Posted February 6, 2013 Book Number 66 Number of Pages 488 Book Title The Search Book Author Nora Roberts Summary: A survivor of a mass murderer has settled on a small island training dogs and doing obedience as well as search and rescue training with them. But then the murderer seems to return. Book Number67 Number of Pages350 Book title Rope Burns Book author Robert Scott Summary:True crime book about a sadistic couple who kidnap, rape, torture and even murder together. Book Number68 Number of Pages382 Book titleGreatest Mysteries of the Unexplained Book author Lucy Doncaster & Andrew Holland Summary: A collection of true stories about aliens, ghosts, disappearances, monster like Bigfoot and more. Book Number69 Number of Pages 380 Book Title Ghosts Book Author Paul Roland Book summary A collection of true ghost stories - stories on haunted places, apparitions, mediums and more. Book Number 70 Number of Pages 380 Book Title Serial Killers Book Author Charlotte Greig Book Summary: A collection of stories focused around Serial Killers including Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy and many more. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 7, 2013 Book Number: 167 Number Of Pages: 189 Book Title: Go Ask Alice Author: anonymous Summary: Nonfiction. Published in 1971, this is based on the actual diary of a middle-class, teenaged drug addict. While names and places have been changed, this is her own personal account of her slide into addiction and her fight to escape it again. Book Number: 168 Number Of Pages: 431 Book Title: Exile’s Honor (re-read) Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Alberich of Karse spent most of his life training for the army. His rise in the ranks was aided by his uncanny ability to tell when and where the enemy would attack… an ability he kept hidden from the Sunpriests, who considered such things demonic powers and ruthlessly “cleansed” anyone possessing them in the fires of the Sunlord. To complicate matters, the lawkeepers of Karse’s hereditary enemy nation of Valdemar all possessed such powers. But when his power is discovered, he is saved by the creature he thought was his new horse, instead one of the legendary Companions of Valdemar, and brought north to a new country and new home, to become one of valdemar’s lawkeepers, the Heralds. Although he grew to care for his new land, he still cared for his country of origin. When war broke out between Valdemar and Karse, he had to walk a careful line in order to serve the best interest of both his former people and his new. Book Number: 169 Number Of Pages: 438 Book Title: Exile’s Valor (re-read) Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Herald Alberich had finally won respect and acceptance in Valdemar due to his actions in the most recent war with his former homeland of Karse. But the King had been one of the casualties of that war, and the new Queen was very young. Most of the Council saw her youth as an opportunity to gain power by seeing her wed to a man of their choosing, in hopes that he would be able to rule through her. But Queen Selenay was not stupid, and was equally determined to wed only with a man of her own choosing. Alberich, as her personal guard and protector, has to find a way to save her from a conspiracy between certain factions of the Council and one of Valdemar’s allies, when a clever enemy seeks to use her determination to his own benefit. Book Number: 170 Number Of Pages: 461 Book Title: Sky O’Malley (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Beautiful and feisty Skye O’Malley is the youngest daughter of an Irish chieftain and seafarer. Boldly determined to chart her own course in life, her adventures take her from her first love in Ireland when she is taken captive by Barbary Coast pirates while on a voyage with her merchant fleet. Rescued by and married to a merchant of Algiers, she flees to England after the Turkish governor kills her husband in an attempt to gain her for his own harem. In London, she attracts the heart and gains the hand of one of the most powerful nobles of Queen Elizabeth’s court. When his death leaves her vulnerable once more, she must engage in a battle of wits with Queen Elizabeth to secure her rights before she is once again united with her first love. Book Number: 171 Number Of Pages: 594 Book Title: All the Sweet Tomorrows (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Widowed yet again, Skye O’Malley is forced to seek the favor of Queen Elizabeth to protect her young children’s properties. She is sent by the Queen to wed the ruler of a small duchy on the Mediterranean, to give England a secure port on that sea as well as to pass along any information of interest concerning France and the Italian states. But then word comes that her former husband may, in fact, be alive and captive in Algiers. She immediately mounts a rescue expedition, only to have him die of the treatment inflicted upon him within hours of their reunion. Finding comfort in the arms of a stalwart friend, she marries him rather than leave herself vulnerable once more, only to find herself once again at odds with Queen Elizabeth, this time over the actions of her siblings in Ireland. Book Number: 172 Number Of Pages: 613 Book Title: A Love for All Time (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Skye O’Malley’s youngest brother Conn came to England to seek his fortune with his big sister’s help. Introduced at court, he was invited to join Queen Elizabeth’s Gentlemen Pensioners. But his liking for the ladies proves to be his undoing, and the Queen orders him to wed with a royal ward, half-Irish heiress Aiden St. Michael, which also made him Lord Bliss as her father was the last of his line. Conn soon finds himself falling in love with his bride, only to have her torn away by a distant relation of hers… and an enemy of the O’Malleys… who sells her into captivity in the Ottoman Empire while implicating Conn in a plot against the Queen. Yet despite the odds against them, Conn and Aiden are determined to somehow be reunited. Book Number: 173 Number Of Pages: 419 Book Title: Bianca Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Bianca Pietro d’Angelo, oldest daughter of a wealthy silk merchant, is considered the most beautiful girl in Florence. Her father intends to wed her to a man of equal or even greater power. But when his heir is involved in an indiscretion which could potentially ruin the family, he will do whatever it takes to protect them. When the powerful Sebastiano Rovere blackmails him, he barters marriage to Bianca in exchange for the man’s silence. But Rovere proves abusive, and Bianca flees with her mother’s help, hiding in a secluded seaside villa while the family attempts to gain an annulment. While there, she befriends her one neighbor, Prince Amir of the Ottoman Empire, grandson of Mehmet the Conqueror. Rovere is eventually murdered, freeing Bianca to admit her love for the Turkish prince, but her family is unwilling to accept her choice of an infidel. But they have no idea just how determined she is to be with the man she loves. Book Number: 174 Number Of Pages: 597 Book Title: Jade Author: Pat Barr Summary: Alice Greenwood is the daughter of a British missionary in China. Caught up in the Tientsin massacre of Christians in 1870, she witnesses the murder of her father, and is taken with her brother to Hunan. There, she becomes a servant in the house of Chu, spending years in captivity before escaping to find she no longer has anything in common with the Europeans of the Treaty Ports who are supposedly “her people.” Never quite accepted by “proper” society due to her past, she builds a life for herself despite the conventions of the times. Book Number: 175 Number Of Pages: 278 Book Title: The Buddha in the Attic Author: Julie Otsuka Summary: The story of Japanese “picture brides” brought to San Francisco shortly after the WWI. It speaks of the long journey to America, marriage to men they’d never met, and who as often as not, were not the men in the photographs they’d been sent, and the struggles of trying to adjust to a new land and new language while living as migrant workers and maids. It tells of marriage and childbirth and raising children who tried desperately to be American. And it relates the terror of war, and of suddenly becoming the enemy in a land in which they thought they had found a degree of acceptance and welcome. Book Number: 176 Number Of Pages: 277 Book Title: A Cousin’s Promise Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter Summary: When a group of eight Amish cousins and friends hire a driver to bring them to Pennsylvania for a weekend, a terrible accident changes their lives forever. Katie lost her boyfriend, Ella lost her brother, and Jolene lost her hearing. Wayne, depressed after losing his leg, breaks his engagement to Loraine, feeling that he is no longer capable of supporting a family. Loraine is unwilling to accept his decision, so when her former boyfriend Jake Beechy returns to the community for a visit, Wayne does his best to get the two back together. But when a tornado strikes, Wayne is forced to admit that he never wanted to end things with Loraine in the first place. Book Number: 177 Number Of Pages: 296 Book Title: A Cousin’s Prayer Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter Summary: It’s been a year since the accident which killed her boyfriend and left Katie struggling with guilt and depression, as it was her panicked reaction to a bee in the van which caused their driver to become distracted. She’s also started suffering anxiety attacks, the worst of which have caused her to faint. Childhood friend Freeman, who battled similar problems in the past, starts to draw closer to Katie as he attempts to help her overcome her fears. But gossipy Eunice, hoping to land Freeman as her own boyfriend, puts his standing as well as Katie’s in jeopardy when she voices her assumption that Katie’s fainting is actually a symptom of pregnancy. Book Number: 178 Number Of Pages: 289 Book Title: A Cousin’s Promise Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter Summary: After losing her hearing in the accident, Amish schoolteacher Jolene moved to Pennsylvania to learn sign language and lip reading. Two years later, a family with two deaf children moved to her hometown, and she is asked to return to be their teacher. At about the same time, a propane tank explosion takes the hearing from Lonnie, who had worked for her cousin Ella’s father making and tuning windchimes. Depressed at the loss of the job he loved and believing his girlfriend broke up with him due to his handicap, he nonetheless agrees to take lessons in signing and lip reading from Jolene. He finds himself falling for her, but with his confidence shaken after the actions of his former girlfriend, he is hesitant to press his attentions on her, especially since Jolene has been spending some time with Jake Beechy. Her cousin Ella disapproves, believing Jake to be a heartless flirt who will break Jolene’s heart. What Ella doesn’t realize is that Jake is fighting his attraction to her, as he believes she hates him, until her father's passing gives him the opportunity to prove his good intentions. Meanwhile, events happen to prove to Lonnie that deafness does not make him incapable of protecting those he cares for. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 7, 2013 Book Number: 61 Number Of Pages: 240 Book Title: Alanna: The First Adventure Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Alanna wants to be a knight, but can't, because she is a girl. Her twin brother wants to become a sorcerer. They decide to falsify the papers their father wrote, when he sends them from home to be educated, and changes places. Alanna must disguise herself as a boy, and ensure that nobody guesses her secret, to fulfill her dream. Book Number: 62 Number Of Pages: 288 Book Title: In the Hand of the Goddess Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Alanna is squire to Prince Jonathan of Conte. She is involved in their war against Tusaine, while trying to protect her prince from his cousin, Duke Roger, who wants the throne for himself. Book Number: 63 Number Of Pages: 304 Book Title: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Alanna passes the final test, and is made a knight, and travels south. She is adopted by a Bazhir tribe, where she becomes their shaman, and has to train her successors before she can leave again. Book Number: 64 Number Of Pages: 400 Book Title: Lioness Rampant Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Alanna travels to the Roof of the World, searching for the Dominion Jewel to bring back home. In her travels she meets Princess Thayet, and the Shang Dragon, both of whom becomes important later, when she must battle Duke Roger, returned from his grave. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 13, 2013 Book Number: 23 Number Of Pages: 496 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: 50 shades of grey Author: E L James Summary: It's about Anastasia and Christian who fall in love. Twisted love. With a lot of boundaries and crazy stuff. Review: It's a love story. No matter what everyone is saying, for me this is a love story. I've read a lot of articles about this book and to be honest I was shocked and revolted. But my best friend gave it to me for my birthday and I had to read it. And couldn't stop reading it - read it in 6 hours. It's that good. There were moments when I stopped and couldn't read anymore because it was that twisted and abnormal and gross and embarrassing, but I just couldn't leave it. I can't make a summary because I've tried to tell what it is about to my friends so they can read it too, but every attempt is miserable and not expressing that something that makes you continue reading and wanting more. I can tell only one thing - read it, you won't regret it. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 24 Number Of Pages: 510 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: 50 shades darker Author: E L James Summary: Ana and Christian are trying to sustain a real relationship. (That's all I can say, I'm sorry. Everything else I tried to write sounded dry and was killing the book ) Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 25 Number Of Pages: 540 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: 50 shades freed Author: E L James Summary: SPOILER Mostly about their life as a married couple. Someone is trying to kill Christian and everyone is on edge. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 26 Number Of Pages: 276 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: I am the Messenger Author: Markus Zusak Summary: Ed is a cabdriver, has a normal, ordinary lie, has a caffeine addicted dog and loves to play cards with his friends. Until the day he gets the first Ace that changes his life forever. Book Number: 27 Number Of Pages: 424 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: Soul Music Author: Terry Pratchett Summary: When Death decides he needs a break, Susan - his granddaughter, takes over the 'family business'. She tries to learn how to help people pass on, when she meets Imp - a promising young musician, whose instrument - an old guitar - somehow makes music alive, and feels the need to save him. Again and again.. Book Number: 28 Number Of Pages: 236 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: The Jealous Potter Author: Claude Levi-Strauss Summary: Strauss is trying to show the similarities between jealousy, women and some animals through the myths of North and South America. Book Number: 29 Number Of Pages: 352 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: Scavenger Author: David Morrell Summary: It's all a game. Frank must play it in order to save the woman he loves. Who, by the way, is trapped in another game on life and death. Book Number: 30 Number Of Pages: 376 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: Panem is a country lying on the remains of North America - consisting of the Capitol and 12 districts. Long time ago there was a war against the Capitol and its restrictions, but the rebels were crashed. For punishment - every year The Hunger Games are organized - a game of life and death where only 1 of 24 tributes (2 from every district) can survive. Book Number: 31 Number Of Pages: 384 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: After winning the games, Katniss thinks she can have a normal life. But she can't be more wrong when the 75th Hunger Games are announced. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 17, 2013 (edited) Book Number: 52 Number Of Pages: 308 Book Title: the dead and the gone Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary: This is the story of Alex Morales and his family in New York City after an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it closer to the Earth. Rating: 5/5 Review: Being that this book is covering an apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic world, It can get very intense. It is the second book in the Last Survivors series. Book Number: 53 Number Of Pages: 239 Book Title: this world we live in Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer Summary: The characters of life as we knew it and the dead and the gone meet up in this book after a year has passed. The moon is still causing major problems for the world, but love and hope has begun to take root among the desperation and fear. Rating: 5/5 Review: Being that this book is covering an apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic world, It can get very intense. It is the third book in the Last Survivors series. Book Number: 54 Number Of Pages: 234 Book Title: Book of Enchantments Author: Patricia C. Wrede Summary: This is a collection of stories about subjects ranging from feathered snakes and magical frying pans to unbroken spells and secrets that should and shouldn’t be told. Rating: 5/5 Edited February 18, 2013 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted February 21, 2013 Book Number: 179 Number Of Pages: 368 Book Title: The Reindeer Hunters Author: Joan Wolf Summary: The prehistoric tribes of Kindred and Norakamo have lived in adjoining territories for generations, with little contact save the young men of each tribe raiding the horses of the other. But when a raid goes wrong and men are killed on both sides, the Norakamo chief gives his daughter in marriage to the son of the Kindred chief to prevent a full-out war from decimating both tribes. But the truce is an uneasy one at best, until word comes of more distant tribes moving in on the lands claimed by both, following the reindeer herds which have been moving due to shifting weather patterns. The Kindred and Norakamo must forge a true alliance to defend their lands from the invaders. Book Number: 180 Number Of Pages: 333 Book Title: A Season for Tending Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. Rhoda Byler is gifted with a green thumb, growing herbs for folk remedies and berries for her small canning business in her Old Order Amish community. But she also has an unusual ability: a touch of premonition which often lets her know when others are in danger. But this ability has gotten her half-shunned by her neighbors due to their beliefs. In a nearby community, Samuel King is struggling to keep the family’s orchard afloat while dealing with personal problems which include an overly dependent girlfriend and a sister on Rumschpringe who is making potentially disastrous choices. But one of Leah’s choices brings Samuel to Rhoda’s garden, and he decides Rhoda’s expertise in canning may be the solution to saving his family’s apple business. Book Number: 181 Number Of Pages: 326 Book Title: When the Heart Cries Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. Old Order Amish girl Hannah Lapp loves Mennonite Paul Waddell, and despite knowing that her choice will forever change her relationship with her family, she agrees to marry him when he finishes his senior year at college. But that very evening, she is brutally attacked as she makes her way home from helping Paul’s elderly grandmother. Unable to receive support or answers from anyone in her