en-US Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:49:58 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 201335493 Customers want you to magically produce something from the back room. Bosses schedule you on your day off. Corporate policies are mandated that make zero practical sense. Sound familiar?

If you've ever worked in customer service (or any job, really), you know that everyone else—the customer, the boss, the company—is always right, and never the employee. Well, lucky for you, the "Angry Retail Guy" is more furious—and funnier—than ever in this hilariously unhinged guide to all the things we wish we could say out loud at work...without getting fired. InĚýThe Customer Is Always Wrong, you'll laugh (and maybe cry) at this rant-filled, illustrated attack on all the frustrating things that suck about work.

Expanding on the ire-filled, laugh-out-loud viral videos that have made him a (whispered) workplace name, Scott Seiss joyfully eviscerates not only overbearing customers but every annoying aspect of work like purposeless job interview questions, debatable brand values, and the walking human train wrecks that are our bosses. Scott guides you all the way from first applying to the job, to inevitably gritting your teeth and smiling on your last day when that one manager you despise says, “Come back and visit us!”]]> 208 Scott Seiss 1400247268 Candace 0 to-read 4.08 2024
author: Scott Seiss
name: Candace
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 0
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]]> 216524168 The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series!

When Dorothy’s obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf–themed wedding Rose is hosting.

Things are heating up, and not just because of Blanche’s hot flashes. Rose’s cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host. If she can't balance the groom’s family’s snobbery against the traditional St. Olaf wedding week guidelines, her hometown may never accept her cousin again!

Dorothy quickly realizes she needs a date with whom she can exchange wedding-related wisecracks. Turning to a newfangled VHS dating service, she believes she’s found the ideal conversationalist. Unfortunately, what looks good on TV can actually be a total jerk in real life. It seems she’ll just have to enjoy the company of Sophia, Blanche, and whomever Blanche has targeted for a hookup.

As the Girls all pitch in, Rose is thrilled that the tea-and-fish-themed kickoff event is perfect, not a herring out of place. That is until Dorothy’s date is found dead—face-planted in an otherwise scrumptious-looking cheesecake. With every guest a suspect (especially Dorothy) and a marriage on the line, the four besties must ID the real killer, get the should-be-happy couple down the aisle, and make sure nobody from St. Olaf gets lost in the wilds of Miami. It’s up to the Golden Girls to sleuth out a way for friendship and love to win the day!]]> 336 Rachel Ekstrom Courage 1368102980 Candace 0 to-read 3.72 2025
author: Rachel Ekstrom Courage
name: Candace
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 216246650 The explosive, satisfying conclusion to the Chaotic Orbits novella trilogy sees Ada and Rian breaking into a high-security facility to give Earth a fighting chance at survival

Sexy, fast, fun and funny, this happily-ever-after ending is perfect for fans of the Murderbot novels and the Wayfairers series

After a few weeks trapped on board a spaceship with Ada (and, oh look, there’s only one bed), Rian has to admit that maybe Ada’s rebels have a point. The nanobots poised to be unleashed on Earth are infected with malware that will ultimately leave the residents of Earth in a worse position than they’re in now. But is it too late?

Ada and Rian arrive on Earth with little time to spare. Together, they have to break into a high-security facility and infect the nanobots with a counter-virus before they’re released in order to give Earth a fighting chance. And if Ada happens to notice some great tech laying around in this high-security facility she shouldn’t have access to and then happens to steal a bunch of it when Rian’s not looking? Well, he knew who she was before he teamed up with her. And if he wants it back, he’s going to have to catch her first.Ěý

With countless twists and turns, this enemies-to-lovers slow-burn and high-tension romance plays on a Sherlock and Moriarity character dynamic rooted in science fiction with a heavy romance and mystery angle.]]> 133 Beth Revis 0756419719 Candace 0 4.00 2025
author: Beth Revis
name: Candace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 34501
No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty.

Tiffany Aching does. And there’s something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can’t die.

To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch . . .]]> 352 Terry Pratchett 055255264X Candace 4 2025, fantasy 4.31 2004
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/11
shelves: 2025, fantasy
review:

]]> 54835036
Spoiler Warning for Changes and Skin Game. Takes place in the month before Peace Talks, but does not require any knowledge of that book.]]> 6 Jim Butcher Candace 3 3.90 2020
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/10
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: 2025, animal-companions, urban-paranormal
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]]> 140098
"Clever...entertaining... excellent"( Library Journal ) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.

From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite bloodsucking subculture by a baker's dozen of favorite authors. Each of these thirteen original stories offers a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure paranormal fans will never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again.]]> 355 Charlaine Harris 0441015220 Candace 3 3.76 2007
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Candace
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 84156
An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that question in this delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories. What's the seating plan when rival clans of werewolves and vampires meet under the same roof? How can a couple in the throes of love overcome traps set by feuding relatives---who are experts at voodoo? Will you have a good marriage if your high-seas wedding is held on a cursed ship? How do you deal with a wedding singer who's just a little too good at impersonating Elvis? Shape-shifters, wizards, and magic, oh my!

"The Wedding of Wylda Serene" / Esther Friesner
"All Shook Up" /P.N. Elrod
"Tacky" / Charlaine Harris
"A Hard Day's Night-Searcher" / Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Something Borrowed" / Jim Butcher
"Spellbound" / L.A. Banks
"Dead Man's Chest" / Rachel Caine
"Charmed by the Moon" / Lori Handeland
"...Or Forever Hold Your Peace" / Susan Krinard]]> 310 P.N. Elrod 0312343604 Candace 3 3.80 2006
author: P.N. Elrod
name: Candace
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 32919692 Tales of the Weird Wild West.Top authors take on the classic western, with a weird twist. Includes new stories by Larry Correia and Jim Butcher!
Come visit the Old West, the land where gang initiations, ride-by shootings and territory disputes got their start. But these tales aren't the ones your grandpappy spun around a campfire, unless he spoke of soul-sucking ghosts, steam-powered demons, and wayward aliens.
Here then are seventeen stories that breathe new life in the Old West. Among them: Larry Correia explores the roots of his best-selling Monster Hunter International series in "Bubba Shackleford's Professional Monster Killers." Jim Butcher reveals the origin of one of the Dresden Files' most popular characters in "A Fistful of Warlocks." And Kevin J. Anderson's Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., finds himself in a showdown in "High Midnight." Plus stories from Alan Dean Foster, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael A. Stackpole, and many more.
This is a new Old West and you ll be lucky to get outta town alive!
Contributors:
David Boop
Larry Correia
Jody Lynn Nye
Sam Knight
Robert E. Vardeman
Phil Foglio
Nicole Kurtz
Michael A. Stackpole
Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Ken Scholes
Maurice Broaddus
Sarah A. Hoyt
Alan Dean Foster
David Lee Summers
Kevin J. Anderson
Naomi Brett Rourke
Julie Campbell
Peter J. Wacks
Jim Butcher"]]> 259 David Boop 1481482696 Candace 0 3.87 2017
author: David Boop
name: Candace
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 228178773 40 Jim Butcher Candace 5 4.17
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.17
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]]> 60653694 From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set after Battle Ground, that thrusts Chicago’s only professional Wizard, Harry Dresden, back into battle–both a legal one� and the kind with explosions.

Not every danger comes in the form of a mega-threat like a Titan. Some predators are a lot cozier... more personal.

When one such creature threatens an independent tutor, Harry Dresden must shake off the blood and dirt of his most recent battles and rise to the occasion, even when it turns out that the new predator is far more dangerous and connected than first appearances would suggest.]]> 102 Jim Butcher Candace 0 to-read 4.40 2022
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 75451500 from Heroic Hearts anthology]]> 37 Jim Butcher Candace 0 to-read 4.14
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.14
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]]> 53342112 4 Jim Butcher Candace 3 2025, urban-paranormal 3.99 2020
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/10
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: 2025, urban-paranormal
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]]> 43360051 10 Jim Butcher Candace 4 4.36 2018
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/10
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: 2025, urban-paranormal, holidays, fairy-tales-myths, animal-companions
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]]> 56396335 6 Jim Butcher Candace 4 4.25 2020
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> 52317497 Concurrent with the end of Changes and contains RADIOACTIVE-LEVEL SPOILERS for Changes and Ghost Story.]]> 2 Jim Butcher Candace 5 2025, urban-paranormal 4.24 2020
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: 2025, urban-paranormal
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]]> 54569322 2 Jim Butcher Candace 4 2025, urban-paranormal 4.01 2020
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> 30272307
WILD CARD
An uneasy peace has settled over Chicago, where an array of supernatural factions frequently battle for supremacy. Thanks to the city's only Wizard for Hire, Harry Dresden, a plot targeting magical practitioners was stopped, and the White Court of Vampires' part in it exposed. 'Gentleman' Johnny Marcone, the town's most powerful and ruthless mob boss, was made a freeholding Baron under the Unseelie Accords, a set of decrees governing the actions of the magical world's major powers, in return for his help in ending the threat. Son after, Marcone once again aided Harry and his apprentice, Molly Carpenter, this time helping them take down a mad wizard bent on making Chicago his personal playground.

However, the gangster remains a dangerous criminal who, whatever his motivations, is wholly focused on cultivating his own power. The White Court, led by Lara Raith, is the dominant supernatural faction and sees the city's citizens as nothing more than a source of sustenance and pleasure.

Things are calm now, but tension between these rivals boils beneath the surface...


Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files saga continues in this original and in-continuity graphic novel, featuring a never-before-told story set after the bestselling novel White Night and graphic novel Down Town! A bizarre double murder draws the interest of Chicago's only wizard-for-hire. But as Harry Dresden begins his investigation, the clues lead to troubling conclusions about the possible perpetrator, and set him on a path that will place him in the middle of a conflict between the city's three most powerful factions -- a conflict that could engulf all of Chicago!

REVIEWS:
"If you re already a fan of Harry and his ragtag band of hooligans and ne'er-do-wells, this latest offering from the folks at Dynamite could very well be a great way to pass the time while you wait for the next book." - The Pullbox

"Every panel is exciting to read, and Carlos Gomez really knows his way around a pencil." - The Outhousers

"Dark, gritty, mysterious, and full of magic." - AIPT

"Great art and solid writing." - Critical Blast

"An interesting premise and well written characters." - Project Nerd

"Step into this tale and you will feel richly rewarded." - Big Comic Page

"Good amounts of levity and seriousness." - Bounding Into Comics]]> 152 Jim Butcher 1524100994 Candace 0 to-read 3.96 2016
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 209457782 A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis, the second in a novella trilogyAda had no intention whatsoever to continue working for the rebel group that hired her to retrieve the government’s plans for a nanobot climate cleaner if they weren’t willing to pay her for it, but then they offer a different an undercover mission to a charity gala where Rian will be in attendance. Rian, meanwhile, has volunteered his services for the gala believing that the rare items up for auction will attract Ada’s eye. Hoping to catch her in the act and pin her with a punishable crime, Rian has no idea that Ada’s real mission is to convince him to join the rebels. And the rebels have no idea that Ada’s decided that kidnapping Rian is the most efficient means to an end.How to Steal the Galaxy continues the sexy, rip-roaring good time that Beth Revis began in Full Speed to a Crash Landing, with the return of Ada, Rian, and all the tension, twists, and turns that made the first novella so much fun.]]> 182 Beth Revis 0756419484 Candace 4 3.88 2024
author: Beth Revis
name: Candace
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/01
date added: 2025/04/09
shelves: 2025, cons-and-pros, female-authors, kick-ass-heroine, scifi, sfr-ufr-pnr
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Another fun space-heist adventure. Ada continues to be an interesting anti-hero you definitely want to root for. The plot is engaging and the side characters are surprisingly decently fleshed out for such a novella - with the surprising exception of the Male MC: His motivations are established, and a bit of his personality, but not much in the way of backstory or depth. But honestly, I'm not mad about it: It's been done that way gender-flipped a million times. It's Ada's story, told by Ada and she's definitely the main attraction.
]]> 25807691
In the three novellas that make upĚýWorking For Bigfoot, collected together for the first time here, readers encounter Dresden at different points in his storied career, and in Irwin’s life. As a middle-schooler, in “BĚýIs for Bigfoot,â€� Irwin attracts the unwelcome attention of a pair of bullying brothers who are more than they seem, and when Harry steps in, it turns out they have a mystical guardian of their own. At a fancy private high school in “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot,â€� Harry is called in when Irwin grows ill for the first time, and it’s not just a case of mono. Finally, Irwin is all grown up and has a grown-up’s typical problems as a freshman in college in “Bigfoot on Campus,â€� or would have if typical included vampires.

New York TimesĚýbestseller Jim Butcher explores the responsibilities of fatherhood and the difficulties of growing up with the elements Dresden Files fans crave—detection, adventure, humor, and magic.]]> 136 Jim Butcher 1596067314 Candace 4 4.29 2014
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> 221584410 Short story for Unbound and included in Brief Cases. Set after Skin Game.]]> Jim Butcher Candace 4 urban-paranormal 4.12
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 4
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]]> 11277566 Harry and Murphy investigate a series of love spells with deadly consequences.
Takes place between Turn Coat and Changes.]]> 35 Jim Butcher Candace 4 urban-paranormal 4.15 2011
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> 2575572
Also in Side Jobs.]]> 70 Jim Butcher 1596061820 Candace 3 urban-paranormal 4.14 2008
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: urban-paranormal
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]]> 50357453 Storm Front was first published April 1st, 2000, which makes this year The Dresden Files� 20th anniversary! To honor that milestone and to thank the phenomenal fans who got us there, we will be posting “Dresden Drops� on jim-butcher. com every Tuesday this year. Dresden Drops will feature never-before-seen artwork, microfiction, interviews, sample chapters for Peace Talks, contests, and other tasty tidbits throughout 2020.

The first piece of microfiction, “Mike,� is set between White Night and Small Favor–shortly after the graphic novel Wild Card.
A visit to the mechanic.
Spoiler Level: LOW.]]> 1 Jim Butcher Candace 3 2025, funny, urban-paranormal 3.79 2020
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/08
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: 2025, funny, urban-paranormal
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]]> 4271488
(Also included in Side Jobs)]]> 3 Jim Butcher Candace 4 mystery, urban-paranormal 4.04 2008
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> 927979 THE New York Times Bestseller

Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down -- until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harry -- one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skills -- and loyalties -- to their very limits.]]> 423 Jim Butcher 0451461894 Candace 4 4.43 2008
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/08
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: 2011, urban-paranormal, 2025, fairy-tales-myths, mystery
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]]> 91475
Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes—a message for Harry Dresden.

