http://www.lexink.com Alexandre Despallieres reviews the written word. Feeder 1.5.7(628) http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en Lexink TM - © 2007 Alexandre Despallieres - All rights reserved. contact@lexink.com jeremy@lexink.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:49:47 +0000 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:49:47 +0000 http://www.lexink.com/images/alexandre_despallieres-2006144x154.jpg http://www.lexink.com 144 154 http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html It is listed under children’s books , but then so was Harry Potter. Twilight, first in the four-book series of the same name, has been on the NYT best seller list for 58 weeks and has been made into a motion picture to be released on 11/21/08.
The saga is the story of a teenage girl, Bella Swan who falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen...

]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:27:48 +0100 twilight-the-series-stephenie-meyer Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Best-selling author Christopher Reich returns with a new fast-paced espionage thriller. Doctor Jonathan Ransom is climbing the Swiss Alps with his wife when an avalanche sweeps her away. The next day her receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two Swiss Railway baggage-claim tickets. Surprised he goes to claim his wife’s belongings and discovers...]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:42:04 +0100 rules-of-deception-christopher-reich Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Following last years best seller EXILE Patterson’s latest focuses on a Presidential race and the issues of race in politics and society. The Race is a taut, well-written and fast-paced political thriller of our times, especially with the 2008 Presidential primaries...]]> Sun, 04 May 2008 00:11:18 +1000 the-race-richard-north-patterson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Volume three in the adventures of Cotton Malone, The Venetian Betrayal is again a page-turner filled with plot twists. Malone is a retired Justice Department agent turned antiquarian book dealer who keeps on finding his past interfering with his retirement. It all starts when Malone keeps an appointment at a museum with a mysterious woman he worked with in The Alexandria link. Hit over the head, he survives the destruction of the...]]> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:51:54 +0100 the-venetian-betrayal-steve-berry Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In this collection of essays James TARANTO and Leonard LEO, both conservatives, draw on opinions from history, law and political science scholars to determine what makes a President great or a failure. First published in 2005 it was, and remains, the first national survey ranking presidents from a combination of liberal and conservative perspectives in book form...]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:26:04 +0100 presidential-leadership-edited-by-james-taranto Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In the nation’s capital obsessed with terrorism, conspiracy and hiding secrets, BALDACCI brings back the Camel Club, a group of former CIA operatives pretty much put out to pasture, whose self-designated mission is to play watch-dog on the powers that be and prevent governmental cover-ups of abuse of power...]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:04:16 +0100 stone-cold-david-baldacci Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Fifteenth in the series about Dr. Kay Scarpetta BOOK OF THE DEAD takes place in Rome with Scarpetta and love interest Benton consulting on the terrible murder of a young female tennis star. There are local politics, forensic details and the killer, known as The Sandman, follows Kay Scarpetta and Benton home to South Carolina. The only element tying victims together is their appearance on a talk show.]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:43:45 +0100 book-of-the-dead-patricia-cornwell Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Heralding the return of Tiffany Aching, apprentice witch to Miss Treason, a blind witch who borrows the eyes of others and dispenses justice, WinterSmith is part of the DiscWorld series. One cold winter night she serves as Miss Treasons’ eyes for the Dance of Seasons marking the end of winter. Overwhelmed by the rhythm, Tiffany enters the dance with the WinterSmith, the elemental spirit...]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:58:10 +0100 wintersmith-terry-pratchett Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Sequel to 1989’s vivid page turner “Pillars of the Earth” set in the 12th century, “World without end” is a medieval mystery which takes place in the shadow of Kingsbridge cathedral.
The story centers on the lives of four children: brothers Merthin and Ralph whose father is trying to keep his lands; Caris, precocious daughter of a wool dealer and Gwenda newly minted pickpocket. Nothing should tie these...

