Summer Reading Week 3

Welcome to the results of Week 3 of Summer Reading 2012.  We have 322 people signed up.  This week, out of 45 people submitting entries, 22 were new.  They read 148 books.  For the three weeks, 88 people read 318 books.

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The Christmas Thief By Clark, Mary Higgins Author Clark, Carol Higgins Joint Author Clark, Carol Higgins 2004-11 - Simon & Schuster 9780743271554 Check Our Catalog Two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters--Alvirah and Willy--become embroiled in a Yuletide mystery in Manhattan when the Christmas tree destined for Rockefeller Center disappears. …More

The Hunger Games By Collins, Suzanne 2012-02 - Scholastic Inc. 9780545425117 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times" bestseller is now available in a movie tie-in edition, with an all-new cover from the major motion picture from Lionsgate, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, scheduled to be released in theaters on March 23, 2012. …More

Silence Is Golden: A Hilda Johansson Mystery By Dams, Jeanne M. 2002-04 - Walker & Company 9780802733733 Check Our Catalog Hilda Johansson, the sleuth/maid in Dams' turn-of-the-century novels, is a perfect observer and commentator in this latest installment. All is not what it seems in the Studebaker household, as the rich keep secrets, and the poor suffer for them. This is one of a series of mysteries about a Swedish immigrant girl living in Indianapolis in the 1920's.  Love interest involves an Irish Catholic and opposition to the romance by both families.  Hilda is brave, rather foolhardy, very bright, and loving.  Of course, she always gets into trouble but ends up safe and always solves the crimes. …More

The Circus in Winter By Day, Cathy 2005-07 - Harvest Books 9780156032025 Check Our Catalog In her astonishing debut, Cathy Day follows the everyday lives of the people of the Great Porter Circus, as they make the unlikely choice to winter in the town of Lima, Indiana, a place that feels as classic to readers as Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio." …More

Seriously I'm Kidding By DeGeneres, Ellen 2011-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446585026 Check Our Catalog The much-loved entertainer opens up about her personal life, her talk show, and joining the judges' table of "American Idol." A laugh-out loud audiobook.  Ellen rattles along on at least 100,000 topics on 3 cds.  (Even the cover of the audiobook made me laugh.) …More

Sister, Sister By Dickey, Eric Jerome 1997-12 - Signet Book 9780451188021 Check Our Catalog Sassy, comical, and true-to-life, this book tells the tale of three young African-American women--perky wife Valerie, scheming social worker Inda, and brokenhearted flight attendant Chiquita--and how their lives are coming together, and apart, in Los Angeles. Fresh and in your face, this witty novel depicts a world where women sometimes have to alter their dreams, but never have to stop embracing the future. I love all of Eric Jerome Dickey's characters.  They all portray successful African American women dealing with real issues. …More

The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights" By Dokey, Cameron Designed by Craft, Mahlon F. 2007-03 - Simon Pulse 9781416937760 Check Our Catalog Once upon a time is timely once again as fresh, quirky heroines breathe life into much-loved characters. From a well-reviewed romance writer come two updated renditions of favorite fairy tales. As these heroines master their respective destinies, girl power finds its own happily ever after. …More

Explosive Eighteen By Evanovich, Janet 2011-11 - Bantam 9780345527714 Check Our Catalog With the arrival of "Explosive Eighteen", readers won't have to wait very long to find out what happens next in Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum adventure series. 320 pp. (General Fiction) Stephanie Plum is up to her old tricks with cohort Lula, and still is in the Ranger/Joe Morelli triangle.  A light summer read (listen.) …More

Sizzling Sixteen By Evanovich, Janet 2010-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312383305 Check Our Catalog This 16th Stephanie Plum adventure will wear the blockbuster crown for grand scale fun, it's a surefire bet. Someone wants to kill Vinnie, but who? The list is long, and it's up to Stephanie to whittle it down to one. Typical Stephanie Plum, fast read, popcorn for the brain! …More

Smokin' Seventeen By Evanovich, Janet 2011-06 - Bantam 9780345527684 Check Our Catalog Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie's name is on the killer's list. With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie's life looks like it's about to go up in smoke. …More

Shelter Me By Fay, Juliette Read by Gavin, Marguerite 2011-07 - Blackstone Audiobooks 9781455111503 Check Our Catalog Four months after her husband's death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. But her mourning is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of a builder with a contract to add a porch onto her house. Stunned, Janie realizes the porch was meant to be a surprise from her husband--now his last gift to her. Reluctantly allowing construction to begin, Janie clings to the familiar outposts of her sorrow--mothering her two small children with fierce protectiveness, avoiding friends and family, and stewing in a rage she can't release. Yet Janie's self-imposed isolation is breached by a cast of unlikely interventionists: her chattering, ipecac-toting aunt; her bossy, overmanicured neighbor; her muffin-bearing cousin; and even Tug, the contractor with a private grief all his own. As the porch takes shape, Janie discovers that the future is best navigated with the help of others--even those we least expect to call on, much less learn to love. A young widow/mother fumbles her way back to living life from depression.  Her late husband had left her an unexpected gift with many complications.  Insightful writing, encouraging. …More

Incarceron By Fisher, Catherine 2010-01 - Dial Books 9780803733961 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a 17-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl who claims to live on the Outside. This story consists of two settings:  "The Inside"-a mechanical prison so technologically advanced that it's self aware; "The Outside"-a world so afraid of technology that it has stagnated into a pseudo-medieval society that doesn't even have gunpowder  Things get interesting when a boy and a girl in these two places are forced to acknowledge each other's existance.  I picked up this book because this whole idea sounded cool, and the author definitely pulled it off.  I really enjoyed this book, though the ending made it clear that this is only half the story.  So, I suppose, don't read this book unless you're ready to read its sequel (Sapphique) as well. …More