Old Order community, Hannah has to face the possibility that she will lose her place within it, her family, and possibly even her fiancé. Book Number: 182 Number Of Pages: 298 Book Title: Never Far from Home Author: Mary Ellis Summary: Christian fiction. Done with school and starting her own wool business, Emma Miller also has hopes of finding a boyfriend. But to her deacon father’s dismay, the only man to attract her attention is Englischer James Davis, who meets her in town at the store where she sells her wool and crafts. Cultural misunderstandings abound, while personal difficulties within the Miller household only add to the strain. But when Emma’s buggy is hit by a car, his obvious devotion to her wins the respect of her family, aided by his choice to give up his modern life and become Amish for her sake. Book Number: 183 Number Of Pages: 290 Book Title: The Way to a Man’s Heart Author: Mary Ellis Summary: Christian fiction. Naïve young Leah Miller thinks her dreams have come true when her baking skills land her work in a newly started diner catering to the locals. Her Mennonite boss soon offers her a partnership, and several young men of the community quickly become regulars. But when she shows no interest in courting any of them while not discouraging them from spending time there, she unknowingly starts to damage her reputation in the community. Things go from bad to worse when she discovers that her partner in the diner has been writing bad checks and failing to pay the taxes for the business. But with the support of her family and the son of the diner’s source of artisan cheeses, she works to regain her standing within the community. Book Number: 184 Number Of Pages: 522 Book Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Summary: In Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, socialite Skeeter Phelan comes home from college with ambition and a degree, only to find herself already considered a failure in her social circles because she isn’t yet married or engaged. Restless and looking for something to do other than find a boyfriend, she wishes she could talk to Constantine, the black woman who was her family’s longtime maid and nanny, but Constantine has vanished and no one seems willing to tell her what happened. Meanwhile Aibileen, maid and nanny to Skeeter’s married friend Elizabeth, is growing bitter with the prejudice while her outspoken friend Minny takes a job with a woman who is a social pariah after social leader Hilly accuses her of stealing from Hilly’s elderly mother. When Skeeter takes the advice of a New York publisher to try writing a book, she coaxes Aibileen and Minny, along with a dozen other maids, to collaborate with her in writing a tell-all book about the reality of being a black maid in a white household in the South. Book Number: 185 Number Of Pages: 233 Book Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring Author: Tracy Chevalier Summary: This story told through the eyes of the fictional Griet, a sixteen year old who goes to work as a maid for the family of the artist Vermeer. She is fascinated with his paintings and how he creates them, and a friendship of sorts grows between them because of it. Eventually he asks her to model for him, and he asks her to wear his wife’s pearl earrings for the painting, promising that the lady will never know. Meanwhile, the son of the local butcher has been courting Griet on her time off, and she is torn between marrying a man who can help her support her ailing parents, and remaining in her position because of the pleasure she obtains from seeing the paintings created. But her choice is made when the lady discovers the painting and casts her out. Book Number: 186 Number Of Pages: 194 Book Title: Black Beauty (re-read) Author: Anna Sewell Summary: The “autobiography” of a horse named Black Beauty and his life in 19th century England, starting from his early years as a colt. It follows to his first working homes as a riding and carriage horse for Squire Gordon and then his friend the Earl. Sold after being injured by a drunkard riding him as the scars made him “unfit” for service in an aristocratic household, he passed through several other situations including working as a rental horse at a livery, a brief stint as a mount for a man who knew nothing of horses, and finally as a cab-horse in London. His first owner there was a kind and careful man, but the second overworked him until he collapsed in his harness. Bought for a pittance by a kindly farmer who saw that with a little time and care, he would still be a good and steady horse able to handle reasonable workloads, he found himself reunited with a former stablehand of Squire Gordon’s, who recognized and remembered him from those days, and who promised him a good home for the remainder of his life. Book Number: 187 Number Of Pages: 562 Book Title: This Heart of Mine (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Velvet de Marisco is Skye O’Malley’s youngest child. Her parents were asked to voyage to India, in an effort to open trade with the natives there and break the Portuguese monopoly, and as her fifteenth birthday nears, her only concern is that they return soon and safely. Then word arrives from the fiancé she didn’t remember having. Alex Gordon’s father had been good friends with her own father, and the two men betrothed their children when Velvet was but five and Alex fifteen. Now the old Earl of BrocCairn is dead, and even though their wedding wasn’t scheduled until after her sixteenth birthday, Alex wants to wed immediately. Velvet flees to her godmother Queen Elizabeth and takes a place at court as a Maid of Honor, unwilling to marry a stranger, especially one who’d ignored her for the last ten years. With some help from one of her brothers, who brings Alex to court with him, she and her fiancé eventually become reconciled and wed, although she still is upset that he wouldn’t wait for her parents to return. Then, when he falls in a duel she begged him not to fight, her sea-captain brother just leaving for India to meet their parents agrees to bring her with him. In India, Velvet is kidnapped by the Portuguese and sent as a gift to the Grand Mughal Akbar. The widowed young woman finds love anew in Akbar’s arms and bears him a daughter only to learn that Alex had not actually been killed in that duel. She is returned to England, where she must rebuild her relationship with a man she thought dead, while mourning the child she was forced to leave behind. Book Number: 188 Number Of Pages: 495 Book Title: Lost Love Found (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Valentina St. Michael is the oldest child of Lord Bliss, born Conn O’Malley, and his wife Aiden St. Michael. Pursued by both her cousin Lord Padraic Burke and the Earl of Kempe, her peace is shattered when her mother’s dying servant confesses to eavesdropping on a conversation that indicated Conn might not be Valentina’s true father. Determined to discover the truth and learning of her mother’s captivity in Turkey, Valentina sets out for Istanbul with both her suitors in tow, hoping that the Kira family of Jewish bankers who have worked with the O’Malleys for years and whose extended family is actually based in Turkey can use their influence to aid her in her quest. The Kiras are able to get her in to see the Sultan Valide, who knew her mother during Aiden’s time there, and who was able to reassure the girl that Conn really is her father. Elated, she makes plans to return home, and also makes the choice between her suitors. But Valentina’s visit caught the attention of the grand vizier, who captures her for his own harem. She escapes with the help of the Kiras, then saves the Kira children when a riot erupts in the city due to devaluation of coinage, which the sultan blames on the Jewish population, bringing them back to England and wedding Padraic. Book Number: 189 Number Of Pages: 658 Book Title: Wild Jasmine (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Mughal princess Yasaman Kama Begum is the youngest of the Grand Mughal Akbar’s children, and the loveliest of his daughters, combining the best features of her father and her English-born mother Velvet. But her exotic beauty captured the unnatural attention of her half-brother Selim, Akbar’s heir. In hopes of thwarting his son’s twisted desires, Akbar weds her to a prince of Kashmir, but with Akbar old and ill, Selim arranges for the young man’s murder. In a last, desperate attempt to keep his daughter safe, Akbar does the one thing he’d sworn never to do: sends Yasaman to her natural mother and her grandparents in England. Sponsored into the court of James I by her grandmother Skye O’Malley and with her name Anglicized to Jasmine, the beauteous young woman quickly finds love with the Marquis of Lindley. Widowed and with three small children, Jasmine returns to court where she becomes the mistress of Prince Henry and bears him a son just before he dies of a winter illness. Not wishing to marry again, she is dismayed when King James orders her to wed Jemmie Leslie, Earl of Glenkirk, so that his infant grandson will have a father in his life. Book Number: 190 Number Of Pages: 378 Book Title: Darling Jasmine Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Unwilling to wed a man she believes is only marrying her on the king’s orders, Jasmine fled with her children to the de Marisco chateau in France. But Jemmie Leslie finds her there and convinces her to give him a chance. By the time they return to England, they are well reconciled and planning the wedding, only to be told by King James that he’d been wrong and was giving her a choice of gentlemen as her husband. Worse, the king insisted that she give his other candidates consideration even though she tried to tell him that she’d had come to love Jemmie. And Piers St. Denis was a man similar in nature to her half-brother Selim; a man unable to believe that anyone could refuse him his desire. Stunned when Jasmine rejected his suit, he forged an arrest warrant for Jemmie and followed them to the Scottish Highlands, where he eventually kidnapped Jasmine. She managed to escape, and when St. Denis made the mistake of thinking he’d have an easier time capturing her once again when she visited her grandmother Skye in England, he found himself dead by Skye O’Malley’s hand. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 25, 2013 Book Number: 55 Number Of Pages: 338 Book Title: Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia Author: Cindy Pon Summary: Ai Ling leaves her home to search for her father after no word comes from his journey to the Palace months ago. She is joined by half-Xian Chen Yong as she faces many demons, immortals, and other beings in her quest. Rating: 5/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted March 1, 2013 Book Number: 191 Number Of Pages: 401 Book Title: Gwenhwyfar the White Spirit Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: This is Lackey’s take on the Arthurian legend, based on her research into Welsh legends, one of which mentioned the “Three Great Queens” of Arthur’s court, all of whom were named Gwenhwyfar. This is the tale of the third Gwenhwyfar, daughter of King Lluedd Ogfran Gawr. Trained as a warrior woman, she nonetheless sacrifices her chosen life to duty when the High King needs both a wife and an alliance with her father. Book Number: 192 Number Of Pages: 466 Book Title: The Spitfire (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Young Lady Arabella Grey is happy and secure in her ancestral home of Greyfaire Keep near the Scots border, eagerly awaiting the day she will wed the handsome Sir Jasper Keane, the man assigned as her betrothed and protector to the keep by her cousin King Richard III after the death of her father. But the innocent Arabella is unaware of Jasper’s black heart until she is kidnapped by Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, on her very wedding day, and forced into marriage with him instead, as replacement for the Earl’s bride who was first debauched and then killed by Jasper. Furious when she learned that Jasper not only made no attempt to find or rescue her, he immediately forced her widowed mother into marriage instead in order to legitimize his claim to her home, Arabella swears revenge. Despite finding love with her Scots earl, she will do whatever it takes to destroy Jasper Keane, even if it means destroying her own happiness. Book Number: 193 Number Of Pages: 436 Book Title: Unconquered Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Independent Miranda Dunham is horrified to learn that not only is her family’s ancestral island off the coast of Long Island entailed upon a male heir, her father’s will stipulates that as he has no male heirs of his body, the distant cousin who will inherit must also wed one of his twin daughters… and her sister Amanda is engaged to the young Baron Swynford of England. Jared Dunham is none too pleased at having a wife chosen for him, but he and Miranda soon find an accord and fall in love. Still, when the War of 1812 threatens to prevent the family’s return to England for Amanda’s wedding, Miranda forces the issue and gets them there. The escalation of the war at sea means that Jared and Miranda cannot return home until it’s over, so they try to make the best of things. But when Jared fails to return from a business trip to Russia when expected, Miranda goes to find him, leading to her capture by a white slaver looking to breed blond girls to sell to Turkish harems. Book Number: 194 Number Of Pages: 365 Book Title: Lady Chatterley’s Lover Author: D.H. Lawrence Summary: For mature readers only. This is the story of Lady Constance Chatterley, whose husband Clifford was paralyzed both physically and emotionally in WWI, and her romance with her husband’s gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, and how it leads to her eventual rejection of the joyless and class-conscious way of life of her husband and his peers. Book Number: 195 Number Of Pages: 336 Book Title: The Hope of Refuge Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. Struggling to raise her daughter alone while trying to escape a relentless stalker who’s been pursuing her since she was a teenager in foster care, widowed Cara Moore follows a trail of vague memories and a single clue hidden in the old journal she and her late mother kept together, and flees New York City to find herself in the Amish community of Dry Lake, PA. Few of the people there are willing to have much to do with the outsider, but Ephraim Mast risks shunning in order to do what he believes is the right thing: to help Cara get her life back on track and discover the mystery of her family history. Meanwhile, his sister Deborah is dreaming of her coming marriage to Mahlon Stoltzfus, only to see that dream threatened when Mahlon starts to withdraw and behave oddly. When the truth of Cara’s ancestry comes out in the community, Mahlon’s mother Ada tries to help both Cara and her son by purchasing an old house and hiring Cara to help her renovate it. But while Cara slowly finds faith in God and embraces the Amish life, Mahlon admits to inner turmoil and leaves. Book Number: 196 Number Of Pages: 191 Book Title: The Scent of Cherry Blossoms Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. Seeking relief from a contentious relationship with her mother, Mennonite Annie Martin comes to stay with her grandfather Moses in Apple Ridge for a while. Once there, she becomes re-acquainted with the Zook family, neighbors she sometimes played with as a child, who are Old Order Amish and old friends of her grandfather, who is their silent partner in their family diner, so that the electricity required there for the health codes can be in his name and not theirs as it is forbidden by their church. But she finds herself drawn to the shy Aden Zook and he to her, despite knowing that both of their churches will disapprove. Aden’s twin Roman, paralyzed in an accident and dependent on his brother’s strength to aid him in getting around, and who had assumed that his shy twin would never wed and so would always be there for him, makes sure word gets to Annie’s grandfather in hopes of separating the two. But Annie remembers the stories of her grandfather’s determination to wed her grandmother, and knows she can be just as determined to marry the man she’s come to love. Book Number: 197 Number Of Pages: 194 Book Title: The Sound of Sleigh Bells Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. Feeling guilty over a secret and the loss of her fiancé, Beth Hertzler is hiding in mourning and cutting herself off from even the hope of future happiness. Jonah Kinsinger, a gifted carver and woodworker, had to fight similar demons of his own following the accident that left him with a lame leg. Beth’s aunt engineers an exchange of letters between the two, hoping to draw her niece back into socializing, while praying the scheme doesn’t blow up in her face when Beth discovers that Jonah is not the elderly grandfather she believes him to be. Book Number: 198 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: The Fiddler Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Both Englischer Amelia Devries and Amishman Michael Hostetler feel torn between the expectations of their families, and their own hopes and dreams. Violinist Amelia wants to enjoy music for its own sake, as well as eventually have a family of her own. But she hates the thought of disappointing her father, who’s own career as a violinist was cut short due to Parkinson’s, and who has seen to her training since she was a child. Michael is being pressured to join his family’s Old Order Amish church, yet truly believes that listening to music and driving a car matters far less to God than what is in his heart. When Amelia, driving home from a clandestine gig fiddling with a country band, takes a wrong turn in a blinding rainstorm and winds up in Hickory Hollow, Michael offers her shelter for the night, and the two strike up a friendship that might change both their lives forever. Book Number: 199 Number Of Pages: 314 Book Title: The Bridesmaid Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. “Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride,” are the words Joanna Kurtz hears over and over when she agrees to be her cousin’s bridesmaid. What no one knows is that Joanna does have a young man interested in her… because Eben Troyer doesn’t live in Hickory Hollow. A native of the Amish community in Shipshewana, Indiana, Eben met Joanna at a funeral gathering for his former bishop, who was a distant relative of hers, and the two have corresponded ever since. He wants nothing more than to move to Hickory Hollow to be with her, but is held back out of duty to his parents and their farm because his only brother abandoned the Amish life several years before. And when Joanna’s sister discovers her penchant for writing fiction for her own amusement, she tattles to Hickory Hollow’s bishop, which proves disastrous for Joanna’s chances of gaining permission to move to Shipshewana instead. Book Number: 200 Number Of Pages: 344 Book Title: The Thorn Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Rose Kauffman tries to be the perfect daughter, especially since her older sister Hen abandoned her Amish upbringing to marry an Englischer, leaving Rose the only one home to help care for their mother, crippled and in constant pain from a buggy accident years before. Her one rebellion is her friendship with the bishop’s foster son Nick, a young man about whom everyone insists on believing the worst. Despite her friendship with Nick, though, she is happy with her courtship with Silas Good. But the family is thrown into turmoil when Hen returns home with her daughter but without her husband, missing the simpler ways of her own childhood and wanting to keep her child from losing her innocence too soon. And then the bishop’s true son dies in an accident, and Nick leaves the community when the gossip blames him for the death. Book Number: 201 Number Of Pages: 325 Book Title: The Judgement Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Rose is forced to confront her true feelings