We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

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"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.

The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis perished in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, this account will endure as a chilling document of our time.

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Compelling.......2007-09-22

My prep for going to Rwanda was reading this book. This is a snapshot of the state Rwanda was in during the 100 days and the aftermath. However, much has been done to repair the damage. This is a time of reconciliation and healing. Go to Rwanda and see for yourself. It will change your life.

Will really let you see into this tradgedy........2007-05-29

What a great book. Such insight and it really helps you understand what happened in Rwanda. Especially the history of all the long ago violence and things that have happened over the years. Great book and a must read for everyone.

This could happen everywhere or anywhere in the world. Can really open your eyes into how much we all could be killers or saviors at any one time.

Highly recommended.

The Heartbreak of Hate.......2007-04-10

Gourevitch's jarring telling of the atrocities of hate hit with an imact of severe sorrow. The overwhelming scale of the murders in Rwanda are incomprehensible. It is sad to realize that in this age people allow hate and propoganda to rule their lives.

Excellent Book.......2007-03-27

This book was very well written and informative about the genocide that occurred in Rwanda.

Heartbreaking stories from Rwanda.......2007-03-19

This is a superb book, a collection of interviews and incidents from the genocide in Rwanda. There are portraits of unimaginable betrayal, brutality and horror, but also of heroism--the owner of the Hotel Rwanda, for instance. The description of the conduct of the "refugee" camps is particularly useful as a warning on what is likely to happen in the next crisis, and should force us to re-examine our ways of providing relief for people in distress across the world.

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Possibly the Greatest Thriller Ever
exciting but in the end stupid
Target missed: Cussler not Clancy
Before Dan Brown ...
Good first effort

The Day After Tomorrow
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Possibly the Greatest Thriller Ever.......2007-09-23

This thriller ranks among the best ever, including works by Ludlum, Follet, Forsythe, and Baldacci. Folsom never lets up on the pacing, and the action and twists are non-stop. As the hero races around the world, hints as to the conspiracy at hand are revealed, leading to a final revelation that is one of the most imaginitive AND horrifying scenarios ever put down on paper.

If you are any kind of thriller fan this is a book you MUST READ.

exciting but in the end stupid.......2007-08-11

It's without any doubt a very well written book. I really enjoyed reading it for 2/3 of its pages. The troubles started with the presentation of modern Germany as a country still full of Nazi aiming to dominate the world. I am not a German, but this presentation is really stupid and unbound to reality. The US has much more tendency to behave in the way described as the Germany of nowadays (see Guantanamo, see George W. Bush, Abu Ghuraib etc.).

If you go to modern Germany you will be impressed by an extreme political correctness. The US chief justice of the supreme court William Rehnquist refused to loan his houses to jews and blacks. This would be impossible in todays' Germany. George W. Bush would be a member of the extreme right in Germany (excluded from the elections). Most US parlamentariens would be on the very right wing of todays German's politics, many of them ultraright and even extremists. You will not find German politicians advocating political murders of leaders of other countries e.g.

It's really sad that the author of this well written book loves to reinforce old prejudices. Germany really learnt from history, much more than the US.

Target missed: Cussler not Clancy.......2007-06-23

Synopsis: Paul Osborn's father was murdered when Osborn was ten years old. Osborn has no trouble recognizing the killer when he sees him unexpectedly in a Parisian cafe 28 years later. Osborn attacks his father's murderer who flees and the reader is plunged into a morass of headless bodies, body-less heads, all powerful neo-Nazis, European police agencies who have to rely on Los Angeles police officers to solve European crimes, beautiful French women who are sleeping with prime ministers who leave their lovers because they meet an American doctor, (All right, there's only one of those, but even one is too many.), and dead police officers galore.

Osborn's attack catches the attention of the Paris police who ask for the assistance of McVey, the super-sleuth from Los Angeles who is helping Interpol with the embarrassing bodies that have turned up all over Europe. They have called in McVey, not because of the bodies, but because they found a head and it doesn't seem to go with any of the bodies.

McVey is suspicious of Osborn because the head seems to have been surgically removed from its body. Then Osborn convinces McVey he's not involved. Then McVey is suspicious again. Then he's not. Then he is. Then he's not again.

In the meantime, Osborn has hired a private detective to find the man who murdered his father. The police have been seeking him for 28 years, so it takes the private detective almost 12 hours to track him down. He gives Osborn all the information about the killer. Then the killer tortures and kills the private detective. The reader deduces this by the fact that the detective's mutilated corpse is found in his apartment, the story is on the front page of a Parisian newspaper and McVey is suspicious again.

Osborn, a doctor, though that has little to do with the story, is planning on torturing his father's killer to find out why he (the killer) killed him (his [Osborn's] father). Instead the killer shows up and kidnaps Osborn. Osborn turns the table and is torturing the killer when another killer machine guns them both. The killer is killed. Osborn is shot in the leg, though within a page or two he is competing for the Parisian olympic decathlon team, so the bullet in his leg only slows him down long enough for the bad guys to learn that he's not dead.

At this point the story gets even less credible. The killer with the machine pistol, starts killing everyone in sight. He is invariably described as tall. In fact, the reader learns, he is 6'4" tall. He is also blonde. To disguise himself, he dyes his hair and removes his feet. Turns out the killer has had his feet surgically removed. He has 8" prosthetics for when he is working. He trades them for 2" prosthetics, so he is no longer tall. (Yeah, that's what I thought.)

