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    <title>Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)</title>
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    <title>Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)</title>
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    <title>The Year of the Locust</title>
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    <author_name>Terry Hayes</author_name>
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                                      author: Terry Hayes<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Moscow Cipher (Ben Hope, #17)]]></title>
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    <book_id>37093731</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<p>The Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller returns with the 17th Ben Hope thriller.</p><p>
  <strong>‘If you like your conspiracies twisty, your action bone-jarring, and your heroes impossibly dashing, then look no farther.’ MARK DAWSON</strong>
</p><p>When twelve-year-old Valentina fails to return from a visit to her father in Moscow, alarm bells start ringing. Her rich and powerful family know there’s one man they can depend on to bring her back safe: former SAS major Ben Hope.</p><p>But what starts off as an apparently straightforward case of parental child abduction quickly takes on more sinister dimensions as Ben travels to Moscow and starts to investigate the whereabouts of Valentina and her father, Yuri – a man with a hidden past not even his ex-wife knows about.</p><p>Now that past has caught up with him, it’s not only Yuri’s life that is in danger, but Valentina’s too. If Ben Hope can’t save them, nobody can.</p><p>BEN HOPE is one of the most celebrated action adventure heroes in British fiction and Scott Mariani is the author of numerous bestsellers. Join the ever-growing legion of readers who get breathless with anticipation when the countdown to the new Ben Hope thriller begins…</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Scott Mariani</author_name>
    <isbn>000748643X</isbn>
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                                      author: Scott Mariani<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Bach Manuscript (Ben Hope #16)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A LOST MANUSCRIPT. A SAVAGE MURDER. A DEADLY SECRET.<br /><br />While on a business trip to the UK, Ben Hope makes an impulse decision to attend a college reunion at his former university, Oxford. There he meets an old friend, Nick, now an internationally-renowned classical musician.<br /><br />But storm clouds are soon once again brewing on Ben’s horizon. After Nick’s brutal murder in an apparent home invasion robbery, Ben is drawn into the mystery of a missing music manuscript that may be a lost work by the legendary composer Johann Sebastian Bach.<br /><br />The hunt for his friend’s killers leads Ben across Europe, and into bloody conflict with even more dangerous people than he’d bargained for. As his quest unfolds, so does the shocking truth about the lost Bach manuscript, a secret dating back to the very darkest historical chapter of Man’s inhumanity to Man.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Scott Mariani</author_name>
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                                      author: Scott Mariani<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.33<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Cage (DI Tom McAllister #1)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Does a reformed pedophile have a right to live? <br /><br />That's the controversial question many citizens of Oxfordshire are asking when a skilled, ruthless assassin starts targeting newly-released child sex offenders. Some want the 'paedo killer' locked up forever. Others think he's a hero. Either way, now it's DI Tom McAllister's job to catch the elusive murderer.<br /><br />Not your ordinary police detective, Tom's a maverick outsider who always gets his man. But with the case spiralling out of control and the killer seemingly always one step ahead, he finds himself drawn into a deadly game of deception that threatens to destroy more than just his career. But the worst is yet to come, as the horrifying truth begins to emerge about the significance of THE CAGE . . .<br /><br />If you're a fan of smart, fast-paced detective thrillers with a twist, the first of Scott Mariani's sensational new DI Tom McAllister series will have you on the edge of your seat and yearning for more!]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Scott Mariani</author_name>
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                                      author: Scott Mariani<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.34<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
                                      read at: 2024/01/16<br/>
                                      date added: 2024/01/16<br/>
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    <title>Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695879-die-trying" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a></i><br /><br />In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman's abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline. . . and a burning match. The FBI is desperate to rescue the woman, a Special Agent from the Chicago office, because the FBI always - always - takes care of its own, and because this woman is not just another agent. Reacher and the woman join forces, against seemingly hopeless odds, to outwit their captors and escape. But the FBI thinks Jack is one of the kidnappers - and when they close in, the Bureau snipers will be shooting to kill.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>567</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Lee Child</author_name>
    <isbn>0515142247</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
    <book_published>1998</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: Lee Child<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.04<br/>
                                      book published: 1998<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Republic's Assassin (Jake Armitage Thriller Book #3)]]></title>
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    <book_id>203628375</book_id>
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    <book id="203628375">
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    <author_name>Simon W. Clark</author_name>
    <isbn>0645553646</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <book_published>2024</book_published>
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                                      author: Simon W. Clark<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.50<br/>
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                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2024/01/06<br/>
                                      date added: 2024/01/05<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Is it possible that Jake Armitage gets even better in number # 3 of series. Sure is. This time Jake is head to head against a first class assassin Vera James, his nemesis from the last story. They hunt a new virus in Taiwan and the growing evil from China. The twists and turns will keep you turning the pages until the end. Get yourself a copy today. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:04:08 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Babylon Idol (Ben Hope #15)]]></title>
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    <book_id>33176394</book_id>
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      <num_pages>424</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Scott Mariani</author_name>
    <isbn>0007486413</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 5 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Action packed thriller with Ben Hope the ex sas soldier who uncovers a historical item and defeats the bad guys again.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.24</average_rating>
    <book_published>2017</book_published>
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                                      author: Scott Mariani<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.24<br/>
                                      book published: 2017<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2024/01/05<br/>
                                      date added: 2024/01/05<br/>
                                      shelves: adventure, action, crime, fiction, ex-sas<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Action packed thriller with Ben Hope the ex sas soldier who uncovers a historical item and defeats the bad guys again.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:14:43 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Redemption Games (John Rain, #4)]]></title>
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    <book_id>29262</book_id>
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    <book id="29262">
      <num_pages>290</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Barry Eisler</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Tue, 2 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:14:43 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, adventure, assassin, contract-killer, crime, fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[The thrills keep coming with Rain and his assassinations. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.23</average_rating>
    <book_published>2005</book_published>
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                                      author: Barry Eisler<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.23<br/>
                                      book published: 2005<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2024/01/02<br/>
                                      date added: 2024/01/02<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, assassin, contract-killer, crime, fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>The thrills keep coming with Rain and his assassinations. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:35:24 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[A Quiet Man (Victor the Assassin #9)]]></title>
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    <book_id>55082461</book_id>
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    <book id="55082461">
      <num_pages>448</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Tom  Wood</author_name>
    <isbn>0751575968</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
    <book_published>2021</book_published>
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                                      author: Tom  Wood<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.19<br/>
                                      book published: 2021<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2023/12/29<br/>
                                      shelves: to-read, action, fiction, thriller, assassin<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:30:09 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Twilight Eyes</title>
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    <book_id>693172</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[They're out there.<br /><br />Waiting. Watching. Unseen by normal eyes, but all to visible to Slim MacKenzie, a young man blessed - or cursed - by Twilight Eyes...<br /><br />They're out there.<br /><br />Lurking in the darkest shadows of an eerie, moonlit carnival. Feeding their twisted needs with human suffering. And fiendishly plotting the downfall of the human race...<br /><br />They're out there.<br /><br />But don't scream.<br />They'll hear you...]]></book_description>
    <book id="693172">
      <num_pages>464</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Dean Koontz</author_name>
    <isbn>0425100650</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:30:09 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[adult-fiction, crime, fiction, fantasy, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Classic Koontz from the 1980s and one of the best.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.92</average_rating>
    <book_published>1985</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: Dean Koontz<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
                                      book published: 1985<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/12/29<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/12/29<br/>
                                      shelves: adult-fiction, crime, fiction, fantasy, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Classic Koontz from the 1980s and one of the best.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:25:00 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Rebel’s Revenge (Ben Hope #18)]]></title>
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    <book_id>40205695</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Even when ex-SAS major Ben Hope is taking a holiday, trouble seems to find him. What started as a relaxing trip to the Deep South spirals into a nightmare when he’s wrongly accused of a vicious murder and forced to go on the run.<br /><br />Target of a state-wide manhunt, the only way Ben can prove his innocence is to unearth a long-forgotten secret and track down the killers who slaughtered an innocent woman in a vendetta dating back generations. His quest takes him into the wild heart of Louisiana’s swampland, where all hell’s about to break loose. The bad guys will soon discover they made a big mistake…]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>433</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Scott Mariani</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.41</average_rating>
    <book_published>2018</book_published>
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                                      author: Scott Mariani<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.41<br/>
                                      book published: 2018<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Winner Take All (John Rain, #3)]]></title>
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    <book_id>988</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Previously published as Rain Storm and Choke Point<br /><br />John Rain has disappeared to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia.<br /><br />The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own; the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macau to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than any he has encountered before.<br /><br />"In his superb thriller series featuring charismatic Japanese-American assassin John Rain, author Barry Eisler serves up steamy foreign locales, stunning action and enough high-tech weaponry to make for an A-plus boys-and-their-toys read."<br />--New York Daily News<br /><br />Includes a note from the author introducing the new edition.]]></book_description>
    <book id="988">
      <num_pages>366</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Barry Eisler</author_name>
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    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[assassin, contract-killer, crime, fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Assassin who makes it look like natural causes. JR continues the missions across different cities.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
    <book_published>2004</book_published>
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                                      author: Barry Eisler<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.12<br/>
                                      book published: 2004<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/12/18<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/12/18<br/>
                                      shelves: assassin, contract-killer, crime, fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Assassin who makes it look like natural causes. JR continues the missions across different cities.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:55:17 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Long Walk to Freedom</title>
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    <book_id>318431</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. <br /><br />Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. <br /><br />The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a Jewish firm in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. <br /><br />He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account.]]></book_description>
    <book id="318431">
      <num_pages>656</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Nelson Mandela</author_name>
    <isbn>0316548189</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_shelves>autobiography, nonfiction</user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Inspirational journey from a great man. One in a billion!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.35</average_rating>
    <book_published>1991</book_published>
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                                      author: Nelson Mandela<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.35<br/>
                                      book published: 1991<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/12/12<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/12/12<br/>
