The Nineteen
Jake Needham takes you to Thailand on another Jack Shepherd adventure. This time around, we get to know a young DEA lawyer, Lucas Ryan,...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Cloud Cuckoo Land
One of my favorite books is All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. So, when Doerr came out with his next work, Cloud Cuckoo Land,...
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Jackson Coppley
- May 4
- 1 min
The Immortality Key
When I first encountered The Immortality Key, I was skeptical. Proving that the earliest religions used psychedelics? Was this written by...
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Jackson Coppley
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Happy Endings?
You may have seen my book review of Nightmare Alley. Since that review, I’ve seen the recent movie version starring Bradley Cooper. I...
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Jackson Coppley
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Does Truth in Fiction Count?
Is it just me, or do the details matter when enjoying fiction? As a citizen of the Washington, DC, area, it annoyed me when the character...
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Jackson Coppley
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Run Rose Run
James Paterson’s collaboration with celebrities is an interesting exercise in guessing where one collaborators' work ends and the other...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Sooley
I was born in North Carolina and went to N.C. State, therefore basketball is my heritage. North Carolina has four traditional powerhouses...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Nightmare Alley
A few months ago, while my wife and I prepared for a signing in our local bookstore of my latest novel, we saw on a nearby rack Nightmare...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 4
- 2 min
The Lincoln Highway
A friend thought The Lincoln Highway at 592 pages was too long, but for me, I didn’t want it to stop. I knew Amor Towles could deliver...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jan 15
- 1 min
YouTube Mania
I’ve used YouTube for many years. I like making videos and sharing with my friends. At the beginning of December 2021, one of my videos,...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jan 8
- 1 min
The Confessions of Young Nero and The Splendor Before the Dark
I became interested in the Roman emperor Nero in researching my novel The Fire Starters and touring his buried Golden House in Rome. The...
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Jackson Coppley
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
The Extinction Trials
A.G. Riddle’s Extinction Trials begins with a man inviting leading industrial leaders to a private meeting in which he poses an...
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Jackson Coppley
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
The Family Man
You can judge a book by its cover. Not so with A Family Man. As I write this, author Anna Willett may have changed the cover from the one...
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Jackson Coppley
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds, the latest novel from Louise Penny, was my first exposure to this author’s series of Inspector Gamache mysteries,...
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Jackson Coppley
- Sep 4, 2021
- 1 min
New York, the Novel
New York puts history in context. It is a family saga with roots in the earliest settlement of Manhattan Island by the Dutch, when it was...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
Noble Ultimatum - Jack Noble Book 13
Spoiler Alert: There is nothing to spoil. This installment of the Jack Noble series resolves nothing. Tune in to the next book in the...
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Jackson Coppley
- Jun 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Boys in the Boat
A book about crew racing? You mean those ivy league guys rowing in a thin boat? Do I really want to read a book about that? Daniel James...
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Jackson Coppley
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
The Phoenix Project
Nick Thacker serves up a fine sample of the Harvey Bennett series in The Phoenix Project. If you open this novella on Kindle, it may tell...
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Jackson Coppley
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
The Other Emily
The Other Emily By Dean Koontz Review When one begins The Other Emily, one might wonder if Dean Koontz has produced a lyrical romance...
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Jackson Coppley
- Feb 25, 2021
- 1 min
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing presents nature through finely crafted prose with a murder mystery attached. It is not surprising that nature...
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