Harry sets out to find the apparent serial killer, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to the one suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half-brother, Thomas. To clear his brother’s name, Harry rushes into a supernatural power struggle that renders him outnumbered, outclassed, and dangerously susceptible to temptation.

And Harry knows that if he screws this one up, people will die—and one of them will be his brother...]]> 407 Jim Butcher 0451461401 Candace 4 4.38 2007
author: Jim Butcher
name: Candace
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: 2011, urban-paranormal, suspense, mystery, 2025, animal-companions, fairy-tales-myths
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]]> 25545301 The long-awaited ninth book in the Demon series returns to the adventures of Kara Gillian and the supernatural threats that surround her

Kara’s drastic ceasefire deal with the formidable demon Imperator Dekkak slowed the attacks on Earth to a trickle, but her troubles are far from over. The god-like demahnk are desperate to return to their own kind, but unless they can stabilize the demon realm, they’ll be forever exiled—and they’ve subjugated Kara’s beloved Mzatal to further their hellacious cause. One faction of demonic lords and demahnk has a plan to fix their world, yet their salvation would come at the expense of Earth.

Meanwhile, Kara is wrestling with government bureaucracy, backstabbing allies, enemy lords, as well as the powerful young demonic lord Ashava, who’s packing the drama, angst, and rebellion of the terrible teen years into just a few months.

Kara’s in a race to stop an apocalypse, but in order to prevail she’ll have to make a terrible sacrifice or risk losing everything she holds dear.]]> 0 Diana Rowland Candace 3 4.11 2022
author: Diana Rowland
name: Candace
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/26
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: 2025, female-authors, kick-ass-heroine, urban-paranormal
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]]> 35018901 Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent’s head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are “threeps,� robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden’s Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it.

Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Is it an accident or murder? FBI Agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth―and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.]]> 335 John Scalzi 076538891X Candace 5 3.97 2018
author: John Scalzi
name: Candace
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: 2025, scifi, mystery, suspense
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]]> 8785374
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime, there must be a finding, there must be a chase, and there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.

But not quite all...]]> 378 Terry Pratchett Candace 5 2025, fantasy, funny 4.16 2011
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/02
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: 2025, fantasy, funny
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]]> 34494 Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.

"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."

"Why?" said Tiffany.

"There's no one to stop them."

There was silence for a moment.

Then Tiffany said, "There's me."

Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...

In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.]]> 375 Terry Pratchett 0060012382 Candace 4 4.29 2003
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/30
date added: 2025/03/30
shelves: 2025, fantasy, favorite-series, funny
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]]> 1622 298 William Shakespeare 0743477545 Candace 5 3.95 1595
author: William Shakespeare
name: Candace
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1595
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/29
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]]> 37526
The authoritative edition of Henry V from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:

-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

-Scene-by-scene plot summaries

-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases

-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language

-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books

-An annotated guide to further reading]]> 294 William Shakespeare 0743484878 Candace 4 3.84 1599
author: William Shakespeare
name: Candace
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1599
rating: 4
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]]> 1420 289 William Shakespeare 0521618746 Candace 5 4.02 1601
author: William Shakespeare
name: Candace
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1601
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/12
date added: 2025/03/29
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]]> 20806205 272 Max Allan Collins Candace 0 to-read 4.06 2003
author: Max Allan Collins
name: Candace
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/09
shelves: to-read
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]]> 214151727 From Alton Brown, the New York Times bestselling cookbook author and beloved culinary food personality, a debut collection of personal essays defined by his flair, wit, and insight.

From cameraman to chef, musician to food scientist, Alton Brown has had a diverse and remarkable career. His work on the Food Network, including creating Good Eats and hosting Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen, has resonated with countless viewers and home cooks. Now, he shares exactly what’s on his mind, mixing compelling anecdotes from his personal and professional life with in-depth observations on the culinary world, film, personal style, defining meals of his lifetime, and much more.

With his whip-smart and engaging voice, Brown explores everything from wrestling a dumpster full of dough to culinary cultural appropriation to his ultimate quest for the perfect roast chicken. Deliciously candid and full of behind-the-scenes stories fans will love, Food for Thought is the ultimate reading experience for anyone who appreciates food and the people that prepare it.]]> 304 Alton Brown 1668064219 Candace 0 to-read 4.24 2025
author: Alton Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 34524 Where's My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do. It is
the most loved and chewed book in the world.

But his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city.

So Sam Vimes starts adapting the story. A story with streets, not fields. A book with rogues and villains. A book about the place where he’ll grow up.]]> 32 Terry Pratchett 038560937X Candace 4 4.13 2005
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/04
date added: 2025/02/04
shelves: 2025, fantasy, funny, graphic-novel
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]]> 9528398 4 Terry Pratchett Candace 4 2025, fantasy, funny 3.80 1993
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/04
date added: 2025/02/04
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]]> 24582237 For a girl who is about to lose her family home,
Releases the ghost of a long-dead gangster,
And opens Verity Long’s eyes to a whole new world.

When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she’s saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick—she gains the ability see spirits. It leads to an offer she can’t refuse from the town’s bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with.

Ellis Wydell is in possession of a stunning historic property haunted by some of Sugarland Tennessee’s finest former citizens. Only some of them are growing restless—and destructive. He hires Verity to put an end to the disturbances. But soon, Verity learns there’s more to the mysterious estate than floating specters, secret passageways, and hidden rooms.

There’s a modern day mystery afoot, one that hinges on a decades-old murder. Verity isn't above questioning the living, or the dead. But can she discover the truth before the killer finds her?
]]> 320 Angie Fox 193966120X Candace 0 to-read 4.23 2015
author: Angie Fox
name: Candace
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 64216 376 Terry Pratchett 0061020648 Candace 0 favorite-series 4.33 1989
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> 62530
But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

Oh... and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read "Where's My Cow?," with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.

There are some things you HAVE to do!]]> 439 Terry Pratchett Candace 5 2025, fantasy, funny 4.34 2005
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Candace
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/30
date added: 2025/01/31
shelves: 2025, fantasy, funny
review:
Pratchett, like Shakespeare, explores and exposes the nature of humanity in relatable, entertaining stories. Sam Vimes is an imperfect man doing his best to bring some order to an imperfect world and we love him for his unwavering sense of right and wrong and duty and service. Thud is an exploration of dogma, prejudice, empathy and compassion as well as a drily hilarious romp filled with quirky characters and situations. Peak Pratchett.
]]> 33457 243 Christopher Moore 0060735422 Candace 3 2025, funny, urban-paranormal 3.84 1992
author: Christopher Moore
name: Candace
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1992
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/27
date added: 2025/01/27
shelves: 2025, funny, urban-paranormal
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]]> 123675190
Read the book that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere before the Disney+ series comes out!

