Sentences with phrase «out page turners»

I plowed through the entire Encyclopedia Brown series and used to steal time with my dad's manual Royal typewriter to hammer out page turners like «Murder at the Roller Disco.»

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«I might lose whatever credibility I have with readers if I suggested flat out that a book centered around the subject of oil, written by an economist, was a page - turner, but I am willing to say with conviction that Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin, is a fantastically compelling read.

But far from being a drudgery of a read, this exploration of The Great Migration (the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West between 1915 and 1970) is a total page - turner, full of fascinating characters, gut - wrenching stories, exciting twists and turns, and a lively elucidation of an epic chapter of American history that few of us have deeply considered and which still affects our world today.

Find out how to make pilgrim peg dolls at Little Page Turners for Thanksgiving pretend play or table decorations.

Is there a page - turner in circulation that stands out from the crowd, and will help its readers find love?

Who could have guessed that a book about textbooks would turn out to be a page turner?

You may know the ending to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (out in paperback last week from Harper Perennial)-- but it still manages to be a page - turner.

Her books are meticulously researched and steeped in history, but what really matters is that she can flat - out write a page - turner.

[A] magical and mesmerizing page - turner... Book clubs should devour this rich, carefully observed mix of characters, time, and place; Morris deserves to break out of the regional - writer box.»

The sexual conflict of a young girl being raped and not knowing whether it was real or fiction, and the lash out of an angered individual ending in death would be enough to send you from page 20 through the end, I loved this book it spoke to me as an individual and if you want a page turner this is your kind of book, I highly recommend it.

BookBrowse seeks out these gems from both established writers and first time authors - novels that whisk you to unfamiliar times and places, thrillers that are more than just «page - turners», and thought - provoking non-fiction that entertains as it informs.

But none of this comes across in an after - school - special kind of way; it's a page - turner that will rip your heart out.

Having drawn comparisons to Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa, The Fever Tree is a page - turner of the very first order.

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

Over the years, the Gottmans have come out with quite a few page - turners to support couples.