Frode's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:39:28 -0700 60 Frode's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Ren¨¦e Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)]]> 206119050 LAPD Detective Ren¨¦e Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry¡¯s daughter.

Ren¨¦e Ballard and the LAPD¡¯s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-three, so the genetic link must be familial. It is his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.

Meanwhile, Ballard¡¯s badge, gun, and ID are stolen¡ªa theft she can¡¯t report without giving her enemies in the department the ammunition they need to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her solo mission leads her into greater danger than she anticipates. She has no choice but to go outside the department for help, and that leads her to the door of Harry Bosch.

Finally, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit. Bosch¡¯s daughter Maddie wants to supplement her work as a patrol officer on the night beat by investigating cases with Ballard. But Ren¨¦e soon learns that Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city¡¯s library of lost souls.]]>
407 Michael Connelly 031656379X Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.17 2024 The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Ren¨¦e Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Frode
average rating: 4.17
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<![CDATA[Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets]]> 18956 From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show.

The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.

David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year's most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl.

Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition¡ªwhich includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs¡ªrevives this classic, riveting tale about the men who work on the dark side of the American experience.]]>
646 David Simon 0805080759 Frode 0 currently-reading 4.34 1991 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
author: David Simon
name: Frode
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3)]]> 20538936
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town¡¯s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed.

But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. It is a secret that has the entire population completely under the control of a madman and his army of followers, a secret that is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity.

Blake Crouch¡¯s electrifying conclusion to the Wayward Pines Series¡ªnow a Major Television Event Series debuting Summer 2014 on FOX¡ªwill have you glued to the page right down to the very last word.]]>
285 Blake Crouch 1477822585 Frode 4 owned 4.13 2014 The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3)
author: Blake Crouch
name: Frode
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2017/10/12
date added: 2025/04/19
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<![CDATA[The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)]]> 56015866
There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon; his embittered son, who would have killed for independence; and his mistress, who refused to be ignored - and each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. The police think they've found the cumprit. But Poirot has his doubts. Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse...]]>
273 Agatha Christie 0008129460 Frode 4 owned 3.86 1923 The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Frode
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1923
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[When the Women Come Out to Dance]]> 173982
In more than 30 books spanning half a century, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions as few writers can. A literary icon praised by the New York Times Book Review as ¡°the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever, ¡± he has influenced many contemporary writers and is known for both the quality and accessibility of his writing.

In this first collection of short pieces, including two novella-length works, since his western anthology Tonto Woman, Leonard demonstrates the superb characterization, dead-on dialogue, vivid atmosphere, and driving plotting that have made him a household name.]]>
Elmore Leonard 0141009853 Frode 4 owned 3.84 2001 When the Women Come Out to Dance
author: Elmore Leonard
name: Frode
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2015/06/08
date added: 2025/02/09
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<![CDATA[The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn #7)]]> 125532040
The Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.

THE LAWYER

Eddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent. Now, he has to prove to a jury, and the entire world, that Carrie Miller was just another victim of the Sandman. She didn't know her husband's dark side and she had no part in the murders. But so far, Eddie and his team are the only ones who believe her.

THE FORMER FBI AGENT

Gabriel Lake used to be a federal agent, before someone tried to kill him. Now, he's an investigator with a vendetta against the Sandman. He's the only one who can catch him, because he believes that everything the FBI knows about serial killers is wrong.

THE KILLER

With his wife on trial, the Sandman is forced to come out of hiding to save her from a life sentence. He will kill to protect her and everyone involved in the case is a target.

Even Eddie Flynn...]]>
336 Steve Cavanagh 1409198758 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.32 2022 The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn #7)
author: Steve Cavanagh
name: Frode
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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Sj?fareren 220337665 Erika Fatland er tilbake! Med seg i skipssekken har hun hele det portugisiske imperiet, fra 1400-tallets oppdagere, via koloniveldets fall i 1970-?rene og til i dag: En reiseskildring med uforglemmelige menneskem?ter, skjebner og historier.

P? 1400-tallet seilte dristige portugisiske sj?menn stadig lenger s?rover, drevet frem av Henrik Sj?fareren. I 1498 fant Vasco da Gama sj?veien til India, og verden ble aldri mer den samme. I karavellenes kj?lvann tar Erika Fatland oss med p? en eventyrlig ferd jorden rundt. Det portugisiske imperiet var det f?rste globale koloniriket ? og det siste. Det strakte seg fra Kapp Verde til Goa, fra Nagasaki til Amazonas. Hvilke spor har portugiserne etterlatt seg?

Den prisbel?nte forfatteren av H?yt, Grensen og Sovjetistan leverer en storsl?tt og underholdende reiseskildring i n?tid og fortid.]]>
706 Erika Fatland 8248936457 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.48 2024 Sj?fareren
author: Erika Fatland
name: Frode
average rating: 4.48
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Da vi var yngre 199066185
Da vi var yngre er en fortelling om vennskap, sorg, rus og overlevelse i dagens Oslo. Et sjeldent innblikk i et r?ft milj?, og en intens og r? oppvekstroman fortalt med varme og humor.]]>
242 Oliver Lovrenski 8203450113 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.22 2023 Da vi var yngre
author: Oliver Lovrenski
name: Frode
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Gymnasl?rer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelsen som har hjems?kt v?rt land]]> 1494966 282 Dag Solstad 8270943592 Frode 0 owned, to-read 3.91 1982 Gymnasl?rer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelsen som har hjems?kt v?rt land
author: Dag Solstad
name: Frode
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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Professor Andersens natt 42514420
Professor Andersens natt ?pner med et klassisk krimsujett, men Solstad bryter med sjangerforventningene, og skaper slik en slags antikriminalroman. Den ateistiske professor Anderssen opplever at det blir umulig ? forholde seg til det han har sett, uten samtidig ? forholde seg til sp?rsm?lene om Guds p?bud. Dermed introduseres de store dilemmaene ved hele v?r kultur, sentrert rundt v?rt forhold til mordet.

