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Brooklyn Wainwright is a bookbinder. Doesn't sound that exciting, but she enjoys it. When her mentor and former boss is given the project of a lifetime, a copy of Goethe's Faust, Brooklyn is slightly jealous but knows Abraham deserves it. However the book is said to be cursed and anyone who works with it, or on it, will die. When Abraham is murdered everyone thinks it's the curse. But when Brooklyn is accused of the murder she decides to take matters into her own hands. Will she find the killer? Or will the murderer find her?

Reviewed by Elizabeth S., Charlotte, NC

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They call him Boneman. He hates that name. Boneman just murders girls. Only breaks their bones. But he is much more than that. He is Satan and he's beautiful. Six girls have died. None of them worthy to be his daughter. But when he takes Bethany he believes he has finally found the ideal girl. She's sixteen, she's perfect. However Ryan, her true father, isn't giving up without a fight. For his daughter and himself, Ryan will do whatever it takes to find her. But will he locate her before she sins? Before Satan starts breaking her bones?

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Winner of the Pulitzer and other prizes, this book, a cultural rather than a combat history, remains after 30 years a classic as well as a valuable source on the Vietnamese and America's ill-fated decision to meddle in their revolution. More than anything else, it makes crystal clear the profound difference in values and the total lack of understanding between the two cultures. Indeed, the application of lessons learned and - more importantly - not learned in the "American War" suggest that history is hell-bent upon repeating itself again and again until America learns to walk a mile in other cultures' shoes.

Reviewed by Jim B., Main Library

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Fate brings together two conflicted characters in this Regency Romance by the talented Sabrina Jeffries. Both Oliver Sharpe, the Marquess of Stoveville, and Maria Butterfield, American heiress, are in search of a marriage partner. Oliver needs a fake fiancé to thwart his devious grandmother’s matrimonial threats, and Maria traveled across the ocean to find her lost fiancé. After a chance encounter at a brothel, of all places, they make a deal to help one another. Jeffries delivers two complex characters who learn relationships are never easy, and changing is even harder. With a fast paced plot and several surprises, Jeffries has the reader hooked for the new series of the Hellions of Halstead Hall.

Reviewed by Sally W., Beatties Ford Road Branch

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Pirates of the Caribbean or rather, “Privateers” of the Caribbean, 1665. The difference between the two terms isn’t ‘quibbling,’ but the difference between being tried and executed as an outlaw if caught, or working honorably for the Crown. Captain Hunter, an English privateer, sets out on a sea voyage with a colorful cast of characters from Port Royal, Jamaica to Matanceros, a heavily fortified Spanish outpost, to seize a Spanish galleon and exact vengeance on the feared Commander Cazalla. Published posthumously, this book is an action-packed page-turner, drama on the high seas, with narrow escapes, a damsel in distress, bloodthirsty Caribs, a hurricane, gold fever, and ultimately, betrayal. Based on historical characters and events, Pirate Latitudes is a satisfying, fast read.

Reviewed by Vera B., North County Regional

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