Folke's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 08 Mar 2025 05:23:26 -0800 60 Folke's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter, #3)]]> 4961571 Book 3 of 6: Dr. David Hunter

While visiting his mentor in Tennessee, a forensics expert matches wits with a killer of terrifying skill in this acclaimed crime series.

To escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensic pathologist Dr. David Hunter leaves the United Kingdom for America, returning to the Body Farm—the Tennessee research center where he once trained. David is there to find out if he’s still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. So when his former mentor asks David to accompany him to a crime scene, he agrees. But even David is unprepared for what awaits them in a remote cabin.

The victim has been tortured, the body decomposed beyond recognition. The fingerprints seem to identify the killer, but David is unconvinced. When a second body is found, it’s clear that the killer is dangerously familiar with the intricacies of forensics. Pushed deep into the heart of a terrifying manhunt, David begins to wonder if they’re on the trail of a maniac who cannot be stopped.]]> 319 Simon Beckett 0593055276 Folke 0 currently-reading 4.13 2009 Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter, #3)
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]]> Harnmaster 3rd edition 12102952 172 N. Robin Crossby 0920711170 Folke 5 4.23 Harnmaster 3rd edition
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]]> The Discovery of Heaven 88389 The Discovery of Heaven begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together. They share responsibility for the birth of a remarkable and radiant boy who embarks on a mandated quest that takes the reader all over Europe and to the land where all such quests begin and end. Abounding in philosophical, psychological and theological inquiries � yet laced with humour that is as infectious as it is wilful � The Discovery of Heaven convinces us that it just might be possible to bring order into the chaos of the world through a story.]]> 730 Harry Mulisch Folke 5 My favorite book. 4.15 1992 The Discovery of Heaven
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My favorite book.
]]> Starsight (Skyward, #2) 42769202
Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.]]> 461 Brandon Sanderson 1473217903 Folke 0 4.33 2019 Starsight (Skyward, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)]]> 49021976 The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.]]> 1232 Brandon Sanderson 0765326388 Folke 0 currently-reading 4.58 2020 Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)]]> 34002132 Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.]]> 1248 Brandon Sanderson Folke 5 4.60 2017 Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina]]> 297187 ĚýĚýĚýĚý


Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who worked and were wounded in Vietnam, have gathered many thousands of pictures by those who were killed. Their search has taken them through the archives in Hanoi as well as those of Western agencies. In some cases families have generously provided access to private files where unknown bodies of work have lain unseen for more than forty years.
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The list of the dead includes some of the greatest photographers of the century, such as Robert Capa and Larry Burrows, and some who had been working in Vietnam for only a matter of days before their deaths. A number of the Cambodian photographers working for the Western press were executed. Other photographers, like Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, disappeared. Their loss inspired Tim Page to begin this memorial.
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The resulting sequence of photographs follows the course of the war and the transformation of the serene landscapes of Cambodia and Vietnam into scenes of nightmarish devastation. At the moments of intense battle one is reminded not only of the courage of the photographers but of the compassion amid the brutality of war. These photographers were intimate with war to a degree that may well be denied future generations. That intimacy led to their deaths. Their photographs are their legacy.]]> 336 Tim Page 0679456570 Folke 5 4.73 1997 Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
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]]> Skyward (Skyward, #1) 36642458 513 Brandon Sanderson 1473217857 Folke 5 Took me 2 nights to read the book - you might have troubles putting this one out of your hands.

A deeply troubled and flawed MC, that I didn't like for at least the first third of the book, a post-apocalyptic setting (normally not my thing ) - but Sanderson made it work.

The second book is due to arrive tomorrow...
]]> 4.45 2018 Skyward (Skyward, #1)
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average rating: 4.45
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The master of storytelling/world- & character-building in fantasy literature strikes again. This time with a sci-fi novel.
Took me 2 nights to read the book - you might have troubles putting this one out of your hands.

A deeply troubled and flawed MC, that I didn't like for at least the first third of the book, a post-apocalyptic setting (normally not my thing ) - but Sanderson made it work.

The second book is due to arrive tomorrow...

