Posted January 15, 2020 Book Number: 25 Number Of Pages: 301 Book Title: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds Author: Gwenda Bond Summary: (prequel to Stranger Things TV show) This is Terry Ives' backstory and her own experiences at Hawkins lab. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 18, 2020 Book Number: 105 Number Of Pages: 313 Book Title: An Amish Homecoming Author: Amy Clipston, Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller Summary: Three stories of Amish women returning to their hometowns. Widowed Eva Dienner returns to the parents who disapproved of her marriage to let them meet their grandson. Sarah Zook fled to Houston after becoming pregnant out of wedlock, but Hurricane Harvey's floods leave her no choice but to turn to her parents for help. Carolyn Yoder, dreaming of her own bakery, left town when her bishop forbid her to work outside the community - the only way to fund her dream. With his passing, she returns, but her dream quickly becomes a logistical nightmare. Book Number: 106 Number Of Pages: 242 Book Title: Heidi Grows Up Author: Charles Tritten Summary: In this sequel to Johanna Spyri's tale, at 14, Heidi attends a boarding school in Lausanne, where she befriends Jamy Krause, daughter of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat. She still loves life in Dorfli best of all, and she and Jamy - whose parents have little time for children - spend the summers with the Doctor and the Alm-Uncle, Brigid and Peter the goatherd. After finishing her education, Heidi becomes Dorfli's schoolteacher and eventually marries Peter. Book Number: 107 Number Of Pages: 217 Book Title: Heidi's Children Author: Charles Tritten Summary: Heidi, married and expecting a child while her friend Jamy teaches in Dorfli, welcomes Jamy's little sister Marta into the household. Marta, a nervous child, first fears but grows to love the Alm-Uncle. Heidi has twins and Marta takes pride in helping with the babies. But when the Alm-Uncle dies, she fears she will be returned to the parents she believes don't want her. His parting gift to her, however, reveals his longest-held secret: his wife had been her own late grandmother. Allowed to remain with her new-found cousin, Marta flourishes. Book Number: 108 Number Of Pages: 390 Book Title: The Blue Fairy Book Author: Andrew Lang (editor) Summary: A collection of fairy tales, assembled from the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and others. Included are such favorites as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, and Blue Beard. Book Number: 109 Number Of Pages: 367 Book Title: The Red Fairy Book Author: Andrew Lang (editor) Summary: More fairy tales, including favorites such as Jack and the Beanstalk, but also lesser-known tales such as Mother Holle, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Kari Woodengown. Book Number: 110 Number Of Pages: 321 Book Title: The Yellow Fairy Book Author: Andrew Lang (editor) Summary: Fairy tales collected from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, from Russia and Poland, and even from the Native Americans. Stories include Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Boy and the Wolves, and Hermod and Havdor. Book Number: 111 Number Of Pages: 387 Book Title: The Grey Fairy Book Author: Andrew Lang (editor) Summary: More fairly tales collected from places such as Lithuania and Africa as well as Germany and France. Stories include Janni and the Draken, The White Wolf, The Simpleton, and Long, Broad, and Quickeye. (Eight more Color Fairy Books to go, next time I have some cash to spare for Amazon... I love my fairy tales!) Share this post Link to post
Posted January 22, 2020 Book Number: 15 Number Of Pages: 352 Book Title: The Black Mausoleum Author: Stephen Deas Summary: Now that dragons have taken over and destroyed the world, the surviving humans are trying to scrape by without being eaten. This story follows four humans as they make their way through the new world while fighting their new overlords, and a dragon that tracks them the entire story. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 22, 2020 Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 686 Book Title: NOS4A2 Author: Joe Hill Summary: Christmasland! Where every morning is Christmas morning and every night Christmas Eve. Charlie Manx loves bringing kids to Christmasland, where they can be kids forever... and ever... Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 560 Book Title: The Outsider Author: Stephen King Summary: An impossible case. Irrefutable evidence says Terry Maitland brutally murdered a young child... and yet equally irrefutable evidence says he was miles away at the time of the crime. And that's just the beginning. Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 368 Book Title: Full Dark, No Stars Author: Stephen King Summary: A collection of four novellas; 1922, Big Driver, Fair Extension, and A Good Marriage. In 1922, a farmer tells the story of the events of the year 1922, and how they ruined his life. A Good Marriage explores how someone could be married to a serial killer and never suspect a thing (based on the real life killer BTK). Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 316 Book Title: 20th Century Ghosts Author: Joe Hill Summary: A collection of short stories. My personal favorite, Voluntary Committal, is about a boy whose brother makes elaborate, maze-like box forts, that go much further than they appear. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Book Number: 26 Number Of Pages: 413 Book Title: Stranger Things : DarkneDarkness on the Edge of Town Author: Adam Christopher Summary: Hopper is telling Eleven what happened to him as a police officier in New-York City back in 1977. Edited January 22, 2020 by Little-Star Share this post Link to post
Posted January 26, 2020 Book Number: 112 Number Of Pages: 318 Book Title: One Child Author: Torey Hayden Summary: Nonfiction. Six-year-old Sheila was placed in Torey's special education class after deliberately harming a younger child, to await an opening in the State Hospital. But Torey tried to break through the shell of violent behavior to reach the bright girl she could see within. Over time, the abused Sheila learned to control her anger and conquer her fears, enabling her to avoid the psych ward and look forward to the future. Book Number: 113 Number Of Pages: 264 Book Title: The Tiger's Child Author: Torey Hayden Summary: Nonfiction. Several years after originally working with Sheila, Torey found herself back in the same area and once again encountered her former student. Sheila's life hadn't been easy; she'd suffered further abuse in foster care and while no longer violent, still had problems interacting with most people. Although no longer in an official capacity, Torey helped guide Sheila through her teen years and eventually into adulthood. Book Number: 114 Number Of Pages: 333 Book Title: Somebody Else's Kids Author: Torey Hayden Summary: Nonfiction. After the mainstreaming laws of the 1970s that eliminated most special education classrooms, Torey became a resource teacher. But circumstances put four children in her room fulltime: Lori, bright but brain-damaged from abuse and incapable of reading, autistic Boo, whose mother only wanted him to call her Mama, Tomaso, angry and violent after witnessing his stepmother kill his father, and honors student Claudia, expelled from her Catholic school for pregnancy at age twelve. Book Number: 115 Number Of Pages: 411 Book Title: Just Another Kid Author: Torey Hayden Summary: Nonfiction. After several years away from teaching, Torey was asked to take on a newly-forming special education class: childhood schizophrenic Dirkie, institutionalized for most of his eleven years, severely ADHD Mariana, sexually precocious at eight, and Leslie, autistic, unresponsive, and still in diapers at seven. They were soon joined by a trio of traumatized refugees from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, sisters Geraldine and Shemona, and their cousin Shamie. Leslie's mother Ladbrooke volunteered as an aide, but had her own demons to face, leading Torey to consider her one of the class. Book Number: 116 Number Of Pages: 431 Book Title: Exile's Honor Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Captain Alberich of the Karsite army knew Valdemar as the enemy, the Heralds as witches and Demon-Riders, and the Companions as Demons. But he had the gift of Foresight; Companion Kantor saved him from being burned as a witch, escaping with Alberich into Valdemar and convincing him to train as a Herald. Shown that he was needed, Alberich agreed and became the Weaponsmaster's Second. But when Karse hired the entire nation of Tedrel Mercenaries in an effort to conquer Valdemar, Alberich had to find a way to aid his adopted country without hurting the land of his birth. Book Number: 117 Number Of Pages: 438 Book Title: Exile's Valor Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Despite prejudice against him, the former Karsite Herald Alberich became the personal protector of young Queen Selenay. He discovered a plot in which her new husband, Prince Karathanelen of Rethwellen, was coached to win her and then kill her as