]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:48:25 +0100 world-without-end-ken-follett Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html A stand-alone book or the beginning of a new series, Pandora’s Daughter is the latest from Iris Johansen.One night driving home distressed over the loss of a patient Dr. Megan Blair is tail-gated and run off the road. Seemingly random this act was a determined one that will change her life forever. When her Uncle Phillip learns of what happened he makes a phone call and Neal Grady appears in Megan’s life. Megan learns that she is a “listener”, hidden away since her mother’s death for protection...]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:53:55 +0100 critical-robin-cook Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Empire of Ivory picks up immediately after Black Powder War. Full of detail, cleverly melding fantasy and historical fiction genres, in volume four of her alternate 19th century history Novik continues to focus on the Franco-British relationship during the Napoleonic wars. It is a world where dragons exist and can carry crews forming the basis of an aerial corps.]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:10:49 +0200 empire-of-ivory-temeraire-series-naomi-novik Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Just published is the 894 page second volume of Schlesinger’s journals. This is an important work, something all lovers of history, politics and American society in general should read. Published posthumously (Schlesinger died earlier this year, Feb. 28) Journals covers the most interesting part of his life, the part where he was close to power and confidante...]]> Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:30 +0200 journals-19522000-arthur-m-schlesinger-jr Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html With the beginning of the new United States Supreme Court and the race for president 2008 underway it is normal that several books concerning the Supreme Court session recently hit bookstores. With little public knowledge about the inner workings of the Court, and certainly no news coverage beyond press releases and public events...]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:40:36 +0200 the-nine-inside-the-secret-world-of-the-supreme-c Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Unlike previous Patterson crime thrillers, You’ve been warned has a strange paranormal side to it. Reminiscent of the recent movie “premonition” the main character, Kristen Burns, is having a single dream repeated with more details each time and strange feelings of warped time. Everything is going well for...]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:00:19 +0200 youve-been-warned-james-patterson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In his latest thriller Raymond KHOURY pits an archaeologist and her daughter against a secret cabal looking for the elixir of life. With many plot twists and turns, mixing historical mystery with present-day action in the Middle East.
A 300 year old search for the Alchemists proverbial “Philosophers’ stone” leads to evil men, family secrets, a few people that seem to have access to information and money at will, and the professional and amateur people working to solve this particular mystery...

]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:23 -0700 the-sanctuary-raymond-khoury Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Spook Country takes place in the Spring of 2006 and is a continuation of Pattern Recognition published in 2003.In the early 1990’s Hollis Henry was a member of an influential pop band but nowadays she is a freelance journalist. Recently a brand new Los Angeles magazine has asked her to write about a locative artist; someone whose art can only be seen when wearing virtual...]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:59:04 -0700 spook-country-william-gibson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Often compared to Stephen King, John Saul’s latest starts with two children burying a pet iguana at the feet of a Virgin Mary statue and unearthing a parchment; from there the thriller segues to Kuwait and a soldier’s dying thoughts for his son. From these two fractured moments Saul moves the reader to Boston and a boy named Ryan being beaten up at...]]> Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:44:09 -0700 the-devils-labyrinth-john-saul Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Known best for his conservative political view-points William Buckley has written a thinly disguised satire about the most liberal politician of the 20th century, Bill Clinton. Placed in 1992 The Rake is the story of charismatic Democratic Presidential candidate Ruben Castle. Castle is an inveterate womanizer who has more than one skeleton in his closet: a secret marriage to college sweetheart...]]> Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:28 -0700 the-rake-william-f-buckley Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html To recover from the events of The Book of the Dead Special Agent Pendergast takes Constance Greene to a remote Tibetan monastery where he had intensively trained in the martial arts and spiritual studies of Chongg Ragg. At first the monks refuse to teach Constance as she is a woman but then the abbott reveals a painting of the Green Tara and declares that Constance is already a student. As their stay nears...]]> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:26:06 -0700 the-wheel-of-darkness-douglas-preston-lincoln Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html A Spanish scientific thriller set in the future Zig Zag could be called reminiscent of Michael Chricton if Chricton wrote in a literary fashion with little physical action. Set in 2015 the novel spans almost twenty years in the life of Madrid physics teacher Elisa Robledo.It all starts with a phone call…. Ten years ago Elisa was a science graduate student working with...]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:53:12 -0700 zig-zag-jose-carlos-somoz-translated-by-lisa-di Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Fourth book in the ancient Egypt series where the near immortal Warlock Taita and his loyal factotum Meren Cambyses have returned to Egypt after many years to discover the country suffering from multiple ills: flesh eating toads, river water turned red and the Nile drying up. Sent by...]