]]> Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 11851783 MS. found in a bottle --
Silence-a fable --
Berenice --
William Wilson --
Ligeia --
The assignation --
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar --
The pit and the pendulum --
The fall of the house of usher --
The cask of amontillado --
A descent into the maelström --
The tell-tale heart --
The black cat --
The masque of the red death --
The gold-bug --
The murders in the rue morgue --
The purloined letter.]]> 304 Edgar Allan Poe Folke 5 4.35 1849 Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Folke
average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]> 11
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Folke 4 4.21 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)]]> 10664113 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4A

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.

Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.]]> 1125 George R.R. Martin Folke 1 4.33 2011 A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)]]> 23807
Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of "The Silence of the Lambs"—an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.]]> 421 Thomas Harris Folke 4 4.25 1988 The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> Animal Farm 7613
The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animals � inspired by his philosophy of Animalism � plot a rebellion against Jones.

Two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, prove themselves important figures and planners of this dangerous enterprise. When Jones forgets to feed the animals, the revolution occurs, and Jones and his men are chased off the farm. Manor Farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the Seven Commandments of Animalism are painted on the barn wall...]]> 129 George Orwell Folke 3 3.90 1945 Animal Farm
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]]> 343 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.]]> 263 Patrick Süskind Folke 5 4.05 1985 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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]]> Dracula 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Folke 3 4.02 1897 Dracula
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]]> 1984 5470 328 George Orwell Folke 3 4.15 1949 1984
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 7677
Parque jurásico, la novela más célebre de Michael Crichton y una de las más leídas en los últimos años, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una película que se convirtió en el gran acontecimiento cinematográfico de 1993 y en el origen del fenómeno de masas llamado «dinomanía».]]> 467 Michael Crichton 030734813X Folke 4 3.90 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)]]> 3428935 416 Peter V. Brett 0345503805 Folke 2 stopped-reading 4.25 2008 The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Folke 4 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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]]> <![CDATA[Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)]]> 150739 not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.

Cover illustrator: Peter de Sève]]> 240 Patricia C. Wrede 015204566X Folke 0 to-read 4.16 1990 Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)]]> 153008
Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.

Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.

Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.]]> 1040 Jacqueline Carey 0330493744 Folke 2 4.01 2001 Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)]]> 5043 Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.

Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.

Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.

The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.

For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition
]]> 976 Ken Follett 045122213X Folke 2 stopped-reading 4.34 1989 The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Huntress (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #7)]]> 7882883
Tom, Alice and the Spook flee across the ocean to the island of Mona. It's on Mona that this small band fighting against the dark will face an old enemy grown terrifyingly powerful. Will they be able to vanquish an evil that crawls beneath the ground itself? At what cost?

Will Tom and the Spook ever be able to return home?]]> 436 Joseph Delaney 0061715107 Folke 0 currently-reading 4.19 2010 Rise of the Huntress (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spook's Mistake (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #5)]]> 2330711
But when the Fiend sends his own daughter, the ancient powerful water witch Morwena, to destroy Tom, Arkwright makes an error of judgement and Tom finds himself facing his enemies alone. The Spook and Alice realising his danger, hasten to his aid but will even their combined strengths suffice in the face of such terrible dark power? And what is the Spook's mistake, the consequences of which might give final victory to the dark?]]> 480 Joseph Delaney 0370329317 Folke 4 4.22 2008 The Spook's Mistake (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spook's Sacrifice (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #6)]]> 6097180
Mam has summoned a powerful group to her side but among them are Tom's old enemy, the Pendle witches, including the assassin Grimalkin, and the cunning clan leader Mab Moldheel. Can Tom go against all the Spook has taught him and ally himself to the witches? What is the secret that Mam is keeping from him? And what sacrifices must be made in the battle against the dark?]]> 384 Joseph Delaney 0370329325 Folke 4 4.22 2008 The Spook's Sacrifice (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)]]> 20499240
Travelling west with Beverley Brook, Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods. And what's more all the shops are closed by 4pm ...]]> 377 Ben Aaronovitch 0575132507 Folke 0 currently-reading 4.16 2014 Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #4)]]> 1395209 "I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."

Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world. The witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil.

