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Book Number: 23

Number Of Pages: 288

Book Title: Burn Notice: The Giveaway

Author: Tod Goldberg

Summary: Michael Westen has to help one of Barry's friends who is in trouble after stealing things from a biker gang.

 

Book Number: 24

Number Of Pages: 142

Book Title: Cuentos de misterio

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Summary: A collection of some mystery stories by Poe: The Gold Bug, MS. Found in a Bottle and The Purloined Letter.

 

I have to find my list of read books, because I'm forgetting a few xd.png

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Book Number: 42

Number Of Pages: 371

Book Title: Summer Knight (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Mab, the Winter Queen, comes to Dresden. She has purchased his debt from his Godmother, and now he must perform three tasks for Mab, to free himself of the debt. The first task is to find the murderer of the Summer Knight ...

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Book Number: 1

Number of Pages: 403

Book Title: The Hunters

Author: John Flanagan

Summary: Hal and his brotherband tarck down the evil pirate Zavac to recover a lost treasure.

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Hey there, I am going to have to drop out, I am becoming too busy, ive read about 6 books since my last update, but I am having less and less time to update. Thanks for the fun! smile.gif

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Book Number: 2

Number of pages: 377

Book Title: The Overlord Protocol (re-read)

Author: Mark Walden

Summary: Follow Otto and his friends as they try to stop the evil Cypher.

 

Book Number: 3

Number of pages: 344

Book Title: Escape Velocity

Author: Mark Walden

Summary: When Dr. Nero gets kidnapped, Otto and his friends must save him, while stopping Number One from rebuilding Overlord.

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Book number: 4

Number of pages: 180

Book Title: No Place Like Holmes

Author: Jason Lethcoe

Summary: Griffin Sharpe goes to visit his uncle who lives next door to Sherlock Holmes and he gets caught up in a scheme that if it succeeds may throw England into chaos.

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Book Number: 43

Number Of Pages: 378

Book Title: Death Masks (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: The vampire Ortega challenges Harry to a duel he cannot refuse, Father Vincent needs Harry to find a stolen relic, and of course a number of bad guys are after said relic. Harry gets busy.

 

Book Number: 44

Number Of Pages: 372

Book Title: Blood Rites (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: The black court vampires are trying to kill Harry. He has to find them before they get to him. At the same time, Thomas Raith of the white court of vampires, asks him to take a case, which turns out to give him more trouble than he had bargained for.

 

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Book Number: 45

Number Of Pages: 528

Book Title: Dead Beat (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: There are necromancers in town. Very strong necromancers. And they all intend to make themselves even stronger. If they manage that, they will be practically unstoppable. Dresden must ruin their plans before they can accomplish this.

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Book Number: 5

Number of pages: 347

Book Title: The Door Within (re-read)

Author: Wayne thomas Batson

Summary: When Aiden finds several scrolls in the basement of his new home, he is launched on an adventure that will change his life.

 

Book number: 6

Number of pages: 364

Book Title: The Final Storm

Author: Wayne Thomas Batson

Summary: Paragor, the Betrayer of King Kliam unites with the Wyrm Lord and the Seven Sleepers to launch a full-scale assault on the kingdom of Alleble.

 

Book number: 7

Number of pages: 214

Book Title: The Empire Strikes Back

Author:Donald F. Glut

Summary: The book version of Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back

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Book Number: 7

Number Of Pages: 183

Book Title: Bleach Official Bootleg Colour Bleach

Author: Tite Kubo

Summary: There is information about the Gotei Thirteen including favourite food, height, birthdays etc. There is also some colourful and funny comics.

 

Book Number: 8

Number Of Pages: 153

Book Title: Kristy's Great Idea

Author: Ann M. Martin

Summary: Kristy has thought of what she thinks is an extremely original idea - to start a Babysitter's Club. Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey get together and they begin on their journey.

 

Book Number: 9

Number Of Pages: 153

Book Title: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

Author: Ann M. Martin

Summary: There is a scary criminal on the loose and he robs people's homes after calling the phone. The Babysitter's Club is worried that the people they sit for will be robbed and they will be in danger. The develop many of their ideas to prevent their clients from being robbed.