I 2012 ble Professor Andersens natt nominert til den prestisjefylte litteraturprisen Independent Foreign Fiction Prize i Storbritannia.]]>
143 Dag Solstad 8249515048 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.67 1996 Professor Andersens natt
author: Dag Solstad
name: Frode
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)]]> 11318
Trouble is my business --
Finger man --
Goldfish --
Red wind]]>
224 Raymond Chandler Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.06 1950 Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Frode
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1950
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)]]> 2532028
You do not mess with the Special Investigators. They always watched each other's backs. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert. And six others can't be found at all.

You do not mess with Jack Reacher. His old buddies are in big trouble, and he won't let that go.

Not now, not ever.]]>
528 Lee Child 0553818104 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.03 2007 Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
author: Lee Child
name: Frode
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2007
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<![CDATA[Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders]]> 43212432 ¡°A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.¡±
¡ªNew York Times
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Praised as the ¡°bestest travel guide ever¡± (Mary Roach) and ¡°a joy to read and reread¡± (Neil Gaiman), Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of travel books: ¡°Odds are you won¡¯t get past three pages without being amazed¡± (San Francisco Chronicle). It rocketed to the top of bestseller lists and has over 626,000 copies in print since its publication in late 2016. Now the best gets better and the weirdest gets weirder with this completely revised and updated second edition that includes 120 new entries that offer readers even more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth. In addition, the second edition includes a full-color gatefold Atlas Obscura road trip map, with a dream itinerary.
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Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, the vibrant travel community that¡¯s grown substantially since the original edition¡ªnot only online but in stores, too, with the recent publication of the #1 New York Times bestseller?The Atlas Obscura Explorer¡¯s Guide for the World¡¯s Most Adventurous Kid¡ªAtlas Obscura expands the reader¡¯s sense of what¡¯s possible. Oversized, beautifully packaged, compellingly written, scrupulously researched, and filled with photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, and more, it is the book that inspires equal parts wonder and wanderlust. It informs us on every page of something we never knew¡ªand paints a rich panorama of what a marvelously strange world we live in. For the travel lover and curious reader, it¡¯s a gift book that¡¯s literally impossible to put down.
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480 Joshua Foer 1523506482 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.44 2016 Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
author: Joshua Foer
name: Frode
average rating: 4.44
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<![CDATA[Dr?mmen om et tre (Klimakvartetten, #4)]]> 58658909
S? rammes Longyearbyen av en katastrofe. Tommy, br?drene og farmoren er blant de f? etterlatte. Seks ensomme mennesker i et ?de landskap, i besittelse av en skatt verden trodde var forsvunnet for alltid.

Samtidig, langt borte, lever Tao p? minnene over s?nnen Wei-Wen, som hun mistet for tolv ?r siden. Hver dag er lik, hun er nummen og trist. Og hun sulter, som resten av folket, i en skrinn og utarmet natur, hvor mange arter har forsvunnet. Men alt endrer seg den dagen Tao blir bedt om ? lede en ekspedisjon mot nord. M?let er Svalbard og fr?ene.

Med Dr?mmen om et tre avslutter Maja Lunde et av de store romanverkene i nyere norsk litteratur. Lunde skriver om foreldre og barn, om b?nd mellom mennesker og ikke minst kj?rligheten vi har til naturen. Fortid, n?tid og fremtid veves sammen, og fortellingene stiller sp?rsm?l som v?r samtid strever med ? besvare: Hvordan ble mennesket den arten som endret alt? Fortjener vi ? v?re herre over naturen? Og er vi selv en truet art?]]>
475 Maja Lunde 8203365280 Frode 0 owned, currently-reading 3.96 2022 Dr?mmen om et tre (Klimakvartetten, #4)
author: Maja Lunde
name: Frode
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Night Prey (Lucas Davenport, #6)]]> 37296 336 John Sandford 0006478964 Frode 4 4.14 1994 Night Prey (Lucas Davenport, #6)
author: John Sandford
name: Frode
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction]]> 61885102
Who committed the ghastly deed?
What weapon was used to dispatch the victim?
Where did the calculated demise occur?

Join Deductive Logico and investigate murders most foul in Volume 1 . The first of their kind, these humorous mini-mystery puzzles challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and use the power of deduction to complete the grid and catch the culprit. Together, you¡¯ll uncover a buried secret beneath all of the murders and a message that can only be decrypted when you¡¯ve solved them all.

Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue , Volume 1 is the must-have detective casebook for the secret sleuth in everyone.]]>
380 G.T. Karber 1250892317 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.39 2023 Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction
author: G.T. Karber
name: Frode
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2023
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<![CDATA[San Diego Zoo Official Guidebook]]> 43340645 208 1935442392 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.45 San Diego Zoo Official Guidebook
author: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Press
name: Frode
average rating: 4.45
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Trouble is My Business 21067265 288 Raymond Chandler 0241956307 Frode 0 owned 3.84 1950 Trouble is My Business
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Frode
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1950
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Silverview 58410926
Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carr¨¦ asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.

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256 John Le Carr¨¦ 0241994535 Frode 0 owned, to-read 3.49 2021 Silverview
author: John Le Carr¨¦
name: Frode
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2021
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Eddie Would Go 844108 271 Stuart Holmes Coleman 097062137X Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.20 2002 Eddie Would Go
author: Stuart Holmes Coleman
name: Frode
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2002
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<![CDATA[Alt for flokken = Eallu mu v¨¢immus]]> 207654248 Ufrivillig aktivist, forbudt kj?rlighet og en reinflokk i fare.

Elle p? 17 ?r er ingen aktivist. Alt hun vil, er ? ta over reinflokken til faren. Men det er andre krefter med mye penger som er ute etter beiteomr?dene deres. Uten dem, mister de alt. Elle kan ikke la det skje. Hun m? kjempe imot, og hun kan absolutt ikke la smilet til milj?aktivist-kj?resten til venninna hennes distrahere henne for mye.]]>
222 Kathrine Nedrejord 8203451500 Frode 0 to-read 3.74 2024 Alt for flokken = Eallu mu v¨¢immus
author: Kathrine Nedrejord
name: Frode
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2024
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Other Minds 28116739
In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being¡ªhow nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind¡¯s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys.

But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually ¡°think for themselves¡±? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia?

