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CaptainYoYo rated Educated: A Memoir: 4 stars
CaptainYoYo rated The Devil in the White City: 4 stars
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find …
CaptainYoYo rated I'll be gone in the dark: 4 stars
Michelle McNamara: I'll be gone in the dark (2018)
I'll be gone in the dark by Michelle McNamara
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, …
CaptainYoYo rated A Study in Scarlet: 4 stars
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet, #1)
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first …
CaptainYoYo rated A study in scarlet: 4 stars
A study in scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (Dover thrift editions)
A Study in Scarlet (STUD) is the first Sherlock Holmes novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the …
CaptainYoYo rated Life: 4 stars
Life by Keith Richards, James Fox
Life is a memoir by the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, written with the assistance of journalist James Fox. Published …
CaptainYoYo rated The Martian: 4 stars
The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
CaptainYoYo rated The Goldfinch: 3 stars
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel …
CaptainYoYo rated Papillon: 5 stars
CaptainYoYo rated Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers: 4 stars
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s …
CaptainYoYo rated Gone Girl: 2 stars
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are …
CaptainYoYo rated Smoke gets in your eyes: 4 stars
Smoke gets in your eyes by Caitlin Doughty
The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she …
CaptainYoYo rated The Road: 4 stars
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …