Breaker's Reef (Cape Refuge, No. 4)

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In the fourth book of the Cape Refuge Series, a teenage girl is found murdered, and the scene matches one in a book by a famous mystery writer who just moved to the island. This murder has a connection to Hanover House, and the residents there might never be the same.

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Great Book.......2007-02-18

Great book and easy read...I couldn't put it down! I love her entire collection.

Mystery.......2007-02-16

This is the fourth book in the Cape Refuge mystery series and completes the story in a satisfactory and fulfilling way. Terri Blackstock is true to her readers, she doesn't "fool" any of us while at the same being able to slip in that quirk or surprise fact toward the ending that keeps the reader turning pages. The Cape Refuge characters are warm, smart and human!!! I have read all four of the Cape Refuge series and recommend them highly; they have a Christian slant that is light and does not preach or come on heavy-handed but is very today.

Breaker's Reef.......2006-11-10

This book was one of the best books that I have read in awhile. The whole series by Terri Blackstock is excellent. This is the kind of book you can't wait to find out the end but, you hate to finish reading it.
My 14 year old daughter also read it too and loved it. If you are a fan of mysteries and also of romance you should pick this one and the whole series up.

Absolutely loved it!.......2006-09-07

I read this entire series and I absolutely loved it. Moved at a perfect pace and I enjoyed the characters. I am a big fan of Terri's novels.

Bethany K. Scanlon
Author of Where's my mate? and Born of the Spirit

Bring on the Red Herrings!.......2006-06-21

I think this is the most satisfying mystery from Teri Blackstock yet. Without giving away the ending let me just hint that I was totally fooled by the Red Herrings in this mystery. As good as the story line is I agree with other reviewers that the characters drive this story (as in all good novels). The thread of restoration is strong throughout the story and the bond of parent and child is powerful. This is an excellent ending to a very good series.

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Best mystery this year
Another good mystery by Linda Hall
A New Favorite Author....
A Suspenseful Must Read
Suspenseful read

Black Ice (Fog Point Series #2)
Linda Hall
Manufacturer: WaterBrook Press
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ASIN: 1578569559
Release Date: 2007-03-20

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They said she came in with the ice…

Lenore Featherjohn found the girl, frozen against a snow bank behind Lenore’s bed-and-breakfast. Some said she was a ghost, others said an angel.

Lenore knows better. Fearing that the police might look to her sons as murderers, she hires Jake Rikker and his crusty business partner, May, to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding her undesirable discovery. Their search leads them not to the strange girl–or to Earth’s final days, as many in the town suspect–but to Amy McLaren, the wife of a local minister. As Jake and May get closer to the truth, the tension between Lenore and Amy rises, forcing each woman to face the secrets they’ve hidden far too long.

Return to Fog Point in Black Ice, a gripping novel that asks, is any faith strong enough to survive the coldest seasons of life?

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Best mystery this year.......2007-07-21

The most compelling book I have read this year. I don't have a lot of time to read, but I made time for this book because it was so good. Linda Hall not only creates a mystery that holds my attention but she has complex characters with clear motive for their actions. The character of Lenore Featherjohn is both poignant and repulsive.Hall does not present the usual cardboard perfect Christians either. Her portrayal is much more realistic and honest. In addition, the details in the setting of Fog Point make it feel like it's a place I could drive up and see. I can't wait to read another Linda Hall book.

Another good mystery by Linda Hall.......2007-07-14

Winter comes to Fog Point, and for the first time in forty-five years ice has moved into the harbor. It snows every day, and as if that isn't bad enough, Lenore Featherjohn finds the body of a young woman back of her bed and breakfast. Lenore has two sons, who are a long way from being saints, and she doesn't want anyone suspecting them. She tells one little lie, just trying to protect her family, and it mushrooms until she is piling lie upon lie, with no end in sight.

Amy McLaren, minister's wife and a mother, knows something is wrong with her family, but she doesn't know what to do. And she's not sure she believes in God anymore, a disaster for a pastor's wife. Her husband is keeping secrets from her and her daughter is rebelling. Something is seriously wrong in Fog Point, and Jake Rikker and May Williams, private investigators, are on a hunt for a murderer before anyone else gets killed.
Black Ice is a tangled story with too many people who have too much to hide. Fans of Linda Hall's Fog Point series will welcome this one.

