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The Songcatcher
Sharyn McCrumb
Signet, 2002
Haunting & Lyrical
I've had this one on my bookshelf for some time and just recently, in the mood for a good story, I picked this one up. I wish I hadn't finished it. It is a tale of a people that traveled from Scotland to the USA to the Tennessee/North Carolina mountains. This book ...
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Sick of Shadows
Sharyn Mccrumb
Ballantine Books, 1989
Not Sick of Sharyn
While lying in bed last weekend, moaning under the weight of a killer headache, I tossed aside the book I had been reading because it required too much concentration. The constant brow-furrowing and synapse-firing was exacerbating my mal-du-tete, so I sought something ...
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Ghost Riders
Sharyn McCrumb
Signet, 2004
Ghost Riders
I love Sharyn McCrumb in general and her books are always fun, but this one was especially grand. I love the way she weaves history into the present and throws in plenty of supernatural phenomena as well. Her books always inspire me to check out the historical facts ...
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Sharyn McCrumb
Signet, 1999
review of frankie silver
we needed book quickly for school project. book was sent in a couple of days and was very interesting. Project finished thanks to quick shipping! Thanks.
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St. Dale
Sharyn McCrumb
Kensington, 2006
Sharyn McCrumb - Saint Dale
Sharyn McCrumb is one of my favorite writers from "Zombies of the Gene Pool" to "Frankie and Johnny", I have enjoyed everything she has written. This is a different Sharyn McCrumb but writing with the same excellent story telling ability she is known for. She does her ...
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She Walks These Hills
Sharyn McCrumb
Signet, 1995
Long Way Home
SHE WALKS THESE HILLS by Sharyn McCrumb draws you deep into the culture of the Tennessee mountain county. Nora Bonesteel has the sight and she sees many things before they happen. It is not a comfortable, life but Nora has learned to live with it.
An urban graduate ...
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If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
Sharyn McCrumb
Ballantine, 1991
Worth Reading and Rereading
Sharyn McCrumb is one of our finest novelists. Her characters have depth and nuance; there are surprises and suspense along the way; and she manages to touch our emotions in a way few writers do. Readers expecting a puzzle mystery may be disappointed, but that's only ...
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Sharyn Mccrumb
Ballantine Books, 1998
Excellent!
I know that my heading isn't exactly distinctive, but "excellent" is really the best word to describe this collection of short stories. As a dedicated reader of the Eliz McPherson series, I loved the story about her early days. I also thought "The Monster of Glamis" ...
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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him (Elizabeth MacPherson Novels)
Sharyn Mccrumb
Fawcett, 1996
I couldn't put it down
This book is a real page turner. No slow parts. Something for everyone. A very entertaining read. I couldn't put it down.
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Sharyn McCrumb
Onyx, 1993
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This is a novel that is true to it's setting in the hills of Kentucky as well as the people in that region. It was suspensful and moving. It was well written and kept the reader engaged with several plots at the same time.
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The Rosewood Casket
Sharyn McCrumb
Signet, 1997
Sharyn wrote it
If Sharyn McCrumb wrote the book you know it will be great. She is a wonderful author and all of her books are so good. She makes you feel like you are there and that you know the people that you are reading about. From the first to the last page it's got you. Do read ...
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Zombies of the Gene Pool
Sharyn Mccrumb
Fawcett, 1993
A pleasant and amusing work.
I really enjoyed this novel. It was a fun book with a lot of humor, but with a bit of hard edge toward the end. The novel has some great characters and a pretty interesting plot that held my interest and kept me turning the pages at a pretty rapid clip. Another of ...
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MacPherson's Lament
Sharyn Mccrumb
Ballantine Books, 1993
Continuing saga of the MacPherson family
This series is quite different from the Appalacian Ballard series but vive la difference. There is a lot of sly humor tucked away, especially if you have read the others (not necessarily in any particularly order). Think more of the family and friends saga of ...
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Once Around The Track
Sharyn McCrumb
Kensington, 2008
Sharyn McCrumb, Once Around the Track
This book is quite different from McCrumb's "mountain" books and her Elizabeth MacPherson books. It is also quite different from St. Dale. She provides an inside look at the problems and costs of entering a car in NASCAR racing, as well as the interactions among ...
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Transgressions: Ten Brand-New Novellas
Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, ...
Forge Books, 2005
A smorgasbord of great reads!
After the success of his novel BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, Evan Hunter (Ed McBain) turned to what were then referred to as "novelettes," his subject being the 87th Precinct detectives of Isola (think New York). As time passed, the 87th Precinct novelettes grew to full-length ...
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