By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind¡ªand on our own.]]>
257 Peter Godfrey-Smith 0374227764 Frode 4 owned 3.86 2016 Other Minds
author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
name: Frode
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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Sonny Boy 209499400 From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full. To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies¡ªThe Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon¡ªthat were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his mid-thirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York¡¯s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe. Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book¡¯s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions¡ªthe same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference.]]> 384 Al Pacino 0593655117 Frode 4 owned 3.99 2024 Sonny Boy
author: Al Pacino
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average rating: 3.99
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rating: 4
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This Tender Land 25813942
After committing a terrible crime, Odie and Albert are forced to flee for their lives along with their best friend, Mose, a mute young man of Sioux heritage. Out of pity, they also take with them a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy. Together, they steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi in search for a place to call home.

Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphan vagabonds journey into the unknown, crossing paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an en?thralling, bighearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.]]>
450 William Kent Krueger 1476749299 Frode 5 owned 4.35 2019 This Tender Land
author: William Kent Krueger
name: Frode
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness]]> 33916026
In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being¡ªhow nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind¡¯s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys.

But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually ¡°think for themselves¡±? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia?

By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind¡ªand on our own.]]>
255 Peter Godfrey-Smith 0374537194 Frode 0 owned 3.95 2016 Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
name: Frode
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<![CDATA[Winter Prey (Lucas Davenport, #5)]]> 58563890 Winter Prey is John Sandford's suspense masterpiece!? Following the international success of Shadow Prey and Silent Prey, Winter Prey creates another heart-pounding chapter in the career of Lucas Davenport, the brilliant, hard-bitten detective from the Twin Cities.

The Iceman is Lucas Davenport's most determined foe - a serial killer driven to cover his brutal tracks with blood.? Sandford again creates almost unbearable suspense as we wait for the Ice Man's razor-sharp corn knife to strike.

Winter Prey unfolds in the cold and driving snow of the north country, the perfect setting for the chilling terror caused by the Ice Man, a killer who knows Lucas' every move - a coldly brilliant madman who can't be stopped.? Turn up the heat and listen as Lucas Davenport faces his most dangerous challenge.]]>
403 John Sandford Frode 5 owned 4.28 1993 Winter Prey (Lucas Davenport, #5)
author: John Sandford
name: Frode
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past]]> 195790716
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II , set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail . Beloved by millions, they¡¯ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as recreations of history?

In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more. Weaving the games¡¯ plot and characters into an exploration of American violence between 1870 and 1920, Olsson shows that it was more often disputes over capitalism and race, not just poker games and bank robberies, that fueled the bloodshed of these turbulent years. As such, this era has much to teach us today. From the West to the Deep South to Appalachia, Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that inspired the games, but sometimes lacks context and complexity on the digital screen. Colorful, fast-paced, and dramatic, Red Dead¡¯s History sheds light on dark corners of the American past for gamers and history buffs alike.]]>
288 Tore C. Olsson 1250287707 Frode 4 owned 4.30 2024 Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
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average rating: 4.30
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In Plain Sight 57734614 An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ...



Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. The 1978 sighting is just one of thousands since the 1940s, and yet research into UFOs is still seen as the realm of crackpots and conspiracy theorists.

But after decades of denial, the US Department of Defence made the astonishing admission in 2020 that strange aerial and underwater objects frequently reported and videoed by pilots and tracked by sensors are real and unexplained, and pose a genuine national security concern. Compelled to investigate, Coulthart has embarked on what's become the most confronting and challenging story of his career.

Now the five-time Walkley Award winner presents his findings. He has spoken to witnesses, researchers, scientists, spies and defence and intelligence officials and insiders. Many are convinced we are not alone, while some have been investigating and utilising what appear to be extraordinary potential new technologies, including radical propulsion systems, leaving Coulthart convinced that the world is on the cusp of extraordinary technological breakthroughs and cultural revelations.

Bizarre, sometimes mind blowing and utterly fascinating, In Plain Sight tells a story that's largely escaped the radar of mainstream media coverage but has been there all along. Now it's time to see what's in front of our eyes.]]>
471 Ross Coulthart 1460712765 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 4.32 In Plain Sight
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<![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 52692586
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]>
248 Jules Verne 0241468655 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.96 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
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<![CDATA[His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)]]> 1181526
The title story of this collection refers to Holmes' emergence from retirement to help the government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. Several of the detective's earlier cases complete the volume, including "Wisteria Lodge," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," and "The Dying Detective."]]>
0 Arthur Conan Doyle 0140622586 Frode 0 owned, to-read 3.95 1917 His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
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554 Haruki Murakami 4103534222 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 4.02 2009 1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)
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The Lost Daughter 1058564
But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina¡¯s family.]]>
140 Elena Ferrante 1933372427 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.70 2006 The Lost Daughter
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Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5) 50805422 Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife.

Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom.

Both women are to go on trial at the same time. A joint trial in front of one jury.

But one of these women is lying. One of them is a murderer. Sitting in a jail cell, about to go on trial with her sister for murder, you might think that this is the last place she expected to be.

You'd be wrong.

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349 Steve Cavanagh Frode 4 4.31 2020 Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)
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<![CDATA[The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arcturus Paperback Classics)]]> 10184980 238 Arthur Conan Doyle 1848378920 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.05 1893 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arcturus Paperback Classics)
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Witness 8 (Eddie Flynn #8) 209096547 What if the witness was more twisted than the killer?

Something is wrong with Ruby Johnson.

A former resident of the ultra-elite Manhattan upper class, Ruby now works as a maid in the type of houses she used to live in. Unassuming, she sees everyone¡¯s dirty secrets from the inside of their beautiful, renovated brownstones. But when Ruby witnesses a murder, she has wicked plans in mind that don¡¯t involve telling the authorities the truth.

Eddie Flynn, streetwise ex con-artist-turned-defense attorney, is the only lawyer in New York City willing to take on hopeless cases. And none is more hopeless than John Jackson¡¯s¡ªthe gun that killed his neighbor found, with Jackson¡¯s DNA, in his own home. Flynn and his unconventional team will need to use every trick they know to keep an innocent man from being locked up. But to save his client¡¯s life, Eddie must first protect his own, as the scariest organized criminals in the city are out for his head.]]>
417 Steve Cavanagh 1035408236 Frode 0 wish-list, to-read 4.40 2024 Witness 8 (Eddie Flynn #8)
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Th1rt3en (Eddie Flynn, #4) 36217425 The serial killer isn't on trial.