A New Favorite Author...........2007-07-11

I don't know how I've managed to miss Christy nominated, best-selling author, Linda Hall.

I will be rectifying this.

Black Ice wrapped around me and pulled me in, holding my attention until the very satisfying conclusion. Beautiful, haunting descriptions. Multi-dimensional and realistic characters. Page-turning, haunting plot.

The Christianity elements resemble the Christians I know, chipped, cracked and broken in progress and process.

Well done and recommended.

As reviewed at novelreviews blogspot

A Suspenseful Must Read.......2007-06-16

Linda Hall has done it again--provided her faithful readers with a novel rich in descriptions, filled with real and unique characters, and a mystery that keeps you turning the pages. Black Ice, the second book in the Fog Point Series brings back Fog Point's quirky cast of characters that we all came to care about in Dark Water.

Black Ice opens with Fog Points' local busybody Lenore Featherjohn's discovery of a young girl frozen outside her bed and breakfast entrance. Fearing her sons involvement in the murder of this unknown girl, Lenore moves the body, and positions the girl's hands together as if in prayer. Lenore's decision to alter the body's location and position the hands fuels the local gossip and draws media attention, as they ask, are the folded hands a sign that she is an angel? Does she have mysterious healing powers? Who is she? Who killed her and why?

Thus begins a mystery that involves a cast of thoroughly developed Fog Point characters that includes the resident minister, his wife, and his adopted daughter, along with the local PI team of Jake Rikker and May Williams. But Hall doesn't stop with the locals, as she delves into the girl's past and through varied points of view she brings us characters who unravel the far reaching mystery.

A fan of Linda Hall's writing for years, it wasn't difficult for me to thoroughly enjoy Black Ice. I am drawn to Hall's work because of her rich characters and her ability to engage them in fast moving yet intricate plots. Black Ice is no exception. Hall breaks the stereotype of a minister's wife with Amy who battles her burgeoning unbelief and gives us a glimpse into the real life of a minister's wife. Hall takes Lenore Featherjohn, a woman who would fall under the `extra grace required' category, and shows us what God sees in her, reminds us that no one is unimportant to God. All in all, Hall provides us with real people faced with real problems who happen to be caught up in a mystery that needs solving.

Though you don't need to read Dark Water to understand Black Ice, you might want to pick up Dark Water first so you can enjoy the books in the order Hall has released them. Either way, you won't be disappointed.

Suspenseful read.......2007-06-06

Linda Hall does it again in the latest installment of the Fog Point Series. When Lenore Featherjohn finds a girl frozen in a snowbank, it seems long-hidden secrets are about to see the light of day, leading to dangerous and wide-reaching consequences. Crisp, intense, filled with suspense and intriguing characters, BLACK ICE is a read you won't want to miss.

Marta Perry

BREAKFAST WITH TIFFANY: AN UNCLE'S MEMOIR

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No Longer Starved
Worth starting, not sure it is worth finishing
Just Lovely
Brave New Parent
An Unselfish Life

BREAKFAST WITH TIFFANY: AN UNCLE'S MEMOIR
Ed Wintle
Manufacturer: Miramax
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1401352243
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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Ed Wintle was a successful, urbane professional whose life, at forty, was very comfortable. He had reached the point when he looked around at his well-ordered, unfettered single existence and wondered 'Is this all there is?' After a desperate call from his sister at her wit's end, his street-wise thirteen-year-old niece Tiffany-a writhing ball of adolescent anger-comes to live with him. If he felt he needed a shot in the arm, what he got proved more like electroshock therapy.

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No Longer Starved.......2007-04-08

I like this book! The 7th Rib Inventist thing is very witty. It is possible that I met Ed Wintle once or twice. I think my friend Caryn Bernstein had a great picture of him in her apartment. Why do I think it was near Columbus Cricle? Anyway, I am 47 and do not have any children of my own, to chicken. I have asked my friends and family what it is like to raise a child and the explanations have not been able to give me the insight that Ed Wintle has been able to give to me. Taking on this child really impresses upon me that I made the right decision not to have any children my self. Children can be amazing and their behavior can be rewarding because it can appear to be a direct reflection of what we teach them. It can also be devistating for the same reasons. I would not have control as Eddy seems to have. They would beat me down and eat me alive. God bless Mr. Wintle for his paretning abilities. I was really able to put my self in his place. The book makes me proud of Ed and Tiffany but mostly the book makes me glad thatI did not have to put in the hard work that they put in to get the answers I had been looking for. I thank them, greatly.