Stumpy tries to kill Osborn and McVey, who are finally working together to figure out what in the world is going on, the same thing the reader is wondering. Osborn and McVey kill Stumpy and learn his secret, which tells them nothing.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, a charming devotee of Hitler's Third Reich is seducing a not-particularly-attractive physical therapist who is working with a man we later find out has the first successful head transplant. Yep. All this is leading up to these clowns transplanting Hitler's frozen noggin on to the body of one of a set of twin boys who are perfect physical specimens: they swim the butterfly stroke for four miles, matching each other stroke for stroke, then to relax they go for a run in the Alps. (Oops, I shouldn't have told you that yet. The author keeps the reader in suspense until the last paragraph in the book. It's the worst kept secret since the Carl Rove denied outing Valerie Plame.)

It seems that under Berlin there are extensive hospital facilities. Deep under Berlin. Really deep. And extensive. Really extensive. In the last days (years) of the war, Hitler had this complex built. This might explain why he lost the war. If this effort had been expended in fighting the allies, Hitler would have won the war, conquered the world, taken manned vehicles to the moon, and met the aliens in Carl Sagan's "Contact" in person rather than just sending them a broadcast of the 1936 Olympics.

Anyway, Osborn and McVey, with the help of one each British, French and German police officer are hot on the trail of the killer of the killer of Osborn's father. Well, the actual killer of the killer of Osborn's father is Stumpy, who is dead. They are instead tracking down the mysterious man who ordered the killing of the killer of Osborn's father. Got it?

The man behind all this killing, and the bodies strewn about Europe and the head found in London, is wealthier than Bill Gates and cleaner than some guy in politics who's really clean, I can't think of anyone just now. He is, the reader is told, untouchable. He's so clean your mother wouldn't ask him to wash his hands before serving him her famous pork and kraut New Year's dinner. He's really clean.

McVey, the ever resourceful, calls upon the Archbishop of Los Angeles to ask the clean multi-billionaire to meet McVey, which he agrees to do. While they are waiting to meet the bad guy, the bad guy kills a whole bunch of people in an attempt to kill Osborn and McVey, hoping that no one will connect him with their deaths. (How someone that stupid got so wealthy and powerful is never explained.)

On the eve of the unveiling of the first successful head transplant, in the largest, most impressive castle in Berlin, Osborn and McVey meet the untouchably clean bad guy and his lawyer because they have an international warrant for his arrest for the murder of Osborn's father (Remember Osborn's father? That's what this whole story is about? I don't want to have to remind you again.) 28 years ago.

In a surprise turn of events, the doctor who is behind the "transplant de head." as no Frenchman would ever call it, is not sympathetic to the Nazi cause. He has just been going along with the killings for the past 50 years because he was afraid for his life. Now that things are coming to a head, he kills the untouchably clean bad guy and his lawyer. In another part of the castle, all the Nazis and neo-Nazis involved in the plot are in the castle keep being addressed by the newly recovered transplanted head on its new body in anticipation of one of the twin boys' heads being removed and Hitler's head being "atomically" transplanted in its place. The doctor who was not sympathetic to the Nazi cause but who has cooperated for 50 years has a surprise for them as well. Steel doors slam into place at every door and window and cyanide gas, similar to the gas used in concentration camps, is pumped into the room and everyone is dead.

The reader can be excused for thinking this is the end of the story. It's not.

Fortunately for the forces of evil, the main bad guy's head of security is delayed in his delivery of a box which, we are told in idiotic detail, is precisely two feet wide, two feet deep and 26 inches high. The bad guy's head of security is carrying this 8-cubic-foot box about in a back pack. He has kidnapped the medical student who used to be sleeping with the Prime Minister of France who has fallen in love with Osborn. They are going deep into the Swiss Alps where he intends to kill her and Osborn who, of course, has been lured to attempt her rescue. (The police have been thrown off their trail. Everyone knows doctors are better at this sort of thing than police.)

Osborn and the untouchably clean bad guy's head of security duel on a glacier in the Alps. Osborn, the doctor, out maneuver's this trained, experienced, fanatical Nazi, though not before Osborn slips over the edge of the glacier and skins his knee pretty badly.

Osborn finally tricks the Nazi fanatic into falling off the glacier. As he falls, his backpack opens and the super secure box he has been guarding with his life opens somehow and the reader finally learns, to no surprise whatsoever, that Hitler's head was in the box. The killer's body is never found at the bottom of the glacier. Neither is Hitler's head. The reader is left in despair that this might mean there will be a sequel.

What I thought: This wasn't a bad book, but it took itself too seriously. The author wanted too badly to be Tom Clancy. He should have been shooting for Clive Cussler.

The techno part of the story is idiotic. The bad guys have mastered "atomic" surgery.? They can operate at near absolute zero? They explain in the book that molecules don't move when the temperature gets so low. This allows them to operate on a dead body and a dead head and bring them back to life. What they don't explain is how, if molecules don't move, their sewing machine works.

The book parodies itself. The bad guys are evil incarnate. They were infinitely powerful. They can reach into any corner of Europe or the United States. They lay waste to police officers right and left. They killed people even when it no longer made any sense to kill them.

The good guys are Forest Gump-like in their earnestness and their fumbling ability to stumble into certain death only to foil the Master Race by accident rather than by design. Their plans are not a step behind the bad guys, they are pages, chapters behind the bad guys. It was like the bad guys had read the book and already knew everything the good guys were going to do, but the good guys, because their hearts were pure, muddled through to success.

The good guys don't actually solve the crime. The doctor who felt bad about killing most of Europe while trying to learn how to sew Hitler's head onto another person's corpse gives a video tape to the physical therapist and tells her not to look at it. In this unbelievable book, wonder of wonder, the physical therapist doesn't look at it. She passes the tape to the FBI which passes it to McVey of the LAPD who let's Osborn look at it. Only then does anyone know what the book was about and it's so ludicrous that Dr. Osborn knows no one would ever believe it.

