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Book Number: 161

Number Of Pages: 416

Book Title: Private Vegas

Author: James Patterson and Maxine Pietro

Summary: Jack Morgan's Military pal and co-worker is on trial for aggravated assault and Battery. He claims he is innocent and the team tries to prove it to the law by finding the guilty party.

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) Very good read, but I think the thing was mistitled. Not much actually happens with Private in Vegas.

 

 

 

Book Number: 162

Number Of Pages: 337

Book Title: Cold Betrayal

Author: J. A. Jance

Summary: Ali Reynolds tackles 2 separate cases. Athena's grandma Betsy is being railroaded into a retirement home because her son and his wife say it is best. On another front a pregnant girl escapes from an enclave and runs for her life and freedom. Ali and Sister Anselm strive to protect her while Ali and High Noon solve the case.

Rating: (optional) 8.6

Review: (optional)

 

 

Book Number: 163

Number Of Pages:359

Book Title:NYPD Red 3

Author: James Patterson and Marshall Karp

Summary: Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald partners on the NYPD Red team have again landed a top high profile case in which a NY businessman's son disappears and his chauffeur is murdered and his body is decapitated. Kylie and Zach are hindered by the boy's father who refuses to admit that the boy is missing, or that he knows the whereabouts of the missing head.

Rating: (optional) 8.7

Review: (optional) Interesting, but not quite as riveting as some Patterson books although way better than many others.

 

Book Number: 164

Number Of Pages: 370

Book Title:So You Want to be a Wizard

Author: Diaane Duane

Summary: Nita is being bullied by a classmate and wants a bit ofrevenge but just mostly freedom from the other girl's daily attacks. While hiding in the library she finds a magical book - So Tou Want o Be a Wizard. Nita decides to read it and try it to see if it is real and can help. The next day she discovers her life has changed.

Rating: (optional) 8.5

Review: (optional)A favorite reread of mine, the whole series is as good fights evil for the universe.

 

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Book Number: 165

Number Of Pages: 255

Book Title: Dying for a Cupcake

Author: Denise Swanson

Summary: Deveraux Sinclair and several of her hometown friends are working together to host a televised bake-off for a cooking maven from their home town who has decided to return to hold the cook-off here. Apparently 20 or more years ago when Kizzy left town after high school she left a few enemies behind and one of them is now trying to kill her. Can Boone, Poppy and Dev with help from the new fire chief discover who the killer is before he succeeds?

Rating: (optional) 7.5

Review: (optional) I liked the story but was actually hoping the murder would happen before the case was solved.

 

 

Book Number: 166

Number Of Pages: 289

Book Title: Wicked Craving

Author: G. A. McKevett

Summary: PI Savannah Reid is having a slow patch business wise so she is helping out her old SCPD partner Dirk Coulter. Dirk is keeping secrets from Savannah and Van has an itch to know what is happening. Granny Reid is visiting from Georgia and Van steps on her partner Tammy's feelings and Granny's while trying to figure out who killed the dead gal and why.

Rating: (optional) 7.6

Review: (optional) An enjoyable read. Granny always livens up a Midnight Magnolia Detective Agency book. Savannah is in top form and Granny's hearing wedding bells begin to chime for Savannah. Is she right?

 

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Book Number: 167

Number Of Pages: 292

Book Title: A Decadent Way to Die

Author: G. A. McKevett

Summary: Savannah Reid is hired to find out if a client's grandmother is senile or someone is trying to kill her. Tammy has a new boyfriend and the gang is worried as he isn't a nice man. Van and Dirk look into the mysterious "accidents" which turn out to be no accident at all.

 

 

 

Book Number: 168

Number Of Pages: 310

Book Title: Killer Physique

Author: G. A. Mckevett

Summary: Ryan and John treat Dirk and Savannah to a Hollywood movie premiere as guests of the male lead. Jason Tyrone is dead befre morning and although it feels like a homicide there is no evidence. The Moonlight Magnolia Detective agency looks into it anyhow and keeps pulling a loose ends until the tangled threads are all undone.

 

 

Book Number: 169

Number Of Pages: 105

Book Title: McKenna

Author: Mary Casanova

Summary: 9 year old Mckenna Brooks is starting the fourth grade and is having some academic trouble, Turns out she has some reading problems and is falling behind her classmates. McKenna is embarrassed to need and accept help. McKenna learns to listen and accept aid and branch out in her life.

 

 

 

Book Number: 170

Number Of Pages: 123

Book Title:McKenna, Ready to Fly

Author: Mary Casanova

Summary: McKenna must deal with a broken leg and missing doing her gymnastics for months while her leg heals and then try to catch up. Meanwhile she is becoming better friends with some of her newer acquaintainces and her oldest BFF, Toulane, seems to resent the changes. McKenna is puzzled and torn.

 

 

Book Number: 171

Number Of Pages: 325

Book Title: Outlaw

Author: Mark Sullivan

Summary: Robin Monarch has been given the task of working with his team and two foreign agents trying to rescue 3 diplomats who were captured while having a private meeting on a ship in the far east. The pirate/terrorists who have the trio are not backward about inflicting torture. The group follows lead after lead that seems to lead nowhere until finally in the last few hours before the deadline for the execution things break for the good guys, but is there still enough time?

 

 

Book Number: 172

Number Of Pages: 296

Book Title: The Old Deep and Dark

Author: Ellen Hart

Summary: Jane Lawless the proud proprietor of two restaurants in the Twin Cities has hung out her professional shingle as a private investigator with her mentor A. J. Nolan. Cordelia and her sister have bought and are renovating an old playhouse in the city. Skeletons seem to be buried in the walls here and Jane and Cordelia attempt to find out who and why while Jane is also looking into a murder case for her lawyer dad.

 

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Book Number: 34

Number Of Pages: 316

Book Title: Unmanned

Author: Dan Fesperman

Summary: Darwin Cole, former F-16 fighter pilot, was on top of the world, now he's living in a trailer with no electricity and drinking his sorrows away. His ill-fated Predator mission that killed innocent women and children still haunts his dreams and when a reporter shows up investigating the tragedy Cole leaps at a chance for redemption. But the more answers they find, the more questions are raised, and the higher the stakes in a conspiracy that spans the globe.

Rating: 3/5

Review: This book took me forever to get through. I'm not really one for conspiracy stories, especially ultra realistic ones. It was really well written, though, and I don't regret getting through it. Especially the ending, which was exactly what I wanted it to be.

 

 

Book Number: 35

Number Of Pages: 247

Book Title: Dogs Don't Lie

Author: Clea Simon

Summary: Pru Marlow: animal psychic. On the run from her own gift, Pru settles back in her small home town just in time to land in the middle of a murder investigation, and Lily, a former fighting ring pitbull, looks good for it. Pru knows Lily didn't do it, but the pup is too traumatized to really say what she saw. With the help of other animals around town, Pru swallows her revulsion of society and takes the case to clear Lily's name before one of them becomes the next victim.