Ed Wintle, also, does a good job of freeze framing the time period he writes about. Reffering to 9/11 and the Julia Stiles movies, brilliant! He is fun.

Worth starting, not sure it is worth finishing.......2007-02-02

In the beginning I found the characters interesting, New York life appealling, living with a teen ager exhausting and the references to current times events clever but after awhile I grew bored.
Definetly give it a try to at least meet these people.

Just Lovely.......2007-01-23

Forty-year-old Eddie leaves behind his life as a single, carefree (and lonely) gay man in New York when his troubled teenage niece moves in with him. Sweet without being saccharine, full of honesty and humor, this is a memoir about two people who, bonded by love, fall and rise together.
While there's little politics in the book (with the exception of the author's opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq war) anyone who thinks gays are not fit to be parents should read this delightful memoir. They might learn a thing or two.

Brave New Parent.......2006-07-07

This book is a hilarious, touching and inspirational bit of contemporary Americana. Uncle Eddy reveals the terrors and joys of sudden parenthood with the fearlessness of someone who has walked through fire. And on some level he already has, having survived the epidemic of our generation: AIDS in America. I hope that this book reminds readers that parenting can be a madcap adventure, but the goal should always remain to do the best job we can of raising kids that aren't jerks. Eddy does his very best, while scribbling notes in every available margin. Tiffany is a handful but also a delight and we can't help but come away feeling that she will ultimately be a remarkable woman.

An Unselfish Life.......2006-07-07

Flying in the face of a gay culture in which issues such as child-rearing and putting a child through high school or college often take a backseat to focusing on your pet, your work, and the luxury of child-free vacations, Ed Wintle's BREAKFAST WITH TIFFANY offers a refreshingly unselfish portrait of a gay man no longer young but not quite middle aged, willing to set aside the rituals typical of so many of his gay contemporaries--dinners with friends, occasional visits to the local bar, and career--and instead offer to care for his troubled 13-year-old niece Tiffany when her mother can no longer take care of the girl herself. When the relationship between uncle and niece gestates into that of "father and daughter," tensions, frustrations, and problems of communication inevitably flare up, the details of which are recounted honestly and charmingly by the author, who is forced not only to confront the vicissitudes of his niece's life, but those of his own, permanently altering his point of view. The result is an entertaining and highly readable memoir that is recommended for anyone interested not only in a second-generation AIDS culture in a time of flux, but for anyone thinking about or actually raising a child in a stressful and difficult time in our country's history.

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Ingredients: wicked humor and incredibly embarrassing moments
completely relatable, utterly engrossing, outrageously entertaining
Breakfast of Champions
Very good book. Great read.
If you have a good sense of humor, read it!!!!!!

Girls for Breakfast
David Yoo
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0440238838
Release Date: 2006-09-12

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Nick Park loves girls.

Drumstick legs, cherry-colored lips, dumpling cheeks . . . everything about them he wants to eat up. But he’s dateless and has been since he discovered girls in the third grade, and he’s convinced himself that this is solely based on the fact that he’s the only Korean American teenager in Renfield—the fifth richest (and WASPiest) town in Connecticut. In Nick’s mind, he sticks out like a banana in a wheat field.

And now it’s time for him to figure it out once and for all. Is it all in his head or are his suspicions that his heritage is keeping him from a triumphant boob fest true?

