Summer Reading-week 2

Welcome to Summer Reading 2012. At the end of the second week we had 298 people sign up! 66 people read 170 books.

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Bloodthirsty: A Lomax & Biggs Mystery By Karp, Marshall 2008-06 - MacAdam/Cage Publishing 9781596922884 Check Our Catalog Fast-paced, razor-sharp, and intensely funny, "Bloodthirsty" reunites Detectives Lomax and Biggs--the mystery genre's new dynamic duo. Hollywood needs to watch out who they use and abuse now.  Roger and Aggie will be there to set things right.  In this mystery Hollywood is no longer safe for those producers and directors who think the staff or wanna-be actors are free to do whatever too. …More

Revan By Karpyshyn, Drew 2011-11 - Lucas Books 9780345511348 Check Our Catalog The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that's left are nightmares--and deep, abiding fear. What exactly happened beyond the Outer Rim? Revan can't quite remember, yet can't entirely forget. Somehow he stumbled across a terrible secret that threatens the very existence of the Republic. 272 pp. …More

Gun Games: A Decker/Lazarus Novel By Kellerman, Faye 2012-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062064325 Check Our Catalog In the next exciting installment of Kellerman's "New York Times"-bestselling series, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus face off against psychopath Chris Donatti and his son, Gabe. …More

Darkfall By Koontz, Dean R. Read by Lane, Christopher 2008-05 - Brilliance Corporation 9781423339403 Check Our Catalog At first the police thought they were dealing with a psychopath or a vicious gangland war. Then, they saw the silver eyes in the night. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches--something whose ultimate victims are young and innocent. Unabridged. 9 CDs. Who will belive a child after suffering a minor breadkown after her mother died, that's what Penny Dawson is wondering after she starts hearing noises and seeing scary dwarf like creatures following and scaring her.  Will her father, a police detective, be able to save her and his son from the night things that are trying to silence him? …More

Bleach, Volume 1 By Kubo, Tite Illustrator Kubo, Tite 2004-06 - Viz Media 9781591164418 Check Our Catalog Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a shinigami and member of the mysterious Soul Society. Loved it, can't wait to read it again. …More

Crazy Enough: A Memoir By Large, Storm 2012-01 - Free Press 9781439192405 Check Our Catalog "Crazy Enough" is performer Storm Large's rough, raw memoir about living under the pall of mental illness. Slutty is funny! …More

X Files YA #06 Fresh Bones By Martin, Les Author Nielsen, Cliff 1997-09 - HarperEntertainment 9780064471800 Check Our Catalog Is there life after death? There is at the Haitian refugee camp in Folkstone, North Carolina. Special Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate and find themselves wrapped up in a mystery in which the victims can't seem to rest in peace. When a U.S. Marine is found wandering the state highway--several days after he was killed--it's clear that there's a dark force at work. …More

X Files YA #08 Host By Martin, Les Author Nielsen, Cliff Illustrator Nielsen, Cliff 1997-11 - HarperEntertainment 9780064471817 Check Our Catalog A man's body is discovered in the New Jersey sewer system, and a 'routine' murder investigation ensues. But when several workers are attacked by a vicious sewer-dwelling monster, it becomes clear that something much more sinister is going on underground. Mulder and Scully soon find themselves on the slimy trail of a creature as disgusting as it is dangerous. …More

The Judgment By Lewis, Beverly 2011-04 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764206009 Check Our Catalog Lewis, a "New York Times"- and "USA TODAY"-bestselling author and the top name in Amish fiction, pens a tale of two sisters struggling to find love, acceptance, and their place in the Amish community. …More

The Mercy By Lewis, Beverly 2011-09 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764206016 Check Our Catalog The Amish and modern worlds clash in this moving conclusion to "The Rose Trilogy" as two sisters love young men lost to the English world. …More

No Safety in Numbers By Lorentz, Dayna 2012-05 - Dial Books 9780803738737 Check Our Catalog First in a series.  I won't be finishing the sereis.  I have no connection to the characters. …More

The Mermaid's Mirror By Madigan, L. K. 2011-09 - Graphia Books 9780547577357 Check Our Catalog A message. A key. A mirror. A secret world unlocked. Lena has lived her whole life near the beach, walking the shore, breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Lena vows to learn to surf. Her father forbids it. But something Lena can't identify at first--an ancient, powerful magic--keeps drawing her to the water. One day, she finally catches sight of it: a beautiful woman, with a silvery tail. Now nothing can stop Lena from seeking the mermaid, not even the dangerouswaves at Magic Crescent Cove. And what Lena sees in the mermaid's mirror will change her life forever. …More