Prairie Tale By Gilbert, Melissa 2010-02 - Gallery Books 9781416599173 Check Our Catalog Gilbert's real childhood was a far cry from the idyllic family portrayed in her hit television series, "Little House on the Prairie." Yet through her great sense of humor, resilience, and fantastic support system, Gilbert has found happiness and stability in her life. full-color insert. …More

The 7-Minute Back Pain Solution: 7 Simple Exercises to Heal Your Back Without Drugs or Surgery in Just Minutes a Day By Girasole, Dr Gerard Author Hartman, Cara 2012-03 - Harlequin 9780373892587 Check Our Catalog This guide explains a unique and effective program for relieving (and preventing) even acute excruciating back pain, which can be done anytime, anywhere, in only minutes a day. The program teaches readers how to heal, strengthen, and protect their back using only their muscles. Original. …More

Seal Called Andre By Goodridge, Harry Joint Author Dietz, Lew 1975-01 - San Val 9780613774765 Check Our Catalog Thousands of visitors to Rockport, Maine, saw Andre perform the tricks Harry taught him. Here is the whole story; this book was the inspiration for Andre, a 1994 feature movie. …More

L Is for Lawless By Grafton, Sue 2009-11 - St. Martin's Press 9780312373139 Check Our Catalog Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet"("San Francisco Examiner") from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Sue Grafton L is for LIES... When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life. L is for LARCENY... When Lee's apartment in burgled and a man named Ray Rawson, who claims to be an old friend of Lee's, is beaten up, Kinsey soon finds herself on the trail of a pregnant woman with a duffel bag. Soon the intrepid P.I. is following leads halfway across the country and encountering another man from Lee's past--a vengeful psychopath. "L is for Lawless" Stalked by a new enemy and increasingly suspicious of Rawson--not to mention running out of time and money--now Kinsey must steer a collision course to solve a decades-old mystery that some would like better left unsolved.... "Grafton proves again that she has a real prize in Millhone: the character who grows from book to book."--"Boston"" Herald" …More

S Is for Silence By Grafton, Sue 2011-10 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425243084 Check Our Catalog The latest repackage in Sue Grafton's #1 "New York Times" bestselling series. Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But P.I. Kinsey Millhone has promised Daisy she'll try her best to locate Violet, dead or alive. Kinsey tries to pick up a trail by speaking to those who remember her-and perhaps were more involved in her life than they let on. But the trail could lead her somewhere very dangerous. Because the case may have gone cold, but some peoples' feelings about Violet Sullivan still run as hot as ever... …More

Sweet Little Lies By Grant, Michele 2011-02 - Dafina Books 9780758242211 Check Our Catalog In the tradition of Daaimah Poole and Terry McMillan, Grant, author of "Heard it All Before," portrays the realistic, funny, and sexy side of life, love, and finding the one. This book shines light of the benefits and downfalls of a woman being completely independent.  Their worldly desires blind them from gaining the most important thing, "Love" and there are still some good men willing to give it.  Overall it was a cute story.  The characters do become too perfect type of people but towards the end they become more realistic.  The sex parts are overly disruptive. …More

Mystery in the Minster By Gregory, Susanna 2011-11 - Little, Brown Young Readers 9781847442970 Check Our Catalog In 1358 the fledging college of Michaelhouse in Cambridge is in need of extra funds. A legacy from the Archbishop of York of a parish close to that city promises a welcome source of income. However, there has been another claim to its ownership and it seems the only way to settle the dispute is for a deputation from Michaelhouse to travel north. Matthew Bartholomew is among the small party that arrives in the bustling city, where the increasing wealth of the merchants is unsettling the established order, and where a French invasion is an ever-present threat to its port. He is both impressed and appalled by what he finds in the teeming streets, the magnificent buildings and the behaviour of its citizens, but he and his colleagues are soon distracted by learning that several of the Archbishop's executors have died in unexplained circumstances and that the codicil naming Michaelhouse as a beneficiary cannot be found. …More

Calico Joe By Grisham, John 2012-04 - Doubleday Books 9780385536073 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Joe Castle, from Calico Rock, Arkansas, took the baseball world by storm in 1973. He homered in his first three major league at bats for the Chicago Cubs. Two months later, he was still hitting more than .500. Then, in his next at bat after homering off Warren Tracey, a surly journeyman pitcher, Tracey drilled a fastball at Joe's head. The damage was severe. Joe's right eye socket was destroyed, and he never played again, retreating back to Calico Rock, far from the public eye. Tracey soon retired from the Mets and drifted into booze and a succession of ex-wives. Thirty years later, Tracey's estranged son, Paul, on learning of his father's impending death from cancer, tries to bring Warren Tracey and Joe Castle together. Not the usual Grisham book, but it is interesting and keeps ones attention.  I recommend reading it. …More

Payback at Morning Peak By Hackman, Gene 2011-06 - Pocket Books 9781451623567 Check Our Catalog Academy Award-winning actor-turned-author Hackman evokes the late 19th century in his latest Western novel following 17-year-old Jubal Young's quest to avenge his murdered family. Original. …More

The Art of Fielding By Harbach, Chad 2011-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316126694 Check Our Catalog At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. …More

Mrs. Kennedy and Me By Hill, Clint With McCubbin, Lisa 2012-04 - Gallery Books 9781451648447 Check Our Catalog Evocative memoir of guarding First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy through the young and sparkling years of the Kennedy presidency and the dark days following the assassination. …More