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MiffyHelen rated Northern Lights: 4 stars

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized …
MiffyHelen rated The life of P.T. Barnum: 3 stars
MiffyHelen rated The Odyssey (Penguin Classics): 4 stars

The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Όμηρος
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
MiffyHelen rated The tattooist of Auschwitz: 3 stars
MiffyHelen rated Brave New World: 5 stars

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
MiffyHelen rated Little Happier: 4 stars
MiffyHelen rated Troubled Blood: 5 stars

Troubled Blood by J. K. Rowling
Troubled Blood is the fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, written by J. K. Rowling and published under the …
MiffyHelen rated Submarine: 3 stars

Submarine by Tom Clancy, John Gresham
Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only …
MiffyHelen rated Thursday Murder Club Book 3: 4 stars
MiffyHelen rated Caliban's War: 4 stars

Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #2)
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered …
MiffyHelen rated A Gentleman in Moscow: 5 stars

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
MiffyHelen rated Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics): 3 stars

Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. …
MiffyHelen rated Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3): 5 stars

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by J. K. Rowling
Career of Evil is a 2015 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It …
MiffyHelen rated The Silkworm: 5 stars

The Silkworm by J. K. Rowling (A Cormoran Strike novel)
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks …