Sentences with phrase «like mystery books»

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I was in line at the local dry cleaners once and realized that I was sandwiched between two bestselling mystery writers, Nevada Barr and Terri Blackstock; between the three of us, we had sold something like 10.001 million books.

amazon.com Like a twist on choose - your - own - adventure books, this interactive notebook presents a mystery only you can solve.

Or to put it in terms of the present book, its point is to clarify for us what the ultimate character of mystery is like.

This book constitutes a sophisticated transformation of the intellectual puzzle of the mystery; like Oedipus, Philippa Rose Palfrey, the adopted daughter of a nonbelieving social scientist who is also a television personality, decides to seek out the identity of her natural parents.

We also like... Books The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy, HarperCollins, $ 24.95 Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics John Derbyshire, Joseph Henry Press, $ 27.95 In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offered $ 1 million to anyone who could crack an enduring conundrum: devising an equation to predict how many prime numbers occur within any given range of integers.

This is a science book that reads like a mystery novel, with vividly drawn characters (both human and odoriferous) and chemical clues (the formation of mercury droplets, the olfactory illusion of caraway).

In his early teens, Young's parents gave him a book about evolution that described biological clocks, like the one that controlled the flower's movement, but said how they worked was still a mystery.

I liked several of the other books you mentioned and I like mysteries so... I'll see if our library has it!

Esteemed author and journalist Neil Strauss is best known for his book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Social of Pickup Artists, and has real - world experience romantically mingling with celebrities and well - known PUAs, like Mystery and Ross Jeffries.

ill do anything to make some one smile.I like to read mystery, comedy books and i want to be a lawyer or a navy pilot.My favorite colors are red & black.so say yes if ur interested.i like to skate

Why these men felt the need to post fake profiles depicting themselves as beautiful women is a bizarre mystery to which only they could provide the answer and perhaps Kinrys might like to take a look into this aspect of the male psyche for her next book.

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That's not to say that Mystery Men has nothing to offer: it features some nice comic book style production designs of a Gotham - like city that can be described as a mixture between the Batman movies and Metropolis, but reminded me more of the excellent Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Gibbons.

That O'Connor was a devout, practicing Catholic who often decried what she saw as the sentimentalism and namby - pambyism of religious literature in her time is no secret to those who've read her writing in books like Mystery and Manners and her letters in The Habit of Being.

Where the sparks are from is a mystery, what weapon that is on his back unclear - something machine gun - like is a safe bet - but it's good to see that the former Mr. Machine War Machine is going to get in on the action in Shane Black's upcoming comic - book threequel.

The kids like the book because it is a great mystery and holds their attention.

Reading goals can be as simple as «read the book to find out how the mystery was solved» or «read the book to see how the main character is like you.»

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I've seen a few books like it now, and I'm excited about the idea of adding something new to both the NA and mystery genres.

If they are looking for a clean thriller or mystery filled with action and conflict with a satisfying ending I believe they will like my books.

For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.

«Macmillan's Minotaur Books imprint has a rich backlist built on best - selling mystery and crime series by the likes of M.C. Beaton, Nevada Barr, and Laurie King,» said Heather McCormack, collection development manager, in a press release.

Really like the plot developments and the characters... though I am not quite sure to what to expect from future books since the series is «the Buford family» mysteries.

I don't want to say too much about this book, as I do not what to spoil it for anyone but if you like psychological thrillers with a good dose of mystery I would advise you to pick up this book.

«If you like Indiana Jones action, a Lara Croft style heroine and a mystery steeped in Christian myth and mysticism, then Pentecost is the book for you.Full of fast - paced action this book hits the ground running from the beginning.»

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Amazon's imprints have names like Montlake Romance and Thomas & Mercer for mysteries and thrillers and they will will publish books electronically for e-readers, and they can also be printed on demand.

In some genres (especially high - volume «pulp» genres like romance, science fiction, fantasy, and, to a lesser extent, mysteries), readers often expect anything shorter than a full - length book (fifty thousand or more words) to be priced $ 0.99, while full length pieces are generally priced $ 2.99 — $ 4.99.

