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64 reviews
Christopher Reich

Island Books, 2001

Good 2nd effort from Reich
The story takes us into WWII with a U.S. attorney, Devlin Judge, who being a part of an international tribunal to try Nazi war criminals, sets his own vengeful agenda and tries to find Erich Siegfried Seyss who killed his brother. What Judge doesn't realize is that Seyss has escaped his prison and is running on a deadly mission, a part of a secret conspiracy, to make a killing which will be a ...

Classic Essays on Photography
Alan Trachtenberg

Leetes Island Books, 1981

In Praise of Shadows

16 reviews
Junichiro Tanizaki

Leetes Island Books, 1980

Wabi Sabi - not to be confused with "wasabi"
The Japanese have an aesthetic concept called "Wabi Sabi." This term consists of two words. "Wabi" literally means "poverty," but in the aesthetic context it stands for simplicity; "Sabi" is literally "solitude, loneliness," and for aesthetic purposes it means something like natural impermanence. Wabi Sabi encourages, as one observer put it, a profound feeling of inner melancholy, and an ...

Black Light

52 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1997

Hunter and Swagger - A Winning Combination
Going back through some of my recent reads, I remembered that I was really happy with Stephen Hunter and his character, Bob Lee Swagger. Time to revisit both with Black Light. The novel begins with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father, in 1955. Earl is a Medal of Honor recipient for his efforts in the Pacific during World War II. 1955 finds Earl on patrol as an Arkansas State Trooper. On one ...

Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

49 reviews
James Lee Burke

Island Books, 1999

That's Why I Read His Books
Many comment on James Lee Burkes character, Dave Robicheaux's detailed discriptions of Louisiana's beauty and that they think he goes too far.....NOT ME! This is what I look for in a book. I want to see and feel what this writer sees and feels about this beautiful southern state. Don't stop! It took me a long time to find you and now, I can't get enough.

A Dangerous Fortune

83 reviews
Ken Follett

Island Books, 1994

KEN FOLLET DOES IT AGAIN
I STARTED WITH PILLARS, THEN WORLD WITHOUT END AND THIS WAS MY THIRD KEN FOLLETT BOOK AND I MUST SAY, I WAS THRILLED AGAIN!!! I LOVE HOW INVOLVED I BECOME IN HIS CHARACTERS LIVES, AND WITHOUT FAIL SEX EVERYWHERE!

The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar)

57 reviews
Harlan Coben

Island Books, 2000

Great Mystery
The Myron Bolitar series is awesome. These books are just as good as his individual novels but they have a much more positve mood, are funnier, and are just great fun. This one was not complex but not so much that you got lost, and once again, as in Fade Away, it ended up having a great deal to do with Myron's past. Awesome!

Time to Hunt

128 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1999

Time To Admire a Storyteller
I was given this book in August of 2007 on a trip to Idaho. I sat and read most of it in a house among the alfalfa growing on the western flank of the Tetons. What a view. What a book. Since then, I have read 4 additional Hunter books [including the first three in the Bob Lee Swagger series - - Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, and Black Light. Hunter weaves a story like few others can. The ...

The Testament

1119 reviews
John Grisham

Island Books, 1999

Legal Wrangling, Adventure, Sleaze, Redemption
Grisham brings his page-turning style to a contested will. Aged billionaire Troy Phelan commits suicide, leaving behind a questionable hand-written will and angry heirs (six kids and three ex-wives) who get nothing beyond their debts erased. The beneficiary is Troy's previously unknown illegitimate daughter Rachel, who lives as a penniless missionary among the Indians somewhere in the vast ...

Dirty White Boys

73 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1995

This will not convince you.
I love to read. But if the book does not grab me from the first couple pages, back it goes. Simply and ignorantly put, without all the details, I can surely say that this is one of, if not the best books I have ever read. I know!!!!! Not very helpful. But ya just gotta read it!!!!!!!!