 

Book Number: 10

Number Of Pages: 167

Book Title: The Truth About Stacey

Author: Ann M. Martin

Summary: Stacey's friends know she has diabetes but what they don't know... will be found out in this book.

 

Book Number: 11

Number Of Pages: 167

Book Title: Mary Anne Saves the Day

Author: Ann M. Martin

Summary: The Babysitters Club have their first fight and Mary Anne is on her own. She saves the day (obviously)xd.png

 

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Book Number: 46

Number Of Pages: 576

Book Title: Proven Guilty (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Creatures who feed on fear turn up at a horror film convention. Harry must stop them, and find out who has been leading them there. In the process, he discovers something disturbing about one of the people he cares about.

 

ETA:

 

Book Number: 47

Number Of Pages: 528

Book Title: White Night (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Harry discoveres that someone has been killing women, who has some magical talent, in Chicago. He sets out to stop whoever it is, and discovers that his brother is involved. As usual, things are not simple.

 

ETA 2:

 

Book Number: 48

Number Of Pages: 560

Book Title: Small Favor (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Summer is trying to get at Harry. Other highly dangerous beings have kidnapped Marcone, but their scheme involves more than one criminal. Harry becomes involved. Again.

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Book Number: 25

Number Of Pages: 276

Book Title: Burn Notice: The Bad Beat

Author: Tod Goldberg

Summary: Michel has to help a friend of Sugar who is in trouble with a Russian "bussinessman" and a loan shark.

 

Book Number: 26

Number Of Pages: 466

Book Title: The Twelve

Author: Stuart Neville

Summary: Gerry Fegan is haunted by the ghosts of the people he killed (literally, not metaphorically). The ghosts want him to kill the people who ordered their deaths.

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Book Number: 31

Number Of Pages: 543

Book Title: Tiger's Voyage

Author: Colleen Houck

Summary: Kelsey is upset that Ren has forgotten her and tries to sort out her feelings for both him and Kishan. They and Mr. Kadam and Nilima have to go to five different dragons to be able to find a necklace belonging to Durga.

Rating: 5/5

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Book Number: 49

Number Of Pages: 576

Book Title: Turn Coat (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: A severely wounded Warden Morgan turns up at Harry's doorstep, asking to be hidden, because the other Wardens are after him. This involves Harry in a plot that involves both wizards and vampires, and he must find out who is behind it

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Book Number: 32

Number Of Pages: 337

Book Title: Warped

Author: Maurissa Guibord

Summary: Tessa encourages her father to buy a tapestry at an auction and begins having dreams of a past life when she touches it. She pulls a loose thread from it and the unicorn that had been on it appears before her as a man from the sixteenth century. The "threads" turn out to be human lives that were stolen by a witch. Both the witch and the ones she stole from want them back.

Rating: 5/5

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Book Number: 27

Number Of Pages: 320

Book Title: The Messenger (Dragonlance: Icewall #1)

Author: Douglas Niles

Summary: Kerrick, an elf from Silvanesti, is banished from his home and forced to travel south on his ship. He arrives at a frozen land, where some humans are fighting against a group of ogres.

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Book Number: 50

Number Of Pages: 448

Book Title: Changes (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Susan calls Harry, after he has not heard from her for a very long time. She tells him that the Red Court have captured their daughter. This time Harry does not fight to save the world, but to save his own child.

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Book Number: 46

Number of Pages:271

Book Title A Big Little Life

Book author Dean Koontz

 

Summary: Dean Koontz talks about the dog - Trixie a golden retriever- and how she changed his life.

 

Book Number: 47

Number of Pages294

Book titleThe last Victim

Book Author Jason Moss

 

Summary: A teenage in colledge decides to try and get into the mind of serial killers and see how they do what they do. Jason learns the hard way that in playing a role one often becomes a victim.

 

Book number: 48

Number of Pages:416

Book title When the Wind Blows

Book author James Patterson.

 

Summary: A vet and a FBI agent who is on a break meet up with a winged girl named Max who has escaped from a 'school'. Max takes them back and they free five more winged children but those who created them are killing all witnesses.