This would have made a great Get Smart episode.

Before Dan Brown ..........2007-05-24

There was Allan Folsom. I first read this book 13 years ago when it first came out and still remember it as a fast-paced novel. I picked it up recently after recommending it to a friend to see if I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed it but not like I did 13 years ago. Either my reading taste has matured, or he's just not that good of an author. However, it is a fast-paced novel and fun to read. It's definitely perfect for the summer hiatus when all one can think of is sitting outside by the kiddie pool and read.

Paul Osborn, an American surgeon was just sitting in a cafe thinking about his current state of affairs when he looks up and sees the man who killed his father 30 years previously. When he goes after him, he sets off an international goose chase all across Europe that sends spine-curdling thrills coursing through your body. He meets up with Detective McVey, who is from LA also, but is in London on a bizarre case involving headless bodies and one head with a missing body. Somehow Paul and McVey link up together and set off to figure out the baffling case that needed to be solved before the world is thrown into terror it has never seen before.

It's fast. It's intense. It still delivers a punch after 13 years of sitting in my bookcase. If you like suspense and dark thrillers, you'll like this one. I didn't find it lagging one minute anywhere ~~ in fact, I couldn't wait to finish it again.

5-24-03

Good first effort.......2007-05-14

I had read Folsom's other books before reading this one. My husband swore that it was his best effort. While I disagree with that, and feel his other works are far superior, this was worth the read. The plot was intricate and had some good twists and turns, but it did drag on in spots. Better editing could have eliminated this problem without impacting the plot at all. Folsom enjoys writing about the politics and criminal justice systems in foreign lands, topics I know nothing about, so it is difficult for me to say if that aspect of any of his novels is realistic or not. But it is always hard for me to believe that once arrested in a foreign land that you can escape that. However, I could suspend my disbelief enough to sympathize with the protagonist, Paul Osborn. Had I read this book first, I would have continued to be a Folsom fan and been delighted as his work matured. The book was decent and entertaining. Skim over the parts that drag and you'll find you can read the 700 pages rather quickly and be fully engaged.

Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women

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BOOKS FOR GIRLS! So Lame Your Brothers Won't Steal Them!!!
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Politically correct books, not good books.
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Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women
Kathleen Odean
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BOOKS FOR GIRLS! So Lame Your Brothers Won't Steal Them!!!.......2007-09-23

""My old mother used to say that every little girl should be able to cook, play the piano, sing, and shoot."" So declares dastardly Mr. Grimshaw to orphan Sylvia Green in Joan Aiken's 1960 children's novel THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. The meek Sylvia "thought of Aunt Jane's very different catalogue of accomplishments for little girls, in which crewel work, purse netting, and making paper doilies took high place, and could not agree with him."

Like Old Mrs. Grimshaw and Aunt Jane, we all have our own opinions. To give a small idea of what editor Kathleen Odean's values were when compiling GREAT BOOKS FOR GIRLS, I will discuss two books, one she excludes, and one she recommends.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery is a famous novel set at the turn of the century on Canada's Prince Edward Island. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew decide to adopt a boy to help the aging Matthew with the farm work, but get Anne instead. Marilla declares that they must send her back; "What use can she be to us?" "We might be some use to her," is Matthew's reply. Anne's history - of being farmed out as child-care labor to abusive women with drunken husbands - makes Marilla relent. She agrees to keep the girl she has "no use" for and give her a "proper bringing up". Anne proves brilliant as a scholar, and while many parents keep their own children tied to the house or farm, the Cuthberts support Anne's academic ambitions -- despite neighborly criticism.

In the end, Anne earns a full university scholarship, but due to a family crisis postpones her education to work as a schoolteacher. Odeon excludes GREEN GABLES because Anne "sacrifices herself for others" which makes the book's message "a very traditional one". But the whole point of closing the book on Anne's "sacrifice" is to emphasize the importance of female education. Anne's teaching degree is proved VALUABLE, which validates Marilla's decision to allow Anne to pursue extra schooling. The ending re-iterates the underlying theme of human worth transcending utilitarian considerations, by rewarding Marilla's uncalculating kindness to a "useless" child. It's moving, dammit!!!

But apparently we are supposed to trample human beings we can't make use of. Which is why Odean DOES include an amusingly awful excuse for sci-fi called THE GIRL WHO OWNED A CITY! In a post-Apocalyptic future, everyone over twelve has mysteriously died, and the "heroine" Lisa decrees that everything from the public school to a nearby warehouse of food is hers and hers alone. This gives her dictatorial power over any child that wants to live at the school and/or eat, so no one can stop her when she makes five-year-olds earn their keep at "her" school by patrolling the walls with GUNS to shoot other children trying to take "her" stuff. Odean recommends CITY on account of Lisa's "unusually strong leadership skills," although Lisa actually doesn't have any, just absurdly meek followers too dumb to realize that a school is public property.

Well, you get the idea. It is as if Odean made her choices by speed-reading with a checklist, and ignoring moral context as well as literary quality. Many reviewers complain that Ideology is put before Quality, but that is only half the problem, as many books seem no more feminist or "pro-girl" than they are "great". CITY is not the only recommendation that undermines democratic and humanistic values just because the heroine shows some illusion of strength. Another problem is that Odean's choices and comments seem to indicate a certain borderline misogyny. For example, she praises one picture book because it shows a girl climbing the rigging of a ship - but regretfully whines that it also shows her CURLING HER HAIR while perched on top of said rigging.