Lately, mythological monsters and the Olympian gods seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy Jackson’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus.Ěý

Whether you are new to Percy or a longtime fan, this tie-in paperback edition with full-color photos from the Disney+ series is a must-have for your library.]]> 416 Rick Riordan 1368098169 Candace 4 4.37 2005
author: Rick Riordan
name: Candace
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/25
date added: 2025/01/25
shelves: 2025, fairy-tales-myths, fantasy, ya
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]]> 11077687
Ěý

More than just a high school drama,Ěý Veronica Mars Ěýis a smart and savvy teen detective showĚýthat offers complex mysteries and rapier wit, engaging social commentary, and noir sensibilities—with the occasional murder thrown in for good measure. This collection, edited by the creator and executive producer of the show, offers supreme insight into the class struggles and love stories of the series. Essays by top writersĚýintelligently address a multitude of questions, such asĚý Is Veronica a modern-day vigilante? Why is a show that features rape, potential incest, and a teen girl outsmarting local authorities so popular with America's conservative population?Ěý andĚý Why is Veronica and Logan's relationship the most important story-driving factor in the show?]]> 226 Rob Thomas Candace 3 2025, non-fiction 3.55 2007
author: Rob Thomas
name: Candace
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/24
date added: 2025/01/24
shelves: 2025, non-fiction
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]]> 13299211
Novella is after Magic Slays, same time as Andrea in Gunmetal Magic, both intersect.

Note: This novella can be found at the end of the Kindle edition of Gunmetal Magic.]]> 100 Ilona Andrews Candace 5 4.33 2011
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/23
date added: 2025/01/23
shelves: 2013, 2017, sfr-ufr-pnr, urban-paranormal, female-authors, kick-ass-heroine, scifi, 2025
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]]> 52891880 From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate and Curran's ward.

Atlanta was always a dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.

Eight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was. Now she’s back with a new face, a new magic, and a new name—Aurelia Ryder—drawn by the urgent need to protect the family she left behind. An ancient power is stalking her adopted mother, Kate Daniels, an enemy unlike any other, and a string of horrifying murders is its opening gambit.

If Aurelia’s true identity is discovered, those closest to her will die. So her plan is simple: get in, solve the murders, prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled, and get out without being recognized. She expected danger, but she never anticipated that the only man she’d ever loved could threaten everything.

One small misstep could lead to disaster. But for Aurelia, facing disaster is easy; it’s relationships that are hard.]]> 359 Ilona Andrews 1641971584 Candace 5 4.32 2021
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: 2023, female-authors, kick-ass-heroine, urban-paranormal, favorite-series, 2021, 2025
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]]> 35126152 No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy…But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work.

Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside. Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers who would follow him anywhere, are being hunted down and murdered, he must make a choice: to fade away or to be the leader he was born to be. Hugh knows he must carve a new place for himself and his people, but they have no money, no shelter, and no food, and the necromancers are coming. Fast.

Elara Harper is a creature who should not exist. Her enemies call her Abomination; her people call her White Lady. Tasked with their protection, she's trapped between the magical heavyweights about to collide and plunge the state of Kentucky into a war that humans have no power to stop. Desperate to shield her people and their simple way of life, she would accept help from the devil himself—and Hugh d’Ambray might qualify.

Hugh needs a base, Elara needs soldiers. Both are infamous for betraying their allies, so how can they create a believable alliance to meet the challenge of their enemies?

As the prophet says: “It is better to marry than to burn.�

Hugh and Elara may do both.
]]> 392 Ilona Andrews 1641970405 Candace 5 4.32 2018
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> 13120490
This is the story Jim tells Curran about Kate’s Daddy.]]> 3 Ilona Andrews Candace 4 4.33 2011
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/06/01
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> 13515995 18 Ilona Andrews Candace 5 4.41 2012
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2012/06/01
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]]> 203755407 Featured in Small Magics anthology]]> 8 Ilona Andrews Candace 5 4.25
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.25
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2012/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> 4345498
But when Kate’s werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet. As her investigation leads her to the Midnight Games � an invitation only, no holds barred, ultimate preternatural fighting tournament � she and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, uncover a dark plot that may forever alter the face of Atlanta’s shapeshifting community…]]> 310 Ilona Andrews 0441017029 Candace 5 4.42 2009
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Candace
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: 2009, 2014, sfr-ufr-pnr, 2023, female-authors, kick-ass-heroine, urban-paranormal, spicy, 2025
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]]> 207299449
While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There’s Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy. She’s also on the trail of Bruno Jug, a wealthy and connected man in the wholesale produce business who is rumored to traffic young girls alongside lettuce and tomatoes. Most terrifying of all is Zoran—a laundromat manager by day and self-proclaimed vampire by night with a taste for the blood of pretty girls. When he shows up on Stephanie’s doorstep, it’s not for the meatloaf dinner.

With timely assists from her stalwart supporters Lula, Connie, and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie uses every trick in the book to reel in these men. But only she can decide what to do about the two men she actually loves. She can’t hold Ranger and Morelli at bay for long, and she’s keeping a secret from them that is the biggest bombshell of all. Now or never, she’s got to make the decision of a lifetime.]]> 320 Janet Evanovich 1668003139 Candace 3 4.04 2024
author: Janet Evanovich
name: Candace
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/18
date added: 2025/01/18
shelves: 2025, female-authors, funny, kick-ass-heroine
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]]> 6707234
Harry's beloved and tart-tongued Aunt Tally is about to turn the big 1-0-0. The alumnae association of her alma mater sees an opportunity to honor the event and make some loot off the centennial as well. The plan is to hold a big fund-raiser in Aunt Tally's honor to recoup some of the school revenue lost in the cratered economy. But soon there's more at risk than investments and endowments.

First, an impending blizzard threatens to ruin the whole affair. Then a suspicious transaction is discovered in the association's account: board member Mariah D'Angelo has mysteriously withdrawn and then replaced $25,000.

But was that enough to get her killed? Mariah's car is on campus, she's gone missing, and Tucker has found human blood near the school's stables.

What's behind the disappearance? Was it Mariah's donations to crafty politicians and crooked charities? Her rivalry with fellow board member Flo Langston? And is there a connection to the forty-year-old unsolved death of an old acquaintance of Aunt Tally's? Using animal cunning and human canniness, Harry and her menagerie of mystery solvers must sniff out the answers or - even at a hundred years old - Aunt Talley may outlive them all.]]> 240 Rita Mae Brown 0553807072 Candace 3 3.65 2010
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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As Harry well knows, there’s hardly a place on earth cozier than Crozet, Virginia, at Christmastime. The snowflakes drifting lazily down, the soft glow of the winter light, the sound of old carols in the streets…even cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter get into the spirit batting ornaments and climbing the holiday tree. In fact, it’s this year’s tree that Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch when they find the one they’ve chosen grimly decorated with a dead body.

The tree farm is run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients. The brothers live in a monastery atop the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains. Harry is surprised to find an old high-school friend associated with The Brothers of Love. Christopher Hewitt wasn’t a bad man, but good works weren’t exactly one of his priorities. But then, if even Scrooge could turn over a new leaf, certainly Chris could. And after the scandal that all but destroyed his life, there were probably few in Crozet who needed the gift of a second chance more.

Harry knows she shouldn’t take it personally, but it was her tree that someone left the corpse under. Now, as the season grows merrier, a murderer is growing bolder. One by one, prominent men of Crozet are being crossed off Christmas shopping lists and added to the morgue. And if Harry and her four-legged helpers aren’t very good—and very careful—this Christmas may be her last.


]]> 240 Rita Mae Brown 0553807064 Candace 3 3.73 2008
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet, Virginia, and that means the town’s inhabitants are hard at work in home and garden preparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Manseng grapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fair and her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, who’s rented nearby Blair Farm, are flourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking.

Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted “come-here� set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She’s determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends—and enemies—and she’s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it.

From the start, the project—and Mrs. Paulson—turns into a major headache relieved only by a side trip to study Thomas Jefferson’s extraordinary summer home at Poplar Forest. Harry couldn’t foresee that a day later Mrs. Paulson would be found stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harry’s friend, Tazio Chappers, standing over her, holding the knife.

Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Every other human, that is. For her four-legged friends see it Harry’s way. But will they have to choose between catching the purrfect killer or saving Harry?]]> 247 Rita Mae Brown 0553803654 Candace 4 2008, animal-companions 3.82 2008
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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But soon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously–and murderously–off course. First, Joan’s ruby and sapphire horsehead heirloom pin is stolen from her private box at the fairgrounds. Next, a young film star’s prize three-gaited mare disappears into thin air. There is no lack of suspects, from hotheaded trainers and jealous rivals to vicious ex-spouses. Then a body is found flagrantly murdered and it’s obvious to Harry that someone at Shelbyville is sending a strong winning is only secondary–first prize is survival.

As Harry searches for clues, rediscovers life as a married woman, and deals with her upcoming fortieth birthday, her four-legged detective friends are already on the case. But is animal instinct any match for human depravity? Especially with two humans to protect and a killer on the prowl?]]> 272 Rita Mae Brown 0553803646 Candace 3 3.81 2007
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 129248
After an unexpected rekindling of their romance, Harry and her veterinarian ex-husband, Fair Haristeen, have happily remarried. But the excitement of their nuptials is quickly overshadowed by the murder of Professor Vincent Forland, a world-famous grape and fungal expert who was in town visiting the local vineyards.

Within days of giving a lecture on how distilled fungus and cattle diseases are the current basis of chemical warfare, Forland's decapitated body is discovered. After their initial fright, the residents of Crozet believe that this was a political murder and settle back into their routines until a local is also found dead, killed in the same gruesome manner as Professor Forland. Now residents can't help wondering, is this really the work of an outsider or one of their own?

No longer working in the post office, Harry had just planted a quarter acre of grapes, which fuels her natural curiosity over just what the two murder victims knew and had in common. Once the warmth of spring arrives, the grapevines blossom and Harry's furry entourage discovers the first critical clue. But how can they show the humans what they've learned? And how can they or anyone stop the killing?]]> 272 Rita Mae Brown 055380362X Candace 3 3.79 2006
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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With the holidays approaching, Mary Minor “Harry� Haristeen and her best friend, Susan Tucker, take a much-needed time-out at the mountain monastery of Mount Carmel. There, under the benevolent gaze of the statue of the Virgin Mary, their worldly worries are soon overshadowed. For in front of their very eyes the statue begins to cry tears of blood.

Legend has it that Mary’s crimson tears are harbingers of crises. And though skeptical, the ever-practical Harry can already see one on the horizon. If leaked, news of the so-called miracle could turn the monastery and the town of Crozet into a circus. What Harry doesn’t foresee is murder.�

When Susan’s great-uncle Thomas, a resident monk, is found frozen to death at the base of the statue, foul play is ruled out–at first. But at Harry’s urging, the body is exhumed for an autopsy. There’s just one problem: the coffin is empty. That’s when Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker get involved. Then there’s the shocking revelation of a mystery that has perplexed the citizens of Crozet for ages.

With Christmas around the corner and the monastery overrun by the faithful, all Harry’s meddling menagerie can do is stay on her trail as she jumps knee-deep into an unofficial investigation–one that becomes more dangerous when another Crozet citizen meets an untimely demise. In this case it will be a miracle if Harry stays alive....


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 319 Rita Mae Brown 0553582879 Candace 3 3.87 2005
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> 529907 297 Rita Mae Brown 0553801619 Candace 3 3.91 2004
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 129255 367 Rita Mae Brown 0553582852 Candace 3 3.90 2003
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.90
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rating: 3
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]]> 156664
As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her there’s more in the air than just pheromones. It begins with a case of stolen hubcaps and proceeds to the mysterious death of a dissolute young mechanic over a sobering cup of coffee. Then another death and a shooting lead to the discovery of a half-million crisp, clean dollar bills that look to be very dirty.

Now Harry is on the trail of a cold-blooded murderer. Mrs. Murphy already knows who it is--and who’s next in line. She also knows that Harry, curious as a cat, does not have nine lives. And the one she does have is hanging by the thinnest of threads.]]> 334 Rita Mae Brown 0553580280 Candace 3 3.92 2002
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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]]> 165355
Winter puts tiny Crozet, Virginia, in a deep freeze and everyone seems to be suffering from the winter blahs, including postmistress Mary Minor “Harry� Haristeen. So all are ripe for the juicy gossip coming out of Crozet Hospital–until the main source of that gossip turns up dead. It’s not like Harry to resist a mystery, and she soon finds the hospital a hotbed of ego, jealousy, and illicit love.

But it’s tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, roaming the netherworld of Crozet Hospital, who sniffs out a secret that dates back to the Underground Railroad. Then Harry is attacked and a doctor is executed in cold blood.

Soon only a quick-witted cat and her animal pals feline Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker stand between Harry and a coldly calculating killer with a prescription for murder.]]> 336 Rita Mae Brown 0553580906 Candace 3 3.94 2001
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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]]> 165343 368 Rita Mae Brown 0553580256 Candace 3 3.93 2000
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.93
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]]> 129252 an alternate cover edition can be found here

It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery.

Things have been pretty exciting lately in Crozet, Virginia—a little too exciting if you ask resident feline investigator Mrs. Murphy. Just as the town starts to buzz over its Civil War reenactment, a popular local man disappears. No one's seen Tommy Van Allen's single-engine plane, either—except for Mrs. Murphy, who spotted it during a foggy evening's mousing.

Even Mrs. Murphy's favorite human, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, can sense that something is amiss. But things really take an ugly turn when the town reenacts the battle of Oak Ridge—and a participant ends up with three very real bullets in his back. While the clever tiger cat and her friends sift through clues that just don't fit together, more than a few locals fear that the scandal will force well-hidden town secrets into the harsh light of day. And when Mrs. Murphy's relentless tracking places loved ones in danger, it takes more than a canny kitty and her team of animal sleuths to set things right again....]]> 318 Rita Mae Brown 0553575414 Candace 3 3.91 1999
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> 165339 an alternate cover edition can be found here

As the principal of St. Elizabeth's, an exclusive private school that caters to Crozet, Virginia's, best families, Roscoe Fletcher has proven himself to be a highly effective and vastly popular administrator. So when his obituary appears in the local paper, everyone in town is upset. Yet nothing compares to the shock they feel when they discover that Roscoe Fletcher isn't dead at all. Someone has stooped to putting a phony obituary in the newspaper. But is it a sick joke or a sinister warning? Only Mrs. Murphy, the canny tiger cat, senses the pure malice behind the act. And when a second false obit appears, this time of a Hollywood has-been who is Roscoe Fletcher's best friend, Mrs. Murphy invites her friends, the corgi Tee Tucker, and fat cat Pewter, to do a bit of sleuthing. It's obvious to this shrewd puss that two phony death notices add up to deadly trouble. And her theory is borne out when one of the men is fiendishly murdered. "Harry" Haristeen, in her position as Crozet's postmistress, is the first to hear all the theories on whodunit - starting with the man's jealous wife. Then a second bloody homicide follows, and a third. People are dropping like flies in Crozet and no one seems to know why.]]> 416 Rita Mae Brown 0553575406 Candace 3 3.95 1998
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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]]> 165369 an alternate cover edition can be found here

The annual steeplechase races at Montpelier, once the home of James and Dolley Madison, are the high point in the social calendar of the horse-mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. The race meet offers a cracking good time with old friends and a chance to get even—on the racecourse—with old enemies. Postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen will be in the thick of the action on this day of high spirits and fierce competition. But the glorious thoroughbreds and the pinks and greens and purples worn by the riders do not blind Harry to the dangerous undercurrents that start to surface. There's sure to be some emotional fireworks at Montpelier. Still, no one expects the day to end in tragedy.

