Posted August 15, 2012 Book Number: 3 Number Of Pages: 181 Book Title: Darkness Exposed (Mary O'Reilly Paranormal Mystery - Book 5) Author: Terri Reid Summary: Mary and Bradley together with their friends Rosie and Stanley, a Scottish professor, and Jeannine's ghost set up a base in Bradley old house and are able to finally solve the case of what happened to Jeannine when she disappeared eight years ago. Rating: 7/10 Share this post Link to post
Posted August 15, 2012 Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 513 Book Title: American Psycho Author: Bret Easton Ellis Summary: A satire of the yuppie culture about a successful Wallstreet businessman who tortures and kills people in his free time. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 17, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 160 Book Title: Rätsel um das Schneemonster Author: Thomas Brezina Summary: Four kids win a competition and as a prize get free holidays in a ski station where it is said that there is a snow monster. Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 141 Book Title: Ein Ufo namens Amadeus Author: Thomas Brezina Summary: Four kids are in Salzburg for a week. There have been some mysterious UFO sightings and they decide to investigate what's going on. Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 507 Book Title: Jane Eyre Author: Charlotte Brontë Summary: The story of an orphaned girl who ends working for a rich man and falls in love with him. Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 475 Book Title: The Subtle Serpent Author: Peter Tremayne Summary: A headless female body is found in an abbey in Ireland. Sister Fidelma goes to investigate the case. Edited August 17, 2012 by Raistlin24 Share this post Link to post
Posted August 17, 2012 Book Number: 4 Number Of Pages: 447 Book Title:Bayou Moon Author:Ilona Andrews Summary: A changeling named William, who is an ex-soldier and nobleman must once again approach his nemesis, Spider. Rating: 4.3/5 Review: It was okay enough, people that like werewolfs and whatnot would like this book. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 448 Book Title: Blood Bound Author: Rachel Vincent Summary: Liv is a blood tracker and must find her syndicate bosses son so that her blood contract is fullfilled, thus freeing her. Rating: 4/5 Review: It was okay enough, but it kinda took me a bit to read because it wasn't too engaging, or at least until a little bit past the middle. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 18, 2012 Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 276 Book Title: The Devil's Novice Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In the fall of 1140, an emissary to King Stephen is reported missing. Not long afterwards, a new novice enters the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury. Willing and eager to embrace the monastic life by day, the young man's sleep is troubled by such violent nightmares that he becomes feared by the other novices. Before long, he becomes linked with the fate of the missing man. Brother Cadfael must uncover the truth before an innocent man is hanged for the murder. Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 275 Book Title: Dead Man's Ransom Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In February 1141, the fighting men of Shrewsbury return from a battle to the north, without the sheriff who was captured, but with a prisoner of their own, who they hope to exchange for their lawman. But as the negotiations drag on, the prisoner and the sheriff's own daughter become enamored of one another. His return will mean their parting, as the man would not condone his daughter's betrothal to one of the enemy. On the very eve of the exchange, the wounded and ailing sheriff is murdered within the abbey's infirmary, and the prisoner is only one of several people with both motive and opportunity, giving Brother Cadfael a most complex mystery to solve. Book Number: 13 Number Of Pages: 247 Book Title: The Pilgrim of Hate Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In the spring of 1141, word reaches the abbey of the death of a knight slain by stealth during peace negotiations. Soon after, pilgrims flock to the abbey for the festival of St. Winifred. Brother Cadfael particularly takes note of a lame boy and his sister, and a dying young man on a penitential journey and the friend who accompanies him everywhere. A miraculous cure and a hasty departure give Cadfael the key to the knight's murder... but can he move quickly enough to prevent another death? Share this post Link to post
Posted August 18, 2012 Book Number: 2 Number Of Pages: 384 Book Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: I'm sure everyone knows the story but anyway.... It's set in a future where every year, a boy and a girl from each district must compete against each other, until only one is left alive. Th book follows the story of Katniss Everdeen, who volounteers to participate in the Hunger Games to save her sister. ^.^ Rating: 10/10 Share this post Link to post
Posted August 19, 2012 Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 348 Book Title: Tales Of the Dragon's Bard: Eventide Author: Tracey and Laura Hickman Summary: Inside this 3rd person novel, the dragon bard and his scribe come to the small village of Eventide in hopes of acquiring stories. This book weaves almost everyone in the village's stories, making them all linked to one. Which is the one where Jarod is trying to propose and marry Caprice. Rating: (optional) 4 and a half stars Share this post Link to post