Be aware that Odean's Puritanism deserts her when it comes to sex. In recommended books: A sixteen-year-old "squire" has a sexual fling with her crown prince; An adult wizard's unhealthy possessiveness towards his female student is revealed to be "love" the instant she turns sixteen; The hostile sexual aggression of a "troubled" boy proves a successful means of courting the heroine. Unlike perilous and destructive behavior such as HAIR CURLING, or WORKING BEFORE COLLEGE, such issues are not considered important enough to mention in the annotations. Nor does Odean discuss her views/guidelines regarding sexuality in the introduction.

There are naturally some very excellent books in this lineup. But you have to read each annotation to find out whether Odeon considers it a great book, an okay book, or a dud with a good message. It would have been so easy just to put a star next to the actual good ones. Another problem is that Odean has little respect for the stories beyond their didactic use. For example, she fails to inform the reader that NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET is the third in an excellent series, or that HARRIET THE SPY has two sequels.

You will not find standards such as LITTLE WOMEN, THE SECRET GARDEN, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, HEIDI, NATIONAL VELVET, or the LITTLE HOUSE books. I don't have a particular problem with that. There is something to be said for a non-traditional lineup with aggressive feminist standards as long as one is frank about one's priorities, which Odean is. But in practice Odean's false and shallow notion of feminism robs the approach of its worth. I spent several years browsing through selections, and rather than thinking, "I wish I'd had these books when I was a kid", I ended up grateful that my formative influences were Narnia and STAR WARS, and disgusted with the whole concept of "girl's books" in general.

I don't discourage purchasing it. You just have to know what you are getting. Odean's first priority is making sure the books impart the right messages about being "strong" and "outspoken". Quality is optional, humanism expendable, hair-curling femininity a worse drawback than cruelty, and sacrificing for others worse than exploiting them. It might be best for those who are already well read and are looking for out-of-the-way titles. But if you are only going to get only ONE book of this sort, I'd look elsewhere. ONCE UPON A HEROINE puts a conscious emphasis on quality over didactics, reproduces most of the best recommendations from Odean, and is a fun read in itself.

Worth it.......2007-09-02

Great book to bring to the library so you come home with good books to read.

Politically correct books, not good books........2007-06-11

I was looking for help selecting books for my granddaughter. However, in reading the introduction I found that the author has not included "Anne Of Green Gables", an absolutely fantastic book, because "...at the end of the book, she (Anne) consciously sacrifices her education to help her beloved relative." This makes Anne somehow a failure as a woman? Not in my eyes. The author does include "Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl" so she's not ALWAYS wrong. But it does seem that Ms. Odean doesn't seem to be interested in books that make good reading but only books that make good points (by her feminist definition). Personally, I find a good book keeps me reading; propaganda has me reaching for the TV remote. A book titled "Great Book For Girls" should live up to its name. This one doesn't.

Helpful .......2007-01-18

I have found this book to be a great resource for myself and my daughters. It provides a brief desciption of the books reviewed so as a parent you know what your child is reading about without having to read the whole book yourself, very helpful when your child is an avid reader. While certainly not a complete list of the books available to my daughters to read, it provides a source for books on particular subjects with good role models for girls.

Conflicting - but generally positive.......2003-11-09

A lifelong feminist, I usually have clear feelings about things to do with women and girls. But women/girl - only things are not clear cut. Obviously it would be nice if such things were not necessary, if girls self-esteem was not constantly battled against by society etc.., If Ophelia didn't need saving.

But given reality, offsetting influences are still of use. Even so, reading the entries in this book I found myself wanting to ask sometimes: but is it a *good* book?

Many book descriptions included the reasoning for their inclusion (besides positive role models etc..), but some didn't. Regarding those entries, I wanted to know: Is it well-written? Is it content- and flavor- rich, or is it another feeble attempt at PC? In my opinion, books like that are worthless. I wasn't sure I could assume that Odean shared my sentiments about that.

Perhaps the more recent edition is better for that.

In many ways though, this book is great. The explanations of the books are in-depth, all the useful info is included. There are indexes - very compact ones that take up little space. One of my favorite additional things in this book is the section on parent resources - there are many goodies in this section including a list of 4 magazines that librarians use to know what new books are out. Great for keeping up with all that is going on!

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Penny Sayres' beauty and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed -- because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! When her brother, Brad, invites her to join his family on their wagon train to California, Penny's dream of adventure comes true. Little does Penny realize that God is about to set her on her greatest adventure yet -- one that includes a new dream and lasting love.

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IF YOU LOVE PIONEER BOOKS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!.......2000-04-10

This book is about a girl named Penny who was about to start a new life by traveling on the Orgeon trail with her brother (Brad), his wife (Thea), and Thea's daughter Belinda. While the clan is traveling on the trail, Thea dies and Penny is forced to take care of Belinda. In the end, the group arrives in Oregon and Penny gets a job. The characters are enjoyable and realistic. The whole book was really good and I would read it again. It was definitely worth my time.

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The ultimate existential novel of our time
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marias
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From "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (Boston Globe), a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret: now for the first time in paperback.

"No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...."

Marta has just met Víctor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Víctor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels suddenly ill; and in his arms, inexplicably, she dies.What should Víctor do? Remove the compromising tape from the phone machine? Leave food for the child, for breakfast? These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters further; unable to bear the shadows and the unknowing, Víctor plunges into dark waters. And Javier Marías, Europe's master of secrets, of what lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this profound, quirky, and marvelous novel. "Brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate," as La Vanguardia noted, "it is a novel one reads with enormous pleasure."

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weird.......2006-07-25

the first half i kept wishing i could give it up, but couldnt quite quit. the second half got quite good. strange book, different style

it will stick with your forever!.......2002-05-27

I read this book because of the title. The author tells us a story about death and unexpected moments in life. After I read this book I've found myself thinking "tomorrow in the battle think on me" very often! Also this book changed my views on death, on dealing with it, and what happens to those left behind after someone's gone.
Great book about thoughts and ideas not so much about events.