Found dead in the main barn is one of the day's riders, a knife plunged through the jockey's heart. The only clue is a playing card, the Queen of Clubs, impaled over the fatal wound. Within the wealthy, tight-knit world of horse owners, trainers, and jockeys, the victim had both admirers and enemies.

Was the murderer's motive greed, drugs--a pervasive evil in the race world—or sexual rivalry? Luckily for Crozet's humans, the tiger cat Mrs. Murphy is right at home in the stable yard...and on the trail of the shocking truth. But will Harry catch on in time to stop a killer grown bloodthirsty with success?

In Murder, She Meowed Sneaky Pie Brown and her co-author, Rita Mae Brown, have penned another clever and sassy mystery that probes the depths of human depravity and the heights of feline genius.]]> 336 Rita Mae Brown 0553572377 Candace 4 3.99 1996
author: Rita Mae Brown
name: Candace
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1996
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]]> 165334 an alternate cover edition can be found here

The residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, thrive on gossip, especially in the post office, where Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen presides with her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy. So when a belligerent Hell's Angel crashes Crozet, demanding to see his girlfriend, the leather-clad interloper quickly becomes the chief topic of conversation. Then the biker is found murdered, and everyone is baffled. Well, almost everyone...Mrs. Murphy and her friends, Welsh corgi Tee Tucker and overweight feline Pewter, haven't been slinking through alleys for nothing. But can they dig up the truth in time to save their humans from a ruthless killer?]]> 288 Rita Mae Brown 0553572369 Candace 4 3.94 1995
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name: Candace
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rating: 4
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]]> 165341 an alternate cover edition can be found here

Mrs. Murphy digs into Virginia history--and gets her paws on a killer.

The most popular citizen of Virginia has been dead for nearly 170 years. That hasn't stopped the good people of tiny Crozet, Virginia, from taking pride in every aspect of Thomas Jefferson's life. But when an archaeological dig of the slave quarters at Jefferson's home, Monticello, uncovers a shocking secret, emotions in Crozet run high--dangerously high.

The stunning discovery at Monticello hints a hidden passions and age-old scandals. As postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and some of Crozet's Very Best People try to learn the identity of a centuries-old skeleton--and the reason behind the murder--Harry's tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her canine and feline friends attempt to sniff out a modern-day killer. Mrs. Murphy and corgi Tee Tucker will stick their paws into the darker mysteries of human nature to solve murders old and new--before curiosity can kill the cat--and Harry Haristeen.]]> 284 Rita Mae Brown 0553572350 Candace 4 3.89 1994
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name: Candace
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rating: 4
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]]> 529920 an alternate cover edition can be found here

Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is theĚýcat's meow.... Maybe she should think again.ĚýSmall towns don't take kindly to strangers—unlessĚýĚýthe stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous andĚýĚýseemingly unattached male. When Blair BainbridgeĚýcomes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakersĚýlose no time in declaring him perfect for theirĚýĚýnewly divorced postmistress, Mary Minor "Harry"ĚýHaristeen. Even Harry's tiger cat, Mrs.ĚýMurphy, and her Welsh Corgi, Tee Tucker, believe heĚýsmells A-okay. Could his one little imperfectionĚýbe that he's a killer? Blair becomes the mostĚýlikely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpseĚýbegin turning up around Crozet. No one knows whoĚýthe dead man is, but when a grisly clue makes aĚýĚýspectacular appearance in the middle of the fallĚýfestivities, more than an early winter snow beginsĚýchilling the blood of Crozet's very best people.ĚýThat's when Mrs. Murphy, her friend Tucker, and herĚýhuman companion Harry begin to sort through theĚýĚýclues . . . only to find themselves a whisker awayĚýfrom becoming the killer's nextĚýĚývictims.]]> 347 Rita Mae Brown 0553562398 Candace 4 3.97 1992
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]]> 28220808
Aurora Teagarden is basking in her new pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids have gone missing from school--and her teenage brother, Phillip, is one of them. While the local police comb the county for clues, Aurora and her new husband, bestselling writer Robin Crusoe, begin their own investigation. Is Phillip's disappearance related to Aurora's father's gambling debts? Or is Phillip himself, new to town and an unknown quantity, responsible for taking the other children? As days go by, it's up to Aurora to find the answers to these disturbing questions before it's too late for the missing--and she herself ends up in harm's way. . .]]> 229 Charlaine Harris 1250090032 Candace 4 3.76 2016
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name: Candace
average rating: 3.76
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rating: 4
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]]> 140087
As if that weren’t enough, Roe has rekindled a relationship with another old flame and things are moving fast, with plans to meet his mother at Thanksgiving. She’s also acquired an unexpected house guest: her half-brother, who’s run away from his parents� home in California. Balancing her personal life while looking into Poppy’s murder isn’t easy, but Roe is determined to give it -- and Poppy -- her best effort. And when Roe discovers that the crime scene has been ransacked, she knows someone is desperate to hide a secret. Roe will have to dig through Poppy’s life to uncover the truth and bring the killer to justice.

Poppy Done to Death is the engaging eighth installment of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. The series has been adapted into film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.]]> 256 Charlaine Harris 0373265042 Candace 4 mystery, female-authors, cozy 3.86 2003
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> 140080
But when Celia is murdered and Barrett is accused, the real-life script takes a deadly turn. Between threatening letters, deranged fans and renewed feelings for Robin, Aurora has one catch a killer and make it to the final scene alive.]]> 248 Charlaine Harris 0778323641 Candace 5 mystery, female-authors, cozy 3.83 2002
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Candace
average rating: 3.83
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rating: 5
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]]> 140089 267 Charlaine Harris 0786209852 Candace 5 3.80 1996
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average rating: 3.80
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rating: 5
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]]> 140096 256 Charlaine Harris 0373262175 Candace 5 mystery, female-authors, cozy 3.84 1995
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> 140090 256 Charlaine Harris 0373261772 Candace 5 mystery, female-authors, cozy 3.81 1994
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average rating: 3.81
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rating: 5
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]]> 140093
Tema uue koduga käib kaasas üllatus � kavalast peidikust tuleb välja inimese pealuu. Kas Jane oli mõrtsukas? Roe peidab oma hirme vaigistada püüdes pealuu ning hakkab salamisi eraviisiliselt asja uurima, kusjuures kõige tõenäolisemateks kahtlusalusteks on tema uued naabrid. Detektiivitöö ei ole aga kerge ja seda iseäranis veel juhul, kui juurdlust tuleb hoida varjul nii uue kallima kui ka politseiuurijast endise armsama eest. Kuid tegemist on lahendamata mõrvaga ja Roe on kindlalt otsustanud, et tuvastab ohvri ja mõrvari enne, kui juhtub veel midagi halba.

