.
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 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Buy used from: $0.79 I recommend. Be warned, it does deal with some adult topics, but it does so in an appropriate manner.
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 | Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries) by Rhys Bowen
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Yay! I found another mystery writer I think I can trust.
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 | Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Buy used from: $11.36 Not recommended. I'm disappointed in Robin McKinley. She's usually one I can trust. This book has too much sex and too much about the sex.
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 | Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
Buy used from: $3.95 I recommend. Great story.
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 | Death of a Maid (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 23) by M. C. Beaton
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.46 You decide. The story is not offensive (keep in mind it *is* a murder mystery). Towards the end Hamish indulges in some immorality he clearly does not consider immoral. It's not graphic, but it's there.
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 | Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn
Buy used from: $4.73 I recommend. A (clean) futuristic twist on "Jane Eyre".
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 | A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.99 Not recommended. And I don't even feel bad about it. There's some major sex out of wedlock, that's portrayed as being good. But there's more... The "bad guys" are too rotten and the "good guys" are too good. The writing is engaging but the characters are flat and the story is too. I'm gonna stick to her books for kids and leave the romances alone.
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 | Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, Book 1) by Jenny Nimmo
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.12 I recommend. Good story. Well told.
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 | Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.40 I can't recommend. It's a fun book. The complaint I have is that sex outside of marriage is condoned. But it's not described or dwelt upon.
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy used from: $47.99 I can't recommend. The sexual encounter of a man and a faerie creature is described in some detail at the very beginning of the book. After that there's nothing offensive. But I don't think the book is anything special worth making compromises for.
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 | Reader and Raelynx (The Twelve Houses, Book 4) by Sharon Shinn
Buy new: $18.19 / Used from: $0.75 I can't recommend. With Sharon Shinn, I never know the exact morality of the book until I read it and I enjoy her work so much, I keep reading it... In this one sex outside of marriage is condoned and even described a bit.
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. Treats sex in and out of marriage in an appropriate manner. Also treats abuse within a marriage. It's a sad book, but as with "The Kite Runner", somehow the characters and the story transcend all the ugliness. Plus, I appreciate the peek into the life of Afghanistan.
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 | Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.84 I recommend. Typical of Wendell Berry's work. Jayber leads a looser life than some of the other Port William "members" I've met. There is some reference to fornication made without judgement. Later on Jayber straightens out. I didn't find anything in the book objectionable.
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 | The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1) by Holly Black
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $0.01 I recommend. No wonder I'm hearing about these Spiderwick books?! A quick, fun read.
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 | Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (The Children of the Red King, Book 2) by Jenny Nimmo
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.06 I recommend. A winning sequel to the first book. Plopped down and read it in an afternoon and enjoyed it!
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 | Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Don't bother. I only had to read a few pages to hit some very nasty language and there I stopped. I'm not always that principled. So, you know I found nothing in the first few pages to compel me further. If you want to get the scoop from someone who read the entire book, you'll have to go elsewhere.
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