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American Endurance: Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West
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Richard A. Serrano

Release date: Oct 04, 2016

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West is hi ...more

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Availability: 2 copies available, 1489 people requesting

Giveaway dates: Mar 25 - Jun 08, 2018

Countries available: US

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Khanh, first of her name, mother of bunnies's review of Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1) by Justina Ireland

" The worst thing about this book is that I mentally read it with a Southern drawl. It is unbelievably annoying.

Most of the time, I go into a book with certain expectations. "I'm going to love this book" "Oh, this sounds just awful" so on and so forth. The worst thing about this book is that I mentally read it with a Southern drawl. It is unbelievably annoying.

Most of the time, I go into a book with certain expectations. "I'm going to love this book" "Oh, this sounds just awful" so on and so forth. I have to admit, the premise didn't sound that great to me. Zombies are boring. Civil-war era America (even after a zombie apocalypse) doesn't sound terribly awesome either. So I have to admit I started this book with a whole lot of skepticism, and the first 50 pages fulfilled my expectations. The heroine is kind of annoying. The other characters don't seem that great.

But then, to my great surprise it became really good.

The book caught me with the first zombie fight scene. It is damned hard to make that exciting. Tbh most zombie series are pretty boring to me. I ain't scurred of anything I can outrun, and considering I go to the gym and do massive amounts of cardio (in preparation for the zombie apocalypse, of course. The Zombie Survival Guide book recommends cardio), I can pretty much outrun anything you can imagine. RAWR! So the concept of shambling braaaaaaaaaains zombie really isn't that terrifying to me.

The worst thing about a zombie apocalypse would be not being able to shower regularly tbh. Oh, and there would probably be no cell service *insert screaming emoji here*

But back to the book. The premise is that there's a zombie apocalypse but the US has pretty much recovered, the cities are safe. Zombies (here called shamblers) are still wandering around, and blah blah something Act passed and now our half-black heroine, Jane is at a finishing school of sorts where one learns to kill zombies and become a fancy Attendant to white ladies.

An Attendant’s job is simple: keep her charge from being killed by the dead, and her virtue from being compromised by potential suitors. It is a task easier said than done.

There is a lot more action than I expected. The mystery is interesting. Jane herself is kind of bitchy (which I hated at first) but that is reined in by her self-awareness. She recognizes her own biases and tries to reason with herself. She is an incredibly strong, confident character.

And speaking of biases, Katherine another girl at the finishing school, who is initially Jane's rival. She is beautiful, a golden-haired, light-eyed black girl who can "pass" as white. I really liked the way Jane and Katherine's relationship develops.

The mystery is compelling. The friendship well-build. The romance believable and barely noticeable. This was a really fun read, besides the Southern accent in which I read it. DAMMIT. ...more "
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Ruth Ware

In Ruth Ware's previous mysteries—The Woman in Cabin 10, In a Dark, Dark Wood, and The Lying Game—women find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. For her new book, The Death of Mrs. Westaway, she says, "I wanted to write about someone who…deliberately walks into a situation and sets out to commit a crime."

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Michael Ondaatje

Some books makes such a lasting impression, that readers find themselves returning again and again to their pages. That's certainly true for Michael Ondaatje, the author of The English Patient and this month's Warlight. Here he shares five of his favorite novels to revisit.

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