 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 What an incredible book this was. This was about a man who dies. He dies trying to save a little girl at the amusement park he worked as a maintenance man. After he dies, he meets 5 people who actually show him his life had meaning.
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 | The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
Buy used from: $4.09 This is one book that will stay with me for a long time.
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 | In Her Shoes : A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 The story is about 2 sisters, Maggie and Rose. Maggie is drop dead gorgeous but not very bright due to learning disabilities. Rose is overweight and plain but smart
a lawyer. Maggie is always in trouble. Credit, evictions, no job. Rose is always bailing her out. But when Maggie sleeps with Rosess boyfriend, that is the last straw.
Weiner is witty and fun! This movie is great too!
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 | The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel by Michael Connelly
Buy used from: $0.01 Mickey Haller is a defense lawyer. A bondsman gives Mickey the franchise. A client (Louis Roulet) that can pay whatever it takes to prove his innocent. But, even with all the cash, Mickey finds out this guy is far from innocent. I think Connelly does an awesome job with the legal plot in this one. He adds the twists and turns he is known for in his other suspense thrillers.
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 | Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This was a fascinating book. Fascinating because there were 4-5 plots going on at the same time and it was all tied together. Kenneth, a famous Cricket player, is murdered. Lynley and Havers are called upon to do the investigation.
One of my favorite series!
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $15.57 / Used from: $9.93 One of the best story tellers of all time. The story is about a boy named Amir. He lives with his dad, his dads servant (Ali) and the servants son Hassan. They live in Kabul, Afghanastan during the 70's when time was more peaceful. Once I started this book, I could not put it down!
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 | The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This book had all the right ingredients for a perfect mystery. Very well written and great character development.
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 | Simon Said (Simon Shaw Mysteries) by Sarah R. Shaber
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 First of the Simon Shaw mystery series. Excellent mystery.
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 | Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $1.88 If you are a dog owner, this is a must read. It is hilariously funny and any reader can relate to the antics of this dog and how it impacts the family. I laughed and I cried!
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 | Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 This is not a genre I normally read. The setting is 17th century dutch. The story is about a young girl who becomes a maid for the painter Vermeer and his family after her father "loses his trade". Excellent read!
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 | The Killing Kind by John Connolly
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.33 #3 of the Charlie Parker series-The book was eery and dark but kept me interested and riveted till the end.
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 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is a great story of Seabiscuit and the men that played the role in making him one of the best racers in history. Charles Howard, the owner, Tom Smith, the trainer and Red Pollard the jockey and Henry Woolf, the other jockey who filled in for Pollard when he was hurt. Hillenbrand does a great job describing the ultimate exitement of a horse race!
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 | The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme) by Jeffery Deaver
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 #7 of the Lincoln Rhyme series. I have read them all. Deaver is a master of his craft.
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 | Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Told from a mans prospective, Gibby, it is a story of a family who grows up in Buckhead, Atlanta. In this book you see Atlanta at its best and worst from the 50s thru the 80s.
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 | Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $1.19 I was extremely impressed with how open he was about his family, his relationships with them, his thoughts and feelings about the tragedies in his life.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Owen is a very likable and distinct character but I also grew to like the narrator John. Religion, War, Politics play a vivid role in the narration of this story. This is literary genius at its best.
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 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 The story is about a decision made by a father/doctor in the 60s to give his one of his twins to his nurse to take her to a home for the retarded, without his wifes knowledge. He tells her Phoebe dies.
Excellent character development and story telling.
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 | A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Even if ½ is true, I dont care. I still liked it. The book is about Frey and his time in rehab. It talks about how he dealt with it, how he related to his family and the friends he met while he was there. He also relived his horrible nightmare as an addict. IT kept my attention from beginning to end.
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 | Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) by Dorothy Allison
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.20 This is a very powerful book. Its about family, poverty and growing up in the south in the 50s.
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 | The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma Mclaughlin
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 Its the story of Nanny who gets a job working for a rich couple in manhatten with a 4 year old son, Grayer. The writing is funny. Hilariously funny in some parts. Very enjoyable read
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 | The King of Lies by John Hart
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Hooray for this new North Carolina author! If you want an on the edge of your seat, cant put it down type of mystery, this is the book for you!
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 | Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.30 The book takes you thru her trying to get an ex-boyfriend back, dealing with a lesbian mother, the mothers partner, an estranged father and a hodge podge of other complicated issues that totally turns a life upside down. This book will make you laugh and cry almost at the same time.
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 | Magic Hour: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.01 I was taken in from the beginning and in a trance till the end. Very satisfied with the ending. Hannah is worth reading again and again.
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 | The Closers (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $0.92 This book was signed Harry is back on the beat and all is right in the world by Michael Connelly when I met him at his book signing in Greensboro. This was one of those books I couldnt put down until I finished. There is a cameo appearance of old chief Irving and an interesting link to this case. Great one as always by one of my favorites
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 | Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.97 This is a very light and funny mystery with a southern flair. I have become a big fan overnight
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 | Echo Park (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 (#12 of the Bosch Series)- Connelly leads the reader thru a mirage of twists, turns and surprises. He definitely has not lost the momentum since the Bosch series began. Another great read by the master of suspense
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 | Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.95 This is the sequel to Savannah Blues. I don't think I have read a funnier book. I am on my way to add Andrews other books on to my wish list
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