Posted August 19, 2012 Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 335 Book Title: Water for Elephants Author: Sara Gruen Summary: A young veterinarian that has lost everything joins a travelling circus where he finds his true love. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 19, 2012 Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 463 Book Title: The Spider Web Author: Peter Tremayne Summary: Sister Fidelma is summoned to a village to investigate two murders, but there are more secrets in that place than she expected. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 19, 2012 Book Number: 14 Number Of Pages: 214 Book Title: An Excellent Mystery Author: Ellis Peters Summary: It's August, 1141, and Brother Cadfael meets two unfamiliar Benedictine monks riding for the abbey, bringing a tale of the destruction of Winchester and of their priory there, burned in the ongoing civil war. One is in his middle years, a former Crusader now ill and dying. The other is young, devoted to his comrade, and totally mute. From the first, Cadfael senses a bond deeper than their shared brotherhood between the two, but what is it? Book Number: 15 Number Of Pages: 228 Book Title: The Raven in the Foregate Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In December of 1141, a new priest comes to the parish church of the Foregate, bringing his housekeeper and her nephew. But while the new priest is scholarly and book-learned, he his dealings with his new parishioners quickly cause tension and resentment. Shortly after word gets out that the nephew is actually a scout for the Empress Maud, the priest is found murdered. And while suspicion falls on the nephew, many of the parishioners also had cause to want the priest dead. Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 230 Book Title: The Rose Rent Author: Ellis Peters Summary: A woman widowed tragically young leased the house where she had been happy with her man to the abbey after his death; the rental price being a single white rose from her favorite rosebush each June. A lingering winter and a chill spring in 1142 puts the rent in doubt for a time, but when the roses begin to bloom, a monk is found murdered beneath the hacked and damaged rosebush. Brother Cadfael must discover who is so desperate to void the lease that they would kill, and why. Book Number: 17 Number Of Pages: 224 Book Title: The Hermit of Eyton Forest Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In October of 1142, the lord of Eaton Manor dies; his heir and only child is a boy of ten being educated at the abbey. His father's last wish is that he stay and complete his education. But the boy's grandmother disagrees. An ambitious woman, she wants the boy to immediately marry the much-older daughter and heiress of two neighboring properties, and she has the support of a religious hermit newly settled in the nearby forest. But the holy man's servant hides a secret, and before long, the young heir vanishes and a man is found dead within the forest. Brother Cadfael must sort out the mysteries and save a young boy from an unwanted bride. Book Number: 18 Number Of Pages: 196 Book Title: The Confession of Brother Haluin Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In early winter of 1142, a heavy snowfall damages the roof of the abbey's guest hall badly enough that repairs must be undertaken immediately. Brother Haluin suffers terrible injuries in a fall from the icy slope while taking his turn at the work; injuries serious enough that he makes what he thinks is his dying confession, witnessed by Brother Cadfael and the abbot. However, and much to his own surprise, Haluin recovers although he is left crippled. He is determined to make a penitential journey to expiate the grave sin confessed, so the abbot sends Cadfael to aid him along the way. What they discover at their destination is deceit, betrayal, bitter revenge, and murder. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 20, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 4 Number Of Pages: 705 Book Title: Illusion Author: Frank Peretti Summary: Magicians Dane and Mandy have been inseperable for their forty years of marriage until a car accident rips the pair apart. Dane is left coping with the death of his wife, while Mandy is ripped from the past to live in 2011 as a 19 year old. Rating: 4.5/5 Review: I was thrilled to see a new book from an author who hasn't made a peep in six years. Peretti is the master of Christian thriller, but as a tribute to his wife, this is a beautiful romance. Still full of Peretti's mind bending twists this was an excellent book. Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 123 Book Title: The Boyfriend Bylaws Author: Susan Halter Summary:Melanie's love life has been nothing but one train wreck after another until her friend Patti steps in with dating rules she calls the boyfriend bylaws. Rating: 2/5 Review: The low rating is because from page one this book is completely and utterly predictable. What saves it is the characters and good humor. It would have been much better if it was longer and the idea drawn out. Because it had a good idea. Edited August 20, 2012 by Sister of the Dragon Share this post Link to post