He's on the jury...

They were Hollywood's hottest power couple. They had the world at their feet. Now one of them is dead and Hollywood star Robert Solomon is charged with the brutal murder of his beautiful wife.

This is the celebrity murder trial of the century and the defence want one man on their team: con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn.

All the evidence points to Robert's guilt, but as the trial begins a series of sinister incidents in the court room start to raise doubts in Eddie's mind.

What if there's more than one actor in the courtroom?

What if the killer isn't on trial? What if the killer is on the jury?]]>
356 Steve Cavanagh 1409170667 Frode 5 4.19 2018 Th1rt3en (Eddie Flynn, #4)
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The Wandering Earth 35491680
Here is the first collection of his short fiction: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures.]]>
447 Liu Cixin 1784978515 Frode 4 owned 4.18 2000 The Wandering Earth
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Lukkertid 195014636
Det handler om seks personer i sommerukene som f?lger. For livstruende syke Jenny blir tidsstansen redningen. For Jakob, som venter barn, er den et brutalt hinder. Mens den endrer hele forholdet mellom nyforelskede Ellen og Philip. Desperasjonen stiger, men hva skal til for ? vende tilbake til normalen?

Lukkertid er en fengslende og leken fortelling om ? ha uendelig med tid. En historie med mange lag som utforsker v?rt forhold til egen kropp, til tid og ikke minst til d?dens ub?nnh?rlighet.]]>
269 Maja Lunde 8203398804 Frode 4 owned 3.59 2023 Lukkertid
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<![CDATA[If on a Winter's Night a Traveller]]> 52513609 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino. You like it. But there's a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the hero of them all is you, the reader.]]> 260 Italo Calvino Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.83 1979 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
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Blodm?ne (Harry Hole, #13) 61169711
I Oslo er to jenter forsvunnet og drept. ?n av de mistenkte er en kjent eiendomsbaron. Katrine Bratt vil kontakte landets fremste spesialist p? seriemord, men for sjefene i Politiet er et samarbeid med Harry Hole uaktuelt. Den mistenkte eiendomsbaronen vil derimot hyre ham som privatetterforsker. Harry takker nei, men det er f?r kartellet tar Lucille som gissel. L?ser han saken, skal han f? en bonus som dekker Lucilles gjeld.

Hjemme i Norge samler Harry et lag best?ende av en kokainselgende barndomsvenn, en korrupt politimann og en kreftsyk psykolog. Kartellet har gitt dem ti dager. Klokka tikker, og det er varslet blodm?ne over Oslo.]]>
488 Jo Nesb? 820339518X Frode 4 owned 4.14 2022 Blodm?ne (Harry Hole, #13)
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Hermit: The Mysterious Life of Jim Whyte]]> 52654343 153 Jeffrey H. Ryan 1633811883 Frode 0 to-read 4.08 2019 Hermit: The Mysterious Life of Jim Whyte
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The Firm 10227878 490 John Grisham 0099537095 Frode 4 owned 4.03 1991 The Firm
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average rating: 4.03
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rating: 4
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J R 11721654 The Recognitions, that tremendous book which, in the twenty years since its publication, has come to be acknowledged as an American masterpiece. And J R is a book of comparable magnitude, substance, and humor - a rushing, raucous look at money and its influence, at love and its absence, at success and its failures, in the magnificently orchestrated circus of all its larger - and smaller-than-life characters; a frantic, forlorn comedy about who uses - and misuses - whom.

At the center: J R, ambitious sixth-grader in torn sneakers, bred on the challenge of "free enterprise" and fired by heady mail-order promises of "success." His teachers would rather be elsewhere, his principal doubles as a bank president, his Long Island classroom mirrors the world he sees around him - a world of public relations and private betrayals where everything (and everyone) wears a price tag, a world of "deals" where honesty is no substitute for experience, and the letter of the law flouts its spirit at every turn. Operating from the remote anonymity of phone booths and the local post office, with beachheads in a seedy New York cafeteria and a catastrophic, carton-crammed tenement on East 96th Street, J R parlays a deal for thousands of surplus Navy picnic forks through penny stock flyers and a distant textile-mill bankruptcy into a nationwide, hydra-headed "family of companies."

The J R Corp and its Boss engulf brokers, lawyers, Congressmen, disaffected school teachers and disenfranchised Indians, drunks, divorc¨¦es, second-hand generals, and a fledgling composer hopelessly entangled in a nightmare marriage of business and the arts. Their bullish ventures - shaky mineral claims and gas leases, cost-plus defense contracts, a string of nursing homes cum funeral parlors, a formula for frozen music - burgeon into a paper empire ranging from timber to textiles, from matchbooks to (legalized) marijuana, from prostheses to publishing, inadvertently crushing hopes, careers, an entire town, on a collision course with the bigger world . . . the pragmatic Real World where the business of America is business, where the stock market exists as a convenience, and the tax laws make some people more equal than others . . . the world that makes the rules because it plays to win, and plays for keeps.

Absurdly logical, mercilessly real, gathering its own tumultuous momentum for the ultimate brush with commodity trading when the drop in pork belly futures masks the crumbling of our own, J R captures the reader in the cacophony of voices that revolves around this young captive of his own myths - voices that dominate the book, talking to each other, at each other, into phones, on intercoms, from TV screens and radios - a vast mosaic of sound that sweeps the reader into the relentless "real time" of spoken words in a way unprecedented in modern fiction. The disturbing clarity with which this finished writer captures the ways in which we deal, dissemble, stumble through our words - through our lives - while the real plans are being made elsewhere makes J R the extraordinary novel that it is.

From the first-edition dustjacket]]>
726 William Gaddis 1564784339 Frode 0 4.44 1975 J R
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<![CDATA[Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation]]> 28220730
In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore Chinese science fiction. Liu Cixin's essay, The Worst of All Possible Universes and The Best of All Possible Earths, gives a historical overview of SF in China and situates his own rise to prominence as the premier Chinese author within that context. Chen Qiufan's The Torn Generation gives the view of a younger generation of authors trying to come to terms with the tumultuous transformations around them. Finally, Xia Jia, who holds the first Ph.D. issued for the study of Chinese SF, asks What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?.]]>
383 Ken Liu 0765384191 Frode 4 owned 4.06 2016 Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
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Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3) 220970 432 Lee Child 0515128635 Frode 0 currently-reading 4.08 1999 Tripwire  (Jack Reacher, #3)
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<![CDATA[Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17)]]> 55883424 A cruise down the Nile on a river steamer sounds like the perfect way to get away from it all.
But the tranquil darkness of an Egyptian evening can change fast when the air is thick with hot passions and cold malice. Temperatures rise when the first passenger is shot, and Hercule Poirot must abandon the mysteries of ancient Egypt and focus on altogether deadlier matters...]]>
384 Agatha Christie 0008328935 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.12 1937 Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17)
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North Woods 71872930
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire.?A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.

Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we¡¯re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on, even after we¡¯re gone?]]>
372 Daniel Mason 0593597036 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 4.11 2023 North Woods
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The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1) 62336352
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity¡ªplant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity¡¯s survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.

Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist wife, they are a method to suppress non-architects. Their marriage is thorny and fraught¡ªyet when a jungle expedition goes terribly wrong, jeopardizing their careers, Ahilya and Iravan must work together to save their reputations. But as their city begins to plummet, their discoveries threaten not only their marriage, but their entire civilization.]]>
512 Kritika H. Rao Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.66 2023 The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1)
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Blod p? sn? 23958681 176 Jo Nesb? Frode 0 owned, currently-reading 3.31 2014 Blod p? sn?
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Mere blod (Blod p? sn?, #1) 32242348
Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect.

Hiding out in a shepherd¡¯s cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother and her young son, Knut.

But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.

And then he discovers that The Fisherman¡¯s men are getting closer¡­]]>
Jo Nesb? 8242170711 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.44 2015 Mere blod (Blod p? sn?, #1)
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My Darkest Prayer 60827561
¡°S.A. Cosby¡¯s reissued debut thriller proves he was a master from the start¡­Cosby has in three books emerged as one of the genre¡¯s best living practitioners...its reissue is a brilliant idea.¡± ¨DLos Angeles Times

¡°I handle the bodies.¡±

Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan to make sure the death isn¡¯t swept under the rug.

What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.

¡°[A] colorful tale of small-town corruption...[Cosby's] powerful storytelling skills shine through.¡±
¨DWashington Post]]>
288 S.A. Cosby 1250867630 Frode 4 3.94 2019 My Darkest Prayer
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)]]> 51204046
No one seems to take Naomi Pine's disappearance seriously, not even her father-with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school. Hester asks Wilde-with whom she shares a tragic connection-to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.

Wilde can't ignore an outcast in trouble, but in order to find Naomi he must venture back into the community where he has never fit in, a place where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions . . . secrets that Wilde must uncover before it's too late.]]>
371 Harlan Coben 1538748142 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.84 2020 The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)
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Flowers for Algernon 18378 216 Daniel Keyes 1857989384 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.38 1966 Flowers for Algernon
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<![CDATA[Jackson Browne: His Life and Music]]> 989334 Mark Bego 0806526424 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.38 2005 Jackson Browne: His Life and Music
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average rating: 3.38
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<![CDATA[Jackson Browne: The Story of a Hold Out]]> 1808338 Rich Wiseman 0385178301 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 4.00 Jackson Browne: The Story of a Hold Out
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<![CDATA[Willin': The Story of Little Feat]]> 16043517 Fronted by the charismatic but doomed vocalist and brilliant slide guitarist Lowell George, the band recorded such classic studio albums as Sailin¡¯ Shoes and Dixie Chicken , as well as Waiting for Columbus , which many consider to be one of the best live albums of all time.

Acclaimed journalist Ben Fong-Torres¡ªworking with Little Feat¡¯s surviving members, their friends, and associates¡ªwrote Willin¡¯ based on hours of brand new interviews with the key players. The result? The first definitive biography of this beloved rock ¡¯n¡¯ roll institution.]]>
296 Ben Fong-Torres 0306821311 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.55 2013 Willin': The Story of Little Feat
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<![CDATA[A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)]]> 226004 A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Emergents' plans are sinister.]]> 775 Vernor Vinge 0812536355 Frode 0 to-read, hugo-award-wishlist 4.31 1999 A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
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average rating: 4.31
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The Shipping News 7354
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
(back cover)]]>
337 Annie Proulx 0743225422 Frode 0 3.88 1993 The Shipping News
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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Mengele Zoo (Mino-series #1) 42280297
En dag rammer katastrofen ogs? hans landsby, og Mino er plutselig i sentrum av de store regnskogenes tragedie. Etter dette forvandles Mino til en fryktet kriger med ustoppelig hevnt?rst. I spissen for den beryktede sommerfugl-ligaen drar han ut i verden og sprer terror og skrekk.]]>
384 Gert Nyg?rdshaug 820259989X Frode 5 owned 4.22 1989 Mengele Zoo (Mino-series #1)
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name: Frode
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)]]> 60189904
The Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.

THE LAWYER

Eddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent. Now, he has to prove to a jury, and the entire world, that Carrie Miller was just another victim of the Sandman. She didn't know her husband's dark side and she had no part in the murders. But so far, Eddie and his team are the only ones who believe her.

THE FORMER FBI AGENT

Gabriel Lake used to be a federal agent, before someone tried to kill him. Now, he's an investigator with a vendetta against the Sandman. He's the only one who can catch him, because he believes that everything the FBI knows about serial killers is wrong.

THE KILLER

With his wife on trial, the Sandman is forced to come out of hiding to save her from a life sentence. He will kill to protect her and everyone involved in the case is a target.

Even Eddie Flynn...]]>
352 Steve Cavanagh Frode 0 wish-list, to-read 4.47 2022 The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)
author: Steve Cavanagh
name: Frode
average rating: 4.47
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<![CDATA[Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI]]> 35917282 Osage County, Oklahoma, in the 1920s was where the richest people per capita in the world were to be found. The reason? Oil.

After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage Indians had untold wealth. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off.

