Adult Summer Reading

 

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Book reviews from participants July 21: 

Premonition by Randall Ingermanson:  Continuting saga of Ari and Rivka in 1st century Jerusalem.  How could there be so much evil in the world?  An exciting and thought-provoking read.

Transgression by Randall Ingermanson:  A story to bring the 1st century Jerusalem alive.  Can history be changed?

A Separate Peace by John Knowles:  Overall-good; I read this book many years ago.  It is somewhat boring in parts, but a good book about friendships.

Dollmaker by Kathryn Lasky:  Somewhat advanced for my needs.  Good instructions for portrait-dolls.

Doll Making by Jean Ray Laury:  Many creative ideas. Old but interesting from a historic prospective.

Big Green Book of Recycled Crafts by Leasure Arts:  Great book of ideas, very inventive.  Did not want to reaturn, this one I will have to look for to buy.

Egyptian way of death by Ange-Pierre Leca:  This book actual made frighten and glad I did live back in the 5 or 15 century.

Flesh and Bones by Paul Levine:  Didn't care for it.  A little suspenseful, didn't like the ending.

Confession by Beverly Lewis:  This book was really good.  Being the second book to the Shunning it will keep you reading.  Katie finds herself in the English world to find her real motehr.  Also to find herself.  I couldn't put it down.

Animosity by David Lindsey:  Didn't like it, terrible ending.

A Cold Mind by David Lindsey:  Pretty good.

Color of Night by David LIndsey:  Too many characters to keep track of-didn't like the ending.

In the Lake of the Moon by David Lindsey:  Very good mystery lot of suspense.

Lonesome Cowboy by Debbie Macomber:  I liked the book-no matter how old you are you can fall in love.

An Ice Cold Grave By Harris, Charlaine 2007-09 - Thorndike Press 9781597226219 Check Our Catalog Hired to find a missing boy in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver discover eight victims buried in the half-frozen ground, and all have come to unspeakable ends. Harper wants to get out of town before the media storm - until she's attacked and becomes part of the investigation. …More

Drama Queen By Hunt, La Jill 2004-07 - Thorndike Press 9780786267613 Check Our Catalog Kayla Hopkins is young, beautiful and can't win for losing. That's why everyone calls her the Drama Queen. She doesn't go looking for drama, it just happens to her. Take for instance, her love life. Kayla's not satisfied with just one man. She has two-one she's in love with and another whom she's pregnant by. A ready-made formula for disaster, but will Kayla see it before everything blows up in her face? Her track records says no, but her friends and family can only hope. Drama Queen is a hilariously funny and fast-paced novel that offers king-size drama and entertainment. Urban Books, a new line of books focusing on the drama and grit of inner-city life, featuring edgy, and exciting new voices-writers who tell it like it is. …More

No More Drama By Hunt, La Jill 2006-06 - Thorndike Press 9780786286638 Check Our Catalog < b>An Essence(r) Bestseller< br>A Black Expressions Book Club Selection< /b>< P>In La Jill Hunt's debut novel < I>Drama Queen< /I>, we met Kayla Hopkins, a woman who just couldn't win for losing. Now we revisit Kayla's good friend Terrell Sims, who has just turned his life around, got a new job and the girl of his dreams. But when a problem he thought he had taken care of comes back to haunt him, he might just lose everything he's worked so hard to gain. …More

Premonition By Ingermanson, Randall Scott 2003-09 - Zondervan Publishing Company 9780310247050 Check Our Catalog An extraordinary stone box was recently discovered in Jerusalem--the bone-box of "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." This is his story and of Rivka Meyers, a Messianic Jewish archaeologist from California, trapped in first-century Jerusalem by a physics experiment gone horribly wrong. …More

Cleaning and the Meaning of Life: Simple Solutions to Declutter Your Home and Beautify Your Life By Jhung, Paula 2005-04 - Health Communications 9780757302404 Check Our Catalog "The most thorough, fun-to-read book to show you the path to organization, simplicity, comfort and peace of mind." - Phyllis Diller "I highly recommend this bright and powerful book for clearing clutter and bringing joy to our lives." -Alexandra Stoddard, Things I Want My Daughters to Know "This delightful book brims with clever ideas and fun-to-use tips." -Harriet Schechter, Let Go of Clutter Are you stressed by a mess? Do drifts of paper cover your desk? Has a toxic landfill consumed what your kid calls a closet? Is your home a pain to maintain? Take heart. Interior designer Paula Jhung takes the mess out of domestic so you can clear a path to a clean, serene and beautiful home. Not your average guide to dusting faster or scrubbing deeper, these playful and practical tips for outwitting the dirty work will free your time, lift your spirit and guide you to a Promise Land of balance, freedom and well-being. With her unique LIFE plan: Lighten Up, Invest in Comfort, Forget Perfection and Enhance Flow, she'll show you elegant, inexpensive ways to create a stay-clean home so you spend more time enjoying it than maintaining it. She also dishes the dirt on: Recognizing and curing TMS - Too Much Stuff Syndrome A Procrastinator's Guide to Purging The 7 Secrets of Highly Effective Closets The Kama Sutra of Cleaning Your Astrological Cleaning Style The Art of Hiding a Mess Creating a Private Retreat Giving a Home Heart and Soul With wit and warmth, Cleaning and the Meaning of Life opens the door to a harmonious home and a fulfilling life. …More