Tom and the Spook set out to stop the witches before they unleash the demon. But when Tom finds himself on his own, he wonders if he has the courage and cunning to defeat the most powerful enemy he has ever encountered.]]> 546 Joseph Delaney 0060891270 Folke 4 4.21 2007 Attack of the Fiend (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Night of the Soul Stealer (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #3)]]> 298568 489 Joseph Delaney 0060766247 Folke 4 4.15 2007 Night of the Soul Stealer (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #2)]]> 256598 480 Joseph Delaney 0060766212 Folke 4 4.14 2005 Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spook's Apprentice (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #1)]]> 33956 325 Joseph Delaney 0099456451 Folke 4 4.07 2004 The Spook's Apprentice (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #1)
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[Dawn's Early Light (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #3)]]> 17997491 Working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, one sees innumerable technological wonders. But even veteran agents Braun and Books are unprepared for what the electrifying future holds�

After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. But what starts as a simple mission in the States—intended to keep them out of trouble—suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen.

Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. Between the fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of MoPO consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they ever have been in before�

]]> 384 Pip Ballantine 1101621451 Folke 1 4.03 2014 Dawn's Early Light (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #3)
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name: Folke
average rating: 4.03
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It took me multiple months to read this hell of a mess of a book, while the first two took me about a day or two. Still, I'm looking forward to the next in the series.
]]> <![CDATA[Long Tunnel (Homanx-Zyklus, #6)]]> 17235653 Flinx and his amazing minidrag Pip were always finding themselves in the middle of danger and galactic intrigue, so when they found an unconscious young woman on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin, Flinx wasn't surprised. Nor was he shocked to learn that the woman, Clarity Held, was a brilliant scientist, abducted from a remote outpost on inhospitable Longtunnel by a group of fanatic assassins.

Flinx could see no harm in returning Clarity to her base before continuing on his way, but he was tired of solving other people's problems. He had his own life to get back to. So he was unprepared for the emotional effect the beautiful Clarity had on him.

But while Flinx fought to deal with his unexpected dilemma, the assassins were still at work. They would do anything to stop the research on Longtunnel and would kill anyone or anything that got in their way...]]> 0 Alan Dean Foster 3453039246 Folke 4 3.62 1988 Long Tunnel (Homanx-Zyklus, #6)
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> Shutter Island 6790387
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears...

Filled with his trademark grit, insight, and pathos, "Shutter Island" is vintage Dennis Lehane. Now adapted for the first time as a graphic novel by internationally renowned artist Christian De Metter, this riveting story brilliantly captures our capacity for depravity and deliverance.]]> 128 Christian De Metter 0061968579 Folke 4 4.30 2008 Shutter Island
author: Christian De Metter
name: Folke
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> Shutter Island 21686 369 Dennis Lehane 038073186X Folke 4 4.12 2003 Shutter Island
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Folke
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> Cyber Way 171506 307 Alan Dean Foster 0441132456 Folke 4 3.56 1990 Cyber Way
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> To the Vanishing Point 939643 267 Alan Dean Foster 0446513385 Folke 4 3.76 1988 To the Vanishing Point
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Cachalot (Humanx Commonwealth, #8)]]> 939564 219 Alan Dean Foster 0345280660 Folke 4 3.67 1980 Cachalot (Humanx Commonwealth, #8)
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[For Love of Mother-Not (Pip & Flinx, #5)]]> 218661 From bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, an exciting early Pip and Flinx novel that shows the origins of a certain boy with special powers--and the mini-dragon that becomes his devoted sidekick. . . .

Flinx was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.

For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew--even let him keep the deadly flying dragon he called Pip. But when Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappears, Flinx tails her kidnappers on a dangerous journey. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons are Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual talent.]]> 256 Alan Dean Foster 0345346890 Folke 5 3.99 1983 For Love of Mother-Not (Pip & Flinx, #5)
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The End of the Matter (Pip & Flinx, #4)]]> 939592
There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx's mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx didn't know what real trouble was until he realized that the Qwarm -- a deadly assassin squad -- were three steps behind him with a contract to kill.

But the minidrag's homeworld did not offer safety and Flinx had a terrible time just staying alive ... a matter complicated to no mean degree by a collapsar already set on an unstoppable death course across the galaxy!]]> 246 Alan Dean Foster 0345334655 Folke 5 3.92 1977 The End of the Matter (Pip & Flinx, #4)
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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]]> Orphan Star (Pip & Flinx, #3) 507932
It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx never knew the mom and dad who abandoned him years ago. In fact, his birth has always been shrouded in mystery. But Flinx eventually discovers that his unknown parents have left him a curious legacy–extraordinary mental powers that are both a marvelous gift and a dreaded curse.