soon as she produced an heir - because while Valdemaran law stated that the monarch must be a Herald, there was nothing requiring the regent for an infant heir to be one. But while he saved her from her husband, he never did learn who had paid for the coaching. Book Number: 118 Number Of Pages: 196 Book Title: The Good Master Author: Kate Seredy Summary: Jancsi was often lonely on his father's ranch in the Hungarian countryside, and so looked forward to the coming of his cousin Kate from Budapest, thinking that even a delicate girl was better than no one. To his surprise, Kate proved to be a mischievous little tomboy, and once she learned country ways, quite his equal as they shared adventures together. Book Number: 119 Number Of Pages: 308 Book Title: The Bake Shop Author: Amy Clipston Summary: Christiana Kurtz, a popular baker, convinced her strict father to let her take a booth at the local marketplace even though it was owned by non-Amish. After a few misunderstandings, she made friends with Jeff Stoltzfus, owner of the leather-goods booth next door, and the two hoped to start dating. But Christiana's father learned that Jeff was using an electric-powered machine in his booth and forbid her from even speaking to him again. When a fire endangers the market, the two wondered if their businesses as well as their relationship would survive. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) Book Number: 13 Number Of Pages: 445 Book Title: Gerald's Game Author: Stephen King Summary: A "romantic" weekend away goes horribly wrong, leaving Jessie alone and trapped, handcuffed to the headboard. Book Number: 14 Number Of Pages: 254 Book Title: Sharp Objects Author: Gillian Flynn Summary: A reporter returns to her small home town, and her difficult relationship with her mother, to report on two young girls; one found murdered and the other missing. Edited January 29, 2020 by GhostMouse Share this post Link to post
Posted January 31, 2020 Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 641 Book Title: Mech: Age of Steel Editors: Tim Marquitz and Melanie R. Meadors Summary: Sequel to the first Kaiju: Age of Monsters anthology, this anthology is a collection of stories about mechs and their pilots as they battle kaiju, explore the universe, fight wars, and conquer worlds Share this post Link to post
Posted February 5, 2020 Book Number: 120 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: 121 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: 122 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: 123 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: A Gift of Grace Author: Amy Clipston Summary: Rebecca’s sister Grace left their Old Order Amish world years before to embrace modern life, while Rebecca herself remained to wed her sweetheart Daniel Kauffman. Rebecca’s one sorrow is her inability to give Daniel children. Then she receives word that her sister died in a car accident, leaving her custody of her two teenage daughters. Now Rebecca and Daniel face the challenge of raising teenagers who have no knowledge of the world in which they suddenly find themselves living. Book Number: 124 Number Of Pages: 294 Book Title: A Promise of Hope Author: Amy Clipston Summary: Sarah Kauffman Troyer lost her husband Peter in a tragic fire. Pregnant with twins… her first children… she moves back in with her parents for the support and help she’ll need. Then a Luke Troyer comes from Ohio, revealing secrets that Peter kept from Sarah and the rest of her family. With her faith in her late husband shattered, Sarah tries to look to the future, but is torn between doing the sensible thing and following her heart. Book Number: 125 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: A Place of Peace Author: Amy Clipston Summary: Miriam left the Amish community four years ago, partly due to her wish to undergo nurse’s training, and partly due to the ending of her engagement to Timothy Kauffman. But when she returns first for her mother’s funeral, and then to help when her father has a stroke, she learns that someone else’s jealousy engineered her breakup with Timothy. Knowing the truth, will she and Timothy be able to reconcile, or are they through forever? Book Number: 126 Number Of Pages: 322 Book Title: A Life of Joy Author: Amy Clipston Summary: Lindsay, Rebecca Kauffman’s niece, settled well into Amish life. Her older sister Jessica, unable to adjust, went to live with friends of her late parents instead. Four years later, Jessica is in college and pressuring Lindsay to give up her Amish ways. When Jessica’s guardian is injured, Lindsay volunteers to go