                                      shelves: autobiography, nonfiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Inspirational journey from a great man. One in a billion!<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:53:03 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>76742</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The adventure that started it all! Relive the adventure, the romance, and the action in this thrilling novelization of the major motion picture.<br /><br />Indiana Jones, archaeology professor and swashbuckling adventurer, has unearthed many ancient treasures. But now the very future of the world depends on his finding one special the Ark of the Covenant, the ornate chest that holds the Ten Commandments.<br /><br />With his trusty bullwhip in hand and his beautiful former lover at his side, Jones journeys from Nepal to Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps, and snakes, outwitting Nazis, and battling rivals old and new—all in pursuit of an ancient artifact rumored to give invincible power to its possessor. <br /><br />It’s a battle to the startling finish—a finish dictated by the magic, the light, and the glorious power of the lost Ark.]]></book_description>
    <book id="76742">
      <num_pages>181</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Campbell Black</author_name>
    <isbn>0345353757</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.22</average_rating>
    <book_published>1981</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: Campbell Black<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.22<br/>
                                      book published: 1981<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/12/12<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adult-fiction, fiction, fantasy, adventure<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:40:11 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Dead Zone</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6045841298?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>11573</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into <b>The Dead Zone</b>. <br /><br />Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into <b>The Dead Zone</b>. <br /><br />John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in <b>The Dead Zone</b>.<br /><br />~]]></book_description>
    <book id="11573">
      <num_pages>402</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:40:11 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[to-read, crime, fiction, fantasy, horror]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
    <book_published>1979</book_published>
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                                      author: Stephen  King<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.97<br/>
                                      book published: 1979<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/12/12<br/>
                                      shelves: to-read, crime, fiction, fantasy, horror<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:25:19 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[A Lonely Resurrection (John Rain, #2)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5954789427?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>915</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[All John Rain wants is to get out of the killing business. But with his discretion, his reliability, and his unique talent for death by "natural causes," no one is willing to let him just retire. So when an old nemesis from the Japanese national police force comes to him with a new job--eliminate Murakami, a killer even more fearsome than Rain himself--Rain knows he can't refuse.<p>Aided by an achingly desirable half Brazilian, half Japanese exotic dancer he knows he shouldn't trust, Rain pursues his quarry through underground no-holds-barred fight clubs, mobbed-up hostess bars, and finally into the heart of a shadow war between the CIA and the yakuza. It's a war Rain can't win, but also one he can't afford to lose--a war where the distinctions between friend and foe and truth and deceit are as murky as the rain-slicked streets of Tokyo.</p><p>"... a superlative job... entertaining and suspenseful enough to keep you turning the pages as fast as your eyes can follow." --Chicago Sun Times</p>]]></book_description>
    <book id="915">
      <num_pages>352</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Barry Eisler</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:25:19 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:45:43 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, contract-killer, crime, fiction, hitman, murder, spy-fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Solid action and suspense will look to read the 3rd JR.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
    <book_published>2003</book_published>
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                                      author: Barry Eisler<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.11<br/>
                                      book published: 2003<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/12/10<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/12/10<br/>
                                      shelves: action, contract-killer, crime, fiction, hitman, murder, spy-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Solid action and suspense will look to read the 3rd JR.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:14:45 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me]]></title>
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    <book_id>10264042</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[An honest, revealing self-portrait by the critically acclaimed, fiercely independent actor, discusses his early life, career, world travels, social activism, and profiles of friends, lovers, and professional colleagues.Please this edition does not include photos. ]]></book_description>
    <book id="10264042">
      <num_pages>480</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Marlon Brando</author_name>
    <isbn>0307786730</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:14:45 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:14:44 -0800]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves>to-read</user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
    <book_published>1994</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: Marlon Brando<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.95<br/>
                                      book published: 1994<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:47:38 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Yesterday</title>
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    <book_id>33140164</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>How do you solve a murder when you only remember yesterday?</b><br /><br />Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day’s worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife, Mark a novelist-turned-politician Duo on the rise. They are a shining example of a new vision of tolerance and equality—until…<br /><br />...a beautiful woman is found dead, her body dumped in England’s River Cam. The woman is Mark’s mistress, and he is the prime suspect in her murder. The detective investigating the case has secrets of his own. So did the victim. And when both the investigator’s and the suspect’s memories are constantly erased—how can anyone learn the truth?<br /><br />Told from four different perspectives, that of Mark, Claire, the detective on the case, and the victim—Felicia Yap’s staggeringly inventive debut leads us on a race against an ever-resetting clock to find the killer. With the science-fiction world-building of Philip K. Dick and the twisted ingenuity of <i>Memento </i>, <i>Yesterday</i> is a thriller you’ll never forget.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>390</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Felicia Yap</author_name>
    <isbn>0316465259</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>3.41</average_rating>
    <book_published>2017</book_published>
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                                      author: Felicia Yap<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.41<br/>
                                      book published: 2017<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:48:24 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Tides of Fire (Sigma Force #17)]]></title>
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    <book_id>62713215</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it’s up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. </b><br /><br />The Titan Project—an international research station off the coast of Australia—discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion a geological disaster that destabilizes an entire region.<br /><br />Massive quakes, volcanic eruptions, and deadly tsunamis herald a greater cataclysm to come—for something is stirring miles under the ocean, a threat hidden for millennia.<br /><br />As seas turn toxic and coastlines burn, can Sigma Force stop what has been let loose—especially as an old adversary returns, hunting them and thwarting their every move? For any hope of success, Commander Gray Pierce must search for a key buried in the past, hidden deep in Aboriginal mythology. But what Sigma could uncover is even more frightening—something that will shake the very foundations of humanity.]]></book_description>
    <book id="62713215">
      <num_pages>448</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0062893076</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <average_rating>4.02</average_rating>
    <book_published>2023</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.02<br/>
                                      book published: 2023<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/11/14<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/11/14<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adult-fiction, historical-fiction, mystery, military, murder, science-fiction, supernatural<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Dragged on a bit took me 2 months to get through it. <br />I am a big fan of Rollin's Sigma series but I find it is getting to repetitive and unrealistic. <br />Hope the next one improves again.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:15:19 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5977271554?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>1237300</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. <i>The Shock Doctrine</i> retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.]]></book_description>
    <book id="1237300">
      <num_pages>558</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Naomi Klein</author_name>
    <isbn>0805079831</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[to-read, non-fiction, capitalism]]></user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
    <book_published>2007</book_published>
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                                      author: Naomi Klein<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.30<br/>
                                      book published: 2007<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:31:26 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain, #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5931251336?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>925</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Previously published as Rain Fall (John Rain, #1)<br /><br />Name: John Rain.<br />Vocation: Assassin.<br />Specialty: Natural Causes.<br />Base of operations: Tokyo.<br />Availability: Worldwide.<br /><br />Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why...<br /><br />Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist--and the daughter of his latest kill.]]></book_description>
    <book id="925">
      <num_pages>363</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Barry Eisler</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sat, 4 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:31:26 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:42:13 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, adventure, crime, fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Ripping start to a series about an assassin who kills by natural causes.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
    <book_published>2003</book_published>
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                                      author: Barry Eisler<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.96<br/>
                                      book published: 2003<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/11/04<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/11/04<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, crime, fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Ripping start to a series about an assassin who kills by natural causes.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:16:37 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Elsewhere</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5954749267?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>52737437</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.<br /><br />Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object—something he calls “the key to everything”—and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away?<br /><br />Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again.]]></book_description>
    <book id="52737437">
      <num_pages>364</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Dean Koontz</author_name>
    <isbn>1542019850</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:16:37 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[to-read, action, fantasy, fiction, science-fiction, thriller, time-travel]]></user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
    <book_published>2020</book_published>
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                                      author: Dean Koontz<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.84<br/>
                                      book published: 2020<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2023/11/04<br/>
                                      shelves: to-read, action, fantasy, fiction, science-fiction, thriller, time-travel<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:15:21 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Rogue Lawyer (Rogue Lawyer, #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5954747530?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>25387351</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[On the right side of the law, sort of, Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. His office is a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, and fine leather chairs. He has no firm, no partners, and only one employee: his heavily armed driver, who also so happens to be his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddie. Sebastian drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. He defends people other lawyers won't go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house. Why these clients? Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if he, Sebastian, has to bend the law, cheat, to secure one. He hates injustice, doesn’t like insurance companies, banks, or big corporations; he distrusts all levels of government and laughs at the justice system’s notions of ethical behavior.]]></book_description>
    <book id="25387351">
      <num_pages>344</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>John Grisham</author_name>
    <isbn>0385539436</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:15:21 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Nov 2023 21:14:57 -0700]]></user_date_created>
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    <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
    <book_published>2015</book_published>
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                                      author: John Grisham<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.67<br/>
                                      book published: 2015<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2023/11/04<br/>
                                      shelves: to-read, action, adventure, drama, crime, fiction, law, mystery<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:52:04 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force, #15)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5894476042?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>45154023</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.<br /><br />For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad—was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer’s twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles—The Iliad and The Odyssey—could also be true and awaiting discovery?<br />In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day climatologists and archaeologists stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half mile below the ice. The ship’s hold contains a collection of even older artifacts—tools of war—dating back to the Bronze Age. Inside the captain’s cabin is a magnificent treasure that is as priceless as it is miraculous: a clockwork gold atlas encircled by an intricate silver astrolabe. The mechanism is signed with the name of its creator, Ismail al-Jazari, a famous Muslim inventor considered to be the Da Vinci of the Arab world—a brilliant scientist who inspired Leonardo’s own work.<br /><br />Once activated, the moving globe traces the path of Odysseus’ famous ship as it sailed away from Troy. But the route detours as the map opens to reveal an underground river leading to a hidden realm underneath the Mediterranean Sea. The map indicates that this subterranean world is called Tartarus, the Greek name for Hell. In mythology, Tartarus was where the wicked were punished and the monstrous Titans of old, imprisoned.<br /><br />When word of Tartarus spreads—and of the cache of miraculous weapons said to be hidden there—tensions explode in this volatile region where Turks battle Kurds, terrorists wage war, and civilians suffer untold horrors. The phantasmagoric horrors found in Homer’s tales are all too real—and could be unleashed upon the world. Whoever possesses them can use their awesome power to control the future of humanity.<br /><br />Now, Sigma Force must go where humans fear to tread. To prevent a tyrant from igniting a global war, they must cross the very gates of Hell.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>588</num_pages>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