The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target, her relatives shot or poisoned. And, as the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case and began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Based on years of research and startling new evidence, this is a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating.

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339 David Grann 0857209035 Frode 5 owned 4.26 2017 Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
author: David Grann
name: Frode
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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Small Mercies 61812308 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River ¡ªan all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston¡¯s history.

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of ¡°Southie,¡± the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.

One night Mary Pat¡¯s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn¡¯t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched¡ªasking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don¡¯t take kindly to any threat to their business.

Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city¡¯s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.]]>
303 Dennis Lehane 0062129481 Frode 5 owned 4.22 2023 Small Mercies
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Frode
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/12
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Dennis Lehane does it again. This is one I will probably read again, which isn't something I do very often with books, but it won't be the first time re-reading Lehane novels.
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The Thief 18308683 211 Fuminori Nakamura 1472105877 Frode 3 owned 3.41 2009 The Thief
author: Fuminori Nakamura
name: Frode
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2015/03/08
date added: 2023/10/04
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<![CDATA[Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close]]> 4588
The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?

So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives, and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or further from, his lost father?]]>
326 Jonathan Safran Foer 0618711651 Frode 0 owned 3.98 2005 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
author: Jonathan Safran Foer
name: Frode
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24) 43903354
This isn¡¯t one of those times.

Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.

An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.

Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she¡¯s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It¡¯s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.]]>
364 Lee Child 0399593551 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.02 2019 Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
author: Lee Child
name: Frode
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2019
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Min kamp 2 (Min kamp, #2) 7429046
Book Two is at heart a love story¡ªthe story of Karl Ove falling in love with his wife. But the novel also tells other of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of Stockholm keeping him from (and filling) his novel.]]>
563 Karl Ove Knausg?rd 8249507053 Frode 0 owned, currently-reading 4.33 2009 Min kamp 2 (Min kamp, #2)
author: Karl Ove Knausg?rd
name: Frode
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Death Factory (Penn Cage, #3.5)]]> 18738884 112 Greg Iles 0062336681 Frode 4 owned 3.68 2014 The Death Factory (Penn Cage, #3.5)
author: Greg Iles
name: Frode
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles #2)]]> 59446280 DUNE MESSIAH: the extraordinary sequel to Dune, the greatest science fiction novel of all time.

Twelve years after his victory over House Harkonnen, Paul Atreides rules as emperor from the desert planet Arrakis - but his victory has had profound consequences. War has been brought to the entire known universe, and billions have already perished. Despite having become the most powerful emperor known to history, Paul is powerless to bring an end to the fighting.

While former allies conspire to dethrone Paul and even his own consort acts against him, Paul accepts a gift from the Tleilaxu, a guild of genetic manipulators, hoping to find a single spark of peace and friendship amidst the betrayal and chaos. But this act undermines Paul's support from the Fremen, his own people. The Fremen are the true source of Paul's power; losing them is the one thing that could truly topple his empire.

As matters escalate, Paul will be forced to chose between his throne, his wife, his people and his future - and the future of the entire universe.

An epic novel of the cost of victory... and the price of war.

Brilliant...it is all that Dune was, and maybe a little more.
-- Galaxy Magazine]]>
293 Frank Herbert 1473655323 Frode 4 owned 3.78 1969 Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles #2)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Frode
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1969
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Devils Punchbowl (Penn Cage, #3)]]> 6867655
When he was a prosecuting attorney Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown - Natchez, Mississippi - that Penn will face his most dangerous threat.

Urged by old friends to restore the town to its former glory, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez has turned to casino gambling. Five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market like props from Gone With the Wind. But one boat isn't like the others. Rumour has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas. And with them comes an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport, and the dark vices that go with it.

When a childhood friend of Penn's who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn's failure to protect this city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it's a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family's life at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honour.]]>
560 Greg Iles 0007304846 Frode 4 owned
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3.83 2009 The Devils Punchbowl (Penn Cage, #3)
author: Greg Iles
name: Frode
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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This is a 4,5 and close to a 5, even. Greg Iles always delivers, and this is no exception.

FYI: It's a tough read at times, as some of the content is brutal.
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Ascension 59070061
An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious phenomena, is contacted by a shadowy organization to help investigate, he has no idea what he is getting into as he and his team set out for the mountain.

The higher Harold¡¯s team ascends, the less things make sense. Time moves differently, turning minutes into hours, and hours into days. Amid the whipping cold of higher elevation, the climbers¡¯ limbs numb and memories of their lives before the mountain begin to fade. Paranoia quickly turns to violence among the crew, and slithering, ancient creatures pursue them in the snow. Still, as the dangers increase, the mystery of the mountain compels them to its peak, where they are certain they will find their answers. Have they stumbled upon the greatest scientific discovery known to man or the seeds of their own demise?

Framed by the discovery of Harold Tunmore¡¯s unsent letters to his family and the chilling and provocative story they tell, Ascension considers the limitations of science and faith and examines both the beautiful and the unsettling sides of human nature.]]>
320 Nicholas Binge 0008505810 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.63 2023 Ascension
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Drowning 59345230 New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman¡ªwhose first book Falling was an instant #1 national bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021¡ªreturns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.

Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors¡ªbut it¡¯s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.

More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.

Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent¡ªShannon¡¯s mother and Will¡¯s soon-to-be ex-wife¡ªwho must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.

There¡¯s not much time.

There¡¯s even less air.

With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family¡¯s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them¡ªagainst impossible odds.]]>
304 T.J. Newman 1982177918 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.10 2023 Drowning
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The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1) 153591718
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity¡ªplant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity¡¯s survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.

Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist wife, they are a method to suppress non-architects. Their marriage is thorny and fraught¡ªyet when a jungle expedition goes terribly wrong, jeopardizing their careers, Ahilya and Iravan must work together to save their reputations. But as their city begins to plummet, their discoveries threaten not only their marriage, but their entire civilization.]]>
521 Kritika H. Rao 1803361247 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.53 2023 The Surviving Sky (Rages, #1)
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average rating: 3.53
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<![CDATA[A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)]]> 53529219 ?
In what may be the most personal and accomplished legal thriller of John Grisham¡¯s storied career, we deepen our acquaintance with the iconic Southern town of Clanton and the vivid cast of characters that so many readers know and cherish. The result is a richly rewarding novel that is both timely and timeless, full of wit, drama, and¡ªmost of all¡ªheart.
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Bursting with all the courthouse scheming, small-town intrigue, and stunning plot twists that have become the hallmarks of the master of the legal thriller, A Time for Mercy is John Grisham¡¯s most powerful courtroom drama yet.
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There is a time to kill and a time for justice. Now comes A Time for Mercy .