Potent Pleasures

97 reviews
Eloisa James

Island Books, 2000

Engaging, entertaining, and generally brilliant
Both the characters and the story line are engaging and surprising, offering twists just when you think you've figured them out. Something that truly stands out as you read are the colorfulness of secondary characters, and the ease with which the author works them in. The male lead, Alex, is extremely compelling and transfixes you, and the female lead, Charlotte, is likable while still ...

Frontier Woman

18 reviews
Joan Johnston

Island Books, 2001

A really great story!
I thought this was a well written story. It is filled with lots of history and some frontier realities. It has the makings of a wonderful story with strained feelings of love, old enemies and betrayal. The main characters are Creed and Cricket but the story is also very full of Crickets two sisters, her father and Creeds brother Tom and his wife Amy. It's a book that, once started, is very ...

Handyman

50 reviews
Linda Nichols

Island Books, 2000

One of my favorite books
I love Linda Nichols books. They give me hope for the future and I want to be a better person after I have read one of her books. I warmly recommended this book to everyone who wants to become a good feeling, when the rain is dropping outside your windows. Linda has the gift to write books that is like movies. I am longing after to se this book as a movie and I am sure it is going to be at least ...

The Master Sniper

45 reviews
Stephen Hunter

Island Books, 1996

Master novel
Hunter does a great job setting this novel back in the time of WW2. Character and plot development is good. Action is very fast paced. I did find some of the combat situations a bit implausible but then I have never partaken of that particular pastime myself-certainly not in WW2. The character of Repp is developed well-a person who seems not sociopathic as much as simply devoid of any normal ...

Midnight Pleasures

31 reviews
Eloisa James

Island Books, 2001

Pleasantly Different
Midnight Pleasures is a wondeful read for those who love romance novels, and will capture the hearts and attention of those readers new to the genre. In the 424 page read you will find two enchanting characters that will cause you a great deal of frustration with their blatant lack of communication, and "Pride and Prejudices". The tragic twist not usually seen in romance novels will endear you ...

The Coalwood Way

66 reviews
Homer Hickam

Island Books, 2001

A Christmas to Remember
Dr. Werner von Braun once said, "Matters of faith are not really accessible to our rational thinking. I find it best not to ask any questions, but to just believe..." These words are truly conveyed throughout the second of Homer Hickam Jr.'s memoirs, The Coalwood Way, originally published in 2000. Although following his acclaimed, Rocket Boys, this compelling story does not continue where the ...

The Brethren

1024 reviews
John Grisham

Island Books, 2000

Hysterical
This book is absolutely marvelous. Very very funny, very very entertaining. As is usual for a Grisham book, no one is exactly the "good guy" in The Brethren, everyone is kind of their own bad guy, and you feel like cheering for all of them. I loved this- it's probably my favorite, right next to The Runaway Jury and The Painted House.

Guilt

43 reviews
John Lescroart

Island Books, 1998

Keeps you reading
GUILT is one of those books that keeps pushing you to read "just one more chapter." If you read the back cover, it is about a murder, but we don't get THAT murder until page 300. The set up is worth the read. Lescroart populates his novels with plenty of interesting characters and motives. The gist if the book is a successful lawyer is indicted for murdering his wife. You know the book is ...

The Mercy Rule

32 reviews
John Lescroart

Island Books, 1999

OPENING A LESCROAT BOOK IS LIKE MEETING OLD FRIENDS
Lescroat has that ability to make his primary characters believeable and earthy. In the "Dismas" books one feels like they are returning to old friends who have encountered some problems along the way. The only problem is that Dismas always seems to get involved in MURDER! And when that happens you can rest assured that Dismas looks under every stone until he finds the truth, the whole truth ...

Bravo Two Zero

155 reviews
Andy Mcnab

Island Books, 1994

One of the best war narratives available
Lots of details about tactics and also about the author's thought process. Very honest; the author is pretty humble, which is nice. Lots of action and adventure, all of it true.

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