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:05:35 -0700 the-quest--wilbur-smith Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html This is the first mystery/thriller Gross writes without James Patterson. Upstanding citizen Ben Raab turns out to be money-laundering for the Colombian Mercado drug cartel. The first his eldest daughter Kate hears of it is from a phone call her mother makes saying “come quickly, your father has been arrested.” Kate cannot believe]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:37:28 -0700 blue-zone-andrew-gross Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html This latest Peter Fallon mystery has the Boston rare book dealer searching for a draft of the Constitution believed to bear notes by some of the Pennsylvania Convention delegates. These notes supposedly illuminate the Bill of Rights and what might have been written concerning the 2nd amendment. This drives the story as....]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:28:42 -0700 the-lost-constitution-william-martin Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html This latest installment of the series starts with the historical mystery surrounding Marco Polo’s return from the Empire of Khan highlighted by his supposed death bed phrase “I have not told the half of what I saw”. The action quickly cuts to the current day emergence of an ancient virulent plague in the Christmas Islands. Soon the Sigma team, led by Gray Pierce and first introduced in 2004’s best seller Sandstorm, and their evil...]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:59 -0700 the-judas-strain Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Book seven is here and rings the end of the Potter series which started in 1997. A booksellers dream with more than 350 million copies in print worldwide “the Deathly Hallows” has been long anticipated and sparked many debates. Since “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” we have seen Harry live through many adventures, suffer great loss...]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:59 -0700 harry-potter Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html This detailed general overview of the American court system is an eye-opener. With almost a 100 million cases a year decided by 30,000 judges the judicial branch plays a greater role in our everyday life than most of us realize. A regular contributor to the Wall street Journal and author of 30+ books (the Lawyers, The bankers…) in his latest MAYER]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:51 -0700 the-judges-martin-mayer Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In his latest science fiction techno thriller Lincoln Child takes the reader 12,000 feet below the sea to an underground laboratory, the greatest laboratory ever constructed. 12 months earlier a routine oil rig drill unearthed something incredible and thus the Deep Storm undersea laboratory was constructed. Focused on what is...]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:51 -0700 deep-storm-lincoln-child Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Subtitled "Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America" this book of essays brings together historians talking about those moments in history where they would have wanted to be a fly on the wall. Approximately half of the events take place before the Civil War (the 1783 plot against George Washington by his own officers, the Salem Witch Trials...)]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:03:41 -0700 i-wish-i-had-been-there-byron-hollinshead-edito Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Best known for both his Alex Cross and Murder Club series, Step on a Crack is the introduction to James Paterson's latest series featuring a far-fetched but not unbelievable plot. Written with Michael Ledwidge this crime thriller opens with Michael Bennett, NYPD detective taking...]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:12 -0500 step-on-a-crack-james-patterson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Who hasn't heard of the lost Library of Alexandria? Where did the books, maps and other inventory it held disappear to? Expert in exploring various what-ifs of history Steve Berry does not disappoint with this quest for the Library of Alexandria. The action-packed novel opens with Pam, Cotton Malone's ex-wife showing..]]> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:28 -0500 the-alexandria-link-steve-berry http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Nicholas Marten, ex-LAPD detective who sought refuge in England at the end of Exile returns to the U.S. at the request of his first love, Caroline Parsons widow of Congressman Parsons. Shortly after her husband and son's deaths in a plane crash she became mysteriously ill. Her dying words to Nicholas are that "they"...]]> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:48:20 -0500 the-machiavelli-covenant-alan-folsom Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In Exile Richard North Patterson has created an intelligently crafted legal and political thriller. Like the rest of his books Exile is a social conscious novel where protagonists find themselves embroiled in a socially divisive ethical issue and so...]]> Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:22 -0500 exile-richard-north-patterson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Subtitled "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" this memoir from the junior Senator of Illinois and recently declared 2008 Presidential candidate has garnered a lot of press coverage. Each chapter addresses what a re perceived as fundamental issues " Our Constitution", "Race", "Family", "Values". the personal is...]]> Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:56 -0500 the-audacity-of-hope-barak-obama Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In shock from the events of INFERNAL and the death of his last living close relative Repairman Jack, New York City's "fix-it" and "go-to" guy involved with the paranormal, has decided to take some time off. Needing to focus on the impending birth of his child and how to come out of the shadows he lives in...]]> Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:00:13 -0500 harbingers-fpaul-wilson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Latest installment of the Eve Duncan forensic thriller series. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has just finished bringing yet another child "home" as she calls her finished work, giving grieving parents the closure she never attained for her own daughter abducted years ago. A Colombian arms dealer harasses...]]> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:27 -0500 stalemate-iris-johansen Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Past and present intertwine in this light fantasy (ok young adult) book about the love of words and reading. Endymion Spring is Gutenberg's printers devil (assistant) and Blake Somers is a young boy in present-day Oxford who discovers a blank book in the Oxford library with "Endymion Spring" on...]]> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:55 -0500 endymion-spring-matthew-skelton Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Walt Disney has become synonymous with childhood, with wholesome family entertainment, with legal battles and with theme parks. however before those Walt Disneys there was the man, Walter E. Disney. As much the corporate side of Disney is integral to our lives and social psyche nowadays as much the man himself is less well-known. In this biography Gabler remedies this lapse with a very detailed and lengthy study of the life and personality of Walt Disney...]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:00:09 -0500 walt-disney-the-triumph-of-the-american-imaginati Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In the 22nd of the Capital Crimes series crime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife Annabel find themselves embroiled in an investigation at the Washington National Opera. Annabel is on the WNO board and persuades Mac to be a super (extra) in the...]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:07 -0500 murder-at-the-opera-margaret-truman Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html As a presidential race comes to close middle eastern threats are made against the candidates.When a car bomb explodes days before the election they are the presumed authors of the crime. But what if they were not? Mitch Rapp is back and in great form in this...]]> Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:32 -0500 act-of-treason-vince-flynn Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In this fictionalized, chick-lit thriller version of Jackie Kennedy-Onassis the reader gets to know Jackie in the dark days after Dallas and the fall of the American Camelot. Drawing upon her experience as one of the former First Lady's official...]]> Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:48 -0500 jacks-widow-eve-pollard Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In the Treasure of Khan a Mongolian billionaire, a self-described descendant of Genghis Khan, attempts to gain control over the worlds oil supply and thus resurrect the Mongolian Empire.The latest Dirk Pitt NUMA adventure shows Clive Cussler is in...]]> Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:53 -0500 the-treasure-of-khan-clive-cussler Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In his first non-fiction book bestseller author John GRISHAM turns to true-crime. In "The innocent man" he looks at the case of Ron Williamson who spent 11 years on death row until being exonerated by DNA evidence 5 days before he was supposed to be executed. In 1987 former major-league baseball player Williamson was...]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:15 -0500 the-innocent-man-murder-and-injustice-in-a-small Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html The latest scientific/genetic fact mixed with fiction blockbuster from Michael Crichton. Feeding off of reality and our worse imaginings the author delves into gene therapy, genetic engineering and transgenics. Several stories overlap but the main story follows a company called Biogen who had borderline ethically used cells from a cancer patient to develop cytokines preventing cancer. The courts decided that the company had ownership of said cells and later in the book allows for "eminent domain" over the cells, including the right to "harvest" from the patients daughter or]]> Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:10 -0500 next-michael-crichton Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Fourth and final planned volume of the "jousters"series. Mercedes Lackey always writes a good story but this one definitely requires having read at least the previous one. The Jousters are settled in Aerie, and there are everyday issues to deal with...]]> Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:00:37 -0500 aerie-mercedes-lackey Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/reviews/reviews.php#Senator "The Senator and the Priest" combines an overview of the divisions tearing apart American politics with family and is usual Greeley fare of Chicago Irish-Catholic politics taken to the national level with an interesting expose of the corruption of politics; however the author's usual verve seems...]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:00:00 -0500 the-senator-and-the-priest-andrew-m-greeley Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html The latest in and possibly the last of the Alex Cross series which started in 1993 with Along came a Spider. Patterson writes with his usual short chapter style, vivid action and more and more as if the book were a rushed screenplay. Here we finally learn the...]]> Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:00:24 -0500 cross-james-patterson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Marking the return of the author of "The Devil in the White City" this novel follows the same formula; unfortunately with less success. Here again two men will cross paths in the late 20th century. On the one hand there is Guglielmo Marconi, a brilliant...]