Tegemist on teise raamatuga Charlaine Harrise kriminaalromaanisarjast, mille peategelane on sĂĽdi ja kĂĽtkestav Aurora Teagarden.]]> 168 Charlaine Harris 0802712452 Candace 5 mystery, female-authors, cozy 3.75 1992
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]]> 140091 En el club Real Murders les gustaba hablar de asesinatos, hasta que se volvieron reales...

La bibliotecaria Aurora Teagarden pertenece al club Real Murders, que se reĂşne una vez al mes para charlar sobre asesinatos famosos.

Parece un pasatiempo inofensivo, hasta que uno de los miembros es asesinado de una manera sospechosamente parecida al crimen del que iban a hablar esa misma noche. Y no será el único cadáver?

Aurora aunará fuerzas con el apuesto detective Arthur Smith y el galante novelista de misterio Robin Crusoe para cazar al asesino. Un asesino que bien podría ser uno de sus propios amigos?

Ěý

Charlaine Harris, autora superventas de True Blood, presenta la serie Los misterios de Aurora Teagarden, ahora también en películas en Prime Video]]> 175 Charlaine Harris 0802757693 Candace 5 3.68 1990
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]]> 219477663
WarlockĚýHolmes, however, is an idiot. A good man, perhaps; a font of arcane power, certainly. But he’s brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn’t deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalwart flatmate. Thankfully, Dr. Watson is always there to aid him through the treacherous shoals of Victorian proprietyâ€� and save him from a gruesome death every now and again.

An imaginative, irreverent and addictive reimagining of the world’s favourite detective,ĚýWarlock HolmesĚýretains the charm, tone and feel of the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while finally giving the flat at 221b Baker Street what it’s been missing for all these years: an alchemy table.

Reimagining six stories, this riotous mash-up is a glorious new take on the ever-popular Sherlock Holmes myth, featuring the vampire Inspector Vladislav Lestrade, the ogre Inspector Torg Grogsson, and Dr. Watson, the true detective at 221b. And Sherlock. A warlock.]]> 313 G.S. Denning Candace 0 to-read 3.89 2016
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name: Candace
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]]> 56791389 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BKGYQXW


The apocalypse will be televised!

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.

The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.

Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.

You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.

You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.]]> 446 Matt Dinniman Candace 0 to-read 4.49 2020
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name: Candace
average rating: 4.49
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]]> 62919381
Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has lived twenty-three years in her tight-knit Upper East Side neighborhood with very little to distress or vex her…that is, until her budding matchmaking hobby results in her sister’s marriage—and subsequent move downtown. Now, with her sister gone and all her friends traveling abroad, Emma must start her final year of grad school grappling with an entirely new emotion: boredom. So when she meets Nadine, a wide-eyed Ohio transplant with a heart of gold and drugstore blonde highlights to match, Emma not only sees a potential new friend but a new project. If only her overbearing neighbor George Knightley would get out of her way.

Handsome, smart, and successful, the only thing that frustrates Knightley more than a corked whiskey is his childhood friend, Emma. Whether it’s her shopping sprees between classes or her revolving door of ill-conceived hobbies, he is only too happy to lecture her on all the finer points of adulthood she’s so hell-bent on ignoring. But despite his gripes—and much to his own chagrin—Knightley can’t help but notice that the girl next door is a woman now…one who he suddenly can’t get out of his head.

As Emma’s best laid plans collide with everyone from hipster baristas to meddling family members to flaky playboy millionaires, these two friends slowly realize their need to always be right has been usurped by a new need entirely, and it’s not long before they discover that even the most familiar stories still have some surprises.]]> 384 Audrey Bellezza 1668008394 Candace 0 to-read 3.75 2023
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name: Candace
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 209898025 MarinaA beautiful girl, trapped by an evil wizard, dreams of the lost princess who would either free her to step into the power she's always feared, or destroy her.LisetteA princess who was hidden away in an idyllic childhood, knows that her time is coming and gathers the strength of those around her to do what needs to be done.AthenaA guard with a broken heart finds herself building the bridge between them, while she heals a part of herself that she didn't even realize was broken.]]> 275 Reenie Nayden Candace 0 to-read 4.17
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name: Candace
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]]> 21437200 In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptune’s most murderous locations.

The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside town’s ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the owners know that they have a potential powder keg on their hands. They turn to Veronica to disprove—or prove—the woman's story.

The case is a complicated mix of hard facts, mysterious occurrences, and uncooperative witnesses. The hotel refuses to turn over its reservation list and the victim won’t divulge who she was meeting that night. Add in the facts that the attack happened months ago, the victim’s memory is fuzzy, and there are holes in the hotel’s surveillance system, and Veronica has a convoluted mess on her hands. As she works to fill in the missing pieces, it becomes clear that someone is lying—but who? And why?]]> 330 Rob Thomas 080417072X Candace 4 3.97 2015
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name: Candace
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> 54499 470 Alexandre Dumas 0140439242 Candace 3 classics-plays-poetry 4.00 1847
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name: Candace
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 3
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]]> 7126 The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas� epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here]]> 1276 Alexandre Dumas 0140449264 Candace 3 classics-plays-poetry 4.29 1846
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]]> 7190 The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written.

Dumas' swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long, he finds treachery and court intrigue,and also three boon companions, the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together, the four strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.]]> 625 Alexandre Dumas Candace 3 classics-plays-poetry 4.09 1844
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Candace
average rating: 4.09
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rating: 3
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]]> 6324090 96 Lewis Carroll Candace 4 4.05 1865
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Candace
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1865
rating: 4
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]]> 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison Candace 3 classics-plays-poetry, scifi 3.91 1952
author: Ralph Ellison
name: Candace
average rating: 3.91
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rating: 3
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]]> 15622 Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.

Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.]]> 504 Richard Wright Candace 3 classics-plays-poetry 4.03 1940
author: Richard Wright
name: Candace
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1940
rating: 3
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]]> 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 Candace 4 classics-plays-poetry, scifi 4.02 1897
author: Bram Stoker
name: Candace
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1897
rating: 4
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]]> 21787
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.]]> 429 William Goldman 0345418263 Candace 5 4.27 1973
author: William Goldman
name: Candace
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1973
rating: 5
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]]> 53406893 Los Angeles Times Magazine as “the greatest epic in the history of comic books�, The Sandman changed the game with its dark, literary world of fantasy and horror - creating a global, cultural phenomenon in the process. At long last, Audible and DC present the first-ever audio production of the New York Times best-selling series written by acclaimed storyteller Neil Gaiman (who also serves as co-executive producer). Adapted and directed by multi-award-winner (and frequent Gaiman collaborator) Dirk Maggs, and performed by an ensemble cast with James McAvoy (It, Parts One and Two, X-Men: First Class, Split) in the title role, this first installment of a multi-part original audio series will transport you to a world that re-writes the rules of audio entertainment the way that The Sandman originally re-defined the graphic novel.

