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L.A.’s 2024 Year in Books
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L.A. Starks
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IAN Category Finalist!
I'm happy to announce that Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller was a finalist in the Action category for the 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award! https://www.independentauthornetwork....
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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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9 editions
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Dog Days of Summer: Flash Fiction
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2021
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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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| Absolutely one of the best books I've read in the last few years. Although fiction, or really maybe because fiction, (authors think hard about "what-if"), The Proving Ground should be required reading for everyone on the subject of AI. While well-res ...more | |
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I really liked the Geneva (and general European) settings. This book is translated to English. European sensibility (the SWAT officer). Great twists at the end. Recommended. |
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added a status update: Happy to announce the Winner's Curse is a finalist in the Action category for the 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award Winners!
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There are others in this series I've liked more, especially the earliest ones. The relationship stuff feels overdone, a bit florid. However, Cornwell delivers, as always, on action and suspense. And, there is simply no one better than Cornwell on the ...more |
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In the Time of Five Pumpkins (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #26)
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As always, Alexander McCall Smith could be writing a travelogue for publication about Botswana. This book finds Precious Ramotswe untangling several new situations with the able assistance of Makutsi and Potokwane. The style is stream-of-consciousnes ...more |
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| Read on the recommendation of Tom Nolan, WSJ mystery/thriller reviewer. This is one to read mainly for the setting and time: 1990s China just as it is changing shape. Very sympathetic characters--the poet/police officer is interesting. The politics a ...more | |
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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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| 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 & 2026 Readi...: Kristy's Kozy Reading Chair | 35 | 95 | Dec 17, 2018 10:04AM | |
| A Good Thriller: * 25,000 Pages In 2019 | 193 | 179 | 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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“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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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!