An excerpt from Girls for Breakfast:
What confused me about involuntarily visualizing Miss Hamilton with no clothes on was that she wasn’t even pretty. Her nose was pointy and her frizzy hair always looked sweaty, but I couldn’t stop picturing her naked. I also couldn’t stop picturing Martha the bus driver naked every time I stepped on the bus. I was a perverted Superman. As the bell rang I silently vowed to stop staring at the Playboys at night in order to get the rest crucial to curing me. I glared at Miss Hamilton’s breasts and shook a fist at her bare butt as she faced the chalkboard. I knew in my heart I’d beat this disease.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Ingredients: wicked humor and incredibly embarrassing moments.......2007-07-11

I started reading GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST on the half-hour bus ride home, and I smirked all the way there. There's so much wicked humor in this book. I'm not Korean and I'm certainly not a guy, but I totally identified with Nick Park. He's both flawed and sympathetic. I laughed hard at his childhood memories of teaching fake martial arts to his friends, his mom's horrible cooking, and his incredibly embarrassing moments around girls and pretty much everyone else. Many times I was smiling and sighing, "Poor guy." Nick manages to come across both awkward and sweet. He seems real enough that I might run into him one day. I very much recommend this book.

completely relatable, utterly engrossing, outrageously entertaining .......2007-01-07

I'm not a teen, but just feel like one, reading this excellent semi-autobiographical fiction. Funny and touching, reminiscent of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers, but for teens. This quick paced books will make you laugh, grimace in embarrassment and shared angst, and root, root, root for Nick.

Breakfast of Champions.......2006-11-11

David Yoo's novel feels a little overextended: did he really have to begin the saga of Nick Park from all the way back in third grade? But in general he knows how to tell a story and capture the reader's attention right away. Nick doesn't have many Korean friends, and he's ashamed of the way his mother serves Korean kimchee with her cheeseburgers, ashamed of his dad's heavy accent. "Hey Mr Park," Mitch said. "Hello, Meech," my dad said. I flinched. Mitch and Paul laughed; they thought he was hilarious. His accent sounded more pronounced around my friends. Other Asian kids in the Korean church Nick sometimes attends call him a "banana," -- yellow on the outside, white on the inside. And yet Yoo makes Nick's struggles with his contested masculinity into a rewarding and heartwarming tale.

He's good at tennis, and that makes him a few friends. And he draws well, so he gets put in the poster club at high school--a wealthy suburb where some of his pals live in actual mansions: Paul's got an bowling alley in his basement. At the same time he is sometimes tolerated, but racist bullies make his life a hell, as when one know-nothing calls him "Long Duk Dong" after the comic exchange student from SIXTEEN CANDLES. Racial epithets fly all over the place in GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST, and there's no safe place for a boy like Nick. The girls he lusts after aren't all that interested in him, but there's always Miss January from an old issue of Playboy. She's been sitting in his closet for ten years or more, and whenever life gets tough for him, he hauls her out and starts spanking it. (In one amusing scene he looks up and finds the cat, Boris, has been watching him [...], so he pulls up his shorts and tries to distract Boris from this traumatic memory. Now, that's self-effacing!)

Apparently David Yoo had the great luck to be able to work with the late, great fiction writer Lucia Berlin, a lady who died way too soon and whose books (published by Black Sparrow and other midrange presses) are pretty much out of print, and who stands the risk of being forgotten. I think Lucia Berlin, one of the finest writers in recent memory, would have been proud of Woo her student; he shares something of her intense interest in humanity, her gifts of penetrating dialogue and concrete observation, and quite a lot of her big-hearted humor, the laugh that could warm one's bones. I expect that GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST, even with its occasional lapses in taste, and its infrequent longueurs, introduces us to a masterful voice.

Very good book. Great read........2005-10-25

This is a wonderfully-written, highly-entertaining, and often hilarious novel. Nick Park's just a kid and he's just trying to get by. And yeah, he likes girls. It's nice to see a young adult book tackle the subject of blooming masculinity head on, and Yoo skillfully weaves the issues of race, gender, and sexuality into an intelligent, humorous story. The book will make you laugh throughout, and the ending is beautiful.

If you have a good sense of humor, read it!!!!!!.......2005-08-07

I was pleasantly surprised by young master Yoo's book about a young Korean boy growing up in the stogy suburbs of Connecticut, going from confrontations with "those guys" to experimentation with women and sex David Yoo has done a great job with this coming of age story, it's got everything you would want in a book, from humor to drama. If you're interested in a great read, pick it up!!!