Not enough stars.......2001-06-12

At the beginning i thought this book was difficult to follow, and even a bit boring. My first impression is that the author was abusing the 'stream of consciousness' technique, just lost in his thoughts. But i continued reading and soon realized that there was a reason to the apparent 'madness'. This book is a concert of thoughts, all centered in a common point. The tangents or stories in the periphery were designed so skillfully that they complement the story without seeming superfluous: Ruibérriz, Celia/Victoria, el Único, all well defined and colorful characters, and the literary quotes mixed in with the text, the movie scenes, all contributing to enhance a plot already captivating. The main character struggles between decisions already taken or assumed, and the dialogs he has with himself are among the best i have read in Spanish literature in a long time.

The ending is unforeseen. When i thought i knew how things were developing, at the last moment i was surprised. Life can be so ironic, and laugh so much at our expense (or at Deán's expense, in this case).

The additional notes (another surprise i did not discover till the end) are very interesting, and if i had any doubts about the exceptional writer that Javier Marías is, i lost them completely after reading them. This novel cannot be missed.

The ultimate existential novel of our time.......2001-03-21

A unique and haunting novel -- its words and ideas have stayed with me for months after completing it. Its thoughts have stimulated many philosophical discussions. It uses fiction to elaborate the questions of personal and subjective time, and the meaning of the intersubjective space. I regret I can read it only in translation. Nonetheless, the author's voice is unique and inquiring, and I can only imagine the recognition he will get in the future.

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.......1999-12-14

"Nadie piensa nunca que pueda ir a encontrarse con una muerta entre los brazos y que ya no verá más su rostro cuyo nombre recuerda." De principio a fin, la lectura de esta novela es fascinante. Con Marías se inaugura una nueva era en la narrativa contemporánea: va hilando hechos, pensamientos, diálogos, en un torbellino de palabras que brotan tal y como se las piensa. Reflexiones sobre la muerte y la vida, tratados de un magistral e irónico modo. Contenido y forma se funden en una espectacular obra. Aún joven, Javier Marías es ya candidato al Premio Nobel de Literatura.

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Devoured It!
If you DON'T like Sad Endings--DON'T READ THIS!!!
John Marsden be my friend
Part of a great series
Best Book Series Ever

Darkness Be My Friend (Tomorrow)
John Marsden
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There are only five of them left now. Ellie and her four friends, Lee, Homer, Kevin, and Fi, have reluctantly returned to New Zealand from Australia to lead more guerrilla attacks on the enemy (who invaded their country in the previous book, Tomorrow, When the War Began). The group has staged raids on their captive hometown Wirrawee from the wilderness sanctuary they call Hell, blowing up and burning enemy headquarters and bridges and supply depots, and killing with their bare hands when they must. By the end of the two sequels, The Dead of Night and A Killing Frost, they are strong and resourceful, but tired and soul-sick with the pervasive violence. Two of them have been killed, and one has killed himself in despair. When they were rescued and airlifted to New Zealand, they thought the nightmare was over. But now they have been sent back to Wirrawee to guide a party of adult raiders on a planned sabotage of a strategic airfield. Something goes wrong; the adults never come back from the raid, and Ellie and her friends are again left on their own to do what they can--and must--to survive.

Like John Marsden's other books, this story is immersed in darkness and dread. It's packed with almost unbearable suspense and breathtaking action, as the personalities and relationships of these decent country kids are eroded by the imperative for violence. Marsden fans will elbow each other aside for a copy of this one, and will look forward to the three new installments on the way. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

Book Description

Five months into World War III, Ellie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact. But as the next step becomes clear, they realize they must once again sacrifice their hard-won comfort and safety. A group of soldiers has recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base. What could possibly motivate Ellie and her friends to return? This risky sabotage mission may be their only hope of rescuing their families, too.

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Devoured It!.......2005-10-19

Huh? I don't understand some of the negative reviews. I've been reading this series in order and I think this book is as good as the rest. I would have read it in one sitting if I didn't have to get up to go to work the next day. I'm not a fast reader either, but I finished it in record time. There's plenty of action and lots of tension, so you won't be bored. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book in this series.

If you DON'T like Sad Endings--DON'T READ THIS!!!.......2004-08-01

This book is OKAY, I mean, Book I and Book II are the BEST books in the Tomorrow Series.
Anyway, I thought this book was rather boring and it didn't have as near as much good stuff in it that the first three had. When, I finished this book, I was greatly dissapointed because I HATE books with sad endings. It just tears my heart away.
This is the last book I read in the series because it got SO boring when I got half way through the 5th book. And, I hate the way the series ends (I took a sneak peak in the last book and found out what happened--lol). So therefore, I advise you, if you DO NOT like books with sad endings, don't read this!!!

John Marsden be my friend.......2003-12-14

Although not as action-packed and satisfying as the previous books in the series, Darkness Be My Friend stands out as one of the best. It would be a mistake to say the book is slow, however-there are still several suspensful scenes of action. This book may let readers down by lacking a huge, explosive victory from our protagonists, but this serves to make the series even more realistic. Darkness Be My Friend also contains what is surely the saddest scene in the entire series. This is a must-read, of course, for anyone who enjoyed the previous books.