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    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
    <book_published>2020</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
                                      book published: 2020<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/10/24<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/10/24<br/>
                                      shelves: adventure, adult-fiction, 2022, fiction, science-fiction, historical-fiction<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:47:22 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Runaway Jury</title>
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    <book_id>24192</book_id>
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    <book id="24192">
      <num_pages>464</num_pages>
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    <author_name>John Grisham</author_name>
    <isbn>0385339690</isbn>
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    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
    <book_published>1996</book_published>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)]]></title>
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    <book_id>569429</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu original series!<br /><br />“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”— The New York Times Book Review<br /><br />It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.<br /><br />Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. <br /><br />Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?<br /><br />“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”— The Washington Post Book World]]></book_description>
    <book id="569429">
      <num_pages>288</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Douglas Adams</author_name>
    <isbn>0345379330</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sun, 8 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[adventure, fiction, humor, science-fiction, space, mystery, classic]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Great end to Science Fiction classic!!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
    <book_published>1992</book_published>
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                                      author: Douglas Adams<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.97<br/>
                                      book published: 1992<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>Great end to Science Fiction classic!!<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Oct 2023 01:49:06 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Sandfire (Caine: Rapid Fire #3)]]></title>
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    <book_id>40187235</book_id>
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  <strong>Get ready for another Rapid Fire adventure! Read Sandfire, and plunge into an explosive mission from Caine's past today.</strong>
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      <num_pages>194</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Andrew   Warren</author_name>
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    <average_rating>4.41</average_rating>
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                                      author: Andrew   Warren<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.41<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:49:58 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)]]></title>
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    <book_id>6091075</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . .<br /><br />God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?]]></book_description>
    <book id="6091075">
      <num_pages>225</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Douglas Adams</author_name>
    <isbn>0307497909</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:49:58 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Fantastic vintage Sci-fi space odyssey with weird and wonderful characters and planets. Now for the last and number 5.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.13</average_rating>
    <book_published>1984</book_published>
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                                      author: Douglas Adams<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.13<br/>
                                      book published: 1984<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/08/22<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/08/22<br/>
                                      shelves: adult-fiction, adventure, classic, fantasy, fiction, science-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Fantastic vintage Sci-fi space odyssey with weird and wonderful characters and planets. Now for the last and number 5.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:20:11 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Dead Mercenary's Trail (Jake Armitage Thriller Book #2)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5666426708?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>180346717</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The road to hell is paved with good intentions...and deadly.<br />THE NEXT MIND-BLOWING INSTALLMENT IN THE JAKE ARMITAGE SERIES!<br /><br />An assassination attempt in the South China Sea once again increases the body count and forces NSA contractor Jake Armitage back into the old game. After five months sailing on a yacht the past has again caught up with him.<br />A message sends Jake to Manila where a contact from his past surfaces. The offer he cannot refuse.<br />From a heated assassination in Paris, a new contract leads to Japan where an outbreak of terrorism threatens Tokyo and the free world.<br />But who is the enemy: is it an arms dealer supplying a doomsday terrorist cult? Or is the source a much larger underground organization hellbent on world domination...<br />Moreover, his duty to alliances could take away everything he cherishes and have the ultimate price.<br />Join Jake Armitage in the second and latest high-stake installment in the series.]]></book_description>
    <book id="180346717">
      <num_pages>300</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Simon W. Clark</author_name>
    <isbn>064555362X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Jake Armitage is back and ramped up another gear! This time he's hunting an arms dealing network which leads to a larger conspiracy. Is it political again or a shadowy organization? <br />This sequel is a multi-city journey through Europe and Asia and new formidable enemies make the fight even tougher. I liked the variation and depth of characters and not too much back story to weight it down. The story concludes with a smashing ending too. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
    <book_published>2023</book_published>
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                                      author: Simon W. Clark<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.27<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/08/21<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/08/21<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, fiction, spy-thriller, thriller, suspense<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Jake Armitage is back and ramped up another gear! This time he's hunting an arms dealing network which leads to a larger conspiracy. Is it political again or a shadowy organization? <br />This sequel is a multi-city journey through Europe and Asia and new formidable enemies make the fight even tougher. I liked the variation and depth of characters and not too much back story to weight it down. The story concludes with a smashing ending too. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:26:36 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5666439570?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>8694</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu original series!<br /><br />“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”— Chicago Tribune<br /><br />The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.<br /><br />They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.<br /><br />How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it—and don’t know it!<br /><br />“Adams is one of those rare an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.”— Arizona Daily Star]]></book_description>
    <book id="8694">
      <num_pages>224</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Douglas Adams</author_name>
    <isbn>0345418905</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 4 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:26:36 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Great Sci fi from a bygone era that really stands the test of time. Written before the internet and computers took off. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
    <book_published>1982</book_published>
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                                      author: Douglas Adams<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.19<br/>
                                      book published: 1982<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/08/04<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/08/04<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adult-fiction, adventure, fiction, fantasy, science-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Great Sci fi from a bygone era that really stands the test of time. Written before the internet and computers took off. <br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)]]></title>
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    <book_id>8695</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>alternate edition for ISBN <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=0345418921" title="0345418921" rel="nofollow noopener">0345418921</a>/<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=9780345418920" title="9780345418920" rel="nofollow noopener">9780345418920</a></i><br /><br />Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.<br /><br />Source: douglasadams.com]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Douglas Adams</author_name>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Jul 2023 03:18:11 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless: Season One, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>49694471</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<p>A bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives—a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood.</p><p>Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome. He’s seen it in his visions. Now it’s time to teach the depraved Soakes a lesson in fear. But in turning predators into prey, will Nameless unearth a few secrets of his own?</p><p><i>From #1</i> New York Times <i>bestselling author Dean Koontz comes</i> In the Heart of the Fire<i>, part of</i> Nameless<i>, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. Follow him in each story, which can be read or listened to in a single sitting.</i></p>]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>62</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Dean Koontz</author_name>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:40:23 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>386162</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. <br /><br />Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide</i> ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. <br /><br />Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]></book_description>
    <book id="386162">
      <num_pages>193</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Douglas Adams</author_name>
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    <book_published>1979</book_published>
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                                      author: Douglas Adams<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/06/25<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:27:54 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Other Emily</title>
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    <book_id>55619129</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>Number one <i>New York Times</i> bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes readers on a twisting journey of lost love, impossible second chances, and terrifying promises.</b><br /><br />A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup’s victims whose remains were never found.<br /><br />Writer David Thorne still hasn’t recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he’s sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily’s final hours so he may finally lay her body to rest. Then David meets Maddison Sutton, beguiling, playful, and keenly aware of all David has lost. But what really takes his breath away is that everything about Maddison, down to her kisses, is just like Emily. As the fantastic becomes credible, David’s obsession grows, Maddison’s mysterious past deepens—and terror escalates.<br /><br />Is she Emily? Or an irresistible dead ringer? Either way, the ultimate question is the same: What game is she playing? Whatever the risk in finding out, David’s willing to take it for this precious second chance. It’s been ten years since he’s felt this inspired, this hopeful, this much in love…and he’s afraid.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Dean Koontz</author_name>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:25:53 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Traitor (Victor the Assassin, #10)]]></title>
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    <book_id>60797389</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[SOMEONE'S SET HIM UP<br />SOMEONE'S GOING TO DIE<br /><br />When Victor is arrested for a murder that, for once, he didn't commit, escape must surely be inevitable for a hitman of his ferocity.<br /><br />Yet someone wants Victor put away, and he finds himself behind bars, incarcerated by police who have no idea of the monster they are dealing with and have, apparently, tamed.<br /><br />Quickly, however, his fellow the prisoners realise that he's not trapped in there with them: they are in a cage, with the most dangerous of enemies. And Victor has a traitor to find.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Tom  Wood</author_name>
    <isbn>0751584827</isbn>
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                                      name: Jerry<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:44:30 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Phantoms</title>
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    <book_id>32435</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Closer...<br /><br />They found the first body hideously swollen and still warm. Then they found two severed hands. Then two staring heads in wall ovens. 150 were grotesquely dead and it had hardly begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.<br /><br />and closer...<br /><br />At first they thought it was a maniac. Then they thought it was an obscene new disease. Then they thought it was the Russians.<br /><br />and closer...<br /><br />Then they found out the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>434</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Dean Koontz</author_name>
    <isbn>0425181103</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Good suspense and horror in this Koontz classic from the last century.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
    <book_published>1983</book_published>
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                                      author: Dean Koontz<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.94<br/>
                                      book published: 1983<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/04/03<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/04/03<br/>
                                      shelves: adult-fiction, fantasy, fiction, mystery, paranormal<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:50:54 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)</title>
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    <book_id>14995</book_id>
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    <book_published>2003</book_published>
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                                      name: Jerry<br/>
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                                      book published: 2003<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)]]></title>
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    <book_id>6892870</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.<br /><br />Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.<br /><br />Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.<br /><br />~from the jacket]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>576</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Stieg Larsson</author_name>
    <isbn>030726999X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <book_published>2007</book_published>
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                                      author: Stieg Larsson<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.23<br/>
                                      book published: 2007<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/03/15<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:29:52 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History]]></title>
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    <book_id>20893481</book_id>
