Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 26 Number Of Words: 199,374 Book Title: The Past, Present, and Future Author: Mystic Dragon Summary: Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic, Yugi is not treated well by his adopted parents, but putting together a puzzle from his grandfather gives him an “older brother,” Yami. Yami helps Yugi gain friends and keep three worlds from falling apart. Rating: 5/5 Review: For mature readers only. Edited September 16, 2012 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 16, 2012 Book Number: 2 Number Of Pages: 336 Book Title: Thirteen Reasons Why Author: Jay Asher Summary: Two weeks ago, high schooler Hannah Baker commits suicide by swallowing pills. Just prior to her death, she sent out a set of cassette tapes to the first of the thirteen people on her list. Now Clay Jensen is the 9th person to receive the tapes after it has been passed on by the previous person. In Hannah's voice, he listens the details, people and circumstances that led her to suicide. Rating: (optional) 5/5 (loved it) Share this post Link to post
Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 27 (re-read) Number Of Words: 36,904 Book Title: The Butterfly Effect Author: Starrie Wolf Summary: Bleach fanfic, Aizen won the Winter War. Orihime is turning into a hollow when she rejects that reality and sends Isshin, Yoruichi, Kisuke, and Ichigo back in time. Rating: 5/5 Review: This story is unique in that it sends multiple people from different generations back in time. Edited September 16, 2012 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 18, 2012 Book Number:21 Number Of Pages:683 Book Title:The Shining Author:Stephen King Summary:Jack Torrance finally finds a new job and he and his family have to spend the winter safekeeping a remote mountain hotel. But strange things start happening in this place. At first only his son is aware that there's something amiss, for he has "the shining". Share this post Link to post
Posted September 18, 2012 Book Number: 28 Number Of Words: 354,504 Book Title: Ultimate Danny Phantom Author: Grumbles Summary: Danny Phantom fanfic, This is a rewrite of the entire series. Danny is scouted as a future agent of the Guys-in-White, Vlad Masters is actually a Vanessa, Walker is Danny’s son from the future come to kill him, and many more things are in store. Rating: 5/5 Review: This story is amazing, but is a bit mature. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 18, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 208 Book Title: Dead Man's Folly Author: Agatha Christie Summary: Ariadne Oliver summons Poirot to Nasse House. She is staging a "murder hunt", but feels that something is wrong. Her fears are confirmed when a real murder is committed during this hunt ETA: Book Number: 17 Number Of Pages: 256 Book Title: Cat Among the Pigeons Author: Agatha Christie Summary: A new term is starting at the school Meadowbanks. Little does anyone know that the school has become tied up with a revolution in Ramat, and that there is a killer in their midst. Edited September 19, 2012 by Nimrodel Share this post Link to post
Posted September 20, 2012 Haven't updated in a bit Book Number: 61 Number Of Pages: 321 Book Title: Seraphs Author: Faith Hunters Summary: Her blood stolen by the darkness that lurks in the underground of the Trine, newly revealed neomage Thorn St. Croix must rescue a fallen seraph. Book Number: 62 Number Of Pages: 310 Book Title: Host Author: Faith Hunter Summary: After saving seraphs from the underworld. Thorn is finally accepted by her townspeople. Now another threat looms over them the Dragon’s bonds have been loosened and she is faced with the idea of finding her twin sister who she thought was dead. Book Number: 63 Number Of Pages: 318 Book Title: Exposed Author: Ashley Weis Summary: A story of two women on the opposite sides of addiction. Book Number: 64 Number Of Pages: 314 Book Title: Split Image Author: Robert Parker Summary: After giving up on having a meaningful relationship with his ex-wife, Jesse Stone begins to sping out of control. When Sunny Randall comes back into town things begin to look up. Then the murder a well known crime figures washes up on the beach and Sunny has to find out about a missing teenager. Book Number: 65 Number Of Pages: 206 Book Title: Love and Glory Author: Robert Parker Summary: This is the story of Boone Adams who is in love with Jennifer Gayle who was married to John Merchant. This a story about a man who changes his whole life in order to be worthy of the woman he loves. Book Number: 66 Number Of Pages: 210 Book Title: The Boxer and the Spy Author: Robert Parker Summary: Told that a classmate has committed suicide because of steroids young Terry Novak isn’t convinced and set out to find out what has really happened. With the help of his friend Abby they ask questions and find themselves embroiled in a scheme beyond their imagination. Book Number: 67 Number Of Pages: 203 Book Title: The Judas Goat Author: Robert Parker Summary: Hired to find and apprehend the terrorist who killed the family of a millionaire. Spenser heads to England in order to find them. Using one of the terrorist he follows and finds the and uncovers a bigger plot than before. Book Number: 68 Number Of Pages: 310 Book Title: Robert Parker’s Lullaby Author: Ace Atkins Summary: Spenser is hired by a young girl to investigate the four year old murder of her mother. Book Number: 69 Number Of Pages: 276 Book Title: Appaloosa Author: Robert Parker Summary: Virgil and Hitch arrive in Appaloosa and help the town get out from under the thumb of rancher who fancies himself an overlord. Book Number: 70 Number Of Pages: 293 Book Title: Brimstone Author: Robert Parker Summary: Hitch assists Virgil in finding Allie French who has run off with another man. In the town of Brimstone they find a church & saloon in conflict with each other. Book Number: 71 Number Of Pages: 289 Book Title: Gunman’s Rhapsody Author: Robert Parker Summary: A fictionalized account of the events leading up to and following the shootout at the O.K. through the eyes of Wyatt Earp. Book Number: 72 Number Of Pages: 401 Book Title: All Our Yesterdays Author: Robert parker Summary: Three generations of Sheridens are intertwined with three generations of Winslow through blackmail, violence and love. Chris Sheriden sets out to end this cycle. Book Number: 73 Number Of Pages: 469 Book Title: Whispers Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Attacked in her house by a disturbed man a rising director in Hollywoods sets to prove to the police and the detective who has taken an interest in her that it was not all a hallucination. Book Number: 74 Number Of Pages: 358 Book Title: Seize the night Author: Dean Koontz Summary: born with a deadly sensitivity to light Christopher Snow sets out to find out what has happened to missing children in his small town. Unable to depend on the police for help he and his friends soon set out for the mysterious gates of Fort Wyvern. Book Number: 75 Number Of Pages: 408 Book Title: Icebound Author: Dean Koontz Summary: 5 people go out to set up charges on the ice in order to create an iceberg for them to study get trapped on the iceberg that is created by a series of earthquakes in the arctic region. They find out that one of them his a psychopath who is planning to commit murder. Book Number: 76 Number Of Pages: 286 Book Title: God’s War Author: Kameron Hurley Summary: Nyx is an ex-government assassin living in the midst of an apocalyptic world where a holy war has raged for centuries. She has been hired to bring back an alien gene hunter who may be able to help stop the war. Book Number: 77 Number Of Pages: 300 Book Title: Infidel Author: Kameron Hurley Summary: Nyx has been returns to bring in the bel-dame who have lead a coup against the government. Along the way she encounters members of her previous team. Book Number: 78 Number Of Pages: 316 Book Title: While the World Watched Author: Carolyn maul McKinstry & Denise George Summary: On September 15, 1963 Klan bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama and killed 4 young African American Girls. Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when it happened and lost 4 friends that day. We see the civil Rights movement through her eyes. Book Number: 79 Number Of Pages: 424 Book Title: Book of Dreams Author: T. Davis Bunn Summary: Elena Burroughs a widow still racked by the death of her husband, has a new patient who recounts frightening dreams that may hold a message of danger for her and everyone around her. Book Number: 80 Number Of Pages: 446 Book Title: Lion of Babylon Author: T. Davis Bunn Summary: Marc Royce a former special agent is back on the job to find three Americans who have disappeared in Iraq. Under the scenes an Alliance is being formed which many would do anything to stop. Book Number: 81 Number Of Pages: 157 Book Title: Mortal Stakes Author: Robert Parker Summary: Hired to find out if a pitcher is throwing games Spenser goes undercover as a writer in order to get to the bottom of a potential scandal. There he finds that Marty is struggling to protect his wife’s sordid past. Book Number: 82 Number Of Pages: 312 Book Title: Undead and Unstable Author: MaryJanice Davidson Summary: Betsy’s come back from seeing her future, her sister the Antichrist is starting to accept her destiny more and more. She must change the present in order to change the future. S/N: this and the last 2 books of the series have been pretty horrible context-wise, the point of view keeps on jumping around and reading it is kinda like being in the head of a squirrel. The only reason I’m still reading it is because I want to see the end game. Don’t recommend. Book Number: 83 Number Of Pages: 355 Book Title: Odd Apocalypse Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Odd and his new companion the mysterious Annamaria have come to Roseland where the seeming normal inhabitance live in a place out of time. Book Number: 84 Number Of Pages: 387 Book Title: Reclaiming Lily Author: Patti Laci Summary: Ka a doctor has come to find her sister who was taken from her family and adopted by a American couple. She comes with news of a disease that may claim her life. Book Number: 85 Number Of Pages: 290 Book Title: Code Blue Author: Richard L. Mabry Summary: Cathy Sewell has returned home to find some relief from her broken relationship. She finds that someone doesn’t what her there at all. Book Number: 86 Number Of Pages: 337 Book Title: Stars Collide Author: Janice Thompson Summary: Kat Jennings and Scott Murphy are actors who play a couple in love with each other. When Kat’s grandmother’s memory causes her to mistakenly think that they are going to get married the only option Kat sees is to leave it in God’s hands. Book Number: 87 Number Of Pages: 352 Book Title: Valeria’s Cross Author: kathi Macias & Susan Wales Summary: Valeria a Roman Princess falls in love with a young Christian soldier who is murdered by a pagan general who she is later forced to marry. Is supposedly based on true events but it is riddled with inaccuracies. Book Number: 88 Number Of Pages: 366 Book Title: Hostile Witness Author: Rebecca Forester Summary: Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of the chief justice in California Supreme court who also happens to be her step-grandfather, Josie Baylors steps in to help her the deeper Josie gets into the case to more she feels that something isn’t right with this story. Book Number: 89 Number Of Pages: 279 Book Title: Children of the Fog Author: Cheryl Tardif Summary: After witnessing her son being kidnapped by a notorious man called the Fog Sadie O’Connell is desperate to find her son and to bring him home safe and sound. Book Number: 90 Number Of Pages: 336 Book Title: Arson Author: Estevan Vega Summary: Arson lives an isolated life with his grandmother. He harbors a secret he can create fire. When Embry moves in next door his life will never be the same. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 20, 2012 Book number: 22 Number of pages: 115 Title: Planet of Exile Author: Ursula K. LeGuin Summary: The Earth people exiled on the planet Werel 600 year ago must work with the natives to stop an invasion by the barbaric gaals. Meanwhile - winter is coming (LOL). Share this post Link to post
Posted September 20, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 76 Number Of Pages: 309 Book Title: Anne of Green Gables (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: When the Cuthberts of Green Gables decide to adopt an orphan, they want a strapping boy to help on the farm. Instead, they’re sent redheaded Anne, a talkative and imaginative sprite of a girl. Against their better judgment, they eventually decide to keep her. And before long, they can’t imagine life without her. Book Number: 77 Number Of Pages: 276 Book Title: Anne of Avonlea (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: With Matthew Cuthbert’s death, sixteen year old Anne gives up a college scholarship, choosing instead to teach at the Avonlea school and help Marilla with the upkeep of Green Gables. Book Number: 78 Number Of Pages: 244 Book Title: Anne of the Island (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: At eighteen, Anne is off to college at last. But she and her friends are growing up and finding love along the way. Book Number: 79 Number Of Pages: 258 Book Title: Anne of Windy Poplars (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: While fiancé Gilbert is in medical school, Anne takes a position as principal of a high school in Windy Poplars, making new friends there while keeping in touch with the old friends from home. Book Number: 80 Number Of Pages: 230 Book Title: Anne’s House of Dreams (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: Newlyweds Anne and Gilbert move from Avonlea to Four Winds Harbor, where he will take over his aging