for both Silas and Nick when her old friend Rachel moves back to the area and she discovers that Silas has feelings for the other girl. Meanwhile Hen is dismayed when her husband files for divorce, something no Amish person believes in. To keep busy, Rose befriends the developmentally delayed daughter of a local Englischer who employs her as his once-a-week housekeeper. The childlike Beth develops a great affection for Rose’s mother, praying daily for something to help the crippled woman, and eventually tells Rose about a dream in which a special doctor in nearby York helps her. Troubles mount at home, though, when the bishop is threatened with the loss of his position due to Nick’s disappearance, and Hen’s husband is badly injured in a car accident on the way to start the divorce proceedings. Book Number: 202 Number Of Pages: 303 Book Title: The Mercy Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Rose’s parents decide to chance acting on Beth’s dream, and seek a specialist in York. Her mother requires surgery, but the end result is that she no longer has to endure debilitating pain. Due to his own injuries, including a temporary loss of sight, Hen brings her husband to her parents’ home to care for him while he recovers. Over time, he comes to appreciate faith in God and to understand the things Hen had objected to about their lifestyle. The two eventually reconcile, remaining in the English world after his recovery but consciously seeking a simpler life than previously. Rose, determined to marry Amish and avoid the sort of troubles suffered by her sister, meets a supposedly upstanding young man from the next town over, only to learn that he leaned a little too far from the church’s teachings for comfort. Nick returns to the community determined to join the church, despite the suspicions of so many of the church leaders. And then at a funeral for an elderly member of the community, an Englischer neighbor who came to pay his respects makes a chance comment that confirms Nick’s story about how the accident which killed his foster brother happened, which both restores the bishop’s standing within the church and leads the community to welcome him with glad hearts… especially Rose. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 7, 2013 Book Number: 56 Number Of Pages: 356 Book Title: The Bite Before Christmas Author: Heidi Betts Summary: This is a collection of three stories. The first is about an old-fashioned vampire who wants his tattooed, pierced, always-at-a-club younger siblings to enjoy a traditional Christmas with him. He hires an event planner to make this wish come true. The second story is about a vampire secretary who finds out that her boss is dying, only for her friend to change him as a gift. The third story is about a successful matchmaking vampire who wants her boyfriend to finally propose after centuries of being together only to wake up in a world where neither of them was bitten. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 9, 2013 Book Number: 203 Number Of Pages: 371 Book Title: Fire-Starter (re-read) Author: Stephen King Summary: Charlene “Charlie” McGee’s parents met in college, but under unusual circumstances, when they participated in a drug experiment run by the Psych Department… or so they’d been told at the time. But it was actually a secret governmental program and the experimental drug in question wasn’t merely an LSD variant, but a chemical designed to bring out various psychic talents, and those talents proved to be permanent. Now 8-year-old Charlie has proven to also have psychic powers, including that of pyrokinesis… and the government wants her, and will do anything to get hold of her and contain her… and possibly kill her. Book Number: 204 Number Of Pages: 317 Book Title: When the Morning Comes Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. Finding little support from her Amish family and church following her rape, and with her relationship with her former fiancé in tatters, Hannah flees to Ohio, hoping to find shelter with her shunned Aunt Zabeth. There, she slowly rebuilds her life among the Englishers, including forming a deep friendship with Martin Palmer as she helps him care for his drug-addict sister’s children. But her family in Pennsylvania is still in turmoil, with one sister’s guilty conscience leading to mental instability, which their father is reluctant to acknowledge. And her former fiancé Paul has come to regret his hasty words and actions towards Hannah and tries to convince her few allies in the community to help him find her. Book Number: 205 Number Of Pages: 338 Book Title: When the Soul Mends Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christan fiction. When her mentally unstable sister telephones Hannah in a desperate plea for help, Hannah returns to her former community in hopes of setting the younger woman’s mind at peace. She also finds herself thrown together with her former fiancé Paul, a Mennonite running a counseling center for the Plain folk of the area who prefer to avoid Englishers’ doctors when possible. In the process, hidden truths about the events that happened before she left for Ohio come to light, leaving Hannah with a choice. Will she complete her nursing certification and marry the wealthy Englisher Martin? Or will she return to her Plain roots and her first love? Book Number: 206 Number Of Pages: 334 Book Title: The Bridge of Peace Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Amish schoolteacher Lena is an Alt Maedel… an old maid… who believes no man has ever shown interest in her because of a large and unsightly birthmark on her face, and so channels all her energy into her teaching. But this year is proving to be a challenge, between a rebellious young man in class plus several incidents at the schoolhouse which endanger the students. When some of her responses to those incidents are met with disapproval by the school board, the board members start to believe that Lena herself is the problem and fire her. Her lone ally on the board, Grey, is dealing with troubles of his own: his wife, convinced that it is her fault their one surviving child was born with just one arm, is slowly shutting him out of her life. Then she is killed in a tragic accident. Lifelong friends, Lena and Grey try to help each other past their losses, perhaps building a new bridge between them in the process. Book Number: 207 Number Of Pages: 331 Book Title: The Harvest of Grace Author: Cindy Woodsmall Summary: Christian fiction. While most Amish women of her age are content with managing a house and raising babies, Sylvia’s interests lie in nurturing her family’s dairy herd. But when her boyfriend turns around and marries her sister, then comes to live on the family farm, she needs to make a fresh start elsewhere. Aaron, fresh out of rehab for his alcoholism, returns home to his disapproving father with plans to sell the debt-ridden family farm and move his aging parents to a more comfortable lifestyle as storekeepers. But he’s met with opposition… from his father, who still seems to regard him as a worthless drunkard, and from Sylvia, his father’s new dairy hand, who is determined to save the farm for her employer. Book Number: 208 Number Of Pages: 381 Book Title: The Journey Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter Summary: Christian fiction. Impulsive by nature and lacking focus in his life, Amishman Titus Fisher decides to leave Pennsylvania after the girl he’s been courting breaks his heart. Moving to Kentucky, he takes a job with an elderly Amish cabinetmaker and his grandson, and discovers a true talent for woodworking. The old man’s granddaughter Suzanne isn’t nearly as skilled in household tasks as she might be, because her heart is also in woodworking… an endeavor frowned upon by her brother, who feels that a woman’s place is in the kitchen. But will she find an ally in Titus? Book Number: 209 Number Of Pages: 376 Book Title: The Healing Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter Summary: Christian fiction. When Titus’ brother Samuel finds himself a widower with four young children to care for, he decides to make a new start in Kentucky alongside his brother. He finds a job helping Englisher Bonnie Taylor refurbish her late grandparents’ home and turn it into a B&B, and hires Suzanne’s friend Esther to mind his children while he works. Esther grows to care for the handsome Samuel, but he seems to have become quite close to Bonnie. Will she be able to gain his attention, or is he considering the unthinkable and trying to start a relationship with an Englisher? Book Number: 210 Number Of Pages: 318 Book Title: The Covenant Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Amish sisters Sadie and Leah had always been close. But they start to pull apart when Sadie runs wild during her Rumschpringe and dates an Englisher boy, allowing him liberties she shouldn’t, even after she joins the church. Meanwhile Leah is dating a proper Amish boy named Jonas… to her father Abram’s dismay, as he’d set his heart on Leah, his favorite, marrying their neighbor’s son Gid. But Leah still loves her older sister enough to keep secrets for her… including the fact that Sadie hid a pregnancy and gave birth to a premature baby boy in the home of their old-maid aunt Lizzie, helped only by the local doctor… whose younger son is the baby’s father. Believing her child to be stillborn, Sadie falls into depression. Book Number: 211 Number Of Pages: 358 Book Title: The Betrayal Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Just after Jonas asks Leah to marry him, he’s offered an opportunity he’s always wanted: the chance to learn the art of furniture making. Unfortunately, the offer is from a distant cousin in another state. With Leah’s agreement, he accepts. But Abram still hopes she will change her mind and wed Gid instead, so he first tells Jonas that Leah is not actually his daughter, but is really Lizzie’s illegitimate child, then allows a rumor to reach him that she dated Gid in his absence. Sadie tries to flee her memories by visiting in the same community where