Part of a great series.......2003-08-17

This book is an essential part of a great series. From reviews the series can look really 'bad' with too much action, but once you get past the back cover and onto the reading, no one i know has been able to put it down - and that goes for the whole series. Once you have read the first book, everyone just wants to read them all. If you are reading the reviews after having read the first books, what are you doing? Just order the rest of the series and devour them. I have read all the books through at least 5 times in 2 years, all my friends have read them too. One bit of advice: buy the hardback version so that the spine doesn't bend so much from use that you can't read the titles! These are all great books, with 'realistic' storylines - because whp knows what would/could really happen? These books are so good i phoned my cousin in Oz to make sure it wasn't real. When you read any one of these, you feel like you're sitting on Ellie's shoulder, and that you are feeling and experiencing every feeling (physical and mental) with her. Everytime you read these books, the feelings will get stronger and harsher as you feel like you actually know the characters; if you haven't cried at least twice by the end of the series, what's wrong with you? Everyone should read these, and then think about how you would feel if someone invaded and occupied your home, destroyed your life and hurt you irreparably. War will never seem the same again, it may be necessary but it will always seem evil. We've just seen Iraq being invaded, in order to get rid of Sadaam right? Well when you watch the news and there are people in the background, imagine yourself as one of them. Bombs falling around your ears, people you can't understand shouting and waving guns at you, and expecting you to understand and change every thought and feeling you have been brought up to have. That's what happens to Ellie. Just think about it as real and then i dare you not to feel the pain with her.

Best Book Series Ever.......2002-02-11

I am an avid reader, but this book series is defaitnly the best I have ever read. I bought the first book once it came out, but had to put it down, because of required reading for school. Over teh summer, I started reading it again, and was down before the second day. I rushed out to buy Dead OF The Night.. And waited impatently until my bookstore could have The Killing Frost shipped in. I am now waiting for teh next inslatment, and am very impatient!

Just Beyond Tomorrow (Brava Historical Romance)

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ANOTHER HIT
A by a person who loves to read historical novels
Only if I were in solitary confinement in prison and this was the book
Just beyond the bedroom (yawn!)
This was just bad

Just Beyond Tomorrow (Brava Historical Romance)
Bertrice Small
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ANOTHER HIT.......2007-03-09

Bertrice Small is by far the BEST historical romance author EVER!! It all started for me with Skye O'Mally and she has never dissapointed me. Her discriptions of the gowns and homes paint a picture in your mind and when she describes the food you can almost taste it. Another book I couldn't put down.

A by a person who loves to read historical novels.......2006-08-23

I have not completed the book, because I am reading another one for a book club. But, what I have read, I am enjoying. I really like all Beatrice Small's book. I love the historical part of her writing. She does bring her charactors into some pretty interesting places. Ms. Small seems to know about the history of all her interesting places. I don't know if she knows about as much as she writes about, but she has me convinced that she does some homework on the sites. I am 65 and feel very comfortable reading her books. She brings a lot of life to a book. And, I love history.

Only if I were in solitary confinement in prison and this was the book.......2006-01-26

the only book available to read....I guess I would slog through this romantic sludge of idiocy. People who like this kind of garbarge aren't worth comment. Park this book in the outhouse for emergency use of toilet paper. Obviously, women who read this are trying to live through these female characters---and reveal themselves to be the schizoid nutcases that they really are. Get real, get a life, get a job!

Just beyond the bedroom (yawn!).......2005-09-18

This is not the worst Small novel (no...that would be The Innocent) nor is it the most boring (That would be The Duchess, another largely forgettable read) but it is bad and and it is boring...End it already. Flanna is an uninteresting heroine. Usually Small's charcters are larger than life, the most intelligent, most beautiful, most adventurous, they can ride, hunt, read and speak 7 languages, they are fabulously wealthy and independent, wilful, seductive...etc. Flanna is a flop. And Patrick Leslie is a fop. Nothing heroic about this mama's boy. There's no romantic plot--just tons of history. Its not even woven into the story but instead reads like a text book. I love historicals and this period of history, but after reading the prologue even I was rolling my eyes. Drier than toast. Small thinks pepperingt her story (every 30 pages or so) with sex between Flanna and Patrick makes up for the lack of plot or raomance...it does not. Worse yet, it is not even sexy or erotic. The scenes are mechanical and dull. It seemed for a while like she was going to copy a subplot form Love Wild and Fair but changed her mind. In fact the whole book reads likes a panopoly of vignettes from prior books whitout ever following through. Get some new material already! Moreover the book is contemporaneously tied to another novel, Intrigued (which is not intriguing at all). And the end of JBT leaves the reader hanging. Why? You guessed it, The story continues in Vixens (another lackluster attempt from Small). If you want to read some of Small's best, read The kadin and its sequel Love Wild and fair (which also tie into JBT); Betrayed is anoter great Scottish romance; Skye O'malley and All the Sweet Tomorrows are the best of the Skye series; Adora and beloved are two of her best early novels; and last but by no means least, if you crave something erotic, Helion is the hottest novel by Small so far. (And best of all, no harems!)

This was just bad.......2004-05-06

I have only read this book once, because i just can not bring myself to pick it up again and suffer. i got so tired of the female lead going on about how she didn't want to be known as the " do naught duchess". It got really irritating. And Patrick was nothing like any of Ms. Small's former male leads. i kept hoping for a brick to hit him and knock him silly. This will be the only book of Ms. Small's i'll never purchase new. there was no adventure, no spark, nothing but my own determination to finish this book.

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In Time To Love
Loved this book!
A Thousand Tomorrows
Where is the spirituality?
very good read

A Thousand Tomorrows
Karen Kingsbury
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Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers a major new novel about a young couple whose powerful love must face the ultimate challenge. Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to lose again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks and refusing relationships. When Cody and Ali meet, their first instinct is to hide behind their emotional walls, seemingly doomed to repeat the patterns they have established for most of their lives. But their attraction is too strong, and soon they're doomed in another way-for neither can avoid falling in love, regardless of the consequences. Only after three years-a thousand tomorrows later-do they realize at what cost their relationship comes. In the end, they must decide if love is worth the ultimate price.