 

Book number:49

Number of Pages273

Book title A Stolen Life

Book Author Jaycee Dugard

 

Summary: Jaycee's personal account of her 18 years held captive by her kidnapper, she gives birth to two of his children and eventually is freed from her prison.

 

Book Number: 50

Number of Pages226

Book title: Alex and me.

Book author Irene M Pepperberg

 

Summary: The scientist who works with Alex the congo African Grey Parrot and tells about his life, and grasp of language skills connecting and understanding such thing as numbers, matter ( plastic, wood, wool), colour and more.

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Book Number: 28

Number Of Pages: 236

Book Title: Dead on Ice

Author: Lauren Carr

Summary: A woman is discovered in the freezer of a recently deceased man's house. She had disappeared several decades ago and her death might be linked to the still unsolved murder of a girl who also died many years ago.

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Book Number:7

Number Of Pages:142

Book Title:Sõjaratsu REREAD, original title "War Horse"

Author:Michael Morpurgo

Summary: This is a book about friendship. Joey is the horse of Albert, a normal English boy. When WWI starts, Albert and Joey have to leave each other. Joey starts looking for him. Will they ever meet again?

 

 

Book Number:8

Number Of Pages: I'm not sure, but it is a very thick book. ~600 pages maybe?

Book Title:Vanem, original title "Elder"

Author:Christopher Paolini

Summary: Second book of the very successful Inheritage Circle. Eragon and Saphira will go through more adventures, meet some more elfs, kick some more butt and find out more about who they really are.

 

 

Book Number:9

Number Of Pages:710

Book Title:Brisingr (translated into Estonian)

Author:Christopher Paolini

Summary: Third book of Inheritage Circle. Eragon finally gets his revenge to Ra'zacs, but now he has to live with a terrible truth. But is it real? What if his father isn't Morzan...

 

 

Book Number:10

Number Of Pages:417

Book Title:Sõrmuse vennaskond, original title "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Author:J.R.R. Tolkien

Summary:Frodo used to be a normal hobbit. But when his relative Bilbo disappears and leaves him a mysterious golden ring, that he should destroy, everything changes. Will Frodo reach Mordor?

 

 

Book Number:11

Number Of Pages:97

Book Title:Pea suu!

Author:Helga Nõu

Summary: Tiina is a typical teenage girl. She has a crush on Ralf, her nose looks too big, she is too tall, she has a annoying little brother etc. But when somebody starts destroying her classmates life, everything loses its normal value.

 

 

Book Number:12

Number Of Pages:116

Book Title:Tõmba uttu!

Author:Helga Nõu

Summary: Joonas is about to go to Sweden with some of his classmates. But suddenly, his teacher says, that he couldnt go, because another child is coming. Joonas wants his revenge, but he gets into some serious trouble instead...

 

 

Book Number:13

Number Of Pages:286

Book Title:Ma leian su, Sky!, original title "Finding Sky"

Author:Joss Stirling

Summary:Sky is definitely not a normal girl. She has some strange powers... When her family moves into USA, she finds a boy that seems to know something about her. She slowly falls in love to him... but is this love a blessing or a curse?

 

 

Book Number:14

Number Of Pages:332

Book Title:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Author:J.K. Rowling

Summary:Actually, does this even need a summary? This is Harry freaking Potter xd.png

 

 

Book Number:15

Number Of Pages:434

Book Title:Shiver

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

Summary:Grace was attacked by wolves years ago, but one of them was a little more human than others. Grace's life changes when a naked boy with "her" wolf's eyes appears to her house.

 

 

 

Book Number:16

Number Of Pages:177

Book Title:Pal-tänava poisid, original title "A Pal wtcai fiuk*

Author:Ferenc Molnar

Summary:Story about boygroups and a war between them. Sadly, every war has its victims and so has this one.

 

 

Book Number:17

Number Of Pages:455

Book Title:Mockingjay

Author:Suzanne Collins

Summary: Third book of The Hunger Games triology. The war between Capitol and districts is on and Katniss has to be the mockingjay for people. The story has many turns, and some of them are definitely not good.