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    <book id="20893481">
      <num_pages>400</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Boris Johnson</author_name>
    <isbn>1594633029</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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                                      author: Boris Johnson<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.00<br/>
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                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Feb 2023 20:16:36 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Crucible (Sigma Force, #14)</title>
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    <book_id>38718228</book_id>
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    <book id="38718228">
      <num_pages>480</num_pages>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0062381784</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.12<br/>
                                      book published: 2019<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/02/18<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Feb 2023 03:42:19 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Demon Crown (Sigma Force, #13)]]></title>
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    <book_id>34217526</book_id>
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      <num_pages>441</num_pages>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0062381733</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sat, 4 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <book_published>2017</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.13<br/>
                                      book published: 2017<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/02/04<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:26:24 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Invisible Man</title>
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    <book_id>17184</book_id>
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    <book id="17184">
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    <author_name>H.G. Wells</author_name>
    <isbn>0451528522</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>3.63</average_rating>
    <book_published>1897</book_published>
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                                      author: H.G. Wells<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.63<br/>
                                      book published: 1897<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:06:55 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)]]></title>
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    <book_id>5060378</book_id>
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    <book id="5060378">
      <num_pages>503</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Stieg Larsson</author_name>
    <isbn>0307269981</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Part 2 continues to delve into the most heinous vices and themes: rape, violence, abuse and murder.<br /><br />I'll look for part 3 soon!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
    <book_published>2006</book_published>
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                                      author: Stieg Larsson<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.25<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/01/20<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/01/20<br/>
                                      shelves: fiction, horror, murder, mystery, thriller, violence<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Part 2 continues to delve into the most heinous vices and themes: rape, violence, abuse and murder.<br /><br />I'll look for part 3 soon!<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:11:40 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Seventh Plague (Sigma Force, #12)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<em>If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened—could they happen again—on a global scale?</em><br /><br />Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor’s body—while he was still alive.<br /><br />His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man’s autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force.  The call is urgent, for Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises. <br /><br /><em>Are those plagues starting again?</em><br /><br />Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor’s body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist’s only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what’s left of her father’s work, she discovers a puzzling connection tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer Henry Morgan Stanley. <br /><br />To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear. <br /><br />As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science—a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world’s children . . . decimating humankind forever.]]></book_description>
    <book id="33231123">
      <num_pages>622</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0062381695</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Action keeps coming but perhaps a little too biological this time for me.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.02</average_rating>
    <book_published>2016</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.02<br/>
                                      book published: 2016<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/01/20<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/01/20<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, adult-fiction, fiction, mystery, thriller, historical-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Action keeps coming but perhaps a little too biological this time for me.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:00:02 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Everyman</title>
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    <book_id>50695</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions.<br /><br />The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.]]></book_description>
    <book id="50695">
      <num_pages>182</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Philip Roth</author_name>
    <isbn>0307277712</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <user_shelves>to-read</user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.62</average_rating>
    <book_published>2006</book_published>
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                                      author: Philip Roth<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.62<br/>
                                      book published: 2006<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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                                      date added: 2023/01/02<br/>
                                      shelves: to-read<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:57:34 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Enemy (Victor the Assassin, #2)]]></title>
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    <book_id>15810916</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>The hired killer</b><br />Victor, a former assassin-for-hire, has joined forces with a CIA special unit. His first assignment: Three strangers. Three hits. Fast and clean. Victor’s a natural for this.<br /><br /><b>The shadow conspiracy</b><br />It should have been simple. But with each hit Victor is plunged deeper into an unimaginable conspiracy where no one, least of all the people he knows, can be trusted.<br /><br /><b>The triple-cross you won't see coming</b><br />With the stakes growing higher by the minute, Victor realizes he’s been forced into playing a game he never expected. Because he’s the next target. And there’s no way out.<br />]]></book_description>
    <book id="15810916">
      <num_pages>556</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Tom  Wood</author_name>
    <isbn>0451417534</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 2 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Dec 2022 07:27:45 -0800]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, adventure, adult-fiction, fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[No. 2 in the Victor assassin series does not disappoint with the usual action. Now onto 3 soon.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.24</average_rating>
    <book_published>2012</book_published>
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                                      author: Tom  Wood<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.24<br/>
                                      book published: 2012<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2023/01/02<br/>
                                      date added: 2023/01/02<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, adult-fiction, fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>No. 2 in the Victor assassin series does not disappoint with the usual action. Now onto 3 soon.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:15:27 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Russian Ink (Jake Armitage Thriller Book 1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4956609621?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>61484602</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[How do you trigger an international political incident?<br />Kill an important asset and blame it on the Russian mafia.<br />Who can solve the St Petersburg assignment?<br />NSA contractor Jake Armitage.<br />Explosive evidence that could bring down the US president.<br />No clues except a mysterious prison ink.<br />The new Russian death cult formed from the darkest Gulag. <br />A journalist who may have answers. <br />Powerful political enemies arise. <br />The former black-ops contractor with a death wish. <br />International security and peace at stake.<br />Can Jake discover the truth before it’s too late?]]></book_description>
    <book id="61484602">
      <num_pages>333</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Simon W. Clark</author_name>
    <isbn>0645553611</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:15:27 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:27:01 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[techno-thriller, spy-thriller, crime, action, adult-fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Fantastic start to a series with a great main spy character. The sub plots and conspiracy come together neatly, and I liked the end. Good genre writing again!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.89</average_rating>
    <book_published>2022</book_published>
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      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61484602-the-russian-ink?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="The Russian Ink (Jake Armitage Thriller Book 1)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1658060074l/61484602._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: Simon W. Clark<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.89<br/>
                                      book published: 2022<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/09/15<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/12/26<br/>
                                      shelves: techno-thriller, spy-thriller, crime, action, adult-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Fantastic start to a series with a great main spy character. The sub plots and conspiracy come together neatly, and I liked the end. Good genre writing again!<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:06:02 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5172561314?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>2429135</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.<br /><br />An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.]]></book_description>
    <book id="2429135">
      <num_pages>480</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Stieg Larsson</author_name>
    <isbn>0670069019</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Dec 2022 06:06:02 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sun, 18 Dec 2022 06:17:46 -0800]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, fiction, murder-mystery, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Riveting thriller that delves into the most heinous vices and themes: rape, violence, abuse and murder. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
    <book_published>2005</book_published>
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                                      author: Stieg Larsson<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.18<br/>
                                      book published: 2005<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/12/26<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/12/26<br/>
                                      shelves: action, fiction, murder-mystery, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Riveting thriller that delves into the most heinous vices and themes: rape, violence, abuse and murder. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:41:48 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Bone Labyrinth (Sigma Force, #11)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5164869070?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>23434061</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever . . .<br /><br />In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that spans 50,000 years in human history, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author James Rollins takes us to mankind’s next great leap.<br /><br />But will it mark a new chapter in our development . . . or our extinction?<br /><br />In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery:  a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings and what do the paintings mean?<br /><br />Before any answers could be made, the investigative team is attacked, while at the same time, a bloody assault is made upon a primate research center outside of Atlanta. How are these events connected? Who is behind these attacks?  The search for the truth will take Commander Gray Pierce of Sigma Force 50,000 years into the past. As he and Sigma trace the evolution of human intelligence to its true source, they will be plunged into a cataclysmic battle for the future of humanity that stretches across the globe . . . and beyond.<br /><br />With the fate of our future at stake, Sigma embarks on its most harrowing odyssey ever—a breathtaking quest that will take them from ancient tunnels in Ecuador that span the breadth of South America to a millennia-old necropolis holding the bones of our ancestors. Along the way, revelations involving the lost continent of Atlantis will reveal true mysteries tied to mankind’s first steps on the moon. In the end, Gray Pierce and his team will face to their greatest threat: an ancient evil, resurrected by modern genetic science, strong enough to bring about the end of man’s dominance on this planet.<br /><br />Only this time, Sigma will falter—and the world we know will change forever.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>688</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0062381636</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:41:48 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[fiction, adventure, mystery, science-fiction, series]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Usual historical fiction basis and Rollins bones of a good thriller.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
    <book_published>2015</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.11<br/>
                                      book published: 2015<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/12/21<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/12/21<br/>
                                      shelves: fiction, adventure, mystery, science-fiction, series<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Usual historical fiction basis and Rollins bones of a good thriller.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:37:52 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5172420786?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>58423882</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes: including a magic-infused murder mystery and a delightful queer romance.<br /><br />For fans of Georgette Heyer or Julia Quinn's <i>Bridgerton</i>, who'd like to welcome magic into their lives...<br /><br />Young baronet Robin Blyth thought he was taking up a minor governmental post. However, he's actually been appointed parliamentary liaison to a secret magical society. If it weren’t for this administrative error, he’d never have discovered the incredible magic underlying his world.<br /><br />Cursed by mysterious attackers and plagued by visions, Robin becomes determined to drag answers from his missing predecessor – but he’ll need the help of Edwin Courcey, his hostile magical-society counterpart. Unwillingly thrown together, Robin and Edwin will discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles.]]></book_description>
    <book id="58423882">
      <num_pages>384</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Freya Marske</author_name>
    <isbn>1529080886</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
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                                      author: Freya Marske<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
                                      book published: 2021<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:50:55 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Death of a Salesman</title>
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    <book_id>12898</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'</i><br /><br />Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?]]></book_description>
    <book id="12898">
      <num_pages>144</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Arthur Miller</author_name>
    <isbn>0435233076</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
    <book_published>1949</book_published>
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                                      author: Arthur Miller<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.58<br/>
                                      book published: 1949<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:40:51 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Stranger</title>
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    <book_id>49552</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, <i>The Stranger</i> has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. <i>Le Monde</i> ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]></book_description>
    <book id="49552">
      <num_pages>123</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Albert Camus</author_name>
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    <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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                                      author: Albert Camus<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.04<br/>
                                      book published: 1942<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:20:13 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The 6th Extinction (Sigma Force, #10)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5141545576?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>18655866</book_id>
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  <blockquote>In a masterful epic of timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author James Rollins takes mankind to its endpoint, to a fate written in rock and ice in an event known as The Sixth Extinction.</blockquote>
</b>A remote military research station broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling message: <b>Kill us all</b>. When soldiers arrive to investigate, they discover everyone in the lab is dead—not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. The land is completely sterile—and the blight is spreading.<p>To prevent the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must decipher a threat that rises out of the distant past, a time when Antarctica was green and Earth’s life balanced on a knife edge. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will make a shocking discovery involving a prehistoric continent, and a new form of death buried under miles of ice.</p><p>From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge yet: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.</p><p>But is it already too late?</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0062194925</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Another solid tale. Gray Pierce + team finds an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria and a new threat buried under miles of ice.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.06</average_rating>
    <book_published>2014</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.06<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2022/12/10<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:41:39 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Human Factor</title>
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    <book_id>62851</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the end of the line anyway and time for him to retire with his African wife, Sarah.<br /><br />The Human Factor is Greene’s most extensive attempt to incorporate into fiction what he had learned of espionage when recruited by MI6 during World War II . . . What it offers is a veteran excursion into Greene’s imaginative world . . . Sometimes seen as a brooding prober into the dark recesses of the soul where sins and scruples alike fester, he is equally at home in sending a narrative careering along at break-neck pace . . . Raising the demarcation line between ‘serious’ fiction and fast-plotted entertainment, Greene ensures that components of both jostle energizingly together in his pages.” –from the Introduction by Peter Kemp --]]></book_description>
    <book id="62851">
      <num_pages>368</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Graham Greene</author_name>
    <isbn>1857150716</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:41:39 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:41:38 -0800]]></user_date_created>
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    <average_rating>3.93</average_rating>
    <book_published>1978</book_published>
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                                      author: Graham Greene<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.93<br/>
                                      book published: 1978<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:39:42 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>American Psycho</title>
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    <book_id>437149</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—<em>American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.<br /><br />Cover Illustration by Marshall Arisman</em>]]></book_description>
    <book id="437149">
      <num_pages>384</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Bret Easton Ellis</author_name>
    <isbn>0330319922</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:39:42 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:33:23 -0800]]></user_date_created>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Weird tale of misogynism and murder! ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
    <book_published>1991</book_published>
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                                      author: Bret Easton Ellis<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.77<br/>
                                      book published: 1991<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:43:36 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Eye of God (Sigma Force, #9)]]></title>
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    <book_id>16065538</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy, the energy connected to the birth of our universe. But the last blurry image from the falling satellite captures a chilling sight: a frightening look into the future, a view of a smoldering eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.<p>At the Vatican, a mysterious package arrives for the head of Pontifical ancient studies, sent by a colleague who had vanished a decade earlier. It contains two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA testing reveals both are from Genghis Khan — the long-dead Mongol king whose undiscovered tomb is rumored to hold the vast treasures and knowledge of a lost ancient empire.</p><p>Commander Gray Pierce, and Sigma — joined by a pair of Vatican historians — race to uncover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery bound in the roots of Christianity's origins, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.</p>]]></book_description>
    <book id="16065538">
      <num_pages>410</num_pages>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>006178480X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sat, 3 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:43:36 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[What do Genghis Khan's skull, a message made of human skin and a crashed satellite harnessing dark energy have in common? This adventure of course! So much action and history crammed in with Grayson and Sigma team solving it again!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
    <book_published>2013</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065538-the-eye-of-god?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="The Eye of God (Sigma Force, #9)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1359823174l/16065538._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.11<br/>
                                      book published: 2013<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/12/03<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/12/03<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>What do Genghis Khan's skull, a message made of human skin and a crashed satellite harnessing dark energy have in common? This adventure of course! So much action and history crammed in with Grayson and Sigma team solving it again!<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:38:29 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Dune (Dune, #1)</title>
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    <book_id>44767458</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...<br /><br />When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]></book_description>
    <book id="44767458">
      <num_pages>658</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Frank Herbert</author_name>
    <isbn>059309932X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:38:29 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[to-read, action, fiction, science-fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.34</average_rating>
    <book_published>1965</book_published>
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                                      author: Frank Herbert<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.34<br/>
                                      book published: 1965<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:57:39 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Bloodline (Sigma Force, #8)</title>
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    <book_id>13148921</book_id>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0061784796</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.24</average_rating>
    <book_published>2012</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.24<br/>
                                      book published: 2012<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/11/21<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/11/21<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, fiction, murder, historical-fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>The President's daughter is kidnapped by pirates in this thriller installment of Sigma Force and the crew. Headed up by Crowe and Grayson Pierce. Thumbs up again . <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:31:10 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Devil Colony (Sigma Force, #7)]]></title>
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    <book_id>7202829</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery — hundreds of mummified bodies — stir international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts to the bodies’ origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script.<p>During a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly: burned to ash in a fiery explosion in plain view of television cameras. All evidence points to a radical group of Native Americans, including one agitator, a teenage firebrand who escapes with a vital clue to the murder and calls on the one person who might help: her uncle, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force.</p><p>To protect his niece and uncover the truth, Painter will ignite a war across the nation’s most powerful intelligence agencies. Yet, an even greater threat looms as events in the Rocky Mountains have set in motion a frightening chain reaction, a geological meltdown that threatens the entire western half of the U.S.</p><p>From the volcanic peaks of Iceland to the blistering deserts of the American Southwest, from the gold vaults of Fort Knox to the bubbling geysers of Yellowstone, Painter Crowe joins forces with Commander Gray Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal, one that has been manipulating American history since the founding of the thirteen colonies.</p><p>But can he discover the truth — one that could topple governments — before it destroys all he holds dear?</p>]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>480</num_pages>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0061784788</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <book_published>2011</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.19<br/>
                                      book published: 2011<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/11/06<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/11/06<br/>
                                      shelves: adventure, action, fiction, mystery, suspense<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Sigma force continues to battle evil in their trademark style. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:59:53 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Russian Ink (Jake Armitage Thriller Book 1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>62504816</book_id>
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      <num_pages>333</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Simon W. Clark</author_name>
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    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
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                                      author: Simon W. Clark<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.20<br/>
                                      book published: 2022<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2022/10/24<br/>
                                      shelves: thriller, techno-thriller, spy-thriller<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:54:31 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>20489346</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in striking new cover style. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids, it was headline news. Then one of them was found -- dead -- and the whole nation was in uproar. For such a high-profile case, they needed the top people -- Alex Cross, a black detective with a PhD in psychology, and Jezzie Flanagan, an ambitious young Secret Service agent -- yet even they were no match for the killer. He had the unnerving ability to switch from blood-crazed madness to clear-eyed sanity in an instant. But was he the helpless victim of a multiple-personality disorder -- or a brilliant, cold-blooded manipulator?]]></book_description>
    <book id="20489346">
      <num_pages>435</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James  Patterson</author_name>
    <isbn>0006476155</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:54:31 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:53:41 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[crime, detective, fiction, horror, murder-mystery, mystery, serial, series]]></user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.81</average_rating>
    <book_published>1993</book_published>
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                                      author: James  Patterson<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.81<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      date added: 2022/10/24<br/>
                                      shelves: crime, detective, fiction, horror, murder-mystery, mystery, serial, series<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:15:28 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Doomsday Key (Sigma Force, #6)]]></title>
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    <book_id>5171894</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[James Rollins, the "New York Times" bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed<br /><br />"The Doomsday Key"<br /><br />At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.<br /><br />The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex. The first clue is discovered inside a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bog -- a gruesome secret that threatens America and the world.<br /><br />Aided by two women from his past -- one his exlover, the other his new partner -- Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side. That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom.<br /><br />Sigma Force confronts humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint -- an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0061231401</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
    <book_published>2009</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.17<br/>
                                      book published: 2009<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/10/11<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/10/11<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction, thriller<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:14:09 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Paper Men</title>
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    <book_id>159095</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[English novelist Wilfred Barclay, who has known fame, success, and fortune, is in crisis. He faces a drinking problem slipping over the borderline into alcoholism, a dead marriage, and the incurable itch of middle age lust. But the final, unbearable irritation is American Professor of English Literature Rick L. Tucker, who is implacable in his determinition to become The Barclay Man: authorized biographer, editor of the posthumous papers and the recognized authority.]]></book_description>
    <book id="159095">
      <num_pages>192</num_pages>
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    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn>0374526397</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:14:09 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <average_rating>3.21</average_rating>
    <book_published>1984</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.21<br/>
                                      book published: 1984<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/10/11<br/>
                                      shelves: 1997, classic, fiction<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:13:56 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Pyramid</title>
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    <book_id>14430</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety, The Pyramid is Golding's funniest and most light-hearted novel, which probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, and all the tragedy and farce of life in a small community]]></book_description>
    <book id="14430">
      <num_pages>224</num_pages>
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    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn>0571192521</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:13:56 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves>1996, classic, fiction</user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.32</average_rating>
    <book_published>1967</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.32<br/>
                                      book published: 1967<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:13:14 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Double Tongue</title>
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    <book_id>367476</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off. But she is saved by Ionides, the High Priest of the Delphic temple, who detects something of a seer (and a friend) in her and whisks her off to the shrine to become the Pythia - the earthly voice of the god Apollo. Arieka has now spent a lifetime at the mercy of a god, a priest, and her devotees, and has witnessed firsthand the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts embody, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian with a wicked sense of humor, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel, left in draft at the author's death in 1993, is a psychological and historical triumph. Golding has created a vivid and comic picture of ancient Greek society as well as an absolutely convincing portrait of a woman's experience, something rare in the Golding oeuvre. Arieka the Pythia is one of his finest creations.<br />Left in draft at the author's death in 1993, this extraordinary short novel is a psychological and historical triumph. An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the voice of the god Apollo. Golding was the author of Lord of the Flies, and a Nobel Laureate.]]></book_description>
    <book id="367476">
      <num_pages>165</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn>0374526370</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:13:14 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves>classic, fiction</user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.50</average_rating>
    <book_published>1995</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.50<br/>
                                      book published: 1995<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:12:27 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Pincher Martin</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5040743528?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>14429</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. <br /><br />At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin’s will to live as the sum total of his life.]]></book_description>
    <book id="14429">
      <num_pages>216</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn>015602781X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:12:27 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[1991, classic, fiction, literature]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.60</average_rating>
    <book_published>1956</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.60<br/>
                                      book published: 1956<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:11:42 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Free Fall</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5040745584?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>274402</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA["I was standing up, pressed back against the wall, trying not to breathe. I got there in the one movement my body made. My body had many hairs on legs and belly and chest and head, and each had its own life; each inherited a hundred thousand years of loathing and fear for things that scuttle or slide or crawl." from Free Fall<br /><br />Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will. <br />]]></book_description>
    <book id="274402">
      <num_pages>264</num_pages>
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    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:11:42 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_review>Classic Golding literature!</user_review>
    <average_rating>3.73</average_rating>
    <book_published>1959</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.73<br/>
                                      book published: 1959<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:10:50 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Darkness Visible</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5040743995?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>249043</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate.<br /><br />At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.]]></book_description>
    <book id="249043">
      <num_pages>272</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn>0374525609</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:10:50 -0700]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[1991, classic, fiction, literature, nobel]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.59</average_rating>
    <book_published>1979</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.59<br/>
                                      book published: 1979<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      shelves: 1991, classic, fiction, literature, nobel<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:08:14 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Spire</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5040741592?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>1041865</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.<br /><br />From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.]]></book_description>
    <book id="1041865">
      <num_pages>223</num_pages>
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    <author_name>William Golding</author_name>
    <isbn>0571225462</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:08:14 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:06:55 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[1996, classic, fiction, satirical, literature]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
    <book_published>1964</book_published>
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                                      author: William Golding<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.53<br/>
                                      book published: 1964<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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                                      shelves: 1996, classic, fiction, satirical, literature<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:11:16 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Last Oracle (Sigma Force, #5)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4956601344?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>2277444</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In Washington, D.C., a homeless man dies in Commander Gray Pierce's arms, shot by an assassin's bullet. But the death leaves behind a greater mystery: a bloody coin found clutched in the dead man's hand, an ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi. As ruthless hunters search for the stolen artifact, Gray Pierce discovers that the coin is the key to unlocking a plot that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity. <br /><br />An international think tank of scientists known as the Jasons has discovered a way to bioengineer autistic children who show savant talents—mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists—into something far greater and far more "frightening," in hopes of creating a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be manipulated to create a new era of global peace... a peace on their own terms. <br /><br />Halfway around the world, a man wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of who he is, knowing only that he's a prisoner in a subterranean research facility. With the help of three unusual children, he makes his escape across a mountainous and radioactive countryside, pursued by savage hunters bred in the same laboratory. But his goal is not escape, nor even survival. In order to thwart a plot to wipe out a quarter of the world's population, he must sacrifice all, even the children who rescued him. <br /><br />From ancient Greek temples to glittering mausoleums, from the slums of India to the toxic ruins of Russia, two men must race against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history—the Greek Oracle of Delphi. <br /><br />But one question remains: "Will the past be enough to save the future?"]]></book_description>
    <book id="2277444">
      <num_pages>434</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0061230944</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:11:16 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:21:28 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2003, action, adventure, fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[The historical fiction continues in this conspiracy thriller. Rollins really knows his technical stuff and I find most of the science compelling. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
    <book_published>2008</book_published>
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                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.17<br/>
                                      book published: 2008<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/09/15<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/09/15<br/>
                                      shelves: 2003, action, adventure, fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>The historical fiction continues in this conspiracy thriller. Rollins really knows his technical stuff and I find most of the science compelling. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:19:19 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Judas Strain (Sigma Force, #4)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4908574171?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>294046</book_id>
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  <b>New York Times bestselling author James Rollins returns with a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world . . . and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels.</b>
</blockquote><i>ju·das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction.</i><p>From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind--a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis--operatives of SIGMA Force--search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.</p><p>A world away, SIGMA's Commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo. But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. As a relentless madman dogs their every step, Gray and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Gray Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one, for any one of them could be . . . a Judas.</p>]]></book_description>
    <book id="294046">
      <num_pages>450</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0060763892</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:19:19 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:25:54 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2021, action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction, science-fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Good early Sigma thriller. I'll go for #5 next.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
    <book_published>2007</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294046.The_Judas_Strain?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="The Judas Strain (Sigma Force, #4)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1367267369l/294046._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.17<br/>
                                      book published: 2007<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/08/31<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/08/31<br/>
                                      shelves: 2021, action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction, science-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Good early Sigma thriller. I'll go for #5 next.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:25:23 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Black Order (Sigma Force, #3)</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4889488333?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>294042</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0752876457 ISBN13: 9780752876450.</i><br /><br />A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.<p>A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin working for clandestine forces that want the affair buried at any cost. Lisa's only ally is a hidden pilgrim, Painter Crowe -- director of SIGMA Force, an elite command of American scientists and Special Forces operatives -- who is already showing signs of the baffling malady that destroyed the minds of the monks.</p><p>Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa -- and a world in jeopardy -- as SIGMA Force races to expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order . . . and alter the destiny of humankind forever.</p><p>Combining the historic scope of <i>The Da Vinci Code</i> with the relentless thrills of today's best action novels, James Rollins's <i>Black Order</i> is a classic adventure -- an ingenious and breathtaking tour de force that explodes with revelations . . . while offering a startling new view of our place in the grand scheme of existence.</p>]]></book_description>
    <book id="294042">
      <num_pages>448</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Tue, 9 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:25:23 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:38:24 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2021, action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[The Sigma force expands into another battle of epic proportions.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.16</average_rating>
    <book_published>2006</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294042.Black_Order?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="Black Order (Sigma Force, #3)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1305960795l/294042._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.16<br/>
                                      book published: 2006<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/08/09<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/08/09<br/>
                                      shelves: 2021, action, adventure, fiction, historical-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>The Sigma force expands into another battle of epic proportions.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:05:39 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>And Then There Were None</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1209008081?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>16299</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common, we find out, is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion:<br /><br />"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."<br /><br />When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]></book_description>
    <book id="16299">
      <num_pages>264</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Agatha Christie</author_name>
    <isbn>0312330871</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:05:39 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Feb 2015 01:48:28 -0800]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[fiction, detective, murder, murder-mystery, 1999]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[The best of her murder-mystery plots and Christie created a sub genre.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
    <book_published>1939</book_published>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16299.And_Then_There_Were_None?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="And Then There Were None" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1638425885l/16299._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: Agatha Christie<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.27<br/>
                                      book published: 1939<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/08/09<br/>
                                      shelves: fiction, detective, murder, murder-mystery, 1999<br/>
                                      review: <br/>The best of her murder-mystery plots and Christie created a sub genre.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:37:12 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Sandstorm (Sigma Force, #1)</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4889459262?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>183822</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. <br /><br />And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator; and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert. <br /><br />But others are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes. And the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare waiting to be unearthed at journey's end: an ageless and awesome power that could create a utopia... or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia.]]></book_description>
