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The years that India was under British rule has long been an interesting time period to me, and this book is set right smack in the middle of it. Perveen Mistry is someone unusual — a female lawyer in early 1920s Bombay. She’s not considered a full lawyer because she cannot appear in court, but she’s able to do a lot of contract work and
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Mean Streak is about Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician from Atlanta who was written to be just a little too perfect. She’s a great doctor with a well-known, successful practice, married to a man who works in finance, who gives a lot to charity, and loves running. It’s running that takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where she plans to run a half
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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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