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Very True!!!
I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOME

Croutons for Breakfast (Brio Girls)
Lissa Halls Johnson , and Kathy Wierenga
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1589970802

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The Brio Girls series is written to churched teen girls ages 12-16 who read fiction. The series deals with hard and ordinary issues--just like all teens face--but does so with honesty and integrity. The catchphrase for this series is "Where real faith meets real life." With 124,000 subscribers to Brio magazine, Brio Girls is one of the most visible and successful Christian fiction series in the industry.

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Very True!!!.......2007-07-04

Okay, I'll admit that I'm a little older than the audience that this book is aimed at, but I was a teen on Venezuela Trip (Nerve to Serve) that this book was about and had to check it out. I remember Susie asking us to submit our diary entries at the end of the trip because someone was going to write a book about the trip for the Brio Series. After reading the book I was impressed with the stories that it told that really happened. Just reading the book reminds me of the time of that spiritual high - I tend to get it out every July when Brio is on a trip wither I'm on the trip too or not. The stories that are in it that are true (I don't know about finding a Journal in the rubble) are great fun to read; the description of breakfast was very accurate too - Croutons instead of toast - and I'll add "fruit juice" that was more like a smoothie because of all the pulp in it. Love the book!

I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-10-09

This is a really great book for any teen who is learning to trust God. I really loved this story.

AWESOME.......2003-03-14

This is one of the best fictional books about Missions trips that I have ever read! The story follows the Brio gang (except for Solana) as they go to Venezuela for a two week mission trip with Brio magazine. The group gets separated, and the story follows Hannah and Jacie. The two work on a skit to perform on the street corners of Venezuela, and that is where Hannah begins to get mad at God because she feels that He isn't helping her on her quest to convert a certain amount of Venezuelans to Christianity. She can't seem to get her part right for the play, and her testimony on stage actually scares the people away. Hannah also encounters more disasters, such as an unexpected period, bad encounters with Venezuelan men, and she finds herself doing guard duty for the groups bags. Jacie, on the other hand, gets sick with bronchitis and finds herself mad at God as well, but because she envies another girl on the trip whose father came along--something of which makes Jacie miss her dad all the more. Jacie too, has some bad experiences, including two guys who like her and of whom she doesn't like back, and a bitter 24-year-old missionary who tells her his deepest secret. The main point of the book is where they learn about following God and listening to Him instead of doing what they think He wants them to do. The end result is that the girls find other ways to witness to others, and Jacie finally finds a Father.

Ostrich eggs for breakfast;: A history of Fullerton for boys and girls

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Ostrich eggs for breakfast;: A history of Fullerton for boys and girls
Dora May Sim
Manufacturer: Courier Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007B62R2

Best in Children's Books: Story of Early America/Very Little Girl/Elephant's Child/Poems of the City/Shoemaker & the Elves/A Child's World in ABC/Your Breakfast Egg/Life in the Arctic, etc.

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Best in Children's Books: Story of Early America/Very Little Girl/Elephant's Child/Poems of the City/Shoemaker & the Elves/A Child's World in ABC/Your Breakfast Egg/Life in the Arctic, etc.
Multiple Authors
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000X3DSGC

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This volume of Best in Childrens Books contains the following stories: Story of Early America/Very Little Girl/Elephant's Child/Poems of the City/Shoemaker & the Elves/A Child's World in ABC/Your Breakfast Egg/Life in the Arctic/Saddler's Horse/Dick Whittington & His Cat, and This is Italy.

Best in Children's Books: The Story of Early America, the Very Little Girl, the Elephant's Child, Poems of the City, the Shoemaker and the Elves, a Child's World in a B C, Your Breakfast Egg, Life in the Arctic, the Saddler's Horse, et. al.

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Best in Children's Books: The Story of Early America, the Very Little Girl, the Elephant's Child, Poems of the City, the Shoemaker and the Elves, a Child's World in a B C, Your Breakfast Egg, Life in the Arctic, the Saddler's Horse, et. al.

Manufacturer: nelson doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E3FP2G

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Carla's Breakfast (Kaeden Books)
Leslie Harper
Manufacturer: Kaeden Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

The Girl Who Ate Equations for Breakfast

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fantastic book!!

The Girl Who Ate Equations for Breakfast
Jerry Farlow
Manufacturer: Aardvark Pr Inc
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ASIN: 0965866904

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fantastic book!!.......1999-01-14

I laughed till I cried and then I realized I actually learned mathematics!!!

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