This double-edged legacy will lead Flinx, along with his loyal protector, the mini-dragon Pip, on a harrowing journey in search of the truth . . . about who he is and where he comes from. It is a daring adventure that brings him to another world–and into the clutches of one of the most evil and powerful men in the galaxy. . . .]]> 240 Alan Dean Foster 0345324498 Folke 5 3.98 1977 Orphan Star (Pip & Flinx, #3)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1977
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]]> Bloodhype (Pip & Flinx, #2) 126499 It was a killer!

Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that's what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was back in circulation on Repler and threatening to wreak havoc throughout the known galaxy.

Someone, somewhere was secretly manufacturing Bloodhype, but nobody seemed to know where or who!

]]> 249 Alan Dean Foster 0345310217 Folke 5 3.81 1973 Bloodhype (Pip & Flinx, #2)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1973
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tar-Aiym Krang (Pip & Flinx, #1)]]> 163653
Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip. With his odd talents, the pickings were easy enough so that Flinx did not have to be dishonest ... most of the time.

In fact, it hardly seemed dishonest at all to steal a starmap from a dead body that didn't really need it anymore. But Flinx wasn't quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the body was dead in the first place...]]> 251 Alan Dean Foster 0345908570 Folke 5 4.01 1972 The Tar-Aiym Krang (Pip & Flinx, #1)
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Folke
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1972
rating: 5
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]]> All Men Are Mortal 152057 352 Simone de Beauvoir 0393308456 Folke 5 4.18 1946 All Men Are Mortal
author: Simone de Beauvoir
name: Folke
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1946
rating: 5
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]]> The Mandarins 19528 The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.

The Mandarins won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.]]> 752 Simone de Beauvoir 0007203942 Folke 3 4.18 1954 The Mandarins
author: Simone de Beauvoir
name: Folke
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1954
rating: 3
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]]> Arab Jazz 18222155
Μόνο Îż Αχμέντ ΤαĎουντάν ζει κάπου παĎάμεĎα. ΦυλακιĎμένος Ďτην Ď€ĎÎżĎωπική του ÎąĎĎ„ÎżĎία, ονειĎοπόλος, μανιώδης αναγνώĎτης αĎτυνομικών... Αίφνης, ανακαλύπτει Ď„Îż πτώμα της ΛοĎά, γειτόνιĎĎας και φίλης του, κατακĎεουĎγημένο, να ÎşĎέμεται πάνω από Ď„Îż μπαλκόνι του. Καταλαβαίνει αμέĎως ĎŚĎ„Îą Îż ίδιος αποτελεί τον ιδανικό ύποπτο. Η φĎίκη αυτή τον ξυπνάει από Ď„Îż λήθαĎγό του και αποφαĎίζει να ĎυνεĎγαĎτεί με τους δύο αĎτυνόμους που έχουν αναλάβει την υπόθεĎη: τη φλογεĎή ΡαĎέλ ΚουπφεĎĎτάιν και τον Ζαν Αμλό, από τη Î’Ďετάνη. Η αναζήτηĎη είναι πυĎετώδης. Οι Ď„Ďεις τους όμως έχουν τα Ďτοιχεία που χĎειάζονται για να λυθεί Ď„Îż ÎĽĎ…ĎτήĎιο αυτού του θανάτου. Μήπως έχουμε να κάνουμε με Ď„Îż έγκλημα κάποιου θĎηĎκόληπτου, ΕβĎαίου ή μουĎουλμάνου; Τι Ď„Ďέχει με τον πατέĎα της ΛοĎά, τον ΜάĎĎ„Ď…Ďα του Ιεχωβά που η φήμη του έχει φτάĎει ĎŽĎ‚ τη Νέα ÎĄĎŚĎκη; Και Ď„Îą Ďόλο παίζει Ď„Îż Γκόντζγουιλ, Ď„Îż ĎŚÎĽÎżĎφο χαπάκι που διαĎχίζει πλέον τα ĎύνοĎα;

Το "Arab Jazz", ένα βιβλίο πλούĎιο, που ξεχειλίζει από ήχους, μουĎικές και αĎώματα, αποτίει φόĎÎż τιμής ĎĎ„Îż βιβλίο του James Ellroy "Λευκή τζαζ" (που κυκλοφοĎεί Ďτα ελληνικά από τις εκδόĎεις ΆγĎα).