stay with her to help out. While there, she becomes re-acquainted with some of her old friends from school and church. Jessica hopes that this will induce her sister to return to the modern world, but instead it just reaffirms Lindsay’s desire to be baptized into the Amish church. Book Number: 127 Number Of Pages: 298 Book Title: A Season of Love Author: Amy Clipston Summary: Lindsay is baptized along with her cousin Katie Kauffman and friend Lizzie Ann King. Soon after, Lindsay and Lizzie Ann both start courting, which inadvertently leaves Katie feeling like a fifth wheel. Then she meets Jake Miller, the Mennonite grandson of her grandfather’s business partner. Their friendship soon blossoms into attraction… something forbidden by her church. Dare they hope of a future together? Book Number: 128 Number Of Pages: 341 Book Title: Chicks in Chainmail Author: Esther Friesner (editor) Summary: A collection of humorous short stories inspired by the archetypical fantasy character of the Woman Warrior Wearing Chainmail Bikini. Authors include Esther Friesner, Jody Lynn Nye, Roger Zelazny, and Elizabeth Moon. Tales run the gamut from Hillary Rodham Clinton being grabbed by the Valkyries to be their governess, to a group of female guards finding every loophole to avoid paying a new tax on bronze bras. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 5, 2020 Book Number: 15 Number Of Pages: 264 Book Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Author: Stephen King Summary: 9 year old Tricia finds herself lost in the woods. Her only comfort is her walkman, tuned to local radio stations playing baseball games, listening for her favorite pitcher, Tom Gordon. She can only rely on her wits and determination to survive, but she may not be completely alone in the forest. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 15, 2020 Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 179 Book Title: TheMystery of the Ivory Charm Author: Carolyn Keene Summary: Nancy attends a circus show where she rescues a mysterious boy who's been kidnapped and has a strange ivory elephant charm. She sets out to find out who kidnapped him, and who he really is Share this post Link to post
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Posted February 17, 2020 Book Number: 17 Number Of Pages: 499 Book Title: Women of the Crystal Coast: Dragonband Tales: Volume Three Editors: Courtney Cannon, Shelly Andrews, and Amber Richberger Summary: More world-building stories about the Crystal Coast with a focus on strong female characters. Share this post Link to post
Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) Book Number: 18 Number Of Pages: 381 Book Title: Rainbows End Author: Vernor Vinge Summary: People from the 20th century, brought back to life and youth by technology into the 21st century, struggle to adapt to the new world, which includes augmented reality, the internet accessible in your contacts and clothes, and very few people living in reality as it actually appears. Combine this with a plot to create virtualistic terror that would have catastrophic real-world consequences and it's an engrossing sci-fi thriller. Edited May 26, 2020 by purpledragonclaw Share this post Link to post
Posted March 2, 2020 Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 345 Book Title: Dark Places Author: Gillian Flynn Summary: Libby Day has always believed it was her older brother, Ben, who slaughtered their entire family when she was only 7. Rumor has it that it was part of a satanic ritual. But 25 years later, with new information, Libby starts to question her memory of that terrible night, and begins digging to confirm her story, or learn if she's been wrong all along. Book Number: 17 Number Of Pages: 415 Book Title: Gone Girl Author: Gillian Flynn Summary: When Amy goes missing on her 5th wedding anniversary, suspicion immediately falls on her husband, Nick. Nick is oddly evasive, and Amy's diary entries reveal a marriage that wasn't as perfect as it appeared from the outside. But did he really do it? Share this post Link to post
