Search Results: "Marcia Thornton Jones"


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WOODFORD BRAVE by Marcia Thornton Jones
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 6, 2015

"A mild and appealing historical tale with relevance to current events, as the author points out in her note. (bibliography, further resources.) (Historical fiction/graphic hybrid. 8-12) "
Cory Woodford is eager to prove his bravery, just like his grandpa, a World War I hero, and his dad, serving in World War II. Read full book review >

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RATFINK by Marcia Thornton Jones
CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 1, 2010

"Decker's final illustrations not seen. (Fiction. 8-11)"
Clumsy and impulsive, ten-year-old Logan is determined to have a better year in fifth grade than in the past but is hindered by an increasingly forgetful grandfather at home and a vengeful new classmate at school. Read full book review >

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THIS SIDE OF MAGIC by Debbie Dadey
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2009

"Considering the authors' track record, the pace may never pick up, but the bright humor will attract and keep young pre-Potterites. (Fantasy. 9-11)"
The authors of the Bailey School Kids set their new series in a small town that is unknowingly protected from the magical creatures just adjacent by a spellcast hedge of thorns and magic. Read full book review >

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GHOST WOMAN by Lawrence Thornton
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: June 1, 1992

"Solemn, engaging, and politically correct."
Thornton (Imagining Argentina, 1987, Under the Gypsy Moon, 1990) expands on an ancient Indian legend—and gives it a pronounced Greek-tragedy twist—in this haunting tale of an Indian woman on the California coast who transforms the lives of all who know her. Read full book review >

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DREAM QUEEN by Betsy Thornton
MYSTERY THRILLER
Released: Aug. 3, 2010

"Chloe (A Song for You, 2008, etc.) is damned interesting, and you forget the gawkiness of the plot when she's at center stage. But she sure could use a more thought-out story line."
Do-gooders run amok. Read full book review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Nov. 3, 2015

"A good read for anyone interested in confidence men and the history of Wall Street."
The tale of an early-20th-century con man who swindled millions through horse racing, mining claims, and penny stocks. Read full book review >

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Released: Oct. 24, 1979

"A weak potpourri, then, not quite justified by that one grand essay."
The three-part title essay here is Wilder's reworking of sections from his 1950 Norton lectures at Harvard — and, though hardly profound, it shows Wilder at his most topsyturvy thoughtful and folksy-smart eloquent. Read full book review >

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Released: Feb. 18, 1947

"An interesting and original bit of creative writing- a tour de force, perhaps, but provocative."
The author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey commands a definite and fairly predictable market among the intellectuals. Read full book review >

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A WHOLE NEW LIFE by Betsy Thornton
MYSTERY THRILLER
Released: Nov. 21, 2006

"Victim Advocate Chloe Newcombe (Dead for the Winter, 2004, etc.), who makes a cameo appearance, is, like most of Thornton's women, interesting and believable. Now if only Thornton would learn to animate her men."
A bad marriage makes a good murder suspect but a somewhat ramshackle plot. Read full book review >

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HARD GUY by Thornton Elliott
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Feb. 27, 1992

"You've met these reptiles and their super-macho mystique before, in Jim Thompson and Donald Goines, but Elliott draws them with knowledge and energy enough to make it fun to watch them slither."
It's not only the ex-con hero of this lean and mean (and familiar) crime thriller who's a hard guy: first-novelist Elliott is himself doing life in a Tennessee state prison. Read full book review >
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