Γεννημένος Ď„Îż 1964 ĎĎ„Îż Αμπιτζάν, από πατέĎα ΜαυĎιτανό και μητέĎα Γαλλίδα, Îż Karim Miske αĎχολείται εδώ και είκοĎÎą χĎόνια με Ď„Îż ντοκιμαντέĎ, καλύπτοντας ευĎĎŤ θεματικό φάĎμα: από τους ĎύγχĎονους φονταμενταλιĎμούς -τον εβĎαϊκό, τον μουĎουλμανικό, τον χĎÎąĎτιανικό-, μέχĎÎą τα Ď€Ďοβλήματα ακοής και τη βιοηθική.

Το "Arab Jazz", Ď€ĎĎŽĎ„Îż του μυθιĎĎ„ĎŚĎημα, τιμήθηκε με Ď„Îż Μεγάλο Î’Ďαβείο ΑĎτυνομικής Λογοτεχνίας 2012.]]> 340 Karim MiskĂ© 9604353632 Folke 3 3.43 2012 Arab Jazz
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average rating: 3.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)]]> 13928
But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift—by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.

When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...]]> 554 Juliet Marillier Folke 0 currently-reading 4.27 1999 Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[The Deed of Paksenarrion (The Deed of Paksenarrion, #1-3)]]> 96281 The Deed of Paksenarrion revolves around the life of Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter, known as Paks. It takes place in a fictional medieval world comprised of kingdoms of humans, dwarves, and elves. The story begins by introducing Paks as a headstrong girl of 18, who leaves her home (fleeing a marriage arranged by her father) to join a mercenary company. Through her journeys and hardships she comes to realize that she has been gifted as a paladin. The novel was originally published in three volumes in 1988 and 1989 and as a single trade edition of that name in 1992. The three books included are The Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold.

From publisher Baen: "Paksenarrion, a simple sheepfarmer's daughter, yearns for a life of adventure and glory, such as was known to heroes in songs and story. At age seventeen she runs away from home to join a mercenary company and begins her epic life . . . Book One: Paks is trained as a mercenary, blooded, and introduced to the life of a soldier . . . and to the followers of Gird, the soldier's god. Book Two: Paks leaves the Duke's company to follow the path of Gird alone—and on her lonely quests encounters the other sentient races of her world. Book Three: Paks the warrior must learn to live with Paks the human. She undertakes a holy quest for a lost elven prince that brings the gods' wrath down on her and tests her very limits."]]> 1040 Elizabeth Moon 0671721046 Folke 1 stopped-reading I find this especially abhorrent, as the peer group the author tries to reach with this book are teenagers, pretty much easily influenced by such a "romantic" view of the military world, that they would actually do it.

Needless to say, I didn't finish the book.

]]> 4.31 1992 The Deed of Paksenarrion (The Deed of Paksenarrion, #1-3)
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After reading a few hundred pages of this book and reading some biographic notes about Mrs. Moon, I somehow realized that the personal background of the author was not only an inspiration to write a (fantasy) novel about a women joining the military but that her intention was to inspire us (the readers) to do the same and join up with Uncle Sam.
I find this especially abhorrent, as the peer group the author tries to reach with this book are teenagers, pretty much easily influenced by such a "romantic" view of the military world, that they would actually do it.

Needless to say, I didn't finish the book.


]]> <![CDATA[Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, #1)]]> 96278
And so her adventure begins... the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restore a lost ruler to his throne.

Here is her tale as she lived it.

Paks is trained as a mercenary, blooded, and introduced to the life of a soldier . . . and to the followers of Gird, the soldier's god.]]> 512 Elizabeth Moon 0671319647 Folke 1 stopped-reading I find this especially abhorrent, as the peer group the author tries to reach with this book are teenagers, pretty much easily influenced by such a "romantic" view of the military world, that they would actually do it.

Needless to say, I didn't finish the book.

]]> 4.14 1988 Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion, #1)
author: Elizabeth Moon
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average rating: 4.14
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rating: 1
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After reading a few hundred pages of this book and reading some biographic notes about Mrs. Moon, I somehow realized that the personal background of the author was not only an inspiration to write a (fantasy) novel about a women joining the military but that her intention was to inspire us (the readers) to do the same and join up with Uncle Sam.
I find this especially abhorrent, as the peer group the author tries to reach with this book are teenagers, pretty much easily influenced by such a "romantic" view of the military world, that they would actually do it.