Don¡¯t miss John Grisham¡¯s new book, THE AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!]]>
480 John Grisham 0385545975 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.31 2020 A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)
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<![CDATA[The Moonlight World (The Midnight Children)]]> 57224003 134 Tunku Halim 9814914231 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.50 The Moonlight World (The Midnight Children)
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<![CDATA[Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous]]> 60393405
On 13th, April 2020, shortly after the publication of his first novel, The Greedy Barbarian, Kakwenza was arrested at his home in Iganga by security agents, detained and tortured for a week, at the military barracks in Mbuya. He was then arraigned in court on the charge of "an act likely to spread the infection of disease (COVID-19), contrary to section 171 of the Penal Code Act, cap 120", and remanded in custody to Busesa government prison. The charge was subsequently dismissed by the magistrate for lack of witnesses. In BANANA REPUBLIC, Rukirabashaija describes his harrowing ordeal in the chambers of security agencies.]]>
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.00 Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous
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Kill for Me Kill for You 123113649 She will kill your worst enemy.

All you have to do is kill hers.

One dark evening in New York City, two strangers meet by chance.
Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realise they have so much in common.

They both feel alone. They both drink alone.
And they both desperately want revenge against the two men who destroyed their families.

Together, they have the perfect plan.
If you kill for me, I'll kill for you...]]>
353 Steve Cavanagh 1035408171 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.34 2023 Kill for Me Kill for You
author: Steve Cavanagh
name: Frode
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2023
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<![CDATA[We Know by Gregg Hurwitz (2008-08-21)]]> 134316281 0 Gregg Hurwitz Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.58 2008 We Know by Gregg Hurwitz (2008-08-21)
author: Gregg Hurwitz
name: Frode
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]> 80571
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America¡¯s nuclear secrets.

In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the authors capture Oppenheimer¡¯s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.]]>
721 Kai Bird Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.27 2005 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
author: Kai Bird
name: Frode
average rating: 4.27
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Carrie Soto Is Back 60435878 Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.

By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.

But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.

At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.

In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.]]>
384 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158687 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.19 2022 Carrie Soto Is Back
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
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average rating: 4.19
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<![CDATA[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]> 32620332
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn¡¯s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ¡®80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn¡¯s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique¡¯s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]>
389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.39 2017 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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average rating: 4.39
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<![CDATA[The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)]]> 58957615
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.

While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?

From an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series.]]>
413 Richard Osman 0241512425 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.32 2022 The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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average rating: 4.32
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No Middle Name 32969083
Contents:
* Too Much Time / Novella by Lee Child: finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime.
* Small Wars / Short story by Lee Child: back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an isolated forest road in Georgia, and whose killer may be hiding in plain sight.
* Not a Drill / Short story by Lee Child: Reacher tries to take some downtime, but a pleasant hike in Maine turns into a walk on the wild side, and perhaps something far more sinister.
* High Heat / Novella by Lee Child: time-hops to 1977, when Reacher is a teenager in sweltering New York City during a sudden blackout that awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps.
* Second Son / Short story by Lee Child: Okinawa is the setting, which reveals the pivotal moment when young Reacher¡¯s sharp ¡°lizard brain¡± becomes just as important as his muscle.
* Deep Down / Reacher tracks down a spy by matching wits with four formidable females, three of whom are clean, but the fourth may prove fatal.
* Guy Walks into a Bar / Short story by Lee Child
* James Penney¡¯s New Identity (2019) / Short story by Lee Child
* Everyone Talks / Short story by Lee Child
* The Picture of the Lonely Diner / Short story by Lee Child
* Maybe They Have a Tradition / Short story by Lee Child
* No Room at the Motel / Short story by Lee Child

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418 Lee Child 0399593578 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.88 2017 No Middle Name
author: Lee Child
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 2017
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White Noise 28251250
White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra?modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys¡ªradio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings¡ªpulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition]]>
320 Don DeLillo 0143129554 Frode 0 to-read, owned 3.88 1985 White Noise
author: Don DeLillo
name: Frode
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1985
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American Death Songs 17162036
From the California high desert to a Texas prison yard, from Ozarks dive bars to the shadows of Hollywood, these stories burst with gutter grandeur and criminal mythology. Harper burns through prison-tatted flesh to expose his characters¡¯ hardened, scarred but still beating hearts. And he does it with a virtuoso prose style that brews pulp panache and literary flare into pure nitroglycerin.

¡°A harrowing, hallowing ode to those whose options boil down to a bullet, a bank or a strange stretch of highway. American Letters has found in Harper an agent worthy to take the crime fiction tradition into the 21st century.¡± ¨C Hardboiled Wonderland]]>
165 Jordan Harper 0988721600 Frode 0 4.41 2012 American Death Songs
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name: Frode
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2012
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The Last King of California 61305886 Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from.
You just might not like what you find.

After failing in his new life, Luke decides to go home, back to the one place where he¡¯d once felt he belonged. But that was a long time ago and now he has to face the life that he chose to run away from: The Combine. The gang that his uncle now leads, but which his father still runs from prison. Brutal, unforgiving . . . family.

Reunited with his childhood friend Callie and tagging along on jobs with her and her boyfriend Pretty Baby, Luke soon discovers that he might have a place back home after all. When another gang try to encroach on their turf, The Combine and Luke must go to war to save all that they know.

But in trying to be someone you¡¯re not, can you ever find out who you really are?