Jonas is, but angry with Leah for telling their parents of her transgressions, makes sure Jonas never gets Leah’s letter denying the rumors. So when other rumors reach Leah, that Sadie and Jonas have gotten married, she can only see their actions as a betrayal. Book Number: 212 Number Of Pages: 347 Book Title: The Sacrifice Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Leah’s younger twin sisters have reached the age for Rumschpringe, and are dating the deacon’s sons, while Leah herself has yielded to her father’s wishes and started dating Gid. Serious twin Hannah joins the church quickly, planning to wed the other brother, while fun-loving Mary Ruth and the reckless younger brother would rather not settle down just yet. Both girls are devastated when Mary Ruth’s beau, known for his recklessness and love of racing in his buggy or pony cart, dies in a collision with a car being driven by a ministry student, and his older brother runs away soon after. Mary Ruth finds comfort in a non-Amish church, and their father throws her out. Unwell with a late-life pregnancy, their mother dies in childbirth after asking Leah to raise her toddler sister Lydiann and newborn brother Abe. When their father refuses to allow his two youngest to be raised away from him, Leah breaks up with Gid to concentrate on being a mother to her two siblings. Later, Gid marries Hannah. Book Number: 213 Number Of Pages: 343 Book Title: The Prodigal Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Years later, the newly widowed, Sadie finally returns home to make her public repentance so that she can be accepted by her church once more… and also reveals that her husband was not Jonas, who was still unmarried. Leah, who’d worked part time for the local doctor, stumbled upon another secret: Sadie’s baby hadn’t actually died. But in an effort to protect his family’s name as well as hers on that fateful night, the doctor had exchanged him for a truly stillborn baby born on the same night… leaving Sadie’s son to be raised as Jonas’ young brother Jake, a fact that even Jake’s parents didn’t know. But when Jake and Lydiann fall for one another, Leah must find a way to separate them, in order to prevent Lydiann from marrying her nephew by blood. Jake is sent to the community where Jonas lives, prompting Jonas to return home to find out why… and to learn that Leah had not only not dated Gid until two years after he’d stopped writing to her, she had never married. Book Number: 214 Number Of Pages: 343 Book Title: The Revelation Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Jonas decides to stay and accept the bishop’s insistence on a public repentance, so that he can finally marry his beloved Leah. But when Jake returns from out-of-state as well, still pining for Lydiann, Leah and Sadie are forced to reveal the truth of his birth to their youngest sister, and the local doctor confirms the tale. Lydiann finds solace in her Aunt Mary Ruth’s church… having not yet been baptized Amish… and this time, their father, who has learned tolerance since their mother’s passing, in part due to his late-life marriage to his children’s Aunt Lizzie, comes to accept it. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 9, 2013 Book Number: 32 Number Of Pages: 253 Book Title: Torchwood 1: Another Life Author: Peter Anghelides Summary: During a non-stopping rain over Cardiff, several people are killed in unusual ways. Book Number: 33 Number Of Pages: 348 Book Title: The Princess of Las Pulgas Author: C. Lee McKenzie Summary: After her father dies, Carlie's family is in a bad financial situation and they have to move to Las Pulgas Book Number: 34 Number Of Pages: 352 Book Title: Young James Bond #1: Silverfin Author: Charlie Higson Summary: Before becoming a spy, James Bond was a teenager who studied at Eton. When he goes during the holidays to Scotland, he starts investigating the disappearance of a local boy. Book Number: 35 Number Of Pages: 320 Book Title: Dragonlance - Icewall #2: The Golden Orb Author: Douglas Niles Summary: Several years after the plot of "The Messenger", the elf Kerrick Fallabrine is returning home when he learns that the ogres are getting ready to attack the humans that he's been living with for the past eight years. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 10, 2013 Book number 71 Number of Pages318 Book Title The Science of Discworld Author Terry Pratchett Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen Summary: The magic of discworld is used to explain some of the sceintifc rules of our world. Book Number72 Number of Pages 214 Book title Oogy Book author Larry Levin Summary: A family adopts, and learns to love a Pit Bull pup that was used as a bait dog for teaching fighting dogs. Book Number:73 Number of Pages 556 Book title 77 Shadow Street Author Dean Koontz Summary: An upscale apartment tenants get caught in a time shift, where monsters lurk and murder happens everywhere. Book Number 74 Number of Pages 135 Book title The Moonlit Mind Book authorDean Koontz Summary: A young boy escapes from a satanic like cult that has killed his two siblings and planned to kill him. He returns to his home to free the spirits trapped there. Book Number75 Number of Pages333 Book title Don't tell a Soul AuthorDavid Rosenfelt Summary: A man's wife is killed in a boating accident and even though some believe he killed her there isn't enough proof. In reality Tim has been set up and when he hears of another murder, which he is framed for. Book Number76 Number of Pages179 Book title The Giver AuthorLois Lowry Summary: Jonas lives in a future like world where rules are strict but there for the good of all. Mates, jobs andmore is chosen for those who live in the community. Jonas learns through the giver that there is another way to live. Book Number 77 Number of pages1232 Book Title Les Miserables Author Victor Hugo Summary: A story that spans numerous years but centers around an ex con Jean Val Jean, and the police officer who chases after him because he broke bail Javert. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 12, 2013 Book Number: 57 Number Of Pages: 359 Book Title: Fury of the Phoenix Author: Cindy Pon Summary: Ai Ling follows Chen Yong onto a ship as he searches for his birth father. Her powers are stronger, but Zhong Ye is not completely gone. Rating: 5/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted March 15, 2013 (edited) Totally forgot about this while I was swamped with school. Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 384 Book Title: Ready Player One Author: Ernest Cline Summary: In a not-so-far-off future, the world is in shambles - the real world, that is. While the global energy crisis enters its third decade and poverty spreads like a virus, most people choose to spend their time in the ultimate virtual reality paradise, OASIS. Its creator, James Halliday, had been one of the greatest video game aficionados of all time. When James dies, his only will and testament is that his vast fortune, over two hundred forty billion dollars, as well as full control and ownership of OASIS, be left to the one person who can find three hidden keys, solve the puzzles associated with the keys, and find the prize at the end: the ultimate easter egg. Wade Watts is a trailer-park kid who dreams of finding James Halliday's treasure and escaping Earth's misery with his best friend, whom he only knows by his online username, Aech. When he stumbles upon the first clue to the egg, however, he unwittingly becomes the catalyst of a world wide treasure hunt, populated by other gamers (known as 'gunters') and the employees of an organization who are willing to do anything - including blow up your real-life trailer park - in order to gain control of the virtual utopia and exploit it for their own gain. Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 244 Book Title: Song of the Summer King Author: Jess Owen Summary: Rashard, a Vanir gryfon, is the only survivor of a conquered race. The night and the ocean are forbidden, speaking to the Nameless is outlawed, and defying the law of the Red King will earn him exile and shame. His only choice is to prove his loyalty by joining his Aesir brothers in a hunt on Star Island, traditional home of the wolves, whom the gryfons believe Nameless, sworn enemies. When a she-wolf tells Shard how to kill the boar, however, he realizes that life on the Silver Isles isn't so black and white. His loyalties become divided between his Aesir family and his Vanir past. Now he has secrets to keep, questions to ask, and answers to uncover without betraying his family, or his friend. Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 361 Book Title: Taming Fire (The Dragonprince Trilogy #1) Author: Aaron Pogue Summary: Daven is a shepherd, no more, no less. His days are filled with hard work, good food, and the dream of one day joining the king's Royal Guard as a swordsman. His good life is interrupted, however, when a wizard shows up on his master's doorstep, demanding that Daven come to the Academy to study magic. Daven does not go without enemies, though. A captain of the Royal Guard, most of the students and half the Masters at the Academy, and it seems even the king himself are out to wreak justice on him. After a terrifying encounter with a dragon, though, he finds himself able to tap into magic that even the most skilled of wizards dare not touch. Book Number: 8 Number of Pages: 358 Book Title: The Dragonswarm (The Dragonprince Trilogy #2) Author: Aaron Pogue Summary: Daven is a man on the run from the king's justice. Buffeted and harried by forces he cannot control, his shelter in a remote barony is invaded when the king's guard come looking for him. But fugitive though he is, the king's concerns are the last thing on Daven's mind. He knows there is a far greater problem than petty rebellions, a threat rising that only wants to burn the world to ashes. After coming face-to-face with this threat, and escaping only with the help of an old not-quite-friend, he takes up a march toward a tower that so far has only existed in legend, but that he hopes will provide a shelter in the coming swarm. Edited March 22, 2013 by klinneah Share this post Link to post
Posted March 15, 2013 (edited) Book Number: 58 Number Of Pages: 151 Book Title: Eight Dragons on the Roof and Other Tales Author: Feng Yan Summary: This book is a compilation of many different Chinese stories about dragons. Dragons have the power to bring rain and tend to dwell in bodies of water. Book Number: 59 Number Of Pages: 279 Book Title: Mara, Daughter of the Nile Author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw Summary: Mara is a blue-eyed slave girl that is bought by a man to spy on the prince for the queen. On the ship to her post, she is recruited by one of the leaders of the prince’s side. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 60 Number Of Pages: 305 Book Title: Misspelled Author: Julie E. Czerneda Summary: This is a collection of stories by different authors about what happens when a spell goes wrong. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 61 Number Of Pages: 195 Book Title: My Very Unfairy Tale Life Author: Anna Staniszewski Summary: Jenny signed away her life to be an adventurer at nine years old. She got to go on magic quests, receive treasure as a reward, and get perfect grades because her gnome sidekick fixed it so that she could miss school. At twelve, she thinks that she should be getting back to “normal” life. Rating: 4/5 Book Number: 62 Number Of Pages: 281 Book Title: The Wish Stealers Author: Tracy Trivas Summary: Griffin is at an antique shop when she receives a lucky penny and a box for it from an old woman. When she gets home, she realizes that the penny and the other ones like it in the box are stolen wishes. She has to find a way to return them or risk being cursed forever. Rating: 4.5/5 Book Number: 63 Number Of Pages: 370 Book Title: Everneath Author: Brodi Ashton Summary: Nikki disappeared from the surface to Everneath six months ago. To her, it was a hundred years of being fed on. Now she is back on the surface for six months before she has to leave forever. Edited March 20, 2013 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted March 23, 2013 Book Number: 65 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: Sandry's Book (Book #1 of "Circle of Magic") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Niklaren Goldeye finds four young ones (Sandry, Tris, Daja, and Briar) who have magic, and brings them to the Winding Circle temple in Emelan, where they begin the process of controlling their powers. Book Number: 66 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: Tris's Book (Book #2 of "Circle of Magic") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: The four friends have already survived a severe earthquake, and must now protect their home after Tris hears voices on the wind, and it becomes known that they are being attacked by pirates. Book Number: 67 Number Of Pages: 240 Book Title: Daja's Book (Book #3 of "Circle of Magic") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Duke Vedris, along with the four friends and their teachers, travel north to a valley struggling with draught and forest fires. While they are there, a far larger fire than usual breaks up, with apprentice smith mage Daja caught in the middle of it. She must, with the help of her usual friends and teachers, save many lives. Book Number: 68 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: Briar's Book (Book #4 of "Circle of Magic") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: A deadly illness breaks out, and Briar and his teacher Rosethorn are caught in the middle of it. It is a race against the clock to find a cure, before the illness claims more lives. Book Number: 69 Number Of Pages: 264 Book Title: Magic Steps (Book #1 of "The Circle Opens") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Sandry and her teacher remain in summersea, while the other three and their teacher begins travels to extend their knowledge. Sandry discovers a mage who expresses his magic through dance, and must teach him. He becomes vital in catching, seemingly invisible, murderers. Book Number: 70 Number Of Pages: 264 Book Title: Street Magic (Book #2 of "The Circle Opens") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Briar and Rosethorn have reached the city Chammur, where they stay for a while to help the locals with plant matters, their special magic. Briar discovers an untrained mage, Evvy, whose talent is stones. While Briar must teach her, they are also caught in wars between the gangs of the city. Book Number: 71 Number Of Pages: 355 Book Title: Cold Fire (Book #3 of "The Circle Opens") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Daja and her teacher Frostpine have traveled north to Namorn, where they spend the winter. As Daja discovers twin sisters with magic talent, and begins their training, she is also involved in attempting to catch a person who deliberately sets fire to wooden buildings in the city. Book Number: 72 Number Of Pages: 368 Book Title: Shatterglass (Book #4 of "The Circle Opens") Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Tris and Niko are in Tharios. Like her friends, Tris also discovers a mage, who she must train. Someone called The Ghost, is killing entertainers in the city, and Tris and her student are involved in the efforts to catch the murderer. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 24, 2013 Book Number: 215 Number Of Pages: 362 Book Title: The Secret Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Grace Byler’s mother has been acting oddly recently. She’s been depressed, and Grace has heard her weeping in the night. One night, her mother warns Grace against marrying a man who will not share his feelings, leading Grace to suspect trouble in her parents’ marriage, a suspicion that seems confirmed when her mother hires their customary driver to take her away before dawn the day after Grace’s birthday. Grace is forced to rethink her engagement to her beau, as well as becoming determined to find out just what drove her mother to leave… an unthinkable act in the Amish community. She is sure her grandparents know more than they are telling, but they seem determined to keep her from discovering whatever secrets they are hiding. Meanwhile, an Englisher named Heather comes to stay with Grace’s neighbors who operate a B&B in their home after receiving a devastating medical diagnosis, and opts to try a naturopathic approach to her illness instead of conventional treatment. Book Number: 216 Number Of Pages: 330 Book Title: The Missing Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. With her mother still gone, Grace is becoming more and more determined to find her, especially when the church leaders start talking about putting her mother under the Bann. Her father objects at first, because he wants her mother to return home of her own free will and not because she was asked or forced to do so. Meanwhile, Grace befriends Heather, who talks about both her illness and growing up as an adopted child. When her father eventually relents and her grandmother gives her some clues as to where to look, Heather agrees to drive Grace on her journey to find her mother. Book Number: 217 Number Of Pages: 334 Book Title: The Telling Author: Beverly Lewis Summary: Christian fiction. Grace and Heather miss finding Grace’s mother, but when her mother unexpectedly bumps into a neighbor visiting a relative, she makes the decision to return home and confess the reason for her journey: she wanted to find the child she’d born out of wedlock that her parents forced her to give up for adoption; a child that neither her husband nor other children had known about. Her journey had given her the information that she’d had a daughter, and that she could fill out a form with the state to allow that daughter to contact her if the daughter chose to search for her birth mother. Meanwhile Heather goes through her initial treatment with Grace’s support, and is invited to a Sunday service with the community. After that service, Grace’s grandmother meets Heather, and discovers the extreme likelihood that Heather is actually the child she’d made Grace’s mother give up so long ago. Book Number: 218 Number Of Pages: 237 Book Title: An Amish Gift Author: Cynthia Keller Summary: Christian fiction. For Shep and Jennie Davis, inheriting a house and established bicycle shop in Lancaster, PA is a chance for a fresh start. But the family continues to struggle financially. Jennie makes friends with an Amish neighbor, Mattie Fisher, and eventually both families grow close. When Jennie’s dog is hit by a car, the vet bill plus a chance remark from her son inspires Jennie to start a candy-making business, with help from Mattie’s family in selling the candy at the local farmer’s market. But as the candy enterprise becomes more successful, it highlights the growing stress in Jennie and Shep’s marriage. Book Number: 219 Number Of Pages: 351 Book Title: Trio of Sorcery Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Three tales of urban fantasy and modern-day magic: First, Diana Tregarde, a Harvard student and practicing witch, is approached by a cop in need of help. The distraught mother of a local kidnapping victim is taking advice from an area “psychic” and interfering with the investigation as a result. The cop hopes Diana can prove the psychic is a scammer… but she turns out to be much, much worse. Second, private investigator and Osage Medicine Woman, Jennifer Talldeer is approached by a Navajo with an odd problem. His girlfriend is being seduced away… by a ghost. The malevolent spirit turns out to be a dishonored Osage warrior whose kidnapped bride chose suicide over marriage with him, and now has decided this young woman is a suitable replacement. And third, techno-shaman Ellen McBride is called in by the programmers of a new MMORPG when the game’s boss, a wendigo, starts killing everyone, including the programmer’s characters with god-mod capabilities that shouldn’t be able to be killed. She figures out that the sheer power on the servers created a breach between the