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Book Number: 51

Number Of Pages: 608

Book Title: Ghost Story (re-read)

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Harry is shot, and believed to be dead, but 6 months later his spirit is sent back to Chicago, to find out who killed him.

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Book Number: 29

Number Of Pages: 256

Book Title: Firespell

Author: Chloe Neill

Summary: Lily Parker is sent to a boarding school where she discovers that her new best friend is mysteriously disappearing during the nights.

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Book Number: 122

Number Of Pages: 462

Book Title: A Moment In Time

Author: Bertrice Small

Summary: For mature readers only. Wynne of Gwernach has always believed that love is an illusion and has no wish to be wed. But the powerful Madoc of Powys arrives with proof that she was betrothed to him from the cradle. While he does pierce the armor around Wynne’s heart, she remains reluctant to marry. Madoc knows her hesitation stems from a previous lifetime together, one in which he betrayed her in the cruelest possible way… and only fully remembering this past life will allow her to either offer forgiveness or destroy him.

 

Book Number: 123

Number Of Pages: 438

Book Title: Enchantress Mine

Author: Bertrice Small

Summary: For mature readers only. Extravagantly beautiful Mairin of Aelfleah was called Enchantress by the men who loved her: Prince Basil of Byzantium, who wed her for her looks and introduced her to passion before his jealous former lover murdered him, and Josselin de Combourg, William the Conqueror’s most honorable knight, who wed the widowed Mairin for her English lands but quickly grew to love the woman more. But their love was threatened by civil unrest, and by Eric Longsword, a man Mairin refused as a suitor, who refused to accept no for an answer.

 

Book Number: 124

Number Of Pages: 432

Book Title: Hellion

Author: Bertrice Small

Summary: For mature readers only. Called “Belle from Hell” by her serfs, who resented a female overlord, young Isabelle of Langston ruled over her English lands as indomitably as any man following her father’s departure on Crusade. Unaware of both her father’s death and Henry Beauclerc’s ascension to the throne following the death of his brother William Rufus, she failed to respond to King Henry’s call to pledge her fealty. Fearing Isabelle meant to declare for Normandy on the advice of her Norman half-brother, Henry orders her wed to Hugh Fauconier, a descendent of the original Saxon lord of her lands. But her greedy half-brother treacherously delivers Hugh into the hands of the reputed sorceress Vivienne d’Bretagne and her brother Guy, thought to be the descendants of the wizard Merlin’s lover. Can Belle’s love for Hugh save him? Or will she too fall prey to the spell of the d’Bretagnes?

 

Book Number: 125

Number Of Pages: 729

Book Title: Roots

Author: Alex Haley

Summary: This is the classic tale of one man’s family history, from the birth of Kunta Kinte in the village of Juffure in West Africa in 1750, to his capture and enslavement and transport to the colony of Virginia, and of his descendents and their lives first as slaves and then as free men and women in the United States.

 

Book Number: 126

Number Of Pages: 786

Book Title: Queen

Author: Alex Haley and David Stevens

Summary: This book is the story of another branch of Alex Haley’s family tree: his grandmother Queen, born of a slave mother to the son of a plantation owner not long before the Civil War.

 

Book Number: 127

Number Of Pages: 253

Book Title: The Final Reflection

Author: John M. Ford

Summary: In the early days of the Federation, the Klingon captain Krenn was known as a brilliant strategist in battle. But when he is sent on a diplomatic mission to Earth, he has to learn a lesson in peace… and then must fight a secret battle of his own, to prevent the Empire from shattering the Federation… or from being torn apart in the attempt.

 

Book Number: 128

Number Of Pages: 273

Book Title: The Pandora Principle

Author:Carolyn Clowes

Summary: When the Enterprise finds a Romulan Bird of Prey drifting dead in space, Starfleet orders the derelict warship brought back to Earth to be examined. But the ship carries a mysterious cargo which quickly proves deadly. The only hope for the planet’s survival rests in the hidden memories of Spock’s protégé, Academy Cadet Saavik. With Kirk stranded on Earth, the Enterprise must cross the Neutral Zone to return to the world of Saavik’s birth… a nightmare of a planet known as Hellguard… to ferret out the secrets of the deadly Romulan threat.