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In Time To Love.......2007-02-21

A Thousand Tomorrows is and inspirational book about how to live your life to the fullest. In this book Cody Gunner goes through life missing someone special to him. The reason why this person left causes Cody a lot of anger that he expresses through bull riding. He doesn't care that he might die doing this; all he cares about is the eight seconds that he is on the bull. This is only way to let out his anger but this is a secret that he keeps to himself. Ali Daniels is on the Pro Rodeo Circuit, too, and she has a secret she keeps from the rest of the riders. This until she meets Cody. Ali learns that she can learn to trust Cody and with the trust they give each other they fall in love. When a tragedy happens, they both have to live life together fully because the time they have may be short. Anyway this is an amazing book, and the ending is so sweet that you may end up crying.
Karen Kingsbury is an inspirational author who knows how to write a good book that you take it to heart. She is an amazing Christan author. In A Thousand Tomorrows she portrays two people's lives in which all they can do is live life to the fullest or they are cheating themselves of the time they have. This is an amazing book that all you can do is love.

Loved this book!.......2007-02-08

This was the first book that I had ever read by Karen Kingsbury and I can't wait to read all her other books. This was the best book that I have read in a long time. I would have liked to seen a little more spiritual aspect but it was still a wonderful book!

A Thousand Tomorrows.......2006-07-06

The author weaves a tale that keeps me at the edge of my seat at all times! It's as if I know who she is talking about because she makes sure I know her characters well. The trail through the story pulls me into the story with them and it's as if the story is happening to me or to the people in my life. I identify completely with the challenges the characters face, and sometimes, they even help me see things in my own life that need to be addressed.

Where is the spirituality?.......2006-03-05

I have read so very many of Karen Kingsbury's books and have always been so impressed by the spirituality of the characters but not in this one.

The characters in this book never prayed together. Not once. I was so disappointed in the lack of faith and trust in God.

Karen has written yet another gut-wrenching, tear-jerker of a story but the spiritual aspect was dismal.

I sincerely hope that she quickly abandons this format and returns to her previous way of writing. One that actually contains scripture texts and prayer by the characters instead of angry bitterness and acceptance of circumstances that don't seem to have anything to do with God's grace.

Not her best effort.

very good read.......2006-01-30

It is always the same, you can't put Karen's books down once you start reading them. I have read all of her books and I am waiting for the new book to come out.

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The perfect ending.
I really didn't want it to end
A well rounded book to finish an excellent series
Hmmm....
The Effects of War.

Other Side Of Dawn (Tomorrow)
John Marsden
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At last, the final episode of the gripping Tomorrow series by wildly popular Aussie author John Marsden has crossed the Pacific, and this concluding chapter in the lives of Ellie, Fi, Homer, Kevin, and Lee may be the most exciting one yet. Informed by Colonel Finley that the military is making a move that could be compared to the D-day attack of WWII, the outback teen guerillas know that the end of the bewildering war that changed their lives is drawing near. Armed with plastic explosives and grenades, courtesy of the New Zealand Army, they have been instructed to "spread chaos and confusion behind their (enemy) lines in every way, shape and form." For Ellie and company, this means targeting a hostile refueling station and train tracks. Of course, nothing is ever easy. There are still the feral kids to worry about and the dismal discovery that soldiers have infiltrated Hell, their only secured hiding place in the bush. As The Other Side of Dawn rockets at breakneck speed towards its stunning climax, only one thing is certain: there is no guarantee that any of them will make it through this last conflict alive.

Not a book for new recruits, The Other Side of Dawn will be most enjoyed by those hard-core fans who have been with Ellie and the gang from the beginning. Wirrawee buffs will be rewarded with classic Marsden: teeth-jarring action sequences interspersed with meaningful moments between friends who may not see the sunrise again together. This is a satisfying ending to a smashing good series. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

Book Description

Since their home was invaded by enemy soldiers and transformed into a war zone, Ellie and her friends have been fighting for their lives. Now a resolution may finally be in sight. But as enemy forces close in on her hideout, Ellie discovers that the final conflict just may be the most dangerous yet. And not everyone will survive. Nobody is safe in this exhilarating conclusion to Ellie's courageous struggle for freedom.

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The perfect ending........2007-08-09

Of course, after six books following these teenagers from Australia, I was hoping for the picture-perfect ending. You know, the one where everything goes back to the way it was before the war and there's romance and happiness when they reunite and everything is amazing.

You won't get that. But it's a real ending. If Marsden wanted any shred of credibility at the end of this series, he had to end it the way he did. And because of this, it was the perfect ending. I have absolutely no complaints, except for maybe his choice of words in the last sentence.

I dunno. But if you're even a casual reader of this series, and ESPECIALLY if you're very much into it, you won't be disappointed by a long shot by the finale.

I really didn't want it to end.......2005-11-16

This is the finale of the Tomorrow series. I read "The Other Side of Dawn" slowly, savoring each word. I guess I didn't really want the story to end. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series reading it in order, a page turner throughout. The Other Side of Dawn is packed with the action we've come to expect in each book, but there is also a lot of reflection by Ellie about everything that's happened. I'll look forward to someday coming back to reread the series from the beginning.