Rating: 5/5

Review: So good! So good, in every way. I cannot wait to read the next one <3

 

 

Book Number: 36

Number Of Pages: 373

Book Title: One Good Earl Deserves A Lover

Author: Sarah MacLean

Summary: This book is rated AO for Adult Only 18+. Philippa Marbury cares more for books and science than for love or romance leaving her two weeks before her marriage to the simple Earl Castleton at a loss. She needs to know what will be expected of her, what she must do to complete her marriage vows. She turns to Cross, the clever and controlled bookkeeper of London's most exclusive gaming hell, to assist her in her research, inadvertantly threatening everything he has been trying to protect.

Rating: 5/5

Review: The romance continues biggrin.gif This series is just so good

 

 

Book Number: 37

Number Of Pages: 354

Book Title: Them Or Us

Author: David Moody

Summary: This book is rated M for Mature. Book Three of the Hater trilogy. The war has taken its toll on the world leaving the vast majority of it uninhabitable. What's left of the population has begun to settle along the coast under the tyrannical rule of Hinchcliffe. As a nuclear winter begins to move in, Danny finds himself on the edges of a society built on fighting, strength, and cruelty. But his unique ability to hold the Hate leads him to the very center of a final confrontation that could determine the outcome of humanity.

Rating: 4/5

Review: Good ending to a good series.

 

 

Book Number: 38

Number Of Pages: 267

Book Title: Cats Can't Shoot

Author: Clea Simon

Summary: Book Two of the Pru Marlowe Pet Noir series. There's been a cat shooting and Pru suspects the worst until she shows up at the house and is told that the cat is the shooter. Determined to get the truth of the situation, Pru takes on the traumatized Persian but can't get anything from her. With her own abilities fading in and out Pru must turn to the other pampered pets around town for hints as to the real crime being committed before the Persian's time is up.

Rating: 5/5

Review: This series is so ridiculous xd.png

 

 

Book Number: 39

Number Of Pages: 268

Book Title: Parrots Prove Deadly

Author: Clea Simon

Summary: Book Three of the Pru Marlowe Pet Noir series. Pru is hired to retrain a parrot that swears like a sailor but she's convinced he's repeating sounds from a murder scene. While everyone else scoffs at the idea, and lacking in witnesses apart from the persnickety parrot, a blind neighbor, and a single minded guide dog, Pru tries to get to the bottom of the situation while simultaneously dealing with a rabies scare.

Rating: 4/5

Review: PRU, WHEN WILL YOU START LISTENING TO THE ANIMALS AND STOP BEING AN IDIOT?!

 

 

Book Number: 40

Number Of Pages: 308

Book Title: Autumn

Author: David Moody

Summary: 99% of the world's population has died within an hour, just dropped dead where they stood. Several survivors gather together in fear, uncertain what exactly to do next. However, the unknown contagion's "phase two" reanimates half of the dead whose sole purpose has become to eliminate the survivors.

Rating: 4/5

Review: Turns out this was made into a movie and I've totally seen it. And the movie really did it justice. These characters are infuriating! But I hated the characters, not the author, so I guess he accomplished his goal lol.

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Book Number: 173

Number Of Pages: 272

Book Title: Rump: The true story of Rumpelstiltskin

Author: Liesl Shurtliff

Summary: In a tiny village on the side of a mountain a child is born to a woman who dies as she is naming him. The child is known as Rump as that was all of the name that was heard by the adults near the bed. This strange name shapes his fate and his destiny. Rump is compelled to follow the tradition of magic until he successfully learns his full true name and its meaning.

Rating: (optional) 8.4

Review: (optional) Hilarious and entertaining retelling of an old fairy tale. Readers of all ages will enjoy it.

 

Book Number: 174

Number Of Pages: 294

Book Title: Bittersweet

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Summary: This China Bayles book focuses on Mack a friend of China's who has moved to another small town in Texas and become a Game Warden there after her divorce. Mack lives in the same town as Sam and Leatha (China's Mom) and it is Thanksgiving and the clan is gathering in Utopia for the holiday. Murder and Mayhem join the celebrants as organized deer hunting ranch style comes under review.

 

 

Book Number:175

Number Of Pages: 277

Book Title: Buried in Buttercream

Author: G. A. McKevett

Summary: Savannah Reid and long time work partner Dirk Coulter are finally getting married, that is if they can manage to get the seremony to run smoothly long enough to make it legal. Arson and murder put a huge crimp in their plans and the Reid clan staying with Savannah in her 2 bedroom house is seriously crimping her style and sanity.

Rating: (optional) 9

 

 

Book Number: 176

Number Of Pages: 228

Book Title: Aunt Dimity and the Summer King

Author: Nancy Atherton

Summary: Lori Shepherd is enjoying bonding with her third child, a daughter, Bessy. Her father in law is getting married soon so Lori decides to get back in shape by taking her daughter on pram walks. She meets one of his neighbors and uncovers a small mystery which she naturally has to solve. The reason for the ongoing feud between her town of Finch and the neighboring town not connected by road to Finch.

 

 

Book Number: 177

Number Of Pages:294

Book Title: Killer Gourmet

Author: G. A. McKevett

Summary: John and Ryan are opening their restaurant, a dream a long time in the making. There are a few snags opening night but as the staff takes a break after the kitchen closes murder takes place. Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency feels compelled to solve the case, which seems unsolvable until Granny helps thems out.

Rating: (optional) 8.8

Review: (optional) Savannah is learning t cope with married life; watch out for the road blocks.

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Book Number: 178

Number Of Pages: 304

Book Title: Killer Honeymoon

Author: G. A. McKevett

Summary: Santa Tesla off the San Carmalita, CA coast is the honeymoon destination for Van and Dirk. On their first morning on the island they watch a TV reporter die. The police chief tells the media it is an accidental drowning when the woman died from gun shots. Van and company look into the murder and cover up.

 

Book Number: 179

Number Of Pages: 374

Book Title: Someday Soon

Author: Debbie Macomber

Summary: Linette Collins is a widow of 2 years and is just starting back out into the social world when she meets Cain McClellan a mercenary who leads a rescue team for hostages. They fight falling in love, but the attraction is just too strong, but so is their ties to their old lives and co-workers.

 

 

Book Number: 180 Read years ago

Number Of Pages: 214

Book Title: Mystery at the Crossroads

Author: Carolyn Keene

Summary: The Dana girls come across a deserted Civil War inn a few miles from their boarding school when Professor Crandall loses his way back to the school after the girl's tennis match with another school. A gypsy girl is in need of their help and the girls pledge to help her find the tribe's stolen items and clear her boyfriend's name.

Rating: (optional) 7

Review: (optional)Fun mystery set in the 1940's for young girls.

 

 

Book Number: 181 same as above

Number Of Pages: 216

Book Title: The Clue of the Rusty Key

Author: Carolyn Keene

Summary: Jean and Louise Dana are skating with bff Evelyn Star on a nearby lake when they find an abandoned bag. A man claims it and warns them off the country store nearby where the students go for snacks and warmth after isce skating. The horrid man and his dog create a bad situation and the girls try to solve the mystery centered on Jasper Conway's missing Rusty Key.

Rating: (optional) 7

Review: (optional) Good read for an 8 to 13 year old. Fun first mysteries.

 

 

Book Number: 182

Number Of Pages: 349

Book Title: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword

Author: Cressida Cowell

Summary: The Viking Clans are meeting for an annual competion and coming of age ceremony for Hiccup and his yearmates. Unfortunately, the dragon rebellion against humans has started and Alvin and his mother want to take over the leadership of all of the Viking tribes. Hiccup has to stop them and the rebellion.

Rating: (optional) 8.8

Review: (optional) Poor Hiccup his trials and woes seem to grow larger with each passing season and good deed that he does. Toothless is his usual irrepressible self.

 

Book Number: 183 read firstt time a few years ago

Number Of Pages: 244

Book Title: A Deadly Valentine

Author: Carolyn Heart

Summary: Annie and Max Darling are surprised by a visit from Max's mother, Laurel. Laurel has arrived on the island, run off the road into a ditch and been rescued by a wonderful man. She's in love and he is married. The wife is murdered and the husband and Laurel are suspected of collusion in her death.

Rating: (optional) 8.9

 

Book Number: 184

Number Of Pages: 352

Book Title: The Perfect Witness

Author: Iris Johansen

Summary: A young girl has a mind gift, she can read people's memories if she is within 30 feet of them. Unfortunately Teresa does not know how to control her ability. Her dad uses her and it to run his mob. He dies and her stepfather wants to do the same. Teresa makes a run for it and is helped by Mandak who tries to keep her safe from those who would use her for nefarious purposes.

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) It takes awhile to get into this book. It is pretty good once you bond with Teresa and Mandak.

 

 

Book Number: 185

Number Of Pages: 377

Book Title: Accidentally Yours

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Single mom with a 9 year old son dying from a rare disease blackmails billionaire into funding the research needed to find a cure or stop gap measure for the disease. A bit hokey in spots but interesting nonetheless.

Rating: (optional) 7.5

Review: (optional) Only in books and movies does the poor mom with a dying kid manage to manipulate the billionaire into doing what she wants.

 

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Book Number: 186

Number Of Pages: 296

Book Title: The Sooner the Better

Author: Debbie Macomber

Summary: When Raine Dancy's mother dies in a car wreck, she finds out her allegedly dead dad id alive in Mexico and goes to confront him. She is accused of theft of a national treasure and goes on the run from the police and the real thieves who want their haul back.

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Book Number: 41

Number Of Pages: 382

Book Title: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished

Author: Sarah MacLean

Summary: Temple, the Killer Duke, is the muscle behind London's most notorious gaming hell with no hope of redemption. Mara Lowe, the woman he is said to have murdered twelve years ago, haunts his memory until she reappears and offers him the one thing he yearns for: absolution in exchange for her ruination. The deal seems sweet until he finds himself caught in the pull of her maddening mystery, spiraling into love.

Rating: 5/5

Review: SUCH ROMANCE, SO LOVE. My most guilty of pleasures.

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Book Number: 75

Number Of Pages: 272

Book Title: The Dark Lady (Spanish edition)

Author: Irene Adler (aka Alessandro Gatti)

Summary: Irene Adler meets Sherlock and his friend Arsène. Together they investigate a robbery and a murder, when they realise that the police is unable of catching the criminals.

 

Book Number: 76

Number Of Pages: 240

Book Title: Fenris, el elfo (would be something like "Fenris, the elf")

Author: Laura Gallego García

Summary: This is the story of Fenris, an elf who was born a werewolf after his mother was bitten while she was pregnant with him. He has to live with the other elves, who view wolves as evil and dangerous while hiding what happens to him every full moon until one day, after he's put on trial for being a werewolf, he runs away.

 

Book Number: 77

Number Of Pages: 312

Book Title: As Red As Blood (Spanish edition)

Author: Salla Simukka

Summary: Lumikki Andersson, a 17 year old girl, gets involved in a criminal operation when she agrees to help a class mate who is scared because she thinks some people are following her.

 

Book Number: 78

Number Of Pages: 285

Book Title: The Colour of Magic

Author: Terry Pratchett

Summary: This book has four short stories that tell adventures of Rincewind, a wizard who never finished his magical training, and Twoflower, a foreigner who wants to see the world and have adventures.

 

Book Number: 79

Number Of Pages: 336

Book Title: The Wind Singer (German edition)

Author: William Nicholson

Summary: In the city of Aramanth people live in homes of different qualities depending on how well the head of the family scores in an exam. Two siblings and their class mate escape their hometown and that system to look for the voice of The Wind Singer, an object that hasn't been working for years.

 

Book Number: 80

Number Of Pages: 256

Book Title: Doctor Who: Shining Darkness

Author: Mark Michalowski

Summary: The Doctor and Donna are visiting a museum on an alien planet when Donna is kidnapped. They both find themselves in the middle of a fight between people who want to give rights to sentient robots and those who view them as machines. What they don't know is that there is something more dangerous going on.

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Book Number:187

Number Of Pages: 336

Book Title: Ming Tea Murder

Author: Laura Childs

Summary: Theo gets roped into finding the killer of the museum benefactor when her current boyfriend id a suspect. Suspects seem to come out of the woodwork, and it's hard to narrow the search.

Rating: (optional) 7.5

Review: (optional) Dialogue is not up to par, especially Max who speaks as if he is a middle school student of the 1950'2 or 60's.

 

 

Book Number:188

Number Of Pages: 384

Book Title:Until We Touch

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Larissa and Jack work together for a PR company in Fool'sGold, CA. Larissa's mom visits and rocks the boat by asking Jack to fire her daughter because her daughter is in love with him and won't move on until he makes her see there is no hope for marriage with him.

Denial and chaos reigns for months.

Rating: (optional) 8.3

Review: (optional) Good story with likable characters that you are going to want to shake for their ostrich abilities.

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Book Number:20

Number Of Pages:176

Book Title:Dragonsong

Author:Anne McCaffrey

Summary:Menolly is a talented young musician and songwriter living in an isolated sea holding on Pern. Her family thinks that girls can't be musicians and she's punished for showing her talent, so she runs off and lives in a cave, which is dangerous during Threadfall.

 

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Book Number:21

Number Of Pages:240

Book Title:Dragonsinger

Author:Anne McCaffrey

Summary:Menolly is now an apprentice at Harper Hall. After living alone it's a bit hard for her to fit in among so many people, but her musical talents are too strong to ignore.