Needless to say, I didn't finish the book.


]]> <![CDATA[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]> 766869 288 Edgar Allan Poe 0140437487 Folke 0 3.47 1838 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
author: Edgar Allan Poe
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average rating: 3.47
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]]> At the Mountains of Madness 32767 At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.

This Definitive Edition of At the Mountains of Madness (The Modern Library) also includes Lovecraft's long essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature."]]> 194 H.P. Lovecraft 0812974417 Folke 5 3.85 1931 At the Mountains of Madness
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.85
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Folke 5 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sun Over Breda (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #3)]]> 66842 274 Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte 0399153837 Folke 3 3.82 1998 The Sun Over Breda (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #3)
author: Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte
name: Folke
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Purity of Blood (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #2)]]> 11022 The second swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series Captain Alatriste, Madrid’s most charismatic swashbuckler, returns in Perez-Reverte’s acclaimed international bestseller. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood� and is, in fact, of Jewish descent—which will all but destroy the family name. As Alatriste struggles to save the young hostage from being burned at the stake, he soon finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the heart of the Spanish Inquisition. A literary thriller that delivers adventure and rich historical detail, Purity of Blood captivates to the final page.

]]> 268 Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte 0452287987 Folke 4 3.79 1997 Purity of Blood (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #2)
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rating: 4
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]]> The Fencing Master 54072 The Fencing Master is superb literature and a true page-turner.]]> 244 Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte 0156029839 Folke 4 3.79 1988 The Fencing Master
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[Captain Alatriste (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #1)]]> 90411 253 Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte 0452287111 Folke 4 3.77 1996 Captain Alatriste (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #1)
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average rating: 3.77
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rating: 4
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]]> The Club Dumas 7194 362 Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte 015603283X Folke 5 3.83 1993 The Club Dumas
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average rating: 3.83
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)]]> 11313 274 Susan Cooper 0689840330 Folke 5 4.15 1977 Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Grey King (The Dark is Rising, #4)]]> 222576
With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries.

But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and he is left only with a broken riddle to guide him in his task. As Will travels blindly through the hills, his journey will bring him face-to-face with the most powerful Lord of the Dark - the Grey King. The King holds the harp and Sleepers within his lands, and there has yet to be a force strong enough to tear them from his grasp...]]> 165 Susan Cooper 1416949674 Folke 5 4.16 1975 The Grey King (The Dark is Rising, #4)
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1975
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)]]> 24963 147 Susan Cooper 0689840349 Folke 5 4.00 1974 Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)]]> 587311 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

On Midwinter Day and his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers he is the last of immortal Old Ones dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. He must find six magical Signs for the final battle.]]> 244 Susan Cooper 0689710879 Folke 5 4.12 1973 The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
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average rating: 4.12
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)]]> 11312 196 Susan Cooper 068987121X Folke 5 3.86 1965 Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5)]]> 11306 1148 Susan Cooper 0020425651 Folke 5 4.29 1984 The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5)
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name: Folke
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Folke 5 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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average rating: 4.57
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]]> <![CDATA[The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)]]> 4912857
The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows � my new windows � each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen�

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.

Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed � a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.

Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.
(jacket)]]> 531 Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn 0385528701 Folke 5 3.94 2008 The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn Folke 5 4.26 2001 The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
author: Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn
name: Folke
average rating: 4.26
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)]]> 9970042 here

In Tufnell Park, North London, a set of railway tracks run under a school playground, leading to and from King's Cross. Wet, filthy, dangerous. Lovely place. And one Sunday before Christmas, Abigail Kamara, one of my endless brood of cousins, dragged me and my long-suffering colleague Lesley May down there to look for a ghost.

We found one.

And that was that, I thought come Monday. First case of the day: Person Unknown has been stabbed to death on the tracks at Baker Street Underground. Magic may have been involved. Sure enough, the weapon turns out to be saturated in the tell-tale traces left by magic.

But Person Unknown turns out to be the son of a US senator, so before you can say "international incident", FBI agent Kimberley Reynolds and her firmly held religious beliefs are on my case.