 

Book Number: 129

Number Of Pages: 318

Book Title: One Child (re-read)

Author: Torey Hayden

Summary: Nonfiction. Six year old Sheila never spoke. A survivor of horrible abuse, abandoned by her mother on a highway at the age of four, she was placed in Torey’s class for the severely disturbed and retarded after committing a vicious attack against a smaller child. Everyone regarded her as irredeemable… except Torey. With her skills and experiences working with the electively mute and the disturbed, she drew Sheila out and discovered that this neglected little girl was beyond bright to the point of having a genius IQ… and convinced others to give Sheila a new chance at a future.

 

Book Number: 130

Number Of Pages: 264

Book Title: The Tiger’s Child (re-read)

Author: Torey Hayden

Summary: Nonfiction. Due to changes in the laws as well as in her personal life, Torey lost touch with Sheila after the school year they shared. But seven years later, Torey’s new job brought her back to the area where Sheila lived, and chance brought them together again. While Sheila’s life had slightly improved with time, it was still a troubled one, and the young teen still searched for both answers and someone she could count on as a friend. Over the next few years, Torey helped Sheila to the best of her ability, helping the girl come to terms with her past and start making plans for her future.

 

Book Number: 131

Number Of Pages: 411

Book Title: Just Another Kid (re-read)

Author: Torey Hayden

Summary: Torey hadn’t planned on teaching again, but took this one last job as a favor to a friend while waiting for her visa to become a permanent resident of Great Britain. It was the first self-contained classroom for behaviorally disordered students in the district since the mainstreaming laws of the 1970s. Three of her students were refugees from the terrorism of Northern Ireland. A fourth was eleven, and had never known life outside an institution before. The fifth was eight, hyper, easily distracted, and sexually precocious. And the sixth was seven, unable to speak and almost completely unresponsive. They were joined by a volunteer aide, a brilliant woman whose nearly paralyzing shyness led her to alcohol abuse to cope with social situations, but who was able to be herself with no one but the children and Torey watching… and who found herself being helped by Torey as if she was just another kid.

 

Book Number: 132

Number Of Pages: 318

Book Title: Elf Fantastic (re-read)

Author: Martin H. Greenberg, editor

Summary: A collection of original tales of the fae, written by various fantasy authors including Diana Paxson, Mickey Zucker Reichert, and Tanya Huff.

 

Book Number: 133

Number Of Pages: 314

Book Title: Cat Fantastic IV

Author: Andre Norton and Martin H. Greenberg, editors

Summary: The fourth (of five) collections of stories about cats of all kinds, written by various fantasy and sci-fi authors including Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

 

Book Number: 134

Number Of Pages: 300

Book Title: Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three (re-read)

Author: Don Sakers, editor

Summary: A collection of tales based on the filksong of the same title by Leslie Fish, written by various sci-fi and fantasy authors including Anne McCaffrey and C.J. Cherryh.

Sample Verse Of The Song: Carmen Miranda’s ghost is haunting Space Station Three.

Half the staff has seen her, plus the Portmaster and me.

And if you think we’ve had too much of Cookie’s homemade rum,

Just tell me where those basket-hats of fruit keep coming from!

 

Book Number: 135

Number Of Pages: 196

Book Title: The Good Master

Author: Kate Seredy

Summary: In pre-war Hungary, city girl Kate is sent from Budapest to live with her uncle and aunt and her cousin Jancsi after a bout of the measles. Jancsi expects a delicate and shy little girl, but Kate proves to be a mischievous little wildcat instead. The two cousins share many adventures together as Kate learns about country life and Jancsi learns that girls aren’t nearly so boring as he’d thought.

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Book Number: 52

Number Of Pages: 528

Book Title: Cold Days

Author: Jim Butcher

Summary: Harry is returned to his body, though all had thought he was dead. Now he is the Winter Knight, and must follow Mab's orders. Of course, her first order is not an easy one. Harry is told to kill an immortal.

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