Sentences with phrase «good page turner»

The case reads like a good page turner or perhaps more aptly, a good late night TV mystery thriller.

Not exact matches

«Stepan's history of eradication efforts gives you a good sense of how involved the work can get, how many different kinds of approaches have been tried without success, and how much we've learned from our failures,» he writes, though he also warns that, while extremely valuable, it is far from a page turner.

That alone is a pretty good reason to pick up a page turner, but it's not all the reading fiction can do for you, according to science.

While we love a good page - turner, we know that salespeople are busy.

It's twisted and dark in the best way possible, a real page - turner, enormously suspenseful.

«It's a good story, a page turner and offers great advice,» she says.Some advice Axelrod gives in her books is learning to measure everything because, as she says, «You can not manage what you can not measure.

For Ralph Antwi, author and Founding President of Rain Foundation, «Silence is Not Golden and its sequel, Silence Became Golden are both page turners... The various pages of both books challenge positions that elicit perceptions inimical to the ultimate good of our world.

We flick through the best deals for this politics page - turner

of Acxiom Corp.... Matters of Life and Data is a compelling read, a page - turner of a memoir that sheds light on what it takes to be successful in business as well as on what it takes to live a fulfilling life.

Nevertheless a suitably exciting action film that probably takes itself a little too seriously, «American Assassin» works best when it's trying to replicate the rhythms of a pulpy page - turner and least when pausing to consider the deeper implications of politics and personal responsibility in a post-9 / 11 world.

The production of more presentations and more page turners will only make people more knowledgeable; it will not provide them with skills to better do their job.

Set in Hawaii, Hemmings» page - turner of a debut novel is narrated by Matt King, a wealthy, well - connected attorney, who is the head of an unusual family.

I wanted this to be a page - turner: suspenseful yet accurate to the best of my ability, based on secondary and primary research.

I love a good polemic, and anything that is as angry, smart and entertaining as this book is a total page - turner for me.

BookPage reviewer Dan Barrett calls When the Killing's Done «a ripped - from - the - headlines page - turner» as well as «a careful study of two memorable antagonists.»

The best - selling book of the year is Paula Hawkins» addictive page - turner, The Girl on the Train followed by Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E.L. James.

An intelligent, deeply moving, and remarkably written portrait of a relationship that reads as a cross between a romance novel and a literary page turner, A Small Hotel is a masterful story that will remind readers once again why Robert Olen Butler has been called the «best living American writer» (Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star - Telegram).

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a powerful combination of a tragic and poignant family story as well as riveting page - turner, due primarily to the fact that it centers on such a shocking act by one individual that affects everyone he cares about.

But while the oft - used thriller premise of people showing the worst sides of humanity in a crisis makes a good base, what turns this into a complete page - turner is the deadly vines that start killing members of the group.

A classic story of good and evil, sacrifice and sin — a gripping page - turner that illuminates the darkest corridors of the human mind.

From suspenseful page - turners to thrilling fantasies, we've selected the best new YA books to keep teens reading all summer long.

Best - selling author Jennifer McMahon (Promise Not to Tell) opens her new novel, The Winter People, with a sentence that offers a tantalizing glimpse of the horrors to come in this marvelously creepy page - turner.

Looking for a good old - fashioned page - turner to gobble up this weekend?

Every Fifteen Minutes, best - selling author Lisa Scottoline's latest page - turner, effectively draws readers in at two levels, both as gripping psychological suspense and as a vivid look into the tangled realms of the heart.

Overall, the book was a page - turner, and one that I could not put down; it's that good.

«It's a twisty page - turner (and Chicagoans will enjoy seeing the Lincoln Park and Wrigleyville neighborhoods cast as mean streets), but if Harvey had chosen either a lighter plot or darker prose, the book could have been much better.»

«This page - turner... is definitely a must read by an author whose storytelling skills keep getting better and better.»

Anyone who loves a good mystery or Amish stories will completely enjoy this page - turner.

David McCullough has crafted a book full of well - defined characters who live and work in a well - imagined setting, and compelling action sequences that make this a real page - turner.

Bukiet's black and biting satirical fiction has been well received, but this is his breakthrough book — a smart, crisp, political page - turner narrated by a blind Russian immigrant who works as a speechwriter for Israel's hawkish prime minister.

This was a very slow paced novel; rather than the page turner I was expecting; though the last third is the best.

Sarah has been selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers series; a Dobie - Paisano Fellowship; New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember list; Elle Magazine Reader's Prize; People Magazine's Page Turners; Library Journal's Best Novels; and a National Magazine Silver Award for her columns in Texas Monthly.

If you write a 20,000 word page - turner, you could make out better than the author of a 100,000 word snoozer.

With more than 70 percent of African Americans identifying themselves as Christians who go to church at least once a month, I believe with all my heart that if presented with a page turner that is not only entertaining and well written but also glorifies God, the readers will respond,» Stinson remarked to the Tri-State Defender.

It's a well researched page turner.

«A page - turner, Nuclear Showdown not only is a superb (and frightening) history of the U.S. — North Korea nuclear confrontation, it also provides important insights into the larger U.S. - China relationship which forms the crucial context for that confrontation — a context Gordon Chang knows so well from his many years in Asia, as well as from his extensive investigation of documents relating to this crisis.»

The book is well - written, and if you take it as fiction, it is a real page - turner.

This collection of stories is (again) very well written, descriptive, and fun; a real page - turner.

John D. wrote some of the best page - turners, mostly set in Florida.

What better way than with some great tunes, a quality movie, or a real page turner?

There's really no better way to relax than with some awesome tunes, a quality movie, or a real page turner.