And down in the dark, in the Tube tunnels of London, along with the buried rivers and remnants of Victorian sewer systems, I'm hearing some really strange things...]]> 303 Ben Aaronovitch 0345524616 Folke 4 4.14 2012 Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Folke
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)]]> 8680418 Body and Soul. The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body - a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural.

Body and soul - they're also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace - one that leads right to his own doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard "Lord" Grant - otherwise known as Peter's dear old dad.]]> 289 Ben Aaronovitch 0345524594 Folke 4 4.09 2011 Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Folke
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Broken Homes (Peter Grant, #4)]]> 18210706
Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his case-load.

So far so London.

But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on an housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate.

Is there a connection?

And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River?

Full of warmth, sly humour and a rich cornucopia of things you never knew about London, Aaronovitch's series has swiftly added Grant's magical London to Rebus' Edinburgh and Morse's Oxford as a destination of choice for those who love their crime with something a little extra.]]> 324 Ben Aaronovitch 0756409608 Folke 4 4.13 2013 Broken Homes (Peter Grant, #4)
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name: Folke
average rating: 4.13
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)]]> 8680417
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780345524256]]> 310 Ben Aaronovitch Folke 4 3.88 2011 Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Folke
average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 Folke 5 4.66 2010 The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Folke
average rating: 4.66
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) 518848
With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen series, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.]]> 491 Garth Nix 0064471837 Folke 0 currently-reading 4.17 1995 Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
author: Garth Nix
name: Folke
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> Tatiana (Arkady Renko, #8) 17571617
The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War “secret city� and home of the Baltic Fleet, separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. Arkady delves into Tatiana’s past and a surreal world of wandering dunes and amber mines. His only link is a notebook written in the personal code of a translator whose body is found in the dunes. Arkady’s only hope of decoding the symbols lies in Zhenya, a teenage chess hustler.]]> 292 Martin Cruz Smith 1439140219 Folke 0 currently-reading 3.64 2013 Tatiana (Arkady Renko, #8)
author: Martin Cruz Smith
name: Folke
average rating: 3.64
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]]> Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) 778285 384 Martin Cruz Smith 0345367650 Folke 4 3.96 1989 Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)
author: Martin Cruz Smith
name: Folke
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)]]> 11543195 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.]]> 1088 Brandon Sanderson 0575097396 Folke 5 4.77 2014 Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #1)]]> 9795166 402 Pip Ballantine 0062049763 Folke 5 3.69 2011 Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #1)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[The Janus Affair (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #2)]]> 13085609 416 Pip Ballantine 006204978X Folke 5 4.05 2012 The Janus Affair (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #2)
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name: Folke
average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)]]> 13497 Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.

Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.

The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.

Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.]]> 1060 George R.R. Martin 055358202X Folke 3 4.16 2005 A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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name: Folke
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)]]> 13499
A Storm of Swords

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world....

But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . .


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 0 George R.R. Martin 0739308726 Folke 5 4.42 2000 A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)]]> 10572
It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.]]> 1009 George R.R. Martin 0553381695 Folke 4 4.42 1998 A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> <![CDATA[The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)]]> 10803121
Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.

After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.]]> 325 Brandon Sanderson 0765330423 Folke 2 4.20 2011 The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)
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name: Folke
average rating: 4.20
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)]]> 6218281
For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”]]> 374 Alan Bradley 0385342306 Folke 4 3.81 2009 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1)]]> 706011
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones and captures her heart in the process. In a city fueled by illicit drugs and infinite corruption, prostitution and priceless art, Sonchai’s quest for vengeance takes him into a world much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.]]> 317 John Burdett 1400032903 Folke 4 3.74 2003 Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.74
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Bangkok Tattoo (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #2)]]> 54681 320 John Burdett 1400032911 Folke 4 3.79 2005 Bangkok Tattoo (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #2)
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name: Folke
average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[Bangkok Haunts (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #3)]]> 226963
Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok’s District 8, but nothing like the video he’s just been sent “Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now.�

He’s watching a snuff film. And the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damrong—a woman he once loved obsessively and, now it becomes clear, endlessly. And there is something something at the end of the film that leaves Sonchai both figuratively and literally haunted.

While his investigation will lead him through the office of the ever-scheming police captain, Vikorn (“Don’t spoil a great case with too much perfectionism,� he advises Sonchai); in and out of the influence of a perhaps psychotic wandering monk; and eventually into the gilded rooms of the most exclusive men’s club in Bangkok (whose members will do anything to protect their identities, and to explore their most secret fantasies), it also leads him to his own simple bedroom where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his dreams deliver him up to Damrong . . .

