Sentences with phrase «page turner with»

Enjoy a page turner with fiction novels by Barbara Billig.

The story is a page turner with a very driven plot and the Christian overtones feel like they're there to spark religious conversation, much like Philip Pullman did with his His Dark Materials trilogy.

This is a suspenseful page turner with likable main characters, «bad guys,» and interagency conflict.

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It's a real page - turner with many surprises and wonderful characters.

«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.

Pagels's and Ehrman's books in particular are page - turners in which early Christian history unfolds with the drama of a first - rate detective story.

The book is a real page - turner that will enlighten all who want to build lasting bonds filled with romance and passion.

Caro, with his legendary meticulous research and his amazing attention to detail, tells this tale as a Western thriller and turns it into an absolutely compulsive page - turner.

A page - turner for science - thirsty geeks and drink connoisseurs alike, this book is overflowing with fun facts about our favorite social lubricant.

From the teenage atheist who renounced his German citizenship to the peace - activists eptuagenarian who pursued an «equation of everything» on his deathbed, the Einstein in this page - turner is inventive and fallible, with his accomplishments intimately linked to his nonconformity.

Set yourself up for a wonderful sleep — whether that's lighting a few candles, reading a boring book or a page - turner, taking a soak in the bath, having some fun with your partner, or listening to some relaxing music.

The writer behind The Girl on the Train is back with another page - turner that's destined to be buzzy.

People with tattoos can be total page - turners — just as interesting as they are easy on the eye.

Hanks» solid yet stiff performance is, in the end, emblematic of everything that's wrong with Inferno, as the film's overly serious feel is completely at odds with the fun, fast - paced tone of Brown's page - turner - with, especially, the dull third act ensuring that the movie ends on as anti-climactic a note as one could envision.

But Francis Lawrence's steely thriller, based on the first of Jason Matthews» trilogy of novels, shares more DNA with John Le Carré's densely - plotted espionage page - turners than the MCU.

Elle works as a celebrity ghost writer, and lives in total ease with the notion of transforming real experience (or, at least, a person's recollection of lived experience) into a glossy page - turner.

Confession: I'm addicted to the crime fiction of Michael Connelly, with a bullet next to the page - turners featuring attorney Mickey Haller, defender of desperate scumbags and the occasional lost cause.

That's why we need something engaging and fun like Choose Your Own Adventure branching rather than a linear page - turner with no control and no intrinsic value.

Contrary to the conventional page turners, in video - based learning, the schema of the learner is compelled to work faster due to the high frequency of changing onscreen sensory ambiance blended with the meticulous auditory permutation.

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.

With the introduction of e-learning more than a decade ago, learners were mostly confined to a computer and accessing learning at a specific location through CBTs which were essentially page - turners.

While much of Lent's writing is rich with insights about the human condition, those who prefer a more fast - paced read may find this detailed examination of daily living less than a page - turner.

It's not a gripping page turner and because it is so faithful to the biographical facts of Christina's life it doesn't have a traditional main character with conflicts that are neatly resolved.

Set in rich and exotic 1920s Ceylon, The Tea Planter's Wife is an utterly engrossing, compulsive page - turner that climaxes with more than one heartbreaking twist.

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.»

Prolific children's and YA author Tim Wynne - Jones has created a page - turner with Blink & Caution, the story of two teen runaways who are accidentally drawn into a mystery.Wynne - Jones may have written a thriller, but he hasn't lost his sense of humor.

This year, Brooks is celebrating twenty years of continued success by taking his writing to a new level; Running with the Demon is a stunning contemporary fantasy, a page - turner with sleek, spare writing and a dark vision not found in his earlier work.

In fact, it was likely my love of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Stephen's King's The Stand that got me into trouble with The Page Turners word count in the first place.

The NYT reviews, calling it «highly enjoyable» and a «page turner written with great brio.»

This wondrous page - turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloom's Juke, to Celia Jennings's kitchen where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby.

This book is a page turner, a political / spy thriller, with nonstop action.

Readers will curl up and keep the lights on with this chilling page - turner.

Very widely reviewed, Queen of Dreams gets a thumbs up from most, for example, Donna Seaman writing for Booklist says that «Divakaruni masterfully illuminates the tangible and the numinous, the abruptly changing present and the deep past in a page - turner lush with emotional, cultural, and spiritual insights.»

If you're looking for a page - turner of a romance filled with unusual creatures (vampires, humans and demons — oh my!)

But the book is more than a page - turner with a strong, appealing heroine.

Though with BT4.0 that means the possibility of page turners / pedals.

Rising Cold War tension makes this one a real page - turner, but Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney recommends starting this series from the beginning with Zoo Station and enjoying the whole ride.

Whatever it is, it's a riveting page - turner with a little sex appeal, and a lot of laughs.

She has no trouble keeping all of her balls in the air and resolving them at the end of this page - turner with a flair.»

Your books are always described as «page turners» that are packed with twists and turns, but I bet no one will be quite prepared for the conclusion of The Beach House.

A real page turner — not to learn who dunnit — but to keep up with Arthur on his remarkable journey of discovery!

Playful, frightening, profound, and gripping, Innocence is that rare thing - a page - turner with the depth of poetry and the immediacy of cinema.

Filled with plot twists and red herrings, this is a gripping tale, a page turner that will have the reader on the edge of the seat.

With New York gangsters, a struggling family, a spirited young woman with a passion for the sea, the Brooklyn Naval Yard during WWII, and a dramatic shipwreck, Egan's propulsive and profound page - turner is the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictWith New York gangsters, a struggling family, a spirited young woman with a passion for the sea, the Brooklyn Naval Yard during WWII, and a dramatic shipwreck, Egan's propulsive and profound page - turner is the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fictwith a passion for the sea, the Brooklyn Naval Yard during WWII, and a dramatic shipwreck, Egan's propulsive and profound page - turner is the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

Set in the women's prison in Gatestown, Texas, this heartfelt and challenging novel is a true literary page - turner that intertwines the lives of three women: a murderer waiting to be executed on death row — who is at the same time desperately ill with AIDS — the widow of the man she murdered and the physician responsible for the inmate's care.

In my personal opinion, a «beach read» is simply a page - turner — a book with a compelling enough story to keep me interested in the pages under my nose rather than the waves in front of me.

Electric chemistry between two believable and interesting characters coupled with the investigative details make this page - turner especially compelling.

With an eerie, confined setting that echoes Agatha Christie and a modern heroine struggling with paranoia, The Woman in Cabin 10 is an unsettling page - turner readers will enWith an eerie, confined setting that echoes Agatha Christie and a modern heroine struggling with paranoia, The Woman in Cabin 10 is an unsettling page - turner readers will enwith paranoia, The Woman in Cabin 10 is an unsettling page - turner readers will enjoy.

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.

Anna Randol dazzled us with her exotic page - turner, A Secret in Her Kiss, so we simply had to chat with her about sexy scenes and the thrill...