    <book id="183822">
      <num_pages>574</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0060580674</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:37:12 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:24:41 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[action, adventure, fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[First Sigma book does not disappoint! Historical fiction mixed with black ops.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
    <book_published>2004</book_published>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183822.Sandstorm?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="Sandstorm (Sigma Force, #1)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1305960920l/183822._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.95<br/>
                                      book published: 2004<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/08/01<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/08/01<br/>
                                      shelves: action, adventure, fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>First Sigma book does not disappoint! Historical fiction mixed with black ops.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:43:15 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Map of Bones (Sigma Force, #2)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4837089739?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>92147</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The bones lead to ancient mysteries and present-day terror . . . To follow them means death.During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior . . . a treasure that could reshape the world.With the Vatican in turmoil, Sigma Force under the command of Grayson Pierce leaps into action, pursuing a deadly mystery that weaves through sites of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends at the doorstep of an ancient, mystical, and terrifying secret order. For there are those with dark plans for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind . . . when science and religion unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.14 hours, 2 minutes]]></book_description>
    <book id="92147">
      <num_pages>523</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>James Rollins</author_name>
    <isbn>0060765240</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:43:15 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:36:35 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, adventure, fiction, action, suspense, thriller, historical-fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Solid speculative fiction and historical thriller. Will look for more in this series.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.08</average_rating>
    <book_published>2005</book_published>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92147.Map_of_Bones?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="Map of Bones (Sigma Force, #2)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1564764099l/92147._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: James Rollins<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.08<br/>
                                      book published: 2005<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/07/26<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/26<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, adventure, fiction, action, suspense, thriller, historical-fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Solid speculative fiction and historical thriller. Will look for more in this series.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:49:25 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Game (Victor the Assassin, #3)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3495353959?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>17321292</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>OPENING MOVE. </b><br /><br />After executing a hit on a fellow assassin in Algiers, Victor—the world's deadliest hit man—is contracted by the CIA for an assignment that will take him across Europe to the blood-stained streets of Rome...and straight into hell.<br /><br /><b>COUNTER MOVE. </b><br /><br />Victor must pose as his previous—and very much dead—target to figure out who the killer’s next victim was going to be. But what was supposed to be a quick operation soon becomes much more complicated and treacherous.<br /><br /><b>FINAL MOVE. </b><br /><br />Forced to work with a group of ruthless mercenaries, Victor will face a choice he would rather not make: do the right thing, or sacrifice the only thing in the world he truly cares about—his own life.]]></book_description>
    <book id="17321292">
      <num_pages>432</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Tom  Wood</author_name>
    <isbn>0751549169</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:49:25 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Aug 2020 03:10:32 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[hitman, contract-killer, 2018, adventure, fiction]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Recommended by a friend and worth the time! The twists and sub plots come together smoothly and liked the end.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.34</average_rating>
    <book_published>2013</book_published>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17321292-the-game?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="The Game (Victor the Assassin, #3)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1361660078l/17321292._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: Tom  Wood<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.34<br/>
                                      book published: 2013<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/18<br/>
                                      shelves: hitman, contract-killer, 2018, adventure, fiction<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Recommended by a friend and worth the time! The twists and sub plots come together smoothly and liked the end.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:39:23 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4828097886?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>175242</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.<br /><br />Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family—a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing.<br /><br />Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth, the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man.<br /><br />In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.]]></book_description>
    <book id="175242">
      <num_pages>467</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>John Connolly</author_name>
    <isbn>067102731X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:39:23 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:04:26 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, mystery, thriller, suspense, crime, horror, fiction, detective]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Intriguing tales and detective work in this thriller. Looking to read more soon. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
    <book_published>1999</book_published>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
      <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175242.Every_Dead_Thing?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=rss"><img alt="Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1393929687l/175242._SY75_.jpg" /></a><br/>
                                      author: John Connolly<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.97<br/>
                                      book published: 1999<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/07/18<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/18<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, mystery, thriller, suspense, crime, horror, fiction, detective<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Intriguing tales and detective work in this thriller. Looking to read more soon. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:33:04 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Needful Things</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4811360596?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>107291</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.]]></book_description>
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    </book>
    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
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    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, fiction, fantasy, horror, 1997, violence]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Great narrative the whole town becomes embroiled in a tit for tat from the new shop.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.98</average_rating>
    <book_published>1991</book_published>
    <description>
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                                      author: Stephen  King<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.98<br/>
                                      book published: 1991<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/07/05<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/09<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, fiction, fantasy, horror, 1997, violence<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Great narrative the whole town becomes embroiled in a tit for tat from the new shop.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:31:02 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Manchurian Candidate</title>
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    <book_id>376514</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[When its real, Conspiracy is no longer a theory]]></book_description>
    <book id="376514">
      <num_pages>358</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Richard Condon</author_name>
    <isbn>0743482972</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
    <user_read_at></user_read_at>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[fiction, suspense, thriller, 2003]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Hammy dialogue but a great concept that spurned movies and copy cat stories. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
    <book_published>1959</book_published>
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                                      author: Richard Condon<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.10<br/>
                                      book published: 1959<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/09<br/>
                                      shelves: fiction, suspense, thriller, 2003<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Hammy dialogue but a great concept that spurned movies and copy cat stories. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:30:53 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3508225428?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>2247142</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Now a Netflix Series<br /><br />It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.<br /><br />“Sinister and strangely alluring,” (Mark Harris, <em>Entertainment Weekly</em>) <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>271</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Patricia Highsmith</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Great classic tale of jealousy and greed that leads to murder. The first in the series and the best. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
    <book_published>1955</book_published>
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                                      author: Patricia Highsmith<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.97<br/>
                                      book published: 1955<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/09<br/>
                                      shelves: fiction, mystery, murder, 1999<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Great classic tale of jealousy and greed that leads to murder. The first in the series and the best. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:30:02 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Shining (The Shining, #1)</title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4260801157?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>11588</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Danny is only five years old but in the words of Old Mr Hallorann he is a ‘shiner,’ aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook hotel, Danny’s visions grow out of control.<br /><br />As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?<br /><br />Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel – and that too is beginning to shine.]]></book_description>
    <book id="11588">
      <num_pages>497</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
    <isbn>0450040186</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>5</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sat, 2 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:30:02 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:25:59 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[fiction, horror, psychology, thriller, 2012, murder]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Horror classic as Jack moves his family to a secluded hotel only to go mad and forget even his family. Anymore would be a spoiler.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
    <book_published>1977</book_published>
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                                      author: Stephen  King<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.28<br/>
                                      book published: 1977<br/>
                                      rating: 5<br/>
                                      read at: 2021/10/02<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/07/09<br/>
                                      shelves: fiction, horror, psychology, thriller, 2012, murder<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Horror classic as Jack moves his family to a secluded hotel only to go mad and forget even his family. Anymore would be a spoiler.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:20:19 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Thinner</title>
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    <book_id>10605</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death. Movie tie-in. Book available.]]></book_description>
    <book id="10605">
      <num_pages>320</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Richard  Bachman</author_name>
    <isbn>0451190750</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:20:19 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:26:46 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves>2022, fiction, horror</user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Macabre thrill and creepy. Great work Bachman and King!]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
    <book_published>1984</book_published>
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                                      author: Richard  Bachman<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.79<br/>
                                      book published: 1984<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/06/27<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/06/27<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, fiction, horror<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Macabre thrill and creepy. Great work Bachman and King!<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:55:36 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>36124936</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.<br /><br />An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.<br /><br />As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>561</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
    <isbn>1501180983</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:55:36 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:26:05 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, fiction, horror, mystery, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[A classic King horror check it if you haven't read.]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.99</average_rating>
    <book_published>2018</book_published>
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                                      author: Stephen  King<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.99<br/>
                                      book published: 2018<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/06/23<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/06/23<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, fiction, horror, mystery, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>A classic King horror check it if you haven't read.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:24:05 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Firestarter</title>
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    <book_id>233667</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<i>This a previously-published edition of ISBN 0451167805.</i><br /><br />The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka "The Shop") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.<br />--stephenking.com]]></book_description>
    <book id="233667">
      <num_pages>564</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
    <isbn></isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sat, 4 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:24:05 -0700]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:07:51 -0700]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2021, horror, fiction, supernatural, suspense, fantasy, science-fiction]]></user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.92</average_rating>
