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Daughter of Moloka’i is the follow-up to Brennert’s fantastic Moloka’i, which was about the leper colony on the island of Moloka’i in Hawaii. Two of the isolated patients on that island, Rachel and Kenji, give birth to a baby named Ruth, who must almost immediately be taken away so she doesn’t contract leprosy from her parents. When this story opens, Ruth is being delivered to the Kapi’olani
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No matter what’s happening in our world, in Stephanie Plum’s neighborhood in Trenton, very little changes. Stephanie is still chasing bad guys for a living, helped along by Lula and getting her butt saved by Ranger when she get in a little too deep. Joe is also still in the picture, and still Stephanie’s number 1 — though she’s not sure either of them are
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Ugh, this started out so promising. Adam, his wife Sophie, and their 3 year old daughter are renting a cabin on the water in the Pacific Northwest for a little vacation. But while Adam and his daughter are out in the boat that first morning, someone ambushes his wife and abducts her while they watch helplessly off-shore. One of the responding detectives is Lee, a
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I pick up a lot of books without remembering what they are supposed to be about, so I was surprised to find that this was less of a narrative novel than it was a collection of loosely-connected short stories about music executive Bennie Salazar and the people in his orbit (and sometimes their orbits). I thought it was well written enough to keep me reading
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