When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “toolsâ€� that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence. As the multi-threaded story unspools, The Sandman descends into Hell to confront Lucifer (Michael Sheen), chases rogue nightmares who have escaped his realm, and crosses paths with an array of characters from DC comic books, ancient myths, and real-world history, including: Inmates of Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, Doctor Destiny, the muse Calliope, the three Fates, William Shakespeare (Arthur Darvill), and many more.Ěý

A powerhouse supporting cast helps translate this masterwork into a sonic experience worthy of its legacy, including Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis, and more. Setting the stage for their performance is an unprecedented cinematic soundscape featuring an original musical score by British Academy Award winner James Hannigan. Fans will especially revel in a new twist for the audio adaptation: Neil Gaiman himself serves as the narrator. Follow him as he leads listeners along a winding path of myths, imagination and, often, terror. Even in your wildest dreams, you’ve never heard anything like this.

The Sandman Act 1 adapts volumes 1 - 3 of the graphic novel series.]]> 11 Dirk Maggs Candace 4 4.39 2020
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name: Candace
average rating: 4.39
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rating: 4
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]]> 217159512
The rules here are simple:

Don’t look in the trees.

Don’t whistle in the woods at night.

Don’t answer if you hear your name called.

And remember . . . everything wants.

Verity Vox is a witch-in-training who has never met a problem her spells can’t solve. But when a cryptic plea for help sends her to the forgotten coal mining town of Foxfire, she soon learns even magic has its limits.

Verity discovers a curse was laid years ago by a traveling magician who vanished into the ancient Appalachian hills to seek greater power. Crops won’t grow. Bellies go hungry. Even treasured possessions fall apart. What’s worse, people have gone missing amidst rumors that they’ve sought out the magician who is lying in wait for those foolish or desperate enough to strike a deal with him.

The witch must break the curse, find a missing girl, and solve the mystery of what’s really under the mountain before the town falls forever into the clutches of the monster lurking in the hills.]]> Don Martin Candace 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 34735014 Imagine their surprise when one morning they are woken by their maid who tells them that the body of a girl has been found in their study. Who is she? And how did she end up on their rug?
Dolly asks her friend Miss Marple to help discover the truth � can she help explain this mystery and clear Colonel Bantry’s name?

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now
Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1 with a word count of 11,000 � 20,000 words.

Each book includes:
� Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
� Helpful notes on characters
� Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
� A glossary of the more difficult words
� Free online resources for students and teachers]]> 96 Agatha Christie 0008249695 Candace 0 cozy, mystery, female-authors 3.76
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Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing-a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn't know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands.

Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer.

What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?

Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.]]> 368 Jesse Q. Sutanto 0593546180 Candace 0 to-read 4.17 2023
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name: Candace
average rating: 4.17
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]]> 211004943
The humans are fighting again. Go figure.

As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting.

A dark comedy wrapped in a techno thriller’s skin, Mal Goes to War provides a satirical take on war, artificial intelligence, and what it really means to be human.]]> 320 Edward Ashton 1250885760 Candace 0 to-read 4.18 2024
author: Edward Ashton
name: Candace
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/07
shelves: to-read
review:

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author: Robert Lynn Asprin
name: Candace
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/06
date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: funny, scifi, sf-military, 2025
review:

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author: Robert Lynn Asprin
name: Candace
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: funny, scifi, sf-military
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Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent 'crime of passion' conceals something much more evil.]]> 220 Agatha Christie 1579126286 Candace 5 female-authors, mystery, 2025 3.99 1941
author: Agatha Christie
name: Candace
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1941
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: female-authors, mystery, 2025
review:
This might be the only time I ever say this, but: The movie is better. HOLD ON! I still love the book. But I also really love the movie adaptation starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot, and *deep breath* the movie offers a cleaner, tighter plot and does a better job of highlighting Poirot's personality than the book - possibly because this one lacks Hastings or another Watson-like narrator/foil. I know! It's blasphemous. Despite my preference for the movie, this is still an under-rated Poirot mystery in my opinion. The murder method/twist (variations of which Christie used in a few other books/stories) is clever and interesting and the characters are fun and memorable.
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Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. Something like a bullet! It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life.]]> 287 Agatha Christie 0007119305 Candace 4 4.00 1932
author: Agatha Christie
name: Candace
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1932
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/03
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: mystery, female-authors, cozy, 2025
review:
I'm a big Agatha Christie fan and I re-read at least a few of her books every year. So I don't know why it's been so many years since I read this one - definitely more than 10 - but I could only remember a few things about this mystery and I was actually really happy to get all the way to the end without remembering "whodunnit" - it was like reading it for the first time again and I was so pleased to be as surprised as all the characters when Poirot did his "let me tell you how it was done." Ms. Christie helped set the rules of the Golden Age Mysteries and usually does a good job of playing fair with the reader re: Giving them all the info they need to solve the mystery, while still making it satisfyingly difficult. Red herrings, unreliable witnesses and twisty plot points are all at play in this one. Not my *favorite* Poirot novel, but a satisfying one.
]]> 18209454 From Rob Thomas, the creator of groundbreaking television series and movie Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling new mystery series.

Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She's traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her first big case.

Now it's spring break, and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica is called in to investigate. But this is not a simple missing person's case. The house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. And when a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica's past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.]]> 324 Rob Thomas 0804170703 Candace 4 3.96 2014
author: Rob Thomas
name: Candace
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/03
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: 2025, kick-ass-heroine, mystery
review:
I loved the TV show (and movie) so I dunno why it took me so long to read the books, but I'm glad I finally did. Not surprisingly, this book captures the feel of Veronica Mars and Neptune pretty well. The mystery and twists were well done. I could nitpick and point out several "convenient" moments that dragged the plot along behind them. But, honestly, that's a common issue in a lot of mystery stories and it didn't take away from enjoying this one. BUT if you're not already a fan of the show/character, this book probably won't have the same impact.
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Now, instead of being a legendary hero, Laurel's the resident pariah of the magic realm. And what’s worse, the dark wizard Tybus swooped in, took over the realm, and forced all supernatural creatures to live under his tyrannical rule. He’s even stripped away the magical powers of those who refused to join his wicked cause. Yeah, everyone hates her. Well, everyone except her two roomies—Sybil, the sassiest diva of a fairy, who could throw shade with the flick of a wing. And Frank, the vampire who rocks a bald spot and a serious paunch. They are the real MVPs, the ride-or-die buddies who have her back, no matter how many colossal fails she racks up.

And it’s all about to get even weirder. Along comes Kate, a Normie who somehow knows more about Laurel than Laurel knows about herself. Turns out, she's got some secrets up her sleeve that might just give Laurel a shot at redemption and a chance to rewrite her destiny.

Third Eye is a side-splitting adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Laurel and her ragtag team of misfits must embark on a wild journey to take down Tybus. It's a treacherous path, but they'll have to put their differences aside and work together. Get ready to laugh, gasp, and cheer as they stumble their way towards an epic showdown.]]> Felicia Day Candace 4 2025, funny, urban-paranormal 4.12 2023
author: Felicia Day
name: Candace
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/02
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: 2025, funny, urban-paranormal
review:
This was funnier and more twisty than I expected. The humor was very Felicia Day - witty with more than a bit of nerdiness and a just a hint of dark. I enjoyed it a lot. The audio cast were all terrific. The plot was a roller-coaster ride: I never quite knew where it was gonna go next, but it still felt controlled and the ride was a lot of fun!
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