    <book_published>1980</book_published>
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                                      author: Stephen  King<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
                                      book published: 1980<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/06/04<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/06/04<br/>
                                      shelves: 2021, horror, fiction, supernatural, suspense, fantasy, science-fiction<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:00:28 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Green Mile</title>
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    <book_id>11566</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being?<br /><br />There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them.]]></book_description>
    <book id="11566">
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    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
    <isbn>0451933028</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:17:08 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe Publication Order, #6)]]></title>
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    <book_id>19668</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again.<p>At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly.</p><p>Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens.</p><p>Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect...<br />As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense and a remarkable cast of characters.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Tom Clancy</author_name>
    <isbn>0425143325</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
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                                      author: Tom Clancy<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title>The Lost Girls of Paris</title>
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  <i>Three women. One daring mission.</i>
</b><br /><br /><i>Manhattan, 1946.</i> One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home.<br /><br />Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. <br /><br />In this riveting story inspired by true events, Pam Jenoff weaves a tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Pam Jenoff</author_name>
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                                      author: Pam Jenoff<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.89<br/>
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                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:03:54 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[One Word Kill (Impossible Times, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>39792427</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.<br /><br />Nick and his Dungeons &amp; Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help—now.<br /><br />He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.<br /><br />Challenge accepted.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Mark  Lawrence</author_name>
    <isbn>1503958264</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
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                                      rating: 0<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:55:16 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Command Authority (Jack Ryan Jr, #5; Jack Ryan, #9)]]></title>
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    <book_id>18342283</book_id>
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    <book id="18342283">
      <num_pages>739</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Tom Clancy</author_name>
    <isbn>0399160477</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Tom Clancy<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.13<br/>
                                      book published: 2013<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:05:23 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)</title>
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    <book_id>429138</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shared halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle's possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled ceder--destined for the adoration of a nation, and the love of one extraordinary man.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Wilbur Smith</author_name>
    <isbn>0312954468</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
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                                      author: Wilbur Smith<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.21<br/>
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                                      rating: 0<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/03/12<br/>
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    <title>Deep Water</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In <i>Deep Water</i>, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia Highsmith has created a vicious and suspenseful tale of love gone sour. Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic can no longer suppress his jealousy and tries to win back his wife by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder — one that soon comes true. In this complex portrayal of a dangerous psychosis emerging in the most unlikely of places, Highsmith examines the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Patricia Highsmith</author_name>
    <isbn>0393324559</isbn>
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    <book_published>1957</book_published>
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                                      average rating: 3.65<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/03/12<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/03/12<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ripley Under Water (Ripley, #5)]]></title>
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    <book_id>3845355</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.<br /><br />But some new neighbors have moved to Villeperce: the Pritchards, just arrived from America. they are a ghastly pair, with vulgar manners and even more vulgar taste. Most inconvenient, though, is their curiosity. Ripley does, after all, have a few things to hide. When menacing coincidences begin to occur, a spiraling contest of sinister hints and mutual terrorism ensues, resulting in one of Patricia Highsmith's most elegantly harrowing novels to date.]]></book_description>
    <book id="3845355">
      <num_pages>304</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Patricia Highsmith</author_name>
    <isbn>0393333191</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sat, 5 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, fiction, thriller, murder, mystery]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Not as good as the early ones but still a great Ripley story. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.78</average_rating>
    <book_published>1991</book_published>
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      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: Patricia Highsmith<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.78<br/>
                                      book published: 1991<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/03/05<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/03/05<br/>
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    <title>The Berlin Exchange</title>
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    <book_id>56898211</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[From “the most accomplished spy novelist working today” ( The Sunday Times , London), a “heart-poundingly suspenseful” ( The Washington Post ) espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is returned to East Berlin, needing to know who arranged for his release and what they now want from him.<br /><br />Berlin, 1963. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system. Keller’s most critical his American passport. Keller’s most ardent to see his ex-wife Sabine and their young son.<br /><br />The exchange is made with the formality characteristic of these swaps. But Martin has other Who asked for him? Who negotiated the deal? The KGB? He knows that nothing happens by chance. They want him for something. Not physics—his expertise is out of date. Something else, which he cannot learn until he arrives in East Berlin, when suddenly the game is afoot.<br /><br />Intriguing and atmospheric, with action rising to a dangerous climax, The Berlin Exchange “expertly describes what happens when a disillusioned former agent tries to come in from the cold” ( The New York Times Book Review ), confirming Kanon as “the greatest writer ever of historical espionage fiction” ( Spybrary ).]]></book_description>
    <book id="56898211">
      <num_pages>304</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Joseph Kanon</author_name>
    <isbn>1982158654</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>0</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>3.66</average_rating>
    <book_published>2022</book_published>
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                                      author: Joseph Kanon<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.66<br/>
                                      book published: 2022<br/>
                                      rating: 0<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:03:05 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Think Fast or Die</title>
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    <book_id>48678296</book_id>
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    <book id="48678296">
      <num_pages>235</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Simon W. Clark</author_name>
    <isbn>1948266016</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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    <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
    <book_published>2019</book_published>
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                                      author: Simon W. Clark<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.20<br/>
                                      book published: 2019<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: <br/>
                                      date added: 2022/02/25<br/>
                                      shelves: spy-fiction, thriller, spy-thriller, terrorism, war-on-terror, fiction, techno-thriller, twists-n-turns, mystery, murder, suspense<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:19:11 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4544611622?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>3845354</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<strong><i>The Boy Who Followed Ripley</i>, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations.</strong><br /><br />Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.<br /><br />"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."<br />—Frank Rich, <i>New York Times Magazine</i>]]></book_description>
    <book id="3845354">
      <num_pages>348</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Patricia Highsmith</author_name>
    <isbn>039333211X</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:19:11 -0800]]></user_date_added>
    <user_date_created><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:09:01 -0800]]></user_date_created>
    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, crime, fiction, thriller]]></user_shelves>
    <user_review><![CDATA[Just as intriguing as the first 3 books in the series and suspenseful. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>3.56</average_rating>
    <book_published>1980</book_published>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
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                                      author: Patricia Highsmith<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.56<br/>
                                      book published: 1980<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/02/18<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/02/18<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, crime, fiction, thriller<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Just as intriguing as the first 3 books in the series and suspenseful. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Feb 2022 03:59:34 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4529649807?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss]]></link>
    <book_id>19675</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The President is dead—and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for this job? Whom do I ask? Where do I go? <i>Debt of Honor</i> ended with Tom Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever; a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President. President John Patrick Ryan. And that is where <i>Executive Orders</i> begins. Ryan had agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as a caretaker for a year, and now, suddenly an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? With stunning force, Ryan's responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral—all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed. But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, Tehran, and other world capitals, including Washington D.C., there are those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus toward the United States—some of whom, from Ryan's past, harbor intense animosity toward the new President himself. Soon they will begin to move on their opportunities; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot imagine it. Tom Clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to the timeliness and drama of <i>Executive Orders</i>. Filled with the exceptional realism and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it attests to the words of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This man can tell a story.]]></book_description>
    <book id="19675">
      <num_pages>1273</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Tom Clancy</author_name>
    <isbn>0006479758</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Feb 2022 03:59:34 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_shelves><![CDATA[2022, adventure, assassin, fiction, war]]></user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
    <book_published>1996</book_published>
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                                      author: Tom Clancy<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.10<br/>
                                      book published: 1996<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/02/16<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/02/16<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, adventure, assassin, fiction, war<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:20:13 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)</title>
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    <book_id>19670</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse.<p>He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage.</p><p>Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a<b>Debt of Honor</b> to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths—America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion.</p><p>When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family's car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U. S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade law through the system. The law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he needs to put his plan into action.</p><p>As Yamata's plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully-integrated operation against the United States. There's only one man to find out who the culprit is—Jack Ryan, the new President's National Security Advisor.</p>]]></book_description>
    <book id="19670">
      <num_pages>990</num_pages>
    </book>
    <author_name>Tom Clancy</author_name>
    <isbn>0425147584</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Fri, 4 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
    <user_date_added><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:20:13 -0800]]></user_date_added>
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    <user_review><![CDATA[Re-occurring themes but still enough action and suspense. ]]></user_review>
    <average_rating>4.09</average_rating>
    <book_published>1994</book_published>
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                                      author: Tom Clancy<br/>
                                      name: Jerry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.09<br/>
                                      book published: 1994<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
                                      read at: 2022/02/04<br/>
                                      date added: 2022/02/04<br/>
                                      shelves: 2022, adventure, fiction, military<br/>
                                      review: <br/>Re-occurring themes but still enough action and suspense. <br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Feb 2022 19:21:20 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Fang (Maximum Ride, #6)</title>
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    <book_id>6431790</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Being a kid with wings -- constantly on the run -- has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: <i>Fang will be the first to die</i>. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?]]></book_description>
    <book id="6431790">
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    <author_name>James  Patterson</author_name>
    <isbn>0316036196</isbn>
    <user_name>Jerry</user_name>
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