Ferociously smart and funny, furiously fast-paced, and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts does exactly that from first page to last.]]> 305 John Burdett 0307263185 Folke 4 3.75 2007 Bangkok Haunts (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Vices of My Blood (Detective Murdoch, #6)]]> 902846
In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto’s east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him, especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected in the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse.

But now Howard is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office. His watch and boots are missing. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance?

Murdoch’s investigation takes him into the arcane Victorian world of queer plungers � men who fake injury all the better to beg � and the destitute who had nowhere left to turn when they knocked on the Reverend Howard’s door.]]> 376 Maureen Jennings 0771043767 Folke 3 3.94 2006 Vices of My Blood (Detective Murdoch, #6)
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average rating: 3.94
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[A Journeyman to Grief (Detective Murdoch, #7)]]> 1047321
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to solve. The owner of one of Toronto’s livery stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and left hanging from his wrists in his tack room, and his wife claims that a considerable sum of money has been stolen. Then a second man is also murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a rebellious slave. Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto’s small “coloured� community has a vicious murderer in its midst � an investigation that puts his own life in danger.

Maureen Jennings’s trademark in her popular and acclaimed Detective Murdoch series is to reveal a long-forgotten facet about life in the city that dispels any notion that it really ever was “Toronto the Good.� As well, in A Journeyman to Grief, an exceptionally well plotted and engrossing story, she shows just how a great harm committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.]]> 343 Maureen Jennings 0771043384 Folke 4 4.00 2007 A Journeyman to Grief (Detective Murdoch, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Night's Child (Detective Murdoch, #5)]]> 902845
Night’s Child is the fifth novel in Maureen Jennings’s highly praised historical mystery series. Three of Jennings’s novels have been made into TV movies under the title Murder 19C: The Murdoch Mysteries. Bravo/CHUM is currently developing a series based on the character of Detective William Murdoch for broadcast in 2007.]]> 384 Maureen Jennings 077109552X Folke 3 3.88 2005 Night's Child (Detective Murdoch, #5)
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 13496
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 835 George R.R. Martin 0553588486 Folke 4 4.44 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[Let Loose the Dogs (Detective Murdoch, #4)]]> 1521693 Book by Maureen Jennings 442 Maureen Jennings 0771043961 Folke 4 3.84 2003 Let Loose the Dogs (Detective Murdoch, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Under the Dragon's Tail (Detective Murdoch, #2)]]> 1521691 304 Maureen Jennings 0771043996 Folke 3 3.77 1998 Under the Dragon's Tail (Detective Murdoch, #2)
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average rating: 3.77
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Except the Dying (Detective Murdoch, #1)]]> 1521690 344 Maureen Jennings 077104397X Folke 3 3.63 1997 Except the Dying (Detective Murdoch, #1)
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average rating: 3.63
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Poor Tom Is Cold (Detective Murdoch, #3)]]> 1521692 278 Maureen Jennings 0312268920 Folke 3 3.75 2001 Poor Tom Is Cold (Detective Murdoch, #3)
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)]]> 862041
All seven eBooks in the multi-award winning, internationally bestselling Harry Potter series, available as one download with stunning cover art by Olly Moss. Enjoy the stories that have captured the imagination of millions worldwide.]]> 4100 J.K. Rowling 0545044251 Folke 5 4.72 2007 Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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average rating: 4.72
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)]]> 2
Harry has had enough. He is beginning to think he must do something, anything, to change his situation, when the summer holidays come to an end in a very dramatic fashion. What Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down...]]> 912 J.K. Rowling Folke 5 4.50 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)]]> 15881
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls� bathroom. But then the real trouble begins � someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects� Harry Potter himself!]]> 352 J.K. Rowling Folke 5 4.42 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)]]> 6 734 J.K. Rowling 0439139597 Folke 5 4.56 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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average rating: 4.56
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Folke 5 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)]]> 5 435 J.K. Rowling 043965548X Folke 5 4.57 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Folke 5 4.47 1997 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings]]> 30
19 CDs. 17 hrs 30 mins.]]> 1728 J.R.R. Tolkien 0345538374 Folke 5 4.61 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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