uncle’s medical practice. As always, Anne’s winning ways make friends wherever she goes. Book Number: 81 Number Of Pages: 277 Book Title: Anne of Ingleside (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: Married for years and a mother of six, Anne begins to worry that perhaps Gilbert no longer loves her. But a chance meeting with his old flame from college, along with the realization that he simply needs a vacation, proves otherwise. Book Number: 82 Number Of Pages: 225 Book Title: Rainbow Valley (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: Anne’s children are growing up and having adventures of their own, together with the new preacher’s children and an orphan girl unexpectedly adopted by a neighbor. Book Number: 83 Number Of Pages: 277 Book Title: Rilla of Ingleside (re-read) Author: L.M. Montgomery Summary: Anne’s youngest, fifteen year old Rilla, expects the next few years to be the most fun of her life. But the winds of war sweep through Canada, forcing Rilla to grow up quickly and do her part in maintaining the home front while her brothers and the man she loves fight overseas in WWI. Book Number: 84 Number Of Pages: 374 Book Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: To save her younger sister, Katniss Everdeen volunteers as a tribute for the annual Hunger Games, a live-televised battle in which two teens from the twelve districts must battle one another until only one is left victorious. But Katniss is a survivor, and becomes a contender, eventually making a choice that will put her in danger from those in power in the Capitol. Book Number: 85 Number Of Pages: 391 Book Title: Catching Fire Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark have both survived the Hunger Games, much to the consternation of those in power. While on the state-mandated Victory Tour, she becomes aware that her actions may well have set off a wave of unrest throughout the districts, one she doesn’t know if she can stop… or if she should even try. It will take all her skill and luck to save herself and her family from the government’s retaliation. Book Number: 86 Number Of Pages: 390 Book Title: Mockingjay Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: Katniss discovers that she’s been used by both sides in the current uprising against the Capitol, a pawn in a game she’s only just learning is in play. Now she must decide whether to just hide away, or to become the symbol of hope the rebels believe she is and can be. Book Number: 87 Number Of Pages: 226 Book Title: Blindsided Author: Priscilla Cummings Summary: At fourteen, Natalie had endured seven operations on her eyes due to glaucoma. But then a routine visit to her eye doctor gave her the news that she would lose what little sight she had left, most likely within the year. She’s sent to a blind school so she can learn Braille and how to navigate with a cane and other skills. But will she embrace the opportunity, or hide behind her fears? Book Number: 88 Number Of Pages: 224 Book Title: The Secret Garden (re-read) Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary: Ten year old Mary is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire from India after her parents die in an epidemic. Left to herself, she discovers a garden which has been shut up for years and is determined to bring it back to life. She makes the acquaintance of a local peasant boy and discovers the existence of her invalid cousin, and together the three of them grow in health and strength within the garden. Book Number: 89 Number Of Pages: 245 Book Title: A Little Princess (re-read) Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary: Sara is the star pupil at Miss Minchin’s academy in London, until the day word comes that her wealthy father has died in poverty following a disastrous investment. The greedy headmistress, who’d never liked her, nevertheless kept her on as a maid and errand girl, overworking and underfeeding her. But Sara sustained herself with her imagination, until the day her wildest dreams of magic started to come true. Book Number: 90 Number Of Pages: 405 Book Title: Blaze Wyndham Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Edmund Wyndham, Earl of Langford, seeks a fertile young bride when his first wife dies childless. He chooses Blaze Morgan, as she is the oldest of Baron Morgan’s eight children and it is believed she will surely follow in her fecund mother’s footsteps. But when Edmund dies in an accident, Blaze miscarries their son due to the shock and his title and lands go to his nephew Anthony as they are entailed upon the male line. In her grief, she blames Anthony for the accident. She travels to court to give herself time to recover from her losses, and catches the lustful eye of Henry VIII. She becomes his mistress for a time, but when he tires of her, he orders her wed to Anthony Wyndham, a man she purports to hate. Book Number: 91 Number Of Pages: 450 Book Title: Love, Remember Me Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Blaze’s daughter Nyssa goes to court as a maid of honor to Anne of Cleves. But when the king expresses his distaste for his new bride, she is horrified to realize that she is considered a potential replacement. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, is determined to replace Anne with his choice, her fellow maid of honor Cat Howard, and arranges for Nyssa to be drugged and found in bed with his grandson, ruining her reputation with the king while at the same time providing her with a husband of rank. Nyssa soon reconciles herself to her new husband, but when they are invited to join the Royal Progress, her friendship with Cat inadvertently draws them into the scandal that erupts when the court learns the newest young queen has been unfaithful. Book Number: 92 Number Of Pages: 441 Book Title: The Kadin (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Lady Janet Leslie was betrayed and sold into slavery, finding herself in the seraglio of the Ottoman Sultan. Given to his son Selim as a gift, she quickly wins the love of the man who would become sultan with his father’s passing… and becomes the mother of the man who would become known as Suleiman the Magnificent. Book Number: 93 Number Of Pages: 662 Book Title: Love Wild and Fair (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Catriona, Countess of Glenkirk, is brought to the court of James VI of Scotland by her husband the Earl who wishes to show off her beauty. Coerced by the king into becoming his unwilling mistress, Cat is terrified that her husband will find out… and when he does, his reaction is even worse than she’d imagined. She flees to the one person she thinks might help her, Francis Hepburn-Stewart, Earl of Bothwell. With him she finds love at last, but a vengeful King James separates them in a fit of jealousy and exiles Bothwell from Scotland forever. Book Number: 94 Number Of Pages: 388 Book Title: Spock’s World (re-read) Author: Diane Duane Summary: Vulcan is considering secession from the Federation. The Enterprise is ordered to the planet, bringing interested parties to speak for or against the proposal, and several members of the crew including Kirk, McCoy, and Spock himself are also summoned to speak. Interspersed with their arguments, the planet’s history is told in amazing detail. Book Number: 95 Number Of Pages: 252 Book Title: Q-In-Law Author: Peter David Summary: Two rival families of the spacefaring merchant race are about to be joined through marriage, and Captain Picard of the Enterprise is called upon to host and officiate. He’s pleased for the opportunity, at least until Lwaxana Troi arrives as the representative from Betazed and once again begins her relentless romantic pursuit of Picard. But the turmoil truly begins when the being known as Q invites himself to the festivities, planting doubts in the minds of the young couple and leading Lwaxana on merely to laugh at her reactions when she learns he’s duped her. But another member of the Q-continuum has about had enough of Q’s manipulations and gives her the chance to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget. Edited September 20, 2012 by catstaff Share this post Link to post
Posted September 20, 2012 Book Number: 18 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: The Clocks Author: Agatha Christie Summary: Sheila Webb has been sent to 19 Wilbraham Crescent, from the Cavendish Secretarial and Typewriting Bureau. When she arrives there, she discovers a body. Investigations ensue. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 21, 2012 Book Number: 1 Number Of Pages: 404 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: Feet of clay Author: Terry Pratchett Summary: Lord Vetinary is being poisoned and the City Watch is trying to find who's responsible. In the story are involved golems, a werewolf, a female dwarf, some vampires, and a lot of crazy free animals :] Rating: 5/5 Review: I've read most of Pratchett's Discworld novels, and this one became one of my faves Book Number: 2 RE-READ Number Of Pages: 509 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: Twilight Author: Stephenie Meyer Summary: Bella moves to the small town Forks and falls in love with a vampire - Edward. They are very happy together until another vampire tries to kill Bella because of her relationship with Edward. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 3 RE-READ Number Of Pages: 629 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: Eclipse Author: Stephenie Meyer Summary: Third book from the Twilight series. In it the Cullens finally get rid of Victoria and Bella sets the date for her transformation to a vampire. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 4 RE-READ Number Of Pages: 564 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: New Moon Author: Stephenie Meyer Summary: Edward leaves Bella, she is depressed, but somehow becomes best friends with the werewolf Jacob, who helps her to feel somewhat better again. Rating: 5/5 I have a tradition to re-read all of the Harry Potter and some of the Twilight books every summer. Without that my summer feels incomplete somehow Unfortunately I've already reread the Harry Potter books before the beginning of this challenge and can't enlist them here :/ I know the summary for the Twilight books isn't great, but is there someone who doesn't know what each book is about? Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 412 Book Title: Guards! Guards! Author: Terry Pratchett Summary: I'm not sure, but I think this is the first book about the Guards. In it a dragon is summoned and becomes Ankh-Morpork's king. The Guards try to kill him with the help of other dragons, their slightly crazy caretaker, and an ape. Really funny book!! Rating: 5/5 (I can't really give smaller grade to a Terry Pratchett's book. All of his work is amazing!!!) Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 447 (Bulgarian edition) Book Title: Eat Pray Love Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Summary: Liz is a divorced, depressed and unsatisfied with her life woman, who decides to change her life and goes to Italy, India and Indonesia to seek happiness and connection with God. Rating: 5/5 Review: Amazing book! It's one of those rare books, that will change your way of thinking and eventually your life if you let them to do it. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 21, 2012 Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 384 Book Title: King Lear Author: William Shakespeare Summary: An old king descends into madness after abdicating his throne and splitting his land between his two evil daughters. Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 126 Book Title: Macbeth Author: William Shakespeare Summary: After hearing a prophecy that he will be king of Scotland, Macbeth and his wife lie, murder, and scheme, to achieve this. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 21, 2012 Book Number: 29 Number Of Words: 93,267 Book Title: Once Upon a Time Author: Kates Summary: Clarice Boisvert is the artist niece of a merchant. She meets Count Erik d’Auberie, who asks her to help him decipher pieces of art that serve as a map to a valuable jewel. Rating: 5/5 Review: This story is a fairy tale with several twists to keep you entertained. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 21, 2012 Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 312 Book Title: Brìgh Author: Carolina Lozano Summary: After one of their friends dies in an accident and another is badly hurt in the hospital, Lia, Aithne and Keir have to discover why there are whispers when their hurt friend falls asleep. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 21, 2012 Updated to here Important: Please don't post any more fanfiction until further notice. Some of the updaters are away, so a decision on whether fanfiction will count can't be made at the moment. All the people who read fanfiction can keep a list and post it later if it's counted again. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 22, 2012 Book Number: 19 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: Third Girl Author: Agatha Christie Summary: A young woman visits Poirot, wanting help, because she "might have committed a murder", however she loses faith because she thinks Poirot is too old. Now he must try to find out who the girl is, and whether or not a murder has really been committed. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 22, 2012 Book number:24 Number of Pages:295 Book title:The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld Book Author Terry Pratchett compiled by Stephen Briggs Summary: A selection of quotes and funny sayings from Terry Pratchett's many discworld books. Book number25 Number of Pages340 Book title:Chicken Soup for the Soul- I can't Believe my dog did that! Book Author Various authors. Summary: 101 different dog stories including one I wrote - Mischa's Mind. Book number26 Number of Pages474 Book title Perfect Poison Book Author M William Phelps Summary: A nurse who ends up killing many of her patients in a veteran medical centre, for the longest time she gets away with murder until some of the staff start to question things. Book number27 Number of pages485 Book titleCity of Bones Book author Cassandra Clare Summary: Clary meets some strange tattooed teens, who she later learns are shadow hunters - killers of demons. When her mother is taken by a demon she joins with her new friends to find her mom. Book number28 Number of Pages 744 Book titleThe Langoliers - Four Past Midnight Book AuthorStephen King Summary: Four stories, 1 about a plane and passengers who travel through a rip in time, 1 about a dangerous psyudomn who comes to life, 1 about a library policeman and overdue library books and the last about a camera that no matter what it takes a picture- the pictues only show a strange black dog getting closer and closer to attack. Book Number29 * re-read* Number of Pages731 Book titleNeedful Things Book Author Stephen King Summary: A new store keeper comes to Castle Rock selling things at a bargain price in return for practical jokes that will turn the town to chaos. Book Number30 Number of Pages163 Book titleShe Said Yes. Book Author Misty Bernall Summary: Cassie Bernall the daughter of Misty was shot and killed in the Columbine High school shooting, for saying yes to the shooters when they asked her if she believed in God. Misty tells how a few years before Cassie herself was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 23, 2012 Book Number: 96 Number Of Pages:373 Book Title: Uhura's Song (re-read) Author: Janet Kagan Summary: Years ago, Uhura made friends with a diplomat from Eeiauo, a planet of catlike beings, as the two women had a love and talent for music in common. The two traded taboo songs from their respective cultures, promising never to tell their secret. But now a plague is ravaging the Eeiauoans... and is spreading to other races as well. The taboo songs Uhura learned may hold a key to a cure. She and the rest of the Enterprise crew must decipher the clues before they too succumb to the deadly illness. Book Number: 97 Number Of Pages: 430 Book Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (re-read) Author: Betty Smith Summary: Francie Nolan grows up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn in the 1910s, in a family poor in money but rich in love. She learns many valuable lessons of life, love, and family. Book Number: 98 Number Of Pages: 391 Book Title: Betrayed Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Left penniless due to feuding between her father and grandfather, Fiona makes a desperate bargain with Angus Gordon, the laird of Dun Broc... she would become his mistress if he would dower her four younger sisters. Angus quickly falls in love with Fiona, and brings her with him to the court of King James I, planning to marry her upon their return home. But the king has other plans for Fiona, and threatens retaliation against her sisters unless she allows herself to be kidnapped by Colin MacDonald of Nairn so that she may spy on his half-brother the Lord of the Isles. She submits to protect her sisters, and learns to care for the big Highlander. But when he falls in battle, she must fight the king herself so that she and her children will survive. Book Number: 99 Number Of Pages: 164 Book Title: Samantha on Stage Author: Susan Clement Farrar Summary: Eleven year old Samantha is a natural at ballet, used to being the best in her class, and eagerly awaiting her first toe shoes. But her confidence is shaken when Lizinka joins her class. Daughter of a Soviet diplomat, she has been schooled at the Bolshoi from a very young age, and the daily lessons show in her skill level. But as the girls become friends, they each share something important with the other. Lizinka teaches Samantha the importance of hard work and dedication, while Samantha teaches Lizinka that dance should be fun even while striving for perfection. Book Number: 100 Number Of Pages: 295 Book Title: Out of My Mind Author: Sharon M. Draper Summary: Melody has a photographic memory. She's probably the smartest kid in her grade. But no one knows it, because she can't walk or talk. She's confined to a wheel chair with cerebral palsy, and plenty of people assume that because her body malfunctions, so does her brain. Then she gets a special computer that allows her to communicate with others more easily than using a letter-board, and suddenly she's able to make some friends and even gets on the Whiz Kids quiz team. But not everyone else is ready to handle Melody's disabilities, as proven when she is purposefully not contacted by the team leaders when a snowstorm forces a last-minute change to the team's travel plans for the National Championship. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 24, 2012 Book Number: 20 Number Of Pages: 272 Book Title: Hallowe'en Party Author: Agatha Christie Summary: At a party, Joyce brags about having seen a murder once. She is known to tell lies to impress others, so she is not believed. However, later at that very same party, Joyce is drowned. Perhaps she had seen something after all? Share this post Link to post