Posted March 4, 2020 Book Number: 19 Number Of Pages: 256 Book Title: Dragon's Lure: Legends of a New Age Editors: Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Jennifer Ross, and Jeffrey Lyman Summary: A fresh take on dragon mythology in the form of an anthology, from why they love virgins to falling in love with mortals, to being muses and gods. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 9, 2020 Book Number: 129 Number Of Pages: 439 Book Title: And the Shofar Blew Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Paul Hudson seemed like the perfect pastoral candidate to revitalize a struggling church. And before long, attendance was up and a new building was in the works. But as the fortunes of the church improved, Paul's wife Eunice started to wonder if Paul was truly working for the Lord anymore, or if he was simply out to prove to his televangelist father that he, too, was a good pastor. Book Number: 130 Number Of Pages: 496 Book Title: A Voice in the Wind Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Hadassah, a Christian girl in the year 70, traveled with her family from Galilee to Jerusalem for Passover, to celebrate Christ's resurrection with other believers, only to be trapped by the destruction of the city. She is enslaved and transported to Rome, where she becomes the property of the powerful Valerian merchant family. There, she faces both her greatest temptation and her greatest fears. Meanwhile the German warrior Atretes is captured and trained, becoming one of the empire's most renowned gladiators. Book Number: 131 Number Of Pages: 432 Book Title: An Echo in the Darkness Author: Francine Rivers Summary: The Valerian family, now settled in Ephesus, struggles to accept the changes wrought within them by Hadassah. Matriarch Phoebe embraces Christianity enthusiastically, while Marcus travels to Judea in his efforts to find God. But Julia willfully closes her eyes and embraces a path of self-destruction. Only when it is nearly too late does she call upon a physician of the city whose mysterious, always-veiled assistant is reputed to be able to heal with a touch. Book Number: 132 Number Of Pages: 473 Book Title: As Sure as the Dawn Author: Francine Rivers Summary: Atretes won his freedom in the arena, but learned that Julia Valerian ordered the child he fathered with her exposed at birth. But then he spoke to her slave Hadassah, who informed him that she did not expose the babe, but took him to the Apostle John. Atretes seeks out John, who introduces him to Rizpah, a widow who'd lost her own baby and adopted the boy. Determined to leave the empire, he takes Rizpah with him on the dangerous journey back to Germania, and learns to open his heart to God along the way. Book Number: 133 Number Of Pages: 600 Book Title: Love and Glory Author: Jeane Westin Summary: Set against the backdrop of WWII, four young women answer the call to arms, joining the first class of female officer candidates to become part of the very beginning of the Women's Army Corps. Their friendship spans the globe, from their basic training in Iowa, to England and Italy, the beaches of Normandy and the small but military-crucial islands of the Pacific, as they all hope for a bright future when the war is over. Book Number: 134 Number Of Pages: 259 Book Title: Private Pleasures Author: Bertrice Small Summary: After 26 years of being a dutiful housewife, Nora learns that her husband is leaving her. Worse, he's trying to take everything, even defrauding his children of their college funds. Nora finds strength in her friends and in the Channel: a new cable offering for women only, which permits them to live out their wildest fantasies in safety. As her confidence grows, Nora decides to find a way to keep her estranged husband from yanking the financial rug out from under her feet... no matter the cost in the end. Book Number: 135 Number Of Pages: 258 Book Title: Forbidden Pleasures Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Romance author Emily is given an ultimatum from her publisher: make the switch from sweet to explicitly steamy, or they'll drop her when her current contract is up. The difficulty she won't admit? She's still a virgin, with no experience to draw upon in order to produce well-written erotica. Worse yet, her longtime editor retired, and is replaced by a most attractive man. Could the Channel give her the courage to seduce her new editor so she can finally update her writing style? Book Number: 136 Number Of Pages: 280 Book Title: Sudden Pleasures Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Ashley is satisfied with her life: a successful business, good friends, and the Channel. But she could lose everything under the terms of her grandfather's will if she isn't married before she's 35. Ryan has a similar problem due to similar terms in his father's will. Introduced by their lawyers, they agree on a marriage of convenience to save their respective businesses. It's supposed to be strictly business, but soon Ashley wonders if she really needs that subscription to the Channel anymore. Book Number: 137 Number Of Pages: 274 Book Title: Dangerous