For literary nerds like me, try out these creative writing prompts about Shakespeare, language, and books or these prompts about the fantasy and mystery genres.

The depiction of slavery in this book read like a time compressed, magical mystery tour via the underground railway of all of the poignant issues that slaves confronted.

- Booklist «Like his acclaimed debut, Norwegian by Night, Miller's highly enjoyable new book is a solid mystery wrapped up in musings about individuality and freedom, grief and sadness.»

Everything that it is known about those authors the book MAGICAL MYSTERY TRAVEL and their works as»» Percyfaw Code»», de Scriblerius, made available by limited time as e-book in an apparent strategy of marketing of enormous success in the web and»» The Traveler»», Twelve Hawks published amid the style of Hollywood hype where disembarked in the list bestseller of the newspaper The New Times.The mysterious to Thomas Pynchon's same style, Philip Roth, JD Salinger, B.Traven, Cormac McCarthy, authors C.S. Scriblerius and Twelve Hawks «live out of the grating», meaning that you chose roads no so conventional in the market editorial, using like this other means for popularization of their works, and, hindering of they be tracked.

I would recommend the book to those interested in history and mysteries and like a good story based on true incidents (Mary Jane D).

In Seattle, he wrote copy for ad agencies, a well - paid freelancer supported by creative directors who liked his (dreadful) first novel, Your Day in the Barrel, published by Atheneum - a book by a writer who wrote well but had nothing to write about, so he wrote a murder mystery.

I like mysteries, especially procedurals, and I like historical novels, and this book satisfied me on both counts.

Which book would you like to see as the Group Reads selection for the Spring 2017 Challenge in the category LGBT Mystery?

Author Laura Caldwell, who writes a series of mysteries starring red - headed lawyer Izzy MacNeil for MIRA, gives The Book Case an inside look at the what it's like to be on an author panel — and reveals the power of a perfectly chosen outfit.

It's your hard work and you want readers to see it because if they like cozy mysteries they will love your book.

But at the same time, it's more much bigger, like huge action adventure books; it's instantly obvious that something more sinister than ordinary cops stuff, than mystery crime stories is going on, something big and weird right out of a series of huge, black op action thrillers is at play.

All of that is available just like it used to be in bookstores, add to that, we also have customer reviews, author pages, links to publisher websites, author websites, best seller lists drilled down to «top five book in mysteries that mention a mosquito.»

On a high note, my paranormal mystery novella, Like Mother, Like Daughters, was accepted by Firebringer Press and should be released next year as an eBook, audio book (recorded by yours truly), and in paperback paired up with a vampire novella written by Steven H. Wilson, fellow scribe and owner of Firebringer.

This is where you would describe your book using the actual name of the genre, like Young Adult / Romance / Mystery if you write fiction, or whatever sort of non-fiction the book happens to be, like a cookbook or self - help.

But THE WOMAN IN THE CAMPHOR TRUNK was just nominated for a Lefty Award for historical mystery, and some people like it better than book one.

I'm thinking that niche books with built - in, dedicated audiences (like cozy mysteries) tend to do well with self - publishing.

BookPage covers all types of books — from literary fiction, history and biography to popular genres like romance and mystery — and our book reviews, author interviews and special features are informative and accessible.

If you like a novel that encompasses richly drawn characters and a historical mystery, you will enjoy this book as I did.

To be fair, this book did have both, sort of, but the drama was so uninteresting and so heavily set during the early years of teenagerhood, it made one feel like reading a YA story about an uneasy friendship triangle of three young girls and the mystery was just not particularly mysterious and, again, quite uninteresting, so when the grand reveals would come up, it was just kinda blah.

With smart, sharp prose and a dark but relatable undercurrent, this book pulls you through the labyrinth - like mystery of a teen girl's life and her tragic end.

Set in Thailand, this suspenseful thriller features a fictional young journalist named — like the book's author — Mischa Berlinski, who finds himself at the center of a mystery involving the death of an American anthropologist.

From the summary, it looks like a book I would enjoy: mystery, suspense, rave rev