Posted September 25, 2012 Book Number: 101 Number Of Pages: 265 Book Title:The Virgin Queen Author: Christopher Hibbert Summary: Nonfiction. A biography of Elizabeth I, last of the Tudor monarchs of England. Book Number: 102 Number Of Pages: 335 Book Title: Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (re-read) Author: Mary Mapes Dodge Summary: Classic tale of a group of friends in Holland: the schoolboys who skate from near Amsterdam to the Hague and back over the holidays, the poor family whose breadwinner had suffered a head injury in a fall from the dikes ten years earlier, but whose son convinces the best doctor in the area to try to help, and culminating with a grand skating race, the prize for which is a pair of silver skates. Book Number: 103 Number Of Pages: 255 Book Title: National Velvet (re-read) Author: Enid Bagnold Summary: Horse-crazy Velvet Brown dreamed of owning a horse. Then the owner of the wildest horse in the village, the horse that jumped every fence penning him in, put him up for raffle, and she won. A chance word from a friend sets her dreaming of competing in the famous steeplechase the Grand National, and with help from her mother and that same friend, Velvet enters her horse and disguises herself as a man in order to ride him... and wins, before being disqualified, as at that time, women were not allowed to be jockeys. Book Number: 104 Number Of Pages: 422 Book Title: To Love Again Author: Bertrice Small Summary: For mature readers only. Cailin Drusus, raised with the wealth and privilege of her Roman father, nonetheless shares the pride and resourcefulness of her Celtic-born mother. She escapes the destruction of her family and their home, sheltering with the Dobunni Celtic chieftain who is her grandfather. She marries a Saxon warrior, who helps her reclaim her family's stolen lands. But as she labors to bring forth their first child, an unsuspected enemy drugs her and has her sent as a slave to far-away Byzantium. But Cailin is determined to beat the odds and somehow make her way back to Britain and her husband, and find her missing child. Book Number: 105 Number Of Pages: 195 (plus several appendices) Book Title: Whispers of the Moon Author: David Harrington and deTraci Regula Summary: Nonfiction. The biography of Scott Cunningham, modern-day Pagan author best known for his book Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, along with many other works put out through Llewellyn Publishing. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 26, 2012 Book Number: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Book Title: Chaos Walking Book One: The Knife of Never Letting Go Author: Patrick Ness Summary: Todd Hewitt is the last boy in New World, all of the women have died and he is about to become a man. In New World, peoples thoughts can be heard by others in the form of Noise and animals can talk, but circumstances cause him to leave. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 26, 2012 Okay, two book update, haven't gotten around to updating. Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 544 Book Title: Lost City (NUMA Files book 5) Author: Clive Cussler Summary: Kurt Austin and his lovely associate uncover a mystery of a bacterium that induces longevity and the involvement of an ancient arms family deep under the sea. Rate 4/5 Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 400 Book Title: Beach Road Author: James Patterson Summary: A crappy Law and Order type of story involving a basketball player and a rather cheesy turn of events. Rate 2/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 27, 2012 Book Number: 21 Number Of Pages: 304 Book Title: Elephants Can Remember Author: Agatha Christie Summary: Ariadne Oliver is approached by a complete stranger, which asks her a blunt question about one of her goddaughters. Did the father murder the mother, and then shoot himself, or was it actually the other way around? Share this post Link to post
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