Posted August 20, 2012 Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: Trouble in Paradise Author: Robert Parker Summary: Jesse stone is now living with his estranged wife and meanwhile a madman has come to the small town of paradise. Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 607 Book Title: The Face Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Ethan is charged with the protection of the most famous actor in Hollywood. When the actor starts to get threatening messages, Ethan starts to get help from a more spiritual side. Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 512 Book Title: Fire of Heaven Author:Bill Myers Summary: Brandon and his wife Sarah must face their most difficult challenges in the end times. Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 304 Book Title: The Goddess Test Author: Aimee Carter Summary: Katie agrees to a offer she can’t refuse in order to have a chance at saving her dying mother. Book Number: 13 Number Of Pages: 299 Book Title: Jane Bites Back Author: Michel Thomas Ford Summary: It turns out that Jane Austen is still alive … as a vampire. As she tries to get the manuscript that she wrote before her human death she is faced with adventure. Book Number: 14 Number Of Pages: 369 Book Title: The Eyes of Darkness Author: Dean Koontz Summary: It has been a year since Tina Evans’ son died and just as she believes she is beginning to heal strange things begin to happen that make her question her son’s death. Book Number: 15 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: Stone Cold Author: Robert Parker Summary: People are dying in paradise and it is Jesse’s job to find the killers while still solving the problems of other members of paradise. Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 295 Book Title: Sea Change Author: Robert Parker Summary: A woman has floated in with the tide and now Jesse has to dive into a lifestyle his has never experience in order to find her killer. Book Number: 17 Number Of Pages: 308 Book Title: Intensity Author: Dean Koontz Summary: When going to visit her best friend’s family a horrible event occurs when Chyna wakes up. When she finds out who the next victim of attack will be she risks everything to save her. Book Number: 18 Number Of Pages: 321 Book Title: Sole Survivor Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Mourning the loss of his wife and children in a plane crash that left no survivors Joe makes contact with a woman who claims to have survived the crash. Book Number: 19 Number Of Pages: 294 Book Title: Death in Paradise Author: Robert Parker Summary: After a Paradise baseball game a girl has been found floating dead in the water. Now Jesse Stone must find her killer and uncover secrets about his small town. Book Number: 20 Number Of Pages: 415 Book Title: Mr. Murder Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Marty, his wife and three daughter live a happy life until one day a man barges in claiming to be him and says he has come back to claim his family. Now Marty and the rest are on the run from this man who seems to find them no matter what. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 21, 2012 Book Number: 19 Number Of Pages: 250 Book Title: The Heretic's Apprentice Author: Ellis Peters Summary: Seven years ago, a Shrewsbury merchant set out on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, accompanied by his young clerk. Now in the summer of 1143, the young man returns with his master's coffin and the man's dying request to be buried at the abbey. This is granted despite the merchant having once been reproved for "heretical" ideas. When the young man admits near the end of the wake that he agreed with some of his master's views, two members of the household who do not welcome his return report such to the abbot. Less than a day later, one of them is found murdered. Book Number: 20 Number Of Pages: 217 Book Title: The Potter's Field Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In fall of 1143, workers plowing a field recently given to the abbey uncover the body of a young woman. The field in question was once tenanted by a potter who abandoned his wife to take monastic vows. It was said she ran away with a lover, but now it appears she was murdered instead. And when a novice from another Benedictine abbey and with family nearby seeks shelter in Shrewsbury due to the war, he brings yet more mystery to add to that which already surrounds the body. Book Number: 21 Number Of Pages: 245 Book Title: The Summer of the Danes Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In the summer of 1144, Brother Cadfael is chosen to accompany a friend from the cloister on a mission of churchly diplomacy into Wales. But the two are quickly caught up in a dispute between two Welsh princes, one of whom has hired Danish mercenaries in an effort to force his brother into giving him what he feels is his due. Cadfael is captured along with a young woman who sought to flee an arranged marriage... or possibly involvement in the murder that took place the night before word came of the invasion. Book Number: 22 Number Of Pages: 237 Book Title: The Holy