Family is everything and blood is love.]]>
317 Jordan Harper Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 4.08 2022 The Last King of California
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average rating: 4.08
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Everybody Knows 61030532 Welcome to Mae Pruett¡¯s Los Angeles, where? ¡°Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.¡±? As a ¡°black-bag¡± publicist tasked not with letting the good news out but keeping the bad news in, Mae works for one of LA¡¯s most powerful and sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers, PR flaks, and private security firms she calls ¡°The Beast.¡± They protect the rich and powerful and depraved by any means necessary.?
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After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack, Mae takes it upon herself to investigate and runs headfirst into The Beast¡¯s lawless machinations and the twisted systems it exists to perpetuate. It takes her on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles full of influencers pumped full of pills and fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night.
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Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper¡¯s EVERYBODY KNOWS is addicting and alarming, a ¡°juggernaut of a novel¡± and ¡°an absolute tour de force.¡± It is what the crime novel can achieve in the modern age: portray the human lives at the center of vast American landscapes, and make us thrill at their attempts to face impossible odds.]]>
352 Jordan Harper 0316457914 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.66 2023 Everybody Knows
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She Rides Shotgun 23361199 257 Jordan Harper 0062394401 Frode 4 3.98 2017 She Rides Shotgun
author: Jordan Harper
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Complete Italian Grammar Verbs Vocabulary: 3 Books in 1 (Collins Easy Learning)]]> 25065780 720 HarperCollins 0008141754 Frode 0 to-read, owned 4.32 2010 Complete Italian Grammar Verbs Vocabulary: 3 Books in 1 (Collins Easy Learning)
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The Books of Jacob 58276619
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs.

The story of Frank -- a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day -- is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries -- those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is -- The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.]]>
965 Olga Tokarczuk Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.89 2014 The Books of Jacob
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The Man Who Spoke Snakish 25246592 The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity.

Set in a fantastical version of medieval Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a young boy, Leemet, who lives with his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of snakish, a language that allows its speakers to command all animals. But the forest is gradually emptying as more and more people leave to settle in villages, where they break their backs tilling the land to grow wheat for their ¡°bread¡± (which Leemet has been told tastes horrible) and where they pray to a god very different from the spirits worshipped in the forest¡¯s sacred grove. With lothario bears who wordlessly seduce women, a giant louse with a penchant for swimming, a legendary flying frog, and a young charismatic viper named Ints, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a totally inventive novel for readers of David Mitchell, Sj¨®n, and Terry Pratchett.]]>
442 Andrus Kivir?hk 0802124127 Frode 4 owned 4.00 2007 The Man Who Spoke Snakish
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rating: 4
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Savages 11061236
Savages is an adrenaline-fuelled novel by a master thriller writer at the very top of his game.]]>
302 Don Winslow Frode 4 owned 3.92 2010 Savages
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average rating: 3.92
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<![CDATA[The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)]]> 35487457 311 Agatha Christie 0008196206 Frode 0 owned, to-read 3.76 1924 The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
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average rating: 3.76
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<![CDATA[Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)]]> 14288851 253 Raymond Chandler Frode 4 owned 3.71 1940 Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1940
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath]]> 59366154
Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin¡¯s number one enemy by exposing Putin¡¯s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.

When Bill Browder¡¯s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life¡¯s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.

As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder¡¯s campaign to expose Putin¡¯s corruption that prompted Russia¡¯s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.

At once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for justice , Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world¡ªand win.]]>
336 Bill Browder 1982153288 Frode 0 owned, to-read 4.26 2022 Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
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The Dry Heart 42268742 The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: ¡°I shot him between the eyes.¡± As the tale¡ªa plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness¡ªproceeds, the narrator¡¯s murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg¡¯s writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don¡¯t more wives kill their husbands?]]> 88 Natalia Ginzburg 0811228789 Frode 0 to-read, wish-list 3.98 1947 The Dry Heart
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average rating: 3.98
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Knife (Harry Hole, #12) 40874878
A man like Harry had better watch his back...

Following the dramatic conclusion of number one bestseller THE THIRST, KNIFE sees Harry Hole waking up with a ferocious hangover, his hands and clothes covered in blood. Not only is Harry about to come face to face with an old, deadly foe, but with his darkest personal challenge yet.

The twelfth instalment in Jo Nesbo¡¯s internationally bestselling crime fiction series.]]>
531 Jo Nesb? 1787300765 Frode 4 4.21 2019 Knife (Harry Hole, #12)
author: Jo Nesb?
name: Frode
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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The Nothing Man 51166217
Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family's killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim's not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man.

Jim soon beings to realize how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won't give up until she finds him. He has no choice but to stop her first ...]]>
288 Catherine Ryan Howard 1538519739 Frode 0 to-read 4.05 2020 The Nothing Man
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Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4) 6979826 The Snowman¡ªsoon to be a major motion picture, starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and J. K. Simmons.

Captured on closed-circuit television: A man walks into an Oslo bank, puts a gun to a cashier's head, and tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money fast enough, he pulls the trigger. The young woman dies¡ªand two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace.

After a drunken evening with former girlfriend Anna Bethsen, Police Detective Harry Hole wakes up at home with a headache, no cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. The same day, Anna is found shot dead in her bedroom, making Hole a prime suspect in the investigation led by his hated adversary, Tom Waaler. Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery, sending rogue detective Hole from the streets of Oslo to steaming Brazil in a race to close two cases and clear his name. But Waaler isn't finished with his longtime nemesis quite yet.]]>
474 Jo Nesb? 0061655511 Frode 0 3.98 2002 Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
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<![CDATA[The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)]]> 498389
Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work.

A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil's star is key to solving the riddle.]]>
528 Jo Nesb? 0099478536 Frode 0 4.05 2003 The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
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The Redeemer (Harry Hole, #6) 33641782 B004J4WMZO

A fantastically gripping thriller from the best-selling author of The Snowman.

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole¡ªthe Oslo Police Department¡¯s best investigator and worst civil servant¡ªhas little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry¡¯s troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry¡¯s chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia.

Yet it¡¯s when he returns to Oslo that he encounters true darkness: among the homeless junkies and Salvationists, eagerly awaiting a savior to deliver them from misery¡ªwhether he brings new life or immediate death.

With its shrewdly vertiginous narrative, acid-etched characters, and white-hot pace, The Redeemer is resounding proof of Jo Nesb?¡¯s standing as one of the best crime writers of our time.]]>
466 Jo Nesb? Frode 0 4.10 2005 The Redeemer (Harry Hole, #6)
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2005
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