Pleasures Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Annie is the widowed mother of five. Her sister enters her in a contest sponsored by the Channel, and Annie wins the grand prize of a week at a newly-opened luxury spa in her hometown which is owned by the Channel Corporation. When she makes a few well-received suggestions, she is asked to run a gift shop within the spa. She accepts, enjoying the opportunity to do something for her family while getting to enjoy her fantasy world in the Channel. But she also learns just how dangerous such pleasures can be, when she discovers just who the CEO really is. Book Number: 138 Number Of Pages: 290 Book Title: Passionate Pleasures Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Miss Kathy, while not entirely prim and proper, always behaved as expected for a small-town old-maid librarian while living out her literary fantasies in the Channel. The new principal of the local middle school would like to change that, but she is reluctant to take a chance on a real-life romance... until the CEO of the Channel Corporation steps in. An old associate of her family, he's always had a soft spot for Kathy, and revokes her access to the Channel to force her to see that true happiness can be hers for the taking. Book Number: 139 Number Of Pages: 290 Book Title: Guilty Pleasures Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Five short stories of erotic fantasy, set within the Pleasures series universe. Book Number: 140 Number Of Pages: 457 Book Title: Breath of Scandal Author: Sandra Brown Summary: Jade grew up in a southern 'company town', where every resident is dependent on the one wealthy family that owns the town's industry. Raped by that family's son and his friends, and denied justice by the local sheriff who owed his position to the father, she ran as far as she could. But she was determined that one day she would return, and this time she'd be the one with the power to finally exact her revenge on those who'd turned their backs on her. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 10, 2020 Book Number: 18 Number Of Pages: 447 Book Title: Horns Author: Joe Hill Summary: On the first anniversary of his girlfriend's murder, Ig wakes up with a hangover, a pair of devil horns, and a strange and insidious new power. These new additions set him on a path to solving her murder, which could help him clear his name, or take revenge. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) After a month and half (started jan 22) I am finally done with this book 😱 Book Number: 27 Number Of Pages: 1153 Book Title: It Author: Stephen King Summary: A group of seven person (as kids and adults) are going after a serial killer Clown. Edited March 13, 2020 by Little-Star Share this post Link to post
Posted March 19, 2020 Book Number: 28 Number Of Pages: 354 Book Title: L'ennemie de Sylfar: L'empereur (book 1/3) (would translate as The Sylfar's enemy: The Emperor) Author: Justin Lemire Summary: Christina is a young 16 years old woman who discover one she is the main protagonist of a prophecy. She has to destroy the emperor and for that she travel in another dimension where she learns she has magic powers and start trainning using them. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 20, 2020 Book Number: 141 Number Of Pages: 244 Book Title: Coal Miner's Daughter Author: Loretta Lynn with George Vescey Summary: The 1975 autobiography of classic country star Loretta Lynn, tracing from her mining-community roots in Kentucky through the biggest years of her stardom in the 1960s and early '70s. Book Number: 142 Number Of Pages: 369 Book Title: Rosamund Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Rosamund Bolton, the heiress to Friarsgate Manor, travels to the court of Henry VII to escape the machinations of her uncle who has been plotting to gain control over her property. While there, she befriends the young widowed Katherine of Aragon as well as Meg Tudor, newly betrothed to Scotland's King James IV. She also catches the wandering eye of the young Prince Henry, whereupon the king betroths her to one of his favored knights and sends her home. Widowed several years later and with only daughters, Rosamund finds herself once again in danger from her uncle. Book Number: 143 Number Of Pages: 371 Book Title: Until You Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Having eliminated the problem of her scheming uncle, Rosamund sets off to the Scots court to visit her old friend Meg Tudor. She is pursued by a persistent suitor, but instead meets the handsome Earl of Glenkirk. Preferring not to marry again just yet, she nevertheless accompanies