 

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Book Number:22

Number Of Pages:346

Book Title:The Death of Lucy Kyte

Author:Nicola Upson

Summary:Josephine Tey inherits a cottage in the country from a woman she barely knew. This odd bequest becomes even more mysterious when it seems the cottage is haunted by a murder victim from the distant past.

 

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Book Number:23

Number Of Pages:414

Book Title:Fear in the Sunlight

Author:Nicola Upson

Summary:Josephine Tey is invited to stay with Alfred Hitchcock in the village of Portmeirion. Hitchcock plans to expose all his guests to their greatest fears, just for his own amusement. But then real tragedy strikes, and Josephine finds herself in the middle of another murder investigation.

 

 

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Book Number:24

Number Of Pages:292

Book Title:An Expert in Muder

Author:Nicola Upson.

Summary:Josephine Tey is travelling by train from Scotland to London, England for the final week of her extremely popular play 'Richard of Bordeaux'. She meets a young fan, who is later found murdered. Josephine is a suspect, so she does a bit of investigating.

 

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Book Number:25

Number Of Pages:211

Book Title:Shards of Honor

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

Summary:Commander Cordelia Naismith is the captain of a survey ship from the planet of Beta, investigating another planet, when she is taken prisoner by Captain Aral Vorkosigan, commanding the Barrayaran Imperial war cruiser General Vorkraft. She finds herself involved in Barrayaran politics and also with Aral Vorkosigan, who turns out to be an honourable man.

 

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Book Number:26

Number Of Pages:297

Book Title:Barrayar

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

Summary:Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan have married and plan to retire to the country to live a peaceful life after all their adventures. The Emperor of Barrayar has other plans for them.

 

 

 

 

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Book Number: 189

Number Of Pages: 265

Book Title: Sworn to Raise

Author: Terah Edun

Summary: A poor orphan is brought to court to be trained as a companion. She has magical powers which she had not known about.

Rating: (optional) 8.7

Review: (optional) Intriguing Fantasy read

 

 

Book Number: 190

Number Of Pages: 255

Book Title: Sworn to Transfer

Author: Terah Edun

Summary: Ciardis is having major problems trying to master her magic while learning enough to become a good companion and attempting to stay out of trouble. The young woman leads with her heart which lands her in lots of dicey situations.

Rating: (optional)8.8

Review: (optional) Ciardis and Sebastian's story as they try to conquer their talents and learn what is happening in the kingdom makes for an enjoyable fantasy read.

 

 

Book Number: 191

Number Of Pages: 331

Book Title: Sworn to Conflict

Author: Terah Edun

Summary: Everything she apparently knew about herself is not exactly true. Everyone wants to kill or control Ciardis. Even Sebastien hasn't been totally upfront with her. Ciardis figures out how to cope with the lying and misrepresenting of facts she is being given as the kingdom battles for life.

Rating: (optional) 8.8

Review: (optional) Frost giants demons, kith dragons and family present huge challenges and interest.

 

 

Book Number: 192

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Book Title: Silver Wings for Vicki

Author: Helen Wells

Summary: Almost 21 year old Vicki Barr signs up to become a stewardis and her trials and adventures are depicted.

Rating: (optional)7

Review: (optional) A mid twentieth century young girls bok about being a flight attendant in about 1950. Vicki is the Nancy Drew of the skies.

 

Book Number: 193

Number Of Pages: 352

Book Title: When We Met

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Angel is a man who can't commit. He did years ago and then his wife and 14 year old son died when he was away from home on a job. Taryn has never been able to trust so her relationships are short lived. They meet and think they are just using each other until an accident happens and ...

Rating: (optional) 9

Review: (optional) Better than normal relationship book. It differs from the rest as Taryn's partners are her best friends and they are 3 former pro Football players. The interaction between Taryn amd Angel is believable.

 

 

Book Number: 194

Number Of Pages: 436

Book Title:The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

Author: Christopher Healy

Summary: In the world of fairy tales, four Prince Charmings feel overlooked and unappreciated. The heroines of the story get all of the credit, glory and fame. The bards don't even mention their names they are simply Prince Charming. They each move away from home for a bit to find balance and meaning while a witch tries to conquer the kingdoms with her evil magic.

Rating: (optional) 9

Review: (optional) Great book for elementary school readers. A quirky twist on old fairy tales which moms will enjoy also.

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Book Number: 195

Number Of Pages: 378

Book Title: Only Yours

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Montana Hendrix has finally found her dream job working with Therapy dogs. Now she just has to find a guy and fall in love. World renown Plastic surgeon Simon Bradley has come to town for a few months to ply his art and magic on those needing his services before heading off for the next few months to Peru. Mayor Marsha tasks Montana with getting Simon to settle in Fool's Gold. Will she be able to change the nomad's ways?

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) Fool's Gold is always fun for a visit and worth the time you spend here in a magical town. 5-28

 

 

 

Book Number: 196

Number Of Pages: 368

Book Title: Before WeKiss

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Sam Ridge has problems - his relationships with women turn into mega personal life disasters for him. Because of this he won't commit. Enter Dellina Hopkins who is going to rescue him from himself and then the sparks will fly and love will ignite.

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) You will never forget Sam's parents, especially Mom Lark who has no censor on her tongue or curiosity. Embarrasment follows where Lark goes. 5-29

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Book Number: 42

Number Of Pages: 479

Book Title: The Knife of Never Letting Go

Author: Patrick Ness

Summary: New World harbours secrets, secrets that cannot be shared with boys, but Todd is only a few weeks from his thirteenth birthday when he will become a man. His excitement is dashed, however, when he discovers a blank space in the Noise, the cloud of thought that radiates from every living thing on the planet. The blank space is Viola, a girl from a crashed space ship, a girl that can't exist because all women on the planet were killed by biowarfare a decade ago and the planet is still unclean. Or at least that's what Todd has been told.

Rating: 3/5

Review: It's told from the first person point of view of someone who is partially illiterate, so a lot of the words are misspelled. It's a great story but it's hard to get through.

 

 

Book Number: 43

Number Of Pages: 330

Book Title: Autumn: The City

Author: David Moody

Summary: It has been weeks since the dead began to rise and a handful of survivors are making do sheltered in a university hospital. The sudden appearance of a company of soldiers throws the fragile people into chaos as they begin to hope, and fear, a change.

Rating: 4/5

Review: I mean, I understand that the world has collapsed and everything is pretty terrible, but these people need to get it together. It's been four weeks and there are people who are still catatonic. I just want to shake them. Then maybe let them get bludgeoned to death by the zombies.

 

 

Book Number: 44

Number Of Pages: 376

Book Title: Never Judge A Lady By Her Cover

Author: Sarah MacLean

Summary: This book is rated AO, for Adult Only 18+. By day she is Lady Georgiana, purebred aristocrat, ruined at the tender age of sixteen with a fatherless child. By night she is Anna, London's most celebrated lightskirt at the Fallen Angel, but there is another role she plays behind closed doors, one so much darker and more powerful. She has kept her lives separate for years until now, when her daughter needs a title and she needs to be wed to find it. Enter Duncan West, newspaperman extraordonaire, who is vowed to uncover her secrets if it's the last thing he does.