The Lola Quartet By St John Mandel, Emily 2012-05 - Unbridled Books 9781609530792 Check Our Catalog The last thing unemployed Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown in Florida, but he's in no position to refuse when he's offered a job by his sister to foreclose homes. When Gavin returns, he discovers the secret life of his ex-girlfriend and begins to track her down. …More

My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir By Marshall, Garry 2012-04 - Crown Archetype 9780307885005 Check Our Catalog In "My Happy Days in Hollywood," Marshall takes us on a journey from his stickball-playing days in the Bronx to his time at the helm of some of the most popular television series and movies of all time, sharing the joys and challenges of working with the Fonz and the young Julia Roberts, the "street performer" Robin Williams, and the young Anne Hathaway, among many others. …More

A Year in Provence By Mayle, Peter Illustrator Clancy, Judith 1991-06 - Vintage Books USA 9780679731146 Check Our Catalog They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc with the pipes, to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises and procrastination of the local masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights us with his strategies for survival. He relishes the growing camaraderie with his country neighbors -- despite the rich, soupy, often impenetrable patois that threatens to separate them. He makes friends with boar hunters and truffle hunters, a man who eats foxes, and another who bites dentists; he discovers the secrets of handicapping racing goats and of disarming vipers. And he comes to dread the onslaught of tourists who disrupt his tranquillity. In this often hilarious, seductive book Peter Mayle manages to transport us info all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live vicariously in a tempo governed by seasons, not by days. George Lang, who was smitten, suggests: "Get a glass of marc, lean back in your most comfortable chair, and spend a delicious year in Provence." …More

The Missing Girl By Mazer, Norma Fox 2008-02 - Harper Teen 9780066237763 Check Our Catalog In this suspenseful and compelling story, Newbery Honor author Mazer ("After the Rain") offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a predator. …More

Morgan's Run By McCullough, Colleen 2002-01 - Pocket Books 9780671024185 Check Our Catalog Following the disappearance of his only son and the death of his beloved wife, Richard Morgan is wrongly convicted of a crime and exiled to England's 18th-century penal colony in Australia. Morgan refuses to surrender to his fate, and begins a soul-trying test to survive in this hostile new land where, against all odds, he would find a new love and a new life. …More

The Thistle and the Rose By McGoldrick, May 2009-07 - Createspace 9781448640331 Check Our Catalog The brave and beautiful Celia Muir has been assigned a dangerous task--to protect the infant King James V from the approaching British army. For her clandestine mission to succeed, she has to convince a handsome Scottish warrior to help her--without surrendering to her own growing desire for him. …More

Pegasus By McKinley, Robin 2010-11 - Putnam Publishing Group 9780399246777 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times"-bestselling author and Newbery Medalist ("The Hero and the Crown") delivers a gorgeously written fantasy about the friendship between a princess and her Pegasus. …More

Demons in the Spring By Meno, Joe Illustrator Burns, Charles Illustrator McFetridge, Geoff 2010-08 - Akashic Books 9781936070091 Check Our Catalog "Eclectic, funny, constantly surprising--these are the things a short story collection should be allowed to be, and Joe Meno's Demons in the Spring absolutely is . . . a rich, unforgettable stew of a book."--Dave Eggers The limited-edition hardcover of Demons in the Spring was a finalist for the 2009 Story Prize, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2008, a Time Out Chicago Best Book of 2008, and it drew starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. It is a collection of twenty short stories with illustrations by twenty artists from the fine art, graphic art, and comic book worlds. Joe Meno is the best-selling author of five novels, including the smash hits Hairstyles of the Damned and The Boy Detective Fails (both published by Akashic Books), and two story collections. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College in Chicago. An okay assortment of short stories.  Some were really good while others fell flat.  My favorite:  Stockholm 1973. …More

Deadline By Michaels, Fern 2012-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758266033 Check Our Catalog No sooner have Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends -- Sophie, Ida, and Mavis -- returned from Sacramento, where Sophie provided some much-needed psychic advice to the First Lady of California, when another situation demands their attention?Laura Leigh, a Hollywood starlet whose main talent seems to be landing in trouble, is missing. …More

So Far Away By Moore, Meg Mitchell 2012-05 - Reagan Arthur Books 9780316097697 Check Our Catalog Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from vicious cyber-bullying. She discovers a dusty old diary and is inspired to unlock its secrets in an affecting story of mothers and daughters. …More

I'll Be Your Everything By Murray, J. J. 2012-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758258977 Check Our Catalog …More