him to the Mediterranean duchy of San Lorenzo on a secret mission for James IV. Upon their return, the pair make plans to wed, but tragedy soon parts them forever. Has she lost her last chance for happiness? Book Number: 144 Number Of Pages: 378 Book Title: Phillipa Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Rosamund's oldest daughter Phillipa is a creature of the court. She rejects the very idea of inheriting Friarsgate, believing no man of the court would willingly leave it for a northern estate. Her mother's business partner and distant cousin aids in matching Phillipa with the Earl of Witton, a man who has spent much of his adult life in the king's service, and the two accompany their monarchs to the great gathering in France that would become known as The Field of the Cloth of Gold... and uncover an assassination plot beyond anything they would have believed possible. Book Number: 145 Number Of Pages: 407 Book Title: The Last Heiress Author: Bertrice Small Summary: When Phillipa rejected the Friarsgate inheritence, her youngest sister Elizabeth accepted it, and ruled the manor alone from the age of 14. Considered an old maid at 22, she journeys to Henry VIII's court to seek a husband and have an heir of her own. There, she scandalizes her family, long associates of Katherine of Aragon, by befriending the king's new sweetheart, Anne Boleyn. Finding no suitable man at court, Elizabeth returns home and falls for an attractive Highlander sent south to find better sheep to improve their family's flocks. Can they overcome their pride enough to stay together? Book Number: 146 Number Of Pages: 367 Book Title: The Silence of the Lambs Author: Thomas Harris Summary: FBI agent-in-training Clarice Starling is asked to interview serial killer Hannibal Lecter, chosen partly for her background in psychology and partly because all the senior agents in the Behavioral Sciences division of the Bureau are busy trying to track down an active serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. But it seems Dr. Lecter knows far more than he's admitted to... and finds Clarice and her pluck entertaining enough that he starts dropping her clues to the Buffalo Bill case. But will she put them together in time to save his latest victim? Book Number: 147 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: 148 Number Of Pages: 388 Book Title: Spock’s World 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: 149 Number Of Pages: 252 Book Title: Q-In-Law Author: Peter David Summary: Rival families of a spacefaring merchant race are to be joined through marriage, and Captain Picard is called upon to host and officiate. He’s pleased for the opportunity, at least until Lwaxana Troi arrives. 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 had enough of Q’s manipulations and gives her the chance to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget. Book Number: 150 Number Of Pages: 189 Book Title: Go Ask Alice Author: Anonymous Summary: Published in 1971, this is based on the actual diary of a middle-class, teenaged drug addict. While names and places have been changed, this is her own personal account of her slide into addiction and her fight to escape it again. 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Posted March 24, 2020 Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 179 Book Title: The Whispering Statue Author: Carolyn Keene Summary: A client of Nancy's father asks for Nancy and her friend's help locating a marble statue that was stolen from a yacht club. The client also thinks she is being cheated by someone who is selling items for her. Nancy disguises herself and travels to the yacht club in Waterford to find out what's going on and if the two mysteries are connected. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 27, 2020 Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 180 Book Title: The Haunted Bridge Author: Carolyn Keene Summary: Nancy and friends are vacationing at a lodge where her father is working on a case tracking down a ring of jewel theives. Nancy hears about a haunted bridge on the local golf course and this information throws her straight into a mystery when she finds a chest of jewels nearby. Share this post Link to post
Posted March 27, 2020 Book Number: 29 Number Of Pages: 325 Book Title: L'ennemie de Sylfar: Le Déclenchement (book 2/3) would translate as The Ennemy of Sylfar: The Outbreak Author: Justin Lemire Summary: Alexa and Alwin are trying to find Christina who has been kidnapped and moved into another universe. Share this post Link to post
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