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:22 -0500 thunderstruck-erik-larson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html The Collectors marks the return of The Camel Club, a group of four eccentric and out-of-the-norm middle-aged conspiracy theorists and crime solvers in Washington D.C. Their leader calls himself Oliver Stone and lives in a tent across from the...]]> Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:44 -0500 the-collectors-david-baldacci Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html When we first meet Lisey her husband, Scott Landon best-selling and acclaimed horror author, has been dead for two years. It has taken her that long to be able to deal with sorting through his papers and the accumulation of mementoes in his study which no one else could...]]> Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:30 -0500 liseys-story-stephen-king Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Books feed the soul - filled with vivid images, this book is strange and moving. The book opens with her brothers' death and her find of a book. Her mother disappears, Liesel is fostered by the Hubermanns. Having lost everything, Liesel steals something, a book she finds at the cemetery during her...]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:31 -0500 the-book-thief-markus-zusak Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html It is said that music is the pathway to the soul... In this strangely wonderful book seven loosely connected stories showcase the power of music over the human mind. In each story a central character has a strange encounter with music...]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:11 -0500 seven-touches-of-music-zoran-zivkovic-alice-to Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In a post 9/11 world who hasn't thought about retaliation? In his latest novel Nelson DEMILLE offers a reasonable scenario of a conspiracy of men in power who set out to exact that revenge. The action takes place in 2002. A select group...]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:22 -0500 wildfire-nelson-demille Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Part of a series this easy to read mystery is fast-paced and fun.Reagan Reilly is a private investigator about to marry NYPD detective Jack Reilly. The week end before her wedding Regan goes to try on her wedding dress only to...]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0500 hitched-carol-higgins-clark Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html In the fall of 2000 Adam Gopnik relocates to New York from Paris with his wife and two children. A series of biographical essays on living in New York which present a nostalgic and yet forward view of what living in New York City means, especially after 9/11. The common element in...]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:25 -0500 through-the-childrens-gate-a-home-in-new-york- Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Laughing-out-loud funny at times this first novel is sharp, cynical and easy to read. Someone is trying to ruin a Disney-esque theme park called FamilyLand... After the strangling of the Family Land mascot, Rambunctious Rabbit, on a sunny day Detectives Lomax and Biggs of the LAPD are assigned to...]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:00:29 -0500 the-rabbit-factory-marshall-karp Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html When Judge Laird's much-younger and beautiful wife Elise shoots a man through the heart late at night, they officially claim he was a burglar. But to Detective Duncan Hatcher she later confides it was self-defense...]]> Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:43 -0500 ricochet-sandra-brown Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Fairytales play an important role in society and culture, going beyond simple children's literature. They illustrate our dreams, hopes and aspirations. In some cases they are political discourse made digestible in others they can be used...]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:04 -0500 politicizing-magic-an-anthology-of-russian-and-s Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html More than just another memoir or biography about being a woman Nora Ephron has pulled together a series of vignettes that are at turns self-deprecating but always riotously funny. A reflection of what being a 65 year old woman means could be terribly awful, with Ephron writing is deliciously humorous and...]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:06 -0500 i-feel-bad-about-my-neck-and-other-thoughts-about Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Set in a Victorian reminiscent England this first novel is strange, compelling, disturbing and well-written.Recently arrived in London Celeste Temple receives a short letter from her beau Roger Bascombe calling off their engagement and telling her never to contact him or his family...]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:20 -0500 the-glass-book-of-the-dream-eaters-gordon-dahlqu Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html First novel taking place in the religious-thriller bandwagon. A new reporter at the New York Times, Will Monroe, stumbles across a link between two murders having taken place across the country from each other,,,]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:55 -0500 the-righteous-men-sam-bourne Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Our world coexists with an otherworld called "Twilight". People inhabiting Twilight are known as "Others" and coexist with humans in the every day world. Each "other" has some kind of supernatural power and each one must decide if he will use those...]]> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:30 -0500 nightwatch-sergei-lukyanenko Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Frothy, funny and smart example of chick-lit, predictable but well-developed plot. The Willow Creek,Texas Junior League is old-school and very exclusive as Fredericka Ware proudly tells us. Seen from her point of view life is perfect until the day she comes home early from...]]> Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:59 -0500 the-devil-in-the-junior-league--linda-francis-le Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html Entertaining but unsatisfying this thriller mixes religion, politics, courtroom drama. Evan Spencer would appear to have it all including a career as Virginia Circuit Judge he likes to believe he earned on merit and not thanks to his marriage into the richest...]]> Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:31 -0500 the-apocalypse-stone-pete-earley Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page1.html The third and final volume of the Temeraire series picks up where volume two, Throne of Jade, left off. Relieved to be leaving China albeit with regret, Will Laurence, Temeraire and their crew are in Turkey, delegated to escort three dragon eggs...]]> Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:05 -0500 black-powder-war-naomi-novik Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html After their father is gunned down by terrorists in LaGuardia Airport Jack calls upon his brother Tom to collect the body since he doesn't officially exist. Tom, as Jack learns, has become a crooked federal judge and is on the run from...]]> Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:13 -0500 infernal-fpaul-wilson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Third and final volume in the trilogy recounting the return of King Arthur to our modern world. The 2nd volume had left off as Arthur and Gwen sailed off for their happily ever after and Fall of Knight opens with Arthur Penn bored and photographs...]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:31 -0500 fall-of-knight-peter-david Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Winkie is a teddy bear forgotten on a shelf for years until one day his frustration boils over and he suddenly wills himself to life. Unfortunately one night a SWAT team arrests him as a terrorist. At first put on trial for being a mad-bomber Winkie then finds himself facing 9,768 separate...]]> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:53 -0400 winkie-clifford-chase Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html This sequel to his Majesty's Dragon expands on volume 1, and on the relationship between Will Laurence and his dragon Temeraire. We learned in volume 1 that Temeraire is a rare Chinese dragon breed: a Celestial. As this novel opens, the Chinese are in London demanding the return of their dragon captured as an egg by Will from a...]]> Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:00:48 -0400 throne-of-jade-naomi-novik Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html When Navy Captain William Laurence captured a French ship during battle he did not expect to find a dragon egg and much less to become bonded to the dragon it hatched. Forced to leave the Navy and become a member of the British aerial corps he discovers a...]]> Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:00:03 -0400 his-majestys-dragon-naomi-novik Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Grandson of the founder, Leon GORMAN produces here a first-hand account of the last 40 years of L. L. Bean. He started with the company in 1960 without a specific job title when L.L. Bean was still a quirky specialist catalog selling mainly to fisherman and...]]> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400 ll-bean-the-making-of-an-american-icon-leon-g Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Joe DeMarco is a fix-it man for the Speaker of the House, taking care of things that need to stay out of public eye. In this second thriller DeMarco must investigate a rumor that there is a possible spy ring at the Naval base based on a request...]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:06 -0400 second-perimeter-mike-lawson Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html A broad sweeping tale of the China and the Cultural Revolution "Brothers" is told in alternating voices. Half-brothers Shento and Tan ignore each others existence growing up. Shento is the illegitimate son of a Chinese general and grew up an orphan...]]> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:46 -0400 brothers-a-novel-da-chen Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Life in Elmwood Springs is still full of the everyday quirks and whatnot that make Fannie Flagg a treat to read. Elner Shimfissle, previously a minor character, takes the spotlight here, starting with her fall off a ladder while picking some figs...]]> Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:37 -0400 cant-wait-to-get-to-heaven-fannie-flagg Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html The English master of horse-racing mysteries is back after 6 years of absence subsequent to the death of his wife and collaborator. Sid Halley, the champion ex-jockey is back at the races and finds himself embroiled in not one but several murders and mysteries all...]]> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:09:32 -0400 under-orders-dick-francis Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html A father and son travel through the devastated world - almost everyone and everything is dead or dying. The apocalypse has come and gone leaving omnipresent in its' wake. Together father and son walk a deserted road heading South, seeking warmth in order to survive the coming winter. The father tells his...]]> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:15 -0400 the-road-cormac-mccarthy Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:44 -0400 the-copper-scroll-joel-c-rosenberg Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:06 -0400 the-book-of-lost-books-stuart-kelly Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:33 -0400 the-united-states-of-arugula-david-kamp Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:05 -0400 reading-like-a-writer-francine-prose Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:20 -0400 the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america- Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:22 -0400 the-kings-english-betsy-burton Alexandre Despallieres http://www.lexink.com/Reviews/page4.html Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:13 -0400 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