A well rounded book to finish an excellent series.......2005-07-24

A must for an teenager who is stuck for something to do during those long hot summer days where hard work seems an immpossiblity!
Note you really must start with the first book in the series to get a grasp of the plot and a feel for the writers style etc for all obvious reasons (to see if you like it).
Hope this helps with your desicion for the book ;)

Hmmm...........2005-06-09

I was expecting a bit more for the last book, I think it was written a tad perfunctorily near the end. I couldn't say this is my favourite in the series, I gave the others a big fat 5 stars, but this one bored me, to tell you the truth. I did think alot at the end though, when I had finished, I felt attached to Ellie and co. Sad, yes. This series though, awesome, just read them, read them all!!!

The Effects of War........2005-05-02

War is something that effects and hurts many people. It causes young men and women to do and see things that they are not emotionally and physically prepared for.

Ellie and her friends went off to camp for the weekend in this place called Hell. While they were out in the bush, having a good time, they had no idea that while they were sleeping their country was being invaded. They had no idea that their lives had changed forever.

When Ellie and her friends returned home from their camping trip, they knew something was terribly wrong. They then had to learn to avoid enemy soldiers and scavenge for food to stay alive, so they went back into the bush where Hell became their new home. They have also planned dangerous attacks against the enemy to try to help get their country back. But Ellie or some of her friends have had to make the ultimate sacrifice... Their Life.

There are 7 books in this series, by John Marsden. In these books you will learn how war changes the life's of everyone that is involved in it, or even the people that are just around it. You will also learn how the kids that are involved in war, will have to grow up fast, and how they will learn how to survive on their own, without adults.

I strongly recommend this series of books for, both adults and young people. It will teach adults that young people can be independent, and that they can survive on their own. It will also teach young people, that being a kid is the best thing in the world, and that they need to enjoy their youth for as long as possible.

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The Night Is For Hunting
Book 6 of 7 in Tomorrow Series
The greatest war story/ comming of age tail ever told
Very good, as always
The best read in the world

Night Is For Hunting (Tomorrow)
John Marsden
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Amidst a brutal war with no end in sight, Ellie and her four remaining friends discover that their hidden refuge becomes a crowded place when they decide to care for an uncooperative crew of orphans. Things only get worse when Ellie and Homer learn that mysterious visitors have discovered their sanctuary. Has the enemy found them out? Five ordinary teens brave the worst in this electrifying continuation of their battle to stay safe and sane in a war zone that was once their home.

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The Night Is For Hunting.......2006-12-21

The book The Night is for Hunting is a sequel and an excellent, well-written book

by John Marshen. It is about a group of teenagers who are caught up in a war. The group

comes upon a Circle of friends that are starving, dirty kids who mug them. When enemy

soldiers envied the bombed city, they head for there hideout, hell. The kids that journey

to hell only to find it have been overrun with enemy soldiers. After the solders are

supposedly gone, the kids disappear. With one of them dead and the rest with gashes and

broken bones, there is no hope for them. Whale the teenagers are gun fighting with

Themselves and the remaining, growing treat of the enemy soldiers. With another kid

dead, they decide to find there back to hell. When they get back, they find bodies

in addition, one teenager dead. Together the teenagers and the kids team up and fight off

the enemy. Only ending in disaster for them. With little ammunition and even less hope,

they attempt to rob a food truck for food, but only getting them arrested. Now they

decided they have to break out. Will they survive? After all life is like a car chase, fast

and unpredictable.

I strongly recommend this book to those who thirsts for adventure. The Night is

For hunting is a truly awesome book.

Book 6 of 7 in Tomorrow Series.......2005-11-11

This may be the weakest volume in the Tomorrow series. It is still a non-stop page turner, but it didn't have the action you'd expect after reading the first 5 volumes. The story is mostly about dealing with a band of feral orphans of the war. They cause constant trouble and frustration for Ellie, and the others. This is the only book in the series that leaves a cliffhanger at the end to get you crying for the finale...which I will start to read as soon as I finish this review.

The greatest war story/ comming of age tail ever told.......2002-06-30

I was first introduced to this serioes at school, we were assigned to read it for English, before this book all books assigned to us in school were all garbage and I expected the same, as did most the other students in my class, most wouldnt bother to read it, so the teacher read it aloud in class, for most of it upuntil the half way mark I ignored most of it, until it dawned on me that this book was actualy sounding o.k. When I got home i got my copy from the bookshelf and actualy started to read it, and I read at any chance I had, and when I finished I read the second and third and then had to wait while the rest were written and released
The amazing story starts off with a group of teenagers going camping, and when they return the find the Australia has been taken over by another country, they go to the bush again to hide, but can't just sit back and do nothing and decide to fight back in what ever way they can, although unconventional, when all is said and done and the series is over they made a huge impact on the war, sometimes planned, sometimes fluked, of coarse not all survive and with every loss you can not help but feel the emotional pain of the others, it is the best comming of age story I have read, and although it is listed as a young adult series, it will be unforgetable to all ages and you will develop a bond with Ellie, Homer, Kevin and the rest of the gang, I have never fell in love with any fictional charactors the way I did with these guys, not even in T.V series
A story like this comes along once in a life time, do not, and I mean do not missss this book

Very good, as always.......2002-04-20

The Tomorrow series may be the best seven books I've ever read. John Marsden is an excellent writer, and he almost make me think that this war is real.
But this book probably is the worst of the seven. It wasn't such a thrill reading it as the others, as this book's just made to build up the tension for the grand finale in "The Other Side of Dawn". The only thing that really happens is that they run a daycare center for some feral kids, and that they get aware of soldiers lurking outside Hell.
Luckily, Marsden can with his spell-binding writing still capture the reader in this book.

The best read in the world.......2002-01-23

This is the story of the century. This is a definite must read. This is part of one of the most phenominal series of this century. This gripping story will have you guessing. The details will set a scene all its own. With a cliffhanger, it will leave you begging for the next book.

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