Thief Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In a stormy fall of 1144, two groups of travelers shelter in the abbey: two Benedictines seeking donations to rebuild their abbey destroyed in the civil war, and a French troubadour traveling with a slave girl. All are called upon to help when the Severn floods and threatens the valuables within the abbey church. But when the floodwaters recede, the abbey's most sacred relic turns up missing. Not long after, a dead body is found. In an age that believes in signs from God, Brother Cadfael prays for divine guidance to solve the mysteries. Book Number: 23 Number Of Pages: 255 Book Title: Brother Cadfael's Penance Author: Ellis Peters Summary: In November of 1145, the civil was that's wracked England for years suddenly touches Brother Cadfael in a most personal way. Following the sack of Worcester several years back, he'd learned to his surprise that he'd fathered a son while on Crusade. As a man, that son had, through chance, become known to him, although Cadfael had not revealed his own identity. Now, though, his secret son is being held prisoner. Cadfael is determined to find and free him, even if it means forsaking the Order. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 21, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 251 Book Title: Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) Author: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Summary: A historical book sentered around the Prince of Salina and the coming of the Garibaldians to Sicilia. Edited August 21, 2012 by mackie0501 Share this post Link to post
Posted August 21, 2012 A note on these books... Francine Rivers is a writer of Christian fiction. These books can get a little preachy in places, but they're good reading if you aren't offended by such. Also note, these are not books for children or younger teens. While there is no issue with language or anything like that, they all deal with adult situations at times. Book Number: 24 Number Of Pages: 483 Book Title: Her Mother's Hope Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Marta, forced to work at an early age, dreams of someday owning and operating a boardinghouse. Leaving her native Switzerland, she eventually lands in the US, where marriage and motherhood change her dreams. Now she wants to raise strong children who will have a better life than she did. But her style of tough love is easily misunderstood, especially by her oldest daughter Hildemara. Book Number: 25 Number Of Pages: 564 Book Title: Her Daughter's Dream Author: Francine Rivers Summary: In the sequel to Her Mother's Hope, Hildemara's daughter Carolyn grows up feeling closer to her grandmother than her mother, due to Hildie's tuberculosis keeping her quarantined when Carolyn was very young. Feeling unwanted at home, Carolyn starts to blossom at college, until her brother's death in Vietnam sends her fleeing to embrace the counter-culture in San Fransisco. When she returns home pregnant, Hildie offers to mind her daughter so she can work, resulting in little Dawn feeling closer to her grandmother. But as Dawn grows, she becomes determined to heal the rifts between the generations of women in her family. Book Number: 26 Number Of Pages: 439 Book Title: And the Shofar Blew Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Paul Hudson seemed like the perfect pastoral candidate to revitalize a struggling church. And before long, attendance was up and a new building was in the works. But as the fortunes of the church improved, Paul's wife Eunice started to wonder if Paul was truly working for the Lord anymore, or if he was simply out to prove to his televangelist father that he, too, was a good pastor. Book Number: 27 Number Of Pages: 372 Book Title: The Atonement Child Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Dynah was living a charmed life. Raised by doting parents, she was attending a Christian college and engaged to be married. And then her world was shattered when she was attacked while walking back to campus from her job in town. When she finds herself pregnant as a result, nearly everyone in her life from her fiance and parents to the head of the college pressures her to have an abortion... even though every one of them claims to be pro-life. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 22, 2012 Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: Hercule Poirot's Christmas Author: Agatha Christie Summary: An old man invites his family home for Christmas, but as it turns out he is a rather unpleasant man, and invited them for the opportunity of taunting them all. This man is then murdered. Poirot is involved in finding out who did it. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 22, 2012 Book number: 9 Number of pages: 367 Title: Atonement Author: Ian McEwan Summary: A child sees something she shouldn't see and she couldn't understand completely, thus ruining her sister's and her sister's beloved one's lives. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 22, 2012 These three are sort of a series... I say sort of, because the events of the second and third books actually take place at the same time. So it's more like one book with two separate sequels. And again, Christian fiction. Book Number: 28 Number Of Pages: 496 Book Title: A Voice in the Wind Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Starting in the year 70, with the destruction of Jerusalem, this book follows the fortunes of the young girl Hadassah. A Christian, she and her family had traveled from Galilee to Jerusalem for Passover, to celebrate Christ's resurrection with other believers, only to be trapped by the battles. The lone survivor, Hadassah is enslaved and transported to Rome, where she becomes the property of the powerful Valerian merchant family. There, she faces both her greatest temptation and her greatest fears. Meanwhile the German warrior Atretes is captured and trained, becoming one of the empire's most renowned gladiators. Book Number: 29 Number Of Pages: 432 Book Title: An Echo in the Darkness Author: Francine Rivers Summary: The Valerian family, now settled in Ephesus, struggles to accept the changes wrought within them by Hadassah. Matriarch Phoebe embraces Christianity enthusiastically, while Marcus travels to Judea in his efforts to find God. But Julia willfully closes her eyes and embraces a path of self-destruction. Only when it is nearly too late does she call upon a physician of the city whose mysterious, always-veiled assistant is reputed to be able to heal with a touch. Book Number: 30 Number Of Pages: 473 Book Title: As Sure as the Dawn Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Atretes has won his freedom in the arena, but is angered to learn that Julia Valerian ordered the child he got on her exposed at birth. But then he spoke to her slave Hadassah, who informed him that she did not expose the babe as ordered, but secretly took him to the Apostle John. Atretes seeks out John, who introduces him to Rizpah, a widow who'd lost her own baby and adopted the boy. Determined to leave the empire, he takes Rizpah with him on the dangerous journey back to Germania, and learns to open his heart to God along the way. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 22, 2012 Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 439 Book Title: Shadow Bound Author: Rachel Vincent Summary: Kori, a Traveler, wakes up in a dark basement that she can't travel through, and must find a way to recruit a Jammer named Ian to save her sisters life from the punishment she went through. Rating: 4.5/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted August 25, 2012 Book Number: 21 Number Of Pages: 606 Book Title: One Door Away From Heaven Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Micky has met an extraordinary young girl and when she tell her stories about having to meet aliens when she turns ten micky believes that she is telling stories. When the girl mentions a brother who has already gone to the aliens Micky becomes concerned Book Number: 22 Number Of Pages: 849 Book Title: Inheritance Author: Christopher Paolini Summary: the last book in the inheritance quartet, Eragon & his dragon Saphira go on to face their greatest challenge thus far. Book Number: 23 Number Of Pages: 290 Book Title: High Profile Author: Robert Parker Summary: Jesse has to solve the murder of a national celebrity and balance his precarious relationship with Sunny Randell. Book Number: 24 Number Of Pages: 398 Book Title: The Judas Gospel Author: Bill Myers Summary: A religious novel. Judas Iscariot is given the chance to show how he could have used his marketing skill to broadcast the Word better. The new prophet has troubling dreams of murder and a chased by a serial killer. Book Number: 25 Number Of Pages: 383 Book Title: Midnight Author: Dean Koontz Summary: When Sam an FBI agent visits a small rural California town he finds out that this isolated and seemingly cosy town is filled with dark secrets. Book Number: 26 Number Of Pages: 293 Book Title: Stranger in Paradise Author: Robert Parker Summary: It has been ten years since Crow helped a motely crew blow up the bridge in Paradise now he is back and looking for help from Jesse. Book Number: 27 Number Of Pages: 442 Book Title: What the Night Knows Author: Dean Koontz Summary: 20 years ago Alton Blackwood murder 4 families including John Calvino and was stopped by John that same night. Now it seems he has returned for John’s new family Book Number: 28 Number Of Pages: 294 Book Title: The Voice Author: Bill Myers Summary: Christian Fiction. After his wife and daughter was killed Charlie Madison turned into a recluse. Now his young deaf niece has burst into his life and expects him to rescue her parents from terrorist who want to stop her parents from releasing a programs that claims to replicate the voice of God. Book Number: 29 Number Of Pages: 356 Book Title: The Face of God Author: Bill Myers Summary: Christian Fiction. David a pastor has a crisis of faith when is wife is murdered. Now he and his son go on a search to find the stones that let you see … the face of God. Book Number: 30 Number Of Pages: 345 Book Title: Soul Tracker Author: Bill Myers Summary: Christian Fiction. After the death of his daughter David Kauffman is devastated and concerned about where his daughter will spend her after life. It leads hime to the Life after Life organization which could end up with him in great danger. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 25, 2012 Book number: 10 Number of pages: 388 Title: Home Front Author: Kristin Hannah Summary: Jolene and Michael have trouble with their marriage. When she's deployed to Iraq, he has to learn to cope with the housework and look after their two children. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 25, 2012 Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 516 Book Title: Wings of the Wicked Author: Courtney Allison Moulton Summary: After discovering that she is actually an archangel in human form, Ellie's Guardian Will tries to stifle their romantic relationship. Simultaneously, this news brings the most vicious demonic reapers out to assault them. Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 288 Book Title: Stake That! Author: Mari Mancusi Summary: Rayne McDonald always wanted to be a vampire, but that plan went awry when her twin sister was bitten by mistake. Now she finds out she's next in line to be a Slayer, exterminator of vamps gone bad. Her first job is to investigate the spread of a dangerous bloodborne virus which could put her twin Sunny's vampire boyfriend Magnus in danger. Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 368 Book Title: Faerie Wars Author: Herbie Brennan Summary: Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, is sent to the human world for his safety in a time of political turmoil, but the trip goes awry and he ends up alone in an unfamiliar place. He must enlist the help of humans Henry Atherton and Mr. Fogarty if he is to return to his world and save it from destruction by demons. Quick question: if I read several volumes of a manga that altogether add up to 500 pages or more, can I count them together as one book? Share this post Link to post
Posted August 25, 2012 Book Number: 31 Number Of Pages: 369 Book Title: Rosamund Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Rosamund Bolton, the young heiress to Friarsgate Manor, travels to the court of Henry VII to escape the machinations of her wicked uncle who has been plotting for years to gain control over her property. While there, she befriends the young widowed Katherine of Aragon as well as Meg Tudor, newly betrothed to Scotland's King James IV. She also catches the wandering eye of the young Prince Henry, whereupon the king betroths her to one of his favored knights and sends her home once more. Widowed several years later and with only daughters, Rosamund finds herself once again in danger from her uncle. Book Number: 32 Number Of Pages: 371 Book Title: Until You Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Having eliminated the problem of her scheming uncle, Rosamund sets off to the Scots court to visit her old friend Meg Tudor. She is pursued by a persistent suitor, but instead meets the handsome Earl of Glenkirk. Preferring not to marry again just yet, she nevertheless accompanies him to the Mediterranean duchy of San Lorenzo on a secret mission for James IV. Upon their return, the pair make plans to wed, but tragedy soon parts them forever. Has she lost her last chance for happiness? Book Number: 33 Number Of Pages: 378 Book Title: Phillipa Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Rosamund's oldest daughter Phillipa is a creature of the court. To her mother's dismay, she rejects the very idea of inheriting Friarsgate, believing no man of the court would willingly leave it for a northern estate. Her mother's business partner and distant cousin aids in matching Phillipa with the Earl of Witton, a man who has spent much of his adult life in the king's service, and the two accompany their monarchs to the great gathering in France that would become known as The Field of the Cloth of Gold... and uncover an assasination plot beyond anything they would have believed possible. Book Number: 34 Number Of Pages: 407 Book Title: The Last Heiress Author: Bertrice Small Summary: When Phillipa rejected the Friarsgate inheritence, her youngest sister Elizabeth accepted it instead, and ruled the manor alone and well from the age of 14. Now 22 and considered an old maid, she is faced with a journey to Henry VIII's court to try to find a husband in order to have an heir of her own. There, she scandalizes her family, long associates of Katherine of Aragon, by befriending the king's new sweetheart, Anne Boleyn. Unable to find a suitable man at the court, Elizabeth returns home and soon falls into the arms of an attractive Highlander sent south by his father to find better sheep to improve their family's flocks. But can they each overcome their pride enough to stay together? Book Number: 35 Number Of Pages: 288 Book Title: Katie (re-read) Author: Clara Bernice Miller Summary: Christian fiction, it is the story of Katie, an Amish girl in the Midwest as she learns to find her way to inner freedom even while accepting the restrictions of her Old Order community. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 25, 2012 Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 230 Book Title: Sad Cypress Author: Agatha Christie Summary: Elinor Carlisle, and her fiancé Roddy Welman, receive an anonymous letter, and decide to visit Aunt Laura, who is seriously ill. Here they meet Mary Gerrard, and things turn foul. Roddy falls for her, the engagement between him and Elinor is broken. When Aunt Laura dies, and Mary is murdered, Elinor, who inherited a vast sum of money, is suspected for killing them both. Share this post Link to post
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