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L.A.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at L.A.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
L.A. Starks’s Followers (730)
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L.A. Starks
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in Boston, The United States
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March 2011
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Curiosity Fest
Garland, TX Central Library
625 Austin St.
First-ever Curiosity Fest at Garland Library
All about writing and reading!
Please stop by if you're in the area --I'll be there 1-3 PM with the Lynn Dayton thrillers
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625 Austin St.
First-ever Curiosity Fest at Garland Library
All about writing and reading!
Please stop by if you're in the area --I'll be there 1-3 PM with the Lynn Dayton thrillers
Read more of this blog post »
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The Second Law (Lynn Dayton Thrillers, #3)
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2020
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Strike Price (Lynn Dayton, #2)
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2013
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9 editions
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13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy (Lynn Dayton Thriller, #1)
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2006
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4 editions
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Dog Days of Summer: Flash Fiction
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2021
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2 editions
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A Time for Eating Wild Onions
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2007
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Robert & Therese Guillard: Choices
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2007
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Incurable
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2020
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Josh Rosen and Bubbe
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2014
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Winner's Curse (Lynn Dayton, #4)
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Winner's Curse (Lynn Dayton Thrillers, #4)
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L.A.’s Recent Updates
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| This book was recommended as one of the best by Lisa Scottoline, which is saying a great deal since she is a #1-NYT rated author. Engrossing, suspenseful, surprising plot twists, excellent ensemble between the family members, including a haunting bac ...more | |
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This is a fun, lovely book with highly engaging characters readers will remember. Heads-up that with its alternating Dallas and Berlin settings, its references will especially appeal to those who know, live in, or have visited these cities. With situat ...more |
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| Intensely readable serial killer thriller from an author with whose movie production experience includes Disney, Dreamworks, Paramount, Fox, and Universal. Lucker's smart, noir LA roots meet FBI techniques, modern technology, and well-plotted charact ...more | |
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L.A. Starks
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625 Austin St. First-ever Curiosity Fest at Garland Library All about writing and reading! Please stop by if you're in the area --I'll be there 1-3 PM with the Lynn Dayton thrillers |
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Gordon delivers again with an action-packed, well-informed thriller set in Florida and the Caymans with subplots ranging from Cuba to crypto. Highly recommended, especially for action-adventure readers. |
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| Enthusiastic, fascinating novel set in Oklahoma (unusually but appropriately, with an echo of the 1995 Murrah bombing), Bailey entertains and alarms with how the seemingly impossible could occur in reality. Bailey knows his military protocol and proc ...more | |
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| A true classic of the town-and-gown conflict, done as a mystery and--most interestingly--with the protagonist in both roles. This gripping, suspenseful novel takes place in a fictional small North Carolina (I think) college town in which the protagon ...more | |
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In this book, Scottoline "leaves it all on the field," in an intense and moving character study as a family fractures and then reunites over long-held secrets and current-day attacks. I have seldom read such a true-to-life, gripping family ensemble th ...more |
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This book, an ITW finalist, passes the feminist Bechdel test with flying colors. The Bechdel test is explained here: https://filmlifestyle.com/what-is-the... This is the 4th in Gardiner's UNSUB series. To be honest, I prefer the earlier ones, probably ...more |
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| Action/Adventure ...: September/October 2018 Featured Member-Author Group Read Nominations | 7 | 33 | Sep 02, 2018 10:57AM | |
| Action/Adventure ...: September/October 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy by L.A. Starks | 34 | 79 | Nov 29, 2018 02:34PM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Kristy's Kozy Reading Chair | 35 | 95 | Dec 17, 2018 10:04AM | |
| A Good Thriller: * 25,000 Pages In 2019 | 193 | 178 | Dec 31, 2019 08:15PM | |
| A Good Thriller: * Can 1,750,000 Pages Be Read In 2019? | 1131 | 270 | Feb 17, 2020 01:44AM |
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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“This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day”
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day”
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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Stephen
Apr 28, 2017 02:46AM
Thanks for the friend request. I look forward to reading your books.
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Hi L.A. - thanks for the friend request. I see you are a writer of thrillers, that must be so much fun!
William wrote: "UK Amazon URL for Strike Pricehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Strike-Price...
Just got it in Amazon.co.UK - NOT £0.00, sorry
I actually paid £5.35..."
Hi William,
Sorry if there is confusion. The Kindle Unlimited price is 0.00--that's out of my hands because Amazon itself runs that program. The UK Kindle Countdown discount I mentioned starts (and is the largest) September 12, with an initial price of 0.99 pounds, gradually increasing by the 19th back to 5.35 pounds.
LAS
UK Amazon URL for Strike Pricehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Strike-Price...
Just got it in Amazon.co.UK - NOT £0.00, sorry
I actually paid £5.35 - Is this the discounted price?!!
Christy wrote: "Thank you for the friend invite.....You said "Purdue!" I'm curious now....do you have a connection to the university?"I came very close to attending for college, so West Lafayette remains special to me. (And after college I lived and worked in northwest Indiana for a year.)
Thank you for the friend invite.....You said "Purdue!" I'm curious now....do you have a connection to the university?
Have A Prosperous New Year..... Enjoy reading the books....
All D Best for your books challenge....
Give Best books for us....
Hi, The Orion Team is now doing a "Ask Me Anything" interview with military thriller writer Joshua Hood, author of "Clear By Fire" . Click the link and post questions early! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hi LA, Thank you for adding me--I love how close our tastes run! Would love to swap reads with you--my first comes out June 30. Your blurbs look terrific!
Thanks for adding Me as a friend look forward to reading your books
taide wrote: "Thanks for the friend request! I read The Summer of Dead Toys a few years ago and I loved it!"I am about to read The Summer of Dead Toys. I liked The Good Suicides.
Zenny,Thanks. Do let me know if you read and like one or both.
LAS
Thanks for the invite! I see that you're an author, I'll have to check out your books!
Megan wrote: "Thanks for the friend request! I see you are reading Wool as well, how is it? I just started it 5 minutes ago haha." It is great. Well worth reading--you'll enjoy it.
Thanks for the friend request! I see you are reading Wool as well, how is it? I just started it 5 minutes ago haha.
Thank you for the friend request. And no no I haven't read nearly that amount, I just want to read that amount, ha ha.
Hi L.A.,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow Goodreads author!