Rating: 5/5

Review: AAAAAAAAAAAAAMYGOSHTHISBOOKKILLEDME. But seriously, it was excellent.

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Is there going to be a 2015-2016 book year challenge? If so, I'd much rather join that one since there's only two more months left of this year remaining.

 

However, I suppose I'll still ask to join this year's challenge anyways since I want to read more (I don't want to have to wait two months to begin reading) and I think this Book Challenge is a really cool way to keep me on track. smile.gif

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Book Number: 197

Number Of Pages: 358

Book Title: Second Watch

Author: J. A. Jance

Summary: JP Beaumont is in the hospital for double knee replacement surgery and dreaming under the effects of strong pain meds of his past. He thinks he is awake and being visited by people/ghosts from his past. Monica Wellington his first homicide case visits him to ask that he keep his promise to find her killer. He also flashes back to 1973 when his second lieutenant saved his life in Viet Nam, five days after his arrival in country. Beau works to solve these 2 mysteries from his past as he regains mobility and health after his knee surgery.

Rating: (optional) 9.3

Review: (optional) Intriguing and captivating story weaving past and present together into a compelling story.

 

Book Number: 198

Number Of Pages: 293

Book Title: Left for Dead

Author: J. A. Jance

Summary: Ali Reynolds and Sister Anselm set out to solve another set of mysterious circumstances they encounter when they meet up in a hospital waiting room in Tuscon. A police officer is being accused of being crooked and a young girl needs protection from the people who thought theyt had killed her.

Rating: (optional) 8.6

Review: (optional)Ali and company are always to be counted on for a good fun read with lots of excitement and mysteries to solve.

 

 

Book Number: 199

Number Of Pages: 262

Book Title: Pride v. Prejudice

Author:Joan Hess

Summary: Claire Malloy is humiliated as she is culled from the jury pool by the DA. Vowing to get him back for his treatment of her, she sets out to prove the innocence of the defendent in the case. Meanwhile her husband Peter tells her that his mom is coming to meet Claire and her daughter Caron 4 days away on Memorial Day. Claire is frantic and in a panic about meeting the wealthy sophisticated mother of her husband.

Rating: (optional) 7

Review: (optional) It is an interesting funny read where all seems to go wrong until suddenly all is right for the good guys after all.

 

 

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Number Of Pages: 173

Book Title:Traitor in the Shipyard

Author:Kathleen Ernst

Summary: Caroline Abbott is a 9 year old girl living in Sackett's Harbor in 1812. Her father owns a shipyard and the business is being plagued by a series of happenings which are hindering the shipyard from successfully finishing the two US warships they are building for the US Navy's use on Lake Ontario. Who is trying to sabotage the builders and why? Caroline and her friends and family have to find out.

Rating: (optional) 7.5

Review: (optional)A fun historical novel for young girls set during the War of 1812 on the shores of Lake Ontario in NY. Caroline is a brave hard working young heroine.

 

Just 50 more to go in slightly more than 50 days. Will I make it or not?

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Book Number:27

Number Of Pages:196

Book Title:Verdict of the Court

Author:Cora Harrison

Summary:Mara, the Brehon of the Burrin, is celebrating Christmas at her husband's court. Then the Brehon of that district is murdered and she must spend her time investigating a case.

 

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Book Number:28

Number Of Pages:488

Book Title:Two For Sorrow

Author:Nicola Upson

Summary:Josephine Tey is doing research for a new book about the baby farmers, Sach and Walters. She does not expect that this old case will be connected to a new series of murders.

 

 

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Book Number:29

Number Of Pages:326

Book Title:Angel With Two Faces

Author:Nicola Upson

Summary:Josephine Tey is invited to take a vacation in the village of her old friend, Archie Penrose, a Scotland Yard Inspector. But just as the vacation is supposed to begin, there is a series of murders in that very village.

 

 

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Book Number:30

Number Of Pages:351

Book Title:Gossamer Axe

Author:Gael Baudino

Summary:Christa is an immortal harper, who discovers a new world of hard rock music, and hopes that it will help to defeat the Elves who hold her lover, Judith, captive in the land of the Sidhe.

 

 

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I am going to assume I joined, lol.

 

Book Number: 1

Number Of Pages: 959

Book Title: A Dance with Dragons

Author: George Martin

Summary: The 5th book in the series of A Song of Ice and Fire. Jon Snow is the 998th Lord Commander on the Wall and struggles to defend it while allowing a large band of wildlings to settle in the Gift. Danaerys Targaryen attempts to control the ex-slave city of Meereen. Stannis fights in the north of Westeros while the rest of the country is trying to mend itself after the War of the Five Kings.

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Book Number: 201

Number Of Pages: 376

Book Title: Payment in Kind

Author: J. A. Jance

Summary:Det. J P Beaumont is working with a different detective while his normal partner battles food poisoning. Two bodies have been found in the broom closet at the County School Board's headquarters. Who and what caused the deaths needs to be determined quickly.

Rating: (optional) 8.2

Review: (optional)Beau's reactions to being teamed with Det. Kramer are amusing while Kramer tries to make Beau look bad and Beau just wants the case solved. Quirky characters abound as suspects and family members of the deceased.

 

 

Book Number: 202

Number Of Pages: 119

Book Title: Mystery of the Missing Crew

Author: Michael Jan Friedman

Summary: An android is found on a planet whose colony has been decimated by an unknown. Data is brought back to the Federation, petitions to join Starfleet Academy and three years later his wish is granted. The 5 cadets on Board the Yosemite heading to the academy find themselves alone on the ship and being hailed by an unknown beligerent ship's crew.

Rating: (optional)7.5

Review: (optional) Fun Middle school reader about cadets at Starfleet Acdemy.

 

 

Book Number: 203

Number Of Pages: 304

Book Title: Hold Me

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Destiny Mills comes to Fool's Gold to install a computer software package and tailor it for the town. She is 28 and travels from place to place setting up search and rescue operations for communities. This time she has a teen aged half sister with her she has never met, but is now responsible for. Destiny tries to cope with being a responsible adult and loving sister as she also falls slowly in love with the man she is training to head the town's new rescue system.

 

 

Book Number: 204

Number Of Pages: 304

Book Title: Straight From the Hip

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Izzy Titan has lost her sight due to an explosion on the oil rig she was working on. She has crawled into a protective cocoon in her sister's house and refuses to come out of her room. Her sisters hold an intervention and have her kidnapped and taken to a ranch where she must learn to cope with her blindness as she faces the question have the operation which will restore her sight or make her 100% blind or not.