The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose By Kelly, Matthew 2005-03 - Wheeler Publishing 9781587249389 Check Our Catalog < b>A New York Times Bestseller< /b>< P>Once every twenty-five years or so, a book comes along that perfectly identifies our common search and struggle for happiness, and teaches us how to find lasting fulfillment in a changing world. This is that book. In a refreshing and authentic voice, Matthew Kelly will help you to bring into focus who you are and why you are here.< P>Available only in Wheeler Hardcover 6. …More

The Dark-Hunter Companion By Kenyon, Sherrilyn With Kontis, Alethea 2007-11 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312363437 Check Our Catalog "New York Times" bestselling author Kenyon presents an essential guide to the Dark-Hunter series, featuring synopses of the books, a breakdown of the world and rules of the Dark-Hunters, an Atlantean pronunciation guide, cover art, and much more. …More

Blockade Billy By King, Stephen 2010-04 - Cemetery Dance Publications 9781587672286 Check Our Catalog From "New York Times" bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of "Blockade Billy," the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse... and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all. …More

Just After Sunset By King, Stephen 2009-09 - Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval 9780606107259 Check Our Catalog In his first collection of short stories since "Everything's Eventual" in 2002, King delivers 13 stories ranging from the subtle to the disturbing, set in a world where the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold reality intact might tear apart at any moment. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Shades of Blue By Kingsbury, Karen 2009-10 - Zondervan 9780310266228 Check Our Catalog In between a checkered past and a fairytale future, a decision awaits. Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all---a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancee, and a fairy tale life ahead of him ... when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him. Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except for this: He must go back to the shores of Holden Beach in search of his first love, and a forgiveness neither of them has ever known. Three people must work through the repercussions of a decision made long ago before any of them can look toward a new future. …More

Separate Peace By Knowles, John 1984-12 - Bantam Books 9780553250527 Check Our Catalog John Knowles' beloved classic has been a bestseller for more than 30 years and is one of the most moving and accurate novels about the trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery, and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever tarnishes their innocence. …More

Frankenstein: Lost Souls By Koontz, Dean R. 2010-06 - Bantam 9780553808018 Check Our Catalog Every city has secrets, but none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer, one who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that he is missing. Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner Michael Maddison get on the case and may just end up in hell itself. …More

Deep Waters By Krentz, Jayne Ann 1997-12 - Pocket Star Books 9780671524203 Check Our Catalog "Deep Waters" combines suspense and romance in a story where a mysterious Pacific Rim consultant and a burned-out female CEO become sparring partners on a fishing pier crammed with secrets, danger, and hidden treasures. …More

Flash By Krentz, Jayne Ann 1999-03 - Pocket Star Books 9780671523091 Check Our Catalog Sparkling with Jayne Ann Krentz's irresistible blend of sassy wit and sheer suspense, this sizzling novel explodes into passionate pyrotechnics as a self-made millionaire and a charmingly disorganized entrepreneur team up to corner a killer. Soon, they find their unruly partnership has the power to set the night on fire.... Olivia Chantry may leave her desk in disarray, but she's a business dynamo: her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, creates the promotional flash her clients need. Her marvelous success has almost made up for a crumbled marriage that has left her wedded to a career instead of a mate. But all that may change when Olivia inherits 49 percent of Glow, Inc., her uncle's high-tech lighting firm, and she butts heads with the interloper who bagged the other 51 percent: Jasper Sloan, a venture capitalist and deal-maker known as an orderly man with all his ducks in a row. From the start of their feisty business dealings, the so-called partners nearly crash and burn -- and barely keep control of the sexual energy crackling between them. But when they discover a blackmailer is hard at work uncovering secrets inside Glow, Inc., Olivia and Sloan's steamy joint venture faces the acid test of truth...and a need for absolute trust. For when extortion turns to murder, a union of their minds -- and hearts -- might be their only chance to stay alive. …More

Dollmaker: The Eyelight and the Shadow By Lasky, Kathryn 1981-10 - Scribner Book Company 9780684171708 Check Our Catalog …More

Flesh and Bones: A Jake Lassiter Novel By Levine, Paul 1997-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780688143053 Check Our Catalog 'I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch - eighteen-year-old Glenmorangie at nine bucks a shot - when I spotted the tall blond woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun'. The next thing linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter knows, the woman pumps three bullets into the man on the next barstool, then collapses into Jake's arms. The woman is the stunning model Chrissy Bernhardt, and the dead man is her millionaire father. Lassiter agrees to defend Chrissy and is soon enmeshed in a world of lies, deceit, and psychological riddles. Under hypnosis, Chrissy claims to remember being sexually abused by her father, but Lassiter suspects that the 'recovered memories' were either implanted by a shady psychiatrist or fabricated by Chrissy herself. Lassiter digs deeper and finds a troubling connection between the psychiatrist and the greedy developer Guy Bernhardt, who steals other landowners' water and stands to gain if Chrissy, his half sister, is convicted of murder. …More