supernatural and the mundane, and that this particular wendigo is the real thing… and on the verge of breaking out of the computer and into the real world. Book Number: 220 Number Of Pages: 299 Book Title: An Amish Family Reunion Author: Mary Ellis Summary: Christian fiction. Julia Miller, her children grown and all but one living away from home, misses having a full house. So, she plans a grand family reunion for the summer. Her niece Phoebe goes on a Rumschpringe trip to Niagara Falls with other youth from the area, and meets a young man named Eli with a gift for telling stories. A budding artist, Phoebe sketches illustrations for some of his tales, leading the pair to collaborate on a grand endeavor: to write and illustrate a children’s book. But Eli is an only son, and when his father suffers a heart attack, he must give up his writing to assume responsibility for the family farm… and can only hope he won’t also have to give up Phoebe in the process. Book Number: 221 Number Of Pages: 515 Book Title: The Struggle (large print edition) Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter Summary: Timothy Fisher, feeling that his wife is too dependent on her mother, chooses to move his family to Kentucky near his twin brother Titus and brother Samuel and their families. But his wife Hannah resents being separated from her mother and refuses to even try to make friends in the area, instead clinging to their young daughter. But when tragedy strikes, Hannah blames Timothy for the accident and flees back to her mother. Can the two find peace and healing, or will they remain apart forever? Book Number: 222 Number Of Pages: 422 Book Title: The Road to Avalon Author: Joan Wolf Summary: An interesting take on the Arthurian legend, this tale depicts all the major players as simply human, capable of mistakes and of love and jealousy, with little of magic but all the drama of more traditional tales. Book Number: 223 Number Of Pages: 374 Book Title: Bedazzled Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. When headstrong Lady India Lindley decides to elope with a suitor who has been declared unacceptable by her mother Jasmine and stepfather the Duke of Glenkirk, she and her intended board an English vessel bound for Italy. But when the ship is taken by Ottoman pirates, she finds herself a slave to the ruler of the Barbary state El Sinut. A man with a hidden past of his own, he weds the young beauty and they fall in love. But when the powerful Janissaries of Istanbul revolt, the entire Ottoman empire is thrown into turmoil and the couple are torn apart. A heartbroken India is returned to her family’s estate in Scotland, pregnant with her first child. But her stepfather, believing that society will believe India’s child is illegitimate, spirits the baby away immediately after its birth and proceeds to marry her off to a stranger, a man whose own reputation is tarnished by an accusation of murder in his youth. Can the two overcome their pasts to find happiness once more? Book Number: 224 Number Of Pages: 340 Book Title: Besieged Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. At twenty, Lady Fortune Lindley has yet to find a man to suit her. So her mother Jasmine, thinking to leave her estate in Ulster to the daughter born there, brings her to Maguire’s Ford to meet the young Irish Protestant heir to a neighboring estate in hopes of making a match. But Fortune instead falls for his half-brother Kieran… the elder of the pair, but disinherited due to his Catholic faith. Despite the difficulties, the two wed, and Jasmine instead settles Maguire’s Ford on her two youngest sons by Glenkirk, Protestants both, to keep the rejected suitor from retaliation. Fortune and Kieran instead make plans to travel to the New World, to the new colony of Mary’s Land, formed by Lord Baltimore with the idea that it will be a colony to welcome men of all faiths. Book Number: 225 Number Of Pages: 409 Book Title: Intrigued Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. After the death of Charles I and the establishment of the Commonwealth, Jasmine brings her youngest daughter, Lady Autumn Leslie, to France in order to find a suitable husband. The girl quickly catches the eye of the Marquis d’Auriville, but their happiness is cut short when he dies of a heart attack after just three years of marriage. But Autumn is drawn into court intrigue against her will when Louis XIV, recalling the beauty from a single meeting before her wedding, issues a royal command that she come to his bed whenever he comes to his hunting lodge near her late husband’s estate. Learning from the experience, when Charles II is restored to England’s throne, Autumn boldly offers herself as his mistress in exchange for a title and estate of her own. But she is unprepared for the manner in which the king repays his debt. Book Number: 226 Number Of Pages: 329 Book Title: Just Beyond Tomorrow Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Following the death of his father and his mother’s departure to France with his young sister Autumn, Patrick Leslie, the second Duke of Glenkirk, knows he must wed and produce heirs. But due to the wars and the dangerous political climate, he’s kept close to Glenkirk for years and doesn’t know of any suitable women. Then when he’s out hunting, he comes across an old castle and is greeted with an arrow fired into the ground at his feet. Flanna Brodie, the youngest child of the Brodie of Killicairn, is heiress to Brae castle through her mother, the man’s second wife. Patrick drags Flanna to her father’s home, where he offers to buy Brae. Sensing the chance to better his only daughter’s standing, the old man tells him he can only have Brae by taking its heiress, and Patrick agrees. He and Flanna must learn to adjust to marriage, an adjustment complicated by the arrival of Patrick’s half-brother Charlie, the “not so royal Stuart” and his children, whose mother was just killed by a troop of Roundheads raiding near Worcester. Charlie wishes to join his cousin, Charles II, and wants Patrick to keep his children safe, feeling that task will be easier accomplished in Scotland than in England. Book Number: 227 Number Of Pages: 439 Book Title: Vixens Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Charles II is firmly on the throne once more, and well-established as The Merry Monarch when Jasmine returns to court once more to shepherd a trio of granddaughters through the task of finding suitable husbands. Fortune and Kieran’s daughter Fancy comes to England from the New World a widow surrounded by scandal, and quickly catches the eye of the king. As their passion cools to a comfortable friendship, he is determined to find her a suitable mate, despite her objections to marrying again. Patrick and Flanna’s daughter Diana is of such a sweet nature that even her rivals find it hard to speak ill of her. But when her heart is caught by identical twin brothers, she finds making a choice impossible, even while knowing that she cannot have them both. And headstrong Cynara, only child of Charlie’s second marriage, seeks a man she can be sure wants her for herself and not for her dowry or the fact that her father is the king’s cousin. But the one man who catches her attention is also one determined never to marry. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 24, 2013 I would love to join in. I know it's a bit late, but I can read about two or three books a day. Like 300 page books. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 25, 2013 I keep track of what I read. Can I had those? They start at Sep. 2. Also, I am joining. (I have read 12,000 pages this year) Share this post Link to post
Posted March 28, 2013 I'd also like to join. I finished a book just a few hours ago (still today); would it be okay to count that one? Share this post Link to post
Posted March 28, 2013 Book Number: 36 Number Of Pages: 592 Book Title: The Way of Shadows (Spanish edition) Author: Brent Weeks Summary: Azoth is a young boy living on the streets of Cenaria who wants to become an assassin with Durzo Blint as his teacher. Meanwhile, there is a mysterious political plot to conquer several cities. Book Number: 37 Number Of Pages: 217 Book Title: Breaking Point Author: Shane Brown Summary: James Marsch doesn't have any friends anymore and is being bullied by a group of classmates. One of his teachers wants to help him but he learns that what he can do is very limited because of who the bully is. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) @ele15: For this thread you can only count books that you finished on the day that you joined or after that. @Wolfhearted: As you finished it on the same day, I'd say that you can count it. Updated to here Edited March 28, 2013 by BookChallenge Share this post Link to post
Posted March 29, 2013 Okay, thanks! Book Number: 1 Number Of Pages: 343 Book Title: Prophecy of the Sisters Author: Michelle Zink Summary: In nineteenth century America, Amalia Milthorpe and her sister Alice discover that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that could destroy everything they know and hold dear. Rating: (optional) Review: (optional) Share this post Link to post
Posted March 30, 2013 Book number78 Number of Pages221 Book title The curious incident of the dog in the night time book author Mark Haddon Summary: An interesting murder mystery told in first person. Only the person solving the mystery is autisitic and it shows in things like chapters in prime numbers and how Autisitic people think/view things. Book Number79 [bNumber of Pages[/b]385 book titleLook Again Book Author Lisa Scottoline Summary: A mother sees a picture of a missing child who likes her adopted son. As she begins to investigate she doesn't realize that she is endangering her life and the life of the boy. Book Number80 Number of Pages522 book title The Help Book Author Kathryn Stockett Summary:Set back in 1960's A white lady tries to gather and collect stories from the coloured maids on what it is like working for white people. Share this post Link to post
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