 

 

Book Number: 205

Number Of Pages: 416

Book Title: The Girls of Mischief Bay

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Pam, Nicole and Shannon are three women who became friends through an exercise class Nicole teaches and the other two take. One winter and spring the women's lives change forever as Nicole has problems with her husband, Pam wants to spice up her mrriage and keep from looking older, and Shannon wants to fall in love, marry and have children as her almost 40 biological clock is screaming. The girls are there for each other as they each face various personal dilemnas.

 

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Book Number: 206

Number Of Pages:113

Book Title: Secret of the Lizard People

Author: Michael Jan Friedman

Summary: Data is now attending Starfleet Academy and he and some of the other students have been chosen to go on a "Field Trip" to see a super Jovian planet ignition where two gas giants collide and form a star. As they arrive on scene to record the event they get a distress call and locate a space station stuck in an asteroid in a neighboring belt. The captain sends 2 officers and 8 cadets to assess the situation and rescue the survivors if any. When they arrive the radiation masks the communication network and blocks clear signals fron life on the station. The two teams encounter aliens and trouble and must work as a group to solve the problem given to them by the captain.

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) Star Trek for Middle School. Glimpses into the lives of the characters we known as adults while they are still at the academy. smile.gif

 

Book Number: 207

Number Of Pages:111

Book Title: Starfall

Author:Brad and Barbara Strickland

Summary: This young readers novel tells the story of Jean Luc Picard's first attempt to test into Star Fleet Academy and the following year when he studies and learns in order to try again and fulfill his dream of being a Star Fleet officer.

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Book Number: 208

Number Of Pages: 116

Book Title: Atlantis Station

Author: V. E. Mitchell

Summary: Geordi La Forge is on a field trip for his Star Fleet studies. It is a visit to Isla del Fuego on earth and its lab under the ocean. It is an honor to have been chosen but he was placed in a group that also contained the 3 cadets he likes least in his class. Now a dister has befallen the Atlantis Station and the cadets must all work together to get out alive.

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Book Number: 209

Number Of Pages:330

Book Title: Die Again

Author: Tess Gerritsen

Summary: Ms.Gerritsen weaves a tale back and forth from 6 years ago in Botswanna Africa to today in Boston, MA. On safari a group of 7 tourists and 2 crew go missing. Flash forward to today in Boston where Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles keep finding themselves involved in bizarre killings which seem to be somehow linked together. Are they? Or is Jane wrong?

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Book Number: 3

Number Of Pages: 254

Book Title:Croc-Blanc (original title: White Fang)

Author:Jack London

Summary: It is the story of a wolf called White Fang, how he was born in the wild, how he was adopted by humans, the hard days and the better days

 

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Book Number:4

Number Of Pages: 491

Book Title:Dans les Bois (original title: The Woods)

Author: Harlan Coben

Summary: 20 years earlier, 4 teenagers disapeared in the woods. 2 were found murdered, the two other was never found. Now some events will chnage everything they tought happened.

 

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Book Number: 2

Number Of Pages: 358

Book Title: Wither

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Summary: First book in the Chemical Garden trilogy. In a world where women only live up to 20 and men 25 due to a genetic accident, Rhine Ellery is one of many women who are kidnapped from their homes and sold to rich men to be married into a polygamous society in an effort to keep the human population going. Her husband is a nice enough man, but his father is a doctor who will do anything to find a cure, including experimentation with his son's wives.

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Book Number: 10

Number Of Pages: 1051

Book Title: A Dance With Dragons

Author: George R. R. Martin

Summary: In the fifth volume of the fantasy series, winter finally arrives to Westeros, and everyone has to face struggles in order to survive it.

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Book Number: 210

Number Of Pages: 111

Book Title: Breakaway

Author: Bobbi JG Weiss and David Cody Weiss

Summary: Deanna Troi has applied for and been acepted into Starfleet Academy. Her mom doesn't want her to go. She tries to talk Deanna out of it and then goes to San Francisco to secretly help her. Deanna is going out of her mind. She has to find a way to cope.

 

Book Number:211

Number Of Pages: 344

Book Title: Only His

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: the Hendrix daughters Montanna and Dakota are set to marry their fiances Simon and Finn. Nevada is feeling left out as she starts a new job trying to prove herself to herself. Unfortunately her new boss is not the guy she fell in love with's father but the man she made a fool of herself over as a freshman in college. Nevada has to work out her past and face Tucker's former obsession who played her ten plus years ago. Fool's Gold is fascinating to the new folks in town as usual and they all must learn to accept each other.

 

 

Book Number: 212

Number Of Pages: 384

Book Title: All Summer Long

Author:Susan Mallery

Summary: Charlie Dixon has a secret and needs to learn how to be a normal woman. Clay Stryker wants to settle with his family in Fool's Gold now that he has retired from the international world of Male models. How they come to be a couple is a story only possible in Fool's Gold.

 

 

Book Number:213

Number Of Pages: 441

Book Title:14th Deadly Sin

Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Summary: The Women's Murder Clubis moving into new dimensions. Lindsey is happy with Joe who has been working a job out of their home watching their daughter between jobs. Yuki wants to represent the victims so she accepts a new job and her first case is against her old boss. Claire is still ME and a brilliant person. Cindy's book has been published and it is a hit. The girls are trying to solve another baffling case while Joe is delving into the back cases of the 5 women killed on Claire's birthday. One per year.

 

Book Number: 214

Number Of Pages: 175

Book Title: The Traveler's Tricks

Author: Laurie Calkhoven

Summary: Caroline Abbott is going on sa 3 day stagecoach ride from her home to Albany,NY. She and her best friend Rhonda Hathaway are traveling to meet up with Rhonda's family and do business for Caroline's father, war business. There is a thief and he steals Caroline's packet from her father. The girls have to solve the mystery of who is guilty to get the packet back and help the USA win the War of 1812.

Rating: (optional) 7.5

Review: (optional) Book for 4th through 8th graders . It's a mystery for American Girls.

 

 

Book Number: 215

Number Of Pages: 245

Book Title: Land of Oz

Author:L. Frank Baum

Summary: Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry are off to Australia to get Uncle Henry back on his feet. Dorothy accidentally is swept over board and her second magical adventure takes her to the magical Land Of Ev and the kingdom of the Nome King.

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) An excellent children's book filled with innocence and magic from a hundred years ago.

 

 

Book Number: 216

Number Of Pages: 368

Book Title: Gray Mountain

Author: John Grisham

Summary: Another depression has hit the US economy and lawyers are being laid off right and left. Sam is furloughed and moves to Brady, Va a coal mining town to work as a legal aide lawyer while waiting for her year in exile to end so she can return to her NY life. Mattie and Donovan help her connect to the people who are being beaten down by the unfair justice system which seems to reward the rich and ignore or punish the poor and downtrodden. Sam has to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life.