Confession By Lewis, Beverly 1997-09 - Topeka Bindery 9780613231893 Check Our Catalog Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents' Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie -- now Katherine Mayfield -- sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy" things, and on to the elaborate Bennett estate in the Finger Lakes region of New York. There she stumbles into a world of compassion and greed, mercy and betrayal -- where the plain garb of the Amish is misused to disguise an evil conspiracy. Unknown to Katherine, her first love, Daniel, is taking appropriate steps to return to his Amish family -- and to her. But their worlds may have drifted too far apart to bridge.... Shunned from her home and alone in a world of strangers, Katherine Mayfield longs only for the gentle, loving embrace of the woman she hopes to call Mother. …More

Animosity By Lindsey, David 2003-02 - Warner Books 9780446610933 Check Our Catalog When sculptor Ross Marteau meets Leda, his new subject, she is at once the most beautiful and most grotesque woman he has ever seen. Fascinated by her misshapen body and the incredible torment in her eyes, he is soon pulled deeper into her desperate world. When someone close to her is killed, Ross is ensnared in a web of dark secrets. …More

Cold Mind: Cold Mind By Lindsey, David 1990-09 - Pocket Books 9780671733384 Check Our Catalog For the fans of his acclaimed Mercy, nationally bestselling author David L. Lindsey's masterful, high-voltage chiller A Cold Mind returns to print. This tale of psychological suspense tells of a Houston homicide detective's search for a mental case who leaves a bloody trail of bodies--all high-priced call girls. …More

The Color of Night By Lindsey, David 2001-04 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446608039 Check Our Catalog Former intelligence officer Harry Strand still mourns for his wife killed in an automobile accident. He starts a new career as an art dealer, and meets Mara Song, an Asian art dealer too passionate to resist. When Harry finds a tape in Mara's VCR that shows his wife's death, only the past secrets he'd hoped would stay buried forever can answer his discovery. …More

In the Lake of the Moon By Lindsey, David Author Lindsay, David L. 1990-01 - Crimeline 9780553283440 Check Our Catalog The assault began innocuously enough. Four envelopes delivered through the anonymity of the U.S. mail, four mysterious photos, and then a picture that would draw Houston detective Stuart Haydon into a nightmare world of grisly death and dark obsession. …More

Beautiful Dreamer By Lowell, Elizabeth 2001-01 - HarperLargePrint 9780060188047 Check Our Catalog Whether she's creating intense passion or gripping suspense, "New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell knows how to enthrall readers as few others do. Now she writes a classic American love story of heartless nature and desperate need, raising the emotional stakes and proving once more why the name Elizabeth Lowell is synonymous with masterful storytelling. Nevada is home to Hope Gardener, its rugged, majestic beauty a balm for the aches of her heart and spirit. But the cattle ranch she owns and loves is dying, thanks to the worst drought the area has ever seen. Hope needs a miracle, or she will lose the land that has been in her family for generations. And then, one day, the miracle appears on horseback. Rio is the name of the stranger who rides into the Valley of the Sun. A loner, a gentler of horses, a cowboy out of time, an anachronism in the modern-day West, he brings finding water in any desert. As a woman alone in a harsh and unforgiving place, Hope knows the dangers of trusting such a free spirit. But now she has no choice. A man who makes dreams real, who is as wild and unpredictable as the wind that propels him across the vast and open western landscape, Rio has never had a dream of his own to follow. Yet he finds something in this extraordinary lady whose passion tempts him to defy his own rules and stay. Suddenly two independent souls must confront the perils and the truths that reside in the deepest, most closely guarded corners of their hearts. …More

Eden Burning By Lowell, Elizabeth 2002-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780066212746 Check Our Catalog With this completely reworked, rewritten, and newly republished version of "Fires of Eden, " Lowell delivers another stellar hit. When two wounded souls meet, passion erupts--an overwhelming attraction that will lead them to paradise . . . or burn them both for good. …More

To the Ends of the Earth By Lowell, Elizabeth 1998-05 - Avon Books 9780380767588 Check Our Catalog Photographer Cat Cochran has been all over the world, and now she wants to settle down alone, to surround herself with natural beauty, and to forget about the disastrous relationships of her past. She has one more assignment to complete first--photographing the handsome, reclusive millionaire ship designer, T.E. Danvers. But resisting her attraction for the man turns out to be more difficult than she anticipated. For Travis Danvers has an uncanny ability to break down Cat's emotional barriers--and her wounded heart implores her to give love and trust one more chance. …More

Lonesome Cowboy By Macomber, Debbie, Cathy 1998-02 - Harlequin Books 9780373833429 Check Our Catalog In 'Heart of Texas', Debbie Macomber's newest six-book series, readers are taken to the ever-popular state of Texas to share in the lives and loves of residents in the ranching community of Promise, Texas. Savannah Weston led a quiet life growing heirloom roses and helping her brother with the struggling family ranch. Never in her wildest dreams did she believe that her life of solitude would be shattered by Laredo Smith, the handsome drifter who captured her heart and showed her that love can be found in unexpected places. …More