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Jean’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jean Baxter
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in Beaver Dam, The United States
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| The only thing I ever heard about Siberia was it's a cold and desolate place. This author, Joy, had an assignment to go there for six months over the winter to teach English to Russian miners during the early 1990's. Most people would probably not le ...more | |
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| I was gifted this book from another author in my writer's group. I really enjoyed it! It switches back and forth between a love story during WW2 in France and another story in the 1980's in Boston. They are mysteriously similar, and the 2 main charac ...more | |
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Elusive Common Sense: Why is Common Sense So Hard to Find? (Growing Up Alex)
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| Alex is going on twelve and obsessed with writing and learning new words, so the big year-end spelling bee is right up her alley. The prize is a brand new dictionary and a thesaurus. She is determined to win, but of course she runs into many obstacle ...more | |
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| What a page turner, and based on a true story! Lale was a young Jewish man who was sent to Auschwitz. Like all the other men on his train, they had no idea where they were going or what was in store. He happened to be fluent in several languages and ...more | |
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| Ever since Casey was a child, all she ever wanted was to be a mother. Now in her mid-thirties, with no hopeful prospects for a husband, or even a possible man willing to step up, she decides to visit a sperm bank. She tells all her friends and family ...more | |
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| An oldie but goodie. Pretty predictable, yet the characters are endearing and realistic so I found it an easy read. Jackie may have been the perfect mom, but her overwhelming love of her children came with a huge price, her marriage. Her ex=husband f ...more | |
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| Who doesn't enjoy a Mary Higgins Clark story? This one involves the kidnapping of twins for an eight million dollar ransom. What could possibly go wrong? The kidnappers are amateurs, one of the twins becomes ill, one of the kidnappers decides she wan ...more | |
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| This book had it all, a great storyline, likable characters and food for thought. The story centers on twelve-year-old Eddie who is moving with his family from New York to California. Their belongings are packed and going by truck, but the family is ...more | |
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Better Than Mom's: Life and love in a small town diner.
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Navigating Indiew...: Author Interviews | 14 | 16 | Feb 17, 2018 02:59PM |
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
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Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie
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Goodreads Librarians Group
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YA Story Sisters Book Club
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— last activity Aug 22, 2020 10:59PM
This is the reading club hosted by a group of YA writers called The YA Story Sisters. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book selected ...more
Review Group
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— last activity 1 hour, 45 min ago
Reviews are very important for Self-Published (SP), and Indie authors, just as they are for others. Unfortunately, though, many SP/Indie books don't g ...more
Young Adult Fiction for Adults
— 10951 members
— last activity 23 hours, 47 min ago
Whatever your age is, if you love reading young adult fiction, then I want to know what you are reading! Let's exchange ideas of good reads, nice idea ...more
Addicted to YA
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put bac ...more