 

 

 

Book Number: 217

Number Of Pages: 3636

Book Title: Lip Service

Author: Susan Mallory

Summary: Skye Titan chose between duty and love at 18. Now she is a widow with a daughter and her first love returns after 9 years away in the Navy Seals. Mitch lost his leg in an explosion and is now trying to cope with the changes this has caused in his life. Skye is trying to keep her family and foundation together while her half brother tries to bring her whole family to ruin.

 

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Book Number: 218

Number Of Pages: 448

Book Title: Way of the Warrior

Author: Suzanne Brockman et al

Summary: A collection of 7 short stories and one nouvella based on tales of armed forces service personal who are wounded and return home to take up their new lives as wounded warriors.. Faith, honor, and love combine to make these stories memorable and satidsfying.

 

 

Book Number: 219

Number Of Pages: 179

Book Title: Family Affair

Author: Debbie Macomber

Summary: Lacey has now been divorced for a year. She is allowing her world to order her around until she hits her breaking point and strikes verbally back. Misunderstandings blossom into friendship and then love as Jack her next door neighbor and Lacey become acquainted. Because of Lacey's ex Peter, she still has some lingering trust issues but once she actually stops to listen all becomes clear.

 

Book Number: 220

Number Of Pages: 476

Book Title: The Heroe's Guide to Storming the Castle

Author: Christopher Healy

Summary: Once more the League of Princes gets together to rescue an object that has been stolen from one of the prince's families. Briar Rose is intent on getting married to Liam. The old group needs to get together to save one another from imprisonment and the 13 Kingdoms from being ruled by a wicked, evil and powerful madman.

Rating: (optional) 9

Review: (optional) A fun children's novel peopled with fairytale characters who enact a charming story.

 

30 books to go! There is still hope. 6-23-2015 biggrin.gif

 

Book Number: 221

Number Of Pages: 207

Book Title: Danger in Paris

Author: Sarah Masters Buckey

Summary: Samantha and her "sister" Nellie travel to Europe with their grandfather and grandmother as ten year olds and meet a mystery in Paris. Who is trying to get their grandfather?

Rating: (optional) 8.2

Review: (optional)

 

Book Number: 222

Number Of Pages: 376

Book Title: Hot on Her Heels

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Dana Birch best friend of the Titan sisters of Dallas takes a leave of absence from her job to tail the girl's half brother. Dana finds out a bit more than she has bargained for and life is dangerous to body and heart.

Rating: (optional) 8.3

Review: (optional) Fourth book in the Lone Star series and a good end to it. Exciting and heart warming for those who like their escape romances that way.

 

 

 

Book Number: 223

Number Of Pages: 328

Book Title:Under Her Skin

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Lexi Titan has always longed for her dad's approval and love. Now she is afraid she has lost everything when a loan she foolishly took is called with 21 days to pay back 2 million dollars.

Rating: (optional) 8.6

Review: (optional) Good Intro book to the four book Lone Star Sisters series.

 

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Book Number: 224

Number Of Pages: 327

Book Title: Trust No One

Author: Jayne Ann Krentz

Summary: Grace Elland has a few deep seated problems; she was trapped by a murderer when she was 16 and the fight often haunts her, especially at night. This morning Jayne discovered a second murder victim - her current boss. There appears to be a possible connection to the murder more than a decade ago when she was in high school. And now her best friend has set her up with a blind date. What next?

Rating: (optional) 8.5

Review: (optional) The story pulls you in and you become part of the story as you flip the pages to see what happens to Grace and Julius next.

 

 

Book Number: 225

Number Of Pages: 296

Book Title: There Is Always Plan B

Author: Susan Mallery

Summary: Carly Spencer has been divorced by her husband Neil. He quit his job so her alimony and child support are not happening and he wants to buy a boat and sail to Hawaii. To make ends meet, Carly drags her 15 year old daughter up the coast from Malibu to a small town North of San Francisco where she grew up in the family bed and breakfast. More problems, her mom has run the business into the ground and is counting on Carly to put her divorce settlemeent into the B&B to save it. There is no money though. Now what?

Rating: (optional) 8.1

Review: (optional) Fun read with a ghostbuster trying to debunk the ghost stories about the B&B. Carly is going nuts, Mary the ghost is a friend of her childhood.

 

25 books to go as of 6-29-2015

 

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Book Number: 3

Number Of Pages: 341

Book Title: Fever

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Summary: Second book in the Chemical Garden trilogy. Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion and set out to find Rhine's twin brother but there are many obstacles standing in their way.

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Book Number:31

Number Of Pages:209

Book Title:Murder in the Rue Chartres

Author:Greg Herren

Summary:Chanse Macleod returns to New Orleans after the horror of Hurricane Katrina, to find that his house is intact, but that the trauma of the hurricane is still affecting the city and his own heart and mind. To help in his emotional recovery, he takes on a murder case and opens a real can of worms.

 

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Book Number:32

Number Of Pages:204

Book Title:Keeper of the Shadows

Author:Alexandra Sokoloff

Summary:Barrie is a traditional 'Keeper' of the Otherworld, protecting Shapeshifters and Elves and Vampires from discovery by the ordinary humans around them.

 

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Book Number:33

Number Of Pages:251

Book Title:Shadowboxing

Author:Anne Barlow

Summary:Kristopher Lehrer has always loved David Reuben as more than a friend, but tried to hide his feelings. But, in pre-WW2 Germany, his feelings are becoming more and more dangerous, for them both.

 

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Book Number: 226

Number Of Pages: 148

Book Title:Cinderella Smith

Author: Stephanie Barden

Summary: Children's book about a charming little girl starting the third grade who learns to cope with new things, people and changes in her life all the whille hunting for a string of lost shoes.

 

Book Number: 227

Number Of Pages: 139

Book Title: Cinderella Smith: The More the Merrier

Author: Stephanie Barden

Summary: Cinderella continues to lose shoes one at a time, invent new words and irritate her former bff Rosemary T. Aunt Flora is watching the two Smith girls and Cinderella and Erin are becoming closer friends as the year progresses.)

 

Book Number: 228

Number Of Pages: 139

Book Title: Cinderella Smith The Super Secret Mystery

Author: Stephanie Barden

Summary: Project time for Mr' Harrison's third grade. What has happened to the library books Cinderella put a hold on for her report?

 

 

Book Number: 229

Number Of Pages: 203

Book Title: The Smugler's Secrets

Author: Kathleen Ernst

Summary: The War of 1812 is still being fought and the smuggler's aiding the British by selling them goods and food are making life hard on everyone in the Lake Ontario setion of NY state. Caroline is helping her Uncle and cousin out while her aunt helps out her own sister in a nearby community while she is laid low by an accident. Who is doing the smuggling? Is it her uncle? or someone else. The girls will find out and stop it before Caroline returns home.

Rating: (optional) 8.3

Review: (optional) Learning about the rough passage from one side of NY to another by stage coach is interesting and fun when we get to see how Caroline and her cousing cope with the trip.

 

 

Book Number: 230

Number Of Pages: 183

Book Title: Secrets in the Hills

Author: Kathleen Ernst

Summary: In New Mexico in the 1820's a different culture and social rules and norms existed for the pre-teen and tenn-aged girls of Spanish descent. Josefina is learning to become a curandera like her godmother. Josefina and her sisters help out at their father's ranch and learn as they grow into their heritage.

Rating: (optional) 8

Review: (optional) American Girl mysteries are fun stories that show a slightly different side to the historic girls of out past. Good read for young girls interested in US history.

 

 

Book Number: 231

Number Of Pages: 291

Book Title: Owlflight

Author: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Summary: Darien's parents disappeared while out trapping in the nearby Pelagiris Forest. Now he is apprenticed to the village magician and healer who has lost almost all of his magic during the magical devastation of the land. Darian feels trapped and unwanted and then the barbarians come and take his village. He runs away and finds a home with the magical Hawk Brothers who help him tame his magic.

 

 

Book Number: 232

Number Of Pages: 389

Book Title: Owlsight

Author: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Summary:Darien has been welcomed into the vale and life of the Hawk Brothers and their society. He has a new teacher and Errol Grove has a herb healer with a mage gift she needs trained. Keisha and Darien meet and become friends as they grow through their early and mid teen years.

 

 

Book Number: 233

Number Of Pages: 326

Book Title: Owlknight

Author: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Summary: Keisha and Darien are now grown and taking their places in the life and society of their world. Darien and keisha are both a bit more gifted with magic and then they originally believed and now that he is an adult, Darien is driven to find out what happened all those years ago to his parents. His friends travel with him to help him find the answer.

 

 

Book Number:234

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Book Title: Now and Then

Author: Robert B. Parker

Summary: Spenser is hired to discover whether a wife is cheating on her husband. She is but she also seems to be part of a group of home grown terrorists and he is an FBI agent. Then they are both killed. Spenser feels the need to find out why the agent was killed and bring justice to the dead.

Rating: (optional) 8.8

Review: (optional) An excellent Spenser novel that harks back to the early part of the series when Susan Silverman left Spenser.

 

 

 

Book Number: 235

Number Of Pages:

Book Title:The Burning Bridge a possible reread

Author: John Flannigan

Summary: Will and Horace take a trip with Halt's first apprentice now Ranger Gilian. War is threatening and the king wants his liege people to gather their troops and and honor their commitments to aide him on the field of battle. Secret plots and evil are lurking to catch the king and rangers unaware. Will and Horace have to learn to be more responsible and work without supervision.

Rating: (optional) 8.3

 

7-8-2015 read through book 235; only 15 more books to go.

 

Book Number: 236

Number Of Pages: 273

Book Title:The Melody Lingers On

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Summary: Lane is an Interior Design Assistant for a NYC firm who has 2 new clients. Lane is helping her boss Glady and they stumble into an FBI case. Which of their customers if any is helping or did help the dead guy rip off 5 billion dollars from the working middle class, now poor retirees, if any? Lane doesn't know who or what to believe.

 

Book Number: 237

Number Of Pages: 121

Book Title: Dangerous Destiny

Author: Susaznne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann

Summary: Sky and her mom have just moved from Connetticut to Coconut Key, Florida. Something weird is going on. Teen girls are acting strangely and seem to know Sky, but she doesn't know them. Strange happenings threaten her and the only friend she has at school Calvin. What is going on?

Rating: (optional) 8.5

Review: (optional) Sci-Fi Fantasy book in earth's near future.

 

7-11=2015

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Book Number:34

Number Of Pages:170

Book Title:Coming of Age in Samoa

Author:Margaret Mead

Summary:A great Anthropological classic, and the study of young women and how they grew up in early 20th century Samoa.

 

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Book Number: 238

Number Of Pages: 383

Book Title: Truth or Die

Author: James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Summary: Trevor Mann is a good, disbarred lawyer who is dating a NY Times reporter. She leaves his bed one night to meet one of her sources and is killed in a "Mugging" on the way to the meet. Trevor wants justice or revenge for his girlfriends death and sets out to find out what happened and who did it. He finds more than he has bargained for.

Rating: (optional) 9

Review: (optional) Very good non series Patterson book. I wish Claire had made it farther. I really liked her.

 

Book Number: 239

Number Of Pages: 146

Book Title: Killer Cupcakes

Author: Leighann Dobbs

Summary: Lexy Baker has just moved into her Nana's old house. Her dog gets loose and Sprinkles runs to the next yard. A detective owns that house and Lexy and Jack suddenly find themselves meeting all of the time as someone framed her for a murder and he's a homicide cop.

Rating: (optional) 7.5

Review: (optional) Totally hilarious and fun to reasd. Escapism at its finest.

 

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Book Number: 240

Number Of Pages: 336

Book Title: From a High Tower

Author: Mercedes Lackey

Summary: An updated twist on the Rapunzel story set in Germany's Black Forest. Don't expect it to be the traditional story, Rapunzel is an Air Magician and her "Mother" an Earth Master.

Rating: (optional) 9.5

Review: (optional) Very captivating tale of Rapunzel as a wild west show star . The twists to keep her alive keep you avidly reading.

 

Ten books to go and 16 days more or less. ohmy.gif

 

Book Number: 241

Number Of Pages:107

Book Title: My Dad The Dragon

Author: Jackie French

Summary: Horace and his friends attend Knight School and have been given difficult assignments to do to impress King Arthur when he visits. How Horace, his friends, and his family cope with the homework and visit is a tale of imagination and humor.

Rating: (optional) 9.6

Review: (optional) Hilarious children's book that will have readers of all ages waiting to see how the story unfolds.

 

Book Number: 242

Number Of Pages: 342

Book Title: Widow's Walk

Author: Robert B. Parker

Summary: Spenser has been hired by Rita Fiore to investigate the killing of a rich bank owner. Rita represents the widow, Mary Smith. Spenser has no real leads but must figure out what happened to the dead guy and how it came to look like he was murdered by his wife.

Rating: (optional) 8.8

Review: (optional) Mary Smith may cause you to want to commit murder, but Spenser and his friends manage to keep the story going and eventually wind up the case.

 

Book Number: 243

Number Of Pages: 427

Book Title: Last One Home

Author: Debbie Macomber

Summary: Cassie Carter ran away from home after High School graduation and married Duke her boyfriend. It was the worst mistake she ever made. She has been paying for it for the 13 years since she made it. Finally, she took her daughter and left Duke, brought charges against him and made her way back to Washington State her childhood home. Mom and Dad have passed away and her sisters are not sure they want to forgive and forget her teenage mistakes. Cassie must prove to herself and her daughter that she is sdtrong enough to survive without leaning on anyone else.

Rating: (optional) 7.9

Review: (optional) Abusive relationships and habitat for humanity are the focus of this novel.

 

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